November 10, 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 State Detective Agency. Hello, Hello, Hello Sam, at this
hour on this network. You were expecting maybe Mary Margaret mcbrine.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I've been expecting anything, Sam, After all that have you
drop out of sight like that? Needing not a ripple
on the surface.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Before whole days?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
That a livingstone is Sandy, ca, that's a livingstone.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The man you rented the car from me, he's ready
to stand on a.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Search party, Sammy and livingstone with a reverse twist. It's
no joke, dam nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You have no right to worry me.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
License its nothre.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Where are you for the only spot on Earth as
yet unvisited by the National Geographic Society, sweetheart, the Veil
of Takoloma, And don't try to find it on a
map because it isn't set yourself for my saga of
a crooks tour of the Hitterlands with just a touch
of mysticism, which is why I call it the rowdy
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Dowser Caper.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
All right, Murgatroy, these will do?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Why are you calling songs Taylor shop, I have to
leave without my pants.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Or NBC William Spear Radio is outstanding producer, director of
mystery and crime drama brings you the Greatest Private Detective
of mal starring Stephen Dunn. In the Adventures of Sam Spaith.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Dumb dam dumb dumb.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
When you and we're young, Eppie.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Who else decent?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
She said, you lost your pants?
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Oh how do they look? Well?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Isn't it early for Halloween?
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Ooh you made a joke? You ready?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Woman?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
They fill it in two Constable Ali Shuttle, North Taklhoma, California,
from Samuel's Pade license number one three, seven, five, nine six,
subject the Rowley Dowser Caper.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Dear Ali.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
On Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It was when I returned to my office of a
fine spring morning to find a note lying on my
desk like a big juicy piece of cheese and a
mouse trap.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Quote mister Spade called.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
North Taca Takaloma three unquote North ta Coloma.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Where have I long distance?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
North Tacolhoma three?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Yes, the one moment?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Would you repeat the number.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Players North Taklhoma three, North Tacolhoma three n dition that
is North Takhoma.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Look it up, girl, look it up.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Yes, said no, Takaloma Tree, US.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You must have found it in the book, because soon
we had encouraging buzzes and clicks.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Six operators later we had punched our.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Way north to the farm at Slattery Flat. Then we
knocked off for lunch while Slim Slattery repaired the windmill.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
That made the juice.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
For the last lap at two o seven pm, victory
was in sight.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, Sam, this is operated at nine.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
For the tenth time.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Oh fine, are we doing, Millie Sambai?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I am actually ringing North Takalhoma City the good girl.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Hello, Hello, this is the same space. I have a
note here too.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
Yes, yes, mister Spad, you were out of town when
I came. Perhaps you remember me Windle Wisby of Oak
Tree Lane, North Takahoma, California. Wendle, I employed you a
year ago to find a girl who.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Vanished the magician.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
You made the girl disappear and couldn't bring her back.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Correct.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
You may well ask mister Spade, how anything could be
worse than that?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Well, this this is oh there, Wendell. Therefore, I take
it easy. Can't talk. I just can't talk about it.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Fine, fine, then write me a nice long letter. This
is a long distance call, and I don't know. No, no, no.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
I am sorry, mister Spade, but this has affected me
very deeply.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Look, you promised you'd lay off the magic, Wendell, had
you do misplaced half.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
A woman this time?
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Now I have given up magic, mister Spade. I am
currently employed as third vice president of the second National
Bank of North Taklahoma. All that, yes, sir, Oh, my
star was rising, my future seemed assured. But now a
shadow has fallen over my good name.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Booted along, will you, Wendell?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
This is costing me money.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
I cannot tell you more on the phone, mister Spade.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
You must come at once. It is extremely urgent.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I see well, prankly, Wendell, I have a feeling I'll
be tired. U.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
What chances are I'll Why was that?
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I just said, there's one hundred dollars under your desk,
Plotter for a retainer.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I left it when I came with the note.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
But if you have a.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Collection to make supports, Oh, Wendy, that is the collection.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
And so it befell.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
And shortly before lunch on the following day, I guided.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
My rented hack across the ford at Carbor Creek up
the high Road, through Possum Notch and down into the
vale of Takoloma, where I muscled my way through a
flock of geese in the main street and tied up
before the imposing stone facade.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Of the second National Bank.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Inside, sitting in front of the door marked Urban Roots,
President sat a secretary whose facade looked colder and even
more imposing than the banks.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
She was shriveling one of.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
The customers a meek little milk toast in a salt
and pepper soup.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
As I informed you, my good man President was extremely
tied up at the noment.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh, I'm quite aware of that. Miss. I wouldn't bothering
for the world.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
But you see, I know I don't see. And since
you refuse to take the nature of your busines, did.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I refuse you?
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Most certainly, dear me.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
I didn't mean to refuse anything. It's just that, well,
it's sort of personal, and it may I go in.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
You may sit down until I tell you to go in.
Is that clear?
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Yes, ma'am, Yes, I don't I understand. I don't mind waiting,
don't mind at all.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And now you, sir, what do you want?
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I have an appointment with Wendell Wisby and.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Mister Wisby's in conference with the president groups.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
If you sit down, and you must understand, President Route,
this is a matter of family honor.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
I shall do, oh, I Wendell.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
From mister Spade, I'm sorry I.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Couldn't get here sooner, but it's a long haul.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
While uh, mister Spade is a friend of mine, President Route,
from my solid days as a magician, a very confident
detective by my dad.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
No, thank you, Wendell.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Hey see we uh, we.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Are indeed fortunate to happen with us in this matter.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
Good good, Please sit down, mister spaed thanks you are
away of mister Speed. This matters to be held in
strictest confidence. Word must be kept from the depositors at
all cost until you.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
But remember, President Route, remember the code of the Whisby's.
Should worst come to worst, I shall make good. I
shall make good if it takes.
Speaker 10 (07:16):
I understand Wisby, I understand.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Well, mind if I admit I don't.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
What is it?
Speaker 10 (07:21):
Wendell snatcher snatch whom uncle perth our format cash here,
mister Speed, purse snatcher.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Whisby's uncle purse snatcher?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
What about him?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Everything he has disappeared. Absconded.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
That is a harsh word, President Route. I would prefer
to say he disappeared until we have further.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Proof that money's gone, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (07:41):
How much money?
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Fifty three thousand dollars from.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Uncle Purse's accounts?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Huh it?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Maybe he has absconded, President Route. But we must remember
that despite the snatcher surname, uncle Purse is a Wisby,
and the Wisby never lived. Who got away with fifty
three thousand dollars?
Speaker 5 (07:56):
All right, Wisby?
Speaker 9 (07:58):
He disappeared?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
May I ask when he disappeared.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
Last Friday night about nine o'clock?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Anyone see him go?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Almost everyone his car stall at main and for simmon,
several people saw him trying to start it. He was
acting very strangely.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Oh how is that? Wendell Well, Clem.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Clobber and Charity Fied and several.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Others spoke to him from the curb, but he wouldn't
answer them. He didn't say a word to anyone, which
is not at all like Uncle Purse snatcher.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Wisby man to Maine.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
Would you feel sociable with a setuel full.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Of stolen money on the seat beside you?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Well, there you have a point, President rul.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I can't blame you for the way you feel, President Rude,
but I must continue to believe the best of uncle
person until mister Spade discovers the worst. And in that
dismal eventuality, please know I intend to pay off the
fifty three thousand dollars plus interest on the installment plan
five dollars and thirty seven cents per week for forty
(08:54):
eight years.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
You have my word on it, sir, the word.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Of a wisbye, with which solemn pronouncement. Wendell marched out,
closely followed by me Salt and pepper soup milk. Toast
was still fingering his hat Bram, looking hopefully at Miss
ice Water for the sign. At Wendell's suggestion, I hustle
out to the Snatcher homestead for a word with Percy's wife.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
A timid little woman with her heart.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And her eyes gone from one end of the valley
to the other as ants wistful.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Can hardly think straight these days, mister Spain, so full
of puzzlement this.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Thing has left me, of course, and wistful.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I have another dippers space, get down, not you, no thanks,
Sam first was hisself since the well run dry. We
had a pescel of dry winders here in the valley,
you know, but never before. This is the well run
dry first, And now which way to turn? Piper End's
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two miles down the road. Couldn't afford to bring it
in here, I see. He took to mutter into hisself,
saying strange things, coming home from his work at the
bank with a frown on his face. Stayed there all evening.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
What do you mean, strange thing?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I don't recollect very well? He wrote a law book
home one night though, and out of a clear sky
he says to me, miss honey, didn't you know the
punishment for embezzlement is five to ten years in prison.
I asked what he meant by that, and he said
he thought it might be a good thing for a
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banker to know.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Well he had something there was The night.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
After that he come home all cheerful, said he thought
he'd figured a way out, found a fellow to help
right get down. I had no idea what.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Purse was thinking, what fellow rude?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I suppose it's Urban's bank he was fixing to steal from.
But then I got word from my sister ailing over
to fog to Grove. So Thursday I left, and when
I got back Saturday he had gone.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Why did he take his things?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Funny?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
He did one strange thing for this time of year.
He left his corn.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Teeth behind corn teeth, a spare.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Pair of store teeth or corn on the cobs missing.
Novis summer coming on? Yes, blessing you know, ever since
spring I've been after Pierce to speed up my flower
bed by the window. He did it for a left
now that there's no water to go things with. I
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loved him so much, mister speed in this awful way
from marriage too.
Speaker 10 (12:08):
Well.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I started at Maine and for Simmons Streets and worked.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
South farm by farm.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Everyone seemed to have been sitting on his front stool
Friday night because all remembered purse Snatcher driving.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Out on the South road and his nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Went in six up to a point that is somewhere
between North Takolhoma and Fogerty Grove. I ran out of
witnesses and in piny Crotch. Of all places the town beyond,
they could guarantee Purce didn't pass through because the main
drag was roped off all Friday night for a.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Square dance, and thus matters stood.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
On the third day, when I limped back to the
bank for some reason, a crowd had gathered in the
alleyway next door, riding an office a floating crap game.
I walked inside, bobed formally the Miss ice Water, then
plunked myself down at Wendell's desk.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Oh Shaw, I just found I miscalculated interest at five
dollars and thirty seven cents per week. I won't have
this paid off until I'm one hundred and thirty four.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Who knows by then you may even.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Have a wife and children to support. Look, don't you
think you were a little impetuous with that retainer?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
What retainer?
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Mine? One hundred dollars?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
One hundred dollars, Wendell, the one.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Hundred dollars you're stuck under my desk, Bloddy.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
When you hired me, I hired you. You came to
my office when I was out of town window you
left a note for me to call you. I talked
to you on the telephone.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Well didn't I, mister Spade, Something is very wrong. I
did not talk to you on the telephone at all.
What I thought you were employed by President route.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Well, where is President Ruth?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
He stepped out some time ago and there's someone waiting
for him in his office.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You do need to.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Him, Miss ice Water.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Oh tell me, Prudy meaning out there anymore.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
I'll nuck you.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
You'll beat toast.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
But with a difference.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
The salt peppers suit had gone very bow time pads,
four jacket with a racing form sticking out of the pocket,
my room plus fours and wolf socks with tassels. He
took one of the president wrote cigars out of his pocket,
bit off the end and lit it. Then smiled or
rather leered at Miss ice Water.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Well, honey, I'm sorry twenty three schedoo, sweet stuff, it's
not want to be back shortly if.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
You don't be a back number, beautiful popol old mama.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Learn, tell cookie, I'll be back. Live a little baby,
live a little golly golly indeed, uh, Miss ice Water, Hey,
oh what was that?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
I don't know his name?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
A friend of peasant roots here, he's rather a checked
Did you.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Think only now as I went outside in his wig,
did I see what had caused the crowd in the
alleyway the first sport model convertible into Locoma Valley since
Wally Reid came through on location, and the first pink
one I'd ever seen.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Wondering the new mill.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Post, I walked into the drug store, found a phone
book and checked all twenty five names. North Takoloma three
belonged to the Automic Auto Courts and restaurant Charity Fidd proprietress.
She was riding herd on a griddle full of lamb
chops when I pulled up at the common.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
How was that again?
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Sunny?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Short to say?
Speaker 8 (15:39):
He's short and scapped on top with a cringe of
hair like soul.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Yeah, on a wicked leer in his eye. That's my man.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Well he wasn't wearing no Barrick Hapner plaid code and
I see him salted peppersuited wise.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Yeah, I know who is he?
Speaker 8 (15:50):
Well, he didn't register, but they say his dowser Dowser.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Don't know his first name, do you?
Speaker 8 (15:54):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
So where he come from?
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Satan room six till two days ago?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Ain't seen him around soon?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
When did he come here?
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Let me see a codfish ball?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Oh that'll be Friday night late.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
The funny thing now, think of it.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
He come afoot.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Not by the road but four grig.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Gol, mind you, but by the trail over the ridge.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Where does it go to?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Aunt Charity?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Wind up the old klava place abandon now, thanks, I'll
be you mean nothing.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Ride down where you are and your record cover around this.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Ain't no going boy going.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Hiking over the ridge without shupper. Clean it up now,
every scrap, yes small.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
It had been dark about two hours when carrying one
of Aunt Charity's best coal oil lanterns, I topped the
ridge and looked down on clem Claver's abandoned barn nestling
in a grove of ancient oaks.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
At the very foot of the hill.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
The moon was bright enough to show up a pair
of grassy ruts leading from the rear of it down
the gully toward the road to Fogerty Grove, a couple.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Of miles away.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
On general principles, I blew out the lantern, then.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Scrambled on the side heel and up to the barn door.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I couldn't make out anything inside at first, and then
finally something took shape, a dark.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Hulk in the middle of the floor.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Stupid me, I lit a match.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
It was an automobile to the exact it was Perse
Snatcher's nineteen nineteen went and six. This hat in the
tweet overcoat everyone saw him wearing Friday Night, were lying
across the front seat. I held the match higher and
bent over for a closer look, whereupon Spade and the
match went out together.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
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Speaker 5 (18:29):
And now back to the rowdy Dawser Caper.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Tonight's adventure with Sam Spade.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I must apologize constable for succumbing once again to the
traditional nemesis of the private eye. But the ball facts
are simply that I bend over for a closer look
at the went.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
And six and was struck a dastardly blow on the
rear of the head.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
How long I remained in communicato, I know not, but
I awoke presently, and with good reason. My pants were
on fire. As a matter of fact, the entire barn
was on fire, and I was lying in the tonneau
the Winton six swearing purse snatcher's overcoat. The door I'd
come in was a wall of plane likewise the stalls
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on both sides, but.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
At the rear were a few square feet of rotten
sighting that hadn't caught yet.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I ordinarily I had have fought twice.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
But when your pants are a fire, you only think once.
So I ran right through it and took a flying
header into the creek behind the box. It was just
as well I only thought once, since at this moment
the flames reached the Winton's gas tank.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
A good laws, I'm mighty, what have you been up to?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Boys?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Smoking corn silk behind Clawbery's barn?
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Match got away from me?
Speaker 8 (19:48):
Well, stay right there, left Hine magoose squeen, no one
on a later aunt charity.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
How about the keta six the dowserfella.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Yeah, won't need no keys hunting door open if he
left it open. He's in there now there it half
flat gota twenty five cents cigar help yourself.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Well, well, hey, mister spad.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
In there right in your dogs dowder business.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Yes, yeah, that's right, Dowser, And you can call me Alonzo.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Sit down, No, no, I'll stand.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Oh you're lucky you caught me.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
I was just just leaving, so I see.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I was detained, as you probably know, over at Klopber's barn. Detained.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Okay, Dowser, we'll let that do for the preliminaries. Now,
why'd you just try to kill me? Kill you?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, good heavens man, I did not get careless at
a weenie baked Dowser. I just woke up in the
middle of a three alarm fire, and I don't like it.
As a matter of fact, I'm a little burnt up
to use the phrase loosely, and I just might kick
your teeth in now, believe me. I haven't been near
Klopper's barn since Friday.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
I had nothing to do with with whatever happened.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Sure, and you had nothing to do with a hundred
buck retainer in the phone call from Wendell Wisby. Well,
as a matter of fact, you figured with a curious
city fellow like me, on the premises urban roots might
shake down easier, bigger apples from the same old tree. Right,
All I did was negotiate a personal lord.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Off it will you? Rude had his hand on.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
The tail at the bank, a big hand fifty three
thousand dollars worth, and snatcher found out about it.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
What about you?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
How'd you get into the ac the loan, the shakedown?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Where's Uncle Purce.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Salonzo out of town somewhere? I suppose he? Look, I
can't tell you, mister Spain first got as far as
the road to klem Clubber's barn last Friday night?
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Or did he?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
No? No, he didn't get that far. You know, I'd
begun to suspect as much.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
How far did he get?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I'm sorry, I can't tell you anymore.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Rupe killed him? Didn't he?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
No?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
You? How come?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I do know? What?
Speaker 6 (21:50):
E Moore?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Please? What'd he do with the body? Root wore the
coat and.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Dop purses car out of town.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
So everyone had seen him.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Now where's the body?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Then he go?
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Let me go, Dollard.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
He squirted out of my hands like a watermelon sea,
leaving me with a plaid coat, and took off down
the line of Automic cabins toward the Automic Restaurant.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
A nice high knee action for a little.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Guy, And what with my burns and contusions, I'm forced
to admit he was widening the gap between us when
he rounded the corner of the Automic Restaurant, making possibly
the gravest era of his career. And Charity was rounding
the same corner coming the other way with an.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Onload of wood. You don't reckon?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
He got hisself a brain conclusion, do you, honey? I
don't know, but he's a weak witness, and Charity a
week witness. What you got there, oh, shoe bosh, fifteen
hundred dollars, a few odds and m's and this, well,
it looks like an oversized sling shot for slingshot?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
What do you mean slingshot?
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Well? Who cares? Zoey Wittles? Where'd you get the idea?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
His name was Dowser, uh driver's license in his wallet?
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Alonzo P.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Skaggins who said his name was Dowser, you did.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
I never said his name was dowser.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
I said he was a dowser. Oh oh, And what's
a dowser and cherry?
Speaker 8 (23:18):
A guy who finds water for people?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
That's what?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Well, that's nice if you could finds water.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
Yeah, how well, I'm no experts, honey. But as near
as I can recollect, you take this here sling.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Top port soho and mister Spade, I can't go through it.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And hold yourself, Wendell, remember the cold of the wisdomy.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
But this sinister revelation has virtually prostrated me, mister Spade.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
And you must remember it is now over.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
A year since my solid days as a magician.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Tut Wendell stout fellow, stiff upper.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
And further, even at the peak of my career, I
was only sketchily acquainted with the feel of dowser. Hold
it there they are, Aunt Whistful is sitting on the
back porch with President rude mister Spade.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
The cold of the wisbees Wendell, Yes, sir, let's go.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I just can't tell you how to pull up with gratefulness.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I am no no which will don't take on show.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
It's nothing at all.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Uh you remember, mister Spade, President RUTYA.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Of course, of course, hardly seems any time at all
since we met President Route.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Mister Spade, President Root's going to.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Buy the farm.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Touching?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
And he's allowing me ten thousand on it against the
money purse Stow.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
That's a generous offer, I thought so, considering there's no
water on the farm.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Chir said many times, it wouldn't be worth thirty dollars
nake for that water.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Well, did you say something, Wendell?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Yes, m h Aunt Whistful, I have great news for you.
It may not be necessary to sell the farm.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
What do you mean, Wendell, we made a deal here.
Maybe the signals are off for now, President Rude.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
You recall uncle person he'd found a man to solve
his problem. Aunt Whistful. I am now ready to step
forward and bring it into the open.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
I am that man.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You what do you mean window.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Since entering the banking field, I divorced myself from magic
and the Allied Dark Arts, Aunt whisfle, so I wish
to keep my other talent, sub Rosa.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Wisby, President Rude, I am a part time dowser.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And he just happens to have his dozing rod along, right.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Wendell, Right, I have reason to believe there is water
here if I can just dowse it out window, you're out,
shut up, dows away, Wendel, dows away very well. Now
I hold the dowsing fork before me.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
Thus, then I.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Turn Thus, where does your point, Wendell?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Let me see toward Aunt Whistle's flower bed.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
You shut up.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Proceed wen Though, proceed.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
With the dowsery one step, two, three, four, All the.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Rod's pointing down right, Flowers.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
I'll make that twenty thousand, twenty thousand dollars for the
pie cash, see not quit it cash, hold out twenty five.
It's turkey right here is where we did thirty five
thirty five thousand.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
It's already been dug up.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Looks as if Uncle Purce had dug a hole and
then fill it back.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Up last Friday night, just before nine o'clock. Right, President Ruth,
you came down for a showdown on those shortages. He
turned up, found him digging the well here and got
a better idea. No, I've talked to the guy who
saw you do it all right, all right?
Speaker 10 (26:52):
I killed him.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Right here, right, which is where you came in, Constable,
And since you can take it from here, I shall close,
as always with.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Period and the report right another trial, Sam, another new
sphere of effort.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
No feel is safe from my talent. Sweetheart, you will
please preserve it for posterity. During the following fifteen second announcement.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Scoot School.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Three times Mean Good Times on NBC This Sunday, the
Glamorous and Unpredictable Tallulah brings you another hour and a
half broadcast of the Big Show starring Fred Allen, Judy Holiday,
Joan Davis, Frank One and many more. And this Sunday's
Theater Guild on the Air production is The Broadway comedy
The First Year. Starring in this Theater Guild presentation are
Richard Woodmark and Catherine Grayson.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Here it is Ah E Fishing Girl.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah yeah, Elly, this is Sam Boy.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Oh? Oh aanks, Melly, what is it saying? They just
relayed a message from.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Fogerty Grove if Wendell is being installed as second vice
president tomorrow night at the Moose Hall.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Oh he wants me to come.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Oh and bring a girl.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Are you game, little one where.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
That's one way to get the report A constable Ali Shuttle.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I'll do it, Sam, good girl, pack up an emergency
ration of sorghum and hominy grit. So I'll pull up
at your doorstep in the morning at Aircock Wait. I'll
wear my son gunn It and mother hubberds O good night, Sam.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Good night sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
The Adventures of Sam Space are produced, editor and directed
by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn
Loreen Tuttle as Effie. Also in the cast were Peggy Weber,
Berna Felton, Sidney Miller, Alice Wellman, Charles Smith, and Nestra Piva.
Script format's adventure by Harold Swanton, Musical scoring by lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbuster. Join us again next week, same
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time for another adventure with Sam Spade. Tomorrow, Your Hip
Parade plays the Hip Tunes on NBC
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Sam State Detective Agency. Hello, Hello, Hello Sam, at this
hour on this network. You were expecting maybe Mary Margaret mcbrine.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
I've been expecting anything, Sam, After all that have you
drop out of sight like that? Needing not a ripple
on the surface.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Before whole days?
Speaker 2 (00:32):
That a livingstone is Sandy, ca, that's a livingstone.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
The man you rented the car from me, he's ready
to stand on a.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Search party, Sammy and livingstone with a reverse twist. It's
no joke, dam nothing.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
You have no right to worry me.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
License its nothre.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Where are you for the only spot on Earth as
yet unvisited by the National Geographic Society, sweetheart, the Veil
of Takoloma, And don't try to find it on a
map because it isn't set yourself for my saga of
a crooks tour of the Hitterlands with just a touch
of mysticism, which is why I call it the rowdy
(01:09):
Dowser Caper.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
All right, Murgatroy, these will do?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Why are you calling songs Taylor shop, I have to
leave without my pants.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Or NBC William Spear Radio is outstanding producer, director of
mystery and crime drama brings you the Greatest Private Detective
of mal starring Stephen Dunn. In the Adventures of Sam Spaith.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Dumb dam dumb dumb.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
When you and we're young, Eppie.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Who else decent?
Speaker 5 (01:52):
She said, you lost your pants?
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Oh how do they look? Well?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Isn't it early for Halloween?
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Ooh you made a joke? You ready?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Woman?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
They fill it in two Constable Ali Shuttle, North Taklhoma, California,
from Samuel's Pade license number one three, seven, five, nine six,
subject the Rowley Dowser Caper.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Dear Ali.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
On Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
It was when I returned to my office of a
fine spring morning to find a note lying on my
desk like a big juicy piece of cheese and a
mouse trap.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Quote mister Spade called.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
North Taca Takaloma three unquote North ta Coloma.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Where have I long distance?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
North Tacolhoma three?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Yes, the one moment?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Would you repeat the number.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Players North Taklhoma three, North Tacolhoma three n dition that
is North Takhoma.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
I'm not kidding.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Look it up, girl, look it up.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Yes, said no, Takaloma Tree, US.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You must have found it in the book, because soon
we had encouraging buzzes and clicks.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Six operators later we had punched our.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Way north to the farm at Slattery Flat. Then we
knocked off for lunch while Slim Slattery repaired the windmill.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
That made the juice.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
For the last lap at two o seven pm, victory
was in sight.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, Sam, this is operated at nine.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
For the tenth time.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Oh fine, are we doing, Millie Sambai?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
I am actually ringing North Takalhoma City the good girl.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Hello, Hello, this is the same space. I have a
note here too.
Speaker 7 (03:46):
Yes, yes, mister Spad, you were out of town when
I came. Perhaps you remember me Windle Wisby of Oak
Tree Lane, North Takahoma, California. Wendle, I employed you a
year ago to find a girl who.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Vanished the magician.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
You made the girl disappear and couldn't bring her back.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Correct.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
You may well ask mister Spade, how anything could be
worse than that?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Well, this this is oh there, Wendell. Therefore, I take
it easy. Can't talk. I just can't talk about it.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Fine, fine, then write me a nice long letter. This
is a long distance call, and I don't know. No, no, no.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
I am sorry, mister Spade, but this has affected me
very deeply.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Look, you promised you'd lay off the magic, Wendell, had
you do misplaced half.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
A woman this time?
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Now I have given up magic, mister Spade. I am
currently employed as third vice president of the second National
Bank of North Taklahoma. All that, yes, sir, Oh, my
star was rising, my future seemed assured. But now a
shadow has fallen over my good name.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Booted along, will you, Wendell?
Speaker 6 (04:48):
This is costing me money.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
I cannot tell you more on the phone, mister Spade.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
You must come at once. It is extremely urgent.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I see well, prankly, Wendell, I have a feeling I'll
be tired. U.
Speaker 6 (05:00):
What chances are I'll Why was that?
Speaker 7 (05:02):
I just said, there's one hundred dollars under your desk,
Plotter for a retainer.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I left it when I came with the note.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
But if you have a.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Collection to make supports, Oh, Wendy, that is the collection.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
And so it befell.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
And shortly before lunch on the following day, I guided.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
My rented hack across the ford at Carbor Creek up
the high Road, through Possum Notch and down into the
vale of Takoloma, where I muscled my way through a
flock of geese in the main street and tied up
before the imposing stone facade.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Of the second National Bank.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Inside, sitting in front of the door marked Urban Roots,
President sat a secretary whose facade looked colder and even
more imposing than the banks.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
She was shriveling one of.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
The customers a meek little milk toast in a salt
and pepper soup.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
As I informed you, my good man President was extremely
tied up at the noment.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Oh, I'm quite aware of that. Miss. I wouldn't bothering
for the world.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
But you see, I know I don't see. And since
you refuse to take the nature of your busines, did.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I refuse you?
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Most certainly, dear me.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
I didn't mean to refuse anything. It's just that, well,
it's sort of personal, and it may I go in.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
You may sit down until I tell you to go in.
Is that clear?
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Yes, ma'am, Yes, I don't I understand. I don't mind waiting,
don't mind at all.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
And now you, sir, what do you want?
Speaker 6 (06:24):
I have an appointment with Wendell Wisby and.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Mister Wisby's in conference with the president groups.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
If you sit down, and you must understand, President Route,
this is a matter of family honor.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
I shall do, oh, I Wendell.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
From mister Spade, I'm sorry I.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Couldn't get here sooner, but it's a long haul.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
While uh, mister Spade is a friend of mine, President Route,
from my solid days as a magician, a very confident
detective by my dad.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
No, thank you, Wendell.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Hey see we uh, we.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Are indeed fortunate to happen with us in this matter.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
Good good, Please sit down, mister spaed thanks you are
away of mister Speed. This matters to be held in
strictest confidence. Word must be kept from the depositors at
all cost until you.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
But remember, President Route, remember the code of the Whisby's.
Should worst come to worst, I shall make good. I
shall make good if it takes.
Speaker 10 (07:16):
I understand Wisby, I understand.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Well, mind if I admit I don't.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
What is it?
Speaker 10 (07:21):
Wendell snatcher snatch whom uncle perth our format cash here,
mister Speed, purse snatcher.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Whisby's uncle purse snatcher?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
What about him?
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Everything he has disappeared. Absconded.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
That is a harsh word, President Route. I would prefer
to say he disappeared until we have further.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
Proof that money's gone, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (07:41):
How much money?
Speaker 9 (07:42):
Fifty three thousand dollars from.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Uncle Purse's accounts?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Huh it?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Maybe he has absconded, President Route. But we must remember
that despite the snatcher surname, uncle Purse is a Wisby,
and the Wisby never lived. Who got away with fifty
three thousand dollars?
Speaker 5 (07:56):
All right, Wisby?
Speaker 9 (07:58):
He disappeared?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
May I ask when he disappeared.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
Last Friday night about nine o'clock?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
Anyone see him go?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Almost everyone his car stall at main and for simmon,
several people saw him trying to start it. He was
acting very strangely.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Oh how is that? Wendell Well, Clem.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Clobber and Charity Fied and several.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Others spoke to him from the curb, but he wouldn't
answer them. He didn't say a word to anyone, which
is not at all like Uncle Purse snatcher.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Wisby man to Maine.
Speaker 10 (08:27):
Would you feel sociable with a setuel full.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Of stolen money on the seat beside you?
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Well, there you have a point, President rul.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I can't blame you for the way you feel, President Rude,
but I must continue to believe the best of uncle
person until mister Spade discovers the worst. And in that
dismal eventuality, please know I intend to pay off the
fifty three thousand dollars plus interest on the installment plan
five dollars and thirty seven cents per week for forty
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eight years.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
You have my word on it, sir, the word.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Of a wisbye, with which solemn pronouncement. Wendell marched out,
closely followed by me Salt and pepper soup milk. Toast
was still fingering his hat Bram, looking hopefully at Miss
ice Water for the sign. At Wendell's suggestion, I hustle
out to the Snatcher homestead for a word with Percy's wife.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
A timid little woman with her heart.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And her eyes gone from one end of the valley
to the other as ants wistful.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Can hardly think straight these days, mister Spain, so full
of puzzlement this.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Thing has left me, of course, and wistful.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
I have another dippers space, get down, not you, no thanks,
Sam first was hisself since the well run dry. We
had a pescel of dry winders here in the valley,
you know, but never before. This is the well run
dry first, And now which way to turn? Piper End's
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two miles down the road. Couldn't afford to bring it
in here, I see. He took to mutter into hisself,
saying strange things, coming home from his work at the
bank with a frown on his face. Stayed there all evening.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
What do you mean, strange thing?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I don't recollect very well? He wrote a law book
home one night though, and out of a clear sky
he says to me, miss honey, didn't you know the
punishment for embezzlement is five to ten years in prison.
I asked what he meant by that, and he said
he thought it might be a good thing for a
(10:38):
banker to know.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Well he had something there was The night.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
After that he come home all cheerful, said he thought
he'd figured a way out, found a fellow to help
right get down. I had no idea what.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Purse was thinking, what fellow rude?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I suppose it's Urban's bank he was fixing to steal from.
But then I got word from my sister ailing over
to fog to Grove. So Thursday I left, and when
I got back Saturday he had gone.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Why did he take his things?
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Funny?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
He did one strange thing for this time of year.
He left his corn.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Teeth behind corn teeth, a spare.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Pair of store teeth or corn on the cobs missing.
Novis summer coming on? Yes, blessing you know, ever since
spring I've been after Pierce to speed up my flower
bed by the window. He did it for a left
now that there's no water to go things with. I
(11:49):
loved him so much, mister speed in this awful way
from marriage too.
Speaker 10 (12:08):
Well.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I started at Maine and for Simmons Streets and worked.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
South farm by farm.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Everyone seemed to have been sitting on his front stool
Friday night because all remembered purse Snatcher driving.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Out on the South road and his nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Went in six up to a point that is somewhere
between North Takolhoma and Fogerty Grove. I ran out of
witnesses and in piny Crotch. Of all places the town beyond,
they could guarantee Purce didn't pass through because the main
drag was roped off all Friday night for a.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Square dance, and thus matters stood.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
On the third day, when I limped back to the
bank for some reason, a crowd had gathered in the
alleyway next door, riding an office a floating crap game.
I walked inside, bobed formally the Miss ice Water, then
plunked myself down at Wendell's desk.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Oh Shaw, I just found I miscalculated interest at five
dollars and thirty seven cents per week. I won't have
this paid off until I'm one hundred and thirty four.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Who knows by then you may even.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Have a wife and children to support. Look, don't you
think you were a little impetuous with that retainer?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
What retainer?
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Mine? One hundred dollars?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
One hundred dollars, Wendell, the one.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
Hundred dollars you're stuck under my desk, Bloddy.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
When you hired me, I hired you. You came to
my office when I was out of town window you
left a note for me to call you. I talked
to you on the telephone.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Well didn't I, mister Spade, Something is very wrong. I
did not talk to you on the telephone at all.
What I thought you were employed by President route.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Well, where is President Ruth?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
He stepped out some time ago and there's someone waiting
for him in his office.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
You do need to.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Him, Miss ice Water.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Oh tell me, Prudy meaning out there anymore.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
I'll nuck you.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
You'll beat toast.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
But with a difference.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
The salt peppers suit had gone very bow time pads,
four jacket with a racing form sticking out of the pocket,
my room plus fours and wolf socks with tassels. He
took one of the president wrote cigars out of his pocket,
bit off the end and lit it. Then smiled or
rather leered at Miss ice Water.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Well, honey, I'm sorry twenty three schedoo, sweet stuff, it's
not want to be back shortly if.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
You don't be a back number, beautiful popol old mama.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
I don't know what to say.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Learn, tell cookie, I'll be back. Live a little baby,
live a little golly golly indeed, uh, Miss ice Water, Hey,
oh what was that?
Speaker 5 (14:49):
I don't know his name?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
A friend of peasant roots here, he's rather a checked
Did you.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Think only now as I went outside in his wig,
did I see what had caused the crowd in the
alleyway the first sport model convertible into Locoma Valley since
Wally Reid came through on location, and the first pink
one I'd ever seen.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Wondering the new mill.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Post, I walked into the drug store, found a phone
book and checked all twenty five names. North Takoloma three
belonged to the Automic Auto Courts and restaurant Charity Fidd proprietress.
She was riding herd on a griddle full of lamb
chops when I pulled up at the common.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
How was that again?
Speaker 8 (15:38):
Sunny?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Short to say?
Speaker 8 (15:39):
He's short and scapped on top with a cringe of
hair like soul.
Speaker 6 (15:42):
Yeah, on a wicked leer in his eye. That's my man.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
Well he wasn't wearing no Barrick Hapner plaid code and
I see him salted peppersuited wise.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
Yeah, I know who is he?
Speaker 8 (15:50):
Well, he didn't register, but they say his dowser Dowser.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Don't know his first name, do you?
Speaker 8 (15:54):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
So where he come from?
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Satan room six till two days ago?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Ain't seen him around soon?
Speaker 6 (16:00):
When did he come here?
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Let me see a codfish ball?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Oh that'll be Friday night late.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
The funny thing now, think of it.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
He come afoot.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Not by the road but four grig.
Speaker 8 (16:12):
Gol, mind you, but by the trail over the ridge.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Where does it go to?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Aunt Charity?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
Wind up the old klava place abandon now, thanks, I'll
be you mean nothing.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Ride down where you are and your record cover around this.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Ain't no going boy going.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Hiking over the ridge without shupper. Clean it up now,
every scrap, yes small.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
It had been dark about two hours when carrying one
of Aunt Charity's best coal oil lanterns, I topped the
ridge and looked down on clem Claver's abandoned barn nestling
in a grove of ancient oaks.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
At the very foot of the hill.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
The moon was bright enough to show up a pair
of grassy ruts leading from the rear of it down
the gully toward the road to Fogerty Grove, a couple.
Speaker 6 (16:55):
Of miles away.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
On general principles, I blew out the lantern, then.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Scrambled on the side heel and up to the barn door.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I couldn't make out anything inside at first, and then
finally something took shape, a dark.
Speaker 6 (17:10):
Hulk in the middle of the floor.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Stupid me, I lit a match.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
It was an automobile to the exact it was Perse
Snatcher's nineteen nineteen went and six. This hat in the
tweet overcoat everyone saw him wearing Friday Night, were lying
across the front seat. I held the match higher and
bent over for a closer look, whereupon Spade and the
match went out together.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
famous detective, Sam Spade. Three times mean good Times on NBC.
(18:00):
There's fun for you Sunday with two of your favorite families,
The Blandings and the Harrises. Mister and Missus Blandings stars
Carry Grant and Betsy Drake in the title roles as
the proud but somewhat bewildered owners of the famous dream house.
The Phil Harris Alis Fay Show stars Phil and Alice,
of course, plus ever helpful.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
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Speaker 1 (18:16):
Delivery boy Julius. Yes there laughs This Sunday and every
Sunday with The Phil Harris Alis Fay Show and Mister
and Missus Blandings.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
And now back to the rowdy Dawser Caper.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Tonight's adventure with Sam Spade.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I must apologize constable for succumbing once again to the
traditional nemesis of the private eye. But the ball facts
are simply that I bend over for a closer look
at the went.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
And six and was struck a dastardly blow on the
rear of the head.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
How long I remained in communicato, I know not, but
I awoke presently, and with good reason. My pants were
on fire. As a matter of fact, the entire barn
was on fire, and I was lying in the tonneau
the Winton six swearing purse snatcher's overcoat. The door I'd
come in was a wall of plane likewise the stalls
(19:14):
on both sides, but.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
At the rear were a few square feet of rotten
sighting that hadn't caught yet.
Speaker 5 (19:19):
I ordinarily I had have fought twice.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
But when your pants are a fire, you only think once.
So I ran right through it and took a flying
header into the creek behind the box. It was just
as well I only thought once, since at this moment
the flames reached the Winton's gas tank.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
A good laws, I'm mighty, what have you been up to?
Speaker 5 (19:44):
Boys?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Smoking corn silk behind Clawbery's barn?
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Match got away from me?
Speaker 8 (19:48):
Well, stay right there, left Hine magoose squeen, no one
on a later aunt charity.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
How about the keta six the dowserfella.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
Yeah, won't need no keys hunting door open if he
left it open. He's in there now there it half
flat gota twenty five cents cigar help yourself.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
Well, well, hey, mister spad.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
In there right in your dogs dowder business.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
Yes, yeah, that's right, Dowser, And you can call me Alonzo.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Sit down, No, no, I'll stand.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Oh you're lucky you caught me.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
I was just just leaving, so I see.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I was detained, as you probably know, over at Klopber's barn. Detained.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Okay, Dowser, we'll let that do for the preliminaries. Now,
why'd you just try to kill me? Kill you?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Well, good heavens man, I did not get careless at
a weenie baked Dowser. I just woke up in the
middle of a three alarm fire, and I don't like it.
As a matter of fact, I'm a little burnt up
to use the phrase loosely, and I just might kick
your teeth in now, believe me. I haven't been near
Klopper's barn since Friday.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
I had nothing to do with with whatever happened.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Sure, and you had nothing to do with a hundred
buck retainer in the phone call from Wendell Wisby. Well,
as a matter of fact, you figured with a curious
city fellow like me, on the premises urban roots might
shake down easier, bigger apples from the same old tree. Right,
All I did was negotiate a personal lord.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
Off it will you? Rude had his hand on.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
The tail at the bank, a big hand fifty three
thousand dollars worth, and snatcher found out about it.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
What about you?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
How'd you get into the ac the loan, the shakedown?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Where's Uncle Purce.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Salonzo out of town somewhere? I suppose he? Look, I
can't tell you, mister Spain first got as far as
the road to klem Clubber's barn last Friday night?
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Or did he?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
No? No, he didn't get that far. You know, I'd
begun to suspect as much.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
How far did he get?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I'm sorry, I can't tell you anymore.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
Rupe killed him? Didn't he?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
No?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
You? How come?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I do know? What?
Speaker 6 (21:50):
E Moore?
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Please? What'd he do with the body? Root wore the
coat and.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Dop purses car out of town.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
So everyone had seen him.
Speaker 5 (21:55):
Now where's the body?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Then he go?
Speaker 6 (21:57):
Let me go, Dollard.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
He squirted out of my hands like a watermelon sea,
leaving me with a plaid coat, and took off down
the line of Automic cabins toward the Automic Restaurant.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
A nice high knee action for a little.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Guy, And what with my burns and contusions, I'm forced
to admit he was widening the gap between us when
he rounded the corner of the Automic Restaurant, making possibly
the gravest era of his career. And Charity was rounding
the same corner coming the other way with an.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Onload of wood. You don't reckon?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
He got hisself a brain conclusion, do you, honey? I
don't know, but he's a weak witness, and Charity a
week witness. What you got there, oh, shoe bosh, fifteen
hundred dollars, a few odds and m's and this, well,
it looks like an oversized sling shot for slingshot?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
What do you mean slingshot?
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Well? Who cares? Zoey Wittles? Where'd you get the idea?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
His name was Dowser, uh driver's license in his wallet?
Speaker 6 (23:05):
Alonzo P.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Skaggins who said his name was Dowser, you did.
Speaker 8 (23:10):
I never said his name was dowser.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
I said he was a dowser. Oh oh, And what's
a dowser and cherry?
Speaker 8 (23:18):
A guy who finds water for people?
Speaker 5 (23:20):
That's what?
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Well, that's nice if you could finds water.
Speaker 8 (23:23):
Yeah, how well, I'm no experts, honey. But as near
as I can recollect, you take this here sling.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Top port soho and mister Spade, I can't go through it.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
And hold yourself, Wendell, remember the cold of the wisdomy.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
But this sinister revelation has virtually prostrated me, mister Spade.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
And you must remember it is now over.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
A year since my solid days as a magician.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Tut Wendell stout fellow, stiff upper.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
And further, even at the peak of my career, I
was only sketchily acquainted with the feel of dowser. Hold
it there they are, Aunt Whistful is sitting on the
back porch with President rude mister Spade.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
The cold of the wisbees Wendell, Yes, sir, let's go.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I just can't tell you how to pull up with gratefulness.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I am no no which will don't take on show.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
It's nothing at all.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
Uh you remember, mister Spade, President RUTYA.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Of course, of course, hardly seems any time at all
since we met President Route.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Mister Spade, President Root's going to.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Buy the farm.
Speaker 9 (24:38):
Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
Touching?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
And he's allowing me ten thousand on it against the
money purse Stow.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
That's a generous offer, I thought so, considering there's no
water on the farm.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Chir said many times, it wouldn't be worth thirty dollars
nake for that water.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Well, did you say something, Wendell?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Yes, m h Aunt Whistful, I have great news for you.
It may not be necessary to sell the farm.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
What do you mean, Wendell, we made a deal here.
Maybe the signals are off for now, President Rude.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
You recall uncle person he'd found a man to solve
his problem. Aunt Whistful. I am now ready to step
forward and bring it into the open.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
I am that man.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
You what do you mean window.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Since entering the banking field, I divorced myself from magic
and the Allied Dark Arts, Aunt whisfle, so I wish
to keep my other talent, sub Rosa.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (25:29):
Wisby, President Rude, I am a part time dowser.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
And he just happens to have his dozing rod along, right.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Wendell, Right, I have reason to believe there is water
here if I can just dowse it out window, you're out,
shut up, dows away, Wendel, dows away very well. Now
I hold the dowsing fork before me.
Speaker 8 (25:52):
Thus, then I.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Turn Thus, where does your point, Wendell?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Let me see toward Aunt Whistle's flower bed.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
You shut up.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Proceed wen Though, proceed.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
With the dowsery one step, two, three, four, All the.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Rod's pointing down right, Flowers.
Speaker 10 (26:18):
I'll make that twenty thousand, twenty thousand dollars for the
pie cash, see not quit it cash, hold out twenty five.
It's turkey right here is where we did thirty five
thirty five thousand.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
It's already been dug up.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Looks as if Uncle Purce had dug a hole and
then fill it back.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Up last Friday night, just before nine o'clock. Right, President Ruth,
you came down for a showdown on those shortages. He
turned up, found him digging the well here and got
a better idea. No, I've talked to the guy who
saw you do it all right, all right?
Speaker 10 (26:52):
I killed him.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Right here, right, which is where you came in, Constable,
And since you can take it from here, I shall close,
as always with.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
Period and the report right another trial, Sam, another new
sphere of effort.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
No feel is safe from my talent. Sweetheart, you will
please preserve it for posterity. During the following fifteen second announcement.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Scoot School.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Three times Mean Good Times on NBC This Sunday, the
Glamorous and Unpredictable Tallulah brings you another hour and a
half broadcast of the Big Show starring Fred Allen, Judy Holiday,
Joan Davis, Frank One and many more. And this Sunday's
Theater Guild on the Air production is The Broadway comedy
The First Year. Starring in this Theater Guild presentation are
Richard Woodmark and Catherine Grayson.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Here it is Ah E Fishing Girl.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah yeah, Elly, this is Sam Boy.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Oh? Oh aanks, Melly, what is it saying? They just
relayed a message from.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Fogerty Grove if Wendell is being installed as second vice
president tomorrow night at the Moose Hall.
Speaker 6 (28:22):
Oh he wants me to come.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
Oh and bring a girl.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
Are you game, little one where.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
That's one way to get the report A constable Ali Shuttle.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I'll do it, Sam, good girl, pack up an emergency
ration of sorghum and hominy grit. So I'll pull up
at your doorstep in the morning at Aircock Wait. I'll
wear my son gunn It and mother hubberds O good night, Sam.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Good night sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
The Adventures of Sam Space are produced, editor and directed
by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn
Loreen Tuttle as Effie. Also in the cast were Peggy Weber,
Berna Felton, Sidney Miller, Alice Wellman, Charles Smith, and Nestra Piva.
Script format's adventure by Harold Swanton, Musical scoring by lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbuster. Join us again next week, same
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time for another adventure with Sam Spade. Tomorrow, Your Hip
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