November 3, 2024 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Sam's Say Detective Agency.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Sweethearts.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Oh it's you.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What kind of a greeting is that? Oh it's you.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
I may be only your secretary and all that, but
I do have feelings.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You know what have I done? Now?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
If you recall you were supposed to take me to
the Geary Theater last night, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
And you never showed up.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Well, oh, I know you'll make up some big.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Story like you always do, always an excuse.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
No, I'll try to tell you the truth, and then truth.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
It'll probably be a story about at least two or
three people being killed, how you had to be there
to straighten the.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Whole thing out.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Well, as a matter of fact, and.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
The beautiful women with hair like card smoke and crimson
slashes for mouth.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You would leave that out now that you mentioned it, shooting.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
And getting knocked out and glass keying your way into
houses and if they else you can think of, Effie.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well, if you think that I'll fall for that, Effie,
will you please?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What's your big fat Sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
You already told everything about it, but the title I
might as well add that my big fat story is
called a Shot in the dock Caper Transcribe for NDC.
William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime drama,
brings you the greatest private detective of them all in
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the Adventures of Sam Spade.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Yes, no, Effie, don't be like this.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I promise you. Tonight, right after this report, we'll go
to the theater and we'll have dinner too, any place
you want. Sound good. You're the employer. The faster we
do the report, the faster we get out, and I
won't even take time out for a drink. So come on,
let's go, shall we. They fill it in to Managing
editor San Francisco Evening Gazette City from Samuel's Fade, Licensed
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number one three seventy five nine six, subject the shot
in the dock Caper or stop the presses Spade has
his pants caught in him caught their news hawk. The
next time you have a bright idea about a story,
count me out. There's too much work for the money
it pays, and the glory just doesn't exist. I don't
mind being knocked on the head, shot at, lied to,
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double crossed, and otherwise treated cruelly by circumstance, but to
do it all in one night, just so you can
have a scoop and then be referred to in your
columns as a gazette staff member. Well, my professional pride
was severely injured. I am a detective, sir, and nobody's
staff member. Well, now that that's off my chest. Here
in journalistic prose, is what happened starting yesterday afternoon? Yes,
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I'll take him here? Is spade yess Wodrow Wilson? Really? Well,
I'm sorry, I have Teddy Roosevelt on the other phone.
It might take some time. You better try me later.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Bye, Fade.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Somehow I thought you were above that sort of Conney repartee.
I am above nothing, sir, as long as it ethical
which Woodrow Wilson is this? I am the new managing
editor of the Evening Gazette. Well, welcome to Tom. What
can I do for I have a job you might like,
an interesting job, an interesting money? How interesting? If you
find out what I want, you can almost name your
own price. Can you get over here in three minutes
with any sort of a tailwind? I'll make it in
two a new track record, I guess each Sprade, m Oh,
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what is this interesting job? First? Let me say, I
don't know much about your personally, but you come well recommended.
I've tried checkond. This is a confidential matter, and I
wanted to remain that way. Of course, I'm gonna trust
you as I would one of my own staff members.
The police have to find out about it until it's
all over, and if any other newspaper gets it, you
might as well. Woody, old boy, the man doesn't live.
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Who can say I ever double crossed him for money
or love or anything else. I'll say it so we
understand each other. I'll take a look at this newest photo. Yes,
one of our boys snapped it.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
What do you see?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
A street intersection, o' farrell, I'd say, two automobiles hit
head on, an ambulance, a couple of people injured, a
sordid crowd. We took that picture three days ago, Tuesday night,
routine accident picture. But this morning, when we were filing it,
I looked at it again and I noticed something stoppling.
Look at it. It's a shot in the dock. But
I smell a story. Well maybe I have a cold.
But whatever it is escapes on the right side of
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the picture's an apartment house. M I'll count up six
four's and look at the fourth window across on the left.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Yes, he was this magnifying glass.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh well, do you know somebody just fired off a gun.
That's it. All you can see is a hand and
the smoking gun. You can't even tell whether the hands
mail or female. But somebody shot at something, probably a person,
just a second before that picture was taken. You want
me to find out why this calls for a detective
not a reporter. There hasn't been a single homicide, suicide,
or gunshot wound reported in the city since that happened.
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How I want to sorry, get it okay, Chief, get
ready to rip out page. What the apartment house was
the Greystone? It was actually an apartment hotel and a
little shabby. I entered an hour later with a suitcase
and an out of town look. The name plates on
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the mailboxes showed about five vacancies, including one on the
sixth floor. I rang the manager's door, butter but not.
I'd like to rent.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
An apartment if I could clin Clinton, drop your suitcase anyplace.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
My name's Ed Barry.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
How are you your suitcase is leaking? We charge one
price one seventy five per night.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, I uh, I don't have that kind of cash
with me or my checkbook. Could I pay you tomorrow?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Oh? A sure thing?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Your name my comeboat mark?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yes, that's it. Where you're from?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Stumble, New York, boy, New York.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Forty eight East fifty first.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Broadway, next to kin Uh huh? Any family relatives?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
No?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
No, are you own a car?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Look, I'm just running an apartment, not taking out life insurance. Well,
you see, there's a state law here requires us to
get this sort of information.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
No car, bank account, carn exchange bank.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You own any property? Yes, yes I do, Albany, New York.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Just how much?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Would you say?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Six feet in a cemetery? I expect to be buried there.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Here. Yeah, well, I guess that about takes care of him.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Anything on the sixth floor?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Why the sixth, particularly my lucky number? Oh well, I'm.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Sorry, maybe later right now? We got nothing on the
sixth Come on, I'll show you around.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
In a few minutes. I was ensconced in room five
one two as he stood in the doorway at burying.
The manager scanned my luggage, my clothes, my ring and wristwatch,
as if he were trying to estimate what he could
get for me from a fence. After he went back
to his apartment, I took a stroll up to the
sixth floor Woody Wilson, and I figured the gun incident
took place in apartment six oh eight. So I canted
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back from the end of the corridor and found we
were right. Six oh eight was silent. I knocked, but
no one answered, so I sprung the lock and went in.
The place was absolutely empty, no furniture, no nothing. In fact,
it was being completely remodeled. Huh, I, Well, where did
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you come from?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Gee? I guess maybe I startled Jim Little.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I was just coming down the hall, you know, taking
some of these groceries, and I saw you standing there.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You're new here, huh.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Huh yeah, huh yeah. Here let me carry some of
those things.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I say, say, you know, you're the kind of man
a girl should ever up.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Well, I've tried to convince several of that.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Oh who were you kidding?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
A big handsome guy like you wouldn't have any trouble
getting a girl.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well please not if I was a girl. Well, you know, Ben,
my place is down here.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Shall we go? Why not.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
My name's Honey Kane.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Your Mark Combo Gay, what a fascinating no, oh, not
half as fascinating as yours.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Really, isn't wonderful?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
How fate just throws two people together.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The bags of groceries we were carrying had a layer
of dust on them, and the bags looked as if
they'd made fifty trips to the grocery store. No one
had to hit me on the head, Sam's fade, detective.
She was small in peroxide and if you like them,
stupid small in peroxide. She lived in an apartment six twenty
with a roommate who was quite a bit different, prettier,
smarter and quieter.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Andres want you to meet this very nice gentlemen, mister
Mark Cumberg. Humbo oh, I remember the Mary.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
This is Sandrel Lynn.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
How do you do Miss Lynn? Hello, it's one nice day. Great, well,
just at.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
The grocery down here, huh oh here, Now, let's have
some fun, like fun, mister Humble.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Wouldn't be without her.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
You're priceless, but good. Let's start with a drink. How
about your son? No, no, you kids, have you all fun.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I'm going off for the wall.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Humble. You're supposed to be looking at me.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
An hour later, under the pretext of going out for
some snuff, I shook her off and left. The next
half hour went to giving the apartment house a thorough casing.
I looked at all the names on the mailboxes, and
the only one that rang a bell was one Max Barstow,
a former heavyweight. We never got past club fighting. I
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inquired about him of charming.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Ed Barry, the manager A Max Barstow.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, I try apartment. He isn't home.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Yeah, well, you see, he won't be home for some time.
You see, he took a vacation, went to visit his
family in the Portland.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Wendy leave last Tuesday night.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I remember him saying.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Ed, I won't be back for a while.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Look after things, William.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You have a good memory. Yeah, hey, can you tell
me something about those two girls in six twenty wife.
One of them made a pass at me.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Well, mister, I feel this way. I rent apartments to
responsible adults. What they do is their business. He won't
get any trouble from me.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Now, That isn't what I asked. I always like to
be sure. Now are they honest? Hard working girls?
Speaker 6 (10:37):
I don't know nothing about them, but let me tell
you something confidential is the why look a gift horse
in the mouth?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Well, I gumshoot around the apartment house some more, and
one thing was sure. They were making a number of
extensive alderations. For example, in the basement there was a
new cement floor. Said cement floor had been late. I
was told by the janitor Wednesday morning, the morning after
a gun was fired in six o' wait, the same
morning on which Max Barstow suddenly left to visit his parents,
and about hearing the plot, it was dramatically correct to
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wonder if Max might be sleeping under the furnace with
a new cement overcoat covering it. I went back to
my apartment for a couple of long ones, and some
thought it was getting along about supper time when there
was a feminine knock. I guess it'd be miss room
service herself. Honey came, but no better, much better? May
I come in you may? Shall I leave the door open?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Why rather you close?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Anything to make you feel at home? Drink?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
No talk?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
What are you doing here? Sad?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
The name's Humboldt, Mark Humboldt. Or I've played any way
you want, but I've seen you around.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I know who you are.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
You move in today and half hour later you find
our apartment.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Why your apartment found me? At least half of it?
Did the gift Horse Park?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Maybe so, but I figured you helped a little somewhere.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
What are you trying to get on using nothing?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I just moved in here for a place to live with.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
One two case in a bottle.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I'm an actor.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Look whatever it is, lay off, well, I've had enough
trouble in my life.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Things are just starting to go right, Sandra. I don't
know what's on your mind, but as far as I'm concerned,
you're clean. All right.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Maybe I made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Try to make it up to you sometimes.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Oh maybe you can start right now.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I think i'll open the door again.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Just a question. Seen anything of Max Barstow lately?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I knew it.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
It's something I knew with No, I haven't seen Max
Barstow lately.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
He went somewhere to.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Visit his family.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And I'm telling you I to leave me alone, steady good,
haven't you you will fight?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
He stormed out, looking lovely all the way, and I
sat very quietly for a minute. It was the second
time somebody said it. Max Barstow is visiting his family.
That was very interesting because you see, Max Barstow didn't
have any family when he first started fighting. He was
under the aegis of the Saint John's Orphanage. So what
was all this rehearsed account of his absence. I watched
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at the window to see if Sandra went anywhere, and
she appeared on the street. I was out of the
room and down the stairs. Presto. Ten blocks later, she
turned in at a brownstone on Polk Street, went in
the first apartment on the first floor. Fifteen minutes later
she hurried out and I went up to the apartment
and knocked the door opened cautiously.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yes, what is it you want?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Is mister Fairchild in?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Nobody hear by that name? You've got wrong address?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Now just a minute. He used to live here, No
more he does. But could you tell me where I
could find him, mister Kim, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Twice minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
On the way out, I looked at the car down
his door buck he listed his apartments belonging to a
mister Rothschild. At the moment, there was nothing to be
made out of it, so I went back to the Greystone,
and when I got to my room, it was very
obvious that I had been visited during my absence.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Yeah, oh, what.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Happened to my suitcase?
Speaker 6 (13:49):
I'm sorry, mister Humble, but I didn't realize it before.
You see, that apartment was already rented, so I guess
you'll have to find one someplace out.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Look, you have four other vacant ones in this apartment house.
Give me one of those.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Sorry, no vacant, Lena, give me my suitcase.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Uh, yeah, that's the one that leaked. So just a minute,
I'll bring it out.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Mister, I'll go in and get it myself. Stay off,
I said, I'll go in and get it. Right. He
swung at me, eye blocked and stepped into him. He
gave way and I followed in. And then as I
moved into the apartment, someone stepped out from behind the door.
I turned, but it was too late. I was sandbag
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A face behind the arm that swung It looked an
awful lot like that of Max Barstow. I remember asking
myself as I went down, if Max Barstow wasn't shot
in room six.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Oh eight, who was.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
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back to the shot in the Dark caper Tonight's adventure
with Sam's bay. I was not for long, but it
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was long enough to have been carried out of the
apartment manager's place and jumped in an alley. I sat
up and rubbed the back of my head and discovered
the boys had a sense of humor. Then on my
chest was a note that said beat it. When I
went back, I had my gun handy to hand. Nobody
was home with mister Berring's apartment, so for something to do,
I looked in on Max Barstow's Diggings four thirteen. I
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glanced keyed in and turned on the lights, and a
search revealed items a rent receipt showing Max was paid
up for two months and intended to stay put. But
more interesting were two phony detective badges, a policeman's uniform,
and a flash camera. A couple of these with a
dossier on a man named Sigmund Polkis, and I knew
just what Max had been doing since the Fight Game
stopped paying his bills. It read Sigmund Polkis sixty years old, Minneapolis,
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just sold two restaurants for one hundred and seventy five
thousand dollars. Intends to retire and settle down in San Francisco.
That's as far as I got when Honey poured herself
on me again.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Oh, mister Humbold, what are you doing in mister Barstow's apartment?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Come in, Come in, thanks.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
You shouldn't be here, mister Barstow ever found out.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Honey, Honey, you can drop the act. You know who
I am and I know who you are. You're part
of the bay for one of the oldest rackets in
the world, the Badger Game. Oh me, you all right?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Sam? I didn't know who you were first until Sandra told.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Me, Now you tell me what are you doing in
Max's role?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
A number of things, First of all getting enough evidence
on him to give him a free vacation on the state. Second,
I wanted to see who would show up and why? Now,
what's your story?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I just dropped in to see if Max was here.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Try again, Sam, if.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I tell you anything, will you leave me alone?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
If I can bear it?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
I came over to get some things from Max.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
You know where's he staying?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Right across the street in the Arlington three point fourteen
Ed Barring manages both apartment house.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Why doesn't Max stay here?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Who are you working for?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Sam?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I'm just asking a client, not the police. No, Sam,
I don't have a thing to do with the mark
Max is working.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
On now Sigmund polkas some Oh man, do you hear
any shooting here last Tuesday night and apartment six eight? Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Sam, I didn't hear a thing, not a single thing.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
All right, get whatever you came for, but remember this.
You tell Max I was here, and I'll tie you
into something that will get you to hatchapee. I. But
it's the last thing I do. Oh sure, I knew
she'd be impressed with that type of threat, because her
kind of girl lives by playing tag with the law.
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They want to be it as seldom as possible. I
finished the dossier on Pocus and thought a more business
like visit that the old man was in order. What
is it, oh you, I want to talk with you,
mister Pocus, come in. I want to talk to you now.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
No, and right where you are.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
He was pointing a gun in one shaking hand, right
up my chest, and as close as I could tell,
it looked very much like the gun I'd seen in
your picture, Wilson, and the hand that held it was
the very same hand. I tried to think of something
clever to say.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
It's the stage of my life. It would be very
easy to shoot you, mister.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Look, I came here maybe to help save you a
lot of trouble. Now, if you listen to me, I
know why you came here.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Because I killed much FASTO. I'll give you a choice.
Will you take money or will I will I shoot
you right here.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I'd take the money, but you didn't kill Max Bart.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Don't tell me what I did. When I know what
I did. Sandra told me one of his tongue members
was looking for me, But she doesn't understand the power
of money. How much will you take to leave us
alone to our happiness? What is much faster to you
now that he's dead.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Look, I don't want any money, I just want to
I felt like a ghost. The gun was ponied directly
at me, but nothing hit me. I was surprised, I
albeit gratified. The little man must have thought I was
wearing a bulletproof bet he didn't look surprised, though, he
just fold him. I disarmed him and pushed him down
into a chair. I had to do it.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I had to. I couldn't let you spoil the only
bit of happiness I had left in my life.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Mister Polkash, you tried to shoot me, and I'm grateful
had told both of us something to begin with. You
can't kill anybody with blanks in your links.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I don't no blank.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What did you get the gun?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I always have.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Gun always, and you don't know the difference between real
bullets and blanks. You got it from Sandra and she
loaded it right.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Maybe you shoot no gunster.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Look, I'm a private detective name of Sam Spade. Now,
if you'll help me, I'll help you. When did Sandra
give you this gun last Tuesday? Yes, did you use
it to shoot Barstow?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Then he couldn't be dead, could he? This gun wouldn't
kill a fly. And besides, I met Max Barstow tonight alive, saw.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Him fall to the floor and blood came out of
his coat with my own eyes.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Mister Polkis you just came from Minneapolis with one hundred
and seventy five thousand dollars. You walked into a shakedown gang.
They're after your money. That girl, Sandra is just baked.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Don't speak about Sandra that way. Sure she tried to
shake me up for money, but only because that men,
that Barsto maker. She was a slave. She couldn't get
away from him.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Why did she stage your phony murder with you killing Barstow? Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I'm so confused.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Tell me how it happened.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Barstow post as a policeman.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
He found me. Sundra's a pardon.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I was supposed to pay him five thousand dollars, but
Sundra taught me she loved me and Foster was a racketeer.
We were to meet an apartment in six or eight
for to pay him. She gave me a gun to
frighten him whisper. Instead, I killed.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Nuts five thousand. They knew how much money you had,
and they wanted to get all of it away from
you on a phony murder scare.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Handra doesn't want my money away from me.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
She loves me, mister Polkis. I'm sorry disillusionment should come
to you so late in life.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I say she loved me, and I can't prove it.
How this morning she became missus Sigmund Polkis.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
That made me sit down and think things through a
little more carefully. She could have gotten his money, or
most of it, without marrying him. Maybe she did love him,
or maybe they felt he was too dumb to pay off,
or maybe she married him so she could murder him,
and maybe a dozen other things. His suitcases were packed,
and he said that he and Sandra planned to leave
town tonight. He'd been waiting for when I came in,
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but she was already two hours late. I can think
of only one place she could be, So I left
poor mister Polkas and went to the filing zone three
one four, the address Honey Kane had given me, and
she was there.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Oh from that, I'm glad you came.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I was scared.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I'm scared now now, honey, quiet down and tell me
what you're scared about.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
The bedroom Max, he's dead.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Nice job. When'd you find him?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Five minutes ago?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
I was with him before, and then I went offer
some Chinese food when I came back.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
All right, all right? Who else was here tonight?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I see anybody?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But what he was awful?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Madissandra said she was double crossing.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Him and he wouldn't let her get away with it.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I went back to Polcus's place. He was gone, but
his bags were still there, so I figured he'd be back.
I put out the lights and sat in a chair.
Go ahead, go ahead, ask me what I'm doing here
with Pocus. If he's smart, he's on a train back
to Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'm going to look for him.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You're not going anywhere. Sit down, Yes I am. You're
not going anywhere unless it's the jail. What are you playing,
miss aid district attorney for? Because you killed Max Barstowe?
Now tell me why, Oh, don't.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Be a joke A mac Bosto's as why as you are.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I'm not talking about the phony murder stage for the
benefit of Polcus Barstow was stabbed at that a half
hour ago. He was, he was. I saw him, you, Sam,
I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I saw him earlier this day, but he was all right.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
You married Polkas to double cross him, didn't you? You were
going to skip time with the mark.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
I'm sure I was.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
So Why would I kill Max?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Because he knew what you were going to do. That's
why I didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
I couldn't kill anybody.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Why did you? What did you have planned for Pocus
a shove over the Grand Canyon? No?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I I love the old guy.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Come on, we'll drop in a police headquarter.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Knows Sam?
Speaker 6 (23:59):
No, Sam, nothing. I wouldn't take you with a us
ment thrown in.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Will you let me go if.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I tell you what happened, If I tell you who
killed Bosto.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
If you didn't do it, nobody could hold you for
a murder anyway.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Bearing and Bearing did it.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
We plan the whole thing together.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
It was a freeze out on Bosto. Somehow he found
out it had to take care of him.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I didn't have anything to do with it.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I tried to tell him nothing, to tell him, not
to what.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I've got a gun in my hand. Bearings, so have
I which one of us is gonna shoot first? You
wouldn't shoot, but he did period end of report.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Damn Is that all?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Well? What do you want an echo?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
No? But he shot you and.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You're all right? Were they blink like the other guy?
They were not. They were genuine steel jacketed bullets. You
didn't listen carefully enough that I figured he'd shoot right away.
He did once, just as I jumped sideways and fired
two shots back.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Did you kill him?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
No? No, but he's down with a little case lead
poisoning though under police guard.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You're wonderful.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
That's true, all right? Go type it up off with
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Speaker 3 (25:47):
Here it is.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
But it's something I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
True, wits what happened to nice old mister Polchis, Why
wasn't he in his apartment waiting to start?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Well, he did just what I thought he should have done.
He walked down to the railroad depot and got on
the first train for Minneapolis. Who knows, Maybe he's opened
a new restaurant.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yes, And what happened to Samdra.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Well, she's being held as an accesstrated murder, among other things.
If they were married. That's enough, Effy, that's enough. Do
you want me to make everything so simple that everybody
will be able to figure it out?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
But you what? I get so confused sometime?
Speaker 5 (26:20):
That's most of your charm, Effie.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You know, if you were brisk and efficient and cold,
we'd never have any fun, would we?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I get notam We do have a good time at times, we.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Do, indeed, like right now, coming fire in a man's veins.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Not Nick, That's what don't say anymore, Sam, I don't
know what I might do.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I love it whatever it was.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I gotta say good night, Sam, good night, Sam.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Good night. Sweetheart to Night's Transcribed Adventure of Sam Spade
was produced, edited, and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade
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The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Sam's Say Detective Agency.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Sweethearts.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Oh it's you.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
What kind of a greeting is that? Oh it's you.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
I may be only your secretary and all that, but
I do have feelings.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You know what have I done? Now?
Speaker 4 (00:28):
If you recall you were supposed to take me to
the Geary Theater last night, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
And you never showed up.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Well, oh, I know you'll make up some big.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Story like you always do, always an excuse.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
No, I'll try to tell you the truth, and then truth.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
It'll probably be a story about at least two or
three people being killed, how you had to be there
to straighten the.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Whole thing out.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Well, as a matter of fact, and.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
The beautiful women with hair like card smoke and crimson
slashes for mouth.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
You would leave that out now that you mentioned it, shooting.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
And getting knocked out and glass keying your way into
houses and if they else you can think of, Effie.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Well, if you think that I'll fall for that, Effie,
will you please?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
What's your big fat Sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
You already told everything about it, but the title I
might as well add that my big fat story is
called a Shot in the dock Caper Transcribe for NDC.
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the Adventures of Sam Spade.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Yes, no, Effie, don't be like this.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I promise you. Tonight, right after this report, we'll go
to the theater and we'll have dinner too, any place
you want. Sound good. You're the employer. The faster we
do the report, the faster we get out, and I
won't even take time out for a drink. So come on,
let's go, shall we. They fill it in to Managing
editor San Francisco Evening Gazette City from Samuel's Fade, Licensed
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number one three seventy five nine six, subject the shot
in the dock Caper or stop the presses Spade has
his pants caught in him caught their news hawk. The
next time you have a bright idea about a story,
count me out. There's too much work for the money
it pays, and the glory just doesn't exist. I don't
mind being knocked on the head, shot at, lied to,
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double crossed, and otherwise treated cruelly by circumstance, but to
do it all in one night, just so you can
have a scoop and then be referred to in your
columns as a gazette staff member. Well, my professional pride
was severely injured. I am a detective, sir, and nobody's
staff member. Well, now that that's off my chest. Here
in journalistic prose, is what happened starting yesterday afternoon? Yes,
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I'll take him here? Is spade yess Wodrow Wilson? Really? Well,
I'm sorry, I have Teddy Roosevelt on the other phone.
It might take some time. You better try me later.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Bye, Fade.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Somehow I thought you were above that sort of Conney repartee.
I am above nothing, sir, as long as it ethical
which Woodrow Wilson is this? I am the new managing
editor of the Evening Gazette. Well, welcome to Tom. What
can I do for I have a job you might like,
an interesting job, an interesting money? How interesting? If you
find out what I want, you can almost name your
own price. Can you get over here in three minutes
with any sort of a tailwind? I'll make it in
two a new track record, I guess each Sprade, m Oh,
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what is this interesting job? First? Let me say, I
don't know much about your personally, but you come well recommended.
I've tried checkond. This is a confidential matter, and I
wanted to remain that way. Of course, I'm gonna trust
you as I would one of my own staff members.
The police have to find out about it until it's
all over, and if any other newspaper gets it, you
might as well. Woody, old boy, the man doesn't live.
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Who can say I ever double crossed him for money
or love or anything else. I'll say it so we
understand each other. I'll take a look at this newest photo. Yes,
one of our boys snapped it.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
What do you see?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
A street intersection, o' farrell, I'd say, two automobiles hit
head on, an ambulance, a couple of people injured, a
sordid crowd. We took that picture three days ago, Tuesday night,
routine accident picture. But this morning, when we were filing it,
I looked at it again and I noticed something stoppling.
Look at it. It's a shot in the dock. But
I smell a story. Well maybe I have a cold.
But whatever it is escapes on the right side of
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the picture's an apartment house. M I'll count up six
four's and look at the fourth window across on the left.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Yes, he was this magnifying glass.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Oh well, do you know somebody just fired off a gun.
That's it. All you can see is a hand and
the smoking gun. You can't even tell whether the hands
mail or female. But somebody shot at something, probably a person,
just a second before that picture was taken. You want
me to find out why this calls for a detective
not a reporter. There hasn't been a single homicide, suicide,
or gunshot wound reported in the city since that happened.
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How I want to sorry, get it okay, Chief, get
ready to rip out page. What the apartment house was
the Greystone? It was actually an apartment hotel and a
little shabby. I entered an hour later with a suitcase
and an out of town look. The name plates on
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the mailboxes showed about five vacancies, including one on the
sixth floor. I rang the manager's door, butter but not.
I'd like to rent.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
An apartment if I could clin Clinton, drop your suitcase anyplace.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
My name's Ed Barry.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
How are you your suitcase is leaking? We charge one
price one seventy five per night.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, I uh, I don't have that kind of cash
with me or my checkbook. Could I pay you tomorrow?
Speaker 5 (05:55):
Oh? A sure thing?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Your name my comeboat mark?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yes, that's it. Where you're from?
Speaker 5 (06:03):
Stumble, New York, boy, New York.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Forty eight East fifty first.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Broadway, next to kin Uh huh? Any family relatives?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
No?
Speaker 5 (06:13):
No, are you own a car?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Look, I'm just running an apartment, not taking out life insurance. Well,
you see, there's a state law here requires us to
get this sort of information.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do.
Speaker 6 (06:22):
No car, bank account, carn exchange bank.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
You own any property? Yes, yes I do, Albany, New York.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Just how much?
Speaker 5 (06:31):
Would you say?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Six feet in a cemetery? I expect to be buried there.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Here. Yeah, well, I guess that about takes care of him.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Anything on the sixth floor?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Why the sixth, particularly my lucky number? Oh well, I'm.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Sorry, maybe later right now? We got nothing on the
sixth Come on, I'll show you around.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
In a few minutes. I was ensconced in room five
one two as he stood in the doorway at burying.
The manager scanned my luggage, my clothes, my ring and wristwatch,
as if he were trying to estimate what he could
get for me from a fence. After he went back
to his apartment, I took a stroll up to the
sixth floor Woody Wilson, and I figured the gun incident
took place in apartment six oh eight. So I canted
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back from the end of the corridor and found we
were right. Six oh eight was silent. I knocked, but
no one answered, so I sprung the lock and went in.
The place was absolutely empty, no furniture, no nothing. In fact,
it was being completely remodeled. Huh, I, Well, where did
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you come from?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Gee? I guess maybe I startled Jim Little.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I was just coming down the hall, you know, taking
some of these groceries, and I saw you standing there.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You're new here, huh.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Huh yeah, huh yeah. Here let me carry some of
those things.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I say, say, you know, you're the kind of man
a girl should ever up.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Well, I've tried to convince several of that.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Oh who were you kidding?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
A big handsome guy like you wouldn't have any trouble
getting a girl.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well please not if I was a girl. Well, you know, Ben,
my place is down here.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Shall we go? Why not.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
My name's Honey Kane.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Your Mark Combo Gay, what a fascinating no, oh, not
half as fascinating as yours.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Really, isn't wonderful?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
How fate just throws two people together.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
The bags of groceries we were carrying had a layer
of dust on them, and the bags looked as if
they'd made fifty trips to the grocery store. No one
had to hit me on the head, Sam's fade, detective.
She was small in peroxide and if you like them,
stupid small in peroxide. She lived in an apartment six twenty
with a roommate who was quite a bit different, prettier,
smarter and quieter.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Andres want you to meet this very nice gentlemen, mister
Mark Cumberg. Humbo oh, I remember the Mary.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
This is Sandrel Lynn.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
How do you do Miss Lynn? Hello, it's one nice day. Great, well,
just at.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
The grocery down here, huh oh here, Now, let's have
some fun, like fun, mister Humble.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Wouldn't be without her.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
You're priceless, but good. Let's start with a drink. How
about your son? No, no, you kids, have you all fun.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I'm going off for the wall.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Humble. You're supposed to be looking at me.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
An hour later, under the pretext of going out for
some snuff, I shook her off and left. The next
half hour went to giving the apartment house a thorough casing.
I looked at all the names on the mailboxes, and
the only one that rang a bell was one Max Barstow,
a former heavyweight. We never got past club fighting. I
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inquired about him of charming.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Ed Barry, the manager A Max Barstow.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Yeah, I try apartment. He isn't home.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Yeah, well, you see, he won't be home for some time.
You see, he took a vacation, went to visit his
family in the Portland.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Wendy leave last Tuesday night.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
I remember him saying.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Ed, I won't be back for a while.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Look after things, William.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
You have a good memory. Yeah, hey, can you tell
me something about those two girls in six twenty wife.
One of them made a pass at me.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Well, mister, I feel this way. I rent apartments to
responsible adults. What they do is their business. He won't
get any trouble from me.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Now, That isn't what I asked. I always like to
be sure. Now are they honest? Hard working girls?
Speaker 6 (10:37):
I don't know nothing about them, but let me tell
you something confidential is the why look a gift horse
in the mouth?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Well, I gumshoot around the apartment house some more, and
one thing was sure. They were making a number of
extensive alderations. For example, in the basement there was a
new cement floor. Said cement floor had been late. I
was told by the janitor Wednesday morning, the morning after
a gun was fired in six o' wait, the same
morning on which Max Barstow suddenly left to visit his parents,
and about hearing the plot, it was dramatically correct to
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wonder if Max might be sleeping under the furnace with
a new cement overcoat covering it. I went back to
my apartment for a couple of long ones, and some
thought it was getting along about supper time when there
was a feminine knock. I guess it'd be miss room
service herself. Honey came, but no better, much better? May
I come in you may? Shall I leave the door open?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Why rather you close?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Anything to make you feel at home? Drink?
Speaker 3 (11:38):
No talk?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
What are you doing here? Sad?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
The name's Humboldt, Mark Humboldt. Or I've played any way
you want, but I've seen you around.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
I know who you are.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
You move in today and half hour later you find
our apartment.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Why your apartment found me? At least half of it?
Did the gift Horse Park?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Maybe so, but I figured you helped a little somewhere.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
What are you trying to get on using nothing?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I just moved in here for a place to live with.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
One two case in a bottle.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
I'm an actor.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Look whatever it is, lay off, well, I've had enough
trouble in my life.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Things are just starting to go right, Sandra. I don't
know what's on your mind, but as far as I'm concerned,
you're clean. All right.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Maybe I made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Try to make it up to you sometimes.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Oh maybe you can start right now.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I think i'll open the door again.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Just a question. Seen anything of Max Barstow lately?
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I knew it.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
It's something I knew with No, I haven't seen Max
Barstow lately.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
He went somewhere to.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Visit his family.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
And I'm telling you I to leave me alone, steady good,
haven't you you will fight?
Speaker 1 (12:37):
He stormed out, looking lovely all the way, and I
sat very quietly for a minute. It was the second
time somebody said it. Max Barstow is visiting his family.
That was very interesting because you see, Max Barstow didn't
have any family when he first started fighting. He was
under the aegis of the Saint John's Orphanage. So what
was all this rehearsed account of his absence. I watched
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at the window to see if Sandra went anywhere, and
she appeared on the street. I was out of the
room and down the stairs. Presto. Ten blocks later, she
turned in at a brownstone on Polk Street, went in
the first apartment on the first floor. Fifteen minutes later
she hurried out and I went up to the apartment
and knocked the door opened cautiously.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yes, what is it you want?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Is mister Fairchild in?
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Nobody hear by that name? You've got wrong address?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Now just a minute. He used to live here, No
more he does. But could you tell me where I
could find him, mister Kim, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Twice minutes.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
On the way out, I looked at the car down
his door buck he listed his apartments belonging to a
mister Rothschild. At the moment, there was nothing to be
made out of it, so I went back to the Greystone,
and when I got to my room, it was very
obvious that I had been visited during my absence.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Yeah, oh, what.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Happened to my suitcase?
Speaker 6 (13:49):
I'm sorry, mister Humble, but I didn't realize it before.
You see, that apartment was already rented, so I guess
you'll have to find one someplace out.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Look, you have four other vacant ones in this apartment house.
Give me one of those.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Sorry, no vacant, Lena, give me my suitcase.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Uh, yeah, that's the one that leaked. So just a minute,
I'll bring it out.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Mister, I'll go in and get it myself. Stay off,
I said, I'll go in and get it. Right. He
swung at me, eye blocked and stepped into him. He
gave way and I followed in. And then as I
moved into the apartment, someone stepped out from behind the door.
I turned, but it was too late. I was sandbag
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A face behind the arm that swung It looked an
awful lot like that of Max Barstow. I remember asking
myself as I went down, if Max Barstow wasn't shot
in room six.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Oh eight, who was.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most
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back to the shot in the Dark caper Tonight's adventure
with Sam's bay. I was not for long, but it
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was long enough to have been carried out of the
apartment manager's place and jumped in an alley. I sat
up and rubbed the back of my head and discovered
the boys had a sense of humor. Then on my
chest was a note that said beat it. When I
went back, I had my gun handy to hand. Nobody
was home with mister Berring's apartment, so for something to do,
I looked in on Max Barstow's Diggings four thirteen. I
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glanced keyed in and turned on the lights, and a
search revealed items a rent receipt showing Max was paid
up for two months and intended to stay put. But
more interesting were two phony detective badges, a policeman's uniform,
and a flash camera. A couple of these with a
dossier on a man named Sigmund Polkis, and I knew
just what Max had been doing since the Fight Game
stopped paying his bills. It read Sigmund Polkis sixty years old, Minneapolis,
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just sold two restaurants for one hundred and seventy five
thousand dollars. Intends to retire and settle down in San Francisco.
That's as far as I got when Honey poured herself
on me again.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Oh, mister Humbold, what are you doing in mister Barstow's apartment?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Come in, Come in, thanks.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
You shouldn't be here, mister Barstow ever found out.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Honey, Honey, you can drop the act. You know who
I am and I know who you are. You're part
of the bay for one of the oldest rackets in
the world, the Badger Game. Oh me, you all right?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Sam? I didn't know who you were first until Sandra told.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Me, Now you tell me what are you doing in
Max's role?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
A number of things, First of all getting enough evidence
on him to give him a free vacation on the state. Second,
I wanted to see who would show up and why? Now,
what's your story?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I just dropped in to see if Max was here.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Try again, Sam, if.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I tell you anything, will you leave me alone?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
If I can bear it?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
I came over to get some things from Max.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
You know where's he staying?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Right across the street in the Arlington three point fourteen
Ed Barring manages both apartment house.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Why doesn't Max stay here?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Who are you working for?
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Sam?
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I'm just asking a client, not the police. No, Sam,
I don't have a thing to do with the mark
Max is working.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
On now Sigmund polkas some Oh man, do you hear
any shooting here last Tuesday night and apartment six eight? Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Sam, I didn't hear a thing, not a single thing.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
All right, get whatever you came for, but remember this.
You tell Max I was here, and I'll tie you
into something that will get you to hatchapee. I. But
it's the last thing I do. Oh sure, I knew
she'd be impressed with that type of threat, because her
kind of girl lives by playing tag with the law.
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They want to be it as seldom as possible. I
finished the dossier on Pocus and thought a more business
like visit that the old man was in order. What
is it, oh you, I want to talk with you,
mister Pocus, come in. I want to talk to you now.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
No, and right where you are.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
He was pointing a gun in one shaking hand, right
up my chest, and as close as I could tell,
it looked very much like the gun I'd seen in
your picture, Wilson, and the hand that held it was
the very same hand. I tried to think of something
clever to say.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
It's the stage of my life. It would be very
easy to shoot you, mister.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Look, I came here maybe to help save you a
lot of trouble. Now, if you listen to me, I
know why you came here.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Because I killed much FASTO. I'll give you a choice.
Will you take money or will I will I shoot
you right here.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I'd take the money, but you didn't kill Max Bart.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Don't tell me what I did. When I know what
I did. Sandra told me one of his tongue members
was looking for me, But she doesn't understand the power
of money. How much will you take to leave us
alone to our happiness? What is much faster to you
now that he's dead.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Look, I don't want any money, I just want to
I felt like a ghost. The gun was ponied directly
at me, but nothing hit me. I was surprised, I
albeit gratified. The little man must have thought I was
wearing a bulletproof bet he didn't look surprised, though, he
just fold him. I disarmed him and pushed him down
into a chair. I had to do it.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
I had to. I couldn't let you spoil the only
bit of happiness I had left in my life.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Mister Polkash, you tried to shoot me, and I'm grateful
had told both of us something to begin with. You
can't kill anybody with blanks in your links.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
I don't no blank.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What did you get the gun?
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I always have.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Gun always, and you don't know the difference between real
bullets and blanks. You got it from Sandra and she
loaded it right.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Maybe you shoot no gunster.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Look, I'm a private detective name of Sam Spade. Now,
if you'll help me, I'll help you. When did Sandra
give you this gun last Tuesday? Yes, did you use
it to shoot Barstow?
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Then he couldn't be dead, could he? This gun wouldn't
kill a fly. And besides, I met Max Barstow tonight alive, saw.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Him fall to the floor and blood came out of
his coat with my own eyes.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Mister Polkis you just came from Minneapolis with one hundred
and seventy five thousand dollars. You walked into a shakedown gang.
They're after your money. That girl, Sandra is just baked.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Don't speak about Sandra that way. Sure she tried to
shake me up for money, but only because that men,
that Barsto maker. She was a slave. She couldn't get
away from him.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Why did she stage your phony murder with you killing Barstow? Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I'm so confused.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Tell me how it happened.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Barstow post as a policeman.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
He found me. Sundra's a pardon.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
I was supposed to pay him five thousand dollars, but
Sundra taught me she loved me and Foster was a racketeer.
We were to meet an apartment in six or eight
for to pay him. She gave me a gun to
frighten him whisper. Instead, I killed.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Nuts five thousand. They knew how much money you had,
and they wanted to get all of it away from
you on a phony murder scare.
Speaker 3 (21:21):
Handra doesn't want my money away from me.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
She loves me, mister Polkis. I'm sorry disillusionment should come
to you so late in life.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
I say she loved me, and I can't prove it.
How this morning she became missus Sigmund Polkis.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
That made me sit down and think things through a
little more carefully. She could have gotten his money, or
most of it, without marrying him. Maybe she did love him,
or maybe they felt he was too dumb to pay off,
or maybe she married him so she could murder him,
and maybe a dozen other things. His suitcases were packed,
and he said that he and Sandra planned to leave
town tonight. He'd been waiting for when I came in,
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but she was already two hours late. I can think
of only one place she could be, So I left
poor mister Polkas and went to the filing zone three
one four, the address Honey Kane had given me, and
she was there.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Oh from that, I'm glad you came.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I was scared.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I'm scared now now, honey, quiet down and tell me
what you're scared about.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
The bedroom Max, he's dead.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Nice job. When'd you find him?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Five minutes ago?
Speaker 4 (22:35):
I was with him before, and then I went offer
some Chinese food when I came back.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
All right, all right? Who else was here tonight?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I see anybody?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But what he was awful?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Madissandra said she was double crossing.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Him and he wouldn't let her get away with it.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I went back to Polcus's place. He was gone, but
his bags were still there, so I figured he'd be back.
I put out the lights and sat in a chair.
Go ahead, go ahead, ask me what I'm doing here
with Pocus. If he's smart, he's on a train back
to Minneapolis.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'm going to look for him.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
You're not going anywhere. Sit down, Yes I am. You're
not going anywhere unless it's the jail. What are you playing,
miss aid district attorney for? Because you killed Max Barstowe?
Now tell me why, Oh, don't.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Be a joke A mac Bosto's as why as you are.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
I'm not talking about the phony murder stage for the
benefit of Polcus Barstow was stabbed at that a half
hour ago. He was, he was. I saw him, you, Sam,
I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I saw him earlier this day, but he was all right.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
You married Polkas to double cross him, didn't you? You were
going to skip time with the mark.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
I'm sure I was.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
So Why would I kill Max?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Because he knew what you were going to do. That's
why I didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
I couldn't kill anybody.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Why did you? What did you have planned for Pocus
a shove over the Grand Canyon? No?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I I love the old guy.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Come on, we'll drop in a police headquarter.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Knows Sam?
Speaker 6 (23:59):
No, Sam, nothing. I wouldn't take you with a us
ment thrown in.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Will you let me go if.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I tell you what happened, If I tell you who
killed Bosto.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
If you didn't do it, nobody could hold you for
a murder anyway.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Bearing and Bearing did it.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
We plan the whole thing together.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
It was a freeze out on Bosto. Somehow he found
out it had to take care of him.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
I didn't have anything to do with it.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I tried to tell him nothing, to tell him, not
to what.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I've got a gun in my hand. Bearings, so have
I which one of us is gonna shoot first? You
wouldn't shoot, but he did period end of report.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Damn Is that all?
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Well? What do you want an echo?
Speaker 5 (24:42):
No? But he shot you and.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You're all right? Were they blink like the other guy?
They were not. They were genuine steel jacketed bullets. You
didn't listen carefully enough that I figured he'd shoot right away.
He did once, just as I jumped sideways and fired
two shots back.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Did you kill him?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
No? No, but he's down with a little case lead
poisoning though under police guard.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
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Speaker 1 (25:05):
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Speaker 3 (25:47):
Here it is.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
But it's something I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
True, wits what happened to nice old mister Polchis, Why
wasn't he in his apartment waiting to start?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Well, he did just what I thought he should have done.
He walked down to the railroad depot and got on
the first train for Minneapolis. Who knows, Maybe he's opened
a new restaurant.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yes, And what happened to Samdra.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Well, she's being held as an accesstrated murder, among other things.
If they were married. That's enough, Effy, that's enough. Do
you want me to make everything so simple that everybody
will be able to figure it out?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
But you what? I get so confused sometime?
Speaker 5 (26:20):
That's most of your charm, Effie.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You know, if you were brisk and efficient and cold,
we'd never have any fun, would we?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I get notam We do have a good time at times, we.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Do, indeed, like right now, coming fire in a man's veins.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
Not Nick, That's what don't say anymore, Sam, I don't
know what I might do.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
I love it whatever it was.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I gotta say good night, Sam, good night, Sam.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
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