November 8, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sam Spay Detective Agency.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
The Sweethearts.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Damn, I heard you were hob nobbing with a wealthy
set of I City.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
If what I was doing is their idea of hobnobbing,
f I'm glad I'm in the lower income brackets. What
do you mean what happened? I will only reveal that, Fie,
in the intimate secrecy of our office.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Was it worse? Emotions?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Random uck passions were strewn from Fisherman's Walk to the Peninsula,
Hatred's Festoon, the very air, and there was jealousy too much.
It was positively lurid, as they say, Do you think
it's all right for me?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Do you hear it?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, I'll exprogate it a little, f I'll water it
down to your strength. I'll use Monosylavic instead of Pollo
Slavic words and so on.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Now, Dan, I want you to tell me everything you
think I should hear, and then just a little more.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's a deal. If prepare yourself for listening, and I
will shortly make my inference with a saga of society skullduggery.
The lowdown on the Uptown and all that. If we
need a name for it, why not call it the
Vendetta Caper or the Revenge of Monte Christoff Transcribe for
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n DC.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime drama,
brings you the greatest private detective of them all in
the Adventures of Sam Spade.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
To call Sam, I'm right here. Let me take your.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Coat where if he isn't the sufficient.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Of you, I'll be quiet and give me a coat.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Nah, i've oiled your chair, so will sleet.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Where. You make me feel like an emotional invalid. But
it's wonderful and he here. Oh well, never ce double
worth eight year old stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I had Frisco's drugstore send it up, apple Jack.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It's called apple Jack. Well, what brought it on, f
Why this particular polishing of the apple Jack?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Well, I'm on out with it.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I just thought, well, you've been working with the rich people,
and maybe you were handsomely compensated and my back salary.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
You're not mad, Sam.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well, as it happens, I did make a few dollars
and yours will be the first account settled. Oh, it's
sure it wasn't me. It was the money all the time. No,
I accept your apology, two, Lieutenant J. F. Randall, San
Francisco Police Department, from Samuel's pade license number one three
seven five nine six, subject the Revenge of Manti Christophe
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Money Crystal.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Is this a historical drama?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Christoph c ri I S t O F F Monty
m O N t y. And it's still a historic drama,
dear Lieutenant. Revenge is an old fashioned motive, but when
you get it raw and distilled, as in the Gosden affair,
it's new all over again. This was the slow burning,
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deliberate kind of passion that starts smoldering way back in
the forgotten days and explodes among some people who never
knew they were living over a keg of dynamite. It
was yesterday morning that the distant sputtering of the fuse
began to be heard by a man named Chandler Gosden.
You know, I'm the hulking rich boy in the electrical
appliance sign who took a professional boxing for a while.
I think he was built as gold plate. Gosden as
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society scrapper, and he was doing well too until a
right cross by someone who needed the money more than
he did. Send him back to clipping coupis spade. Yeah,
I'm Chandler Gosden. I recognize you guys like you charge well,
it depends on the job investigation sixty dollars a day
and any unusual expenses cheap. Well, do you guys have
some kind of a code or code you know, like doctors?
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Do you keep things in confidence? Well, most of us do,
including me. Was making a big difference that got out.
I'm not afraid of him. I just assume punch him
in the mouth as look at him. Who Marty Christov.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Heard of him?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
No, moved into the peninsula my neighborhood, bought the major
Dunhill place. Oh oh yeah, I know. The estate must
have cost plenty a by two hundred and fifty thousand
a year. And what's money these days? Everybody's got it,
Isn't it awful? It's a tax scheme. I suppose ever
since he moved into that arc of a house, he's
been throwing parties there. A cross between the last days
of Pompey and a Polish wedding invites hundreds of guests.
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Everybody who is anybody disgusting, but it seems legal so far.
He's been there four months, throwing parties, inviting everybody in
the phone book, everybody but me. Oh maybe he just
doesn't like you.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
What are you talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I'm one of the best like guys in the peninsula.
Everybody likes me, little kids, cops, the guys at the
country club. I never had an enemy in the world. Besides,
I got Virginia. Oh who she my wife?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
One of the sweetest little girls that ever came down
the pike.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Well, my apology. If he was a Baldwin.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Oh, here I married her. She was the social catch
of the year.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Among the women.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Really, yeah, so was I among the men. Well, well,
look I got to tell you some more. A month
ago one of my company warehouses burned down. Somebody slipped
up and the fire insurance hadn't been renewed. I lost
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Guess who had lunch
with my insurance man a week before the fire. Monte Christo,
You got it. Next thing is the room that gets
arounded the Gosden Electrical Companies on the verge of bankrupts. No,
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of course it isn't absolutely not. A gossip column is
reports that I'm going to close up shop and beat
it to South America with what DOA has left. Then
when the stock prices start dropping, somebody suddenly buys them
up so fast they disappear overnight, some corporation I never
heard of, called the Dantes Corporation. I see, and then
all my friends start getting unfriendly. As soon as I
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show up. Everybody stops talking, act as if there's some
big secret about me that I don't know. And they've
all been to Montey Crystal's parties lately. That's right, the
week after he arrived in town, all these things started happening. Now,
what I want to find out is why I don't
even know the guy, but he's making a big change
in my life. Well, it sounds like you're entitled to know.
I don't know how far I can get. The best
I can do is find out who he is, where
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he comes from, who his friends are, all those things.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Okay, you're hired.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'll find out everything about this mighty christuff. I got
to know what's going on.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
It's nice, Chander. I wasn't able to get here when
you said the traffic was absolutely unbelievable cars. God, everywhere
it must be giving cars away these days. Everybody has one.
I think we should get a helicopters.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
To Spade my wife, Ginny, Well, how do you doing, missus?
Gunstin Chan?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I hope you have lost your head and blabbed everything
to him. I told you these sort of men weren't trustworthy.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I beg your pardon. Man, Look, Jinny, I told him,
and he's a good guy.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well if you just want to go around giving your
life secret, oh shut up.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well you I'm the man of the house, really, and.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I suppose I count for nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Oh oh, if I get it, Spade, I'm depending on you.
Don't let me down. You wouldn't think a millionaire would
be hard to biograph, but I came up with very
little information on this. To Monty Christof, he'd arrived in
town four months ago, stayed ten days at the Saint
Mark Hotel, then bought his house. He had a bank
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deposit running into seven figures. He had no known business connections,
just money. The register at the Saint Mark said he
came from Chicago, and an airline company verified that he'd
been a passenger aboard one of their shifts. From the
Windy City. This was as far as I had dealt
when my place of business was entered by a man
in powder blue livery, you sped the same mister Monty
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christof sent me to pick you up.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I see, I'm for where for his matching on a pennsila.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Oh, he said he knew what a rough time you
must be having at your present job, and he'd be
glad to make the whole thing simple to you. He
really said that, That's what he said. But I don't
know what it means exactly. Well, I don't know what
it means exactly either, but here's one good way to
find out home, James, And my name is bertucciosa Bertuccio.
I see, how long have they been calling you that? Well,
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let me see it's about what do you mean? I mean?
It's my name. We'll talk it over in the car.
The car was long and blue and smooth. I'm as
democratic as the next guy, and I would just as
soon have ridden up front with Bertuccio, But now he
wouldn't hear of it. I had a ride in a
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back seat with a window of bulletproof glass separating us,
and thus we rode down to the peninsula. We glided
down elm shaded streets and finally through the gate of
Monte Christoph's estate. The driveway was lined with spring green poplars.
The mansion door was opened by a rear admiral, and
I was not sure dead. I wouldn't want to say
that the living room was locked, but I cought once
and it was a full minute before the echo came back.
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A door opened somewhere and a tan, hard bodied man
walked in across the marble floor with an outstretched hand.
It was tougher than a whale boat.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
I appreciate you coming.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Mister, mister Christoph.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Do you have a drink? Champagne, scotch Irish, what, oh anything?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Whatever?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You like?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Good? I figured you're a ries altho the order the gardener,
No thanks, the customer worle diventas made expressly to my
own taste.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Oh thanks anyway, but I have some beat up cigarettes.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
I won't try mine. The King of England I did
him a favor once he ships them over.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
How is George you drink?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Oh? Thank you for too, chip.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Now you've been investigating me, yes, and you haven't found
out anything.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Do you know, Miss Crystal?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
There was nothing to find out. You're right, I'll do
you a service and save you time and money.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
That's a handsome offer I accept.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
I was born in Michigan to a prosperous lumber family.
I went to Phillips andover in Harvard Marx Fair. Served
with the army in the recent war major military police
wounded twice. Parents died while I was in Italy. I
inherited an enormous lumber holdings, which I sold, hence my
bank account. I like San Francisco, came in and settled out.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
No, you're very kind, but I don't need all this.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
I have more money than a man can spend in
a lifetime. And by that I don't mean to boast.
It was an accident of breath.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yes, Christoph, I'm only trying to find I know what.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
You're trying to find out. Chandler Gos didn't put you
on my trail.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, there's no need to deny us.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
And what would you take to get off my trail,
mister Spade, Well, no car, A selection of fine liquor,
about a job cash all rather enticing.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
But I'm afraid you've misjudged me, sir. I only worked
for one client at a time.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Is there anything wrong with switching your allegiance?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Well, I'm afraid it wouldn't be cricket.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Is that the way they say it? At andover?
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Very Well, then I'm afraid I've given you all the
information I can about myself.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Oh you've been very generous. But just one other thing.
How long did you live in Chicago?
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Chicago?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yes, I never lived there, but you flew here from Chicago?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Oh that I was just there on business.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, if you say so, Bertuccio is outside with the car,
you'll drive you back to your office. With that, he
turned and left me outside. Bertuccio was waiting impassively. He
ushered me another limit and started off. Only we didn't
head for my office. Instead, we seem to be leaving town.
I banged on the glass between us, but Bertuccio didn't
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choose to answer. When we stopped at a light, I
tried the doors, but they were both mysteriously locked. I
was a prisoner in a moving jail. I made desperate
signs to passers by and traffic police, mind you, but
they just smiled and waved back at me. It was
all very jolly. So I sat back and waited about
twenty or thirty miles out of town. We pulled onto
a lonesome road and stopped.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
We are just where our.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Way, and why now, don't blow your top, Chris stop.
Told me to take you out here to give you this.
Oh what's in the envelope? Money? Two grand, big seck. Well,
it's a lot of grands. They're gonna do a lot
for you. You're gonna take it and keep going north.
Forty eight hours will be long enough, just so you
keep out of Frisco. Well, just so you know how
I stand, I'm going back. You know, I was hoping
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you'd say that now I can do things in my own.
He pulled out a long black salven, started wheeling.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
First cut just.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Grazed my head and smashed into my shoulder.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I bocked this second blow and moved in for some
close work.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
The third time he swung at me, his arm caught
an overhead tree branch, and that was his undoing. He
took four or five and then went down and out.
I searched him, and his billfold reveal that he was
Joseph Kowalski, late of Chicago, Illinois. The cards and addresses
that contained left little doubt that Kowalski was in the records.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
I threw him in the car and drove back.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
To town and police headquarters. He was awake by then,
and I had to drag him into the hall. The
one I'm locked up sham for assault and battery, assault
with a deadly weapon, assault with intent to murder, mayem anything.
You can't lock me up. I didn't do any of
those things anyway. If I did do him, it was
in San Martin County, not Frisco, Salmon. I don't know
what I can do. He's got to do something in
our jeurish take sure.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
See all right, he picked my pocket on the way
into town. Here Kowalsky.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
So look, he's got my wallet in his hand right now,
I have all up braising lawbreakers.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
You're gonna let him get away with us, walking right.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
In the headquarters with evidence in his hand.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
A way to harm on.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Come on, Kowski, we go pretty hard on pickpocket in
his time crime. I want a lawyer, give me a tall.
He was dragged away protesting. They got no sympathy from me,
he started. Lieutenant Randall then teletyped Chicago to find out
more about him. In about an hour, the report came
back I won't read his whole record, Sam, but he's
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paid for everything. They say he's clean. H However, it
does say he was.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
The bodyguard for a man named Bonnie Moffin. Jess Moffatt
was a shady business operator, picked up several times, nothing
hung on him. He left town about the same time
Kowlski did.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
He's listed as undesired. Nobody's not wanted, thanks, Lieutenant. If
a man named Bonnie Moffin had a whole name, Joseph
Kowalski is a bodyguard and they both disappeared from Chicago
at the same time, the obvious conclusion was conclusively obvious.
I rode the limousine back to Christophe's estate, but.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
As I parked the car, my headlights hit another car.
There was someone getting into it.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Missus Chandler. God, what do you think you're doing? Remember me,
Sam Spade?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Oh, detective, Yes, what are you following me for?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
What were you doing in Christolph's house? I thought he
was a wasn't a friend of yours or your husband?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
To Spade get in, Please let's.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Talk, Okay, spill It's none of.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Your business what I was doing in there, whatever it was,
I want you to forget you ever saw me.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
That'll be pretty hard to do.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Would money help you in this case? No?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
What do you care what happens to my life or
Chance or Christoph?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Because your husband's paying me to worry? All right?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
If I were you, I just forget that you ever
met any of us, because this mess we're in is
so bad that nothing you or anybody else can do
is going to get us out of trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
With that, she burst out crying. I couldn't get anything
else out of her, so I let her go and
she drove off. I walked up to Christoph's house, knocked
on the door, and a servant opened it. A couple
of steps inside, when six pairs of arms bread me.
Some of them had the struggle was just getting knivel.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
You want Christoph appear?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah? Well, I don't appreciate this kind of trap on Christoph?
Speaker 6 (15:07):
You mean take a walk?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
What's it all about my orders? If you ever showed
up here again?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Why do you soften?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
I just heard about Kowalski. You managed that very well.
I admire resourcefulness. How would you like to work for me?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
No? Thanks? Moffatt Moffatt, Barney Moffatt, late of Chicago and
the rackets. So you know, well, I wasn't sure until
just now, but you've cleared up the doubt.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
How much do you know?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Very little, just that you were a shady operator. But
nobody's looking for you anything spared.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
I did a lot of things several years at tightrope
walking with a law, but I never did anything.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
That could jail me for I have an idea you're
considering doing something in the near future that makes you stay.
Then it's a vendetta, isn't it. Monte Christoph and Bertu
show the Steward and the Danist Corporation.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
You couldn't resist the drama, could you?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
All? From Dumas novel? But why why do you want
to play the conna? Moni Cristo? What did Gosden do
to you to merit all this revenge?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (16:05):
It will be over tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
And with that he clutched at his heart and fell
forward at my feet. You are listening to the weekly
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Speaker 3 (17:09):
Now back to the.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Vendetta Caper or the Revenge of Monty Christoff the Night's
Adventure with Sam's babe.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I bent over and listened to his heart.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
It was okay.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Monty Christoph had just keeled over, apparently from a crescendo
of emotion. He blacked out. I didn't want to be
held up by his henchman, so I left the room
and walked out of the house without calling anybody. I
walked down the road, and good luck, there was an
empty cab cruising along. At Chandler Gosden's. I found him
pacing the living room in a state of physical and
mental disorder. I told him what I knew, Vendetta. Why
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I never heard him? I never did anything to the man.
Why would your wife go and see him? I don't know,
don A Jasker because she hasn't been home all day,
and here it is one o'clock in the morning. She's
still listening. Tell me, is there something special happening tomorrow?
Christolph seemed to think that everything would be settled tomorrow.
Annual corporation election, just a matter of form. I'm elected
president if you other people voted into office, always the
same people, and then he must plan to swing the
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election his way, maybe put you in office. Suh got
a fat chance of that. I don't care how much
stock he buys. Genny owns ten percent, I own forty one.
That's fifty one percent. If he bought forty nine percent
of the open market, that still wouldn't be enough. We
could still out vote him. You're sure you've got the
stock in your position. I saw it last week when
I was down in the hall with my birth certificate.
Stupid me forgot I don't have a birth certificate. No,
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that must be edson. My lawyer called and said he
had something on his mind. Can tender I have that
news for it?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
It can wait, No, no, it can.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
This is Sam Spade, Ralph. It now, chan listen to me,
all right, what's fighting. You just this, We're liable to
lose that election tomorrow. What are you talking about? We can't.
I just found out that Monte Cristo has fifty nine
percent of the voting stock, and gods an elect fifteen.
He can't have it. Oh look, wait a minute, Wait
a minute. If my wife sold her stock, he could
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have fifty nine. Coudn'ty he could?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Spade?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Are you positive you saw her coming.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Out of Christoph's house.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I'm afraid I did.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I'm gonna find her. I'm gonna find her, and if
she sold any harf stock for Christoph, I'll kill her.
I tried to dissuade him, but he brushed me and
the lawyer aside ran out of the house. I called
the police and told him to try and find Virginia
Gosden before her husband did. Then I went looking myself.
The first place I tried was Monty Christoff's mention. There
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were lights on, so I entered, gun in hand. I
didn't have any time to dick her with serving some bodyguards.
Christolph appeared in a matter of seconds.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
All right, Spade, what is it you want now?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Virginia Gusin.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
She hasn't been his since the last time you saw,
you know where she is. I haven't any idea if
you know, tell me.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Her husband's looking for her with homicide in his eyes.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I can't say I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That's a nice sentiment. She sold you were stock in
the Godsen company, didn't.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
She since you seem to know about it?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yes, why she in love with you? Maybe she is
and you're in love with her.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
She's a stupid, empty headed nothing. I can't stand the
sight of her.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I hate her.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I hold it now, you'll knock.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Yourself out again.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Yes, yes, come over here. Take a good look at that.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's a pillow, an ordinary pillow, so you'll.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Notice how dirty it is. Yeah, notice that it isn't
even stuffed with feathers. They were no good. It's stuffed
with dirty cotton rags. Well, my father's head was lying
on that pillow when he died. I've kept it ever
since as a reminder of who killed him. Who did
a man named Elwood Gosden, a man who cheated and
lied and stole everything he had in his life.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Chandler's father.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Yes, my father and Elwood Gosden had a hardware store.
Once my father invented an electric iron ever heard of
the Gosden Isron. Yeah, it should have been the Mouffet Iron.
Elwood Gosden stole the plans from my father, registered them first,
and then drove my father out of business. He made
a fortune out of it and then went into other
electrical appliances.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Oh, things are beginning to jail now.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
My father became a peddler and died poor and broke
and ill. My mother died twenty years before she should
have been over work, while the Gosdens grew fat and
respected on the Moffitt brain.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
So you started, Joe Undetta, Huh?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
I started it the day my father died. I set
out to make one thing in this world money, and
I made it in handfuls. You can look me up
Barnie Moffat Chicago gambling, black markets, gun running, slave trading,
anything and everything that had a big profit in it.
And then I set out for San Francisco to break
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that criton son of Elwood's and his old family.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
And on the way you lost a guy named Barney Moffat.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
What difference.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Look, you've got money now and everything you need, Why
go on with it?
Speaker 6 (21:51):
I don't care anything about money. I only want to
use it against them. You know why I had all
those parties.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
To buy stock from people.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Yes, back in a Gosden company, I've paid twice three
times what the shares were worth. But right now I
own fifty nine percent of the Gosden Enterprises. And tomorrow morning,
when the two of us meet at the stockholders meeting,
I'm going to vote him out of office and take
over the company. And then I'm going to drive it
right into bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
And you got missus Gosden's stock by making her fall
in love with you, I do.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Don't let's talk about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
About Chandler Gosden. He's a man with a very short
and violent temper. He might come gunning for you.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
That's just what I hope he does. Ask the man
at the door to show you out.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I spent most of them I trying to find Virginia Gosden,
with no luck. Chandler didn't return to.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
His house, so I didn't know what he was up to.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
It was early the following day when I got my
first report. Lieutenant Randall called me down a police headquarter.
We found her sped, bet her alive. Oh about halfway
in between, she was shot in the chest at close range,
gone right up against her. But she's still living her chances?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Sam, Where'd you find her?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
In a walk up apartment on Polk Street. It was
registered to her.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Looked like a love nest, a place where she met
a boyfriend orson no weapon, I see, I figure murder
attempt her husband. We have a pickup on him right now,
but so far he's vanished. Shame, fine old San Francisco family.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
What do you know, Sam, I'll give me a free
hand for a couple of hours, will you Maybe I
can do something for this fine old San Francisco family.
I had no more idea than the police where Chandler
Gosden was at the moment, but I had a good
idea where he might be. Later in the morning, I
put a call into Ralph Edson, his lawyer. Stockholders meeting
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of the Gadsden Company was to be held at eleven
o'clock at their executive officers. Edson got me in and
the five minutes to eleven Monte.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Christov walked in.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
There were three of us. None of us spoke. We
just sat around a long polished table, alternately watching the
clock and the door. At eleven three, the door opened.
Chandler Gosden stood there, rump red eye, vicious.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
He had a gun.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
The first man who moves is gonna get a bullet
right in the face. Shok.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
For heaven's sake.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
That the gun you try to kill your wife with.
It's the gun. But I didn't try to kill her.
She did it herself because he drove her to it. Me. Yeah, you, Kristal,
you are meeting her in an apartment.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Don't think I've been dumb.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Put the gunnawa in. Let's get down to business.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I got the same gun she using herself, and I'm
gonna use it on you.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Well, stop talking, you can get it over with you.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Act as if you want me to do it, all right,
Ed's in, Spade, they're out of here. Doesn't use your head.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
I said, get out of here and go on.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Okay, but don't take your eye off him. He's got
a gun in his pocket.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I don't worry. I won't. You were working for him,
working for him all along. Everybody was no. Now, listen
to me. He wanted you to kill him. He doesn't
care about himself. He just wanted you to be put
away from murder.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Spade this is our affair, not yours.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I look both of you, shut up and listen.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
This is a tough thing to try to settle something
it's been.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Boiling up in you mop it ever since you can remember.
You spent all of your grown up life trying to
get back at the wrong man. It appealed to some
ironical sense of yours to carry out the Manti Cristo
revenge story. Now let me ask you this. You remember
all about Monte Cristo and how he ruined the people
who had ruined his life, and how his father died heartbroken.
But do you remember the end of that book? Go on?
You found that he couldn't bring himself to revenge the
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wrong doings of families on their innocent children.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
That reads good in the book, But I don't feel
that way.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well maybe you will when you hear this. But this
man right here that you spent twenty years getting ready
to ruin is not even a Gosden. What He's an
adopted son. Mister Elwood Gosden adopted him from an Oakland
orphanage on October eleventh, nineteen oh seven.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
I got the records to prove it this morning.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I would have known, mister Edson, You've always been the
family lawyer. Isn't this true? It was a long chance
that Edson would play along with it, but to bring
it off it needed the final clincher lawyer. Edson looked
at me, then looked at Chandler Gosden. He guldened and
licked his lips.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
It's true, It's true.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Chandler adopted you're your father never wanted you to know.
Chandler didn't move, He just stood there, stunned the barney.
Moffett sank down into a chair and buried his head
in his hands. Edson and I looked at each other
and waited.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Finally, Christoph looked up and spoke.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Start the meeting, mister Edson, I hereby declare the Annual
Stockholders Meeting of the Gosden Company open.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Mister Gosden, I don't care what happens now.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I bothered the majority stockholder. Oh, mister Kristen, I beg
your pardon.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Mister Moffett has the majority stockholder. I vote that the
chairmanship of the Gosden Electrical Corporation remain as it has
for the past twenty years, with Chandler Gosden.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Period.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
End of report.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Oh Sam, you were magnificence.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
It was rather a stirring scene, wasn't it. I was good,
but it was superb, it really was.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Did he sign out with.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
A stock and everything?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
He did?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Indeed? Oh Sam.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Do you think the world will ever get to a
time when everybody has all he wants and instead of
trying to get more, everybody spends his time just just
trying to enjoy life?
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Well?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
You know, best of it?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Do you really believe that's?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Sam?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Well, You've got to believe something. It's better than nothing.
I guess I have a theory too, sam Well spouted out.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Well, if everybody in the world picked somebody else to
be nice to, there'll never be any more trouble anywhere.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
How do you figure that?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Well, before you can be nice to somebody, you have
to think nice thoughts. And once you start thinking nice thoughts,
well you can see how silly the bad ones are.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Effie, come here. You know I might just put you
up as a candidate for a chair of philosophy at Columbia.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I know whom you've picked out to be nice to me?
Speaker 6 (28:12):
True?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Can I pick you?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Good night, Sale, good night, sweetheart?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Tonight's transcribed adventure of Sam Spade was produced, edited, and
directed by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn,
Loreen Tuttle as Effie.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Script for Tonight's.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Adventure by John Michael Hayes, Musical scoring by lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbrewster. Join us again next week, same
time for another adventure with Sam Spade. Tomorrow, Dennis Day
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and Judy Canova entertain you on NBC
The National Broadcasting Company presents the adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Sam Spay Detective Agency.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
The Sweethearts.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Damn, I heard you were hob nobbing with a wealthy
set of I City.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
If what I was doing is their idea of hobnobbing,
f I'm glad I'm in the lower income brackets. What
do you mean what happened? I will only reveal that, Fie,
in the intimate secrecy of our office.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Was it worse? Emotions?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Random uck passions were strewn from Fisherman's Walk to the Peninsula,
Hatred's Festoon, the very air, and there was jealousy too much.
It was positively lurid, as they say, Do you think
it's all right for me?
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Do you hear it?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Well, I'll exprogate it a little, f I'll water it
down to your strength. I'll use Monosylavic instead of Pollo
Slavic words and so on.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Now, Dan, I want you to tell me everything you
think I should hear, and then just a little more.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's a deal. If prepare yourself for listening, and I
will shortly make my inference with a saga of society skullduggery.
The lowdown on the Uptown and all that. If we
need a name for it, why not call it the
Vendetta Caper or the Revenge of Monte Christoff Transcribe for
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n DC.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
William Spear, Radio's outstanding producer director of mystery and crime drama,
brings you the greatest private detective of them all in
the Adventures of Sam Spade.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
To call Sam, I'm right here. Let me take your.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Coat where if he isn't the sufficient.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Of you, I'll be quiet and give me a coat.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
All right, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Nah, i've oiled your chair, so will sleet.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Where. You make me feel like an emotional invalid. But
it's wonderful and he here. Oh well, never ce double
worth eight year old stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I had Frisco's drugstore send it up, apple Jack.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It's called apple Jack. Well, what brought it on, f
Why this particular polishing of the apple Jack?
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Well, I'm on out with it.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I just thought, well, you've been working with the rich people,
and maybe you were handsomely compensated and my back salary.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
You're not mad, Sam.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Well, as it happens, I did make a few dollars
and yours will be the first account settled. Oh, it's
sure it wasn't me. It was the money all the time. No,
I accept your apology, two, Lieutenant J. F. Randall, San
Francisco Police Department, from Samuel's pade license number one three
seven five nine six, subject the Revenge of Manti Christophe
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Money Crystal.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Is this a historical drama?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Christoph c ri I S t O F F Monty
m O N t y. And it's still a historic drama,
dear Lieutenant. Revenge is an old fashioned motive, but when
you get it raw and distilled, as in the Gosden affair,
it's new all over again. This was the slow burning,
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deliberate kind of passion that starts smoldering way back in
the forgotten days and explodes among some people who never
knew they were living over a keg of dynamite. It
was yesterday morning that the distant sputtering of the fuse
began to be heard by a man named Chandler Gosden.
You know, I'm the hulking rich boy in the electrical
appliance sign who took a professional boxing for a while.
I think he was built as gold plate. Gosden as
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society scrapper, and he was doing well too until a
right cross by someone who needed the money more than
he did. Send him back to clipping coupis spade. Yeah,
I'm Chandler Gosden. I recognize you guys like you charge well,
it depends on the job investigation sixty dollars a day
and any unusual expenses cheap. Well, do you guys have
some kind of a code or code you know, like doctors?
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Do you keep things in confidence? Well, most of us do,
including me. Was making a big difference that got out.
I'm not afraid of him. I just assume punch him
in the mouth as look at him. Who Marty Christov.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Heard of him?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
No, moved into the peninsula my neighborhood, bought the major
Dunhill place. Oh oh yeah, I know. The estate must
have cost plenty a by two hundred and fifty thousand
a year. And what's money these days? Everybody's got it,
Isn't it awful? It's a tax scheme. I suppose ever
since he moved into that arc of a house, he's
been throwing parties there. A cross between the last days
of Pompey and a Polish wedding invites hundreds of guests.
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Everybody who is anybody disgusting, but it seems legal so far.
He's been there four months, throwing parties, inviting everybody in
the phone book, everybody but me. Oh maybe he just
doesn't like you.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
What are you talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I'm one of the best like guys in the peninsula.
Everybody likes me, little kids, cops, the guys at the
country club. I never had an enemy in the world. Besides,
I got Virginia. Oh who she my wife?
Speaker 4 (04:54):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:54):
One of the sweetest little girls that ever came down
the pike.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Well, my apology. If he was a Baldwin.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Oh, here I married her. She was the social catch
of the year.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Among the women.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Really, yeah, so was I among the men. Well, well,
look I got to tell you some more. A month
ago one of my company warehouses burned down. Somebody slipped
up and the fire insurance hadn't been renewed. I lost
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Guess who had lunch
with my insurance man a week before the fire. Monte Christo,
You got it. Next thing is the room that gets
arounded the Gosden Electrical Companies on the verge of bankrupts. No,
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of course it isn't absolutely not. A gossip column is
reports that I'm going to close up shop and beat
it to South America with what DOA has left. Then
when the stock prices start dropping, somebody suddenly buys them
up so fast they disappear overnight, some corporation I never
heard of, called the Dantes Corporation. I see, and then
all my friends start getting unfriendly. As soon as I
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show up. Everybody stops talking, act as if there's some
big secret about me that I don't know. And they've
all been to Montey Crystal's parties lately. That's right, the
week after he arrived in town, all these things started happening. Now,
what I want to find out is why I don't
even know the guy, but he's making a big change
in my life. Well, it sounds like you're entitled to know.
I don't know how far I can get. The best
I can do is find out who he is, where
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he comes from, who his friends are, all those things.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Okay, you're hired.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'll find out everything about this mighty christuff. I got
to know what's going on.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
It's nice, Chander. I wasn't able to get here when
you said the traffic was absolutely unbelievable cars. God, everywhere
it must be giving cars away these days. Everybody has one.
I think we should get a helicopters.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
To Spade my wife, Ginny, Well, how do you doing, missus?
Gunstin Chan?
Speaker 5 (06:30):
I hope you have lost your head and blabbed everything
to him. I told you these sort of men weren't trustworthy.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
I beg your pardon. Man, Look, Jinny, I told him,
and he's a good guy.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Well if you just want to go around giving your
life secret, oh shut up.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Well you I'm the man of the house, really, and.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I suppose I count for nothing.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Oh oh, if I get it, Spade, I'm depending on you.
Don't let me down. You wouldn't think a millionaire would
be hard to biograph, but I came up with very
little information on this. To Monty Christof, he'd arrived in
town four months ago, stayed ten days at the Saint
Mark Hotel, then bought his house. He had a bank
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deposit running into seven figures. He had no known business connections,
just money. The register at the Saint Mark said he
came from Chicago, and an airline company verified that he'd
been a passenger aboard one of their shifts. From the
Windy City. This was as far as I had dealt
when my place of business was entered by a man
in powder blue livery, you sped the same mister Monty
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christof sent me to pick you up.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I see, I'm for where for his matching on a pennsila.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Oh, he said he knew what a rough time you
must be having at your present job, and he'd be
glad to make the whole thing simple to you. He
really said that, That's what he said. But I don't
know what it means exactly. Well, I don't know what
it means exactly either, but here's one good way to
find out home, James, And my name is bertucciosa Bertuccio.
I see, how long have they been calling you that? Well,
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let me see it's about what do you mean? I mean?
It's my name. We'll talk it over in the car.
The car was long and blue and smooth. I'm as
democratic as the next guy, and I would just as
soon have ridden up front with Bertuccio, But now he
wouldn't hear of it. I had a ride in a
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back seat with a window of bulletproof glass separating us,
and thus we rode down to the peninsula. We glided
down elm shaded streets and finally through the gate of
Monte Christoph's estate. The driveway was lined with spring green poplars.
The mansion door was opened by a rear admiral, and
I was not sure dead. I wouldn't want to say
that the living room was locked, but I cought once
and it was a full minute before the echo came back.
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A door opened somewhere and a tan, hard bodied man
walked in across the marble floor with an outstretched hand.
It was tougher than a whale boat.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
I appreciate you coming.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Mister, mister Christoph.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Do you have a drink? Champagne, scotch Irish, what, oh anything?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Whatever?
Speaker 3 (08:54):
You like?
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Good? I figured you're a ries altho the order the gardener,
No thanks, the customer worle diventas made expressly to my
own taste.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Oh thanks anyway, but I have some beat up cigarettes.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
I won't try mine. The King of England I did
him a favor once he ships them over.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
How is George you drink?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Oh? Thank you for too, chip.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Now you've been investigating me, yes, and you haven't found
out anything.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Do you know, Miss Crystal?
Speaker 6 (09:23):
There was nothing to find out. You're right, I'll do
you a service and save you time and money.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
That's a handsome offer I accept.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
I was born in Michigan to a prosperous lumber family.
I went to Phillips andover in Harvard Marx Fair. Served
with the army in the recent war major military police
wounded twice. Parents died while I was in Italy. I
inherited an enormous lumber holdings, which I sold, hence my
bank account. I like San Francisco, came in and settled out.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
No, you're very kind, but I don't need all this.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
I have more money than a man can spend in
a lifetime. And by that I don't mean to boast.
It was an accident of breath.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yes, Christoph, I'm only trying to find I know what.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
You're trying to find out. Chandler Gos didn't put you
on my trail.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, there's no need to deny us.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
And what would you take to get off my trail,
mister Spade, Well, no car, A selection of fine liquor,
about a job cash all rather enticing.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
But I'm afraid you've misjudged me, sir. I only worked
for one client at a time.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Is there anything wrong with switching your allegiance?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Well, I'm afraid it wouldn't be cricket.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Is that the way they say it? At andover?
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Very Well, then I'm afraid I've given you all the
information I can about myself.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Oh you've been very generous. But just one other thing.
How long did you live in Chicago?
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Chicago?
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yes, I never lived there, but you flew here from Chicago?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Oh that I was just there on business.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Well, if you say so, Bertuccio is outside with the car,
you'll drive you back to your office. With that, he
turned and left me outside. Bertuccio was waiting impassively. He
ushered me another limit and started off. Only we didn't
head for my office. Instead, we seem to be leaving town.
I banged on the glass between us, but Bertuccio didn't
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choose to answer. When we stopped at a light, I
tried the doors, but they were both mysteriously locked. I
was a prisoner in a moving jail. I made desperate
signs to passers by and traffic police, mind you, but
they just smiled and waved back at me. It was
all very jolly. So I sat back and waited about
twenty or thirty miles out of town. We pulled onto
a lonesome road and stopped.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
We are just where our.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Way, and why now, don't blow your top, Chris stop.
Told me to take you out here to give you this.
Oh what's in the envelope? Money? Two grand, big seck. Well,
it's a lot of grands. They're gonna do a lot
for you. You're gonna take it and keep going north.
Forty eight hours will be long enough, just so you
keep out of Frisco. Well, just so you know how
I stand, I'm going back. You know, I was hoping
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you'd say that now I can do things in my own.
He pulled out a long black salven, started wheeling.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
First cut just.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Grazed my head and smashed into my shoulder.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I bocked this second blow and moved in for some
close work.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
The third time he swung at me, his arm caught
an overhead tree branch, and that was his undoing. He
took four or five and then went down and out.
I searched him, and his billfold reveal that he was
Joseph Kowalski, late of Chicago, Illinois. The cards and addresses
that contained left little doubt that Kowalski was in the records.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
I threw him in the car and drove back.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
To town and police headquarters. He was awake by then,
and I had to drag him into the hall. The
one I'm locked up sham for assault and battery, assault
with a deadly weapon, assault with intent to murder, mayem anything.
You can't lock me up. I didn't do any of
those things anyway. If I did do him, it was
in San Martin County, not Frisco, Salmon. I don't know
what I can do. He's got to do something in
our jeurish take sure.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
See all right, he picked my pocket on the way
into town. Here Kowalsky.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
So look, he's got my wallet in his hand right now,
I have all up braising lawbreakers.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
You're gonna let him get away with us, walking right.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
In the headquarters with evidence in his hand.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
A way to harm on.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Come on, Kowski, we go pretty hard on pickpocket in
his time crime. I want a lawyer, give me a tall.
He was dragged away protesting. They got no sympathy from me,
he started. Lieutenant Randall then teletyped Chicago to find out
more about him. In about an hour, the report came
back I won't read his whole record, Sam, but he's
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paid for everything. They say he's clean. H However, it
does say he was.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
The bodyguard for a man named Bonnie Moffin. Jess Moffatt
was a shady business operator, picked up several times, nothing
hung on him. He left town about the same time
Kowlski did.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
He's listed as undesired. Nobody's not wanted, thanks, Lieutenant. If
a man named Bonnie Moffin had a whole name, Joseph
Kowalski is a bodyguard and they both disappeared from Chicago
at the same time, the obvious conclusion was conclusively obvious.
I rode the limousine back to Christophe's estate, but.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
As I parked the car, my headlights hit another car.
There was someone getting into it.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Missus Chandler. God, what do you think you're doing? Remember me,
Sam Spade?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
Oh, detective, Yes, what are you following me for?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
What were you doing in Christolph's house? I thought he
was a wasn't a friend of yours or your husband?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
To Spade get in, Please let's.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Talk, Okay, spill It's none of.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Your business what I was doing in there, whatever it was,
I want you to forget you ever saw me.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
That'll be pretty hard to do.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Would money help you in this case? No?
Speaker 5 (14:29):
What do you care what happens to my life or
Chance or Christoph?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Because your husband's paying me to worry? All right?
Speaker 5 (14:35):
If I were you, I just forget that you ever
met any of us, because this mess we're in is
so bad that nothing you or anybody else can do
is going to get us out of trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
With that, she burst out crying. I couldn't get anything
else out of her, so I let her go and
she drove off. I walked up to Christoph's house, knocked
on the door, and a servant opened it. A couple
of steps inside, when six pairs of arms bread me.
Some of them had the struggle was just getting knivel.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
You want Christoph appear?
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yeah? Well, I don't appreciate this kind of trap on Christoph?
Speaker 6 (15:07):
You mean take a walk?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
What's it all about my orders? If you ever showed
up here again?
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Why do you soften?
Speaker 6 (15:17):
I just heard about Kowalski. You managed that very well.
I admire resourcefulness. How would you like to work for me?
Speaker 3 (15:23):
No? Thanks? Moffatt Moffatt, Barney Moffatt, late of Chicago and
the rackets. So you know, well, I wasn't sure until
just now, but you've cleared up the doubt.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
How much do you know?
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Very little, just that you were a shady operator. But
nobody's looking for you anything spared.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
I did a lot of things several years at tightrope
walking with a law, but I never did anything.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
That could jail me for I have an idea you're
considering doing something in the near future that makes you stay.
Then it's a vendetta, isn't it. Monte Christoph and Bertu
show the Steward and the Danist Corporation.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
You couldn't resist the drama, could you?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
All? From Dumas novel? But why why do you want
to play the conna? Moni Cristo? What did Gosden do
to you to merit all this revenge?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (16:05):
It will be over tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
And with that he clutched at his heart and fell
forward at my feet. You are listening to the weekly
adventure of radio's most famous detective, Sam Spain. Three chimes
(16:40):
mean good Times on NDC. If you've been searching for
mystery on Saturday night, put away your magnifying.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
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Speaker 3 (17:09):
Now back to the.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Vendetta Caper or the Revenge of Monty Christoff the Night's
Adventure with Sam's babe.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
I bent over and listened to his heart.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
It was okay.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Monty Christoph had just keeled over, apparently from a crescendo
of emotion. He blacked out. I didn't want to be
held up by his henchman, so I left the room
and walked out of the house without calling anybody. I
walked down the road, and good luck, there was an
empty cab cruising along. At Chandler Gosden's. I found him
pacing the living room in a state of physical and
mental disorder. I told him what I knew, Vendetta. Why
(17:45):
I never heard him? I never did anything to the man.
Why would your wife go and see him? I don't know,
don A Jasker because she hasn't been home all day,
and here it is one o'clock in the morning. She's
still listening. Tell me, is there something special happening tomorrow?
Christolph seemed to think that everything would be settled tomorrow.
Annual corporation election, just a matter of form. I'm elected
president if you other people voted into office, always the
same people, and then he must plan to swing the
(18:07):
election his way, maybe put you in office. Suh got
a fat chance of that. I don't care how much
stock he buys. Genny owns ten percent, I own forty one.
That's fifty one percent. If he bought forty nine percent
of the open market, that still wouldn't be enough. We
could still out vote him. You're sure you've got the
stock in your position. I saw it last week when
I was down in the hall with my birth certificate.
Stupid me forgot I don't have a birth certificate. No,
(18:30):
that must be edson. My lawyer called and said he
had something on his mind. Can tender I have that
news for it?
Speaker 6 (18:39):
It can wait, No, no, it can.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
This is Sam Spade, Ralph. It now, chan listen to me,
all right, what's fighting. You just this, We're liable to
lose that election tomorrow. What are you talking about? We can't.
I just found out that Monte Cristo has fifty nine
percent of the voting stock, and gods an elect fifteen.
He can't have it. Oh look, wait a minute, Wait
a minute. If my wife sold her stock, he could
(19:02):
have fifty nine. Coudn'ty he could?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Spade?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Are you positive you saw her coming.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Out of Christoph's house.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I'm afraid I did.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I'm gonna find her. I'm gonna find her, and if
she sold any harf stock for Christoph, I'll kill her.
I tried to dissuade him, but he brushed me and
the lawyer aside ran out of the house. I called
the police and told him to try and find Virginia
Gosden before her husband did. Then I went looking myself.
The first place I tried was Monty Christoff's mention. There
(19:31):
were lights on, so I entered, gun in hand. I
didn't have any time to dick her with serving some bodyguards.
Christolph appeared in a matter of seconds.
Speaker 6 (19:38):
All right, Spade, what is it you want now?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Virginia Gusin.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
She hasn't been his since the last time you saw,
you know where she is. I haven't any idea if
you know, tell me.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Her husband's looking for her with homicide in his eyes.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
I can't say I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That's a nice sentiment. She sold you were stock in
the Godsen company, didn't.
Speaker 6 (19:55):
She since you seem to know about it?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yes, why she in love with you? Maybe she is
and you're in love with her.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
She's a stupid, empty headed nothing. I can't stand the
sight of her.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I hate her.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I hold it now, you'll knock.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Yourself out again.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Yes, yes, come over here. Take a good look at that.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's a pillow, an ordinary pillow, so you'll.
Speaker 6 (20:24):
Notice how dirty it is. Yeah, notice that it isn't
even stuffed with feathers. They were no good. It's stuffed
with dirty cotton rags. Well, my father's head was lying
on that pillow when he died. I've kept it ever
since as a reminder of who killed him. Who did
a man named Elwood Gosden, a man who cheated and
lied and stole everything he had in his life.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Chandler's father.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Yes, my father and Elwood Gosden had a hardware store.
Once my father invented an electric iron ever heard of
the Gosden Isron. Yeah, it should have been the Mouffet Iron.
Elwood Gosden stole the plans from my father, registered them first,
and then drove my father out of business. He made
a fortune out of it and then went into other
electrical appliances.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Oh, things are beginning to jail now.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
My father became a peddler and died poor and broke
and ill. My mother died twenty years before she should
have been over work, while the Gosdens grew fat and
respected on the Moffitt brain.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
So you started, Joe Undetta, Huh?
Speaker 6 (21:20):
I started it the day my father died. I set
out to make one thing in this world money, and
I made it in handfuls. You can look me up
Barnie Moffat Chicago gambling, black markets, gun running, slave trading,
anything and everything that had a big profit in it.
And then I set out for San Francisco to break
(21:41):
that criton son of Elwood's and his old family.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
And on the way you lost a guy named Barney Moffat.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
What difference.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Look, you've got money now and everything you need, Why
go on with it?
Speaker 6 (21:51):
I don't care anything about money. I only want to
use it against them. You know why I had all
those parties.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
To buy stock from people.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Yes, back in a Gosden company, I've paid twice three
times what the shares were worth. But right now I
own fifty nine percent of the Gosden Enterprises. And tomorrow morning,
when the two of us meet at the stockholders meeting,
I'm going to vote him out of office and take
over the company. And then I'm going to drive it
right into bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
And you got missus Gosden's stock by making her fall
in love with you, I do.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Don't let's talk about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
About Chandler Gosden. He's a man with a very short
and violent temper. He might come gunning for you.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
That's just what I hope he does. Ask the man
at the door to show you out.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I spent most of them I trying to find Virginia Gosden,
with no luck. Chandler didn't return to.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
His house, so I didn't know what he was up to.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
It was early the following day when I got my
first report. Lieutenant Randall called me down a police headquarter.
We found her sped, bet her alive. Oh about halfway
in between, she was shot in the chest at close range,
gone right up against her. But she's still living her chances?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
Sam, Where'd you find her?
Speaker 3 (23:02):
In a walk up apartment on Polk Street. It was
registered to her.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
Looked like a love nest, a place where she met
a boyfriend orson no weapon, I see, I figure murder
attempt her husband. We have a pickup on him right now,
but so far he's vanished. Shame, fine old San Francisco family.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
What do you know, Sam, I'll give me a free
hand for a couple of hours, will you Maybe I
can do something for this fine old San Francisco family.
I had no more idea than the police where Chandler
Gosden was at the moment, but I had a good
idea where he might be. Later in the morning, I
put a call into Ralph Edson, his lawyer. Stockholders meeting
(23:41):
of the Gadsden Company was to be held at eleven
o'clock at their executive officers. Edson got me in and
the five minutes to eleven Monte.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
Christov walked in.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
There were three of us. None of us spoke. We
just sat around a long polished table, alternately watching the
clock and the door. At eleven three, the door opened.
Chandler Gosden stood there, rump red eye, vicious.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
He had a gun.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
The first man who moves is gonna get a bullet
right in the face. Shok.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
For heaven's sake.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
That the gun you try to kill your wife with.
It's the gun. But I didn't try to kill her.
She did it herself because he drove her to it. Me. Yeah, you, Kristal,
you are meeting her in an apartment.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Don't think I've been dumb.
Speaker 6 (24:17):
Put the gunnawa in. Let's get down to business.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I got the same gun she using herself, and I'm
gonna use it on you.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Well, stop talking, you can get it over with you.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Act as if you want me to do it, all right,
Ed's in, Spade, they're out of here. Doesn't use your head.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
I said, get out of here and go on.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Okay, but don't take your eye off him. He's got
a gun in his pocket.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
I don't worry. I won't. You were working for him,
working for him all along. Everybody was no. Now, listen
to me. He wanted you to kill him. He doesn't
care about himself. He just wanted you to be put
away from murder.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Spade this is our affair, not yours.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
I look both of you, shut up and listen.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
This is a tough thing to try to settle something
it's been.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Boiling up in you mop it ever since you can remember.
You spent all of your grown up life trying to
get back at the wrong man. It appealed to some
ironical sense of yours to carry out the Manti Cristo
revenge story. Now let me ask you this. You remember
all about Monte Cristo and how he ruined the people
who had ruined his life, and how his father died heartbroken.
But do you remember the end of that book? Go on?
You found that he couldn't bring himself to revenge the
(25:20):
wrong doings of families on their innocent children.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
That reads good in the book, But I don't feel
that way.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well maybe you will when you hear this. But this
man right here that you spent twenty years getting ready
to ruin is not even a Gosden. What He's an
adopted son. Mister Elwood Gosden adopted him from an Oakland
orphanage on October eleventh, nineteen oh seven.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
I got the records to prove it this morning.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I would have known, mister Edson, You've always been the
family lawyer. Isn't this true? It was a long chance
that Edson would play along with it, but to bring
it off it needed the final clincher lawyer. Edson looked
at me, then looked at Chandler Gosden. He guldened and
licked his lips.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
It's true, It's true.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Chandler adopted you're your father never wanted you to know.
Chandler didn't move, He just stood there, stunned the barney.
Moffett sank down into a chair and buried his head
in his hands. Edson and I looked at each other
and waited.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Finally, Christoph looked up and spoke.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
Start the meeting, mister Edson, I hereby declare the Annual
Stockholders Meeting of the Gosden Company open.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Mister Gosden, I don't care what happens now.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
I bothered the majority stockholder. Oh, mister Kristen, I beg
your pardon.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Mister Moffett has the majority stockholder. I vote that the
chairmanship of the Gosden Electrical Corporation remain as it has
for the past twenty years, with Chandler Gosden.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Period.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
End of report.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Oh Sam, you were magnificence.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
It was rather a stirring scene, wasn't it. I was good,
but it was superb, it really was.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Did he sign out with.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
A stock and everything?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (27:19):
He did?
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Indeed? Oh Sam.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Do you think the world will ever get to a
time when everybody has all he wants and instead of
trying to get more, everybody spends his time just just
trying to enjoy life?
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Well?
Speaker 3 (27:33):
You know, best of it?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Do you really believe that's?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Sam?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Well, You've got to believe something. It's better than nothing.
I guess I have a theory too, sam Well spouted out.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Well, if everybody in the world picked somebody else to
be nice to, there'll never be any more trouble anywhere.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
How do you figure that?
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Well, before you can be nice to somebody, you have
to think nice thoughts. And once you start thinking nice thoughts,
well you can see how silly the bad ones are.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Effie, come here. You know I might just put you
up as a candidate for a chair of philosophy at Columbia.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I know whom you've picked out to be nice to me?
Speaker 6 (28:12):
True?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Can I pick you?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Good night, Sale, good night, sweetheart?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Tonight's transcribed adventure of Sam Spade was produced, edited, and
directed by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn,
Loreen Tuttle as Effie.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Script for Tonight's.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Adventure by John Michael Hayes, Musical scoring by lud Gluskin,
conducted by Robert Armbrewster. Join us again next week, same
time for another adventure with Sam Spade. Tomorrow, Dennis Day
(29:01):
and Judy Canova entertain you on NBC
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