November 17, 2024 • 33 mins
In 1859, legendary private detective Allan Pinkerton tries to solve the year-old case of a bank robbery and the murder of a guard.
Original Air Date: November 18, 1946
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Starring: Lee Bowman as Allan Pinkerton; William Johnstone; Wally Maher; Pinky Parker; Griff Barnett; Lois Corbett; Sarah Selby
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Original Air Date: November 18, 1946
Originating in Hollywood
Starring: Lee Bowman as Allan Pinkerton; William Johnstone; Wally Maher; Pinky Parker; Griff Barnett; Lois Corbett; Sarah Selby
Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net
Patreon Supporter of the Day: Jacqueline, Patreon supporter since August 2018.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boyse, Adaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham in a moment will
bring you our four thousand, five hundred and fiftieth episode special.
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(00:51):
we're going to play an episode of a series that
was an anthology program that generally featured history drama, The
Cavalcade of America. I love this series and I love
finding excuses to feature episodes of it. We played quite
(01:12):
a few episodes over on the Amazing World of Radio,
but we've only played one episode on the Great Detectives podcast,
and that was for our eleven hundredth episode special. So
I guess we're due for another episode of The Cavalcade
of America at this point. The original air date on
(01:32):
this one is November eighteenth, nineteen forty six. And here
now is The Pinkerton Man.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
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The Cavalcade of America America.
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America means skyscrapers.
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And haylogs, the crack of a pioneer's flintlock and the
sound of the riveter's machine, the outline of a church
steeple against the midnight sky.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
America is your story.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
America is you and everyone you know. Tonight we present
Lee Bowman in the Pinkerton Man on the DuPont Cavalcade
of America.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
It is the year eighteen fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
In one of the coaches of a train bound for Columbia, Tennessee,
a man sits looking calmly at the countryside. He's dressed quietly,
and you wouldn't look twice at him, because well, because
he looks like one hundred thousand other men. You've seen
his name, Alan Pinkerton, America's greatest detective. As he sits,
(03:49):
another man carrying what appears to be a sample case
comes into the coach, looks around for a moment, and then.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Excuse me, is just heat taking? Why?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Oh? No, no, no, I hope you're selling.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Thanks, I hope you don't mind no seats on the
shady side of the coach. Oh, it's all right. I
don't like to sit in the sun myself. Thanks, I'm sorry.
I always have trouble with my sample Keithy, I see
what is it this time? Colins ties sucks handkerchiefs. And
what's it all about? Chief?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
What'd you get on last step?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Took a localm caught this train from there. Goodness, Collins,
I'm going through with the case and that's for the figure. Chief.
All right, what's my job? I don't know yet, but
I'll have some use for you. But mister Pinkert any
Quilling JB. Quillen, Uh oh that's my name? You got it?
Oh yeah, all right, businessman retired health reasons. Good enough,
(04:41):
mister quill. You stay at the hotel in Columbia and
you a boarding house. I think for how wrong, Well,
I don't know. It depends on how tough this will be.
Plenty needs have Chief cases a year old trails as
cold as a dog's nose. Yeah, I know, I'll dig
around until I find a lead. What kind of a
lead in the case it's grown up being. Oh that's
(05:02):
my job, Collins. Now, when we got to Columbia, you
get off first, go directly to the hotel. Sit tight,
and I'll contact you. And that's the story. Collins. Don't
(05:24):
sound good to me, Chief, Not a lead, not a
single lead. A bank robbery and murder that happened over
a year ago. What can you expect. I don't know
something anything. There must be something. Sunsh Banks or president
of the bank, gave me the names, Collins. I've eliminated
three of those people. There's nothing to tie them in
(05:44):
in the first place. All the local police had to
go on with suspicion. That's not much. But yeah, how
about the fourth such bank, a man named Samuel Arthur.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Anything on him? No, nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
But look, if I'm not, that's guilty. If you think
he's the one, you gotta have something. What about the
money from the robber?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Not a penny of it's shown up.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
That's why I believe the job was pulled by someone
in this town, someone who was afraid to leave, someone
who killed the watchman Walters and then got panicky. Panicky
a murder who's played Doggo for a year isn't exactly panicky.
He's smart, waiting for the time he can leave Collins.
I'm changing boarding houses and cook and bat at the
when you're in there. No, the hunting's bad, Samuel Art.
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This days at missus Holly's boarding house. Here, here's the address.
All right, what's next? I'm going to find one lead,
one clue that'll give me a toe hold. I'll see
you later. Your last book gives me a triple jump
(06:53):
and kidney. Well, mister Evans, you went again, Yes, sir,
I'm afraid I'm Steve the checker champion. Misslie's the boarding house,
no question about that. I resigned here for another one.
Mister quillan. It's only eight o'clock. No, no, no, thank you, sir.
Tomorrow night perhaps fine, fine, Well, I think i'll turn
(07:13):
in then. Oh there you are. Have you finished your game, gentlemen, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
And I'm turning in.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
You keep mister quilling company edner, make him be right
at home here.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Well how long are you planning to say, mister Quillan.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
All that, that all depends on what mister well on
my help? Oh what is your ailment?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And my ailment?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well it started a little over a year ago. And
I yes, wasn't that mister Arthur who went past the door?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Then?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Well, I didn't see, but I guess it was.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Oh, well, excuse me. I'm rather tired myself. I think
i'll turn into Oh.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Well maybe we can have a little talk tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Oh that will be delightful. Miss Oglethorpe, good.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Night, Good night, mister quill and sleep by.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Huh oh oh, thank you, thank you. Hello, huh huh
oh hello. Oh sorry, I started to mister Arthur. Oh
not a tall, mister Quillan. Beautiful evening outside, Yes, yes
it is. I I was just thinking of going for
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a walk. He got to come along. Well, I'm a
little tired and I perhaps just around the block. No, no,
I don't think so. Maybe tomorrow evening, all right, glad
to glad to uh yes, oh nothing, good night, mister Quillan,
Good night mister Arthur. Oh, mister quillin yes, are you
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planning on going in the business down here? Business?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
No, I'm retired. Oh well then you'll be with us
for quite a while.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Maybe.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I don't like to stay in one place very long,
mister Arthur, like a change of scenery once in a while.
I see, well, i'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Good night, mister Arthur.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Oh why, mister quill And, I thought you're gonna stay.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Well, I met mister Arthur, stopped for a little chat
with him. He's very nice and me.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Yes, very nice. We're all so fond of him.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Has has he been living here long?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I think about five moons?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Oh? Oh what does mister Evans do for a living?
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Nothing? Nothing at all. I think he came into a
little money sometime ago. But there I mustn't gossip.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Must die.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Well, no harm in that.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
No, Well, that mister Arthur doesn't work either.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Oh retired.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
It's hard to say, mister Quillan. I suppose he had
some money saved up and oh there I go down.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
It's all right. Well, good night, I'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Good. We must have a longer talk sometimes. Yes, sir,
what can I do for you? Do you have cigars? Yes?
And a special kind you want? Well, let's see two
(10:27):
of these please.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Well, nice story you've got here. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I must keep you pretty busy running it.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Well kind of good. Use some help, I'll bet you couldn't.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Don't you have a clerk?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Well not now. I had one, but I had to
let him go. He got to talk on sassy to
the trade, losing his temper. Oh wow, I wonder you
let him go. Yep, I couldn't afford to have him
give in trouble like that funny thing too. All of
a sudden he up and began acting like.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
He was crazy. Well, now that's funny. I wonder what.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Makes people do that?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
You know?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I had a cousin like that, nice as could be.
Then one day, just like that, began acting funny. Same
as same Arthur, Too bad, I like same everybody did.
That's the way it goes. Well, I'll see you again.
Do I drop you in anytime? Glad the banks? Oh
excuse me?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Hol there? Oh hi, fine, you gotta match my sure thing?
Here you are it's your hotel in ten minutes. All right.
I've learned a couple of things that might interest you.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And he was fired from his job because he got
touchy and irritable. I seem well, I learned he's been
keeping to himself. I won't have a thing to do
with anybody. Everybody seemed to like him before, though, Collins
the post sam Arthur has something on his mind, on
his conscience, or I suppose he has. What can we
do about it? Find out what it is? How if
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he's guilty, which we don't know. He's kept it to
himself for a year now, But that sudden break from
his whole life, Collins, I'm convinced his conscience is working
on him. It didn't make him break in a year.
It won't break him now.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I know that we've got to work on him.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
But you can't do that without getting him suspicious. Start
asking a guy like that some questions and he shut
up like a claim.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
You know that chef. We've had him before.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Conscience is a funny thing, Collins, and assows the instinct
for self preservation. Just let Sam Earth get the slightest
hint you're after him, and you won't be able to
touch him with a ten foot pole. Look, I've got
a job for you. You'll have to go about it
quietly too, all right, what is it? Find out all
you can? But I did. There's anything about Sam Earth
you don't know already. I'm not talking about him now.
(12:54):
I want you to find out all you can about
Ben Walters. Walters, but he's the murdered bank watchman. I
know it.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I've known that for a long time. Collins.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Oh yeah, I'm sorry. All right, but what good is
he going to do? Did you ever hear of psychology? Psychology?
Never heard you will? We'll use that in a little
American ingenuity. Great combination, Collins, I'll go to it. You
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were sure of all these facts? Positive chief. Oh what's
this about the perfume? Well, not exactly perfume. There was
after Shavings said he was crazy about the stuff. You
used it all the time, and he talked like this,
mister Quillan, this is the way I used to talk. Yeah,
that's the way you should have been an actor, Collins.
(13:54):
I could have been a good one. You're going to be. Uh.
I've got an idea and maybe it'll work. It's never
been tried before I don't get your chief, you will.
Colin's got a bottle of the scent you were talking about.
Can you do it for sure? But what's the idea psychology?
Here's what I want you to do. I'll see that
Arthur doesn't go near his room. And however, you finish
the job I want you to do. Well, mister Roger,
(14:25):
huh oh, hello quila?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Do you want some company on your walk?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Well? I wasn't going very far, just top for better day?
Whats so was? I? Confidentially? Miss Oglethorpe was waiting for me.
I see she likes to talk, that she does. She
doesn't care what she talks about either, No, just as
(14:52):
long as she talks. You sleep well last night? Sleep well,
of course? Why did you ask that?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Oh? It was so hot. I was restless all night.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I heard you, and I thought you were restless too,
almost dropped over the seas, So I wasn't restless. No, Well,
I guess I heard something else heard something, but oh nothing,
nothing my imagination, I guess. But since you were just
next door to me, I thought it was you. Well,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Nothing at all?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You see? I don't sleep very well. Probably one of
those half awake, half asleep dreams. Oh, but what was
it you heard? Oh, some sort of mumbling, like a
person talking in his sleep. It wasn't I.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
No, No, probably not.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
No.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I I've never talked in my sleep.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Well I didn't say you did. I was just mentioning it.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I forget it. It was more than likely it was me. Well,
I've I've got to leave you here. Oh that's too bad. Yes,
I've got to get something at the store.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Well, I'll walk with you.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Oh please, I'm going to stop and see a prim Oh,
i won't trail along man. Good night, Good night, quill,
I'll see you tomorrow. It was pretty smarty in chief,
the trailers, not Collins. Sure.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Now, how'd you do back in his room?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh, Frank, no trouble getting in a tall lock, and
the connecting joe between his room and yours was a cinch.
All right, let's get back before he does. I'll go first.
I'll let you in when the coast is clear.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You are listening to Lee Bowman in the Pinkerton Man
on the Cavalcade of America, sponsored by the DuPont Company,
maker of Better Things for better Living through Chemistry, as
the second part of our story opens, Alan Pinketton is
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trying to break a year old murder and robbery case
in Columbia, Tennessee. Certain that a man named Sam Arthur
is guilty, Pinkerton is working on him, and Pigoton's plan
seems to be succeeding for Ian Collins. Listen to an
argument going on outside his room.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Really, Mica, it's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I know what I'm talking about this with Holly, and
don't shout me me.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
I'm not dead, and I don't like your insinuations that someone.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
In this house within your room. But someone wants I
tell you someone was in my room, Dorah within to clean.
Dora doesn't have to go into my gusa.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Now you listen to me.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Doah been with me for fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
She's a good girl. I've said if somebody was in.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
My room, I told it with only Dora. If you
don't like things the way they are around him, it
is off you believe now to not this minute?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
All right? Oh, never mind, I get what I said.
Good night. I believe it's starting to work, Collins. And
maybe you're right, Chief, Yes I think so, but it's
not enough yet. Hey, where are you going stay here,
I'm going to see him. Now, who's there? Wellen, can
(18:00):
I come in? But Paul, uh, just just to talk?
Well just a minute. What do you want? Well, I
I just heard you and missus Holly thought I could
do something anything wrong. It's Dora. I know she was
in my addresser. Oh really, how can you be sure? Well?
(18:21):
Come here, come here? Yeah, this draw anything disturbed? No? No,
but I know someone was in this draw. I don't
know how you can be so sure if nothing's out
of place? Well don't you don't you smell anything?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Smell anything?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
What? Well? Yes, I have a peculiar odor like perfume.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Oh nothing, what?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Get closer now. I'm sorry, Arthur, but I'm afraid you've
got too good an imagination. It's not my imagination. I
tell you there's some kind of perfume been spilled in
my drawer there.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
It must be your nerves, Arthur. I tell you I
can't smell a thing.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
You you're sure of that? Look, why don't we get
someone else? Evans? Miss Oh no, no, please never never, never mind.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
But if you say it's here, I could be wrong,
you know now Evans?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And I said no, I don't want them in here
all right, Yes, it's all right. I guess it was
my imagination. Sure it's funny, but you know, nerves and
imagination can play tricks on a man, especially when he's worried.
Good night, who who's there? Who's that? Just me, mister Roctor? Oh?
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Oh you why didn't you answer the first time? Well
it's after two in the morning. I didn't want to
speak loudly. Too hot to sleep for me too, Yes,
I I came down to the Verandah to get some here.
It's not too cool here either, sultry. It's one of
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those nights you read about, you know, the kind that
makes you feel something's going to happen. It's still quiet air,
the heavy humidity, even the crickets are quiet. You were
going to say something, No, nothing, Just look at that
sky when the stars showing, no breeze, nothing, just deadly quiet.
(20:40):
I can see for myself. Oh sorry, yeah, excuse me.
Your your handkerchief? What handkerchief? What about it? That's where
it comes from. You use it, you use it. What
are you talking about? That's scent, that's where it came from.
(21:02):
It wasn't in my room. It was yours scent on
my handkerchief. Oh no, absolutely not. Never use scent. I
can't stand this. It's coming from your handkership.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I smelled it when you pulled it out. It wasn't
here before.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
And I'll look here, Arthur. I never used scent. I
don't smell anything.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
No, no, I don't believe in things things like that.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
You don't believe in things like what. Man, your nerves
are bad.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
It's not my nerve. I tell you, it's not my nerve.
You ready, Collins? Yeah, listened to him, pasting back and forth.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Get in the closet. You know what to say, right.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Arthur, Sam, Arthur? Can you hear me? Sam? Sam, this
is Walters.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Talk to me, Sham. Tell me why you did it?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Sam? Who who's there? Yeah? Why did you talk to me?
Tell me why you killed me? Sam? Please talk to me, Arthur.
What the hell's the idea of bursting into my room?
Who you're talking to?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Talking me?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
You're crazy? There's somebody you're here with you, there's somebody
in that closets. You are crazy. Why should anyone be
in there? You are talking to someone? All right? All right,
So I was talking to someone someone in that closet.
Go ahead and look in see who it was? Well,
go on, satisfy yourself, or do you want me to
open it for you? No? No, please, please don't help them? Know,
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come on a Collins, he's ready to make a break
for it. He almost looked in. No, No, he didn't
dare He was afraid he wouldn't see anyone. We're hey,
he's running away.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yes, I thought he would.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
All right. The next train doesn't leave Columbia for an hour,
and in that hour we've got to hire two men
and plant them on that train with Arthur.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Come on, excuse me?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Is this seat tick? What? Why? Arthur?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
What are you doing on this train?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Quiz? Well, this is fine. I thought i'd have to
ride this train alone. I got a wire suddenly, business
up north?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Oh but you where.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Are you going? Well? I have a sister in New Jersey.
I haven't seen it in a long time. And I, oh,
you made up your mind? Suddenly didn't say yes, Yes,
I was worried about her. Oh that accounts for your nerves, eh, worry,
we'll do that to a man. Oh, yes, yes, I
was worried about her.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I see, well, this is going to be pleasant. Still hot,
isn't it?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I thought?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Oh, what's the.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Matter you are your handkerchief?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
My handkerchief? What's the matter with it?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
That piff?
Speaker 6 (23:55):
You?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
My smell? You do use it? What are you talking about?
There's no sand on this there is, as I can
smell it. Now, Look, Arthur, I never used sand. It's
your imagination. I'll tell you what's not. You use the
same kind of set that he used. He oh, please,
please quillen, don't fool me. What are you trying to do?
I know what's your handkerchief? Look, Arthur, we can settle
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this easily enough. I'll ask the man in back of
us excuse me, sir. I know this sounds a little
bit to do. We'll just show you what your imagination
can do. Uh, to settle a bed. Will you smell
this handkerchief and see if there's sand on it? Eh?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Oh, sure, nothing on that handkerchief. What there you see?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Arthur? Give me that sure? Sure? Uh?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Ask that man across from.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Us, mister yah, I beg your pardon. Please, there's a
scent on this handkerchief, will you will you please tell
me what kind? You crazy? No? No, please please just
smell it right all right? No, I can't smell anything
but satisfied. Arthur quil quiinn. I can't stand it anymore.
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I've got to tell I've got to tell someone. I've
been living with it for a year and I can't
hold it in anymore. I can't, I can't. What is it? Arthur?
I killed a man, Ben Walters, but I didn't mean too.
He woke up and I had to hit him. I swear,
I swear I didn't mean to.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Didn't mean to. Huh.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Wh's been driving me crazy for a year.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
This last week has.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Been the worst.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
It's it's like he's come back. He's come back. Quillan Oh,
I had to tell somebody or go crazy.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Come on, what will they do to me? What will
they do?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I don't know, Arthur. It's much better this way. We'll
get off at the next stop. Our star Lie Bowman
(26:04):
will return in just a moment. But first, here is
game Whipment speaking for Dupon sound travels about twelve and
a half miles a minute, and the new jet propelled
planes are already flying ten. This means a jet plane
flies right along behind the sound. It makes it's like
something out of a rocket trip to Jupiter in a
(26:24):
comic book.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
But it's a long way from being comic.
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Welcome back. We've heard this sort of attempt to convince
superstitious criminals to confess their guilt before. It's kind of
surprising to hear it as part of a real life story,
although I think Pinkerton was a bit more elaborate and
involved than me typically here, as those tend to be
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like one startling scene to get them to confess their guilt.
But he really worked on him over time. Lee Bowman
did a fair bit of workover radio and was a
regular on Cavalcade of America. He didn't start in any
detective radio programs, but he did start in a detective
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My husband's disappeared. Your husband, his name is Danny. He
hasn't been home since last night.
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Did you report it to the police.
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Yeah, but they told me not to worry.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You don't need to have much luck following that prescription.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Going out of my mind is to worrying. Danny never
did anything like this before. What does your husband do? Well,
that's hard to say. Right now, he's working for mister
de Santus.
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What de Santus would that be?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
I don't know his first name, But what kind of
work does Danny do for him?
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I don't know exactly.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
When you come right down to it, you don't seem
to know very much about anything.
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Well, Danny believes that a wife shouldn't interfere in her
husband's business. He thinks your place is in the home.
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Fell the name Hitler had the same idea. Nothing.
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Well, I'll do what i can.
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Missus Graham when I've got a hunch.
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If your husband doesn't show up, you'll be way ahead
of I.
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a few episodes over on the Amazing World of Radio,
but we've only played one episode on the Great Detectives podcast,
and that was for our eleven hundredth episode special. So
I guess we're due for another episode of The Cavalcade
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this one is November eighteenth, nineteen forty six. And here
now is The Pinkerton Man.
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The Cavalcade of America America.
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And haylogs, the crack of a pioneer's flintlock and the
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America is your story.
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America is you and everyone you know. Tonight we present
Lee Bowman in the Pinkerton Man on the DuPont Cavalcade
of America.
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It is the year eighteen fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
In one of the coaches of a train bound for Columbia, Tennessee,
a man sits looking calmly at the countryside. He's dressed quietly,
and you wouldn't look twice at him, because well, because
he looks like one hundred thousand other men. You've seen
his name, Alan Pinkerton, America's greatest detective. As he sits,
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another man carrying what appears to be a sample case
comes into the coach, looks around for a moment, and then.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Excuse me, is just heat taking? Why?
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Oh? No, no, no, I hope you're selling.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Thanks, I hope you don't mind no seats on the
shady side of the coach. Oh, it's all right. I
don't like to sit in the sun myself. Thanks, I'm sorry.
I always have trouble with my sample Keithy, I see
what is it this time? Colins ties sucks handkerchiefs. And
what's it all about? Chief?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
What'd you get on last step?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Took a localm caught this train from there. Goodness, Collins,
I'm going through with the case and that's for the figure. Chief.
All right, what's my job? I don't know yet, but
I'll have some use for you. But mister Pinkert any
Quilling JB. Quillen, Uh oh that's my name? You got it?
Oh yeah, all right, businessman retired health reasons. Good enough,
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mister quill. You stay at the hotel in Columbia and
you a boarding house. I think for how wrong, Well,
I don't know. It depends on how tough this will be.
Plenty needs have Chief cases a year old trails as
cold as a dog's nose. Yeah, I know, I'll dig
around until I find a lead. What kind of a
lead in the case it's grown up being. Oh that's
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my job, Collins. Now, when we got to Columbia, you
get off first, go directly to the hotel. Sit tight,
and I'll contact you. And that's the story. Collins. Don't
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sound good to me, Chief, Not a lead, not a
single lead. A bank robbery and murder that happened over
a year ago. What can you expect. I don't know
something anything. There must be something. Sunsh Banks or president
of the bank, gave me the names, Collins. I've eliminated
three of those people. There's nothing to tie them in
(05:44):
in the first place. All the local police had to
go on with suspicion. That's not much. But yeah, how
about the fourth such bank, a man named Samuel Arthur.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Anything on him? No, nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
But look, if I'm not, that's guilty. If you think
he's the one, you gotta have something. What about the
money from the robber?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Not a penny of it's shown up.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
That's why I believe the job was pulled by someone
in this town, someone who was afraid to leave, someone
who killed the watchman Walters and then got panicky. Panicky
a murder who's played Doggo for a year isn't exactly panicky.
He's smart, waiting for the time he can leave Collins.
I'm changing boarding houses and cook and bat at the
when you're in there. No, the hunting's bad, Samuel Art.
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This days at missus Holly's boarding house. Here, here's the address.
All right, what's next? I'm going to find one lead,
one clue that'll give me a toe hold. I'll see
you later. Your last book gives me a triple jump
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and kidney. Well, mister Evans, you went again, Yes, sir,
I'm afraid I'm Steve the checker champion. Misslie's the boarding house,
no question about that. I resigned here for another one.
Mister quillan. It's only eight o'clock. No, no, no, thank you, sir.
Tomorrow night perhaps fine, fine, Well, I think i'll turn
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in then. Oh there you are. Have you finished your game, gentlemen, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
And I'm turning in.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
You keep mister quilling company edner, make him be right
at home here.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Well how long are you planning to say, mister Quillan.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
All that, that all depends on what mister well on
my help? Oh what is your ailment?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
And my ailment?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well it started a little over a year ago. And
I yes, wasn't that mister Arthur who went past the door?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Then?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Well, I didn't see, but I guess it was.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Oh, well, excuse me. I'm rather tired myself. I think
i'll turn into Oh.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
Well maybe we can have a little talk tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Oh that will be delightful. Miss Oglethorpe, good.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Night, Good night, mister quill and sleep by.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Huh oh oh, thank you, thank you. Hello, huh huh
oh hello. Oh sorry, I started to mister Arthur. Oh
not a tall, mister Quillan. Beautiful evening outside, Yes, yes
it is. I I was just thinking of going for
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a walk. He got to come along. Well, I'm a
little tired and I perhaps just around the block. No, no,
I don't think so. Maybe tomorrow evening, all right, glad
to glad to uh yes, oh nothing, good night, mister Quillan,
Good night mister Arthur. Oh, mister quillin yes, are you
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planning on going in the business down here? Business?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
No, I'm retired. Oh well then you'll be with us
for quite a while.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Maybe.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
I don't like to stay in one place very long,
mister Arthur, like a change of scenery once in a while.
I see, well, i'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Good night, mister Arthur.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Oh why, mister quill And, I thought you're gonna stay.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Well, I met mister Arthur, stopped for a little chat
with him. He's very nice and me.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Yes, very nice. We're all so fond of him.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Has has he been living here long?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
I think about five moons?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Oh? Oh what does mister Evans do for a living?
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Nothing? Nothing at all. I think he came into a
little money sometime ago. But there I mustn't gossip.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Must die.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Well, no harm in that.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
No, Well, that mister Arthur doesn't work either.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Oh retired.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
It's hard to say, mister Quillan. I suppose he had
some money saved up and oh there I go down.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
It's all right. Well, good night, I'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Good. We must have a longer talk sometimes. Yes, sir,
what can I do for you? Do you have cigars? Yes?
And a special kind you want? Well, let's see two
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of these please.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Well, nice story you've got here. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
I must keep you pretty busy running it.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Well kind of good. Use some help, I'll bet you couldn't.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Don't you have a clerk?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Well not now. I had one, but I had to
let him go. He got to talk on sassy to
the trade, losing his temper. Oh wow, I wonder you
let him go. Yep, I couldn't afford to have him
give in trouble like that funny thing too. All of
a sudden he up and began acting like.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
He was crazy. Well, now that's funny. I wonder what.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Makes people do that?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
You know?
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I had a cousin like that, nice as could be.
Then one day, just like that, began acting funny. Same
as same Arthur, Too bad, I like same everybody did.
That's the way it goes. Well, I'll see you again.
Do I drop you in anytime? Glad the banks? Oh
excuse me?
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Hol there? Oh hi, fine, you gotta match my sure thing?
Here you are it's your hotel in ten minutes. All right.
I've learned a couple of things that might interest you.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And he was fired from his job because he got
touchy and irritable. I seem well, I learned he's been
keeping to himself. I won't have a thing to do
with anybody. Everybody seemed to like him before, though, Collins
the post sam Arthur has something on his mind, on
his conscience, or I suppose he has. What can we
do about it? Find out what it is? How if
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he's guilty, which we don't know. He's kept it to
himself for a year now, But that sudden break from
his whole life, Collins, I'm convinced his conscience is working
on him. It didn't make him break in a year.
It won't break him now.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
I know that we've got to work on him.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
But you can't do that without getting him suspicious. Start
asking a guy like that some questions and he shut
up like a claim.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
You know that chef. We've had him before.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Conscience is a funny thing, Collins, and assows the instinct
for self preservation. Just let Sam Earth get the slightest
hint you're after him, and you won't be able to
touch him with a ten foot pole. Look, I've got
a job for you. You'll have to go about it
quietly too, all right, what is it? Find out all
you can? But I did. There's anything about Sam Earth
you don't know already. I'm not talking about him now.
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I want you to find out all you can about
Ben Walters. Walters, but he's the murdered bank watchman. I
know it.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I've known that for a long time. Collins.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Oh yeah, I'm sorry. All right, but what good is
he going to do? Did you ever hear of psychology? Psychology?
Never heard you will? We'll use that in a little
American ingenuity. Great combination, Collins, I'll go to it. You
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were sure of all these facts? Positive chief. Oh what's
this about the perfume? Well, not exactly perfume. There was
after Shavings said he was crazy about the stuff. You
used it all the time, and he talked like this,
mister Quillan, this is the way I used to talk. Yeah,
that's the way you should have been an actor, Collins.
(13:54):
I could have been a good one. You're going to be. Uh.
I've got an idea and maybe it'll work. It's never
been tried before I don't get your chief, you will.
Colin's got a bottle of the scent you were talking about.
Can you do it for sure? But what's the idea psychology?
Here's what I want you to do. I'll see that
Arthur doesn't go near his room. And however, you finish
the job I want you to do. Well, mister Roger,
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huh oh, hello quila?
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Do you want some company on your walk?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Well? I wasn't going very far, just top for better day?
Whats so was? I? Confidentially? Miss Oglethorpe was waiting for me.
I see she likes to talk, that she does. She
doesn't care what she talks about either, No, just as
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long as she talks. You sleep well last night? Sleep well,
of course? Why did you ask that?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Oh? It was so hot. I was restless all night.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I heard you, and I thought you were restless too,
almost dropped over the seas, So I wasn't restless. No, Well,
I guess I heard something else heard something, but oh nothing,
nothing my imagination, I guess. But since you were just
next door to me, I thought it was you. Well,
what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Nothing at all?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
You see? I don't sleep very well. Probably one of
those half awake, half asleep dreams. Oh, but what was
it you heard? Oh, some sort of mumbling, like a
person talking in his sleep. It wasn't I.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
No, No, probably not.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
No.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I I've never talked in my sleep.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Well I didn't say you did. I was just mentioning it.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I forget it. It was more than likely it was me. Well,
I've I've got to leave you here. Oh that's too bad. Yes,
I've got to get something at the store.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Well, I'll walk with you.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Oh please, I'm going to stop and see a prim Oh,
i won't trail along man. Good night, Good night, quill,
I'll see you tomorrow. It was pretty smarty in chief,
the trailers, not Collins. Sure.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Now, how'd you do back in his room?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Oh, Frank, no trouble getting in a tall lock, and
the connecting joe between his room and yours was a cinch.
All right, let's get back before he does. I'll go first.
I'll let you in when the coast is clear.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You are listening to Lee Bowman in the Pinkerton Man
on the Cavalcade of America, sponsored by the DuPont Company,
maker of Better Things for better Living through Chemistry, as
the second part of our story opens, Alan Pinketton is
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trying to break a year old murder and robbery case
in Columbia, Tennessee. Certain that a man named Sam Arthur
is guilty, Pinkerton is working on him, and Pigoton's plan
seems to be succeeding for Ian Collins. Listen to an
argument going on outside his room.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Really, Mica, it's absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I know what I'm talking about this with Holly, and
don't shout me me.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
I'm not dead, and I don't like your insinuations that someone.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
In this house within your room. But someone wants I
tell you someone was in my room, Dorah within to clean.
Dora doesn't have to go into my gusa.
Speaker 6 (17:21):
Now you listen to me.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Doah been with me for fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
She's a good girl. I've said if somebody was in.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
My room, I told it with only Dora. If you
don't like things the way they are around him, it
is off you believe now to not this minute?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
All right? Oh, never mind, I get what I said.
Good night. I believe it's starting to work, Collins. And
maybe you're right, Chief, Yes I think so, but it's
not enough yet. Hey, where are you going stay here,
I'm going to see him. Now, who's there? Wellen, can
(18:00):
I come in? But Paul, uh, just just to talk?
Well just a minute. What do you want? Well, I
I just heard you and missus Holly thought I could
do something anything wrong. It's Dora. I know she was
in my addresser. Oh really, how can you be sure? Well?
(18:21):
Come here, come here? Yeah, this draw anything disturbed? No? No,
but I know someone was in this draw. I don't
know how you can be so sure if nothing's out
of place? Well don't you don't you smell anything?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Smell anything?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
What? Well? Yes, I have a peculiar odor like perfume.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
Oh nothing, what?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Get closer now. I'm sorry, Arthur, but I'm afraid you've
got too good an imagination. It's not my imagination. I
tell you there's some kind of perfume been spilled in
my drawer there.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
It must be your nerves, Arthur. I tell you I
can't smell a thing.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
You you're sure of that? Look, why don't we get
someone else? Evans? Miss Oh no, no, please never never, never mind.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
But if you say it's here, I could be wrong,
you know now Evans?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
And I said no, I don't want them in here
all right, Yes, it's all right. I guess it was
my imagination. Sure it's funny, but you know, nerves and
imagination can play tricks on a man, especially when he's worried.
Good night, who who's there? Who's that? Just me, mister Roctor? Oh?
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Oh you why didn't you answer the first time? Well
it's after two in the morning. I didn't want to
speak loudly. Too hot to sleep for me too, Yes,
I I came down to the Verandah to get some here.
It's not too cool here either, sultry. It's one of
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those nights you read about, you know, the kind that
makes you feel something's going to happen. It's still quiet air,
the heavy humidity, even the crickets are quiet. You were
going to say something, No, nothing, Just look at that
sky when the stars showing, no breeze, nothing, just deadly quiet.
(20:40):
I can see for myself. Oh sorry, yeah, excuse me.
Your your handkerchief? What handkerchief? What about it? That's where
it comes from. You use it, you use it. What
are you talking about? That's scent, that's where it came from.
(21:02):
It wasn't in my room. It was yours scent on
my handkerchief. Oh no, absolutely not. Never use scent. I
can't stand this. It's coming from your handkership.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Now.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I smelled it when you pulled it out. It wasn't
here before.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
And I'll look here, Arthur. I never used scent. I
don't smell anything.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
No, no, I don't believe in things things like that.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
You don't believe in things like what. Man, your nerves
are bad.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
It's not my nerve. I tell you, it's not my nerve.
You ready, Collins? Yeah, listened to him, pasting back and forth.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Get in the closet. You know what to say, right.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Arthur, Sam, Arthur? Can you hear me? Sam? Sam, this
is Walters.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Talk to me, Sham. Tell me why you did it?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Sam? Who who's there? Yeah? Why did you talk to me?
Tell me why you killed me? Sam? Please talk to me, Arthur.
What the hell's the idea of bursting into my room?
Who you're talking to?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Talking me?
Speaker 3 (22:16):
You're crazy? There's somebody you're here with you, there's somebody
in that closets. You are crazy. Why should anyone be
in there? You are talking to someone? All right? All right,
So I was talking to someone someone in that closet.
Go ahead and look in see who it was? Well,
go on, satisfy yourself, or do you want me to
open it for you? No? No, please, please don't help them? Know,
(22:38):
come on a Collins, he's ready to make a break
for it. He almost looked in. No, No, he didn't
dare He was afraid he wouldn't see anyone. We're hey,
he's running away.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yes, I thought he would.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
All right. The next train doesn't leave Columbia for an hour,
and in that hour we've got to hire two men
and plant them on that train with Arthur.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Come on, excuse me?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Is this seat tick? What? Why? Arthur?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
What are you doing on this train?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Quiz? Well, this is fine. I thought i'd have to
ride this train alone. I got a wire suddenly, business
up north?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Oh but you where.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Are you going? Well? I have a sister in New Jersey.
I haven't seen it in a long time. And I, oh,
you made up your mind? Suddenly didn't say yes, Yes,
I was worried about her. Oh that accounts for your nerves, eh, worry,
we'll do that to a man. Oh, yes, yes, I
was worried about her.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
I see, well, this is going to be pleasant. Still hot,
isn't it?
Speaker 3 (23:46):
I thought?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Oh, what's the.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Matter you are your handkerchief?
Speaker 4 (23:53):
My handkerchief? What's the matter with it?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
That piff?
Speaker 6 (23:55):
You?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
My smell? You do use it? What are you talking about?
There's no sand on this there is, as I can
smell it. Now, Look, Arthur, I never used sand. It's
your imagination. I'll tell you what's not. You use the
same kind of set that he used. He oh, please,
please quillen, don't fool me. What are you trying to do?
I know what's your handkerchief? Look, Arthur, we can settle
(24:16):
this easily enough. I'll ask the man in back of
us excuse me, sir. I know this sounds a little
bit to do. We'll just show you what your imagination
can do. Uh, to settle a bed. Will you smell
this handkerchief and see if there's sand on it? Eh?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Oh, sure, nothing on that handkerchief. What there you see?
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Arthur? Give me that sure? Sure? Uh?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Ask that man across from.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Us, mister yah, I beg your pardon. Please, there's a
scent on this handkerchief, will you will you please tell
me what kind? You crazy? No? No, please please just
smell it right all right? No, I can't smell anything
but satisfied. Arthur quil quiinn. I can't stand it anymore.
(25:05):
I've got to tell I've got to tell someone. I've
been living with it for a year and I can't
hold it in anymore. I can't, I can't. What is it? Arthur?
I killed a man, Ben Walters, but I didn't mean too.
He woke up and I had to hit him. I swear,
I swear I didn't mean to.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Didn't mean to. Huh.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Wh's been driving me crazy for a year.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
This last week has.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Been the worst.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
It's it's like he's come back. He's come back. Quillan Oh,
I had to tell somebody or go crazy.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Come on, what will they do to me? What will
they do?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I don't know, Arthur. It's much better this way. We'll
get off at the next stop. Our star Lie Bowman
(26:04):
will return in just a moment. But first, here is
game Whipment speaking for Dupon sound travels about twelve and
a half miles a minute, and the new jet propelled
planes are already flying ten. This means a jet plane
flies right along behind the sound. It makes it's like
something out of a rocket trip to Jupiter in a
(26:24):
comic book.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
But it's a long way from being comic.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
When a plane travels near the speed of sound, air
unable to get out of the way is compressed and
piles up around the leading edges of the wing. Behind
this shockwave, the air is rough, so rough that a
plane may be torn to pieces. Aviation engineers are sweating
off this problem right now among other experiments. For instance,
(26:51):
the Aircraft Laboratory at right Field has designed an entirely
new type of wing made of glass and plastic. Outside
to reduce skin friction to a minimum, it is finished
and polished to a mirror like surface, breed from rivets,
overlapping joints, and other projections. Inside, the construction is even
(27:11):
more novel. Instead of being full of ribs and braces,
the new wing has only half a dozen structural parts.
The wing surfaces are made from several layers of glass
cloth cemented together. Supporting these surfaces and sandwiched between them
and the internal structural parts is a formed cellulose acetate
plastic lighter than cork. This construction provides great strength and
(27:37):
unusual rigidity in the wing surfaces. With all the resources
of American business ingenuity at the service of aviation engineers.
We have assurance that the combined efforts of scientific and
business enterprise will keep American transportation in the forefront. The
cellular plastic used in this new wing is a development
(27:57):
of applied chemical research by the DuPont Company, maker of
better things for better living through chemistry. Now here's our star,
Lee Bowman. Thanks Gaine. You know I've always been a
great detective story fan, and that's why it was interesting
for me to learn that America's Alan Pinkerton used psychological
(28:20):
methods to solve a crime.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
So long ago.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
Pinkerton believed that ingenuity was the birthright of every American.
In time, he was to see worldwide distinction come to
American detectives for their work and ensuring law and order
for our citizens. The United States Secret Service, an organization
Pinkerdon founded as well as his own. Pinkerton men rank
high in international prestige along with France's famed Sorte and
(28:44):
Britain Scotland Yard. It was a pleasure gained to portray
this remarkable detective on cavalcade.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Tonight, Thank you, and good night.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Next week, the DuPont Cavalcade brings you Gene Herscholdt in
parade It's the tender and moving story of Peter Verrick,
an immigrant who believed in dreams and who believed in
working hard to make those dreams come true. Be sure
and listen next Monday to Jean Herschault in Parade on
the Cavalcade of America, brought to you by the DuPont Company.
(29:37):
Our star Tonight Lee Bawman appeared through the courtesy of
Columbia Pictures, producers of the Johnson Story. The music for
the DuPont Cavalcade is composed and conducted by Robert Armbruster.
Our Cavalcade play was written by Russell Hughes. The part
of Collins was played by William Johnstone and the part
of Arthur was played by Walter Mayer, who appeared through
arrangement with Metro Golden Mayor, producers of the U Yearly.
(30:01):
This is John Easton inviting you to listen next week
to Jeene her show in Parade on the Cavalcade of America,
brought to you by the Dubat Company of Wilmington, Delaware.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
The Cavalcade of America came to you from Hollywood. This
is NBC, the National Broadcast Scene Company.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Welcome back. We've heard this sort of attempt to convince
superstitious criminals to confess their guilt before. It's kind of
surprising to hear it as part of a real life story,
although I think Pinkerton was a bit more elaborate and
involved than me typically here, as those tend to be
(30:57):
like one startling scene to get them to confess their guilt.
But he really worked on him over time. Lee Bowman
did a fair bit of workover radio and was a
regular on Cavalcade of America. He didn't start in any
detective radio programs, but he did start in a detective
(31:18):
television program we played a few years back as Ellery Queen. Well,
now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
and I want to go ahead and think Jacqueline. Jacqueline
has been one of our Patreon supporters since August of
twenty eighteen, currently supporting the podcast at the shamous level
(31:39):
of four dollars or more per month. Thank you so
much for your support, Jacqueline, and that will do it
for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us
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with our Thanksgiving encore, but join us back here tomorrow
for the Ventures of the Falcon Wear.
Speaker 6 (32:02):
My husband's disappeared. Your husband, his name is Danny. He
hasn't been home since last night.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Did you report it to the police.
Speaker 6 (32:09):
Yeah, but they told me not to worry.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
You don't need to have much luck following that prescription.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Going out of my mind is to worrying. Danny never
did anything like this before. What does your husband do? Well,
that's hard to say. Right now, he's working for mister
de Santus.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
What de Santus would that be?
Speaker 4 (32:27):
I don't know his first name, But what kind of
work does Danny do for him?
Speaker 6 (32:32):
I don't know exactly.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
When you come right down to it, you don't seem
to know very much about anything.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Well, Danny believes that a wife shouldn't interfere in her
husband's business. He thinks your place is in the home.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Fell the name Hitler had the same idea. Nothing.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Well, I'll do what i can.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
Missus Graham when I've got a hunch.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
If your husband doesn't show up, you'll be way ahead
of I.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, send
your comments to Box thirteen, Act Great Detectives dot Net.
Follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives and check us
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
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