August 12, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Alone.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yes, this is the Falcon speaking Omirah.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Thanks for calling, but I can't make it tonight. Angel.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Now I have a client who's getting a lot of
help from a boyfriend, and if I'm not careful, he's
going to help her right into the electric chair.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
This is Hurly he friends, inviting you to listen to
the Adventures of the Falcon. You met the Falcon first
in his best selling novels, then you saw him in
his thrilling motion picture series. Now join him on the
air when the falconsuls the Case of the Broken Fingerprints.
(00:58):
Now the Case of the Broken Fingerprints. It's Wednesday night
in New York and the apartment of Barry Barrow in
the East sixties is in darkness.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Ethel Barrow sits in the darkened apartment, drumming on the
arm of her chair with her fingernails. Now she reaches
out to the table beside her and fumbles about on
it for a cigarette lighter. She finds the lighter, lights
it and uses its light to show her the time
on her wristwatch.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
But when she hears voices.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Outside the apartment, she flicks out the light quickly and
stands up facing the door.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
A key turns in the lock.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The front door opens, the light is turned on, and
a man and woman entered the apartment.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, darling, we'll just have it. Ethel, Hello, Barry, Oh,
well when did you?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I decided not to go away after all, I thought
things might be more interesting around here.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Well, aren't you going to introduce me to your friend? Yes, Barry,
how about it? Who is this?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Actually, perabside better since he's having so much trouble. I'm
his wife, Ethel Barrow and your normal Wallace. You live
at three twenty one Pierce Place, you work at Corby's
department store, and you've known Berry for three months. I
know all about you, miss Wallace, though I can't say
I'm pleased to meet you.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Barry, you never told me I was kind of when
when you got tired of me or me?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
What can I say?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
If we give you a couple of minutes to get
over the shock, Darling, I'm sure you'll think of plenty
to say.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
But it's what you do that interests me.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
What do you expect me to do?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I expect you to act like a here you always have.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You want a divorce, settle, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I want to make things that easy? Do you want
a divorce? Berry?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I know what I want.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I know what you want? You want an easy out?
This is one of those times when three is a crowd.
Somebody has to be eliminated. The only question is who
is it to be?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yes? What can I do? Oh? Ted? What are you
doing here?
Speaker 8 (03:09):
I'm just shopping. I have like a five pound box
of chocolate. Send it to normal Wallace three twenty one Pierce.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Place with all my love, Ted, Please, I'm taking you
to lunch.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
You won't believe it's all over between you and me.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
Just because of Barrel. Oh he's got money, but I've
got charm. Besides, I'm serious. So's he won a bit?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
He asked me to marry him.
Speaker 8 (03:28):
You're not going to as soon as he gets his
divorce divorce. I didn't know he was married.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Neither did I. Nice guy he was going to tell
me was going to?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Does that meaning you found out for yourself?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I met his wife?
Speaker 8 (03:40):
It gets better all the time. You picked a lulu.
Now look normal. No matter how things are between us,
you can't go on.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
With a guy like that.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
No lectures, Ted, I'm not a child, and.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Don't act like one. You've got to break this off.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
We're settling it tonight. He's coming up to my place.
We're going to make our plans.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Does his wife know?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
No?
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Normal, you'll let's not discuss it here all right at
lunch if.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
You insist, But I'm warning you you'll be wasting your time.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
I'll risk it if there's any chance I can keep
you from wasting your life.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
At Ted, can you come here right away? At home?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
It's awful. I should have listened to you.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
I told you Barry was coming up here. Yes, when
I got home, he was already here.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well I found him on the floor.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
He's dead.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Ted, come in, Yeah, there he is.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Did you touch anything?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
No, that's just the way I found him.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
How did he get in? Did he have a key?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
No? I don't know how he got in. Maybe the
door was open. Well, he doesn't have a key.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
No, I'm trying to help you. Don't believe me searching
all right, he doesn't have a key. And how we're
going to explain as being here?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
I'll have to think of something. You can't afford any
holes in your story.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
But what can we say?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You have to make up some explanation that'll hold water.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Maybe I'd better just call the police and tell the
whole truth as far as.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Who asked me to help you? Didn't you do it
my way?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
But he was here, that's the truth.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Why can't I just say I'll never believe it. I
don't believe it.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
It's the truth.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
There's no use repeating that. It's just no good. Let's see,
he was killed here, there's.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
No avoiding that.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
But the door being unlocked will never stand up. I
know what you can say, you were here when it happened.
You let him in, don't worry, But then i'd have
seen it, not necessarily. I'll drag him over here to
the door. Then I'll tell you what to say, and
then you'll call Michael Warring.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Michael Waerring.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, the fault. He's a private detective.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
But what do I want with him?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
He might find out something the police overlooked, and if
it's something we're trying to hide.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
The chance we'll have to take. And that's just the point.
If you were guilty, you wouldn't want to take that chance.
By hiring Wearing, you convince the police of your innoscence.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Well, I hope you know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Don't worry, darling, you and stake your life on it.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
I'd better be able to ted, because that's exactly what
I'm doing. When I found out he was married, I
didn't want to have anything to do with him. Do
(06:25):
you know how it is, mister Waring? He wouldn't take
no for an answer, found out where I lived and
came up to see.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Me, and you gave him the final brush, yes, And then.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
He went to the door, opened it, and then he
saw someone in the hall.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
They had a few words, and then there was a shot.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
What words I.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Don't remember exactly.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
He said something like, oh, it's you, and she said, yes, surprised,
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
I think that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You say? She said, yes, it was a woman's But
you didn't see it.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
No, he was in the way. O.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Where were you right over here? That's funny.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
What is that he blocked your view of the doorway?
You say he dropped immediately when he was shot, and
you haven't touched anything, that's right. And to block your view,
he would have had to be standing in the doorway
and he fell forward because he's lying on his face,
so he should have fallen into the hall. Instead, he's
in the room into the side of the door so
that we can swing it open and close without hitting him.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Maybe he staggered back. I don't remember. I was too startled.
He must have. What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
What you should have done when it happened instead of
calling me? I'm calling the police.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
But you are going to help me.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I'll try to find out who the murder is if
you still want me to. But I'm not so sure
that comes under the heading of help. Are you.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Hello, Mike ahead? How's business? Oh? Hectic? And for you too? Yeah,
Sergeant Corbett has phoned three times for you this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Thanks Ed. I told I was having lunch here. And
what did he want? Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I don't know, but he sounded sore. Well, now, what
can be troubling him? I called him in on the
case as soon as things broke yesterday. Well, all I
know is he keeps calling here and he sounds like
he has more than Hamburger and.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Coleslaw in his mind. Well maybe he has. Oh it's more.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Than I can say for your interview with Sergeant Corbett.
Hope here he comes. And if you think I was
kidding about.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
His being sore. Catch that look in his eye? All right?
Wearing Harishi? Where's who? Of course you don't know who
I'm talking about. I'm glad we agree on something.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That girl, Norma Wallace, you're working for and you found
it out all by yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
All right? What do you want to pat him the
head or a recommendation to the chief? I want to
know what's become of the girl? Well, I assume she's
done a vanishing act. You's soon. I questioned her last night,
went the up to her again today.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And she stood you up. You better start reading the ads.
Jump you know where she is. Your confidence is touching.
But as a matter of fact, Covid, I haven't the
slightest idea. Are you're working for her?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So you said, so I ought to be the one
who's excited, not you. Seems I've lost a client. He
stop being funny. Well thanks for the compliment. Are you
going to talk gladly? What about?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
All right? Wearing? All right?
Speaker 8 (09:20):
But I'm going to prove you've been holding out? And
when I do, I.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Shudder to think of it. Can I sit down, Corvid?
I see they have brains on the menu today. Why
don't you try some Yes, hello you, missus Baron. Yes,
(09:44):
my name is Michael Wearing. I'm investigating your husband's murder.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Are you a detective?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yes? That girl sent you? What you noma wats?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
What do you know about her enough enough to be jealous?
Speaker 7 (09:57):
That's what she'd like you to think, mister Wearing. She
wants you to believe that I killed Barry?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Did?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
It takes three to make a triangle, and then there's Donahue?
Who Ted Donahue? He fits another triangle and I'm not
in that one. Oh so he was the Wallace girl's boyfriend.
He could have resented Barry's cutting him out?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yes, so he could. Oh, thank you, missus Barrow. I
knew you would help me.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
You're easy to satisfy.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Why I'm not striking you off my suspect list yet?
But right now I'm not looking for the murderer. I'm
looking for my clients.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yes, what do you want you? Ted Donahue? Yeah? Huh?
Who are you? Mike Wearing? May I come in? Why?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I want to talk to you? What about normal Wallace?
We can talk here, yes, but it will be more
comfortable inside.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
What do you want to know? Where she is? What
makes you think i'd know. Why are you trying to
keep me out for one thing? You think she's here?
I'm beginning to all right, come on in, look for yourself. Thanks,
that's better. I haven't seen Norman in weeks? Why not
you get the air?
Speaker 8 (11:09):
No, it's just that I never knew Norma very well,
that's not what she says.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
What do you mean she didn't tell you anything about me?
How do you know if you haven't seen her? There's
nothing to say. Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
If Norma isn't your girl, who is? I don't have
a girl, then who's the girl who was up here.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
A little while ago? What girl? They want to left?
The lipstick on that glass? Or just a friend? Oh? Well,
do you mind if I take this glass? What do
you want with it? I'm looking for Norma. I think
you're a lead.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
But in case Corbett needs convincing it maybe the princes
on this glass, it will change his mind for him.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Put that down, because by it doesn't like it? I said,
put it down.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Hey, watch out me that glass.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You shouldnt knocked it out of my hand. Now it's broken.
Isn't that a shame? I go? Your fingerprints not mine? Norma.
You can't prove that.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Looks like you've already done it for me. Are you
going to tell me where I can? I don't know
where she is, and I get out of here. Okay,
But when you see Norma, tell her I'm not going
to see her so I know.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
But when you do, tell her that if she wants
me to help her, she.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Better call me. Hello, Norma, listen quick. Right after you left,
Mike Wearing was here.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
He was How did he know about you?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Oh? I suppose he's not a detective for nothing?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Ted, I'm afraid my running away was a mistake.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It was no use taking chances. But I've got to
talk to you all.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I wish I meet you.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
Well, you can't come here, and I've got to be careful.
I'm not followed whoring. They think I'll lead him to you.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Go to Penn Station and keep yourself lost in the crowd.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
At three thirty by the station clock, go upstairs on
the seventh Avenue side.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
You know what a big columns are? Yes, At exactly
three point thirty, walk out to the curb. I'll drive
by and pick you up.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
All right, I'll make sure I'm not being followed but
if anything goes wrong, you just wait two minutes. If
I haven't come in that time, get away from there fast,
then call me from a phone booth.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
All right, Ted, But I wonder if it wouldn't be better,
If it'll be.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
Better if you do just like I tell you. I'll
see you at three thirty.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
All right now, I'm a quick Yes, Ted, three thirty
on the nose.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
I don't like this hide and seek, Ted, it's going
to mean trouble.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Will you leave things to me?
Speaker 5 (13:24):
But how'll I explain it?
Speaker 8 (13:26):
You won't have to you? And I know that missus
Barrow killed a husband and the police are bound to
find it out. Once they do, it won't matter what
you've done.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
And why is it necessary for me to run away?
Speaker 8 (13:35):
I told you they can't prove anything against you, But
until they have a case against missus Barrow, they may
suspect you.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
They could lock you up and make things pretty unpleasant.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Well, this isn't exactly my idea pleasant for me. There
was some way to speed things up.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Maybe there is. That's why I wanted to see you.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
You think there's something we can do, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
But first you'll have to get rid.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Of wearing But you wanted me to hire it, I know,
but he's getting in a way and for what I
haven't mind. Oh, what's the matter? Police car? I think
it's following us. I thought you said no I did.
I was positive nobody followed me. I can't understand it.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Maybe they're just cruising this way.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I'll turn this corner and see.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
All right? If we are following, what do we do?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Try to shake them?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Hate to get you involved.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I'm glad I have a chance to help. Here they
come and here I go.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
I'm afraid this isn't such a good idea.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
What else can we do?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
I don't know, but trying not run a police.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Car on corner coming?
Speaker 5 (14:27):
All right? If they catches, it's going to be in
trouble for you too.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
I know they're gaining and look.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
At that traffics against us. We'll never get through. And
this is it? Sorry you couldn't all right, buddy? What
a hurry? Fine?
Speaker 10 (14:43):
Did you see that red light back then?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Red light? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (14:46):
When I try to call you on it, just stop
playing tag? You want me for going through a red light?
You're hitting sixty and set traffic. Girlfriend thinks it's funny, officer.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
She has a schooling sense of he'll here's my license. Hello?
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Hello, is that mister Wearing?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yes, this sounds like my disappearing client.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Oh, ex client, mister Wearing. That's why I'm calling you.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Picked a great time to fire me.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I don't think I need you anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
And Sergeant Corbett catches up with you, You'll think differently.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Does he really think I killed Berry?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
You lied, you ran out?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Would expect him to think, but I hired you. Yes,
and now you're firing me. Your hands look about as
clean as some of the Key Father witnesses.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
But it was missus Barrow who killed Berry.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You know that. Corbett doesn't. He's satisfied with her alibi.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Oh she has an alibi?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, she has, So you better come clean, Angel I
have I didn't do it. But then why this's weird routine.
I have my reasons and I better be good ones.
You're on a spot, baby.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yes, I'm afraid I am.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And I'm still willing to listen if you want to
forget about firing me, provided of course, that you have
something to say.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I have, I go ahead.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Well, it's just the Ted, and I thought it was Ted,
a friend of mine. I called him when I discovered
the body.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Oh before you call me, Before.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I did anything, I decided I had to have help,
and luckily he was home.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Wonder if it was so lucky? Why do you say
that his help didn't turn out so good?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Well, it was his idea that I hire you.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Was it also his idea that you fire me? Yes?
He seems to have a lot of ideas. Look where
are you? I think we better get.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Together at the Borough's Hotel in forty third, room four
h five.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Okay, sit tight, I'll be right over all right, goodbye?
Is that the way you fire a Mama? Ted?
Speaker 5 (16:50):
I didn't know you were still here.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Looks like it's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
I am, yes, Ted. The only question is good for whom?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Now back to the adventures of the Falcon.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Ten minutes have past since Mike Wearing talked himself off
the unemployment line.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Ted had objections, but he seems to have.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Been overruled, because when Norma opens the door for the Falcon,
Ted is nowhere in sight.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Hello, mister Wearing, come in.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Thanks, what's the matter with you? You look frightened?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Frightened, No, just bewildered. Not what you said? Missus Barrow has.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
An alibi According to Corbett, I don't understand it. Why not?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
I told you Berry went to the door and I
heard him talking to someone just before he was shot. Yeah,
I said it was a woman's voice. I'm almost certain
it was missus Barrow's.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Oh why didn't you said that before?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
I didn't like to accuse her without being sure.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
What made you change your mind?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
I haven't. I just want you to check. Couldn't there
be something wrong with her alibi?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
There could be, but not as wrong as with your story.
What do you mean you're lying again?
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You didn't hear Barrow talking to anybody?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
What makes you say that?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
When you spoke to.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Me on the phone, you use the phrase when I
found the body. If Barrow had been killed in front
of you, you wouldn't have talked about finding the body. You
wouldn't have had to find it would have.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Been right there.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I meant when I found he was dead.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Well, that's not what you said. You misunderstood me, Yes,
and apparently I still do. I suppose we go see
his sergeant Corpet and get this straightened out. No, Look,
you can't keep running.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I can try, and in case you have any idea
of trying to stop me. This gun should change your mind.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's changed, but not as often as you change yours. Goodbye, Norman,
Oh Angel, if you changed your mind again, and look,
(18:59):
before we go any further, I'm taking the gun just
in case you decide to make another switch.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Here it is.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
It's not loaded now. She tells me, I'm sorry about
what happened. I couldn't help myself.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Oh, I can't help yourself either, unless you start telling
the truth. For James, I will, okay, at least that'll
be a novelty.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
I didn't see the shooting. I didn't hear any voices
Missus Barrows or anyone else's. I just said I did
because Ted told me it was on better that way.
Ted told me what to say. He told me to
run away.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
You have to take orders from him.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I thought he was trying to help me, some help.
I was fighting. I had to turn to someone I
trusted Ted. Then he told me to fire you. I tried,
but you talked me.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Out of it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But somebody talked to you out of that.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Yes, Ted overheard my conversation with you. He was furious.
He made me say what I did to you when
you got up there. He was hiding in the.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Next room, and if you were disobeyed, he had a
gun and his was loaded.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Does he know you came here?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
If he finds out, he won't find out. Where is
he now?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
He went home? Thinks I went home?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
How come he trusted you? He said?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
If I didn't do exactly what he told me, he'd
prove that I killed Barry. But I know he can't.
So if you'll help me out.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Right, all right, I will. I'll call him, tell him
you've got to talk to him, ask him to come
right over. It'll take them twenty minutes to get to
your place by the time we can be there too.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
But what are we going to do?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Well, first, I'll have to have all the facts.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So for change, let's have exactly what did happen today
from the beginning?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
All right.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
I let myself into the apartment and there was Barry
on the floor, blood still running out of that hole
in his head.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
It was awful. Who's that?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I don't know?
Speaker 5 (20:33):
What if it's ted? What if he didn't go home,
if he followed?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
All right, all right, I'll handle it.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Can I get out the back now?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Just sit tired? If it is Ted. Now's a chance
to wrap this up, and I can't do it without you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, I'm coming. You'll be all right. Just leave it
to me if you say so, I do. Oh, Sergeant Corbett,
this is a surprise.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
Oh I see you didn't know where the girl was.
Did you worry you couldn't help me find it?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh? No, that's right, Corbett.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Sure we'll miss Wallace, says Wearing. Finished coaching you on
what to say.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I didn't have to, Corvitt. She had lessons from an expert. Huh. Yeah,
she called him in as soon as you found the body.
He told her what to say and do.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Who's this we're talking about? Ted Donahue? And he told
her to run out on me. Yep, I'd like to
talk to this Donahue. Well, I can be arranged.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Butt.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
First, I'd like to hear the medical examiners report.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Now, what's to hear?
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Bullet in the brain, died instantly, thirty two caliber. Okay,
that's enough, all right, Wearing, do we see Donahue?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
If you like?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I like, But don't get the idea that because I'm
willing to listen, you're steering me off. Your girlfriend here sergeant,
and it's for you worrying. I'm going to prove you
knew where she was. I think whatever you want about me, Corbett.
But you can't think that Norman did the shooting?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh can? I? Of course not? Why not? Because she did?
What's that sure? Normal? You killed Barry?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
So with COVID's habit of always being wrong, he can't
possibly think it was you. Coffee Dan's head? Please, I
miss dessert before? Well, Mike, we've got the modive.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
When it came to a showdown, Barrow decided to stick
with his wife, so Norma plugged him.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Keep it up, Corvid, You're doing fine? Wants to keep up?
That's it? Well, not entirely.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
How about the clue that gave her away? She must
have said something to you, But don't you want to
know what it was?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
All right? Wearing?
Speaker 8 (22:24):
If you've got to strutch your stuff, go ahead. How
did you happen to stumble onto this one?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Stumble? He is it? No?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
What do you want me to do? Beat my head
on the floor in appreciation? That's an idea?
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Well, if you want to tell me how bright you are,
go ahead. I'm listening, but get it over with.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Well, Norma played her along with Ted Donahue in order
to have a four guy in reserve, and he was
crazy enough about it to try to keep out of
trouble anyway. When it turned out that missus Barrow had
an alibi that satisfied the police, normah decided to make
use of Ted. Only she went a little too far,
how so, and if she just left it at the
things he actually did, she might have been all right.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
But you tried to tell me he pulled a gun
on her her.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
He only would have done that if you were actually
the killer. Well, that's what she was trying to prove. Yes,
But since he couldn't be the killer, gave her away,
couldn't Why not? But who said Barrow was killed instantly?
And Norman admits that when she found him he was
still bleeding. A bleeding stops a few minutes after a
person dies. Well, so why couldn't she have found him
in the first few minutes? Because she told me that
as soon as she found the botle she called Donna,
who at his home. Of Donna, who lives at least
(23:23):
twenty minutes away from normal. If he was home, he
just couldn't have been at Norma's oh huh, well, wearing
nice try try solved the case. Yeah, but you were
trying to show me how bright you are. I can't
say that I'm impressed. After all, you pulled quite a boner.
What you pin the murder on the girl? And she
happens to be a dainty dish? But who wants to
(23:46):
go dating at sing Sing? Well, you got a point there,
called it that you're overlooking one thing.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
What's that missus Barrow?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Now she's going to be lonely a few months from now,
she's going to want someone to cheer her up, to
whine her dinah do the town And speaking of dishes, Corbett,
that's mine
Alone.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yes, this is the Falcon speaking Omirah.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Thanks for calling, but I can't make it tonight. Angel.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Now I have a client who's getting a lot of
help from a boyfriend, and if I'm not careful, he's
going to help her right into the electric chair.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
This is Hurly he friends, inviting you to listen to
the Adventures of the Falcon. You met the Falcon first
in his best selling novels, then you saw him in
his thrilling motion picture series. Now join him on the
air when the falconsuls the Case of the Broken Fingerprints.
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Now the Case of the Broken Fingerprints. It's Wednesday night
in New York and the apartment of Barry Barrow in
the East sixties is in darkness.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Ethel Barrow sits in the darkened apartment, drumming on the
arm of her chair with her fingernails. Now she reaches
out to the table beside her and fumbles about on
it for a cigarette lighter. She finds the lighter, lights
it and uses its light to show her the time
on her wristwatch.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
But when she hears voices.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Outside the apartment, she flicks out the light quickly and
stands up facing the door.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
A key turns in the lock.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
The front door opens, the light is turned on, and
a man and woman entered the apartment.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Well, darling, we'll just have it. Ethel, Hello, Barry, Oh,
well when did you?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I decided not to go away after all, I thought
things might be more interesting around here.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Well, aren't you going to introduce me to your friend? Yes, Barry,
how about it? Who is this?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Actually, perabside better since he's having so much trouble. I'm
his wife, Ethel Barrow and your normal Wallace. You live
at three twenty one Pierce Place, you work at Corby's
department store, and you've known Berry for three months. I
know all about you, miss Wallace, though I can't say
I'm pleased to meet you.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Barry, you never told me I was kind of when
when you got tired of me or me?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
What can I say?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
If we give you a couple of minutes to get
over the shock, Darling, I'm sure you'll think of plenty
to say.
Speaker 7 (02:30):
But it's what you do that interests me.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
What do you expect me to do?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
I expect you to act like a here you always have.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You want a divorce, settle, I'm not so sure.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I want to make things that easy? Do you want
a divorce? Berry?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I know what I want.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
I know what you want? You want an easy out?
This is one of those times when three is a crowd.
Somebody has to be eliminated. The only question is who
is it to be?
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yes? What can I do? Oh? Ted? What are you
doing here?
Speaker 8 (03:09):
I'm just shopping. I have like a five pound box
of chocolate. Send it to normal Wallace three twenty one Pierce.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Place with all my love, Ted, Please, I'm taking you
to lunch.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
You won't believe it's all over between you and me.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
Just because of Barrel. Oh he's got money, but I've
got charm. Besides, I'm serious. So's he won a bit?
Speaker 5 (03:27):
He asked me to marry him.
Speaker 8 (03:28):
You're not going to as soon as he gets his
divorce divorce. I didn't know he was married.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Neither did I. Nice guy he was going to tell
me was going to?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Does that meaning you found out for yourself?
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I met his wife?
Speaker 8 (03:40):
It gets better all the time. You picked a lulu.
Now look normal. No matter how things are between us,
you can't go on.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
With a guy like that.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
No lectures, Ted, I'm not a child, and.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Don't act like one. You've got to break this off.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
We're settling it tonight. He's coming up to my place.
We're going to make our plans.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Does his wife know?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
No?
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Normal, you'll let's not discuss it here all right at
lunch if.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
You insist, But I'm warning you you'll be wasting your time.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
I'll risk it if there's any chance I can keep
you from wasting your life.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
At Ted, can you come here right away? At home?
Speaker 1 (04:24):
What happened?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
It's awful. I should have listened to you.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (04:27):
I told you Barry was coming up here. Yes, when
I got home, he was already here.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well I found him on the floor.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
He's dead.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
Ted, come in, Yeah, there he is.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Did you touch anything?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
No, that's just the way I found him.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
How did he get in? Did he have a key?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
No? I don't know how he got in. Maybe the
door was open. Well, he doesn't have a key.
Speaker 8 (04:55):
No, I'm trying to help you. Don't believe me searching
all right, he doesn't have a key. And how we're
going to explain as being here?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (05:02):
I'll have to think of something. You can't afford any
holes in your story.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
But what can we say?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
You have to make up some explanation that'll hold water.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Maybe I'd better just call the police and tell the
whole truth as far as.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Who asked me to help you? Didn't you do it
my way?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
But he was here, that's the truth.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Why can't I just say I'll never believe it. I
don't believe it.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
It's the truth.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
There's no use repeating that. It's just no good. Let's see,
he was killed here, there's.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
No avoiding that.
Speaker 8 (05:27):
But the door being unlocked will never stand up. I
know what you can say, you were here when it happened.
You let him in, don't worry, But then i'd have
seen it, not necessarily. I'll drag him over here to
the door. Then I'll tell you what to say, and
then you'll call Michael Warring.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Michael Waerring.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Yeah, the fault. He's a private detective.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
But what do I want with him?
Speaker 6 (05:46):
He might find out something the police overlooked, and if
it's something we're trying to hide.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
The chance we'll have to take. And that's just the point.
If you were guilty, you wouldn't want to take that chance.
By hiring Wearing, you convince the police of your innoscence.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Well, I hope you know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Don't worry, darling, you and stake your life on it.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
I'd better be able to ted, because that's exactly what
I'm doing. When I found out he was married, I
didn't want to have anything to do with him. Do
(06:25):
you know how it is, mister Waring? He wouldn't take
no for an answer, found out where I lived and
came up to see.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Me, and you gave him the final brush, yes, And then.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
He went to the door, opened it, and then he
saw someone in the hall.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
They had a few words, and then there was a shot.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
What words I.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Don't remember exactly.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
He said something like, oh, it's you, and she said, yes, surprised,
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
I think that's what it was.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You say? She said, yes, it was a woman's But
you didn't see it.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
No, he was in the way. O.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Where were you right over here? That's funny.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
What is that he blocked your view of the doorway?
You say he dropped immediately when he was shot, and
you haven't touched anything, that's right. And to block your view,
he would have had to be standing in the doorway
and he fell forward because he's lying on his face,
so he should have fallen into the hall. Instead, he's
in the room into the side of the door so
that we can swing it open and close without hitting him.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Maybe he staggered back. I don't remember. I was too startled.
He must have. What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
What you should have done when it happened instead of
calling me? I'm calling the police.
Speaker 5 (07:39):
But you are going to help me.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I'll try to find out who the murder is if
you still want me to. But I'm not so sure
that comes under the heading of help. Are you.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Hello, Mike ahead? How's business? Oh? Hectic? And for you too? Yeah,
Sergeant Corbett has phoned three times for you this morning.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Thanks Ed. I told I was having lunch here. And
what did he want? Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I don't know, but he sounded sore. Well, now, what
can be troubling him? I called him in on the
case as soon as things broke yesterday. Well, all I
know is he keeps calling here and he sounds like
he has more than Hamburger and.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Coleslaw in his mind. Well maybe he has. Oh it's more.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Than I can say for your interview with Sergeant Corbett.
Hope here he comes. And if you think I was
kidding about.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
His being sore. Catch that look in his eye? All right?
Wearing Harishi? Where's who? Of course you don't know who
I'm talking about. I'm glad we agree on something.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
That girl, Norma Wallace, you're working for and you found
it out all by yourself.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
All right? What do you want to pat him the
head or a recommendation to the chief? I want to
know what's become of the girl? Well, I assume she's
done a vanishing act. You's soon. I questioned her last night,
went the up to her again today.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
And she stood you up. You better start reading the ads.
Jump you know where she is. Your confidence is touching.
But as a matter of fact, Covid, I haven't the
slightest idea. Are you're working for her?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So you said, so I ought to be the one
who's excited, not you. Seems I've lost a client. He
stop being funny. Well thanks for the compliment. Are you
going to talk gladly? What about?
Speaker 1 (09:19):
All right? Wearing? All right?
Speaker 8 (09:20):
But I'm going to prove you've been holding out? And
when I do, I.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Shudder to think of it. Can I sit down, Corvid?
I see they have brains on the menu today. Why
don't you try some Yes, hello you, missus Baron. Yes,
(09:44):
my name is Michael Wearing. I'm investigating your husband's murder.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Are you a detective?
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yes? That girl sent you? What you noma wats?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
What do you know about her enough enough to be jealous?
Speaker 7 (09:57):
That's what she'd like you to think, mister Wearing. She
wants you to believe that I killed Barry?
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Did?
Speaker 4 (10:03):
It takes three to make a triangle, and then there's Donahue?
Who Ted Donahue? He fits another triangle and I'm not
in that one. Oh so he was the Wallace girl's boyfriend.
He could have resented Barry's cutting him out?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yes, so he could. Oh, thank you, missus Barrow. I
knew you would help me.
Speaker 5 (10:22):
You're easy to satisfy.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Why I'm not striking you off my suspect list yet?
But right now I'm not looking for the murderer. I'm
looking for my clients.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yes, what do you want you? Ted Donahue? Yeah? Huh?
Who are you? Mike Wearing? May I come in? Why?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I want to talk to you? What about normal Wallace?
We can talk here, yes, but it will be more
comfortable inside.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
What do you want to know? Where she is? What
makes you think i'd know. Why are you trying to
keep me out for one thing? You think she's here?
I'm beginning to all right, come on in, look for yourself. Thanks,
that's better. I haven't seen Norman in weeks? Why not
you get the air?
Speaker 8 (11:09):
No, it's just that I never knew Norma very well,
that's not what she says.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
What do you mean she didn't tell you anything about me?
How do you know if you haven't seen her? There's
nothing to say. Okay.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
If Norma isn't your girl, who is? I don't have
a girl, then who's the girl who was up here.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
A little while ago? What girl? They want to left?
The lipstick on that glass? Or just a friend? Oh? Well,
do you mind if I take this glass? What do
you want with it? I'm looking for Norma. I think
you're a lead.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
But in case Corbett needs convincing it maybe the princes
on this glass, it will change his mind for him.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Put that down, because by it doesn't like it? I said,
put it down.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Hey, watch out me that glass.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
You shouldnt knocked it out of my hand. Now it's broken.
Isn't that a shame? I go? Your fingerprints not mine? Norma.
You can't prove that.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Looks like you've already done it for me. Are you
going to tell me where I can? I don't know
where she is, and I get out of here. Okay,
But when you see Norma, tell her I'm not going
to see her so I know.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
But when you do, tell her that if she wants
me to help her, she.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Better call me. Hello, Norma, listen quick. Right after you left,
Mike Wearing was here.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
He was How did he know about you?
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Oh? I suppose he's not a detective for nothing?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Ted, I'm afraid my running away was a mistake.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It was no use taking chances. But I've got to
talk to you all.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I wish I meet you.
Speaker 8 (12:33):
Well, you can't come here, and I've got to be careful.
I'm not followed whoring. They think I'll lead him to you.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Go to Penn Station and keep yourself lost in the crowd.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
At three thirty by the station clock, go upstairs on
the seventh Avenue side.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
You know what a big columns are? Yes, At exactly
three point thirty, walk out to the curb. I'll drive
by and pick you up.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
All right, I'll make sure I'm not being followed but
if anything goes wrong, you just wait two minutes. If
I haven't come in that time, get away from there fast,
then call me from a phone booth.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
All right, Ted, But I wonder if it wouldn't be better,
If it'll be.
Speaker 9 (13:03):
Better if you do just like I tell you. I'll
see you at three thirty.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
All right now, I'm a quick Yes, Ted, three thirty
on the nose.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
I don't like this hide and seek, Ted, it's going
to mean trouble.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Will you leave things to me?
Speaker 5 (13:24):
But how'll I explain it?
Speaker 8 (13:26):
You won't have to you? And I know that missus
Barrow killed a husband and the police are bound to
find it out. Once they do, it won't matter what
you've done.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
And why is it necessary for me to run away?
Speaker 8 (13:35):
I told you they can't prove anything against you, But
until they have a case against missus Barrow, they may
suspect you.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
They could lock you up and make things pretty unpleasant.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Well, this isn't exactly my idea pleasant for me. There
was some way to speed things up.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Maybe there is. That's why I wanted to see you.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
You think there's something we can do, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
But first you'll have to get rid.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
Of wearing But you wanted me to hire it, I know,
but he's getting in a way and for what I
haven't mind. Oh, what's the matter? Police car? I think
it's following us. I thought you said no I did.
I was positive nobody followed me. I can't understand it.
Speaker 5 (14:09):
Maybe they're just cruising this way.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I'll turn this corner and see.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
All right? If we are following, what do we do?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Try to shake them?
Speaker 5 (14:17):
Hate to get you involved.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I'm glad I have a chance to help. Here they
come and here I go.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
I'm afraid this isn't such a good idea.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
What else can we do?
Speaker 5 (14:24):
I don't know, but trying not run a police.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Car on corner coming?
Speaker 5 (14:27):
All right? If they catches, it's going to be in
trouble for you too.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
I know they're gaining and look.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
At that traffics against us. We'll never get through. And
this is it? Sorry you couldn't all right, buddy? What
a hurry? Fine?
Speaker 10 (14:43):
Did you see that red light back then?
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Red light? Yeah?
Speaker 10 (14:46):
When I try to call you on it, just stop
playing tag? You want me for going through a red light?
You're hitting sixty and set traffic. Girlfriend thinks it's funny, officer.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
She has a schooling sense of he'll here's my license. Hello?
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Hello, is that mister Wearing?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yes, this sounds like my disappearing client.
Speaker 5 (15:24):
Oh, ex client, mister Wearing. That's why I'm calling you.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Picked a great time to fire me.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
I don't think I need you anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
And Sergeant Corbett catches up with you, You'll think differently.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Does he really think I killed Berry?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
You lied, you ran out?
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Would expect him to think, but I hired you. Yes,
and now you're firing me. Your hands look about as
clean as some of the Key Father witnesses.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
But it was missus Barrow who killed Berry.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
You know that. Corbett doesn't. He's satisfied with her alibi.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Oh she has an alibi?
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, she has, So you better come clean, Angel I
have I didn't do it. But then why this's weird routine.
I have my reasons and I better be good ones.
You're on a spot, baby.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yes, I'm afraid I am.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And I'm still willing to listen if you want to
forget about firing me, provided of course, that you have
something to say.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I have, I go ahead.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
Well, it's just the Ted, and I thought it was Ted,
a friend of mine. I called him when I discovered
the body.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Oh before you call me, Before.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
I did anything, I decided I had to have help,
and luckily he was home.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Wonder if it was so lucky? Why do you say
that his help didn't turn out so good?
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Well, it was his idea that I hire you.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Was it also his idea that you fire me? Yes?
He seems to have a lot of ideas. Look where
are you? I think we better get.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Together at the Borough's Hotel in forty third, room four
h five.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Okay, sit tight, I'll be right over all right, goodbye?
Is that the way you fire a Mama? Ted?
Speaker 5 (16:50):
I didn't know you were still here.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Looks like it's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
I am, yes, Ted. The only question is good for whom?
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Now back to the adventures of the Falcon.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Ten minutes have past since Mike Wearing talked himself off
the unemployment line.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Ted had objections, but he seems to have.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Been overruled, because when Norma opens the door for the Falcon,
Ted is nowhere in sight.
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Hello, mister Wearing, come in.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Thanks, what's the matter with you? You look frightened?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Frightened, No, just bewildered. Not what you said? Missus Barrow has.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
An alibi According to Corbett, I don't understand it. Why not?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
I told you Berry went to the door and I
heard him talking to someone just before he was shot. Yeah,
I said it was a woman's voice. I'm almost certain
it was missus Barrow's.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Oh why didn't you said that before?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
I didn't like to accuse her without being sure.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
What made you change your mind?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
I haven't. I just want you to check. Couldn't there
be something wrong with her alibi?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
There could be, but not as wrong as with your story.
What do you mean you're lying again?
Speaker 5 (18:07):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
You didn't hear Barrow talking to anybody?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
What makes you say that?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
When you spoke to.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Me on the phone, you use the phrase when I
found the body. If Barrow had been killed in front
of you, you wouldn't have talked about finding the body. You
wouldn't have had to find it would have.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Been right there.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I meant when I found he was dead.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Well, that's not what you said. You misunderstood me, Yes,
and apparently I still do. I suppose we go see
his sergeant Corpet and get this straightened out. No, Look,
you can't keep running.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
I can try, and in case you have any idea
of trying to stop me. This gun should change your mind.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's changed, but not as often as you change yours. Goodbye, Norman,
Oh Angel, if you changed your mind again, and look,
(18:59):
before we go any further, I'm taking the gun just
in case you decide to make another switch.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Here it is.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
It's not loaded now. She tells me, I'm sorry about
what happened. I couldn't help myself.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Oh, I can't help yourself either, unless you start telling
the truth. For James, I will, okay, at least that'll
be a novelty.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
I didn't see the shooting. I didn't hear any voices
Missus Barrows or anyone else's. I just said I did
because Ted told me it was on better that way.
Ted told me what to say. He told me to
run away.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
You have to take orders from him.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
I thought he was trying to help me, some help.
I was fighting. I had to turn to someone I
trusted Ted. Then he told me to fire you. I tried,
but you talked me.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Out of it.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
But somebody talked to you out of that.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Yes, Ted overheard my conversation with you. He was furious.
He made me say what I did to you when
you got up there. He was hiding in the.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
Next room, and if you were disobeyed, he had a
gun and his was loaded.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Does he know you came here?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
If he finds out, he won't find out. Where is
he now?
Speaker 5 (19:55):
He went home? Thinks I went home?
Speaker 1 (19:58):
How come he trusted you? He said?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
If I didn't do exactly what he told me, he'd
prove that I killed Barry. But I know he can't.
So if you'll help me out.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Right, all right, I will. I'll call him, tell him
you've got to talk to him, ask him to come
right over. It'll take them twenty minutes to get to
your place by the time we can be there too.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
But what are we going to do?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Well, first, I'll have to have all the facts.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
So for change, let's have exactly what did happen today
from the beginning?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
All right.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
I let myself into the apartment and there was Barry
on the floor, blood still running out of that hole
in his head.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
It was awful. Who's that?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
I don't know?
Speaker 5 (20:33):
What if it's ted? What if he didn't go home,
if he followed?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
All right, all right, I'll handle it.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
Can I get out the back now?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Just sit tired? If it is Ted. Now's a chance
to wrap this up, and I can't do it without you.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yeah, I'm coming. You'll be all right. Just leave it
to me if you say so, I do. Oh, Sergeant Corbett,
this is a surprise.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
Oh I see you didn't know where the girl was.
Did you worry you couldn't help me find it?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Oh? No, that's right, Corbett.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
Sure we'll miss Wallace, says Wearing. Finished coaching you on
what to say.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I didn't have to, Corvitt. She had lessons from an expert. Huh. Yeah,
she called him in as soon as you found the body.
He told her what to say and do.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Who's this we're talking about? Ted Donahue? And he told
her to run out on me. Yep, I'd like to
talk to this Donahue. Well, I can be arranged.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
Butt.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
First, I'd like to hear the medical examiners report.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Now, what's to hear?
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Bullet in the brain, died instantly, thirty two caliber. Okay,
that's enough, all right, Wearing, do we see Donahue?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
If you like?
Speaker 2 (21:27):
I like, But don't get the idea that because I'm
willing to listen, you're steering me off. Your girlfriend here sergeant,
and it's for you worrying. I'm going to prove you
knew where she was. I think whatever you want about me, Corbett.
But you can't think that Norman did the shooting?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Oh can? I? Of course not? Why not? Because she did?
What's that sure? Normal? You killed Barry?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
So with COVID's habit of always being wrong, he can't
possibly think it was you. Coffee Dan's head? Please, I
miss dessert before? Well, Mike, we've got the modive.
Speaker 8 (22:06):
When it came to a showdown, Barrow decided to stick
with his wife, so Norma plugged him.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Keep it up, Corvid, You're doing fine? Wants to keep up?
That's it? Well, not entirely.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
How about the clue that gave her away? She must
have said something to you, But don't you want to
know what it was?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
All right? Wearing?
Speaker 8 (22:24):
If you've got to strutch your stuff, go ahead. How
did you happen to stumble onto this one?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Stumble? He is it? No?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
What do you want me to do? Beat my head
on the floor in appreciation? That's an idea?
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Well, if you want to tell me how bright you are,
go ahead. I'm listening, but get it over with.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Well, Norma played her along with Ted Donahue in order
to have a four guy in reserve, and he was
crazy enough about it to try to keep out of
trouble anyway. When it turned out that missus Barrow had
an alibi that satisfied the police, normah decided to make
use of Ted. Only she went a little too far,
how so, and if she just left it at the
things he actually did, she might have been all right.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
But you tried to tell me he pulled a gun
on her her.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
He only would have done that if you were actually
the killer. Well, that's what she was trying to prove. Yes,
But since he couldn't be the killer, gave her away,
couldn't Why not? But who said Barrow was killed instantly?
And Norman admits that when she found him he was
still bleeding. A bleeding stops a few minutes after a
person dies. Well, so why couldn't she have found him
in the first few minutes? Because she told me that
as soon as she found the botle she called Donna,
who at his home. Of Donna, who lives at least
(23:23):
twenty minutes away from normal. If he was home, he
just couldn't have been at Norma's oh huh, well, wearing
nice try try solved the case. Yeah, but you were
trying to show me how bright you are. I can't
say that I'm impressed. After all, you pulled quite a boner.
What you pin the murder on the girl? And she
happens to be a dainty dish? But who wants to
(23:46):
go dating at sing Sing? Well, you got a point there,
called it that you're overlooking one thing.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
What's that missus Barrow?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Now she's going to be lonely a few months from now,
she's going to want someone to cheer her up, to
whine her dinah do the town And speaking of dishes, Corbett,
that's mine
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