December 23, 2024 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Quiet, please, Quiet please.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Today is stories written and directed by Willis Cooper and
featuring Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Is called in Quest. My name is William Ross, and
I want to know why I'm here, my dear mister Ross.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
In all cases of violent death, this is customary for
an inquest to be had.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Surely you know that, don't you?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Who are those people?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
The jury is low and if you're wondering.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Now, maybe wait a minute. I want to know what
these people are wearing those funny.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Clothes for they're looking more like a masquerade than a
corner's jury.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
You are referring to the gentleman in church.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Him and the others two?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Who is he?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Will you identify yourself and listen? Row please? My name
is Duncan.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What's the idea that got out there?
Speaker 7 (01:40):
I'm at These are my usual garments.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Thank you, sir. You may be seated again.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's a funny. We're at a corner's inquest.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Your garments may be quite as unusual as some of
the members of the jury.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And there's I'm look pretty funny.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Then that is a matter of us. Shall we begin?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I want cancle that will not be necessary, that this
is not a course of law, but.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
An inquiring body concon it is to determine.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
The cause of the death, find it was justifiable homicide. Brother,
I'm telling you, we shall see.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
You were on bad terms with your sister and your
brother in law.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
They were on bad terms with me. I see.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
This is a state of affairs that has existed for
some time.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Long enough, how long since before she married him?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
And they were married just.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
A few months.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
They've been married, just a few months when this thing happened,
when the nerves at.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
We call things by their right name.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Here. You haven't proved anything yet. We shall find it
with self defense. All in good time, you'll see. Go ahead,
go ahead, that's the question. Very well, you will tell
the truth, the whole, nothing but the truth. Yeah, I know,
I know.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Sure, I regret that it is impassive for us to
call your and your god in law.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
So we shall have to depend upon your testimony.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Continue.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Sure, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Perhaps you can tell the jury is something about the
courses behind this skilled feeling between you and the systems.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I certainly can't.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Well, it's very simple. I think it was born a
nineteen night, two years before me. There were just the
two of us.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I understand your parents were wealth in this.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Yes, they were. That's part of it too. Go On,
I haven't gone any money.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
But what's he laughing at.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
None of the people who come here to testify ever
have any money, mister Ross, for one reason or another.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That's not funny.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I agree with you in this.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Kindly retrain from unseening loft.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Go on, swer, Well, our parents were ground in the
wreck of the vest with when was that nineteen twenty seven, Yeah,
that's right, twenty eight. They left everything to us, quite
a lot of money. Yeah, but there was a catch
to it.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Addressed the jury in this.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
What Oh, well, I said there was a catch in it.
We weren't to get all the money right away. We
were both under rage.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
You see.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Ileen was twenty and I was eighteen. He got all right,
all right, we.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Got we got five thousand a year at first, and
we were to get the rest of our shares when
we came of age.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
That was a considerable amount of it.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Was so I was supposed to wait three years. Aleen
got hurt the next year, in nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I had to wait.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Did you wait?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yes, well I waited, Tolileen got her share. I mean
that dweller was our money. Wasn't fair for Eileen to
have that much and may not have a cent?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Was it?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
We're not here to judge such things.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
This is a coun Well, you see what I mean?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Go understand?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So I saw people making money that your hand over fist.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
All you needed to make money was the money to
start with, and I didn't have any.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
What about us?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I lost that, gentlemen, Well, I borrowed money from her.
I mean I didn't borrow it either. I showed her
how I could make a lot more money for by.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Just investing her money.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I told her, if I had my money, I put
it into investments and double it, a triple it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And she just smiled at me. She had the aggravating
smile I've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
No matter what I'd say, she'd shake her head and
smile at it.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Was that when you to name the.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Judge, she.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, I signed her name to a bank craft.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I was doing her a favor.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
I was going to make a lot of money for her,
and I was going to have my money in another
couple of years.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
There isn't anything wrong with that.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
After all, we were brother and sister, and it wasn't
my fault the market crash.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Of course it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And just for the record, how much did you did
she lose all her money?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Well, not all of it right away? There was about
sixty five dollars on the back, you see, but when the.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Market started the slip there was margin that we had
to get up your seat. I explained to her, in
words of one syllable, how we didn't put a margin
lose everything we'd invested.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
That's where the rest of it was.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Of course, you couldn't put up your own Oh could I?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It was tied up in government bonds and things like
that for another year.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I couldn't touch it.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I explained that.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
To her, and she was still unreadable.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, I should say she was.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Saw name.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Out of her house. She changed her tone when I
pointed out she didn't have a house to drown me
out of, though, Oh, brother?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Or the fall?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Was that a battle?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
That was when she when her arm was?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
How did I know she was going to fall down?
Speaker 8 (07:46):
I don't get rid of the push pushed her away
from me.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It's too bad that her arm was certainly was.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
But is that my fault?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
I offered, not once, but a dozen times, to take
her to a doctor and have the arm rebroken and
set again.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Could have been done very easy, just rebreak it and
set it again.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
But what did she do? Tell us, mister, you received
your share of the escape arm?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Oh sure, sure? And you want to know something else.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Just as soon as I got hold of my money,
I didn't reimburse.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
I did better than that. I took her in to
live with me, have my new house. I didn't charge
her at set.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
He didn't have any money to tell you.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
No, But I let her be a kind of you know,
a house teaper your see.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I thought it would make her feel better at co
you know, sort of earned her keeth I have. And
she had money whenever she wanted it. Brother, She never
had asked me for a dime.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Every week when I give her the house money, there
was always.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Something else for her five, five, ten, twenty dollars. Sometimes
she had no take from him.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well, then, I take it you feel she had no
real reason to harbor a grudge against you.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Why don't you why she should? But she did, I mean,
but I take that back.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I guess she did have an excuse for the drugs.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, I guess she did. You know about I think
the guy she married, oh that I.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Didn't like him to miss Scott, so naturally you did
your best to prevent their man.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Well, I was just thinking of her name.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Why I'm the current member of the rest.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I remember, this is an anything.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
If you must have a name, I can't just call
your corner. Can I have you got a name?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Yes, I have a name.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
We'll get to that in the meantime. The jury is
waiting to hear the rest of your testimony.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Oh yeah, jury.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I thought they were only supposed to be six people
on a corner jury. More than six people over there?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Oh yes, corner.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
What's the idea of all that? It's all for funny to.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Me, I assure you with anything, But I'm sure this is.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
A corner jury, not some gag you're rigging up to
make me confess.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Confess, well, I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I mean you make me talk.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
You are talking. H h.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's like a convention of a lunatic asylum.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
That's Scotchman, Scots that fellaw.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
They're in the bathroom, but they have the carner.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
I never heard of people dressing up like that just
to be on a corner's jury.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
This is your first experience. It certainly is.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Well, then we can forgive you for being unfamiliar without
the secret.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Now sure we get on with.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Well this is on the up and up.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
I assure you it is. You said you objected to
your sisters.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I did what for her own good? Here she was
living in LUTs what.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
I'd call her luxury for somebody who didn't have a
cent to her name, mister corner.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
She had a good home for her own room with
a private bath. Even, she could use my car practically
whenever she wanted to.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
She had good clothes.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Where would she have been without me?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
I think I'll.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Tell you where she'd have been. She'd have been in some.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Charitable institution, and she'd have been stubbing floors or something
might have been.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Well, that's.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
And so this art that came along, and she falls.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
On such a guy with no more money than she had.
I told her flat me, I wouldn't take him into
my house.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
She be all right?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
How could she be all right? How would they live on?
Wanted me to give her money? Call me a thief,
he wouldn't. I wouldn't give her a cent.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
I gave her a home.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I took care of her i'd have got that crooked
arm of her sixed up?
Speaker 9 (12:15):
Why would that arm She couldn't even do.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
The housework decently, and then she has a.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Crust to want me to set her in. This arthur
of her is up in their own home. Support them?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Even where did that come from?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
This?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Did you know him before?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, he was in the army. I didn't know you
weren't in the army. No, I had a bad heart,
you know.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I bought plenty of war bonds though every week eighteen
dollars and seventy five cents, regular.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
As clockwork, descriver. He didn't buy war bond army.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Not that the army wasn't all right, but some of
the people I had in it.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Isn't there something about taking all kinds of people to
little world?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
As I suppose that's character?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah, I suppose it does. But I don't want any
part of that time.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
What was your objection to him?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Well, to begin with, he wanted to take my sister
away from me. That was enough to set them against.
Then he didn't have any jobs or any prospects, and
he didn't like me.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I can't understand that I wasn't going to have him
upset my way of living.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
After all, I've had Eileen there.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
With me for well, let's see, it was nearly fifteen years.
I was used to her.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Hadn't you ever had any idea of getting married?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I should say not?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Why should I?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
After all you had a house, you said.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Someone that was used to I understand it's a lady marriage.
Certainly would Well, now, mister, I have the background with Unfortunately,
how we.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Get down to details?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Though?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
If you're ready, already go ahead.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I have a question. I think we'd all rather have
you tell the story in your own world with that.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Well, hey, listen, yes, mister, I didn't see all those
other people before.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I thought an inquest was a private thing. I didn't
know you had an audience.
Speaker 10 (14:31):
Do I have to make a spectacle of myself in
front of all the.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
People with people people back there behind your jury and
the shadow back there?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
There's millions of far as I can see. Who were they?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Those people? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Who are they?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
The people listening to you around the vie radio?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Are we on the radio?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Didn't you know this all?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I certainly did know.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
That's that?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
And I never heard of a corners and quest like this.
You said, this is your yes, but.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
We're wasting time. So what am I to do if
we want to hear your son?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I'm not told to do not all come come somewhere
over here to this microphone. I won't do it.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Oh yes, but you will.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I'm not going to talk to all other people.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Yes, you are stand up, got my right. We are
very considerate of your life.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Now if you please.
Speaker 11 (15:46):
Where you want right here, you can speak into this
microphone so the audience will hear your kid.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I'm not going on to.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Now, so we would hear your story of that day.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
We should the time you this term and even have
music for you. Who's going to move?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I don't know what kind of monkey business?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
This is an inquest, simply an in quest that if
you are the principal wness.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
On your own great many people are listening.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Music to.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Go ahead. That's throw well.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
I well, I told Eileen I wouldn't let her.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Marry the doctor. After all, I've taken care of Violin
for all.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Those years, and I think it's well, I think it's
very unfair of her to want to walk out on
me after all I've done for her.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Got it go home?
Speaker 6 (17:14):
And you have to remember that she's a cripple with
that crooked iim of hers.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
What could she do? What kind of wife would she make?
And she's thirty nine years old, Now that's too old
to start in married life.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
And that feller he's nearly ten years younger.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Than she is.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Not only that, but how is he going to make
a living?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
For sure?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
He was a little tenant colonel in the airport.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
He's got a lot of metal.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
He's a Japanese prisoner and all that. A lieutenant colner
of the reddim a dozen. Now he's got no money,
there's no prospects. He probably thinks Iileen's got money. He
thinks he's going to get some of that. Well, Aileen,
you know, hasn't got any money. It's my money and
she isn't going to get a.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Cent of it all unless I die before.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
Day small, So get out after I said, get out
and stay out and I then you'll see that he
stays out of my house.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
That's what I said, And I met it, well, he went,
Aileen is always proud.
Speaker 12 (18:28):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
What's that noise?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
That's a sound effect.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Perhaps you listen to.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Sounds like Eileen cried, listen.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
I won't give you up as I won't.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I won't, and the Eileen he said that the sound effect.
Speaker 12 (18:50):
Listen, Henry, he's got to help it, darling. If you
(19:11):
won't let me have some of the money he stole
from me, hope, can we? I think?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Did you recognize?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I don't know how you did that.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
You did recognize, certainly I did.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That was three weeks ago. That was the day that well,
that was the day I really went into action. You remember,
I came into the room. Eileen was sitting with her
back to me. She didn't see me. Arthur was facing me. Ilen.
Didn't hear me come in the room, And of course
he couldn't see me.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
And perhaps you better explain to our radio audience why
Arthur doesn't.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
See you, mister? If he was picking it, I sure didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I say he was blind. I walked right up to
him before he saw him hate me, I said, and
she jumped up in front of me. I'll show you,
I said, and I reached out for him. He got
to his feet and he was turning his head looking
for me, but he couldn't see me. I grabbed him
at the collar. I'll show you, I said, and she
leaked at me.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
See those marks on my face, her fingernails, and she
kept screaming and got an arm around her, and he tried.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
To pull her away, and he struggled, and I started
pushing him toward the door, and she grabbed up the heavy.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Ass ray and struck at me with it, and you
grabbed her arm.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I couldn't help it. If it was a bad arm,
could I.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Quest? And of course Arthur couldn't see it.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
How could He was making passes in the air trying
to find me and you and threw him up.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Next time, I'll kill you, I said.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
He shouldn't have said. I know it could be used
against you.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Well, I had to protect myself. Well, all right, I
figured i'd fixed that. I got the doctor for Eileen, who.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Wasn't hurt Dad.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
He just painted when he got crystal, And she wouldn't
speak to me, stayed in her room.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
That house was an inch deep in dust, dishes weren't washed,
no groceries.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Wouldn't come out of her room.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I was pretty sore. I've got a violent temper, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I don't rude about things.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
I do something about them. And I let her stay
in that room, and then finally I got tired of it.
I went upstairs on the morning with blood in my eye.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I hammered on her door.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
I said, over up that door, I leen.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I wasn't an answer.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I hammered, come on. She still didn't answer, and I said.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
I lean open up that door.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I'll break it down.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
I said, I'll take the cost of fixing it out
of your allowance too.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It still wasn't any answer. So I got back and
I slap my shoulder against it. And the second time.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
That broke, and I fell into the room and she
wasn't there. That's right. He wasn't there. But the notes worked,
and that's right, the note.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
He'd skipped out of me. She'd married that author, that
blind man. I thought i'd die right then and there.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
You didn't know, but I thought I was going to
when I found she got into my safe, I'd forgotten
she knew the combination?
Speaker 9 (22:31):
How much was fifteen thousand dollars and founds she stole it?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
How much did you get from her? That other time?
That was different?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
This was ceiling I see well.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
I founded High Level for a hired detectives and they
caught Fody too.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I didn't find her. I thought they'd be easy to
find a blind man and a woman with a crooked
arm that they weren't. I used to lie awake nights
thinking of what I do to them when I found them.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
They're making some very damaging statements.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
I am.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
So what you'll see whether it would justify all homicide
or what. Well, they came back.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I was all alone.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
They knew i'd be alone.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Was that the day's room?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, that's right. They came in. Aileen still had her keys.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
I didn't know they were there till she's poked in
the doorway to the living room, and he was with
hers standing grinning behind her in the hall, grinning.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Thought it me and his new brother in law. The
face had turned in the wrong direction.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Fly then give me the crease.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
She came in the room and she put out her
hands to me, and she smiled.
Speaker 12 (23:46):
Aren't you going to congratulate this?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
And my head began to swim.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Light in the room seemed to turn red, and I
staged as I got up out of the chair, and
then she backed away from me, and I heard him
talking gently.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
The room began hurling around.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
Faster, and I tried to sleep, but I just got well,
I got kind of mumbled and I lean, yelled, and
I reached for that fool off his throat.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Yes, I did listen to me.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
As I reached for his throat, I saw I lean out.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Of the corner of my eye, and she was picking
up an old fashioned dirk that was on the coffee
table and used to belong to my grandfather.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
We'll use it for a paper night.
Speaker 9 (24:19):
She was running at me, and I was trying to
hold out her after and she said to me, and
I couldn't let go of him because he was struggling.
She cut my hand, didn't I tell you what's up?
Speaker 12 (24:26):
The fancy?
Speaker 10 (24:26):
And she kept stiking at me, and I grabbed the
dirt out of her hand and fought. It was kicking me,
and I got the dirt and I heard on the
scream and there was a great rid flash in my mind.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And that's all. So that's the story, mister Corner.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Next thing I remember is sitting in that chair over there,
your jury and your radio audience staring at me. So
let's sell your verdict.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
So I'm let's hear it from your masquerade party jury.
Speaker 11 (25:08):
What very well, mister Row, your majesty, majesty, what's this
king duncan of Scotland is foreman.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Of our You will please to remember.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Duncan of Scotland was fouling via Sean macbeth the means
a long.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Years ago, yes, mister Ross.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
And the gentleman in what you turned the bath roll
died at the hand of a friend named.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Brutus, and a gentleman in the red Cap done to
death by a slip of a girl named Charlotte Corday
in seventeen hundred and ninety four.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Why are you talking about you?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yes, mister Ross, these gentlemen are your here all at
one time?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Or not that kind of a masquerade?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I assure you this is no master rate. Just one thing.
Your sister and your brother in law did not die.
Then what's all this about, your majesty?
Speaker 7 (26:19):
The verdict if you please, guilty of mother let's according
a murder.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
But you said they didn't die.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
No, mister n they didn't. That you did. Will have remember?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
And now I think you are my.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
School.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
You have listened to in Quest applied to your story,
written and directed by Willis Cooper.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
The man who spoke to you was Ernest Chappell, and.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
James bend Like played the corner King Malcolm with patrol.
Mally Yleen was played by Sylvia Cole and Arthur.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
With John Morley musicist Them Bolson played by Jeane Carazo.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Not after to worry about next week's Quiet police scory.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Here is our writer, Director Willis Cooper. Next week's story
is the adventure of a writer and the characters that
the it's called bring me to life.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
And so until next week time Quiet for yours, Ernest couple.
This program came to you from New York.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
This is the mutual broadcasting the system
Quiet, please, Quiet please.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Today is stories written and directed by Willis Cooper and
featuring Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Is called in Quest. My name is William Ross, and
I want to know why I'm here, my dear mister Ross.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
In all cases of violent death, this is customary for
an inquest to be had.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Surely you know that, don't you?
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Who are those people?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
The jury is low and if you're wondering.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Now, maybe wait a minute. I want to know what
these people are wearing those funny.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Clothes for they're looking more like a masquerade than a
corner's jury.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
You are referring to the gentleman in church.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Him and the others two?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Who is he?
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Will you identify yourself and listen? Row please? My name
is Duncan.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What's the idea that got out there?
Speaker 7 (01:40):
I'm at These are my usual garments.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Thank you, sir. You may be seated again.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
It's a funny. We're at a corner's inquest.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Your garments may be quite as unusual as some of
the members of the jury.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And there's I'm look pretty funny.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Then that is a matter of us. Shall we begin?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I want cancle that will not be necessary, that this
is not a course of law, but.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
An inquiring body concon it is to determine.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
The cause of the death, find it was justifiable homicide. Brother,
I'm telling you, we shall see.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
You were on bad terms with your sister and your
brother in law.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
They were on bad terms with me. I see.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
This is a state of affairs that has existed for
some time.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Long enough, how long since before she married him?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
And they were married just.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
A few months.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
They've been married, just a few months when this thing happened,
when the nerves at.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
We call things by their right name.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Here. You haven't proved anything yet. We shall find it
with self defense. All in good time, you'll see. Go ahead,
go ahead, that's the question. Very well, you will tell
the truth, the whole, nothing but the truth. Yeah, I know,
I know.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Sure, I regret that it is impassive for us to
call your and your god in law.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
So we shall have to depend upon your testimony.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Continue.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Sure, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Perhaps you can tell the jury is something about the
courses behind this skilled feeling between you and the systems.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I certainly can't.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Well, it's very simple. I think it was born a
nineteen night, two years before me. There were just the
two of us.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I understand your parents were wealth in this.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Yes, they were. That's part of it too. Go On,
I haven't gone any money.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
But what's he laughing at.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
None of the people who come here to testify ever
have any money, mister Ross, for one reason or another.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That's not funny.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I agree with you in this.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
Kindly retrain from unseening loft.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Go on, swer, Well, our parents were ground in the
wreck of the vest with when was that nineteen twenty seven, Yeah,
that's right, twenty eight. They left everything to us, quite
a lot of money. Yeah, but there was a catch
to it.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Addressed the jury in this.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
What Oh, well, I said there was a catch in it.
We weren't to get all the money right away. We
were both under rage.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
You see.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Ileen was twenty and I was eighteen. He got all right,
all right, we.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
Got we got five thousand a year at first, and
we were to get the rest of our shares when
we came of age.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
That was a considerable amount of it.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Was so I was supposed to wait three years. Aleen
got hurt the next year, in nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I had to wait.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Did you wait?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yes, well I waited, Tolileen got her share. I mean
that dweller was our money. Wasn't fair for Eileen to
have that much and may not have a cent?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Was it?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
We're not here to judge such things.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
This is a coun Well, you see what I mean?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Go understand?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
So I saw people making money that your hand over fist.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
All you needed to make money was the money to
start with, and I didn't have any.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
What about us?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I lost that, gentlemen, Well, I borrowed money from her.
I mean I didn't borrow it either. I showed her
how I could make a lot more money for by.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Just investing her money.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
I told her, if I had my money, I put
it into investments and double it, a triple it.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
And she just smiled at me. She had the aggravating
smile I've ever seen.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
No matter what I'd say, she'd shake her head and
smile at it.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Was that when you to name the.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Judge, she.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Well, I signed her name to a bank craft.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I was doing her a favor.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
I was going to make a lot of money for her,
and I was going to have my money in another
couple of years.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
There isn't anything wrong with that.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
After all, we were brother and sister, and it wasn't
my fault the market crash.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Was it?
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Of course it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
And just for the record, how much did you did
she lose all her money?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Well, not all of it right away? There was about
sixty five dollars on the back, you see, but when the.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
Market started the slip there was margin that we had
to get up your seat. I explained to her, in
words of one syllable, how we didn't put a margin
lose everything we'd invested.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
That's where the rest of it was.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Of course, you couldn't put up your own Oh could I?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
It was tied up in government bonds and things like
that for another year.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
I couldn't touch it.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I explained that.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
To her, and she was still unreadable.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, I should say she was.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Saw name.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Out of her house. She changed her tone when I
pointed out she didn't have a house to drown me
out of, though, Oh, brother?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Or the fall?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Was that a battle?
Speaker 5 (07:40):
That was when she when her arm was?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
How did I know she was going to fall down?
Speaker 8 (07:46):
I don't get rid of the push pushed her away
from me.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It's too bad that her arm was certainly was.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
But is that my fault?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
I offered, not once, but a dozen times, to take
her to a doctor and have the arm rebroken and
set again.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Could have been done very easy, just rebreak it and
set it again.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
But what did she do? Tell us, mister, you received
your share of the escape arm?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Oh sure, sure? And you want to know something else.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Just as soon as I got hold of my money,
I didn't reimburse.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
I did better than that. I took her in to
live with me, have my new house. I didn't charge
her at set.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
He didn't have any money to tell you.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
No, But I let her be a kind of you know,
a house teaper your see.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
I thought it would make her feel better at co
you know, sort of earned her keeth I have. And
she had money whenever she wanted it. Brother, She never
had asked me for a dime.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Every week when I give her the house money, there
was always.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Something else for her five, five, ten, twenty dollars. Sometimes
she had no take from him.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well, then, I take it you feel she had no
real reason to harbor a grudge against you.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Why don't you why she should? But she did, I mean,
but I take that back.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I guess she did have an excuse for the drugs.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, I guess she did. You know about I think
the guy she married, oh that I.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Didn't like him to miss Scott, so naturally you did
your best to prevent their man.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Well, I was just thinking of her name.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Why I'm the current member of the rest.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
I remember, this is an anything.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
If you must have a name, I can't just call
your corner. Can I have you got a name?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Yes, I have a name.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
We'll get to that in the meantime. The jury is
waiting to hear the rest of your testimony.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Oh yeah, jury.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
I thought they were only supposed to be six people
on a corner jury. More than six people over there?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Oh yes, corner.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
What's the idea of all that? It's all for funny to.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Me, I assure you with anything, But I'm sure this is.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
A corner jury, not some gag you're rigging up to
make me confess.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Confess, well, I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I mean you make me talk.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
You are talking. H h.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It's like a convention of a lunatic asylum.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
That's Scotchman, Scots that fellaw.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
They're in the bathroom, but they have the carner.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
I never heard of people dressing up like that just
to be on a corner's jury.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
This is your first experience. It certainly is.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Well, then we can forgive you for being unfamiliar without
the secret.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Now sure we get on with.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Well this is on the up and up.
Speaker 5 (11:05):
I assure you it is. You said you objected to
your sisters.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
I did what for her own good? Here she was
living in LUTs what.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
I'd call her luxury for somebody who didn't have a
cent to her name, mister corner.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
She had a good home for her own room with
a private bath. Even, she could use my car practically
whenever she wanted to.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
She had good clothes.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Where would she have been without me?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
I think I'll.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Tell you where she'd have been. She'd have been in some.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Charitable institution, and she'd have been stubbing floors or something
might have been.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
Well, that's.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
And so this art that came along, and she falls.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
On such a guy with no more money than she had.
I told her flat me, I wouldn't take him into
my house.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
She be all right?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
How could she be all right? How would they live on?
Wanted me to give her money? Call me a thief,
he wouldn't. I wouldn't give her a cent.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
I gave her a home.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I took care of her i'd have got that crooked
arm of her sixed up?
Speaker 9 (12:15):
Why would that arm She couldn't even do.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
The housework decently, and then she has a.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Crust to want me to set her in. This arthur
of her is up in their own home. Support them?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Even where did that come from?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
This?
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Did you know him before?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yeah, he was in the army. I didn't know you
weren't in the army. No, I had a bad heart,
you know.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
I bought plenty of war bonds though every week eighteen
dollars and seventy five cents, regular.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
As clockwork, descriver. He didn't buy war bond army.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Not that the army wasn't all right, but some of
the people I had in it.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Isn't there something about taking all kinds of people to
little world?
Speaker 5 (13:00):
As I suppose that's character?
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah, I suppose it does. But I don't want any
part of that time.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
What was your objection to him?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
Well, to begin with, he wanted to take my sister
away from me. That was enough to set them against.
Then he didn't have any jobs or any prospects, and
he didn't like me.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
I can't understand that I wasn't going to have him
upset my way of living.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
After all, I've had Eileen there.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
With me for well, let's see, it was nearly fifteen years.
I was used to her.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
Hadn't you ever had any idea of getting married?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I should say not?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Why should I?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
After all you had a house, you said.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Someone that was used to I understand it's a lady marriage.
Certainly would Well, now, mister, I have the background with Unfortunately,
how we.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Get down to details?
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Though?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
If you're ready, already go ahead.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I have a question. I think we'd all rather have
you tell the story in your own world with that.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Well, hey, listen, yes, mister, I didn't see all those
other people before.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I thought an inquest was a private thing. I didn't
know you had an audience.
Speaker 10 (14:31):
Do I have to make a spectacle of myself in
front of all the.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
People with people people back there behind your jury and
the shadow back there?
Speaker 1 (14:40):
There's millions of far as I can see. Who were they?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Those people? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Who are they?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
The people listening to you around the vie radio?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Are we on the radio?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Didn't you know this all?
Speaker 1 (14:55):
I certainly did know.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
That's that?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
And I never heard of a corners and quest like this.
You said, this is your yes, but.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
We're wasting time. So what am I to do if
we want to hear your son?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
I'm not told to do not all come come somewhere
over here to this microphone. I won't do it.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Oh yes, but you will.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
I'm not going to talk to all other people.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Yes, you are stand up, got my right. We are
very considerate of your life.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Now if you please.
Speaker 11 (15:46):
Where you want right here, you can speak into this
microphone so the audience will hear your kid.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
I'm not going on to.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Now, so we would hear your story of that day.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
We should the time you this term and even have
music for you. Who's going to move?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I don't know what kind of monkey business?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
This is an inquest, simply an in quest that if
you are the principal wness.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
On your own great many people are listening.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Music to.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Go ahead. That's throw well.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
I well, I told Eileen I wouldn't let her.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Marry the doctor. After all, I've taken care of Violin
for all.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Those years, and I think it's well, I think it's
very unfair of her to want to walk out on
me after all I've done for her.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Got it go home?
Speaker 6 (17:14):
And you have to remember that she's a cripple with
that crooked iim of hers.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
What could she do? What kind of wife would she make?
And she's thirty nine years old, Now that's too old
to start in married life.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
And that feller he's nearly ten years younger.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Than she is.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Not only that, but how is he going to make
a living?
Speaker 5 (17:34):
For sure?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
He was a little tenant colonel in the airport.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
He's got a lot of metal.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
He's a Japanese prisoner and all that. A lieutenant colner
of the reddim a dozen. Now he's got no money,
there's no prospects. He probably thinks Iileen's got money. He
thinks he's going to get some of that. Well, Aileen,
you know, hasn't got any money. It's my money and
she isn't going to get a.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Cent of it all unless I die before.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
Day small, So get out after I said, get out
and stay out and I then you'll see that he
stays out of my house.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
That's what I said, And I met it, well, he went,
Aileen is always proud.
Speaker 12 (18:28):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
What's that noise?
Speaker 5 (18:34):
That's a sound effect.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Perhaps you listen to.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Sounds like Eileen cried, listen.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
I won't give you up as I won't.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I won't, and the Eileen he said that the sound effect.
Speaker 12 (18:50):
Listen, Henry, he's got to help it, darling. If you
(19:11):
won't let me have some of the money he stole
from me, hope, can we? I think?
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Did you recognize?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I don't know how you did that.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
You did recognize, certainly I did.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
That was three weeks ago. That was the day that well,
that was the day I really went into action. You remember,
I came into the room. Eileen was sitting with her
back to me. She didn't see me. Arthur was facing me. Ilen.
Didn't hear me come in the room, And of course
he couldn't see me.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
And perhaps you better explain to our radio audience why
Arthur doesn't.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
See you, mister? If he was picking it, I sure didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I say he was blind. I walked right up to
him before he saw him hate me, I said, and
she jumped up in front of me. I'll show you,
I said, and I reached out for him. He got
to his feet and he was turning his head looking
for me, but he couldn't see me. I grabbed him
at the collar. I'll show you, I said, and she
leaked at me.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
See those marks on my face, her fingernails, and she
kept screaming and got an arm around her, and he tried.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
To pull her away, and he struggled, and I started
pushing him toward the door, and she grabbed up the heavy.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Ass ray and struck at me with it, and you
grabbed her arm.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I couldn't help it. If it was a bad arm,
could I.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Quest? And of course Arthur couldn't see it.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
How could He was making passes in the air trying
to find me and you and threw him up.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
Next time, I'll kill you, I said.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
He shouldn't have said. I know it could be used
against you.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Well, I had to protect myself. Well, all right, I
figured i'd fixed that. I got the doctor for Eileen, who.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Wasn't hurt Dad.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
He just painted when he got crystal, And she wouldn't
speak to me, stayed in her room.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
That house was an inch deep in dust, dishes weren't washed,
no groceries.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Wouldn't come out of her room.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I was pretty sore. I've got a violent temper, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
I don't rude about things.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
I do something about them. And I let her stay
in that room, and then finally I got tired of it.
I went upstairs on the morning with blood in my eye.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I hammered on her door.
Speaker 9 (21:38):
I said, over up that door, I leen.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I wasn't an answer.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
I hammered, come on. She still didn't answer, and I said.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
I lean open up that door.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
I'll break it down.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
I said, I'll take the cost of fixing it out
of your allowance too.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It still wasn't any answer. So I got back and
I slap my shoulder against it. And the second time.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
That broke, and I fell into the room and she
wasn't there. That's right. He wasn't there. But the notes worked,
and that's right, the note.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
He'd skipped out of me. She'd married that author, that
blind man. I thought i'd die right then and there.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
You didn't know, but I thought I was going to
when I found she got into my safe, I'd forgotten
she knew the combination?
Speaker 9 (22:31):
How much was fifteen thousand dollars and founds she stole it?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
How much did you get from her? That other time?
That was different?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
This was ceiling I see well.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
I founded High Level for a hired detectives and they
caught Fody too.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I didn't find her. I thought they'd be easy to
find a blind man and a woman with a crooked
arm that they weren't. I used to lie awake nights
thinking of what I do to them when I found them.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
They're making some very damaging statements.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
I am.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
So what you'll see whether it would justify all homicide
or what. Well, they came back.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I was all alone.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
They knew i'd be alone.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Was that the day's room?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, that's right. They came in. Aileen still had her keys.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
I didn't know they were there till she's poked in
the doorway to the living room, and he was with
hers standing grinning behind her in the hall, grinning.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Thought it me and his new brother in law. The
face had turned in the wrong direction.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Fly then give me the crease.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
She came in the room and she put out her
hands to me, and she smiled.
Speaker 12 (23:46):
Aren't you going to congratulate this?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
And my head began to swim.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Light in the room seemed to turn red, and I
staged as I got up out of the chair, and
then she backed away from me, and I heard him
talking gently.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
The room began hurling around.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
Faster, and I tried to sleep, but I just got well,
I got kind of mumbled and I lean, yelled, and
I reached for that fool off his throat.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Yes, I did listen to me.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
As I reached for his throat, I saw I lean out.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Of the corner of my eye, and she was picking
up an old fashioned dirk that was on the coffee
table and used to belong to my grandfather.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
We'll use it for a paper night.
Speaker 9 (24:19):
She was running at me, and I was trying to
hold out her after and she said to me, and
I couldn't let go of him because he was struggling.
She cut my hand, didn't I tell you what's up?
Speaker 12 (24:26):
The fancy?
Speaker 10 (24:26):
And she kept stiking at me, and I grabbed the
dirt out of her hand and fought. It was kicking me,
and I got the dirt and I heard on the
scream and there was a great rid flash in my mind.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
And that's all. So that's the story, mister Corner.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Next thing I remember is sitting in that chair over there,
your jury and your radio audience staring at me. So
let's sell your verdict.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
So I'm let's hear it from your masquerade party jury.
Speaker 11 (25:08):
What very well, mister Row, your majesty, majesty, what's this
king duncan of Scotland is foreman.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Of our You will please to remember.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Duncan of Scotland was fouling via Sean macbeth the means
a long.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
Years ago, yes, mister Ross.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
And the gentleman in what you turned the bath roll
died at the hand of a friend named.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
Brutus, and a gentleman in the red Cap done to
death by a slip of a girl named Charlotte Corday
in seventeen hundred and ninety four.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Why are you talking about you?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Yes, mister Ross, these gentlemen are your here all at
one time?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Or not that kind of a masquerade?
Speaker 4 (26:02):
I assure you this is no master rate. Just one thing.
Your sister and your brother in law did not die.
Then what's all this about, your majesty?
Speaker 7 (26:19):
The verdict if you please, guilty of mother let's according
a murder.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
But you said they didn't die.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
No, mister n they didn't. That you did. Will have remember?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
And now I think you are my.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
School.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
You have listened to in Quest applied to your story,
written and directed by Willis Cooper.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
The man who spoke to you was Ernest Chappell, and.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
James bend Like played the corner King Malcolm with patrol.
Mally Yleen was played by Sylvia Cole and Arthur.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
With John Morley musicist Them Bolson played by Jeane Carazo.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Not after to worry about next week's Quiet police scory.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Here is our writer, Director Willis Cooper. Next week's story
is the adventure of a writer and the characters that
the it's called bring me to life.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
And so until next week time Quiet for yours, Ernest couple.
This program came to you from New York.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
This is the mutual broadcasting the system
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