August 13, 2025 • 24 mins
A horror and fantasy anthology series that delves into the eerie and the unknown, offering stories that unsettle and provoke thought. Its minimalist production enhances the chilling narratives.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Quiet Please, Quiet Please. The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet Please,
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which is written and directed by Willis Cooper and which
features Ernest Chappell. Quiet Please for Tonight is called Baker's dozens.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I thought of that.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
There used to be a baker. Everybody was always asking
for an extra bun x donnut at one more Parker
House over they about a dozen feet.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I'm supposed to be some kind of old time custom
or something for bakers.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, I wouldn't put out not me. I gotta not
for me, don't you know? Thirteen is an unlucky number,
I'd say, and wise guy, I'd always say unlucky for
whom i'd say unlucky for any baker that gives away stuff,
I'd say, oh maybe laugh. And I never lost very
many customers, I guess. Anyway, you try and get a
Baker's dozen of anything nowadays from anybody.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You get a hold of your head quickly. Well.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Also, Baker's doesn't is a kind of cute name for
a story. I think, listen see if for the ninth Huh.
I have his wife see and he has a tough
time with me. I'm always whiting the top of a
bubble it's not from coming home and taking the pick.
Still I love her, sure, sure.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
But I'm a great big schmoll that ain't got sent
enough to leave the bottles in the saloon and I
got eight nine.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm slug to me.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm a double smoke. Charlie Brooks already to give me
the heap O sixty four times now for a long time.
I'm not very welcome at Charlie's bond, he said once.
If you know how to make a making, you present
me with a double one for free. So I'm not
one of these big writers fellacies. And with my old
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lady every time I come home singing dream cheers for
Jones Junior High. He's dark ducking because I don't like
what she's got for supper. Why don't she get a
new dress? Or she's been biting her fingernails again? And
will mind giving her hits? That's me.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
The shmow in spades don't make any difference.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I'm nice to her when I'm not drinking that stuff,
because I'm practically always drinking this stuff. And man, I'm sorry,
but so what any you think she ever hangs on
a white chin? No, she don't and she don't have
a copper on me either. One time there was the
copper the next door and he hears me pushing around.
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He comes in.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
He says, she get her nose on the door. The
cop gives me the ugby look.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And what does she do? She kisses, And what can
the cop do?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Go away? That's what the cop can do. And you see.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Why is the woman a lovish mole? Well, I get
carried away. Tell you about myself. I gotta tell you
the story. Listen, I was on this jury and a
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lot of times I've been called for jewry to even now.
I'm just like you. I always trying to get out
of it. With me, it might interfere with my bottle department. See, well,
he this time, I don't put up a beef.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I take it. You ever been on a jury, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Guess you know how it is that nobody pays any
attention to you.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You just sit there like a log like everybody else.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You might as well be in Westover shoe work ends
as the ark and Saw or whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
As far as the rest.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Of the jury is concerned. Guy's hollering at witnesses and bobbies,
doctors of all ages and sexes watching the fleet show
and hopefully hit some dirt.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I get bored.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well, I did have a hangover, so I never come
to till quite a while after the trial had begun.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You know how a hangover is.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, So I had kind of blank spaces and what
I heard, you know, first I.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Hear the doctor's name when it was caused.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
This guy to croak, And it was something about traumatic
synthesis of the gravities or something, and it got caused
by applying a blind instruments of the fella's naging kind
of hard, so he had this gravity and he's a
dead pitch. And then another fella stops up and down
in front of the jury box. He says he's gonna
prove this thing done it. He's gonna buy gravy halber
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hun if only the fine jury will cooperate.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And another fellow with.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
The red lustash he objects, and there is a copper
that says, yeah, he found the guy with his knocking bend.
And then yet at the yad at the YadA all
over the place till my not and hurts him.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I kind of go to sleep something. Then I am
waked up, like sticking.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
A pin of me.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
You know what I'm telling you about this Charlie Brooks,
that I used to bring it his bar. Well, who
is all of a sudden sitting on.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
The witness stand.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
But Charlie Brooks, listen, my name is Charles Brooks.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Your occupation, mister Brooks, I.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Am a bartender, and the very good one. I hear,
and I pipe up and I say he.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Makes the best martini in town.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
See. I don't know about grudges, because after all, I'm
a schmollen. He should throw me out. Nobody even looks
at me. Did I just goes right on?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Did you know the deceased miss Brooks?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I certainly did I see? And what sort of man
was he?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Mister Brooks?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I would say he was not a good man. What
do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well, he was quarrelsome quarrelsom when.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
He drank, just like me. Oh, Charlie, did he drink
at your bar often?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Mister Brooks?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
He used to, but I refused to surger for several months,
just like me. If he came in the night he
was mndy. I mean the night he died, he wasn't wetted.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Mop.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Describe that last part.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Out your honor play.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I'll confine your statements to answers to my questions.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Please, mister Brooks, the jury will decide if murder been
committed or not. Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Now tell me, mister.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Brooks, did you know that he quarrels this man had
with his wife? Yes, sir. How did you know? He
told me? That was one of the reasons I told
him not to come back to my bar. I see,
you said you saw him the night he died. Yes, sir,
he came in drunk and wanted to buy a drink,
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but I said.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
No, and I threw him up personally.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Personally, yes, sir, It's quite impossible, isn't it that any
injuries you might have inflicted on him and.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Throwing him out could have resulted in his death? Would
you repeat the question bad? Let me put it this way.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You don't think that you injured him badly enough it
would have caused his death.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Mister I kicked him. You didn't kick him in the head.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
No, sir, I did not kick him in the head.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
You would say that he was a bad, vicious, wicked man, then,
mister Brooke, I certainly would, and that he gave others
good cause to kill him.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I certainly do.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I mean he did, especially his wife, mister, because you
give her a medal that will be all.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Oh, and here comes Charlie stepping out in the witness
stand and walking across the floor past the jewey box
right in front of me.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
My grin at him, and I whispered, Hi, Charlly, how
you doing? And you know what? He don't give me
a combo? But he couldn't help hearing me. But he
don't even look at me.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Hello, all right, thanks, time you see me in your
bob budd you ain't gonna see me.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
That's a fact. But do you think he is a
big shot because he's a witness in the court? What
is this?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
But that ain't the only surprise, I guess, Charlie Brooks.
There's this comper that lived next door. Like I said,
Dominate Gaffigan, his name is? Your name is Dominic Gaffigan?
Yeah it is?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
And are you a police officer? I am?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
You live next door to the dependent's place of residence?
I do Have you ever been in a defendants hall?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I have? On what occasion? Officer gap Again, it was
on March eighteen, nineteen forty seven, at seven forty five PM.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I was attracted by the sound of an altercation. What
kind of sound, officer, like a man beating his wife
and her whimpering? Life go on?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Well, I put out my head from a door, and
the door to the defendant's apartment was open, and I
looked in and I saw the.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Defendant running across the room to cry. There was a
rip in the waist of her dress, and she was
bleeding at the oath.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And what did you do? I entered the apartment.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Go on in the apartment, I saw the deceased and
who was drunk at the time, and he was shouting
implications at the defendant.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
What did he say?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
He he cursed him very well? And what did he do?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
He started across the room after her, and I stopped.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
How did you stop him?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I said, stop?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Only that well if I put my hand against his
chest like I see, And then what happened?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Then? They defendant turned on me and she asked me
what I was doing in their apartment?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Did you ask her her?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I did?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What did you say? I said, I came in to
prevent murder?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And what did she say?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That she turned on me?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Said she had pumped her nose on the door. There
was going to be no murder, and I should go away,
and did you well? I remonstrated with her then from
the face given, but she would have none of me,
and then she turned and.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Kissed her husband said she loved him.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
So I came away.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Then, I see, And it is still your impression that
you will arrived along the scene prevented murder. M it
is you think he would have murdered.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I do.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And have you any knowledge of other uh.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Altercations between the defendant and the deceased talks a gap
and I have.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I stood up and I said, gaff.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Again, you know you're the biggest liar on the police force.
Gaff again, you know perfectly well. And what you told
that fellow was what happened to my apartment pretty nar
a year ago. And you're trying to hang something on
some porchemo and you know that happened to.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Me and Elsa. You're a stinker. Gaffigan.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yes, sir, I think the woman would be perfectly justified
in killing the man.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You see, that's a cop for you. And I holler
it out again that Gaffigan's a liar judge.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
But nobody even looked like they heard me.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Only the guy that was doing the question, I mean,
turned around towards the jerry a minute, and he looked
at us. He looked at us along the judgement common
said ant of mister cunning Hand.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
I'm I'm sorry, your honor, but every time I glanced
at the jewlry box, I get the distinct impression that there's.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
An extra juror there. Are you sure you feel all right,
mister cunning Hand? Well, I'm sorry, sir. I'm I'm been
having a little trouble with my eyes. May day that
I'm sure your lived. He was counted your list, mister
cutting planks for your honor. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
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ten eleven twelve.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I'm sorry, your honor.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
You may but see, mister cunning Hand.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
The guy walked away, but he still looked kind of puzzle.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I looked at the other girls, and every one.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Of 'em was doing what he'd done killing.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I watched him move. They all turned back to the
They were satisfied he was only twelve. I couldn't help.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Count the two one two thirty four.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten eleven twelve. That's right, twelve.
But I didn't call myself I'm thirteen. I make the
Baker's dozen. I yelled at the DNA. Hey, here is thirteen.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Of us here.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
He makes like I'm not there. He don't even look
over his shoulder at me. I yell again, Hey, but
he's talking to a woman.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I know where you stand. Where do you state your name?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Missus? As of Nason?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
My eyes pop out, I stand up.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Hey, thanks my wife? What are you doing here? Elsa?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And you're a place of residence?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Thirteen thirteen? Nonth Crosstree.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Now, missus Bronson, will you please tell the jury exactly
what happened on the evening of January thirteenth.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I was alone in the apartment.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Uh speak up, please, Missus Bronson.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I was alone in the apartment.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
My husband often came home late, so I wasn't alone
when it became seven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
At eight o'clock, what were you doing, missus Broughton?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I was ironing, ironing?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
What my husband?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Sure? I see God?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
When it became nine o'clock, I became a little bit alone.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Why because was it because you were sure your husband
was drunk somewhere?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
My husband does not drink so much.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Was it because you were afraid that he would come
home drunk and beat you up, Missus Bronson.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Your husband had beaten you up, before, hadn't he you?
You heard one officer Gaffigan said, didn't you?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I told the truth. I did strike my nose on
the door.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
You didn't strike it on your husband's face. No, he
has never struck you, missus Bronson?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Did you?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Did you hate your husband? I love my husband even
when he beat you.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
He did not beat me. I love him and he
loved me.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I couldn't stand it any longer.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I jumped up again.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I said, listen you, what is here all about? What
are you doing with my wife? Helter? What are they
doing to you?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I love my Husson.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Alter, I love you well. If you loved him so much,
why did.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You kill me?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
What the devil you're talking about? What is this stuff?
Listen to me, I'm talking to you.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
You hear me.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I love you, Sure she.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Loves me and I love her brother On. I'm not
gonna let you make a fool of her anymore. You
hear me. You loved him, so you killed him? What
are you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
And then I got the big idea.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Then I all of a sudden knew why the guy
thought there was thirteen of us in a jury box,
and why there was?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I could see it. I heard of things like that.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And I didn't believe in ghost stories or whatever they are.
Only I knew something, now, you know what I knew?
Sure I was there. I was a ghost. I was
sitting on a jury while I was trying my wife
for murdering me.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Couldn't mean anything else, could it? I was dead? They
said that was dead. They said, else A murdered me.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
You murdered your husband, Missus Bronston.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I was iron I was so tired.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
I was so.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Afraid, afraid of him.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yes, I was afraid of him.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
He did be too bad.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I shall I lie, believe me.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
It was a good husband to me. Sometimes. It was
only when I have a drink.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That he was bad.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
He had such a long time together, when we were
helpy always.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
And.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Once he had strung me, it was bad, easier for
him the next time.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
He Wasn't him safe when he drank?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You know he was not. I think gave him each time.
He cried with me so many times afterwards. What could
I do but thank give him?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
I loved him.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yes, else, sir, I guess A dead guy can say
his say even if nobody could hear him. I know
you loved me, and I loved you always. I don't
know how this happened else, but whatever it was, I
hadn't common didn't I I had nobody in the world
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girl would ever believe that I loved you. Nobody but you.
I don't know what they'll do to yelps it, but
I wish I could take the rap for you. It
isn't enough just being dead, though.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
And it was nine o'clock at nine ten o'clock, and
I was so tired, so I went and made myself
by to eat a loan, and then I came back
to the ironing. And I'm afraid I'm slow at my work,
but I'm very careful.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
And you were ironing when he came in.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yes, yes, I was ironing.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
The store opened, and I saw at once that he
had been drinking. He walked across the room to me,
and he stood there and smiled at me the way
you always.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Smiled when he was angry. And he said, he said,
what are you doing elsa ironing?
Speaker 7 (18:58):
And I said yes.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
He pushed the island body against me hands and the
irons burned my hand and he bent over to pick
me up, and I talking with the island and mother
stopping before.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
But I can.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Stick me away, and I do not want some the officers.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And then she got down from the witness box.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
She started to walk out of the corner room.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
She stopped in front of the jury box, and she
looked at each one of the other twelve people. The
man said he was a bookbinder, and the young salesman,
the girl with a red feather in her hat, and
all the rest of them. And when she had looked
at each one of them, she looked at me.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
And she saw.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I know, she saw me come, I think, come home
with me. I got up from my chair and I
went out the little gate in the jury box, and
they walked along with her. Then we went to the
little fence in front of him down the island. Charlie
Books got up and walked down one side of her,
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and Dominic Catholic and the policeman he got up and
walked down the other side of her. And we walked out,
and there was another policeman with us, and I was
walking behind.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Him and let me get out of the courtroom. It
was all all doc out there, and I felt awful.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
And I just got one glimpse of her issue.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Turned her head over her shoulder.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And I was walking in the dark for a long long.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Time, and I didn't know here I was.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
And and then all of a sudden there was awful
bright and I felt somebody kicking me. And there was
Charlie Brooks. And have you ever come back in this
place again, drunk or sober? I'll beat your brains out, you,
hear me, And the door closed behind him. And I
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was in the snow and my hand aired worse than
ever I U and I walk in the snow. He staggered.
M hm, he stagger A long long way in the snow,
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and I'm going home, sir. This is the house. Mm,
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this is a stairway. Ah, this is the door. Said,
but well that's else, just standing there alongside the ironing board.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Hey, I'm not dead. What you doing out, sir?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Airning? You know? I have listened to Quiet Please, which
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is written and directed by Willis Cooper Irving. The man
who spoke to you was Ernest Chapel, and.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Elsa was a lot of Stavisky.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
The district Attorney was Jim Bowles. The gap again was
played by Vladimer, Charlie Brooks's Murray Forbes and The Judge
with Harry Worth. The original music for Choie Please is
composed and played by Albert Berman. Now from a worried
about next week's Choirt Please, here is our writer, Director
Willis Cooper. Have you got a story for you next
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week called the green Light? So until next week. At
the same time, I am quietly yours chap Quiet Please
comes to you from New York. This is the mutual
broadcasting system.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Following station identification. You'll hear a hand now
Quiet Please, Quiet Please. The Mutual Broadcasting System presents Quiet Please,
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which is written and directed by Willis Cooper and which
features Ernest Chappell. Quiet Please for Tonight is called Baker's dozens.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I thought of that.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
There used to be a baker. Everybody was always asking
for an extra bun x donnut at one more Parker
House over they about a dozen feet.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I'm supposed to be some kind of old time custom
or something for bakers.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, I wouldn't put out not me. I gotta not
for me, don't you know? Thirteen is an unlucky number,
I'd say, and wise guy, I'd always say unlucky for
whom i'd say unlucky for any baker that gives away stuff,
I'd say, oh maybe laugh. And I never lost very
many customers, I guess. Anyway, you try and get a
Baker's dozen of anything nowadays from anybody.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You get a hold of your head quickly. Well.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Also, Baker's doesn't is a kind of cute name for
a story. I think, listen see if for the ninth Huh.
I have his wife see and he has a tough
time with me. I'm always whiting the top of a
bubble it's not from coming home and taking the pick.
Still I love her, sure, sure.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
But I'm a great big schmoll that ain't got sent
enough to leave the bottles in the saloon and I
got eight nine.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I'm slug to me.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
I'm a double smoke. Charlie Brooks already to give me
the heap O sixty four times now for a long time.
I'm not very welcome at Charlie's bond, he said once.
If you know how to make a making, you present
me with a double one for free. So I'm not
one of these big writers fellacies. And with my old
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lady every time I come home singing dream cheers for
Jones Junior High. He's dark ducking because I don't like
what she's got for supper. Why don't she get a
new dress? Or she's been biting her fingernails again? And
will mind giving her hits? That's me.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
The shmow in spades don't make any difference.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I'm nice to her when I'm not drinking that stuff,
because I'm practically always drinking this stuff. And man, I'm sorry,
but so what any you think she ever hangs on
a white chin? No, she don't and she don't have
a copper on me either. One time there was the
copper the next door and he hears me pushing around.
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He comes in.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
He says, she get her nose on the door. The
cop gives me the ugby look.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And what does she do? She kisses, And what can
the cop do?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Go away? That's what the cop can do. And you see.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Why is the woman a lovish mole? Well, I get
carried away. Tell you about myself. I gotta tell you
the story. Listen, I was on this jury and a
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lot of times I've been called for jewry to even now.
I'm just like you. I always trying to get out
of it. With me, it might interfere with my bottle department. See, well,
he this time, I don't put up a beef.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I take it. You ever been on a jury, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Guess you know how it is that nobody pays any
attention to you.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
You just sit there like a log like everybody else.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You might as well be in Westover shoe work ends
as the ark and Saw or whatever.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
As far as the rest.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Of the jury is concerned. Guy's hollering at witnesses and bobbies,
doctors of all ages and sexes watching the fleet show
and hopefully hit some dirt.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I get bored.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Well, I did have a hangover, so I never come
to till quite a while after the trial had begun.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
You know how a hangover is.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, So I had kind of blank spaces and what
I heard, you know, first I.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Hear the doctor's name when it was caused.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
This guy to croak, And it was something about traumatic
synthesis of the gravities or something, and it got caused
by applying a blind instruments of the fella's naging kind
of hard, so he had this gravity and he's a
dead pitch. And then another fella stops up and down
in front of the jury box. He says he's gonna
prove this thing done it. He's gonna buy gravy halber
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hun if only the fine jury will cooperate.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
And another fellow with.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
The red lustash he objects, and there is a copper
that says, yeah, he found the guy with his knocking bend.
And then yet at the yad at the YadA all
over the place till my not and hurts him.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I kind of go to sleep something. Then I am
waked up, like sticking.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
A pin of me.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
You know what I'm telling you about this Charlie Brooks,
that I used to bring it his bar. Well, who
is all of a sudden sitting on.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
The witness stand.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
But Charlie Brooks, listen, my name is Charles Brooks.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Your occupation, mister Brooks, I.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Am a bartender, and the very good one. I hear,
and I pipe up and I say he.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Makes the best martini in town.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
See. I don't know about grudges, because after all, I'm
a schmollen. He should throw me out. Nobody even looks
at me. Did I just goes right on?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Did you know the deceased miss Brooks?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I certainly did I see? And what sort of man
was he?
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Mister Brooks?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
I would say he was not a good man. What
do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Well, he was quarrelsome quarrelsom when.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
He drank, just like me. Oh, Charlie, did he drink
at your bar often?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Mister Brooks?
Speaker 1 (06:26):
He used to, but I refused to surger for several months,
just like me. If he came in the night he
was mndy. I mean the night he died, he wasn't wetted.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Mop.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Describe that last part.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Out your honor play.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I'll confine your statements to answers to my questions.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Please, mister Brooks, the jury will decide if murder been
committed or not. Yes, sir.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Now tell me, mister.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Brooks, did you know that he quarrels this man had
with his wife? Yes, sir. How did you know? He
told me? That was one of the reasons I told
him not to come back to my bar. I see,
you said you saw him the night he died. Yes, sir,
he came in drunk and wanted to buy a drink,
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but I said.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
No, and I threw him up personally.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Personally, yes, sir, It's quite impossible, isn't it that any
injuries you might have inflicted on him and.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Throwing him out could have resulted in his death? Would
you repeat the question bad? Let me put it this way.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
You don't think that you injured him badly enough it
would have caused his death.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Mister I kicked him. You didn't kick him in the head.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
No, sir, I did not kick him in the head.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
You would say that he was a bad, vicious, wicked man, then,
mister Brooke, I certainly would, and that he gave others
good cause to kill him.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
I certainly do.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I mean he did, especially his wife, mister, because you
give her a medal that will be all.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Oh, and here comes Charlie stepping out in the witness
stand and walking across the floor past the jewey box
right in front of me.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
My grin at him, and I whispered, Hi, Charlly, how
you doing? And you know what? He don't give me
a combo? But he couldn't help hearing me. But he
don't even look at me.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Hello, all right, thanks, time you see me in your
bob budd you ain't gonna see me.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
That's a fact. But do you think he is a
big shot because he's a witness in the court? What
is this?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
But that ain't the only surprise, I guess, Charlie Brooks.
There's this comper that lived next door. Like I said,
Dominate Gaffigan, his name is? Your name is Dominic Gaffigan?
Yeah it is?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
And are you a police officer? I am?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
You live next door to the dependent's place of residence?
I do Have you ever been in a defendants hall?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I have? On what occasion? Officer gap Again, it was
on March eighteen, nineteen forty seven, at seven forty five PM.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I was attracted by the sound of an altercation. What
kind of sound, officer, like a man beating his wife
and her whimpering? Life go on?
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Well, I put out my head from a door, and
the door to the defendant's apartment was open, and I
looked in and I saw the.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Defendant running across the room to cry. There was a
rip in the waist of her dress, and she was
bleeding at the oath.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
And what did you do? I entered the apartment.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Go on in the apartment, I saw the deceased and
who was drunk at the time, and he was shouting
implications at the defendant.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
What did he say?
Speaker 1 (09:52):
He he cursed him very well? And what did he do?
Speaker 4 (09:59):
He started across the room after her, and I stopped.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
How did you stop him?
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I said, stop?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Only that well if I put my hand against his
chest like I see, And then what happened?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Then? They defendant turned on me and she asked me
what I was doing in their apartment?
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Did you ask her her?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I did?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
What did you say? I said, I came in to
prevent murder?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
And what did she say?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
That she turned on me?
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Said she had pumped her nose on the door. There
was going to be no murder, and I should go away,
and did you well? I remonstrated with her then from
the face given, but she would have none of me,
and then she turned and.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Kissed her husband said she loved him.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
So I came away.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Then, I see, And it is still your impression that
you will arrived along the scene prevented murder. M it
is you think he would have murdered.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I do.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And have you any knowledge of other uh.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Altercations between the defendant and the deceased talks a gap
and I have.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I stood up and I said, gaff.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Again, you know you're the biggest liar on the police force.
Gaff again, you know perfectly well. And what you told
that fellow was what happened to my apartment pretty nar
a year ago. And you're trying to hang something on
some porchemo and you know that happened to.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Me and Elsa. You're a stinker. Gaffigan.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Yes, sir, I think the woman would be perfectly justified
in killing the man.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
You see, that's a cop for you. And I holler
it out again that Gaffigan's a liar judge.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
But nobody even looked like they heard me.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Only the guy that was doing the question, I mean,
turned around towards the jerry a minute, and he looked
at us. He looked at us along the judgement common
said ant of mister cunning Hand.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
I'm I'm sorry, your honor, but every time I glanced
at the jewlry box, I get the distinct impression that there's.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
An extra juror there. Are you sure you feel all right,
mister cunning Hand? Well, I'm sorry, sir. I'm I'm been
having a little trouble with my eyes. May day that
I'm sure your lived. He was counted your list, mister
cutting planks for your honor. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
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ten eleven twelve.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I'm sorry, your honor.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
You may but see, mister cunning Hand.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
The guy walked away, but he still looked kind of puzzle.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
I looked at the other girls, and every one.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Of 'em was doing what he'd done killing.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I watched him move. They all turned back to the
They were satisfied he was only twelve. I couldn't help.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Count the two one two thirty four.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten eleven twelve. That's right, twelve.
But I didn't call myself I'm thirteen. I make the
Baker's dozen. I yelled at the DNA. Hey, here is thirteen.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Of us here.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
He makes like I'm not there. He don't even look
over his shoulder at me. I yell again, Hey, but
he's talking to a woman.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
I know where you stand. Where do you state your name?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Missus? As of Nason?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
My eyes pop out, I stand up.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Hey, thanks my wife? What are you doing here? Elsa?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
And you're a place of residence?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Thirteen thirteen? Nonth Crosstree.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Now, missus Bronson, will you please tell the jury exactly
what happened on the evening of January thirteenth.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I was alone in the apartment.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Uh speak up, please, Missus Bronson.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
I was alone in the apartment.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
My husband often came home late, so I wasn't alone
when it became seven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
At eight o'clock, what were you doing, missus Broughton?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I was ironing, ironing?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
What my husband?
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Sure? I see God?
Speaker 6 (14:34):
When it became nine o'clock, I became a little bit alone.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Why because was it because you were sure your husband
was drunk somewhere?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
My husband does not drink so much.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Was it because you were afraid that he would come
home drunk and beat you up, Missus Bronson.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Your husband had beaten you up, before, hadn't he you?
You heard one officer Gaffigan said, didn't you?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
I told the truth. I did strike my nose on
the door.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
You didn't strike it on your husband's face. No, he
has never struck you, missus Bronson?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Did you?
Speaker 1 (15:12):
Did you hate your husband? I love my husband even
when he beat you.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
He did not beat me. I love him and he
loved me.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I couldn't stand it any longer.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I jumped up again.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I said, listen you, what is here all about? What
are you doing with my wife? Helter? What are they
doing to you?
Speaker 3 (15:32):
I love my Husson.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Alter, I love you well. If you loved him so much,
why did.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
You kill me?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
What the devil you're talking about? What is this stuff?
Listen to me, I'm talking to you.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
You hear me.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
I love you, Sure she.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Loves me and I love her brother On. I'm not
gonna let you make a fool of her anymore. You
hear me. You loved him, so you killed him? What
are you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
And then I got the big idea.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Then I all of a sudden knew why the guy
thought there was thirteen of us in a jury box,
and why there was?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I could see it. I heard of things like that.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And I didn't believe in ghost stories or whatever they are.
Only I knew something, now, you know what I knew?
Sure I was there. I was a ghost. I was
sitting on a jury while I was trying my wife
for murdering me.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Couldn't mean anything else, could it? I was dead? They
said that was dead. They said, else A murdered me.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
You murdered your husband, Missus Bronston.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I was iron I was so tired.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
I was so.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Afraid, afraid of him.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yes, I was afraid of him.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
He did be too bad.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
I shall I lie, believe me.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
It was a good husband to me. Sometimes. It was
only when I have a drink.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
That he was bad.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
He had such a long time together, when we were
helpy always.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
And.
Speaker 6 (17:12):
Once he had strung me, it was bad, easier for
him the next time.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
He Wasn't him safe when he drank?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You know he was not. I think gave him each time.
He cried with me so many times afterwards. What could
I do but thank give him?
Speaker 4 (17:32):
I loved him.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Yes, else, sir, I guess A dead guy can say
his say even if nobody could hear him. I know
you loved me, and I loved you always. I don't
know how this happened else, but whatever it was, I
hadn't common didn't I I had nobody in the world
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girl would ever believe that I loved you. Nobody but you.
I don't know what they'll do to yelps it, but
I wish I could take the rap for you. It
isn't enough just being dead, though.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
And it was nine o'clock at nine ten o'clock, and
I was so tired, so I went and made myself
by to eat a loan, and then I came back
to the ironing. And I'm afraid I'm slow at my work,
but I'm very careful.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
And you were ironing when he came in.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Yes, yes, I was ironing.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
The store opened, and I saw at once that he
had been drinking. He walked across the room to me,
and he stood there and smiled at me the way
you always.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Smiled when he was angry. And he said, he said,
what are you doing elsa ironing?
Speaker 7 (18:58):
And I said yes.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
He pushed the island body against me hands and the
irons burned my hand and he bent over to pick
me up, and I talking with the island and mother
stopping before.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
But I can.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Stick me away, and I do not want some the officers.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And then she got down from the witness box.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
She started to walk out of the corner room.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
She stopped in front of the jury box, and she
looked at each one of the other twelve people. The
man said he was a bookbinder, and the young salesman,
the girl with a red feather in her hat, and
all the rest of them. And when she had looked
at each one of them, she looked at me.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
And she saw.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I know, she saw me come, I think, come home
with me. I got up from my chair and I
went out the little gate in the jury box, and
they walked along with her. Then we went to the
little fence in front of him down the island. Charlie
Books got up and walked down one side of her,
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and Dominic Catholic and the policeman he got up and
walked down the other side of her. And we walked out,
and there was another policeman with us, and I was
walking behind.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Him and let me get out of the courtroom. It
was all all doc out there, and I felt awful.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
And I just got one glimpse of her issue.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Turned her head over her shoulder.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
And I was walking in the dark for a long long.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Time, and I didn't know here I was.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
And and then all of a sudden there was awful
bright and I felt somebody kicking me. And there was
Charlie Brooks. And have you ever come back in this
place again, drunk or sober? I'll beat your brains out, you,
hear me, And the door closed behind him. And I
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was in the snow and my hand aired worse than
ever I U and I walk in the snow. He staggered.
M hm, he stagger A long long way in the snow,
(21:48):
and I'm going home, sir. This is the house. Mm,
(22:10):
this is a stairway. Ah, this is the door. Said,
but well that's else, just standing there alongside the ironing board.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Hey, I'm not dead. What you doing out, sir?
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Airning? You know? I have listened to Quiet Please, which
(23:19):
is written and directed by Willis Cooper Irving. The man
who spoke to you was Ernest Chapel, and.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Elsa was a lot of Stavisky.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
The district Attorney was Jim Bowles. The gap again was
played by Vladimer, Charlie Brooks's Murray Forbes and The Judge
with Harry Worth. The original music for Choie Please is
composed and played by Albert Berman. Now from a worried
about next week's Choirt Please, here is our writer, Director
Willis Cooper. Have you got a story for you next
(23:48):
week called the green Light? So until next week. At
the same time, I am quietly yours chap Quiet Please
comes to you from New York. This is the mutual
broadcasting system.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Following station identification. You'll hear a hand now
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