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Private Detective starring Dick Paul.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Time Detective at not a corpse in the car load?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Hi, Helen, Hi, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
We're trying to think up a new ad for the
phone book.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
What's the matter with the old one?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Doesn't seem to be bringing in the business. And see
what you think of this one Diamond Detective Agency. We'll
split any case you've got bonded or dead on arrival
by all means.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Use it like it no, but think of all the
business you'll get me the psychiatric ward.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You're a living doll.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, I see it in the.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Helen there. I'll talk to you later. I think I've
spotted a client. Bye bye, Well, come in, Come in,
you're mister that's right.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
My name is Quimby.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
How do you doing, mister Grimby? Pull up a chair.
Thank you? Something I can do for you?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yes, you see, mister Diamond, I am the manager of
the Far East Importing Company. And when I went down
to the store this morning, our night watchman was missing.
So also about fifty thousand dollars, un said.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Gems, why come to me instead of the police.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
But those jewels are on consignment to the store. I
wasn't hoped you could recover them before I had to
make an accounting to the.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Owner who owned a gym and.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Mister Phillip Ladsdown. He's a very eccentric collector. He has
many things on display in the store.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He's a very good client, aren't you ensured? Naturally?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
But if mister Lansdown knew that a robbery had taken place,
he'd never again do business with my establishment.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And you want me to recover the missing jewels if
you can. You think the night watchman is responsible for
the theft, but I.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Don't know what else to think. The night Watchman's name
is Black, Arthur Black. He lives in an apartment on
the East Side that I have already checked with his landlady,
and he hasn't shown that.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
How long have I got to recover the jewels, mister Quimby,
But I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
It's impossible to tell when mister Ladsdown will want an accounting.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, I charge you one hundred dollars a day in expenses.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Oh yes, will one hundred be enough for now?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, if you have nothing to do for the next
few minutes. I'd be more than happy to grovel at
your feet. I beg your pardon. Now I want the
night watchman's address, also the address of your shop, and
you go back to the shop and waite to hear
from me. Quimby gave me what I wanted, then minced
happily out of my office.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I locked up and grab a cap for the east
side of.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Town, And twenty minutes later I was talking to the
missing night Watchman's landlady.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Yure, honey, that's a black limb here. You're the second
one to come ask in farm this morning he killed
somebody or something?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Is he in?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
No, we ain't been into yesterday evening before he left
for White.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Can I take a look at his room?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Well, I don't know. Blue eyes is against the rules.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh, my goodness, I dropped a five dollars.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
My goodness, so you did. Don't hoist your back ben
and over, honey, I get it. Why not a rheumatism,
but anything for a spin. Say you got any more
loose wounds around? I'll show you every room and a.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Joint, just the one where black lives.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Right down here. You ain't no cup, honey, shamus yep,
figure right in here.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Hey, I had some Thank you mother, mother, when you.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Don't stop back at my room and have.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
A fear, I never touch anything stronger than opium, Never.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Anything strong in opium.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
The night Watchman's room was a shabby affair about fifteen
to twenty, and I went over it inch by inch,
cockroach by cockroache. Apparently Block hadn't taken anything with him.
The drawers and the broken down dresser were filled with
an assortment of socks and underwear. In the closet I
found the rest of his clothes and an old empty suitcase. Yes,
if art had Block had skipped, he was figuring on
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buying a wardrobe someplace else. I left, keeping on my
tiptoes as I passed the land lady's door. Then I
headed for the address of mister Quimber's antique shop.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Did you find out anything about the night watching?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Well? His land Lady's a lush and likes blue eyes
was a metica.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Man.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Your afternoon, mister Ladsdown.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
I do hope you will now, moll we have vulgarism, sir,
probably wretched after you very well know.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Yeah, yes it is mister diamond, mister.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
J lads Down, How do you do, sir?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
How do you do the nb?
Speaker 7 (06:15):
I'm come from my Buddha. You've come here quite long enough.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
Where is it, mister?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Ladsdown?
Speaker 7 (06:20):
I have someone who's interested. I've just had to not
to sell it. I can't conquer it. Well, where is it?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
It's over there in the corners, in the corner.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I see.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
It's not enough that I suffered the tall Manton lensing,
my excellit stature to affirm the employees that in this
time as manager, no, I'm now.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Subjected to them indium.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
Having it secreted in the corner, find a variety of
break up raw one would expect it find only in
the men's lounge and coney.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
I told you that Duodo was to enjoy this room,
most favorable location. You made a grave mistakes. I'm a mistress.
Mistake please, mister, I'm repossessing my buddh forth with for years.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
I forced myself to deal with.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
You in a pay shooting Paul very mata, Oh never again,
this is a crowning blow.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
I'll be a pa Philip nassdown the cock pols before fine.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Oh that man is the diamond, that terrifying man I
has been born under an unlucky star.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well relaxed, think could be worse. You've still got a
little hair on your head even that, so who wants
fat hair? I left Quimby wringing the cold sweat out
of his hands, and took a cab over to the
Fifth Pricinct Police headquarters. When I walked in, the clock
above Lieutenant Levinson's desk said twelve noon. Lieutenant Levinson said, oh, no,
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I wants the matter, fatty. I remind you of your
lost youth.
Speaker 10 (07:47):
No lost cause I was.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
We'll face it, Walter. You hate me because I have
an athletic waistline. Ah ha eureka, at last a three
syllable word. I knew you could do it all this.
I'm gonna let you do me a favor.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
Yeah mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I want you to check with the morgan All Hospitals
in jails for Arthur Block, lately employed as the night
watchman of the Far Eastern Porting Company.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Oh well, I'll check, But not because you told me?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Then?
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Why?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Because I'm stupid?
Speaker 10 (08:21):
What's all this about?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Rick? That's a busy night watchman in fifty thousand dollars
in Joels. Well, but you can't stick your nose in
a jet. Nobody's dead.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
I've got a sergeant who can make a liar out
of you.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
What do you know about a guy named Philip J. Ladsdown?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
And I heard him that phone with him?
Speaker 10 (08:36):
Thanks to get it? Just leave a nickel.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Always a collector of rare art objects and nasty dispositions.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
Want me to check on this lads Down for you?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It might be a good idea.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Okay, yeah me, Oh, mister diamond, I was hoping you'd
call you.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
And ten thousand foolish debutantes.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Mister Ladsdown has helped the boo get removed, and you're
sending a lawyer op in the morning from the counting.
Now should I tell him about the jewels? Now and
wait until morning?
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Wait? If you want this thing sobbed? What's the last
Down's address?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Blue heron Roade long.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Thanks, I'm going out to say him. I'll check with
you later.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Patient free.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
I do not read pick, look, see quick or popular mechanics.
I refuse to endorse the petition. And as far as
a free excursion to the Mahamas with all expenses paid,
I couldn't be less interested.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
I'll you'd be so kind of to remove your person
from my proper dead. I'm warning you, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Look your highness remember me I mention this afternoon at
the Far East Temporting Company.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
I remember your good day, young man.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
If you do not remove your foot from my door,
I may result for violence.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
You will kindly your foot by all.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Means, as soon as you answer a few questions.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Who are you, sir? I mean, what's your occupation?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I am a private detective.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
How earthy? But what do you want?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
How many things do you have on consignment in the
Far Eastendporting Combination?
Speaker 9 (10:12):
Oh, good grief, What kind of a question is that?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
The first of several?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I have many things on consignment?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
There anything of extreme value?
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Where are you getting at?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Just curious?
Speaker 8 (10:20):
Yes, disgustingly so, of course there are many things of
extreme value, ultimately fifty thousand dollars in rare gyms, a
dozen priceless antiques. As a matter of fact, that Buddha
which used all this morning, my most priceless position, side
from being very old. The eyes are two perfect pigeon
blood rubies. Now was anything else? I'm sure your foot
must be going to sleep.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Did you ever know or meet a man named Arthur Block?
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Never?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It was a night Watchman at the shop.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
The night Watchman God conversations in a dead I find
your reference to my association with the night Watchman the
lowest form of this corn now good dare.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Good sun height to you? Hey, sorry, I do not
read pick click quick, looks spook. Hey, who's taking his census?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Just wanting off a party named lives Down?
Speaker 9 (11:13):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You could hardly call him a party, more like a
friendly street fight.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Looks friend, I got to pick up some luggage Lives
Down listen, Yeah, with a bosom Buddha. Last Down's are
one with the two pays.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Mister Diamond was just closing up shopping.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Have you found out.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Anything, Well, not much. Tell me something, Quimby, Where do
you keep those jewels in the safe? The night Watchman
had the combination.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Yeah, it's in case you fire.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
There are also some perishables in with the gems.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Do you know much about the rest of the merchandise
in the store.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Yeah, it's because he had a list and made inventory
every night.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Did you know laz Down's Buddha had ruby eyes?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, how'd you find out? Last Down told me if
the night Watchman knew about those rubies? I wonder why
I didn't pry them out and take them along. I
never thought of that.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
If you touched that safe, yes, when I opened it
and discovered the laws.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Well, don't do it again. May have some of the
Night Watchman's fingerprints on it somewhere. Tell me, did you uh?
Did you know las Down was planning on leaving town? No?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I'm not sure that he is. But I've got a
hunch you're going home after your lock up.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
He is.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I'll give me your phone number.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I'm going down to pre Sink and they want to
reach you later.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Well, hello, Blue, why are you're still looking for Black?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's right? Has he shown up?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
No?
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Hey, Honny, it just skipped off without shaing goodbye. Had
a beer all open for you.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh, I bet you were so unhappy. I poured it
down the.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Dreams because you're the one.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Sure sure, Look, sweetheart, if a block shows up called
him at the fifth Pre Saint police station, names diamonds,
you had them?
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You, Well that's an idea.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I couldn't find nothing on that, missus. Night Watchman Shamas.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Thanks anyway, otis and appreciation. I may send you a
large can of red Heart liver flavor.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Oh God, chase your tail around the blot otis Yeah,
and I got tame? Are things to say? Funny thing
funny as your face. I'm tired of you making fun
of me. I ain't no dog.
Speaker 10 (13:29):
You had in trouble with Otis again.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Oh, I don't think it's anything serious, but I would
suggest a raveish shot.
Speaker 10 (13:34):
Well, here's something that might interest you. Philip J. Lasdown
booked passage on the Star of the Orient, sailing for
the Far East tonight at eleven o'clock.
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Speaker 2 (15:10):
Well waltson Lightning. A bit of information certainly seemed important,
so I said, arm try and figure out exactly what
I had to day, my client Quimby, had come into
my office and hired me to locate a missing night
watchman named Arthur Block because fifty thousand dollars in gems
had been pilfered from Quemby's shop. The gems belonged to
a particularly disgusting character named Philip J. Lasdowm. The missing
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night watchman Block was still missing, and by the looks
of his room, he'd skipped without taking anything with him,
and by the look of his landlady, I couldn't blame him. Well,
I tied it all together and the conclusion was amazingly simple.
I had exactly nothing.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Yeah, I got something hot. Look at to eleven on
River Street. I fished the guy out of the bay.
At the end of per sixteen, I identified as one
Arthur Block at your missing night watchman.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's his name.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
They bring the body in.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yeah, it's down the mab.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Now get Quimby down there for identification. Here's his phone number.
Speaker 10 (16:06):
Does Black have any family or anything?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I don't know, but you might check with his land lady.
She can get you an identification too.
Speaker 10 (16:12):
Oh, let's get this Quimbe and the land lady take
him down to the morgue. We're going to see Verdier
in ballistic Right. Here's the slug, Lieutenant, almost like a ball.
This is really most amazing.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
That slug was fired from a weapon made in eighteen
thirty one by Samuel cold. He patented it in Europe
in eighteen thirty five and in the US in eighteen
thirty six. What did the gun look like, Well, it
was the foregun off he called forty four, a single
barrel with the evolving breach, carried five slugs. During the
Fieski evolution in France in eighteen thirty four, Fieski had
a rifle made like it. They tried to assassinate Louis Philippe.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
Well, what is it, Jim Mallett.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Head Carl just came over the hat shot guy. Philip
Lasdown said someone to bust into his house and tried
to rob him. He said he chased the guy off,
but he was screaming for protection.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Come on, Walt, I think we better go over there. Well,
things were beginning to shape up.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Wald and I piled in the squad car and headed
for Long Island, the house.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Of Philip J. Lasdown. When we got there, Lazdown was
hopping around like a kangaroo with a hot.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Fine skinny.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
To a man who's even saving his own home, where's
the city coming to a police force is obviously tacond only.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
To the boy scot down.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Now calm down, now down, my good fellow.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
I have no intention of calming down.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
How would you enjoy walking into your own living room
and they're slaking around in the dark. A pathological fiend
intends on robbing you off your most priceless position.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
What was he after?
Speaker 7 (17:46):
My Buddha?
Speaker 8 (17:48):
The object of your particularly uncouth interrogation of his afternoon
is his island by the way.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Well were you forteen minutes ago? Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Relax? Did you get a look at this guy?
Speaker 9 (17:59):
Lights were out?
Speaker 10 (18:00):
How did he take your Buddha?
Speaker 7 (18:01):
He well, certainly did not. But had I not walked
in at.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
The precise moment, he would probably be carrying his piggybacks
in the middle of Times Square and you're observing police
water and down at least top.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Having for him.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
That's the boodh right over there. Off, keep your hands
off it.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Now, Look, lassie, you called the police. The police are here,
so relaxed before someone puts their foot in that big mouth.
Speaker 10 (18:21):
Well yeah, really, you're getting ready to leave town, aren't
you see that?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
That's any concern of yours?
Speaker 10 (18:29):
Well, Buster, in case you don't know it, you're the
number one suspect in the killing.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
I there go pardon you own any antique guns?
Speaker 8 (18:37):
God, so I do not collect weapons of any sort.
I don to know what you mean when you said
I have suspended the a chilling.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
The night watchman at Quimby's antique shop was shot to
death and dumped in the river.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
The night washing again, I told him the diamond once
in my association with the night watchman, it was as
ridiculous as.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
General maccarth sending shying the charm bracelet.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Nothing's been touched on the Buddha.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
Nothing if he view the value of the ruby.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I has there be any publicity about the Boodhall?
Speaker 10 (19:05):
Come on, you excuse us a second, mister last down.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
You couldn't make it a year, couldn't.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
You, charming fellow?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah? Look what in some way the night Watchman, the
missing gems ladsdown, and his Buddha were all mixed up together.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
Okay, so what we haven't even got the murder weapon.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
The night Watchman did swap the jewels out of the
safe and someone probably killed him for them.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Yeah, that figures if.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
He was planning on stealing them when they be all
ready to skip time. Sure, but he hadn't packed the thing,
his apartment hadn't been touched.
Speaker 10 (19:35):
Oh that's not much.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Okay. If someone wanted to get that Buddha, why not
break in.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
The store because it's easier to break into a house
out on Long Island.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
The Buddha was just moved this afternoon. Who knew Lasdowan
took it? Yeah, and if the potential thief is mixed
up with the original jewel, theft. Why didn't he grab
the rubies in the store.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
I never thought of that.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I think he wanted that buddha for something else. Oh,
lads dawn, is there anything else about that buddha besides
the eyes?
Speaker 7 (20:04):
I told you what.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
It's a very rare piece aside from that.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
But anyone hides something in it? All right?
Speaker 9 (20:10):
Why? Yes, of course it's hollow.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Hold back swings open.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Wealthy family used to place a valuable position inside the
bodha for protection.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
Show us.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
You see this space inside?
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Is quite agree?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Don't touch it.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
This is exact that.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Garden certainly is, and there maybe fingerprints on it.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Well, I sure that does not belong to me.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Do you know anything about a gun like this?
Speaker 10 (20:36):
Only it's very, very very old and eight to five
that's the one that killed the night watchman. Give me
a handkerchief. Yeah, I'm afraid you'll have to postpone your trip.
Mister ladsdown right already purses my ticket.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Have you any idea why the night watchman was killed
last night?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
All of those uncut gems you had consigned to Quimber
he was stolen? What that's right?
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Well?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Was I notified because mister Quimby thought I could recover
them before you found out.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
That shil off, that deceitful little tip squeak, after all
the business.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
I've given it. Come on, I will personally take a
tree if you like. And exposing is a discredit to
his prevacon.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Come on, you won't leave town when you last the
old boy, and you have my words, at least not
until I'm helping that trade.
Speaker 10 (21:23):
But he's a suspect. We can't leave him.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Y y.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
With the wall protesting all the way, we climbed in
the squad car and pulled it down the street to wait.
In about two minutes flat, Lads Dawn came streaming out
of the house, piled into his own car and took
off for the city with us right behind. A half
an hour later we watched him go into a building
on the east side and we followed. The nail box
gave us Quimby's a pipeine and by the time we
reached the floor we could hear Lads Dan raising his
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blood pressure up past the boiling out out.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Yes, quit me, this.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
Is not for you, really going at it.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
You couldn't blame he quit me.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I show your old neighbor.
Speaker 12 (22:10):
It would only be the person when they find the
watch Yeah, found.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Loading the river?
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Who put that guarded by Buda? You view it?
Speaker 10 (22:22):
But that that doesn't I.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Don't know anything about it.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Why did you think I found it? The police discovering
the police? Yeah, I believe in the same God, I didn't.
You didn't.
Speaker 10 (22:37):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I don't know. We better get in it.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
No, sure, better.
Speaker 10 (22:43):
It quldn't be No, No, you are right right?
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, I'm alright.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
You imagine that your first day and pass the prints
was going to me?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yes, is gone?
Speaker 10 (22:56):
Wall looks like I got him on the leg.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
I can't believe it all Hill.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
Jay, he subjected to such a deceitful melodrama I'll call
an ambulace. I have huge such a spectacle since I
was eight and a half sitting in the balcony of
the Savannah OBErs watching a.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Third class road company chase Mettle.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Ever both the eye I can imagine, Lassie. Let's have
a look at Quimby. Come on, Quimby, better tell me
about it. You killed the night watchman with that antique gun.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
I kept the gun in my desk at the office.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I was taking the jewels from the safe to make
it look like robbery. When when Black came on duty,
he was early, and he surprised me shot him and
hit the gun and the Buddha.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
That's why you were so shocked when the lads Dawn
came and got it today.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Yes, when you told me he was leaving town, I
feared he would take the boodh.
Speaker 8 (23:48):
Women and discover the gun inside.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
It was you who broke into my house this evening.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
Yes, mister lads wagon's on the way.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Well, mister lads Dwn, you were pretty lucky.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Display uncontrolled emotion.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
Lasdown.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Mister D's favor.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Why were you so late?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Rick?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh, I got mixed up with a screwy one. I
was going to leave the station earlier, but Otis got
the discussing Freud with a very learned Jennifer named Lazdown.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Otis was discussing Freud, that's true.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Couldn't tear myself away. It seems according to Otis that
this year Freud plays second base for book On. Then
we got around to Kenzie and discovered he was batting
two hundred.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I don't believe it neither I, but Otis explained he's
been in the slump all season.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
You and your friends.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I hate to mention it, but you qualify in etalie.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Oh but you love me?
Speaker 7 (25:00):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I just breathed hard from an irritated sinus condition.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Well use the condition and seeing me a song?
Speaker 10 (25:09):
Okay, what are you going to sing?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I don't think it's any of your business.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
That's a nice song.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
How does it go? You pick one?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
All right?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
No.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
I like New York and you. How about you?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
That's cute?
Speaker 10 (25:29):
I like gersh with you?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Oh about you?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Love?
Speaker 13 (25:36):
I love a fires high when a storm is d
I like tato chips, moonlight, motor trips.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
How about you?
Speaker 5 (25:51):
I'm mad about good books, can't get my fair.
Speaker 12 (25:58):
And dougle Macas looks give me a thrill holding hands
in the movie show When all the Lights Alo may
not been you, but I like it?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Oh like you like me?
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Well? I?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Oh, wow?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I don't think it's an your business.
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Private Detective starring Dick Paul.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Time Detective at not a corpse in the car load?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Hi, Helen, Hi, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
We're trying to think up a new ad for the
phone book.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
What's the matter with the old one?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Doesn't seem to be bringing in the business. And see
what you think of this one Diamond Detective Agency. We'll
split any case you've got bonded or dead on arrival
by all means.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Use it like it no, but think of all the
business you'll get me the psychiatric ward.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
You're a living doll.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Well, I see it in the.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Helen there. I'll talk to you later. I think I've
spotted a client. Bye bye, Well, come in, Come in,
you're mister that's right.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
My name is Quimby.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
How do you doing, mister Grimby? Pull up a chair.
Thank you? Something I can do for you?
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Yes, you see, mister Diamond, I am the manager of
the Far East Importing Company. And when I went down
to the store this morning, our night watchman was missing.
So also about fifty thousand dollars, un said.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Gems, why come to me instead of the police.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
But those jewels are on consignment to the store. I
wasn't hoped you could recover them before I had to
make an accounting to the.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Owner who owned a gym and.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Mister Phillip Ladsdown. He's a very eccentric collector. He has
many things on display in the store.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
He's a very good client, aren't you ensured? Naturally?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
But if mister Lansdown knew that a robbery had taken place,
he'd never again do business with my establishment.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And you want me to recover the missing jewels if
you can. You think the night watchman is responsible for
the theft, but I.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Don't know what else to think. The night Watchman's name
is Black, Arthur Black. He lives in an apartment on
the East Side that I have already checked with his landlady,
and he hasn't shown that.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
How long have I got to recover the jewels, mister Quimby,
But I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
It's impossible to tell when mister Ladsdown will want an accounting.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Well, I charge you one hundred dollars a day in expenses.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Oh yes, will one hundred be enough for now?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Well, if you have nothing to do for the next
few minutes. I'd be more than happy to grovel at
your feet. I beg your pardon. Now I want the
night watchman's address, also the address of your shop, and
you go back to the shop and waite to hear
from me. Quimby gave me what I wanted, then minced
happily out of my office.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
I locked up and grab a cap for the east
side of.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Town, And twenty minutes later I was talking to the
missing night Watchman's landlady.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
Yure, honey, that's a black limb here. You're the second
one to come ask in farm this morning he killed
somebody or something?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Is he in?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
No, we ain't been into yesterday evening before he left
for White.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Can I take a look at his room?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Well, I don't know. Blue eyes is against the rules.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh, my goodness, I dropped a five dollars.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
My goodness, so you did. Don't hoist your back ben
and over, honey, I get it. Why not a rheumatism,
but anything for a spin. Say you got any more
loose wounds around? I'll show you every room and a.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Joint, just the one where black lives.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Right down here. You ain't no cup, honey, shamus yep,
figure right in here.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Hey, I had some Thank you mother, mother, when you.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Don't stop back at my room and have.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
A fear, I never touch anything stronger than opium, Never.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Anything strong in opium.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
The night Watchman's room was a shabby affair about fifteen
to twenty, and I went over it inch by inch,
cockroach by cockroache. Apparently Block hadn't taken anything with him.
The drawers and the broken down dresser were filled with
an assortment of socks and underwear. In the closet I
found the rest of his clothes and an old empty suitcase. Yes,
if art had Block had skipped, he was figuring on
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buying a wardrobe someplace else. I left, keeping on my
tiptoes as I passed the land lady's door. Then I
headed for the address of mister Quimber's antique shop.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Did you find out anything about the night watching?
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Well? His land Lady's a lush and likes blue eyes
was a metica.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
Man.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Your afternoon, mister Ladsdown.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
I do hope you will now, moll we have vulgarism, sir,
probably wretched after you very well know.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Yeah, yes it is mister diamond, mister.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
J lads Down, How do you do, sir?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
How do you do the nb?
Speaker 7 (06:15):
I'm come from my Buddha. You've come here quite long enough.
Speaker 9 (06:18):
Where is it, mister?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Ladsdown?
Speaker 7 (06:20):
I have someone who's interested. I've just had to not
to sell it. I can't conquer it. Well, where is it?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
It's over there in the corners, in the corner.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I see.
Speaker 8 (06:29):
It's not enough that I suffered the tall Manton lensing,
my excellit stature to affirm the employees that in this
time as manager, no, I'm now.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
Subjected to them indium.
Speaker 8 (06:38):
Having it secreted in the corner, find a variety of
break up raw one would expect it find only in
the men's lounge and coney.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
I told you that Duodo was to enjoy this room,
most favorable location. You made a grave mistakes. I'm a mistress.
Mistake please, mister, I'm repossessing my buddh forth with for years.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
I forced myself to deal with.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
You in a pay shooting Paul very mata, Oh never again,
this is a crowning blow.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
I'll be a pa Philip nassdown the cock pols before fine.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Oh that man is the diamond, that terrifying man I
has been born under an unlucky star.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well relaxed, think could be worse. You've still got a
little hair on your head even that, so who wants
fat hair? I left Quimby wringing the cold sweat out
of his hands, and took a cab over to the
Fifth Pricinct Police headquarters. When I walked in, the clock
above Lieutenant Levinson's desk said twelve noon. Lieutenant Levinson said, oh, no,
(07:44):
I wants the matter, fatty. I remind you of your
lost youth.
Speaker 10 (07:47):
No lost cause I was.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
We'll face it, Walter. You hate me because I have
an athletic waistline. Ah ha eureka, at last a three
syllable word. I knew you could do it all this.
I'm gonna let you do me a favor.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
Yeah mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I want you to check with the morgan All Hospitals
in jails for Arthur Block, lately employed as the night
watchman of the Far Eastern Porting Company.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Oh well, I'll check, But not because you told me?
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Then?
Speaker 7 (08:17):
Why?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Because I'm stupid?
Speaker 10 (08:21):
What's all this about?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Rick? That's a busy night watchman in fifty thousand dollars
in Joels. Well, but you can't stick your nose in
a jet. Nobody's dead.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
I've got a sergeant who can make a liar out
of you.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
What do you know about a guy named Philip J. Ladsdown?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
And I heard him that phone with him?
Speaker 10 (08:36):
Thanks to get it? Just leave a nickel.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Always a collector of rare art objects and nasty dispositions.
Speaker 10 (08:43):
Want me to check on this lads Down for you?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It might be a good idea.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Okay, yeah me, Oh, mister diamond, I was hoping you'd
call you.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
And ten thousand foolish debutantes.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Mister Ladsdown has helped the boo get removed, and you're
sending a lawyer op in the morning from the counting.
Now should I tell him about the jewels? Now and
wait until morning?
Speaker 7 (09:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Wait? If you want this thing sobbed? What's the last
Down's address?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Blue heron Roade long.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Thanks, I'm going out to say him. I'll check with
you later.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Patient free.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
I do not read pick, look, see quick or popular mechanics.
I refuse to endorse the petition. And as far as
a free excursion to the Mahamas with all expenses paid,
I couldn't be less interested.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
I'll you'd be so kind of to remove your person
from my proper dead. I'm warning you, sir.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Look your highness remember me I mention this afternoon at
the Far East Temporting Company.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
I remember your good day, young man.
Speaker 8 (09:54):
If you do not remove your foot from my door,
I may result for violence.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
You will kindly your foot by all.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Means, as soon as you answer a few questions.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
Who are you, sir? I mean, what's your occupation?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
I am a private detective.
Speaker 9 (10:06):
How earthy? But what do you want?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
How many things do you have on consignment in the
Far Eastendporting Combination?
Speaker 9 (10:12):
Oh, good grief, What kind of a question is that?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
The first of several?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
I have many things on consignment?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
There anything of extreme value?
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Where are you getting at?
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Just curious?
Speaker 8 (10:20):
Yes, disgustingly so, of course there are many things of
extreme value, ultimately fifty thousand dollars in rare gyms, a
dozen priceless antiques. As a matter of fact, that Buddha
which used all this morning, my most priceless position, side
from being very old. The eyes are two perfect pigeon
blood rubies. Now was anything else? I'm sure your foot
must be going to sleep.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Did you ever know or meet a man named Arthur Block?
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Never?
Speaker 2 (10:43):
It was a night Watchman at the shop.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
The night Watchman God conversations in a dead I find
your reference to my association with the night Watchman the
lowest form of this corn now good dare.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Good sun height to you? Hey, sorry, I do not
read pick click quick, looks spook. Hey, who's taking his census?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Just wanting off a party named lives Down?
Speaker 9 (11:13):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
You could hardly call him a party, more like a
friendly street fight.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Looks friend, I got to pick up some luggage Lives
Down listen, Yeah, with a bosom Buddha. Last Down's are
one with the two pays.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Mister Diamond was just closing up shopping.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Have you found out.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Anything, Well, not much. Tell me something, Quimby, Where do
you keep those jewels in the safe? The night Watchman
had the combination.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Yeah, it's in case you fire.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
There are also some perishables in with the gems.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Do you know much about the rest of the merchandise
in the store.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Yeah, it's because he had a list and made inventory
every night.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Did you know laz Down's Buddha had ruby eyes?
Speaker 3 (11:57):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Well, how'd you find out? Last Down told me if
the night Watchman knew about those rubies? I wonder why
I didn't pry them out and take them along. I
never thought of that.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
If you touched that safe, yes, when I opened it
and discovered the laws.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Well, don't do it again. May have some of the
Night Watchman's fingerprints on it somewhere. Tell me, did you uh?
Did you know las Down was planning on leaving town? No?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I'm not sure that he is. But I've got a
hunch you're going home after your lock up.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
He is.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
I'll give me your phone number.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I'm going down to pre Sink and they want to
reach you later.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
Well, hello, Blue, why are you're still looking for Black?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
That's right? Has he shown up?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
No?
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Hey, Honny, it just skipped off without shaing goodbye. Had
a beer all open for you.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh, I bet you were so unhappy. I poured it
down the.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Dreams because you're the one.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Sure sure, Look, sweetheart, if a block shows up called
him at the fifth Pre Saint police station, names diamonds,
you had them?
Speaker 7 (12:58):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
You, Well that's an idea.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
I couldn't find nothing on that, missus. Night Watchman Shamas.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Thanks anyway, otis and appreciation. I may send you a
large can of red Heart liver flavor.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Oh God, chase your tail around the blot otis Yeah,
and I got tame? Are things to say? Funny thing
funny as your face. I'm tired of you making fun
of me. I ain't no dog.
Speaker 10 (13:29):
You had in trouble with Otis again.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Oh, I don't think it's anything serious, but I would
suggest a raveish shot.
Speaker 10 (13:34):
Well, here's something that might interest you. Philip J. Lasdown
booked passage on the Star of the Orient, sailing for
the Far East tonight at eleven o'clock.
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Sounds wonderful.
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Did Andelafield have makeup too?
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Speaker 2 (15:10):
Well waltson Lightning. A bit of information certainly seemed important,
so I said, arm try and figure out exactly what
I had to day, my client Quimby, had come into
my office and hired me to locate a missing night
watchman named Arthur Block because fifty thousand dollars in gems
had been pilfered from Quemby's shop. The gems belonged to
a particularly disgusting character named Philip J. Lasdowm. The missing
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night watchman Block was still missing, and by the looks
of his room, he'd skipped without taking anything with him,
and by the look of his landlady, I couldn't blame him. Well,
I tied it all together and the conclusion was amazingly simple.
I had exactly nothing.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Yeah, I got something hot. Look at to eleven on
River Street. I fished the guy out of the bay.
At the end of per sixteen, I identified as one
Arthur Block at your missing night watchman.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's his name.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
They bring the body in.
Speaker 5 (16:02):
Yeah, it's down the mab.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Now get Quimby down there for identification. Here's his phone number.
Speaker 10 (16:06):
Does Black have any family or anything?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
I don't know, but you might check with his land lady.
She can get you an identification too.
Speaker 10 (16:12):
Oh, let's get this Quimbe and the land lady take
him down to the morgue. We're going to see Verdier
in ballistic Right. Here's the slug, Lieutenant, almost like a ball.
This is really most amazing.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
That slug was fired from a weapon made in eighteen
thirty one by Samuel cold. He patented it in Europe
in eighteen thirty five and in the US in eighteen
thirty six. What did the gun look like, Well, it
was the foregun off he called forty four, a single
barrel with the evolving breach, carried five slugs. During the
Fieski evolution in France in eighteen thirty four, Fieski had
a rifle made like it. They tried to assassinate Louis Philippe.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
Well, what is it, Jim Mallett.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
Head Carl just came over the hat shot guy. Philip
Lasdown said someone to bust into his house and tried
to rob him. He said he chased the guy off,
but he was screaming for protection.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Come on, Walt, I think we better go over there. Well,
things were beginning to shape up.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Wald and I piled in the squad car and headed
for Long Island, the house.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Of Philip J. Lasdown. When we got there, Lazdown was
hopping around like a kangaroo with a hot.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Fine skinny.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
To a man who's even saving his own home, where's
the city coming to a police force is obviously tacond only.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
To the boy scot down.
Speaker 10 (17:33):
Now calm down, now down, my good fellow.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
I have no intention of calming down.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
How would you enjoy walking into your own living room
and they're slaking around in the dark. A pathological fiend
intends on robbing you off your most priceless position.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
What was he after?
Speaker 7 (17:46):
My Buddha?
Speaker 8 (17:48):
The object of your particularly uncouth interrogation of his afternoon
is his island by the way.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Well were you forteen minutes ago? Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Relax? Did you get a look at this guy?
Speaker 9 (17:59):
Lights were out?
Speaker 10 (18:00):
How did he take your Buddha?
Speaker 7 (18:01):
He well, certainly did not. But had I not walked
in at.
Speaker 8 (18:04):
The precise moment, he would probably be carrying his piggybacks
in the middle of Times Square and you're observing police
water and down at least top.
Speaker 7 (18:11):
Having for him.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
That's the boodh right over there. Off, keep your hands
off it.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Now, Look, lassie, you called the police. The police are here,
so relaxed before someone puts their foot in that big mouth.
Speaker 10 (18:21):
Well yeah, really, you're getting ready to leave town, aren't
you see that?
Speaker 7 (18:27):
That's any concern of yours?
Speaker 10 (18:29):
Well, Buster, in case you don't know it, you're the
number one suspect in the killing.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
I there go pardon you own any antique guns?
Speaker 8 (18:37):
God, so I do not collect weapons of any sort.
I don to know what you mean when you said
I have suspended the a chilling.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
The night watchman at Quimby's antique shop was shot to
death and dumped in the river.
Speaker 8 (18:48):
The night washing again, I told him the diamond once
in my association with the night watchman, it was as
ridiculous as.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
General maccarth sending shying the charm bracelet.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Nothing's been touched on the Buddha.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
Nothing if he view the value of the ruby.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I has there be any publicity about the Boodhall?
Speaker 10 (19:05):
Come on, you excuse us a second, mister last down.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
You couldn't make it a year, couldn't.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
You, charming fellow?
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah? Look what in some way the night Watchman, the
missing gems ladsdown, and his Buddha were all mixed up together.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
Okay, so what we haven't even got the murder weapon.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
The night Watchman did swap the jewels out of the
safe and someone probably killed him for them.
Speaker 10 (19:26):
Yeah, that figures if.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
He was planning on stealing them when they be all
ready to skip time. Sure, but he hadn't packed the thing,
his apartment hadn't been touched.
Speaker 10 (19:35):
Oh that's not much.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Okay. If someone wanted to get that Buddha, why not
break in.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
The store because it's easier to break into a house
out on Long Island.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
The Buddha was just moved this afternoon. Who knew Lasdowan
took it? Yeah, and if the potential thief is mixed
up with the original jewel, theft. Why didn't he grab
the rubies in the store.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
I never thought of that.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I think he wanted that buddha for something else. Oh,
lads dawn, is there anything else about that buddha besides
the eyes?
Speaker 7 (20:04):
I told you what.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
It's a very rare piece aside from that.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
But anyone hides something in it? All right?
Speaker 9 (20:10):
Why? Yes, of course it's hollow.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Hold back swings open.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
Wealthy family used to place a valuable position inside the
bodha for protection.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
Show us.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
You see this space inside?
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Is quite agree?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Don't touch it.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
This is exact that.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Garden certainly is, and there maybe fingerprints on it.
Speaker 9 (20:32):
Well, I sure that does not belong to me.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Do you know anything about a gun like this?
Speaker 10 (20:36):
Only it's very, very very old and eight to five
that's the one that killed the night watchman. Give me
a handkerchief. Yeah, I'm afraid you'll have to postpone your trip.
Mister ladsdown right already purses my ticket.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Have you any idea why the night watchman was killed
last night?
Speaker 2 (20:54):
All of those uncut gems you had consigned to Quimber
he was stolen? What that's right?
Speaker 7 (21:00):
Well?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Was I notified because mister Quimby thought I could recover
them before you found out.
Speaker 8 (21:05):
That shil off, that deceitful little tip squeak, after all
the business.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
I've given it. Come on, I will personally take a
tree if you like. And exposing is a discredit to
his prevacon.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Come on, you won't leave town when you last the
old boy, and you have my words, at least not
until I'm helping that trade.
Speaker 10 (21:23):
But he's a suspect. We can't leave him.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Y y.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
With the wall protesting all the way, we climbed in
the squad car and pulled it down the street to wait.
In about two minutes flat, Lads Dawn came streaming out
of the house, piled into his own car and took
off for the city with us right behind. A half
an hour later we watched him go into a building
on the east side and we followed. The nail box
gave us Quimby's a pipeine and by the time we
reached the floor we could hear Lads Dan raising his
(21:54):
blood pressure up past the boiling out out.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Yes, quit me, this.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
Is not for you, really going at it.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
You couldn't blame he quit me.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
I show your old neighbor.
Speaker 12 (22:10):
It would only be the person when they find the
watch Yeah, found.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Loading the river?
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Who put that guarded by Buda? You view it?
Speaker 10 (22:22):
But that that doesn't I.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Don't know anything about it.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Why did you think I found it? The police discovering
the police? Yeah, I believe in the same God, I didn't.
You didn't.
Speaker 10 (22:37):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
I don't know. We better get in it.
Speaker 9 (22:40):
No, sure, better.
Speaker 10 (22:43):
It quldn't be No, No, you are right right?
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, I'm alright.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
You imagine that your first day and pass the prints
was going to me?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yes, is gone?
Speaker 10 (22:56):
Wall looks like I got him on the leg.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
I can't believe it all Hill.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
Jay, he subjected to such a deceitful melodrama I'll call
an ambulace. I have huge such a spectacle since I
was eight and a half sitting in the balcony of
the Savannah OBErs watching a.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Third class road company chase Mettle.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Ever both the eye I can imagine, Lassie. Let's have
a look at Quimby. Come on, Quimby, better tell me
about it. You killed the night watchman with that antique gun.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
I kept the gun in my desk at the office.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I was taking the jewels from the safe to make
it look like robbery. When when Black came on duty,
he was early, and he surprised me shot him and
hit the gun and the Buddha.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
That's why you were so shocked when the lads Dawn
came and got it today.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Yes, when you told me he was leaving town, I
feared he would take the boodh.
Speaker 8 (23:48):
Women and discover the gun inside.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
It was you who broke into my house this evening.
Speaker 10 (23:53):
Yes, mister lads wagon's on the way.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Well, mister lads Dwn, you were pretty lucky.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Display uncontrolled emotion.
Speaker 10 (24:04):
Lasdown.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Mister D's favor.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Why were you so late?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Rick?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh, I got mixed up with a screwy one. I
was going to leave the station earlier, but Otis got
the discussing Freud with a very learned Jennifer named Lazdown.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Otis was discussing Freud, that's true.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Couldn't tear myself away. It seems according to Otis that
this year Freud plays second base for book On. Then
we got around to Kenzie and discovered he was batting
two hundred.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I don't believe it neither I, but Otis explained he's
been in the slump all season.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
You and your friends.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
I hate to mention it, but you qualify in etalie.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Oh but you love me?
Speaker 7 (25:00):
I do not.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I just breathed hard from an irritated sinus condition.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Well use the condition and seeing me a song?
Speaker 10 (25:09):
Okay, what are you going to sing?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I don't think it's any of your business.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
That's a nice song.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
How does it go? You pick one?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
All right?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Let's see.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
No.
Speaker 9 (25:22):
I like New York and you. How about you?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
That's cute?
Speaker 10 (25:29):
I like gersh with you?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Oh about you?
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Love?
Speaker 13 (25:36):
I love a fires high when a storm is d
I like tato chips, moonlight, motor trips.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
How about you?
Speaker 5 (25:51):
I'm mad about good books, can't get my fair.
Speaker 12 (25:58):
And dougle Macas looks give me a thrill holding hands
in the movie show When all the Lights Alo may
not been you, but I like it?
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Oh like you like me?
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Well? I?
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Oh, wow?
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (26:34):
I don't think it's an your business.
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