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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
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Speaker 3 (00:52):
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Speaker 1 (01:19):
Here transcribed as Richard Diamond Private Detective starring.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Dick Powell Diamond Detective Agency. Your applight is already light,
Helen Ash.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You're speaking a gall alone with just a phone.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Oh clever, Helen clever.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
After all, you're not the only one who can make
up corny slogans.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Easy girl, you're crowding me.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Of course, I just might give up my slogans if
you were on time.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
For dinner tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's the deal. I can't stand.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Competition, seriously, Rick, I have a surprise for you tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Oh you're inviting your preacher for dinner.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Maybe no, nothing like that. But I'm fixing the whole
dinner myself, from soup to salad.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Oh great, Scott four million dollars and she can cook too.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well. You just remember to go easy on lunch. I
want you to have an appetite by the time.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
You get here, Helen.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I couldn't think of eating anything that would spoil my appetite. Besides,
the automat won't take slugs anymore.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
Well, I do believe Lil MEA's little clients must be male.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I don't hear your fangs clicking.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Oh dear, you're so stupid.
Speaker 8 (02:27):
Bye bye, you die. Diamond, that's right, What do you know?
I do a ten to one I'd find you in
You don't say yeah, I get your hat, paddle.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's forty five. Puts the odds in my favor. And
now get up. What are the odds on finding out
of what this is all about? Hundred and one? Right now?
Speaker 8 (02:45):
You'll find out soon enough, though. Now come on, Diamond,
don't try no tricks. You don want achieve in money,
you'll be a dead man.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, some people collect stamps me. I collect strange as
it is, and the character who led me downstairs to
his car I was one of the strangest I've seen
all the week. He wore a loud checked vest, purple
sports coat, and bright yellow slacks, and every time he
opened his mouth he gave odds on something earlier. We
drove through town, finally pulled up in front of a
ritzy apartment house. He led me back to an apartment
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on the first floor. Hold it, this is it inside, Diamond.
That's fair enough, Hey, jut it jet it.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
I'm right here, Freddy.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I told you what's four to one? I could bring
him here.
Speaker 9 (03:37):
Freddys Diamond.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Oh, hello, Freddy. If you told me she was going
to be here, you wouldn't need the odds.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
That's very sweet.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I'm a very sweet guy, especially with a gun in
my back.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
You can put it away now, Freddy and take a walk.
I want to speak to mister Diamond alone, Freddy.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Okay, okay, only the eyes are three to one.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I should stick around.
Speaker 9 (04:01):
Mister Diamond. I need your help. I suggested this to
Freddy and he said he'd bring you. I had no
idea he'd force you to come.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I'll skip the apologies, honey, Just why do you need
my help?
Speaker 9 (04:12):
My name is Janet Collins. My brother is Bert Collins.
Does that name mean anything to you?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It all depends. There was a Bert Collins sentenced to
the electric chair a few months ago, same one.
Speaker 9 (04:24):
Yes, but he isn't guilty, mister Diamond. Bert was convicted
of murdering a bookie, but he didn't. He tried to
tell his story in court, but they wouldn't believe him, and.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I'd take it. You want to tell me his story now?
Speaker 9 (04:36):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, I'm listening.
Speaker 9 (04:40):
Bert went into the pool room to see this bookie
about alone. While he was talking to him, a stranger
came in and shot the booky said something about getting even,
and the stranger dropped the gun and ran.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And uh what did Bert do all this time?
Speaker 10 (04:53):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (04:53):
He was stunned. He bent over the body and picked
up the gun just as the police rushed in. It
looked like he did it. Only he's innocent, mister.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Diamond, Honey, as I remember, if your brother had a
fair trial, twelve men disagree with you about his guilt.
Speaker 9 (05:08):
I know that, but there's one man who can prove
he told the truth.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh, I'll keep talking there was a witness.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
To the murder, A little racketeer named Tony Garibaldi, was
in the pool room when it happened. He saw the
stranger come in and kill the booky.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Why didn't this come out at the trial because we
couldn't find Tony.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
We Freddy Bert's lawyer and myself. We have witnesses who
swear they saw Tony enter the pool room and rush
out after the shooting.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
But you haven't got Tony.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
No, he's the only one who can prove Bird is innocent.
Unless we find Tony by tomorrow, it'll be too late.
Please take the case, mister Diamond, find Tony Garibaldi.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well, I ah, I can give it a try. This
is a big city, though Tony could be hiding anywhere.
Speaker 9 (05:55):
I know it's a hard job, but I'll pay the
usual fee. I'll be very grateful, mister Diamond, very grateful.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Mm hmm. Well say the gratitude for later, dear, after
we find Tony Garibaldi. Oh Diamond, a pretty face, a
sob story, and you get into the scroyoest cases. Find
a cheap racket here out of seven million people. I
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wonder what kind of odds Freddy would have given beyond that.
I caught a cab back to my office, picked up
my card, then drove down to the Fifth Precinct. I
was hoping Lieutenant Walt Lemonson could give me some lead
on Tony Garibaldi. Oh, good morning, mister Diamond. Mister Diamond. Wow.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
So Formal New Policy Commissioner decided we were getting too
lax here at the Fifth Precinct. Henceforth we had to
treat visitors with dignity and respect.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You don't try, yeah, and stop writing. What do you
want here? Anyway? Oh, I'm working on the case.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
You remember Bert Collins and how gruled him after he
was arrested.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Tough boy. I'm working the springing.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yeah, he was one of the what are you crazy?
Collins gets the chair tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And I know, I know, but his sister says he's
innocent and you believed it. I don't know. She wants
me to find a punk named Tony Garibaldi. Says Tony
witnessed the murder and can prove Bert didn't.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Oh, yeah, I remember that's what Bert told us. We
tried to locate Tony, but he's dropped out of circulation.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You think Tony really saw the murder.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Who knows Gy next door to the pool room said
he saw Tony enter and come out later after the shots. Look, Greg,
there's no doubt that Bert did it. The patroling on
the beat rushed in found him standing over the body
with a gun in his head.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Then why is Tony hiding? And why would Bert's sister
want me to find Tony unless he was sure he
could free her brother.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
All I know is we had all the evidence against
Bert that we needed. He tried to borrow money from
the book. What he refused, they had to fight. Bert
shot him, open and shutcase.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Wald. I'm still going
looking for Tony Garibaldi and he leads on him.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Yeah, I'm afraid that chances are some of the petty
rackets might know where he is. Tony's worked all the
cheap rackets, got a lot of friends.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Well, I guess I start covering the petty rackets then,
huh yeah, good luck, Rick, But it is innocent. I'd
hate to see him burn. Well, if I find Tony,
I'll bring him into you here. I'm glad you said.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
If if you find Tony and if he can clear Bert.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Cullins that's right, Fatty. If New York is a big city,
and like any big city, it has a lot of rackets,
everything from fake panhandlers to phony insurance salesman. But someone
in these rackets might know where I could find Tony Garibaldi.
So I began checking one racket after another. Charity rackets,
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use Cairo rackets, everything. Yeah, a lot of people knew Tony,
but they hadn't seen him in the months or so,
they said. It was late afternoon by the time I
pulled up in front of Sneezy Williams apartment. A few
years back, Sneezey had organized every pickpocket in town, formed
a sort of a union. There was a chance he
might know Tony's whereabouts. I got out of my car
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and started for his apartment.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
Don't turn around, Diamond.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Huh hm, It couldn't be your finger sticking in my back,
hodded friend.
Speaker 11 (09:26):
No, it couldn't be Rockward that alley, Diamond, or I'll
put a hole right through you.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
That's a pleasant thought, now, Pallette, this is a stick up.
You're in for a disappointment. The only green stuff in
my wallet is marked.
Speaker 11 (09:37):
Shut up and don't turn around.
Speaker 12 (09:39):
That's far enough.
Speaker 11 (09:41):
Diamond.
Speaker 12 (09:42):
I here, you've been looking for me.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh you're Garabaldy.
Speaker 12 (09:46):
Shut up?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
How do they talking? Diamond?
Speaker 11 (09:50):
I don't know what your angle is and this or
why you're after me, but I want you to lay off.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Oh why you're hiding Tony? Where you're fraight oft? You
never mind that.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
Now.
Speaker 12 (09:57):
Look I've heard you're a right guy. I'm I hate
to do this, but you've got to understand I'm not kidding.
Keep away from me, or next time you won't get.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Off so easy, Tony. Tony, listen to the aisle.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
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Speaker 1 (10:42):
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Speaker 4 (11:11):
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Speaker 9 (11:20):
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Speaker 1 (11:26):
And now back to Richard Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I was looking for a little racketeer named Tony Garibaldi.
Only instead of finding him, Tony found me, and he
left a bump on my head as a not too
gentle reminder that he didn't appreciate me searching for him.
But now I was even more determined to find him
for two good reasons. One, he might save Bert Collins
from the chair, and twoted to repay him for that
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crack on the head with interest. After I had come
too in the alley, I went to a cafe on
the corner, smoked four camels, had two cups of coffee,
and washed my face. I felt much better as I
walked back up the street to Sneeze William's apartment. I
climbed the stairs and knocked on Sneeze's door. When the
door opened, Sneeze stood there, his face screwed up like
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hed just bitten into an unripe per semon. Then relief
spread over his pudgy features.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
And he held out his hand Vicky diaperd lug type.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Are you sneezy, bed wid goodbye? Jad, Thanks? I ooh,
what's that smell?
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Fooms for my vapor eyes over there on the table.
I got to breathe them and clicked up my head.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Now I hear you've gone up in the world, sneezy
pickpocket union.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Huh diaper, Please don't use that word pickpocket. We call
them caddids.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be disrespectful.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Coboard mit. Yeah, I organize the boys. He keeps about
the hither's territory, and I get a potential of all
that takes.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
All that explains the fancy apartment. Uh.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Only what goods though, when you're a sick man like me.
I got a coat all year round. I've been under
a mustard place that's so long, I feel like a
hot dog.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
What brigs you here, Ricky? I'm looking for a man sneezy,
but you might know where I could find it.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Well, it all depends. Come on, let's sit over here
by the vapor guys. I gotta sniff those fooms. Who
you have to Wick, I have the name of Tony.
Get a ball Tony you know. Oh sure worked for
me a few years back. I haven't seen them lately though.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Where was he living when you know him, Sneezy, No,
let's see, excuse me the sick oh them foods? Feel
good about Tony?
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, I should though it. Oh oh sure
he lived with his mother. Yeah that's a nice old lady.
I've been over there a few.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Times of a where, Sneeze. He wants the address.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
The address them fooms? You know, these vaporizers come pretty
high these days. This one set me back ten bucks.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
All right, Sneezy, here's ten bucks, VICKI, you are a
kindred soul. Just make with the address, Sneezy, the.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
Old lady run the dry cleanic shop over run seventy
nine and third, right on the corner.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
You can't miss it. Ooh themn foocause then I that
last one must have registered on the context seismograph. I
left Sneezy with another cazote Heid and went out the
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door before he blew me out. Then I went to
my car, drove across town to the cleaning shop on
seventy nine to third. Inside. I found it tired looking
old lady marking clothes.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Yes, you have come for clothes.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
No, Missus Garibaldi, I'm I'm looking for your son, Tony.
Speaker 10 (15:22):
Tony, what is it you want with him? I like
to talk to your friend the police? Well directly, yes,
go away now, Missus geb you're not dressed like policeman.
You're not from the police. You used to harm my Tony.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Go away, Missus Garibaldi. Your son's in a lot of trouble.
He might be able to save an innocent man from dying.
I intend to find him.
Speaker 12 (15:49):
Tony is in trouble.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
He comes here months ago, tells me he must hide.
He does not tell me why from me?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And like you, why your son witnessed a murder?
Speaker 12 (16:04):
This is a crime.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
No, no, but Tony ran away. If he tells what
he really saw, perhaps an innocent man will go free.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Tony is a good boy. You would not wish harm
to innocent man.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Perhaps Tony's afraid, Missus Garibaldi, afraid some harm will come
to him if he tells the truth.
Speaker 9 (16:24):
Is this true?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
No? The police will protect your son, but they can't
protect him If they don't know where he is, he's
in more danger.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
Now, how do I know you speak of the truth.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You're not from the police.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I know you're not a harm Tony yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You can check with the police, Lieutenant Lemonson, Fifth Percinct.
He'll vouch for me. I do not know.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
You would not tell me to check unless you spoke
the truth.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But I do not know where's Tony living, Missus Garabald.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Tony says, I'm not to tell anyone.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Your son's afraid. People in fear don't think clearly. Nowhere's Tony.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
Tony's a good boy.
Speaker 12 (17:13):
It's no good he must hide?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Where is he done?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
He must hide no more? Tony must have tell truth.
If I do wrong, I'd be forgiven. But I will
tell you where Tony hides.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Missus Gara Baldi wrote the address on a slip of paper.
I called Janet Collins and asked her to meet me
at Tony's hideout. Together we might be able to persuade
him to tell the truth about the murder. When I
got to Tony's rooming house, Janet hadn't arrived yet, so
I went up alone, and after five flights I didn't
bother to knock. What hello, Tony? Done? Yeah, now, Punk,
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we'll have a little talk.
Speaker 12 (17:57):
You get out of here, leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Stay right there, Tony. I've got the gun this time,
and I'm missing to pay you back for the wallap
in the alley.
Speaker 12 (18:03):
I had to do that, Diamond, you don't understand.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I suppose you woul't like me. Who are you hiding from?
Speaker 12 (18:09):
You know as well as I do. They hired you
to find me, didn't they.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
It all depends who do you mean by they.
Speaker 12 (18:14):
Colin's sister Janet and not Freddy character. They hired you,
didn't they.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
That's right to find a chicken hearted punk who might
be able to save Bert Collins from the chair. You're
quite a guy, Tony. Let Bert die because you're afraid
you'll risk your own egg.
Speaker 11 (18:27):
Oh, come off it, mister Diamond. You must know why
they want me. Sure I was in the pool room
the night of the murder. That's why I got to hide.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I don't follow you. Tony. Now, who was it you saw?
Speaker 12 (18:37):
You're trying to tell me you don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I never asked questions if I know the answers.
Speaker 11 (18:41):
Okay, then here's your answer. Sure I seen the killer?
It was Bert Collins what I was at a back table?
Bert come in, he didn't see me.
Speaker 12 (18:50):
After the shots, I got out of there fast.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You're lying, Tony, Why are you hiding? If Bert really
did it, he's been convicted. He can't harm you.
Speaker 11 (18:58):
No, but his sister and not Freddy guy. And after
the murder, they got in touch with me, told me
I had to swear I saw a stranger come in
and kill the bookie.
Speaker 12 (19:06):
They told me I had to swear.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Bert didn't do it, So that's why you ran.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Sure.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
I didn't want to get in trouble with the law,
but if I didn't lie, I'd be killed.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
So I hit out. Tony. If what you say is true,
I'm the biggest stoop in town.
Speaker 11 (19:20):
You gotta believe me, mister Domant. I swear I tell
the truth. And then please don't tell them where I'm hiding.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Please, it's too late for that, Tony. You already know what. Yeah,
come on, let's get out of here. We'll get you
to a safer place and then we'll have holler right there, Katie,
have to fight to one, i'd pull a trigger. Well
well well, yellow vessed, purple sports coat and gray gun.
Freddie or regular technicolor nightmare.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
You gotta drop your gun, Diamond.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Hello, Janet, drop it.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
That's a sweet little boy.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
You're believing now, mister Domand yeah, Tony, only don't rub
it in.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
Damn.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
I'm sorry this has to be Why did you define Tony?
But I wish you hadn't talked to him.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Oh, Janet, you're a dreamer. This won't work. Even if
Tony does swear Bert's innocent. The police will break his story.
Your brother dies in the chair tomorrow night, and a
lie can't save it.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
You'll see about that. It's a chance.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Anyway, What about it, Tony? You gonna let him take
it downtown in life for.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Them, right?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
I know, Tony Diamond. Don't try and fill him with
false bravado. He knows what Freddy'll do with him unless
he does exactly what we tell him, don't you, Tony?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, kid, you know? Yeah, I got fifty to one.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
You'll say just what we want you to see.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
I'm sorry, mister Diamond. I guess I gotta do what
they want.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Don't be a fool, Tony. There, Diamond, you're fucked enough.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Freddy. I'll leave you here with Diamond, Tony and I
are wait in the car. Don't be long, Come on,
Tony Dimond.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Now then, Diamond, just showing me you make the most
brilliant statements, Freddy. Yeah, and they, Hey, keep your hands
out of your pocket. Oh take it easy, Freddy. There
couldn't be a gun in this pocket. Just got a
half dollar. See what's I gave? Well, Freddie, old boy,
the way I see it, I'm about to be shot.
That's even money, all right. Well, I can't figure out
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whether to die here or trying to rush you, or
just stand here and wait for you to shoot.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Either way I die, so I might as well decide
which way I wanted. Thought I might flip a coin, Diamond.
You must be a little loft, Freddy. Freddy, I didn't
admit it before, but you see I'm I'm crazy about
gambling too, just like you. Yeah. Sure you can appreciate
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a sportsman wanting to go out like this to die
on a gamble. I don't know, Freddy, Freddy relaxed. Either way,
I die now, I'll flip the coin two out of
three heads, I die rushing you tails, I wait for
you to shoot. It's sort of interesting. M huh. Here
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we go up there, tail joys h two out of three? Up?
H what is it? Heads?
Speaker 9 (22:17):
Go on?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Go on? This one tells the tail, Yeah, Freddy. This
one tells the tale. I held the coin against my thumb.
Freddy was interested. Now, he was the type who liked
any kind of a bet, and in this one the
odds were all in his favor. But I always did
like long shots. I flipped the coin high, only this
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time I didn't catch it. I let it fall to
the floor and Freddy's eyes followed it. This was what
I needed. I threw him off balance in the gunman,
clattering to the floor. Then my right hand plowed into
a yellow vest and my left hand followed through and
that took care of Freddy. But there was still Janet
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outside with Tony and the I stripped Freddy of his
purple sport code, put it on and went downstairs. Outside
I saw Janet and Tony in a blue sedan parked
at the curb. I lowered my head around the Janet's
side as fast as I could.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Get on the other side. Freddy up, Diamond, Take.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It easy, honey, I'm just relax now, you'll go somewhere
in a minute, Tony, Yeah, run out the corner and
get the cop of the beat to take care of
my little friends, will you and make it snappy? I
got a date at seven o'clock. Hmmm, I wonder how
Helen would like be in a purple sport jacket. I
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beg your pardon, Helen, Dear, I said, well, that's what
I thought you said. Now, dear, please stop staring at me.
It makes me self conscious. Oh I just can't help it.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Rick, I don't think it's right for a woman to
tell a man how to dress. I agree only sometimes. Wow,
that purple sports jacket.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I was wondering when you noticed it.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
No, I noticed it when you first came in. I'm
just getting over the shock.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Oh, I knew you'd like it. There, wait until you
see my red, white and blue slacks. I'm saving them
for Lincoln's birthday.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Oh now, rig what's come over you?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Personality? There? Now, settle back and listen to your colorful
boyfriend sing a sweet song.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Oh what a way to spend an evening.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
A purple coat, a piano, and a private detective. And
I'm the gal who graduated.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
From Vassar.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
And so to sleep again. As if I'll ever.
Speaker 13 (24:47):
Sleep again, These restless nice go on.
Speaker 14 (24:58):
Away from me you, and so to dream again, as
if I ever dream again, my darling, Since you're gone,
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my dreams are.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
Through no.
Speaker 13 (25:27):
Other Kenny's the same within my heart. No other lips
can kiss away these tears that start. And so to
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sleep again, as if I ever sleep again.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
As if I ever love again?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Any warm.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
Bo you?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
That was very nice, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
I'm surprised you didn't sing a loud or tune to
go with your clothes.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Oh, Helen, Helen. From your tone, one would think you
didn't approve of my new apparel.
Speaker 12 (26:30):
One would wouldn't, one one would ast no Rick.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Rick rick.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Ahick, Yes, dear more, Well, I'll be romantic tonight, romantic nothing.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
So as you wear that jacket, I'd rather keep my
eyes closed.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Dick Powell will return in just a minute. What cigarette
do you smoke? Doctor? When that question was asked of
doctors from coast to coast doctors in all branches of medicine,
the brand name most was camel. Why don't you smoke camels?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Too?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And say, why not give a carton of camels for
Saint Valentine's Day? Camel's coming a special carton, all dressed
up for the Valentine season. Give your Valentine Camels.
Speaker 9 (27:31):
Oh mild, mild? How mild can a cigarette be?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Smoke Camels and sea.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Here's Dick Powell with a special message.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. To help bring pleasure to
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Speaker 1 (28:29):
The Night's transcribed Adventure of Richard Diamond was written and
directed by Dick Carr, with music by Frank Worth. Virginia
Gregg played the part of Helena Asher, and Alan Reid
was Lieutenant Levinson. Others in the cast were Herb Butterfield,
Jean Bates, and Parley Bear. Be sure to listen to
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Speaker 9 (28:54):
The bike is out and the pleasures.
Speaker 12 (28:56):
And when you smoke Prince Albert, it's shall be.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Treated not to bite your tongue.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
The pipe is out and the pleasures in.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
So pack your pipe with Prince Albert, the largest selling
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of Richard Diamond, starring Dick Powell
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
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Speaker 3 (00:52):
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Speaker 1 (01:19):
Here transcribed as Richard Diamond Private Detective starring.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Dick Powell Diamond Detective Agency. Your applight is already light,
Helen Ash.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
You're speaking a gall alone with just a phone.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Oh clever, Helen clever.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
After all, you're not the only one who can make
up corny slogans.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Easy girl, you're crowding me.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Of course, I just might give up my slogans if
you were on time.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
For dinner tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's the deal. I can't stand.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Competition, seriously, Rick, I have a surprise for you tonight.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Oh you're inviting your preacher for dinner.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Maybe no, nothing like that. But I'm fixing the whole
dinner myself, from soup to salad.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Oh great, Scott four million dollars and she can cook too.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Well. You just remember to go easy on lunch. I
want you to have an appetite by the time.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
You get here, Helen.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I couldn't think of eating anything that would spoil my appetite. Besides,
the automat won't take slugs anymore.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
Well, I do believe Lil MEA's little clients must be male.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I don't hear your fangs clicking.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Oh dear, you're so stupid.
Speaker 8 (02:27):
Bye bye, you die. Diamond, that's right, What do you know?
I do a ten to one I'd find you in
You don't say yeah, I get your hat, paddle.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's forty five. Puts the odds in my favor. And
now get up. What are the odds on finding out
of what this is all about? Hundred and one? Right now?
Speaker 8 (02:45):
You'll find out soon enough, though. Now come on, Diamond,
don't try no tricks. You don want achieve in money,
you'll be a dead man.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, some people collect stamps me. I collect strange as
it is, and the character who led me downstairs to
his car I was one of the strangest I've seen
all the week. He wore a loud checked vest, purple
sports coat, and bright yellow slacks, and every time he
opened his mouth he gave odds on something earlier. We
drove through town, finally pulled up in front of a
ritzy apartment house. He led me back to an apartment
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on the first floor. Hold it, this is it inside, Diamond.
That's fair enough, Hey, jut it jet it.
Speaker 9 (03:32):
I'm right here, Freddy.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I told you what's four to one? I could bring
him here.
Speaker 9 (03:37):
Freddys Diamond.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Oh, hello, Freddy. If you told me she was going
to be here, you wouldn't need the odds.
Speaker 9 (03:43):
That's very sweet.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I'm a very sweet guy, especially with a gun in
my back.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
You can put it away now, Freddy and take a walk.
I want to speak to mister Diamond alone, Freddy.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
Okay, okay, only the eyes are three to one.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I should stick around.
Speaker 9 (04:01):
Mister Diamond. I need your help. I suggested this to
Freddy and he said he'd bring you. I had no
idea he'd force you to come.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I'll skip the apologies, honey, Just why do you need
my help?
Speaker 9 (04:12):
My name is Janet Collins. My brother is Bert Collins.
Does that name mean anything to you?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
It all depends. There was a Bert Collins sentenced to
the electric chair a few months ago, same one.
Speaker 9 (04:24):
Yes, but he isn't guilty, mister Diamond. Bert was convicted
of murdering a bookie, but he didn't. He tried to
tell his story in court, but they wouldn't believe him, and.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I'd take it. You want to tell me his story now?
Speaker 9 (04:36):
Exactly?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well, I'm listening.
Speaker 9 (04:40):
Bert went into the pool room to see this bookie
about alone. While he was talking to him, a stranger
came in and shot the booky said something about getting even,
and the stranger dropped the gun and ran.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And uh what did Bert do all this time?
Speaker 10 (04:53):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (04:53):
He was stunned. He bent over the body and picked
up the gun just as the police rushed in. It
looked like he did it. Only he's innocent, mister.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Diamond, Honey, as I remember, if your brother had a
fair trial, twelve men disagree with you about his guilt.
Speaker 9 (05:08):
I know that, but there's one man who can prove
he told the truth.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh, I'll keep talking there was a witness.
Speaker 9 (05:15):
To the murder, A little racketeer named Tony Garibaldi, was
in the pool room when it happened. He saw the
stranger come in and kill the booky.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Why didn't this come out at the trial because we
couldn't find Tony.
Speaker 9 (05:26):
We Freddy Bert's lawyer and myself. We have witnesses who
swear they saw Tony enter the pool room and rush
out after the shooting.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
But you haven't got Tony.
Speaker 9 (05:36):
No, he's the only one who can prove Bird is innocent.
Unless we find Tony by tomorrow, it'll be too late.
Please take the case, mister Diamond, find Tony Garibaldi.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well, I ah, I can give it a try. This
is a big city, though Tony could be hiding anywhere.
Speaker 9 (05:55):
I know it's a hard job, but I'll pay the
usual fee. I'll be very grateful, mister Diamond, very grateful.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Mm hmm. Well say the gratitude for later, dear, after
we find Tony Garibaldi. Oh Diamond, a pretty face, a
sob story, and you get into the scroyoest cases. Find
a cheap racket here out of seven million people. I
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wonder what kind of odds Freddy would have given beyond that.
I caught a cab back to my office, picked up
my card, then drove down to the Fifth Precinct. I
was hoping Lieutenant Walt Lemonson could give me some lead
on Tony Garibaldi. Oh, good morning, mister Diamond. Mister Diamond. Wow.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
So Formal New Policy Commissioner decided we were getting too
lax here at the Fifth Precinct. Henceforth we had to
treat visitors with dignity and respect.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You don't try, yeah, and stop writing. What do you
want here? Anyway? Oh, I'm working on the case.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
You remember Bert Collins and how gruled him after he
was arrested.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Tough boy. I'm working the springing.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Yeah, he was one of the what are you crazy?
Collins gets the chair tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
And I know, I know, but his sister says he's
innocent and you believed it. I don't know. She wants
me to find a punk named Tony Garibaldi. Says Tony
witnessed the murder and can prove Bert didn't.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Oh, yeah, I remember that's what Bert told us. We
tried to locate Tony, but he's dropped out of circulation.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You think Tony really saw the murder.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Who knows Gy next door to the pool room said
he saw Tony enter and come out later after the shots. Look, Greg,
there's no doubt that Bert did it. The patroling on
the beat rushed in found him standing over the body
with a gun in his head.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Then why is Tony hiding? And why would Bert's sister
want me to find Tony unless he was sure he
could free her brother.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
All I know is we had all the evidence against
Bert that we needed. He tried to borrow money from
the book. What he refused, they had to fight. Bert
shot him, open and shutcase.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Wald. I'm still going
looking for Tony Garibaldi and he leads on him.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Yeah, I'm afraid that chances are some of the petty
rackets might know where he is. Tony's worked all the
cheap rackets, got a lot of friends.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Well, I guess I start covering the petty rackets then,
huh yeah, good luck, Rick, But it is innocent. I'd
hate to see him burn. Well, if I find Tony,
I'll bring him into you here. I'm glad you said.
Speaker 6 (08:27):
If if you find Tony and if he can clear Bert.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Cullins that's right, Fatty. If New York is a big city,
and like any big city, it has a lot of rackets,
everything from fake panhandlers to phony insurance salesman. But someone
in these rackets might know where I could find Tony Garibaldi.
So I began checking one racket after another. Charity rackets,
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use Cairo rackets, everything. Yeah, a lot of people knew Tony,
but they hadn't seen him in the months or so,
they said. It was late afternoon by the time I
pulled up in front of Sneezy Williams apartment. A few
years back, Sneezey had organized every pickpocket in town, formed
a sort of a union. There was a chance he
might know Tony's whereabouts. I got out of my car
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and started for his apartment.
Speaker 11 (09:20):
Don't turn around, Diamond.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Huh hm, It couldn't be your finger sticking in my back,
hodded friend.
Speaker 11 (09:26):
No, it couldn't be Rockward that alley, Diamond, or I'll
put a hole right through you.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
That's a pleasant thought, now, Pallette, this is a stick up.
You're in for a disappointment. The only green stuff in
my wallet is marked.
Speaker 11 (09:37):
Shut up and don't turn around.
Speaker 12 (09:39):
That's far enough.
Speaker 11 (09:41):
Diamond.
Speaker 12 (09:42):
I here, you've been looking for me.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Oh you're Garabaldy.
Speaker 12 (09:46):
Shut up?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
How do they talking? Diamond?
Speaker 11 (09:50):
I don't know what your angle is and this or
why you're after me, but I want you to lay off.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Oh why you're hiding Tony? Where you're fraight oft? You
never mind that.
Speaker 10 (09:57):
Now.
Speaker 12 (09:57):
Look I've heard you're a right guy. I'm I hate
to do this, but you've got to understand I'm not kidding.
Keep away from me, or next time you won't get.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Off so easy, Tony. Tony, listen to the aisle.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Before we continue with Richard Diamond, here are a few
words about smoking enjoyment. Listen to this report by leading
throats specialists. After making more than two thousand weekly examinations
of hundreds of smokers from coast to coast. Smokers with
normal throats who smoked only camels for thirty days, noted
throats specialists reported.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Not one single case of throat irritation due to smoking camels.
That's proof of mildness, proof offered by no other's cigarette.
Start your own thirty day camel test. Smoke only camels
for the next thirty days. You'll soon see how mild
how flavorful, how thoroughly enjoyable a cigarette can be. You'll
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see how well camels agree with your throat, crack after crack,
week after week.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Oh mild, how can a cigarette me to make the
camel forty day test?
Speaker 9 (11:20):
And you see small canoe?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
And now back to Richard Diamond Private Detective starring Dick Powell.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I was looking for a little racketeer named Tony Garibaldi.
Only instead of finding him, Tony found me, and he
left a bump on my head as a not too
gentle reminder that he didn't appreciate me searching for him.
But now I was even more determined to find him
for two good reasons. One, he might save Bert Collins
from the chair, and twoted to repay him for that
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crack on the head with interest. After I had come
too in the alley, I went to a cafe on
the corner, smoked four camels, had two cups of coffee,
and washed my face. I felt much better as I
walked back up the street to Sneeze William's apartment. I
climbed the stairs and knocked on Sneeze's door. When the
door opened, Sneeze stood there, his face screwed up like
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hed just bitten into an unripe per semon. Then relief
spread over his pudgy features.
Speaker 7 (12:33):
And he held out his hand Vicky diaperd lug type.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Are you sneezy, bed wid goodbye? Jad, Thanks? I ooh,
what's that smell?
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Fooms for my vapor eyes over there on the table.
I got to breathe them and clicked up my head.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Now I hear you've gone up in the world, sneezy
pickpocket union.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Huh diaper, Please don't use that word pickpocket. We call
them caddids.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be disrespectful.
Speaker 7 (13:03):
Coboard mit. Yeah, I organize the boys. He keeps about
the hither's territory, and I get a potential of all
that takes.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
All that explains the fancy apartment. Uh.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Only what goods though, when you're a sick man like me.
I got a coat all year round. I've been under
a mustard place that's so long, I feel like a
hot dog.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
What brigs you here, Ricky? I'm looking for a man sneezy,
but you might know where I could find it.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Well, it all depends. Come on, let's sit over here
by the vapor guys. I gotta sniff those fooms. Who
you have to Wick, I have the name of Tony.
Get a ball Tony you know. Oh sure worked for
me a few years back. I haven't seen them lately though.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Where was he living when you know him, Sneezy, No,
let's see, excuse me the sick oh them foods? Feel
good about Tony?
Speaker 7 (14:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, I should though it. Oh oh sure
he lived with his mother. Yeah that's a nice old lady.
I've been over there a few.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Times of a where, Sneeze. He wants the address.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
The address them fooms? You know, these vaporizers come pretty
high these days. This one set me back ten bucks.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
All right, Sneezy, here's ten bucks, VICKI, you are a
kindred soul. Just make with the address, Sneezy, the.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
Old lady run the dry cleanic shop over run seventy
nine and third, right on the corner.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
You can't miss it. Ooh themn foocause then I that
last one must have registered on the context seismograph. I
left Sneezy with another cazote Heid and went out the
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door before he blew me out. Then I went to
my car, drove across town to the cleaning shop on
seventy nine to third. Inside. I found it tired looking
old lady marking clothes.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Yes, you have come for clothes.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
No, Missus Garibaldi, I'm I'm looking for your son, Tony.
Speaker 10 (15:22):
Tony, what is it you want with him? I like
to talk to your friend the police? Well directly, yes,
go away now, Missus geb you're not dressed like policeman.
You're not from the police. You used to harm my Tony.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Go away, Missus Garibaldi. Your son's in a lot of trouble.
He might be able to save an innocent man from dying.
I intend to find him.
Speaker 12 (15:49):
Tony is in trouble.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
He comes here months ago, tells me he must hide.
He does not tell me why from me?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
And like you, why your son witnessed a murder?
Speaker 12 (16:04):
This is a crime.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
No, no, but Tony ran away. If he tells what
he really saw, perhaps an innocent man will go free.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Tony is a good boy. You would not wish harm
to innocent man.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Perhaps Tony's afraid, Missus Garibaldi, afraid some harm will come
to him if he tells the truth.
Speaker 9 (16:24):
Is this true?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
No? The police will protect your son, but they can't
protect him If they don't know where he is, he's
in more danger.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
Now, how do I know you speak of the truth.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
You're not from the police.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I know you're not a harm Tony yourself.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
You can check with the police, Lieutenant Lemonson, Fifth Percinct.
He'll vouch for me. I do not know.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
You would not tell me to check unless you spoke
the truth.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
But I do not know where's Tony living, Missus Garabald.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Tony says, I'm not to tell anyone.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Your son's afraid. People in fear don't think clearly. Nowhere's Tony.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
Tony's a good boy.
Speaker 12 (17:13):
It's no good he must hide?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Where is he done?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
He must hide no more? Tony must have tell truth.
If I do wrong, I'd be forgiven. But I will
tell you where Tony hides.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Missus Gara Baldi wrote the address on a slip of paper.
I called Janet Collins and asked her to meet me
at Tony's hideout. Together we might be able to persuade
him to tell the truth about the murder. When I
got to Tony's rooming house, Janet hadn't arrived yet, so
I went up alone, and after five flights I didn't
bother to knock. What hello, Tony? Done? Yeah, now, Punk,
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we'll have a little talk.
Speaker 12 (17:57):
You get out of here, leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Stay right there, Tony. I've got the gun this time,
and I'm missing to pay you back for the wallap
in the alley.
Speaker 12 (18:03):
I had to do that, Diamond, you don't understand.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I suppose you woul't like me. Who are you hiding from?
Speaker 12 (18:09):
You know as well as I do. They hired you
to find me, didn't they.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
It all depends who do you mean by they.
Speaker 12 (18:14):
Colin's sister Janet and not Freddy character. They hired you,
didn't they.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
That's right to find a chicken hearted punk who might
be able to save Bert Collins from the chair. You're
quite a guy, Tony. Let Bert die because you're afraid
you'll risk your own egg.
Speaker 11 (18:27):
Oh, come off it, mister Diamond. You must know why
they want me. Sure I was in the pool room
the night of the murder. That's why I got to hide.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I don't follow you. Tony. Now, who was it you saw?
Speaker 12 (18:37):
You're trying to tell me you don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I never asked questions if I know the answers.
Speaker 11 (18:41):
Okay, then here's your answer. Sure I seen the killer?
It was Bert Collins what I was at a back table?
Bert come in, he didn't see me.
Speaker 12 (18:50):
After the shots, I got out of there fast.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You're lying, Tony, Why are you hiding? If Bert really
did it, he's been convicted. He can't harm you.
Speaker 11 (18:58):
No, but his sister and not Freddy guy. And after
the murder, they got in touch with me, told me
I had to swear I saw a stranger come in
and kill the bookie.
Speaker 12 (19:06):
They told me I had to swear.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Bert didn't do it, So that's why you ran.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
Sure.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
I didn't want to get in trouble with the law,
but if I didn't lie, I'd be killed.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
So I hit out. Tony. If what you say is true,
I'm the biggest stoop in town.
Speaker 11 (19:20):
You gotta believe me, mister Domant. I swear I tell
the truth. And then please don't tell them where I'm hiding.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Please, it's too late for that, Tony. You already know what. Yeah,
come on, let's get out of here. We'll get you
to a safer place and then we'll have holler right there, Katie,
have to fight to one, i'd pull a trigger. Well
well well, yellow vessed, purple sports coat and gray gun.
Freddie or regular technicolor nightmare.
Speaker 9 (19:46):
You gotta drop your gun, Diamond.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Hello, Janet, drop it.
Speaker 9 (19:52):
That's a sweet little boy.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
You're believing now, mister Domand yeah, Tony, only don't rub
it in.
Speaker 11 (19:57):
Damn.
Speaker 9 (19:58):
I'm sorry this has to be Why did you define Tony?
But I wish you hadn't talked to him.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Oh, Janet, you're a dreamer. This won't work. Even if
Tony does swear Bert's innocent. The police will break his story.
Your brother dies in the chair tomorrow night, and a
lie can't save it.
Speaker 9 (20:11):
You'll see about that. It's a chance.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Anyway, What about it, Tony? You gonna let him take
it downtown in life for.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Them, right?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
I know, Tony Diamond. Don't try and fill him with
false bravado. He knows what Freddy'll do with him unless
he does exactly what we tell him, don't you, Tony?
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, kid, you know? Yeah, I got fifty to one.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
You'll say just what we want you to see.
Speaker 11 (20:35):
I'm sorry, mister Diamond. I guess I gotta do what
they want.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Don't be a fool, Tony. There, Diamond, you're fucked enough.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
Freddy. I'll leave you here with Diamond, Tony and I
are wait in the car. Don't be long, Come on,
Tony Dimond.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Now then, Diamond, just showing me you make the most
brilliant statements, Freddy. Yeah, and they, Hey, keep your hands
out of your pocket. Oh take it easy, Freddy. There
couldn't be a gun in this pocket. Just got a
half dollar. See what's I gave? Well, Freddie, old boy,
the way I see it, I'm about to be shot.
That's even money, all right. Well, I can't figure out
(21:16):
whether to die here or trying to rush you, or
just stand here and wait for you to shoot.
Speaker 11 (21:21):
Now.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Either way I die, so I might as well decide
which way I wanted. Thought I might flip a coin, Diamond.
You must be a little loft, Freddy. Freddy, I didn't
admit it before, but you see I'm I'm crazy about
gambling too, just like you. Yeah. Sure you can appreciate
(21:42):
a sportsman wanting to go out like this to die
on a gamble. I don't know, Freddy, Freddy relaxed. Either way,
I die now, I'll flip the coin two out of
three heads, I die rushing you tails, I wait for
you to shoot. It's sort of interesting. M huh. Here
(22:03):
we go up there, tail joys h two out of three? Up?
H what is it? Heads?
Speaker 9 (22:17):
Go on?
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Go on? This one tells the tail, Yeah, Freddy. This
one tells the tale. I held the coin against my thumb.
Freddy was interested. Now, he was the type who liked
any kind of a bet, and in this one the
odds were all in his favor. But I always did
like long shots. I flipped the coin high, only this
(22:38):
time I didn't catch it. I let it fall to
the floor and Freddy's eyes followed it. This was what
I needed. I threw him off balance in the gunman,
clattering to the floor. Then my right hand plowed into
a yellow vest and my left hand followed through and
that took care of Freddy. But there was still Janet
(22:58):
outside with Tony and the I stripped Freddy of his
purple sport code, put it on and went downstairs. Outside
I saw Janet and Tony in a blue sedan parked
at the curb. I lowered my head around the Janet's
side as fast as I could.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Get on the other side. Freddy up, Diamond, Take.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It easy, honey, I'm just relax now, you'll go somewhere
in a minute, Tony, Yeah, run out the corner and
get the cop of the beat to take care of
my little friends, will you and make it snappy? I
got a date at seven o'clock. Hmmm, I wonder how
Helen would like be in a purple sport jacket. I
(23:49):
beg your pardon, Helen, Dear, I said, well, that's what
I thought you said. Now, dear, please stop staring at me.
It makes me self conscious. Oh I just can't help it.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Rick, I don't think it's right for a woman to
tell a man how to dress. I agree only sometimes. Wow,
that purple sports jacket.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I was wondering when you noticed it.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
No, I noticed it when you first came in. I'm
just getting over the shock.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Oh, I knew you'd like it. There, wait until you
see my red, white and blue slacks. I'm saving them
for Lincoln's birthday.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
Oh now, rig what's come over you?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Personality? There? Now, settle back and listen to your colorful
boyfriend sing a sweet song.
Speaker 9 (24:27):
Oh what a way to spend an evening.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
A purple coat, a piano, and a private detective. And
I'm the gal who graduated.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
From Vassar.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
And so to sleep again. As if I'll ever.
Speaker 13 (24:47):
Sleep again, These restless nice go on.
Speaker 14 (24:58):
Away from me you, and so to dream again, as
if I ever dream again, my darling, Since you're gone,
(25:20):
my dreams are.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
Through no.
Speaker 13 (25:27):
Other Kenny's the same within my heart. No other lips
can kiss away these tears that start. And so to
(25:51):
sleep again, as if I ever sleep again.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
As if I ever love again?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Any warm.
Speaker 8 (26:11):
Bo you?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
That was very nice, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
I'm surprised you didn't sing a loud or tune to
go with your clothes.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Oh, Helen, Helen. From your tone, one would think you
didn't approve of my new apparel.
Speaker 12 (26:30):
One would wouldn't, one one would ast no Rick.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Rick rick.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Ahick, Yes, dear more, Well, I'll be romantic tonight, romantic nothing.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
So as you wear that jacket, I'd rather keep my
eyes closed.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Dick Powell will return in just a minute. What cigarette
do you smoke? Doctor? When that question was asked of
doctors from coast to coast doctors in all branches of medicine,
the brand name most was camel. Why don't you smoke camels?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Too?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And say, why not give a carton of camels for
Saint Valentine's Day? Camel's coming a special carton, all dressed
up for the Valentine season. Give your Valentine Camels.
Speaker 9 (27:31):
Oh mild, mild? How mild can a cigarette be?
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Smoke Camels and sea.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Here's Dick Powell with a special message.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. To help bring pleasure to
hospitalize veterans and members of our armed forces, the makers
of Camels send thousands of packs of Camels cigarettes to
service and veterans hospitals every week. This week, the gift
camels go to Veterans Hospitals Fort Harrison, Montana and West Roxbury, Massachusetts.
US Naval Hospital Quantico, Virginia, US Army Station Hospital Camp Carson, Colorado,
(28:07):
and the Military Air Transport Service, which evacuates virtually all
overseas wounded personnel. Now until next week, enjoy Camels, I
always do.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
The Night's transcribed Adventure of Richard Diamond was written and
directed by Dick Carr, with music by Frank Worth. Virginia
Gregg played the part of Helena Asher, and Alan Reid
was Lieutenant Levinson. Others in the cast were Herb Butterfield,
Jean Bates, and Parley Bear. Be sure to listen to
another Great Camel show Bonne Monroe and the Camel Caravan.
Every Saturday night, here's old Prince Albert, the National joy smoke.
Speaker 9 (28:54):
The bike is out and the pleasures.
Speaker 12 (28:56):
And when you smoke Prince Albert, it's shall be.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Treated not to bite your tongue.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
The pipe is out and the pleasures in.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
So pack your pipe with Prince Albert, the largest selling
pipe tobacco in America. It's smooth, cool smoking. And say
there's more tobacco in the pocket tin now, So get
Prince Albert tomorrow. Listen next week for another exciting adventure
of Richard Diamond, starring Dick Powell
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