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Original Release Date: April 10, 2023
Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a tribal chief to locate an engineer who didn't show up for a meeting.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 25, 1949
Originated from HollywoodStarred Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie. Announcer: Dick Joy
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Today's Mystery:Sam is hired by a tribal chief to locate an engineer who didn't show up for a meeting.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: September 25, 1949
Originated from HollywoodStarred Howard Duff as Sam Spade, Lurene Tuttle as Effie. Announcer: Dick Joy
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just going over to Patreon dot GreatDetectives dot net. Today we're going to
bring you an episode of Sam Spade, the first over MBC. Why the
reason for the network change, we'lltalk about that after the program. The
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original air date for the program isSeptember twenty fifth, nineteen forty nine,
and the title is actually, there'sno way I would be able to say
that. NBC announcer Dick Joy,how about you tell us the title.
Now to the chicagagog man chuggagog showone a gun, Come on, keeper,
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Sweetheart, Shaman Spade shaman nuts anold Indian word signifying wise man.
And it's true, Effie, I'ma lot wiser man than I was yesterday.
This time we really see really littlepappoos. Put on some more paint
a few turkey feathers in your bestopen talk Mark. Oh, where are
we going? Why? To Ted'sTV for a rousing repast of ground corn
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and dried buffalo. Me, Well, don't quibble, Effie. Get the
wigwam ready shopping my tomahawking, layout my herring bone breech cloth. I'll
be right in to dictate the chicagathe Shanagmah, the Indian paper from the
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land of the sky blue Water.They brought a captain made the red wing.
Here I am running sunk uny whatgun? He was a famous Indian
detective. Sure you're not making usup. Oh no, damn, oh
no. He was a sturge ofIndian law break even So you have two
minutes. I think of a bettername. Rippling stream not veryl enough,
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U crunching muscles too veryl What isthat stuff you've been getting me? Anyway?
So, Lieutenant L. J.Meyer and San Francisco homicide dates,
I've got to take it back.Copy to a Chief Black Cloud of Santee,
Dakota Indian Reservation, Oh murder AttentionFederal Indian Agent from Samuel Spade,
San Francisco, license number one threeseventy five nine six, subject the Shargaga
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Gag. They shna call it fornow, the Indian Caper and quiet for
you. I was sitting in myoffice quiet. I was sitting in my
office doing absolutely nothing when something interruptedme. First it was a buckskin smell,
then the soft tread of moccasins,followed by the sound of a rattle.
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His beaded clothes were wrapped in arich looking embroidered blanket, and his
multi cut a head breast reached tothe floor. His face looked like the
model for the Indian head nickel.Oh Oh my name, Chief black Cloud
are either achieved you shaman stade samshamon Indian wood for wise man profit see
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newspaper. Say you good scout?Well exaggerated. So you know Chief need
to hire a good scout for ajob. Well shall we talk to come
for pow wow in chiefs council line? Where's that? Say Mark Hotel,
fourth floor. I see you havereservation. Well you ride with black plow.
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He have ironed pony on street madeby great Indian Chief Pontiac, and
he actually had a council line tothe Saint Mark fourth floor. Outside the
door of his room, two braveswere standing arms folded. One of them
was the first Indian I'd ever seenwith hair on his chest. We entered
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the room Indian file. Of course. The chief had apparently brought in his
own decorated. The walls were coveredwith hanging animal skins, a weathered canopy
of thatched headless sailing, and onthe floor genuine hand woven rugs. No
expensive been spared. In one cornerof this room sort of four size tepee.
Two squaws shuttle out of it.The young one glided forward and handed
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the chief along Indian pipe shamans faith. This fairest Indian made of all.
Only person in the world important toBlack Cloud name, little white Lilah.
How you do a little white lack. It's nice to have you here.
She wise educated girl, graduate smithcollege, old squaws. How was no
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good at pow wow? Well?You know best ship? Now we pow
wow. You get paid well.Chief black Cloud owned one hundred and thirty
oil worlds near Tatsa, Oklahoma,not Oklahoma, Indian land Union mean nothing
union temporary things. Indian here longbefore white man and Indian will be here
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long after a white man. Allright, Chief, Chief black Cloud come
to San Francisco village five days agofor pow wow with big engineer anybody I
know his name Clarence Hobart, engineerfor Arundel Namas Kid Consolidated Engineering company.
Fine Indian name. We have powwow. Four days Hobart disappear and you
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want me to find him? Chieftired of San Francisco. Want finished pow
wow. Get back to Senti DakotaReservation. Okay, I'll see what I
can find out. Good one momentShaman paid Chief have something you got for
a few days This speeded swampum belt, ancient relic of Nipmac tribe. Here
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in tip Semak too many light fingeredchimbermaids and bellboy. You want me to
hold ono this for you? Yes, wampum of great sentimental value, woven
by ancient wiseman Toney Luca. Thatwas interesting story and history of tribe.
God it well, I haven't losta wampom yet? Is that all?
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One more thing? We smoke piperfriendship? I smoke, yeah, now
you smoke through friendship. Now Iknow what happens with a bag of lucky
strike doesn't buy. When I leftChief black Cloud's fourth floor lives there was
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only one brave standing outside the door, but Harry chested him. Him was
partibly taking five. The wampm beltwas about three feet long, made up
of hundreds upon hundreds of a littlecolored beads. They were woven into a
picture pattern, very pretty. Theinteresting story ungodly could have been translated instantly
and told fascinatingly by Red Riding.But then he has a smart horse.
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I put the wampam belt in mypocket and headed for the officers of the
Arundel and Homaski Consolidated Engineering Company.Final Indians. I'm glad about Clarence Hobart.
They refer me to his partner AndersonWatts. Hobart disappeared, absurd.
Why you couldn't lose him if youwant to do. He's as white as
a barn door. Yeah, well, Chief black Clouds seems to think he
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is missing. When I look here, You've got to take an Indian's opinion
over mine. I might. Well, just because he doesn't show up for
an appointment doesn't mean he's disappeared.Why one day when we run a catile
of a project in New Orleans.Yeah, some other time, Hobart hasn't
disappeared. Where would he be anywherein the world. A man's unpredictable,
brilliant engineer, but moody. Everynow and then he goes off alone to
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scheme up some fantastic thing, likemaybe cutting off the Gulf stream and turning
Cuba into an iceberg. I likeit, but he always comes back disappeared,
not Hobart. Yeah, well,can you give me his home address?
Yeah? Here you are, tryit if you like, but I'm
sure he's not there. I calledthis morning and nobody answered, and as
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John I left this utterly charming manand started for the address he had written
down. I was taking the shortcutthrough the alley on Sutton Street when I
heard the rattle of beads and anaked brown arm of considerable size reached out
of the market. I grabbed forit, but he slipped out of my
grass kid and sped swiftly and silentlyup the dark alley into the fog,
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leaving me with a handful of maxback the number eight Iroquois makeup. I
continued to Hobart's house without further incident, found it just off Chinatown. Mister
Holborn, Oh, I thought theremight be somebody else. Just let's talk
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a minute. Shall call the police? I don't think you will, mister
holbarn all right out with what's onyour mind. My name is Sam Spade.
I'm a private detective as an Indianname Chief black Cloud, who's worried
about you. I'm old enough toworry about myself. Now, stop bothering
me. Go away. Look,I'm gonna tell the Chief where you are,
you know, because that's what Iwas hired to do. You'll,
ah, yeah, you're right confidentially, I've been on a two day drunk,
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you know. How it is?Woo me tell him to phone me
tomorrow. I'll talk to him.Hi, Sam, Well what are you
doing here? Today? Is yourday? Are? I just wanted to
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show you something if you first toldme a favorite and put those wamp and
belt in a safe m Now genuineIndian aren't. Oh it's beautiful. Do
you know what? It'll go?Beautiful? Okay, Magot is a girl
waiting in your office? Well,good damn, don't you want me to
show you? And there wasn't aa girl in my office? That was
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Little White Lilac Chief black Cloud's fairestIndian maid of all. Only he big
change at Tagon Place. You stillhad the Indian color, but gone was
the headband, gone, the buckskindress, gone, the squatting squaw,
the Saint Mark tepee. Little Whitewilec stood revealed in the finders guise of
a modern white woman's cocktail dress,complete with pale face twenty carrot for film.
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It was a transformation worthy of ahigh priced medicine man. But more
surprises were to come. Hello,how I've been waiting for you? Yeah?
Well, a big brave just returnedfrom hunting party. You can drop
the TV talk I'm civilized. Well, okay, what's on your civilized line?
Chief black Cloud gave you a wampingbuilt. I want you to give
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it to me so I can destroy. Well, I gave my word to
keep it, and I accepted thepromise of money for its protection. Now
you wouldn't want me to be anIndian gift, I mean violate my heavings,
sam if, I must tell you, Chief black Cloud is insane.
I must we have these juven referencesto my personal beauty. Well, sorry,
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you are in of course, Iam a nipmuc. That Wampam belt
is secret to undreamed of wealth greaterthan the fortunes of the ten, which
is families of this country. Chiefblack Cloud is wealthy from oil. But
that belth make him more powerful thanthe Bank of America. Do you mean
he could take my car back?You think this is a joke, don't
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you. Well, I love theway you felt. He's going to use
it to destroy modern American civilization,to pay the white man back for what
he did to the Indian. Hewants to start a giant Indian revolution,
and you want to destroy the Wampamto save all us exactly, And now
you'll give it to me, walchwhat happens in the next chatter? Sam,
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you have to believe me. Whywhy do you think the chief is
here conferring with an engineer. Hewants to get it that wealth. Hobart's
going to make him wealthy. Now, really, a little white lic,
isn't this all a little white lie? Say? If I take you to
Hobart and he confirms what I've said, we will be league. I'm come
on. She took me by thehand and she led me out of the
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office and up and down several streetsuntil we arrived at a frowsy looking brown
stuff. We added, still holdinghands, and came to rest in an
apartment and looked just recently occupied.I guess that's what it looked like,
because you couldn't tell much. Itwas being lit by either one ten on
frosted boat or by fireflies. Thisis the place a little dim in hero?
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Would you say? I like dimplaces? Yeah, where's Clarence.
I'll get him in a minute.First, Yes, you being so nice.
I want to find some way tothank you. I'll wait for you.
I can start thank you. Hey. The kiss was great, In
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fact, it blew the top ofmy head off. After this, there
was a freight fireworks display, followedclosely by a giant roar that sounded like
my agara falls with a cold.It was a short feature followed by a
long period of dark black silence.When the curtain came up again, I
was lying in an alleyway. Iwas stiff and cold. My head dropped
with pain. My brain was ajumple, My silk was torn and dirty,
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My patience was at an end,and my anger with little White Lilac
knew no bounds. I went outof the office and change cloud to get
a drink. The phone was alreadyringing when I opened the door. Sam
Spade, this cheap black cloud tookhim from Saint Mark Tippie. Yeah,
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what's on your mind? Sheep?Ten minutes ago, Bellboy delivered to cheap
black cloud box inside boxes scalp ofengineer Clarence Hobart. I hung up the
fawn, fell into my chair,snapped on the lights, and fell out
of it again. My office hadbeen massified. The place had been ransacked
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thorough in looked like the morning aftera Comanche smoker, and you guessed it.
My safe had been drilled open.The ancient and valluable nipmuckwanfum belt was
gone. At this point I decidedwhat Chief black Cloud made. It was
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Tonight's adventure with Sam Spade, Ifound Sheef black Pots sitting cross legged
and looking disconsolately down into a smallcardboard box. Both squaws, including little
White Lilac, were on one sideout of the room, grinding corn.
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I like looked through me as ifI didn't exist. I sat, I
axed the chief look into the boxand recoiled. It was a real,
no imitation twentieth century scalp, andthe red hair was certainly Hobart scalp comes
with note note written in Algunquin dialect, I translate on her chief black Cloud
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returned to SENTI to Kuda reservation anddie Papa death. Fitting to old man.
Here you will meet violence unto death, even as this man did.
What's the point across like she Itisn't that I'm scared, which I am,
But I just decided to pull outof this caper. What I've heard
some things about you that don't soundtoo good. You hear what does you
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want to start? An Indian revelutionto settle an old score with a white
man. Will tell you this.The fairest of them all, a little
white Lilac. She tell you I'venever talked to She not only told me
all that, but she what spa? When did little white Lilac tell you
these things? You can't my officetoday? That's a line. I never
left this hotel, you will seeCalauka, Yes that cloud did little white
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Liluck leave hotel today? Little whiteLilac with me all day. Wire ever
out of enough, go away,Carla Uka speak with tongue of truth.
Little white Lilock I have grown frombaby. She also speak with tongue of
truth. Somebody lie our chief.I know what I'm talking about. You
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Chief does not need help of doubletongue. Man, return wampum belt to
me. I pay you all right, our well? She put in up
lies, returned wampum. Weare aminute. Wait a minute. I got
a small but biting got of truthto relate. Somebody stole a wampum belt.
Wampum belt gone. Somebody broke intomy office, grow the safe and
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took it. Your store was stolenfrom me. Return wampam or you not
live until Sunday I'll return it.If I can find it, then you
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with Sam Speed. I walked outsidemuttering frightful white man suffocations. Running through
the hotel fucking lot. I suddenlynoticed the chiefs and Pony. Right by
Pony, there was a leather bagon the seat, sort of an Indian
over night case, and sticking outof it was a blood stained Tomahawk.
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This was a decided interest to him, and so for the rest of its
content, somebody had a giant engineeringproject the foot because there were order of
seats for such things as two wellas teas, four underwater hydraulic drills,
a diving bell, a dredging barge, and a steam jerry. Yeah,
back again, mister wash you're lookingfor the missing Clarence Obard not don't anymore?
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Well, I knew you'd realize thefutility of it. I found him,
and I trust you found him ingood health. Bug on health?
Why once? But we were inCleveland. I think he's dead. It
was the Ohio River Bridge job.Yeah, you say, Hobart dead scout
anyway, Yeah, mister Watts.What was Hobart working on with the chief?
But I don't know exactly. Well, let's go look at his desk
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file and see if we can findout. And the bottom roar under a
lot of miscellaneous papers we find alarge manilla envelope marked black Cloud. It
contains some topographical surveys of an areacontaining a lake. On the back of
one of the surveys was written infine print a series of thirty seven letters.
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It looked like a whole group ofIndian words swung together, or a
code, or just doodling. Itstarted off Chagaga something or other. I
left me to watch sitting in hisoffice with tears in his eyes, a
new role to him, and mademy weary way back to my place of
business. Effie was standing in themiddle of the office with a shocked lookout
it damn look at this office?How did it get like this? Oh?
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Files of everything? Come on,I'll have to pick things up.
And again, by the way,what are you doing here? It's still
your day off when you wear yourlast time, I wanted to show you
something. It was so anxious toget to that girl. All right,
I'm here and I'll look what isit. How do you like the colors?
Rust? Well, I suppose it, Effie. What set you wearing
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as a belt? I don't bemad saying I just had to it went
so well with the code when Isigned Chip black Clouds Wampoom belt. You
didn't put it in the safe.Give it to me, Give it to
me. Wait right here. I'llbe gone for half an hour, and
then I'll come back and take youout to the best dinner in time I
should. I had taken only foursteps down the hall, and somebody hidden
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me from behind. I rolled andhe went with me. We caught a
quick, quiet and decisive plate.At the end of it, I held
him in an arm lock and lethim back into my office. I don't
unexpected call it. Come in withme and take notes. Who are you
and we'll signing your mind I'm newabout it. I got nothing on my
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mind spring. You're one of thebraves that got in the chief. Yeah,
and you're a funny Indian, lousymakeup and Indians don't have hair in
that chid. All right. Myname is good Hammond. I'm a cowpolk.
I should the state laugh belong outon the ring? Well, why
didn't you? Oh, boss.I said, I'd do anything for that
guy. Now I wish I had, And she brought me here. Why
whether they had something to do withvivid treasure, she was going to give
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me a big cut. Where isit buried? I don't know. She
was going to tell me. Itook Hammond around the homicide and left him
in there safe keeping while lare Igot the latest flash. I had found
Clarence Harbart dead and Less scalped downto the waterfront. There were no clothes
except the blow on the back ofher head and lipstick on his mouth.
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But it's enough for me having themthrough the same course, and I saw
it unappresided the Saint Mark fourth floorto the White Lilac met me at the
door. You can't see the chiefsone side, and she says, what
I've got to wake up? Screamingas whom you have it? And where
that she pounced. I pushed heroff, and she came back and got
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a hold of one hand of thewhomp m and tried to pull it away
from it the Saston's results. Thewample came apart and on a second was
not even hundreds of beads rolling differentdirections, all over the place. In
fact, it was no more.You cannot sleep well. I brought back
your wampum. But now it's allover the floor belt destroyed. Yes,
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it's destroyed. Your stupid old manyou talk to chief. Yes, stupid,
you had the world in your hand. You didn't know it. You
wanted it all for yourself to teardown the earth. It could have been
used to live. What are yousee to live the way I'm supposed to
live? Now nobody will have it, not even you or a fat engineer
who wanted it. Little white lelocshut mouth. I've been shutting my mouth
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all my life. You're a stupid, ignorant, disgusting old man. You'd
be better on His big hands werearound the throat. He stood there,
anger and betrail in his eyes,and his hands dropped, and he turned
away with tears streaming Ghana's face.It was and if the fair Indian maid
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she helped kill Clarence Hobart. NowChief, believe anything? Yeah,
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the oction of hidden Nipma treasure theNay many years ago. Nipmac tribe live
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and keep for decoration. Kennebec Indianswant gold. Start out on war path.
Nipmuck Indians bury gold, move village, divert stream into valley, make
lake gold there today underwater. Whereasthat secret chief keep lucked in head.
Chief once haid you will plan forgold. Now you forget, Make pilgrimage
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back to ancient ancestral camp and die. Send me bill, Chief, leave
village of San Francisco for good Buryaround of power vanishing race. Just think
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the days of the cold and theWinchester are gone for it the day of
a Rummy's gonna still with us.Go to it and type this up here.
That one thing, how did thebloody Almahawk getting Chief black Clouds day?
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A little white lie Les planted itthere. If anything happened to the
Chief, she as the only otherliving nipmuck, would inherit the one what
she could have gotten the money byjust waiting. Shut up, damn.
Notice a thing about the report?Yeah, you got the lamb of the
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the move to MBC. The serieswas still popular on CBS, but CBS
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Route was able to immediately move theseries over to MBC, and they didn't
even skip a week. The lastCBS broadcast was on September eighteenth, and
of course this one was on Septembertwenty fifth, Although according to Martin Graham's
book, the Radio Adventures of SamSpade. They were still not really sure
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about Howard Duff, and that wouldplay out later. That always seemed like
a weird thing from a modern perspectivefor most of my life, because roles
were really strongly associated with actors,and the idea that you would take a
series that is so tied to HowardDuff as Sam Spade and you'll be like,
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I'm not quite sure about Duff.Then are you really sure about investing
money in bankrolling the program? Becausethey're kind of connected, you know.
But of course, in more recentyears we have found situations where actors are
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replaced on projects. There was amovie where they finished filming and scandal came
out about one of the actors andthey reshot all of their scenes with another
actor. But we'll talk about thatmore in common ways when we get to
Howard Dove's departure from the program.The ads on this episode were a little
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bit weird and the way that theywere placed into the program. As the
Radio Gold Index states, a secondmiddle commercial is heard three minutes after the
first, making the integrity of theprogram suspect. Perhaps that there had been
some sort of alteration. Is thesuggestion of the Radio Gold Index. However,
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when I'm looking at mister Graham's book, they have a reviewing here for
variety for the episode, and andone thing they note is commercials for Wild
Route were acceptable, but one line, the choice of men and women and
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children too, was socked home fivetimes, which may suggest that there was
some error back in nineteen forty ninewhen it was aired, and that something
new hadn't been added. Sadly,there are cases with old time radio programs
where the files get adulterated for onereason or another, such as to make
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it fit within a standard amount oftime. The history of the title of
this episode it was kind of interestingas well. According to Grahams, the
actors and production team on this serieswere quite humorous at times and decided to
play a practical joke on the announcer. They did rehearsals for this, but
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they kept his page blank, andthen they handed Dick Joy, the announcer,
his script page one minute before hewas to read it, and he
absolutely nailed it because, according toGrahams, Joy was from Webster, Massachusetts
and already knew how the name ofthe lake was pronounced. Graham's ads parenthetically,
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I've been led to believe the nameof the lake means you fish on
your side of the lake. Ifish on my side of the lake,
and nobody fishes in the middle,because mister Grahams also grew up in Massachusetts.
Now listener comments and feedback, andwe turned once again to our listeners
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a quick programming note I had mentionedwhen I announced on March tenth that I
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was going full time with the podcast. I stated that I would be taking
a break that I had prerecorded episodesfor that will actually be starting next week,
and the first episode in that serieswill be the next episode of Sam
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Spade. But it wasn't intended tobe that way from the start. However,
many reputable sites identified a false recordingof Sam Spade beat in circulation,
which threw me off. Oh,we won't be announcing that we're starting the
period we pre recorded on Monday,because it was in ten to be like
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the fifth or sixth episode that hadbeen recorded in advance didn't officially start in
the whole period until Tuesday with JohnnyDowler, and it was announced on that
day, so this is wreaking alittle havoc with the recording schedule as a
result. Next week, the onlyepisode that wasn't recorded well in advance will
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be Dangerous Assignment, and then allthe episodes the week after that will have
been recorded well in advance. Iwill be recording an episode of Sam's Spade
today that will play in three weeks, so we'll consider any feedback we have
in the short term on this episode, but not have anything on more recent
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episodes, and all of the otherepisodes that week, other than Final Evans
and Tales of the Texas Rangers,will have been prerecorded. So that's what
the schedule looks like for the nextfew weeks. It's complex, Heyden,
and a big part of that isthe way we're doing johnnyed Dollers, But
I guess I should blame the guywho's hosting the show for that. That
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will do it for today. Iencourage you to follow this podcast if you
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We will be back next Monday foranother episode of Sam Spade. But
join us back here tomorrow for yourstruly, johnnied Dollar where hillside that served
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as a cemetery. The snow iswhite and gleaming under the winter sun of
the mid afternoon skies, the aircold and crisp. Did he are heavenly
Father, who knows all things?We commit the body of our beloved today
eternal care. They will be donejustin everyenda mercy. We vot the constellation
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of the sholding wing there stood ashesto ashes, to do sure in certain
hope of resurrection into eternal life,in the name of her father and of
the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Yeah, oh that's that, Yeah,
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poor George Eve. Which one ismissus Henderson r? That's Pauline and
Henderson. Yeah, that's her.But she can't be more than twenty five
twenty six to be exact. Dollar. I went to her birthday party two
months ago. How old was GeorgeHenderson? Fifty nine? Went to his
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party too? Yeah, pretty thing. Very any other family Nope, no,
other wife, nope? Want ameter? No not right now,
shoot yourself kind of thought you mightstart thinking when you got to look at
her. Just keep on the wayyou're doing. You're doing fine. When
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there's something you got to know,you can find out well Leaf, I
already know one thing. Yeah,boys, that I'm going to ask for
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reason for the network change, we'lltalk about that after the program. The
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original air date for the program isSeptember twenty fifth, nineteen forty nine,
and the title is actually, there'sno way I would be able to say
that. NBC announcer Dick Joy,how about you tell us the title.
Now to the chicagagog man chuggagog showone a gun, Come on, keeper,
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Sweetheart, Shaman Spade shaman nuts anold Indian word signifying wise man.
And it's true, Effie, I'ma lot wiser man than I was yesterday.
This time we really see really littlepappoos. Put on some more paint
a few turkey feathers in your bestopen talk Mark. Oh, where are
we going? Why? To Ted'sTV for a rousing repast of ground corn
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and dried buffalo. Me, Well, don't quibble, Effie. Get the
wigwam ready shopping my tomahawking, layout my herring bone breech cloth. I'll
be right in to dictate the chicagathe Shanagmah, the Indian paper from the
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land of the sky blue Water.They brought a captain made the red wing.
Here I am running sunk uny whatgun? He was a famous Indian
detective. Sure you're not making usup. Oh no, damn, oh
no. He was a sturge ofIndian law break even So you have two
minutes. I think of a bettername. Rippling stream not veryl enough,
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U crunching muscles too veryl What isthat stuff you've been getting me? Anyway?
So, Lieutenant L. J.Meyer and San Francisco homicide dates,
I've got to take it back.Copy to a Chief Black Cloud of Santee,
Dakota Indian Reservation, Oh murder AttentionFederal Indian Agent from Samuel Spade,
San Francisco, license number one threeseventy five nine six, subject the Shargaga
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Gag. They shna call it fornow, the Indian Caper and quiet for
you. I was sitting in myoffice quiet. I was sitting in my
office doing absolutely nothing when something interruptedme. First it was a buckskin smell,
then the soft tread of moccasins,followed by the sound of a rattle.
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His beaded clothes were wrapped in arich looking embroidered blanket, and his
multi cut a head breast reached tothe floor. His face looked like the
model for the Indian head nickel.Oh Oh my name, Chief black Cloud
are either achieved you shaman stade samshamon Indian wood for wise man profit see
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newspaper. Say you good scout?Well exaggerated. So you know Chief need
to hire a good scout for ajob. Well shall we talk to come
for pow wow in chiefs council line? Where's that? Say Mark Hotel,
fourth floor. I see you havereservation. Well you ride with black plow.
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He have ironed pony on street madeby great Indian Chief Pontiac, and
he actually had a council line tothe Saint Mark fourth floor. Outside the
door of his room, two braveswere standing arms folded. One of them
was the first Indian I'd ever seenwith hair on his chest. We entered
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the room Indian file. Of course. The chief had apparently brought in his
own decorated. The walls were coveredwith hanging animal skins, a weathered canopy
of thatched headless sailing, and onthe floor genuine hand woven rugs. No
expensive been spared. In one cornerof this room sort of four size tepee.
Two squaws shuttle out of it.The young one glided forward and handed
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the chief along Indian pipe shamans faith. This fairest Indian made of all.
Only person in the world important toBlack Cloud name, little white Lilah.
How you do a little white lack. It's nice to have you here.
She wise educated girl, graduate smithcollege, old squaws. How was no
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good at pow wow? Well?You know best ship? Now we pow
wow. You get paid well.Chief black Cloud owned one hundred and thirty
oil worlds near Tatsa, Oklahoma,not Oklahoma, Indian land Union mean nothing
union temporary things. Indian here longbefore white man and Indian will be here
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long after a white man. Allright, Chief, Chief black Cloud come
to San Francisco village five days agofor pow wow with big engineer anybody I
know his name Clarence Hobart, engineerfor Arundel Namas Kid Consolidated Engineering company.
Fine Indian name. We have powwow. Four days Hobart disappear and you
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want me to find him? Chieftired of San Francisco. Want finished pow
wow. Get back to Senti DakotaReservation. Okay, I'll see what I
can find out. Good one momentShaman paid Chief have something you got for
a few days This speeded swampum belt, ancient relic of Nipmac tribe. Here
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in tip Semak too many light fingeredchimbermaids and bellboy. You want me to
hold ono this for you? Yes, wampum of great sentimental value, woven
by ancient wiseman Toney Luca. Thatwas interesting story and history of tribe.
God it well, I haven't losta wampom yet? Is that all?
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One more thing? We smoke piperfriendship? I smoke, yeah, now
you smoke through friendship. Now Iknow what happens with a bag of lucky
strike doesn't buy. When I leftChief black Cloud's fourth floor lives there was
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only one brave standing outside the door, but Harry chested him. Him was
partibly taking five. The wampm beltwas about three feet long, made up
of hundreds upon hundreds of a littlecolored beads. They were woven into a
picture pattern, very pretty. Theinteresting story ungodly could have been translated instantly
and told fascinatingly by Red Riding.But then he has a smart horse.
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I put the wampam belt in mypocket and headed for the officers of the
Arundel and Homaski Consolidated Engineering Company.Final Indians. I'm glad about Clarence Hobart.
They refer me to his partner AndersonWatts. Hobart disappeared, absurd.
Why you couldn't lose him if youwant to do. He's as white as
a barn door. Yeah, well, Chief black Clouds seems to think he
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is missing. When I look here, You've got to take an Indian's opinion
over mine. I might. Well, just because he doesn't show up for
an appointment doesn't mean he's disappeared.Why one day when we run a catile
of a project in New Orleans.Yeah, some other time, Hobart hasn't
disappeared. Where would he be anywherein the world. A man's unpredictable,
brilliant engineer, but moody. Everynow and then he goes off alone to
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scheme up some fantastic thing, likemaybe cutting off the Gulf stream and turning
Cuba into an iceberg. I likeit, but he always comes back disappeared,
not Hobart. Yeah, well,can you give me his home address?
Yeah? Here you are, tryit if you like, but I'm
sure he's not there. I calledthis morning and nobody answered, and as
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John I left this utterly charming manand started for the address he had written
down. I was taking the shortcutthrough the alley on Sutton Street when I
heard the rattle of beads and anaked brown arm of considerable size reached out
of the market. I grabbed forit, but he slipped out of my
grass kid and sped swiftly and silentlyup the dark alley into the fog,
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leaving me with a handful of maxback the number eight Iroquois makeup. I
continued to Hobart's house without further incident, found it just off Chinatown. Mister
Holborn, Oh, I thought theremight be somebody else. Just let's talk
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a minute. Shall call the police? I don't think you will, mister
holbarn all right out with what's onyour mind. My name is Sam Spade.
I'm a private detective as an Indianname Chief black Cloud, who's worried
about you. I'm old enough toworry about myself. Now, stop bothering
me. Go away. Look,I'm gonna tell the Chief where you are,
you know, because that's what Iwas hired to do. You'll,
ah, yeah, you're right confidentially, I've been on a two day drunk,
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you know. How it is?Woo me tell him to phone me
tomorrow. I'll talk to him.Hi, Sam, Well what are you
doing here? Today? Is yourday? Are? I just wanted to
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show you something if you first toldme a favorite and put those wamp and
belt in a safe m Now genuineIndian aren't. Oh it's beautiful. Do
you know what? It'll go?Beautiful? Okay, Magot is a girl
waiting in your office? Well,good damn, don't you want me to
show you? And there wasn't aa girl in my office? That was
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Little White Lilac Chief black Cloud's fairestIndian maid of all. Only he big
change at Tagon Place. You stillhad the Indian color, but gone was
the headband, gone, the buckskindress, gone, the squatting squaw,
the Saint Mark tepee. Little Whitewilec stood revealed in the finders guise of
a modern white woman's cocktail dress,complete with pale face twenty carrot for film.
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It was a transformation worthy of ahigh priced medicine man. But more
surprises were to come. Hello,how I've been waiting for you? Yeah?
Well, a big brave just returnedfrom hunting party. You can drop
the TV talk I'm civilized. Well, okay, what's on your civilized line?
Chief black Cloud gave you a wampingbuilt. I want you to give
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it to me so I can destroy. Well, I gave my word to
keep it, and I accepted thepromise of money for its protection. Now
you wouldn't want me to be anIndian gift, I mean violate my heavings,
sam if, I must tell you, Chief black Cloud is insane.
I must we have these juven referencesto my personal beauty. Well, sorry,
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you are in of course, Iam a nipmuc. That Wampam belt
is secret to undreamed of wealth greaterthan the fortunes of the ten, which
is families of this country. Chiefblack Cloud is wealthy from oil. But
that belth make him more powerful thanthe Bank of America. Do you mean
he could take my car back?You think this is a joke, don't
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you. Well, I love theway you felt. He's going to use
it to destroy modern American civilization,to pay the white man back for what
he did to the Indian. Hewants to start a giant Indian revolution,
and you want to destroy the Wampamto save all us exactly, And now
you'll give it to me, walchwhat happens in the next chatter? Sam,
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you have to believe me. Whywhy do you think the chief is
here conferring with an engineer. Hewants to get it that wealth. Hobart's
going to make him wealthy. Now, really, a little white lic,
isn't this all a little white lie? Say? If I take you to
Hobart and he confirms what I've said, we will be league. I'm come
on. She took me by thehand and she led me out of the
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office and up and down several streetsuntil we arrived at a frowsy looking brown
stuff. We added, still holdinghands, and came to rest in an
apartment and looked just recently occupied.I guess that's what it looked like,
because you couldn't tell much. Itwas being lit by either one ten on
frosted boat or by fireflies. Thisis the place a little dim in hero?
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Would you say? I like dimplaces? Yeah, where's Clarence.
I'll get him in a minute.First, Yes, you being so nice.
I want to find some way tothank you. I'll wait for you.
I can start thank you. Hey. The kiss was great, In
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fact, it blew the top ofmy head off. After this, there
was a freight fireworks display, followedclosely by a giant roar that sounded like
my agara falls with a cold.It was a short feature followed by a
long period of dark black silence.When the curtain came up again, I
was lying in an alleyway. Iwas stiff and cold. My head dropped
with pain. My brain was ajumple, My silk was torn and dirty,
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My patience was at an end,and my anger with little White Lilac
knew no bounds. I went outof the office and change cloud to get
a drink. The phone was alreadyringing when I opened the door. Sam
Spade, this cheap black cloud tookhim from Saint Mark Tippie. Yeah,
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what's on your mind? Sheep?Ten minutes ago, Bellboy delivered to cheap
black cloud box inside boxes scalp ofengineer Clarence Hobart. I hung up the
fawn, fell into my chair,snapped on the lights, and fell out
of it again. My office hadbeen massified. The place had been ransacked
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thorough in looked like the morning aftera Comanche smoker, and you guessed it.
My safe had been drilled open.The ancient and valluable nipmuckwanfum belt was
gone. At this point I decidedwhat Chief black Cloud made. It was
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and looking disconsolately down into a smallcardboard box. Both squaws, including little
White Lilac, were on one sideout of the room, grinding corn.
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I like looked through me as ifI didn't exist. I sat, I
axed the chief look into the boxand recoiled. It was a real,
no imitation twentieth century scalp, andthe red hair was certainly Hobart scalp comes
with note note written in Algunquin dialect, I translate on her chief black Cloud
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returned to SENTI to Kuda reservation anddie Papa death. Fitting to old man.
Here you will meet violence unto death, even as this man did.
What's the point across like she Itisn't that I'm scared, which I am,
But I just decided to pull outof this caper. What I've heard
some things about you that don't soundtoo good. You hear what does you
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want to start? An Indian revelutionto settle an old score with a white
man. Will tell you this.The fairest of them all, a little
white Lilac. She tell you I'venever talked to She not only told me
all that, but she what spa? When did little white Lilac tell you
these things? You can't my officetoday? That's a line. I never
left this hotel, you will seeCalauka, Yes that cloud did little white
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Liluck leave hotel today? Little whiteLilac with me all day. Wire ever
out of enough, go away,Carla Uka speak with tongue of truth.
Little white Lilock I have grown frombaby. She also speak with tongue of
truth. Somebody lie our chief.I know what I'm talking about. You
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Chief does not need help of doubletongue. Man, return wampum belt to
me. I pay you all right, our well? She put in up
lies, returned wampum. Weare aminute. Wait a minute. I got
a small but biting got of truthto relate. Somebody stole a wampum belt.
Wampum belt gone. Somebody broke intomy office, grow the safe and
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took it. Your store was stolenfrom me. Return wampam or you not
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with Sam Speed. I walked outsidemuttering frightful white man suffocations. Running through
the hotel fucking lot. I suddenlynoticed the chiefs and Pony. Right by
Pony, there was a leather bagon the seat, sort of an Indian
over night case, and sticking outof it was a blood stained Tomahawk.
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This was a decided interest to him, and so for the rest of its
content, somebody had a giant engineeringproject the foot because there were order of
seats for such things as two wellas teas, four underwater hydraulic drills,
a diving bell, a dredging barge, and a steam jerry. Yeah,
back again, mister wash you're lookingfor the missing Clarence Obard not don't anymore?
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Well, I knew you'd realize thefutility of it. I found him,
and I trust you found him ingood health. Bug on health?
Why once? But we were inCleveland. I think he's dead. It
was the Ohio River Bridge job.Yeah, you say, Hobart dead scout
anyway, Yeah, mister Watts.What was Hobart working on with the chief?
But I don't know exactly. Well, let's go look at his desk
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file and see if we can findout. And the bottom roar under a
lot of miscellaneous papers we find alarge manilla envelope marked black Cloud. It
contains some topographical surveys of an areacontaining a lake. On the back of
one of the surveys was written infine print a series of thirty seven letters.
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It looked like a whole group ofIndian words swung together, or a
code, or just doodling. Itstarted off Chagaga something or other. I
left me to watch sitting in hisoffice with tears in his eyes, a
new role to him, and mademy weary way back to my place of
business. Effie was standing in themiddle of the office with a shocked lookout
it damn look at this office?How did it get like this? Oh?
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Files of everything? Come on,I'll have to pick things up.
And again, by the way,what are you doing here? It's still
your day off when you wear yourlast time, I wanted to show you
something. It was so anxious toget to that girl. All right,
I'm here and I'll look what isit. How do you like the colors?
Rust? Well, I suppose it, Effie. What set you wearing
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as a belt? I don't bemad saying I just had to it went
so well with the code when Isigned Chip black Clouds Wampoom belt. You
didn't put it in the safe.Give it to me, Give it to
me. Wait right here. I'llbe gone for half an hour, and
then I'll come back and take youout to the best dinner in time I
should. I had taken only foursteps down the hall, and somebody hidden
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me from behind. I rolled andhe went with me. We caught a
quick, quiet and decisive plate.At the end of it, I held
him in an arm lock and lethim back into my office. I don't
unexpected call it. Come in withme and take notes. Who are you
and we'll signing your mind I'm newabout it. I got nothing on my
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mind spring. You're one of thebraves that got in the chief. Yeah,
and you're a funny Indian, lousymakeup and Indians don't have hair in
that chid. All right. Myname is good Hammond. I'm a cowpolk.
I should the state laugh belong outon the ring? Well, why
didn't you? Oh, boss.I said, I'd do anything for that
guy. Now I wish I had, And she brought me here. Why
whether they had something to do withvivid treasure, she was going to give
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me a big cut. Where isit buried? I don't know. She
was going to tell me. Itook Hammond around the homicide and left him
in there safe keeping while lare Igot the latest flash. I had found
Clarence Harbart dead and Less scalped downto the waterfront. There were no clothes
except the blow on the back ofher head and lipstick on his mouth.
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But it's enough for me having themthrough the same course, and I saw
it unappresided the Saint Mark fourth floorto the White Lilac met me at the
door. You can't see the chiefsone side, and she says, what
I've got to wake up? Screamingas whom you have it? And where
that she pounced. I pushed heroff, and she came back and got
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a hold of one hand of thewhomp m and tried to pull it away
from it the Saston's results. Thewample came apart and on a second was
not even hundreds of beads rolling differentdirections, all over the place. In
fact, it was no more.You cannot sleep well. I brought back
your wampum. But now it's allover the floor belt destroyed. Yes,
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it's destroyed. Your stupid old manyou talk to chief. Yes, stupid,
you had the world in your hand. You didn't know it. You
wanted it all for yourself to teardown the earth. It could have been
used to live. What are yousee to live the way I'm supposed to
live? Now nobody will have it, not even you or a fat engineer
who wanted it. Little white lelocshut mouth. I've been shutting my mouth
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all my life. You're a stupid, ignorant, disgusting old man. You'd
be better on His big hands werearound the throat. He stood there,
anger and betrail in his eyes,and his hands dropped, and he turned
away with tears streaming Ghana's face.It was and if the fair Indian maid
went for him of the night anappres Mike, You're to step in with
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a pale faced weapon. And nowlisten to this. Not only Dad,
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the oction of hidden Nipma treasure theNay many years ago. Nipmac tribe live
in valley of the Berkshires. Discoveronly gold vein in east, mine gold
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and keep for decoration. Kennebec Indianswant gold. Start out on war path.
Nipmuck Indians bury gold, move village, divert stream into valley, make
lake gold there today underwater. Whereasthat secret chief keep lucked in head.
Chief once haid you will plan forgold. Now you forget, Make pilgrimage
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back to ancient ancestral camp and die. Send me bill, Chief, leave
village of San Francisco for good Buryaround of power vanishing race. Just think
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the days of the cold and theWinchester are gone for it the day of
a Rummy's gonna still with us.Go to it and type this up here.
That one thing, how did thebloody Almahawk getting Chief black Clouds day?
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A little white lie Les planted itthere. If anything happened to the
Chief, she as the only otherliving nipmuck, would inherit the one what
she could have gotten the money byjust waiting. Shut up, damn.
Notice a thing about the report?Yeah, you got the lamb of the
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among the mug caper. You've beengoing out on an Allocation feature, The
Adventures of Sam Speed, Dashall Hammett'sfamous private detective, are produced and directed
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by William Spear. Sam Speed isplayed by Howard Dove Loreene Tuttle is Effie.
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musical direction by Lud Gluskin, withscore composed by Renee and Pierre Garrigan.
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you BALI get Wild Road right away. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting
System. Welcome back. Okay,let's go ahead and start by talking about
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the move to MBC. The serieswas still popular on CBS, but CBS
was getting a bit nervous about DashelHammett and his ties to groups that were
seen as pro communist, so CBSdecided to cancel Sam Spain. But Wild
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Route was able to immediately move theseries over to MBC, and they didn't
even skip a week. The lastCBS broadcast was on September eighteenth, and
of course this one was on Septembertwenty fifth, Although according to Martin Graham's
book, the Radio Adventures of SamSpade. They were still not really sure
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about Howard Duff, and that wouldplay out later. That always seemed like
a weird thing from a modern perspectivefor most of my life, because roles
were really strongly associated with actors,and the idea that you would take a
series that is so tied to HowardDuff as Sam Spade and you'll be like,
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I'm not quite sure about Duff.Then are you really sure about investing
money in bankrolling the program? Becausethey're kind of connected, you know.
But of course, in more recentyears we have found situations where actors are
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replaced on projects. There was amovie where they finished filming and scandal came
out about one of the actors andthey reshot all of their scenes with another
actor. But we'll talk about thatmore in common ways when we get to
Howard Dove's departure from the program.The ads on this episode were a little
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bit weird and the way that theywere placed into the program. As the
Radio Gold Index states, a secondmiddle commercial is heard three minutes after the
first, making the integrity of theprogram suspect. Perhaps that there had been
some sort of alteration. Is thesuggestion of the Radio Gold Index. However,
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when I'm looking at mister Graham's book, they have a reviewing here for
variety for the episode, and andone thing they note is commercials for Wild
Route were acceptable, but one line, the choice of men and women and
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children too, was socked home fivetimes, which may suggest that there was
some error back in nineteen forty ninewhen it was aired, and that something
new hadn't been added. Sadly,there are cases with old time radio programs
where the files get adulterated for onereason or another, such as to make
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it fit within a standard amount oftime. The history of the title of
this episode it was kind of interestingas well. According to Grahams, the
actors and production team on this serieswere quite humorous at times and decided to
play a practical joke on the announcer. They did rehearsals for this, but
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they kept his page blank, andthen they handed Dick Joy, the announcer,
his script page one minute before hewas to read it, and he
absolutely nailed it because, according toGrahams, Joy was from Webster, Massachusetts
and already knew how the name ofthe lake was pronounced. Graham's ads parenthetically,
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I've been led to believe the nameof the lake means you fish on
your side of the lake. Ifish on my side of the lake,
and nobody fishes in the middle,because mister Grahams also grew up in Massachusetts.
Now listener comments and feedback, andwe turned once again to our listeners
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survey, Lance Rots, I enjoythis podcast and host Adams information is interesting.
Brian Rits, I love the show, one of my favorites. And
Aaron from Brooklyn says, Hi,Adam, my father and I have enjoyed
your podcast off and on since twentyfifteen. It's always a nice treat and
(36:04):
heartwarming influence in life. Thanks forkeeping me company on long days over the
year. Well, thank you somuch and so glad that you're listening.
And thank you to your father aswell. And then Denise from Nova Scotia
in Canada rights, I listen nightlyand have discovered some wonderful shows I'd never
heard before. I love Adam's joyand passion for old time radio. Well,
(36:28):
thank you so much. I appreciatethe comment, Denise, and thank
you to everyone leaving the nice commentson our survey. Again, you can
take the listener survey at Survey dotgreat Detectives dot net. We also got
another comment I'm gonna forward on toAndrew a little bit technical and doesn't quite
roll off the tongue, but Iappreciate your feedback on that. And now
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I want to thank our Patreon supporterof the day, Thank you so much
to Russell. Russell has been oneof our Patreon supporters since Hober of twenty
sixteen, currently supporting the program atthe shaw must level of four dollars or
more per month. Thanks so muchfor your support, Russell. Now,
a quick programming note I had mentionedwhen I announced on March tenth that I
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was going full time with the podcast. I stated that I would be taking
a break that I had prerecorded episodesfor that will actually be starting next week,
and the first episode in that serieswill be the next episode of Sam
(37:37):
Spade. But it wasn't intended tobe that way from the start. However,
many reputable sites identified a false recordingof Sam Spade beat in circulation,
which threw me off. Oh,we won't be announcing that we're starting the
period we pre recorded on Monday,because it was in ten to be like
(38:00):
the fifth or sixth episode that hadbeen recorded in advance didn't officially start in
the whole period until Tuesday with JohnnyDowler, and it was announced on that
day, so this is wreaking alittle havoc with the recording schedule as a
result. Next week, the onlyepisode that wasn't recorded well in advance will
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be Dangerous Assignment, and then allthe episodes the week after that will have
been recorded well in advance. Iwill be recording an episode of Sam's Spade
today that will play in three weeks, so we'll consider any feedback we have
in the short term on this episode, but not have anything on more recent
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episodes, and all of the otherepisodes that week, other than Final Evans
and Tales of the Texas Rangers,will have been prerecorded. So that's what
the schedule looks like for the nextfew weeks. It's complex, Heyden,
and a big part of that isthe way we're doing johnnyed Dollers, But
I guess I should blame the guywho's hosting the show for that. That
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will do it for today. Iencourage you to follow this podcast if you
want to make sure you never missan episode. If you are enjoying this
podcast, be sure to rate andreview it wherever you download your episodes from.
We will be back next Monday foranother episode of Sam Spade. But
join us back here tomorrow for yourstruly, johnnied Dollar where hillside that served
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as a cemetery. The snow iswhite and gleaming under the winter sun of
the mid afternoon skies, the aircold and crisp. Did he are heavenly
Father, who knows all things?We commit the body of our beloved today
eternal care. They will be donejustin everyenda mercy. We vot the constellation
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of the sholding wing there stood ashesto ashes, to do sure in certain
hope of resurrection into eternal life,in the name of her father and of
the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Yeah, oh that's that, Yeah,
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poor George Eve. Which one ismissus Henderson r? That's Pauline and
Henderson. Yeah, that's her.But she can't be more than twenty five
twenty six to be exact. Dollar. I went to her birthday party two
months ago. How old was GeorgeHenderson? Fifty nine? Went to his
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party too? Yeah, pretty thing. Very any other family Nope, no,
other wife, nope? Want ameter? No not right now,
shoot yourself kind of thought you mightstart thinking when you got to look at
her. Just keep on the wayyou're doing. You're doing fine. When
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there's something you got to know,you can find out well Leaf, I
already know one thing. Yeah,boys, that I'm going to ask for
Corner's inquests. I hope you'll bewith us then. In the meantime,
do send your comments to Box thirteenat Great Detectives dot net, follow us
on Twitter at Radio Detectives, andcheck us out on Instagram, Instagram,
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dot com, slash Great Detectives fromBoise, Idaho. This is your host,
Adam Grahamson and off
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