March 23, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 5 (01:41):
Walked over to the safe and began to dial the
numbers before I snapped it open. I turned around to
look at him. He was leaning back in the easy
chair at the end of the room. His greasy face
was covered with a shrewd smile, and he caught a
revolver in his right hand. Remember a gun looked like
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a model I stopped making in nineteen hundred.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
A twenty two with a two inch sparrow.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
They were about forty feet between the safe and where
they were sitting. Unless that guy with an Annie Oakley,
he couldn't hit the broad side of a bard from
that position.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
And with that gun all right open it, I snapped open.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
The little safety and there it was. I could see
special Super thirty eight automatic stamped on the blue surface
of the slide, and the hammer was duck. Just as
I knew the old man had left, I picked.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Up that beautiful precision instrument.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
I turned not too quickly, snapped off the safety, and
brought the sides of line between our eyes.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
No matter.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
He lay there on the floor. I looked at him,
and I had that strange feeling that I overlooked something important.
I walked over to where he was lying. He pitched forward,
landing in a disjointed heap. The letter What had he
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yelled about?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
A letter? Meant nothing to me? A letter? Had I
slipped up somewhere? Now it was impossible.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I was just stood there over his body for ten minutes,
for the blood was soaking its way across the carpet.
I tried to think of how I stood now, of
what I had to do next. But my mind wouldn't
let me.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
He kept slipping back, slipping back.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
To three months ago, three months ago, three months while
old man Donovan was in a pretty bad mood.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
That night, he and his white rosean were scratching. They
stopped as I came into the living room. And that's final.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Oh oh, Charles, come.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
In, Hello Charles, Hello, missus Donovan.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I've finished going over these papers, mister Donovan. Good they
look okay, Yes, sir, Have you seen Missus Donovan's bank
statements around anywhere? No, I haven't run across them.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Or she's been overdrawing.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Again.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
We've got to get this straightened out once and for all.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I tell you I haven't been overdrawing.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
How many times do I have to tell you?
Speaker 7 (04:28):
How argue with me, Josh?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
For you see, if you can't find them somewhere, I
don't know where they are.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Where they are, look for them.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
We don't have a private Edgar before Yes, sir, yes, sir,
I'm going.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
To bed now.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I want those statements in.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
The morning, you understand.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Oh the night of that good night, John.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Charlie, come here.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
I can't stand him any longer.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I can't live in this stay in the house with him.
And see you around everything.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
No, no, is that and I way to talk about
your ever loving husband.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I just can't stand it anymore. Yeah, this is no good.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
He's gonna talk down to me once too often. I'm
gonna get out of here before that happens.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
That's what I've been telling you, Charlie. Let's run away,
take a plane to South America tomorrow. We could be
together from then on. Let's do that, Charlie. I have
a little money, and I have my jewels, and the
first we could get along.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Let's do it.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Let's call the tickets now, run away.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Look, Charlie, is now happenings together the most important thing.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Let's just leave them. We could go to Mexico.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
He loves his bank books and bank statements and stocks
and bonds more than me.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Can't we do it that way?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Can't we? No, baby, we can't.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 7 (05:42):
I can't go on with them? What can we do?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I Charlie?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, baby, that's it. You're reading my mind. Oh, Charlie, that's.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
That's the only way. Is that what you want to say?
I don't know, I don't know, but I know, baby,
you haven't got a thing to worry about. You look
beautiful and black. There wasn't much time to waste. I
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couldn't take any chances on him catching arm. If we
were going to do it my way, we'd.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Have to do it soon. I began to make plans.
I told her we were going to push him out
the window. I told her.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Everything, everything except about the poison.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I was ready. I bought the.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Poison and now only had to slip it into the
old man's medicine. At six o'clock that night, the phone
last I knew.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
That was Judge Peters.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I picked him to establish my alibi for me, a
phone job. Yes, sir, it's probably Judge Peters. He told
me he wanted to see me tonight. But if I'm
to finish your letters, well, sir, could you perhaps tell
him that I'm not here. It'd be simpler, and I
have so much of your work to finish. H Judge
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read The old man swallowed that hook line and sinker.
He liked little intrigue.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
They were the only adventure in his life.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Except Sorry, Judge, Charles isn't here.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I haven't seen him all day, and I don't expect
to see him tonight. All right, catch yes, aunt, good night.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
We fixed that, Yes, sir, I think it's better this way.
Now I'll be able to finish those letters for you. Fine,
say fixed me my medicine, but three jobs, all right, sir?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You want soda with it? Enough?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
A little more?
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Ah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
That's good. You're only a fair secondary Charles, but you're
a swirl butler. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Well, i'll get busy on these reports.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Oh, take them down here.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Own, Yes, sir, I can work better down there, all right,
I say, make.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
A note to Dumb my consolidated steel bars.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Tomorrow, Yes, sir, don't you worry.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I'll take care of everything tomorrow. As I walked out
the door, I saw him take a sip out of
his glass. The next next couple of hours, I'd have
a lot of work to do.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I walked down the stairs instead of taking the elevator.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
No one had seen me answer, and no one was
going to see me leave. My whole plan hinds on
leaving without being noticed. I went out the side door.
She was waiting for me outside, just as we'd arranged.
It was exactly fifteen minutes after six, So far my
timing was perfect.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I took her through the hotel lobby over to the elevator.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Will you be all right?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I'll be all right. Oh boy, when you see that
Missus Donovan gets off at her floor. All right, she's
not feeling too well, yes, sir, thanks. Oh see, do
you happen to have the time? My watch must have
stopped m let's see. Uh that's so twenty after six. Thanks, thanks, alas,
I'll be up in about an hour.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Missus Donovan going up. That was that. Now all I
had to do was the stall for time.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I walked around for a while.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Between six thirty and seven. I went into some stores.
When I was known, I said hello.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
To some people, just in case anyone checked. Then I
walked around so long the minutes dragged by it.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I must have looked at my watch fifty.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Times during that hour and a half. At eight, I
went back to the hotel. As I stepped into the elevator,
I really noticed the elevator man for the first time.
He was big and greasy. I had to make sure
he wouldn't forget what time I went up.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Steel Then as he.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Made the first move as the elevator began to go up,
that was luck. Hey, get your watch fixed? Sir hm
m oh oh, sure, said seven thirty. It's still not working. No,
it's almost eight now.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
How do you like that?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
It must have stopped again almost eight o'clock.
Speaker 9 (10:25):
Yeah, thanks, Kelly, Kellie, where have you been?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
There's something wrong with John. He keeps moaning and holding
his stomach. You wants me to.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Call a doctor. Star him for a minute.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
What can be wrong with him?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Search me?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
I'm so glad.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Okay, help me to my bet.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Charles, Relax, so man, I'll get him in a minute.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Are you going to do it now?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Do you think you're gonna do it?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Now?
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Charlie?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Get his doctor?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Let me die here? Roseanne, please kind.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
I'm there's my help me get him over to the window.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
No, God, that said Roseanne.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Up on the now, push up, push, You.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Know everything now, don't you?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I just come in.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
He fell, he fell.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
We were on the other side of the room. There
was nothing wrong with him before the accident.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Get us get.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
His I looked at her standing there. She was shaking,
fighting half to death, and yet her face had a
reddish glow, like something warm and mellow, the kind of
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Speaker 5 (14:14):
At the inquest, there was some talk of an automasy,
but the old man's prestige and a crew of lawyers
preserved the body in a state of unmarked dignity at
the request of the Greek stricken widow. That's just the
way they put it to the day after the.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Funeral, we were married, quiet, no publicy. Well there I was.
I had all the old man's.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Job and I had her. I don't know what it
was that made me go on. Maybe it was the
reading of the world that made me go through with
my original plans. A million well now we know better,
and one safety deposit box alone it was over four
hundred thousand in cash, and then there were the estates
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compared to that kind of money and what it meant
to me.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
She was just another day.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Uh well, John Braden's speaking James Donovan was poisoned and
then pushed out the window.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I suggest you dig up the body. What suppose you're speaking?
I uh.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
I worked in the hotel the night before Donovan kill
was killed. His wife threatened him. Ask anyone on the floor.
They'll tell you how Donovan and his wife always floor.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Suppose you come down?
Speaker 5 (15:43):
I saw Lieutenant dig him up. The second part was
in the.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Works, and now all I had to do was to
sit back and wait.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
And I was on my way to being the sole
owner of the Dunnovan Millions. Standing alone on top of
the mountain with everyone looking up at me, Everyone looking
up at me.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
What's the idea? Dragging us down here? Lieutenant?
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Treating us like a pair of common criminals.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
What is it you want of us? You're at the
idea in just a minute now.
Speaker 8 (16:32):
I just don't get excited.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Not get excited? Why all? It's mighty strange.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
The guy falls out of a window with two people.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
In the room.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
What do you mean strange? We were on the other
side of the room. Accidents of Oh sure, I know.
I was at the inquest too. What I really wanted
to ask you was where were you before he fell out?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I told you I'd just come in.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I see you were out before.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Why, Yes, i'd gone. Can you prove that?
Speaker 8 (16:57):
What can you prove that you weren't in the apart
on any length of time before the accident?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yes, I guess so I.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Hadn't seen him all day. Sure, I guess I could
prove it. But why and.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
How about you, missus Darvan I why.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I listen, lieutenant, If you have something to.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Tell us, let's hear it. Otherwise, let us go.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Okay, brother, we dug up old man Donovan he had
enough poison in him to kill.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
A Knox poison poison?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Why that's impossible.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
He couldn't have been poisoned.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Missus Donovan was up there with him all the time.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Oh she was, of course, he couldn't have been poisoned.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
I see Can we go now?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, sure, sure you can go.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Missus Donovan will have to wait though, we're booking her
for murder.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It was prifted.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
They indicted her for a second degree murder. That was
a smart move on the part of the day because
he couldn't conclusively prove whether the four or the poison
killed him. And then she swore to high Heaven that
she didn't see him drink anything while she was there.
The lawyer who was trying to prove suicide, almost broke
a blood vessel. The best part came when the prosecution
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tried to get me to testify for them. I showed
them our marriage license. There it convinced her that I
was trying to protect him, but it gave the DA
all the motive he needed.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Ury.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
Why is the fun of Jilly of murdering a second degree?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
There was only one more step left.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
I had to face her in her cell.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
In five minutes, measure, Darling.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Oh, Charlie, I've been waiting.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Boy.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Come, I'm still in a daze, Roseanne. How did it
all happen?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
The trial, the conviction, It all went so fast.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Oh, I don't know how it happened, but maybe upset
it This way, at least part of what we did
is been paid for. When I get out, we'll be
able to live a free life together.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
For ten years. No, Darling, I'm going to tell them, No,
I'm going to confess everything. I'll do that rather than
see you wasting away in prison.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
No, No, you're not you.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
You'll just be trading places with me. It'll be punishment
enough if we're deprived of each other's love. No, Charlie,
this is the only way it can be. And ten
years isn't so long now I know you'll You'll always
be mine no matter where I am.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Yes, darling, no matter where you are, I'll always be yours.
I really felt bad about it too, which you had
got to compromise in NiFe. I treated in a thing
I wanted for something I wanted more money and power.
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It was right there in the palm of my hand,
and all I did was make a fist. I headed
up to one of the old Man's hideouts in the
White Mountains and to let things cool off there. I
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wanted to plan all the things I'd do during the
coming weeks. It would have been a great time except
for that phone call.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Yes, how was the ross?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I was written about? Missus Dannamus trials?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
The ross? Who is this?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
The old man was really foist?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
You running off?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Leave me? Your wife's take a rap? Who is this?
Tell you what? All right?
Speaker 10 (20:57):
Twenty five grand No, don't ever know about your staking
out of the farm of that day.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I think you'd better come up here and see me
in person.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
Okay, I'll be up tomorrow at nine.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Why not tonight?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You'll be there if you know what's good for your brother.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Blackmail?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
I knew what to do, and paying him wasn't the answer.
Once I began to pay, he'd then have the power
that belonged to me.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
He'd pull the strings.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
This man, whoever he was, could degrade me and humiliate
me more than I'd ever been degraded while serving the
Old Man. I heard the car drive up at a
little last nine. I left the front door open and
sat in the living romer waiting for him. He walked in.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Well, mister ross.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
It was the elevator man.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Well, well, mister Rossie got a pretty classy set up here.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I'm my poor mister Donovan.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Show's a shame when a guy has to leave all
that money behind. Get to the point, get out rather
from now on, you're gonna treat me with respect.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I know can send you straight to the chair. Keep talking.
I saw your sneak.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Out of Donovan's apartment a couple.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Hours before he died.
Speaker 10 (22:16):
I saw you put your act in the lobby so
the day would be.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Alone with the old man.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
It's pretty clear the way you framed her with a trial, But.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
You didn't fool me for a minute.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
What's the count? Well, I figure you're.
Speaker 10 (22:27):
Working to day for plenty So, seeing the paper said
that Donovan left to flock a millions, well twenty five
dollars will do for a start.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
You know, I haven't got that kind of money here.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
How much have you got?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I guess there ought.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
To be sixteen seventeen hundred dollars in the wall safe.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
But look here is that?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
And what do I get in return?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I'll keep quiet for.
Speaker 10 (22:51):
A while for a while, I said, Seeing I'm such
a valuable guy.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I think you ought to put me on.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
A payroll, make me some of a private secretary like you.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Was the whole man's Donovan.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I think I understand.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
Heah, yeah, you betch, you'll understand. I'll get the dough
and fast.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yes, I see now, I think I see the whole picture.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I walked over to the safe and began to dial
the numbers before I snapped it open. I turned round to.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Look at him.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
He was leaning back in the easy chair at the
end of the room. His greasy face was covered with
a shrewd smile, and he was pawing that silly little
revolver in his right hand. It looked like a nineteen
hundred diver Johnson twenty two caliber with a two inch barrow.
I took that and the fact that they were about
forty feet between us into a glance. Unless that guy
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was an Annie Oakley, he couldn't hit the broadside of
a bard from that position.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
And with that gun star I snapped open a little safe,
and there it was. I could see.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Colt Super thirty eight automatic stamped on the brood surface
of its slag.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
The hammer was dight, just as I knew the old
man had left it.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
I snapped off the safety and brought the sights in
line between our riots. We lay there on the floor.
I looked down at him, and.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I had this strange feeling that I had overlooked something.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
I hid in his car in the garage and gotten
rid of the body in the cellar under two feet
of dirt. Maybe I should have left him alone. I
could have preyed it self defense. But no, he had Donovan.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Another trial might not have turned out so well. Now
I had to get up. I was really in the clear.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Nobody'd ever look under those.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Boards in the cellar.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Nobody'd ever dare to snoop around.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Donovan's place, my place. Nothing respect something, And why should.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Anyone suspect anything not in my house.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
My h.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
In a minute, i'd be office Steed.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Road and on the highway to New York.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Yes, that's this, back to New York, then out of
the country. What the hey you how about pulling out
of the road and letting me buy.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Who is it? Why don't you?
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Well, well, but this isn't mister Ross.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Why uh uh, Lieutenant Bradon, what's the trouble?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
All the trouble with tolls?
Speaker 8 (25:50):
Matter of fact, I just give him up here.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
To talk to You's sort of a social call.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Well, right now I'm going to New York.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
I mean, I can't you see you think you know
a mister Ross. I never had a chance talk to
you after the trial.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
I got a little theory about Donovan's death.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Oh it's too late to do anything.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
About it now, of course, but now you thought it
might be nice we could sort.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Of discuss it.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Sure, sure, anytime, except now I'm in a great hust.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
So I thought I'd killed two birds with one stone.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
What well, some crank sent me a letter. See he's
saying he was coming up here to see you. It
seems he thought that you might kill him a letter. Yeah,
it probably didn't mean a thing.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
But well you're a rich man now, mister Ross, you'll just.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Afteritely get used to being a target for cranks. A letter,
that's what he meant. The letter. Well, the matter of
mister Ross.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
You look, you know it looks so good. Say, there's
nothing to be afraid of it. I tell you what
you're you're.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I saying far from here. Let's you and me take
a little stroll up there and see if that crank
has arrived. Uh, it'll make you feel better.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Oh, I'm all right, I'm all right.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Just let me go.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
No, I insist it'll set your mind at ease.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Okay, come on, let's go.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
The cop didn't have any trouble finding him at all.
I guess Roseanne will get the money after all, now.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
When she gets he's too bad really.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
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Speaker 5 (28:05):
Yes, Ken, I have managed to qualify for a love
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Speaker 2 (28:11):
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Speaker 7 (28:14):
With the villain.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
No.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
No, on the contrary, Ken, I don't want to be
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Speaker 5 (01:41):
Walked over to the safe and began to dial the
numbers before I snapped it open. I turned around to
look at him. He was leaning back in the easy
chair at the end of the room. His greasy face
was covered with a shrewd smile, and he caught a
revolver in his right hand. Remember a gun looked like
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a model I stopped making in nineteen hundred.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
A twenty two with a two inch sparrow.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
They were about forty feet between the safe and where
they were sitting. Unless that guy with an Annie Oakley,
he couldn't hit the broad side of a bard from
that position.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
And with that gun all right open it, I snapped open.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
The little safety and there it was. I could see
special Super thirty eight automatic stamped on the blue surface
of the slide, and the hammer was duck. Just as
I knew the old man had left, I picked.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Up that beautiful precision instrument.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
I turned not too quickly, snapped off the safety, and
brought the sides of line between our eyes.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
No matter.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
He lay there on the floor. I looked at him,
and I had that strange feeling that I overlooked something important.
I walked over to where he was lying. He pitched forward,
landing in a disjointed heap. The letter What had he
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yelled about?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
A letter? Meant nothing to me? A letter? Had I
slipped up somewhere? Now it was impossible.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I was just stood there over his body for ten minutes,
for the blood was soaking its way across the carpet.
I tried to think of how I stood now, of
what I had to do next. But my mind wouldn't
let me.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
He kept slipping back, slipping back.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
To three months ago, three months ago, three months while
old man Donovan was in a pretty bad mood.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
That night, he and his white rosean were scratching. They
stopped as I came into the living room. And that's final.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Oh oh, Charles, come.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
In, Hello Charles, Hello, missus Donovan.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I've finished going over these papers, mister Donovan. Good they
look okay, Yes, sir, Have you seen Missus Donovan's bank
statements around anywhere? No, I haven't run across them.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Or she's been overdrawing.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Again.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
We've got to get this straightened out once and for all.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
I tell you I haven't been overdrawing.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
How many times do I have to tell you?
Speaker 7 (04:28):
How argue with me, Josh?
Speaker 5 (04:30):
For you see, if you can't find them somewhere, I
don't know where they are.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Where they are, look for them.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
We don't have a private Edgar before Yes, sir, yes, sir,
I'm going.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
To bed now.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
I want those statements in.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
The morning, you understand.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
Oh the night of that good night, John.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Charlie, come here.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
I can't stand him any longer.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I can't live in this stay in the house with him.
And see you around everything.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
No, no, is that and I way to talk about
your ever loving husband.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I just can't stand it anymore. Yeah, this is no good.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
He's gonna talk down to me once too often. I'm
gonna get out of here before that happens.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
That's what I've been telling you, Charlie. Let's run away,
take a plane to South America tomorrow. We could be
together from then on. Let's do that, Charlie. I have
a little money, and I have my jewels, and the
first we could get along.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Let's do it.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Let's call the tickets now, run away.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Look, Charlie, is now happenings together the most important thing.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Let's just leave them. We could go to Mexico.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
He loves his bank books and bank statements and stocks
and bonds more than me.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Anyway.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Can't we do it that way?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Can't we? No, baby, we can't.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
What are we gonna do?
Speaker 7 (05:42):
I can't go on with them? What can we do?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I Charlie?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, baby, that's it. You're reading my mind. Oh, Charlie, that's.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
That's the only way. Is that what you want to say?
I don't know, I don't know, but I know, baby,
you haven't got a thing to worry about. You look
beautiful and black. There wasn't much time to waste. I
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couldn't take any chances on him catching arm. If we
were going to do it my way, we'd.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Have to do it soon. I began to make plans.
I told her we were going to push him out
the window. I told her.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Everything, everything except about the poison.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
I was ready. I bought the.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Poison and now only had to slip it into the
old man's medicine. At six o'clock that night, the phone
last I knew.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
That was Judge Peters.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I picked him to establish my alibi for me, a
phone job. Yes, sir, it's probably Judge Peters. He told
me he wanted to see me tonight. But if I'm
to finish your letters, well, sir, could you perhaps tell
him that I'm not here. It'd be simpler, and I
have so much of your work to finish. H Judge
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read The old man swallowed that hook line and sinker.
He liked little intrigue.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
They were the only adventure in his life.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
Except Sorry, Judge, Charles isn't here.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I haven't seen him all day, and I don't expect
to see him tonight. All right, catch yes, aunt, good night.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
We fixed that, Yes, sir, I think it's better this way.
Now I'll be able to finish those letters for you. Fine,
say fixed me my medicine, but three jobs, all right, sir?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
You want soda with it? Enough?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
A little more?
Speaker 7 (07:50):
Ah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
That's good. You're only a fair secondary Charles, but you're
a swirl butler. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Well, i'll get busy on these reports.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Oh, take them down here.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Own, Yes, sir, I can work better down there, all right,
I say, make.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
A note to Dumb my consolidated steel bars.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Tomorrow, Yes, sir, don't you worry.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I'll take care of everything tomorrow. As I walked out
the door, I saw him take a sip out of
his glass. The next next couple of hours, I'd have
a lot of work to do.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I walked down the stairs instead of taking the elevator.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
No one had seen me answer, and no one was
going to see me leave. My whole plan hinds on
leaving without being noticed. I went out the side door.
She was waiting for me outside, just as we'd arranged.
It was exactly fifteen minutes after six, So far my
timing was perfect.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
I took her through the hotel lobby over to the elevator.
Speaker 7 (09:01):
Will you be all right?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I'll be all right. Oh boy, when you see that
Missus Donovan gets off at her floor. All right, she's
not feeling too well, yes, sir, thanks. Oh see, do
you happen to have the time? My watch must have
stopped m let's see. Uh that's so twenty after six. Thanks, thanks, alas,
I'll be up in about an hour.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Missus Donovan going up. That was that. Now all I
had to do was the stall for time.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
I walked around for a while.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Between six thirty and seven. I went into some stores.
When I was known, I said hello.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
To some people, just in case anyone checked. Then I
walked around so long the minutes dragged by it.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I must have looked at my watch fifty.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Times during that hour and a half. At eight, I
went back to the hotel. As I stepped into the elevator,
I really noticed the elevator man for the first time.
He was big and greasy. I had to make sure
he wouldn't forget what time I went up.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Steel Then as he.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Made the first move as the elevator began to go up,
that was luck. Hey, get your watch fixed? Sir hm
m oh oh, sure, said seven thirty. It's still not working. No,
it's almost eight now.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
How do you like that?
Speaker 5 (10:22):
It must have stopped again almost eight o'clock.
Speaker 9 (10:25):
Yeah, thanks, Kelly, Kellie, where have you been?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
There's something wrong with John. He keeps moaning and holding
his stomach. You wants me to.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Call a doctor. Star him for a minute.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
What can be wrong with him?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Search me?
Speaker 5 (10:48):
I'm so glad.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Okay, help me to my bet.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Charles, Relax, so man, I'll get him in a minute.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Are you going to do it now?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Do you think you're gonna do it?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Now?
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Charlie?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Get his doctor?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
Let me die here? Roseanne, please kind.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
I'm there's my help me get him over to the window.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
No, God, that said Roseanne.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
Up on the now, push up, push, You.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Know everything now, don't you?
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I just come in.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
He fell, he fell.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
We were on the other side of the room. There
was nothing wrong with him before the accident.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Get us get.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
His I looked at her standing there. She was shaking,
fighting half to death, and yet her face had a
reddish glow, like something warm and mellow, the kind of
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stuff you feel in your dreams. At that moment, I
wouldn't have traded her in for anything, anything less than
the yandalas or suspense. Roma Wines are bringing you Dan
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Speaker 2 (12:28):
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tail well calculator to keep you away, I'll spend.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
At the inquest, there was some talk of an automasy,
but the old man's prestige and a crew of lawyers
preserved the body in a state of unmarked dignity at
the request of the Greek stricken widow. That's just the
way they put it to the day after the.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Funeral, we were married, quiet, no publicy. Well there I was.
I had all the old man's.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Job and I had her. I don't know what it
was that made me go on. Maybe it was the
reading of the world that made me go through with
my original plans. A million well now we know better,
and one safety deposit box alone it was over four
hundred thousand in cash, and then there were the estates
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compared to that kind of money and what it meant
to me.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
She was just another day.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Uh well, John Braden's speaking James Donovan was poisoned and
then pushed out the window.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I suggest you dig up the body. What suppose you're speaking?
I uh.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
I worked in the hotel the night before Donovan kill
was killed. His wife threatened him. Ask anyone on the floor.
They'll tell you how Donovan and his wife always floor.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Suppose you come down?
Speaker 5 (15:43):
I saw Lieutenant dig him up. The second part was
in the.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Works, and now all I had to do was to
sit back and wait.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
And I was on my way to being the sole
owner of the Dunnovan Millions. Standing alone on top of
the mountain with everyone looking up at me, Everyone looking
up at me.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
What's the idea? Dragging us down here? Lieutenant?
Speaker 5 (16:26):
Treating us like a pair of common criminals.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
What is it you want of us? You're at the
idea in just a minute now.
Speaker 8 (16:32):
I just don't get excited.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Not get excited? Why all? It's mighty strange.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
The guy falls out of a window with two people.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
In the room.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
What do you mean strange? We were on the other
side of the room. Accidents of Oh sure, I know.
I was at the inquest too. What I really wanted
to ask you was where were you before he fell out?
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I told you I'd just come in.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
I see you were out before.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Why, Yes, i'd gone. Can you prove that?
Speaker 8 (16:57):
What can you prove that you weren't in the apart
on any length of time before the accident?
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yes, I guess so I.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Hadn't seen him all day. Sure, I guess I could
prove it. But why and.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
How about you, missus Darvan I why.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
I listen, lieutenant, If you have something to.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Tell us, let's hear it. Otherwise, let us go.
Speaker 8 (17:19):
Okay, brother, we dug up old man Donovan he had
enough poison in him to kill.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
A Knox poison poison?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Why that's impossible.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
He couldn't have been poisoned.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Missus Donovan was up there with him all the time.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Oh she was, of course, he couldn't have been poisoned.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
I see Can we go now?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, sure, sure you can go.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
Missus Donovan will have to wait though, we're booking her
for murder.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It was prifted.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
They indicted her for a second degree murder. That was
a smart move on the part of the day because
he couldn't conclusively prove whether the four or the poison
killed him. And then she swore to high Heaven that
she didn't see him drink anything while she was there.
The lawyer who was trying to prove suicide, almost broke
a blood vessel. The best part came when the prosecution
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tried to get me to testify for them. I showed
them our marriage license. There it convinced her that I
was trying to protect him, but it gave the DA
all the motive he needed.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Ury.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
Why is the fun of Jilly of murdering a second degree?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
There was only one more step left.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
I had to face her in her cell.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
In five minutes, measure, Darling.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Oh, Charlie, I've been waiting.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Boy.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Come, I'm still in a daze, Roseanne. How did it
all happen?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
The trial, the conviction, It all went so fast.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Oh, I don't know how it happened, but maybe upset
it This way, at least part of what we did
is been paid for. When I get out, we'll be
able to live a free life together.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
For ten years. No, Darling, I'm going to tell them, No,
I'm going to confess everything. I'll do that rather than
see you wasting away in prison.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
No, No, you're not you.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
You'll just be trading places with me. It'll be punishment
enough if we're deprived of each other's love. No, Charlie,
this is the only way it can be. And ten
years isn't so long now I know you'll You'll always
be mine no matter where I am.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Yes, darling, no matter where you are, I'll always be yours.
I really felt bad about it too, which you had
got to compromise in NiFe. I treated in a thing
I wanted for something I wanted more money and power.
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It was right there in the palm of my hand,
and all I did was make a fist. I headed
up to one of the old Man's hideouts in the
White Mountains and to let things cool off there. I
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wanted to plan all the things I'd do during the
coming weeks. It would have been a great time except
for that phone call.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Yes, how was the ross?
Speaker 3 (20:46):
I was written about? Missus Dannamus trials?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
The ross? Who is this?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
The old man was really foist?
Speaker 4 (20:52):
You running off?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Leave me? Your wife's take a rap? Who is this?
Tell you what? All right?
Speaker 10 (20:57):
Twenty five grand No, don't ever know about your staking
out of the farm of that day.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I think you'd better come up here and see me
in person.
Speaker 10 (21:06):
Okay, I'll be up tomorrow at nine.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Why not tonight?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You'll be there if you know what's good for your brother.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Blackmail?
Speaker 5 (21:19):
I knew what to do, and paying him wasn't the answer.
Once I began to pay, he'd then have the power
that belonged to me.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
He'd pull the strings.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
This man, whoever he was, could degrade me and humiliate
me more than I'd ever been degraded while serving the
Old Man. I heard the car drive up at a
little last nine. I left the front door open and
sat in the living romer waiting for him. He walked in.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
Well, mister ross.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
It was the elevator man.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Well, well, mister Rossie got a pretty classy set up here.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I'm my poor mister Donovan.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
Show's a shame when a guy has to leave all
that money behind. Get to the point, get out rather
from now on, you're gonna treat me with respect.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
I know can send you straight to the chair. Keep talking.
I saw your sneak.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Out of Donovan's apartment a couple.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Hours before he died.
Speaker 10 (22:16):
I saw you put your act in the lobby so
the day would be.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Alone with the old man.
Speaker 10 (22:20):
It's pretty clear the way you framed her with a trial, But.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
You didn't fool me for a minute.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
What's the count? Well, I figure you're.
Speaker 10 (22:27):
Working to day for plenty So, seeing the paper said
that Donovan left to flock a millions, well twenty five
dollars will do for a start.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
You know, I haven't got that kind of money here.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
How much have you got?
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I guess there ought.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
To be sixteen seventeen hundred dollars in the wall safe.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
But look here is that?
Speaker 5 (22:47):
And what do I get in return?
Speaker 3 (22:49):
I'll keep quiet for.
Speaker 10 (22:51):
A while for a while, I said, Seeing I'm such
a valuable guy.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
I think you ought to put me on.
Speaker 10 (22:58):
A payroll, make me some of a private secretary like you.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Was the whole man's Donovan.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
I think I understand.
Speaker 10 (23:05):
Heah, yeah, you betch, you'll understand. I'll get the dough
and fast.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
Yes, I see now, I think I see the whole picture.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
I walked over to the safe and began to dial
the numbers before I snapped it open. I turned round to.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Look at him.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
He was leaning back in the easy chair at the
end of the room. His greasy face was covered with
a shrewd smile, and he was pawing that silly little
revolver in his right hand. It looked like a nineteen
hundred diver Johnson twenty two caliber with a two inch barrow.
I took that and the fact that they were about
forty feet between us into a glance. Unless that guy
(23:49):
was an Annie Oakley, he couldn't hit the broadside of
a bard from that position.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
And with that gun star I snapped open a little safe,
and there it was. I could see.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Colt Super thirty eight automatic stamped on the brood surface
of its slag.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
The hammer was dight, just as I knew the old
man had left it.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
I snapped off the safety and brought the sights in
line between our riots. We lay there on the floor.
I looked down at him, and.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
I had this strange feeling that I had overlooked something.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
I hid in his car in the garage and gotten
rid of the body in the cellar under two feet
of dirt. Maybe I should have left him alone. I
could have preyed it self defense. But no, he had Donovan.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Another trial might not have turned out so well. Now
I had to get up. I was really in the clear.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
Nobody'd ever look under those.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Boards in the cellar.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
Nobody'd ever dare to snoop around.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Donovan's place, my place. Nothing respect something, And why should.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Anyone suspect anything not in my house.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
My h.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
In a minute, i'd be office Steed.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Road and on the highway to New York.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Yes, that's this, back to New York, then out of
the country. What the hey you how about pulling out
of the road and letting me buy.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Who is it? Why don't you?
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Well, well, but this isn't mister Ross.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Why uh uh, Lieutenant Bradon, what's the trouble?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
All the trouble with tolls?
Speaker 8 (25:50):
Matter of fact, I just give him up here.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
To talk to You's sort of a social call.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
Well, right now I'm going to New York.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
I mean, I can't you see you think you know
a mister Ross. I never had a chance talk to
you after the trial.
Speaker 8 (26:01):
I got a little theory about Donovan's death.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
Oh it's too late to do anything.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
About it now, of course, but now you thought it
might be nice we could sort.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Of discuss it.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Sure, sure, anytime, except now I'm in a great hust.
Speaker 8 (26:14):
So I thought I'd killed two birds with one stone.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
What well, some crank sent me a letter. See he's
saying he was coming up here to see you. It
seems he thought that you might kill him a letter. Yeah,
it probably didn't mean a thing.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
But well you're a rich man now, mister Ross, you'll just.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Afteritely get used to being a target for cranks. A letter,
that's what he meant. The letter. Well, the matter of
mister Ross.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
You look, you know it looks so good. Say, there's
nothing to be afraid of it. I tell you what
you're you're.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
I saying far from here. Let's you and me take
a little stroll up there and see if that crank
has arrived. Uh, it'll make you feel better.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Oh, I'm all right, I'm all right.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Just let me go.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
No, no, no, no.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
No, I insist it'll set your mind at ease.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Okay, come on, let's go.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
The cop didn't have any trouble finding him at all.
I guess Roseanne will get the money after all, now.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
When she gets he's too bad really.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Suspence presented by Roma Wine r O L, a Roma
America's favorite once. This is Kendles returning to walk the
Spence microphone with a star of tonight's play, Dan Durier. Dan,
I've no ill in your last few pictures that you've
forsaken the cloak of villainy to play the hero.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Yes, Ken, I have managed to qualify for a love
scene or too lately in spite of my wicked reputation.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Well then I'm afraid we've done you wrong tonight, casting you.
Speaker 7 (28:14):
With the villain.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
No.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
No, on the contrary, Ken, I don't want to be
a hero on suspense. Look at what happened to the
good guy tonight. Poisonous pushed out of a window in
a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Oh maybe you're right, Dan, but heal our hero. For
your fine performance tonight, you rate a reward. So here's
a gift basket of Roma wines with thanks from Roma,
America's greatest vintner.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Oh, thank you, Ken and Roma. I'll be glad to
be a villain on suspense anytime.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
And you'll be glad to have Roma California scherry on
hand when guests drop in. Gos, serve the Roma scherry
in your gift basket, and watch the smiles of enjoyment
up here at the first sip of this better tasting
Roma wine. Remember, too, Roma Sharry is the perfect first
call for dinner, a delightful treat anytime.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
I know that about Roma Sheary, Kim, But.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Do you know why Roma Sharry tastes better? Will begin
with Roma selects and presses the choicest, most luscious grapes
in all California.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Then the ancient skill of Roma Vintner's.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
With America's finest wine making resources, guides this rich treasure
unhurriedly to tempting taste perfection.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Later, at peak taste.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Richness, Roma selects from the world's greatest reserves.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Of fine wines for your pleasure.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
That's why more Americans and joy Roma than any other wine.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
What better reason?
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Thank you, Kim, and good night, Thank you, Dan Dearier.
Dandurier appeared to the courtesy of Universal International Studios and
is currently being seen in their production of Quite Tie
and Tales to Night's suspense play was written by Frank Talvas.
Next Thursday, Same Time, you will hear miss John Bennett
as star of Suspense, produced and directed by William Spear
(30:02):
for the Roma Wine Company of Presno, California.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System
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