December 11, 2025 • 24 mins
Suspense was one of the most popular and successful radio series during it's run of over 900 episodes, spanning 1940-1962. Guest stars included Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Agnes Moorehead, Marlene Dietrich and Humphrey Bogart. The plots were mostly engaging crime dramas, science fiction and some horror - usually with a surprise ending.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of prills.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Suspense.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Tonight the story of a man who got the only
way to escape death was to search for it. We
call it diagnosis of Death. So, now starring Gene Bates
with Lawrence Dobkin, here is tonight suspense play Diagnosis of Death.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Come in.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I hope you don't mind mind dropping in without.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
An appointment, of course, not.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Down, thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Your nurse had Simon had already left. I suppose he'd
call this new thing, but I think I have a
right to know.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Mark. I'm glad you dropped in. I tried to call
you at home just a few minutes ago. But then
it is serious, all right. Now, I'm not speaking about
Simon's health. H A rather unfortunate thing has happened.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Well, not an accident.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
In a sense. Now I'm not even sure that anything
is wrong, but if there is, I'm going to need
your help, of course.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
But what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Start at the beginning, Simon had a one o'clock appointment
here with me. I was to give him a final
report and all the tests we've run in his condition.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yes, I know that he wouldn't tell me much about it.
I knew he was worried, of course, but in such
a hypercomody.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
He was very worried. So was I.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Oh, I didn't realize.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Well, just over an hour ago he arrived for that
one o'clock appointment. Now I happened to be upstairs in
consultation with another doctor, and Simon was in the waiting room.
Miss Hermann says he was very nervous. Naturally, Yes, he
was there in the waiting room when I phoned down
to ask Miss Herman to read me a lab report
that had just come in. This was a report on
(02:15):
another patient, not on Simon, and Miss Herman should have
checked the door of the waiting room, but she thought
it was closed. Evidently it had swung open again. Simon
must have heard everything she said over the telephone. But
what he heard her tell me that he was here
for his appointment, and then immediately after he heard her
read the report, and he would have no way of
(02:38):
knowing that it wasn't his. He must have thought it was. Well,
I'll read you the last sentence of the diagnosis that
he overheard. Oh, here, the patient's condition is definitely malignant,
in a stage too far advanced for successful surgery. Fatal
(03:00):
results are indicated in from one to three months.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Oh jeer.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Then, when miss Herman finished and looked out, Simon was
just leaving the waiting room. She called to him, but
he wouldn't answer. He hasn't been back. Now. I've tried
calling his office, your home, but no luck.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Oh for Simon, he must be miserable, dear. He such
a pessimist anyway, always.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Ready to believe the words of what I believe is true.
He's he's in an extremely emotional state right now.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Oh yes, it's just like him, jumping to conclusions, getting
all upset when all he had to do was wait
to see you. Well, his report wasn't like that.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh no, no, he's not seriously or nothing like that.
Nothing can't be said right. With a few weeks of treatment, Martha,
Simon left here believing that he was going to die
slow and pretty painful dead.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
But we've got to tell him it was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Mart I don't think you understand. You're just just how
serious this might be.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
What do you mean you don't think You don't think
Simon would do anything like that.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I think anybody faced with that situation might I think
We've got to find him, Martha as quickly as possible.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Oh hello, missus Davis and mister Davison. Oh no, I'm
sorry left early today. Did he say where he was
going or when he'd be back? Well, no, he said
he wouldn't be back. He was leaving for the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Jim, How long ago did he leave? Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Less than an hour.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I think he came back here after I left my office.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Well, I was out for lunch. He was here when
I came back. This is doctor Kirk And oh, yes, doctor.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
How long did he stay?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Maybe fifteen or twenty minutes? Is something wrong, Missus David.
We don't know yet, Anne, I hope not.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You don't know where mister Davis might have gone. Did
he have any business appointments?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Well one with mister Gasney, but he told me to
cancel that.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
He didn't say anything else. No, did he seem upset?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I don't think so. A little preoccupied, perhaps a little
quieter than usual.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
But just what did he do while he was here?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I don't know. He was alone in his office?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Oh may I look in there? It's just possible, of course, Doctor.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
In this way, everything.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Looks all right, looks that's strange. It's addressed to me.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Open it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Please hip the check for two hundred and fifty dollars.
I don't understand, not too Summers. Thank you for your
excellent services. I regret I will no longer need them,
and closes a check for one month's pay. He may
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finish out the week and then you're free for all
of my kinds to Bennerman Brown, if you will please, sincerely,
Simon Davis.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Jeer, Now, this may not mean what you think at all.
Might he believed it was very ill. Naturally he'd expect
to give up his business. Let us not jump to
conclusions too.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Missus Davis.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I don't understand what's wrong. And Simon thought he was
going to die. He may have decided Oh no, oh,
missus Davis, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Oh there may be no danger. But even if there isn't,
we've got to find a man relieve his mind. You
can help miss Summerson's if you get on the telephone.
Call any place you can think of he might have gone.
If you find him, tell him he must talk to
me that what he thinks isn't true. He's not going
to die, Jim.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Maybe we should call the police.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Maybe actually, We don't know that he's planning anything.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
No, but maybe they can help us find him.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I suppose you're right.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Yes, now is something I forgot to tell you.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
You asked if he did anything strange. Yes, Well, while
he was in his office he wrote a letter.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
What was strange about that?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Well, it was in longhand he didn't dictate it to me.
And then he brought it out, all addressed and stamped
and asked me to mail it. Told me to take
it right out and drop it down the chute by
the elevator.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Oh was that unusual?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
No, But just before I dropped it down the chute, well,
I looked at the address. Well, he was addressed to you,
missus Davis.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You are listening to Diagnoses of death. Tonight's presentation in
radio's outstanding Theater of Prills Suspense, The Case of the
(08:22):
Jealous Wife is a perfect example of how criminal gangs
rise and fall. A series of supermarket hold ups in
Chicago went on unchecked until a woman's score and helped
local police turn the tables and nail the mob. Full
detailed this Saturday night on CBS Radio's gang Busters. Don't
miss it over most of these same stations the true
case of the Jealous Wife on gang Busters. And now
(08:46):
we bring back to our Hollywood downstage gene Bates, with
Lawrence Dobkin starring into Night's production of Diagnoses of Death,
A tale well calculated to keep you in.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Spend, don't you see, Sergeant? Why would he write me
a letter unless unless you weren't coming home.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You don't know what was in the letter, of course.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
No, no, it's already in the mail.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
But I know my husband, of.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Course, missus Davis. He didn't tell his secretary anything.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
No, sir, nothing, doctor. Shall I go on craoling?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Oh yes, yes, Please listen, sergeant? What else can we do?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You're sure he's not at home? If you knew you
were going to be.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Off three times, there's no answer.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Of course, he wouldn't answer it if you don't know
about that soon enough sent a squad card to investigate
that address.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Sergeant, do you think.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You know your husband better than I do? Man? Under
the circumstance, you couldn't blame him too much. He hadn't
had much time. It's only about three he's had less
than two hours. Usually people with ideas like this, I
take a little while to think it over. Maybe he
have a few drinks. Simon doesn't drink well, but maybe
under the circumstances.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
We'll try anything. Miss Summers, call any bars close around.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
When opposite cat, we.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Do something, Missus Davis. We're doing all we can. We
check the emergency hospital. Every squad car in the area
has been alerted. They're searching for a man of his description.
We're checking bridges, railroad yards, tall buildings for checking the house.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I know, but we just can't sit here. Maybe if
we go out looking, Sergeant, maybe he's just walking down
some streeter, sitting in the park.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I know how you feel, man, but it's not very
likely we'd find him unless we have some idea where
he might have gone.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
That's it, exactly, Martha. Where would we go? Where would
he go? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
If it were really decided on suicide, he'd have to
go somewhere or get something to accomplish purpose. Still, there
are lots of ways. Just stepping out in front of
his truck. I'm sorry, Missus Davis.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Martha, maybe you'd go into the inner officer, fly down
rest a little while.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I'm all right, I want to help.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Sorry, sergeant, mister Davis isn't the kind of man for
the violent ways. Something more I like poison, sleeping Yes, yes,
that would be more likely. Do you have anything like
that at home, missus Davis.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
No, he never took sleeping pills. He never even wanted
them in the house, even when he was in pain.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Well, if he regarded them as too lethal to keep
in the house, he might have thought him. But he
couldn't get him without a prescription.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And maybe he could where he was known. He might
have tried. And if we could just pick up his
trails something, But where would he try. There's a drug
store right downstairs in this building.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
They must know him, all right, It's worth a chance.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Yes, of course I know, mister Davis. He was in
just a little while ago.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
What'd you want?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Well, as a matter of fact, he wanted some sleeping tablets,
but he didn't have a prescription, so of course I
couldn't supply him, as you know, well I'm telling you
you know I couldn't. I was sorry to disappoint him.
I told him to phone the doctor. That would be
enough and they could send the prescription over later. But
he wouldn't stop the phone, and he was in a hurry,
and he he said he'd be back and that wasn't
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anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
No, but if he should come back stallehom and notify
the police, what court of that's my card, curb. I'm
going to check in on the radio.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I'm afraid, Jim, I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
So we don't know anything for sure.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
We do know how, we do know he doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Him maybe not, maybe not. He might have wanted to
pills because of pain. He was having some pay but anyway,
he didn't get them right and he's not likely to.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
But there are other things.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Oh yes, but we're not sure yet. There's no use
imagining things. We've got to keep calm, Martha and just
try to find him.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Yeah, I know, thanks him for being here. I don't
know what I've done it.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
It was my fault, my office's.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Fault for Davis. Was your car at home in the garage, Yes,
sergeant mister Davis wasn't driving it then, Hu.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
No, we always took the bus to work because of
the parking problem. I do too. We only use the
card neither on weekend.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I'm finding it there doesn't mean anything. He's not at
home as the Davis that check the house to talk
to the neighbors.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
But inside.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Now, I'm sure he hasn't been home this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
That leaves us right back where we started.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Is he on a gun?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
No, no, no, he's always been afraid of guns.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I'm still a possibility. There are three pawn shops in
this neighborhood.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
We might as well check them.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
I don't sell no guns to no guys without they
got a permit. Now you know that, Sergeant. I don't
draw no beefs from you guys. Do I stay in
business otherwise?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Tell me that.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Let me see the book.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Sure, sure, you take a look.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
Take a good look.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
I'm clean.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You'll see a good, clean book.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You wouldn't have put it in here anyway.
Speaker 9 (14:41):
I told you I never sold no gun to no
guy like you say.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Look, Nicol, this is no beef. This is different. This
man wanted the gun to use on himself. We're trying
to prevent that. We want your help.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
How can I help when I don't know nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I know you've done it before, and you'll do it again,
and someday we'll catch you at it. This time. I
don't care nothing happens, you understand.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, yeah, cops, I told you.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Missus Davis. We're trying to save her husband's life.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Please, mister Nicole, please.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Just tell us the truth. Nothing happens, I promise you.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Lady.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
How do you know I'm not telling the truth.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Call it a hunch, knock him on level.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
Nothing happens nothing. Well, look, now, understand, sergeant, I don't
never sell no guns to no guys without they got
a permit.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Huh. But this wasn't the really no gun.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Say you did sell.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
Him some point, Yeah, a guy looks like you said,
only it was kind of a special gun.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
The gun.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
Now, wait a minute, lady, that's what I'm trying to
tell you.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You got nothing to worry about.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
Go on, because he ain't gonna shoot nobody with that gun?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Why not?
Speaker 9 (15:46):
Well, now, look sage, you said, nothing happened.
Speaker 11 (15:49):
Yeah, yeah, I uh.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Don't usually do this kind of business, you understand.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
But I kind of had a hunch what this bird
was up to.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
That's why I've done it, honest, That's why I done it.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
What was wrong with the gun?
Speaker 9 (16:02):
It didn't have no fire and pin This bird didn't
know the difference. Of course, I didn't charge no real
gun price. But that gun won't shoot nobody, honest.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Okay, Nikole, what are we doing now, Sergeant?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I might as well cruise around a little one thing.
We're only a few minutes behind him now, because he
said he was in a little after three about a
half hour ago. Kind of gone far, all right, missus Davis, brother,
get in, don't you see, Jim?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
It means he really had decided.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yes, but he won't succeed or not for that gun.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
No, but if he really wanted to.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Mother, come on, we'll find him somehow.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, get in, missus Davis.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
All five seven five L seven fourteen twenty three, bister,
what time? By lady?
Speaker 12 (17:12):
Sixteen SIXL ten six fl ten nine sixteen West twenty
first four eight.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I have a feeling more got to find him quickly.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I don't know why, but to just keep calm. Let's
no use torturing yourself. I imagining things.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
One A fourteen jeff Park, west side Georgia Street entrance.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Man with the guy, Wait minute, this is one L
y ten. I'll take that. Call the Jefferson Park.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
One L y ten Rogers one A fourteen cancel. You'll
call the Jefferson Park one L y.
Speaker 13 (17:57):
Ten Handle Park. You think I don't know, We'll see
I tell you got to find that man and punish him.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Officer to cry and shame when men like that are
allowed to run loose giving guns to children.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Hiffert, drop that thing.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
I told you not to touch it again.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
They let me have it?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
So yes, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh son? Where's a man who gave it to you?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Only give me exactly give it to me.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Mister.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
He dropped it in the trash can over there, but
he didn't want it any more, honest, he wouldn't steal him.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I know. But where's the man now?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Why he got on the bus over there at the corner.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Going which way that way? How long ago?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Well, Bot ten minutes tutes?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Simon, all right, come on, we'll get him.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I know why I didn't want the gun. It don't work, Sirst.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
You tried it, You tried to shoot.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
It's about taking about home.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
The lake. We should be able to beat the bus
there if we.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
Hurry, Martha.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Martha's going to be all right. We're going to get
there in time.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Maybe it's my boy. Maybe if i'd been more interested
on the stood mark, maybe I've been selfie.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
You must not blame yourself.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Why at a time like this, why wouldn't he come to.
Speaker 13 (19:33):
Me and share it with me?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Maybe he wanted to spare you, Jim, What time is
it just four o'clock? No, it's two minutes.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
After, sergeant.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Will you turn right at Barba Street pass, David, I
want to stop at home first.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
We can't waste time.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
The buff will beat the lake around the corner half
a block.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I want to sergeant, five minutes may make the difference, missus.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
David sar did I have a feeling?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
I want to go home?
Speaker 13 (20:03):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Miss Day.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
The fourth half, the white one with a picket fen.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Everything looks peaceful enough.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
We'll go inside and look, just to make sure.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Hurry, hurry, this is Tod he's here, mister Davis.
Speaker 14 (20:42):
This way, Diamond, Simon, Simon Simon?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Are you how about the kitchen?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Are there any other rooms?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Oh? This coat? He was wearing that coat and he
wouldn't go out again without it. Not in this coat?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Wait? Where's the back door? Yes, hurry, the garage motor
is running.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Come on, that's exhaustible.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Come on, yeh.
Speaker 10 (21:36):
Oh, Well I gotta get him out. I've got it, lady,
Get on the way, all right, chudging, we're here on
the grash.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
That let the doc work on him. It wasn't too
much gas. He couldn't have been there long. Yeah, I
better get on a car. Radio Doc at the rescue squad.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Okay, that'll be necessary. Sergeant don't mean come here, Mark
out here. I know, I'm sorry. I'm lay to be
all right.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Oh time.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
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And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of prills.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Suspense.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Tonight the story of a man who got the only
way to escape death was to search for it. We
call it diagnosis of Death. So, now starring Gene Bates
with Lawrence Dobkin, here is tonight suspense play Diagnosis of Death.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Come in.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I hope you don't mind mind dropping in without.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
An appointment, of course, not.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Down, thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Your nurse had Simon had already left. I suppose he'd
call this new thing, but I think I have a
right to know.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Mark. I'm glad you dropped in. I tried to call
you at home just a few minutes ago. But then
it is serious, all right. Now, I'm not speaking about
Simon's health. H A rather unfortunate thing has happened.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Well, not an accident.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
In a sense. Now I'm not even sure that anything
is wrong, but if there is, I'm going to need
your help, of course.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
But what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Start at the beginning, Simon had a one o'clock appointment
here with me. I was to give him a final
report and all the tests we've run in his condition.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Yes, I know that he wouldn't tell me much about it.
I knew he was worried, of course, but in such
a hypercomody.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
He was very worried. So was I.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Oh, I didn't realize.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Well, just over an hour ago he arrived for that
one o'clock appointment. Now I happened to be upstairs in
consultation with another doctor, and Simon was in the waiting room.
Miss Hermann says he was very nervous. Naturally, Yes, he
was there in the waiting room when I phoned down
to ask Miss Herman to read me a lab report
that had just come in. This was a report on
(02:15):
another patient, not on Simon, and Miss Herman should have
checked the door of the waiting room, but she thought
it was closed. Evidently it had swung open again. Simon
must have heard everything she said over the telephone. But
what he heard her tell me that he was here
for his appointment, and then immediately after he heard her
read the report, and he would have no way of
(02:38):
knowing that it wasn't his. He must have thought it was. Well,
I'll read you the last sentence of the diagnosis that
he overheard. Oh, here, the patient's condition is definitely malignant,
in a stage too far advanced for successful surgery. Fatal
(03:00):
results are indicated in from one to three months.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Oh jeer.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Then, when miss Herman finished and looked out, Simon was
just leaving the waiting room. She called to him, but
he wouldn't answer. He hasn't been back. Now. I've tried
calling his office, your home, but no luck.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Oh for Simon, he must be miserable, dear. He such
a pessimist anyway, always.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Ready to believe the words of what I believe is true.
He's he's in an extremely emotional state right now.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Oh yes, it's just like him, jumping to conclusions, getting
all upset when all he had to do was wait
to see you. Well, his report wasn't like that.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh no, no, he's not seriously or nothing like that.
Nothing can't be said right. With a few weeks of treatment, Martha,
Simon left here believing that he was going to die
slow and pretty painful dead.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
But we've got to tell him it was a mistake.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Mart I don't think you understand. You're just just how
serious this might be.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
What do you mean you don't think You don't think
Simon would do anything like that.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I think anybody faced with that situation might I think
We've got to find him, Martha as quickly as possible.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Oh hello, missus Davis and mister Davison. Oh no, I'm
sorry left early today. Did he say where he was
going or when he'd be back? Well, no, he said
he wouldn't be back. He was leaving for the afternoon.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Jim, How long ago did he leave? Oh?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Less than an hour.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I think he came back here after I left my office.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Well, I was out for lunch. He was here when
I came back. This is doctor Kirk And oh, yes, doctor.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
How long did he stay?
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Maybe fifteen or twenty minutes? Is something wrong, Missus David.
We don't know yet, Anne, I hope not.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You don't know where mister Davis might have gone. Did
he have any business appointments?
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Well one with mister Gasney, but he told me to
cancel that.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
He didn't say anything else. No, did he seem upset?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I don't think so. A little preoccupied, perhaps a little
quieter than usual.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
But just what did he do while he was here?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I don't know. He was alone in his office?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Oh may I look in there? It's just possible, of course, Doctor.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
In this way, everything.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Looks all right, looks that's strange. It's addressed to me.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Open it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Please hip the check for two hundred and fifty dollars.
I don't understand, not too Summers. Thank you for your
excellent services. I regret I will no longer need them,
and closes a check for one month's pay. He may
(06:14):
finish out the week and then you're free for all
of my kinds to Bennerman Brown, if you will please, sincerely,
Simon Davis.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Jeer, Now, this may not mean what you think at all.
Might he believed it was very ill. Naturally he'd expect
to give up his business. Let us not jump to
conclusions too.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Missus Davis.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I don't understand what's wrong. And Simon thought he was
going to die. He may have decided Oh no, oh,
missus Davis, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Oh there may be no danger. But even if there isn't,
we've got to find a man relieve his mind. You
can help miss Summerson's if you get on the telephone.
Call any place you can think of he might have gone.
If you find him, tell him he must talk to
me that what he thinks isn't true. He's not going
to die, Jim.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Maybe we should call the police.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Maybe actually, We don't know that he's planning anything.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
No, but maybe they can help us find him.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
I suppose you're right.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Yes, now is something I forgot to tell you.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
You asked if he did anything strange. Yes, Well, while
he was in his office he wrote a letter.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
What was strange about that?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Well, it was in longhand he didn't dictate it to me.
And then he brought it out, all addressed and stamped
and asked me to mail it. Told me to take
it right out and drop it down the chute by
the elevator.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Oh was that unusual?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
No, But just before I dropped it down the chute, well,
I looked at the address. Well, he was addressed to you,
missus Davis.
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Speaker 4 (09:00):
Spend, don't you see, Sergeant? Why would he write me
a letter unless unless you weren't coming home.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You don't know what was in the letter, of course.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
No, no, it's already in the mail.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
But I know my husband, of.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Course, missus Davis. He didn't tell his secretary anything.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
No, sir, nothing, doctor. Shall I go on craoling?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Oh yes, yes, Please listen, sergeant? What else can we do?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
You're sure he's not at home? If you knew you
were going to be.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Off three times, there's no answer.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Of course, he wouldn't answer it if you don't know
about that soon enough sent a squad card to investigate
that address.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Sergeant, do you think.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
You know your husband better than I do? Man? Under
the circumstance, you couldn't blame him too much. He hadn't
had much time. It's only about three he's had less
than two hours. Usually people with ideas like this, I
take a little while to think it over. Maybe he
have a few drinks. Simon doesn't drink well, but maybe
under the circumstances.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
We'll try anything. Miss Summers, call any bars close around.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
When opposite cat, we.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Do something, Missus Davis. We're doing all we can. We
check the emergency hospital. Every squad car in the area
has been alerted. They're searching for a man of his description.
We're checking bridges, railroad yards, tall buildings for checking the house.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I know, but we just can't sit here. Maybe if
we go out looking, Sergeant, maybe he's just walking down
some streeter, sitting in the park.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I know how you feel, man, but it's not very
likely we'd find him unless we have some idea where
he might have gone.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
That's it, exactly, Martha. Where would we go? Where would
he go? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
If it were really decided on suicide, he'd have to
go somewhere or get something to accomplish purpose. Still, there
are lots of ways. Just stepping out in front of
his truck. I'm sorry, Missus Davis.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Martha, maybe you'd go into the inner officer, fly down
rest a little while.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I'm all right, I want to help.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Sorry, sergeant, mister Davis isn't the kind of man for
the violent ways. Something more I like poison, sleeping Yes, yes,
that would be more likely. Do you have anything like
that at home, missus Davis.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
No, he never took sleeping pills. He never even wanted
them in the house, even when he was in pain.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Well, if he regarded them as too lethal to keep
in the house, he might have thought him. But he
couldn't get him without a prescription.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
And maybe he could where he was known. He might
have tried. And if we could just pick up his
trails something, But where would he try. There's a drug
store right downstairs in this building.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
They must know him, all right, It's worth a chance.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Yes, of course I know, mister Davis. He was in
just a little while ago.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
What'd you want?
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Well, as a matter of fact, he wanted some sleeping tablets,
but he didn't have a prescription, so of course I
couldn't supply him, as you know, well I'm telling you
you know I couldn't. I was sorry to disappoint him.
I told him to phone the doctor. That would be
enough and they could send the prescription over later. But
he wouldn't stop the phone, and he was in a hurry,
and he he said he'd be back and that wasn't
(12:40):
anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
No, but if he should come back stallehom and notify
the police, what court of that's my card, curb. I'm
going to check in on the radio.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
I'm afraid, Jim, I'm afraid.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
So we don't know anything for sure.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
We do know how, we do know he doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Him maybe not, maybe not. He might have wanted to
pills because of pain. He was having some pay but anyway,
he didn't get them right and he's not likely to.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
But there are other things.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Oh yes, but we're not sure yet. There's no use
imagining things. We've got to keep calm, Martha and just
try to find him.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Yeah, I know, thanks him for being here. I don't
know what I've done it.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
It was my fault, my office's.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Fault for Davis. Was your car at home in the garage, Yes,
sergeant mister Davis wasn't driving it then, Hu.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
No, we always took the bus to work because of
the parking problem. I do too. We only use the
card neither on weekend.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
I'm finding it there doesn't mean anything. He's not at
home as the Davis that check the house to talk
to the neighbors.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
But inside.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Now, I'm sure he hasn't been home this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
That leaves us right back where we started.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Is he on a gun?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
No, no, no, he's always been afraid of guns.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I'm still a possibility. There are three pawn shops in
this neighborhood.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
We might as well check them.
Speaker 9 (14:21):
I don't sell no guns to no guys without they
got a permit. Now you know that, Sergeant. I don't
draw no beefs from you guys. Do I stay in
business otherwise?
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Tell me that.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Let me see the book.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Sure, sure, you take a look.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
Take a good look.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
I'm clean.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
You'll see a good, clean book.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
You wouldn't have put it in here anyway.
Speaker 9 (14:41):
I told you I never sold no gun to no
guy like you say.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Look, Nicol, this is no beef. This is different. This
man wanted the gun to use on himself. We're trying
to prevent that. We want your help.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
How can I help when I don't know nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I know you've done it before, and you'll do it again,
and someday we'll catch you at it. This time. I
don't care nothing happens, you understand.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Yeah, yeah, cops, I told you.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Missus Davis. We're trying to save her husband's life.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Please, mister Nicole, please.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Just tell us the truth. Nothing happens, I promise you.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Lady.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
How do you know I'm not telling the truth.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Call it a hunch, knock him on level.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
Nothing happens nothing. Well, look, now, understand, sergeant, I don't
never sell no guns to no guys without they got
a permit.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Huh. But this wasn't the really no gun.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Say you did sell.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
Him some point, Yeah, a guy looks like you said,
only it was kind of a special gun.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
The gun.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
Now, wait a minute, lady, that's what I'm trying to
tell you.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
You got nothing to worry about.
Speaker 9 (15:40):
Go on, because he ain't gonna shoot nobody with that gun?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Why not?
Speaker 9 (15:46):
Well, now, look sage, you said, nothing happened.
Speaker 11 (15:49):
Yeah, yeah, I uh.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Don't usually do this kind of business, you understand.
Speaker 9 (15:54):
But I kind of had a hunch what this bird
was up to.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
That's why I've done it, honest, That's why I done it.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
What was wrong with the gun?
Speaker 9 (16:02):
It didn't have no fire and pin This bird didn't
know the difference. Of course, I didn't charge no real
gun price. But that gun won't shoot nobody, honest.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Okay, Nikole, what are we doing now, Sergeant?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I might as well cruise around a little one thing.
We're only a few minutes behind him now, because he
said he was in a little after three about a
half hour ago. Kind of gone far, all right, missus Davis, brother,
get in, don't you see, Jim?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
It means he really had decided.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yes, but he won't succeed or not for that gun.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
No, but if he really wanted to.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Mother, come on, we'll find him somehow.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yeah, get in, missus Davis.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
All five seven five L seven fourteen twenty three, bister,
what time? By lady?
Speaker 12 (17:12):
Sixteen SIXL ten six fl ten nine sixteen West twenty
first four eight.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
I have a feeling more got to find him quickly.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I don't know why, but to just keep calm. Let's
no use torturing yourself. I imagining things.
Speaker 7 (17:35):
One A fourteen jeff Park, west side Georgia Street entrance.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Man with the guy, Wait minute, this is one L
y ten. I'll take that. Call the Jefferson Park.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
One L y ten Rogers one A fourteen cancel. You'll
call the Jefferson Park one L y.
Speaker 13 (17:57):
Ten Handle Park. You think I don't know, We'll see
I tell you got to find that man and punish him.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Officer to cry and shame when men like that are
allowed to run loose giving guns to children.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Hiffert, drop that thing.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
I told you not to touch it again.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
They let me have it?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
So yes, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh son? Where's a man who gave it to you?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
Only give me exactly give it to me.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Mister.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
He dropped it in the trash can over there, but
he didn't want it any more, honest, he wouldn't steal him.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
I know. But where's the man now?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Why he got on the bus over there at the corner.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Going which way that way? How long ago?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Well, Bot ten minutes tutes?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Simon, all right, come on, we'll get him.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
I know why I didn't want the gun. It don't work, Sirst.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
You tried it, You tried to shoot.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
It's about taking about home.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
The lake. We should be able to beat the bus
there if we.
Speaker 11 (19:07):
Hurry, Martha.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Martha's going to be all right. We're going to get
there in time.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Maybe it's my boy. Maybe if i'd been more interested
on the stood mark, maybe I've been selfie.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
You must not blame yourself.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Why at a time like this, why wouldn't he come to.
Speaker 13 (19:33):
Me and share it with me?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Maybe he wanted to spare you, Jim, What time is
it just four o'clock? No, it's two minutes.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
After, sergeant.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Will you turn right at Barba Street pass, David, I
want to stop at home first.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
We can't waste time.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
The buff will beat the lake around the corner half
a block.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I want to sergeant, five minutes may make the difference, missus.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
David sar did I have a feeling?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
I want to go home?
Speaker 13 (20:03):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Miss Day.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
The fourth half, the white one with a picket fen.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Everything looks peaceful enough.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
We'll go inside and look, just to make sure.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
Hurry, hurry, this is Tod he's here, mister Davis.
Speaker 14 (20:42):
This way, Diamond, Simon, Simon Simon?
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Are you how about the kitchen?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Are there any other rooms?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Oh? This coat? He was wearing that coat and he
wouldn't go out again without it. Not in this coat?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Wait? Where's the back door? Yes, hurry, the garage motor
is running.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Come on, that's exhaustible.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Come on, yeh.
Speaker 10 (21:36):
Oh, Well I gotta get him out. I've got it, lady,
Get on the way, all right, chudging, we're here on
the grash.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
That let the doc work on him. It wasn't too
much gas. He couldn't have been there long. Yeah, I
better get on a car. Radio Doc at the rescue squad.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Okay, that'll be necessary. Sergeant don't mean come here, Mark
out here. I know, I'm sorry. I'm lay to be
all right.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Oh time.
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