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Speaker 1 (00:12):
Suspense Auto Light and It's ninety six thousand dealers present
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Speaker 1 (01:30):
And now with for Love or Murder and with the
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Speaker 4 (01:47):
Nothing could have stopped me, Nothing on earth could have
stopped me. There were drums beating in my head as
I left the taxi and started down fifty fifth Street.
The moon was high over Jersey, staring. There was no
one outside the building, no one near it at all.
I walked slowly toward the service entrance and into the cellar.
I knew where the backstairs were. We'd rehearsed the whole
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thing on paper one hundred times, more than a hundred times.
It wasn't something you blundered into, and had taught me that.
It wasn't something you did on the spur of the moment.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Murder had to.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Be a calm, organized thing. Murder had to be planned.
If anyone saw me going up the backstairs, it might
cause a little fuss. But if I were calm, if
I were organized, if I moved slowly and acted as
though nothing was wrong, they'd pass and ignore me. It
was just an eccentric fellow who'd rather walk upstairs than
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ride elevators. New York was full of such people. But
no one saw me all the way up to the
fourth floor. No one saw me then I stepped out
onto the landing. I waited an hour, or ten seconds
or ten years. I meant nothing. I wasn't aware of
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it passing. I slid the gun into my hand. It
felt as hot and heavy as death itself.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Oh you're late, you're a few minutes late. But we're coming.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Where is he?
Speaker 6 (03:14):
In there?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
In there?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Quickly down fast?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Who is it?
Speaker 8 (03:22):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Who are you? What do you want?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Fat little man who was about to die, looked at me,
at my face, at my neck, and then his eyes
fluttered down into the gun and hung there. He looked
like a little fish, like a helpless, harmless, scared fish.
And the drums in my head beat louder, and wheels turned.
The lights flashed, and that little man melted towards me.
Speaker 9 (03:44):
No, I say, I say, no, wait.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Tom wait, no wait, he's dead. Must be dead after that, if.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
You don't fought back or something. He just took it.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Now he's dead. He's dead. Now, dear me, you've got
to hit me.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
I didn't think it'd be like this end.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
How do you think it'd be?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
A tea?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Potty's so awful?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Dirty and with you, Tommy. I didn't think it'd be
like this end.
Speaker 10 (04:30):
We can now, tummy, No, take the gun on the rest.
Do you remember the rest of it, the other things.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
You've got to do?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yes, I remember. Hit me hard.
Speaker 10 (04:39):
You've got to hit me hard. Got to be marks,
mustn't look like I framed it.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
No, it must be hard.
Speaker 10 (04:45):
And then the jewelry and stuff jewelry and put up
on the dresser in the wallet.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Here take it.
Speaker 10 (04:52):
It must look good, darling, it must look good, yea.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
And must up the room.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I remember, I remember, I remember all right.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Now quickly hit me, hit me.
Speaker 11 (05:01):
I love you, Anne, I must love you very.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
She fell, but she didn't just fall down. She fell
into a graceful little ball.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Even unconscious, she seemed in perfect control of things.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Room.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Room hadn't be ripped.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Up, ripped up the room and gripped collapse. Took stuff
she had piled up on the dressers, bracelets, rings, pins.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I stuffed his wallet into my pocket.
Speaker 12 (05:47):
And then I got out.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I got out as fast as I could.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
The word was clear all the way down, just a cellar,
that was all.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I was like one faster.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
For that.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Hey, whoever it was came straight towards me, saw me.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
There was no hiding, and he was between me and
the streets.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
He shoveled toward me.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
I lifted the gun just the second young let me get.
Speaker 12 (06:20):
I swung harden.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
I swung back into the roar.
Speaker 12 (06:28):
I waited a moment. Then the street was still empty.
When I I came out, and I felt like running along.
It almost ran long it ah.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Then I was cool in the air, was hair felt good.
I walked away up.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I walked aways, and I thought, I thought about love,
about me being in love.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
What kind of love was this? What kind of love
was it that made a guy behave like this?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
What kind of love was it that caused people to
be hurt, people to be killed?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
What kind of love was it? I walked up, I
walked Finally, I looked. I looked at my watch.
Speaker 12 (07:22):
Ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
The whole thing had taken just ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
What was the rest of it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I had to get back to the club before it
was time for me to go on again, before it
was time for me to seat myself at the piano
and the lounge and soothe the way the cares of tired,
sophisticated New Yorkers.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Had to get back quickly. No one saw me back.
I used the back way, the same one i'd left by.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, yeah, that was my life from now on.
Speaker 13 (08:07):
Maybe the back way, sneak in, sneak out.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
It'd be hard to break myself in the habit after tonight.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
But it was cheap.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
The cheap price to pay for in any price, really
was cheap to pay for. And that's all I had
to ever remember. I was in my little dressing room
for two or three minutes, had.
Speaker 12 (08:28):
A chance even to wash my face.
Speaker 14 (08:31):
Was twelve fifteen, Tommy, you away, Yeah, yeah, I'll be
with you in a minute, Okay, Tommy.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The wallets, the bracelets, the junk. I'd forgotten to ditch them,
get rid of them first thing. Anne and told me,
and I'd forgotten.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
I didn't want him around.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
They might make trouble hanging around.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Oh Tommy, how's the boy? Rock monon off?
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Are you Jimmy?
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Have your nap all set to go?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I slept a little.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Sure, Yeah, sure, I know, Miss Lee.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
How are you, Frank? I thought i'd get a little air, yes, uh,
not like it.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
One thing about being a door man.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I don't make much money, but I get an awful
lot of fresh air.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Fresh as you can get in New York anyway.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Huh right you are, miss l.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
I'm gonna take a little walk.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
They edit right that time, fresh.
Speaker 13 (09:33):
As you can get, still high over Jersey, staring.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Sewer. That was the best spot.
Speaker 13 (09:53):
Just throw them in and let the East River take
care of him.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I had the wallet in my hand.
Speaker 15 (09:57):
When you look like you're officer right, I didn't see
who offer getting awful farmer kind of jumpy, ain't you?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
No, no, no, no, no, Dan, Dan, It's it's just that
you you.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Startled me that.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
I were just standing there and you walked within two
inches of me.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
And didn't see me.
Speaker 16 (10:22):
Eat.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
You're in love. I know the symptoms.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
You're in love.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Love hell man. Maybe you're right, Dan.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
That's a great feeling. Lad, dangerous. You need someone to
help you find your way back to the club. Just
tell me your condition, No telling where you're walking.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah. I waited until his footsteps died out, and then
sewer sore fast?
Speaker 14 (10:49):
Get ah, thanks so soon, Miss Philly.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Gotta go to work, got it? Eh? Well what's that?
Speaker 12 (11:14):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Now there's boys or something on her mind?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:19):
I gone down fifty fifth. Looks like from here somebody's
in for it.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
I gotta be giving.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
The customers are screaming for you. Come on, come on.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I wasn't afraid. I wasn't nervous. The cops would be
talking to him now.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
If she made a slip, the two of us and
be dead as dead as you could get. But I
know she wouldn't make any slips. She'd be too smart
for him, We'd plan too well for him. It was
also simple. They couldn't make anything out of it. Crook
slipped into her apartment, killed her husband, her rich, fat, tired, helpless.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Husband, and slugged her. That was all there was.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Too happens in New York, happens a lot in New York.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Could she help it? If the whole thing made her
rich woman? Could she help it?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
If the house break her freed her from her husband
so she could marry someone else, would she help them?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Set up was so perfect? What could go wrong?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
So I sat and played chopin Strauss Gershwin, Berlin, and
they sat and played the music of kind and great
and gentlemen. And I tried to keep that thing on
the floor or out of my mind.
Speaker 17 (13:02):
God, you keep that out of my mind, Thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Tommy.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Yeah, you know that dame that used to come in here.
That a Thomas.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
I don't.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
Oh you remember the one the Brounette, the kille one
used to have a crush on you.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Lives on fifty fifth Street and Thomas.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Yeah, I remember.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
What.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Uh fuss down our house tonight. Somebody broke in and
messed things up, killed her husband, banged her around.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Dan Ryan was telling me, it's too bad. Yeah, you're
never safe in these big towns. Are ever saved anywhere?
Speaker 13 (14:15):
You were safe, if you were smart, you were safe.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
If you had someone like Anne to think things out
for you, you were safe. If you had her to
look forward to to depend on, I was safe.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
That was all that mattered.
Speaker 13 (14:29):
Really, I was safe.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
It was childish to worry about guys like like Anne's husband.
It was silly to get squeamish over a little blood.
People died every minute in New York.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
They were useless, so they were in the way it died.
But didn't matter whether it was murdered or something else.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
People died. Yeah, Yeah, that's that's that's what Anne would
have said. That's what Anne would have told me.
Speaker 16 (14:55):
And that was the right way to look at it.
That was the right way.
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Speaker 4 (17:10):
The night went fast, People came, people went, stood in
front of the piano.
Speaker 12 (17:18):
He smiled, frown.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Once in a while, someone requested a number. Once in
a while, someone applauded. It was the night like any
other night.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Hey, you're gonna play till Christmas?
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Tommy?
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Uh, the time is it almost three? You sure can't
tickle those keys, Tommy? You must have a beautiful soul. Well,
what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Shut up?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I said, shut up.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
I didn't mean to say anything wrong, Tommy. What did
I say?
Speaker 12 (17:49):
Shut up?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Shut up?
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Talk to yourself, all right, build yourself up, tell yourself.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Things were all right and you were a great guy,
smart guy. One stupid remark mixed you all up again.
One stupid remark, made you see blood again, made you
feel like garbage, one stupid remark.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Beautiful soul, my soul. So what.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
The apartment was like a big, bare, ugly cave. I
tried to sleep, got up, tried to read it. Words
dance in front of me like they'd been hung on
rubber bands.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Nerves, nerves, nerves. It's just nerves, and could have talked
me out of them in a minute. I had to
do was get some sleeper talk Dan, Yeah, yeah, huh,
all night. Not a word. That's why I was jumping.
Supposed she was in trouble, Suppose something had gone wrong.
Suppose somewhere we'd slip it.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
I'd better give me.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
No.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
If the wires were tapping, A wouldn't do to call.
But if I went to the apartment the way I
went last night, no one had seen me that.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
They wouldn't expect that. That's the last thing we didn't expect.
I had to touch her. I needed your strength. I
needed to tell me things were all right. I had
to see your I had to see you.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I could get in and out again. No one would
be the wiser. Four in the morning, the street was empty.
The cellar was colder than it had been. The stairs
were lighted, a thin red bulb at each landing.
Speaker 12 (20:02):
I didn't remember that.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Finally, there it's me. It's Tom. Tom, Let me in.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
You shouldn't have suppose they're watching.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
You think they're watching.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
I don't know. You know what I told you?
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Yeah, but you know what we planned.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
You weren't to get in touch with me for days,
for days, I know, but I.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Had to see you, baby, Please let me stop it
just a moment. I love you so, honey.
Speaker 12 (20:30):
I had to be with you.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I had to be with your baby.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
You're really a sweet boy to You're not angry with me.
Did anyone see you?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
I'm sure, but I always careful. Let me let me
kiss you. I feel strong again. I feel strong. I
could do anything now. I was kind of mixed up
to night, but I'm all right now. I feel good now.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Three boys?
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Word?
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Why didn't we plan? If we plan good enough to fool.
Speaker 13 (21:01):
Anybody, why were you worried? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I believe me.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
I knew they would you Sure they did, of course,
I'm sure it was sympathetic and kindly.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
But suppose they were only pretending sometimes, you know, they pretend.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
When men are acting with me.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
I know.
Speaker 10 (21:18):
No reason in the world I think this is any
different than a thousand other robberies.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I told you that. I told you that from the beginning,
we'll be happy. Now won't we won't would be happy together?
Now tell me that day will be happy?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
One yea a wild boy.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I love you, baby, I love you.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
I'm you're a little sorry about the janitor?
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Janitor? What about the janetor what about the janetor see
the man I met in the cellar?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
What about him?
Speaker 13 (21:49):
He's dead?
Speaker 6 (21:50):
But you fractured the skull.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
No, no, I said you were a wild boy.
Speaker 12 (21:55):
I never meant that.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I didn't know I hit him so hard.
Speaker 13 (21:59):
I didn't like you turned wild boy.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Didn't mean to kill man.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I told you you're.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
Gonna worry about him all night. I'll be careful next
time when I tell you I wish I had a piano.
I say you could play for me.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
I like to hear you play to me.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Be careful.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
It's only the phone.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
Yes, what what You've got the wrong number?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Wrong numbers? I don't know it's the wrong number. You
want to drink Tommy, No, no, you mind if I
make one for myself. Go ahead, honey, you know you
hit me awful heart last night. Look at the lump there,
Look at it.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I didn't want to hit you. Then good, you may
look awful good, careful baby?
Speaker 16 (22:47):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Oh, so about you again?
Speaker 10 (22:50):
You've got the wrong number, the wrong number, the way
people annoy you.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Any you'll tell me any janitor? Who who was he?
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Who was he?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
I don't know, just a janitor, that's all.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Did he have any kids?
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Two? Or three?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (23:09):
I think so?
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Why you want to get some eye?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
I don't know why I wanted to annoy you. I'll
give you, I'll take it.
Speaker 17 (23:15):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Okay, this is the last time.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
I love that wrong number routine? Who you got up there?
The young church will rubbed your husband out there.
Speaker 14 (23:27):
Huh yo, honey, you get rid of.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
Them as soon as you can.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
And I don't want him hanging around after we're married.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
You know that you are. Why don't you say something?
Why don't you tell me?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
I sat down in the bed and I felt very
calm and very organized when I heard the drums start
thumping in my brain, but delicate and far off.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
This time. They had a sad, lost beat.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
Was it that same silly guy?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
The janitor has three kids? Huh, who's gonna feed him
any Who's gonna love him?
Speaker 17 (24:14):
Tom?
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Tom?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Come here?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
What if you got on me anyway? What is there
about you?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Tom?
Speaker 5 (24:22):
And awful bed for me? You could make all kinds
of the sucker out of me.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
You could turn my stomach in fifty different directions a minute,
and I'd still.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Go on loving you.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Why I don't like it?
Speaker 13 (24:35):
I don't like it?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Why come on?
Speaker 13 (24:39):
Sit down?
Speaker 10 (24:42):
What is it?
Speaker 14 (24:43):
That phone call?
Speaker 10 (24:44):
That's a gag?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
That's someone playing a joke.
Speaker 16 (24:46):
I was pat hut, all that horror and all that fright.
Speaker 12 (24:51):
I got black with two good men's blood helping you.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
And that guy on the phone, don't put that gun away.
Now listen, I'll explain, Tom, let me talk.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Do you think I like it?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Do those things?
Speaker 10 (25:01):
And now listen?
Speaker 12 (25:03):
I killed two men to get you in, but I
haven't got you.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
No, he's got you, the guy on the boats door.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
No, you had die, and I did.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I bought you.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
That's not fair. By right, you should be mine. You're
not mine?
Speaker 14 (25:16):
Arm what always you?
Speaker 7 (25:17):
You're a hand up.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
I was gonna kidding him only.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
And all that blood on it.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
No wasted three guys and three kids got hand man.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
No, it can't be.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
It couldn't have ever been loved.
Speaker 14 (25:36):
Love doesn't hurt like this doesn't.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Does it.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
Wasn't need no.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Felling a silly little lump and lay.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
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Speaker 4 (01:47):
Nothing could have stopped me, Nothing on earth could have
stopped me. There were drums beating in my head as
I left the taxi and started down fifty fifth Street.
The moon was high over Jersey, staring. There was no
one outside the building, no one near it at all.
I walked slowly toward the service entrance and into the cellar.
I knew where the backstairs were. We'd rehearsed the whole
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thing on paper one hundred times, more than a hundred times.
It wasn't something you blundered into, and had taught me that.
It wasn't something you did on the spur of the moment.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Murder had to.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Be a calm, organized thing. Murder had to be planned.
If anyone saw me going up the backstairs, it might
cause a little fuss. But if I were calm, if
I were organized, if I moved slowly and acted as
though nothing was wrong, they'd pass and ignore me. It
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ride elevators. New York was full of such people. But
no one saw me all the way up to the
fourth floor. No one saw me then I stepped out
onto the landing. I waited an hour, or ten seconds
or ten years. I meant nothing. I wasn't aware of
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it passing. I slid the gun into my hand. It
felt as hot and heavy as death itself.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Oh you're late, you're a few minutes late. But we're coming.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Where is he?
Speaker 6 (03:14):
In there?
Speaker 5 (03:14):
In there?
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Quickly down fast?
Speaker 7 (03:20):
Who is it?
Speaker 8 (03:22):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Who are you? What do you want?
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Fat little man who was about to die, looked at me,
at my face, at my neck, and then his eyes
fluttered down into the gun and hung there. He looked
like a little fish, like a helpless, harmless, scared fish.
And the drums in my head beat louder, and wheels turned.
The lights flashed, and that little man melted towards me.
Speaker 9 (03:44):
No, I say, I say, no, wait.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Tom wait, no wait, he's dead. Must be dead after that, if.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
You don't fought back or something. He just took it.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Now he's dead. He's dead. Now, dear me, you've got
to hit me.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
I didn't think it'd be like this end.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
How do you think it'd be?
Speaker 5 (04:25):
A tea?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Potty's so awful?
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Dirty and with you, Tommy. I didn't think it'd be
like this end.
Speaker 10 (04:30):
We can now, tummy, No, take the gun on the rest.
Do you remember the rest of it, the other things.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
You've got to do?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yes, I remember. Hit me hard.
Speaker 10 (04:39):
You've got to hit me hard. Got to be marks,
mustn't look like I framed it.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
No, it must be hard.
Speaker 10 (04:45):
And then the jewelry and stuff jewelry and put up
on the dresser in the wallet.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
Here take it.
Speaker 10 (04:52):
It must look good, darling, it must look good, yea.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
And must up the room.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I remember, I remember, I remember all right.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Now quickly hit me, hit me.
Speaker 11 (05:01):
I love you, Anne, I must love you very.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
She fell, but she didn't just fall down. She fell
into a graceful little ball.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Even unconscious, she seemed in perfect control of things.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Room.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Room hadn't be ripped.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Up, ripped up the room and gripped collapse. Took stuff
she had piled up on the dressers, bracelets, rings, pins.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
I stuffed his wallet into my pocket.
Speaker 12 (05:47):
And then I got out.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I got out as fast as I could.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
The word was clear all the way down, just a cellar,
that was all.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
I was like one faster.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
For that.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Hey, whoever it was came straight towards me, saw me.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
There was no hiding, and he was between me and
the streets.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
He shoveled toward me.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
I lifted the gun just the second young let me get.
Speaker 12 (06:20):
I swung harden.
Speaker 7 (06:21):
I swung back into the roar.
Speaker 12 (06:28):
I waited a moment. Then the street was still empty.
When I I came out, and I felt like running along.
It almost ran long it ah.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Then I was cool in the air, was hair felt good.
I walked away up.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
I walked aways, and I thought, I thought about love,
about me being in love.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
What kind of love was this? What kind of love
was it that made a guy behave like this?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
What kind of love was it that caused people to
be hurt, people to be killed?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
What kind of love was it? I walked up, I
walked Finally, I looked. I looked at my watch.
Speaker 12 (07:22):
Ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
The whole thing had taken just ten minutes.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
What was the rest of it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I had to get back to the club before it
was time for me to go on again, before it
was time for me to seat myself at the piano
and the lounge and soothe the way the cares of tired,
sophisticated New Yorkers.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Had to get back quickly. No one saw me back.
I used the back way, the same one i'd left by.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Yeah, yeah, that was my life from now on.
Speaker 13 (08:07):
Maybe the back way, sneak in, sneak out.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
It'd be hard to break myself in the habit after tonight.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
But it was cheap.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
The cheap price to pay for in any price, really
was cheap to pay for. And that's all I had
to ever remember. I was in my little dressing room
for two or three minutes, had.
Speaker 12 (08:28):
A chance even to wash my face.
Speaker 14 (08:31):
Was twelve fifteen, Tommy, you away, Yeah, yeah, I'll be
with you in a minute, Okay, Tommy.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The wallets, the bracelets, the junk. I'd forgotten to ditch them,
get rid of them first thing. Anne and told me,
and I'd forgotten.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
I didn't want him around.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
They might make trouble hanging around.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Oh Tommy, how's the boy? Rock monon off?
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Are you Jimmy?
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Have your nap all set to go?
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I slept a little.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
I'll be right back.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Sure, Yeah, sure, I know, Miss Lee.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
How are you, Frank? I thought i'd get a little air, yes, uh,
not like it.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
One thing about being a door man.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
I don't make much money, but I get an awful
lot of fresh air.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Fresh as you can get in New York anyway.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Huh right you are, miss l.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
I'm gonna take a little walk.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
They edit right that time, fresh.
Speaker 13 (09:33):
As you can get, still high over Jersey, staring.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Sewer. That was the best spot.
Speaker 13 (09:53):
Just throw them in and let the East River take
care of him.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I had the wallet in my hand.
Speaker 15 (09:57):
When you look like you're officer right, I didn't see
who offer getting awful farmer kind of jumpy, ain't you?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
No, no, no, no, no, Dan, Dan, It's it's just that
you you.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
Startled me that.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
I were just standing there and you walked within two
inches of me.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
And didn't see me.
Speaker 16 (10:22):
Eat.
Speaker 7 (10:22):
You're in love. I know the symptoms.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
You're in love.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Love hell man. Maybe you're right, Dan.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
That's a great feeling. Lad, dangerous. You need someone to
help you find your way back to the club. Just
tell me your condition, No telling where you're walking.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Yeah. I waited until his footsteps died out, and then
sewer sore fast?
Speaker 14 (10:49):
Get ah, thanks so soon, Miss Philly.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Gotta go to work, got it? Eh? Well what's that?
Speaker 12 (11:14):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Now there's boys or something on her mind?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:19):
I gone down fifty fifth. Looks like from here somebody's
in for it.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
I gotta be giving.
Speaker 7 (11:27):
The customers are screaming for you. Come on, come on.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
I wasn't afraid. I wasn't nervous. The cops would be
talking to him now.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
If she made a slip, the two of us and
be dead as dead as you could get. But I
know she wouldn't make any slips. She'd be too smart
for him, We'd plan too well for him. It was
also simple. They couldn't make anything out of it. Crook
slipped into her apartment, killed her husband, her rich, fat, tired, helpless.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Husband, and slugged her. That was all there was.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Too happens in New York, happens a lot in New York.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Could she help it? If the whole thing made her
rich woman? Could she help it?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
If the house break her freed her from her husband
so she could marry someone else, would she help them?
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Set up was so perfect? What could go wrong?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
So I sat and played chopin Strauss Gershwin, Berlin, and
they sat and played the music of kind and great
and gentlemen. And I tried to keep that thing on
the floor or out of my mind.
Speaker 17 (13:02):
God, you keep that out of my mind, Thank you,
thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Tommy.
Speaker 8 (13:25):
Yeah, you know that dame that used to come in here.
That a Thomas.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
I don't.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
Oh you remember the one the Brounette, the kille one
used to have a crush on you.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Lives on fifty fifth Street and Thomas.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Yeah, I remember.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
What.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
Uh fuss down our house tonight. Somebody broke in and
messed things up, killed her husband, banged her around.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Dan Ryan was telling me, it's too bad. Yeah, you're
never safe in these big towns. Are ever saved anywhere?
Speaker 13 (14:15):
You were safe, if you were smart, you were safe.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
If you had someone like Anne to think things out
for you, you were safe. If you had her to
look forward to to depend on, I was safe.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
That was all that mattered.
Speaker 13 (14:29):
Really, I was safe.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
It was childish to worry about guys like like Anne's husband.
It was silly to get squeamish over a little blood.
People died every minute in New York.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
They were useless, so they were in the way it died.
But didn't matter whether it was murdered or something else.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
People died. Yeah, Yeah, that's that's that's what Anne would
have said. That's what Anne would have told me.
Speaker 16 (14:55):
And that was the right way to look at it.
That was the right way.
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Speaker 4 (17:10):
The night went fast, People came, people went, stood in
front of the piano.
Speaker 12 (17:18):
He smiled, frown.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Once in a while, someone requested a number. Once in
a while, someone applauded. It was the night like any
other night.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Hey, you're gonna play till Christmas?
Speaker 5 (17:29):
Tommy?
Speaker 7 (17:31):
Uh, the time is it almost three? You sure can't
tickle those keys, Tommy? You must have a beautiful soul. Well,
what's the matter?
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Shut up?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
I said, shut up.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
I didn't mean to say anything wrong, Tommy. What did
I say?
Speaker 12 (17:49):
Shut up?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Shut up?
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Talk to yourself, all right, build yourself up, tell yourself.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Things were all right and you were a great guy,
smart guy. One stupid remark mixed you all up again.
One stupid remark, made you see blood again, made you
feel like garbage, one stupid remark.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Beautiful soul, my soul. So what.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
The apartment was like a big, bare, ugly cave. I
tried to sleep, got up, tried to read it. Words
dance in front of me like they'd been hung on
rubber bands.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Nerves, nerves, nerves. It's just nerves, and could have talked
me out of them in a minute. I had to
do was get some sleeper talk Dan, Yeah, yeah, huh,
all night. Not a word. That's why I was jumping.
Supposed she was in trouble, Suppose something had gone wrong.
Suppose somewhere we'd slip it.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
I'd better give me.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
No.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
If the wires were tapping, A wouldn't do to call.
But if I went to the apartment the way I
went last night, no one had seen me that.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
They wouldn't expect that. That's the last thing we didn't expect.
I had to touch her. I needed your strength. I
needed to tell me things were all right. I had
to see your I had to see you.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I could get in and out again. No one would
be the wiser. Four in the morning, the street was empty.
The cellar was colder than it had been. The stairs
were lighted, a thin red bulb at each landing.
Speaker 12 (20:02):
I didn't remember that.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Finally, there it's me. It's Tom. Tom, Let me in.
Speaker 6 (20:13):
You shouldn't have suppose they're watching.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
You think they're watching.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
I don't know. You know what I told you?
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Yeah, but you know what we planned.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
You weren't to get in touch with me for days,
for days, I know, but I.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Had to see you, baby, Please let me stop it
just a moment. I love you so, honey.
Speaker 12 (20:30):
I had to be with you.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I had to be with your baby.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
You're really a sweet boy to You're not angry with me.
Did anyone see you?
Speaker 5 (20:43):
I'm sure, but I always careful. Let me let me
kiss you. I feel strong again. I feel strong. I
could do anything now. I was kind of mixed up
to night, but I'm all right now. I feel good now.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Three boys?
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Word?
Speaker 6 (20:58):
Why didn't we plan? If we plan good enough to fool.
Speaker 13 (21:01):
Anybody, why were you worried? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
I believe me.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
I knew they would you Sure they did, of course,
I'm sure it was sympathetic and kindly.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
But suppose they were only pretending sometimes, you know, they pretend.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
When men are acting with me.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
I know.
Speaker 10 (21:18):
No reason in the world I think this is any
different than a thousand other robberies.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
I told you that. I told you that from the beginning,
we'll be happy. Now won't we won't would be happy together?
Now tell me that day will be happy?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
One yea a wild boy.
Speaker 5 (21:33):
I love you, baby, I love you.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
I'm you're a little sorry about the janitor?
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Janitor? What about the janetor what about the janetor see
the man I met in the cellar?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
What about him?
Speaker 13 (21:49):
He's dead?
Speaker 6 (21:50):
But you fractured the skull.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
No, no, I said you were a wild boy.
Speaker 12 (21:55):
I never meant that.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I didn't know I hit him so hard.
Speaker 13 (21:59):
I didn't like you turned wild boy.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Didn't mean to kill man.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
I told you you're.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
Gonna worry about him all night. I'll be careful next
time when I tell you I wish I had a piano.
I say you could play for me.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
I like to hear you play to me.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Be careful.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
It's only the phone.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
Yes, what what You've got the wrong number?
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Wrong numbers? I don't know it's the wrong number. You
want to drink Tommy, No, no, you mind if I
make one for myself. Go ahead, honey, you know you
hit me awful heart last night. Look at the lump there,
Look at it.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
I didn't want to hit you. Then good, you may
look awful good, careful baby?
Speaker 16 (22:47):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (22:49):
Oh, so about you again?
Speaker 10 (22:50):
You've got the wrong number, the wrong number, the way
people annoy you.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Any you'll tell me any janitor? Who who was he?
Speaker 10 (23:02):
Who was he?
Speaker 6 (23:02):
I don't know, just a janitor, that's all.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Did he have any kids?
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Two? Or three?
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 13 (23:09):
I think so?
Speaker 10 (23:10):
Why you want to get some eye?
Speaker 5 (23:12):
I don't know why I wanted to annoy you. I'll
give you, I'll take it.
Speaker 17 (23:15):
I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Okay, this is the last time.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
I love that wrong number routine? Who you got up there?
The young church will rubbed your husband out there.
Speaker 14 (23:27):
Huh yo, honey, you get rid of.
Speaker 12 (23:30):
Them as soon as you can.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
And I don't want him hanging around after we're married.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
You know that you are. Why don't you say something?
Why don't you tell me?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
I sat down in the bed and I felt very
calm and very organized when I heard the drums start
thumping in my brain, but delicate and far off.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
This time. They had a sad, lost beat.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
Was it that same silly guy?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
The janitor has three kids? Huh, who's gonna feed him
any Who's gonna love him?
Speaker 17 (24:14):
Tom?
Speaker 6 (24:15):
Tom?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Come here?
Speaker 5 (24:17):
What if you got on me anyway? What is there
about you?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
Tom?
Speaker 5 (24:22):
And awful bed for me? You could make all kinds
of the sucker out of me.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
You could turn my stomach in fifty different directions a minute,
and I'd still.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Go on loving you.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Why I don't like it?
Speaker 13 (24:35):
I don't like it?
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Why come on?
Speaker 13 (24:39):
Sit down?
Speaker 10 (24:42):
What is it?
Speaker 14 (24:43):
That phone call?
Speaker 10 (24:44):
That's a gag?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
That's someone playing a joke.
Speaker 16 (24:46):
I was pat hut, all that horror and all that fright.
Speaker 12 (24:51):
I got black with two good men's blood helping you.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
And that guy on the phone, don't put that gun away.
Now listen, I'll explain, Tom, let me talk.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Do you think I like it?
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Do those things?
Speaker 10 (25:01):
And now listen?
Speaker 12 (25:03):
I killed two men to get you in, but I
haven't got you.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
No, he's got you, the guy on the boats door.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
No, you had die, and I did.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I bought you.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
That's not fair. By right, you should be mine. You're
not mine?
Speaker 14 (25:16):
Arm what always you?
Speaker 7 (25:17):
You're a hand up.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
I was gonna kidding him only.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
And all that blood on it.
Speaker 5 (25:24):
No wasted three guys and three kids got hand man.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
No, it can't be.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
It couldn't have ever been loved.
Speaker 14 (25:36):
Love doesn't hurt like this doesn't.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
Does it.
Speaker 13 (25:47):
Wasn't need no.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Felling a silly little lump and lay.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Quiet there, Hey, holding up?
Speaker 7 (25:57):
What's going on in there?
Speaker 5 (26:05):
I shall walk down the corridor the night of December tenth.
I shall die. It's not important. They've let me play
the piano here.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
I've even composed some stuff, short pieces I always wanted
to compose, but I never had the time for it.
Maybe someday somebody important will play my stuff. Maybe someday
you'll hear.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Some of it. Funnier things have happened.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
There are even people who get away with murder. They
tell me, I think a lot about Anne.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Before Anne, she.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Should have picked someone older than me, someone solid and stable,
and why someone with a stronger stomach, and not a musician.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Not a musician.
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