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And now tonight's presentation of radio's outstanding theater of.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Thrills Suspense.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Tonight the transcribed story of what happens when a trunk
is bought at auction contents unknown, We call it Going
Going Gone So Now, starring Tom Brown and Eve McVeigh.
Here is Tonight's suspense.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Play, Going Going Gone.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Very.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
Very exciting by vote very exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Wally, Wally, look.
Speaker 6 (01:02):
Tens I and you boys, old ladies and gapline from
the estate of missster Go. Since mister Joscelyn's unfortship yes
appearance last weeks exactly found yeah by mister Jocelyn.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Requiring us Wally, I'm going to bid on it, Oh jam,
please be sensible. We already bought a lamp, two chairs,
another original thing. As to milo statue, what do we
want with it? I won't go over ten dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's lovely old stains. Please it might be very valuable.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Pa I do one?
Speaker 7 (01:41):
I hear one?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Will make it two? Two dollars dollars it's only two dollars?
Why here? Three? Three? I hear three three dollars three
three three? Do I get more? Three? Going once? Three?
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Going twice.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Three?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
I got it?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Wait wait, I raised the bid one hundred. I give
one hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Nod must tell the trunk two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Come on here, let's go back and pick up our things. Yes,
that's ours, and the statue too, and the trunk.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Right here, lady.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
No, no, that's not the same one.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It's newer.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
It's the same one, lady. No, the one you sold
me was lovely and old.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
That's right, the one you saw my wife had stains
on it. And we want the one with the sta
that's right.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I want the one I bought. But I tell you, lady,
we use the old one for a Come on, I
take this.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
It'll make you happen. No, we want the one your Okay, okay, sure,
I'll get it. I'll be right back. Okay, boy, Jen,
Sometimes I wonder about.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
You, No you do.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Huh.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Well, let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
That old trunk's got something in it.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
I know, you know. No, what about that funny little
man who came in late and bid two hundred dollars?
Speaker 3 (03:22):
You know, I'll bet he made them offers that other trunk.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Just now, honey, that's just part of the act. They
want to make people figure it's valuable. Next Sunday they'll
have fifty old trunks. This say, all right, you wait,
you'll see you just wait. We got our old trunk,
paid for it, and caught it at home, sat in
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the middle of the living room, big, old and dirty
with a lot of funny looking stains. Jan was like
a kid with a new doll.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
What do you think's in it?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Will? I don't know? It could be anything, Yeah, sure, sure,
it's kinda like Christmas, you know. Well, honey, we're gonna
stand here and talk about it. Let's open it and
get it over.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
No, wait, not for a minute. I just want to look.
Why do you suppose that little man wanted it so badly?
It can't be the same as the other trunks they've got.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Oh, Jan, I thought you had more sense. Do you
honestly think they'd sell us something for three dollars if
they didn't open it first to find out what was
in it?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Heavy? Sure, well with all clothes, roller skates, blood, ins,
and well, what's it?
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Wall?
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Guess what's in it? I guess? Oh? Come on, Jan,
come on, let's open it first.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
We'll guess what's in it. You guess first.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Let's see. Now the old trunk, pretty big lot of
peculiar stains and hmm, big enough to put a Oh
come on, wait, we'll open it together. Huh oh cat stop,
all right here, I'll do it now, stand back. H well,
(05:07):
go on open it. It's shorts. Well, doesn't it scare
you just a little bit? Scare me? Fair? Are you satisfying?
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Wally?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
I'm sorry? Oh? Now look at that, nothing but a
mess of old rags and papers. Three dollars, three hard
earned dollars for a pile of those papers? And hey
why okay?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Oh look diamonds, gold, rubies?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Whoa I hit to fake it? It must be ah these? Yeah,
but there's nothing to be scared about it anymore. It's
not real inn event Now, look, look, be sensible. If
this stuff was a real thing, I mean, diamonds, pearls,
emeralds and all, it gotta be worth.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
It looks real, I mean it.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
A woman has a feeling about jewelry, she can tell jewelry. Here. Look,
did you ever see a diamond ring?
Speaker 4 (06:27):
This?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
Baby? All right? Now, once and for all, I prove it.
You think this is a diamond ring?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yes, Wally, I think it is.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
This is a diamond Okay, it's a diamond ring. Okay,
now watch diamond's cut glass, right, Okay, I'm gonna scratch
it on the window and maybe this will satisfy you. Okay,
there's your fake diamond. Now, for heaven's sake, I told you,
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I told you they're real. We bought a trunkful of jewels.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Yeah, what are we gonna do with it?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
No, maybe we should call the police?
Speaker 5 (07:11):
No, no, no, I.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Supposing it's all stolen jewels.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Hey, Hey, the door. Someone's at the door. Now, come on,
come on, get the rags and papers back in the trunk.
Will put it in the bedroom. It's probably only yeah,
or the guy from the auction. Come on, hurry all right,
all right, now you're pushing our pull.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I feel as if we've done something wrong.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Oh, we gotta be careful there now shut the door now.
If it is your mother, don't say anything, please, all right?
How do you do? My name is mister Minshi. Yes
you are mister Pindale. That's right. You uh bought a
(07:55):
trunk this afternoon at the auction. You see. I arrived
too late to by it myself.
Speaker 6 (08:00):
That's the way, too bad, Yes, mister Pindale, I will
give you two hundred dollars for it sentimental value, you understand.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
I'm sorry, what would you mind getting your foot out
of the door. Ah, you have opened the trunk?
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Oh yes, oh, fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Then you must be a very sentimental man.
Speaker 7 (08:21):
One hundred thousand, mister Pendell, my last offer.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
We needed a trunk. Good evening.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
I must warn you the consequences will be upon your
own head.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
That this is your last chance. Think carefully. Good evening,
mister Pindel. You're making a mistake. Please please, I beg you,
please take my.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
I heard it, Wally.
Speaker 5 (08:43):
What are we going to do? I don't know it was.
It was that same little fellow. He's still there.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
I'm scared.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Ye quite old and not very big. I'll take care.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
No, no, don't do that. Call the police. Oh no, ja,
he might have a gun.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Jam, is it?
Speaker 7 (09:03):
Please?
Speaker 5 (09:04):
Well? All right? Maybe I better well I never hello,
getting on. I'm sorry. What's the matter? What does that
woman talk about all day?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You get a drive down to the police station.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Maybe he's gone. It's all right, honey, nobody's there.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
What are we gonna do.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
About what we bought? The trunk? What's in it?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Isn't right, Wally, we'll get into trouble.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
That man at the door, he might be a gangster,
a foreign jewel thief. Suppose he's got other men with him.
I'll try the police again.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Is the.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Some people like, hello, Hello lady, Look lady, this is emergency. Lady, lady,
I'm trying to call a police an excuse?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, stopping.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Well, she won't get off.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Well she's got to here. Let me try.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
No, no, no, oh wait, maybe maybe it's fake. Maybe
we're not supposed to you listen to me now. I
don't see why you're making such a fuss. We're safe enough.
I'm not afraid of I heard it, don't you dare go?
(10:45):
What do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Maybe it's to mother this time? Who is it?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I'll scream out the window for hell, No.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
You can't do that. What will the neighbors think? I'm
going you be careful here, take the poker. Okay, now
you stay where you are. Please don't open this all
right now, you just stay there. Okay, I've had enough
of this.
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Speaker 5 (12:42):
Why what's wrong with him? Make him get up the door? Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Yes, what happened?
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Are you hurt?
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I don't know. Been close to me. I've got to
tell you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
She's got to do something.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Time. No time.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
They caught me as I was coming back up here.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
They'll get you too. Oh, I don't get it. They're
waiting outside. Later in the night they will come, the killers,
the killers, Who are they? The jewels? Where are they
in the trunk? We put him in the bedroom.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
We can't let him die there.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Call the police, Wally and doctor something yourselves.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Get out of this house.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Oh, Wally, I guess so. Oh I'm scared, Wally. What
are we gonna do? Not take it easy, honey, nobody's
gonna hurt you.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
He Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, For beat's sake, she left
her phone off the hook, just for a spite.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
She's lifted off. I gotta think now.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Good night.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Scream out the window for help for sure. Sure, don't
they wait out there? You get killed just like him.
Oh no, I gotta think. Wait a minute, put out
the light high. I'm gonna peek out. You stay behind
the curtain wall. Don't let him see you. Was getting misty.
(14:28):
I couldn't see the end of the street, but near
the lamp post, a couple of houses down, I saw
a black car, big and along on our street. There's
only two houses, mine and a neighbor who wasn't home,
and I'd never seen that car before. I thought of
what was in the trunck and what was lying right
outside of the front door. Man doesn't like the short
But as I looked out, I was scared.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Can you see them?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
No? Hoe, But there's a car down there. It must
be in it. Come away. Wait a minute. What you
can see lights coming around the corner. Swing down. It's
(15:15):
mister Flinn.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Mister Fling.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
He won't do any good.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
He always comes home drunk on Sundays.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
I'm going to open the window and yell anyway. When
you get down on the floor, they may start shooting.
Mister Flying. Hey, hey, mister Fling, mister Flings, mister Fling.
It's Bindel, Wally Bindel. Yeah, Hello, we're in trouble. Mister Flynn.
(15:44):
You've got to call the police. Tell him to get
over here in a hurry, and you get in your
house quick. You're in danger too. Yeah, okay, you must
be sober to night. He's gonna do it. The police
can just get here into you know what's funny. They
didn't try anything. What are we gonna do with him,
(16:06):
mister minshe? I don't know better. Put him in the bedroom.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I guess on our bed.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
He's dead, poor guy. You stay here, I'll carry a man.
I carried him into the bedroom and laid him down.
I never touched the dead man before, and I'd always
thought they'd be cold. He wasn't. But yet and the
doorbell rang. It's them. Stay with me. Huh yeah, oh,
(16:47):
mister Fling anybody with you?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
What is got? Hey? You want? But I told you
to call the police. Police. Yes, I thought you said,
come on up and have a dream. What's matter? Go
(17:12):
make some coffee, make coffee something anything? Now? Look are
you sober enough to listen? So we've got to get
the police a raid. Let me out a guy, get
out of here? And now look, some men are outside
there trying to kill us all. They've already killed one man.
Oh yeah, who it doesn't matter. Look, we can't use
(17:37):
our phone. We've got to get to another one. No, no, no, no,
he's wild. Parties. Get on my phone and you call
some day, or if you weren't drunk, come out. He's
no help. I'm gonna make a run, but you can't
(17:59):
go outside. We're not going to stay here. Hey, hey,
where's that drenkit? A minute, I'm going to take a
look out the window again. Okay, okay, I'm going to bed.
I can't see if anyone's in it. Sir, got to
take the chance where you go. There's no good trying
to get the Flings house, they'd say it, So try
(18:21):
the back way. Now, if I can get to the garage.
I might be able to make it to the police
in the car.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
What about him.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
I don't want to stay here alone with him. Okay, okay,
come with me. We went out the back door. Everything
is quiet, even quieter than usual because of the fog.
I know that we couldn't be seen from the street.
And if we were quiet, maybe it's all right. What
(18:55):
if they look when we drive out of the garage,
duck down. If they try to stop it, well, I'll
run him down. I'll get him. Yeah, loud, Well, it's
all right. It's only a backfire.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Hold on, I'll get your guns out. Boys. Mister Mindell,
where's the black car? Is right over there across the street.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
Hey, maybe jan you stay here.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Looks bad doors open? You wait, mister Pondel one first,
you two.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Guys watch the back okay, mister Mandell.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Ye this the body.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
No, that's mister Flynn. Where's mister He's gone. They took
him away. But the trunks here. Look, yeah, the jewels
they're not here, mister Minche he was here. Oh lissen dog,
(20:17):
look at me like that. I tell you, there was
a trunk full of jewels and mister minche. He was Oh, Jan,
Jan Jen, come on in and tell him Jan, I
was about it. Same trunk was there, empty, There wasn't
(20:40):
a mark on the bed, and the dead body was gone.
We managed to wake up mister Flynn, but he couldn't
remember anything except that he wanted to drink. Place were
pretty mad, but I guess Jan convinced him that we
hadn't been kidding. Anyway. We gave him coffee and that
was that. There was much more to it except that
about two months later and I were having breakfast on
(21:01):
Saturday when the mail came. Honey, we know anybody in Mexico?
I don't think so. My coffee, Hey, hut, it's from Mexico. No, dear,
you said so best and missus Wallace Pandell, who's it
from there? Hey, Jam, there's some money in it, two
(21:26):
one hundred dollar bills.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Let me see what does the letter say.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Dear folks, I'm sorry for the inconvenience I cost you,
but it was my trunk and my jewels, and I
had to get it back. So I know you'll excuse
the little trick I played on you. Just before my disappearance,
I put all our jewelry in the trunk and buy
a letter ordered the sealed trunk to be sold at auction.
(21:52):
But I got caught in the traffic, and you got
it away from me and closed as a token of
my appreciation. Dexter Joslyn alias Anatole mention.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
We better call the police.
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Well, those jewel says right here there. I know, let's
just forget the whole thing. Pretended never happened. But every
once in a while we are reminded of it. There's
a diamond ring about it, as big as a half dollar.
(22:29):
I put it in my pocket after I cut the
glass out of our window. Jan used to wear at
the parties. Godnymore. She thinks it looks too much like
a fake.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
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