September 28, 2025 • 29 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 (00:05):
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Speaker 2 (01:37):
And now auto light prevents Transcribed Pigeon in the Cage
starring mister Dick Haymes, hoping once again to keep you
in suspense.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I'm Gerald Brewer, and I'm thirty one years old.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I'm a paper hanger, and I've got a wife, I
got a kid on the way, and i'd like to
be home now.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I wish I were out of here.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Right under the button here it says for emergency ring,
but nothing happens. I've been ringing this bell for the
last hour. Nothing happens. Nobody's home. I know that, but
I don't know what else to do except ring this bell.
I'm stuck in an elevator between the first and second floor.
The overhead light went out a few minutes ago. I
can hardly see. This elevator isn't very big. It it'd
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hold three or four people. There's a leve here for
floor stops, but something's going wrong. The elevator won't move.
There are two buttons here, one that rings the bell,
the other for emergency stops. Overhead, maybe about eight feet
from the floor is a little door, maybe about six
inches square. I don't know what that's for. It's a
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pretty old elevator in a pretty old house. I can't
squeeze out of it, that's for sure. Three walls of
this thing cherry wood. In front of it is a
folding iron gate. I got on it on the fourth
floor where I was papering. That was five o'clock. I
was putting work, and the elevator got stuck, and nobody's home.
Been yelling my lungs out, ringing on the bell, calling
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for missus. Rogers owns his house, pounding on the wall.
But nobody's home. Nobody's home, and I'm stuck. The elevator
is stuck right on the first floor, above the living room,
so lying down.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Like this, I can.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I can see into it through a gap no bigger
than a quarter inch. Worried a little about my wife,
because she'll worry. But there's nothing I can do but
wait and relax and wait. That's what woke me. Someone
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was home and talking, and I was gonna yell out
and let them know I was stuck in the elevator
right above their heads.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Killer.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
You're satisfied, now, aren't you. That's the only way to.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Do it, all right, all right, you're nervous.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
You agree to it once kill her.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
I'll kill her when she gets home.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
You all right, you're right.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
Jans, when your wife did, I'll be all right.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Hey, I'll put on some records. Relax.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Help the waiting, Harry, what what about the gun?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Don't worry?
Speaker 8 (04:24):
Do me a favor, will you, Harry? Let me worry?
Let me know.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Oh sure, I'm nervous.
Speaker 9 (04:30):
The gun's upstairs second four, my bedroom. Listen, James, you
don't even have to be here when it happens.
Speaker 10 (04:37):
When's your wife coming home soon?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Look?
Speaker 11 (04:40):
Want drinking, baby?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
In the kitchen mix a drink.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I don't know who the girl is. I never saw
her before. What I could make out of her looking
through the gap is she's a lot younger than mister Rogers.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh that was mister Rogers. I knew that right away
without looking at him.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I remember his voice because we'd had a discussion about
wallpaper pattern twelve sixteen b Sunday Strollers in the park
for the library on the fourth floor. Well, if he
was gonna kill his wife, and I just heard about it.
What do you think you'd do to me? All I
had to do was yell out and let him know
i'd heard. Listen, I got a wife and a kid
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on the way. I'm a guy who figures on hanging
a lot more paper before he dies. My family expects
it of Meds.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
What am I supposed to do? Yell out?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Hey, I'm hanging up here in the elevator and I
just heard what you said. How do I know mister
Rogers wouldn't kill me?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
What do I do? Just I'll just stay here and
hope I can think of something better.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Betty jams a drink?
Speaker 8 (05:44):
Did it? I'm fine?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
What should we do? What do you mean waiting?
Speaker 8 (05:52):
No, I don't mind.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I feel fine.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
We left the party, we were dancing.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
I feel fine here, Come.
Speaker 12 (05:59):
On, daddy, Yeah, Hey, what's the man?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Nothing? Let's not laugh, that's all. Let's not do anything
to make the other one laugh.
Speaker 11 (06:17):
No, he's nervous.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
She ought to be coming home soon, like going me.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
No, look, nothing wrong, Harry, that's right now.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Let's go on me Okay, okay, I'll go upstairs and
get the gun. Come on, come, on that thing stuck again?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Why the elevator the door down the basement keeps swinging
it open and stops it.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Darn thing's stuck.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Well, sure it's stuck. Look right over your head.
Speaker 11 (06:53):
Oh yeah, Harry, what the post?
Speaker 8 (06:57):
Someone's in that elevator?
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
Suppose someone's in that elevator?
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Well, how could anyone?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
We'll tell you how I got stuck.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I don't I know how it got stuck.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Someone's on that elevator and heard everything we said.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Oh look, it's happened a hundred times before.
Speaker 9 (07:11):
I suppose the elevator were upstairs and I stood here
and rang for it.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
The elevator start.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
But if the basement door swung open, the elevator stop.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
All right, you satisfied?
Speaker 13 (07:21):
All right?
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Happened to my wife.
Speaker 9 (07:22):
She walked instead of closing the door in the basement. Happens,
all right, all right, guns in the bedroom.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
I'll walk upstairs and get it.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Mister Rogers went to get the gun. I could hear
him go into his bedroom where yesterday I papered with
the hunters on horseback pattern. I watched the girl he
called Jennie. She sat on the sofa for a little while,
and she got up, folded her arms and walked around
the room. She stopped in front of the elevator.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Anybody in there? Anybody in there?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
She kept looking at the gap where the floor of
the elevator was a quarter inch above the top of
the door.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But the light was out in the elevator and it
was black, and I hugged the fire wall and she
couldn't see me. Mister Rogers came back then.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Still not satisfied. Are you What do you mean looking
at the elevator.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Oh I'm satisfied. I tell you, I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Would it make you feel better if I went down
the basement and shut the door down there and start
the elevator and you'd.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
See, forget it?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Make you feel better with me?
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Leave me alone?
Speaker 11 (08:30):
Will you?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Janice?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Stop it?
Speaker 10 (08:31):
Harry?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Please?
Speaker 6 (08:32):
You want to forget it? Janice?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Do you go.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Back to the party.
Speaker 13 (08:35):
No, no, no, no, listen, Harry, I told you, listen.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
I'll go down and close the elevator door down to
the basement.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (08:42):
That's what's upsetting, isn't it. You're afraid someone's in there? Yeah,
well why didn't you say so?
Speaker 13 (08:46):
Please go downstairs and close it, Harry that's her.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
You wait, Yes, she got opened the garage door. H
m hm.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
M h m hm m hm mm hmmm mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
H Janice, Janice, We're gonna have to hurry.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Make it look like a robbery.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
She keeps her jewels in the safe. Watch out, Janice.
Don't push me standing in the way, stays.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Behind that picture.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Tell me to move and I'll move. Don't push me anymore,
and I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Twelve to the right, eighteen fifteen.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Carry the phone.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
I know it's the phone.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Go and answer.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
What answer it say?
Speaker 7 (09:58):
You're missus Rogers getting rid of whoever?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
It is?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
A hurry, I want to say.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
You'll call back Hello.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
Yes, yes, this is missus Rogers.
Speaker 11 (10:13):
Who paper hanger? No, I'm sure of it.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
Yes, yes, goodbye.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Harry.
Speaker 11 (10:26):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (10:28):
Was there a paper hanger?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Here?
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Places being papered? Why that was his wife?
Speaker 13 (10:35):
Missus Brewer. He's not home. She expected him home hours ago.
She knew he was here.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
Harry, Hey Brewer, you in there?
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Well? What about a Brewer?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
You in there?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Okay, bro, don't bother the answer. I'll find out what
you're in there, and if.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
You are, you're dead.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Auto light is bringing you mister Dick Haymes in Pigeon
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Speaker 1 (11:41):
See Harlow.
Speaker 9 (11:42):
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Speaker 7 (11:47):
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Speaker 7 (12:29):
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Now auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, mister
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A tail well calculated to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
I'm not sure he's in there.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
He's in that elevator, and he knows what we did.
Speaker 9 (13:22):
Harry A second you, Hey, Broer, you heard what I said,
didn't you.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
If you're in there, I'll kill you.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
John's got me a chair. Maybe if I stand on
I can see him.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Hm, bro bro you won't be able to hide in
there for very long?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Broer, Can you see him?
Speaker 11 (13:46):
Harry?
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Black in there and the slid I have to look through.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Turn off that music with you?
Speaker 13 (13:52):
What music at all? Harry and Harry. We're getting panicked,
you both of it.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe you're wrong.
Speaker 13 (14:04):
Maybe the paper hanger just stopped at the corner bar
and got loaded, never got home.
Speaker 9 (14:07):
We gotta find out, we gotta We've got to get
out of here, Jannis, get back to the party. I
walk close to the elevator door and bring it down
all right, you wait here, Harry, want.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
To pour yourself a drink?
Speaker 13 (14:18):
Janice, you're terribly Why didn't you just wait to hear
what I have to say?
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Orr, what do you want?
Speaker 13 (14:21):
Take the gun with you in case he's there.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Sometimes sometimes Well, what I was going to say was
my wife's fault for calling, for being worried, for being
such a good wife. If she hadn't called mister Rogers
and that girl would have gone away. Isn't it a
shame the way we always blame somebody else when we're
in trouble. One thing I was sure of, mister Rogers
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had a gun in his hand. And the other thing
I was sure of.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
He wasn't kidding. Positive he wasn't kidding.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
A man who has just killed his wife in the
garage isn't the kidding type.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Here's what he was about to do.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Close the basement elevator gate, push the button and bring
the elevator down, and he was going to open the door,
see me and shoot me. I'm a man with a family,
like I said, And I got to go in business,
paper hanging and a lot of things I enjoy in life.
So I don't want to die. You know what, My
life depended on in that instant, the button marked emergency stop.
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Mister Rogers closes the gate and tries to bring the
elevator down to the basement and me inside the elevator.
I keep my finger on the emergency stop button and
nothing happens.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
The elevator doesn't move.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I mean, god, what's the mare?
Speaker 11 (15:48):
You're doing anything up there? What? What do you mean anything?
I'm not doing anything, Harry.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
There something wrong?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Oh the motor.
Speaker 13 (15:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Just in case, I'm going to leave this story, I'm coming.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Up, mister, mister.
Speaker 13 (16:15):
If you're in there, mister, if you're in there that elevator,
and you know what's happened, and if there's some way
the three of us can get together so that nobody
has to get hurt anymore. Listen, all right, we kill
his wife. You don't know what she wants. You don't
know what she was ganisjnice?
Speaker 6 (16:35):
What are you doing?
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Maybe we can reason with him if he's in there.
Speaker 13 (16:39):
Maybe all we have to do is explain why it
happened and maybe kill him.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Kill him.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
We're not so bad, you know what, Janice. There's no
one in there.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
There is there is, I know it.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
Harry all right, I'll find.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Out for sure. Come on and go upstairs up to
the second floor. I gotta wait to make sure. I'll
climb down into the elevator from the second floor. There's
a little trap door on top. I'll open and strike
a match.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I'll find out all.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
M you got magetary, use the lighter.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Lighter, I got the trap door.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Can you see him?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
H Now, I'm going to have to.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
He's in there, James, he's in there.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
He grabbed my arm, reached through the lighties, kill him,
kill him, leave me alone, Get.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Away from me, Let me alone.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Will we got away from me?
Speaker 11 (17:50):
Harry?
Speaker 5 (17:53):
All right?
Speaker 7 (17:54):
All right now, Janice, Janice, don't try too, It's all
right now, it's all right that he's in there. What
do you mean we killed my wife?
Speaker 9 (18:07):
We were gonna take her jewelry. It didn't make it
look like robbery and murder. It didn't make it look
like she's surprised a thief. She was coming home when
the thief was leaving. Yet, don't you see. I'll bring
my wife up here.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
I'll bet of the bedroom.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Then I'll throw the jewels in the elevator, empty the gun,
throw it in. He'll be the thief, the murderer trapped.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
In the elevator. Hey, how do you like that? Brower?
You'll be the murderer. How do you like that? Just
do it, Harry.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Hah, It's gonna be all right.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Just do it, mister.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
We know you're in there.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Mister, that's a couple of feet below.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
What do you want, hello, mister paper hanger Brewer?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
If you think, if you think you can get away
with this.
Speaker 13 (19:08):
I tried to reason with you.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
All I wanted you to do is go away.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
I talked to your wife.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
She was worried, wasn't she If you'd listened to me,
you could have been home.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
How could I listen to you? But you did?
Speaker 13 (19:21):
I tried to explain it to you, and you wouldn't listen.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Mister Rogers was a married man. You carried on with him,
and what you did?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
You know what?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
What?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
He shot his wife? But you're as much a murderer.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
I know.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
How can you expect me to listen to you?
Speaker 13 (19:39):
I don't want anybody else to get hurt?
Speaker 9 (19:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, I know, honest the way you said kill him,
kill him, minning me? What about that?
Speaker 13 (19:47):
Because you had to act so smart, because you didn't
answer when I talked to you.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I saw you.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
What do you mean when you were downstairs in the
living room. I was lying down on the floor in
here and I saw you. I can't understand how anybody
who looks like you can do what you did.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
What does your wife look like?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Why?
Speaker 11 (20:10):
What do you look like?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
See?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
You don't even know, you don't care what a man
looks like. You're gonna do what you're gonna do.
Speaker 14 (20:18):
Yes, I am mister, mister, mister, mister, mister paper hanger.
Speaker 13 (20:30):
I'm talking to you.
Speaker 11 (20:32):
I'm talking.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Call you, I'm talking.
Speaker 11 (20:34):
Do you give me your hand?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Jannis, Hey, Jannis, what's the matter?
Speaker 14 (20:50):
Nothing?
Speaker 10 (20:51):
Nothing is almost a.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Put her right down?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
He here, okay, the jew here holding her?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Minute?
Speaker 8 (21:01):
No, no, just put them down at something?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
All right, all right, take the rest of the bullets
out of this gun.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Yeh, Wait a minute.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Stop acting like a beef.
Speaker 13 (21:17):
What did you have to do that for?
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Now? There are no more bullets in the gun.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Bullets in the wall.
Speaker 10 (21:23):
Look like a nest like you put up a fight.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
You okay, Jennison, Now what do you have to do?
Just climb down there again on top of the elevator.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
I told you to all be over.
Speaker 11 (21:40):
In a minute.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Hey, hey, you Brewer.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Not talking?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Huh, Well, I don't mind.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
I'm going to give you something, Broer.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
Here jewelry bracelet in a necklace with a lot of money, Brower.
And here's a gun too empty because it's the one
you killed my wife with.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Goodbye, Brewer.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
So now look what's happened to me. I was papering
a house and I got caught in an elevator. Now
they're gonna.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Blame me for a murder, mister Rogers. And that girl.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Here, I am stuck in an elevator and there's nothing
I can do about it. They're on the first floor now,
and he's helping her with her coat.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
She still looks shaky.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I can lie down on the floor and look out
through that gap and I can see them, and.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Hey, they're starting to leave.
Speaker 15 (22:43):
Hey, mister Rogers, you're not gonna get away with it.
Mister Rogers, before you go, you'd better think about something.
What about the fingerprints? What about the fingerprints on the gun?
Mister Rogers, I guess you did, huh, I guess you
forgot to wipe him off house.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
You'd have walked out of here instead of Hello, mister Rogers.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
I'm lying down on the floor of the elevator and
I'm looking out of the gap and I can see you.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Miss I'm in here and you're out there. But you're
the one who's trapped. Now, mister b does that you want,
mister Rogers, mister.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Brewer, Harry, He's right, isn't he?
Speaker 11 (23:30):
Your fingerprints?
Speaker 9 (23:31):
Jermen gun mister Brewer. Guess we better make some arrangement,
shouldn't we. Jane's go down to the basement, shut the
elevated door. Then mister Brewer will be able to bring
the elevator down.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Go ahead, Jane, It's go on. Hurry.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
How does it feel?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
The h first thing I want to tell you is that.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
You can keep the jewel.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
How does it feel to be trapped?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Really?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Now we'll talk this over.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Feels terrible, doesn't it when you come out of the elevator.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I don't know whether I'm gonna come out or not.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Not.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Now, well, come on up.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
All I have to do is keep my finger on
this emergency stop button. And you can't move this elevator
an inch. Let's be reason you killed your wife, mister rogers.
How do I know what else you got down there?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
You might kill me with?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Do you think i'd now?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
You know what a silly question that is. Don't you look?
I got this gun of yours and it's proof you
killed her. No amount of arguing you can think I
can change that?
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Money?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Do you want money?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I don't think money is important right now? He won't
come out, No, sir, I'm not coming out.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I got you to her. I want you and I'm
not moving.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Can tell him how rich I am.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Tell him what I can do for him. Come on,
tell him, tell him all the things I can do
for him.
Speaker 13 (24:59):
Out of all the.
Speaker 11 (25:00):
Things you can do, what you can do?
Speaker 10 (25:03):
Things you can do it, okay, Alice?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Oh, Janice Dear, I'm sorry.
Speaker 11 (25:18):
I didn't mean to you.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
You're all right, aren't you.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
Dead?
Speaker 11 (25:26):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (25:28):
Are you dead? Child?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Dead?
Speaker 11 (25:32):
You understand you?
Speaker 7 (25:46):
M h.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
M hm m hm m mmm.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Hello Norma, Jerry Dear. No, No, everything's fine, Yeah, just
a little while. No, really, everything's fine. I'll tell you
about it when I get home. Well, I got stuck
in an elevators. All I said, I got stuck in
an elevator.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
No.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Really.
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And now auto light prevents Transcribed Pigeon in the Cage
starring mister Dick Haymes, hoping once again to keep you
in suspense.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I'm Gerald Brewer, and I'm thirty one years old.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I'm a paper hanger, and I've got a wife, I
got a kid on the way, and i'd like to
be home now.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I wish I were out of here.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
Right under the button here it says for emergency ring,
but nothing happens. I've been ringing this bell for the
last hour. Nothing happens. Nobody's home. I know that, but
I don't know what else to do except ring this bell.
I'm stuck in an elevator between the first and second floor.
The overhead light went out a few minutes ago. I
can hardly see. This elevator isn't very big. It it'd
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hold three or four people. There's a leve here for
floor stops, but something's going wrong. The elevator won't move.
There are two buttons here, one that rings the bell,
the other for emergency stops. Overhead, maybe about eight feet
from the floor is a little door, maybe about six
inches square. I don't know what that's for. It's a
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pretty old elevator in a pretty old house. I can't
squeeze out of it, that's for sure. Three walls of
this thing cherry wood. In front of it is a
folding iron gate. I got on it on the fourth
floor where I was papering. That was five o'clock. I
was putting work, and the elevator got stuck, and nobody's home.
Been yelling my lungs out, ringing on the bell, calling
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for missus. Rogers owns his house, pounding on the wall.
But nobody's home. Nobody's home, and I'm stuck. The elevator
is stuck right on the first floor, above the living room,
so lying down.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Like this, I can.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I can see into it through a gap no bigger
than a quarter inch. Worried a little about my wife,
because she'll worry. But there's nothing I can do but
wait and relax and wait. That's what woke me. Someone
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was home and talking, and I was gonna yell out
and let them know I was stuck in the elevator
right above their heads.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Killer.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
You're satisfied, now, aren't you. That's the only way to.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Do it, all right, all right, you're nervous.
Speaker 6 (04:04):
You agree to it once kill her.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
I'll kill her when she gets home.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
You all right, you're right.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
Jans, when your wife did, I'll be all right.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Hey, I'll put on some records. Relax.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Help the waiting, Harry, what what about the gun?
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Don't worry?
Speaker 8 (04:24):
Do me a favor, will you, Harry? Let me worry?
Let me know.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Oh sure, I'm nervous.
Speaker 9 (04:30):
The gun's upstairs second four, my bedroom. Listen, James, you
don't even have to be here when it happens.
Speaker 10 (04:37):
When's your wife coming home soon?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Look?
Speaker 11 (04:40):
Want drinking, baby?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Come on, let's go.
Speaker 7 (04:43):
In the kitchen mix a drink.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
I don't know who the girl is. I never saw
her before. What I could make out of her looking
through the gap is she's a lot younger than mister Rogers.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh that was mister Rogers. I knew that right away
without looking at him.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I remember his voice because we'd had a discussion about
wallpaper pattern twelve sixteen b Sunday Strollers in the park
for the library on the fourth floor. Well, if he
was gonna kill his wife, and I just heard about it.
What do you think you'd do to me? All I
had to do was yell out and let him know
i'd heard. Listen, I got a wife and a kid
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on the way. I'm a guy who figures on hanging
a lot more paper before he dies. My family expects
it of Meds.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
What am I supposed to do? Yell out?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Hey, I'm hanging up here in the elevator and I
just heard what you said. How do I know mister
Rogers wouldn't kill me?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
What do I do? Just I'll just stay here and
hope I can think of something better.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
Betty jams a drink?
Speaker 8 (05:44):
Did it? I'm fine?
Speaker 6 (05:48):
What should we do? What do you mean waiting?
Speaker 8 (05:52):
No, I don't mind.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
I feel fine.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
We left the party, we were dancing.
Speaker 8 (05:58):
I feel fine here, Come.
Speaker 12 (05:59):
On, daddy, Yeah, Hey, what's the man?
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Nothing? Let's not laugh, that's all. Let's not do anything
to make the other one laugh.
Speaker 11 (06:17):
No, he's nervous.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
She ought to be coming home soon, like going me.
Speaker 8 (06:22):
No, look, nothing wrong, Harry, that's right now.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Let's go on me Okay, okay, I'll go upstairs and
get the gun. Come on, come, on that thing stuck again?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Why the elevator the door down the basement keeps swinging
it open and stops it.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Darn thing's stuck.
Speaker 8 (06:49):
Well, sure it's stuck. Look right over your head.
Speaker 11 (06:53):
Oh yeah, Harry, what the post?
Speaker 8 (06:57):
Someone's in that elevator?
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 8 (07:01):
Suppose someone's in that elevator?
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Well, how could anyone?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
We'll tell you how I got stuck.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
I don't I know how it got stuck.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
Someone's on that elevator and heard everything we said.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
Oh look, it's happened a hundred times before.
Speaker 9 (07:11):
I suppose the elevator were upstairs and I stood here
and rang for it.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
The elevator start.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
But if the basement door swung open, the elevator stop.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
All right, you satisfied?
Speaker 13 (07:21):
All right?
Speaker 6 (07:21):
Happened to my wife.
Speaker 9 (07:22):
She walked instead of closing the door in the basement. Happens,
all right, all right, guns in the bedroom.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
I'll walk upstairs and get it.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Mister Rogers went to get the gun. I could hear
him go into his bedroom where yesterday I papered with
the hunters on horseback pattern. I watched the girl he
called Jennie. She sat on the sofa for a little while,
and she got up, folded her arms and walked around
the room. She stopped in front of the elevator.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Anybody in there? Anybody in there?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
She kept looking at the gap where the floor of
the elevator was a quarter inch above the top of
the door.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
But the light was out in the elevator and it
was black, and I hugged the fire wall and she
couldn't see me. Mister Rogers came back then.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Still not satisfied. Are you What do you mean looking
at the elevator.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Oh I'm satisfied. I tell you, I'm okay.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Would it make you feel better if I went down
the basement and shut the door down there and start
the elevator and you'd.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
See, forget it?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Make you feel better with me?
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Leave me alone?
Speaker 11 (08:30):
Will you?
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Janice?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Stop it?
Speaker 10 (08:31):
Harry?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Please?
Speaker 6 (08:32):
You want to forget it? Janice?
Speaker 5 (08:34):
Do you go.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Back to the party.
Speaker 13 (08:35):
No, no, no, no, listen, Harry, I told you, listen.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
I'll go down and close the elevator door down to
the basement.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (08:42):
That's what's upsetting, isn't it. You're afraid someone's in there? Yeah,
well why didn't you say so?
Speaker 13 (08:46):
Please go downstairs and close it, Harry that's her.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
You wait, Yes, she got opened the garage door. H
m hm.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
M h m hm m hm mm hmmm mm hmmm.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
H Janice, Janice, We're gonna have to hurry.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Make it look like a robbery.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
She keeps her jewels in the safe. Watch out, Janice.
Don't push me standing in the way, stays.
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Behind that picture.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Tell me to move and I'll move. Don't push me anymore,
and I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Twelve to the right, eighteen fifteen.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
Carry the phone.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
I know it's the phone.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Go and answer.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
What answer it say?
Speaker 7 (09:58):
You're missus Rogers getting rid of whoever?
Speaker 5 (10:00):
It is?
Speaker 6 (10:00):
A hurry, I want to say.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
You'll call back Hello.
Speaker 8 (10:07):
Yes, yes, this is missus Rogers.
Speaker 11 (10:13):
Who paper hanger? No, I'm sure of it.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
Yes, yes, goodbye.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Harry.
Speaker 11 (10:26):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (10:28):
Was there a paper hanger?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Here?
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Places being papered? Why that was his wife?
Speaker 13 (10:35):
Missus Brewer. He's not home. She expected him home hours ago.
She knew he was here.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
Harry, Hey Brewer, you in there?
Speaker 6 (10:54):
Well? What about a Brewer?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
You in there?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Okay, bro, don't bother the answer. I'll find out what
you're in there, and if.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
You are, you're dead.
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Speaker 1 (13:15):
Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
I'm not sure he's in there.
Speaker 8 (13:20):
He's in that elevator, and he knows what we did.
Speaker 9 (13:22):
Harry A second you, Hey, Broer, you heard what I said,
didn't you.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
If you're in there, I'll kill you.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
John's got me a chair. Maybe if I stand on
I can see him.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Hm, bro bro you won't be able to hide in
there for very long?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Broer, Can you see him?
Speaker 11 (13:46):
Harry?
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Black in there and the slid I have to look through.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
Turn off that music with you?
Speaker 13 (13:52):
What music at all? Harry and Harry. We're getting panicked,
you both of it.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe you're wrong.
Speaker 13 (14:04):
Maybe the paper hanger just stopped at the corner bar
and got loaded, never got home.
Speaker 9 (14:07):
We gotta find out, we gotta We've got to get
out of here, Jannis, get back to the party. I
walk close to the elevator door and bring it down
all right, you wait here, Harry, want.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
To pour yourself a drink?
Speaker 13 (14:18):
Janice, you're terribly Why didn't you just wait to hear
what I have to say?
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Orr, what do you want?
Speaker 13 (14:21):
Take the gun with you in case he's there.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Sometimes sometimes Well, what I was going to say was
my wife's fault for calling, for being worried, for being
such a good wife. If she hadn't called mister Rogers
and that girl would have gone away. Isn't it a
shame the way we always blame somebody else when we're
in trouble. One thing I was sure of, mister Rogers
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had a gun in his hand. And the other thing
I was sure of.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
He wasn't kidding. Positive he wasn't kidding.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
A man who has just killed his wife in the
garage isn't the kidding type.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Here's what he was about to do.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
Close the basement elevator gate, push the button and bring
the elevator down, and he was going to open the door,
see me and shoot me. I'm a man with a family,
like I said, And I got to go in business,
paper hanging and a lot of things I enjoy in life.
So I don't want to die. You know what, My
life depended on in that instant, the button marked emergency stop.
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Mister Rogers closes the gate and tries to bring the
elevator down to the basement and me inside the elevator.
I keep my finger on the emergency stop button and
nothing happens.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
The elevator doesn't move.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I mean, god, what's the mare?
Speaker 11 (15:48):
You're doing anything up there? What? What do you mean anything?
I'm not doing anything, Harry.
Speaker 6 (15:54):
There something wrong?
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Oh the motor.
Speaker 13 (15:57):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Just in case, I'm going to leave this story, I'm coming.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Up, mister, mister.
Speaker 13 (16:15):
If you're in there, mister, if you're in there that elevator,
and you know what's happened, and if there's some way
the three of us can get together so that nobody
has to get hurt anymore. Listen, all right, we kill
his wife. You don't know what she wants. You don't
know what she was ganisjnice?
Speaker 6 (16:35):
What are you doing?
Speaker 8 (16:36):
Maybe we can reason with him if he's in there.
Speaker 13 (16:39):
Maybe all we have to do is explain why it
happened and maybe kill him.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Kill him.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
We're not so bad, you know what, Janice. There's no
one in there.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
There is there is, I know it.
Speaker 10 (16:47):
Harry all right, I'll find.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Out for sure. Come on and go upstairs up to
the second floor. I gotta wait to make sure. I'll
climb down into the elevator from the second floor. There's
a little trap door on top. I'll open and strike
a match.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I'll find out all.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
M you got magetary, use the lighter.
Speaker 7 (17:21):
Lighter, I got the trap door.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
Can you see him?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
H Now, I'm going to have to.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
He's in there, James, he's in there.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
He grabbed my arm, reached through the lighties, kill him,
kill him, leave me alone, Get.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Away from me, Let me alone.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Will we got away from me?
Speaker 11 (17:50):
Harry?
Speaker 5 (17:53):
All right?
Speaker 7 (17:54):
All right now, Janice, Janice, don't try too, It's all
right now, it's all right that he's in there. What
do you mean we killed my wife?
Speaker 9 (18:07):
We were gonna take her jewelry. It didn't make it
look like robbery and murder. It didn't make it look
like she's surprised a thief. She was coming home when
the thief was leaving. Yet, don't you see. I'll bring
my wife up here.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
I'll bet of the bedroom.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Then I'll throw the jewels in the elevator, empty the gun,
throw it in. He'll be the thief, the murderer trapped.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
In the elevator. Hey, how do you like that? Brower?
You'll be the murderer. How do you like that? Just
do it, Harry.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
Hah, It's gonna be all right.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Just do it, mister.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
We know you're in there.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Mister, that's a couple of feet below.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
What do you want, hello, mister paper hanger Brewer?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
If you think, if you think you can get away
with this.
Speaker 13 (19:08):
I tried to reason with you.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
All I wanted you to do is go away.
Speaker 11 (19:11):
I talked to your wife.
Speaker 10 (19:13):
She was worried, wasn't she If you'd listened to me,
you could have been home.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Now.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
How could I listen to you? But you did?
Speaker 13 (19:21):
I tried to explain it to you, and you wouldn't listen.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Mister Rogers was a married man. You carried on with him,
and what you did?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
You know what?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
What?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
He shot his wife? But you're as much a murderer.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
I know.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
How can you expect me to listen to you?
Speaker 13 (19:39):
I don't want anybody else to get hurt?
Speaker 9 (19:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Yeah, I know, honest the way you said kill him,
kill him, minning me? What about that?
Speaker 13 (19:47):
Because you had to act so smart, because you didn't
answer when I talked to you.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I saw you.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
What do you mean when you were downstairs in the
living room. I was lying down on the floor in
here and I saw you. I can't understand how anybody
who looks like you can do what you did.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
What does your wife look like?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Why?
Speaker 11 (20:10):
What do you look like?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
See?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
You don't even know, you don't care what a man
looks like. You're gonna do what you're gonna do.
Speaker 14 (20:18):
Yes, I am mister, mister, mister, mister, mister paper hanger.
Speaker 13 (20:30):
I'm talking to you.
Speaker 11 (20:32):
I'm talking.
Speaker 8 (20:33):
Call you, I'm talking.
Speaker 11 (20:34):
Do you give me your hand?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
Jannis, Hey, Jannis, what's the matter?
Speaker 14 (20:50):
Nothing?
Speaker 10 (20:51):
Nothing is almost a.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Put her right down?
Speaker 6 (20:55):
He here, okay, the jew here holding her?
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Minute?
Speaker 8 (21:01):
No, no, just put them down at something?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
All right, all right, take the rest of the bullets
out of this gun.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Yeh, Wait a minute.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
Stop acting like a beef.
Speaker 13 (21:17):
What did you have to do that for?
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Now? There are no more bullets in the gun.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Bullets in the wall.
Speaker 10 (21:23):
Look like a nest like you put up a fight.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
You okay, Jennison, Now what do you have to do?
Just climb down there again on top of the elevator.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
That's all.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
I told you to all be over.
Speaker 11 (21:40):
In a minute.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Hey, hey, you Brewer.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Not talking?
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Huh, Well, I don't mind.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
I'm going to give you something, Broer.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
Here jewelry bracelet in a necklace with a lot of money, Brower.
And here's a gun too empty because it's the one
you killed my wife with.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Goodbye, Brewer.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
So now look what's happened to me. I was papering
a house and I got caught in an elevator. Now
they're gonna.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Blame me for a murder, mister Rogers. And that girl.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Here, I am stuck in an elevator and there's nothing
I can do about it. They're on the first floor now,
and he's helping her with her coat.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
She still looks shaky.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
I can lie down on the floor and look out
through that gap and I can see them, and.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Hey, they're starting to leave.
Speaker 15 (22:43):
Hey, mister Rogers, you're not gonna get away with it.
Mister Rogers, before you go, you'd better think about something.
What about the fingerprints? What about the fingerprints on the gun?
Mister Rogers, I guess you did, huh, I guess you
forgot to wipe him off house.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
You'd have walked out of here instead of Hello, mister Rogers.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
I'm lying down on the floor of the elevator and
I'm looking out of the gap and I can see you.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Hello.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Miss I'm in here and you're out there. But you're
the one who's trapped. Now, mister b does that you want,
mister Rogers, mister.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Brewer, Harry, He's right, isn't he?
Speaker 11 (23:30):
Your fingerprints?
Speaker 9 (23:31):
Jermen gun mister Brewer. Guess we better make some arrangement,
shouldn't we. Jane's go down to the basement, shut the
elevated door. Then mister Brewer will be able to bring
the elevator down.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Go ahead, Jane, It's go on. Hurry.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
How does it feel?
Speaker 7 (23:48):
The h first thing I want to tell you is that.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
You can keep the jewel.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
How does it feel to be trapped?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Really?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Now we'll talk this over.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Feels terrible, doesn't it when you come out of the elevator.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
I don't know whether I'm gonna come out or not.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Not.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Now, well, come on up.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
All I have to do is keep my finger on
this emergency stop button. And you can't move this elevator
an inch. Let's be reason you killed your wife, mister rogers.
How do I know what else you got down there?
Speaker 3 (24:23):
You might kill me with?
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Do you think i'd now?
Speaker 3 (24:27):
You know what a silly question that is. Don't you look?
I got this gun of yours and it's proof you
killed her. No amount of arguing you can think I
can change that?
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Money?
Speaker 7 (24:39):
Do you want money?
Speaker 4 (24:40):
I don't think money is important right now? He won't
come out, No, sir, I'm not coming out.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
I got you to her. I want you and I'm
not moving.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Can tell him how rich I am.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Tell him what I can do for him. Come on,
tell him, tell him all the things I can do
for him.
Speaker 13 (24:59):
Out of all the.
Speaker 11 (25:00):
Things you can do, what you can do?
Speaker 10 (25:03):
Things you can do it, okay, Alice?
Speaker 6 (25:16):
Oh, Janice Dear, I'm sorry.
Speaker 11 (25:18):
I didn't mean to you.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
You're all right, aren't you.
Speaker 8 (25:25):
Dead?
Speaker 11 (25:26):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (25:28):
Are you dead? Child?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Dead?
Speaker 11 (25:32):
You understand you?
Speaker 7 (25:46):
M h.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
M hm m hm m mmm.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Hello Norma, Jerry Dear. No, No, everything's fine, Yeah, just
a little while. No, really, everything's fine. I'll tell you
about it when I get home. Well, I got stuck
in an elevators. All I said, I got stuck in
an elevator.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
No.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
Really.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
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