September 24, 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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(00:26):
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Speaker 4 (01:36):
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Speaker 1 (01:38):
And now Autolite presents Public Defender, starring mister Frank Lovejoy,
hoping once again to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The newspapers say it was a matter of conscience. Well
they're wrong, dead wrong. It wasn't conscience or anything like that,
but just the way he looked and talked conscience. I
don't have one. I don't think you do either. It
(02:23):
was a swell morning and they were having a swell parade.
The whole town was out watching it. I was there too,
I didn't want to miss anything. I was standing on
the north side of sixth Street, off of Curtis, right
by the alley. I'd already spotted this lady in the
fur coat. She was about five feet from me, sort
of standing on her toes, trying to look over everybody's head.
(02:45):
I looked around to make sure she was alone before
I came up in back of her. Easy now, but
just a minute. That's my purse. You weren't supposed to notice, lady,
but now that you have, this is a knife that
don't make a move. Don't make one single little mover.
I'll shove it right in your back. I said, nothing
to move.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Oh God.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I put one arm around her and held her up
until the drum and bugle corps passed. No one noticed
when I let her slip to the ground. Then I
just turned around and walked away. The paper has called
(03:35):
it the Armistice Day killing. It said her name was
Tyler and that her husband did something for the county.
Their pictures were all over the front page. That night,
I caught myself a bus for Saint Louis and stayed
there about a month.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
It's a pretty good town.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I got back here in time for Christmas, and no
one bothered me up until a few days ago.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Oh is it?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
It's missus Weaver?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Oh what time is it?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Eight o'clock?
Speaker 6 (04:09):
There are two men downstairs who wanna talk to you.
They're from the police department.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Policeman, Yes, policemen.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
I told 'em you were sleeping, and could they come
back later or could you call 'em? They said they
wanted to talk to you right now.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
You in any trouble, I don't know. I hope not
tell him.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'll be right down, Missus Weaver.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Well all right, mister Penn. They must have made a
mistake or something.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh yeah, sure, are you Philip James Penn? Yes, Police,
I am Sergeant Quinn, Sergeant Lacy.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Uh huh. I was just looking around for my robe.
I was coming right down.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
There's not a robe over there on the chair.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Uh oh, but Gully it is? What uh uh? What's
this all about? What do you want to see me for?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'm just checking a few things been. I'm sorry to
get you up like this.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well that's okay. I want to get up early today anyhow.
Usually sleep on Sundays if I can, but I had
some extra work to do today.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh where are you working these days?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I'm not working at all. I'm going to school eight
hours a day. Where Commercial Electrical College?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
How long have you been doing that?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Since last January? I enrolled on the fifteenth. Why how
do you live? I'd saved a little money. I worked
here and there where You're from Milwaukee? How long have
you been in Ton better part of a year? I guess, say,
hold a thirty one married. No have I been in trouble, no, sir.
Have I been arrested?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
No, sir? How about back in Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I've never been in any kind of trouble, never been arrested, No, sir.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
But do you know uh Walter Calluman.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Walterer Calluman. Now that name sounds familiar in a way.
I I can't place it at the moment, though. Oh
he places you pretty well, says you worked from once
at his place over on the seventeenth, Uh, the seventeenth
in glenarm Calluman. Huh, I worked for him seventeenth?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
When was this? Can't you remember who you worked for? Well?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I told you I haven't worked regularly for a long time.
I've had lots of jobs here and there on town.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
You had this one around last Christmas, pen in the
eighteenth of December through the fifth of January.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh yes, the eighth habitaterie. Oh sure, sure, I clirked there.
You can't expect me to remember a man's name just
like that one. It's so far back. Sure I remember
mister Calluman. Now what about him? Uh, mister Calluman's store
was burglarized last night, pen As somebody got away with
uh four hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Or so well, I'll be darned.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Mister Calluman closed the store at six o'clock last night.
About ten o'clock, he was out riding with his wife,
and he says he saw you standing in front of
the place. Missus Caleman saw you too, Yeah, oh.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
About a pen. You're a big, tall fella, fairly easy
to mc Calluman's recognized you.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh, I think they made a mistake, sergeant.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Were you around that store at any time last night?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
No, sir, I sure wasn't. Not anywhere's near it. I
was right here in this room in bed last night.
Can you approve it?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I don't know. I haven't tried.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Mister Calluman said that you had a key to the
store when you worked for him.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
You still have that key.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I gave it back to mister Calluman when he let
me go. He says, you didn't give it back, But
then he's mistaken. I gave him back his key.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Whoever got in there last night had a keyp in?
How about putting some clothes on him? Coming down town
with us?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Do I have to go?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, I had a lot of things I wanted to
do today.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I've got some studying. I want to finish, don't you
believe me? Let's go Phil.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I was afraid to go with him. I didn't want
to have anything to do with cops. They asked too
many questions, and if I answered too many, and they
were bound to find out something about other things. It
was a little rougher than I expected. When we got downtown.
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Besides Caliman and his wife, the guy in the filling
station across the street identified me old Lady Weaver wouldn't
back up my story about my being home sleeping, And
then they went out and looked over my room and
found the key to Caluman's store in my coat pocket.
I don't know how it got there, and everybody remembered
I'd been wearing that coat the night before.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
A while later, a man named Hale, who said he
was from the District Attorney's office, got me a loan
in a room and had me go over the whole thing.
I thought he was pretty well convinced for a while.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
You know, you're in a pretty tough spot here. Oh,
I know, I know that illegal entry and burglary. You
could get up seven years.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Well, I don't want no seven years, sir. I haven't
done anything, and there's something else.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
You should know what.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Mister Callaman kept his money hidden in one of the
boxes on a shelf downstairs in the store. Somebody who
had worked there had to take it.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, why don't they ask somebody else who's worked there.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
It's just a small place. He only opened it a
few months ago. You're the only help he's ever hired. Ben,
You're the only one who could possibly have knowledge of
where that money was hidden. Then do you want to
make a statement.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, sir, I didn't take it. I wasn't around that.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Store, okay, Pen, That's all.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
They booked me in and I was arraigned. A couple
of days later they had a hearing. Everybody came in
and told their little story.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Philip James Penn, you have heard the charges of which
you stand accused. It is my duty to inform you
that it has been determined that the public offense has
been committed.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
This is not a trial. You will have ample opportunity
to produce witnesses and defend yourself at the proper time
and place. Are you represented?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
No, No, your honor, I don't have a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
You have any means whereby you can procure counsel.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I'm broke your honor. Nobody to help me out. I
don't have any money, clerk.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
See that Office of the Public Defenders notified I hereby
commit their cues to the custody of the Sheriff of
this County, pending the action of the grand Jury adjourned.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah. I was kind of rough out, all right. They
had it about off fixed up against me, and I
saw myself doing a nice little seven years for a
burglary I hadn't committed. Then this fellow from the Public
Defender's office showed up. When I saw him coming toward
myself with a turnkey, there was something familiar about his face,
and yet I didn't know him.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Huh sure as.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yeah, yeah, County Jail's no place to be on a
hot day any day, I guess, Jim Hight, here we go,
and this is mister Tyler wants to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Did you say, Tyler? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
My mind was going a mile a minute, but I
couldn't think of anything to say, so I just stood
there and looked at the guy who was going to
handle me in court. I recognized him. His picture had
been in the paper with a story about about her.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I'd killed his wife.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Hello, Phil, I'm here to help you. Autolite is bringing
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Speaker 4 (13:44):
I'll be right down the hall, mister Tyler.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
All right, Jim, just call when you need me, h Jim. Well, now,
the fellow says, it was a pretty good trip, but
now I have to pay for it, like you smoke?
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
He Oh, no, need to look like that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
At your hearing, you told the court that you weren't
represented by council.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Phil.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
That's why I came here. I'd like to handle your
case for you.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I don't have any money.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
If you're in trouble, you have a right to legal counsel,
whether you have any money or not. We have a
law that says that, Phil, you don't have to have
any money with me my fees on the county.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
You understand that, I I I guess I do. Well?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Good sound Phil?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
H sure?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Hot? Huh? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Uh huh? How about uh telling me the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Didn't you read the charges?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yes, but I want to hear what you have to
say about them.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well, how do I know you're not from the District
Attorney's office here trying to tie me up some way?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Oh? Ah not, Phil, I'm on your side. I'm representing you.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Well, you work for the county, same as a district attorney.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
We worked pretty hard keeping people out of jail too. Like,
get to be very frank with me and tell me
everything that happened.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Well, nothing happened, all right?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Uh? Where were your Saturday nights on?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Phil?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Missus Weaver told me that you were out until midnight
or better she heard you come in.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Phil.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Were you around mister Callaman's store?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Where were you? Son? Well?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I just walking and thinking that's all alone. Yeah, tell
me what you were thinking about?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
What was on your mind? Were you worried about something? Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
No, Now, I just well, I was thinking about a
lot of things.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
What I was gonna do?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Tell me what you mean?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh, just about finishing my course and electrical work, and
maybe getting a good job someplace and settling down, getting married.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
A lot of young fellas go around thinking just about
the same things. Ever been married?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
No, you have a girl?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Do you go to church?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Sometimes? Not very often?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Why did you tell the offices you were home sleeping? Phil?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Well? I was scared. I guess, Oh what are you
afraid of?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Policemen?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Phil? I? I I I guess so, Oh why WHI?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Well, Now, while you were out walking, did you uh
stop in any place like for a drink or something? No?
Did you see anybody you knew, somebody who might be
able to identify me?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
No? No, I just took a good long walk.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
What time did you leave the boarding house?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Right after dinner? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
No?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Seven to thirty quarter eight?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
OR'd you go from there?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I walked downtown to see if there are any movies
i'd like to see. There weren't any, so I just
kept walking around time. It was a nice night, sure was.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You walked till after midnight? H phil, you had a
key to that store. You knew where Calaman hit his mind.
You were seen in the vicinity the store of the
night he was robbed. Now, if you rob mister Callaman's store,
I'll have to know all about it if I'm going
to help you.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
No, sir, I did not rob that store, honest, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
All right, I'll do my best to help you prove it.
I'll do everything I can for you. We'll enter a
not guilty please. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Plenty of cigarettes there, Yeah, mister Tyler, Do I have
a chance of getting off.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Oh, it depends on how good a defense we put up,
mostly on whether or not we have all the facts. Well,
you have no arrest and a dating, this one that's
in your favor. All I see. Now you're pretty industrious,
ambitious sort of fellow. All these things will come into
account when we get into court. We'll find it out together.
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I have to run along now, I'll be back tomorrow. Meantime,
you just sort of relax and uh, straighten out your thoughts.
What do you mean, oh man, hardly ever takes a
five hour walk. Maybe you'll have some things to tell
me about when I come again.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
We interrupt this program. We have interrupted this program to
bring you the latest on the prisoner of war exchange
in Korea. Here are the latest names of American prisoners
just released by the communists. Pfc Paul O. Blanton Route
two Broadhead, Kentucky from Philadelphia. Private John M. Jankowitz, Junior
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nine twenty six North sixth Street from Greenville, Tennessee. Pfc
Walter Mitchell from Covington, Kentucky. Sergeant Orville R. Mullen, Private G. Morland,
no home address listed. Pfc Harry Persis or Purvis also
no home address listed. Sergeant Willie Patrick, Junior Sergeant Patrick,
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and the next names coming up are also listed as
having no home address as of the moment. Sergeant Willie
Patrick June un Your, Sergeant Albert L. Howard, Pfc. Wilbert M. Warring,
W A R R I N G. Sergeant Edward G. Anderson,
Private Lewis O. Kurstscrowe. That's spelled O K E R
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K S T R O, Sergeant George W. Gray, Pfc
Earl N. Wiseman, Sergeant William H.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
White.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
Sergeant White is listed as a litter patient. Corporal Pedro A.
Herrero Pfc Joe T. Heath also listed as a litter patient.
Those sixteen names are the names of American prisoners of
war released this evening by the communists in Korea. As
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later names become available, we will interrupt our scheduled programs
to bring them to you. This bulletin has come to
you from CBS Radio News. We now resume our scheduled
program The Truth.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Well, I'm telling you the truth.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Uh where'd you stay in Saint Louis at the Hall Hotel?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
How much rent do you pay?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I didn't pay any rent. I stayed there with a
friend of mine didn't cost me a time.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Which friend's name, Jack O'Brien. Is he still there now?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Why?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Well, I want to wire him and verify this.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
He's in the army.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Now what do you figure the trip costs you?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Just my bus fair nothing more a little spending money.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
He paid for my.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Meals too, say in a hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I had ninety three dollars when I left. Once you
get back by the middle of December. When'd you leave
Armistice Armistice Day? Why'd you uh take a sudden trip
on Armistice Day? Well, I uh, I just wanted to
go leave town. Why I I don't know, mister Tyler.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
You don't remember the exact day you got back, but
but you remember the day you left.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Mister Tyler, I don't go around robbing people. I just
don't do it. I didn't take that money from mister
Calluman's store. I never did any harmed anybody. Mister Tyler.
You believe me, don't you?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
You Phil.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
We went to court the next day. Hale, the district
attorney's man, got up and told the jury what he
was going to prove, and mister Tyler got up and
told him how none of.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
It was true.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
And after that he asked the judge to keep all
of the witnesses out of the room except the one
that had something to say. The judge said that was
all right, and then the two cops who arrested me
showed up and told about it. And then missus Weaver
came in and told how I hadn't been home.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
And finally Hale.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Called Caluman in spent fifteen minutes or so ha him
say I was around the store the night it was robbed,
that I had a key, and that I knew where
the money was hidden. Well, mister Tyler listened to all
of it, and then he took his turn.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You testified, mister Calluman, that they accused was in the
vicinity of your store the night the money was taken, Yes, sir.
And you saw him while you were out driving with
your wife, Yes, sir. Can you describe the clothing he
was wearing at the time.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
He had on a sport coat and her gray pants
and a blue shirt.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Or what color was the sport coat, mister Callamer?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Ten?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Was he wearing a hat? No? Hat? How close were
you when you saw him?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I was driving in the outside lane and he was
right on the street twenty feet away.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I'd see how fast was your car traveling at the
time we were at this step street. Then you had
a good look at it, yes, sir? For how long
a period of time? M maybe ten seconds?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Just where we stopped.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
With the court's permission, I'd like to ask the witness
to step over in front of the jury and the
objections from the prosecution now objection your honor. All right,
mister Cawman. Right there will be fine. Now, mister Calluman,
will you look at the jur or sitting directly in
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front of you, Yes, sir, all right, mister Callumn, turn round. Please.
Now tell me, mister Callman, what does that man look like? Why?
He's got gray hair, he's wearing glasses. Can you tell
me the color of his suit?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Brown?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I think it's tie, No, his shirt.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
No. This is the witness who, by his own statement,
saw the accused for ten second and positively identified him.
The same thing happened to Calluman's wife, and the filling
station then was all over in less than an hour.
The jury went out and came back and said that
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I wasn't guilty, And finally everybody had left and I
was standing there with with him.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Well, son, how do you feel pretty good? Mister Tyley?
I don't know how to thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Don't thank me, son, thank the law, the protection. What
are you going to do now?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Go back to school? I guess.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Let me hear from you now and then glad to know.
Are you getting along?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
I'll do that, mister Tyler.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You can you can go, Phil?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Yeah, well so long?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Huh so on? Uh Phil?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Yes, mister Tully, do.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You uh have anything you want to tell me? No, sir,
I sort of had the feeling that you uh wanted
to say something, though.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Mister Tanner, I'll say it once more. I didn't rob
Callumn's store.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I know that you're innocent of that charge.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Oh what are you getting here?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I just wondered if there's anything else you'd like to
tell me, Phil. No. You know, a man might do
something in his life sometime that no one else will
ever know about but him, and he he can go
through life keeping it inside, not telling anybody about it.
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Another man might have an idea or suspect him, but
it wouldn't be right to come out and say anything
unless he had some facts. Now I have an idea
of what the man was like. Who killed my wife
might be wrong, but I think I know exactly what
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he was like Phil did you know my wife? Yes, sir,
read about it in the papers that night on the bus. No, Sir,
where'd you get the money to go to Saint Louisville?
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Did you get it from my wife's handbag?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I d I.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I didn't mean to it if i'd known she was
your wife, Sir. I I wish I hadn't killed her, Sir. I,
mister Tyler, don't look at me like that. Mister Tyler, please, please, sir,
don't look at me like that.
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Speaker 2 (01:56):
The newspapers say it was a matter of conscience. Well
they're wrong, dead wrong. It wasn't conscience or anything like that,
but just the way he looked and talked conscience. I
don't have one. I don't think you do either. It
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was a swell morning and they were having a swell parade.
The whole town was out watching it. I was there too,
I didn't want to miss anything. I was standing on
the north side of sixth Street, off of Curtis, right
by the alley. I'd already spotted this lady in the
fur coat. She was about five feet from me, sort
of standing on her toes, trying to look over everybody's head.
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I looked around to make sure she was alone before
I came up in back of her. Easy now, but
just a minute. That's my purse. You weren't supposed to notice, lady,
but now that you have, this is a knife that
don't make a move. Don't make one single little mover.
I'll shove it right in your back. I said, nothing
to move.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Oh God.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I put one arm around her and held her up
until the drum and bugle corps passed. No one noticed
when I let her slip to the ground. Then I
just turned around and walked away. The paper has called
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it the Armistice Day killing. It said her name was
Tyler and that her husband did something for the county.
Their pictures were all over the front page. That night,
I caught myself a bus for Saint Louis and stayed
there about a month.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
It's a pretty good town.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I got back here in time for Christmas, and no
one bothered me up until a few days ago.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Oh is it?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
It's missus Weaver?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Oh what time is it?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Eight o'clock?
Speaker 6 (04:09):
There are two men downstairs who wanna talk to you.
They're from the police department.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Policeman, Yes, policemen.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
I told 'em you were sleeping, and could they come
back later or could you call 'em? They said they
wanted to talk to you right now.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
You in any trouble, I don't know. I hope not
tell him.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'll be right down, Missus Weaver.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Well all right, mister Penn. They must have made a
mistake or something.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Oh yeah, sure, are you Philip James Penn? Yes, Police,
I am Sergeant Quinn, Sergeant Lacy.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Uh huh. I was just looking around for my robe.
I was coming right down.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
There's not a robe over there on the chair.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Uh oh, but Gully it is? What uh uh? What's
this all about? What do you want to see me for?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I'm just checking a few things been. I'm sorry to
get you up like this.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Well that's okay. I want to get up early today anyhow.
Usually sleep on Sundays if I can, but I had
some extra work to do today.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Oh where are you working these days?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Ben?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
I'm not working at all. I'm going to school eight
hours a day. Where Commercial Electrical College?
Speaker 1 (05:19):
How long have you been doing that?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Since last January? I enrolled on the fifteenth. Why how
do you live? I'd saved a little money. I worked
here and there where You're from Milwaukee? How long have
you been in Ton better part of a year? I guess, say,
hold a thirty one married. No have I been in trouble, no, sir.
Have I been arrested?
Speaker 4 (05:41):
No, sir? How about back in Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I've never been in any kind of trouble, never been arrested, No, sir.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
But do you know uh Walter Calluman.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Walterer Calluman. Now that name sounds familiar in a way.
I I can't place it at the moment, though. Oh
he places you pretty well, says you worked from once
at his place over on the seventeenth, Uh, the seventeenth
in glenarm Calluman. Huh, I worked for him seventeenth?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
When was this? Can't you remember who you worked for? Well?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I told you I haven't worked regularly for a long time.
I've had lots of jobs here and there on town.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
You had this one around last Christmas, pen in the
eighteenth of December through the fifth of January.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh yes, the eighth habitaterie. Oh sure, sure, I clirked there.
You can't expect me to remember a man's name just
like that one. It's so far back. Sure I remember
mister Calluman. Now what about him? Uh, mister Calluman's store
was burglarized last night, pen As somebody got away with
uh four hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Or so well, I'll be darned.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Mister Calluman closed the store at six o'clock last night.
About ten o'clock, he was out riding with his wife,
and he says he saw you standing in front of
the place. Missus Caleman saw you too, Yeah, oh.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
About a pen. You're a big, tall fella, fairly easy
to mc Calluman's recognized you.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh, I think they made a mistake, sergeant.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Were you around that store at any time last night?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
No, sir, I sure wasn't. Not anywhere's near it. I
was right here in this room in bed last night.
Can you approve it?
Speaker 4 (07:14):
I don't know. I haven't tried.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Mister Calluman said that you had a key to the
store when you worked for him.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
You still have that key.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I gave it back to mister Calluman when he let
me go. He says, you didn't give it back, But
then he's mistaken. I gave him back his key.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Whoever got in there last night had a keyp in?
How about putting some clothes on him? Coming down town
with us?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Do I have to go?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, I had a lot of things I wanted to
do today.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
I've got some studying. I want to finish, don't you
believe me? Let's go Phil.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I was afraid to go with him. I didn't want
to have anything to do with cops. They asked too
many questions, and if I answered too many, and they
were bound to find out something about other things. It
was a little rougher than I expected. When we got downtown.
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Besides Caliman and his wife, the guy in the filling
station across the street identified me old Lady Weaver wouldn't
back up my story about my being home sleeping, And
then they went out and looked over my room and
found the key to Caluman's store in my coat pocket.
I don't know how it got there, and everybody remembered
I'd been wearing that coat the night before.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Well.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
A while later, a man named Hale, who said he
was from the District Attorney's office, got me a loan
in a room and had me go over the whole thing.
I thought he was pretty well convinced for a while.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
You know, you're in a pretty tough spot here. Oh,
I know, I know that illegal entry and burglary. You
could get up seven years.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Well, I don't want no seven years, sir. I haven't
done anything, and there's something else.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
You should know what.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Mister Callaman kept his money hidden in one of the
boxes on a shelf downstairs in the store. Somebody who
had worked there had to take it.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Well, why don't they ask somebody else who's worked there.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
It's just a small place. He only opened it a
few months ago. You're the only help he's ever hired. Ben,
You're the only one who could possibly have knowledge of
where that money was hidden. Then do you want to
make a statement.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, sir, I didn't take it. I wasn't around that.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Store, okay, Pen, That's all.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
They booked me in and I was arraigned. A couple
of days later they had a hearing. Everybody came in
and told their little story.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Philip James Penn, you have heard the charges of which
you stand accused. It is my duty to inform you
that it has been determined that the public offense has
been committed.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
This is not a trial. You will have ample opportunity
to produce witnesses and defend yourself at the proper time
and place. Are you represented?
Speaker 4 (10:08):
No, No, your honor, I don't have a lawyer.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
You have any means whereby you can procure counsel.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I'm broke your honor. Nobody to help me out. I
don't have any money, clerk.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
See that Office of the Public Defenders notified I hereby
commit their cues to the custody of the Sheriff of
this County, pending the action of the grand Jury adjourned.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Yeah. I was kind of rough out, all right. They
had it about off fixed up against me, and I
saw myself doing a nice little seven years for a
burglary I hadn't committed. Then this fellow from the Public
Defender's office showed up. When I saw him coming toward
myself with a turnkey, there was something familiar about his face,
and yet I didn't know him.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Huh sure as.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yeah, yeah, County Jail's no place to be on a
hot day any day, I guess, Jim Hight, here we go,
and this is mister Tyler wants to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Did you say, Tyler? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:22):
My mind was going a mile a minute, but I
couldn't think of anything to say, so I just stood
there and looked at the guy who was going to
handle me in court. I recognized him. His picture had
been in the paper with a story about about her.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I'd killed his wife.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
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Speaker 4 (13:44):
I'll be right down the hall, mister Tyler.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
All right, Jim, just call when you need me, h Jim. Well, now,
the fellow says, it was a pretty good trip, but
now I have to pay for it, like you smoke?
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
He Oh, no, need to look like that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
At your hearing, you told the court that you weren't
represented by council.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Phil.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
That's why I came here. I'd like to handle your
case for you.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
I don't have any money.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
If you're in trouble, you have a right to legal counsel,
whether you have any money or not. We have a
law that says that, Phil, you don't have to have
any money with me my fees on the county.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
You understand that, I I I guess I do. Well?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Good sound Phil?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
H sure?
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Hot? Huh? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Uh huh? How about uh telling me the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Didn't you read the charges?
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Yes, but I want to hear what you have to
say about them.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well, how do I know you're not from the District
Attorney's office here trying to tie me up some way?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Oh? Ah not, Phil, I'm on your side. I'm representing you.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
Well, you work for the county, same as a district attorney.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
We worked pretty hard keeping people out of jail too. Like,
get to be very frank with me and tell me
everything that happened.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Well, nothing happened, all right?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Uh? Where were your Saturday nights on?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Phil?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Missus Weaver told me that you were out until midnight
or better she heard you come in.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Phil.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Were you around mister Callaman's store?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Where were you? Son? Well?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
I just walking and thinking that's all alone. Yeah, tell
me what you were thinking about?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
What was on your mind? Were you worried about something? Oh?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
No, Now, I just well, I was thinking about a
lot of things.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
What I was gonna do?
Speaker 1 (15:43):
Tell me what you mean?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Oh, just about finishing my course and electrical work, and
maybe getting a good job someplace and settling down, getting married.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
A lot of young fellas go around thinking just about
the same things. Ever been married?
Speaker 4 (15:58):
No, you have a girl?
Speaker 2 (16:00):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Do you go to church?
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Sometimes? Not very often?
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Why did you tell the offices you were home sleeping? Phil?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Well? I was scared. I guess, Oh what are you
afraid of?
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Policemen?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Phil? I? I I I guess so, Oh why WHI?
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Well, Now, while you were out walking, did you uh
stop in any place like for a drink or something? No?
Did you see anybody you knew, somebody who might be
able to identify me?
Speaker 4 (16:32):
No? No, I just took a good long walk.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
What time did you leave the boarding house?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Right after dinner? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
No?
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Seven to thirty quarter eight?
Speaker 1 (16:41):
OR'd you go from there?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I walked downtown to see if there are any movies
i'd like to see. There weren't any, so I just
kept walking around time. It was a nice night, sure was.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
You walked till after midnight? H phil, you had a
key to that store. You knew where Calaman hit his mind.
You were seen in the vicinity the store of the
night he was robbed. Now, if you rob mister Callaman's store,
I'll have to know all about it if I'm going
to help you.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
No, sir, I did not rob that store, honest, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
All right, I'll do my best to help you prove it.
I'll do everything I can for you. We'll enter a
not guilty please. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Plenty of cigarettes there, Yeah, mister Tyler, Do I have
a chance of getting off.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Oh, it depends on how good a defense we put up,
mostly on whether or not we have all the facts. Well,
you have no arrest and a dating, this one that's
in your favor. All I see. Now you're pretty industrious,
ambitious sort of fellow. All these things will come into
account when we get into court. We'll find it out together.
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I have to run along now, I'll be back tomorrow. Meantime,
you just sort of relax and uh, straighten out your thoughts.
What do you mean, oh man, hardly ever takes a
five hour walk. Maybe you'll have some things to tell
me about when I come again.
Speaker 7 (18:07):
We interrupt this program. We have interrupted this program to
bring you the latest on the prisoner of war exchange
in Korea. Here are the latest names of American prisoners
just released by the communists. Pfc Paul O. Blanton Route
two Broadhead, Kentucky from Philadelphia. Private John M. Jankowitz, Junior
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nine twenty six North sixth Street from Greenville, Tennessee. Pfc
Walter Mitchell from Covington, Kentucky. Sergeant Orville R. Mullen, Private G. Morland,
no home address listed. Pfc Harry Persis or Purvis also
no home address listed. Sergeant Willie Patrick, Junior Sergeant Patrick,
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and the next names coming up are also listed as
having no home address as of the moment. Sergeant Willie
Patrick June un Your, Sergeant Albert L. Howard, Pfc. Wilbert M. Warring,
W A R R I N G. Sergeant Edward G. Anderson,
Private Lewis O. Kurstscrowe. That's spelled O K E R
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K S T R O, Sergeant George W. Gray, Pfc
Earl N. Wiseman, Sergeant William H.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
White.
Speaker 7 (19:30):
Sergeant White is listed as a litter patient. Corporal Pedro A.
Herrero Pfc Joe T. Heath also listed as a litter patient.
Those sixteen names are the names of American prisoners of
war released this evening by the communists in Korea. As
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later names become available, we will interrupt our scheduled programs
to bring them to you. This bulletin has come to
you from CBS Radio News. We now resume our scheduled
program The Truth.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Well, I'm telling you the truth.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Uh where'd you stay in Saint Louis at the Hall Hotel?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
How much rent do you pay?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
I didn't pay any rent. I stayed there with a
friend of mine didn't cost me a time.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Which friend's name, Jack O'Brien. Is he still there now?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Why?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Well, I want to wire him and verify this.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
He's in the army.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Now what do you figure the trip costs you?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Just my bus fair nothing more a little spending money.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
He paid for my.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Meals too, say in a hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
I had ninety three dollars when I left. Once you
get back by the middle of December. When'd you leave
Armistice Armistice Day? Why'd you uh take a sudden trip
on Armistice Day? Well, I uh, I just wanted to
go leave town. Why I I don't know, mister Tyler.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
You don't remember the exact day you got back, but
but you remember the day you left.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Mister Tyler, I don't go around robbing people. I just
don't do it. I didn't take that money from mister
Calluman's store. I never did any harmed anybody. Mister Tyler.
You believe me, don't you?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
You Phil.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
We went to court the next day. Hale, the district
attorney's man, got up and told the jury what he
was going to prove, and mister Tyler got up and
told him how none of.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
It was true.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
And after that he asked the judge to keep all
of the witnesses out of the room except the one
that had something to say. The judge said that was
all right, and then the two cops who arrested me
showed up and told about it. And then missus Weaver
came in and told how I hadn't been home.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
And finally Hale.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Called Caluman in spent fifteen minutes or so ha him
say I was around the store the night it was robbed,
that I had a key, and that I knew where
the money was hidden. Well, mister Tyler listened to all
of it, and then he took his turn.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
You testified, mister Calluman, that they accused was in the
vicinity of your store the night the money was taken, Yes, sir.
And you saw him while you were out driving with
your wife, Yes, sir. Can you describe the clothing he
was wearing at the time.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
He had on a sport coat and her gray pants
and a blue shirt.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Or what color was the sport coat, mister Callamer?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Ten?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Was he wearing a hat? No? Hat? How close were
you when you saw him?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I was driving in the outside lane and he was
right on the street twenty feet away.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
I'd see how fast was your car traveling at the
time we were at this step street. Then you had
a good look at it, yes, sir? For how long
a period of time? M maybe ten seconds?
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Just where we stopped.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
With the court's permission, I'd like to ask the witness
to step over in front of the jury and the
objections from the prosecution now objection your honor. All right,
mister Cawman. Right there will be fine. Now, mister Calluman,
will you look at the jur or sitting directly in
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front of you, Yes, sir, all right, mister Callumn, turn round. Please.
Now tell me, mister Callman, what does that man look like? Why?
He's got gray hair, he's wearing glasses. Can you tell
me the color of his suit?
Speaker 4 (23:48):
Brown?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I think it's tie, No, his shirt.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
No. This is the witness who, by his own statement,
saw the accused for ten second and positively identified him.
The same thing happened to Calluman's wife, and the filling
station then was all over in less than an hour.
The jury went out and came back and said that
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I wasn't guilty, And finally everybody had left and I
was standing there with with him.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Well, son, how do you feel pretty good? Mister Tyley?
I don't know how to thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Don't thank me, son, thank the law, the protection. What
are you going to do now?
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Go back to school? I guess.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Let me hear from you now and then glad to know.
Are you getting along?
Speaker 4 (24:43):
I'll do that, mister Tyler.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You can you can go, Phil?
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Yeah, well so long?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Huh so on? Uh Phil?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Yes, mister Tully, do.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You uh have anything you want to tell me? No, sir,
I sort of had the feeling that you uh wanted
to say something, though.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Mister Tanner, I'll say it once more. I didn't rob
Callumn's store.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
I know that you're innocent of that charge.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Oh what are you getting here?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
I just wondered if there's anything else you'd like to
tell me, Phil. No. You know, a man might do
something in his life sometime that no one else will
ever know about but him, and he he can go
through life keeping it inside, not telling anybody about it.
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Another man might have an idea or suspect him, but
it wouldn't be right to come out and say anything
unless he had some facts. Now I have an idea
of what the man was like. Who killed my wife
might be wrong, but I think I know exactly what
(26:04):
he was like Phil did you know my wife? Yes, sir,
read about it in the papers that night on the bus. No, Sir,
where'd you get the money to go to Saint Louisville?
(26:25):
Did you get it from my wife's handbag?
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I d I.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I didn't mean to it if i'd known she was
your wife, Sir. I I wish I hadn't killed her, Sir. I,
mister Tyler, don't look at me like that. Mister Tyler, please, please, sir,
don't look at me like that.
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In Tonight's story, Joseph Kernins was heard as Tyler. Featured
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