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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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destroyed him. A factual document we call the case History
of a Gambler, starring mister John Hodiac.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Hello, Hollo, Well.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
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Speaker 1 (01:31):
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easy to walk when you weighted down with a bullet
in your body, but keep walking. It got six blocks away,
less than half a mile as a hospital. Think, think
about something, anything, anything to get your mind off the pain.
Think about the beginning, the beginning of this. When was
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it a thousand years ago?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
One hundred.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
No, No, it's closer than that. Three years, three years
ago in the kids' dressing room at the arena. It
began with a fight, a prize fight.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Look, Matt, when you called me and asked for ten thousand,
I sent it over and didn't ask any questions. And
why now I think I got a right to know
why you wanted the dough.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I'll tell you when the fight's over.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Fight, I mean you put my ten grand on a fighter? Yes,
give me back my dough.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Wait, give it back, but you don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I want my money.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Relax for a couple of minutes, Frank, don't get cut
with me, Angle boy, tell me the score. Give me
ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Now you won't wait?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Huh No, you should know me better than I think.
I'm gonna throw away your ten grand I thought I did.
I've been booking bets long enough to know that you
can't beat the fights. I know you can beat one fight.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
How do you figure?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Because the boy I bet on is my fighter. I
plan this match a year ago, and when I win,
I'm through with prize fighting.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
He's got to be an angle there is.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I bought a fighter last year, a kid. So I
saw this boy in smameterter bouts, and I bought him
and trained him and booked fights for.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Him once he done. Since lost twelve.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Fights, four by knockouts, three by tikos, and five by
unanimous decisions.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And how do you know he can win tonight?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Up to now, I've had him fighting pretty good, not
the way he can. I've had him training at a
little private camp up in the mountains, going five six
rounds were the best boys I could try, and he's
knocked them all out.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That's all you mean.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
You took my ten grand and put it on this
wonder boy just because he's been knocking out bums and
training camps.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
How are you kidding me? Matthew, you got the other
boy to take a fall. You think I'd stick my
neck out and try to fix a fight. You would
if you thought you could do it.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, even if I could, there'd be too many people
taking a cut of the pie, my pie.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Better to take a piece than try for it all
and get none.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Not me, Frank, I rolled for the bundle. When you
loan me ten thousand, it made an even hundred grand.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I've spread all over the country. Why the big deal?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
All of a sudden, I want money, real money. I'm
tired of nickel and dime operations.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
What are you gonna do if you win?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
When I win, I'm going to open up the biggest,
safest gambling casino this side of the Mississippi? Oh wait?
Did it?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Way?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
He did it? Got the door loo, but I shut
the door. Okay, okay, what round?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Knock out the.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Fifth at twenty to one?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
That's right, two million bucks, matt You just won two
million bucks.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Get in touch with the boys, Lou.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I want Ale to pick up the door in Frisco, Seattle,
Los Angeles, and San Diego. Tell Willie to cover Phoenix,
two Son, Albuquerque and El Paso.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I go to see a guy.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Sixty third Street, five blocks to go walk, keep walking,
and think that was the beginning. What came after the
beginning the casino, the suburban gambling casino, my reward for
fixing one fight. Then came the friends. Matthew Miller is
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giving money away. Get some of it, but be sure
you give it back when you threw, and all the gratitude,
always the benediction.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Much obliged Matt. I was real short on operating capital.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
That's all right, Charlie, glad I could help.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
I'll see you on the fifteenth the next month to
get my IOU back.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
See that you do, Charlie. You know how I feel about.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Welsh's Yeah, yeah, I know. Well, good night, Matt, Thanks again.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Good night, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Ah.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Maybe you know what you're doing, Matt, but sometimes I
think you're too loose.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
With your dough. You mean, Charlie, Oh him.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
For one another. Guys, I've seen you lend money too.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
What's wrong with landing now and then? Oh? Nothing?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Only any grift of a hood that runs out of
money in this town knows they can get to you
for a.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Touch, All right, bookkeeper?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
How much money have I lost since I started helping
the less fortunate of my fraternity?
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Ella was Ritchie follow from Detroit? He nicked you for
eighty grinds?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Where's he now? And incidentally, where's anyone whoever welshed on
a loan?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Or again?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
So they're not around anymore?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Cancels out? Doesn't it just.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Because a guy knows better than to try to welch on?
Here's no excuse to be mister soft touch?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
It's not business life.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I'm not in the lending business.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Well, if the amount of dough you got spread around,
you might just as well be.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
I supposing Charlie goes out of here and gets knocked off,
where's your dough there? It's a chance I have to take.
You shouldn't have to take chances. Charlie's wife isn't taking
a chance. If Charlie gets knocked off tonight, she's rich tomorrow.
He's got enough insurance.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Say that again about Charlie's wife. Why what do. I say,
what happens if Charlie gets knocked off tonight?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I said she'd be rich tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Why that's what I thought? You said?
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Hey, Matt, well, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Lou call my lawyer.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I'm about to become an actuary? Oh what an actuary?
According to Webster one who is skilled in life assurance,
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I'll match your out of your mind. You'll never get
away with it. The state would be on your next
so fast. The stock issue would never clean the broker's office.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Say down, counselor you're wearing the nap off my company.
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
First of all, is it possible to form a dummy
corporation for the purpose of floating a stock issue? Well,
yes it is, answer whether yes or no, don't embellish
your sentence.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Oh, sorry to go on.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Since the stock issue will be thrown open to the public,
there'll be no necessity for me to control more than
twenty five percent of the issue, right right, And when
I sell a policy to a client, the majority of
the first premium will go to me as the selling agent.
Right now, we come to the important point. Is it
perfectly legal for me to be named the beneficiary of
any policy. I'm a issue, well that legal?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yes or no? Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yes, it's legal? And why are you fighting me? What
can the state possibly do to me?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Since that question can't be answered by a yes or no,
have I your permission.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
To elaborate here? Go ahead? All right? Now?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
What guarantee have you that these men to whom you
lend money will continue to pay the premiums.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
After they have repaid the loan? Why not? Of course?
I don't care if they keep up the policy or not.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
All I'm interested in is protection from myself, and with
that protection, if I can make an extra dollar by
issuing the policy, I don't see how that can be
construed as fraud or any other illegal practice. You know
what happens with the company in the long run. Frankly,
I don't care. By that time, I expect to have
gotten what I wanted out of it. The stockholders would
cause you trouble if they got together. If Chris, people
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don't help each other, they're too busy helping themselves, like you,
Maybe the difference is most of them don't know what
they want, do you, Matt? Of course I do. That's
why I don't need any help. I'm just going to
do it all by myself. Any more questions? Oh oh,
I suppose not.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Then how about a drink? I can use one loop
coming right up.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Don't pout, Chris, losing this decision to me at your reputation.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's not me I'm thinking about.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's you, me, me. You're reaching. One of these days
you'll reach out too far and it'll be a long,
long fall to the bottom. It'll break every bone in
your body. Dramatic but unnecessary. No matter what happens, people
will gamble, and the only safe place in the state
is right here. This casino is my bumper, and it
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can cushion any fall I may take.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Here. They are of yourself. Well, Chris, let's drink to
our new venture. A toast. If I may, you may
to Matt, May the long fall never come?
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Amen, sixty fourth Street, four blocks in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Why am I trying? Why do I want to live?
There must be a reason, a reason Ellen.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I want to live for Ellen. I want to kiss
her and be kissed. I want to give her all
the things I promised her. So I'll keep walking. I
keep walking walking.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
You look tired, Matt. Anything wrong?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
No, No, I'm just trying to get Chris back in line.
Sometimes I wonder if he's running on my side. Do
you he's a fine lawyer, Ellen, I have to admit
he's gotten me out of a couple of tight spots
that I wonder sometimes if he's interested in me or
the retainer I pay him.
Speaker 9 (11:41):
Matt, what's wrong? Chris is your friend? You don't think
about friends.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
That way, I know, but tonight was different. Tonight I
felt that Chris wasn't on my side.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I forget it. I'm here with you, and that's all
I care.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
About right now, Matt, When are you going to quit?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Quit? Quit?
Speaker 10 (12:02):
What all this figuring and scheming and gambling?
Speaker 9 (12:08):
What do you know?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
Tell me, Matt, you've got enough money to have a safe,
wonderful life away from here, away from all the hoodlums
and sharpies and thieves and murderers. Why don't we just
pack up and go. I'm so afraid I love you
too much to worry about you from day to day.
You know, you can't live the kind of life you're
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living without making enemies. One of these days, somebody's gonna
hate you enough to.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Oh, Matt, don't you understand that it's because of you
that I don't quit because of me. Yes, I promise
myself i'd give you the city for a wedding. President.
I'm not going to Welsh on a promise.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
And I don't want the city. I want you. I
want to forget that.
Speaker 10 (12:53):
There are fighters and cards and dice and roulette and
all the other things you can't.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Depend on, but I can depend on them. I can
depend on it because I know the weaknesses of people.
Mass Man is the biggest sucker in the world, and
the only way to punish him for it is to
take his money. And that's what I'm doing. How long,
come with me and I'll show you what do you see?
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That's right?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
The city. I'm going to take suckers money until I
have enough to buy.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
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Speaker 11 (15:16):
Spend sixty fifth Street.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
How long can it take a man to walk six blocks?
How heavy can announce him? Let be two more blocks
to the hospital, and when I get there.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
What then? He's all this worth a gamble, the gamble
matththew miller, the gambler, the.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Man who lived for the gamble, the good loser, the
gracious winner, the man who hated a welshirt.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I've got gambler, A gambler, gambler. I think I'll stretch
my legs for a second. What do you know? It's
daylight again. Let's be Monday.
Speaker 12 (16:23):
We'll send out for some more food.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Not for me, how about you, guys, I've had it
two days. A poker is just about my limit. Let's
make this the last hand. Huh right for any of.
Speaker 12 (16:37):
Jackson better to open any limit on this last hand? Matt? No,
why but it's pretty hard this session. Afraid of your money?
I know you better than man. We think the same
about bad losers, don't we met?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So I've noticed open for five thousand hm.
Speaker 12 (16:57):
As my mother would say a stranger, we're village, Matt.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Five and up ten me. I'm up call you man,
cards two. Never keep a kicker. I'll take one.
Speaker 12 (17:20):
Check and up twenty five. Cop King's fool, No kicker.
I guess my flesh isn't good enough.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It's not what's the damage.
Speaker 12 (17:35):
Including the sixty six thousand. On this hand, it comes
to four hundred and eighty three thousand.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That's a little more than you lost to me last month,
isn't it? Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I'll have Lou drop the dough off tomorrow. Okay, fine,
how do you want to check a cash?
Speaker 12 (17:49):
Cash checks don't feel like money?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
All right, I'll send Lou over with cash. It'll be
on your desk. Get exactly known tomorrow in bills of
small denominal a nation. I like the bulls it makes
in my tailors.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Soon. Anybody else know about this game? Of course? Chris Lou?
What are you? Matt? Oh? I didn't know you had company.
It's a friendly little game. I think you know most
of the boys.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Oh, Matt, Matt, we got to talk private.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
What's the matter? Get rid of the boys that we
can talk? Sure? Sure, we just finished anyway, So long fellas.
Thanks for the game.
Speaker 12 (18:25):
Along, Matt, Remember small building?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Okay, what's on your mind? The casino was rated Saturday night, Saturday?
This is Monday. Where have you guys been?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
I got picked up when the joint was raised.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And I was out of town for the weekend. I
got Lou out on a Habeas corpus as soon as
I returned this morning. How did the cops find out
about the location? What happened to the alarm system? The
great buying? Has it that somebody in the organization tipped
off the police. There's more than one man in this
town that doesn't like you met. What about the books?
Speaker 7 (18:51):
The cops got them too, They were in the joints
of fact. I didn't have a chance to dump.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Them because they got me nailed. Okay, I'm getting out, Chris.
Dump my insurance stock in the market. I can get enoughing. No, Matt,
but you mean no, I'm telling you to get rid
of my stock.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
There is no insurance company. Are you crazy?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
The company is in receivership and the state is conducting
an investigation.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
But haw, why oh?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
One of the stockholders thought enough of this investment to
go around gathering up enough proxies to vote you out
of control and to have the books checked.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So what so this every diamond?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
The company is frozen and I doubt that you will
ever get to see any of it again.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
What about the courts?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Well, intent of the fraud is pretty tough to prove
in the court, and I think I can beat the
rap on Thatt count but that's all I can promise you. Oh,
I'm sorry, Matt.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
If you say I told you so, I'll kill you
right now.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
No, Matt, No, that's not what I was going to say.
Though I'm your friend, even though I haven't very much
to give it. I don't want your money, Chris, I
don't need it. You see, I half expected this to happen.
I guess, so I planned for it. I have a
key ring in my office. On this key ring, I
have ten keys, and these keys open ten safety deposits
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boxes with about one hundred grand ina, Lou?
Speaker 7 (20:06):
What are you looking at me like that for? Come
on speak up, Matt. I well, yeah, they got the
key ring too.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Chris. You once told me i'd reach out too far.
Well I did.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
It looks as if the fall broke every bone in
my body.
Speaker 12 (20:49):
Hi, you am Matt excited to come yourself instead of
sending lou huh?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Come on in.
Speaker 12 (20:55):
Lay the dough right here. This is a pretty big desk.
I don't have the dough. Yes, don't play games with me.
I don't have any sense of you wan, when somebody owes.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Me money, this isn't the game. I broke out broke.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I'm not going to be able to pay you what
I owe you right now. You're going to have to
wait a little while.
Speaker 12 (21:12):
What do you mean I'm gonna have to wait?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Just what I said, I haven't got the money right now,
better get it where.
Speaker 12 (21:18):
That's your problem. All I know is you're half an
hour overdo and I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Like to be kept waiting. But I've got to have
a little time.
Speaker 12 (21:23):
All right. I'll give you in until midnight tonight. If
I don't have it by then, I'll send one of
my boys to see you.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
What are you trying to do? Frighten me? No, just
letting you.
Speaker 12 (21:33):
Know where I stand. Like you once told me, if
you can't pay, don't play. Well, I'm telling you that now.
You shouldn't play with that daughter back yet.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
But this is different. I had the money when I
started to play, and I won it all. I don't
think you like to lose, Matt. Why you two bit
pitch pinn hold it.
Speaker 12 (21:55):
I don't like to see blood in my carpet.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You're going to be sorry you pull that gun on me.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
The time I get through with you, you'll be back peddling
punchboards for a Nicola crack.
Speaker 12 (22:05):
As long as you don't forget you got to midnight
to pay me the four hundred and eighty three grand.
After that you can start breaking me. But I got
a hunch you're not going to do very much breaking
in this town. You stepped on too many hands on
your way up. There are a lot of guys really
eager to give you a push on the way down.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I get out of here. I'm tired, so tired.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Sixty sixth Street, one more block. I know I'm going
to make it because of Ellen. Helen would want me to.
Ellen would help me, but she isn't here now, and
I don't want to be alone.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I won't be alone.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Ellen will be there, She's always there, and I don't
want to keep her waiting.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
He must hurry, walk walk walk. It's midnight.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Yes, I know, what are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
What is there to do? Wait for gus? I suppose.
I'm afraid I have to welsh on another promise?
Speaker 9 (23:24):
What promise?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
When I made to myself to give you the city?
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Oh mad Darling, I don't care. I told you once
before I didn't want anything but you, And now, oh man.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I wish there was some way of starting all over again.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Do you really mean that, Mad?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Of course I do.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
Wait here.
Speaker 10 (23:49):
Here, what's this? I had the praise today? There worth
almost one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. With these,
we can go to Mexico, South America. We have never
even heard of you, or Gus or any You have
a whole rotten mess in this town.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You want me to run away to class myself with
all the cheap welshers I hate.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Do you know what you're asking?
Speaker 9 (24:07):
Yes, I know what I'm asking, Matt. I love you.
I want you alive with me. I've been afraid all
this time.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I'm tired of being afraid. Oh please, Mad, before it's
too late.
Speaker 13 (24:22):
Ellen.
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Where we go Mexico, South America, South America.
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It's further South America is I'll go down and get
your car, But mate, don't worry. I'll be safe. Nobody
knows where I am. I want you to wait here
for about eight minutes, then leave and meet me in
the garage. Then we're off for the West coast in
South America.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Oh man, I'm so happy.
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Yes, I think I'm going to like South America.
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So that's what happens to a Welshirts sixty eighth straight hospital.
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I've made it. It's cold now, so cold, A few
more steps.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
Got to hurry.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Helen has been waiting so long for me. Don't want
to keep her waiting.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
When I get there, she'll take me in her arms.
Speaker 14 (25:46):
I don't feel the strength of her life. Chris will
be there too, and Lou. I want to tell him
her that I didn't break every bone in my body.
M h yeah, nurse, yes bye. My name is Matthew
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easy to walk when you weighted down with a bullet
in your body, but keep walking. It got six blocks away,
less than half a mile as a hospital. Think, think
about something, anything, anything to get your mind off the pain.
Think about the beginning, the beginning of this. When was
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it a thousand years ago?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
One hundred.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
No, No, it's closer than that. Three years, three years
ago in the kids' dressing room at the arena. It
began with a fight, a prize fight.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Look, Matt, when you called me and asked for ten thousand,
I sent it over and didn't ask any questions. And
why now I think I got a right to know
why you wanted the dough.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
I'll tell you when the fight's over.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Fight, I mean you put my ten grand on a fighter? Yes,
give me back my dough.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Wait, give it back, but you don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I want my money.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Relax for a couple of minutes, Frank, don't get cut
with me, Angle boy, tell me the score. Give me
ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Now you won't wait?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Huh No, you should know me better than I think.
I'm gonna throw away your ten grand I thought I did.
I've been booking bets long enough to know that you
can't beat the fights. I know you can beat one fight.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
How do you figure?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Because the boy I bet on is my fighter. I
plan this match a year ago, and when I win,
I'm through with prize fighting.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
He's got to be an angle there is.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
I bought a fighter last year, a kid. So I
saw this boy in smameterter bouts, and I bought him
and trained him and booked fights for.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Him once he done. Since lost twelve.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Fights, four by knockouts, three by tikos, and five by
unanimous decisions.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
And how do you know he can win tonight?
Speaker 1 (04:04):
Up to now, I've had him fighting pretty good, not
the way he can. I've had him training at a
little private camp up in the mountains, going five six
rounds were the best boys I could try, and he's
knocked them all out.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
That's all you mean.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
You took my ten grand and put it on this
wonder boy just because he's been knocking out bums and
training camps.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
How are you kidding me? Matthew, you got the other
boy to take a fall. You think I'd stick my
neck out and try to fix a fight. You would
if you thought you could do it.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Well, even if I could, there'd be too many people
taking a cut of the pie, my pie.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Better to take a piece than try for it all
and get none.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Not me, Frank, I rolled for the bundle. When you
loan me ten thousand, it made an even hundred grand.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
I've spread all over the country. Why the big deal?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
All of a sudden, I want money, real money. I'm
tired of nickel and dime operations.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
What are you gonna do if you win?
Speaker 1 (04:52):
When I win, I'm going to open up the biggest,
safest gambling casino this side of the Mississippi? Oh wait?
Did it?
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Way?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
He did it? Got the door loo, but I shut
the door. Okay, okay, what round?
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Knock out the.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Fifth at twenty to one?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
That's right, two million bucks, matt You just won two
million bucks.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Get in touch with the boys, Lou.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I want Ale to pick up the door in Frisco, Seattle,
Los Angeles, and San Diego. Tell Willie to cover Phoenix,
two Son, Albuquerque and El Paso.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
I go to see a guy.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Sixty third Street, five blocks to go walk, keep walking,
and think that was the beginning. What came after the
beginning the casino, the suburban gambling casino, my reward for
fixing one fight. Then came the friends. Matthew Miller is
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giving money away. Get some of it, but be sure
you give it back when you threw, and all the gratitude,
always the benediction.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Much obliged Matt. I was real short on operating capital.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
That's all right, Charlie, glad I could help.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
I'll see you on the fifteenth the next month to
get my IOU back.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
See that you do, Charlie. You know how I feel about.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Welsh's Yeah, yeah, I know. Well, good night, Matt, Thanks again.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Good night, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Ah.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Maybe you know what you're doing, Matt, but sometimes I
think you're too loose.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
With your dough. You mean, Charlie, Oh him.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
For one another. Guys, I've seen you lend money too.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
What's wrong with landing now and then? Oh? Nothing?
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Only any grift of a hood that runs out of
money in this town knows they can get to you
for a.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Touch, All right, bookkeeper?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
How much money have I lost since I started helping
the less fortunate of my fraternity?
Speaker 7 (06:51):
Ella was Ritchie follow from Detroit? He nicked you for
eighty grinds?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Where's he now? And incidentally, where's anyone whoever welshed on
a loan?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Or again?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
So they're not around anymore?
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Cancels out? Doesn't it just.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Because a guy knows better than to try to welch on?
Here's no excuse to be mister soft touch?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Why not?
Speaker 5 (07:09):
It's not business life.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
I'm not in the lending business.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Well, if the amount of dough you got spread around,
you might just as well be.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
I supposing Charlie goes out of here and gets knocked off,
where's your dough there? It's a chance I have to take.
You shouldn't have to take chances. Charlie's wife isn't taking
a chance. If Charlie gets knocked off tonight, she's rich tomorrow.
He's got enough insurance.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Say that again about Charlie's wife. Why what do. I say,
what happens if Charlie gets knocked off tonight?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I said she'd be rich tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Why that's what I thought? You said?
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Hey, Matt, well, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Lou call my lawyer.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I'm about to become an actuary? Oh what an actuary?
According to Webster one who is skilled in life assurance,
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I'll match your out of your mind. You'll never get
away with it. The state would be on your next
so fast. The stock issue would never clean the broker's office.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Say down, counselor you're wearing the nap off my company.
All right?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
First of all, is it possible to form a dummy
corporation for the purpose of floating a stock issue? Well,
yes it is, answer whether yes or no, don't embellish
your sentence.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Oh, sorry to go on.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Since the stock issue will be thrown open to the public,
there'll be no necessity for me to control more than
twenty five percent of the issue, right right, And when
I sell a policy to a client, the majority of
the first premium will go to me as the selling agent.
Right now, we come to the important point. Is it
perfectly legal for me to be named the beneficiary of
any policy. I'm a issue, well that legal?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yes or no? Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Yes, it's legal? And why are you fighting me? What
can the state possibly do to me?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Now?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Since that question can't be answered by a yes or no,
have I your permission.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
To elaborate here? Go ahead? All right? Now?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
What guarantee have you that these men to whom you
lend money will continue to pay the premiums.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
After they have repaid the loan? Why not? Of course?
I don't care if they keep up the policy or not.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
All I'm interested in is protection from myself, and with
that protection, if I can make an extra dollar by
issuing the policy, I don't see how that can be
construed as fraud or any other illegal practice. You know
what happens with the company in the long run. Frankly,
I don't care. By that time, I expect to have
gotten what I wanted out of it. The stockholders would
cause you trouble if they got together. If Chris, people
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don't help each other, they're too busy helping themselves, like you,
Maybe the difference is most of them don't know what
they want, do you, Matt? Of course I do. That's
why I don't need any help. I'm just going to
do it all by myself. Any more questions? Oh oh,
I suppose not.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Then how about a drink? I can use one loop
coming right up.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Don't pout, Chris, losing this decision to me at your reputation.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's not me I'm thinking about.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
It's you, me, me. You're reaching. One of these days
you'll reach out too far and it'll be a long,
long fall to the bottom. It'll break every bone in
your body. Dramatic but unnecessary. No matter what happens, people
will gamble, and the only safe place in the state
is right here. This casino is my bumper, and it
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can cushion any fall I may take.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Here. They are of yourself. Well, Chris, let's drink to
our new venture. A toast. If I may, you may
to Matt, May the long fall never come?
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Amen, sixty fourth Street, four blocks in the hospital.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Why am I trying? Why do I want to live?
There must be a reason, a reason Ellen.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I want to live for Ellen. I want to kiss
her and be kissed. I want to give her all
the things I promised her. So I'll keep walking. I
keep walking walking.
Speaker 9 (11:21):
You look tired, Matt. Anything wrong?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
No, No, I'm just trying to get Chris back in line.
Sometimes I wonder if he's running on my side. Do
you he's a fine lawyer, Ellen, I have to admit
he's gotten me out of a couple of tight spots
that I wonder sometimes if he's interested in me or
the retainer I pay him.
Speaker 9 (11:41):
Matt, what's wrong? Chris is your friend? You don't think
about friends.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
That way, I know, but tonight was different. Tonight I
felt that Chris wasn't on my side.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I forget it. I'm here with you, and that's all
I care.
Speaker 9 (11:57):
About right now, Matt, When are you going to quit?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Quit? Quit?
Speaker 10 (12:02):
What all this figuring and scheming and gambling?
Speaker 9 (12:08):
What do you know?
Speaker 1 (12:09):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
Tell me, Matt, you've got enough money to have a safe,
wonderful life away from here, away from all the hoodlums
and sharpies and thieves and murderers. Why don't we just
pack up and go. I'm so afraid I love you
too much to worry about you from day to day.
You know, you can't live the kind of life you're
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living without making enemies. One of these days, somebody's gonna
hate you enough to.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Oh, Matt, don't you understand that it's because of you
that I don't quit because of me. Yes, I promise
myself i'd give you the city for a wedding. President.
I'm not going to Welsh on a promise.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
And I don't want the city. I want you. I
want to forget that.
Speaker 10 (12:53):
There are fighters and cards and dice and roulette and
all the other things you can't.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Depend on, but I can depend on them. I can
depend on it because I know the weaknesses of people.
Mass Man is the biggest sucker in the world, and
the only way to punish him for it is to
take his money. And that's what I'm doing. How long,
come with me and I'll show you what do you see?
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That's right?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
The city. I'm going to take suckers money until I
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Speaker 11 (15:16):
Spend sixty fifth Street.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
How long can it take a man to walk six blocks?
How heavy can announce him? Let be two more blocks
to the hospital, and when I get there.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
What then? He's all this worth a gamble, the gamble
matththew miller, the gambler, the.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Man who lived for the gamble, the good loser, the
gracious winner, the man who hated a welshirt.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I've got gambler, A gambler, gambler. I think I'll stretch
my legs for a second. What do you know? It's
daylight again. Let's be Monday.
Speaker 12 (16:23):
We'll send out for some more food.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Not for me, how about you, guys, I've had it
two days. A poker is just about my limit. Let's
make this the last hand. Huh right for any of.
Speaker 12 (16:37):
Jackson better to open any limit on this last hand? Matt? No,
why but it's pretty hard this session. Afraid of your money?
I know you better than man. We think the same
about bad losers, don't we met?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So I've noticed open for five thousand hm.
Speaker 12 (16:57):
As my mother would say a stranger, we're village, Matt.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Five and up ten me. I'm up call you man,
cards two. Never keep a kicker. I'll take one.
Speaker 12 (17:20):
Check and up twenty five. Cop King's fool, No kicker.
I guess my flesh isn't good enough.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It's not what's the damage.
Speaker 12 (17:35):
Including the sixty six thousand. On this hand, it comes
to four hundred and eighty three thousand.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
That's a little more than you lost to me last month,
isn't it? Uh huh.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I'll have Lou drop the dough off tomorrow. Okay, fine,
how do you want to check a cash?
Speaker 12 (17:49):
Cash checks don't feel like money?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
All right, I'll send Lou over with cash. It'll be
on your desk. Get exactly known tomorrow in bills of
small denominal a nation. I like the bulls it makes
in my tailors.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Soon. Anybody else know about this game? Of course? Chris Lou?
What are you? Matt? Oh? I didn't know you had company.
It's a friendly little game. I think you know most
of the boys.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Oh, Matt, Matt, we got to talk private.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
What's the matter? Get rid of the boys that we
can talk? Sure? Sure, we just finished anyway, So long fellas.
Thanks for the game.
Speaker 12 (18:25):
Along, Matt, Remember small building?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Okay, what's on your mind? The casino was rated Saturday night, Saturday?
This is Monday. Where have you guys been?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
I got picked up when the joint was raised.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And I was out of town for the weekend. I
got Lou out on a Habeas corpus as soon as
I returned this morning. How did the cops find out
about the location? What happened to the alarm system? The
great buying? Has it that somebody in the organization tipped
off the police. There's more than one man in this
town that doesn't like you met. What about the books?
Speaker 7 (18:51):
The cops got them too, They were in the joints
of fact. I didn't have a chance to dump.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Them because they got me nailed. Okay, I'm getting out, Chris.
Dump my insurance stock in the market. I can get enoughing. No, Matt,
but you mean no, I'm telling you to get rid
of my stock.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
There is no insurance company. Are you crazy?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
The company is in receivership and the state is conducting
an investigation.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
But haw, why oh?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
One of the stockholders thought enough of this investment to
go around gathering up enough proxies to vote you out
of control and to have the books checked.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
So what so this every diamond?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
The company is frozen and I doubt that you will
ever get to see any of it again.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
What about the courts?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Well, intent of the fraud is pretty tough to prove
in the court, and I think I can beat the
rap on Thatt count but that's all I can promise you. Oh,
I'm sorry, Matt.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
If you say I told you so, I'll kill you
right now.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
No, Matt, No, that's not what I was going to say.
Though I'm your friend, even though I haven't very much
to give it. I don't want your money, Chris, I
don't need it. You see, I half expected this to happen.
I guess, so I planned for it. I have a
key ring in my office. On this key ring, I
have ten keys, and these keys open ten safety deposits
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boxes with about one hundred grand ina, Lou?
Speaker 7 (20:06):
What are you looking at me like that for? Come
on speak up, Matt. I well, yeah, they got the
key ring too.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Chris. You once told me i'd reach out too far.
Well I did.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
It looks as if the fall broke every bone in
my body.
Speaker 12 (20:49):
Hi, you am Matt excited to come yourself instead of
sending lou huh?
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Come on in.
Speaker 12 (20:55):
Lay the dough right here. This is a pretty big desk.
I don't have the dough. Yes, don't play games with me.
I don't have any sense of you wan, when somebody owes.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Me money, this isn't the game. I broke out broke.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I'm not going to be able to pay you what
I owe you right now. You're going to have to
wait a little while.
Speaker 12 (21:12):
What do you mean I'm gonna have to wait?
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Just what I said, I haven't got the money right now,
better get it where.
Speaker 12 (21:18):
That's your problem. All I know is you're half an
hour overdo and I don't.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Like to be kept waiting. But I've got to have
a little time.
Speaker 12 (21:23):
All right. I'll give you in until midnight tonight. If
I don't have it by then, I'll send one of
my boys to see you.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
What are you trying to do? Frighten me? No, just
letting you.
Speaker 12 (21:33):
Know where I stand. Like you once told me, if
you can't pay, don't play. Well, I'm telling you that now.
You shouldn't play with that daughter back yet.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
But this is different. I had the money when I
started to play, and I won it all. I don't
think you like to lose, Matt. Why you two bit
pitch pinn hold it.
Speaker 12 (21:55):
I don't like to see blood in my carpet.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You're going to be sorry you pull that gun on me.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
The time I get through with you, you'll be back peddling
punchboards for a Nicola crack.
Speaker 12 (22:05):
As long as you don't forget you got to midnight
to pay me the four hundred and eighty three grand.
After that you can start breaking me. But I got
a hunch you're not going to do very much breaking
in this town. You stepped on too many hands on
your way up. There are a lot of guys really
eager to give you a push on the way down.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I get out of here. I'm tired, so tired.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Sixty sixth Street, one more block. I know I'm going
to make it because of Ellen. Helen would want me to.
Ellen would help me, but she isn't here now, and
I don't want to be alone.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I won't be alone.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Ellen will be there, She's always there, and I don't
want to keep her waiting.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
He must hurry, walk walk walk. It's midnight.
Speaker 9 (23:11):
Yes, I know, what are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (23:15):
What is there to do? Wait for gus? I suppose.
I'm afraid I have to welsh on another promise?
Speaker 9 (23:24):
What promise?
Speaker 2 (23:26):
When I made to myself to give you the city?
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Oh mad Darling, I don't care. I told you once
before I didn't want anything but you, And now, oh man.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I wish there was some way of starting all over again.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
Do you really mean that, Mad?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Of course I do.
Speaker 9 (23:42):
Wait here.
Speaker 10 (23:49):
Here, what's this? I had the praise today? There worth
almost one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. With these,
we can go to Mexico, South America. We have never
even heard of you, or Gus or any You have
a whole rotten mess in this town.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
You want me to run away to class myself with
all the cheap welshers I hate.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Do you know what you're asking?
Speaker 9 (24:07):
Yes, I know what I'm asking, Matt. I love you.
I want you alive with me. I've been afraid all
this time.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I'm tired of being afraid. Oh please, Mad, before it's
too late.
Speaker 13 (24:22):
Ellen.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Where we go Mexico, South America, South America.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
It's further South America is I'll go down and get
your car, But mate, don't worry. I'll be safe. Nobody
knows where I am. I want you to wait here
for about eight minutes, then leave and meet me in
the garage. Then we're off for the West coast in
South America.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
Oh man, I'm so happy.
Speaker 13 (24:45):
Yes, I think I'm going to like South America.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
So that's what happens to a Welshirts sixty eighth straight hospital.
(25:29):
I've made it. It's cold now, so cold, A few
more steps.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
Got to hurry.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Helen has been waiting so long for me. Don't want
to keep her waiting.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
When I get there, she'll take me in her arms.
Speaker 14 (25:46):
I don't feel the strength of her life. Chris will
be there too, and Lou. I want to tell him
her that I didn't break every bone in my body.
M h yeah, nurse, yes bye. My name is Matthew
(26:15):
Miller hen I yes, didn't make it after all.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
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John Hodiac, and here once again is our personable young.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Star John Hodiac. Thanks Hollow, John.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
It's always a trait having you on suspense, and tonight
was no exception. We all enjoyed your performance as Matt
very much.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
That's very nice, Hollow.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
If I may, I'd like to urge everybody in our
audience to be sure and hear next week's unusual show
the Night before Christmas, a great suspense story starring Miss
Grier Garson.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
That's my good advice for the night.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
And I'll join you, John with good advice for motorists
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(28:16):
Next week on Suspense, our star will be Miss Greer
Garson in a special Christmas program, the unusual Dramatization of
Twas the Night before Christmas. In weeks to come, we
shall also present mister Herbert Marshall, Mister Jeff Chandler, and
the first Lady of Suspense, Miss Agnes moorehead All on
(28:38):
Soul Suspence. Suspense is produced and directed by Elliott Lewis,
with music composed by Lucian Morwick from a New York
beam by Fred Steiner and conducted by lud Gluskin. The
case History of a Gambler was written for Suspense by
Ross Murray. Featured in the night's cast was Lillian Bayeff Bil,
(29:00):
Joseph Kerns, Lou Merril Herb Bigrn, Martha Wentworth, Charles Calvert,
and Clayton Post. John Hodiac can be seen in the
soon to be released A Sellout and Remember.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Next Week on Suspense.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Miss Greer Garson in a special Christmas broadcast twice the
night before Christmas.
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