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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 4 (02:04):
At approximately seven thirty p m. The Thursday night of
March tenth, nineteen forty eight, Joseph Ebner, at the time
thirty eight years of age, said goodbye to his wife
Martha and left his home at twelve ten East Bethany
Road in Burbank, California. He drove a light gray Sedan
license plates seven oh two R three two two eight
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over Kuwenga Pass to downtown Los Angeles, his destination the
Civic Auditorium. Joseph Ebner is a musician, first violinist and
concertmaster with the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. He was on
his way to play in a concert. Ebner arrived at
the Auditorium a little after eight o'clock. After changing into
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his dress suit, he smoked a cigarette and mingled with
his fellow musicians in the hall down under the stage.
A few moments before the orchestra's conductor, Maestro Carlo Finello,
raised his baton at eight thirty three, Joseph Ebner excused himself.
He said he'd forgotten something back down in his locker.
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He turned left the hall and was never heard from again.
My name is Dexter, Phil Dexter. I'm a writer. I've
written columns for some of the biggest dailies in the country.
You may have read some of my stuff. Right now,
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I'm doing feature articles for a magazine called The Real Story.
About ten days ago, the managing editor, Brad Looby called
me into his office. Phil, sit down. Thanks Phil.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
How much do you know about missing persons.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Like Will Rogers, Brad? All I know is what I
read in the papers.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Well, thousands of people disappear every year. Some don't want
to disappear, and they do. Some want to disappear and they.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Do, but eventually they turn up dead or alive. Agreed.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Eventually ninety five percent of them turn up again dead
or alive a week, a month, a year, even ten
years later. What about the other five percent, phel the
five percent that vanish Ender never heard from again?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
What about them? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
That's the story I want, Phil. Now, I got a
list here from the police department. You're a missing person.
Take a look at it. It's a list of names, right,
I have got your choice. Pick any one of the
names you want. I don't care who it is.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Well, how about this one here? Ebner, Joseph Abner, the musician. Okay,
follow it up.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
You try to find Joseph Abner, Phil, and if you
find him, ask him why I disappear.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And so the search for Joseph Abner began again, a
one man search. I wasn't too familiar with Ebner's case
and needed briefing. I spent the whole afternoon going through
his file at the Police Department Bureau of Missing Persons.
It was one of the most comprehensive files in anyone's
life I've ever come across. Information which began with Ebner's
birth in Evanston, Illinois, in nineteen ten, up to and
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including the color of his socks the night of his
disappearance in nineteen forty eight. Under vital statistics. I learned
that Ebner was married to a woman named Martha. He
had two children, two boys, ages eleven and fourteen. Three
years before the night he'd disappeared, he purchased his own
home in Burbank. That's where I decided to start.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
I don't understand this concern after four years that Joseph's
been away from home, such concern, I really don't understand it,
mister Dexter.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Oh look, Missus Abner, if you'd rather not discuss it now.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
I talk about it. But that's ridiculous. That's all I've
done for four years is talk about it. All kinds
of people have asked me about Joseph. But why shouldn't they.
He's a fine musician. He's gone away for a little while.
There's nothing to be ashamed of.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Is there?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Of course not? What the kind of man is your husband,
Missus Ebner?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
A good man, mister Dexter, good to me, good to
his children. He gives us everything.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Was is your husband? A happy man, Missus Abner? Happy?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
He never complains, he's satisfied. He gives us everything. Why
would he have left? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Are you sure he left of his own free will?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
He has everything a man could want. Makes good money,
good children, good home. Why why just the year before
he left, we had the music room added on the
music room. Yes, it's his. Oh, Joseph composed music, you know,
beautiful music. Would you like to see it?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Very much?
Speaker 6 (06:51):
With this way? Come in, Come in? Isn't it beautiful,
mister Dexter. You see there's his stand, his books, his piano,
just as he left them the night he went away.
I want them to be just like that when he
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comes home.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Is this some of his music?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yes, yes, that's something he's working on. I don't know
what it is.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
You play, missus Ebner, Well just a little.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
I was wondering, would you like me to play Joseph's composition.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Here?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
It's pretty, isn't it, mister Dexter. Yeah, but it's not finished. Well,
I'm sure he'll finish it when.
Speaker 9 (07:53):
He gets home.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I imagine he will.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I don't even know what he calls it.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
There's something in pencils scratched across the half of this page.
He'll thee funny title.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Well, maybe it's a name somebody knows he likes.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Who knows?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I wouldn't ask him, mister Dexter. He's sensitive about his music.
My husband is a sensitive musician.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Missus Ebner, may I borrow these sheets of music?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Are you a musician?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
No? No, I just thought maybe I might get a
lead on something.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Mister Dexter, Mister Dexter, if the music should lead you
to my husband, tell him that his wife and his
children are waiting for him. We'll be here. Nothing will
be different, it will be just like it always was.
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If the music leads you to him, please tell him
that I.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Will, Missus Edner, I promise you I will. I found
out that the Knight of Joseph Eving his strange disappearance,
Maestro Carlo Feranello had conducted the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra.
The following afternoon. I tried to get into see Feranillo,
but he was in rehearsal for a concert he was
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getting medyning. Later that night, I managed to corner his
personal manager, Nicki Benson the Pacific Auditorium. I don't know,
mister Dexter.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
All depends on his mood.
Speaker 11 (09:23):
These orchestra conductors are moody people, especially before a concert.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Did you tell him who I was? Yes?
Speaker 11 (09:28):
I told him who you were and what you wanted.
But I'm sure you understand. Of course, Joseph was his
friendly loved him very much. The Maestro himself chose Joseph
as the concert master. I see or excuse me, maestro? Yeah, okay,
good maestro. This is the man I told you about.
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Oh yes, yes, sir, come in, please come in.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
You see he would like you to sit if you please.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Now you talk, You say as I said.
Speaker 11 (10:05):
I told him who you are and why you're here.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Maestro Finello, I understand you and Joseph Ebner were very good.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
Friends, more than friends, signor dexter, more than friends. Yes, yes,
you like wine or no?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Thank you?
Speaker 8 (10:19):
I don't care for any you excuse go right ahead.
You want to find.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
The Joseph, Yes, I do. He was a perhaps a
good friend of yours.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
No, then why four years ago he disappeared A long time.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I'm a writer. I want to write a story about
his disappearance. Oh that night that Joseph disappeared back in
forty eight. Let's go back to that night, Maestro. Did
he talk to you when he arrived here at the
other time? No, No, we did not talk, but you
saw him.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Yes, when I arrived that Joseph was in the musicians room.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I passed through.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
They all say good evening, my stroll, I say good evening.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
That was when you saw him. Yes, I read the
testimonies of the musicians he'd spoken to that evening. It
was just idle conversation, nothing of importance.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
The police have asked me these very same questions. I
told him exactly what I have tell you.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I understand he did some composing.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Ah yes, Illieto. He has talent to compose music. Many
times I've encouraged him. Many times he has come to
the maestro for advice.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Did he ever speak to you about this piece of music? Master?
Speaker 8 (11:30):
No, this I do not recognize. It's not finished. I
know it's good. I think he calls it Hildy, Hildy.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
It's strange. Now this I do not recognize. Joseph did
not discuss this music with me. He wrote this. His
wife gave it to me.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Martha.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Ah yes, dear Marta, a wonderful woman, a good wife.
Speaker 10 (11:58):
It's too bad, too bad.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
You are one man. In four years, many men have
tried to find Joseph. They have not final. No one
will find. I'm afraid to s your dexter very much afraid.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Now you will excuse me, please of course this way,
mister Jackson, and thank you very much, maestrofa.
Speaker 12 (12:22):
Now you will not find him.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
The following day, I went back to the Civic auditorium.
I went through the entire place all by myself, examining
every exit, talking with people who knew something about the case.
Then I had a bit of luck. I was introduced
to a stage dorman, the same stage dorman who had
been on the door the night that Joseph Evner had disappeared.
Speaker 13 (12:52):
I'm just about run out of answers on this business.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I know you've probably been questioned about this thing hundreds of.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
Times, thousands of times.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Went over the entire auditorium I was.
Speaker 13 (13:01):
And you discovered that there's only one exit backstage that
he could have left by.
Speaker 10 (13:06):
All the others was locked.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Yes, but what about the front of the auditorium where
the audience was sitting.
Speaker 13 (13:10):
Couldn't have left that way, couldn't have gotten out there?
Somebody had seen him.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
You're positive that evener didn't pass you going out the
back door.
Speaker 13 (13:17):
If he'd gone out that door, I'd have seen him.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
It's impossible he must have left by some exits A
person just doesn't disappear into thin air.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
That's the odd part about this whole thing.
Speaker 10 (13:29):
Mister Dexter.
Speaker 13 (13:30):
Edner left the green room. Now, some of the musicians
saw him leave. He said he was going to his locker.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Did he get to his locker?
Speaker 13 (13:38):
Nobody knows.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
But it's impossible that a mass mister Dexter.
Speaker 13 (13:42):
That's what everybody said at the time, the police, the newspapers, everybody.
He said, it's impossible. Don't happen a man just disappearing
like that. But it did happen, mister Dexter, it really did.
It happened just like that.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I felt pretty discouraged, and I thought about what Maestro
Finello had said. A lot of men, experts, some of them,
had tried to find the answer, and they couldn't. How
could I expect to find anything that would have led
me to Joseph Evner. I still had his unfinished piece
of music, but that looked like a blind spot too.
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I was back up in the office. It was about
eight thirty. I was sitting there when the phone rang, Hello.
Speaker 10 (14:31):
Mister Dexter. Yeah, mister Dexter, this is Nicki Benson.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Oh, oh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Maybe it's important, or maybe it's not.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
I don't know, but still it's strange.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 10 (14:42):
Well, Eric Richter just showed up in the musicians lounge.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Eric Richter? Yes, Well, who's Eric Richter?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
He was one of Joseph Evner's closest friends.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
What's so strange about his showing up?
Speaker 10 (14:54):
Well, this is the.
Speaker 14 (14:54):
First time anyone has seen Richter in four years, mister Dexter,
because he disappeared the same night Joseph Ebner did.
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Speaker 4 (17:03):
Mister Benson, where's Richtor? Sh He left when the concert started? Oh, oh,
so tell me about him. Is he a musician?
Speaker 14 (17:12):
Yes, well that is he was a musician at one time.
Eric used to play the violin with the orchestra, but
he had some kind of a stroke some years ago
paralyzed his hands.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
He used to.
Speaker 14 (17:23):
Come around a lot, see Joseph and talk to his
friends and the orchestra.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
The night that Epner disappeared, had this Richter come around? Oh? Yes,
he was here.
Speaker 14 (17:33):
I was in the musician's lounge for a little while
that night. I don't know if anybody else saw it
or not. I saw it. Eric came in and stood
at the door for a long time. Then I saw
Joseph go over to him and talk to him for
a couple of minutes. Then Joseph went back to where
he was standing with some other musicians. I went through
the police files and I don't remember. I know, I
know I didn't say anything to the police at the time.
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I didn't think it was important. But tonight for me, tonight,
when I saw him for the first time since the
night that Joseph disappeared, then I thought to myself it
was important.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
It was important the night that Ebner disappeared. Mister Benson,
you should have told the police then it may have
been very important. Benson gave me Richter's last known address.
It was a cheap hotel on Third Street. I went there.
The unshaven landlord told me that Eric Rictor was in.
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I told Richtor who I was and what I wanted
to know.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Please sit down, mister Dexter. Thanks sy.
Speaker 15 (18:33):
I have nothing to offer you. If i'd known I
was to have a guest I show that's quite all right.
You understand my situation. I'm sure. See I haven't worked.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Mister Rictor. I want to ask you some questions about Joseph.
Speaker 15 (18:47):
Joseph, Yes, still Joseph.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
He's not dead. You know, I believe as you do,
mister Dexter.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
You disappeared the same night that Joseph Ebner disappeared. Mister Rictor,
what happened to you?
Speaker 7 (19:01):
I disappeared. This is news to me. I disciplined.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Nicki Benson told me that you used to go to
the auditorium quite a bit to talk to your friends
in the orchestra, but that after Ebner disappeared, you just want.
Speaker 15 (19:12):
You speak and accuses if I had committed some crime,
mister Dexter. For four years, I have not chosen to
see my friends. I have not seen them.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
That's all I see, mister Rictor. When Ebner disappeared four
years ago, he was composing a piece of music. I
don't know what it was. His wife Martha doesn't know either.
Nobody seems to know. Maybe you do. Here look at it.
Speaker 15 (19:40):
Oh, you will have to hold it for me, mister Dexter.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yeah, Hillary, you know I I what is it?
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Mister Dexter.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
I do you know what it is? No, it's nothing,
It's just it's hill a name.
Speaker 13 (20:01):
Look, mister Dexter, I don't know anything that will lead
you to Joseph Ebner. Besides, there has been enough suffering
for his wife.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Why should there be more suffering?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Suffering? What do you mean suffering?
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Won't ask me to tell you. It isn't right for.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Me to tell me, Richter.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Please Hildy Hilde, mister Dexter, is a woman.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
A woman who is she?
Speaker 7 (20:26):
She's a woman who was more than a friend.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Joseph.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Oh, I see no, No, you don't see a toy.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Where is this Hildy?
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I don't know. I haven't seen her in a long time.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
With her now, I don't know. Said something to you
that night in nineteen forty eight, back in the auditorium.
What was it?
Speaker 10 (20:45):
He?
Speaker 7 (20:46):
He told me he had found an answer to his problem.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And that was the last you saw it?
Speaker 15 (20:51):
Yes, yes, I never saw him after that, and Hildy.
I never saw Hilly again.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Eric richteror gave me the last known address of the
woman named Hildy. In four years, a lot of things happened.
I was almost afraid to begin my search for afraid
of what I might find, but it was my story.
I had to follow it up. I went to the
address that Richter had given me. Yes, excuse me, I
was looking for someone. This was the last known address
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of this party. Perhaps you might be able to help
me trace her down.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
How long ago?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Well she lived here four years ago.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Well that's a long time. A lot of people moved
in announ since then? You remember her name?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Her name was Hildy. Hildy, Yes, do you remember? Ye?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
She still lives here?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
You mean she still?
Speaker 15 (21:40):
Well?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
What's this strange about? That got a lot of people
in the.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Does she live alone?
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Apartment two seven?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Do you know if she's in now?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
And you can use those stairs over there?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Thanks?
Speaker 10 (21:50):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Is your name Hildy Dexter, Phil Dexter. I'm a writer
with a magazine, The Real Story. Yes, I'm looking for
Joseph Ebner.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Won't you come in, mister Dexter? Sit down?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Thank you?
Speaker 9 (22:35):
How did you find me?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Eric Richter?
Speaker 9 (22:38):
I see? And now you want to ask me a
lot of questions.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I'm not a reporter. I'm writing an article for a magazine.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Still there'll be questions. Yes, first you'll want to know
if I know where Joseph is No. I don't know,
mister Dexter. If I knew, i'd tell you.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Why would you tell me No, man.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
Possessed of his talent has the right to deny it
to others.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I see.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Then next you'll want to know.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
No, No, that's not necessary.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
Let me tell you how we first met. It was
at a party. We were introduced. At first, it was
just a casual acquaintance. Then Joseph invited me to a concert.
He told me of his family, his love for children.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Why are you telling me all this?
Speaker 9 (23:25):
Because I want you to understand that we never did
anything to be ashamed of. Our relationship was a thing
of music. Music is what drew us together.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
When was the last time you saw Joseph?
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Three nights before he disappeared?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Why didn't you go to the police tell them what
you knew?
Speaker 9 (23:44):
There was nothing I knew that would have helped the police.
Joseph's wife loved him. Why should it have been necessary
for her to suffer any more? Then there were the children.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
I don't understand, don't.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
You see, mister Dexter. The others wouldn't have understood a
relationship like ours.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
I've got something here. I'd like to show you what
is it. You knew, of course that Ebner did some composing.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
He had many talents. Yes, I know.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Did you know that he'd been composing this?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
No?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I didn't. Oh, very beautiful he named it, Hildy. I
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can see it was for you.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
Please.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Where is Joseph Ebner, Hildy? Where is he?
Speaker 16 (24:58):
Mister Dixter, I told you I don't know. If I
didn't know, i'd tell you. I don't know where Joseph is, Miss.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I see.
Speaker 16 (25:18):
Just to see him, nothing more, Just to know that
he's all right is enough.
Speaker 9 (25:26):
It feels a loneous.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I understand. Thank you, Hildy. I've tracked down the last
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hopeful bit of information that might have led me to
Joseph Ebner. It still leads into a blind alley. Joseph
Ebner may never be found now, but he's out there, somewhere, somewhere,
at this very moment. He may be listening to the
sound of my voice. If any one of you who
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get in touch with your local authorities, because you will
have found Joseph Ebner.
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Speaker 4 (02:04):
At approximately seven thirty p m. The Thursday night of
March tenth, nineteen forty eight, Joseph Ebner, at the time
thirty eight years of age, said goodbye to his wife
Martha and left his home at twelve ten East Bethany
Road in Burbank, California. He drove a light gray Sedan
license plates seven oh two R three two two eight
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over Kuwenga Pass to downtown Los Angeles, his destination the
Civic Auditorium. Joseph Ebner is a musician, first violinist and
concertmaster with the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra. He was on
his way to play in a concert. Ebner arrived at
the Auditorium a little after eight o'clock. After changing into
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his dress suit, he smoked a cigarette and mingled with
his fellow musicians in the hall down under the stage.
A few moments before the orchestra's conductor, Maestro Carlo Finello,
raised his baton at eight thirty three, Joseph Ebner excused himself.
He said he'd forgotten something back down in his locker.
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He turned left the hall and was never heard from again.
My name is Dexter, Phil Dexter. I'm a writer. I've
written columns for some of the biggest dailies in the country.
You may have read some of my stuff. Right now,
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I'm doing feature articles for a magazine called The Real Story.
About ten days ago, the managing editor, Brad Looby called
me into his office. Phil, sit down. Thanks Phil.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
How much do you know about missing persons.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Like Will Rogers, Brad? All I know is what I
read in the papers.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Well, thousands of people disappear every year. Some don't want
to disappear, and they do. Some want to disappear and they.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Do, but eventually they turn up dead or alive. Agreed.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Eventually ninety five percent of them turn up again dead
or alive a week, a month, a year, even ten
years later. What about the other five percent, phel the
five percent that vanish Ender never heard from again?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
What about them? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
That's the story I want, Phil. Now, I got a
list here from the police department. You're a missing person.
Take a look at it. It's a list of names, right,
I have got your choice. Pick any one of the
names you want. I don't care who it is.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Well, how about this one here? Ebner, Joseph Abner, the musician. Okay,
follow it up.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
You try to find Joseph Abner, Phil, and if you
find him, ask him why I disappear.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
And so the search for Joseph Abner began again, a
one man search. I wasn't too familiar with Ebner's case
and needed briefing. I spent the whole afternoon going through
his file at the Police Department Bureau of Missing Persons.
It was one of the most comprehensive files in anyone's
life I've ever come across. Information which began with Ebner's
birth in Evanston, Illinois, in nineteen ten, up to and
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including the color of his socks the night of his
disappearance in nineteen forty eight. Under vital statistics. I learned
that Ebner was married to a woman named Martha. He
had two children, two boys, ages eleven and fourteen. Three
years before the night he'd disappeared, he purchased his own
home in Burbank. That's where I decided to start.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
I don't understand this concern after four years that Joseph's
been away from home, such concern, I really don't understand it,
mister Dexter.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Oh look, Missus Abner, if you'd rather not discuss it now.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
I talk about it. But that's ridiculous. That's all I've
done for four years is talk about it. All kinds
of people have asked me about Joseph. But why shouldn't they.
He's a fine musician. He's gone away for a little while.
There's nothing to be ashamed of.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Is there?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Of course not? What the kind of man is your husband,
Missus Ebner?
Speaker 6 (06:07):
A good man, mister Dexter, good to me, good to
his children. He gives us everything.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Was is your husband? A happy man, Missus Abner? Happy?
Speaker 6 (06:19):
He never complains, he's satisfied. He gives us everything. Why
would he have left? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Are you sure he left of his own free will?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
He has everything a man could want. Makes good money,
good children, good home. Why why just the year before
he left, we had the music room added on the
music room. Yes, it's his. Oh, Joseph composed music, you know,
beautiful music. Would you like to see it?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Very much?
Speaker 6 (06:51):
With this way? Come in, Come in? Isn't it beautiful,
mister Dexter. You see there's his stand, his books, his piano,
just as he left them the night he went away.
I want them to be just like that when he
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comes home.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Is this some of his music?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yes, yes, that's something he's working on. I don't know
what it is.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
You play, missus Ebner, Well just a little.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
I was wondering, would you like me to play Joseph's composition.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
Here?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
It's pretty, isn't it, mister Dexter. Yeah, but it's not finished. Well,
I'm sure he'll finish it when.
Speaker 9 (07:53):
He gets home.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
I imagine he will.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I don't even know what he calls it.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
There's something in pencils scratched across the half of this page.
He'll thee funny title.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Well, maybe it's a name somebody knows he likes.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Who knows?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
I wouldn't ask him, mister Dexter. He's sensitive about his music.
My husband is a sensitive musician.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Missus Ebner, may I borrow these sheets of music?
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Are you a musician?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
No? No, I just thought maybe I might get a
lead on something.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Mister Dexter, Mister Dexter, if the music should lead you
to my husband, tell him that his wife and his
children are waiting for him. We'll be here. Nothing will
be different, it will be just like it always was.
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If the music leads you to him, please tell him
that I.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Will, Missus Edner, I promise you I will. I found
out that the Knight of Joseph Eving his strange disappearance,
Maestro Carlo Feranello had conducted the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra.
The following afternoon. I tried to get into see Feranillo,
but he was in rehearsal for a concert he was
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getting medyning. Later that night, I managed to corner his
personal manager, Nicki Benson the Pacific Auditorium. I don't know,
mister Dexter.
Speaker 10 (09:22):
All depends on his mood.
Speaker 11 (09:23):
These orchestra conductors are moody people, especially before a concert.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Did you tell him who I was? Yes?
Speaker 11 (09:28):
I told him who you were and what you wanted.
But I'm sure you understand. Of course, Joseph was his
friendly loved him very much. The Maestro himself chose Joseph
as the concert master. I see or excuse me, maestro? Yeah, okay,
good maestro. This is the man I told you about.
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Oh yes, yes, sir, come in, please come in.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
You see he would like you to sit if you please.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Now you talk, You say as I said.
Speaker 11 (10:05):
I told him who you are and why you're here.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Maestro Finello, I understand you and Joseph Ebner were very good.
Speaker 8 (10:11):
Friends, more than friends, signor dexter, more than friends. Yes, yes,
you like wine or no?
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Thank you?
Speaker 8 (10:19):
I don't care for any you excuse go right ahead.
You want to find.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
The Joseph, Yes, I do. He was a perhaps a
good friend of yours.
Speaker 8 (10:30):
No, then why four years ago he disappeared A long time.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
I'm a writer. I want to write a story about
his disappearance. Oh that night that Joseph disappeared back in
forty eight. Let's go back to that night, Maestro. Did
he talk to you when he arrived here at the
other time? No, No, we did not talk, but you
saw him.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Yes, when I arrived that Joseph was in the musicians room.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I passed through.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
They all say good evening, my stroll, I say good evening.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
That was when you saw him. Yes, I read the
testimonies of the musicians he'd spoken to that evening. It
was just idle conversation, nothing of importance.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
The police have asked me these very same questions. I
told him exactly what I have tell you.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
I understand he did some composing.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
Ah yes, Illieto. He has talent to compose music. Many
times I've encouraged him. Many times he has come to
the maestro for advice.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Did he ever speak to you about this piece of music? Master?
Speaker 8 (11:30):
No, this I do not recognize. It's not finished. I
know it's good. I think he calls it Hildy, Hildy.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
It's strange. Now this I do not recognize. Joseph did
not discuss this music with me. He wrote this. His
wife gave it to me.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Martha.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
Ah yes, dear Marta, a wonderful woman, a good wife.
Speaker 10 (11:58):
It's too bad, too bad.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
You are one man. In four years, many men have
tried to find Joseph. They have not final. No one
will find. I'm afraid to s your dexter very much afraid.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Now you will excuse me, please of course this way,
mister Jackson, and thank you very much, maestrofa.
Speaker 12 (12:22):
Now you will not find him.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
The following day, I went back to the Civic auditorium.
I went through the entire place all by myself, examining
every exit, talking with people who knew something about the case.
Then I had a bit of luck. I was introduced
to a stage dorman, the same stage dorman who had
been on the door the night that Joseph Evner had disappeared.
Speaker 13 (12:52):
I'm just about run out of answers on this business.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I know you've probably been questioned about this thing hundreds of.
Speaker 10 (12:57):
Times, thousands of times.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Went over the entire auditorium I was.
Speaker 13 (13:01):
And you discovered that there's only one exit backstage that
he could have left by.
Speaker 10 (13:06):
All the others was locked.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Yes, but what about the front of the auditorium where
the audience was sitting.
Speaker 13 (13:10):
Couldn't have left that way, couldn't have gotten out there?
Somebody had seen him.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
You're positive that evener didn't pass you going out the
back door.
Speaker 13 (13:17):
If he'd gone out that door, I'd have seen him.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
It's impossible he must have left by some exits A
person just doesn't disappear into thin air.
Speaker 7 (13:27):
That's the odd part about this whole thing.
Speaker 10 (13:29):
Mister Dexter.
Speaker 13 (13:30):
Edner left the green room. Now, some of the musicians
saw him leave. He said he was going to his locker.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Did he get to his locker?
Speaker 13 (13:38):
Nobody knows.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
But it's impossible that a mass mister Dexter.
Speaker 13 (13:42):
That's what everybody said at the time, the police, the newspapers, everybody.
He said, it's impossible. Don't happen a man just disappearing
like that. But it did happen, mister Dexter, it really did.
It happened just like that.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
I felt pretty discouraged, and I thought about what Maestro
Finello had said. A lot of men, experts, some of them,
had tried to find the answer, and they couldn't. How
could I expect to find anything that would have led
me to Joseph Evner. I still had his unfinished piece
of music, but that looked like a blind spot too.
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I was back up in the office. It was about
eight thirty. I was sitting there when the phone rang, Hello.
Speaker 10 (14:31):
Mister Dexter. Yeah, mister Dexter, this is Nicki Benson.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Oh, oh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Maybe it's important, or maybe it's not.
Speaker 10 (14:38):
I don't know, but still it's strange.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 10 (14:42):
Well, Eric Richter just showed up in the musicians lounge.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Eric Richter? Yes, Well, who's Eric Richter?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
He was one of Joseph Evner's closest friends.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
What's so strange about his showing up?
Speaker 10 (14:54):
Well, this is the.
Speaker 14 (14:54):
First time anyone has seen Richter in four years, mister Dexter,
because he disappeared the same night Joseph Ebner did.
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Speaker 4 (17:03):
Mister Benson, where's Richtor? Sh He left when the concert started? Oh, oh,
so tell me about him. Is he a musician?
Speaker 14 (17:12):
Yes, well that is he was a musician at one time.
Eric used to play the violin with the orchestra, but
he had some kind of a stroke some years ago
paralyzed his hands.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
He used to.
Speaker 14 (17:23):
Come around a lot, see Joseph and talk to his
friends and the orchestra.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
The night that Epner disappeared, had this Richter come around? Oh? Yes,
he was here.
Speaker 14 (17:33):
I was in the musician's lounge for a little while
that night. I don't know if anybody else saw it
or not. I saw it. Eric came in and stood
at the door for a long time. Then I saw
Joseph go over to him and talk to him for
a couple of minutes. Then Joseph went back to where
he was standing with some other musicians. I went through
the police files and I don't remember. I know, I
know I didn't say anything to the police at the time.
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I didn't think it was important. But tonight for me, tonight,
when I saw him for the first time since the
night that Joseph disappeared, then I thought to myself it
was important.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
It was important the night that Ebner disappeared. Mister Benson,
you should have told the police then it may have
been very important. Benson gave me Richter's last known address.
It was a cheap hotel on Third Street. I went there.
The unshaven landlord told me that Eric Rictor was in.
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I told Richtor who I was and what I wanted
to know.
Speaker 7 (18:28):
Please sit down, mister Dexter. Thanks sy.
Speaker 15 (18:33):
I have nothing to offer you. If i'd known I
was to have a guest I show that's quite all right.
You understand my situation. I'm sure. See I haven't worked.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Mister Rictor. I want to ask you some questions about Joseph.
Speaker 15 (18:47):
Joseph, Yes, still Joseph.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
He's not dead. You know, I believe as you do,
mister Dexter.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
You disappeared the same night that Joseph Ebner disappeared. Mister Rictor,
what happened to you?
Speaker 7 (19:01):
I disappeared. This is news to me. I disciplined.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Nicki Benson told me that you used to go to
the auditorium quite a bit to talk to your friends
in the orchestra, but that after Ebner disappeared, you just want.
Speaker 15 (19:12):
You speak and accuses if I had committed some crime,
mister Dexter. For four years, I have not chosen to
see my friends. I have not seen them.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
That's all I see, mister Rictor. When Ebner disappeared four
years ago, he was composing a piece of music. I
don't know what it was. His wife Martha doesn't know either.
Nobody seems to know. Maybe you do. Here look at it.
Speaker 15 (19:40):
Oh, you will have to hold it for me, mister Dexter.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yeah, Hillary, you know I I what is it?
Speaker 7 (19:54):
Mister Dexter.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
I do you know what it is? No, it's nothing,
It's just it's hill a name.
Speaker 13 (20:01):
Look, mister Dexter, I don't know anything that will lead
you to Joseph Ebner. Besides, there has been enough suffering
for his wife.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
Why should there be more suffering?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Suffering? What do you mean suffering?
Speaker 7 (20:13):
Won't ask me to tell you. It isn't right for.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Me to tell me, Richter.
Speaker 7 (20:16):
Please Hildy Hilde, mister Dexter, is a woman.
Speaker 10 (20:23):
A woman who is she?
Speaker 7 (20:26):
She's a woman who was more than a friend.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Joseph.
Speaker 7 (20:31):
Oh, I see no, No, you don't see a toy.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Where is this Hildy?
Speaker 7 (20:35):
I don't know. I haven't seen her in a long time.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
With her now, I don't know. Said something to you
that night in nineteen forty eight, back in the auditorium.
What was it?
Speaker 10 (20:45):
He?
Speaker 7 (20:46):
He told me he had found an answer to his problem.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
And that was the last you saw it?
Speaker 15 (20:51):
Yes, yes, I never saw him after that, and Hildy.
I never saw Hilly again.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Eric richteror gave me the last known address of the
woman named Hildy. In four years, a lot of things happened.
I was almost afraid to begin my search for afraid
of what I might find, but it was my story.
I had to follow it up. I went to the
address that Richter had given me. Yes, excuse me, I
was looking for someone. This was the last known address
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of this party. Perhaps you might be able to help
me trace her down.
Speaker 9 (21:27):
How long ago?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Well she lived here four years ago.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Well that's a long time. A lot of people moved
in announ since then? You remember her name?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Her name was Hildy. Hildy, Yes, do you remember? Ye?
Speaker 6 (21:37):
She still lives here?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
You mean she still?
Speaker 15 (21:40):
Well?
Speaker 6 (21:40):
What's this strange about? That got a lot of people
in the.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
Does she live alone?
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Apartment two seven?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Do you know if she's in now?
Speaker 6 (21:47):
And you can use those stairs over there?
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Thanks?
Speaker 10 (21:50):
Thanks?
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Is your name Hildy Dexter, Phil Dexter. I'm a writer
with a magazine, The Real Story. Yes, I'm looking for
Joseph Ebner.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
Won't you come in, mister Dexter? Sit down?
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Thank you?
Speaker 9 (22:35):
How did you find me?
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Eric Richter?
Speaker 9 (22:38):
I see? And now you want to ask me a
lot of questions.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
I'm not a reporter. I'm writing an article for a magazine.
Speaker 9 (22:46):
Still there'll be questions. Yes, first you'll want to know
if I know where Joseph is No. I don't know,
mister Dexter. If I knew, i'd tell you.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Why would you tell me No, man.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
Possessed of his talent has the right to deny it
to others.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
I see.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Then next you'll want to know.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
No, No, that's not necessary.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
Let me tell you how we first met. It was
at a party. We were introduced. At first, it was
just a casual acquaintance. Then Joseph invited me to a concert.
He told me of his family, his love for children.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Why are you telling me all this?
Speaker 9 (23:25):
Because I want you to understand that we never did
anything to be ashamed of. Our relationship was a thing
of music. Music is what drew us together.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
When was the last time you saw Joseph?
Speaker 9 (23:39):
Three nights before he disappeared?
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Why didn't you go to the police tell them what
you knew?
Speaker 9 (23:44):
There was nothing I knew that would have helped the police.
Joseph's wife loved him. Why should it have been necessary
for her to suffer any more? Then there were the children.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
I don't understand, don't.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
You see, mister Dexter. The others wouldn't have understood a
relationship like ours.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
I've got something here. I'd like to show you what
is it. You knew, of course that Ebner did some composing.
Speaker 9 (24:11):
He had many talents. Yes, I know.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Did you know that he'd been composing this?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
No?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I didn't. Oh, very beautiful he named it, Hildy. I
(24:47):
can see it was for you.
Speaker 9 (24:49):
Please.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Where is Joseph Ebner, Hildy? Where is he?
Speaker 16 (24:58):
Mister Dixter, I told you I don't know. If I
didn't know, i'd tell you. I don't know where Joseph is, Miss.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
I see.
Speaker 16 (25:18):
Just to see him, nothing more, Just to know that
he's all right is enough.
Speaker 9 (25:26):
It feels a loneous.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I understand. Thank you, Hildy. I've tracked down the last
(25:51):
hopeful bit of information that might have led me to
Joseph Ebner. It still leads into a blind alley. Joseph
Ebner may never be found now, but he's out there, somewhere, somewhere,
at this very moment. He may be listening to the
sound of my voice. If any one of you who
(26:12):
are listening should ever hear this piece of music being played,
get in touch with your local authorities, because you will
have found Joseph Ebner.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Sal Spence a true story presented by Auto Light tonight
star mister McDonald Old Kerry.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
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manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. Autolite is proud to serve
the greatest names in the industry. They are members of
the Autolite Family, as well as are the ninety eight
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(27:25):
also includes the nearly thirty thousand men and women in
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(27:45):
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Speaker 2 (28:01):
Next week, a story about courage the terrifying normal operational
flight of a bomber and her crew, A dramatization of
the flight of the Bumblebee, starring mister Fred McMurray. The
story will be heard on South Suspence. Suspense is produced
(28:27):
and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucian
Morrowick and conducted by lud Gluskin. The Missing Person was
written for Suspense by Richard George Pettaccini. Featured in tonight's
cast were Irene Tedrow, Joseph Kerns, Janeavello, Herb Vigrn, Paula Winslow,
and Jim Nutter.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
McDonald Carey may soon be seen in the twentieth century
Fox picture My Wife's Best Friend.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
And Remember Next Week on Suspense, mister Fred McMurray in
the Flight of the Bumblebee.
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