September 27, 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 (00:06):
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report of a man who lost a jar which contained
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the destruction of a city.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Vial of death. Our star, mister Lloyd Nolan.
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keep you in suspense.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
When it happened, you nothing about it. The events of
that long, frightening night began about the time you were
catching a bus or a street car toward home. Probably
you had dinner that night, played with the children, and
then went to bed. You slept in the morning, you
got up, came to work, and it was just another day.
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By then it was all over. Many innocent people missed
an appointment with death that morning. You might have been
one of them. It was five o'clock in that particular
night as I climbed the stairs of the Downtown Central Station.
I'm Lieutenant Joe Hollowey, acting Chief of Detectives during the
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night watch. Most of the men on the day watch
had deserted their desks and were climbing into overcoats as
I passed them in the hall. Sam, Hey, weren't you
off yesterday? Have a nice day, yes, So.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I stayed up when I should have been in bed,
took the kids out to the zoo. And when I
should have been up, I went to bed today Instead
of going to bed, I was up. But to answer
your question, Lieut, I enjoyed my day off, but I
should have stayed in bed.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Well, I guess I should spend more time with my kids.
But I don't work in nights six days a week.
I never have time to see them. I can understand that, Lieutenant.
But today, yeah, maybe next week. There anything interesting on
a hot shot sheet?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Ah, nothing exciting, Ruby, come in here, I'll steak out tonight.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Oh well, might as well make out the watch for tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Evening papers? Come in yet?
Speaker 6 (03:51):
No excuse me? Is this the office of the Chief
of Detectives. That's right, Lieutenant Holloway.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, that's a Lieutenant Holloway.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Mister, Are you in charge here?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
I'm Professor Harold M. Frolic. The officer at the front
desk told me.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
To see you. What can I do for you, Professor Frolic, Well.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I'm afraid I'm going to need your help. Lieutenant. You see,
my car was stolen a few minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh you want the Auto Theft Division it's right down
the hall of you right.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
No, no, no. You see, I was on my way
to the University at Brenton for some lab analysis, and
I stopped at the drug store just a few blocks
from here to buy some pipe tobacco.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Well, when I came out of the drug store, my
car was gone stolen, and I'd left my satchel in
the car too. It contained various instruments and a sizeable
amount of narcotics.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Oh I see, No, you don't.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
I'm not so concerned about the loss of my car
nor the narcotics.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, then what are you concerned about, Professor Frolic.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
The vial. That's what worries me.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
What vile?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
There was a glass vial of bacteria in my satchel.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Two.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
You see, my work is developing antibacteriological takes, niques protective
methods against germ warfare. In this work, I use living
microorganisms bacteria, and the vial contain an extremely large amount
of these.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Bacteriah I see, Now what kind of bacteria? Did the
vial contain? Cholera bacteria? Cholera colera.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Yes, enough to start a cholera epidemic throughout this city
in a matter of hours. If the thief finds that
vial and opens.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It, how contagious is it?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
If the slightest amount gets on the thief's hands are clothing,
sooner or later, he certainly get it into his food drinking water,
in which case he would undoubtedly develop colera and then
could pass it on to others. Or, thinking the vial
is worthless, he might throw it away on the street
and break it, or he could easily throw it into
one of the reservoirs around the city, not knowing what
it is.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Do you understand, Lieutenant, yeah, I understand.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Animals and rodents present the greatest danger of all. If
they become carriers, an epidemic is inevitable and almost impossible
to curb.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The bacteria die if they were exposed to air.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
They wouldn't become exposed even if the vial were broken.
You see, the vial contains a peptone broth, a milky substance.
The bacteria in this peptone broth like bees in a honeycomb.
It not only protects them, but it nourishes them as well.
Let see, Lieutenant hollower, you must find my automobile before
the thief has a chance to get at that vial.
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You can't imagine the horrors this city.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Where was your car stolen at.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
The corner of Kenton Main Streets about fifteen minutes ago.
It's a blue sedan four door.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Get the same right. What's year fifty one, license number.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Six and one six eight three seven. What about the
satche black usual doctor's bag with my initials on it
in gold?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
HMF. Describe the vial.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Let me see about eight inches long, diameter two inches
A silver pressure cap with a lump on top. It
can't be opened without pressing the top. The contents a
milky fluid. It's about the size of a baby.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He's feeding bottle Sam. Get Lieutenant Ruby off that stakeout
right away. Tell them to meet me at tenth and Maine. Okay,
I'll put an APB on the car radio room. This
is Lieutenant Holloway. Broadcast this immediately to all units. Stolen
car registered to a Professor Harold M. Frolick. License number
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in the eight column six nora one six eight three
seven A nineteen fifty one blue four door sedan. If
this car is located, hold and notify Lieutenant Holloway Central
Division immediately. You got that, Yeah, I also put out
a call for all b units in the fourth, fifth,
and sixth districts to report to me at tenth and
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Maine Code three. Sam. Yeah, notify the chief, then call
the city health officer and tell them to meet me
at tenth and Maine right away. Right, this is Holloway.
Send every available man to tenth and Maine, Code three.
I'll be there in five minutes. We'll start a search
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of the neighborhood where your car was stolen. Maybe we'll
find the car nearby, maybe not, but it's a start.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
A lieutenant has what we must anticipate a cholera epidemic.
Should the bacteria get loose, serum's facilities. Doctors will take
that up with a city health officers, and we must
notify all hospitals and emergency wards to report immediately any
case that appears with the symptoms of cholera. Then if
the case is reported, we will have something to work on.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, we will indeed have something to work on. It
was seven o'clock that evening when one hundred and twenty
offices and reserves gathered at the intersection of tenth and Maine,
where Professor Frolick's car had been stolen. The curious was
shuffled off, the press banned. Lieutenant Ruby reported for duty,
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and I briefed him. At seven point thirty, the city
health officer arrived, serums were ordered. The Red Cross alerted,
doctors and nurses notified to be on call if an
epidemic started. Hospitals have been told to notify us if
a case appeared with symptoms of extreme intestinal pain, spasms, vomiting,
and severe dehydration. Everything was done without attaching the word
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cholera to the operation. At eight point fifteen, a break,
just a small one. Professor Frolick's car was found ten
blocks away. This is it.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
This is my car.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
He didn't drive it far. Oh, I hope the satchel
is still in it.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, so now.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
There's nothing in the front seat. He's still in it.
A Ruby, check the trunk.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Right, don't touch anything, Doctor, Maybe it's in the backseat.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
O nothing, find anything, Ruby, Nothing in the trunk.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
John, I guess he took the satchel with him. Ill,
no fi pun it probably Ruby latent fingerprint. Man down
here to dust this car. Tell him to hurry. Okay,
now a lot, lieutenanty. Now we try to find that satchel.
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An hour passed, two no progress. The only fingerprints found
on Professor Prolock's car were his own. Suspects were picked up,
no make a search for the satchel continued midnight, still
no progress. I thought about the other parts of the city,
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quiet to sleep, unaware of the night and what it
had produced. At one thirty, another break, one we'd hoped
wouldn't come.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
When was he brought in us a little after twelve?
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Is conditioned critical respiration, very low, severe dehydration.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
You're certain about the symptoms.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Quite certain. Also the lab confirmed presence of life fibrios organisms.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Who brought him in?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
It was an ambulance call. The patient had been in
one of those awful bars down the street. He suddenly
became ill, delirious, then fell to the floor with intense
spasms of the intestinal tract.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
You better get the health officer on that bar right away.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Yes, it must be quarantined at once.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
In here, I thought it best not to put him
an award.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Well, Professor Frolick, can you can.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
You visualize this happening all over the city, your wife, possibly,
your children, Any chance of a mistake. Presence of live
vibrious organisms, there's no doubt now, nurse.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Was there any identification just.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
The wallets there on the stand?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Anything there?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Joe?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
His name was Al Walker, eighty two hundred Carl Street.
I do know, Al Al Walker. Can you hear me?
M Al listener, I've got to ask you some questions.
Try to answer me, Al, Al? Did you steal a
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car tonight? It's pretty weak, Joe, Al can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Al?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Look, professor? Can I do any harm? Now? I have
muster tend in holloway, but hurry, he's almost right. Al
Al listen to me. Answer me? Did you take a
glass viol out of that card? And it was in
a satchel, a glass jar and a black satchel alf
class clash class jar? Yes? Did you take it the jar?
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I can't breathe?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Al?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Did you take that satchel out of a car?
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Tonight?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Can you hear me? What did you do with that
glass jar that was in the bag? Did you open?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Think in sh he opened it?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
What's what's wrong with me? I can't breathe out? Where
is that glass jarn?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Now? Where? Sure? Where? Where? Find out?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Where?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Where? Where? Did you throw it out? Where? Through?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Through? M hmmm?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well they're loose enough colera bacteria to start this all
over the city in the morning, MM.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Is bringing you mister Lloyd Nolan in Vile of Death
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calculated to keep you in suspense. Al Walker was dead,
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not knowing what the stolen vile contained. He had opened
it and exposed himself to disease, then he'd thrown it away.
This is what faced us in our city that night,
an epidemic of cholera. Professor Frolic Ruby and myself left
the hospital. We crossed the sleeping city to the address
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found in al Walker's wallet, eighty two hundred Carl Street.
It was an apartment house. We woke the landlady and
she led us into al Walker's room.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
We searched.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
I always said that al Walker was a good for nothing.
He never worked, low drank.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
You are certain he was here about seven o'clock.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
Positive I heard him come in and go out.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I don't know. Well, I'll know, Sachel, nothing but dirty laundering.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
Well what does he do steal them things?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Where do we go from hill, Lieutenant, I guess we'll
have to go back and start with that bar.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
You know you better quarantine this place and get the
health depopment out here. Watch that anyone who came in
contact with Al Walker will have to be vaccinated.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
Well, what was the matter with him?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
He was sick?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You have every bed bad enough to kill him. Al's dead,
that's right.
Speaker 9 (16:59):
And you say anyone who was near him might.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Catch what he had if they aren't vaccinated right away,
they might.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Well, then, missus there's something you haven't told us.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Well, I I don't wanna cause anybody no trouble. But
when now I was here earlier tonight he stopped in
to see missus Pearce.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
I they were friends.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Where does missus Pierce.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Live in three o six? The end of the hall?
I wasn't stupid. It's just that I like to know
what's going on in my place. That's all?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay? Uh, you better get back to bed, lady bed.
Speaker 9 (17:30):
Who can sleep with a thing like this in the house? Lieutenant? Say?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
What time is it?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Lieutenant? Three am? Here? It is daylight in a few hours.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
There's much time I know.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Asleep. Wouldn't you be.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Whoh is there?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Police? Open up? Who open up?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Hold it?
Speaker 9 (18:02):
I ain't decent?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
What do you want you missus Pearce. Yeah, why do
you know Al Walker?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Al Walker? Yeah? You hold it down my husband's sleep.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
When was the last time you saw al Walker?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Last time?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I couldn't say a week ago?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Ev what's going on out day?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Nothing? Klass, go back to bed?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Who these guys? The police? It was some matter? Now, Look,
it's very important. We've got to know if either one
of you saw al Walker last night? El Walker.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
I told you, no, we ain't seen him.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
If he ain't been seeing that punk again, have.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
You I ain't seen him?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I told you I would, Missus Pearce. Last night, Al
Walker stole a car. When he left it, he took
some things with him. Among them are black sat choking
ain't in a small glass vial a jar. This vial
was filled with a milky substance. That milky substance would
well because of it. He's dead now, dah, He died
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a few hours ago, al Dare anyone who came in
contact with al last night after he opened that vial
can expect the same thing you saw him. Yes, I
thought you promised me you wouldn't see that punk no more,
Miss Pierce. Did al have that vial when you saw him.
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What did he do with it? He opened it here
here in this apartment.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
He opened it and smelled it.
Speaker 9 (19:40):
He put the top back on because he said, it's
not like Roben Eggs.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It wasn't.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
Will I get it too?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Will I get it?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Hey? Ruby, call downtown, tell him to get out here
fast for vaccination, right Joe, Now, missus Pearce, What did
he do with the vial?
Speaker 8 (19:55):
He took all that stuff with him to a paunchop
a third lock in the old man there is a
al takes all the stuff to him.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Look, you stay here. The health department will be here
pretty soon to vaccinature. Don't try to leave the building.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Am I going to be Okay? I won't get it?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Will I?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I don't think so. So you've been seeing that punk
after all? After what I told you?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
Will you shut out?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I hope you'll get it. Whatever it is, I hope
you'll get it. Good serves you're right. Come on, we'll
try the porn shop. Three point thirty am. We pulled
up in front of the pawn shop a third and Larkin.
The shades are down in the windows, but there's a
light somewhere in the back.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Someone's coming.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, he's up late. Eh, it has to be here.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
We've got to find it before morning.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
We'll soon though. What do you want open up, police, police,
open up? I said, open and I will break it down. Sure, sure,
whatever he said, All right now listen, I want some
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answers pop and I want them fast.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Sure, fellas. I always co operate with you boys. Al
Walker was here last night. He sold you some stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Al Walker was, lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Look at this my satchel.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It was on the counter. That's yours, mister. I never
know where this stuff count.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Will you quit storm? We know al Walker brought that
in here and there was a glass vial in that satchel.
Where's it now?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I tell you why. I don't hop al Walker's dead? Well, Dad,
from what from the contents of that vial? That Milkie
stopped and you have seen it? Well, I didn't have
Where is it now? We we threw it away. It
wasn't worth anything. Where'd you throw it in the alley
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out bank? All right? Shows?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Was it open?
Speaker 10 (21:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
No no calls. I didn't know the stoppers, all right, Yeah,
I'll here there. I threw it in that pile of junk.
I don't see it.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Are you sure you throw it here right off top?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I'm trying to cooperate with you boys on this.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
How it isn't here?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Keep looking and has to be. But he threw it there,
threw all the junk out there, and damn kids. What kids?
Speaker 10 (22:33):
Well, some kids were playing here late last night, always
play here, and they're always picking things up and taking
them away.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You say, kids, You know any of them?
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I don't know for sure.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Look at this this chalk drawing on the wall.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
What about it? Well? They them kids drew that there
are always doing.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
It under the sight and says Loie is a goie Loie?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Sure, sure, I know Louis.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
He was one of them. He lives over over there
in one of the apartment building, which one I don't
know which one. I seen him go that way sometimes.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Nearly four o'clock, Lieutenant, can we get through all those
buildings before morning?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
We have to try. We better get pop here vaccinated
before we run them in.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Said Joe.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
What don't you think it would be a good idea
if we got vaccinated just in case?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Well, sure, yeah, but we haven't got time. Ruby, Come on.
It was a big block covered with big apartment houses,
an additional sixty men were called in, and we started
checking from apartment to apartment, asking for a kid named
Louis and the glass violence. The people half asleep must
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have thought we were crazy. What they thought wasn't important,
what they would wake up to in the morning was
five o'clock six, it got light out, then six thirty
and seven. It was a bright, beautiful sunny morning. A
few people began to appear along the streets. Buses and
street cars were running. The city was waking up, and
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still we hadn't found Louis or the glass vial of
cholera bacteria. We still had dozens of apartments to go through.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
If we don't find it pretty similar, Lieutenant, we've got
to let the city know about it, warn them to
watch for the violin.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Not yet, not yet, another hour. Maybe here's the next one. Okay, bacon, Yeah,
smells good?
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Yeah, police, police, what's wrong?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Do you have a child here named Louis?
Speaker 7 (24:35):
No, no Louis here?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Why well do you know of a boy by that
name in the building?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
No, all my boys and good children, they done nothing wrong.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
Am Sybil's got my jar and she won't give it.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Tommy, don't bother me now, who'll make Sybil give.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Me my jar? Lieutenant? Yeah, Hey, Tommy, we're Sybil.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Hey, you can't come in like that.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Take us to Sybil, Tommy.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
She's in the bedroom. I'll show you.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
You stay here, lady, you got a lot of nerve
telling me what to do in.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
My own Where'd you get the jar, Tommy?
Speaker 6 (25:02):
I took it away from Louis.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
It's a pretty jar.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
I'm gonna keep spiders in it. Here's the bedroom. They're
sible in the crib.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Joe, Look, Mama says, Sybil's hutting teeth.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Easy does it? If she takes it out of her
mouth and let's go, let's it'll fall on the floor.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Careful attendant, don't frighten her.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I got it. Don't drop it, Joe, don't worry.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Lasted last bank, goodness?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Where you are? Got then one glass vial containing two
or three million collar of germs intact?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Baby?
Speaker 7 (25:45):
I never heard of such a thing coming into a
private home in the dirt.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
Flight you get out of here, you give me get
out all right?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yes, ma'am, where's salad?
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If the people in the city only only knew what you.
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Boys thought, they won't know. Professor no, I guess not,
Lieutenant Well Joe, beautiful morning, Ruby. Yeah, it's gonna be
a nice day. Yep, you know Ruby. Instead of going
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to bed this morning, I think I'll have breakfast with
my family and then I'm gonna take my kids to
the zoo.
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the destruction of a city.
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Vial of death. Our star, mister Lloyd Nolan.
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Speaker 2 (01:58):
When it happened, you nothing about it. The events of
that long, frightening night began about the time you were
catching a bus or a street car toward home. Probably
you had dinner that night, played with the children, and
then went to bed. You slept in the morning, you
got up, came to work, and it was just another day.
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By then it was all over. Many innocent people missed
an appointment with death that morning. You might have been
one of them. It was five o'clock in that particular
night as I climbed the stairs of the Downtown Central Station.
I'm Lieutenant Joe Hollowey, acting Chief of Detectives during the
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night watch. Most of the men on the day watch
had deserted their desks and were climbing into overcoats as
I passed them in the hall. Sam, Hey, weren't you
off yesterday? Have a nice day, yes, So.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I stayed up when I should have been in bed,
took the kids out to the zoo. And when I
should have been up, I went to bed today Instead
of going to bed, I was up. But to answer
your question, Lieut, I enjoyed my day off, but I
should have stayed in bed.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Well, I guess I should spend more time with my kids.
But I don't work in nights six days a week.
I never have time to see them. I can understand that, Lieutenant.
But today, yeah, maybe next week. There anything interesting on
a hot shot sheet?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Ah, nothing exciting, Ruby, come in here, I'll steak out tonight.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Oh well, might as well make out the watch for tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Evening papers? Come in yet?
Speaker 6 (03:51):
No excuse me? Is this the office of the Chief
of Detectives. That's right, Lieutenant Holloway.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, that's a Lieutenant Holloway.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
Mister, Are you in charge here?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
That's right.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
I'm Professor Harold M. Frolic. The officer at the front
desk told me.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
To see you. What can I do for you, Professor Frolic, Well.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I'm afraid I'm going to need your help. Lieutenant. You see,
my car was stolen a few minutes ago.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh you want the Auto Theft Division it's right down
the hall of you right.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
No, no, no. You see, I was on my way
to the University at Brenton for some lab analysis, and
I stopped at the drug store just a few blocks
from here to buy some pipe tobacco.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
Well, when I came out of the drug store, my
car was gone stolen, and I'd left my satchel in
the car too. It contained various instruments and a sizeable
amount of narcotics.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Oh I see, No, you don't.
Speaker 6 (04:44):
I'm not so concerned about the loss of my car
nor the narcotics.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, then what are you concerned about, Professor Frolic.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
The vial. That's what worries me.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
What vile?
Speaker 6 (04:53):
There was a glass vial of bacteria in my satchel.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Two.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
You see, my work is developing antibacteriological takes, niques protective
methods against germ warfare. In this work, I use living
microorganisms bacteria, and the vial contain an extremely large amount
of these.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Bacteriah I see, Now what kind of bacteria? Did the
vial contain? Cholera bacteria? Cholera colera.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Yes, enough to start a cholera epidemic throughout this city
in a matter of hours. If the thief finds that
vial and opens.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
It, how contagious is it?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
If the slightest amount gets on the thief's hands are clothing,
sooner or later, he certainly get it into his food drinking water,
in which case he would undoubtedly develop colera and then
could pass it on to others. Or, thinking the vial
is worthless, he might throw it away on the street
and break it, or he could easily throw it into
one of the reservoirs around the city, not knowing what
it is.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Do you understand, Lieutenant, yeah, I understand.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Animals and rodents present the greatest danger of all. If
they become carriers, an epidemic is inevitable and almost impossible
to curb.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
The bacteria die if they were exposed to air.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
They wouldn't become exposed even if the vial were broken.
You see, the vial contains a peptone broth, a milky substance.
The bacteria in this peptone broth like bees in a honeycomb.
It not only protects them, but it nourishes them as well.
Let see, Lieutenant hollower, you must find my automobile before
the thief has a chance to get at that vial.
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You can't imagine the horrors this city.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Where was your car stolen at.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
The corner of Kenton Main Streets about fifteen minutes ago.
It's a blue sedan four door.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Get the same right. What's year fifty one, license number.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Six and one six eight three seven. What about the
satche black usual doctor's bag with my initials on it
in gold?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
HMF. Describe the vial.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Let me see about eight inches long, diameter two inches
A silver pressure cap with a lump on top. It
can't be opened without pressing the top. The contents a
milky fluid. It's about the size of a baby.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He's feeding bottle Sam. Get Lieutenant Ruby off that stakeout
right away. Tell them to meet me at tenth and Maine. Okay,
I'll put an APB on the car radio room. This
is Lieutenant Holloway. Broadcast this immediately to all units. Stolen
car registered to a Professor Harold M. Frolick. License number
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in the eight column six nora one six eight three
seven A nineteen fifty one blue four door sedan. If
this car is located, hold and notify Lieutenant Holloway Central
Division immediately. You got that, Yeah, I also put out
a call for all b units in the fourth, fifth,
and sixth districts to report to me at tenth and
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Maine Code three. Sam. Yeah, notify the chief, then call
the city health officer and tell them to meet me
at tenth and Maine right away. Right, this is Holloway.
Send every available man to tenth and Maine, Code three.
I'll be there in five minutes. We'll start a search
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of the neighborhood where your car was stolen. Maybe we'll
find the car nearby, maybe not, but it's a start.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
A lieutenant has what we must anticipate a cholera epidemic.
Should the bacteria get loose, serum's facilities. Doctors will take
that up with a city health officers, and we must
notify all hospitals and emergency wards to report immediately any
case that appears with the symptoms of cholera. Then if
the case is reported, we will have something to work on.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, we will indeed have something to work on. It
was seven o'clock that evening when one hundred and twenty
offices and reserves gathered at the intersection of tenth and Maine,
where Professor Frolick's car had been stolen. The curious was
shuffled off, the press banned. Lieutenant Ruby reported for duty,
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and I briefed him. At seven point thirty, the city
health officer arrived, serums were ordered. The Red Cross alerted,
doctors and nurses notified to be on call if an
epidemic started. Hospitals have been told to notify us if
a case appeared with symptoms of extreme intestinal pain, spasms, vomiting,
and severe dehydration. Everything was done without attaching the word
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cholera to the operation. At eight point fifteen, a break,
just a small one. Professor Frolick's car was found ten
blocks away. This is it.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
This is my car.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
He didn't drive it far. Oh, I hope the satchel
is still in it.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Well, so now.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
There's nothing in the front seat. He's still in it.
A Ruby, check the trunk.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Right, don't touch anything, Doctor, Maybe it's in the backseat.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
O nothing, find anything, Ruby, Nothing in the trunk.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
John, I guess he took the satchel with him. Ill,
no fi pun it probably Ruby latent fingerprint. Man down
here to dust this car. Tell him to hurry. Okay,
now a lot, lieutenanty. Now we try to find that satchel.
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An hour passed, two no progress. The only fingerprints found
on Professor Prolock's car were his own. Suspects were picked up,
no make a search for the satchel continued midnight, still
no progress. I thought about the other parts of the city,
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quiet to sleep, unaware of the night and what it
had produced. At one thirty, another break, one we'd hoped
wouldn't come.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
When was he brought in us a little after twelve?
Speaker 7 (10:51):
Is conditioned critical respiration, very low, severe dehydration.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
You're certain about the symptoms.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Quite certain. Also the lab confirmed presence of life fibrios organisms.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Who brought him in?
Speaker 7 (11:01):
It was an ambulance call. The patient had been in
one of those awful bars down the street. He suddenly
became ill, delirious, then fell to the floor with intense
spasms of the intestinal tract.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
You better get the health officer on that bar right away.
Speaker 6 (11:14):
Yes, it must be quarantined at once.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
In here, I thought it best not to put him
an award.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Well, Professor Frolick, can you can.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
You visualize this happening all over the city, your wife, possibly,
your children, Any chance of a mistake. Presence of live
vibrious organisms, there's no doubt now, nurse.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Was there any identification just.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
The wallets there on the stand?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Anything there?
Speaker 6 (11:49):
Joe?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
His name was Al Walker, eighty two hundred Carl Street.
I do know, Al Al Walker. Can you hear me?
M Al listener, I've got to ask you some questions.
Try to answer me, Al, Al? Did you steal a
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car tonight? It's pretty weak, Joe, Al can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Al?
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Look, professor? Can I do any harm? Now? I have
muster tend in holloway, but hurry, he's almost right. Al
Al listen to me. Answer me? Did you take a
glass viol out of that card? And it was in
a satchel, a glass jar and a black satchel alf
class clash class jar? Yes? Did you take it the jar?
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I can't breathe?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Al?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Did you take that satchel out of a car?
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Tonight?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Can you hear me? What did you do with that
glass jar that was in the bag? Did you open?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Think in sh he opened it?
Speaker 3 (13:03):
What's what's wrong with me? I can't breathe out? Where
is that glass jarn?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Now? Where? Sure? Where? Where? Find out?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Where?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Where? Where? Did you throw it out? Where? Through?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Through? M hmmm?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well they're loose enough colera bacteria to start this all
over the city in the morning, MM.
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calculated to keep you in suspense. Al Walker was dead,
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not knowing what the stolen vile contained. He had opened
it and exposed himself to disease, then he'd thrown it away.
This is what faced us in our city that night,
an epidemic of cholera. Professor Frolic Ruby and myself left
the hospital. We crossed the sleeping city to the address
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found in al Walker's wallet, eighty two hundred Carl Street.
It was an apartment house. We woke the landlady and
she led us into al Walker's room.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
We searched.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
I always said that al Walker was a good for nothing.
He never worked, low drank.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
You are certain he was here about seven o'clock.
Speaker 9 (16:26):
Positive I heard him come in and go out.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I don't know. Well, I'll know, Sachel, nothing but dirty laundering.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
Well what does he do steal them things?
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Where do we go from hill, Lieutenant, I guess we'll
have to go back and start with that bar.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
You know you better quarantine this place and get the
health depopment out here. Watch that anyone who came in
contact with Al Walker will have to be vaccinated.
Speaker 9 (16:51):
Well, what was the matter with him?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
He was sick?
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You have every bed bad enough to kill him. Al's dead,
that's right.
Speaker 9 (16:59):
And you say anyone who was near him might.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Catch what he had if they aren't vaccinated right away,
they might.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Well, then, missus there's something you haven't told us.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
Well, I I don't wanna cause anybody no trouble. But
when now I was here earlier tonight he stopped in
to see missus Pearce.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
I they were friends.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Where does missus Pierce.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Live in three o six? The end of the hall?
I wasn't stupid. It's just that I like to know
what's going on in my place. That's all?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay? Uh, you better get back to bed, lady bed.
Speaker 9 (17:30):
Who can sleep with a thing like this in the house? Lieutenant? Say?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
What time is it?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Lieutenant? Three am? Here? It is daylight in a few hours.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
There's much time I know.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Asleep. Wouldn't you be.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Whoh is there?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Police? Open up? Who open up?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Hold it?
Speaker 9 (18:02):
I ain't decent?
Speaker 2 (18:12):
What do you want you missus Pearce. Yeah, why do
you know Al Walker?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Al Walker? Yeah? You hold it down my husband's sleep.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
When was the last time you saw al Walker?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Last time?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I couldn't say a week ago?
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Ev what's going on out day?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Nothing? Klass, go back to bed?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Who these guys? The police? It was some matter? Now, Look,
it's very important. We've got to know if either one
of you saw al Walker last night? El Walker.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
I told you, no, we ain't seen him.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
If he ain't been seeing that punk again, have.
Speaker 9 (18:50):
You I ain't seen him?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I told you I would, Missus Pearce. Last night, Al
Walker stole a car. When he left it, he took
some things with him. Among them are black sat choking
ain't in a small glass vial a jar. This vial
was filled with a milky substance. That milky substance would
well because of it. He's dead now, dah, He died
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a few hours ago, al Dare anyone who came in
contact with al last night after he opened that vial
can expect the same thing you saw him. Yes, I
thought you promised me you wouldn't see that punk no more,
Miss Pierce. Did al have that vial when you saw him.
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What did he do with it? He opened it here
here in this apartment.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
He opened it and smelled it.
Speaker 9 (19:40):
He put the top back on because he said, it's
not like Roben Eggs.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
It wasn't.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
Will I get it too?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Will I get it?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Hey? Ruby, call downtown, tell him to get out here
fast for vaccination, right Joe, Now, missus Pearce, What did
he do with the vial?
Speaker 8 (19:55):
He took all that stuff with him to a paunchop
a third lock in the old man there is a
al takes all the stuff to him.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Look, you stay here. The health department will be here
pretty soon to vaccinature. Don't try to leave the building.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Am I going to be Okay? I won't get it?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Will I?
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I don't think so. So you've been seeing that punk
after all? After what I told you?
Speaker 9 (20:14):
Will you shut out?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
I hope you'll get it. Whatever it is, I hope
you'll get it. Good serves you're right. Come on, we'll
try the porn shop. Three point thirty am. We pulled
up in front of the pawn shop a third and Larkin.
The shades are down in the windows, but there's a
light somewhere in the back.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Someone's coming.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, he's up late. Eh, it has to be here.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
We've got to find it before morning.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
We'll soon though. What do you want open up, police, police,
open up? I said, open and I will break it down. Sure, sure,
whatever he said, All right now listen, I want some
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answers pop and I want them fast.
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Sure, fellas. I always co operate with you boys. Al
Walker was here last night. He sold you some stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Al Walker was, lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Look at this my satchel.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
It was on the counter. That's yours, mister. I never
know where this stuff count.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Will you quit storm? We know al Walker brought that
in here and there was a glass vial in that satchel.
Where's it now?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I tell you why. I don't hop al Walker's dead? Well, Dad,
from what from the contents of that vial? That Milkie
stopped and you have seen it? Well, I didn't have
Where is it now? We we threw it away. It
wasn't worth anything. Where'd you throw it in the alley
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out bank? All right? Shows?
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Was it open?
Speaker 10 (21:57):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:57):
No no calls. I didn't know the stoppers, all right, Yeah,
I'll here there. I threw it in that pile of junk.
I don't see it.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
I don't either.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Are you sure you throw it here right off top?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
I'm trying to cooperate with you boys on this.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
How it isn't here?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Keep looking and has to be. But he threw it there,
threw all the junk out there, and damn kids. What kids?
Speaker 10 (22:33):
Well, some kids were playing here late last night, always
play here, and they're always picking things up and taking
them away.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
You say, kids, You know any of them?
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I don't know for sure.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
Look at this this chalk drawing on the wall.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
What about it? Well? They them kids drew that there
are always doing.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
It under the sight and says Loie is a goie Loie?
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Sure, sure, I know Louis.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
He was one of them. He lives over over there
in one of the apartment building, which one I don't
know which one. I seen him go that way sometimes.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Nearly four o'clock, Lieutenant, can we get through all those
buildings before morning?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
We have to try. We better get pop here vaccinated
before we run them in.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Said Joe.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
What don't you think it would be a good idea
if we got vaccinated just in case?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Well, sure, yeah, but we haven't got time. Ruby, Come on.
It was a big block covered with big apartment houses,
an additional sixty men were called in, and we started
checking from apartment to apartment, asking for a kid named
Louis and the glass violence. The people half asleep must
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have thought we were crazy. What they thought wasn't important,
what they would wake up to in the morning was
five o'clock six, it got light out, then six thirty
and seven. It was a bright, beautiful sunny morning. A
few people began to appear along the streets. Buses and
street cars were running. The city was waking up, and
(24:02):
still we hadn't found Louis or the glass vial of
cholera bacteria. We still had dozens of apartments to go through.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
If we don't find it pretty similar, Lieutenant, we've got
to let the city know about it, warn them to
watch for the violin.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Not yet, not yet, another hour. Maybe here's the next one. Okay, bacon, Yeah,
smells good?
Speaker 7 (24:29):
Yeah, police, police, what's wrong?
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Do you have a child here named Louis?
Speaker 7 (24:35):
No, no Louis here?
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Why well do you know of a boy by that
name in the building?
Speaker 6 (24:40):
No, all my boys and good children, they done nothing wrong.
Speaker 9 (24:42):
Am Sybil's got my jar and she won't give it.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Tommy, don't bother me now, who'll make Sybil give.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Me my jar? Lieutenant? Yeah, Hey, Tommy, we're Sybil.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Hey, you can't come in like that.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Take us to Sybil, Tommy.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
She's in the bedroom. I'll show you.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
You stay here, lady, you got a lot of nerve
telling me what to do in.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
My own Where'd you get the jar, Tommy?
Speaker 6 (25:02):
I took it away from Louis.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
It's a pretty jar.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
I'm gonna keep spiders in it. Here's the bedroom. They're
sible in the crib.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Joe, Look, Mama says, Sybil's hutting teeth.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Easy does it? If she takes it out of her
mouth and let's go, let's it'll fall on the floor.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
Careful attendant, don't frighten her.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I got it. Don't drop it, Joe, don't worry.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
Lasted last bank, goodness?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Where you are? Got then one glass vial containing two
or three million collar of germs intact?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Baby?
Speaker 7 (25:45):
I never heard of such a thing coming into a
private home in the dirt.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
Flight you get out of here, you give me get
out all right?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yes, ma'am, where's salad?
Speaker 6 (26:04):
If the people in the city only only knew what you.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Boys thought, they won't know. Professor no, I guess not,
Lieutenant Well Joe, beautiful morning, Ruby. Yeah, it's gonna be
a nice day. Yep, you know Ruby. Instead of going
(26:32):
to bed this morning, I think I'll have breakfast with
my family and then I'm gonna take my kids to
the zoo.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Suspense presented by Autolite to night Star mister Lloyd Nolan.
This is Harlow Wilcock speaking for Autolite, world's largest independent
manufacturer of automotive electrical equipment. Autolite is proud to serve
the greatest names in the industry. They are members of
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(28:10):
terrifying tale in the suspense tradition, the story of a
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on Suspense. Suspense is produced and directed by Elliott Lewis,
(28:38):
with music composed by Lucian Morrowick and conducted by lud Gluskin.
Vile of Death was written for Suspense by Augustus C.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Bays.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Featured in the cast were Joseph Kerns, Jerry Hausner, James Mcallim,
Trude Marson, Martha Wentworth, Charlotte Lawrence, Joseph Granby, Naomi Stephens,
Clayton Post, and Jeffrey Silver.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Lloyd Nolan.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Can Sue be seen in Island in the Sky, a
Wayne Fellow's production from the book by Ernest K. Gannon,
And Remember next Week, mister Dick Haymes In Pigeon in
the Cage.
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