May 6, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:29):
Suspense Columbia's parade of outstanding thrillers produced by William Spear
and scored by Bernard Hermann. Notable melodramas from stage and screen,
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the edge of.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Your chair to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
To Night's story, by the noted American author T. S.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Fribbling, deals with a crime of murder on an exotic
and atmospheric island, with ragged beggars who slept in a.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Hindoo temple and awoke with gold in.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Their pockets and a dead girl lying near them, and
with a strange and mystical entrance into the life of hereafter,
which was the experience of an American psychologist. For your
suspenseful listening, we invite you to join us or a
passage to Banaras.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
In Port of Spain, in Trinidad. At half past five
in the morning, mister.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Henry Pagioli, an American psychologist, stirred uneasily, became conscious of
a splizzing headache, opened his eyes in bewilderment, and then.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
At the shock.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Saw there he was.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
He got up, arranged his clothing.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
He tried with his neat psychological mind to recapture his
dream to bottle up again, a little smoking wist that
still floated about within his aching head. By seven o'clock
he found his way back to the house of Mistel.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Lowe, his host in Port of Spain. Hell was already
about his coffee with.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
An interested spoon poised above the morning paper. Ah, there
you are, good morning, by jolly, I say you are quiet?
Didn't hear you get.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Up at all?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Have some breathas a nice yamn and that's for breath
and an that's the news today.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, you governor will ride in Trinidad on the twelfth.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And hello, now the.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Natives killed his wife. Tell me, by jolly, as a
psyde collegist, why do coolly kill their wives? Oh? For
various reasons, I imagine appear some of the facts.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I said, this is a coincidence.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Really putting on a show for.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You, partially on your first visit to Trinidad. How so
well you you remember that wedding procession you and I
watched last evening down down to the Hindu temple, the
temple of course, the cream colored little bride with the breastplates,
and the linked gold coins and the anchors and all.
The finalis the bridegroom. But you see his name was
Bootman Laull.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Eh, well, you know what happened.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Woodman Lowell is in jail this morning, and his clean
colored little bride is dead with her throat cut.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
No do they think he did it, No doubt of it.
That's why he's in jail now.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You always seem like a sensible fellow too, one of
our best patrons, which only proves my contention for July,
a bridegroom of only six or eight hours killing his
wife without any reason.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
At all, or there's usually some reason for murder.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Maybe, right, sail boy, you're missing the points completely.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
How well?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I suppose you actually have gone and slept in the temple.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
There last night? I wanted to do you know, remember, and.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I said, no white man ever stays all night in
a poly temple.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Remember, yes, I remember you.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Said it simply isn't done.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well if if you had pajurely, I say, that would
have been a pretty cattle. Yes, yes, well, I'm afraid
i'll they mixed up in this, both mister Lal and
his uncle Hira Das clients of mine. Old Hiradas is
up with the five million dollars in my bank. Hirads,
didn't you tell me he built that temple where the
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murder took place. Yes, that's what the Hindus call a
temple and rest house. Hira Das gives rice and tea
to any gravel comes into the night. It's an Indian
custom to help mannican pilgrim.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
A rich Indian will build a temple and.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Rest house, just as your American direct libraries.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Ah, what does it say there about the.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Murder though, Woodman lal neview of the famous mister Hirad
does but arrested early this small morning at his home
for the alleged murder of his wife, whom he married yesterday.
The body was found at six o'clock this morning in
the temple where the wedding ceremony took place. The temple
attendants gave the alarm. The victim's head was severed completely
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from her body, and all her jewelry was gone. Five
cooly beggars, who were asleep in the temple when the
body was discovered, were arrested. They all claimed ignorance of
the crime, but as such of their persons revealed that
each beggar had a piece of the bride's.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Jewelry and a poem from a necklace.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Miss Woodman Laala and his wife were seemed to enter
the temple at about eleven last night for the Hindu
rite of purifications. Mistlal, who is a prominent curio dealer,
declines to say anything further.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Doesn't tell you very much? Do much? Will you make up?
Those beggars?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
All?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
That's simple enough. Those devils laid in wait inside the
temple and till the husband went out and left his wife,
and they murdered her and divided the spoil. But she
had enough bangles and jijus to give does to each man. Yeah, yeah,
you're quite right for Deli, that's the fact. Why should
they continue sleeping in the temple after they killed her?
If they did murder her, well, why shouldn't they? They
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knew they'd be suspected. They couldn't get off the island
without cap chusel. They thought might as well lie down
again and go back to sleep. Mm may be right, low,
but that doesn't look like the solution of me. Well,
I'm satisfied as healthy.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You mean the beggars killed her.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, I don't think so. I rather fancies that the
actual murderer took the girls jewry and went about the temple,
thrusting a bangle in the coin in the pockets.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Of each of the sleeping beggars who.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Lay a false cent for don't know that's laying it
on a bit too stick pleasure. Dear lord, that's the
only possible explanation.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
For the coins on the beggar's pocket.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I said, you've had lots of experience in these things.
Come along with me and we'll go up and see
it to hylight does and see if we can't help
his nephew. I'll be glad to But we'll go to
the temple first. Then we'll call on mister Hyra Dies.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well, here we are.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Why do the brief guard at the door that temple
does no sinister in the day like this looks dirty?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That's going in question a record.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Did any of you follows hear noises in this temple outside?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Not sleep side?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
No noise? Police?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
A man pantas wait this morning makes sixtie here? What's
your learned to the young side? When did you go
to sleep lass side? When I ate rice smptee Site.
You remember seeing bootman Laud and his wife endered this.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Building last time? Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Remember side?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Did this even go out?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
No sight? No one remember go out? You were all asleep,
all asleep site. Did you have any dreams during your sleep?
Hear any noises? I dreamed bad dream site? When policeman
punched me away this morning? I think dream has come true?
And did you all have bad dream or how bad? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Pause?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Early, I don't see where this is getting in. I
do think you want to be getting onto old Hava
Das's house. Oh, I think we can now entirely discard
the theory that the beggars never the girls. Oh what will?
They told you nothing except that they all had bad dreams.
That's the reason they all had wild, fantastic dreams. That
suggests that they were given some sort of opience in
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their rice or tea last night. It's quite improbable that
five ignorant coolies would have good.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Enough to concoct such a piece of evidences. That that's
a fact.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But I don't believe the trains that court would admit
the jepdon.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
We're not looking for legal evidence.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Whereafter some indication of a real criminal now I suggestively
get under the house of Hywards.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
He's coming.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Gentlemen, I'd been respecting you.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
He's be seated.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
The most mysterious murder in the life of my poor
neighbor will depend upon your exertions.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Gentlemen, tell me what do you think of the beggars
that were found in the temper with the bangers and coins.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I'm afraid my judgment of the beggars will disappoint you,
mister Hirad. My theory is that they are innocent of
the Friday. Why do you say that because they told
me a dreams? They had all their dreams. We're very
never identical.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
You are not English.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
No Englishman would have thought of that.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
No, I'm American with a backlash sprinkling of our battalion.
My name's Paggioli.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
What is your profession, mister Pagulie. You are a detective?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
No, it does.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I'm a psychologist.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Wo sor is at least grouping after knowledge?
Speaker 5 (10:25):
However, it groups is a blind one, mister Pogolie. And
we must find the criminal who committed this crime and
thus restore my nephew.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Boardman loud of liberty. You can imagine What a.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Blow this has been to me.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
After I arranged this marriage for my nephew.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Judd.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Raised the marriage for a nephew.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Who was in his thirties.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Yes, mister Poli, I wanted him to avoid the pitfalls
into which I said he was unmarried, and he'd already
begun to add dollars to dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I did the same thing.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Now look at me, an empty old man a foreign land.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
What good is this house where men.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Of my own kids can't come and sit with me
when I have no grandchildren to run and play.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Well, I've piled up dollars and pounds.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I've eaten the world, mister Padli.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
And found it the.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Well here I am an outcast.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And why don't you go back to India, mister Haywarda.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Why, mister Pol, my mind is half English. If I
should return to Binari, I walk about thinking what the
temples cost? How much was the value of the stone
set in the eye of Christians in me? If I
would ever be one with my own people again, mister Poli.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I must leave this Western mind and body here intoidad.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's an interesting in moving that we were discussing your nephew,
Woodman love.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Wait in searching for the criminals, I would suggest you
look for a moneyed man. Let me tell you my
suspicions and you can work.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Out the details. What are they?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I went out of the temple this morning to help
the body if I poor murdered me brought here to
my denner for burials. I talked through the five daggers,
and they told me there was a fixed sleeper in
the temple last night. Whither indeed, yes, mister Lowe, a
white man, a white man, yes, mister Lowe. All diy
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was the coolies, and my man Gooka told me it
was true.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
But mister Hirades, the capitation is not an American motive
murder American I was speaking generally, I mean a white
man's method of murder.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
It is indicative in its sense I meant to call
the attention to that point. It shows the white man
was a highly educated man who such is the mental
habits of other people than his own, So he was
enabled to give the crime an extraordinary resemblance to a
Hindu crime.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
But what motive could a white man have.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Possibly robbery, mister Pajuli, if he were a very intellectual man,
he might have murdered it too, a child ry way of.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Experiment, a murderful experiment, Yes.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Mister Vercord, this psychological reaction.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Why I can't have attained such a stereos that, mister Hard.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Oh no, it is too pop it however it is
worth investigating, is not?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes, yes, but I'll forgive my investigations with a manuka.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
By all means, mister, And in your investigations, gentlemen hired
any assistance you maybe draw on me for any amount.
I want my nephew accoonerated, and above all things, I
want the real criminal apprehendry again brought to the gallows.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh what do you think of that?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Part of white man in that temple? Sounds like to
addiction to mejia to shield woman laud. You know these
fellows hang together, like Steve. That's a jolly good thing.
We didn't decide to sleep in the temple last night.
And you know, in my opinion, Low, the actual criminal
was Bootman.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Law the same here I thought.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
So ever since I first saw the accounts on the paper.
Somehow these fellows will chuck their wives to teachers for
no reason at all.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Now, what do you know about boom in Law?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well, he was born here and law has been a
figure because of his rich uncle. We feel all his
life huh step when he was an oscar the fishers, Oh,
he's a man, yes, yes, yeah, that's the trouble.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I don't understand him, but he means buzzily.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I learned that he fell in love with some English girl.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
But when old Hya dats chose a Hindu child for
his wife, woodman couldn't refuse marriage. No, man was going
to quarrel with a five million dollar legacy. Let me
chose this ghastly method of getting rid of the child.
Ride They say, all right, I feel sure about man
Lau killed the girl, don't.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I'm getting tired of walking. There's a cab.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Let's hop it by the rest of the way, Hi,
teddy cab.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Say, oh, well, uncle coming.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I don't feel that I can conscientiously continue this investigation
trying to clear a person with whom I have every
reason to believe guilty.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
But man, don't leave me like this.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
At least come as far as police headquarters with me
and explain your theory about Google, the temple keeper and
the right. Well, I I thought i'd go back to your.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Courage and pack my things. Pack your things? Are your goals?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Does and salents will find, Yes, fellow, but there's.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
A very pers secure so it suck me to go there.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Now come, you can't run off like that just when
I stirred up an interesting murderist to.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Do do unwell?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Right, you ought to appreciate my efforts as a host
more than man. All right, little police session, Yes, Chief Figures.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
This is my friend.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Mister mister Dickers is chief of turned Ads Police Force.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Do you, Chief Vickers.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I've asked mister Pozoli's counsel in the Budman Law murder case,
and he's already developed a theory as to who is
the actual murderer of missus Budman Law. Well, have I
now in this matter, Chief Figures. I want to be
perfectly frank with you. I'll admit we're in this case
and the employer of miss Ira does and I'm making
an effort to clear his nephew. But Monlawe, we tell
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confidence you'd use the skill of the police Department of
Port of Spain to work out a theory clearing Budman
Laud just as readily as you would convict him.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
A department usually at about the time the conviction and
not the clearing criminals.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yes, yes, I know that.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
But if our theory will point out the.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Actual murderer, what is your theory?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Mister Pogioli's deduction is based.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
On the dreams of the men who are found in
the temple.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
So mister Pojoli's deduction is based on dream It.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Would be a remarkable coincidence, mister Becker's if five men
had lurid dreams simultaneously without some physical cause, it suggests
strongly that.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
The tea or rice was soaked.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Now, if you find out what super efect was used,
then have your men searched the sales records at the
drug stores in the city to see why's greatly brought
such a drug.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You will find the murderer. Aha.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
How do you like Trinidad, mister Pajoli?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I like very much.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Indeed, you've just arrived, haven't go? Yes, in what university
do you teach back in the sixth Ohio State A
chair criminal psychology and an ordinary state university?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I'm not a professor, I'm simply a docent, and I
haven't specialized on criminal psychology an general psychology.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
You're not teaching now no, this.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Is my sabatical year.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
You look younger thought in the university of six years
the Americans starve young.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
You know then a.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Specialist, now are you, mister pad Jolie. I suppose you're
wrapped up hard and soul in your psychology.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I am you would do anything in the world advancel
Selphona side.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
I rather think so, especially keen on original research work.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Ha ha, that's what he is to you, biggaus. Do
you know what he asked me to do? Yet?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Not, miss Below, or I don't think we had a
burden mister Bickers of.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Our household anecdoms.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Oh that I'm really curious. That's what did mister pad
Jolie ask you to do yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Miss Below?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, really nodding at all.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's just a little psychological experamouth.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
He wanted to do and did he do it? Oh? No, No,
I wouldn't hear it.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Oh was unconventional as that?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Just really nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I think I could guess your anecdote if I tried, gentlemen,
About a half an hour ago, I received a telephone
message from my man stationed.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
At the temple to keep a lookout for you and
mister Pajoli and look out for us.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Yes, because one of the koolies under arrest told him
that mister pod Jolis left in the temple last night.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Oh but that's not true. That's exactly what he didn't do.
He suggested it to me, but I said, no, you remember, Paijolie.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
He didn't do it, did you, parson me? Did you?
You see he did?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Gentlemen, I had a perfectly valid and important reason for
sleeping in the temple last night, and so I can
only ask your sympathetic attention to what I'm about to say.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Go on, you remember, oh you and I were down.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
There watching a wedding procession. Well, just as the music
stopped in the procession end.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Of the building, it seem to be is that that
they damished?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
That's the gun the building.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
No, I don't mean that. I'm afraid you won't understand
what I do mean that the whole procession it seased
to exist, melted into nothing.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Do you see?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
That's really the idea of which the Hindus takes their
notion of heaven orblivia nothing. Yes, well, our medieval Gothic
architecture was a conception of our western heaven, and I
thought perhaps the Indian architecture had somehow caught the motive
of the Indian religion, you know, suggestively Nirvana.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
That's got amazed and intreat me.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
That's why I wanted to seize the place. I wanted
to see if I could further a shred of impressions.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Does that make sense today?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
We're not interested why you went, mister Pool. We know
a murder took place in the temple, so.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I can't think that I committed a horrible murderer as
an experiment.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
You intellectual chaps do some pretty weird things, mister. Well,
only the other day I was reading about two young intellectuals.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Yes, these fellows I read about also tried to turn
them on, it say, by their murder. I don't suppose
you happened to notice yesterday that the little bride my
run was almost.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Covered with gold bangles and coin.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Of course, I noticed I had nothing whatever to do
with all. Right.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
I did sleep in the temple, by the way, you say,
you slept on a run, just as the coolies did. Yes,
I did, and you didn't wake up either. Mister, Then
did the child's murder? I happen to put a coin
in a bangle in your pocket, just as he did
the other sleepers in the temple.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I had a look in my pocket, and please do
so now, mister.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Pajon, Oh, yes, there they are. You don't happen to
have anymore, do you?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh? I've already been throwing my pockets and I had
him anymore.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Well that's something, of course.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
You might have expected just such a questioning as this,
and provided yourself with these two pieces of gold. But
I doesn't somehow, I don't believe that you're experienced enough
man to think of such a thing. However, we shall see.
I suppose you have no objection, mister Pajoli. Am I
accompanying you over to have a little search for your.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Baggage and mister Lowe's cottage.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Now, then, mister Paoli, is so kind as to open
your trunk good hen mm hmmm, just.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
As I thought, a funk tray full of bangles and coins.
I'll say one thing for you, though, mister bad Jolie.
Your nerve almost got you by.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
But you I can't believe that I did.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
So.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You don't believe I did this to you. I don't you.
I didn't I would sleep for him.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
God, to think that it's here in my own joy,
might as well start back.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I suppose this is all. I'll go back with you, Joey.
I'll see you through somehow I can't.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I I won't believe you didn't.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I know, Jolie, you set out to clear Boodman Lowell.
Well dash is Holi.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
This is if you had No he didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Butodman Lowell was out of jail at least an hour
before you. Fellows came in the police headquarters to seem.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Ow you mean that you turned him loose.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Yes, I'll that cheapick it because mister Lowe he didn't
go to the temple at all with his wife last night.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
He went down to the Queen's Talk hotel and played
billion till one o'clock. He called up a few friends.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
And proves that easily enough word that leads nobody. But yeah,
but Gioli, I don't.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Know anything about it.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
I didn't commit the murder.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I was asleep. I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
That's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Perhaps the lesson jail will help restore your memory. Well
we'll see.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Oh no, good, dearly old man, don't be too downhearted.
I promise you I'll do everything I can.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
In the coast against Henry Pontola. Having been Durla tried
by Jola, your pairs have been found dinted by the
powers invested in me. I heroic sentence to be hanging
by the neck continual.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
On days to recall a lost stream.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
This is the most tangalizing task ever a human brain
was dripped to. But if I lie still long enough,
I los book to that I didn't recapture.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
The teme I had in the temple last night.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yes, yes, it seems to me that we in the
German Alto moved and suddenly the dome over her head
was opened and left me staring upward into a vast
of this, For I was alone in endless space.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
We're all creatures in.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
All matters that had ever been, or ever would be
for wrapped up.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
A knee pasury, that's my dream.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's an odd thing.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Six men dreaming the same dream in different turns. That
must be a physical course. That's such a phenomenon.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Of course, I've got it, because oh I have it.
I've solved it. Get me out of here. I don't
kill the girl.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
What is it, my friend, I know who murdered the bride?
Hold high reducted, that wasn't des one.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Go tell Decker to take the gold he found in
my trunk and develop all the fingerprints on it.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
He'll find the hierdos of prince.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Also tell him to follow out that obiit when I
get him, he'll find the higradus and a man to
put the gold in my trunk. See if they don't
find brads or steel filings in my room where the
scrougross and filed a new keys. But they've already done
that long ago.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I have.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
But certainly and old higradults can test everything. Though, why
a rich old man like him should have murdered a
pretty child is more than.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I can see. Well, why did he picker needs a
scare coat?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Oh he'splained that to the police. He said he'd picked
out of white man, so the police would make a
thorough investigation and be sure to catch him. Did I
But what I can't see is why the old boy
wants to be caught and hanged.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
But why didn't he commit suicide?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Why? I know why?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Because according to his religion, in that case, his soul
would have returned.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
In the form of some beast.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
He wanted to be slain because he expected sex to
be reborn instantly in Banaras, with little mael Iran as
his bride and staid of his nephews, he hopes to
be a great man with wife.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
And children, all the things he was not here in
trin that yes, she is. You must be right.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Why didn't you come and tell me about Hyeradox's confession
the moment it occurred? What do you mean teasing me
here when you know I'm an innocent man? Why didn't
you tell me to perform this because I couldn't Old
Hiradous didn't confess until a months and ten days asked
her you were hanged?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
O O M.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
The passage to the Narrow Tears Sibling's tale of Mysterious
Death and death Mysterious.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
This was Tonight's story of suspense. Suspense is produced.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
By William Spear. John Deech was our guest director This evening.
Tonight's radio drama was written by Carol Kase and scored
by Bernard Hermann. Paul Stewart was Podoli. Larry Kroger was
in the Hirada.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Harris Brand played miss Alone other.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Than the cast where Alan Jewitt and Guy Wrest.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Next week, at this time, Columbia will bring you another
selected story from the world's great literature of.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Thrills, another study in suspense. This is Garry Kroger, and
this is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
The Columbia Network takes pleasure in bringing you suspense.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Suspense Columbia's parade of outstanding thrillers produced by William Spear
and scored by Bernard Hermann. Notable melodramas from stage and screen,
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the edge of.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Your chair to keep you in suspense.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
To Night's story, by the noted American author T. S.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Fribbling, deals with a crime of murder on an exotic
and atmospheric island, with ragged beggars who slept in a.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Hindoo temple and awoke with gold in.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Their pockets and a dead girl lying near them, and
with a strange and mystical entrance into the life of hereafter,
which was the experience of an American psychologist. For your
suspenseful listening, we invite you to join us or a
passage to Banaras.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
In Port of Spain, in Trinidad. At half past five
in the morning, mister.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Henry Pagioli, an American psychologist, stirred uneasily, became conscious of
a splizzing headache, opened his eyes in bewilderment, and then.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
At the shock.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Saw there he was.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
He got up, arranged his clothing.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
He tried with his neat psychological mind to recapture his
dream to bottle up again, a little smoking wist that
still floated about within his aching head. By seven o'clock
he found his way back to the house of Mistel.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Lowe, his host in Port of Spain. Hell was already
about his coffee with.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
An interested spoon poised above the morning paper. Ah, there
you are, good morning, by jolly, I say you are quiet?
Didn't hear you get.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Up at all?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Have some breathas a nice yamn and that's for breath
and an that's the news today.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, you governor will ride in Trinidad on the twelfth.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And hello, now the.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Natives killed his wife. Tell me, by jolly, as a
psyde collegist, why do coolly kill their wives? Oh? For
various reasons, I imagine appear some of the facts.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I said, this is a coincidence.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Really putting on a show for.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
You, partially on your first visit to Trinidad. How so
well you you remember that wedding procession you and I
watched last evening down down to the Hindu temple, the
temple of course, the cream colored little bride with the breastplates,
and the linked gold coins and the anchors and all.
The finalis the bridegroom. But you see his name was
Bootman Laull.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Eh, well, you know what happened.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Woodman Lowell is in jail this morning, and his clean
colored little bride is dead with her throat cut.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
No do they think he did it, No doubt of it.
That's why he's in jail now.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
You always seem like a sensible fellow too, one of
our best patrons, which only proves my contention for July,
a bridegroom of only six or eight hours killing his
wife without any reason.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
At all, or there's usually some reason for murder.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Maybe, right, sail boy, you're missing the points completely.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
How well?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I suppose you actually have gone and slept in the temple.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
There last night? I wanted to do you know, remember, and.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
I said, no white man ever stays all night in
a poly temple.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Remember, yes, I remember you.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Said it simply isn't done.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Well if if you had pajurely, I say, that would
have been a pretty cattle. Yes, yes, well, I'm afraid
i'll they mixed up in this, both mister Lal and
his uncle Hira Das clients of mine. Old Hiradas is
up with the five million dollars in my bank. Hirads,
didn't you tell me he built that temple where the
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murder took place. Yes, that's what the Hindus call a
temple and rest house. Hira Das gives rice and tea
to any gravel comes into the night. It's an Indian
custom to help mannican pilgrim.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
A rich Indian will build a temple and.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Rest house, just as your American direct libraries.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Ah, what does it say there about the.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Murder though, Woodman lal neview of the famous mister Hirad
does but arrested early this small morning at his home
for the alleged murder of his wife, whom he married yesterday.
The body was found at six o'clock this morning in
the temple where the wedding ceremony took place. The temple
attendants gave the alarm. The victim's head was severed completely
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from her body, and all her jewelry was gone. Five
cooly beggars, who were asleep in the temple when the
body was discovered, were arrested. They all claimed ignorance of
the crime, but as such of their persons revealed that
each beggar had a piece of the bride's.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Jewelry and a poem from a necklace.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Miss Woodman Laala and his wife were seemed to enter
the temple at about eleven last night for the Hindu
rite of purifications. Mistlal, who is a prominent curio dealer,
declines to say anything further.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Doesn't tell you very much? Do much? Will you make up?
Those beggars?
Speaker 5 (05:48):
All?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
That's simple enough. Those devils laid in wait inside the
temple and till the husband went out and left his wife,
and they murdered her and divided the spoil. But she
had enough bangles and jijus to give does to each man. Yeah, yeah,
you're quite right for Deli, that's the fact. Why should
they continue sleeping in the temple after they killed her?
If they did murder her, well, why shouldn't they? They
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knew they'd be suspected. They couldn't get off the island
without cap chusel. They thought might as well lie down
again and go back to sleep. Mm may be right, low,
but that doesn't look like the solution of me. Well,
I'm satisfied as healthy.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
You mean the beggars killed her.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well, I don't think so. I rather fancies that the
actual murderer took the girls jewry and went about the temple,
thrusting a bangle in the coin in the pockets.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Of each of the sleeping beggars who.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Lay a false cent for don't know that's laying it
on a bit too stick pleasure. Dear lord, that's the
only possible explanation.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
For the coins on the beggar's pocket.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I said, you've had lots of experience in these things.
Come along with me and we'll go up and see
it to hylight does and see if we can't help
his nephew. I'll be glad to But we'll go to
the temple first. Then we'll call on mister Hyra Dies.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Well, here we are.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Why do the brief guard at the door that temple
does no sinister in the day like this looks dirty?
Speaker 2 (07:29):
That's going in question a record.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Excuse me?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Did any of you follows hear noises in this temple outside?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Not sleep side?
Speaker 1 (07:41):
No noise? Police?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
A man pantas wait this morning makes sixtie here? What's
your learned to the young side? When did you go
to sleep lass side? When I ate rice smptee Site.
You remember seeing bootman Laud and his wife endered this.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Building last time? Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Remember side?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Did this even go out?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
No sight? No one remember go out? You were all asleep,
all asleep site. Did you have any dreams during your sleep?
Hear any noises? I dreamed bad dream site? When policeman
punched me away this morning? I think dream has come true?
And did you all have bad dream or how bad? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Pause?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Early, I don't see where this is getting in. I
do think you want to be getting onto old Hava
Das's house. Oh, I think we can now entirely discard
the theory that the beggars never the girls. Oh what will?
They told you nothing except that they all had bad dreams.
That's the reason they all had wild, fantastic dreams. That
suggests that they were given some sort of opience in
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their rice or tea last night. It's quite improbable that
five ignorant coolies would have good.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Enough to concoct such a piece of evidences. That that's
a fact.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
But I don't believe the trains that court would admit
the jepdon.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
We're not looking for legal evidence.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Whereafter some indication of a real criminal now I suggestively
get under the house of Hywards.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
He's coming.
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Gentlemen, I'd been respecting you.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
He's be seated.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
The most mysterious murder in the life of my poor
neighbor will depend upon your exertions.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Gentlemen, tell me what do you think of the beggars
that were found in the temper with the bangers and coins.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I'm afraid my judgment of the beggars will disappoint you,
mister Hirad. My theory is that they are innocent of
the Friday. Why do you say that because they told
me a dreams? They had all their dreams. We're very
never identical.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
You are not English.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
No Englishman would have thought of that.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
No, I'm American with a backlash sprinkling of our battalion.
My name's Paggioli.
Speaker 7 (10:13):
What is your profession, mister Pagulie. You are a detective?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
No, it does.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I'm a psychologist.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Wo sor is at least grouping after knowledge?
Speaker 5 (10:25):
However, it groups is a blind one, mister Pogolie. And
we must find the criminal who committed this crime and
thus restore my nephew.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Boardman loud of liberty. You can imagine What a.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
Blow this has been to me.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
After I arranged this marriage for my nephew.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Judd.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Raised the marriage for a nephew.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
Who was in his thirties.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Yes, mister Poli, I wanted him to avoid the pitfalls
into which I said he was unmarried, and he'd already
begun to add dollars to dollars.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I did the same thing.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Now look at me, an empty old man a foreign land.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
What good is this house where men.
Speaker 7 (11:03):
Of my own kids can't come and sit with me
when I have no grandchildren to run and play.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Well, I've piled up dollars and pounds.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I've eaten the world, mister Padli.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
And found it the.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Well here I am an outcast.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And why don't you go back to India, mister Haywarda.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Why, mister Pol, my mind is half English. If I
should return to Binari, I walk about thinking what the
temples cost? How much was the value of the stone
set in the eye of Christians in me? If I
would ever be one with my own people again, mister Poli.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
I must leave this Western mind and body here intoidad.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's an interesting in moving that we were discussing your nephew,
Woodman love.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Wait in searching for the criminals, I would suggest you
look for a moneyed man. Let me tell you my
suspicions and you can work.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Out the details. What are they?
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I went out of the temple this morning to help
the body if I poor murdered me brought here to
my denner for burials. I talked through the five daggers,
and they told me there was a fixed sleeper in
the temple last night. Whither indeed, yes, mister Lowe, a
white man, a white man, yes, mister Lowe. All diy
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was the coolies, and my man Gooka told me it
was true.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
But mister Hirades, the capitation is not an American motive
murder American I was speaking generally, I mean a white
man's method of murder.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
It is indicative in its sense I meant to call
the attention to that point. It shows the white man
was a highly educated man who such is the mental
habits of other people than his own, So he was
enabled to give the crime an extraordinary resemblance to a
Hindu crime.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
But what motive could a white man have.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
Possibly robbery, mister Pajuli, if he were a very intellectual man,
he might have murdered it too, a child ry way of.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Experiment, a murderful experiment, Yes.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Mister Vercord, this psychological reaction.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Why I can't have attained such a stereos that, mister Hard.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Oh no, it is too pop it however it is
worth investigating, is not?
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes, yes, but I'll forgive my investigations with a manuka.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
By all means, mister, And in your investigations, gentlemen hired
any assistance you maybe draw on me for any amount.
I want my nephew accoonerated, and above all things, I
want the real criminal apprehendry again brought to the gallows.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh what do you think of that?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Part of white man in that temple? Sounds like to
addiction to mejia to shield woman laud. You know these
fellows hang together, like Steve. That's a jolly good thing.
We didn't decide to sleep in the temple last night.
And you know, in my opinion, Low, the actual criminal
was Bootman.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Law the same here I thought.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
So ever since I first saw the accounts on the paper.
Somehow these fellows will chuck their wives to teachers for
no reason at all.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Now, what do you know about boom in Law?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Well, he was born here and law has been a
figure because of his rich uncle. We feel all his
life huh step when he was an oscar the fishers, Oh,
he's a man, yes, yes, yeah, that's the trouble.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I don't understand him, but he means buzzily.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I learned that he fell in love with some English girl.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
But when old Hya dats chose a Hindu child for
his wife, woodman couldn't refuse marriage. No, man was going
to quarrel with a five million dollar legacy. Let me
chose this ghastly method of getting rid of the child.
Ride They say, all right, I feel sure about man
Lau killed the girl, don't.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I'm getting tired of walking. There's a cab.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Let's hop it by the rest of the way, Hi,
teddy cab.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Say, oh, well, uncle coming.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I don't feel that I can conscientiously continue this investigation
trying to clear a person with whom I have every
reason to believe guilty.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
But man, don't leave me like this.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
At least come as far as police headquarters with me
and explain your theory about Google, the temple keeper and
the right. Well, I I thought i'd go back to your.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Courage and pack my things. Pack your things? Are your goals?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Does and salents will find, Yes, fellow, but there's.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
A very pers secure so it suck me to go there.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Now come, you can't run off like that just when
I stirred up an interesting murderist to.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Do do unwell?
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Right, you ought to appreciate my efforts as a host
more than man. All right, little police session, Yes, Chief Figures.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
This is my friend.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Mister mister Dickers is chief of turned Ads Police Force.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Do you, Chief Vickers.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
I've asked mister Pozoli's counsel in the Budman Law murder case,
and he's already developed a theory as to who is
the actual murderer of missus Budman Law. Well, have I
now in this matter, Chief Figures. I want to be
perfectly frank with you. I'll admit we're in this case
and the employer of miss Ira does and I'm making
an effort to clear his nephew. But Monlawe, we tell
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confidence you'd use the skill of the police Department of
Port of Spain to work out a theory clearing Budman
Laud just as readily as you would convict him.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
A department usually at about the time the conviction and
not the clearing criminals.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yes, yes, I know that.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
But if our theory will point out the.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Actual murderer, what is your theory?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Mister Pogioli's deduction is based.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
On the dreams of the men who are found in
the temple.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
So mister Pojoli's deduction is based on dream It.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Would be a remarkable coincidence, mister Becker's if five men
had lurid dreams simultaneously without some physical cause, it suggests
strongly that.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
The tea or rice was soaked.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Now, if you find out what super efect was used,
then have your men searched the sales records at the
drug stores in the city to see why's greatly brought
such a drug.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
You will find the murderer. Aha.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
How do you like Trinidad, mister Pajoli?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I like very much.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Indeed, you've just arrived, haven't go? Yes, in what university
do you teach back in the sixth Ohio State A
chair criminal psychology and an ordinary state university?
Speaker 2 (18:15):
I'm not a professor, I'm simply a docent, and I
haven't specialized on criminal psychology an general psychology.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
You're not teaching now no, this.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Is my sabatical year.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
You look younger thought in the university of six years
the Americans starve young.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
You know then a.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Specialist, now are you, mister pad Jolie. I suppose you're
wrapped up hard and soul in your psychology.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I am you would do anything in the world advancel
Selphona side.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
I rather think so, especially keen on original research work.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Ha ha, that's what he is to you, biggaus. Do
you know what he asked me to do? Yet?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Not, miss Below, or I don't think we had a
burden mister Bickers of.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Our household anecdoms.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Oh that I'm really curious. That's what did mister pad
Jolie ask you to do yesterday afternoon?
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Miss Below?
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, really nodding at all.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
It's just a little psychological experamouth.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
He wanted to do and did he do it? Oh? No, No,
I wouldn't hear it.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Oh was unconventional as that?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Just really nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I think I could guess your anecdote if I tried, gentlemen,
About a half an hour ago, I received a telephone
message from my man stationed.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
At the temple to keep a lookout for you and
mister Pajoli and look out for us.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Yes, because one of the koolies under arrest told him
that mister pod Jolis left in the temple last night.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Oh but that's not true. That's exactly what he didn't do.
He suggested it to me, but I said, no, you remember, Paijolie.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
He didn't do it, did you, parson me? Did you?
You see he did?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Gentlemen, I had a perfectly valid and important reason for
sleeping in the temple last night, and so I can
only ask your sympathetic attention to what I'm about to say.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Go on, you remember, oh you and I were down.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
There watching a wedding procession. Well, just as the music
stopped in the procession end.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Of the building, it seem to be is that that
they damished?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
That's the gun the building.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
No, I don't mean that. I'm afraid you won't understand
what I do mean that the whole procession it seased
to exist, melted into nothing.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Do you see?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
That's really the idea of which the Hindus takes their
notion of heaven orblivia nothing. Yes, well, our medieval Gothic
architecture was a conception of our western heaven, and I
thought perhaps the Indian architecture had somehow caught the motive
of the Indian religion, you know, suggestively Nirvana.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
That's got amazed and intreat me.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
That's why I wanted to seize the place. I wanted
to see if I could further a shred of impressions.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Does that make sense today?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
We're not interested why you went, mister Pool. We know
a murder took place in the temple, so.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I can't think that I committed a horrible murderer as
an experiment.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
You intellectual chaps do some pretty weird things, mister. Well,
only the other day I was reading about two young intellectuals.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Yes, these fellows I read about also tried to turn
them on, it say, by their murder. I don't suppose
you happened to notice yesterday that the little bride my
run was almost.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Covered with gold bangles and coin.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Of course, I noticed I had nothing whatever to do
with all. Right.
Speaker 4 (21:17):
I did sleep in the temple, by the way, you say,
you slept on a run, just as the coolies did. Yes,
I did, and you didn't wake up either. Mister, Then
did the child's murder? I happen to put a coin
in a bangle in your pocket, just as he did
the other sleepers in the temple.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
I had a look in my pocket, and please do
so now, mister.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Pajon, Oh, yes, there they are. You don't happen to
have anymore, do you?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Oh? I've already been throwing my pockets and I had
him anymore.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
Well that's something, of course.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
You might have expected just such a questioning as this,
and provided yourself with these two pieces of gold. But
I doesn't somehow, I don't believe that you're experienced enough
man to think of such a thing. However, we shall see.
I suppose you have no objection, mister Pajoli. Am I
accompanying you over to have a little search for your.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
Baggage and mister Lowe's cottage.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Now, then, mister Paoli, is so kind as to open
your trunk good hen mm hmmm, just.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
As I thought, a funk tray full of bangles and coins.
I'll say one thing for you, though, mister bad Jolie.
Your nerve almost got you by.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
But you I can't believe that I did.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
So.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
You don't believe I did this to you. I don't you.
I didn't I would sleep for him.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
God, to think that it's here in my own joy,
might as well start back.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
I suppose this is all. I'll go back with you, Joey.
I'll see you through somehow I can't.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I I won't believe you didn't.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I know, Jolie, you set out to clear Boodman Lowell.
Well dash is Holi.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
This is if you had No he didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Butodman Lowell was out of jail at least an hour
before you. Fellows came in the police headquarters to seem.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Ow you mean that you turned him loose.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
Yes, I'll that cheapick it because mister Lowe he didn't
go to the temple at all with his wife last night.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
He went down to the Queen's Talk hotel and played
billion till one o'clock. He called up a few friends.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
And proves that easily enough word that leads nobody. But yeah,
but Gioli, I don't.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Know anything about it.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
I didn't commit the murder.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I was asleep. I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
That's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Perhaps the lesson jail will help restore your memory. Well
we'll see.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Oh no, good, dearly old man, don't be too downhearted.
I promise you I'll do everything I can.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
In the coast against Henry Pontola. Having been Durla tried
by Jola, your pairs have been found dinted by the
powers invested in me. I heroic sentence to be hanging
by the neck continual.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
On days to recall a lost stream.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
This is the most tangalizing task ever a human brain
was dripped to. But if I lie still long enough,
I los book to that I didn't recapture.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
The teme I had in the temple last night.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yes, yes, it seems to me that we in the
German Alto moved and suddenly the dome over her head
was opened and left me staring upward into a vast
of this, For I was alone in endless space.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
We're all creatures in.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
All matters that had ever been, or ever would be
for wrapped up.
Speaker 7 (25:19):
A knee pasury, that's my dream.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
That's an odd thing.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Six men dreaming the same dream in different turns. That
must be a physical course. That's such a phenomenon.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Of course, I've got it, because oh I have it.
I've solved it. Get me out of here. I don't
kill the girl.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
What is it, my friend, I know who murdered the bride?
Hold high reducted, that wasn't des one.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Go tell Decker to take the gold he found in
my trunk and develop all the fingerprints on it.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
He'll find the hierdos of prince.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Also tell him to follow out that obiit when I
get him, he'll find the higradus and a man to
put the gold in my trunk. See if they don't
find brads or steel filings in my room where the
scrougross and filed a new keys. But they've already done
that long ago.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I have.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
But certainly and old higradults can test everything. Though, why
a rich old man like him should have murdered a
pretty child is more than.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
I can see. Well, why did he picker needs a
scare coat?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Oh he'splained that to the police. He said he'd picked
out of white man, so the police would make a
thorough investigation and be sure to catch him. Did I
But what I can't see is why the old boy
wants to be caught and hanged.
Speaker 7 (27:01):
But why didn't he commit suicide?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Why? I know why?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Because according to his religion, in that case, his soul
would have returned.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
In the form of some beast.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
He wanted to be slain because he expected sex to
be reborn instantly in Banaras, with little mael Iran as
his bride and staid of his nephews, he hopes to
be a great man with wife.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
And children, all the things he was not here in
trin that yes, she is. You must be right.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Why didn't you come and tell me about Hyeradox's confession
the moment it occurred? What do you mean teasing me
here when you know I'm an innocent man? Why didn't
you tell me to perform this because I couldn't Old
Hiradous didn't confess until a months and ten days asked
her you were hanged?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
O O M.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
The passage to the Narrow Tears Sibling's tale of Mysterious
Death and death Mysterious.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
This was Tonight's story of suspense. Suspense is produced.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
By William Spear. John Deech was our guest director This evening.
Tonight's radio drama was written by Carol Kase and scored
by Bernard Hermann. Paul Stewart was Podoli. Larry Kroger was
in the Hirada.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Harris Brand played miss Alone other.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Than the cast where Alan Jewitt and Guy Wrest.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Next week, at this time, Columbia will bring you another
selected story from the world's great literature of.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Thrills, another study in suspense. This is Garry Kroger, and
this is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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