June 1, 2025 • 24 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, vent yourself. Sam Spade detective to Thelma Darling.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Last name Sam Roger Thelma Roger Darling.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I only asked Sam, let's get on with it.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yes, Sam, I'm say Sam. Samuel Stade life is number
one two seventy nine six.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Subject subject the quarter eagle caper. Uh. Dear Thalma Darling
s yes, that.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Isn't that redundant again station fan. Shouldn't it be dear
Thelma or Thelma Darling?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Not both? Now I get this up. It's real deep.
Her name is Thelma Darling.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I have that, Dear Thelma Roger Darling.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's a name.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Her father was a Dolling before saying can't you take
a joke on.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
The egg type? You should taste the label grade double
a fresh and Dear Thelma Dolling, I'm stubborn. Not all
of this will be news to you.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The part that is will be bad news. The start
of it was not a quarter eagle, but a bald eagle.
He swooped in through the door of my office, landing
in front of my desk, perched on the edge.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Of its chair, and said, my name is Eagle MISR.
Spade Junior's g Eagle. My card mm hmm Eagle Vending
Machine Company, and they call.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Me the gumball King.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I'm proud of it. I care to join me in
the ball, sir, Not while I'm on duty. It's very
good our new avocado flavor.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Yes, I've kept the day Area chewing for twenty years
and I will not befork my purpose, bully.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I intend to fight them to the nail.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Helen Pong the last Bravo. But I'll need help. That's
why I've come to you.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
My competitors, mister s Bad, are leaving no stone unturned
in their contemptable campaign to drive me out of business.
Now they've resorted to outright sabotage. In short, they have
hired hoodlums to destroy.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
My gumball machines.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
They've already smashed eleven, and they won't be content until
they've demolished my entire equipment.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It sounds like a police case. I've been to the police. No,
they don't understand my problem.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Gave me a lot of double talk about juvenile delinquents. Hah,
my foot cutthroat competition.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
What would you think if theft were their motive?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
They most certainly would steal a pennies from the machines.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
But what do they take my gumballs? And why did
they do that? I'm bine, oh by all means?
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Oh yeah, by this our bestseller in Chinatown.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
We call it subgum. Better not I have to drive later.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Now I had the foresight to buy up a three
years apply of chewing gum at non inflation prices.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Three.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
You can see with what thoroughners they encompass my ruination.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
They are not only smashing my machines.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
They're making off with my gum.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And you want me to try and stop them? No,
I doing all. I want you to catch them in
the art and find out who.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Is paying them.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, okay, mister Ego, I'll see what I can do.
Good good, No, in this envelope in a list.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Of my machines and their exact locations, together with a
check for your retainer.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Thank you, mister Ego. I'll keep in touch with you.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh mystery, I meant to ask you how many of
these gum machines do you operate here in town?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Three hundred and guard them well?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Three hundred, three hundred nuts a three hundred guns gumball machines.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Wonderful you took this job. I mean because of my
penny card.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I'm sorry if I wasn't listening a chili.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Card, Stams my new one. That is, I've already completed
my Lincoln series and now I'm collecting Indian heads scouts,
No Sam, pennies.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You see.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
This is the card and piece of little flots you see,
like that's where you put the pennies and they're classified
according to the date and the mint where they're manufactured.
Thank you, Sam, with the little asses on me. But
that's what the San Francisco ment and the D that's
for Denver, and the ones with nothing that's the Washington DC.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, well that's a very nice hobby. Pardon me, gumball machines.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You see, that's what I had mine, Sam, All those pennies.
Indian had pennies of scare Sam. You have to go
through a lot of pennies to find even one. Honestly,
sometimes when I go past them, those tanny machines, that's
all I can see.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Oh f this is all right between you and me.
But don't ever mention your hobby to mister Eagle little
mean this sweetheart. How does one detective god three hundred
gun ball machines scattered.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
All over the city.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, if they're going to smash all of them, you
could just kick out one in the middle and somewhere
and wait.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Good, it's an organized plan of sabotage. There might be
some pattern. You seem to have given us some frut though,
I think, how would you pick them in.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
The disney places where they'd have more pennies.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
But they're not after the pennies. They take the gums.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Maybe the quiet sections where they don't sell much stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, they'd knocked over eleven so far, here, there and everywhere.
Busy spots, dead spots, no pattern at all.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You know, maybe I've bitten off more than I can chew.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I wasn't sold on mister Eagle's theory that the caper
was organized sabotage, but I decided to test it out anyway.
I learned the operation did follow a pattern, unless it
was coincidence that the eleven machines knocked over the previous
night were the same eleven machines that had been refilled
that afternoon. I checked with the even company's maintenance man
and learned that only five had been refilled to day.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I picked the one that looked like the easiest to
knock over.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It was the one in the doorway of a darkened
loft building. There was Seemen's hiring hall.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
On Drum Street at nine and the PM. I strolled
down there. The black was deserted.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I took a plan to the adjacent doorway and talked
to myself and go just before midnight. When I shut up,
my heart skipped the beat as she passed under the
light red hair I secretary. Then I noticed how she
was ves not on the salary iPad. She paused before
the gum machine opened. A large handbag, stripped off her
long black gloves, dropped them in her purse, and so
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I got a small boy scout by patch.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
She went at it, and the enthusiasm of Perry Nation
busting out the saloon. I edged around the doorway.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
She bent over the mess of pennies and gun balls
at her feet. When she reached out her hand. I
took one more step and that was all. She was
up on her feet, facing me, and I saw that
hatchet sailing through the air straight at me.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Hey, Y see what your gun?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, I'm sorry. I won't let it happen again. I
hope we don't.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Let's get out here the point.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, you're right, No, not that way the alley, and
that's how I met you, Tomma Darling, pausing only.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
To pick up an Indian headpenny for luck.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I have scored at you through the alley to Washington
of Washington's salon, John drew Front Street, and followed out
the market, where we ended a happy hour barn grow
By way of the kitchen, you will perceived unfoldingly to
the darkas booth.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
We sat down and caught our breath. You ordered the
Pirate's Dream.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
By the way, I did get that recipe lime juice, grenadine,
passion fruit, a sprig of mint, and six jiggers a rum.
After two swallows, I heard myself saying, now what you
ashamed you?
Speaker 7 (07:43):
So that's n Why should I be?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's to what I've been through. I think I deserve
a drink.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It didn't mean that I am mean throwing that hatchet
at I thought you were Meryle. Who's Merle? Why he
works for mister Chiselhurst. Yeah, that figure is not tell
me who mister Chiselhurst is, not who he worked, so
I just who he is.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
He was acting as my agent for the sale of
the pearl.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Well match match what please don't make me say what pearl?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
It's called the black Pearl of the Leader Bay.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
My brother brought it back to himself the city when
he was in the war, when he went to prison,
and gave it to me the chief for him.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
So you decided to sell it.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I had no choice. I needed the money desperately to
finance his appeals. For it comes up next week.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
If I don't get that pearl back, I don't know
what I'll do.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You gotta help me, and what makes you thiggets in
a gumball?
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Mister Chicklhurst took the pearl to show to a man
named Julius Eagle, and that's when it disappeared.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Mister Eagle decided not to buy. And when mister Chiselhurs returned.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
To the hotel, Eagle had farmed the pearl and subst
it at a ball of blackshack gum.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Then what mister had burl follow him?
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Nothing happened the first two days, but say before yesterday
he followed him to his warehouse and saw him drop
a single ball of gum into a bow of them.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Was wait need to be loaded onto a truck.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
It's the pearl must have been hidden in it. Why
else would you do anything like that?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Uh, he would put a valuable pearl in a machine
where anybody could buy it for a penny.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I suppose it would be safe for a few days.
I don't know how these machines work. Well, now you
know why I had to break those machines.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
You don't believe me?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Check the psycho was and find out which one you
escape from? Hell, mister Egel, Oh yeah, I just got in.
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I am. I've been out making my monthly collection. Hey,
I want to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
You're pulling down on my golf couver on my machine.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, I know, drum straight, I nailed a herdlem Ah,
who are you working for? Well, let me ask you
one did a man named Chiselhurst? Never try to sell
you a black pearl. Hello, you're still on the line.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You stop chewing? I ain't you better come over to
my house right away? Hello? Hello nuts. When I came
out of the phone booth, I wasn't surprised to find.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That you had blown the coop, darling, if I may
call you by your last name, but I was surprised
at what I founded my client's house. I rang the
front door bell and waited.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Nothing happened.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Then through the glass door I saw him man rush
out on the landing at the top of the stairs.
He half ran, half stumbled down the long flight to
the entrance hall. He hank open the door and tried
to shove past me.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I grabbed him. Get out of my wave. Wait a minute,
so I got to get a doctor. Plaiting. No, no, no,
not me.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
I got to get a doctor.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Why don't your phone They hit the wires the door,
I memorized as Mark lifted his wallet as we unplaced
and let him go. On the way upstairs, I checked
his ID cards. Higgins Morris l employer, Eagle.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Vending Machine Company, occupation maintenance.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Supervisor and the floor of a room at the top
of the stairs was quite a sight. The floor of
the room was covered almost completely with pennies. In the
middle of it, sprawled forward like a miser who had
been attacked while counting his hoard, was Junius j. E.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
The wound in the back of his neck could have
been caused by a small hatchet.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
There was the bookkeeper's account sheet open across the desk
and scrawled across the meat rows of figgers. There were
three words stayed, quver and eagle. The United States arm
Forces Radio Services presenting the weekly adventure of dash Hammud's
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famous private detectives, Sam Spade, and.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Now back to the quarter Eagle paper, the night's Adventure
with Sam Spade.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Thank you, Higgins, save yourself the trip upstairs. There's nothing
you can do for him, Jad huh, Yeah, I guess
he won't need that doctor I called. We can use
one anyway. Did you tell the doctor Ego has been stabbed? Yeah? Sure,
sure I did. Yeah. That means the lull come with
him or ahead of him. But I don't get it.
He must have been killed for the money. But why
didn't they kick the pennies? They should have looked better
for you if they had. Detective Hard Huh, that's right. Now, Look, Higgins,
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we haven't got much time. Do you want to find
out who killed your boss? Spill everything?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You know what I mean now before the cops get here,
because they're gonna hold you, and they'll hold me too
if they find me.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
But I don't know a thing's Spade.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I just found him like that. How did you get
in the house?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I have a key?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
He did me once, so when I.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Came here to pick up the pennies, he wouldn't have
to come all the way down to let me in.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And I'll tell the cops the door was open. Did
he always collect the pennies from the machines himself?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, yeah, he was a coin collector as a hobby.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
He liked to go through them and saved out the
odd ones.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
He always pick up the money at one in the am.
Oh no, no.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
He called me to night a little past midnight and
he asked me to come right over.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Hey, look, you gotta be lead that I do. He
said the same thing to me. What do you know
about a man named Chisel?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Hey, wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
That's the name of the guy that ran into my
truck yesterday coming down to Californian Incine near Grant.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
He slammed right into the rear of my truck. I
tangled with his chauffeur, some punk kid named Merle. Yes, yeah,
that's what they called him. And there was a name
in the car too, a redhead. And they report on
the accident.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
No, no, the cop took it down on the beat.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
There there wasn't no damage.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Sounds like we haven't got much more time. Oh what
exactly happened the night the first gun machine? And you
wrote was smasheduff?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Come on, First off, I went to a bowling alley
on Church Street and we moved on machine there.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
It was discontinued. Wait a minute, where did you take
it back to the shop? Oh? Wait a second, I
got it here in my book.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Come on, come on, all right, I'm hurrying here it
is the eleven sixty four.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
No, no, I exchanged it for an out of order
down on Drum Street.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Did you leave the pennies in it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Sure, sure, they only get collected once a month.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
How much gum was in? About half full? I didn't
refill it until today. Yeah, what's your system on the
refill operation?
Speaker 6 (14:07):
I carry about four extra machines in the truck. When
I go to fill a machine, I take one of
the extras already filled out of the.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Truck and trade for the empty.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Now, then I filled the empty went.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
In the truck, and that saved me from carrying the
bag around. Now is there anything else I can tell you? Yeah?
That's a quarter eagle mean anything to you? No? No?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Okay, Now where's the back door? That quarter Eagle wasn't
Was it a wrestling hole like the half Moulson.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I thought of asking Happy, but I was afraid she'd know.
I was sure that if I could find Shizzle Hurts,
I could get all the answers at once.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
That collition between his car and the rear aund A
Higgins truck was a good lead in more ways than one.
It meant the police party of story Darling was proved
because you neglected to.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Tell me that you Chizzlehurst from merl had been tailing
Higgins a point in the rounds of a gunball scene.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I checked the police report on the actually the car
was registered in Great Britain, the reports that transient talcal address.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And so to bed I brained. It was much Thanksgiving
and I was hitting a roast of quarter eagle and
a fandomtroll.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Good morning, sir, do you wish to play for classified
ed God?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Good morning to you, madam. Indeed I do d exit
missus blank kind you read it off this plank yees.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
Water Eagle insisted parties apply Sam Sade Sutter three step
three seven five nine six. That's right, it's nine words.
I'd like to charge you for three lines in a
way do anything you'd like.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
To add, Yes, but it's not set the prints banery, Yeah,
you got.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
It, sails speaking. I am some days.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Now, this is mister Spain himself. Look, I like to
talk to you personally. Where can I reach you?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Oh? I am by my shop to go from this
coffee shop? Okay, mister Zacharias, I'll be right over. Dam
wait a moment, talk to you. Why don't you do
more talking last night? My plant might be alive if
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you had.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Oh it's terrible, But how could I have known you.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Knew about the quarteragle. I'd just spend that year on
about the pearl.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Dead man. Sometimes do tell tales.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Surely you don't think that I had anything to do
with it.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It was only Hacket dead with a hatchet like the
one you threw at me. That makes you look fine?
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Oh I killed him.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That'll make you listen to me.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Damn, So go into that shop.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
You don't know that man Zachariat.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
He's the calls of all our troubled.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I mean, he sold you that hatchet. Damn, join me,
let go.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I won't like you to go in there.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I won't.
Speaker 10 (17:01):
I won't.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
What's going on here? What's your kids into the squabble.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Oh well, no, it's mister Stace.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah clans see his name here, just trying to pick
my pocket? Pick pocket? Is it? Guld be in such
a pretty good truth in my mind as plans. You
just haven't locked up.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I'll be down lighted and preferred charges. Uh well, anybody home?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Okay, Shells, just keep on walking straight through the back room.
One movement, I ripped your wide open. Yeah, but I'm
not mar Your boss might not like that. Smart guy
knows everybody's name.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Oh my god, the most proficious meeting you've brought the
porter Eagle.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Where's Zacharias he's resting at.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
The movement in beyond the closet? Oh no, no, no, no,
not dead nearly under a street abound and gain and necessary,
because well should we talk turkey or rather eagles.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Tell you a punk to take that knife on my room?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Has been quite a lot, file.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I think I'll take that night, sir. Wait bit there,
said headstrong boy.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Now, as to the quarter Eagle, I'm willing to pay
a reasonable reward for its recovery. The first time is
tell you that miss Darling, for whom I'm acting as
Adrian for the sale of the coin is indeed the
legal earner, despite anything mister Zacharias may have told you
from the contrary, What would you say through a five
hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I would say, no, dice one thousand, I would say,
I'm still listening, Sir, you you seem.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
To exaggerate the value of that tiny girld piece.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
It was worth one human life for somebody. That sounds
like more than a thousand bucks to me.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You may find the market valuation of that particular mintage
of the quarter eagle in my coin catalog ten thousand dollars.
But sir, that valuation is based upon the mistaken belief
that there were only two in existence. It was while
rummaging in her grandmother's attic that Miss Darling came up
on the third, which it brought it to me.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I could scarcely credit it. It was not an official record.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
The two specimens have been stamped out when the die broke,
and then it came today. There must have been a third,
namely the coin which was in that rude stamping press
when the die broke. A closer examination of a quarter
eagle now in the oppossession revealed certain markets some defective
feathers in the war won it on the obverse and
a cleavage and the numeral far of the date eighteen
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forty one.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, all right, So how much does it work?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Well, as I say, the price last pay was ten thousand,
I think we may safely assume it would bring several
times that amount into day's market, but only my due
if but two specimens not three art existence.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
So you decided it would be more profitable to clam
up about it and see what the owners of the
other two coins would pay to keep this one off
the market precisely, sir.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
How did it get that gun machine? Ah, they're in
light tail.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
Keep it short when you're getting hungry, Well, sir, I
brought the quarter eagle for mister Zacharyath, Yeah, who was
acting as agent for the So now the other two
coins an Australian sheep herder I.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Believe retired now, Yes, well, not to put too kind
a point on it, mister Zacharias's offer was so poor
that I took umbrage. I gave him a caning and
left the penis. But I had gone no farther than
the half a league up Turk Street when I became
aware that the two Ruffians were stucking at by heel sent.
I had no doubt to buy mister Zacharias to rob
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me of the quarter eagle. The gadswer the precisely, knowing
full well that they would not dare to strike in
a populous, well lighted result. I entered a Thurling alley
at the corner of Hyde Streets. No pun intended, thank
you for that.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
But there upon the wall I signed a.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Penny vending machine, and the were the eagle caught my eye.
Association of ideas dug out. That is how I came
to put the quarter eagle into mister Eagle's gum machine.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yes, I think I can tell you from there.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
When you went back to the machine had been taken
out by the Eagle Company's maintenance man.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Right, not quite.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
I caught him in a very active removing the machine
and followed him out of the building.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, but Daniel lost track of the machine. I found
out why on my mind that Now what I want
to know is who followed mister eagle horn the lady
was killed.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I'd rather not say than our beds are are one moment.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Am I to infer that your price for the quarter
eagles necessarily includes bringing the murderer to justice.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Just that, mister Hurst, Well.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I suppose there's nothing for it but to make the
supreme sacrifice me.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
You're double crossing favor.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Now you know perfectly well you did away with poor mister.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Shut up.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
I'll get you to pieces.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Close in subordination, you deliberately exceed your instructions. I want
you to apply only sufficient violence to recover the coin. Instead,
you seize the opportunity to satisfy your nauseating bloodlust.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Really cut you to pieces. I'll cut you a prie
rap the shem.
Speaker 11 (21:56):
That punk, Yeah, that was a pisa, the bation that boy.
Oh well, what's done is done, quidbit. I expected delivery
of the quarter eagle.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I have the mandsam to govern my embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I gagged him, manacled him to Merle and delivered the
package marked one murderer, one accessory to the dumbfounded millions
of the law, and that pom of Darling, I regret
to inform you, is still the crop. After I sprung
you from the pokey, I got hold of Higgins and
we went through every coin out of every Eagle gumball.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Machine in the city of San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It couldn't happen, but it did your quarter eagle, and
so we say no place, period, and.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
The report I'm disappointed in you, Well so am I, sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
But I'll forgive you if you found even one Indian
headpenny for that car.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, yeah, just one from that machine on drums. Oh
you want?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Oh, thank you. It's the old one and.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Older than I feel. Go type that up.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It's just money, it's just counterfeit.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
You sure, it's joke money.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It says two and one half dollars?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
You eat?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Where should say one cent? Two and a half dollars?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Let me say that two and a half dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
If an eagle is a ten dollar gold piece, what
is a two and a half dollar gold piece?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Let me see five dollars and half?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Right? A quarter ago? Yeah, let's just turn hones. See.
It's it's cool, really, it's shine like the stars in
your eyes. Sweet, good night, good night sweet.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
The Adventures of Sam Spade, AshEL Hammond's famous private detective,
are produced and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade is
played by Howard Dove. Thereen Cuttle is EPI.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
This is the United States Armed Forces Radio Service the
voice of information and education.
Speaker 10 (24:26):
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Speaker 3 (24:38):
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Yeah, vent yourself. Sam Spade detective to Thelma Darling.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Last name Sam Roger Thelma Roger Darling.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I only asked Sam, let's get on with it.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yes, Sam, I'm say Sam. Samuel Stade life is number
one two seventy nine six.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Subject subject the quarter eagle caper. Uh. Dear Thalma Darling
s yes, that.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Isn't that redundant again station fan. Shouldn't it be dear
Thelma or Thelma Darling?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Not both? Now I get this up. It's real deep.
Her name is Thelma Darling.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
I have that, Dear Thelma Roger Darling.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's a name.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Her father was a Dolling before saying can't you take
a joke on.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
The egg type? You should taste the label grade double
a fresh and Dear Thelma Dolling, I'm stubborn. Not all
of this will be news to you.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The part that is will be bad news. The start
of it was not a quarter eagle, but a bald eagle.
He swooped in through the door of my office, landing
in front of my desk, perched on the edge.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Of its chair, and said, my name is Eagle MISR.
Spade Junior's g Eagle. My card mm hmm Eagle Vending
Machine Company, and they call.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Me the gumball King.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I'm proud of it. I care to join me in
the ball, sir, Not while I'm on duty. It's very
good our new avocado flavor.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Yes, I've kept the day Area chewing for twenty years
and I will not befork my purpose, bully.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I intend to fight them to the nail.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Helen Pong the last Bravo. But I'll need help. That's
why I've come to you.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
My competitors, mister s Bad, are leaving no stone unturned
in their contemptable campaign to drive me out of business.
Now they've resorted to outright sabotage. In short, they have
hired hoodlums to destroy.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
My gumball machines.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
They've already smashed eleven, and they won't be content until
they've demolished my entire equipment.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
It sounds like a police case. I've been to the police. No,
they don't understand my problem.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Gave me a lot of double talk about juvenile delinquents. Hah,
my foot cutthroat competition.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
What would you think if theft were their motive?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
They most certainly would steal a pennies from the machines.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
But what do they take my gumballs? And why did
they do that? I'm bine, oh by all means?
Speaker 6 (02:46):
Oh yeah, by this our bestseller in Chinatown.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
We call it subgum. Better not I have to drive later.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
Now I had the foresight to buy up a three
years apply of chewing gum at non inflation prices.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Three.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
You can see with what thoroughners they encompass my ruination.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
They are not only smashing my machines.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
They're making off with my gum.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
And you want me to try and stop them? No,
I doing all. I want you to catch them in
the art and find out who.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
Is paying them.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well, okay, mister Ego, I'll see what I can do.
Good good, No, in this envelope in a list.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Of my machines and their exact locations, together with a
check for your retainer.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Thank you, mister Ego. I'll keep in touch with you.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Oh mystery, I meant to ask you how many of
these gum machines do you operate here in town?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Three hundred and guard them well?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Three hundred, three hundred nuts a three hundred guns gumball machines.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Wonderful you took this job. I mean because of my
penny card.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I'm sorry if I wasn't listening a chili.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Card, Stams my new one. That is, I've already completed
my Lincoln series and now I'm collecting Indian heads scouts,
No Sam, pennies.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You see.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
This is the card and piece of little flots you see,
like that's where you put the pennies and they're classified
according to the date and the mint where they're manufactured.
Thank you, Sam, with the little asses on me. But
that's what the San Francisco ment and the D that's
for Denver, and the ones with nothing that's the Washington DC.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yeah, well that's a very nice hobby. Pardon me, gumball machines.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You see, that's what I had mine, Sam, All those pennies.
Indian had pennies of scare Sam. You have to go
through a lot of pennies to find even one. Honestly,
sometimes when I go past them, those tanny machines, that's
all I can see.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Oh f this is all right between you and me.
But don't ever mention your hobby to mister Eagle little
mean this sweetheart. How does one detective god three hundred
gun ball machines scattered.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
All over the city.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Well, if they're going to smash all of them, you
could just kick out one in the middle and somewhere
and wait.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Good, it's an organized plan of sabotage. There might be
some pattern. You seem to have given us some frut though,
I think, how would you pick them in.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
The disney places where they'd have more pennies.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
But they're not after the pennies. They take the gums.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Maybe the quiet sections where they don't sell much stuff.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, they'd knocked over eleven so far, here, there and everywhere.
Busy spots, dead spots, no pattern at all.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You know, maybe I've bitten off more than I can chew.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I wasn't sold on mister Eagle's theory that the caper
was organized sabotage, but I decided to test it out anyway.
I learned the operation did follow a pattern, unless it
was coincidence that the eleven machines knocked over the previous
night were the same eleven machines that had been refilled
that afternoon. I checked with the even company's maintenance man
and learned that only five had been refilled to day.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I picked the one that looked like the easiest to
knock over.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
It was the one in the doorway of a darkened
loft building. There was Seemen's hiring hall.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
On Drum Street at nine and the PM. I strolled
down there. The black was deserted.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I took a plan to the adjacent doorway and talked
to myself and go just before midnight. When I shut up,
my heart skipped the beat as she passed under the
light red hair I secretary. Then I noticed how she
was ves not on the salary iPad. She paused before
the gum machine opened. A large handbag, stripped off her
long black gloves, dropped them in her purse, and so
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I got a small boy scout by patch.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
She went at it, and the enthusiasm of Perry Nation
busting out the saloon. I edged around the doorway.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
She bent over the mess of pennies and gun balls
at her feet. When she reached out her hand. I
took one more step and that was all. She was
up on her feet, facing me, and I saw that
hatchet sailing through the air straight at me.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Hey, Y see what your gun?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yeah, I'm sorry. I won't let it happen again. I
hope we don't.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Let's get out here the point.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, you're right, No, not that way the alley, and
that's how I met you, Tomma Darling, pausing only.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
To pick up an Indian headpenny for luck.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
I have scored at you through the alley to Washington
of Washington's salon, John drew Front Street, and followed out
the market, where we ended a happy hour barn grow
By way of the kitchen, you will perceived unfoldingly to
the darkas booth.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
We sat down and caught our breath. You ordered the
Pirate's Dream.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
By the way, I did get that recipe lime juice, grenadine,
passion fruit, a sprig of mint, and six jiggers a rum.
After two swallows, I heard myself saying, now what you
ashamed you?
Speaker 7 (07:43):
So that's n Why should I be?
Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's to what I've been through. I think I deserve
a drink.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It didn't mean that I am mean throwing that hatchet
at I thought you were Meryle. Who's Merle? Why he
works for mister Chiselhurst. Yeah, that figure is not tell
me who mister Chiselhurst is, not who he worked, so
I just who he is.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
He was acting as my agent for the sale of
the pearl.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Well match match what please don't make me say what pearl?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
It's called the black Pearl of the Leader Bay.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
My brother brought it back to himself the city when
he was in the war, when he went to prison,
and gave it to me the chief for him.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
So you decided to sell it.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I had no choice. I needed the money desperately to
finance his appeals. For it comes up next week.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
If I don't get that pearl back, I don't know
what I'll do.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You gotta help me, and what makes you thiggets in
a gumball?
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Mister Chicklhurst took the pearl to show to a man
named Julius Eagle, and that's when it disappeared.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Mister Eagle decided not to buy. And when mister Chiselhurs returned.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
To the hotel, Eagle had farmed the pearl and subst
it at a ball of blackshack gum.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Then what mister had burl follow him?
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Nothing happened the first two days, but say before yesterday
he followed him to his warehouse and saw him drop
a single ball of gum into a bow of them.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Was wait need to be loaded onto a truck.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
It's the pearl must have been hidden in it. Why
else would you do anything like that?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Uh, he would put a valuable pearl in a machine
where anybody could buy it for a penny.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I suppose it would be safe for a few days.
I don't know how these machines work. Well, now you
know why I had to break those machines.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
You don't believe me?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
What are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Check the psycho was and find out which one you
escape from? Hell, mister Egel, Oh yeah, I just got in.
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I am. I've been out making my monthly collection. Hey,
I want to talk to you.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
You're pulling down on my golf couver on my machine.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, I know, drum straight, I nailed a herdlem Ah,
who are you working for? Well, let me ask you
one did a man named Chiselhurst? Never try to sell
you a black pearl. Hello, you're still on the line.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You stop chewing? I ain't you better come over to
my house right away? Hello? Hello nuts. When I came
out of the phone booth, I wasn't surprised to find.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That you had blown the coop, darling, if I may
call you by your last name, but I was surprised
at what I founded my client's house. I rang the
front door bell and waited.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Nothing happened.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Then through the glass door I saw him man rush
out on the landing at the top of the stairs.
He half ran, half stumbled down the long flight to
the entrance hall. He hank open the door and tried
to shove past me.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I grabbed him. Get out of my wave. Wait a minute,
so I got to get a doctor. Plaiting. No, no, no,
not me.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
I got to get a doctor.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Why don't your phone They hit the wires the door,
I memorized as Mark lifted his wallet as we unplaced
and let him go. On the way upstairs, I checked
his ID cards. Higgins Morris l employer, Eagle.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Vending Machine Company, occupation maintenance.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Supervisor and the floor of a room at the top
of the stairs was quite a sight. The floor of
the room was covered almost completely with pennies. In the
middle of it, sprawled forward like a miser who had
been attacked while counting his hoard, was Junius j. E.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
The wound in the back of his neck could have
been caused by a small hatchet.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
There was the bookkeeper's account sheet open across the desk
and scrawled across the meat rows of figgers. There were
three words stayed, quver and eagle. The United States arm
Forces Radio Services presenting the weekly adventure of dash Hammud's
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famous private detectives, Sam Spade, and.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Now back to the quarter Eagle paper, the night's Adventure
with Sam Spade.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Thank you, Higgins, save yourself the trip upstairs. There's nothing
you can do for him, Jad huh, Yeah, I guess
he won't need that doctor I called. We can use
one anyway. Did you tell the doctor Ego has been stabbed? Yeah? Sure,
sure I did. Yeah. That means the lull come with
him or ahead of him. But I don't get it.
He must have been killed for the money. But why
didn't they kick the pennies? They should have looked better
for you if they had. Detective Hard Huh, that's right. Now, Look, Higgins,
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we haven't got much time. Do you want to find
out who killed your boss? Spill everything?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
You know what I mean now before the cops get here,
because they're gonna hold you, and they'll hold me too
if they find me.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
But I don't know a thing's Spade.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I just found him like that. How did you get
in the house?
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I have a key?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
He did me once, so when I.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
Came here to pick up the pennies, he wouldn't have
to come all the way down to let me in.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And I'll tell the cops the door was open. Did
he always collect the pennies from the machines himself?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, yeah, he was a coin collector as a hobby.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
He liked to go through them and saved out the
odd ones.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
He always pick up the money at one in the am.
Oh no, no.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
He called me to night a little past midnight and
he asked me to come right over.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Hey, look, you gotta be lead that I do. He
said the same thing to me. What do you know
about a man named Chisel?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
Hey, wait a minute, Wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
That's the name of the guy that ran into my
truck yesterday coming down to Californian Incine near Grant.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
He slammed right into the rear of my truck. I
tangled with his chauffeur, some punk kid named Merle. Yes, yeah,
that's what they called him. And there was a name
in the car too, a redhead. And they report on
the accident.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
No, no, the cop took it down on the beat.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
There there wasn't no damage.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Sounds like we haven't got much more time. Oh what
exactly happened the night the first gun machine? And you
wrote was smasheduff?
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Come on, First off, I went to a bowling alley
on Church Street and we moved on machine there.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
It was discontinued. Wait a minute, where did you take
it back to the shop? Oh? Wait a second, I
got it here in my book.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Come on, come on, all right, I'm hurrying here it
is the eleven sixty four.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
No, no, I exchanged it for an out of order
down on Drum Street.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Did you leave the pennies in it? Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Sure, sure, they only get collected once a month.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
How much gum was in? About half full? I didn't
refill it until today. Yeah, what's your system on the
refill operation?
Speaker 6 (14:07):
I carry about four extra machines in the truck. When
I go to fill a machine, I take one of
the extras already filled out of the.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Truck and trade for the empty.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Now, then I filled the empty went.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
In the truck, and that saved me from carrying the
bag around. Now is there anything else I can tell you? Yeah?
That's a quarter eagle mean anything to you? No? No?
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Okay, Now where's the back door? That quarter Eagle wasn't
Was it a wrestling hole like the half Moulson.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
I thought of asking Happy, but I was afraid she'd know.
I was sure that if I could find Shizzle Hurts,
I could get all the answers at once.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
That collition between his car and the rear aund A
Higgins truck was a good lead in more ways than one.
It meant the police party of story Darling was proved
because you neglected to.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Tell me that you Chizzlehurst from merl had been tailing
Higgins a point in the rounds of a gunball scene.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I checked the police report on the actually the car
was registered in Great Britain, the reports that transient talcal address.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And so to bed I brained. It was much Thanksgiving
and I was hitting a roast of quarter eagle and
a fandomtroll.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
Good morning, sir, do you wish to play for classified
ed God?
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Good morning to you, madam. Indeed I do d exit
missus blank kind you read it off this plank yees.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
Water Eagle insisted parties apply Sam Sade Sutter three step
three seven five nine six. That's right, it's nine words.
I'd like to charge you for three lines in a
way do anything you'd like.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
To add, Yes, but it's not set the prints banery, Yeah,
you got.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
It, sails speaking. I am some days.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Now, this is mister Spain himself. Look, I like to
talk to you personally. Where can I reach you?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Oh? I am by my shop to go from this
coffee shop? Okay, mister Zacharias, I'll be right over. Dam
wait a moment, talk to you. Why don't you do
more talking last night? My plant might be alive if
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you had.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Oh it's terrible, But how could I have known you.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Knew about the quarteragle. I'd just spend that year on
about the pearl.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Dead man. Sometimes do tell tales.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
Surely you don't think that I had anything to do
with it.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
It was only Hacket dead with a hatchet like the
one you threw at me. That makes you look fine?
Speaker 6 (16:48):
Oh I killed him.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That'll make you listen to me.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Damn, So go into that shop.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
You don't know that man Zachariat.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
He's the calls of all our troubled.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I mean, he sold you that hatchet. Damn, join me,
let go.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I won't like you to go in there.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I won't.
Speaker 10 (17:01):
I won't.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
What's going on here? What's your kids into the squabble.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Oh well, no, it's mister Stace.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah clans see his name here, just trying to pick
my pocket? Pick pocket? Is it? Guld be in such
a pretty good truth in my mind as plans. You
just haven't locked up.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I'll be down lighted and preferred charges. Uh well, anybody home?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Okay, Shells, just keep on walking straight through the back room.
One movement, I ripped your wide open. Yeah, but I'm
not mar Your boss might not like that. Smart guy
knows everybody's name.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Oh my god, the most proficious meeting you've brought the
porter Eagle.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Where's Zacharias he's resting at.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
The movement in beyond the closet? Oh no, no, no, no,
not dead nearly under a street abound and gain and necessary,
because well should we talk turkey or rather eagles.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Tell you a punk to take that knife on my room?
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Has been quite a lot, file.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
I think I'll take that night, sir. Wait bit there,
said headstrong boy.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Now, as to the quarter Eagle, I'm willing to pay
a reasonable reward for its recovery. The first time is
tell you that miss Darling, for whom I'm acting as
Adrian for the sale of the coin is indeed the
legal earner, despite anything mister Zacharias may have told you
from the contrary, What would you say through a five
hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I would say, no, dice one thousand, I would say,
I'm still listening, Sir, you you seem.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
To exaggerate the value of that tiny girld piece.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
It was worth one human life for somebody. That sounds
like more than a thousand bucks to me.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You may find the market valuation of that particular mintage
of the quarter eagle in my coin catalog ten thousand dollars.
But sir, that valuation is based upon the mistaken belief
that there were only two in existence. It was while
rummaging in her grandmother's attic that Miss Darling came up
on the third, which it brought it to me.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I could scarcely credit it. It was not an official record.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
The two specimens have been stamped out when the die broke,
and then it came today. There must have been a third,
namely the coin which was in that rude stamping press
when the die broke. A closer examination of a quarter
eagle now in the oppossession revealed certain markets some defective
feathers in the war won it on the obverse and
a cleavage and the numeral far of the date eighteen
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forty one.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, all right, So how much does it work?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Well, as I say, the price last pay was ten thousand,
I think we may safely assume it would bring several
times that amount into day's market, but only my due
if but two specimens not three art existence.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
So you decided it would be more profitable to clam
up about it and see what the owners of the
other two coins would pay to keep this one off
the market precisely, sir.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
How did it get that gun machine? Ah, they're in
light tail.
Speaker 10 (19:53):
Keep it short when you're getting hungry, Well, sir, I
brought the quarter eagle for mister Zacharyath, Yeah, who was
acting as agent for the So now the other two
coins an Australian sheep herder I.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Believe retired now, Yes, well, not to put too kind
a point on it, mister Zacharias's offer was so poor
that I took umbrage. I gave him a caning and
left the penis. But I had gone no farther than
the half a league up Turk Street when I became
aware that the two Ruffians were stucking at by heel sent.
I had no doubt to buy mister Zacharias to rob
(20:25):
me of the quarter eagle. The gadswer the precisely, knowing
full well that they would not dare to strike in
a populous, well lighted result. I entered a Thurling alley
at the corner of Hyde Streets. No pun intended, thank
you for that.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
But there upon the wall I signed a.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Penny vending machine, and the were the eagle caught my eye.
Association of ideas dug out. That is how I came
to put the quarter eagle into mister Eagle's gum machine.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yes, I think I can tell you from there.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
When you went back to the machine had been taken
out by the Eagle Company's maintenance man.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Right, not quite.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
I caught him in a very active removing the machine
and followed him out of the building.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, but Daniel lost track of the machine. I found
out why on my mind that Now what I want
to know is who followed mister eagle horn the lady
was killed.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I'd rather not say than our beds are are one moment.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Am I to infer that your price for the quarter
eagles necessarily includes bringing the murderer to justice.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Just that, mister Hurst, Well.
Speaker 4 (21:22):
I suppose there's nothing for it but to make the
supreme sacrifice me.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
You're double crossing favor.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Now you know perfectly well you did away with poor mister.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Shut up.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
I'll get you to pieces.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Close in subordination, you deliberately exceed your instructions. I want
you to apply only sufficient violence to recover the coin. Instead,
you seize the opportunity to satisfy your nauseating bloodlust.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Really cut you to pieces. I'll cut you a prie
rap the shem.
Speaker 11 (21:56):
That punk, Yeah, that was a pisa, the bation that boy.
Oh well, what's done is done, quidbit. I expected delivery
of the quarter eagle.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
I have the mandsam to govern my embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
I gagged him, manacled him to Merle and delivered the
package marked one murderer, one accessory to the dumbfounded millions
of the law, and that pom of Darling, I regret
to inform you, is still the crop. After I sprung
you from the pokey, I got hold of Higgins and
we went through every coin out of every Eagle gumball.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
Machine in the city of San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
It couldn't happen, but it did your quarter eagle, and
so we say no place, period, and.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
The report I'm disappointed in you, Well so am I, sweetheart.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
But I'll forgive you if you found even one Indian
headpenny for that car.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Yeah, yeah, just one from that machine on drums. Oh
you want?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Oh, thank you. It's the old one and.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
Older than I feel. Go type that up.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It's just money, it's just counterfeit.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
You sure, it's joke money.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
It says two and one half dollars?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
You eat?
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Where should say one cent? Two and a half dollars?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Let me say that two and a half dollars.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
If an eagle is a ten dollar gold piece, what
is a two and a half dollar gold piece?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Let me see five dollars and half?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Right? A quarter ago? Yeah, let's just turn hones. See.
It's it's cool, really, it's shine like the stars in
your eyes. Sweet, good night, good night sweet.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
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are produced and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade is
played by Howard Dove. Thereen Cuttle is EPI.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
This is the United States Armed Forces Radio Service the
voice of information and education.
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