August 15, 2024 • 37 mins
Today's Mystery: A man is murdered after having a fight with his wife over their child.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 19, 1949
Originating from New York City
Starring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon; Frank Butler as Sergeant Dave Arnold
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 19, 1949
Originating from New York City
Starring: Karl Swenson as Mister Chameleon; Frank Butler as Sergeant Dave Arnold
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But now it is time for this week's episode of
Mister Chameleon. The original air d eight October nineteenth, nineteen
forty nine, and the title is The Unwanted Child Murder Clue.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Next Mister Chameleon and the Unwanted Child Murder Clue. Tonight
(02:08):
we again present the famous Mister Cameleon of Central Police
Headquarters in his famous cases of crime and murder, brought
to you by the makers of genuine bay or aspirin.
Mister Camellion, as you know, is the famous and dreaded
detective who frequently uses a disguise to track down a killer,
a disguise which at all times is recognized by the audience.
(02:31):
Tonight we give you, mister Camelion, in the Unwonted Child
Murder Clue. There is nothing quite so sad as a
love which has been poisoned and which has turned into
something bitter and unhappy. And as Stanley Sampson faces his
(02:54):
wife Adele across the dinner table, his words like a knife,
strike deep into her heart.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Answer me it ill, what's happened to you? Why are
you acting this way about my son?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Your son Jimmy is my son too?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
An actors, if you cared from a little won't you?
You act like he's an unwanted child?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Stanley, I do want him, I.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Love him, Yes, you do. Then why do you refuse
to have other children before we will marriage? You said
you wanted several, now even poor little Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
This morning, Stanley, I can't explain.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Don't try to explain. Your actions speak louder than words. Anyhow,
My uncle John and Felicia have both asked about your
lack of affection for Jimmy. It's obvious to everyone, is it.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Well, let me tell you something, Stanley, your uncle and
his ward, I have no right to criticize my behavior
toward my son. They have no right to be living
here under this roof. Oh no, it's not nonsense. Jimmy
is my concern, not their. Being a good mother is
a twenty four hour a day job, and it's my job,
not yours. I know what's best for Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It's my job too. I happen to love Jimmy, Adele.
I wanted to force and the custody of my son Stanley.
I'm sorry, but that's the way I feel about things now, Jimmy,
you'll be much better off with me alone.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
No, that's not true.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I won't let you have him.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
You ruin him, Stanley, and I'll never let you have him.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But the following morning, in the big Samson House in
the East sixties, things seem to be calmer, at least
on the surface, and at the breakfast table, Adele sits
pouring the coffee while Stanley's white haired uncle John says
to her gently.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
That's quite enough.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
For deal.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
I've already had one cup. By the way, we're Stanley.
He's late, isn't he.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
He's having his first cup of coffee in his study.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
He usually does, but then he always comes in here
for something to eat.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
Time he started for the office. I'd better call him, Adele.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Oh, leave him alone, Uncle John. He'll come when he's ready.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
It's getting laid a doll. I'd better call him Stanley Stanley, Adell.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
You sure he's in the study.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I'm not sure of anything.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
I'd better see Stanley Stanley. Good to heavens, Adele. He's
lying on the floor. He must be ill.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Adele. He's dead.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And shortly afterwards we find mister Camellion, the Great Detective,
examining the sprawling body of Stanley Samson while Adele Samson
looks on, weeping softly. Mister Cameleon says to Detective Dave Arnold, Dave, hand.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Me that cup of coffee on the table, an please,
you think.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
It's poisoned, mister Cameleon.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
I'm almost sure that's what killed him. Smelling mm hmmm, yes,
that's poisoned, all right, missus Sampson.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Yes, mister to commedian who.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Brought your husband this coffine?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
What?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I honestly don't know. Stanley always had his first cup
in here in the study. He always said he wasn't
fit to speak to anyone till he had his coffee.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Well, who usually brings it to him?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I think Agnes? Agnes Loose. She's my son's nurse. She
was mine when I was a child.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
Dave, you're going to fetch your place, yes, mister commedian,
Missus Sampson, I suppose you tell me what you know
about this murder? Do you know of anyone who might
have wanted to kill your husband?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I can't imagine, mister Commedian. Stanley was difficult, but I
loved him. I loved him.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
In this investigation, I shall have to ask many questions
of many people. Now. If that is anything that you
can tell me, I should rather hear it from you.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Stanley and I had a quarrel just last night, mister Kmedion,
what I can't tell you.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
It has nothing to do with poor Stanley's death.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
It might have, let me be the gentle, No, it hasn't.
The very fact that the thought of that quarrel upsets
you suggests that it may have a bearing on the case.
Speaker 10 (07:09):
Mister Camelion.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
If the thought of that quarrel upsets me, it's because
my husband is dead and we quarreled before he died.
It's too horrible.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Did you love your husband, Missus Simpson? Are you sorry
that he's dead?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Of course, I'm sorry that he's dead, but I yes,
mister Conmedion.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Do you believe in heredity?
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Heredity?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Yes, I do. I wish I didn't, but I.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
Dose the nurse.
Speaker 8 (07:39):
Oh come in, miss Lowise. I'm chameleon of Central Police Headquarters.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Oh you are? Are you?
Speaker 11 (07:45):
I'm What right does that give you to make my
poor lamb cry?
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Mister Darle, It's all right, I'm here.
Speaker 10 (07:51):
Agnes is here. She won't let anyone hurt you. She
never has, has she for Agnes.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
It isn't mister chameleon who makes me cry.
Speaker 11 (08:01):
No, but you didn't kill him, deary, and no cop
can make you say you did.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
Look here, you can't talk to mister Camelion.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
That's all right, Dave Agnes. You seem to be devoted
to Missus Simpson.
Speaker 10 (08:12):
I should be.
Speaker 11 (08:13):
I nursed her an our little Jimmy, and.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
You wouldn't let anyone hurt her. Not even her husband.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
And what do you mean by that?
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Who brought him his morning coffin?
Speaker 11 (08:21):
Why I did, mister Comeleion, Sure you don't think I
killed him.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
I haven't said that. He was poisoned, Agnes. And the
poison was in his coffee.
Speaker 11 (08:31):
And a lot of people could have put it there.
He had his own special coffee pot.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I suppose mister Comedion even thinks that I might have
done it, Agnes, and.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
He ought to be a shamed mister Cameleon. This nurse
maid is getting out of hand.
Speaker 11 (08:41):
If you ask me, I didn't mean anything, mister Comedian,
I just yes, sir, go Onnes.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
Mister a Dyle wouldn't hurt anyone.
Speaker 11 (08:49):
It was her husband, Stanley Sampson, who was selfish and
maybe worse than selfish.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
What do you mean he hurt Adele?
Speaker 11 (08:55):
He had no business to have his uncle John living
here in the house. He had no business having that
girl under the same What girl Felicia Waters mister John's ward.
She's too young, too pretty, and she was crazy about
mister Sampson.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
Is this true, mister Sampson? Was this girl in love
with your husband?
Speaker 11 (09:09):
I can't answer that, mister Commedie when I can, mister Dale,
I found a note he wrote to her once, to
miss Felicia Walters. It was left lying in a book,
and that note showed what was going on. It's wicked
that they should all have been under the same roof.
There's no wonder mister Dale's been acting so strange about Jimmy.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
I see Agnes. Missus Sampson, have you been acting strangely?
Mut your son?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Mister Comedian?
Speaker 8 (09:34):
Is that why you spoke of herredity? Just now? You
were saying that you believed in it when Agnes walked in?
What does herredity have to do with it? With your child,
with your husband's murder?
Speaker 10 (09:42):
Nothing, I swear, mister Comedian.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Nothing, Dave. Where is Felicia Waters in the next room?
Speaker 9 (09:49):
Mister comeleon?
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Will you wait here? Missus Sampson plays, I may want
you very shortly, and you too, Agnes, Yester.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
You'd better think of a better explanation, Agnes, of how
it happened to be you who took Stanley's mson has
poisoned coffee.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
Mister Camelion, hey, will you stay with him please while
I talk to Felicia Waters, Miss Walters. I am chameleon
of Central Police headquarters.
Speaker 10 (10:12):
How do you do, mister Comeleion, I heard you were here.
If there's anything I can do, of course, I know
there's nothing I can do which will bring Stanley back
to life.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
No, I'm afraid there isn't. Miss Walters. Have you been
living here in Stanley Sampson's house very long?
Speaker 10 (10:29):
About six months? Stanley's uncle John is my guardian. You know,
he'd been having a rather hard time financially, and Stanley
was kind enough to insist that we come here.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Well, that's been rather hard on mister Sampson, isn't it.
What do you mean, Well, Miss Walters, you're a very
attractive girl. I understand that mister Sampson was very much
in love with you.
Speaker 10 (10:49):
In love with me, Mister Comelion, who told you a
thing like that?
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Agnes Loose, the nurse men.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
I might have known. Agnes is a pathetic, on balanced
old woman. She's fiercely possessive of Adele and Jimmy. It's
really very unhealthy. Stanley thought so too, to the.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Point where he wanted to divorce her, Miss Walters.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
I think so his uncle John knew more about that than.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
I do, Miss Walters. Stanley Sampson was a careless man.
What I say he was a careless man. He is
the thought of man who leaves personal letters lying around
in books.
Speaker 10 (11:25):
I don't understand, mister Comedian.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
A letter was found hidden in a book, a letter
from Stanley Sampson to you, showing quite clearly that he
was infatuated with you.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
And how do you know that nurse maid Agnes didn't
make that up?
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Did she nothink? Think carefully before you reply, for all
you know, that letter may be in my possession.
Speaker 10 (11:48):
Mister camel And it's quite true that Stanley wrote me
occasional notes, but we meant nothing to each other, not anymore.
We may have once before is married, but that was
just a boy and girl affair. Believe me, it ended
a long time ago.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
I what about missus Sampson? Do you like her? Miss Waters?
Speaker 10 (12:07):
Very much? I feel terribly sorry for Adele, though I'm
sorry for little Jimmy too.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Do you mean that she is not a good mother she.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Tries to be, mister Camedian. I'm afraid Jimmy is an
unwanted child and she has such a phobia about that's
none of my business.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
Well it may be mine, Miss Waters, what is this
phobia about her editor?
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (12:30):
How did you know? That's it all Adele talks about,
mister Cameleon is heredity? Heredity? Oh? John, Oh, mister Camelion.
This is Stanley's uncle John and my guardian, mister Clark.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
How do you know, mister Clark? Did you have some
reason for interrupting your words so sharply when she was
telling me about Adele Sampson's abnormal concern with her editor.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I didn't mean to interrupt, mister Cameleon.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
No, mister Clark. It was you who discovered your nephew's body,
wasn't it.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Yes, it was a hideous shock. Of course, Stanley wasn't
the easiest man in the world to live with, but
I was very.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
Fond of him. Would you say he was a good
husband in many ways, yes, and a good father. He
loved little Jimmy very much more than his mother. Does.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
I rather not answer that, mister Camellion.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
In other words, yes, why is Adele Sampson afraid of heredity?
Mister Cameleon, you're asking some very strange questions. Why not
try to find out who gave Stanley the poisoned coffee?
Seemed to me that'd be much more.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
To the point.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
On the contrary, mister Clark, any one in this house
could have poisoned the cafe. I want to know about
the child and heredity angle. Now what's it all about?
What's behind him?
Speaker 9 (13:42):
Nothing?
Speaker 8 (13:43):
I'm sure they shall say, mister Sampson, will you come
in here please?
Speaker 9 (13:49):
What are you going to do, mister Camelion.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
I tend to find out how the child enters into it,
Missus Sampson. Yes, mister Comeleian, would you say that you've
been a good mother to your child?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
What if Uncle John and Felicia said that I haven't.
It's a dreadful injustice to me. Oh we didn't say that, Adele,
of course you did.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Everyone thinks I don't love my Jimmy. Even Stanley believed it.
That's what broke my heart. And it's not true. It
just isn't true that I don't love my son Jimmy.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
But then what is true, Missus Sampson. Why does everyone
think that you don't love him? I I can't tell you,
Missus Samson. Now, your actions so far indicate to me
that you're deeply attached to your son, almost to the
point of an obsession.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Yes, mister Camelion, that's why. But I'm so strict with him,
I'm afraid.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Go on, Missus Samson, No, I don't wait, don't say
something you'll be sorry for.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Mister Clark. Keep out of this place.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Can't bear it any longer. I can't bear to have
people believe I don't love my child.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
And tell me the truth, Missus Samson.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Mister Camelion, my husband, Stanley had a criminal record, and
I was afraid that my son would inherit his father's
criminal tendencies. I couldn't tell Stanley. I knew, I couldn't
tell anybody. I've been carrying that knowledge alone for months.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Who told you that your husband had a criminal record?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
He did, Uncle John Adele.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
That's ridiculous, mister Camellion. She's been completely unbalanced by Stanley's death.
I should think she might make her husband was ruthlessly murdered.
But whether her statement is a fact or a figment
of her imagination, that is the clue that's going to
lead me to Stanley Sampson's murderer, Mister Camellion, and the.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Unwonted child murder clue continues.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
In just a moment.
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back to mister Cameleon, and the unwonted child murder clue.
The poisoned death of Stanley Samson has had strange ramifications
involving his wife Adele, and his uncle John, and even
his small son Jimmy, the child that everyone believed was unwanted.
And now, some time later, in the library of the
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Samson home, we find mister Cameleon looking over the bookshelves
and saying to Detective Dave Arnold.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
A, Dave, look at this half a dozen books on
her edit. Adel Sampson was certainly obsessed by this subject.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
And a woman who is obsessed can be dangerous, mister Comelion,
dangerous enough to kill.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Yes, you're quite right, Dave. If this thing grew in
her mind, it's fair that her son might inherit his
father's criminal tendencies. It might very easily drive her over
the edge to murder. What about the old guy, Uncle John, Dave?
He denied that he told her that her husband had
a criminal record. So one of them is lying, either
Uncle John or missus Sampson. Oh, I'll take it, Dame.
(17:54):
I asked the commissioner to call me here. Hello, Hello Camellia. Yes, Commissioner,
I thought it might be you any news.
Speaker 12 (18:03):
Only as far as we can find out, Stanley Sampson
had no criminal record whatsoever. He was a highly respected man.
He was never in trouble with the police.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
That is very interesting. Either Missus Sampson imagined it, or
Stanley Sampson's uncle John deliberately lied to him.
Speaker 12 (18:19):
You really think that's the heart of the matter.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Yes, Commissioner, somehow or other. Missus Sampson's fear of heredity
has something to do with her husband's murder.
Speaker 12 (18:26):
What about the Samson house if you turned up any
more clues.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Well, that depends on whether you think books can talk.
I do, and Stanley Sampson's library's been telling me plenty. Oh,
Simmon's coming. I'll be a police headquartersmen in the Commissioner good.
Speaker 12 (18:41):
Meanwhile, I'll put three men on the Sampson household, Comleion,
so the whole family can be shadowed.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
Are you better make it for Commissioner? The nurse maid
Agnes loose will bear watching too? Goodbye is the chameleon? Oh, Agnes,
So it's you I heard coming down the hall. Well,
what have we heard?
Speaker 10 (19:00):
Some hot coffee? Mister chameleon?
Speaker 8 (19:02):
Well, isn't that thoughtful? Just what Detective Ronald and I
need tiring business searching a house for clues to it?
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Madam, what makes you think you'll find any here in
the library, My.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Dear Agnes, you never know where you're going to find
a vital clue. But leave the coffee on the table,
and thank you very much. Oh uh, Agnes. About mister
Sampson's uncle John, do you know very much about his
financial affairs?
Speaker 11 (19:25):
I only know he lived off mister Sampson, him and
his ward, and I know he expects to inherit money
from mister Sampson, money that you're rightfully go to. Missus Sampson,
and I don't trust him, and I don't trust his
ward for these your waters.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
And you hated the murdered man. In fact, you hate
everyone in the family, Agnes, except Adl Sampson and little Jimmy.
Speaker 10 (19:44):
You can't blame me, Detective Bartle.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
They're my whole life, mister chameleon. Don't let your coffee
get cold, No it won't, Agnes. Thanks again, quite a
household day a del Sampson frantic with the belief that
her husband is a criminal. Mister uncle John, who if
he did say that his nephew Stanley Sampson had a
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criminal record, deliberately like mister Commernion, and pretty Felicia Walters,
and an old nursemaid whose whole life, as she says,
is Adel Sampson and her son, and who admits that
she hated Samson. Quite a household.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Mister Communion, put down that coffee?
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Why they surely you don't think I intend to drink it?
Not a chance. This coffee is being taken to Central
Police Headquarters to be analyzed to see if it contains
any poison. And some time later at police headquarters we
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find mister Cameleon restlessly pacing his office, and the impatience
in his voice when he speaks to Detective Dave Arnold
is extremely unusual for him. Where the devil is that
laboratory report? Why do they send it in that coffee?
Ana lies by? Now?
Speaker 9 (21:01):
I imagine they're doing it as fast as I can,
mister Camellion.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
That's not fast enough, speed, Dave. Speed. It's of vital importance.
I feel more so in this case than almost any
case I've ever handled. But why, mister Commillion, Because Stanley
Sampson's murderer. If they tried to kill me, it's badly frightened,
and a badly frightened killer is almost sure to strike again.
Chameleon speaking, Oh yes, Ed, have you got a laboratory
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report for me?
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Huh?
Speaker 8 (21:30):
I see you all right? Ed, thank you? That's it,
Dave poisoned. The coffee was poisoned. They tried to kill
me the way they killed Stanley Sampson and I. Agnes,
the nurse, may have brought that coffee to you. That
may or may not prove a thing. What is proven
is that the killer is cornered, terrified, and we've got
to move fast, terrifically fast.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
What are you going to do, mister Camenia Dave?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Whoever put poison in my coffee did so because they
thought I was getting close to the truth. Well, I'm
going to pretend that I'm closer than I am. I'm
going to pretend that I've hit on the truth. How
this evening, Dave, I want you to go to Sampson's home.
Get them all together at del Sampson, Uncle John, Felicia Walters, Agnes,
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put them through a routine questioning, but have them all
in one room, and what about you. I'll arrive about
nine o'clock after the neighborhood lending library closes the what
the lending library as one right around the corner from
the Sampson home, And Dave, when you see me, I
shall be in disguise, disguised as Harry Chandler, the man
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who runs the lending library.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
And so that night, a little after nine o'clock, we
find mister Cameleon disguised as Harry Chandler, a very prim
young man wearing horn rimmed glasses. And when Agnes, the
Samson's nursemaid opens the door, mister Cameleon speaks, in the
voice of his disguise, how do you do My name
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is Chandler. Are you Missus Sampson.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
No, I'm Agnus Loose, the nurse What can I do
for you?
Speaker 8 (23:11):
Well, there's Missus Sampson. Then yes, but she's busy. I
understand that mister Sampson was murdered, and I have a
note here, a note which was written to him.
Speaker 10 (23:23):
What let me have it.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
I'm sorry, if you don't mind, I'd rather turn it
over to Missus Sampson herself. Very well, come in.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
This way please.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
They're all in the living room being questioned by the police.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
Oh really, well, of course, this note may not be important.
But on the other hand, oh dear, there are a
lot of people in there, aren't there. Well, maybe I
better not well, no, I guess I will.
Speaker 11 (23:54):
Is it Samson? Heyes, Agnes, there's a gentleman here to
see you something about mister Sampson.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
His name is Chandler.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
How do you do, mister Chandler. This is miss Waters.
How do you do, mister Clark? And Detective Isnold? How
did you have something to say to me but my
dead husband?
Speaker 8 (24:14):
Yes, mister Sampson. You see, I'm a librarian, that is,
I worked the lending library right around the corner. You see.
I read in the paper that mister Sampson.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
Was dead murdered, mister Chandler.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
Oh, yess quite so, Detective Arnold. Well, anyway, mister Sampson
had a bad habit of leaving notes and what have
you in the books that he returned to my lending library.
What do you mean, Well, just that, mister Sampson, just
that the day before your husband was murdered, he returned
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the book to the library, and in it I found
a note, very personal note, and well I felt it
should be given to you, author of the police are
the police, because, frankly, Detective Arnold, it throws a light
on the murder.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
And we have that note, mister Chandler.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
Well, I really don't know if I should, Detective I said,
let me have it. Oh, well, of course if you insist.
See where is it? Oh it's right hair.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
No, no, give me that note. Give me, mister Chandler,
that note belongs.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
To me, You don't say, Miss Walters, that's very interesting. Yes,
mister Chandler. The librarian does not exist, and neither is
the note that you claim is yours, Miss Walters. But you, sir,
you've been searching for that note, Miss Walters, I knew
someone had been searching frantically for a note. The books
in the Sampson library told me that there isn't one
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of them that has dust on it. They've all been searched.
You were desperate, miss Walters, because you'd written Stanley Sampson
a letter which was extremely incriminating, which showed that you
were in love with him, and it was you who
kept the infatuation alive, and you expected him to divoid
his wife and marry you, and when he wouldn't, you
killed him in a jealous rage.
Speaker 10 (26:03):
No, John, don't let him say these things.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
Also, it was you who suggested to Agnes the nurse made,
that she bring me the coffee which you had poisoned.
Speaker 10 (26:10):
Yes, mister Kremian, for that, she did suggest it. That's
quite true.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Lying all the evidences against you, Felicia Walters, you alone
tried to break up Stanley Sampson's marriage, and then you
murdered him.
Speaker 10 (26:21):
But John encouraged me. He engineered everything. John did tell
the lie about Stanley being a criminal. He thought if
Stanley was married to me, we'd be better off financially.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Which was a wicked thing to do, almost as vicious
as murder. Nevertheless, it was you, miss Walters, who killed him,
and it's you will stand trial alone. And David, she's
putting something in the mouth.
Speaker 9 (26:41):
Give me, give it from me here I wanted done.
She tried to swallow a capsule of poison. Mister Comedian. Yes,
that does it.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
That does it, the same poison I'm sure that Felicia
used to kill Stanley Sampson and with which he tried
to kill me. Take it down the Policentral headquarters. As
for you, mister Clark, as I said, the part you
played was almost as evil the poisoner wife's love and
the persecutor mother by spreading stories that the child she
adores is unwanted. Well it's over and done with now.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Thank god, mister Camillion, that a man of your understanding
came from the police to solve my husband's murder.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Well, I operate on the belief that the innocent must
be protected and the guilty punished. And I'd like to
make clear, Missus Sampson, that criminal tendencies are not inherited
by a child. That's a mistaken idea.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
How cruel of John Clark to have told me that.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
So you know that your son Jimmy's future is secure,
you need never fear that he will inherit any criminal
tendencies or that he will be pointed out as an
unwonted child of yours.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
And with these words, mister Chameleon concludes tonight's murder case.
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Next Wednesday night, at this time, is this CBS the
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Speaker 1 (31:24):
Welcome back. I had to chuckle at Dave Arnold struggling
to get mister Chameleon's attention when he was holding the
poison coffee. It must be hard to deal with trying
to save someone's life when he's monologuing. Also, despite mister
Chameleon's alarm, there was really no reason to rush the
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chemical analysis. The sense of impending doom that was just him.
And the thing with these sort of tests is they
take how long they take. Just be thankful, if you're
mister Chameleon, that you're fictional, because in real life it
takes far longer to get most forensic tests done. I
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have a friend he served as a detective for many years,
and he was called in to testify before a grand
jury and he got to asked about a specific test
that apparently this grandeur had heard about on television, and
my friend had to tell him it'll be actually about
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thirty days before we have the results of that. I
once again did find these people to be not.
Speaker 8 (32:35):
All that bright.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
You, of course, had the murderous going ahead and deciding
to give mister Chameleon a sample of poison, which, even
if it had killed him, would also end up implicating her.
Uncle John's evil plan of telling the wife about her
husband's having a criminal record was also not very bright.
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All that had to happen for his plan to be
totally thwarted was her to ask her husband about it,
and in that case, both Uncle John and his ward
would be out on their ears and would have committed
a very stupid gambit and lost their meal ticket in
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the process, and of course nearly wrecking your marriage because
you believe the word of one of your husband's relatives
that you despised without checking with your husband is really
not that bride either. I did appreciate the nod to
reality with Uncle John not being prosecuted, you can be
a horrible person and still not be a criminal. All right, Well,
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listener comments and feedback now. And I have an encouraging
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have this comment from Ken, who writes on YouTube, Adam,
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We've got our Volume one feed and of course we've
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One thing I really would love to do is to
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to make an app or Roku and fire that would
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of course we'll keep doing the YouTube compilations and what
otherever formats we can get the show into that people
can enjoy it. And then a listener on YouTube rights
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Speaker 14 (36:50):
Do you know about the driver of That's right, Jackie
McCallan is as honest as the day as long.
Speaker 8 (36:54):
And who's his employer? And he should know?
Speaker 14 (36:57):
Jackie's been driving for Marlow Copper product for years. They
dressed that boy with a load of pure gold. Yeah yeah,
what does that mean? Man might have some trouble selling
off a load of pure gold. Huh. But what you're
saying is true about the demand for compor tubing in
this area. Oh now, wait a minute. Every man's supposed
to have his price.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
I'll say, look, Johnny, I see what you're driving at all? Right?
But not Jackie the gap.
Speaker 14 (37:21):
You're sure ten thousands a lot of money wouldn't be
worth ten thousand sold undercovered. Jackie was certainly nowhere to
sell it with me, Johnny, and why hasn't he shown?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
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But now it is time for this week's episode of
Mister Chameleon. The original air d eight October nineteenth, nineteen
forty nine, and the title is The Unwanted Child Murder Clue.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Next Mister Chameleon and the Unwanted Child Murder Clue. Tonight
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we again present the famous Mister Cameleon of Central Police
Headquarters in his famous cases of crime and murder, brought
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Mister Camellion, as you know, is the famous and dreaded
detective who frequently uses a disguise to track down a killer,
a disguise which at all times is recognized by the audience.
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Tonight we give you, mister Camelion, in the Unwonted Child
Murder Clue. There is nothing quite so sad as a
love which has been poisoned and which has turned into
something bitter and unhappy. And as Stanley Sampson faces his
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wife Adele across the dinner table, his words like a knife,
strike deep into her heart.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Answer me it ill, what's happened to you? Why are
you acting this way about my son?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Your son Jimmy is my son too?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
An actors, if you cared from a little won't you?
You act like he's an unwanted child?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Stanley, I do want him, I.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Love him, Yes, you do. Then why do you refuse
to have other children before we will marriage? You said
you wanted several, now even poor little Jimmy.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
This morning, Stanley, I can't explain.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Don't try to explain. Your actions speak louder than words. Anyhow,
My uncle John and Felicia have both asked about your
lack of affection for Jimmy. It's obvious to everyone, is it.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Well, let me tell you something, Stanley, your uncle and
his ward, I have no right to criticize my behavior
toward my son. They have no right to be living
here under this roof. Oh no, it's not nonsense. Jimmy
is my concern, not their. Being a good mother is
a twenty four hour a day job, and it's my job,
not yours. I know what's best for Jimmy.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It's my job too. I happen to love Jimmy, Adele.
I wanted to force and the custody of my son Stanley.
I'm sorry, but that's the way I feel about things now, Jimmy,
you'll be much better off with me alone.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
No, that's not true.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I won't let you have him.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
You ruin him, Stanley, and I'll never let you have him.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
But the following morning, in the big Samson House in
the East sixties, things seem to be calmer, at least
on the surface, and at the breakfast table, Adele sits
pouring the coffee while Stanley's white haired uncle John says
to her gently.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
That's quite enough.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
For deal.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
I've already had one cup. By the way, we're Stanley.
He's late, isn't he.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
He's having his first cup of coffee in his study.
Speaker 7 (04:48):
He usually does, but then he always comes in here
for something to eat.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
Time he started for the office. I'd better call him, Adele.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Oh, leave him alone, Uncle John. He'll come when he's ready.
Speaker 7 (05:00):
It's getting laid a doll. I'd better call him Stanley Stanley, Adell.
Speaker 8 (05:08):
You sure he's in the study.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I'm not sure of anything.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
I'd better see Stanley Stanley. Good to heavens, Adele. He's
lying on the floor. He must be ill.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Adele. He's dead.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
And shortly afterwards we find mister Camellion, the Great Detective,
examining the sprawling body of Stanley Samson while Adele Samson
looks on, weeping softly. Mister Cameleon says to Detective Dave Arnold, Dave, hand.
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Me that cup of coffee on the table, an please,
you think.
Speaker 9 (05:48):
It's poisoned, mister Cameleon.
Speaker 8 (05:50):
I'm almost sure that's what killed him. Smelling mm hmmm, yes,
that's poisoned, all right, missus Sampson.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Yes, mister to commedian who.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Brought your husband this coffine?
Speaker 5 (06:02):
What?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I honestly don't know. Stanley always had his first cup
in here in the study. He always said he wasn't
fit to speak to anyone till he had his coffee.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
Well, who usually brings it to him?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I think Agnes? Agnes Loose. She's my son's nurse. She
was mine when I was a child.
Speaker 8 (06:23):
Dave, you're going to fetch your place, yes, mister commedian,
Missus Sampson, I suppose you tell me what you know
about this murder? Do you know of anyone who might
have wanted to kill your husband?
Speaker 4 (06:36):
I can't imagine, mister Commedian. Stanley was difficult, but I
loved him. I loved him.
Speaker 8 (06:44):
In this investigation, I shall have to ask many questions
of many people. Now. If that is anything that you
can tell me, I should rather hear it from you.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Stanley and I had a quarrel just last night, mister Kmedion,
what I can't tell you.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
It has nothing to do with poor Stanley's death.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
It might have, let me be the gentle, No, it hasn't.
The very fact that the thought of that quarrel upsets
you suggests that it may have a bearing on the case.
Speaker 10 (07:09):
Mister Camelion.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
If the thought of that quarrel upsets me, it's because
my husband is dead and we quarreled before he died.
It's too horrible.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Did you love your husband, Missus Simpson? Are you sorry
that he's dead?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Of course, I'm sorry that he's dead, but I yes,
mister Conmedion.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Do you believe in heredity?
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Heredity?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
Yes, I do. I wish I didn't, but I.
Speaker 9 (07:37):
Dose the nurse.
Speaker 8 (07:39):
Oh come in, miss Lowise. I'm chameleon of Central Police Headquarters.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
Oh you are? Are you?
Speaker 11 (07:45):
I'm What right does that give you to make my
poor lamb cry?
Speaker 8 (07:48):
Mister Darle, It's all right, I'm here.
Speaker 10 (07:51):
Agnes is here. She won't let anyone hurt you. She
never has, has she for Agnes.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
It isn't mister chameleon who makes me cry.
Speaker 11 (08:01):
No, but you didn't kill him, deary, and no cop
can make you say you did.
Speaker 9 (08:06):
Look here, you can't talk to mister Camelion.
Speaker 8 (08:08):
That's all right, Dave Agnes. You seem to be devoted
to Missus Simpson.
Speaker 10 (08:12):
I should be.
Speaker 11 (08:13):
I nursed her an our little Jimmy, and.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
You wouldn't let anyone hurt her. Not even her husband.
Speaker 10 (08:18):
And what do you mean by that?
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Who brought him his morning coffin?
Speaker 11 (08:21):
Why I did, mister Comeleion, Sure you don't think I
killed him.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
I haven't said that. He was poisoned, Agnes. And the
poison was in his coffee.
Speaker 11 (08:31):
And a lot of people could have put it there.
He had his own special coffee pot.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
I suppose mister Comedion even thinks that I might have
done it, Agnes, and.
Speaker 9 (08:38):
He ought to be a shamed mister Cameleon. This nurse
maid is getting out of hand.
Speaker 11 (08:41):
If you ask me, I didn't mean anything, mister Comedian,
I just yes, sir, go Onnes.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
Mister a Dyle wouldn't hurt anyone.
Speaker 11 (08:49):
It was her husband, Stanley Sampson, who was selfish and
maybe worse than selfish.
Speaker 8 (08:53):
What do you mean he hurt Adele?
Speaker 11 (08:55):
He had no business to have his uncle John living
here in the house. He had no business having that
girl under the same What girl Felicia Waters mister John's ward.
She's too young, too pretty, and she was crazy about
mister Sampson.
Speaker 8 (09:06):
Is this true, mister Sampson? Was this girl in love
with your husband?
Speaker 11 (09:09):
I can't answer that, mister Commedie when I can, mister Dale,
I found a note he wrote to her once, to
miss Felicia Walters. It was left lying in a book,
and that note showed what was going on. It's wicked
that they should all have been under the same roof.
There's no wonder mister Dale's been acting so strange about Jimmy.
Speaker 8 (09:28):
I see Agnes. Missus Sampson, have you been acting strangely?
Mut your son?
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Mister Comedian?
Speaker 8 (09:34):
Is that why you spoke of herredity? Just now? You
were saying that you believed in it when Agnes walked in?
What does herredity have to do with it? With your child,
with your husband's murder?
Speaker 10 (09:42):
Nothing, I swear, mister Comedian.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Nothing, Dave. Where is Felicia Waters in the next room?
Speaker 9 (09:49):
Mister comeleon?
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Will you wait here? Missus Sampson plays, I may want
you very shortly, and you too, Agnes, Yester.
Speaker 9 (09:54):
You'd better think of a better explanation, Agnes, of how
it happened to be you who took Stanley's mson has
poisoned coffee.
Speaker 8 (10:01):
Mister Camelion, hey, will you stay with him please while
I talk to Felicia Waters, Miss Walters. I am chameleon
of Central Police headquarters.
Speaker 10 (10:12):
How do you do, mister Comeleion, I heard you were here.
If there's anything I can do, of course, I know
there's nothing I can do which will bring Stanley back
to life.
Speaker 8 (10:22):
No, I'm afraid there isn't. Miss Walters. Have you been
living here in Stanley Sampson's house very long?
Speaker 10 (10:29):
About six months? Stanley's uncle John is my guardian. You know,
he'd been having a rather hard time financially, and Stanley
was kind enough to insist that we come here.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Well, that's been rather hard on mister Sampson, isn't it.
What do you mean, Well, Miss Walters, you're a very
attractive girl. I understand that mister Sampson was very much
in love with you.
Speaker 10 (10:49):
In love with me, Mister Comelion, who told you a
thing like that?
Speaker 8 (10:54):
Agnes Loose, the nurse men.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
I might have known. Agnes is a pathetic, on balanced
old woman. She's fiercely possessive of Adele and Jimmy. It's
really very unhealthy. Stanley thought so too, to the.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Point where he wanted to divorce her, Miss Walters.
Speaker 10 (11:10):
I think so his uncle John knew more about that than.
Speaker 8 (11:14):
I do, Miss Walters. Stanley Sampson was a careless man.
What I say he was a careless man. He is
the thought of man who leaves personal letters lying around
in books.
Speaker 10 (11:25):
I don't understand, mister Comedian.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
A letter was found hidden in a book, a letter
from Stanley Sampson to you, showing quite clearly that he
was infatuated with you.
Speaker 10 (11:36):
And how do you know that nurse maid Agnes didn't
make that up?
Speaker 8 (11:39):
Did she nothink? Think carefully before you reply, for all
you know, that letter may be in my possession.
Speaker 10 (11:48):
Mister camel And it's quite true that Stanley wrote me
occasional notes, but we meant nothing to each other, not anymore.
We may have once before is married, but that was
just a boy and girl affair. Believe me, it ended
a long time ago.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
I what about missus Sampson? Do you like her? Miss Waters?
Speaker 10 (12:07):
Very much? I feel terribly sorry for Adele, though I'm
sorry for little Jimmy too.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Do you mean that she is not a good mother she.
Speaker 10 (12:15):
Tries to be, mister Camedian. I'm afraid Jimmy is an
unwanted child and she has such a phobia about that's
none of my business.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
Well it may be mine, Miss Waters, what is this
phobia about her editor?
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (12:30):
How did you know? That's it all Adele talks about,
mister Cameleon is heredity? Heredity? Oh? John, Oh, mister Camelion.
This is Stanley's uncle John and my guardian, mister Clark.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
How do you know, mister Clark? Did you have some
reason for interrupting your words so sharply when she was
telling me about Adele Sampson's abnormal concern with her editor.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
I didn't mean to interrupt, mister Cameleon.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
No, mister Clark. It was you who discovered your nephew's body,
wasn't it.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Yes, it was a hideous shock. Of course, Stanley wasn't
the easiest man in the world to live with, but
I was very.
Speaker 8 (13:04):
Fond of him. Would you say he was a good
husband in many ways, yes, and a good father. He
loved little Jimmy very much more than his mother. Does.
Speaker 7 (13:14):
I rather not answer that, mister Camellion.
Speaker 8 (13:17):
In other words, yes, why is Adele Sampson afraid of heredity?
Mister Cameleon, you're asking some very strange questions. Why not
try to find out who gave Stanley the poisoned coffee?
Seemed to me that'd be much more.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
To the point.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
On the contrary, mister Clark, any one in this house
could have poisoned the cafe. I want to know about
the child and heredity angle. Now what's it all about?
What's behind him?
Speaker 9 (13:42):
Nothing?
Speaker 8 (13:43):
I'm sure they shall say, mister Sampson, will you come
in here please?
Speaker 9 (13:49):
What are you going to do, mister Camelion.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
I tend to find out how the child enters into it,
Missus Sampson. Yes, mister Comeleian, would you say that you've
been a good mother to your child?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
What if Uncle John and Felicia said that I haven't.
It's a dreadful injustice to me. Oh we didn't say that, Adele,
of course you did.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Everyone thinks I don't love my Jimmy. Even Stanley believed it.
That's what broke my heart. And it's not true. It
just isn't true that I don't love my son Jimmy.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
But then what is true, Missus Sampson. Why does everyone
think that you don't love him? I I can't tell you,
Missus Samson. Now, your actions so far indicate to me
that you're deeply attached to your son, almost to the
point of an obsession.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Yes, mister Camelion, that's why. But I'm so strict with him,
I'm afraid.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Go on, Missus Samson, No, I don't wait, don't say
something you'll be sorry for.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Mister Clark. Keep out of this place.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Can't bear it any longer. I can't bear to have
people believe I don't love my child.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
And tell me the truth, Missus Samson.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Mister Camelion, my husband, Stanley had a criminal record, and
I was afraid that my son would inherit his father's
criminal tendencies. I couldn't tell Stanley. I knew, I couldn't
tell anybody. I've been carrying that knowledge alone for months.
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Who told you that your husband had a criminal record?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
He did, Uncle John Adele.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
That's ridiculous, mister Camellion. She's been completely unbalanced by Stanley's death.
I should think she might make her husband was ruthlessly murdered.
But whether her statement is a fact or a figment
of her imagination, that is the clue that's going to
lead me to Stanley Sampson's murderer, Mister Camellion, and the.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Unwonted child murder clue continues.
Speaker 9 (15:45):
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back to mister Cameleon, and the unwonted child murder clue.
The poisoned death of Stanley Samson has had strange ramifications
involving his wife Adele, and his uncle John, and even
his small son Jimmy, the child that everyone believed was unwanted.
And now, some time later, in the library of the
(17:16):
Samson home, we find mister Cameleon looking over the bookshelves
and saying to Detective Dave Arnold.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
A, Dave, look at this half a dozen books on
her edit. Adel Sampson was certainly obsessed by this subject.
Speaker 9 (17:27):
And a woman who is obsessed can be dangerous, mister Comelion,
dangerous enough to kill.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Yes, you're quite right, Dave. If this thing grew in
her mind, it's fair that her son might inherit his
father's criminal tendencies. It might very easily drive her over
the edge to murder. What about the old guy, Uncle John, Dave?
He denied that he told her that her husband had
a criminal record. So one of them is lying, either
Uncle John or missus Sampson. Oh, I'll take it, Dame.
(17:54):
I asked the commissioner to call me here. Hello, Hello Camellia. Yes, Commissioner,
I thought it might be you any news.
Speaker 12 (18:03):
Only as far as we can find out, Stanley Sampson
had no criminal record whatsoever. He was a highly respected man.
He was never in trouble with the police.
Speaker 8 (18:11):
That is very interesting. Either Missus Sampson imagined it, or
Stanley Sampson's uncle John deliberately lied to him.
Speaker 12 (18:19):
You really think that's the heart of the matter.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Yes, Commissioner, somehow or other. Missus Sampson's fear of heredity
has something to do with her husband's murder.
Speaker 12 (18:26):
What about the Samson house if you turned up any
more clues.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Well, that depends on whether you think books can talk.
I do, and Stanley Sampson's library's been telling me plenty. Oh,
Simmon's coming. I'll be a police headquartersmen in the Commissioner good.
Speaker 12 (18:41):
Meanwhile, I'll put three men on the Sampson household, Comleion,
so the whole family can be shadowed.
Speaker 8 (18:46):
Are you better make it for Commissioner? The nurse maid
Agnes loose will bear watching too? Goodbye is the chameleon? Oh, Agnes,
So it's you I heard coming down the hall. Well,
what have we heard?
Speaker 10 (19:00):
Some hot coffee? Mister chameleon?
Speaker 8 (19:02):
Well, isn't that thoughtful? Just what Detective Ronald and I
need tiring business searching a house for clues to it?
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Madam, what makes you think you'll find any here in
the library, My.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
Dear Agnes, you never know where you're going to find
a vital clue. But leave the coffee on the table,
and thank you very much. Oh uh, Agnes. About mister
Sampson's uncle John, do you know very much about his
financial affairs?
Speaker 11 (19:25):
I only know he lived off mister Sampson, him and
his ward, and I know he expects to inherit money
from mister Sampson, money that you're rightfully go to. Missus Sampson,
and I don't trust him, and I don't trust his
ward for these your waters.
Speaker 9 (19:38):
And you hated the murdered man. In fact, you hate
everyone in the family, Agnes, except Adl Sampson and little Jimmy.
Speaker 10 (19:44):
You can't blame me, Detective Bartle.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
They're my whole life, mister chameleon. Don't let your coffee
get cold, No it won't, Agnes. Thanks again, quite a
household day a del Sampson frantic with the belief that
her husband is a criminal. Mister uncle John, who if
he did say that his nephew Stanley Sampson had a
(20:09):
criminal record, deliberately like mister Commernion, and pretty Felicia Walters,
and an old nursemaid whose whole life, as she says,
is Adel Sampson and her son, and who admits that
she hated Samson. Quite a household.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Mister Communion, put down that coffee?
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Why they surely you don't think I intend to drink it?
Not a chance. This coffee is being taken to Central
Police Headquarters to be analyzed to see if it contains
any poison. And some time later at police headquarters we
(20:46):
find mister Cameleon restlessly pacing his office, and the impatience
in his voice when he speaks to Detective Dave Arnold
is extremely unusual for him. Where the devil is that
laboratory report? Why do they send it in that coffee?
Ana lies by? Now?
Speaker 9 (21:01):
I imagine they're doing it as fast as I can,
mister Camellion.
Speaker 8 (21:04):
That's not fast enough, speed, Dave. Speed. It's of vital importance.
I feel more so in this case than almost any
case I've ever handled. But why, mister Commillion, Because Stanley
Sampson's murderer. If they tried to kill me, it's badly frightened,
and a badly frightened killer is almost sure to strike again.
Chameleon speaking, Oh yes, Ed, have you got a laboratory
(21:26):
report for me?
Speaker 9 (21:28):
Huh?
Speaker 8 (21:30):
I see you all right? Ed, thank you? That's it,
Dave poisoned. The coffee was poisoned. They tried to kill
me the way they killed Stanley Sampson and I. Agnes,
the nurse, may have brought that coffee to you. That
may or may not prove a thing. What is proven
is that the killer is cornered, terrified, and we've got
to move fast, terrifically fast.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
What are you going to do, mister Camenia Dave?
Speaker 8 (21:52):
Whoever put poison in my coffee did so because they
thought I was getting close to the truth. Well, I'm
going to pretend that I'm closer than I am. I'm
going to pretend that I've hit on the truth. How
this evening, Dave, I want you to go to Sampson's home.
Get them all together at del Sampson, Uncle John, Felicia Walters, Agnes,
(22:12):
put them through a routine questioning, but have them all
in one room, and what about you. I'll arrive about
nine o'clock after the neighborhood lending library closes the what
the lending library as one right around the corner from
the Sampson home, And Dave, when you see me, I
shall be in disguise, disguised as Harry Chandler, the man
(22:33):
who runs the lending library.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
And so that night, a little after nine o'clock, we
find mister Cameleon disguised as Harry Chandler, a very prim
young man wearing horn rimmed glasses. And when Agnes, the
Samson's nursemaid opens the door, mister Cameleon speaks, in the
voice of his disguise, how do you do My name
(23:05):
is Chandler. Are you Missus Sampson.
Speaker 11 (23:08):
No, I'm Agnus Loose, the nurse What can I do
for you?
Speaker 8 (23:11):
Well, there's Missus Sampson. Then yes, but she's busy. I
understand that mister Sampson was murdered, and I have a
note here, a note which was written to him.
Speaker 10 (23:23):
What let me have it.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
I'm sorry, if you don't mind, I'd rather turn it
over to Missus Sampson herself. Very well, come in.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
This way please.
Speaker 11 (23:35):
They're all in the living room being questioned by the police.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
Oh really, well, of course, this note may not be important.
But on the other hand, oh dear, there are a
lot of people in there, aren't there. Well, maybe I
better not well, no, I guess I will.
Speaker 11 (23:54):
Is it Samson? Heyes, Agnes, there's a gentleman here to
see you something about mister Sampson.
Speaker 10 (24:02):
His name is Chandler.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
How do you do, mister Chandler. This is miss Waters.
How do you do, mister Clark? And Detective Isnold? How
did you have something to say to me but my
dead husband?
Speaker 8 (24:14):
Yes, mister Sampson. You see, I'm a librarian, that is,
I worked the lending library right around the corner. You see.
I read in the paper that mister Sampson.
Speaker 9 (24:25):
Was dead murdered, mister Chandler.
Speaker 8 (24:28):
Oh, yess quite so, Detective Arnold. Well, anyway, mister Sampson
had a bad habit of leaving notes and what have
you in the books that he returned to my lending library.
What do you mean, Well, just that, mister Sampson, just
that the day before your husband was murdered, he returned
(24:48):
the book to the library, and in it I found
a note, very personal note, and well I felt it
should be given to you, author of the police are
the police, because, frankly, Detective Arnold, it throws a light
on the murder.
Speaker 9 (25:05):
And we have that note, mister Chandler.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
Well, I really don't know if I should, Detective I said,
let me have it. Oh, well, of course if you insist.
See where is it? Oh it's right hair.
Speaker 10 (25:21):
No, no, give me that note. Give me, mister Chandler,
that note belongs.
Speaker 8 (25:24):
To me, You don't say, Miss Walters, that's very interesting. Yes,
mister Chandler. The librarian does not exist, and neither is
the note that you claim is yours, Miss Walters. But you, sir,
you've been searching for that note, Miss Walters, I knew
someone had been searching frantically for a note. The books
in the Sampson library told me that there isn't one
(25:46):
of them that has dust on it. They've all been searched.
You were desperate, miss Walters, because you'd written Stanley Sampson
a letter which was extremely incriminating, which showed that you
were in love with him, and it was you who
kept the infatuation alive, and you expected him to divoid
his wife and marry you, and when he wouldn't, you
killed him in a jealous rage.
Speaker 10 (26:03):
No, John, don't let him say these things.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
Also, it was you who suggested to Agnes the nurse made,
that she bring me the coffee which you had poisoned.
Speaker 10 (26:10):
Yes, mister Kremian, for that, she did suggest it. That's
quite true.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Lying all the evidences against you, Felicia Walters, you alone
tried to break up Stanley Sampson's marriage, and then you
murdered him.
Speaker 10 (26:21):
But John encouraged me. He engineered everything. John did tell
the lie about Stanley being a criminal. He thought if
Stanley was married to me, we'd be better off financially.
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Which was a wicked thing to do, almost as vicious
as murder. Nevertheless, it was you, miss Walters, who killed him,
and it's you will stand trial alone. And David, she's
putting something in the mouth.
Speaker 9 (26:41):
Give me, give it from me here I wanted done.
She tried to swallow a capsule of poison. Mister Comedian. Yes,
that does it.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
That does it, the same poison I'm sure that Felicia
used to kill Stanley Sampson and with which he tried
to kill me. Take it down the Policentral headquarters. As
for you, mister Clark, as I said, the part you
played was almost as evil the poisoner wife's love and
the persecutor mother by spreading stories that the child she
adores is unwanted. Well it's over and done with now.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
Thank god, mister Camillion, that a man of your understanding
came from the police to solve my husband's murder.
Speaker 8 (27:24):
Well, I operate on the belief that the innocent must
be protected and the guilty punished. And I'd like to
make clear, Missus Sampson, that criminal tendencies are not inherited
by a child. That's a mistaken idea.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
How cruel of John Clark to have told me that.
Speaker 8 (27:40):
So you know that your son Jimmy's future is secure,
you need never fear that he will inherit any criminal
tendencies or that he will be pointed out as an
unwonted child of yours.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
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(29:41):
at this same time for Mister Cameleon, the man of
Many Faces in The Girl Who Typed Murdered. The part
of mister Camelion is played by Carl Swenson, with dialogue
by Marie Baumer from the original story by Frank and
Anne Hummert, music director by Victor Arden.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
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Next Wednesday night, at this time, is this CBS the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Welcome back. I had to chuckle at Dave Arnold struggling
to get mister Chameleon's attention when he was holding the
poison coffee. It must be hard to deal with trying
to save someone's life when he's monologuing. Also, despite mister
Chameleon's alarm, there was really no reason to rush the
(31:45):
chemical analysis. The sense of impending doom that was just him.
And the thing with these sort of tests is they
take how long they take. Just be thankful, if you're
mister Chameleon, that you're fictional, because in real life it
takes far longer to get most forensic tests done. I
(32:06):
have a friend he served as a detective for many years,
and he was called in to testify before a grand
jury and he got to asked about a specific test
that apparently this grandeur had heard about on television, and
my friend had to tell him it'll be actually about
(32:27):
thirty days before we have the results of that. I
once again did find these people to be not.
Speaker 8 (32:35):
All that bright.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
You, of course, had the murderous going ahead and deciding
to give mister Chameleon a sample of poison, which, even
if it had killed him, would also end up implicating her.
Uncle John's evil plan of telling the wife about her
husband's having a criminal record was also not very bright.
(33:05):
All that had to happen for his plan to be
totally thwarted was her to ask her husband about it,
and in that case, both Uncle John and his ward
would be out on their ears and would have committed
a very stupid gambit and lost their meal ticket in
(33:26):
the process, and of course nearly wrecking your marriage because
you believe the word of one of your husband's relatives
that you despised without checking with your husband is really
not that bride either. I did appreciate the nod to
reality with Uncle John not being prosecuted, you can be
a horrible person and still not be a criminal. All right, Well,
(33:49):
listener comments and feedback now. And I have an encouraging
comment from Alexis on Good Podge. You're currently second place
in the best performing arts podcast. We are going to
get you the number one if I have to rate
your entire back catalog. I appreciate your enthusiasm. My entire
(34:10):
back catalog is a lot, so you may need a
few days to get through that. Speaking of back catalogs,
have this comment from Ken, who writes on YouTube, Adam,
thank you for compiling older episodes. Gives me something to
listen to when working at my desk after hours. You
make it easy to click on a compilation and listen. Well,
(34:33):
thank you so much, Ken. I think the compilations are
a great way. We, of course, do have different ways
that you can do that even if you're not on YouTube.
We've got our Volume one feed and of course we've
also got our app. You know where you can continuously
listen to a lot of episodes, and so there are
(34:55):
so many ways that people like to listen or could
like to listen to the podcast. I really want to
find as many ways as possible to connect with listeners.
One thing I really would love to do is to
find a way to really be present on smart TVs
with apps. But I haven't found a really good way
(35:19):
to make an app or Roku and fire that would
really allow folks to tap into the whole catalog of
what we've got, either on a podcast level or on
a YouTube channel level. So right now, in terms of
smart TVs, we've just been dependent on folks finding us
(35:39):
on YouTube or whatever podcast app that people might be using,
which isn't a whole lot. I think we could definitely
reach more, but we'll keep looking for that solution, and
of course we'll keep doing the YouTube compilations and what
otherever formats we can get the show into that people
can enjoy it. And then a listener on YouTube rights
(36:04):
a mister cameleon clever and funny too. Well, thank you
so much, appreciate your comment. Now it's time to thank
our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to
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Thank you so much for your support, Maurice, and that
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for yours truly, Johnny Dollar, where what.
Speaker 14 (36:50):
Do you know about the driver of That's right, Jackie
McCallan is as honest as the day as long.
Speaker 8 (36:54):
And who's his employer? And he should know?
Speaker 14 (36:57):
Jackie's been driving for Marlow Copper product for years. They
dressed that boy with a load of pure gold. Yeah yeah,
what does that mean? Man might have some trouble selling
off a load of pure gold. Huh. But what you're
saying is true about the demand for compor tubing in
this area. Oh now, wait a minute. Every man's supposed
to have his price.
Speaker 8 (37:17):
I'll say, look, Johnny, I see what you're driving at all? Right?
But not Jackie the gap.
Speaker 14 (37:21):
You're sure ten thousands a lot of money wouldn't be
worth ten thousand sold undercovered. Jackie was certainly nowhere to
sell it with me, Johnny, and why hasn't he shown?
Speaker 1 (37:31):
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