August 8, 2025 • 22 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, an.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
A shadow.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
The shadow bays the forces of law and orders in
reality along Transmon welt the young man about town years
ago the orient Transon learned the strange and mysterious secrets
the hypnotic power just about them finds so they cannot
see them. Transton's friends and companion, the lovely Margot Lane,
the only pertem those to whom the voice of.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
The in the Little Shadow be won.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Today's drama.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
The Nursery Rhyme Murder.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Brookside Home is a private sanitarium located in a densely wooded.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Area in the suburbs.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
It's about eight o'clock in the evening as Superintendent Alfred
Foster walks down the corridor on his way to visit
one of his peaceles.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
Good evening, Bert, how are you.
Speaker 8 (01:31):
I'm fine, thanks to doctor Foster.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I've been waiting for you to be asleep by now. Bert,
I've been waiting for you to come and read to me.
We can't read to you every night, but you promise,
you said, if I ate all my supper, you'd read
a story to me. And I eat it all, Doctor Foster,
every bit of it, the cereal and everything bread to
me now.
Speaker 8 (01:52):
Please.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
We told you Bury that after you've been here a while,
we'd have to stop reading to you at night.
Speaker 8 (01:57):
You're not going to read to me tired tonight.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Little feverish too. I think I just go to sleep
and in the morning I won't.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
I won't you promise to read me a bed time story.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
No, you broke your prom but you must get excited.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
You broke your promise.
Speaker 9 (02:13):
Stay where you are, don't don't come in here. That you're
bad and I'm going to hurt but no, no, take
your hands off my order I'll make you body hurry,
get him off and quick, Andrews.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Let him go, Let him go.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'll stay over that bird.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
Thank you, andrew us close.
Speaker 10 (02:36):
I promised to read.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
He broke from We want to get one of the
other orderlies, doctor post to hell.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
That's all right, Andrews, but I just got a little excited.
I can hand him or I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
I think we ought to send him over to the
violent ward.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
You will better not send me away.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
You'll better not out Albert.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
You better not try and send me away.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
If you do, I'll hurt you all.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
I'll hurt you all.
Speaker 8 (02:57):
Bad. Orderly, Orderly, keep quiet, bird, and go to sleep.
(03:18):
Three o'clock. I want to drink of water, Andrews. I
want to drink of water.
Speaker 11 (03:23):
Go to sleep.
Speaker 8 (03:24):
Words please Andrews. Please all right, bird, just the second.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Okay, it's your water.
Speaker 8 (03:37):
I was awful thirsty. Now here are thanks Andrews.
Speaker 12 (03:42):
Thanks?
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Now give me those keys.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
No, you don't give them to me.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Now I get the keys.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I'm going to get out.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
I'm going to get out.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Looks at home.
Speaker 10 (04:18):
Hello, this is Polly Andrews. I'm Patty Andrews's wife. Oh, yes,
tell her missus Andrews is my husband there.
Speaker 11 (04:25):
I'm sorry Xanders was dipping in. All the order is
up in the ground time, but but used to see
estate bas national.
Speaker 10 (04:30):
Well, that's just it, operators. Our cottage is at the
north end of the ground. I understand. Useless is violence.
I'm here all alone, and well I'm certain.
Speaker 11 (04:40):
I don't know what we can do. I'll tell miss
Sanders Stefania when he gets back here.
Speaker 10 (04:45):
Well, all right, thanks.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
At all sons, Andrews.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Good ny.
Speaker 10 (04:52):
Who's that?
Speaker 11 (04:55):
Who who's there?
Speaker 8 (04:57):
Oh? Polly who hooly Flenders sat among the settlers, warming
her pretty little toes. Her mother came and put her
and with her little daughter were spoiling her nice new clothes.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Lamont.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
I know it's presuming on our acquaintance, but I want
to thank you and miss Lane for coming to my
office this morning when I phone out of all for
bloodboo of service. The fact is I need your help desperately.
You see, Lamont, I'm a psychiatrist, not a criminologist. I
don't think it's a case for the police, but I
do need help in trying to find this escape patient.
Speaker 13 (05:47):
And the teaching party found no traces that used this
last night, Doctor fr No, Miss Meade, he's still at large.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
I feel pretty badly about it too. Bert was showing
signs of violence, in fact, he attacked me yesterday, but
instead of sending him the violence ward, I kept here
for observation.
Speaker 11 (06:01):
Then you think he's capable as being a killing.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I'm afraid so mislead kind of a case. Was the
patient for not fundamentally a criminal type, but I'd be
extremely unbalanced emotionally. During his periods of rationality, he reverted
to his childhood and lived in a complete juvenile world.
Speaker 13 (06:16):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 6 (06:17):
But he went to bed when it got dark, He
ate his serial faithfully insisted that I read bedtime stories
and nursery rhymes.
Speaker 11 (06:23):
To him deadtime story, nurs Have you been handling the.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Case trying to find out as much I can about
his background, especially as childhood any luck Well, I haven't
been able to get much out of burd himself, but
his father has given a pretty good lead.
Speaker 13 (06:36):
His father.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Yes, he's a well to do but eccentric old man
who used to come to visit his son devoted every week.
Recently he's been coming.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Less and less.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Vbert has some sort of a father complex. Perhaps his
father has been neglecting him lately. Yes, he's He's become
more and more unbalanced until he reached the breaking point
of deside to escape. Yes, something like that, Lamar converted.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
What's the posta?
Speaker 12 (06:56):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
What's the matter?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Missus Andrews Pavey Andrews's wife was I did in my
cottage last night?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
They just found a strangle at death For the rest
of it doesn't make sense?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
What does make sense? The killer carried a body upstairs
and left it in the fireplace. This is war.
Speaker 11 (07:21):
Poor woman's body killed up in the far place.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I see very strange resting place.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yes, notice one other thing, Fred, Yes, killer took the shoes.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Off the corpse.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
But why why did he take a shoes off?
Speaker 11 (07:35):
Why did he carry a body up theirs and put
it in the fireplace?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
It doesn't make.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Sense, country, Margaret, does make sense?
Speaker 10 (07:42):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
The torture depths of Bert's mind? He acted with a
terrible logic.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
I don't think i'd follow you in the market, now,
did you?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Why you said this man? Bert loved bedtime stories, a
nursery rhyme.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Well, in my opinion, he killed this.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Woman right out of a mother goose rhyme. Why listen
to this, Margot little sat among the cinders, warming her
pretty little toes. The dead woman's first name was yes,
since you sat among the cinders, have to mean the fireplace,
mardl he said, warming her pretty little toes. No wonder
the killer took her shoes off, precisely. The clues are
all in the rhyme. I wonder if it's only the beginning.
Speaker 13 (08:18):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I wonder if the killer is going to start with
this first murder, Mardre, Because with all the mother whose
stories there are, death can rhyme many.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Times a la Money and miss Lane. I'm glad you're here.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Might know that we got your phone called red.
Speaker 11 (08:50):
What's wrong?
Speaker 6 (08:51):
We haven't been able to locate Harvey Andrews, the husband
of the dead woman.
Speaker 11 (08:54):
It's mid night now, you mean they're looking for.
Speaker 13 (08:55):
Him all day?
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Yes, miss Lane. Ever since his wife's death, Andrews was
out trying to find with the rest of the searching party,
and now he's vanished.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
A woman has killed and her husband disappears.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
I'll part me around.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Hello, it's a Fox, Doctor Fox. Could you come out
of the reception room for a minute.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Yes, yes, a.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Coach Lamont, Miss Laing, if you're excuse me for a moment,
I'm going out to the reception room. Maybe the searching
party has come in, of course, I can't.
Speaker 11 (09:19):
Suppose Bird has killed the orderly as well as his wife.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I don't know, Madam Stranger that having been able to
locate in me.
Speaker 13 (09:26):
It's doctor Quartophone.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Yeah, I suppose I better answered.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Hello. Listen, doctor little boy Blue, come for your horn.
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the course.
Where's a little boy who looks.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
After the sheep?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
He's under the stack. Just sleep. Who is this.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Hello, Hello, what's about but housta smuggle? Come on, I
think we're better get outside past where we go to
the farm and back to the sanitarium.
Speaker 11 (10:05):
What are you excay to find out?
Speaker 12 (10:06):
There?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Wouldn't be surprised Model if we found this little boy Blue.
Speaker 13 (10:14):
I think you can be wandering around the ground from
the middle of the night without the post.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Doctor Foster, be very glad we left without a Margot,
hold the flash ladder. Isn't the haystack next the barn? Yes, careful,
we may be walking into a trap.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
Here we are, there's a pitchfork.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
I'm gonna start digging.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Come on, what do you expect to find?
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Yell has given us a clue, Margret, I'm not law.
Speaker 10 (10:49):
Good lord.
Speaker 11 (10:50):
That's a body under the same who's Andrews and he's
wearing a blue.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Orderly Jack his mother blue boy Blue.
Speaker 11 (11:01):
Only this little boy Blue isn't just fastest sleep.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
He's dead.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
Who love this?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Margo and Laws in search of the nursery life killer.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
While at Brookside Ball in the office of Superintendent.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
You say you have heard the killer's laugh after you
found the body in the month. Yes, we're ran after him,
but lost in the darkness.
Speaker 11 (11:57):
Friends, it was a little boy slender, then it was
a little boy blue. I wonder who Bert will pick neck.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
I can guess his next victim, Miss Lay who myself?
Speaker 12 (12:07):
You?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
I'm afraid of the same thing, for it, Bert hated
me as much as he hated Andrews. As I see
if he went to Andrews house to kill him and
found Andrews wasn't there and killed.
Speaker 13 (12:15):
His wife instead, and he caught Andrews in the ground
blade and killed him and buried them under the head.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Yes, and logically, well, I come next, could be right.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
I'm afraid I am. But we've got to find this man.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
We've got to preserve a statewid dragging it up for
him now. Yes, I'm so busy covering the highways and terminals.
I wonder if they haven't given the most logical place
a very fast examination.
Speaker 11 (12:36):
The most logical thing.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Yes, er, it's home.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
I think we'd better have a talk with Bert's father
in the month. I wouldn't be surprised if he knew
a great deal more about where his son was hiding.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
It's a good idea.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Come on, man, I don't get my fingers.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
It won't be necessary for what do you mean you're
not going with his fraid it's not safe. Oh but
I hit it yourself.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
You're probably next on Bert's list. Yes, he's well the psychiatrist.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
I'm the criminal.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Just remember we'll phone you hear the office soon as
we've seen old man Eustace.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Were all right, thanks them forget it.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Come on, man, And so.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Mister Eustace aid doctor Foster's suggestion. We decided to come
here to see you.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Let me see.
Speaker 11 (13:23):
I know you're as anxious to find great as we are.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Mister Houston, He's say, man, then people should just step
inside for a moment. Mister Eusta, talk to you.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
All right now, right step inside?
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Thank you?
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Put im into the Father, that's right, what he really
isn't a.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Should ever see anything like this, old muscle leah, No,
and I don't think anybody else has for the last
fifty years.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, it's a little dusty.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
I haven't used the Father for some times.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Dam thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Uh you live here all alone, mister Eustace.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Yes, yes, and uh if they're all alone? Ever since
Bertram went away, I miss.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Him very much.
Speaker 11 (14:10):
And before that, mister Eusta, well that it was.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Just Bertram and I Betrim's mother has been dead almost
forty years.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
I see. You know, of course that Bert left the hospital.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
Yes, yes, sir, Now.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
You read it in the papers, I suppose.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Now I didn't read it in the papers.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I know it.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
You couldn't buy any charms. Tell us where BERTI is, now,
could you, mister Eustace.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
I don't know, mister Cranston, I don't know. But that
oh was that Norris must have been the cat. She
must have knocked something over upstairs.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Those are hardly the footsteps of a cat, mister Eustace.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Oh yeah, Addy must be someone else now, I think
there is, and I better find out.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Not here, miss usus us.
Speaker 11 (15:03):
He's locking the door, Usus bolted.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
It certainly has Marco.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
We're locked in.
Speaker 10 (15:14):
It must be the way with two thrown.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
That's why we're breaking out of the parlor down there.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
But if mister Eusis and Butter disappeared, come on, Marga,
we've got to make sure we go down this cord.
Stay close to me and we'll smatter.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
I ran into ane of those down spider way.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Spider were born hurts, maybe.
Speaker 11 (15:30):
Not, But there was a spider in the middle of
this one. No wonder if Braid was unbalanced living in
this old mansion.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
So the quirrels looked like useless for her father.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
He's certainly.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
He's upstairs in the floor.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Offers, come I Margo down the end of this cordor
here must be flight of stairs.
Speaker 11 (15:49):
There he's up the top of the stairs.
Speaker 12 (16:00):
And word, oh, I won up there a dog there
and my lady Chabert. The man who not says players
I do get by the last leg, and.
Speaker 11 (16:18):
Who knows, Margret, must be mister Eustace, poor old man, wait.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
A second life of Look, here's a flash baby, the
old boys.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
What's the matter, Margaret, They said, mister Eustace.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
No, it's burnt.
Speaker 11 (16:45):
But the model mister Eustace couldn't have just spanished.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
In the looks as if he did, Margaret.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
We certainly went over every into the house.
Speaker 11 (16:51):
We think we can pick up his trailer.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Doctor barth to that that's the most logical place to
look for him.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Now, so that's where it's place.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Overhead here we are, nephew doing now if we can judge,
I saw something in the car headlines. What figure of
a man back there behind the guards? Look back, old
man who's I'm going around back. You're going to Pret's
(17:21):
house telling him I was delayed.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
Be carefully down, he please. That old man is a
crazy killer.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Shadows going to set a trap Margo. This time, I
think the crazy killer had spoken his last nursery rhyme. Yes,
I saw the same figure of Mysol when I stopped
(17:48):
to pick up the mail.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Yes, and he left this in the mailbox. Notes.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Listen, doctor Foster went to Gloucester in a shower of rain.
He stepped in a puddle up to his middle and
never went there again.
Speaker 11 (18:05):
Then old mister Eustace is here. Heman did see, he
must have.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
It must mean that that crazy killer has got to
creep into his house and murder me in the night,
eat out of his mind.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
None of us is safe any more.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
We'll all.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Why this is strange?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (18:20):
The killer really gets close?
Speaker 7 (18:22):
There's another note. You're on my desk.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Eustace must have slipped.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
In through the window and left.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
And the odd part about it is it's addressed to
you to me.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yes, read it.
Speaker 13 (18:37):
See Sir Marjorie daw Jackie shall have a new master.
He shall have but a tenny a day. Of course,
he can't work any fastest.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
I don't understand, Marjorie, d'all.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
It's almost like Marco.
Speaker 11 (18:56):
You mean the killer.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
I mean, I'm afraid he means you. It's Lane Marcao, Marjorie.
Buttty close on there, close enough for all practical purposes?
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Doctor, Why a excuse me like that?
Speaker 8 (19:13):
It's a nice rhyme, isn't it. Here's a swing to
the so Mordorie door. Jackie shall have a new master.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
He shall have but a penny a day because he
can't work any faster.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Rhyme kill, yes, miss Lane, I am.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
I love nursery rhymes.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Oh what a Hubbard went to a cupboard to get
a poor dog.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
A bold little.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Jack corners head in the corner, and he he gets
Christmas pie and went up the hill.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
These poor.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Wos in this room, I don't see them.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
I'm someone I can't see.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Who are you? You like to hear a little nursery rhyme?
Doctor Foster?
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I have a little shadow that goes in and out
with me. What can be the use of him is
more than I can see stop, very very likely from
the heels up to the head, and I see him
jump before me. When I jump into my head, started starting,
I'm dying or mere already fostered. Your mind has been
cloded by the dark shadows you profess to study. Who
are you? Who are you?
Speaker 8 (20:25):
A shadow?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Foster shadow here to see justice done. You thought you
could flame these murders on burd them and his father.
He became so obsessed with his case that your own
mind broke under the strait.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
Let me have him here, I'm cutting it out.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
No fusser. The state has a place for you, a
place where, never again will you be allowed loose among society,
the place where you can safely recite nursery rhymes your
heart's content.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Well, that's the whole story.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Margot Foster wasn't a doctor at all. He was just
a clever quack who outsmarted himself.
Speaker 13 (21:09):
He became so obsessed with a normal cases such as Eustace,
that he became unbounced himself.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Is that it?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
That's right, Margaret.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Bert's escape must have been the snapping point for Foster's mind.
He went on a rampage blaming everything on Bert. We
went to see old man Eustace. Foster was afraid we'd
find Bert get the truth out of him, so he
had to get rid of Bert and shift the blame
to the father.
Speaker 13 (21:33):
When Foster was one polyandrous saw and it's his voice
we read on the phone. Both Bert and his father
was completely innocent.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Tride, Margaret.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
I still don't see why he called you in on
the case when he was guilty and more.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
That's how he outsmarted himself.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
He didn't want to risk calling in the authorities, but
he did need an outsider to verify his alibis and
collaborate his statements.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
I'm a criminologist who'd met before. I seemed like the
logical choice.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
I see, well all asked for that case. There's one thing.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
I'm sure no, what's that?
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Mother?
Speaker 11 (22:04):
If I ever have to read to a child again,
it's going to be from the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
A Way of Crime.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
There's Metam
Yeah, an.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
A shadow.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
The shadow bays the forces of law and orders in
reality along Transmon welt the young man about town years
ago the orient Transon learned the strange and mysterious secrets
the hypnotic power just about them finds so they cannot
see them. Transton's friends and companion, the lovely Margot Lane,
the only pertem those to whom the voice of.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
The in the Little Shadow be won.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Today's drama.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
The Nursery Rhyme Murder.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Brookside Home is a private sanitarium located in a densely wooded.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Area in the suburbs.
Speaker 6 (01:15):
It's about eight o'clock in the evening as Superintendent Alfred
Foster walks down the corridor on his way to visit
one of his peaceles.
Speaker 7 (01:29):
Good evening, Bert, how are you.
Speaker 8 (01:31):
I'm fine, thanks to doctor Foster.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I've been waiting for you to be asleep by now. Bert,
I've been waiting for you to come and read to me.
We can't read to you every night, but you promise,
you said, if I ate all my supper, you'd read
a story to me. And I eat it all, Doctor Foster,
every bit of it, the cereal and everything bread to
me now.
Speaker 8 (01:52):
Please.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
We told you Bury that after you've been here a while,
we'd have to stop reading to you at night.
Speaker 8 (01:57):
You're not going to read to me tired tonight.
Speaker 6 (02:00):
Little feverish too. I think I just go to sleep
and in the morning I won't.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
I won't you promise to read me a bed time story.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
No, you broke your prom but you must get excited.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
You broke your promise.
Speaker 9 (02:13):
Stay where you are, don't don't come in here. That you're
bad and I'm going to hurt but no, no, take
your hands off my order I'll make you body hurry,
get him off and quick, Andrews.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Let him go, Let him go.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'll stay over that bird.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
Thank you, andrew us close.
Speaker 10 (02:36):
I promised to read.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
He broke from We want to get one of the
other orderlies, doctor post to hell.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
That's all right, Andrews, but I just got a little excited.
I can hand him or I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
I think we ought to send him over to the
violent ward.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
You will better not send me away.
Speaker 6 (02:49):
You'll better not out Albert.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
You better not try and send me away.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
If you do, I'll hurt you all.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
I'll hurt you all.
Speaker 8 (02:57):
Bad. Orderly, Orderly, keep quiet, bird, and go to sleep.
(03:18):
Three o'clock. I want to drink of water, Andrews. I
want to drink of water.
Speaker 11 (03:23):
Go to sleep.
Speaker 8 (03:24):
Words please Andrews. Please all right, bird, just the second.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Okay, it's your water.
Speaker 8 (03:37):
I was awful thirsty. Now here are thanks Andrews.
Speaker 12 (03:42):
Thanks?
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Now give me those keys.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
No, you don't give them to me.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
Now I get the keys.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I'm going to get out.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
I'm going to get out.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Looks at home.
Speaker 10 (04:18):
Hello, this is Polly Andrews. I'm Patty Andrews's wife. Oh, yes,
tell her missus Andrews is my husband there.
Speaker 11 (04:25):
I'm sorry Xanders was dipping in. All the order is
up in the ground time, but but used to see
estate bas national.
Speaker 10 (04:30):
Well, that's just it, operators. Our cottage is at the
north end of the ground. I understand. Useless is violence.
I'm here all alone, and well I'm certain.
Speaker 11 (04:40):
I don't know what we can do. I'll tell miss
Sanders Stefania when he gets back here.
Speaker 10 (04:45):
Well, all right, thanks.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
At all sons, Andrews.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Good ny.
Speaker 10 (04:52):
Who's that?
Speaker 11 (04:55):
Who who's there?
Speaker 8 (04:57):
Oh? Polly who hooly Flenders sat among the settlers, warming
her pretty little toes. Her mother came and put her
and with her little daughter were spoiling her nice new clothes.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
Lamont.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
I know it's presuming on our acquaintance, but I want
to thank you and miss Lane for coming to my
office this morning when I phone out of all for
bloodboo of service. The fact is I need your help desperately.
You see, Lamont, I'm a psychiatrist, not a criminologist. I
don't think it's a case for the police, but I
do need help in trying to find this escape patient.
Speaker 13 (05:47):
And the teaching party found no traces that used this
last night, Doctor fr No, Miss Meade, he's still at large.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
I feel pretty badly about it too. Bert was showing
signs of violence, in fact, he attacked me yesterday, but
instead of sending him the violence ward, I kept here
for observation.
Speaker 11 (06:01):
Then you think he's capable as being a killing.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I'm afraid so mislead kind of a case. Was the
patient for not fundamentally a criminal type, but I'd be
extremely unbalanced emotionally. During his periods of rationality, he reverted
to his childhood and lived in a complete juvenile world.
Speaker 13 (06:16):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 6 (06:17):
But he went to bed when it got dark, He
ate his serial faithfully insisted that I read bedtime stories
and nursery rhymes.
Speaker 11 (06:23):
To him deadtime story, nurs Have you been handling the.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Case trying to find out as much I can about
his background, especially as childhood any luck Well, I haven't
been able to get much out of burd himself, but
his father has given a pretty good lead.
Speaker 13 (06:36):
His father.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Yes, he's a well to do but eccentric old man
who used to come to visit his son devoted every week.
Recently he's been coming.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Less and less.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Vbert has some sort of a father complex. Perhaps his
father has been neglecting him lately. Yes, he's He's become
more and more unbalanced until he reached the breaking point
of deside to escape. Yes, something like that, Lamar converted.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
What's the posta?
Speaker 12 (06:56):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
What's the matter?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Missus Andrews Pavey Andrews's wife was I did in my
cottage last night?
Speaker 6 (07:01):
They just found a strangle at death For the rest
of it doesn't make sense?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
What does make sense? The killer carried a body upstairs
and left it in the fireplace. This is war.
Speaker 11 (07:21):
Poor woman's body killed up in the far place.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
I see very strange resting place.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Yes, notice one other thing, Fred, Yes, killer took the shoes.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Off the corpse.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
But why why did he take a shoes off?
Speaker 11 (07:35):
Why did he carry a body up theirs and put
it in the fireplace?
Speaker 6 (07:37):
It doesn't make.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Sense, country, Margaret, does make sense?
Speaker 10 (07:42):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (07:44):
The torture depths of Bert's mind? He acted with a
terrible logic.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
I don't think i'd follow you in the market, now,
did you?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Why you said this man? Bert loved bedtime stories, a
nursery rhyme.
Speaker 7 (07:51):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Well, in my opinion, he killed this.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Woman right out of a mother goose rhyme. Why listen
to this, Margot little sat among the cinders, warming her
pretty little toes. The dead woman's first name was yes,
since you sat among the cinders, have to mean the fireplace,
mardl he said, warming her pretty little toes. No wonder
the killer took her shoes off, precisely. The clues are
all in the rhyme. I wonder if it's only the beginning.
Speaker 13 (08:18):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I wonder if the killer is going to start with
this first murder, Mardre, Because with all the mother whose
stories there are, death can rhyme many.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Times a la Money and miss Lane. I'm glad you're here.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Might know that we got your phone called red.
Speaker 11 (08:50):
What's wrong?
Speaker 6 (08:51):
We haven't been able to locate Harvey Andrews, the husband
of the dead woman.
Speaker 11 (08:54):
It's mid night now, you mean they're looking for.
Speaker 13 (08:55):
Him all day?
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Yes, miss Lane. Ever since his wife's death, Andrews was
out trying to find with the rest of the searching party,
and now he's vanished.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
A woman has killed and her husband disappears.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
I'll part me around.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Hello, it's a Fox, Doctor Fox. Could you come out
of the reception room for a minute.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Yes, yes, a.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Coach Lamont, Miss Laing, if you're excuse me for a moment,
I'm going out to the reception room. Maybe the searching
party has come in, of course, I can't.
Speaker 11 (09:19):
Suppose Bird has killed the orderly as well as his wife.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
I don't know, Madam Stranger that having been able to
locate in me.
Speaker 13 (09:26):
It's doctor Quartophone.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Yeah, I suppose I better answered.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Hello. Listen, doctor little boy Blue, come for your horn.
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the course.
Where's a little boy who looks.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
After the sheep?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
He's under the stack. Just sleep. Who is this.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
Hello, Hello, what's about but housta smuggle? Come on, I
think we're better get outside past where we go to
the farm and back to the sanitarium.
Speaker 11 (10:05):
What are you excay to find out?
Speaker 12 (10:06):
There?
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Wouldn't be surprised Model if we found this little boy Blue.
Speaker 13 (10:14):
I think you can be wandering around the ground from
the middle of the night without the post.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Doctor Foster, be very glad we left without a Margot,
hold the flash ladder. Isn't the haystack next the barn? Yes, careful,
we may be walking into a trap.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
Here we are, there's a pitchfork.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
I'm gonna start digging.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Come on, what do you expect to find?
Speaker 5 (10:44):
Yell has given us a clue, Margret, I'm not law.
Speaker 10 (10:49):
Good lord.
Speaker 11 (10:50):
That's a body under the same who's Andrews and he's
wearing a blue.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Orderly Jack his mother blue boy Blue.
Speaker 11 (11:01):
Only this little boy Blue isn't just fastest sleep.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
He's dead.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
Who love this?
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Margo and Laws in search of the nursery life killer.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
While at Brookside Ball in the office of Superintendent.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
You say you have heard the killer's laugh after you
found the body in the month. Yes, we're ran after him,
but lost in the darkness.
Speaker 11 (11:57):
Friends, it was a little boy slender, then it was
a little boy blue. I wonder who Bert will pick neck.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
I can guess his next victim, Miss Lay who myself?
Speaker 12 (12:07):
You?
Speaker 6 (12:08):
I'm afraid of the same thing, for it, Bert hated
me as much as he hated Andrews. As I see
if he went to Andrews house to kill him and
found Andrews wasn't there and killed.
Speaker 13 (12:15):
His wife instead, and he caught Andrews in the ground
blade and killed him and buried them under the head.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
Yes, and logically, well, I come next, could be right.
Speaker 7 (12:25):
I'm afraid I am. But we've got to find this man.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
We've got to preserve a statewid dragging it up for
him now. Yes, I'm so busy covering the highways and terminals.
I wonder if they haven't given the most logical place
a very fast examination.
Speaker 11 (12:36):
The most logical thing.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Yes, er, it's home.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
I think we'd better have a talk with Bert's father
in the month. I wouldn't be surprised if he knew
a great deal more about where his son was hiding.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
It's a good idea.
Speaker 7 (12:46):
Come on, man, I don't get my fingers.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
It won't be necessary for what do you mean you're
not going with his fraid it's not safe. Oh but
I hit it yourself.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
You're probably next on Bert's list. Yes, he's well the psychiatrist.
Speaker 7 (12:54):
I'm the criminal.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Just remember we'll phone you hear the office soon as
we've seen old man Eustace.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Were all right, thanks them forget it.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Come on, man, And so.
Speaker 5 (13:18):
Mister Eustace aid doctor Foster's suggestion. We decided to come
here to see you.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Let me see.
Speaker 11 (13:23):
I know you're as anxious to find great as we are.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Mister Houston, He's say, man, then people should just step
inside for a moment. Mister Eusta, talk to you.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
All right now, right step inside?
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Thank you?
Speaker 8 (13:39):
Put im into the Father, that's right, what he really
isn't a.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
Should ever see anything like this, old muscle leah, No,
and I don't think anybody else has for the last
fifty years.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, it's a little dusty.
Speaker 8 (13:53):
I haven't used the Father for some times.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Dam thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Uh you live here all alone, mister Eustace.
Speaker 8 (14:02):
Yes, yes, and uh if they're all alone? Ever since
Bertram went away, I miss.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Him very much.
Speaker 11 (14:10):
And before that, mister Eusta, well that it was.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
Just Bertram and I Betrim's mother has been dead almost
forty years.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
I see. You know, of course that Bert left the hospital.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
Yes, yes, sir, Now.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
You read it in the papers, I suppose.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Now I didn't read it in the papers.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
I know it.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
I know it.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
You couldn't buy any charms. Tell us where BERTI is, now,
could you, mister Eustace.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
I don't know, mister Cranston, I don't know. But that
oh was that Norris must have been the cat. She
must have knocked something over upstairs.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Those are hardly the footsteps of a cat, mister Eustace.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Oh yeah, Addy must be someone else now, I think
there is, and I better find out.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Not here, miss usus us.
Speaker 11 (15:03):
He's locking the door, Usus bolted.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
It certainly has Marco.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
We're locked in.
Speaker 10 (15:14):
It must be the way with two thrown.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
That's why we're breaking out of the parlor down there.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
But if mister Eusis and Butter disappeared, come on, Marga,
we've got to make sure we go down this cord.
Stay close to me and we'll smatter.
Speaker 11 (15:26):
I ran into ane of those down spider way.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Spider were born hurts, maybe.
Speaker 11 (15:30):
Not, But there was a spider in the middle of
this one. No wonder if Braid was unbalanced living in
this old mansion.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
So the quirrels looked like useless for her father.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
He's certainly.
Speaker 11 (15:42):
He's upstairs in the floor.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Offers, come I Margo down the end of this cordor
here must be flight of stairs.
Speaker 11 (15:49):
There he's up the top of the stairs.
Speaker 12 (16:00):
And word, oh, I won up there a dog there
and my lady Chabert. The man who not says players
I do get by the last leg, and.
Speaker 11 (16:18):
Who knows, Margret, must be mister Eustace, poor old man, wait.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
A second life of Look, here's a flash baby, the
old boys.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
What's the matter, Margaret, They said, mister Eustace.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
No, it's burnt.
Speaker 11 (16:45):
But the model mister Eustace couldn't have just spanished.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
In the looks as if he did, Margaret.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
We certainly went over every into the house.
Speaker 11 (16:51):
We think we can pick up his trailer.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Doctor barth to that that's the most logical place to
look for him.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Now, so that's where it's place.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Overhead here we are, nephew doing now if we can judge,
I saw something in the car headlines. What figure of
a man back there behind the guards? Look back, old
man who's I'm going around back. You're going to Pret's
(17:21):
house telling him I was delayed.
Speaker 11 (17:22):
Be carefully down, he please. That old man is a
crazy killer.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Shadows going to set a trap Margo. This time, I
think the crazy killer had spoken his last nursery rhyme. Yes,
I saw the same figure of Mysol when I stopped
(17:48):
to pick up the mail.
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Yes, and he left this in the mailbox. Notes.
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Listen, doctor Foster went to Gloucester in a shower of rain.
He stepped in a puddle up to his middle and
never went there again.
Speaker 11 (18:05):
Then old mister Eustace is here. Heman did see, he
must have.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
It must mean that that crazy killer has got to
creep into his house and murder me in the night,
eat out of his mind.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
None of us is safe any more.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
We'll all.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Why this is strange?
Speaker 5 (18:18):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (18:20):
The killer really gets close?
Speaker 7 (18:22):
There's another note. You're on my desk.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Eustace must have slipped.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
In through the window and left.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
And the odd part about it is it's addressed to
you to me.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yes, read it.
Speaker 13 (18:37):
See Sir Marjorie daw Jackie shall have a new master.
He shall have but a tenny a day. Of course,
he can't work any fastest.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
I don't understand, Marjorie, d'all.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
It's almost like Marco.
Speaker 11 (18:56):
You mean the killer.
Speaker 8 (18:57):
I mean, I'm afraid he means you. It's Lane Marcao, Marjorie.
Buttty close on there, close enough for all practical purposes?
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Doctor, Why a excuse me like that?
Speaker 8 (19:13):
It's a nice rhyme, isn't it. Here's a swing to
the so Mordorie door. Jackie shall have a new master.
Speaker 6 (19:23):
He shall have but a penny a day because he
can't work any faster.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Rhyme kill, yes, miss Lane, I am.
Speaker 7 (19:31):
I love nursery rhymes.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Oh what a Hubbard went to a cupboard to get
a poor dog.
Speaker 7 (19:40):
A bold little.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Jack corners head in the corner, and he he gets
Christmas pie and went up the hill.
Speaker 10 (19:48):
These poor.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Wos in this room, I don't see them.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
I'm someone I can't see.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Who are you? You like to hear a little nursery rhyme?
Doctor Foster?
Speaker 7 (20:04):
Who are you?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I have a little shadow that goes in and out
with me. What can be the use of him is
more than I can see stop, very very likely from
the heels up to the head, and I see him
jump before me. When I jump into my head, started starting,
I'm dying or mere already fostered. Your mind has been
cloded by the dark shadows you profess to study. Who
are you? Who are you?
Speaker 8 (20:25):
A shadow?
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Foster shadow here to see justice done. You thought you
could flame these murders on burd them and his father.
He became so obsessed with his case that your own
mind broke under the strait.
Speaker 10 (20:40):
Let me have him here, I'm cutting it out.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
No fusser. The state has a place for you, a
place where, never again will you be allowed loose among society,
the place where you can safely recite nursery rhymes your
heart's content.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Well, that's the whole story.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Margot Foster wasn't a doctor at all. He was just
a clever quack who outsmarted himself.
Speaker 13 (21:09):
He became so obsessed with a normal cases such as Eustace,
that he became unbounced himself.
Speaker 10 (21:15):
Is that it?
Speaker 4 (21:16):
That's right, Margaret.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Bert's escape must have been the snapping point for Foster's mind.
He went on a rampage blaming everything on Bert. We
went to see old man Eustace. Foster was afraid we'd
find Bert get the truth out of him, so he
had to get rid of Bert and shift the blame
to the father.
Speaker 13 (21:33):
When Foster was one polyandrous saw and it's his voice
we read on the phone. Both Bert and his father
was completely innocent.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Tride, Margaret.
Speaker 11 (21:41):
I still don't see why he called you in on
the case when he was guilty and more.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
That's how he outsmarted himself.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
He didn't want to risk calling in the authorities, but
he did need an outsider to verify his alibis and
collaborate his statements.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
I'm a criminologist who'd met before. I seemed like the
logical choice.
Speaker 11 (21:58):
I see, well all asked for that case. There's one thing.
Speaker 8 (22:02):
I'm sure no, what's that?
Speaker 10 (22:03):
Mother?
Speaker 11 (22:04):
If I ever have to read to a child again,
it's going to be from the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
A Way of Crime.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
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