May 10, 2025 • 14 mins
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The Strange Dr. Weird was a sister series to The Mysterious Traveler, both in theme and its narrator, Maurice Tarplin. The 29 episodes were produced and directed by Jock MacGregor and written by Robert A. Arthur, who also scripted for The Mysterious Traveler.
The Strange Dr. Weird was a sister series to The Mysterious Traveler, both in theme and its narrator, Maurice Tarplin. The 29 episodes were produced and directed by Jock MacGregor and written by Robert A. Arthur, who also scripted for The Mysterious Traveler.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Adam Hatt present the strange Doctor Weird, good evening.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Come in, won't you where it was the murder? Your
hands shaking? Surely you're not afraid of me. Perhaps it's
the cemetery outside my house. This is upstat you. Speaking
of cemeteries reminds me of a story I want to
tell you, A strange murder and a strange burial, the
(00:44):
strangest ever known. I call the story murder one million DC, and.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
A spirit of reverence. We of Adam Hatch join our
all Americans and the lies everywhere in a tribute of
humble gratitude to the brave men and women in our
armed forces. Let us pray that they who have brought
us so far along the road to freedom had not
sacrificed in vain. And finally, let us hope that the
(01:17):
end is near, that Japan will soon be defeated, that
our men and women overseas will return to a safe
home in a peaceful world. And all for the story
on to night Adam had programmed, as told by doctor Weirs.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
My story Murder one million BC begins in a house
on the outskirts of a small city in New Mexico,
the home of Professor Timothy Jordan's are a noun scientists
inside his laboratory, engaged upon a mysterious experiment. In the
living room, his wife Florence, and his financial adviser Harry
(01:59):
Smith confer with each other apprehensively.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But flow you.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Say you don't know why Timothy asked me to be
here at eleven this morning? No, yeah, I haven't any idea.
I'm sure he doesn't suspect anything about it. It must
be a lot of his money.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Money. What do you mean, Well, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I've been handling all his business affairs for the last
two years.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Eh.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, a lot of money has been coming in from
those new X ray machines. He invented so much that
I didn't think he'd missed.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
A little of it.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
You mean you've been taking it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I'm just borrowing some of it for some investments that
are making me rich.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Harry find out I'm sucked.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Send me the chair, will too?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Oh? No?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
But if you were only out of the way, will
be together? Always be careful?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh Harry, is that you?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Uh? Yes, Jim, Harry just got here.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Oh good, good, excellent, Harry Floe. I'm about to show
you the most amazing thing science has ever achieved.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
What do you mean to him?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I'm going to show you why I've had to ask
you for all that money lately, and why i'll need
another one hundred thousand immediately another. Come along, both of
you in here in my laboratory.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Him what's this all about?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Him?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Darling?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It is wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Or his machinery?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
What have you been doing in here?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Suppose I told you that I've been building a time machine?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
A time machine?
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Yes, yes, look, both of you. You see this big
archway of ways, a doorway that leads back into the
unknown past as far as the year one million BC.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Tim, you're not sirious.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I'm perfectly serious. All I have to do is to
close this switch.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Now watch.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
The arch way.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It seems to be getting all mistic.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Yes, that's a sign that current flowing to the these
coils is only a hole in the past, a hole
we can step through as if it were a doorway. Now,
come follow me, and in ten seconds you'll find yourself
on this earth as it was a million years ago.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Startled harryan Florence saw Professor Jordan step into the amazing
machine he had built and vanished. Then fearfully they followed him,
and abruptly found themselves standing at his side on a hot,
dry death of sand. A brilliant sun burned in the
sky overhead, and strange birds flew to the air above them.
(04:45):
Half a mile away to their left their vast body
of water, in which monstrous night Mary's creatures were flackening.
Harry and Florence stared about them as if they could
not believe their.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Eyes him, Kim.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Is this real? This is New Mexico as it was
a million years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Tim, I know what to say.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I just can't believe it. The past.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
We've come a million years into.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
The past, and just by stepping back the way we came,
we'll be in the present again in my laboratory in
the year nineteen forty AD.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Think what that means.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Think of being able to watch the burning of Rome,
see Columbus, discover America, view the signing of the Declaration
of Independence. What It'll all be possible as soon as
I can get more radium, more radium. Yes, radium provides
the power of my time.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
She needs.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
That's why I have to have one hundred thousand dollars
at once.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Harry, Yes, I see excuse me, Kim this huhh that's
interesting stone.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Oh that's just sandstone covered with clay. Well, Harry, about
the money.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
There isn't any money, no money.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Just what I say.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
You've stole it and bazzle it. You'll go to jail.
You here, I'll send you to the jail if it's
the last thing.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I don't know you want.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Oh, it's all crustive, had a killing. Better go to jail.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Oh what are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I tell you what we're going to do. I'm going
to bury him right here.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
But his body it may be found.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh listen, don't you understand, this is the world a
million years in the past. Will bury Timothy Year in
the sand and step back through the time machine in
the laboratory. When we get there, he'll have been dead
for a million years, don't you see. He'll have been
dead and buried for a million years, and there won't
be anybody left to be found. There won't be an
evidence all.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
After Harry had struck down Professor Jordan's ian Floe hastily
dug a deep grave in the sand with their hands.
They put the body and the bloodstained rock into this
grave and covered both with sand. Then hastily they stepped
back through the time machine into the laboratory and partly
dismantled the machines so no one else could stumble on
(07:12):
the secret. Then, after waiting, I announced Professor Jordan's disappearance.
Everything went just as Harry planned. It was true that
the infect Larroy of the local police department seemed a
little suspicious Professor Jordan's disappearance, but of course he had
(07:33):
no evidence. So in due time Harry and Flow were married.
As they were returning from a long honeymoon, Harry said.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Oh, I've been thinking about that time machine of Timothy's.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
What about it, Harry?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That machine can make me the richest man on earth.
For example, suppose I took it to New York and
used it to go back a hundred years. That suppose
I bought up all the land were times square? Now, Hi,
what is it?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
This clipping grace?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Now isn't me?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I opened a letter and look at it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
We see.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Bones of ancient man found near residence of late Professor Jordan.
While activating for Highway thirty seven, workmen today found fragments
of the skeleton of an ancient man carried in a formation
of sand and rocks. Robert Thompson's The Geologist states theological
formation indicates the bones between five hundred thousand and million
years old and have been preserved an extreme glness for soil
creating scientists is affected. A rock found beside the Christian
(08:27):
skull of the skeletons was apparently the weapon with which
the prehistoric man was killed.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Kimmothy's bones and the rock you killed him with, Harry,
you said there wouldn't be any evidence left after.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
A million years.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
We have nothing to worry about. Even they did find
a few old bones, just the same.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Hey, let's not go back home.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Let's get off the train, turn around, go someplace far away.
That's absurd, and the first place would look suspicious if
we get to go back. In the second place, we've
got to go back to get that time machine because
it's going to make me the richest man in the world.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Harry succeeded in calming Florence's fears, and next morning they
arrived homes they were having breakfast for an unannounced caller
in secular roy walking.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Good morning, folks, welcome home. What's the idea of barging
in like Thiss inspector, Missus Smith, do you recognize this
lockett which was found and turned into the police department?
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Lockett?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Why that's my gold locket.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
It's been missing for months.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
But what's happened to it?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
It's a warrent scratch that's mixing years.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Old, Yes, doesn't it?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
And we found an inscription inside as good as new,
indicating your former husband gave it to you for a
birthday present.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
All right, so.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
It's Florence's locket.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So hot.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
As a matter of fact, I want to talk to
you about that skeleton which was found out back of
this house last week.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You know about it?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I suppose, yes, we know about It's so hot. It
was a very interesting skeleton, mister Smith. A million years old,
the scientists say, But this locket was found lying underneath it.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Oh, no, it's impossible.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Another thing about that skeleton which is puzzling the scientist.
It has gold fillings in its teeth. Gold fillings Professor
Jordan's dentist identifies as fillings he put into the Professor's
teeth himself.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
He crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
No, it's the scientists who are going crazy trying to
figure out the answers. But I'm no scientist, though I
didn't have any trouble. My answer is that that body
is Professor Jordan's and you two killed him and buried
him there, and missus Smith, that's when you lost that lock.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
No, no, it isn't true.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
It isn't true.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I said, you're crazy, and I mean it, not crazy
enough to believe dentists for putting gold fillings in people's
teeth a million years ago. Those are Professor Jordan's bone. Smith,
And I can prove that you murdered him. You can't.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yes, you see that rock that killed him just fits
the wound in the skull. And you know what, the
killer left his fingerprints on that rock.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Fingerprint.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
It's a puss, but it is. The scientists say that
a million years ago that rock was covered with clay,
and that the murderer left four nice clear fingerprints in
the clay. Since then, the clay has hardened to become
part of the rock itself, and those four fingerprints there
in that solid rock matched specimens of your prints that
(11:19):
I got from your office. How's that for evidence? Fingerprints
embedded for all eternity and the solid rock with which
a murderer struck down his victim.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
The jury found Harry and Florence guilty, who love even
leaving the box. The evidence was so conclusive.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Of course, nobody believed.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
That Professor Jordan's bones actually have been buried for a
million years before they were found. But nobody could explain
how Harry's fingerprints came to be embedded in a solid
chunk of rock. Fairy could have, but he didn't dare
to the for fear of making matters worse. I remember
(12:07):
another scientist tooth, Oh, you have to go now, breadfull
drop in a game.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Soon.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yes, look for the house on the other side of
the cemetery of doctor Weir.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Doctor Weird returned shortly to tell you about next week's story. Meanwhile,
here's the thought for all of us. While the war
in Europe is over, the war in the Pacific is
far from one. Our land troops still have many hundreds
of miles of tough island hopping to go, and may
even have to fight Japan's armies in China. That means
(12:51):
we must continue to keep up the floor of ships, guns,
munitions and food to our far flung Pacific outpost. And
that means we must continue to buy bonds. The mighty
sudden warlorn drive is now on. Let's support it to
the utmost by till it hurts and then some. Now
(13:12):
let us hear again from Doctor Weird.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I hope you'll plan to drop in on me again
next week. I want to tell you a story I
call Picture of a Killer. It's an unusual tale about
a killer who had never had his picture taken, and
when a photographer finally did snap his picture, it was
with the rest of the story, we'll have to wait
(13:35):
until your next visit. Good night.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Join us again next week at the same time for
another visit with the Strange Doctor Weird. The Strange Doctor Weird,
directed by Jack McGregor, is written by Barbara and David Cogan.
It's presented by the makers of Adam Hatch, the hats
(14:04):
that are always top in quality. This is the Mutual
Broadcasting Systems
Adam Hatt present the strange Doctor Weird, good evening.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Come in, won't you where it was the murder? Your
hands shaking? Surely you're not afraid of me. Perhaps it's
the cemetery outside my house. This is upstat you. Speaking
of cemeteries reminds me of a story I want to
tell you, A strange murder and a strange burial, the
(00:44):
strangest ever known. I call the story murder one million DC, and.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
A spirit of reverence. We of Adam Hatch join our
all Americans and the lies everywhere in a tribute of
humble gratitude to the brave men and women in our
armed forces. Let us pray that they who have brought
us so far along the road to freedom had not
sacrificed in vain. And finally, let us hope that the
(01:17):
end is near, that Japan will soon be defeated, that
our men and women overseas will return to a safe
home in a peaceful world. And all for the story
on to night Adam had programmed, as told by doctor Weirs.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
My story Murder one million BC begins in a house
on the outskirts of a small city in New Mexico,
the home of Professor Timothy Jordan's are a noun scientists
inside his laboratory, engaged upon a mysterious experiment. In the
living room, his wife Florence, and his financial adviser Harry
(01:59):
Smith confer with each other apprehensively.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But flow you.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Say you don't know why Timothy asked me to be
here at eleven this morning? No, yeah, I haven't any idea.
I'm sure he doesn't suspect anything about it. It must
be a lot of his money.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Money. What do you mean, Well, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
I've been handling all his business affairs for the last
two years.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Eh.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, a lot of money has been coming in from
those new X ray machines. He invented so much that
I didn't think he'd missed.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
A little of it.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
You mean you've been taking it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I'm just borrowing some of it for some investments that
are making me rich.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Harry find out I'm sucked.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Send me the chair, will too?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Oh? No?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
But if you were only out of the way, will
be together? Always be careful?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh Harry, is that you?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Uh? Yes, Jim, Harry just got here.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Oh good, good, excellent, Harry Floe. I'm about to show
you the most amazing thing science has ever achieved.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
What do you mean to him?
Speaker 5 (03:05):
I'm going to show you why I've had to ask
you for all that money lately, and why i'll need
another one hundred thousand immediately another. Come along, both of
you in here in my laboratory.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Him what's this all about?
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Him?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Darling?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
It is wrong?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Or his machinery?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
What have you been doing in here?
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Suppose I told you that I've been building a time machine?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
A time machine?
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Yes, yes, look, both of you. You see this big
archway of ways, a doorway that leads back into the
unknown past as far as the year one million BC.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Tim, you're not sirious.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
I'm perfectly serious. All I have to do is to
close this switch.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Now watch.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
The arch way.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It seems to be getting all mistic.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Yes, that's a sign that current flowing to the these
coils is only a hole in the past, a hole
we can step through as if it were a doorway. Now,
come follow me, and in ten seconds you'll find yourself
on this earth as it was a million years ago.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Startled harryan Florence saw Professor Jordan step into the amazing
machine he had built and vanished. Then fearfully they followed him,
and abruptly found themselves standing at his side on a hot,
dry death of sand. A brilliant sun burned in the
sky overhead, and strange birds flew to the air above them.
(04:45):
Half a mile away to their left their vast body
of water, in which monstrous night Mary's creatures were flackening.
Harry and Florence stared about them as if they could
not believe their.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Eyes him, Kim.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Is this real? This is New Mexico as it was
a million years ago.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Tim, I know what to say.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I just can't believe it. The past.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
We've come a million years into.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
The past, and just by stepping back the way we came,
we'll be in the present again in my laboratory in
the year nineteen forty AD.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Think what that means.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Think of being able to watch the burning of Rome,
see Columbus, discover America, view the signing of the Declaration
of Independence. What It'll all be possible as soon as
I can get more radium, more radium. Yes, radium provides
the power of my time.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
She needs.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
That's why I have to have one hundred thousand dollars
at once.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Harry, Yes, I see excuse me, Kim this huhh that's
interesting stone.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Oh that's just sandstone covered with clay. Well, Harry, about
the money.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
There isn't any money, no money.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
What do you mean?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Just what I say.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
You've stole it and bazzle it. You'll go to jail.
You here, I'll send you to the jail if it's
the last thing.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I don't know you want.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Oh, it's all crustive, had a killing. Better go to jail.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Oh what are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I tell you what we're going to do. I'm going
to bury him right here.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
But his body it may be found.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh listen, don't you understand, this is the world a
million years in the past. Will bury Timothy Year in
the sand and step back through the time machine in
the laboratory. When we get there, he'll have been dead
for a million years, don't you see. He'll have been
dead and buried for a million years, and there won't
be anybody left to be found. There won't be an
evidence all.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
After Harry had struck down Professor Jordan's ian Floe hastily
dug a deep grave in the sand with their hands.
They put the body and the bloodstained rock into this
grave and covered both with sand. Then hastily they stepped
back through the time machine into the laboratory and partly
dismantled the machines so no one else could stumble on
(07:12):
the secret. Then, after waiting, I announced Professor Jordan's disappearance.
Everything went just as Harry planned. It was true that
the infect Larroy of the local police department seemed a
little suspicious Professor Jordan's disappearance, but of course he had
(07:33):
no evidence. So in due time Harry and Flow were married.
As they were returning from a long honeymoon, Harry said.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Oh, I've been thinking about that time machine of Timothy's.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
What about it, Harry?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That machine can make me the richest man on earth.
For example, suppose I took it to New York and
used it to go back a hundred years. That suppose
I bought up all the land were times square? Now, Hi,
what is it?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
This clipping grace?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Now isn't me?
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I opened a letter and look at it.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
We see.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Bones of ancient man found near residence of late Professor Jordan.
While activating for Highway thirty seven, workmen today found fragments
of the skeleton of an ancient man carried in a formation
of sand and rocks. Robert Thompson's The Geologist states theological
formation indicates the bones between five hundred thousand and million
years old and have been preserved an extreme glness for soil
creating scientists is affected. A rock found beside the Christian
(08:27):
skull of the skeletons was apparently the weapon with which
the prehistoric man was killed.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Kimmothy's bones and the rock you killed him with, Harry,
you said there wouldn't be any evidence left after.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
A million years.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
We have nothing to worry about. Even they did find
a few old bones, just the same.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Hey, let's not go back home.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Let's get off the train, turn around, go someplace far away.
That's absurd, and the first place would look suspicious if
we get to go back. In the second place, we've
got to go back to get that time machine because
it's going to make me the richest man in the world.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Harry succeeded in calming Florence's fears, and next morning they
arrived homes they were having breakfast for an unannounced caller
in secular roy walking.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Good morning, folks, welcome home. What's the idea of barging
in like Thiss inspector, Missus Smith, do you recognize this
lockett which was found and turned into the police department?
Speaker 5 (09:26):
Lockett?
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Why that's my gold locket.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
It's been missing for months.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
But what's happened to it?
Speaker 5 (09:32):
It's a warrent scratch that's mixing years.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Old, Yes, doesn't it?
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
And we found an inscription inside as good as new,
indicating your former husband gave it to you for a
birthday present.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
All right, so.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
It's Florence's locket.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
So hot.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
As a matter of fact, I want to talk to
you about that skeleton which was found out back of
this house last week.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
You know about it?
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I suppose, yes, we know about It's so hot. It
was a very interesting skeleton, mister Smith. A million years old,
the scientists say, But this locket was found lying underneath it.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Oh, no, it's impossible.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Another thing about that skeleton which is puzzling the scientist.
It has gold fillings in its teeth. Gold fillings Professor
Jordan's dentist identifies as fillings he put into the Professor's
teeth himself.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
He crazy.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
No, it's the scientists who are going crazy trying to
figure out the answers. But I'm no scientist, though I
didn't have any trouble. My answer is that that body
is Professor Jordan's and you two killed him and buried
him there, and missus Smith, that's when you lost that lock.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
No, no, it isn't true.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
It isn't true.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I said, you're crazy, and I mean it, not crazy
enough to believe dentists for putting gold fillings in people's
teeth a million years ago. Those are Professor Jordan's bone. Smith,
And I can prove that you murdered him. You can't.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yes, you see that rock that killed him just fits
the wound in the skull. And you know what, the
killer left his fingerprints on that rock.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Fingerprint.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
It's a puss, but it is. The scientists say that
a million years ago that rock was covered with clay,
and that the murderer left four nice clear fingerprints in
the clay. Since then, the clay has hardened to become
part of the rock itself, and those four fingerprints there
in that solid rock matched specimens of your prints that
(11:19):
I got from your office. How's that for evidence? Fingerprints
embedded for all eternity and the solid rock with which
a murderer struck down his victim.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
The jury found Harry and Florence guilty, who love even
leaving the box. The evidence was so conclusive.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Of course, nobody believed.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
That Professor Jordan's bones actually have been buried for a
million years before they were found. But nobody could explain
how Harry's fingerprints came to be embedded in a solid
chunk of rock. Fairy could have, but he didn't dare
to the for fear of making matters worse. I remember
(12:07):
another scientist tooth, Oh, you have to go now, breadfull
drop in a game.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Soon.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yes, look for the house on the other side of
the cemetery of doctor Weir.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Doctor Weird returned shortly to tell you about next week's story. Meanwhile,
here's the thought for all of us. While the war
in Europe is over, the war in the Pacific is
far from one. Our land troops still have many hundreds
of miles of tough island hopping to go, and may
even have to fight Japan's armies in China. That means
(12:51):
we must continue to keep up the floor of ships, guns,
munitions and food to our far flung Pacific outpost. And
that means we must continue to buy bonds. The mighty
sudden warlorn drive is now on. Let's support it to
the utmost by till it hurts and then some. Now
(13:12):
let us hear again from Doctor Weird.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
I hope you'll plan to drop in on me again
next week. I want to tell you a story I
call Picture of a Killer. It's an unusual tale about
a killer who had never had his picture taken, and
when a photographer finally did snap his picture, it was
with the rest of the story, we'll have to wait
(13:35):
until your next visit. Good night.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Join us again next week at the same time for
another visit with the Strange Doctor Weird. The Strange Doctor Weird,
directed by Jack McGregor, is written by Barbara and David Cogan.
It's presented by the makers of Adam Hatch, the hats
(14:04):
that are always top in quality. This is the Mutual
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