September 26, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is
unique among all mystery programs, because even when you know
who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at
the final curtain. In the Signal Oil program, the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
For I walk by night. I know many strange tales
hidden in the hearts of men and women who have
stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors
of which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, The Whistler's strange
story a matter of courtesy.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Everybody loved Cressi Carlos. Everybody said they'd never known anyone
quite light. Her heart, they said, was as big as
she was, and Cressie was a big woman. She had
a generous, wide open frankness about it, a hearty friendliness
that penetrated the quick, stinging wit that made her famous. Yes,
everybody loved pressI Carlos, everybody except perhaps her husband, Matt.
(01:28):
The two of them owned and operated Club Carlus, the
most successful and expensive of all the nice spots and
time A Julie Bradford, featured singer at the club was
singing her big number. Pressy moved about and joked and
kidded the customers, and they ate it up. Hi, Chrissy
coming into count the suckers.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Hello Jack, nice as he is, stand enough.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
For a chase at your prices? Who can buy enough
to be otherwise?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You're wrong, Jack, We don't charge enough.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
We wouldn't still be getting bumbs like you.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
They think you're a character, don't They crest You leave
them with a smile, But you always get.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
The last withering word.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Don't you.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You move from the bar and make your way through
the tightly packed tables until you reach your own, your
private tape, yours.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
And Matt said, John, No, Matt, I want to talk.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
To you about Chrissie.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
You'll mess at Julie's number.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Looks like a good knight?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, yes, fine, Honestly you glance at Matt, they are
at Julie the same. The warm, friendly smile remains fixed
on your face.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
It fools a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
But no one fools you.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Do They crest.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
You know all about Matt and Jewlie, and.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You don't care.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
She can have him cashed. Yes, you'd give Matt to
Julie to night, But there's the club, Matt's half home
and Club Carlos is the one thing you won't part with.
You won't really be satisfied until it all belongs to you,
no matter what price.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
You have to pay.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
No, man, she's terrific.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
That we've never had that flame bill. But nothing she
called her costume doesn't hurt him.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
She can sing too, Hey, Julie.
Speaker 8 (03:13):
Julie, I'm here, Come on, Julie said, I'm with the buses.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
You get better service.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You gotta take him there. Oh, Hi Christy, Hello Julie.
You were good tonight. Hi Christy, you'll turn my head.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It's satterly like that.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Let me you drink, Julie, No thanks, remembering, Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
You never touch anything on the job.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Well, I never do it.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Well, I always have a drink before I come to
the club. Just one at home?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
You do.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
That's funny, so do I.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
You two ought to be able to build a great
friendship on a coincidence like that.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yeah, giving us the customer treatment.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I don't think so. The customer is always right. But
I've got a hunch Chresty doesn't think we're the right mass.
Oh that's where you're wrong. Julie. I think you two
deserve each other.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Your eyes meet for just a moment, yours and Julie.
She doesn't like you very much, does she?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Crest?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
You decide to exit on that line. You're not ready
to tangle with Julie yet, all right, So you get
up from the table, move among your guests, see that
they get the best liquor, the best food, and that
they pay the best prices for Later that night, you
stand behind the bar after closing time, checking the register
and chatting with Nick, the bartender.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
That's the last Nick, we can seal up the joint.
Now we had a good night?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Yeah, some ways?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
So how is it bad?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
All?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I don't know?
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Night christ Nick?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
So how was it dead?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Look?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
You know your own business. I don't have to tell
you about got a meaning?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
What do you know about Matt? Julie? That maybe I don't?
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Okay, So we'll talk in the open.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Get rid of her. She's troubled.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Come on, let's have the rest of it.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Now.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
She's sitting here with Matt tonight early. Nobody else is around.
I don't see me because I'm under the bar picking things.
I hear him talking, and I don't dare move. I'm
talking pretty personally anyway to wind up as this, Julie
saying the mat I want you, and I'll kill both
of us before I let Cressy keep hmm.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Don't let that throw your nick. She's just asking living
it up. Women do it all the time, even me.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
She's not that good actress. Why don't you have fire
a credit?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
That's no answer?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
I shouldn't have talked, I suppose, but I've been with
you a long time. You've always been swelling me. You
made this place, pull it through tough times. Now it's
all gravy. I don't like to see any cheap.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I'm fast. I know how you feel, and I appreciate it.
But for now I'm just waiting. It's happened before and
worn off.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Yeah, but not this. I have to see this and
wear off before I believe it.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Lights night, Nick, I'll believe it when I see.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
It, too, well, Cressy, Julie's a bigger fool than you
thought she was, isn't she. Maybe you can make it
easy for her if she loves mad as much as
scene says she does. Yes, Pressy, if all she wants
(06:32):
is mad, maybe you and Julie can make a deed.
Mid afternoon the next day, you park your car on
the side street next to the spacious apartment building where
Julie lives. As you take a shortcut through the adjacent
parking lot, a young man in mechanics overall drives the
car into the Lone hails the parking at tin Amy,
(06:53):
which is Julie Bradford's parking space.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
What's this car from the garage?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Number four is her space, says ry Pocket.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
You're gonna be here, I'll eave it Tezoner Okay, Oh sure, sure,
go ahead, I'll be here. You watch the mechanic park
the car in Julie's parking place. Then you enter the
apartment building, walk down the corridor leading to Julie's apartment.
(07:22):
You're about to press the bell when you hear voices
coming from a apartment Max and Julius. You stop them
on then turn and walk back a few steps to
another door. Instinctively, you drive a knob open service entrance
to Julie's kitchen. You enter silently, move quickly across the
kitchen to a spot where you can hear.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Beck wait to see it my way.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
He still nothing happens, Julie, Crushy and me a crew.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
I told you about one hundred times, but I still
gotta figure out a way and making the break with
her and still hang under my half of the crop.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
There's only one way.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
To make it.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Drink one you your way, nice to get.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Rid of it.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
So good, that's out.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I told you that I'm out.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
I don't say that to you, even kids.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I'm not kidding. Look at this, Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Thank God for me? Just if you drop this and
you drink and ten.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Minutes, that's all except they grab us for murder.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And that's all so wuld look like do a side?
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Anybody know better?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
That's not like Cressy with the planet. Make a stick.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
We'll do it my way.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
Hollo back, don't miss.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Now listen, I'll come.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
It'll be soon. I'm fine.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Don't ask questions. Go I now get a couple hours.
I'm going home to do the same. I'll come back
at six and we'll have.
Speaker 10 (08:53):
A drink together.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Right, kids in sleep now, I don't worry.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
How well Craig, I guess you're quite clear. Now you
wait until you hear Julie walk from the living room
into the bedroom and close the door. You're surprised that
you're come suddenly. It's as if you'd always known exactly
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what would happen and what you would be. You wait
until you're sure Julie's asleep, then move quietly into the
living room, cross to the low table in front of
the couch, and pick up the small box the poison
Julie intended for you.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
That the stuff will be curtains, but not for me.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Distant pastures, they say, usually look greener, and that often
goes for the other fellow's car too, But it needn't.
If you have to grind and grind on the starter
while you see other cars start right off at the
first touch, don't envy the other fellow.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
He's probably just using signal efyl.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
When the traffic signal says go and the car next
to you zooms out ahead, leaving you with that glue
to the spot feeling, don't envy him. He's probably just
using signal efyl. And when your car is laboring up
a hill and another car breezes by easily, smoothly in
high don't envy him. He's probably just using signal ethyl.
(10:36):
After all this premium grade of signals famous Go Farther
gasoline is a super powerful super fuel scientifically engineered to
bring out the best in any car of any age.
You'll just never know how smartly your car will perform
on signal ethyl until you try it, thankful, and there's
no time like the present to try it.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yes, Cressy, the die is cast. Is at you and
Club Carlos, against your husband, Matt and Julie bred and
now standing alone in Julie's living room, you suddenly see
a solution. The bottle of poison Julie intended for you
is in your hands, and with it Julie's life and Matt's.
It's a perfect set up, isn't it, Cressy, Nick, the
(11:37):
bartender at your club Carlos, helped perfect it when he
told you about Julie's conversation with Matt.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
A darken pretty personal.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Anyway they wind up, This is Julie saying the Matt,
I want you, and I'll kill four of us before
I let Kretie keep.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yes, Cressy, Nick will remember that, And what was it,
Julian Matt said at your table last night.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I always have a drink before I come to the club,
just one at home.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
That's fine.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It is perfect, isn't it, Cressy. Now Julie's asleep in
her bedroom and the bottle of poison is held carefully
in your gloved hand, only Julie's finger principle show on
the table, you see a decanter filled with whiskey. You
quickly pour the poison into it. Then you leave the
empty poison bottle just under the edge of the couch.
(12:28):
Well it can be found when anyone looks for evidence.
You've set the track, haven't you, Cressy. And after a
hurried survey, you leave Julie's apartment quickly and quietly, just
the way you came. When you reach your car, you
(12:50):
suddenly realize you left your car key in Julie's apartment.
You put the latch down on the kitchen door. There's
no way you can get it without waking Julie.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
You're stunned.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Then it hits you, just a single key on a chain.
It could be Matt's key too. His key is exactly
like yours, and he keeps it on a single chain.
And you decide that fits your plan. Just five satisfied.
Now you hail a taxi and go home. A little
(13:31):
before six. You wake Matt, and while he's in the shower,
your confidence in your plan increases. You're certain you will
be the sole owner of Club Carlis in a matter
of a few hours.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Oh man, that sure did the trick when you walk me.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Maybe I should have quit when I was ahead.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
Huh, that's a great thing to say. It's the matter
with you, Cressy. You got a beef with me?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
What would I have to beef about?
Speaker 8 (13:56):
I don't know. Only when you slide over a quick
one like that last crack.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
I big things aren't exactly a rosie with us.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Forget it, mat matter of fact, I we're just sitting
here thinking that I don't know when you meant.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
So much to me? Yeah, how about us having a drink,
a short one for the short road. Huh.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Gee, I can't, Cressy, not tonight. I got a big
appointment on the way to the club. Do there at six?
Probably have a drink with him?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Oh? Anyone? I know?
Speaker 8 (14:21):
No fellow wants to book an act in the club,
or tell him I talking over with him.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Watch it, Matt. I don't want you auditioning any talent
without me.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Oh oh, this guy just wants to talk to me that,
so I wouldn't set the deal along. You know that
funny thing. Before I went to sleep an hour so ago,
I was thinking about you too.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
You in the club. You're an awful smart off, righta, Cressy.
It wasn't for you. Club crowns would be just annoyeding
the reason.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Well, I'm glad to hear you say that. Math makes
me feel wanted.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
You know, I sure couldn't swing on a lamb, couldn't
make it click like you do.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, don't worry, Sorry, Matt, I got no plans for leaving.
You're the guy who's on his way out. Huh, well,
look at the time. If you're going to keep your
six o'clock date, you better get going. Oh hey, you
have to take a taxi though I left our car
at the garage. The cloth you're slipping.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Why didn't you wedding the lamorrow morning?
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Oh well, okay, I'll grab a cap at the corner,
say at the club.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
It's all on, Cressy, good bye, Matt.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
That's it, isn't it, Cressy. The last time you'll see
Matt alive and you don't feel a shred of remorse
about it. As you walk to the window, see him
standing on the corner. Hail a taxi, get in it
and ride away. Your only thought is that once your
timetable plays out, Club Carlos will be yours, all yours.
(15:52):
You take up your vigil, but the clock allow Matt
ample time to get the jewelis more time to have
a lingering drink with it. And when you feel sure
they've shared that last fatal drink from the poison whiskey
to catter on Julie's table, we go to the phone
and place a very important call.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Hello, it's crazy, Julie. I thought you'd be on the
way to the club by now.
Speaker 9 (16:19):
I should be, but I'm not going in tonight, Crassy?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Are you not going in? How come? Anything wrong? All right?
Speaker 9 (16:28):
It feels so strange. I got all dressedly, but all
of a sudden I felt sick.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Awful. That's too bad, Julie. Is Matt there?
Speaker 9 (16:40):
No, No, he isn't.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Please Please don't give me that stuff, Julie, he's there,
isn't he?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
No, Crassy, honest, look, he was coming there, and I
know what he's got to be there.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
Okay, Chrassy, he was here, but he left just a
few minutes before you called honesty, did Grassy? I'm really
getting scared, I.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Feel, Julie. Listen carefully. It was important. Did you and
Matt have a drink together?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Did you and Matt have a drink together? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (17:11):
Yes, we did.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
From the decanter on the table, Yes, from the I'm
gonna tell you, Julie, Yes, sir, I think you deserved
to know. Never mind, dear, I'll do all the talking.
I'll do all the talking from here on in, because
you are poisoned. Did my work for me, Julie, And
I'm just real grateful to you boys. How did you know?
(17:33):
He had a little green bottle? It's empty now, Julie,
and I'm afraid it's out of your reach.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
Oh you didn't.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
You couldn't have known, but I did. I heard it
all this afternoon, you and Matt. I was there, so
you see, I had to call you, Julie, see how
you were doing, just as a matter of courtesy.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
And I got news for your kid. You're dead. Hello, Hello,
(18:16):
wonder and one to go.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Julie won't be calling the doctor, now, will she, Chris, No,
Julie won't be calling anyone ever. And you know now
that Matt had a drink from the same decanter of
poison whiskey before he left Julie's apartment. It's just a
matter of time, now, isn't it, Chrissy. As you wait
for the call you know must come, you change clothes,
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just as if everything were normal and you were going
down to the club as usually, You wonder who'll call,
how long it will take, and then in the middle
of your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Hello, Oh hi, Nick, what's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Men's here from the distillery. If you want to use your.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Oh well, how does the stock look to you? Will
the usual take care of it?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I think so, that's your.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Answer in I just want to check with You're crazy?
After all, you're the boss.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah, yeah, I am. If you want to overlook Matt
that is, by the way, is he there yet?
Speaker 7 (19:27):
I'm not yet. Shall I have to call you when.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
He comes here? No? No, I'll be down after a while.
I'll see him then.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Okay, sorry about you, not at all.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
See you soon.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
You're glad Nick called, aren't you, Chrissy? Later, if it's necessary,
Nick can tell the authorities that he called you at
home and that you sounded quite normal. Unaware that a
double tragedy had occurred, and Nick can repeat the conversation
he overheard between Julie and Matt where she said she'd
kill them both before she'd give Matt up. Yes, Christy
(20:06):
mixed and being valuable to if you need you moved
from the phone to a chair, prepared to wait out
your time, and you hear a knock on your front door.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Hello, are you.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Missus Carlus, Missus Matt Carlus.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yes, yes, my name is Branson.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Missus Carlas. We can brands in the afternoon.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Well, of course we're canna come lady. Won't you sit down?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Yes? Thanks, I am Perhaps you'd better sit down too.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Why is anything wrong?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Yes, I'm afraid so I've got bad news for you,
Missus Carlus. Your husband is dead.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Matt dead.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
But how he was driving a car and it rammed
into an empty warehouse building?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah, killed in an accident. Oh My'm not.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Sure, Missus Carlas. He had an accident, all right, But
the ambulance attendant seems to think that death came as
a result of poison.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Poison.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
They're checking on that now, Missus Carlas. Another strange thing,
this car your husband is driving wasn't registered in his name?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Not his car?
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Well, then, who's Lieutenant this car Matt was driving? Was
it a blue Sidan a nineteen forty seven Olds.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Mobile, But but yes it was.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
That car belongs to Julie Bradford, singer at our club
Matt's in mine. Nick told me about her threats, but
I wouldn't believe.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Oh what threats, missus Carlas. And who's Nick?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
It's the bartender at club Carlis. I. I don't want
to say any more right now, Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
If I were you, I'd check on Julie Bradford and
find out what really happened to me.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Really, all right, Missus Carlas, I will check out.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Oh, madam, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Really, Sciences, I leave you now. I have a hunch
this investigation will take long, believe me. Out of everything
I can not to inconvenience you in anyway.
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Speaker 3 (23:45):
Well, Cressy, you're certain now that you've won, aren't you.
After police Lieutenant Branson leaves to investigate the details of
your husband's death, you reflect confidently on the steps you've
already taken. You're sure Matt's death and Julie's peers murder
and suicide. Once the lieutenant checks your story with Nick,
the bartender at club Cars, and when Lieutenant Branson finds
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Julius dead, he'll also find the key to yours and
Matt's car at her apartment. And you've already identified the
car Matt was driving Julius. Yes, Prescy, you're quite pleased
with yourself.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
March.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
You're sure Lieutenant Branson will return to confirm your story
of the double tragedy, and the Club Carlos will be
all yours, just as you plan. An hour or so later,
you once again usher Lieutenant Branson.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Into your home.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
We found Julie Bradford, Missus Carlos, just as you said
we would, dead from the same poison that killed your husband.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Then she did what she said she do.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Have you talked to Nick, Yes, he repeated the conversation
he overheard between Missus Bradford and your husband.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I didn't think she'd do it.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
I don't think she did do it, Missus Carlin.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Well, Miss Bradford was wearing a flamed velvet costume when
it required a special skin makeup. According to your bartender,
that's why she dressed at home instead of at the club.
Looks to me as if she intended to go to
the club tonight as usual. In that case, she wouldn't
have poisoned the whiskey that she and your husband drank.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
But if Julie didn't, that's just it, missus.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
If she didn't, someone else did. When did you last seed?
Miss bad?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Last night? And she finished her rackt at the club?
Speaker 5 (25:29):
And when was the last time he had heard apartment?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I've never been there.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Well, that's funny. Your car keys were.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Found there, so what that's probably no?
Speaker 5 (25:41):
His key was in his pott.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Well, he probably took mine too with miss took it
for his. He left in a pretty big hurry.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
And what time was that?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
A little before six?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
He took our car.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
He took your car and left here a little before six.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
I'm afraid it isn't right, missus. Carlis your husband couldn't
driven your car a little before six, but he did, Missus. Carton,
your car was parked on the side street near Julie
Bradford's apartment most of the afternoon.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Saken, No, we're not mistakes.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Neither are the witnesses you see. At four thirty this afternoon,
a truck backed into your front fender. Then it's so
badly the front wheel wouldn't turn well, I.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Don't know how it got there.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
It must have been you're lying, Missus Carlis you drove
that car to Julie Bradford's department this afternoon and that's
when you saw the blue sedan your husband was driving
at the family's accident, The car you identified as Miss Bradford's.
If you couldn't have seen it anywhere else, but I have.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I've seen them together in it often.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
No, Missus Carlas Miss Bradford was never in the car
you sell. I'm afraid your lies are going to put
you right in the guest chamber.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
But I'm not lying.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Oh, yes you are. Miss Bradford's car is in the
garage for repairs. The car you saw delivered this afternoon
to the parking lot attendant and identify it as Miss
Bradford's was a courtesy card the garage sent over while
hers was being repaired.
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And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
For I walk by night. I know many strange tales
hidden in the hearts of men and women who have
stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors
of which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, The Whistler's strange
story a matter of courtesy.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Everybody loved Cressi Carlos. Everybody said they'd never known anyone
quite light. Her heart, they said, was as big as
she was, and Cressie was a big woman. She had
a generous, wide open frankness about it, a hearty friendliness
that penetrated the quick, stinging wit that made her famous. Yes,
everybody loved pressI Carlos, everybody except perhaps her husband, Matt.
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The two of them owned and operated Club Carlus, the
most successful and expensive of all the nice spots and
time A Julie Bradford, featured singer at the club was
singing her big number. Pressy moved about and joked and
kidded the customers, and they ate it up. Hi, Chrissy
coming into count the suckers.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Hello Jack, nice as he is, stand enough.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
For a chase at your prices? Who can buy enough
to be otherwise?
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You're wrong, Jack, We don't charge enough.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
We wouldn't still be getting bumbs like you.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
They think you're a character, don't They crest You leave
them with a smile, But you always get.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
The last withering word.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Don't you.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
You move from the bar and make your way through
the tightly packed tables until you reach your own, your
private tape, yours.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
And Matt said, John, No, Matt, I want to talk.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
To you about Chrissie.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
You'll mess at Julie's number.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Looks like a good knight?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, yes, fine, Honestly you glance at Matt, they are
at Julie the same. The warm, friendly smile remains fixed
on your face.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
It fools a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
But no one fools you.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Do They crest.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
You know all about Matt and Jewlie, and.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You don't care.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
She can have him cashed. Yes, you'd give Matt to
Julie to night, But there's the club, Matt's half home
and Club Carlos is the one thing you won't part with.
You won't really be satisfied until it all belongs to you,
no matter what price.
Speaker 7 (02:57):
You have to pay.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
No, man, she's terrific.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
That we've never had that flame bill. But nothing she
called her costume doesn't hurt him.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
She can sing too, Hey, Julie.
Speaker 8 (03:13):
Julie, I'm here, Come on, Julie said, I'm with the buses.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
You get better service.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You gotta take him there. Oh, Hi Christy, Hello Julie.
You were good tonight. Hi Christy, you'll turn my head.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It's satterly like that.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Let me you drink, Julie, No thanks, remembering, Oh yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
You never touch anything on the job.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Well, I never do it.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Well, I always have a drink before I come to
the club. Just one at home?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
You do.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
That's funny, so do I.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
You two ought to be able to build a great
friendship on a coincidence like that.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Yeah, giving us the customer treatment.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
I don't think so. The customer is always right. But
I've got a hunch Chresty doesn't think we're the right mass.
Oh that's where you're wrong. Julie. I think you two
deserve each other.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Your eyes meet for just a moment, yours and Julie.
She doesn't like you very much, does she?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Crest?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
You decide to exit on that line. You're not ready
to tangle with Julie yet, all right, So you get
up from the table, move among your guests, see that
they get the best liquor, the best food, and that
they pay the best prices for Later that night, you
stand behind the bar after closing time, checking the register
and chatting with Nick, the bartender.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
That's the last Nick, we can seal up the joint.
Now we had a good night?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Yeah, some ways?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
So how is it bad?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
All?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I don't know?
Speaker 7 (04:43):
Night christ Nick?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
So how was it dead?
Speaker 5 (04:48):
Look?
Speaker 7 (04:48):
You know your own business. I don't have to tell
you about got a meaning?
Speaker 4 (04:53):
What do you know about Matt? Julie? That maybe I don't?
Speaker 7 (04:57):
Okay, So we'll talk in the open.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
Get rid of her. She's troubled.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Come on, let's have the rest of it.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Now.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
She's sitting here with Matt tonight early. Nobody else is around.
I don't see me because I'm under the bar picking things.
I hear him talking, and I don't dare move. I'm
talking pretty personally anyway to wind up as this, Julie
saying the mat I want you, and I'll kill both
of us before I let Cressy keep hmm.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Don't let that throw your nick. She's just asking living
it up. Women do it all the time, even me.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
She's not that good actress. Why don't you have fire
a credit?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
That's no answer?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (05:38):
I shouldn't have talked, I suppose, but I've been with
you a long time. You've always been swelling me. You
made this place, pull it through tough times. Now it's
all gravy. I don't like to see any cheap.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I'm fast. I know how you feel, and I appreciate it.
But for now I'm just waiting. It's happened before and
worn off.
Speaker 7 (05:59):
Yeah, but not this. I have to see this and
wear off before I believe it.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Lights night, Nick, I'll believe it when I see.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
It, too, well, Cressy, Julie's a bigger fool than you
thought she was, isn't she. Maybe you can make it
easy for her if she loves mad as much as
scene says she does. Yes, Pressy, if all she wants
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is mad, maybe you and Julie can make a deed.
Mid afternoon the next day, you park your car on
the side street next to the spacious apartment building where
Julie lives. As you take a shortcut through the adjacent
parking lot, a young man in mechanics overall drives the
car into the Lone hails the parking at tin Amy,
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which is Julie Bradford's parking space.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
What's this car from the garage?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Number four is her space, says ry Pocket.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I'll do it.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
You're gonna be here, I'll eave it Tezoner Okay, Oh sure, sure,
go ahead, I'll be here. You watch the mechanic park
the car in Julie's parking place. Then you enter the
apartment building, walk down the corridor leading to Julie's apartment.
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You're about to press the bell when you hear voices
coming from a apartment Max and Julius. You stop them
on then turn and walk back a few steps to
another door. Instinctively, you drive a knob open service entrance
to Julie's kitchen. You enter silently, move quickly across the
kitchen to a spot where you can hear.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Beck wait to see it my way.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
He still nothing happens, Julie, Crushy and me a crew.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
I told you about one hundred times, but I still
gotta figure out a way and making the break with
her and still hang under my half of the crop.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
There's only one way.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
To make it.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Drink one you your way, nice to get.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Rid of it.
Speaker 8 (08:04):
So good, that's out.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
I told you that I'm out.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
I don't say that to you, even kids.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I'm not kidding. Look at this, Yeah, what is it?
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Thank God for me? Just if you drop this and
you drink and ten.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Minutes, that's all except they grab us for murder.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And that's all so wuld look like do a side?
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Anybody know better?
Speaker 3 (08:27):
That's not like Cressy with the planet. Make a stick.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
We'll do it my way.
Speaker 9 (08:33):
Hollo back, don't miss.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Now listen, I'll come.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
It'll be soon. I'm fine.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
Don't ask questions. Go I now get a couple hours.
I'm going home to do the same. I'll come back
at six and we'll have.
Speaker 10 (08:53):
A drink together.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Right, kids in sleep now, I don't worry.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
How well Craig, I guess you're quite clear. Now you
wait until you hear Julie walk from the living room
into the bedroom and close the door. You're surprised that
you're come suddenly. It's as if you'd always known exactly
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what would happen and what you would be. You wait
until you're sure Julie's asleep, then move quietly into the
living room, cross to the low table in front of
the couch, and pick up the small box the poison
Julie intended for you.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
That the stuff will be curtains, but not for me.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Distant pastures, they say, usually look greener, and that often
goes for the other fellow's car too, But it needn't.
If you have to grind and grind on the starter
while you see other cars start right off at the
first touch, don't envy the other fellow.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
He's probably just using signal efyl.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
When the traffic signal says go and the car next
to you zooms out ahead, leaving you with that glue
to the spot feeling, don't envy him. He's probably just
using signal efyl. And when your car is laboring up
a hill and another car breezes by easily, smoothly in
high don't envy him. He's probably just using signal ethyl.
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After all this premium grade of signals famous Go Farther
gasoline is a super powerful super fuel scientifically engineered to
bring out the best in any car of any age.
You'll just never know how smartly your car will perform
on signal ethyl until you try it, thankful, and there's
no time like the present to try it.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yes, Cressy, the die is cast. Is at you and
Club Carlos, against your husband, Matt and Julie bred and
now standing alone in Julie's living room, you suddenly see
a solution. The bottle of poison Julie intended for you
is in your hands, and with it Julie's life and Matt's.
It's a perfect set up, isn't it, Cressy, Nick, the
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bartender at your club Carlos, helped perfect it when he
told you about Julie's conversation with Matt.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
A darken pretty personal.
Speaker 7 (11:45):
Anyway they wind up, This is Julie saying the Matt,
I want you, and I'll kill four of us before
I let Kretie keep.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Yes, Cressy, Nick will remember that, And what was it,
Julian Matt said at your table last night.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I always have a drink before I come to the club,
just one at home.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
That's fine.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It is perfect, isn't it, Cressy. Now Julie's asleep in
her bedroom and the bottle of poison is held carefully
in your gloved hand, only Julie's finger principle show on
the table, you see a decanter filled with whiskey. You
quickly pour the poison into it. Then you leave the
empty poison bottle just under the edge of the couch.
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Well it can be found when anyone looks for evidence.
You've set the track, haven't you, Cressy. And after a
hurried survey, you leave Julie's apartment quickly and quietly, just
the way you came. When you reach your car, you
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suddenly realize you left your car key in Julie's apartment.
You put the latch down on the kitchen door. There's
no way you can get it without waking Julie.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
You're stunned.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Then it hits you, just a single key on a chain.
It could be Matt's key too. His key is exactly
like yours, and he keeps it on a single chain.
And you decide that fits your plan. Just five satisfied.
Now you hail a taxi and go home. A little
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before six. You wake Matt, and while he's in the shower,
your confidence in your plan increases. You're certain you will
be the sole owner of Club Carlis in a matter
of a few hours.
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Oh man, that sure did the trick when you walk me.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Maybe I should have quit when I was ahead.
Speaker 8 (13:50):
Huh, that's a great thing to say. It's the matter
with you, Cressy. You got a beef with me?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
What would I have to beef about?
Speaker 8 (13:56):
I don't know. Only when you slide over a quick
one like that last crack.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
I big things aren't exactly a rosie with us.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Forget it, mat matter of fact, I we're just sitting
here thinking that I don't know when you meant.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
So much to me? Yeah, how about us having a drink,
a short one for the short road. Huh.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Gee, I can't, Cressy, not tonight. I got a big
appointment on the way to the club. Do there at six?
Probably have a drink with him?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Oh? Anyone? I know?
Speaker 8 (14:21):
No fellow wants to book an act in the club,
or tell him I talking over with him.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Watch it, Matt. I don't want you auditioning any talent
without me.
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Oh oh, this guy just wants to talk to me that,
so I wouldn't set the deal along. You know that
funny thing. Before I went to sleep an hour so ago,
I was thinking about you too.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
You in the club. You're an awful smart off, righta, Cressy.
It wasn't for you. Club crowns would be just annoyeding
the reason.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Well, I'm glad to hear you say that. Math makes
me feel wanted.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
You know, I sure couldn't swing on a lamb, couldn't
make it click like you do.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Well, don't worry, Sorry, Matt, I got no plans for leaving.
You're the guy who's on his way out. Huh, well,
look at the time. If you're going to keep your
six o'clock date, you better get going. Oh hey, you
have to take a taxi though I left our car
at the garage. The cloth you're slipping.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Why didn't you wedding the lamorrow morning?
Speaker 8 (15:15):
Oh well, okay, I'll grab a cap at the corner,
say at the club.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
It's all on, Cressy, good bye, Matt.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
That's it, isn't it, Cressy. The last time you'll see
Matt alive and you don't feel a shred of remorse
about it. As you walk to the window, see him
standing on the corner. Hail a taxi, get in it
and ride away. Your only thought is that once your
timetable plays out, Club Carlos will be yours, all yours.
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You take up your vigil, but the clock allow Matt
ample time to get the jewelis more time to have
a lingering drink with it. And when you feel sure
they've shared that last fatal drink from the poison whiskey
to catter on Julie's table, we go to the phone
and place a very important call.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
Hello, it's crazy, Julie. I thought you'd be on the
way to the club by now.
Speaker 9 (16:19):
I should be, but I'm not going in tonight, Crassy?
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Are you not going in? How come? Anything wrong? All right?
Speaker 9 (16:28):
It feels so strange. I got all dressedly, but all
of a sudden I felt sick.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
Awful. That's too bad, Julie. Is Matt there?
Speaker 9 (16:40):
No, No, he isn't.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Please Please don't give me that stuff, Julie, he's there,
isn't he?
Speaker 5 (16:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
No, Crassy, honest, look, he was coming there, and I
know what he's got to be there.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
Okay, Chrassy, he was here, but he left just a
few minutes before you called honesty, did Grassy? I'm really
getting scared, I.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Feel, Julie. Listen carefully. It was important. Did you and
Matt have a drink together?
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Did you and Matt have a drink together? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (17:11):
Yes, we did.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
From the decanter on the table, Yes, from the I'm
gonna tell you, Julie, Yes, sir, I think you deserved
to know. Never mind, dear, I'll do all the talking.
I'll do all the talking from here on in, because
you are poisoned. Did my work for me, Julie, And
I'm just real grateful to you boys. How did you know?
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He had a little green bottle? It's empty now, Julie,
and I'm afraid it's out of your reach.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
Oh you didn't.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
You couldn't have known, but I did. I heard it
all this afternoon, you and Matt. I was there, so
you see, I had to call you, Julie, see how
you were doing, just as a matter of courtesy.
Speaker 10 (17:55):
And I got news for your kid. You're dead. Hello, Hello,
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wonder and one to go.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Julie won't be calling the doctor, now, will she, Chris, No,
Julie won't be calling anyone ever. And you know now
that Matt had a drink from the same decanter of
poison whiskey before he left Julie's apartment. It's just a
matter of time, now, isn't it, Chrissy. As you wait
for the call you know must come, you change clothes,
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just as if everything were normal and you were going
down to the club as usually, You wonder who'll call,
how long it will take, and then in the middle
of your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Hello, Oh hi, Nick, what's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Men's here from the distillery. If you want to use your.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Oh well, how does the stock look to you? Will
the usual take care of it?
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
I think so, that's your.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
Answer in I just want to check with You're crazy?
After all, you're the boss.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Yeah, yeah, I am. If you want to overlook Matt
that is, by the way, is he there yet?
Speaker 7 (19:27):
I'm not yet. Shall I have to call you when.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
He comes here? No? No, I'll be down after a while.
I'll see him then.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Okay, sorry about you, not at all.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
See you soon.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
You're glad Nick called, aren't you, Chrissy? Later, if it's necessary,
Nick can tell the authorities that he called you at
home and that you sounded quite normal. Unaware that a
double tragedy had occurred, and Nick can repeat the conversation
he overheard between Julie and Matt where she said she'd
kill them both before she'd give Matt up. Yes, Christy
(20:06):
mixed and being valuable to if you need you moved
from the phone to a chair, prepared to wait out
your time, and you hear a knock on your front door.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Hello, are you.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Missus Carlus, Missus Matt Carlus.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Yes, yes, my name is Branson.
Speaker 5 (20:25):
Missus Carlas. We can brands in the afternoon.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Well, of course we're canna come lady. Won't you sit down?
Speaker 5 (20:32):
Yes? Thanks, I am Perhaps you'd better sit down too.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Why is anything wrong?
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Yes, I'm afraid so I've got bad news for you,
Missus Carlus. Your husband is dead.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Matt dead.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
But how he was driving a car and it rammed
into an empty warehouse building?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah, killed in an accident. Oh My'm not.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Sure, Missus Carlas. He had an accident, all right, But
the ambulance attendant seems to think that death came as
a result of poison.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Poison.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
They're checking on that now, Missus Carlas. Another strange thing,
this car your husband is driving wasn't registered in his name?
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Not his car?
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Well, then, who's Lieutenant this car Matt was driving? Was
it a blue Sidan a nineteen forty seven Olds.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Mobile, But but yes it was.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
That car belongs to Julie Bradford, singer at our club
Matt's in mine. Nick told me about her threats, but
I wouldn't believe.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Oh what threats, missus Carlas. And who's Nick?
Speaker 6 (21:42):
It's the bartender at club Carlis. I. I don't want
to say any more right now, Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
If I were you, I'd check on Julie Bradford and
find out what really happened to me.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Really, all right, Missus Carlas, I will check out.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Oh, madam, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
Really, Sciences, I leave you now. I have a hunch
this investigation will take long, believe me. Out of everything
I can not to inconvenience you in anyway.
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Speaker 3 (23:45):
Well, Cressy, you're certain now that you've won, aren't you.
After police Lieutenant Branson leaves to investigate the details of
your husband's death, you reflect confidently on the steps you've
already taken. You're sure Matt's death and Julie's peers murder
and suicide. Once the lieutenant checks your story with Nick,
the bartender at club Cars, and when Lieutenant Branson finds
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Julius dead, he'll also find the key to yours and
Matt's car at her apartment. And you've already identified the
car Matt was driving Julius. Yes, Prescy, you're quite pleased
with yourself.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
March.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
You're sure Lieutenant Branson will return to confirm your story
of the double tragedy, and the Club Carlos will be
all yours, just as you plan. An hour or so later,
you once again usher Lieutenant Branson.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Into your home.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
We found Julie Bradford, Missus Carlos, just as you said
we would, dead from the same poison that killed your husband.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Then she did what she said she do.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Have you talked to Nick, Yes, he repeated the conversation
he overheard between Missus Bradford and your husband.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
I didn't think she'd do it.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
I don't think she did do it, Missus Carlin.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Well, Miss Bradford was wearing a flamed velvet costume when
it required a special skin makeup. According to your bartender,
that's why she dressed at home instead of at the club.
Looks to me as if she intended to go to
the club tonight as usual. In that case, she wouldn't
have poisoned the whiskey that she and your husband drank.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
But if Julie didn't, that's just it, missus.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
If she didn't, someone else did. When did you last seed?
Miss bad?
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Last night? And she finished her rackt at the club?
Speaker 5 (25:29):
And when was the last time he had heard apartment?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I've never been there.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Well, that's funny. Your car keys were.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
Found there, so what that's probably no?
Speaker 5 (25:41):
His key was in his pott.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Well, he probably took mine too with miss took it
for his. He left in a pretty big hurry.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
And what time was that?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
A little before six?
Speaker 4 (25:51):
He took our car.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
He took your car and left here a little before six.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
I'm afraid it isn't right, missus. Carlis your husband couldn't
driven your car a little before six, but he did, Missus. Carton,
your car was parked on the side street near Julie
Bradford's apartment most of the afternoon.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Saken, No, we're not mistakes.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
Neither are the witnesses you see. At four thirty this afternoon,
a truck backed into your front fender. Then it's so
badly the front wheel wouldn't turn well, I.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Don't know how it got there.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
It must have been you're lying, Missus Carlis you drove
that car to Julie Bradford's department this afternoon and that's
when you saw the blue sedan your husband was driving
at the family's accident, The car you identified as Miss Bradford's.
If you couldn't have seen it anywhere else, but I have.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I've seen them together in it often.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
No, Missus Carlas Miss Bradford was never in the car
you sell. I'm afraid your lies are going to put
you right in the guest chamber.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
But I'm not lying.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
Oh, yes you are. Miss Bradford's car is in the
garage for repairs. The car you saw delivered this afternoon
to the parking lot attendant and identify it as Miss
Bradford's was a courtesy card the garage sent over while
hers was being repaired.
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