October 6, 2025 • 29 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
And now stay tuned for the program that has rated
tops in popularity for a longer period of time than
any other West Coast program in radio history, The Signal
Oil Program, the Whistler Signal, the famous Go Farther Gasoline.
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Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things where
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 (01:10):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's strange story.
Danger is a beautiful blonde.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Like anyone else. Van Barkley gave little thought to the
precarious nature of everyday living. Had he had occasion to
probe the fact, he might have acknowledged that danger is
always present, and that it can strike quite suddenly. Only
Van Barkley wasn't thinking about such things. Perhaps he was
too restless to care. A young engineer unmarried can get
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restless working in a new strange city. He can get
lonesome too. Van Berkley was one or the other, or
both of these things on a Saturday night, when he
came out of a movie and leant for a stroll
along the Santa Monica Palisades in preference to going back
to his hotel room. On a corner, he stopped to
light a cigarette. That's when he first noticed her. The
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car was big, He converted him. He cruised by him,
came back around the block, moving slowly. The third time around,
he was standing on the curb, staring openly at the
girl behind the wheel. She was very nice, young, blind,
considerably more than attractive, and she was looking at him
just as obviously. Hello.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Hello, Do you've opened a door before?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
No doubt? In other words, isn't it a beautiful night
or a drive?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Well, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah? Yeah, that's what I said.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You weren't going somewhere important?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Oh oh no not at the moment. In fact, uh,
I was faced with a rather gloomy prospect of an
evening at a hotel along good. Well, it is a
beautiful night for a drive. I suppose it was on
the golf course at Beauretz. What and where we met?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well that's a good as place as any.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, only I've never been there, now, don't have a
good imagination. Let's see. Oh then I remember so well
those evenings at Monte Carlo, and you'd say to me,
then you must sit beside me at the casino tonight.
You bring me luck. You called me Van in those days,
remember never, mister Barclay, and I used to call you. Uh,
what was it I used to call you?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
It might have been darling, mightn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, it might have been at that or maybe uh
the mystery woman. Beautiful, fascinating and unpredictable, especially unpredictable.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Oh that's not very flattering, mister Barkley. You might've said
especially beautiful.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yes, I might have m just okay you went. You're
not only beautiful and fascinating and unpredictable, but you're too
fast a worker for me. Now, how come?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
How come?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
What all this?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You're not happy about taking a drive with me?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Mister Barklay, I'm delirious. But why me? What what have
I got?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You're not unattractive, you know?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah, but baby, you never saw me before. How do
you know what I'm like?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Perhaps I like to take chances.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Oh didn't your mother ever warn you about picking up
strange men on the street.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
My mother was rather unusual, mister Barclay. And she taught
me that when I wanted something, there was only one
thing to do, get out and find it.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Uh huh, okay, who's kicking your Pardon me if I
pinch myself. This is something I wouldn't have believed. It's
sort of like, uh, an angel from heaven dropping in
your lap.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I'm no angel, mister Barclay.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, then, interesting girl, isn't she? Anything can happen on
the quiet Saturday night. As you look over at her,
the motion of the car moving her hair excitingly, you
ask yourself if you might not be dreaming? And a
dream gets a little better, doesn't it? As she swings
into a long, curving driveway and stops before a big,
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sprawling house and smiles over at you.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Would you like a drink?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I'm sure you're driving?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Well, then come on we'll go on in.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Hey, this is the swakiest roadhouse I ever saw.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It's not a roadhouse.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I live here. Come on.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Inside. It's even more unbelievable, isn't it. The big hall,
lush carpets, and on the walls a treasure in fine art.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Hey, this is not a bad little place to hang
your hat?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Oh, hang it, then we like it here.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
You probably have two or three scattered around the country.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
No, just a cabin at fast Lake.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I gather you're not worrying much about any wolves howling
at your door.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I'm not that kind anyway, that Olnes This must be
a movie producer. So my father ball and he's not
a movie producer, he's just an art collector. Perhaps you'd
like to take a look around. We have some very
nice paintings scattered all over the house.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Do you think we can find our way without a guide?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
There's no one else here, that's what you means. We
only have one servant now, and this is her night off.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Huh cozy? Isn't it the whole place to ourselves? All
fifty rooms?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It's not that bad. We'll take a look is as
soon as we have that drink I promised you.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You feel like pinching yourself, don't you. Then this is
the kind of thing that just doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
But it's ree cheez real.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And she's even more attractive than she looked in the car.
And it isn't the cocktails you've had. Finally, she leads
you into the library.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
You like this room?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Van?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Oh? Yes, very much. Always wanted something like this.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
The right sort of library is good for a man.
I designed it myself.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Oh oh, even though interior decorating her. Well, you're a
pretty complete.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Thank you. Then fix yourself another drink that the canters
over there. I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Uh, take your time, this is all very pleasant.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yes, van time means nothing to you. Right now, you
fix another drink, Sink into the big leather.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Chair, and relax.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
When you open your eyes a few minutes later, she's back.
I lean down at you. Hello, Hello again.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh I see your glass is empty. Well that's easily remedied.
I'll pour you another one.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Oh this is nice work if you can get it. Yeah, nice,
it's nice.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Perfume your worry, you like it? I like everything about you.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Good. Then you won't mind doing something for me, will you?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Anything short of murder?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Walk over here?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Uh to the closet.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah yeah, Now open the door. It's something I want
you to see.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Okay, I'll play games. Hey. I thought you said we
were alone.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Well you are, mister Barkley, because you see, the gentleman
in the closet is quite dead.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
This wonderful west of ours is certainly filled. With exciting
places to visit. If you like mountains, you'll see two
of America's most thrilling ones, plus a convincing demonstration of
Signal Ethel's ability to minimize shifting when you drive up
toward Washington's majestic, snow laden Mount Rainier or Oregon's pointed,
conical mount Hood. Perhaps you prefer to see great works
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of man. None is more impressive than Grand Coolie Dam,
and you'll be impressed too, with the way Signal Ethyl's smooth,
effortless power makes those long stretches of highway approaching Coolie
seem so much shorter. Of course, many of you would
rather take your vacation fun in a big city. That's
where you'll appreciate the way Signal Ethel's peppy pickup and
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alert performance keep you out front of city traffic. But
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Speaker 2 (10:32):
It's a great deal more than you bargain for, isn't it.
Then yes, when you stepped into the car at the
invitation of the beautiful blonde. You didn't realize what kind
of a ride was ahead. It was like a dream,
wasn't it. Going to her home, having cocktails, relaxing, and
then in the library, the closet. It's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Van.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Your mind spins, almost unable to cope with the situation.
As you stare down at the quiet figure of a
dead man on the floor of a closet. You scarcely
hear the girl beside you.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You'll help me, won't you.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Huh what did you say?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
All you have to do is help me hide him permanently. Now,
wait a minute, if it's a place out in the
garden where some newly turned earth wouldn't be noticed.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
But if you can count me out, I don't know
how this guy happens to have a hole in his head,
and I'm not asking any questions. But caught me out
on any part of this duo.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
But you said you do anything.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, But I don't go off the deep end for anybody,
especially a girl. I just met a girl who's in
the habit of keeping dead bodies lying around. Uh, oh, lady,
pardon me, but I'll.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Be seen I think that you'd better wait, mister Barkley.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Uh oh, yeah, I see what you mean. I see
you're wearing a gun.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Too, and I assure you I know how to use it.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
How can I doubt that with the evidence staring at
me in the face.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Good, then, if you'll just pick up our late departed
friend and come with me, I'll show you the place.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
You know that business about your being no angel, I'm
just about convinced. Well, then you're in deep and there's
nothing you can do about it, not with a gun
in your back. You carry the body downstairs, as she demands,
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go out into the garden. There's a shovel.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Start digging, like I said, dig it big.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Sounds like a beach near here.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
The back of the yard drops off to the beach.
But never mind, we've got other things to do. Now,
dig it deep and wide.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, okay, dig you dig fan.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
But with each shovelful, you tell yourself over and over
that you're next dig deep, she said me, And you're
sure it so there'll be a grave for two unless
you do something fast, fast and sudden. A heavy shovelful
of dirt in her face knocks her off her feet
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at the same time, you're leaping clear, racing for the
drop off at the back of the garden. It's a wild,
frightening scramble down to the rock and brush until you
hit the beach, running hard and no shock, no footsteps.
You're away, then free. Far down the beach, you work
your way back to the highway, catch the bus for
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town and the safety of your hotel room. You're too
upset to decide what to do that night. You want
to call the police, but the memory of that blonde
hair and those pale blue eyes stops you. You want
to be sure of her guilt before doing anything that
might send her to the gas chamber. You turn in
without decid Next morning, when you go downstairs, the desk
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clerk hand.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
You an envelope. Come on here, mister Buckley, how good morning.
Oh it's this mail.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Young lady left it late last night. There's nothing written
on the envelope, as you just told me to put
it in your back. Oh oh thanks, yeshuir.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Wow it looks awful green. Yeah, one hundred dollar bill,
no note, no nothing. No. I wish I knew your secret,
mister buck.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You'd like to know that secret yourself. Wouldn't you vand
now more than ever one hundred dollars to pay for
your silence. You catch the bus again, and as you
approached the large house where you left the girl the
night before, there seems to be quite a few people
around at the gas station on the corner. You find
out why all.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Shut mister Armstrong. Anything else, that's all, Joe? Thanks either
what can I do for you, mister? Run out of
gas or something?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Oh? No, I was just walking by and I saw
there was some kind of excitement around here at this point.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Yeah, yeah, Boydan, we've had in a long time. They
found a body down on.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
The beach this morning. Oh, somebody drowned. Well maybe so,
but got a bullet hole through his head first, Oh murder. Huh, yeah,
it looks that way.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Guy named Alfred Hamilton lives right up the street over
in that house. Oh Ridgeley's No, No, used to be
over there a lot, but he didn't live there.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Well, I I noticed there was a police carry out front.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
And I thought, oh, that that's part of the excitement.
Not only is this friend of mister Ridgley's bumped off,
but Doris Ridgley's missing too.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Doris Richly Yeah, mister Ridgley's daughter. And that's Rigally, the
art collector.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Sure, sure you know he's about the richest person in
the neighborhood. Nice man too.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yeah, and Doris his daughter the I remember, I've seen
her a blond. Isn't she good looking?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Isn't no word for that girl. She's a peach. She's beautiful, yeah,
but rather hard spoiled Doris. Ahh, Hi, there isn't a
nicer girl in town now. I ought to know. I've
been taking care of a car ever since she started
to drive. Ah.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
I sure hate to see her mixed up in anything
like this, missing too. She might be in the ocean herself,
only her car's gone too.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
They think she murdered this Hamilton guy.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
I don't know, but if he asked me, she couldn't.
She's still regular. If she did, she had a good reason.
Hamilton was no good never could understand why Doris. No
man originally put.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Up with him.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Just Doris and her father lived there.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Yeah, missus Ridgley died a while back. Gosh, I hope
they find the girl. Okay, just about kill the old
man if anything happened to her.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
When was this guy murdered last night, and.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
I can tell you exactly when ten minutes to eight
on the nose. How can you be sure because I
heard the shot. You know, I didn't think anything of
it at the time, but I did notice what time
it was because I was just getting ready to close up.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Would you tell a police ran, Oh? Sure, sure? Where
the shot come from?
Speaker 6 (16:37):
How should I know? It's just a noise. Maybe from
the house over there, maybe from the beach where they
found him.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh? Thanks, thanks a lot. Say who are you anyway? Oh?
Nobody important.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So as you walk away, you feel sure about one
thing that Doris didn't murder Hamilton. She was covering for somebody.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Else, wasn't she?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Van, And you've got to find her and bring her back.
Where where is she? It hits you suddenly the cabin
she mentioned, Yes, at bass Lake, you decide quickly, Van,
next stop bass Lake?
Speaker 10 (17:28):
Holy young fellow, What can I do for you? Got
you everything here? Buddy needs grocers, notions, drugs, fishing cat.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I'm looking for somebody, pop. I thought maybe you could
give me some directions.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
I have no person to come to and can tell
you about anybody in bass Lake?
Speaker 11 (17:41):
Who are you looking for?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Doris Richly. She's got a cabin up here, hasn't she. Yep,
Well how do I get there?
Speaker 11 (17:48):
You don't?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Why not?
Speaker 10 (17:50):
Would do you no good?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Why not?
Speaker 10 (17:52):
Nobody there?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Oh but I'm sure Doris is up here and I've
got to find her.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
Well, if you got in your head, you wouldn't have
to go, no cab huh. If you look across the street. O, there,
you'll see your car in front of dou She's lodge.
She's inside eating.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Oh okay, thanks, pot.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yes, he is in Ducey's lodge, and you wait outside
until she comes out. As she gets into the convertible,
you slip around the other side and open the door.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Hello. Baby, it's a nice day for a drive, isn't it.
Mister Parkley, don't reach for your bag. I'll take it.
I'll take a look inside too. Yeah, just as I
thought the gun, you've still got it. Well, i'll just
keep it this time, if you don't mind, just a
mente out of the talking. First, I'll return this hundred
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dollar bill. Even if I had a price for this
sort of thing, it wouldn't be a hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
It's all I had last night, I said.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Even if I had a price. I don't. I'll keep
my mouth shut until I'm ready to talk or you are.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
What makes you think I have anything to talk about.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Look, I think I know a good kid when I
see one. If you're really in trouble, i'm sorry, but
I don't think you are. I don't think you killed
killed this heel Hamilton. I think you're covering up for someone.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
No, no, I'm not. I killed him. He was threatening me,
threatening to tell something about me, So I killed him.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I don't believe you. All he did was try to
get me to help cover up somebody else's word. No,
that's not true. Okay, Okay, so you're not ready to talk,
come on, let's let's go for a drive. Well, you know,
I'm sorry I had to smile you with that shovel
full of dirt last night, but I didn't like the
prospect of sharing that hole in the ground with Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
You mean you thought i'd kill you. I never intended
to do that.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Well, how did you think you'd get away with it? Then?
Just let me walk away to tell the cop.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I don't know, Okay, babe, of course you don't know.
You're mixed up in something you know nothing about. You
couldn't have killed this guy Hamilton any more than you
could have killed me. So come on, come on, come clean.
I can't now look whoever this is you're covering up
for that. They'll be found out eventually. Probably they had
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a good reason for doing this from what I heard
about Hamilton. But now you've got to get yourself off
the spot, and me too. We're accessories to the murder.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I know, mister Barclay. Why are you doing this? Why
did you come here?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
I'll show you. Why does that answer your question? No?
No talking, now, come on, start riding. We've got to
have a little talk with the police.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Well, then you've found her and she's grateful. You can
see that the way she smiles at you, weakly, wonderingly.
And perhaps later, when it's all over, you can pick
up the dream where it left off. You think about
it that you drive back to the city with it. Then,
as she swings the big convertible into San Vincenti Boulevard,
she suddenly slams on the brakes, pulls up beside a
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police squad car.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Hey, what's the idea of baby. We don't want a
squad car. We want to go to a police headquarters.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Author officer, Yes, ma'am, arrest this man. He's wanted for murder,
and be careful. He's got a gun.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
You can't believe it's happening, can you, Van, But it is.
And later at police headquarters, your dream has turned into
a nightmare, as Doris pours out a wild story to
the captain of the homicide bureau.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
They were both at my house last night. They left together,
and then I heard a shot. When I went looking,
I found mister Berkley standing over Alfred's body down on
the beach. He'd taken his wallet. What you'll find it
in his pocket? Now the officer already has the murder car.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Are you kidding? I haven't any wallet. I don't now, well,
seems you do a wallet, mister Barkley.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
You see, Captain.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
But look, she put it there, slipped it into my
pocket while we were driving.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
This is Hamilton's wallet, and this is the same caliber
gun that killed him.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Barkley, But I tell you I didn't kill him. It's
all a lie. Oh hello. Originally he said for me, Captain, Yesh,
thanks for coming right over.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
I'm glad I did. That's telling the truth. Captain, he
didn't kill Hamilton.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
It's no use to us.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
I appreciate what you're trying to do, but you can't
protect me.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Dad, Please please don't say it's.
Speaker 11 (22:28):
No use to You can release them, Captain, this young
man and my daughter. I killed Hamilton.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
It was no good.
Speaker 12 (22:35):
I eyeshot and killed him.
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Speaker 2 (24:06):
Well, then your adventure has brought you dangerously close to
a charge of first degree murder. And now at police headquarters,
in the office of the Captain of Homicide, the surprises
are hitting you like punches from a fighter, aren't they
beat First the attempted frame against you by the girl Doris,
and now, out of the blue, her father facing the police,
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admitting that he killed Hamilton. You stare from one to
the other, wondering and waiting, and then Doris breaks the silence.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
But Dad, you couldn't have killed mister Hamilton.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Why couldn't we? He just confessed. It's good enough for me.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
He confessed to protect me.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Dad had no reason, he could have had the best
reason in the world. Blackmail. That was Hamilton's racket.
Speaker 11 (24:47):
Blackmail, that's the answer, Doris. Hamilton had been bleeding me
for a long time. A few days ago, I got
the evidence to clear myself and expose him.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
So you sent for him and told him he got
tough and I shot him. I had to in shelter, Finns.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Look, officer, you found the gun in Hamilton's wallet, on
this man right here. What more do you want?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I'd tell you I never saw this gun on my
life until last Night's no use.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Does it happened exactly as I know you didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
There's only one way you could know, missus Ridgley.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Said, Captain. There's only one way I could know.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I tell you my daughter's lying.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Mister Ridgley is right, Captain, Oh hello, lieutenants, find anything plenty.
His daughter is lying to protect him. We know from
the gas station attendance testimony that the shot that killed
Hamilton was fired last night at ten minutes to Wait. Now,
we've checked every move of miss Ridgley's and at ten
minutes of eight, she was seen buying a package of
cigarette at the corner.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Drugstore and it was mister Ridgley.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
No.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Mister Ridgeley left Hamilton in his living room last night
somewhere around seven after telling him he was going to
expose him to the police. At ten minutes to eight,
mister Ridgley was seen having a drink at a barn.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Woo, Sir Barkley, you did take Hamilton's Walllett was your gun?
I tell you I never even heard of any of
these people.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
No, it wasn't, young Romeo hear anything. Oh go on,
Alfred Hamilton committed suicide. Yeah, that's right, there's no doubt
about it. Powder burns on his face, and he was
left handed. The angle of the bullet and the left
temple shows the wounds was self inflicted. Paraffine tests and
his hand proved beyond a doubt that Hamilton fired a
shot a few seconds.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Before He's dead.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
I guess when he realized mister Ridgley was gonna expose
him to the police, he just couldn't take it.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Oh good work, Lieutenant.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Now, mister Ridgeley, you'll come into my office, the lieutenant
and I will show you the reports.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Of course, Captain, we'll wait in the car.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Dad, I'll be along in a minute.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Doors.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Well, baby, you gave me a nice ride, a very
nice ride.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Honestly, Anna, I'm terribly sorry, but I was worried, crazy
about death. But do you think we could have a
drink again? Sometimes?
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Hell? Look, you're a nice kid, You're beautiful, fascinating all
those things especially beautiful. But baby, if you ever see
me walking down the street again, just drive on by.
Please let that.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program and
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before you start your vacation trip, be sure to ask
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directed by George w Allen, with story by John Duncle
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The Whistler is entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on
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resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Remember
to tune in at the same time next Sunday when
the Signal Oil Company will bring you another strange story
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by the Whistler. This is Marvin Miller speaking for the
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Speaker 4 (29:00):
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And now stay tuned for the program that has rated
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Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things where
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 (01:10):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's strange story.
Danger is a beautiful blonde.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Like anyone else. Van Barkley gave little thought to the
precarious nature of everyday living. Had he had occasion to
probe the fact, he might have acknowledged that danger is
always present, and that it can strike quite suddenly. Only
Van Barkley wasn't thinking about such things. Perhaps he was
too restless to care. A young engineer unmarried can get
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restless working in a new strange city. He can get
lonesome too. Van Berkley was one or the other, or
both of these things on a Saturday night, when he
came out of a movie and leant for a stroll
along the Santa Monica Palisades in preference to going back
to his hotel room. On a corner, he stopped to
light a cigarette. That's when he first noticed her. The
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car was big, He converted him. He cruised by him,
came back around the block, moving slowly. The third time around,
he was standing on the curb, staring openly at the
girl behind the wheel. She was very nice, young, blind,
considerably more than attractive, and she was looking at him
just as obviously. Hello.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Hello, Do you've opened a door before?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
No doubt? In other words, isn't it a beautiful night
or a drive?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Well, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah? Yeah, that's what I said.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
You weren't going somewhere important?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Oh oh no not at the moment. In fact, uh,
I was faced with a rather gloomy prospect of an
evening at a hotel along good. Well, it is a
beautiful night for a drive. I suppose it was on
the golf course at Beauretz. What and where we met?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Well that's a good as place as any.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yeah, only I've never been there, now, don't have a
good imagination. Let's see. Oh then I remember so well
those evenings at Monte Carlo, and you'd say to me,
then you must sit beside me at the casino tonight.
You bring me luck. You called me Van in those days,
remember never, mister Barclay, and I used to call you. Uh,
what was it I used to call you?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
It might have been darling, mightn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Yeah, it might have been at that or maybe uh
the mystery woman. Beautiful, fascinating and unpredictable, especially unpredictable.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Oh that's not very flattering, mister Barkley. You might've said
especially beautiful.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yes, I might have m just okay you went. You're
not only beautiful and fascinating and unpredictable, but you're too
fast a worker for me. Now, how come?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
How come?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
What all this?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You're not happy about taking a drive with me?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
Mister Barklay, I'm delirious. But why me? What what have
I got?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You're not unattractive, you know?
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Yeah, but baby, you never saw me before. How do
you know what I'm like?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Perhaps I like to take chances.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Oh didn't your mother ever warn you about picking up
strange men on the street.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
My mother was rather unusual, mister Barclay. And she taught
me that when I wanted something, there was only one
thing to do, get out and find it.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Uh huh, okay, who's kicking your Pardon me if I
pinch myself. This is something I wouldn't have believed. It's
sort of like, uh, an angel from heaven dropping in
your lap.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I'm no angel, mister Barclay.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, then, interesting girl, isn't she? Anything can happen on
the quiet Saturday night. As you look over at her,
the motion of the car moving her hair excitingly, you
ask yourself if you might not be dreaming? And a
dream gets a little better, doesn't it? As she swings
into a long, curving driveway and stops before a big,
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sprawling house and smiles over at you.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Would you like a drink?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
I'm sure you're driving?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Well, then come on we'll go on in.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Hey, this is the swakiest roadhouse I ever saw.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It's not a roadhouse.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I live here. Come on.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Inside. It's even more unbelievable, isn't it. The big hall,
lush carpets, and on the walls a treasure in fine art.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Hey, this is not a bad little place to hang
your hat?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Oh, hang it, then we like it here.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
You probably have two or three scattered around the country.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
No, just a cabin at fast Lake.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I gather you're not worrying much about any wolves howling
at your door.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
I'm not that kind anyway, that Olnes This must be
a movie producer. So my father ball and he's not
a movie producer, he's just an art collector. Perhaps you'd
like to take a look around. We have some very
nice paintings scattered all over the house.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Do you think we can find our way without a guide?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
There's no one else here, that's what you means. We
only have one servant now, and this is her night off.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Huh cozy? Isn't it the whole place to ourselves? All
fifty rooms?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It's not that bad. We'll take a look is as
soon as we have that drink I promised you.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You feel like pinching yourself, don't you. Then this is
the kind of thing that just doesn't happen.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
But it's ree cheez real.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
And she's even more attractive than she looked in the car.
And it isn't the cocktails you've had. Finally, she leads
you into the library.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
You like this room?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Van?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Oh? Yes, very much. Always wanted something like this.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
The right sort of library is good for a man.
I designed it myself.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Oh oh, even though interior decorating her. Well, you're a
pretty complete.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Thank you. Then fix yourself another drink that the canters
over there. I'll be right back.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Uh, take your time, this is all very pleasant.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yes, van time means nothing to you. Right now, you
fix another drink, Sink into the big leather.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Chair, and relax.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
When you open your eyes a few minutes later, she's back.
I lean down at you. Hello, Hello again.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh I see your glass is empty. Well that's easily remedied.
I'll pour you another one.
Speaker 7 (08:09):
Oh this is nice work if you can get it. Yeah, nice,
it's nice.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Perfume your worry, you like it? I like everything about you.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Good. Then you won't mind doing something for me, will you?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Anything short of murder?
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Walk over here?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Uh to the closet.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Yeah yeah, Now open the door. It's something I want
you to see.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Okay, I'll play games. Hey. I thought you said we
were alone.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Well you are, mister Barkley, because you see, the gentleman
in the closet is quite dead.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
This wonderful west of ours is certainly filled. With exciting
places to visit. If you like mountains, you'll see two
of America's most thrilling ones, plus a convincing demonstration of
Signal Ethel's ability to minimize shifting when you drive up
toward Washington's majestic, snow laden Mount Rainier or Oregon's pointed,
conical mount Hood. Perhaps you prefer to see great works
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of man. None is more impressive than Grand Coolie Dam,
and you'll be impressed too, with the way Signal Ethyl's smooth,
effortless power makes those long stretches of highway approaching Coolie
seem so much shorter. Of course, many of you would
rather take your vacation fun in a big city. That's
where you'll appreciate the way Signal Ethel's peppy pickup and
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alert performance keep you out front of city traffic. But
mind you, you don't have to wait till you go
on vacation to enjoy the premium grade of signals Famous
go farther Gasoline. Whenever you want the best performance your
car can deliver, that's when you want Signal Ethel.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
It's a great deal more than you bargain for, isn't it.
Then yes, when you stepped into the car at the
invitation of the beautiful blonde. You didn't realize what kind
of a ride was ahead. It was like a dream,
wasn't it. Going to her home, having cocktails, relaxing, and
then in the library, the closet. It's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Van.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Your mind spins, almost unable to cope with the situation.
As you stare down at the quiet figure of a
dead man on the floor of a closet. You scarcely
hear the girl beside you.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
You'll help me, won't you.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Huh what did you say?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
All you have to do is help me hide him permanently. Now,
wait a minute, if it's a place out in the
garden where some newly turned earth wouldn't be noticed.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
But if you can count me out, I don't know
how this guy happens to have a hole in his head,
and I'm not asking any questions. But caught me out
on any part of this duo.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
But you said you do anything.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, But I don't go off the deep end for anybody,
especially a girl. I just met a girl who's in
the habit of keeping dead bodies lying around. Uh, oh, lady,
pardon me, but I'll.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Be seen I think that you'd better wait, mister Barkley.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Uh oh, yeah, I see what you mean. I see
you're wearing a gun.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Too, and I assure you I know how to use it.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
How can I doubt that with the evidence staring at
me in the face.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Good, then, if you'll just pick up our late departed
friend and come with me, I'll show you the place.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
You know that business about your being no angel, I'm
just about convinced. Well, then you're in deep and there's
nothing you can do about it, not with a gun
in your back. You carry the body downstairs, as she demands,
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go out into the garden. There's a shovel.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Start digging, like I said, dig it big.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Sounds like a beach near here.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
The back of the yard drops off to the beach.
But never mind, we've got other things to do. Now,
dig it deep and wide.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, okay, dig you dig fan.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
But with each shovelful, you tell yourself over and over
that you're next dig deep, she said me, And you're
sure it so there'll be a grave for two unless
you do something fast, fast and sudden. A heavy shovelful
of dirt in her face knocks her off her feet
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at the same time, you're leaping clear, racing for the
drop off at the back of the garden. It's a wild,
frightening scramble down to the rock and brush until you
hit the beach, running hard and no shock, no footsteps.
You're away, then free. Far down the beach, you work
your way back to the highway, catch the bus for
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town and the safety of your hotel room. You're too
upset to decide what to do that night. You want
to call the police, but the memory of that blonde
hair and those pale blue eyes stops you. You want
to be sure of her guilt before doing anything that
might send her to the gas chamber. You turn in
without decid Next morning, when you go downstairs, the desk
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clerk hand.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
You an envelope. Come on here, mister Buckley, how good morning.
Oh it's this mail.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Young lady left it late last night. There's nothing written
on the envelope, as you just told me to put
it in your back. Oh oh thanks, yeshuir.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Wow it looks awful green. Yeah, one hundred dollar bill,
no note, no nothing. No. I wish I knew your secret,
mister buck.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You'd like to know that secret yourself. Wouldn't you vand
now more than ever one hundred dollars to pay for
your silence. You catch the bus again, and as you
approached the large house where you left the girl the
night before, there seems to be quite a few people
around at the gas station on the corner. You find
out why all.
Speaker 9 (14:35):
Shut mister Armstrong. Anything else, that's all, Joe? Thanks either
what can I do for you, mister? Run out of
gas or something?
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Oh? No, I was just walking by and I saw
there was some kind of excitement around here at this point.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Yeah, yeah, Boydan, we've had in a long time. They
found a body down on.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
The beach this morning. Oh, somebody drowned. Well maybe so,
but got a bullet hole through his head first, Oh murder. Huh, yeah,
it looks that way.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Guy named Alfred Hamilton lives right up the street over
in that house. Oh Ridgeley's No, No, used to be
over there a lot, but he didn't live there.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Well, I I noticed there was a police carry out front.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
And I thought, oh, that that's part of the excitement.
Not only is this friend of mister Ridgley's bumped off,
but Doris Ridgley's missing too.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Doris Richly Yeah, mister Ridgley's daughter. And that's Rigally, the
art collector.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Sure, sure you know he's about the richest person in
the neighborhood. Nice man too.
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yeah, and Doris his daughter the I remember, I've seen
her a blond. Isn't she good looking?
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Isn't no word for that girl. She's a peach. She's beautiful, yeah,
but rather hard spoiled Doris. Ahh, Hi, there isn't a
nicer girl in town now. I ought to know. I've
been taking care of a car ever since she started
to drive. Ah.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
I sure hate to see her mixed up in anything
like this, missing too. She might be in the ocean herself,
only her car's gone too.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
They think she murdered this Hamilton guy.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
I don't know, but if he asked me, she couldn't.
She's still regular. If she did, she had a good reason.
Hamilton was no good never could understand why Doris. No
man originally put.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Up with him.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Just Doris and her father lived there.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Yeah, missus Ridgley died a while back. Gosh, I hope
they find the girl. Okay, just about kill the old
man if anything happened to her.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
When was this guy murdered last night, and.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
I can tell you exactly when ten minutes to eight
on the nose. How can you be sure because I
heard the shot. You know, I didn't think anything of
it at the time, but I did notice what time
it was because I was just getting ready to close up.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Would you tell a police ran, Oh? Sure, sure? Where
the shot come from?
Speaker 6 (16:37):
How should I know? It's just a noise. Maybe from
the house over there, maybe from the beach where they
found him.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Oh? Thanks, thanks a lot. Say who are you anyway? Oh?
Nobody important.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
So as you walk away, you feel sure about one
thing that Doris didn't murder Hamilton. She was covering for somebody.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Else, wasn't she?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Van, And you've got to find her and bring her back.
Where where is she? It hits you suddenly the cabin
she mentioned, Yes, at bass Lake, you decide quickly, Van,
next stop bass Lake?
Speaker 10 (17:28):
Holy young fellow, What can I do for you? Got
you everything here? Buddy needs grocers, notions, drugs, fishing cat.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I'm looking for somebody, pop. I thought maybe you could
give me some directions.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
I have no person to come to and can tell
you about anybody in bass Lake?
Speaker 11 (17:41):
Who are you looking for?
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Doris Richly. She's got a cabin up here, hasn't she. Yep,
Well how do I get there?
Speaker 11 (17:48):
You don't?
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Why not?
Speaker 10 (17:50):
Would do you no good?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Why not?
Speaker 10 (17:52):
Nobody there?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Oh but I'm sure Doris is up here and I've
got to find her.
Speaker 10 (17:56):
Well, if you got in your head, you wouldn't have
to go, no cab huh. If you look across the street. O, there,
you'll see your car in front of dou She's lodge.
She's inside eating.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Oh okay, thanks, pot.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yes, he is in Ducey's lodge, and you wait outside
until she comes out. As she gets into the convertible,
you slip around the other side and open the door.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Hello. Baby, it's a nice day for a drive, isn't it.
Mister Parkley, don't reach for your bag. I'll take it.
I'll take a look inside too. Yeah, just as I
thought the gun, you've still got it. Well, i'll just
keep it this time, if you don't mind, just a
mente out of the talking. First, I'll return this hundred
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dollar bill. Even if I had a price for this
sort of thing, it wouldn't be a hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
It's all I had last night, I said.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Even if I had a price. I don't. I'll keep
my mouth shut until I'm ready to talk or you are.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
What makes you think I have anything to talk about.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Look, I think I know a good kid when I
see one. If you're really in trouble, i'm sorry, but
I don't think you are. I don't think you killed
killed this heel Hamilton. I think you're covering up for someone.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
No, no, I'm not. I killed him. He was threatening me,
threatening to tell something about me, So I killed him.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I don't believe you. All he did was try to
get me to help cover up somebody else's word. No,
that's not true. Okay, Okay, so you're not ready to talk,
come on, let's let's go for a drive. Well, you know,
I'm sorry I had to smile you with that shovel
full of dirt last night, but I didn't like the
prospect of sharing that hole in the ground with Hamilton.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
You mean you thought i'd kill you. I never intended
to do that.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Well, how did you think you'd get away with it? Then?
Just let me walk away to tell the cop.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
I don't know, Okay, babe, of course you don't know.
You're mixed up in something you know nothing about. You
couldn't have killed this guy Hamilton any more than you
could have killed me. So come on, come on, come clean.
I can't now look whoever this is you're covering up
for that. They'll be found out eventually. Probably they had
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a good reason for doing this from what I heard
about Hamilton. But now you've got to get yourself off
the spot, and me too. We're accessories to the murder.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I know, mister Barclay. Why are you doing this? Why
did you come here?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
I'll show you. Why does that answer your question? No?
No talking, now, come on, start riding. We've got to
have a little talk with the police.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Well, then you've found her and she's grateful. You can
see that the way she smiles at you, weakly, wonderingly.
And perhaps later, when it's all over, you can pick
up the dream where it left off. You think about
it that you drive back to the city with it. Then,
as she swings the big convertible into San Vincenti Boulevard,
she suddenly slams on the brakes, pulls up beside a
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police squad car.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Hey, what's the idea of baby. We don't want a
squad car. We want to go to a police headquarters.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Author officer, Yes, ma'am, arrest this man. He's wanted for murder,
and be careful. He's got a gun.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
You can't believe it's happening, can you, Van, But it is.
And later at police headquarters, your dream has turned into
a nightmare, as Doris pours out a wild story to
the captain of the homicide bureau.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
They were both at my house last night. They left together,
and then I heard a shot. When I went looking,
I found mister Berkley standing over Alfred's body down on
the beach. He'd taken his wallet. What you'll find it
in his pocket? Now the officer already has the murder car.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Are you kidding? I haven't any wallet. I don't now, well,
seems you do a wallet, mister Barkley.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
You see, Captain.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
But look, she put it there, slipped it into my
pocket while we were driving.
Speaker 6 (22:06):
This is Hamilton's wallet, and this is the same caliber
gun that killed him.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Barkley, But I tell you I didn't kill him. It's
all a lie. Oh hello. Originally he said for me, Captain, Yesh,
thanks for coming right over.
Speaker 11 (22:16):
I'm glad I did. That's telling the truth. Captain, he
didn't kill Hamilton.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
It's no use to us.
Speaker 11 (22:23):
I appreciate what you're trying to do, but you can't
protect me.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Dad, Please please don't say it's.
Speaker 11 (22:28):
No use to You can release them, Captain, this young
man and my daughter. I killed Hamilton.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
It was no good.
Speaker 12 (22:35):
I eyeshot and killed him.
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Speaker 2 (24:06):
Well, then your adventure has brought you dangerously close to
a charge of first degree murder. And now at police headquarters,
in the office of the Captain of Homicide, the surprises
are hitting you like punches from a fighter, aren't they
beat First the attempted frame against you by the girl Doris,
and now, out of the blue, her father facing the police,
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admitting that he killed Hamilton. You stare from one to
the other, wondering and waiting, and then Doris breaks the silence.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
But Dad, you couldn't have killed mister Hamilton.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Why couldn't we? He just confessed. It's good enough for me.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
He confessed to protect me.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
Dad had no reason, he could have had the best
reason in the world. Blackmail. That was Hamilton's racket.
Speaker 11 (24:47):
Blackmail, that's the answer, Doris. Hamilton had been bleeding me
for a long time. A few days ago, I got
the evidence to clear myself and expose him.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
So you sent for him and told him he got
tough and I shot him. I had to in shelter, Finns.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
Look, officer, you found the gun in Hamilton's wallet, on
this man right here. What more do you want?
Speaker 4 (25:07):
I'd tell you I never saw this gun on my
life until last Night's no use.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Does it happened exactly as I know you didn't do it.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
There's only one way you could know, missus Ridgley.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Said, Captain. There's only one way I could know.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
I tell you my daughter's lying.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Mister Ridgley is right, Captain, Oh hello, lieutenants, find anything plenty.
His daughter is lying to protect him. We know from
the gas station attendance testimony that the shot that killed
Hamilton was fired last night at ten minutes to Wait. Now,
we've checked every move of miss Ridgley's and at ten
minutes of eight, she was seen buying a package of
cigarette at the corner.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Drugstore and it was mister Ridgley.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
No.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Mister Ridgeley left Hamilton in his living room last night
somewhere around seven after telling him he was going to
expose him to the police. At ten minutes to eight,
mister Ridgley was seen having a drink at a barn.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Woo, Sir Barkley, you did take Hamilton's Walllett was your gun?
I tell you I never even heard of any of
these people.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
No, it wasn't, young Romeo hear anything. Oh go on,
Alfred Hamilton committed suicide. Yeah, that's right, there's no doubt
about it. Powder burns on his face, and he was
left handed. The angle of the bullet and the left
temple shows the wounds was self inflicted. Paraffine tests and
his hand proved beyond a doubt that Hamilton fired a
shot a few seconds.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Before He's dead.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
I guess when he realized mister Ridgley was gonna expose
him to the police, he just couldn't take it.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Oh good work, Lieutenant.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Now, mister Ridgeley, you'll come into my office, the lieutenant
and I will show you the reports.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Of course, Captain, we'll wait in the car.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Dad, I'll be along in a minute.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Doors.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Well, baby, you gave me a nice ride, a very
nice ride.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Honestly, Anna, I'm terribly sorry, but I was worried, crazy
about death. But do you think we could have a
drink again? Sometimes?
Speaker 5 (27:06):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Hell? Look, you're a nice kid, You're beautiful, fascinating all
those things especially beautiful. But baby, if you ever see
me walking down the street again, just drive on by.
Please let that.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program and
the Whistler each Sunday night at the same time, and
before you start your vacation trip, be sure to ask
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dining places, Lane's Guide covers a representative selection in hundreds
of cities and towns, and a copy of this handy
publication is yours free at signal stations. Featured in Tonight's
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Charles Caldert, and Bill Bouchet. The Whistler was produced and
directed by George w Allen, with story by John Duncle
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to our troops overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service.
The Whistler is entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on
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to tune in at the same time next Sunday when
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Speaker 4 (29:00):
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