August 5, 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 (00:00):
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.
(00:27):
Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. 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 (01:10):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange
Story Fatal Error.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It was a unique arrangement between Lloyd McCrae and his
partner Matt Banyon. On the surface, they appeared to be
realizing only a modest average income, quite in keeping with
their operations of a few air cargo planes. But beneath
the surface, that was something else again, just as certain
secret side trips across the border into Mexico produced something
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else again in the way of big profits from McRae
and Banyon. Yes, these were the deals the partners never
discussed with anyone other than themselves. Not even fran Engel,
Matt's girlfriend, was told about the highly profitable sideline. Of course,
there was always the danger of being exposed, and the
partners were gradually reaching the danger point. Both were well
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aware of this as they discussed it one afternoon in
their airport office.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
That's how I see it, Matt.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
We put twenty five grand away in six months, and
I say it's time to lay off for a one.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Anybody been snooping around?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Ah? No, maybe I'm just jumpy, that's all. Maybe.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Yeah, I see your point.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
So what's the next move?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Nothing special.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Just start giving a little more attention to customers that
want to do legitimate business and all.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
I mean Craymerly and the rest of our customers.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Well, look, Lee wants to talk about a frozen meat
shipment tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
See him? Will you his place? Eight o'clock on a Wait.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
A minute, wait a minute, can't you handle it?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
I've got a date with fran Fran but.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
She's working on the throat's bothering and she's not singing
at the club tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Look. You know I never do as well with customers
as you do, Matt. You've got away with them.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I have Yeah, thanks, Lloyd, Maybe so, Matt. Look, we're
still running a business, or trying to make it look
that way. I should think it.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Okay, okay, save the lecture, least place eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'll beat it all right.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That's better, yes, Lloyd, It's better all the way around,
isn't it? Because you lied when you told Matt that
there was nothing special about the next move. But then
you couldn't very well tell him the truth, could you not?
When the next move is entirely yours alone, When you
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plan to eliminate your partner, not only grab the twenty
five thousand dollars the two of you have laid away together,
but more important, Matt won't be around to share in
the future profits of your highly lucrative sideline. It's a
simple plan, too, isn't it, Lloyd. Yet you shudder when
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you realize what might happen to you if you failed,
If Matt found out that you tried to kill him.
A powerful man, isn't he? He could break you in
two like a twig. You wait in the darkened alleyway
a block from Lee's place. Tell yourself, nothing will go wrong.
No one in the world knows about the extra money.
The two of you have accumulated the twenty five thousand
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you keep hidden away in your office safe, there won't
be a single reason for suspicion to be pointed in
your direction. It'll be just an unexplained killing, something for
you to read about in the papers the next day,
along with everyone else. It's almost eight and now you
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hear them footsteps closer, closer. He's right on time, isn't he?
Lloyd right on time? Your whirl run from the alley
on the sidewalk, you almost knock someone over.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Look out.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
You turn your face away from the woman, shove roughly pass,
and then break into a run, certain that she didn't
get a clear look at you.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Good morning, miss McCrae.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Good morning Alice. Up a coffee?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Huh, yes, you're right away.
Speaker 9 (05:17):
Oh here, here's the paper you can read about the
shooting last night over by the Lee Froze Me Company.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Shooting.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Yeah, I still a named Joe Ramis guy himself blasted.
Let me see that is right in the front page.
Joe Ramos shot killed by unknown as sailor. Witness described
killer as a slighter build, wearing trench coat. Hey, what's
a man of mister McCrae, you don't look so good.
Did you know this Raymers guy?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
No?
Speaker 10 (05:47):
No, I didn't know the guy.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We're off.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
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Speaker 2 (07:44):
It was a shock, wasn't it, Lloyd, to learn the
papers have identified the man you shot down last night
as Joe ramis not your partner, Matt Bannon. You can
hardly believe it. You were so certain it was your partner,
the same bill, even the same walk. But you've made
a mistake, haven't you? A bad mistake? And now, driving
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out to your office at the airport, there's a sick
feeling in the pit of your stomach. The newspaper story
Lloyd carries a partial description of you the killer, enough
for Matt to add things up, especially if he was
early to keep that appointment with Lee, only to learn
that there was never such an appointment, but you lied
to him. As you approach the airport, you wonder if
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you shouldn't make your move now salvage what you can
take the money out of the safe leave town. But
that would point suspicion directly, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Lloyd.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
For the time you reach the office of the airport,
you've decided to wait it out and see what Matt
will do. There's no sign of Matt having been here
as the Lloyd, So you sit at your desk, stare
out the window toward the parking lot, and wait for
Matt to arrive. Ten o'clock eleven. There's no sign of him.
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It's almost noon when you finally pick up the telephone
and call your partner's girlfriend, Fran Angele.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Hello, Oh, Fran, is this Lloyd was my favorite song bird?
You're still knocking him dead?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
I'm big time now one show and night.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Oh fine, fine, Uh, Fran, I've been trying to locate Matt.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
You see him this morning?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Man?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (09:32):
Why you.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
Just a minute, Lloyd, I'll I'll be right with you.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Clutching the phone tightly in your hand. As Fran excuses herself,
you're strained to listen. She talks to someone softly, someone
there in their apartment. It could be Matt, couldn't it.
Finally she comes back on the phone, oh, I'm.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
I'm sorry, Lloyd.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
The cleaning man just came by to pick up some things.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
If you were asking about.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Matt, yeah, it is anything special. Just thought if you'd
seen him, you know?
Speaker 8 (10:03):
Oh yeah, yes, I saw him. He was by her
a couple of hours ago, dropped.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
In to say goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Yes, he he had to drive up to Bakersfield on business.
But didn't you know?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Oh sure, yeah, today is today, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Yeah, he did say something about it a few days go.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Anything else on your mind, Lloyd? I mean in case
you should call me later.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
H No, no, I forget if Frian, thanks bye bye.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
As you hang up the receiver, you lean back in
your chair and breathe a sigh of relief. You'd forgotten
about Matt's business trip to Bakersfield, haven't you. And you're
certain now he never would have left if he'd suspected anything. However,
you're not entirely in the clear yet.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Are you, Lloyd.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
You'll still have to explain something to him when he
gets back the phony appointment with a lee. There's something
else too. You wonder if Matt's seen the newspapers, if
he's read the account of the murder last night. Late
that evening, just before you leave the office, you decide
to find out. You put in a long distance call
to the hotel in Bakersfield where he usually stays, Hotel LINDN.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
I'd like to speak with mister Banion, please, Matt Banion,
Ster Banion.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
One moment, sir, Hello, Yeah, I'm sorry, sir, mister Banion
has registered.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Well are you sure? Quite sure, sir?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Well, he must be there, should have arrived hours ago.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I'm sorry, sir. Oh all right, mine.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Something's wrong live. You can sense it, can't you. As
you close up the office and walk to the parking lot,
a feeling of uneasiness builds within you. You try to
fight it off. Find some reason why Matt hasn't checked
into the hotel. An accident perhaps on the road, yes,
a motor trouble, or he might have finished his business
early and started back to town. There's nothing to be
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gained by staying at the office.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So you decide to drive on to your apartment. As
you approach the all night garage where Matt usually parks
his car, an idea suddenly occurs to you. You swing
into the driveway, pull up inside.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Okay, hello Frank, Oh hi, mister McRae.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
How's everything.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Oh I can't complain. This baby might need a tune up,
so okay if I bring it in tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Oh sure, sure will take care of it.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Mister mcray do a good job for you.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Matt said you would. He's your best booster, you know,
nice guy than mister Vanion.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Yeah, don't get to see him much now that I'm
on the light shift.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
How's he doing?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Oh fine, he's on a trip upstate right now. Drove
up this morning.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Drove up? Funny, What do you mean he didn't take
his car. It's parked back there in the store, right
where he always keeps it.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Sure, well, yeah, yeah, look for yourself.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
I guess he must have decided to take the train
for a change.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, I guess. So.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Fran lied to you, didn't she Lloyd? And you remember
your phone conversation with her overhearing or talking to someone
in the apartment. Someone she said was the man from
the dry cleaners. You're certain now it was Matt. And
you know now why he told it a lie. He
doesn't want you to know that he's here in town,
and he's suspicious of you. You drive out of the
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garage and find yourself headed back toward the airport. You're
afraid to go to your apartment, aren't you, Lloyd? Afraid
that Matt will be there waiting for you. You decide
to drive back to the office instead. As you enter
and lock the door behind you without turning on the light,
you step over to answer the telephone.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Who is it.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Hullo?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Your hand is shaking badly, isn't it Lloyd? As you've
replaced the receiver, you move slowly to your chair, sink
down into it, and sit there in the darkness of
your office. The phone call. It could have been a
wrong number, couldn't it. Yes, you've got to get hold
of yourself, Lloyd. Your nerves are on edge. You've got
to be very careful. You can't afford to make a
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mistake now and give yourself away. You're sure you know
why Matt is keeping out of sight. He's waiting for
you to make a move. Isn't he the wrong move?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But you're not going to, are you, Lloyd.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
You sit there for some time, thinking things out, gradually
becoming more and more confident, and then suddenly you wheel
around in your chair stiffen as you hear the key
in the at the office door. You're unable to move
to call out, unable to take your eyes off the
door knob as it turned slowly.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Oh, mister McRae, I didn't know you were here. What
do you want, Popry, just come in to do the
cleaning up? Mister McRae, I didn't know you were here.
The lights. If you want, I can come back later,
Come back later. Okay, I'm sure, mister mcray didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You pace the floor of your office nervously for a
few minutes, and then reach for the telephone. You must
call Matt find out if his home. Then you change
your mind again and slam down the receiver. You lock
up the office and drive into town to the Blue Lantern,
the nightclub where Fran works, and as you enter the
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crowded room, she's finishing her big number.
Speaker 12 (15:58):
The nicest part, Melo, dear, is when you're dancing close
to me, so poor and coming in Nick coming load.
All my walle is loving you and music music, music, dude, lady,
you love me, you love Lord Lodi, Oh my walle
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he is music.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Hello friends, Lloyd nice son, very nice. Thanks by A
drink or.
Speaker 13 (16:34):
Some other time.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Lloyd, Okay, what.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
What brings you around? We don't see you here very often?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Oh, just bored? I guess you know. I really don't
get out as often as I should or work.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
No play, that's bad.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Nah, I spend entirely too much time with the office.
I guess.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Take Matt now, least he gets a chance to take
a few out of time trips once in a while,
too often to suit me.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Maybe I got to make those trips instead.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
Fine, That way i'd have met where I could keep
my eye on him. You know, I often wonder about
those business trips.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Oh, you haven't a thing to worry about, friend, There's
only one dollar in his life. This's you.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
Yeah, sure, sure, that's what he tells me.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
You've got a great guy there, friend, great guy.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I know.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
I guess you know too how I feel about him.
It's the best friend I ever had.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Nothing I wouldn't do for that. He's a real guy.
By the way, did he called you to Mike?
Speaker 13 (17:30):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (17:31):
Yeah, yeah, he called him from his hotel. Huh Lindon, Yeah,
why is something on your mind?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Well?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I wanted him to check on something while I was
up there. And I happened to think about it this afternoon. Oh,
I see, I could call him in the morning. I
guess it really isn't too important.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Sure you won't have that drink? Friend?
Speaker 13 (17:50):
No, no, thanks, Lloyd. I well, if you don't mind,
I think i'll go back to my dressing room. I
have a horrible headache.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Oh it's too bad.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Well i'll say you huh, you ought to come around
more often.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Sure i'll do that, friend, I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
A half hour later. You park your car a block
from Matt's apartment house and then walk slowly toward the
four story buildings. As you approach it, you glance up
at the third story windows. Matt's apartment is dark. You
stop for a moment, then as you turn around, Oh lord,
it's a.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Matter of palsca. Oh it's you.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Dave been calling on Matt. Yeah, he's not home, ain't he? No,
I guess not dark. Well, you couldn't have missed him
by much.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You see him go out?
Speaker 7 (18:45):
No, No, but I heard him moving around up there
just before I went down to the corner about ten
minutes ago. Oh you're sure, sure, I'm sure. My apartment's
right under his, ain't it?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I heard him. Oh I see okay, well, thanks Dave.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Hey wait, you're gone down to the airport. I'll give
you a lift going down in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Thanks, No, I have my car.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Shortly before midnight, you're in the residential section. You park
your car on a quiet side street. You walk a
block to where you can see fran Engle's cottage. The
lights are on inside, but the blinds are drawn. You're
almost certain that Matt is in there with Fran, aren't you, Lloyd?
And if you wait long enough, you'll see him when
he comes out. You've almost made up your mind to
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slip around to the side of the house and perhaps
listening on their conversation, when suddenly a car pulls up
in front of you, and you duck back into the shadows.
It's a police car, Lloyd, Oh, that.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Must be the place over there s that cottage eight
thirty one, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
With a wave of panic sweeps over you as you
watch the police office. There's ring Fran's bell. Then the
door opens and she stands there for a moment, then
nods and the officers step inside. You're sure Matt's call
them in, aren't you certainly he's found the proof that
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you tried to kill him, that he knows you killed
Joe Ramos instead, and now he's telling the police about it.
You hurry back to your car and start toward town.
So frightened you're unable to think clearly. Finally you know
what you must do. You drive back to your apartment,
pack your bags, slip the murder gun into your coat pocket.
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You can dispose of it after you're safely away, and
then you hurry to the airport. As you reach the
parking lot, you're surprised as the attendant stops.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
You say, mister McCrae, what is a kid? Thought? Maybe
you ought to know?
Speaker 5 (20:46):
The cops were here asking for you?
Speaker 13 (20:48):
What?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah, probably at your office. Now they say what they wanted?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
No, okay, all right here, Hey, thanks, park this crap
for me?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Will you? I better go over to the office so
see what they want. Sure, mister mccraid.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You decide to leave the car and lot, and then
you hurry over to the terminal building, go to the
cocktail lounge, and from the window you can see the
police car parked in front of your office, two policemen
inside talking. The pot you've got to get them out
of there, Lloyd. If you're going to get the money
out of the safe, twenty five thousand dollars, you'll have
to be satisfied with that, won't you. The panic has
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left you now, hasn't it, Lloyd? And there's a smile
on your lips as you dial the number of your office.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Yeah, hello, Lloyd.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
There you want Lloyd McCray. Yeah? Sure, is he around? No,
he isn't. Who is it? Just a friend? He was
supposed to meet me at the Blue Ladder a half
hour ago. I can't wait much longer nowhere he is?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
No, I don't okay, I'll see him.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Later in just a minute, You smile as you hang
up the phone. You're pretty sure that in a few
minutes the officers will be on their way to the
Blue Lantern Cafe. You return to the cocktail lounge and watch.
A moment later, you see the police officers come out
of your office and drive off. The way is clear,
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isn't it, Lloyd? Now you've only to take the money
leave town, and you're sure that you can arrange that easily.
You have one more thing to do before your plans
are complete. You leave the cocktail lounge and walk into
a nearby hangar.
Speaker 11 (22:42):
Hey, Mike, what oh high life gave Brown in the office.
Thanks my lord.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Come on, Dave, I got a job for you. Yeah,
as a special sort of a job, one of those. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Well, I've always cooperated in the past, Lloyd. You know me,
anything for a fast buck.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
There's a grand in it for you.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Same as always tell me more, fly me to Mexico
when right now it's a deal. Good, all right, get
that creditors warmed up. I've got to go back to
the office for a minute, then we take off or Dave. Yeah,
you keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
I'm a clampile, a clam You don't have a thing
to worry about, not a thing a land in Mexico.
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Speaker 2 (25:08):
A curious crowd had gathered in front of the McRae
Banyon office at the airport, milling around and talking in
excited whispers inside the office. Lieutenant Robbins of Homicide faced
the members of the press and was trying to explain
what had happened.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Looks, boys, look, I can only tell you what I know.
Wait of in wait now, look, I can only tell
you what I know.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
There's a lot about this.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
I don't know a lot I don't understand. Well, okay, okay, lieutenant. Now,
so McCray was opening the safe here when the Prowl.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Cowboys walk in on him.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Huh he turned around started shooting.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
The boys had to give it right back to him
and self defense.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
So McCrae is dead.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Now what did the law want with him in the
first place.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Well, a man named Joe Ramis was killed last night.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
He was murdered.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
Yeah, I know, Lieutenant, I wrote that yon myself.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Know what about it.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
I made a couple of interesting discoveries about this Joe
Raymas tonight. At first, the boys down at the Morgue
found twenty five thousand dollars hidden in the lining of
his overtow twenty five. This is big. I'm gonna fall
my paper a minute. You better wait until life finish. Second,
the identification papers on I'm were phony. He wasn't Joe Ramis.
We found this out after we checked up on a
dame where he found a picture of her in the wallet,
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a case of fine.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
The woman all right now.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
We picked her up, brought her down to the morgue.
When she recognized the body, she went all the pieces.
Told us about the twenty five thousand dollars bank loot. Nope,
his girlfriend told us he was double crossing his partner,
running out with the firm's dough. The twenty five grand
we found on him. Yeah, he was gonna skip last
night and the midnight playing for Mexico City. The girl
was going to meet him there later.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Only at eight.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
O'clock last night, somebody bumped him off in that alley
m He had an appointment there there with a frozen
meat dealer named Lee. And the funny thing about it
was the girl said he was only keeping the appointment
to keep his partner from becoming suspicious. They always make
one error, Litt thought they He nearly always. In this case,
it was a fatal error. Even his girl thought he
made a getaway. She thought he was safe in Mexico
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until she wreckedize his body at the morgue. You boys
certainly saw this one quickly.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Oh, but we had a little luck, of course. One
of the boys recognized the picture we found in his pocket,
a nightclub singer fran Engele.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Fran engles Hey. But she was Matt Vanion's girl, right.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
The dead man we thought was Joe raymis because of
his phony identification papers, turned out to be Matt Banion.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Lloyd McCrae's partner.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Banion was double crossing McCray.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
It looks like it and now McCrae.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Yeah, yeah, But what I can't figure is why McCrae
started shooting when the boys in the Proud Car came
here to his office. We only wanted him to come
down to headquarters and pick up that twenty five thousand
dollars we found on Matt Banyon.
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
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Speaker 2 (01:27):
It was a unique arrangement between Lloyd McCrae and his
partner Matt Banyon. On the surface, they appeared to be
realizing only a modest average income, quite in keeping with
their operations of a few air cargo planes. But beneath
the surface, that was something else again, just as certain
secret side trips across the border into Mexico produced something
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else again in the way of big profits from McRae
and Banyon. Yes, these were the deals the partners never
discussed with anyone other than themselves. Not even fran Engel,
Matt's girlfriend, was told about the highly profitable sideline. Of course,
there was always the danger of being exposed, and the
partners were gradually reaching the danger point. Both were well
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aware of this as they discussed it one afternoon in
their airport office.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
That's how I see it, Matt.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
We put twenty five grand away in six months, and
I say it's time to lay off for a one.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
Anybody been snooping around?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Ah? No, maybe I'm just jumpy, that's all. Maybe.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Yeah, I see your point.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Ah.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
So what's the next move?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Nothing special.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Just start giving a little more attention to customers that
want to do legitimate business and all.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
I mean Craymerly and the rest of our customers.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Well, look, Lee wants to talk about a frozen meat
shipment tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
See him? Will you his place? Eight o'clock on a Wait.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
A minute, wait a minute, can't you handle it?
Speaker 6 (02:51):
I've got a date with fran Fran but.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
She's working on the throat's bothering and she's not singing
at the club tonight.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Look. You know I never do as well with customers
as you do, Matt. You've got away with them.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
I have Yeah, thanks, Lloyd, Maybe so, Matt. Look, we're
still running a business, or trying to make it look
that way. I should think it.
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Okay, okay, save the lecture, least place eight o'clock.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
I'll beat it all right.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
That's better, yes, Lloyd, It's better all the way around,
isn't it? Because you lied when you told Matt that
there was nothing special about the next move. But then
you couldn't very well tell him the truth, could you not?
When the next move is entirely yours alone, When you
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plan to eliminate your partner, not only grab the twenty
five thousand dollars the two of you have laid away together,
but more important, Matt won't be around to share in
the future profits of your highly lucrative sideline. It's a
simple plan, too, isn't it, Lloyd. Yet you shudder when
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you realize what might happen to you if you failed,
If Matt found out that you tried to kill him.
A powerful man, isn't he? He could break you in
two like a twig. You wait in the darkened alleyway
a block from Lee's place. Tell yourself, nothing will go wrong.
No one in the world knows about the extra money.
The two of you have accumulated the twenty five thousand
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you keep hidden away in your office safe, there won't
be a single reason for suspicion to be pointed in
your direction. It'll be just an unexplained killing, something for
you to read about in the papers the next day,
along with everyone else. It's almost eight and now you
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hear them footsteps closer, closer. He's right on time, isn't he?
Lloyd right on time? Your whirl run from the alley
on the sidewalk, you almost knock someone over.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
Look out.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
You turn your face away from the woman, shove roughly pass,
and then break into a run, certain that she didn't
get a clear look at you.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Good morning, miss McCrae.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Good morning Alice. Up a coffee?
Speaker 8 (05:16):
Huh, yes, you're right away.
Speaker 9 (05:17):
Oh here, here's the paper you can read about the
shooting last night over by the Lee Froze Me Company.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Shooting.
Speaker 9 (05:23):
Yeah, I still a named Joe Ramis guy himself blasted.
Let me see that is right in the front page.
Joe Ramos shot killed by unknown as sailor. Witness described
killer as a slighter build, wearing trench coat. Hey, what's
a man of mister McCrae, you don't look so good.
Did you know this Raymers guy?
Speaker 3 (05:45):
No?
Speaker 10 (05:47):
No, I didn't know the guy.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
We're off.
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Speaker 2 (07:44):
It was a shock, wasn't it, Lloyd, to learn the
papers have identified the man you shot down last night
as Joe ramis not your partner, Matt Bannon. You can
hardly believe it. You were so certain it was your partner,
the same bill, even the same walk. But you've made
a mistake, haven't you? A bad mistake? And now, driving
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out to your office at the airport, there's a sick
feeling in the pit of your stomach. The newspaper story
Lloyd carries a partial description of you the killer, enough
for Matt to add things up, especially if he was
early to keep that appointment with Lee, only to learn
that there was never such an appointment, but you lied
to him. As you approach the airport, you wonder if
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you shouldn't make your move now salvage what you can
take the money out of the safe leave town. But
that would point suspicion directly, wouldn't it.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Lloyd.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
For the time you reach the office of the airport,
you've decided to wait it out and see what Matt
will do. There's no sign of Matt having been here
as the Lloyd, So you sit at your desk, stare
out the window toward the parking lot, and wait for
Matt to arrive. Ten o'clock eleven. There's no sign of him.
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It's almost noon when you finally pick up the telephone
and call your partner's girlfriend, Fran Angele.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Hello, Oh, Fran, is this Lloyd was my favorite song bird?
You're still knocking him dead?
Speaker 8 (09:23):
I'm big time now one show and night.
Speaker 6 (09:25):
Oh fine, fine, Uh, Fran, I've been trying to locate Matt.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
You see him this morning?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Man?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (09:32):
Why you.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
Just a minute, Lloyd, I'll I'll be right with you.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Clutching the phone tightly in your hand. As Fran excuses herself,
you're strained to listen. She talks to someone softly, someone
there in their apartment. It could be Matt, couldn't it.
Finally she comes back on the phone, oh, I'm.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
I'm sorry, Lloyd.
Speaker 9 (09:53):
The cleaning man just came by to pick up some things.
Speaker 8 (09:57):
If you were asking about.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Matt, yeah, it is anything special. Just thought if you'd
seen him, you know?
Speaker 8 (10:03):
Oh yeah, yes, I saw him. He was by her
a couple of hours ago, dropped.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
In to say goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Yes, he he had to drive up to Bakersfield on business.
But didn't you know?
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Oh sure, yeah, today is today, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
Yeah, he did say something about it a few days go.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Anything else on your mind, Lloyd? I mean in case
you should call me later.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
H No, no, I forget if Frian, thanks bye bye.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
As you hang up the receiver, you lean back in
your chair and breathe a sigh of relief. You'd forgotten
about Matt's business trip to Bakersfield, haven't you. And you're
certain now he never would have left if he'd suspected anything. However,
you're not entirely in the clear yet.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Are you, Lloyd.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
You'll still have to explain something to him when he
gets back the phony appointment with a lee. There's something
else too. You wonder if Matt's seen the newspapers, if
he's read the account of the murder last night. Late
that evening, just before you leave the office, you decide
to find out. You put in a long distance call
to the hotel in Bakersfield where he usually stays, Hotel LINDN.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
I'd like to speak with mister Banion, please, Matt Banion,
Ster Banion.
Speaker 5 (11:23):
One moment, sir, Hello, Yeah, I'm sorry, sir, mister Banion
has registered.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Well are you sure? Quite sure, sir?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Well, he must be there, should have arrived hours ago.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I'm sorry, sir. Oh all right, mine.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Something's wrong live. You can sense it, can't you. As
you close up the office and walk to the parking lot,
a feeling of uneasiness builds within you. You try to
fight it off. Find some reason why Matt hasn't checked
into the hotel. An accident perhaps on the road, yes,
a motor trouble, or he might have finished his business
early and started back to town. There's nothing to be
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gained by staying at the office.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Is there?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
So you decide to drive on to your apartment. As
you approach the all night garage where Matt usually parks
his car, an idea suddenly occurs to you. You swing
into the driveway, pull up inside.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Okay, hello Frank, Oh hi, mister McRae.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
How's everything.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Oh I can't complain. This baby might need a tune up,
so okay if I bring it in tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Oh sure, sure will take care of it.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Mister mcray do a good job for you.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Matt said you would. He's your best booster, you know,
nice guy than mister Vanion.
Speaker 7 (12:45):
Yeah, don't get to see him much now that I'm
on the light shift.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
How's he doing?
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Oh fine, he's on a trip upstate right now. Drove
up this morning.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Drove up? Funny, What do you mean he didn't take
his car. It's parked back there in the store, right
where he always keeps it.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Sure, well, yeah, yeah, look for yourself.
Speaker 7 (13:05):
I guess he must have decided to take the train
for a change.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, I guess. So.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Fran lied to you, didn't she Lloyd? And you remember
your phone conversation with her overhearing or talking to someone
in the apartment. Someone she said was the man from
the dry cleaners. You're certain now it was Matt. And
you know now why he told it a lie. He
doesn't want you to know that he's here in town,
and he's suspicious of you. You drive out of the
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garage and find yourself headed back toward the airport. You're
afraid to go to your apartment, aren't you, Lloyd? Afraid
that Matt will be there waiting for you. You decide
to drive back to the office instead. As you enter
and lock the door behind you without turning on the light,
you step over to answer the telephone.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Who is it.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Hullo?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Your hand is shaking badly, isn't it Lloyd? As you've
replaced the receiver, you move slowly to your chair, sink
down into it, and sit there in the darkness of
your office. The phone call. It could have been a
wrong number, couldn't it. Yes, you've got to get hold
of yourself, Lloyd. Your nerves are on edge. You've got
to be very careful. You can't afford to make a
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mistake now and give yourself away. You're sure you know
why Matt is keeping out of sight. He's waiting for
you to make a move. Isn't he the wrong move?
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But you're not going to, are you, Lloyd.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
You sit there for some time, thinking things out, gradually
becoming more and more confident, and then suddenly you wheel
around in your chair stiffen as you hear the key
in the at the office door. You're unable to move
to call out, unable to take your eyes off the
door knob as it turned slowly.
Speaker 6 (15:11):
Oh, mister McRae, I didn't know you were here. What
do you want, Popry, just come in to do the
cleaning up? Mister McRae, I didn't know you were here.
The lights. If you want, I can come back later,
Come back later. Okay, I'm sure, mister mcray didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You pace the floor of your office nervously for a
few minutes, and then reach for the telephone. You must
call Matt find out if his home. Then you change
your mind again and slam down the receiver. You lock
up the office and drive into town to the Blue Lantern,
the nightclub where Fran works, and as you enter the
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crowded room, she's finishing her big number.
Speaker 12 (15:58):
The nicest part, Melo, dear, is when you're dancing close
to me, so poor and coming in Nick coming load.
All my walle is loving you and music music, music, dude, lady,
you love me, you love Lord Lodi, Oh my walle
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he is music.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Hello friends, Lloyd nice son, very nice. Thanks by A
drink or.
Speaker 13 (16:34):
Some other time.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Lloyd, Okay, what.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
What brings you around? We don't see you here very often?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Oh, just bored? I guess you know. I really don't
get out as often as I should or work.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
No play, that's bad.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Nah, I spend entirely too much time with the office.
I guess.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Take Matt now, least he gets a chance to take
a few out of time trips once in a while,
too often to suit me.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Maybe I got to make those trips instead.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
Fine, That way i'd have met where I could keep
my eye on him. You know, I often wonder about
those business trips.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Oh, you haven't a thing to worry about, friend, There's
only one dollar in his life. This's you.
Speaker 8 (17:13):
Yeah, sure, sure, that's what he tells me.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
You've got a great guy there, friend, great guy.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
I know.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
I guess you know too how I feel about him.
It's the best friend I ever had.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Nothing I wouldn't do for that. He's a real guy.
By the way, did he called you to Mike?
Speaker 13 (17:30):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (17:31):
Yeah, yeah, he called him from his hotel. Huh Lindon, Yeah,
why is something on your mind?
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Well?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I wanted him to check on something while I was
up there. And I happened to think about it this afternoon. Oh,
I see, I could call him in the morning. I
guess it really isn't too important.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Sure you won't have that drink? Friend?
Speaker 13 (17:50):
No, no, thanks, Lloyd. I well, if you don't mind,
I think i'll go back to my dressing room. I
have a horrible headache.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Oh it's too bad.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
Well i'll say you huh, you ought to come around
more often.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Sure i'll do that, friend, I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
A half hour later. You park your car a block
from Matt's apartment house and then walk slowly toward the
four story buildings. As you approach it, you glance up
at the third story windows. Matt's apartment is dark. You
stop for a moment, then as you turn around, Oh lord,
it's a.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Matter of palsca. Oh it's you.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Dave been calling on Matt. Yeah, he's not home, ain't he? No,
I guess not dark. Well, you couldn't have missed him
by much.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
You see him go out?
Speaker 7 (18:45):
No, No, but I heard him moving around up there
just before I went down to the corner about ten
minutes ago. Oh you're sure, sure, I'm sure. My apartment's
right under his, ain't it?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I heard him. Oh I see okay, well, thanks Dave.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Hey wait, you're gone down to the airport. I'll give
you a lift going down in a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Thanks, No, I have my car.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Shortly before midnight, you're in the residential section. You park
your car on a quiet side street. You walk a
block to where you can see fran Engle's cottage. The
lights are on inside, but the blinds are drawn. You're
almost certain that Matt is in there with Fran, aren't you, Lloyd?
And if you wait long enough, you'll see him when
he comes out. You've almost made up your mind to
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slip around to the side of the house and perhaps
listening on their conversation, when suddenly a car pulls up
in front of you, and you duck back into the shadows.
It's a police car, Lloyd, Oh, that.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Must be the place over there s that cottage eight
thirty one, Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
With a wave of panic sweeps over you as you
watch the police office. There's ring Fran's bell. Then the
door opens and she stands there for a moment, then
nods and the officers step inside. You're sure Matt's call
them in, aren't you certainly he's found the proof that
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you tried to kill him, that he knows you killed
Joe Ramos instead, and now he's telling the police about it.
You hurry back to your car and start toward town.
So frightened you're unable to think clearly. Finally you know
what you must do. You drive back to your apartment,
pack your bags, slip the murder gun into your coat pocket.
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You can dispose of it after you're safely away, and
then you hurry to the airport. As you reach the
parking lot, you're surprised as the attendant stops.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
You say, mister McCrae, what is a kid? Thought? Maybe
you ought to know?
Speaker 5 (20:46):
The cops were here asking for you?
Speaker 13 (20:48):
What?
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah, probably at your office. Now they say what they wanted?
Speaker 6 (20:53):
No, okay, all right here, Hey, thanks, park this crap
for me?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Will you? I better go over to the office so
see what they want. Sure, mister mccraid.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Sure.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You decide to leave the car and lot, and then
you hurry over to the terminal building, go to the
cocktail lounge, and from the window you can see the
police car parked in front of your office, two policemen
inside talking. The pot you've got to get them out
of there, Lloyd. If you're going to get the money
out of the safe, twenty five thousand dollars, you'll have
to be satisfied with that, won't you. The panic has
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left you now, hasn't it, Lloyd? And there's a smile
on your lips as you dial the number of your office.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Yeah, hello, Lloyd.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
There you want Lloyd McCray. Yeah? Sure, is he around? No,
he isn't. Who is it? Just a friend? He was
supposed to meet me at the Blue Ladder a half
hour ago. I can't wait much longer nowhere he is?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
No, I don't okay, I'll see him.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Later in just a minute, You smile as you hang
up the phone. You're pretty sure that in a few
minutes the officers will be on their way to the
Blue Lantern Cafe. You return to the cocktail lounge and watch.
A moment later, you see the police officers come out
of your office and drive off. The way is clear,
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isn't it, Lloyd? Now you've only to take the money
leave town, and you're sure that you can arrange that easily.
You have one more thing to do before your plans
are complete. You leave the cocktail lounge and walk into
a nearby hangar.
Speaker 11 (22:42):
Hey, Mike, what oh high life gave Brown in the office.
Thanks my lord.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Come on, Dave, I got a job for you. Yeah,
as a special sort of a job, one of those. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
Well, I've always cooperated in the past, Lloyd. You know me,
anything for a fast buck.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
There's a grand in it for you.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Same as always tell me more, fly me to Mexico
when right now it's a deal. Good, all right, get
that creditors warmed up. I've got to go back to
the office for a minute, then we take off or Dave. Yeah,
you keep your mouth shut.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
I'm a clampile, a clam You don't have a thing
to worry about, not a thing a land in Mexico.
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Speaker 2 (25:08):
A curious crowd had gathered in front of the McRae
Banyon office at the airport, milling around and talking in
excited whispers inside the office. Lieutenant Robbins of Homicide faced
the members of the press and was trying to explain
what had happened.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Looks, boys, look, I can only tell you what I know.
Wait of in wait now, look, I can only tell
you what I know.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
There's a lot about this.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
I don't know a lot I don't understand. Well, okay, okay, lieutenant. Now,
so McCray was opening the safe here when the Prowl.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Cowboys walk in on him.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Huh he turned around started shooting.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
The boys had to give it right back to him
and self defense.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
So McCrae is dead.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
Now what did the law want with him in the
first place.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
Well, a man named Joe Ramis was killed last night.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
He was murdered.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
Yeah, I know, Lieutenant, I wrote that yon myself.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Know what about it.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
I made a couple of interesting discoveries about this Joe
Raymas tonight. At first, the boys down at the Morgue
found twenty five thousand dollars hidden in the lining of
his overtow twenty five. This is big. I'm gonna fall
my paper a minute. You better wait until life finish. Second,
the identification papers on I'm were phony. He wasn't Joe Ramis.
We found this out after we checked up on a
dame where he found a picture of her in the wallet,
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a case of fine.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
The woman all right now.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
We picked her up, brought her down to the morgue.
When she recognized the body, she went all the pieces.
Told us about the twenty five thousand dollars bank loot. Nope,
his girlfriend told us he was double crossing his partner,
running out with the firm's dough. The twenty five grand
we found on him. Yeah, he was gonna skip last
night and the midnight playing for Mexico City. The girl
was going to meet him there later.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
Only at eight.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
O'clock last night, somebody bumped him off in that alley
m He had an appointment there there with a frozen
meat dealer named Lee. And the funny thing about it
was the girl said he was only keeping the appointment
to keep his partner from becoming suspicious. They always make
one error, Litt thought they He nearly always. In this case,
it was a fatal error. Even his girl thought he
made a getaway. She thought he was safe in Mexico
(26:59):
until she wreckedize his body at the morgue. You boys
certainly saw this one quickly.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
Oh, but we had a little luck, of course. One
of the boys recognized the picture we found in his pocket,
a nightclub singer fran Engele.
Speaker 6 (27:13):
Fran engles Hey. But she was Matt Vanion's girl, right.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
The dead man we thought was Joe raymis because of
his phony identification papers, turned out to be Matt Banion.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Lloyd McCrae's partner.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Banion was double crossing McCray.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
It looks like it and now McCrae.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
Yeah, yeah, But what I can't figure is why McCrae
started shooting when the boys in the Proud Car came
here to his office. We only wanted him to come
down to headquarters and pick up that twenty five thousand
dollars we found on Matt Banyon.
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