November 9, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is
unique among all mystery programs, because even when you know
who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at
the final curtain. In the Signal Oil Program, the Whistler Signal,
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the famous go Farther Gasoline invite you to sit back
and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
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 (01:13):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange Story.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Lady in Waiting.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Jean Collins's feelings didn't match the day at all.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
It was spring in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And the city had a way of catching the spirit
of such occasions. Jean entered a substantial looking officer paused
near a flight of stairs, her eyes examining the directory
until they came to rest on John Bradley, attorney at
Law room to awake. Jean went up the stairs, forcing herself,
determined to keep the appointment, even though she was more
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afraid than ever. When she opened the door, the secretary
ushered her into Bradley's office.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Oh well.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
You're missus King Collins.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Yes, I called sit down, Miss Colin. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
You would see nervous, just that I'm not sure you
can help me, mister Bradley, and no one else knows
what I'm about to carry, and.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
No one else will better I handle the case or not.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Does that make it easier?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (02:34):
Much, Well, it's quite simple in a way. Back ny
You see, I was keeping company with someone a number
of months ago. At the time, I thought he was
a very fine man. I wasn't in love with him,
but he was kind and thoughtful and in.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Love with me. I only tell you that till you understand.
I do understand well. Anyway, he wanted me to marry me.
He said we'd go away to travel around the world
for a few years. He kept talking about that. I'm
afraid but waiting for me to give him an answer,
but kept me here.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
It's not a case of n too unusual yet.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
In this common I haven't told you his name, his
Frank Hodds.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Me hotes not the one.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Believe me.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
I didn't know any more about that part of his
life than anyone else. He never told me, and to me,
to mister Daddy, he'd never guessed he was a terfect gentleman.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
I'd never never.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Twenty years didn't. Yes, I remember reading about it quite
a list of tadgers.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
You doubt his guilt is that.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
It want me to know, mister Bradleys, that isn't good.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I'm glad the evidence against him at the trial is
pretty conclusive.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
I want you to do something else. Maybe you won't
be able to. I'm not sure Franks might be stubbing
about it. No, he refused to see me. My name
never came up. As far as the rest of the
world knows, I never even knew him.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
The problem.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Every month in the mailbox at my apartment, I find
an envelope he'll return.
Speaker 8 (04:06):
To excerpt prop.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
You don't understand. I know that somehow Frank Hardison is
spending that money. I want it stopped. I haven't touched
the center, but I don't want to.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
But I thought if a lawyer talked to him, explain
to France that he's really doing me more harm than good.
You see, I I have a rather responsible position. Mister
Bradley and the people I work with every course.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Why don't you go home? I'll forget it. MS Commons,
I'll handle it. I'll drive up and see Hordison tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Thank you well? When will I know? I'll be terribly anxi.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
You will meet me here about four o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Oh ma, I'm sorry you see, I'm with a publicity
concern to dadis we have an important meeting a client
to my afternoon.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
We might leave me after hours a boostar cocktailer at
six o'clock. All right, and I let all the answers
to it.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So it's easier now, isn't the gene? Now that your
problem is being shared? And somehow you feel a sense
of confidence and Attorney John Bred Riding home in a cab,
you hope that it will go as simply as Bradley
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seems to anticipate. In front of the Oxford Arms, you're
suddenly aware that the tab is stopped, that the Oxford
Armed door man is smiling at you, waiting for you
to step out.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
You with us, Miss g Oh, I'm sorry, Dan, dreaming
again the your driver frankly, as.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
A fine spring day like this, if ging you should
leave that desk if yours can get outside, won't for
walk through the Golden Gate Park.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Nothing like that, being outs Daniel wonderful a.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
You sean Now it's scream No, I mean really all
I'm all right on.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
My fine by.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Do you think you should work like this game?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
It's all doors, doctor says.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
That's where I are to be, all right, just worried
about your glories.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Should be more like you can scream the way look
active the past few days I did. You've got things
on your gold mine, Dani.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Should be more like you to notice that. Now it's
just a business worries. And I think people be all
cleared up at Mars.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I touched to Ms Collins to no more worries, an
uninhibited future.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Oh, mister Babby, I'm so glad of whence that way?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
You're not drinking?
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Oh well, I really don't feel like it.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
I'm just happy the strength didn't give you any trouble.
Speaker 9 (07:11):
But he understood, Oh.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
He did perfectly. And you're right, Frank Hottes some things
like a nice guy.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yes, could not believe you should have done all those
other things.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
In my line, you should discover that most people have
many different sides.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Well, let's talk about you.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
You still have a problem, oh yourself. Why you've been
brooding about all this? Can I help you forget it somewhere?
Speaker 8 (07:34):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Oh good, start my dear steak dinner at rock O's Castle.
You can look down at the city and tell it
that Genie Collins isn't.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Going to worry anymore about anyway.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
I couldn't you should? Is this the service you provide
for all your.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Time, mister b No, you'll pay for it if you like.
I'll be your first charity. What do you mean all
that money that's accumulated? How does he know you want
it back?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
He hasn't much use for it where he is.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
He suggests that you deduct my fee and give the rest.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Of your favorite charity.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh and my fee includes.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
The take dinner. Say enough, then I'll drive you straight home.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
All right, fair enough, mister Boddy.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Well, hey, yuh, jame right to the door the body
you can l n see.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Oh joy, he's been very kind.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I do a tucher your favorite lay.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Huh, Absolutely, it's all right. You don't help it. Come
up the door man still on us when I see
you soon.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I don't know what yeah, get in trouble again right away,
will you.
Speaker 9 (08:54):
I'll handle it, idiot, good Mary, I'll try good enough,
well even miss.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
G d well, well, well we'll spring days, get the
live into the night. You're happy this week?
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Yeah, it's good night dance. Well wait a minute, did
you get something this week? No? Then yes? And then
I just want you to think I'm talking my nose
into other people's business. Except what do you ask you?
Se me? You're not really very well over again? No,
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d I I I just want to know if you
had some money, quite a bit of money. Is there
any doctor that could host you.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
This ged? They should be more alive, you.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Man, I'll not forget you do. I'll tell you did
a long time ago. I had all the care a
mon ad. I'll I'm just standing for the door. Now
wait in my face, Oh to guje Oh, I won't
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ever forgmit you good night.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
In the days that follow, you see more and more
of John Bradley, don't you, jeeves. There are evenings at
the pier, dancing, dining at the smart clubs down the peninsula.
When you find yourself becoming extremely fond of me, You
look forward to each meeting with increasing interest. Then one
evening you say good night to John on the lobby
of your apartment. There, go upstairs because you're about to
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open your apartment door.
Speaker 10 (10:55):
I'm going in with you, skipping inside, and don't holler.
I'm your favorite charity. One of the boys was up
to see Frank Harrison a few days ago, Frank curling,
you hadn't spent another money he sent you if you
were going to give it your favorite charity, Miss Collins
or what do you want? Oh, we'll we'll start off
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as you get your check, write out the full amount
of Frankie Hardison's little donations. You didn't know it, but
I was a partner of Frankie's Dan. I don't like
the way he's running our business. Or I'm changing things
a little first to check it, not asking him, telling you.
I'll tell you something else. You better forget your boyfriend
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John Bradley. The doubts crossed off your books. You mustn't
se him anymore.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
He's done nothing, not yet, but.
Speaker 10 (11:44):
He's a lawyer. You don't like Flayer. I like to
hanging around me. Well, Frank's boy thanks, yeah, yeah, he
didn't for twenty years.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Your people tell you're a leader in waiting anyway. That's
how it is the only way that's safe for me.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I tell you start.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
Joey starts, and like I said, I'm telling you, no
more lawyer, no more doing things anyway but mine.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
You'll go no close if you do.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
And I can't get back to you.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
And your friend John Bradley after taking child you a year.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
Yeah, hey, Jemmie, my pen the right that check craft
now your favorite charity.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Joey starts.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
For nine consecutive years now, Signal Oil Company has been
sponsoring the Whisker. That's a long time for a radio program,
yet short compared with the twenty one year's Signal has
served the West. However, just as the Whistler has grown
to be the most popular West Coast program in radial history,
Signal has grown too, grown from a small start in
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southern California into an organization now serving seven Pacific Coast
states from Canada to Mexico. Now, obviously, there must be
good reasons why so many motors have switched to Signal Gasoline.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
And there are.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
There's the good mileage, which has made Signal famous as
the go farther gasoline. There's the way Signal delivers that
good mileage by helping your engine run so efficiently you
save gasoline. Save with quick starting, Save with smooth pick up,
free of balking and hesitation. Save with full power that
gets you into high gear fast helps you stay there
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with a minimum of shifting on hills or in traffic.
But for the full story behind the growing switch to signal,
there's just one way to find out, an easy way,
a quick way. Try, Just try one tankful of the
famous go farther gasot Lady, how about it?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It vanished in an instant, didn't a genie, a hope
for a bright, clean future. It disappeared when your past
association with Frank Hardison came calling again, this time in
the person of Joey's stark. Joey, who says he was
Frank Hardson's partner, won't believe that you didn't know what
was going on, had no knowledge of the sort of
deals that sent Frank to prison for twenty years. More
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than that, Joey's Stark made you give him a check
for all the money Frank Hardison sent you, and he
insists that you stop seeing John Bradley. Joey's afraid of
lawyers afraid of anything that might put him where Frank
is so desperately afraid that he'd commit murder. You know that.
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That's why for the next three days you refuse to
see John Bradley. You leave words, you won't talk to him,
even on the telephone.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Yes, Miss Jean, this is Dan downstairs. He's calling me again.
That's mister Bradley. He won't take no fun answer.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
He'll have to I can't talk to him.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
The terrible part is the realization that you love John Bradley.
Isn't it, Jean, that you don't want to give him up. Later,
as you leave the apartment, you find something else. A
note downstairs in the mailbox orders from mister Joey Stark
to meet him tonight. You hurry downtown to your.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Office or Miss Collins.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Yes, Jimmy a client to see you, Miss Collins.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
He's waiting in your office.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Client. I wasn't expecting it.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
No gosh, he said he'd talk to you.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Insist that I'm going right in.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
I can't remember him. Well, thanks, Jimmy, I'll go see.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Hello, Jeane.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
John, you shouldn't have come here.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
I'm staying right here until you talk to me, Until
you tell me what's wrongs it do?
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Yeah, it's nothing, John.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Why have you refused to see me? Why aren't you
in when I called John? You even have the dorman
at your apartment making excuses when I know he's lying?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Jeane, it's something I've done.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
No, you, you haven't done anything.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Who has? What's it all about?
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Johnny? If I tell you, if I give you the
real reason, will you go away? Promise?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Tell me?
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Je r.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Hey, I'm the guy that said get in trouble. Remember
your favorite lawyer?
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Come on, No, someone called him. It's a man I
never saw before. He said he was Frank Hardison's partner. Oh,
you wouldn't believe I don't know about Frankie. Well, trust me,
I didn't want you mixed up in it anymore. It's
not you. I should have known about Frank, could have
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found out long ago.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Who is this man, Jean? Where is he?
Speaker 6 (17:20):
His name is Joey Stark. It's all I can tell you.
He spent words for me to meet him tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
No, you're not.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Oh, but I am. I have to know.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Meeting.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh you can't.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
He'd kill you, he said, So let me handle it.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Maybe it's just a bluff. No, I'll talk to him
like I did with Frank. Please, Jeane, I'll be careful.
Tell me where he was supposed to meet him.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
There's a very demanding note. Have it my first. It's
all there, hotel on Ellis.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
When you get through here, go home, wait for me
to call. Don't open the door or talk to anyone. Please,
I'll handle it.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Just wait until I call.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
The waiting isn't easy, is it not? When you realize
what might happen. The afternoon at the office drags on
almost endlessly. You catch a hurried dinner on the way home,
scarcely touching the food. Then home to an apartment that
seems to turn into a prison cell, to pace it nervously,
replacing your steps, staring at the telephone. About nine o'clock
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it's almost too much to bear any longer.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
And then.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yes, John, are you all right? Worry about you go
to the hotel?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yes, you.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Better think over. I don't think I should everything over.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Nothing to worry about.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
I'll come buy in the morning before.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You go to work.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Step away. In the meantime, Yes, no matter what you
might here, remember there's nothing to worry.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
About, nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Now, as the receiver clicks in your ear. You wonder
what he means by not now, But there's no use
trying to guess, Jeanie. Nothing to do but wait until morning,
you spending almost sleepless night, and then rush to the
door to greet him as the buzzer sounds.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Oh, John, I've been Stock.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Who you Kennon?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
William Thomastide and that side and Laton? Maybe step in
the spelling homicide.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
There's some things we don't understand. The spelling. When we
talk it of the m h, it won't be necessary.
I'll come right to the point of spelling. Did you
write this check to Joey Stock?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Yes, yes I did.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
We bounded on the body of Joey's Stock in your body.
That's fine.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
He was found late last night, brought into the morgue.
Took a little while to look you up, and naturally
we're interested in learning the connection between you and this man.
That's quite a sum.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Please, I don't know anything about it. Of course I
wrote the chapter.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
But what did you go to Joey's Stocks hotel at
any time last night? You didn't leave your apartment here?
I suppose no I.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Didn't go there. I tell you I was supposed to,
but something happening I changed my mind.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Lazy the doorman on duty, get him and bring him
up here. We'll see if he's got a memory. Now, Uh,
Miss Dollar, why didn't you tell me what it's all about? Blackmail? S?
Speaker 9 (20:45):
No, I tell you what h.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Somebody, whoever it is, I'll send them away.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Oh I wouldn't do that, Miss Collins. We'll both see
who it is. Quite insistent. Go ahead open the door, John.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
I can't see you now. You can drag me to
the office some other.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Time, Johnny, Bradley, Tennant Williams.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Judy lost little time in calling a lawyer, Miss Collins
a good one too, real coming, good boy, jan Jean?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
How long you dinner? What have you told him? I
worked first?
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Bradley, You know that she told me all I want
to know, namely that this is her check check What
about it?
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Johnny found it on Joey Stark's body.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Say you folks talk real familiar about Joey Stark.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You know him too, Brady.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Maybe why shouldn't he have Miss Collis check?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
She gave it to him as a favor for somebody?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Really?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Who what difference. Does it make none if she didn't
leave this apartment last night? And we'll know that in
a minute. Uh you find that door man Lacy?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
In here, Dan, what is all this?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Missus?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Genius is something.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I'll ask the questions.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
If you don't mind, then we're trying to find out
if miss Collins went to a certain address last night.
It's to her advantage for you to tell the truth.
Did you notice I leave the building around nine o'clock?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Like she said?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I'm asking him so.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Well, did she?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Well?
Speaker 8 (22:13):
Miss Collins never left the building hall last night.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I worked very late, and I have a sener i'd
satisfy you.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I am not trying to fasten this thing on anyone, Bradley.
I just want the truth and just to well Miss Collins.
If I don't doubt you and your witness, I think
a jury might What do you mean, Dan Rodgers? Here,
I have a very good memory, let me see. Convicted
of perjury in nineteen twenty nine, went to day parole
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for good behavior. Brought back on the same charge in
nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
S five years A nice reliable with.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Me in riding up here in the elevator, he tells
me what a kind young lady, Miss Collins is offer
the money for medical care.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
He just sound prejudiced. Enough, mister Bradley, what are you
going to do? Same thing you do in my position,
I'm arresting your clients, Miss Collins for murder. Wait a minute, John,
you've got your murderer Williams. But it isn't Miss Collins.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I did it. Why you heard me?
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I did it.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I killed him.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
If you don't believe it, pick up the cab driver
who told me over the last night. Out of all
the cabs and sands, number was forty two eleven. I
made a note of it. Get him he remember me.
We had trouble finding Stock's address.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You know what this means, ND.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I know what it means.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
A baby has a way of letting you know when
it's time to change. Too bad, your car hasn't a
way of letting you know when it's time to change oil.
Chances are most cars would be saying right now, time
to drain out ol, sludgy worn out winter oil. Time
to change to signal premium signal premium, heavy duty signal premium.
(24:12):
Now there's the oil that really protect your car. This
proved and improved heavy duty signal oil does more, much
more than just lubricate. In addition, Signal Premium motor oil cools, cleans, cushions, seals,
and protects. Result tests under all types of driving conditions proved.
New Signal Premium motor oil reduces engine where fifty percent.
(24:35):
Your engine keeps its light, new pep and power twice
as long. So since it's time to change this time,
give your car a change for the better. Change to
new heavy duty signal Premium motor oil. At a signal
station where you see that sign outside time to change,
time to chase.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
It's happened. Hasn't a gene all that you feared from
that very first day when you decided that someone might
be able to help you in your problem with Frank Hardison.
And there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
It's too late.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It was too late the moment you let John Bradley
talk you into breaking that appointment with Joey Stock. You're
sure that John went there murdered Stark for you admitted
if to Lieutenant Williams to save And now they're about
to prove his story. Less than an hour later, as
you all wait in your apartment, they have the cab
driver who took John Bradley to Stark's hotel. One glance
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and he makes the identification. Yep, I drove him to
the hotel about nine pm.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
That's right, John.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Why didn't he did you wait while he went up
to stock room driving?
Speaker 8 (25:50):
Nope, he went up though.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I saw him walk through the lobby and start up
the stairs.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
I picked up another fair and drove off. I see
at all, linament.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Yeah you can go you two day. M Wait, what's manner?
Speaker 11 (26:04):
My other affair? The fair I brought back it was him, Dan,
sure your man here? He come walking out of the hotels.
Uster Bradley went in, passed him. How about it, Dan,
I never forget a face, Lieutenant.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
So that said Bradley Stark was dead when you got there,
wasn't it? You lied because you thought them miss Colin.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Yes, yes, that's the way it was.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I want to argue the point.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Then I wouldn't do much good.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
I guess then you killed him.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Wait a minute, Jean, he shouldn't talk in front of
the place.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Dan, let me hang.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Oh, don't worry about it.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
So they put me on trial and Joey did not
stay out too long.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Don't tell me what how did you even know about
Joey Stock?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (26:45):
I knew about a lot of things, Miss, And it
wasn't just for you.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
It was for Frank.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Frank.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Frank Hardison put me on that door downstairs the day
you moved in here right that the envelope of the
money stop leaving them and whatever Frank said.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
Dan, you once said that someone else paid some medical
expenses for you? Was it Frank Hartesy, Yes, Miss Jean's Frank.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
So that's why this uh, Joey Stark was no friend
of Frank's who was just cheap with blackmailing Miss Jean.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
But Dan to kill a man just to pay It
wasn't only.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
That, mister Bradley, Lieutenant, he'll be able to show you
want to chase on all those eightieses of mine, you'll
find one of them was Hardison. You see, Frank Harrison
is my boy. He asked me to protect Miss Jeans.
He was the only fine thing that ever happened to him.
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which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
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Speaker 3 (01:18):
Lady in Waiting.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Jean Collins's feelings didn't match the day at all.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
It was spring in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
And the city had a way of catching the spirit
of such occasions. Jean entered a substantial looking officer paused
near a flight of stairs, her eyes examining the directory
until they came to rest on John Bradley, attorney at
Law room to awake. Jean went up the stairs, forcing herself,
determined to keep the appointment, even though she was more
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afraid than ever. When she opened the door, the secretary
ushered her into Bradley's office.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Oh well.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
You're missus King Collins.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Yes, I called sit down, Miss Colin. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
You would see nervous, just that I'm not sure you
can help me, mister Bradley, and no one else knows
what I'm about to carry, and.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
No one else will better I handle the case or not.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Does that make it easier?
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (02:34):
Much, Well, it's quite simple in a way. Back ny
You see, I was keeping company with someone a number
of months ago. At the time, I thought he was
a very fine man. I wasn't in love with him,
but he was kind and thoughtful and in.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
Love with me. I only tell you that till you understand.
I do understand well. Anyway, he wanted me to marry me.
He said we'd go away to travel around the world
for a few years. He kept talking about that. I'm
afraid but waiting for me to give him an answer,
but kept me here.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
It's not a case of n too unusual yet.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
In this common I haven't told you his name, his
Frank Hodds.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Me hotes not the one.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Believe me.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
I didn't know any more about that part of his
life than anyone else. He never told me, and to me,
to mister Daddy, he'd never guessed he was a terfect gentleman.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
I'd never never.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
Twenty years didn't. Yes, I remember reading about it quite
a list of tadgers.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
You doubt his guilt is that.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
It want me to know, mister Bradleys, that isn't good.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
I'm glad the evidence against him at the trial is
pretty conclusive.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
I want you to do something else. Maybe you won't
be able to. I'm not sure Franks might be stubbing
about it. No, he refused to see me. My name
never came up. As far as the rest of the
world knows, I never even knew him.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
The problem.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Every month in the mailbox at my apartment, I find
an envelope he'll return.
Speaker 8 (04:06):
To excerpt prop.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
You don't understand. I know that somehow Frank Hardison is
spending that money. I want it stopped. I haven't touched
the center, but I don't want to.
Speaker 7 (04:18):
But I thought if a lawyer talked to him, explain
to France that he's really doing me more harm than good.
You see, I I have a rather responsible position. Mister
Bradley and the people I work with every course.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Why don't you go home? I'll forget it. MS Commons,
I'll handle it. I'll drive up and see Hordison tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
Thank you well? When will I know? I'll be terribly anxi.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
You will meet me here about four o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Oh ma, I'm sorry you see, I'm with a publicity
concern to dadis we have an important meeting a client
to my afternoon.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
We might leave me after hours a boostar cocktailer at
six o'clock. All right, and I let all the answers
to it.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
I hope.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So it's easier now, isn't the gene? Now that your
problem is being shared? And somehow you feel a sense
of confidence and Attorney John Bred Riding home in a cab,
you hope that it will go as simply as Bradley
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seems to anticipate. In front of the Oxford Arms, you're
suddenly aware that the tab is stopped, that the Oxford
Armed door man is smiling at you, waiting for you
to step out.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
You with us, Miss g Oh, I'm sorry, Dan, dreaming
again the your driver frankly, as.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
A fine spring day like this, if ging you should
leave that desk if yours can get outside, won't for
walk through the Golden Gate Park.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Nothing like that, being outs Daniel wonderful a.
Speaker 8 (06:03):
You sean Now it's scream No, I mean really all
I'm all right on.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
My fine by.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Do you think you should work like this game?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
It's all doors, doctor says.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
That's where I are to be, all right, just worried
about your glories.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
Should be more like you can scream the way look
active the past few days I did. You've got things
on your gold mine, Dani.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Should be more like you to notice that. Now it's
just a business worries. And I think people be all
cleared up at Mars.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
I touched to Ms Collins to no more worries, an
uninhibited future.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Oh, mister Babby, I'm so glad of whence that way?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
You're not drinking?
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Oh well, I really don't feel like it.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
I'm just happy the strength didn't give you any trouble.
Speaker 9 (07:11):
But he understood, Oh.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
He did perfectly. And you're right, Frank Hottes some things
like a nice guy.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Yes, could not believe you should have done all those
other things.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
In my line, you should discover that most people have
many different sides.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Well, let's talk about you.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
You still have a problem, oh yourself. Why you've been
brooding about all this? Can I help you forget it somewhere?
Speaker 8 (07:34):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Oh good, start my dear steak dinner at rock O's Castle.
You can look down at the city and tell it
that Genie Collins isn't.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Going to worry anymore about anyway.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
I couldn't you should? Is this the service you provide
for all your.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Time, mister b No, you'll pay for it if you like.
I'll be your first charity. What do you mean all
that money that's accumulated? How does he know you want
it back?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
He hasn't much use for it where he is.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
He suggests that you deduct my fee and give the rest.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Of your favorite charity.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh and my fee includes.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
The take dinner. Say enough, then I'll drive you straight home.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
All right, fair enough, mister Boddy.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Well, hey, yuh, jame right to the door the body
you can l n see.
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Oh joy, he's been very kind.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I do a tucher your favorite lay.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Huh, Absolutely, it's all right. You don't help it. Come
up the door man still on us when I see
you soon.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
I don't know what yeah, get in trouble again right away,
will you.
Speaker 9 (08:54):
I'll handle it, idiot, good Mary, I'll try good enough,
well even miss.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
G d well, well, well we'll spring days, get the
live into the night. You're happy this week?
Speaker 6 (09:14):
Yeah, it's good night dance. Well wait a minute, did
you get something this week? No? Then yes? And then
I just want you to think I'm talking my nose
into other people's business. Except what do you ask you?
Se me? You're not really very well over again? No,
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d I I I just want to know if you
had some money, quite a bit of money. Is there
any doctor that could host you.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
This ged? They should be more alive, you.
Speaker 8 (09:50):
Man, I'll not forget you do. I'll tell you did
a long time ago. I had all the care a
mon ad. I'll I'm just standing for the door. Now
wait in my face, Oh to guje Oh, I won't
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ever forgmit you good night.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
In the days that follow, you see more and more
of John Bradley, don't you, jeeves. There are evenings at
the pier, dancing, dining at the smart clubs down the peninsula.
When you find yourself becoming extremely fond of me, You
look forward to each meeting with increasing interest. Then one
evening you say good night to John on the lobby
of your apartment. There, go upstairs because you're about to
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open your apartment door.
Speaker 10 (10:55):
I'm going in with you, skipping inside, and don't holler.
I'm your favorite charity. One of the boys was up
to see Frank Harrison a few days ago, Frank curling,
you hadn't spent another money he sent you if you
were going to give it your favorite charity, Miss Collins
or what do you want? Oh, we'll we'll start off
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as you get your check, write out the full amount
of Frankie Hardison's little donations. You didn't know it, but
I was a partner of Frankie's Dan. I don't like
the way he's running our business. Or I'm changing things
a little first to check it, not asking him, telling you.
I'll tell you something else. You better forget your boyfriend
(11:39):
John Bradley. The doubts crossed off your books. You mustn't
se him anymore.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
He's done nothing, not yet, but.
Speaker 10 (11:44):
He's a lawyer. You don't like Flayer. I like to
hanging around me. Well, Frank's boy thanks, yeah, yeah, he
didn't for twenty years.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Your people tell you're a leader in waiting anyway. That's
how it is the only way that's safe for me.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I tell you start.
Speaker 10 (12:06):
Joey starts, and like I said, I'm telling you, no
more lawyer, no more doing things anyway but mine.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
You'll go no close if you do.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
And I can't get back to you.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
And your friend John Bradley after taking child you a year.
Speaker 10 (12:28):
Yeah, hey, Jemmie, my pen the right that check craft
now your favorite charity.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Joey starts.
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Speaker 2 (14:25):
It vanished in an instant, didn't a genie, a hope
for a bright, clean future. It disappeared when your past
association with Frank Hardison came calling again, this time in
the person of Joey's stark. Joey, who says he was
Frank Hardson's partner, won't believe that you didn't know what
was going on, had no knowledge of the sort of
deals that sent Frank to prison for twenty years. More
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than that, Joey's Stark made you give him a check
for all the money Frank Hardison sent you, and he
insists that you stop seeing John Bradley. Joey's afraid of
lawyers afraid of anything that might put him where Frank
is so desperately afraid that he'd commit murder. You know that.
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That's why for the next three days you refuse to
see John Bradley. You leave words, you won't talk to him,
even on the telephone.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Yes, Miss Jean, this is Dan downstairs. He's calling me again.
That's mister Bradley. He won't take no fun answer.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
He'll have to I can't talk to him.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
The terrible part is the realization that you love John Bradley.
Isn't it, Jean, that you don't want to give him up. Later,
as you leave the apartment, you find something else. A
note downstairs in the mailbox orders from mister Joey Stark
to meet him tonight. You hurry downtown to your.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Office or Miss Collins.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Yes, Jimmy a client to see you, Miss Collins.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
He's waiting in your office.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Client. I wasn't expecting it.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
No gosh, he said he'd talk to you.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
Insist that I'm going right in.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
I can't remember him. Well, thanks, Jimmy, I'll go see.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Hello, Jeane.
Speaker 6 (16:11):
John, you shouldn't have come here.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
I'm staying right here until you talk to me, Until
you tell me what's wrongs it do?
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Yeah, it's nothing, John.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Why have you refused to see me? Why aren't you
in when I called John? You even have the dorman
at your apartment making excuses when I know he's lying?
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Jeane, it's something I've done.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
No, you, you haven't done anything.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Who has? What's it all about?
Speaker 6 (16:38):
Johnny? If I tell you, if I give you the
real reason, will you go away? Promise?
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Tell me?
Speaker 10 (16:42):
Je r.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Hey, I'm the guy that said get in trouble. Remember
your favorite lawyer?
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Come on, No, someone called him. It's a man I
never saw before. He said he was Frank Hardison's partner. Oh,
you wouldn't believe I don't know about Frankie. Well, trust me,
I didn't want you mixed up in it anymore. It's
not you. I should have known about Frank, could have
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found out long ago.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Who is this man, Jean? Where is he?
Speaker 6 (17:20):
His name is Joey Stark. It's all I can tell you.
He spent words for me to meet him tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
No, you're not.
Speaker 6 (17:25):
Oh, but I am. I have to know.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Meeting.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh you can't.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
He'd kill you, he said, So let me handle it.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Maybe it's just a bluff. No, I'll talk to him
like I did with Frank. Please, Jeane, I'll be careful.
Tell me where he was supposed to meet him.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
There's a very demanding note. Have it my first. It's
all there, hotel on Ellis.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
When you get through here, go home, wait for me
to call. Don't open the door or talk to anyone. Please,
I'll handle it.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Just wait until I call.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
The waiting isn't easy, is it not? When you realize
what might happen. The afternoon at the office drags on
almost endlessly. You catch a hurried dinner on the way home,
scarcely touching the food. Then home to an apartment that
seems to turn into a prison cell, to pace it nervously,
replacing your steps, staring at the telephone. About nine o'clock
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it's almost too much to bear any longer.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
And then.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yes, John, are you all right? Worry about you go
to the hotel?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yes, you.
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Better think over. I don't think I should everything over.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Nothing to worry about.
Speaker 8 (18:56):
I'll come buy in the morning before.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
You go to work.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
Step away. In the meantime, Yes, no matter what you
might here, remember there's nothing to worry.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
About, nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Now, as the receiver clicks in your ear. You wonder
what he means by not now, But there's no use
trying to guess, Jeanie. Nothing to do but wait until morning,
you spending almost sleepless night, and then rush to the
door to greet him as the buzzer sounds.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Oh, John, I've been Stock.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Who you Kennon?
Speaker 5 (19:34):
William Thomastide and that side and Laton? Maybe step in
the spelling homicide.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
There's some things we don't understand. The spelling. When we
talk it of the m h, it won't be necessary.
I'll come right to the point of spelling. Did you
write this check to Joey Stock?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Yes, yes I did.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (19:57):
We bounded on the body of Joey's Stock in your body.
That's fine.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
He was found late last night, brought into the morgue.
Took a little while to look you up, and naturally
we're interested in learning the connection between you and this man.
That's quite a sum.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
Please, I don't know anything about it. Of course I
wrote the chapter.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
But what did you go to Joey's Stocks hotel at
any time last night? You didn't leave your apartment here?
I suppose no I.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Didn't go there. I tell you I was supposed to,
but something happening I changed my mind.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Lazy the doorman on duty, get him and bring him
up here. We'll see if he's got a memory. Now, Uh,
Miss Dollar, why didn't you tell me what it's all about? Blackmail? S?
Speaker 9 (20:45):
No, I tell you what h.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Somebody, whoever it is, I'll send them away.
Speaker 5 (20:53):
Oh I wouldn't do that, Miss Collins. We'll both see
who it is. Quite insistent. Go ahead open the door, John.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
I can't see you now. You can drag me to
the office some other.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
Time, Johnny, Bradley, Tennant Williams.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Judy lost little time in calling a lawyer, Miss Collins
a good one too, real coming, good boy, jan Jean?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
How long you dinner? What have you told him? I
worked first?
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Bradley, You know that she told me all I want
to know, namely that this is her check check What
about it?
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Johnny found it on Joey Stark's body.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Say you folks talk real familiar about Joey Stark.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
You know him too, Brady.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Maybe why shouldn't he have Miss Collis check?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
She gave it to him as a favor for somebody?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Really?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Who what difference. Does it make none if she didn't
leave this apartment last night? And we'll know that in
a minute. Uh you find that door man Lacy?
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (21:47):
In here, Dan, what is all this?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Missus?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Genius is something.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I'll ask the questions.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
If you don't mind, then we're trying to find out
if miss Collins went to a certain address last night.
It's to her advantage for you to tell the truth.
Did you notice I leave the building around nine o'clock?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Like she said?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I'm asking him so.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Well, did she?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Well?
Speaker 8 (22:13):
Miss Collins never left the building hall last night.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
I worked very late, and I have a sener i'd
satisfy you.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I am not trying to fasten this thing on anyone, Bradley.
I just want the truth and just to well Miss Collins.
If I don't doubt you and your witness, I think
a jury might What do you mean, Dan Rodgers? Here,
I have a very good memory, let me see. Convicted
of perjury in nineteen twenty nine, went to day parole
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for good behavior. Brought back on the same charge in
nineteen thirty two.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
S five years A nice reliable with.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Me in riding up here in the elevator, he tells
me what a kind young lady, Miss Collins is offer
the money for medical care.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
He just sound prejudiced. Enough, mister Bradley, what are you
going to do? Same thing you do in my position,
I'm arresting your clients, Miss Collins for murder. Wait a minute, John,
you've got your murderer Williams. But it isn't Miss Collins.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I did it. Why you heard me?
Speaker 5 (23:14):
I did it.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
I killed him.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
If you don't believe it, pick up the cab driver
who told me over the last night. Out of all
the cabs and sands, number was forty two eleven. I
made a note of it. Get him he remember me.
We had trouble finding Stock's address.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You know what this means, ND.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
I know what it means.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
A baby has a way of letting you know when
it's time to change. Too bad, your car hasn't a
way of letting you know when it's time to change oil.
Chances are most cars would be saying right now, time
to drain out ol, sludgy worn out winter oil. Time
to change to signal premium signal premium, heavy duty signal premium.
(24:12):
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station where you see that sign outside time to change,
time to chase.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
It's happened. Hasn't a gene all that you feared from
that very first day when you decided that someone might
be able to help you in your problem with Frank Hardison.
And there's nothing you can do.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
It's too late.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It was too late the moment you let John Bradley
talk you into breaking that appointment with Joey Stock. You're
sure that John went there murdered Stark for you admitted
if to Lieutenant Williams to save And now they're about
to prove his story. Less than an hour later, as
you all wait in your apartment, they have the cab
driver who took John Bradley to Stark's hotel. One glance
(25:40):
and he makes the identification. Yep, I drove him to
the hotel about nine pm.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
That's right, John.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Why didn't he did you wait while he went up
to stock room driving?
Speaker 8 (25:50):
Nope, he went up though.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I saw him walk through the lobby and start up
the stairs.
Speaker 5 (25:54):
I picked up another fair and drove off. I see
at all, linament.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Yeah you can go you two day. M Wait, what's manner?
Speaker 11 (26:04):
My other affair? The fair I brought back it was him, Dan,
sure your man here? He come walking out of the hotels.
Uster Bradley went in, passed him. How about it, Dan,
I never forget a face, Lieutenant.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
So that said Bradley Stark was dead when you got there,
wasn't it? You lied because you thought them miss Colin.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Yes, yes, that's the way it was.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I want to argue the point.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Then I wouldn't do much good.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
I guess then you killed him.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Wait a minute, Jean, he shouldn't talk in front of
the place.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Dan, let me hang.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Oh, don't worry about it.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
So they put me on trial and Joey did not
stay out too long.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Don't tell me what how did you even know about
Joey Stock?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (26:45):
I knew about a lot of things, Miss, And it
wasn't just for you.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
It was for Frank.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Frank.
Speaker 8 (26:54):
Frank Hardison put me on that door downstairs the day
you moved in here right that the envelope of the
money stop leaving them and whatever Frank said.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
Dan, you once said that someone else paid some medical
expenses for you? Was it Frank Hartesy, Yes, Miss Jean's Frank.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
So that's why this uh, Joey Stark was no friend
of Frank's who was just cheap with blackmailing Miss Jean.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
But Dan to kill a man just to pay It
wasn't only.
Speaker 8 (27:25):
That, mister Bradley, Lieutenant, he'll be able to show you
want to chase on all those eightieses of mine, you'll
find one of them was Hardison. You see, Frank Harrison
is my boy. He asked me to protect Miss Jeans.
He was the only fine thing that ever happened to him.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program.
The whistler each Sunday night at this same time meantime
Signal Oil Company and the friendly independent dealers who help
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(28:26):
and avoid taking chances, you may even save a life,
possibly your own. Featured in Tonight's story where Bill Foreman
is the Whistler, Mary Jane craw John Stephenson, Jack Moyles,
Victor Rodman, ed Mac and Burne Surrey. The Whistler was
(28:50):
produced and directed by George w Allen, with story by
Joel Malone, music by Wilbur Hands, and was transmitted overseas
by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The Whistler is entirely fictional,
and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are also fictional.
Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons living or
dead is purely coincidental.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Remember to tune in.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
At the same time next Sunday when the Signal Oil
Company will bring you another strange story by the Whistler.
Marvin Miller speaking for the Signal Oil Company. Stay tuned
now for our Miss Brooks starring Eve Ardens, which follows
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