August 11, 2025 • 29 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is
unique among all mystery programs, because even when you know
who's 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 (01:15):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange
story men hunt.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
For over an hour, the man in the trench coat
had been standing at the window of the penthouse atop
the Chase Weatherley Apartment building, staring down into the rain
swept street below the panic.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
The fear was gone now and his mind was functioning smoothly, efficiently.
The situation was no longer completely hopeless because out of
the nightmare a solution had emerged, a bold, dangerous solution,
a fantastic plan really, but it could work, and for
him there was no choice. He had to take this
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one chance for surviving his own survival. Finally, the man
turned hurried across the room, stepped out into the corridor,
closed the door behind him with a gloved hand, and
walked to the elevator. Riding down to the lobby, he
scarcely heard the words of the operator. His thoughts were
concerned only with the plan He was soon de set
into motion. You know what, his big gamble was almost underway.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah, mister Stevens, we should have been having lousy weather
for June last month. Wasn't anything of brag about either,
You understand, mister Stevens. That don't bother mena in the weather. Holy,
mister Hotchkiss, he does what did you say?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
That name?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Mister Hotchkiss? The gent and four h three? You know
who he is?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Oh? Yes, yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Always he keeps snagging me about the weather. So this
is California?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Every time I see him he gives it to me.
So this is California. Huh? So why don't he go
back to Florida? Someday? I'm gonna tell him off. I'm
gonna tell him good I'm gonna good night. D name oh,
oh yeah, good night, Good night, mister Stevens.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You hurry across the lobby, and as you reach the
entrance and step out into the street, you turn see
the elevator operator settle down in a chair behind the
lobby desk, spread open the evening newspaper. It's only a
matter of time now, isn't it, mister Stephens, before he
learns your secret, A secret that may cost your life.
But it's too late to turn back.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
A block away, on a quiet side street, you slip
out of the broad shouldered, padded trench coat, toss it
into the luggage compartment of your car.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You remove the heavy, horn.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Rimmed glasses you've been wearing.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Then you drive.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Across town to your own apartment. The card beside your
door reads mister and missus Clifford Graham Cham your houseboy
greet you as you step into the hall and close
the door behind you.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Ah, good evening, mister Graham.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Hello chan you have didn't I get missa gym?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
No, Missus Graham around?
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Oh yes, Missus Graham waiting.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Yes, dear a late well, I I ran into an
old friend Alma, had a few drinks.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
We do with the Ellisons at nine, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
The Ellisons go. God, didn't she completely slipped my mind.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Look, you have a headache.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
At least that's what I'm supposed to tell the Ellisons.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
You don't mind, do you?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
No? I suppose not. Of course, you know.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
I'm not too keen on going over there myself, but.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Really one of us should go.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yes, I know, I know.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
I owe it to Eleanor, after.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
All, she's been so sweet.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Oh, Clifford, have you seen tonight's paper? No society page,
Darling a photograph taken at a polo matches Saturday. We're
in so with the fallen Madge. Eleanor.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
She called me about it this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
It was such a surprise. I had no idea the
photograph had been.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Taken it you No, No, I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Alma, he's not.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Very flattering of you.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
Really, that's not good of me, I thought, quite a
good likeness.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
The paper's there on the living room table. Quissy, all right, Almah, I.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Really should be getting dressed. Sure you won't change your
mind about going to the Elysis.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
No, no, you run along.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You walk into the living room, pick up the newspaper
and stare at the photograph again. Alma's right, isn't she Cliff.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
It isn't a good likeness of you, yet it's good.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Enough for Danny the elevator operator at the Chase, Weatherley,
and mister Hotchkiss. You're certain they'll see it identify you
as the man they know of Stevens. You wait until
your wife, Alma is gone, then you hurry downstairs to
your car, and fifteen minutes later you'll make a key
move in the dangerous plan you've evolved. You're at police
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headquarters telling your story to Lieutenant Powell. You see, Lieutenant,
I received a phone call this afternoon at my office.
I'm with the Pacific Wholesale Drug Company, a general manager.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
My wife owns the firm, say her father. Go on,
mister Graham, Well, the call was from a woman. She
said her name was Julie Thompson, that she had some
information for me, and just what was this information? She
said someone was going to blackmail me. Apparently she was
supposed to take part in the scheme somehow, but she
must have changed her mind decided she might have no
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part of it. I see, and I'm supposed to meet
her in the park tomorrow morning. The north entrance she's
to explain everything to.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Me, and naturally she expects to be paid for the
tipper or naturally. All right, mister Graham, I'll have a
couple of my men there at the park in the morning.
We'll take her up when she contacts you.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Thank you, Lieutenant.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
By the way, did she name you would be blackmailer?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yes she did.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
The man's name is Stevens. It's done, isn't it. Cliff.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You've set your bold plan in the motion. It's a
big chance you've take a long shot, but you've taken it,
and now there's nothing to do but wait early the
following morning, as you are getting dressed to keep your
appointment at the park.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Us excuse mister Graham.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Yes what chan?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Telephone boys, Lieutenant Power?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Oh all right, Chan, thanks, yes, Lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
You won't have to keep that appointment in the park
after all. Mister Graham, what do you mean we've already
found Julie Thompson.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I'm calling from her place.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Now better come right over, of course, Lieutenant, where are
you the Chase Worthy penthouse. Julie Thompson's been murdered.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
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Speaker 5 (08:47):
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Speaker 1 (08:48):
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service station. Yes, cliff Julie Thompson is dead.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You killed her, didn't you, Because she'd seen your photograph
in the newspaper, found out that you were really Clifford Graham,
wealthy socialite, that Fred Stevens was just a name you'd
used with her. She was going to blackmail you. In
a moment of blind rage, you lashed out with your
fists and as she fell, her head struck. The edge
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of the desk was all over in an instant, wasn't
it and you realized that you were trapped. The police
would soon be looking for the man known as Stevens,
and the the newspaper photographed cliff the elevator operator would
certainly see it. Mister Hotchkiss too, and they'd identify you,
Clifford Graham, as the mysterious mister Stevens. And then suddenly
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an idea hits you, a big gamble, but you decided
to take it. Now your bold plan is in full motion,
and you're on your way to the dead woman's penthouse
at the Chase Weatherley, as the police lieutenant requested. And
when you arrive, an officer leads you through the living
room crowded with men from homicide, and takes you out
to the sun deck where Lieutenant Powell is waiting last
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night's newspaper in his hand.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Sit down, mister Graham, Thank you, lieutenant. You've seen this
I suppose, oh yes, as it.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Was taken up the polo matches. It's not a very
good likeness. I'm afraid a sergeant bring resin, will you right? Lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Elevator operator here brought this photograph for you to my
attention this morning. Mister Graham, Oh m hm, says it
looks a lot like Stevens.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
But that's what he says. You ought to know Stevens
visited Miss Thompson regularly. Here you mean that you no, no, really, lieutenant,
that's ridiculous, is he? Of course, I've never set foot
in this building before. I'll look here, lieutenant. Are you serious?
I am not in the habit of being funny, mister Graham. Lieutenant,
this is actually fantastic. Let's see what Rizzo has to
say about it.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Here's a Rizzo, sir, I what can I do for you?
Lieutenant Rizzio.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
This is mister Graham.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Oh yeah, stand up, will you, mister.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Graham, Now take a look at him, Razil, take a
very good look. It's come, hasn't it, clar the moment
you've been expecting, brought face to face with Danny, the
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elevator operator, and you are certain he'll identify you as Stevens.
A full minute he stands there staring at you, and
then a strange expression spread slowly over his face.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Well, Rizzo, no, now, Lieutenant, this isn't mister Stevens. You're sure,
I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
What about this picture in the newspaper.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Ah, here's a resemblance, all right, but this man here,
mister Graham, Yeah, mister Graham, he's not mister Stevens.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You're shocked, aren't you, Cliff. You were certain Danny would
positively identify you as mister Stevens, and you were prepared
to fight the situation from there. But now Danny Rizzo
has said no, definitely no, that you are not Stevens.
Puzzles you, doesn't it, Cliff. You wonder if you've really
fooled Danny or if he's up to something. After he's gone,
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there are more questions by the lieutenant, and then finally
someone else is brought to the Sunday.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Sit down, mister hutch Kiss. Oh, thank you, thank you,
return mister Hotchkiss. This is mister Graham.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Oh well, how do you do mister?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Something wrong?
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Well, did you see miss Graham?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (13:13):
But he he looks like Stevens. Well, yes, yes, he
did something like Stevens. Yes something, Well, let me look
at him more closely. Yes, there is a resemblance, all right,
but I don't know. I remember Stevens as different somehow.
Of course I want to saw Stevens a couple of times.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
You ever speak to him?
Speaker 10 (13:31):
No, no, I never did I see.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Did miss Thompson ever mention Stevens to you?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yes? Yes she did. Let me see.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
There was several months ago she had a few friends
in one night for cocktails. She'd been kind enough to
invite me. What you have to say about him? Well,
that was rather strange. I don't know why she picked
on me told me what she did. I suppose it
was on her mind she had to tell somebody. Well, anyway,
we were standing out here, and all of a sudden
she just started talking about him. They She and Stevens
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had been married married on New Orleans nineteen forty. That's
where she met him only lasted a few months. He
took what money she had and walked out on her.
She hadn't seen him again in all those years. Go on, well, then,
let me see now, I suppose it was a week later.
That would be about two months ago. I ran into
Miss Thompson downstairs in the lobby. She told me she
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just bumped into Stephen's on the street that afternoon. She
seemed well, she seemed very happy. And you say she
met him again about two months ago.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Yes, that's right, Lieutenant. And after that this Stevens started
coming around. Huh.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
Yes, I saw him several times in the elevator, once
or twice with Miss Thompson. But I'd say that Stevens
was bigger, heavier than mister Graham here. And oh when
Stephens wore glasses to the heavy horn, rim kind I see, Lieutenant, Yes,
Sergeant Da on the phone.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
All right, Well, I guess that's all for now, mister Hotchkiss, thanks, yes, of.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Course, Lieutenant, of course.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
And mister Graham, if you don't mind, i'd like to
have you stick around here for a while.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
All right, Lieutenant, you're right back.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
The relief pours over your cliff, surge us through.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Your mind and body. Even though you know.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
As you walk out of there a half hour later
that you're far from in the clear, you apparently convinced
mister Hotchkiss that there's still a puzzling attitude of Danny Rizzo,
the elevator operator. Why did he say you are not Stevens?
You come closer to the answer where he's concerned. A
few days later, it's while you and Alma and the
plant manager at the drug firm are making an inspection tour.
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The three of you are walking through the new warehouse.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
It is a fine warehouse, Clifford. This was father's dream,
you know, expansion improvement. Oh he'd be so proud of you, Clifford.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
I hope so. Dear. Of course, I'd much rather you
were proud of me.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
You know, you know very well I am even a
wonderful manager. Oh forgive us, Martin, we'll say our personal
conversation for later.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Oh not at all, Missus Graham. I don't blame you
for being proud.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
We all are.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
I'm getting quite a kick out of this new warehouse myself, and.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
You're putting into use right away, aren't you, Martin.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yes, we are, Missus Graham, of course we had to
hire some new help. But this new arrangement will s
Is there something wrong, mister Graham.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Uh no, no, Martin h uh. A new man over
there moving crates.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Uh oh. That young fella, fine worker replaced Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Evactically had to hire him.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
He told me you'd send him to see me.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
I sent him. Oh, oh, yes, yes.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I'll say this for him. He's a ourself.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Is anything wrong, Clifford, No, no, dear, No, of course not.
I remember now it's just that. Excuse me, I'll catch
up with you. I just want to say hello to
the young man. Hello, Denny.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Oh, mister Graham, I.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I just found out that you were working for me. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yeah, they sure beat the ups and downs in the
elevator at the Chase Weatherley.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
You decided to who uh quit your job over there?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Did you?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Huh? I decided to quit over there.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
You will like your work here?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I know this is heavy stuff I'm doing right now.
But I've got a feeling working for you, mister Graham,
A feeling that I'll go places fast.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I see you see.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Mister Graham, I'm a fellow with lots of ambition. I
want to go up in the world at the chase Worthy,
I could only go up as far as a penthouse,
then I'd.
Speaker 11 (17:46):
Have to come down again. Yes, well, my ambition's a
good thing, don't you think, Yes, Denny, usually a very
good thing. But hadn't you better get back to work?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Oh sure, sure, mister Graham right away? Why And there
you have it.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Cliff Danny Rizzo's reasons for telling the police lieutenant that
you were not Stevens.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Talking with Danny just now you begin to get his idea.
Unless he goes places working for you, you're certain he'll identify
you as mister Stevens, link you to the murder of
Julie Thompson in that penthouse apartment.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You wonder when something.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Is going to break, Only nothing does. And then one
day the police lieutenant drops by your office, just.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Figured you'd like to know how it was going, mister Graham.
And it isn't the case just isn't going any place.
Only's standing still.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
You say that you've you've had no news of Stevens,
can't even get a clue to his whereabouts.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I say more than that, mister Graham, the district attorney,
he's got a pet theory.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Oh, he could be right. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
He says that there isn't any mister Stephens, never has been.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
But what could you possibly be insinuating with a statement
like that?
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Who know just his theory? Who can say? At least
right now.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
You sent for me, mister Graham, down that name sure cigars.
You can help yourself there. Oh yeah, well, Danny, I'll
get right to it. You you know.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Me as mister Stevens. Sure, mister Graham, you're gonna ask
me why I didn't tell the cops you were mister
Stevens at it.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
No, I can assume like you said, you can go
places with me fans.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Shack good cigars, mister Graham.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Danny, I'm going to play ball with you. No bluffing tricks. Swell,
You've got to help me some more. There's nothing difficult,
but there's a situation that can spoil things for both
of us. After all, if anything happens to me.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I'm way ahead of you, mister Graham. Just tell me
what to do?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
You mean that?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Sure say? These are Nicergars, very nice. I like them
very much.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Danny Stevens must be brought back to life. I mean,
he must be seen somewhere again, preferably by that mister Hotchkins.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
That's easy. I know a place we can find him anytime,
hutchkiss Uh huh, a bar, place where he takes on
a nightcap every night.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Good, very good. Now listen to me, Danny, listen close.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
You set it all up swiftly, simply, don't you, Cliff.
Danny seems to be perfectly cooperative, and if your plan
goes smoothly, there'll be no more theories about mister Stephens.
You and Danny are going to bring him to life
just once more. The following evening, at your apartment, with
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your wife Alma out visiting friends, you begin to set
the plan in motion. First, some seemingly casual but firm
instructions to your faithful, unsuspecting houseboy, Chan, Chan, I'm.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Going to bed early. I have a very bad headache.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Oh sorry, mister Graham.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Chan help, Yes, yes you can, Chan. I don't want
to be disturbed by anyone.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Oh yes, yes, mister Graham. No disturbed headache, I fix
nobody distub you.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Thank you, Chan, good night.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
That's the first step, isn't it, Cliff, Establishing your presence
in the apartment, making certain no one will enter your room,
because the second step is to lock your door, slip
outside to the fire escape, and make your way unobserved,
to the alley where you've left your car. The trench
coat and glasses you wore when posing as mister Stevens
are in the back seat, and you put them on
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before you drive downtown. Fifteen minutes later, you're having a
in the cocktail bar. Danny told you about it.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Drink okay, mister, Oh fine, yes, it's just right. Say
could you tell me is there're a good hotel near him.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Alton, as good as any small but clean fair prices.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Sounds like just what I want? Scares me an old customer.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You almost smile at the timing, don't you clip Yes,
because the old customer who's coming in, seating himself at
the far end of the bar as mister Hotchkiss, and
you're not at all surprised when he stares at you,
gets up from his stool quickly and hurries out without ordering.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
And he like that guy, something wrong, first time he's
ever acted like then walked out without speaking, didn't even
look at me, And he's been coming in here ever since.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Something's on his mind. Perhaps that Hotel again, the Alton.
You say that it's right, mister, one block down the street.
Thanks night, mister.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
You'll leave the bar in time to see mister Hotchkiss
hurrying into a drug store across the street. You know
exactly what he'll do, don't you, Cliff, Yes, head for
a phone booth and call the police. Tell them he's
seen mister Stevens again at the Alton Hotel a block
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down the street. You sign the register as mister Stevens
go upstairs to a room. That makes it complete, doesn't
it all? But the final step the call from Danny Rizzo. Danny,
who's stationed in the drug store watching, and he calls
right on schedule.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Yes, the cops just left the bar.
Speaker 11 (23:40):
Better get out of that room.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Check not the backway, huh.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I'll have your car waiting in the alley.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Good good. It's worked perfectly, hasn't it, Danny? Yes, couldn't
have been better.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Where shall we eat?
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Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yes, Cliff, it's working perfectly. You know you've managed to
convince mister Hotchkiss that there is a man named Stephens.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
You know he's called the police.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
And will tell him, but they won't find you here
in this room of the Alton.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Hotel where you register to Stephens.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Now, by the time the police arrive, you'll be out
and on your way home to resume life is Cliff Graham,
only on a much safer plane. There'll be no more
doubts that a mister Stevens does exist, even if he
has eluded the police, and you'll go free of any
suspicion for your murder of Julie Thompson. But you must
move swiftly, Cliff out the door of the hotel, into
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the corridor and tored a window that will lead to
the fire escape, and then hold it.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Stevens. Hotchkiss.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
Yes, that's right, Stevens. I came over here ahead of
the police. The bartender told me you'd probably be here.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
But what are you going to do? What the people.
Speaker 10 (26:21):
Usually do with the guns, Stevens, They shoot things, don't they. Well,
I'm going to shoot the thing that murdered Julie Thompson.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Julie.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
Yes, I love Julie Thompson. She loved me before you
took her away from me.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Look, mister Hotchkiss, you you're making a mistake. I'm not Stephens.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
I saw the registered downstairs.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Stephens.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
No, No, my name is Graham. Cliff Graham. Please please,
you must.
Speaker 10 (26:45):
Believe now I wanted to make certain I got the
right man, and so I called mister Graham at home.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Just now.
Speaker 10 (26:53):
Talk to his houseboy. He said, mister Graham is in
his room this minute. As a pike HEADIC left the
word not to be the third, So you see, Stephens.
I don't know those horn rimmed glasses and trench coat anywhere,
but I swore i'd get the man that killed Julie.
I've been carrying this gun ever since you killed her,
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hoping to run into you.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Stevens.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
You'll never get away with this. The police are on
the way here.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Now you forget. I call the police. I want them
to take me. I love Julie, and you killed her.
I don't care anymore.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
You see her about anything except this summit. But you
short good bye, mister Stephens.
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Speaker 2 (00:54):
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I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
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Speaker 3 (01:28):
For over an hour, the man in the trench coat
had been standing at the window of the penthouse atop
the Chase Weatherley Apartment building, staring down into the rain
swept street below the panic.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
The fear was gone now and his mind was functioning smoothly, efficiently.
The situation was no longer completely hopeless because out of
the nightmare a solution had emerged, a bold, dangerous solution,
a fantastic plan really, but it could work, and for
him there was no choice. He had to take this
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one chance for surviving his own survival. Finally, the man
turned hurried across the room, stepped out into the corridor,
closed the door behind him with a gloved hand, and
walked to the elevator. Riding down to the lobby, he
scarcely heard the words of the operator. His thoughts were
concerned only with the plan He was soon de set
into motion. You know what, his big gamble was almost underway.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Yeah, mister Stevens, we should have been having lousy weather
for June last month. Wasn't anything of brag about either,
You understand, mister Stevens. That don't bother mena in the weather. Holy,
mister Hotchkiss, he does what did you say?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
That name?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Mister Hotchkiss? The gent and four h three? You know
who he is?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Oh? Yes, yes, yes, sir.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Always he keeps snagging me about the weather. So this
is California?
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Every time I see him he gives it to me.
So this is California. Huh? So why don't he go
back to Florida? Someday? I'm gonna tell him off. I'm
gonna tell him good I'm gonna good night. D name oh,
oh yeah, good night, Good night, mister Stevens.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You hurry across the lobby, and as you reach the
entrance and step out into the street, you turn see
the elevator operator settle down in a chair behind the
lobby desk, spread open the evening newspaper. It's only a
matter of time now, isn't it, mister Stephens, before he
learns your secret, A secret that may cost your life.
But it's too late to turn back.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
A block away, on a quiet side street, you slip
out of the broad shouldered, padded trench coat, toss it
into the luggage compartment of your car.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You remove the heavy, horn.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Rimmed glasses you've been wearing.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Then you drive.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Across town to your own apartment. The card beside your
door reads mister and missus Clifford Graham Cham your houseboy
greet you as you step into the hall and close
the door behind you.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Ah, good evening, mister Graham.
Speaker 7 (04:00):
Hello chan you have didn't I get missa gym?
Speaker 5 (04:02):
No, Missus Graham around?
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Oh yes, Missus Graham waiting.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Yes, dear a late well, I I ran into an
old friend Alma, had a few drinks.
Speaker 8 (04:13):
We do with the Ellisons at nine, you know.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
The Ellisons go. God, didn't she completely slipped my mind.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Look, you have a headache.
Speaker 8 (04:23):
At least that's what I'm supposed to tell the Ellisons.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
You don't mind, do you?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
No? I suppose not. Of course, you know.
Speaker 8 (04:29):
I'm not too keen on going over there myself, but.
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Really one of us should go.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yes, I know, I know.
Speaker 8 (04:34):
I owe it to Eleanor, after.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
All, she's been so sweet.
Speaker 8 (04:38):
Oh, Clifford, have you seen tonight's paper? No society page,
Darling a photograph taken at a polo matches Saturday. We're
in so with the fallen Madge. Eleanor.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
She called me about it this afternoon.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
It was such a surprise. I had no idea the
photograph had been.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Taken it you No, No, I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Alma, he's not.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Very flattering of you.
Speaker 8 (04:59):
Really, that's not good of me, I thought, quite a
good likeness.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
The paper's there on the living room table. Quissy, all right, Almah, I.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
Really should be getting dressed. Sure you won't change your
mind about going to the Elysis.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
No, no, you run along.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
You walk into the living room, pick up the newspaper
and stare at the photograph again. Alma's right, isn't she Cliff.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
It isn't a good likeness of you, yet it's good.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Enough for Danny the elevator operator at the Chase, Weatherley,
and mister Hotchkiss. You're certain they'll see it identify you
as the man they know of Stevens. You wait until
your wife, Alma is gone, then you hurry downstairs to
your car, and fifteen minutes later you'll make a key
move in the dangerous plan you've evolved. You're at police
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headquarters telling your story to Lieutenant Powell. You see, Lieutenant,
I received a phone call this afternoon at my office.
I'm with the Pacific Wholesale Drug Company, a general manager.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
My wife owns the firm, say her father. Go on,
mister Graham, Well, the call was from a woman. She
said her name was Julie Thompson, that she had some
information for me, and just what was this information? She
said someone was going to blackmail me. Apparently she was
supposed to take part in the scheme somehow, but she
must have changed her mind decided she might have no
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part of it. I see, and I'm supposed to meet
her in the park tomorrow morning. The north entrance she's
to explain everything to.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Me, and naturally she expects to be paid for the
tipper or naturally. All right, mister Graham, I'll have a
couple of my men there at the park in the morning.
We'll take her up when she contacts you.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Thank you, Lieutenant.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
By the way, did she name you would be blackmailer?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yes she did.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
The man's name is Stevens. It's done, isn't it. Cliff.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
You've set your bold plan in the motion. It's a
big chance you've take a long shot, but you've taken it,
and now there's nothing to do but wait early the
following morning, as you are getting dressed to keep your
appointment at the park.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Us excuse mister Graham.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Yes what chan?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Telephone boys, Lieutenant Power?
Speaker 5 (07:16):
Oh all right, Chan, thanks, yes, Lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
You won't have to keep that appointment in the park
after all. Mister Graham, what do you mean we've already
found Julie Thompson.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I'm calling from her place.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Now better come right over, of course, Lieutenant, where are
you the Chase Worthy penthouse. Julie Thompson's been murdered.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
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service station. Yes, cliff Julie Thompson is dead.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
You killed her, didn't you, Because she'd seen your photograph
in the newspaper, found out that you were really Clifford Graham,
wealthy socialite, that Fred Stevens was just a name you'd
used with her. She was going to blackmail you. In
a moment of blind rage, you lashed out with your
fists and as she fell, her head struck. The edge
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of the desk was all over in an instant, wasn't
it and you realized that you were trapped. The police
would soon be looking for the man known as Stevens,
and the the newspaper photographed cliff the elevator operator would
certainly see it. Mister Hotchkiss too, and they'd identify you,
Clifford Graham, as the mysterious mister Stevens. And then suddenly
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an idea hits you, a big gamble, but you decided
to take it. Now your bold plan is in full motion,
and you're on your way to the dead woman's penthouse
at the Chase Weatherley, as the police lieutenant requested. And
when you arrive, an officer leads you through the living
room crowded with men from homicide, and takes you out
to the sun deck where Lieutenant Powell is waiting last
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night's newspaper in his hand.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Sit down, mister Graham, Thank you, lieutenant. You've seen this
I suppose, oh yes, as it.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
Was taken up the polo matches. It's not a very
good likeness. I'm afraid a sergeant bring resin, will you right? Lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Elevator operator here brought this photograph for you to my
attention this morning. Mister Graham, Oh m hm, says it
looks a lot like Stevens.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
But that's what he says. You ought to know Stevens
visited Miss Thompson regularly. Here you mean that you no, no, really, lieutenant,
that's ridiculous, is he? Of course, I've never set foot
in this building before. I'll look here, lieutenant. Are you serious?
I am not in the habit of being funny, mister Graham. Lieutenant,
this is actually fantastic. Let's see what Rizzo has to
say about it.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Here's a Rizzo, sir, I what can I do for you?
Lieutenant Rizzio.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
This is mister Graham.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Oh yeah, stand up, will you, mister.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Graham, Now take a look at him, Razil, take a
very good look. It's come, hasn't it, clar the moment
you've been expecting, brought face to face with Danny, the
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elevator operator, and you are certain he'll identify you as Stevens.
A full minute he stands there staring at you, and
then a strange expression spread slowly over his face.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Well, Rizzo, no, now, Lieutenant, this isn't mister Stevens. You're sure,
I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
What about this picture in the newspaper.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Ah, here's a resemblance, all right, but this man here,
mister Graham, Yeah, mister Graham, he's not mister Stevens.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
You're shocked, aren't you, Cliff. You were certain Danny would
positively identify you as mister Stevens, and you were prepared
to fight the situation from there. But now Danny Rizzo
has said no, definitely no, that you are not Stevens.
Puzzles you, doesn't it, Cliff. You wonder if you've really
fooled Danny or if he's up to something. After he's gone,
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there are more questions by the lieutenant, and then finally
someone else is brought to the Sunday.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Sit down, mister hutch Kiss. Oh, thank you, thank you,
return mister Hotchkiss. This is mister Graham.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Oh well, how do you do mister?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Something wrong?
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Well, did you see miss Graham?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (13:13):
But he he looks like Stevens. Well, yes, yes, he
did something like Stevens. Yes something, Well, let me look
at him more closely. Yes, there is a resemblance, all right,
but I don't know. I remember Stevens as different somehow.
Of course I want to saw Stevens a couple of times.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
You ever speak to him?
Speaker 10 (13:31):
No, no, I never did I see.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
Did miss Thompson ever mention Stevens to you?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yes? Yes she did. Let me see.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
There was several months ago she had a few friends
in one night for cocktails. She'd been kind enough to
invite me. What you have to say about him? Well,
that was rather strange. I don't know why she picked
on me told me what she did. I suppose it
was on her mind she had to tell somebody. Well, anyway,
we were standing out here, and all of a sudden
she just started talking about him. They She and Stevens
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had been married married on New Orleans nineteen forty. That's
where she met him only lasted a few months. He
took what money she had and walked out on her.
She hadn't seen him again in all those years. Go on, well, then,
let me see now, I suppose it was a week later.
That would be about two months ago. I ran into
Miss Thompson downstairs in the lobby. She told me she
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just bumped into Stephen's on the street that afternoon. She
seemed well, she seemed very happy. And you say she
met him again about two months ago.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Yes, that's right, Lieutenant. And after that this Stevens started
coming around. Huh.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
Yes, I saw him several times in the elevator, once
or twice with Miss Thompson. But I'd say that Stevens
was bigger, heavier than mister Graham here. And oh when
Stephens wore glasses to the heavy horn, rim kind I see, Lieutenant, Yes,
Sergeant Da on the phone.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
All right, Well, I guess that's all for now, mister Hotchkiss, thanks, yes, of.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Course, Lieutenant, of course.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
And mister Graham, if you don't mind, i'd like to
have you stick around here for a while.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
All right, Lieutenant, you're right back.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
The relief pours over your cliff, surge us through.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Your mind and body. Even though you know.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
As you walk out of there a half hour later
that you're far from in the clear, you apparently convinced
mister Hotchkiss that there's still a puzzling attitude of Danny Rizzo,
the elevator operator. Why did he say you are not Stevens?
You come closer to the answer where he's concerned. A
few days later, it's while you and Alma and the
plant manager at the drug firm are making an inspection tour.
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The three of you are walking through the new warehouse.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
It is a fine warehouse, Clifford. This was father's dream,
you know, expansion improvement. Oh he'd be so proud of you, Clifford.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
I hope so. Dear. Of course, I'd much rather you
were proud of me.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
You know, you know very well I am even a
wonderful manager. Oh forgive us, Martin, we'll say our personal
conversation for later.
Speaker 6 (16:03):
Oh not at all, Missus Graham. I don't blame you
for being proud.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
We all are.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
I'm getting quite a kick out of this new warehouse myself, and.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
You're putting into use right away, aren't you, Martin.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yes, we are, Missus Graham, of course we had to
hire some new help. But this new arrangement will s
Is there something wrong, mister Graham.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Uh no, no, Martin h uh. A new man over
there moving crates.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Uh oh. That young fella, fine worker replaced Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (16:36):
Evactically had to hire him.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
He told me you'd send him to see me.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
I sent him. Oh, oh, yes, yes.
Speaker 6 (16:42):
I'll say this for him. He's a ourself.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Is anything wrong, Clifford, No, no, dear, No, of course not.
I remember now it's just that. Excuse me, I'll catch
up with you. I just want to say hello to
the young man. Hello, Denny.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Oh, mister Graham, I.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
I just found out that you were working for me. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Yeah, they sure beat the ups and downs in the
elevator at the Chase Weatherley.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
You decided to who uh quit your job over there?
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Did you?
Speaker 5 (17:17):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Huh? I decided to quit over there.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
You will like your work here?
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I know this is heavy stuff I'm doing right now.
But I've got a feeling working for you, mister Graham,
A feeling that I'll go places fast.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
I see you see.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
Mister Graham, I'm a fellow with lots of ambition. I
want to go up in the world at the chase Worthy,
I could only go up as far as a penthouse,
then I'd.
Speaker 11 (17:46):
Have to come down again. Yes, well, my ambition's a
good thing, don't you think, Yes, Denny, usually a very
good thing. But hadn't you better get back to work?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Oh sure, sure, mister Graham right away? Why And there
you have it.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Cliff Danny Rizzo's reasons for telling the police lieutenant that
you were not Stevens.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Talking with Danny just now you begin to get his idea.
Unless he goes places working for you, you're certain he'll identify
you as mister Stevens, link you to the murder of
Julie Thompson in that penthouse apartment.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You wonder when something.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Is going to break, Only nothing does. And then one
day the police lieutenant drops by your office, just.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Figured you'd like to know how it was going, mister Graham.
And it isn't the case just isn't going any place.
Only's standing still.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
You say that you've you've had no news of Stevens,
can't even get a clue to his whereabouts.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
I say more than that, mister Graham, the district attorney,
he's got a pet theory.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Oh, he could be right. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
He says that there isn't any mister Stephens, never has been.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
But what could you possibly be insinuating with a statement
like that?
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Who know just his theory? Who can say? At least
right now.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
You sent for me, mister Graham, down that name sure cigars.
You can help yourself there. Oh yeah, well, Danny, I'll
get right to it. You you know.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Me as mister Stevens. Sure, mister Graham, you're gonna ask
me why I didn't tell the cops you were mister
Stevens at it.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
No, I can assume like you said, you can go
places with me fans.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Shack good cigars, mister Graham.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
Danny, I'm going to play ball with you. No bluffing tricks. Swell,
You've got to help me some more. There's nothing difficult,
but there's a situation that can spoil things for both
of us. After all, if anything happens to me.
Speaker 4 (20:00):
I'm way ahead of you, mister Graham. Just tell me
what to do?
Speaker 5 (20:04):
You mean that?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Sure say? These are Nicergars, very nice. I like them
very much.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Danny Stevens must be brought back to life. I mean,
he must be seen somewhere again, preferably by that mister Hotchkins.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
That's easy. I know a place we can find him anytime,
hutchkiss Uh huh, a bar, place where he takes on
a nightcap every night.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Good, very good. Now listen to me, Danny, listen close.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
You set it all up swiftly, simply, don't you, Cliff.
Danny seems to be perfectly cooperative, and if your plan
goes smoothly, there'll be no more theories about mister Stephens.
You and Danny are going to bring him to life
just once more. The following evening, at your apartment, with
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your wife Alma out visiting friends, you begin to set
the plan in motion. First, some seemingly casual but firm
instructions to your faithful, unsuspecting houseboy, Chan, Chan, I'm.
Speaker 5 (21:07):
Going to bed early. I have a very bad headache.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Oh sorry, mister Graham.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Chan help, Yes, yes you can, Chan. I don't want
to be disturbed by anyone.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Oh yes, yes, mister Graham. No disturbed headache, I fix
nobody distub you.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Thank you, Chan, good night.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
That's the first step, isn't it, Cliff, Establishing your presence
in the apartment, making certain no one will enter your room,
because the second step is to lock your door, slip
outside to the fire escape, and make your way unobserved,
to the alley where you've left your car. The trench
coat and glasses you wore when posing as mister Stevens
are in the back seat, and you put them on
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before you drive downtown. Fifteen minutes later, you're having a
in the cocktail bar. Danny told you about it.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
Drink okay, mister, Oh fine, yes, it's just right. Say
could you tell me is there're a good hotel near him.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Alton, as good as any small but clean fair prices.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Sounds like just what I want? Scares me an old customer.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
You almost smile at the timing, don't you clip Yes,
because the old customer who's coming in, seating himself at
the far end of the bar as mister Hotchkiss, and
you're not at all surprised when he stares at you,
gets up from his stool quickly and hurries out without ordering.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
And he like that guy, something wrong, first time he's
ever acted like then walked out without speaking, didn't even
look at me, And he's been coming in here ever since.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Something's on his mind. Perhaps that Hotel again, the Alton.
You say that it's right, mister, one block down the street.
Thanks night, mister.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
You'll leave the bar in time to see mister Hotchkiss
hurrying into a drug store across the street. You know
exactly what he'll do, don't you, Cliff, Yes, head for
a phone booth and call the police. Tell them he's
seen mister Stevens again at the Alton Hotel a block
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down the street. You sign the register as mister Stevens
go upstairs to a room. That makes it complete, doesn't
it all? But the final step the call from Danny Rizzo. Danny,
who's stationed in the drug store watching, and he calls
right on schedule.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Yes, the cops just left the bar.
Speaker 11 (23:40):
Better get out of that room.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Check not the backway, huh.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I'll have your car waiting in the alley.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
Good good. It's worked perfectly, hasn't it, Danny? Yes, couldn't
have been better.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Where shall we eat?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Where shall we spend the night? Those are two questions
you'll be asking again and again if you do any
traveling this summer. Well to help you find happy answers
to these questions, Signal oil dealers are offering free a
twenty page booklet of selected eating and lodging places in
the West, called Lane's Guide. This handy booklet is packed
with useful information. It tells, for instance, whether the lodging
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place has facilities for swimming. In the case of motels,
it states whether kitchens are available and so that you
can keep within your budget, it states whether the prices
are low, medium, or high. Naturally, no pocket sized publication
could possibly contain every good eating and lodging place, but
Lane's Guide, which is prepared by an independent travel organization,
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includes a representative selection in three hundred fifty cities and
towns throughout sixteen Western states. We hope you'll enjoy this
latest step in Signal Oil Company's continuing efforts to make
your motoring miles more pleasant. Remember a copy of Lane's
Guide is yours free, while the supply lasts at any
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Signal service station.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yes, Cliff, it's working perfectly. You know you've managed to
convince mister Hotchkiss that there is a man named Stephens.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
You know he's called the police.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
And will tell him, but they won't find you here
in this room of the Alton.
Speaker 5 (25:35):
Hotel where you register to Stephens.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Now, by the time the police arrive, you'll be out
and on your way home to resume life is Cliff Graham,
only on a much safer plane. There'll be no more
doubts that a mister Stevens does exist, even if he
has eluded the police, and you'll go free of any
suspicion for your murder of Julie Thompson. But you must
move swiftly, Cliff out the door of the hotel, into
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the corridor and tored a window that will lead to
the fire escape, and then hold it.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Stevens. Hotchkiss.
Speaker 10 (26:08):
Yes, that's right, Stevens. I came over here ahead of
the police. The bartender told me you'd probably be here.
Speaker 5 (26:17):
But what are you going to do? What the people.
Speaker 10 (26:21):
Usually do with the guns, Stevens, They shoot things, don't they. Well,
I'm going to shoot the thing that murdered Julie Thompson.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Julie.
Speaker 10 (26:30):
Yes, I love Julie Thompson. She loved me before you
took her away from me.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Look, mister Hotchkiss, you you're making a mistake. I'm not Stephens.
Speaker 10 (26:39):
I saw the registered downstairs.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Stephens.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
No, No, my name is Graham. Cliff Graham. Please please,
you must.
Speaker 10 (26:45):
Believe now I wanted to make certain I got the
right man, and so I called mister Graham at home.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Just now.
Speaker 10 (26:53):
Talk to his houseboy. He said, mister Graham is in
his room this minute. As a pike HEADIC left the
word not to be the third, So you see, Stephens.
I don't know those horn rimmed glasses and trench coat anywhere,
but I swore i'd get the man that killed Julie.
I've been carrying this gun ever since you killed her,
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hoping to run into you.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Stevens.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
You'll never get away with this. The police are on
the way here.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Now you forget. I call the police. I want them
to take me. I love Julie, and you killed her.
I don't care anymore.
Speaker 5 (27:28):
You see her about anything except this summit. But you
short good bye, mister Stephens.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program.
The whistler each Sunday night at this same time, brought
to you by the Signal Oil Company, marketers of Signal
Gasoline and motor oil and fine quality automotive accessories. And
don't forget a free twenty page travel guide suggesting where
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are yours for the asking at any Signal Service station why.
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Featured in Tonight's story were Bill Foreman, John Dayner, Mary Lansing,
and Howard McNair. The Whistler was produced and directed by
George w Allen, with story by Steve Hampton, music by
Wilbur Hatch, and was transmitted to our troops overseas by
the Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
The Whistler is.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
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. Remember at this same time,
next Sunday, another range tail by the Whistler, Marvin Miller
speaking for the Signal Oil Company. This is the CBS,
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the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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