September 29, 2025 • 29 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And now stay tuned for the program that has rated
tops in popularity for a longer period of time than
any other West Coast program in radio history, The Signal
Oil Program, the Whistler Signal, the famous Go Farther Gasoline.
(00:27):
Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things where.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I walk by night.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of
men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler Strange Story,
the tall, thin man.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The dim light of the seventh floor landing caught the
last labored steps of the man as he climbed the stairs,
breathing hard, his face beaded with perspiration. He drew in
his breath, set his jaw, and began climbing the last
three flights. This was a new experience for Gordon Mammy,
entering the building at the back end, climbing the back stairs,
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and all the while racing against time. But you can't
rest being seen, can you go? No, It's all important
tonight of all nights, you must not be seen anywhere
near your strange wife's apartment. You finally reached the tenth floor,
then you walk down the empty hall until you come
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to her door.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Good evening, n'am goodon? How nice?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Come in?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Oh yeah, let me have this is nice and called
a few minutes ago. She'll be here in about half
an hour. She's been in Europe. If I remember the
society columns, Yes, she got in yesterday. I should be
delighted to see you. Sit down, garden, sit down, I'll
get you a drink. Oh no, never mind, I can't
stay in I.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I see.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I'd hope, Gordon, Gordon, if you'd only realize, I only
realize you're trying to cling to something that's been dead
alone long time, hanging on with her three lives. You're
ruining by doing it. Oh, it's that kind of visit again.
I shouldn't have bothered to take your coat and hat.
(03:10):
I'll bring them back. Lynn Lynna asked you for the
last time. Let me go you, Lynnen, in Heaven's name,
what are you trying to do? What are you trying
to prove? I'm trying to let you find out for yourself.
What a fool you're being. I'm trying to prove that
a marriage of ten years can't be broken by a
girl like Jean, a girl fifteen years younger than you,
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who's infatuated only by the thought of what you can
give her with your mum. You certainly are changing. Gordon.
Now it's slapping women. I'm sorry, and I didn't mean
to slap you, but I want the divorce lymen, it's
a year now, you've kept me dangling. What good is
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this dog in the major attitude? Give us both a chance.
I shall never give you a divorce. I've waited a
year now I can wait a lot longer, all right.
I tried to believe me. I tried. I didn't want to
have it. There's no need for you to stay. I'll
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get your hat and coat. Gordon talking won't.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Do any good.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
No, no, I suppose not.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
She said it for you, didn't she?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Gordon talking won't do any good. As Lynn turns from
you and starts for your hat and coat, you know
you must put into action the plan you came prepared
to follow up if she refused to divorce you. In
one swift motion, you step forward, grasp the heavy bronze
figurine from the coffee table.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Lynn's dead, isn't she?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Gordon?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Quickly you wipe your fingerprints from the murder weapon, pair
of gloves from your coat, strip the big diamond rings
from Lyne's fingers, the diamond bracelet from her wrist. Then
you hurry to her bedroom, take all the jewels from
a jewel case, and generally ransacked. The room will look
like robbery, murder and robbery, would it, Gordon? And then
you remember Lynn's friend Anne is due in half an hour.
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As you leave, you make sure the door is slightly
ajar so that Anne can go right in. When no
one answers her ring, And when they phone you, as
you know they will, you'll be home playing chess with
Professor Norton. Yes, you hurry down the corridor toward the
back stairway, but before you reach there.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Oooo, Sorry, HALLI I didn't see you. I'm afraid that
I almost knocked you down.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
That's all right, I was preoccupied myself. Well, no harm done?
Eh no, no, no, no, of course none, no harm done.
He brushes past.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You hurriedly, But you know he saw you quite plainly,
don't you, Gordon?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
As plainly as you.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Saw him, fully a head taller than you, very thin,
with high cheek phones, and a long, prominent nose. He
disappears down the hall. Shock immobilizes you for several seconds,
and then realization hits you and you begin to run
down the backstairs.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Hey, he can identify me. He can swear I was
here tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Although I don't have a crystal ball in the studio tonight.
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Speaker 2 (08:01):
Well, you've finally done it, Gordon. Yes, Lynn, your a
strange wife lies dead in her slank apartment. You've taken
a jewels to make it look like the work of
a thief. And it all went well, didn't it, Until
in leaving you collided with a tall, thin man coming
down the hall. You know he saw you as clearly
and distinctly as you saw him. Now back at your apartment,
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you entered cautiously, seated in the big leather chair, sound
asleep from the sedative you'd slipped into his brink just
as you left him, His old professor, Fred Norton in
front of him on the small table, a chest man
unmoved since you left. You glance hurriedly around, search for
a safe place to hide. Lymb's jewels Beside the rubber
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plant in your hallway is id You push aside several
handfuls of soil, drop in the jewels, replace the soil,
and pour a glass of water over. Then you return
to the living room and shake the professors and grim bread.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Hey, hey, wake up, wake up, Come on, sleepy ahead, mate.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
My George, don't tell me I've dozed off again. You
certainly did, Fred. You know this is getting to be
a habit with you. So it is, So it is,
by George.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I'm sorry, I feel like I've slept an hour.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Oh no, no, no, not that long. Only about ten minutes. Really,
that's long enough for me to mix us another drink here.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Oh thanks, Gordon. Me and now let's see where were
we you move?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Fred, So the chess game resumes where it left off
a little more than half an hour ago. You've assured
old Professor Norton that he'd been asleep for only about
ten minutes, and he doesn't question it. On numerous occasions
before he's dozed off during your game. That's what gave
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you the idea for your perfect alibi. The minutes go by.
It's been three quarters of an hour now since you've
returned to your apartment and.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Should have found Lynn's body by now.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Your phone should ring soon soon, y, what's ever?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Watch out, Gordon, you'll have set the boy.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I'm sorry, isn't the phone excuse me, min A Fred?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Yes, yes, I'm mister Manning. Yes, yes, I know you,
mister Rand.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
What is it.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
My wife? Lynn? Good lord? I can't believe it. Yes, yes,
of course I'll be right over the police. Oh you
have yes, yes, I'll be right over Fred, Fred it's.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Lynb eh Lynn, Gordon, what's wrong?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Lynn is dead? Murdered and murdered. I don't understand. I
don't either. I can't believe it. I've got to get
over there quick.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I'll do with you. Gordon.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Oh, yes, yes, I wish you could.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Oh, mister Manning, come in, come in.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
It's dreadful, simply dreadfully. It doesn't seem possible. It just
doesn't seem mister Rand. This is Professor Norton, friend, mister Rand,
the manager of the building. How do you do, Professor Norton,
This is shocking, mister Rand's shocking. Professor Norton was with
me when I got your call. Mister Randy was good enough.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
To do good.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Thank you. He then you're here, pull in, pull in,
and yes, yes, it's terrible. It's terrible. Mister Rand says
that you found her.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yes, I rang the bell, No one answered, was opened
till I went in and where she was?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Oh good good, this is doctor doctor.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Sorry, I'm so upset.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I can't remember.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
I understand. I'm doctor Roberts. Mister Manning.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
How do you do?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Doctor?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I'm sorry, mister Manning. There's nothing I could do. She
was dead when mister Rand and I got up here.
This is Raymore, one of my patients here in the building,
passed away this evening. I was in mister Ramd's office
when this young lady called.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
I can't understand why would anyone want to kill Linn?
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Perhaps the lieutenant can tell you better than I'm mister Manning.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Lieutenant Williams, Lieutenant.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
This is mister Manning, Oh, Ignorm's husband.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
I'm glad we were able to get hold of you
this fast, mister Manning, Lieutenant, who would kill her?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Why? Burglary?
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Looks as though missus Manning surprised the thief and he
killed her.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Doug Glory.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
Yes, her jewel box seems to have been ransacked, and
it looks as though rings have been taken from her fingers. Oh,
you can help us with that you must be familiar
with the jeweling.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Oh, yes, yes, of course I gave her most of it.
But where where is she?
Speaker 9 (13:02):
They've taken her into the bedroom.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
When when did it happen? Well, I was just.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
Talking to the doctor. He places the time at about
nine o'clock, a little more than an hour ago. Now,
mister Manning, ay, let's sit down over there. There are
some questions I'd like to ask you.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yes, Gordon, there are questions, many questions, and it was
good to have the professor right there to corroborate your
statement that the two of you have been playing chess
from seven o'clock right up to the time you had
received the call from mister Ram. He didn't even mention
dozing off. Later, alone in your apartment, you sink into
a chair and try to think. The whole thing has
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come off perfectly, perfectly, except for the tall, thin man
you met in the hall as you were hurrying from
your wife's apartment. Yes, he could send your alibi crashing
down about your head, couldn't it.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Jeane, Hi, darling, surprise.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
I was on my way home from Mary's when I
saw your light and I couldn't reis is coming up for.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
A moment, Jean, I think you better not cotton. Gordon,
what is it. You're trembling something wrong? It's Lynn. She's
dead and murdered, said murdered. About ten o'clock, I got
the call from Durand. He's the manager of Lynde's apartment building.
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Fred and I went over right away. The professor. He
was here when you got the call. Yes, yes, they
say it was burglary and most of her jewelry is missing. Gordon.
Are you all right, dear? It must have been awful
for you. No, no, no, I'm all right. It's just my
head still spinning. First the shock and then all those
questions the police lieutenant threw at me. And tomorrow I
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have to be down and see him again. Questions.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
But you told him you were with a professor or evening.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Relaxed, darling. They have to ask questions. That's their business.
It's just that I'm worried. I can't help it, Gordon.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I'm worried.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I like to have you worried about me, Jean, but
there's nothing to worry about. But now you better run along.
It wouldn't look good for you. Yes, good night, dear,
Good night, Jean.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
The next morning, you hurry out and get a paper.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
It's there, in big black headlines, Society Woman's slain. Below
that a recent picture of Lynn, and then the whole
page seems to jump out at you. Or Beside Lynn's
picture is a large, clear close up of.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
You, Gordon.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
The tall thin man will have no trouble identifying you. Now,
Willie Gordon. You don't know who he is or where
he is. And there's Lieutenant Williams.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
At one o'clock.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You decide to drop in at his office casually, ask
him if he's making any progress. You must find out
if the tall thin Man has identified you.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
No, I'm afraid we haven't uncovered anything new, mister Manning.
Not a trace of the jewelry yet. We've got every
porn shop in town covered. That seems to be our
best bed. We don't have much to go on, no fingerprints.
No one was seen to enter or leave the apartment.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I see.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
But we're doing everything we can, mister Manning.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yes, yes, I'm sure you are.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Lieutenant You're still above suspicion when you leave Lieutenant Williams's office.
But somehow you've got to find the tall thin man
before he goes to the police. He knows Dosney Gordon,
He's seen your picture, knows who you are, and more important,
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he knows a good thing when he sees you're a
wealthy real estate broker, can shake down with blackmail. Yes, Gordon,
that's it.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
You're sure of it.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Now, you know there's nothing to do. But wait they
make that afternoon, almost closing time. Your secretary, Miss Adams,
enters your office.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Mister Manning, mister Wellman, to see you.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Er we Wellman, I don't place them.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Has he been in before? I believe not, mister Manning.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
I don't believe I've ever seen him before.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
What does he look like? Well, he's tall, he's quite
tall and thin, mister Manning. Is there something?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Shall I?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Shall I tell him you're busy that you can't see
him now? No, no, no, don't do that. Send him in,
miss Adams and see that we're not disturbed. Yes, mister Manning,
you may a win.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Now, mister Wellman, you stiffen as the man looms tall
and thin in your doorway, then you relax. It is
not the man, is it going? Just a man to
inquire about a piece of property. That night you take
Lynn's jewels from their hiding place in the base of
the rubber plant.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Drive to a deserted.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Section of the lake front, and certain is no one
near you throw the box as far as you can
out of the deep water, and then shake him unsteady.
You drive home and prepare for the nightmare of the
days ahead, the endless nerve taut, waiting for the tall,
thin man who can blow your alibid de bits, if
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you could only find out who he is, where he lives,
if you could surprise him what a week goes by?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Ten days? Then on the morning of the eleventh.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Day, you're at the office, dictating to Miss Adams at
her desk.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
And at the meeting called yesterday, my associates and I
have decided to give your offer our approval. And in
view of the no, no, Miss Adam, scratch that it's
not just what I want. Let's try it this way
at a special meeting called what Happens? What's maning? What's
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the manning?
Speaker 9 (19:16):
What is it.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
All? The newspaper I brought it to work with me.
I didn't get a chance to Oh that plane crash.
Did you know someone on board m plane crasher? Oh no, no,
it isn't that it's city. It's just that lately I
haven't felt so well, these these headaches. We'll let the
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let her go for a while. Now, let's borrow your
newspaper if I may relax a little. I'll bring you
when i'm ready.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yes, mister Manning, alone in your office, you stare at
the paper, not at the plane crash headline, right at
the picture of a man. Your eye's hurriedly taken the
caption above his picture, Missus Elva Raymore leaves fortune to nephew.
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He's your man, isn't he? Gordon, the tall thin man.
You jot down his name, Lawrence Holcombe, and his address.
You've got to think carefully now, Gordon, Lawrence Holcombe is
your man, all right, but you must be sure that
he's not already grown to the police. And there's just
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one way to be sure, isn't the gourdon. It's a
bold move, But by late afternoon you're certain it's a
move you must make. You leave the office. You go
to police headquarters.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Hello, sergeant, Hello, mister Manning. I'd like to see Lieutenant Williams.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Okay, I'll I'll ring.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Oh here he is.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Now, Lieutenant. I well, I guess you know why I'm here.
I just want to know.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
If anything is to No, I'm sorry to say there's
nothing new at all, not the price of your wife's
jewelry and the way this case stacks up. If we
don't get a lead on the jewelry, we don't have
much to go on.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Yes, I see, well, I know how you feel.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
Mister Manning. But we haven't given up. We never will sometimes,
you know, these cases crack in unexpected ways, crazy ways sometimes,
So don't give up, hope, mister Manning.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Come on, I was just leaving. I'll walk to the
corner with him, all right, Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Oh excuse me a moment.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Yes, are you try and get in touch with that
fellow and the one who inherited the ray more money
her nephew.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
What's his name, Lawrence Hawk?
Speaker 9 (21:41):
That's right, Try to locate him with you. I'd like
to say him in the morning, lieutenant, if you'd care
for a cup of coffee. Mister Manning.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
You're sure now, aren't you got?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Lawrence Holcombe hasn't contacted the police, not yet. What Lieutenant
Williams wants to see him in the morning. You have time, now,
haven't you time?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
To do?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
What?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
You must do.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
You must make sure that Lawrence Holcombe never sees the police.
The lieutenant walks you to the corner and then you
part company. Once at home, you take the small automatic
from your bedroom and at eight o'clock that night you're
pushing the buzzer at Lawrence Holcombe's apart.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I'd like to talk to you, mister Holcombe.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
Yeh, what are you selling?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Ever since the papers came out with that inherited's story,
I've been festered by guys like you.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (22:37):
Gold mines are oil?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Well, I'm not selling anything. Don't you recognize me, mister Holcombe?
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Oh I've mislied. I don't come on in.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Just got back from a trip and packing for another.
Maybe you can find something to sit on that isn't
a suitcase.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I'd rather stand. This won't take long. Ah, then take
a good look at me. Hookem Oh it's.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
You Manning, isn't it, Gordon Manning. I got tired waiting
for you, hokem been out of town. Like I said,
I've been meaning to do something about you.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I don't get you, hookemb. You haven't been to the police,
you haven't tried to blackmail me yet, and you don't
need any money. Now what is it? What do you want?
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Don't worry Manning, I want something all right.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Oh wait a minute, don't answer that.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
What do you mean.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
What is this stick up? No? No, not quite. Just
don't answer that phone.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
Okay, so I won't answer it now put that gun away.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
No, no, no, you see I know things that you don't know.
Hokumb I know the police want to see you in
the morning. The police, yes, yes, but you've waited too long,
so they You are not going to live to tell him.
I was in my wife's apartment to night. She was murdered.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
No, Manning, wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
You don't have a minute.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Welcome, but I have Now, I've got all the time in.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
The world.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
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Speaker 3 (25:43):
It's over, Isn't it good?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
You've shot Lawrence Hulcombe, the tall, thin man who was
the one person in the world who could identify you
as having been at your wife's apartment the night she
was murdered. You leave Holcombe's apartment for a backstair, but
this time you're not seen. You your car and drive home,
suddenly secure in your mind, certain the threat of the tall,
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thin man has gone forever. Back at home, you realize
you can plan your marriage to ge a long trip together,
far from the trying ordeal of the past few weeks.
Your thoughts, filled with new dreams and plans, are suddenly interrupted.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Hello, Manning, Lieutenant Williamson, I well, come in, come in.
I didn't expect to see you again so soon. Has
had something turned up here? Something's turned up?
Speaker 9 (26:42):
Remember I told you cases like this sometimes crack in
crazy ways.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Yes, yes it is. I remember you killed your.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
Wife, Manning.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
No, no, no, no, you'll long you can drive act.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
I know you killed her.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Often told me everything, Holcombe, But he couldn't he.
Speaker 9 (27:04):
He wasn't quite dead when I got to his apartment, Manning.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
But but how did you happen?
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Now? Did I happen to be there before he died?
I heard a pony this evening with no answer. I
was pretty sure he was in his apartment, probably packing
for a getaway.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
So I went up there and get away. He was
running from you, you beery. Was the night you murdered
your wife?
Speaker 9 (27:25):
Holcomb admitted he murdered his aunt in the same building
by suffocating him with a pillow.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
His aunt missus Raymond.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Her autopsy said it was a heart attack.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
I thought it was murder, but Holcomb could prove he
was three hundred miles away that night. As long as
I couldn't break that alibi, he was safe.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
And and Holcombe was afraid that that I would break
his alibi.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
That's right, Manny Holcombe never would have identified you. If
he had, he'd have signed his own ticket to the
gas chain.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Let that whistle be.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
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Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things where.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I walk by night.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of
men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler Strange Story,
the tall, thin man.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The dim light of the seventh floor landing caught the
last labored steps of the man as he climbed the stairs,
breathing hard, his face beaded with perspiration. He drew in
his breath, set his jaw, and began climbing the last
three flights. This was a new experience for Gordon Mammy,
entering the building at the back end, climbing the back stairs,
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and all the while racing against time. But you can't
rest being seen, can you go? No, It's all important
tonight of all nights, you must not be seen anywhere
near your strange wife's apartment. You finally reached the tenth floor,
then you walk down the empty hall until you come
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to her door.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Good evening, n'am goodon? How nice?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Come in?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Oh yeah, let me have this is nice and called
a few minutes ago. She'll be here in about half
an hour. She's been in Europe. If I remember the
society columns, Yes, she got in yesterday. I should be
delighted to see you. Sit down, garden, sit down, I'll
get you a drink. Oh no, never mind, I can't
stay in I.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I see.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I'd hope, Gordon, Gordon, if you'd only realize, I only
realize you're trying to cling to something that's been dead
alone long time, hanging on with her three lives. You're
ruining by doing it. Oh, it's that kind of visit again.
I shouldn't have bothered to take your coat and hat.
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I'll bring them back. Lynn Lynna asked you for the
last time. Let me go you, Lynnen, in Heaven's name,
what are you trying to do? What are you trying
to prove? I'm trying to let you find out for yourself.
What a fool you're being. I'm trying to prove that
a marriage of ten years can't be broken by a
girl like Jean, a girl fifteen years younger than you,
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who's infatuated only by the thought of what you can
give her with your mum. You certainly are changing. Gordon.
Now it's slapping women. I'm sorry, and I didn't mean
to slap you, but I want the divorce lymen, it's
a year now, you've kept me dangling. What good is
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this dog in the major attitude? Give us both a chance.
I shall never give you a divorce. I've waited a
year now I can wait a lot longer, all right.
I tried to believe me. I tried. I didn't want to
have it. There's no need for you to stay. I'll
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get your hat and coat. Gordon talking won't.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Do any good.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
No, no, I suppose not.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
She said it for you, didn't she?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Gordon talking won't do any good. As Lynn turns from
you and starts for your hat and coat, you know
you must put into action the plan you came prepared
to follow up if she refused to divorce you. In
one swift motion, you step forward, grasp the heavy bronze
figurine from the coffee table.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Lynn's dead, isn't she?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Gordon?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Quickly you wipe your fingerprints from the murder weapon, pair
of gloves from your coat, strip the big diamond rings
from Lyne's fingers, the diamond bracelet from her wrist. Then
you hurry to her bedroom, take all the jewels from
a jewel case, and generally ransacked. The room will look
like robbery, murder and robbery, would it, Gordon? And then
you remember Lynn's friend Anne is due in half an hour.
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As you leave, you make sure the door is slightly
ajar so that Anne can go right in. When no
one answers her ring, And when they phone you, as
you know they will, you'll be home playing chess with
Professor Norton. Yes, you hurry down the corridor toward the
back stairway, but before you reach there.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Oooo, Sorry, HALLI I didn't see you. I'm afraid that
I almost knocked you down.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
That's all right, I was preoccupied myself. Well, no harm done?
Eh no, no, no, no, of course none, no harm done.
He brushes past.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You hurriedly, But you know he saw you quite plainly,
don't you, Gordon?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
As plainly as you.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Saw him, fully a head taller than you, very thin,
with high cheek phones, and a long, prominent nose. He
disappears down the hall. Shock immobilizes you for several seconds,
and then realization hits you and you begin to run
down the backstairs.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Hey, he can identify me. He can swear I was
here tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
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Speaker 2 (08:01):
Well, you've finally done it, Gordon. Yes, Lynn, your a
strange wife lies dead in her slank apartment. You've taken
a jewels to make it look like the work of
a thief. And it all went well, didn't it, Until
in leaving you collided with a tall, thin man coming
down the hall. You know he saw you as clearly
and distinctly as you saw him. Now back at your apartment,
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you entered cautiously, seated in the big leather chair, sound
asleep from the sedative you'd slipped into his brink just
as you left him, His old professor, Fred Norton in
front of him on the small table, a chest man
unmoved since you left. You glance hurriedly around, search for
a safe place to hide. Lymb's jewels Beside the rubber
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plant in your hallway is id You push aside several
handfuls of soil, drop in the jewels, replace the soil,
and pour a glass of water over. Then you return
to the living room and shake the professors and grim bread.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Hey, hey, wake up, wake up, Come on, sleepy ahead, mate.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
My George, don't tell me I've dozed off again. You
certainly did, Fred. You know this is getting to be
a habit with you. So it is, So it is,
by George.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
I'm sorry, I feel like I've slept an hour.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Oh no, no, no, not that long. Only about ten minutes. Really,
that's long enough for me to mix us another drink here.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Oh thanks, Gordon. Me and now let's see where were
we you move?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Fred, So the chess game resumes where it left off
a little more than half an hour ago. You've assured
old Professor Norton that he'd been asleep for only about
ten minutes, and he doesn't question it. On numerous occasions
before he's dozed off during your game. That's what gave
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you the idea for your perfect alibi. The minutes go by.
It's been three quarters of an hour now since you've
returned to your apartment and.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Should have found Lynn's body by now.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Your phone should ring soon soon, y, what's ever?
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Watch out, Gordon, you'll have set the boy.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
I'm sorry, isn't the phone excuse me, min A Fred?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Yes, yes, I'm mister Manning. Yes, yes, I know you,
mister Rand.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
What is it.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
My wife? Lynn? Good lord? I can't believe it. Yes, yes,
of course I'll be right over the police. Oh you
have yes, yes, I'll be right over Fred, Fred it's.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Lynb eh Lynn, Gordon, what's wrong?
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Lynn is dead? Murdered and murdered. I don't understand. I
don't either. I can't believe it. I've got to get
over there quick.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I'll do with you. Gordon.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Oh, yes, yes, I wish you could.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Oh, mister Manning, come in, come in.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
It's dreadful, simply dreadfully. It doesn't seem possible. It just
doesn't seem mister Rand. This is Professor Norton, friend, mister Rand,
the manager of the building. How do you do, Professor Norton,
This is shocking, mister Rand's shocking. Professor Norton was with
me when I got your call. Mister Randy was good enough.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
To do good.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Thank you. He then you're here, pull in, pull in,
and yes, yes, it's terrible. It's terrible. Mister Rand says
that you found her.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yes, I rang the bell, No one answered, was opened
till I went in and where she was?
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Oh good good, this is doctor doctor.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Sorry, I'm so upset.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I can't remember.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
I understand. I'm doctor Roberts. Mister Manning.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
How do you do?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Doctor?
Speaker 5 (12:09):
I'm sorry, mister Manning. There's nothing I could do. She
was dead when mister Rand and I got up here.
This is Raymore, one of my patients here in the building,
passed away this evening. I was in mister Ramd's office
when this young lady called.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
I can't understand why would anyone want to kill Linn?
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Perhaps the lieutenant can tell you better than I'm mister Manning.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Lieutenant Williams, Lieutenant.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
This is mister Manning, Oh, Ignorm's husband.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
I'm glad we were able to get hold of you
this fast, mister Manning, Lieutenant, who would kill her?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Why? Burglary?
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Looks as though missus Manning surprised the thief and he
killed her.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Doug Glory.
Speaker 9 (12:47):
Yes, her jewel box seems to have been ransacked, and
it looks as though rings have been taken from her fingers. Oh,
you can help us with that you must be familiar
with the jeweling.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Oh, yes, yes, of course I gave her most of it.
But where where is she?
Speaker 9 (13:02):
They've taken her into the bedroom.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
When when did it happen? Well, I was just.
Speaker 9 (13:06):
Talking to the doctor. He places the time at about
nine o'clock, a little more than an hour ago. Now,
mister Manning, ay, let's sit down over there. There are
some questions I'd like to ask you.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yes, Gordon, there are questions, many questions, and it was
good to have the professor right there to corroborate your
statement that the two of you have been playing chess
from seven o'clock right up to the time you had
received the call from mister Ram. He didn't even mention
dozing off. Later, alone in your apartment, you sink into
a chair and try to think. The whole thing has
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come off perfectly, perfectly, except for the tall, thin man
you met in the hall as you were hurrying from
your wife's apartment. Yes, he could send your alibi crashing
down about your head, couldn't it.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Jeane, Hi, darling, surprise.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
I was on my way home from Mary's when I
saw your light and I couldn't reis is coming up for.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
A moment, Jean, I think you better not cotton. Gordon,
what is it. You're trembling something wrong? It's Lynn. She's
dead and murdered, said murdered. About ten o'clock, I got
the call from Durand. He's the manager of Lynde's apartment building.
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Fred and I went over right away. The professor. He
was here when you got the call. Yes, yes, they
say it was burglary and most of her jewelry is missing. Gordon.
Are you all right, dear? It must have been awful
for you. No, no, no, I'm all right. It's just my
head still spinning. First the shock and then all those
questions the police lieutenant threw at me. And tomorrow I
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have to be down and see him again. Questions.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
But you told him you were with a professor or evening.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
Relaxed, darling. They have to ask questions. That's their business.
It's just that I'm worried. I can't help it, Gordon.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I'm worried.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
I like to have you worried about me, Jean, but
there's nothing to worry about. But now you better run along.
It wouldn't look good for you. Yes, good night, dear,
Good night, Jean.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
The next morning, you hurry out and get a paper.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
It's there, in big black headlines, Society Woman's slain. Below
that a recent picture of Lynn, and then the whole
page seems to jump out at you. Or Beside Lynn's
picture is a large, clear close up of.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
You, Gordon.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
The tall thin man will have no trouble identifying you. Now,
Willie Gordon. You don't know who he is or where
he is. And there's Lieutenant Williams.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
At one o'clock.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
You decide to drop in at his office casually, ask
him if he's making any progress. You must find out
if the tall thin Man has identified you.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
No, I'm afraid we haven't uncovered anything new, mister Manning.
Not a trace of the jewelry yet. We've got every
porn shop in town covered. That seems to be our
best bed. We don't have much to go on, no fingerprints.
No one was seen to enter or leave the apartment.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
I see.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
But we're doing everything we can, mister Manning.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yes, yes, I'm sure you are.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Lieutenant You're still above suspicion when you leave Lieutenant Williams's office.
But somehow you've got to find the tall thin man
before he goes to the police. He knows Dosney Gordon,
He's seen your picture, knows who you are, and more important,
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he knows a good thing when he sees you're a
wealthy real estate broker, can shake down with blackmail. Yes, Gordon,
that's it.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
You're sure of it.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Now, you know there's nothing to do. But wait they
make that afternoon, almost closing time. Your secretary, Miss Adams,
enters your office.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Mister Manning, mister Wellman, to see you.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Er we Wellman, I don't place them.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Has he been in before? I believe not, mister Manning.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
I don't believe I've ever seen him before.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
What does he look like? Well, he's tall, he's quite
tall and thin, mister Manning. Is there something?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Shall I?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Shall I tell him you're busy that you can't see
him now? No, no, no, don't do that. Send him in,
miss Adams and see that we're not disturbed. Yes, mister Manning,
you may a win.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Now, mister Wellman, you stiffen as the man looms tall
and thin in your doorway, then you relax. It is
not the man, is it going? Just a man to
inquire about a piece of property. That night you take
Lynn's jewels from their hiding place in the base of
the rubber plant.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Drive to a deserted.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Section of the lake front, and certain is no one
near you throw the box as far as you can
out of the deep water, and then shake him unsteady.
You drive home and prepare for the nightmare of the
days ahead, the endless nerve taut, waiting for the tall,
thin man who can blow your alibid de bits, if
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you could only find out who he is, where he lives,
if you could surprise him what a week goes by?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Ten days? Then on the morning of the eleventh.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Day, you're at the office, dictating to Miss Adams at
her desk.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
And at the meeting called yesterday, my associates and I
have decided to give your offer our approval. And in
view of the no, no, Miss Adam, scratch that it's
not just what I want. Let's try it this way
at a special meeting called what Happens? What's maning? What's
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the manning?
Speaker 9 (19:16):
What is it.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
All? The newspaper I brought it to work with me.
I didn't get a chance to Oh that plane crash.
Did you know someone on board m plane crasher? Oh no, no,
it isn't that it's city. It's just that lately I
haven't felt so well, these these headaches. We'll let the
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let her go for a while. Now, let's borrow your
newspaper if I may relax a little. I'll bring you
when i'm ready.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Yes, mister Manning, alone in your office, you stare at
the paper, not at the plane crash headline, right at
the picture of a man. Your eye's hurriedly taken the
caption above his picture, Missus Elva Raymore leaves fortune to nephew.
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He's your man, isn't he? Gordon, the tall thin man.
You jot down his name, Lawrence Holcombe, and his address.
You've got to think carefully now, Gordon, Lawrence Holcombe is
your man, all right, but you must be sure that
he's not already grown to the police. And there's just
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one way to be sure, isn't the gourdon. It's a
bold move, But by late afternoon you're certain it's a
move you must make. You leave the office. You go
to police headquarters.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Hello, sergeant, Hello, mister Manning. I'd like to see Lieutenant Williams.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Okay, I'll I'll ring.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Oh here he is.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Now, Lieutenant. I well, I guess you know why I'm here.
I just want to know.
Speaker 9 (20:59):
If anything is to No, I'm sorry to say there's
nothing new at all, not the price of your wife's
jewelry and the way this case stacks up. If we
don't get a lead on the jewelry, we don't have
much to go on.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Yes, I see, well, I know how you feel.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
Mister Manning. But we haven't given up. We never will sometimes,
you know, these cases crack in unexpected ways, crazy ways sometimes,
So don't give up, hope, mister Manning.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Come on, I was just leaving. I'll walk to the
corner with him, all right, Lieutenant.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Oh excuse me a moment.
Speaker 9 (21:31):
Yes, are you try and get in touch with that
fellow and the one who inherited the ray more money
her nephew.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
What's his name, Lawrence Hawk?
Speaker 9 (21:41):
That's right, Try to locate him with you. I'd like
to say him in the morning, lieutenant, if you'd care
for a cup of coffee. Mister Manning.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
You're sure now, aren't you got?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Lawrence Holcombe hasn't contacted the police, not yet. What Lieutenant
Williams wants to see him in the morning. You have time, now,
haven't you time?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
To do?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
What?
Speaker 3 (22:05):
You must do.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
You must make sure that Lawrence Holcombe never sees the police.
The lieutenant walks you to the corner and then you
part company. Once at home, you take the small automatic
from your bedroom and at eight o'clock that night you're
pushing the buzzer at Lawrence Holcombe's apart.
Speaker 8 (22:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I'd like to talk to you, mister Holcombe.
Speaker 8 (22:30):
Yeh, what are you selling?
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Ever since the papers came out with that inherited's story,
I've been festered by guys like you.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
What is it?
Speaker 8 (22:37):
Gold mines are oil?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Well, I'm not selling anything. Don't you recognize me, mister Holcombe?
Speaker 8 (22:45):
Oh I've mislied. I don't come on in.
Speaker 5 (22:50):
Just got back from a trip and packing for another.
Maybe you can find something to sit on that isn't
a suitcase.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I'd rather stand. This won't take long. Ah, then take
a good look at me. Hookem Oh it's.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
You Manning, isn't it, Gordon Manning. I got tired waiting
for you, hokem been out of town. Like I said,
I've been meaning to do something about you.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I don't get you, hookemb. You haven't been to the police,
you haven't tried to blackmail me yet, and you don't
need any money. Now what is it? What do you want?
Speaker 8 (23:24):
Don't worry Manning, I want something all right.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Oh wait a minute, don't answer that.
Speaker 8 (23:30):
What do you mean.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
What is this stick up? No? No, not quite. Just
don't answer that phone.
Speaker 8 (23:40):
Okay, so I won't answer it now put that gun away.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
No, no, no, you see I know things that you don't know.
Hokumb I know the police want to see you in
the morning. The police, yes, yes, but you've waited too long,
so they You are not going to live to tell him.
I was in my wife's apartment to night. She was murdered.
Speaker 8 (23:58):
No, Manning, wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
You don't have a minute.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
Welcome, but I have Now, I've got all the time in.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
The world.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Tonight.
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Speaker 3 (25:43):
It's over, Isn't it good?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
You've shot Lawrence Hulcombe, the tall, thin man who was
the one person in the world who could identify you
as having been at your wife's apartment the night she
was murdered. You leave Holcombe's apartment for a backstair, but
this time you're not seen. You your car and drive home,
suddenly secure in your mind, certain the threat of the tall,
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thin man has gone forever. Back at home, you realize
you can plan your marriage to ge a long trip together,
far from the trying ordeal of the past few weeks.
Your thoughts, filled with new dreams and plans, are suddenly interrupted.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Hello, Manning, Lieutenant Williamson, I well, come in, come in.
I didn't expect to see you again so soon. Has
had something turned up here? Something's turned up?
Speaker 9 (26:42):
Remember I told you cases like this sometimes crack in
crazy ways.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Yes, yes it is. I remember you killed your.
Speaker 9 (26:49):
Wife, Manning.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
No, no, no, no, you'll long you can drive act.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
I know you killed her.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Often told me everything, Holcombe, But he couldn't he.
Speaker 9 (27:04):
He wasn't quite dead when I got to his apartment, Manning.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
But but how did you happen?
Speaker 9 (27:09):
Now? Did I happen to be there before he died?
I heard a pony this evening with no answer. I
was pretty sure he was in his apartment, probably packing
for a getaway.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
So I went up there and get away. He was
running from you, you beery. Was the night you murdered
your wife?
Speaker 9 (27:25):
Holcomb admitted he murdered his aunt in the same building
by suffocating him with a pillow.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
His aunt missus Raymond.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
Her autopsy said it was a heart attack.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
I thought it was murder, but Holcomb could prove he
was three hundred miles away that night. As long as
I couldn't break that alibi, he was safe.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
And and Holcombe was afraid that that I would break
his alibi.
Speaker 9 (27:51):
That's right, Manny Holcombe never would have identified you. If
he had, he'd have signed his own ticket to the
gas chain.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Let that whistle be.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Your signal for the Signal Oil program The Whistler each
Sunday night at this same time, Signal Oil Company has
asked me to remind me next Sunday, June tenth his
Children's day. So this week be sure to drive extra carefully,
obey traffic regulations, and don't take chances. You may save
a life, possibly a child. Featured in Tonight's story were
(28:46):
Bill Foreman, John Dayner, June Whitley, Bill Blushet, Michael Ann, Barrett,
Norman Field, and Stephen Chase. The Whistler was produced and
directed by George w Allen, with story by Edwin K. Spangenberg,
music by Wilbur Hatch, and was transmitted to our troops
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entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are
also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance to persons
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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
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