October 1, 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
of Whistler Signal the famous to sit back and enjoy
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another strange story by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
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.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Have stepped into the shadows.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yes, I know the nameless terror of which they dare
not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
And now transcribe for the Signal Oil Company the Whistler's
strange story. The Man in the trench Coat.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It was clearly a mistake, a perfectly natural, understandable mistake.
It could have happened to anyone, and it happened to
Wally Lake. But he wasn't yet aware of that mistake.
As he strode out of the North Beach restaurant, the
trench coat draped over his arm, and walked back to
the parking lot. As he approached his car, Wally reached
into the coat pocket for the keys, and a strange,
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puzzled expression crossed his face as he withdrew an unsealed
envelope and opened him money, Wally, money, A lot of it,
folded neatly inside the envelope, and you wonder how it
got there.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Suddenly you're aware.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Of footsteps behind you. Quickly you slip the envelope back
into the coat pocket. And then as you're about to
get into your car.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Hey you just a minute, you're talking to me. Yeah,
hand it over hand? What over my coat?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
The one you just picked up on the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
This?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Oh, I'm afraid your mistake.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Hand it over, I said.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Fellow, this happens to be my coat. Why should I
hand it out? Book?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
This is reason enough.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Oh? Yes, I never argue with a gent when he's
waving an automatic in my face. Okay, power, here's the coat.
Nice my mistake.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, and just to make sure it doesn't happen, a gun.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The gun butt catches you on the side of the
head and you fall back against the car, slip down
to the pavement, and for a few seconds a black
fog envelopship. Then, as you shake it from your brain,
staggered your feet, you see the man with the gun
drive away in a big gray sedan.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Then you returned to the restaurant. Thank you, come back
here here.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Oh, mister Layton, you forget something. Yeah, the you know,
it looks like I forgot my top.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Coat your topic.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
But you had to go where you were at when
you have a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
It wasn't mine. There's mine still hanging where I left it. Look,
you know I've done some things for you. Well, then
tell me a man just left here right after I
did pop my bills mustache, wearing the brown suit. It
was his coat. I took ozy suite. Now that's a
big sedan. Maybe he's a regular customer. Oh sure, that's
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the Carter Carter. Oh sure, that's a Chick Carter.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
He's he's in trouble.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
What private eye? And when the private eye starts ask
him question? Oh no, no, nothing like that. Do you know?
I was just curious? That's all. The name Chick Carter
means something to you, doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Why?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yes, he's a racketeer specializing in blackmail. And as you
drive downtown you wonder about the money in Carter's coat.
Arriving at your office, you're surprised to find a light
still burning inside.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well, hello, adn't it you still here? What are you typing?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
My resignation?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Ah?
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Now, honey, get yourself another secretary.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Oh come on, now, what do you say about now?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
We had a date tonight for dinner. Remember, Oh, dam
I know it slipped your mind.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
When I look at the baby, I was tied up
see a client? Ha honest, honest, anything happened today while
I was out?
Speaker 7 (04:52):
The landlord was in again. And your tailor he's gonna
snatch your shoulder pads right out of your suit any
minute now?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Anything else?
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
How do you spell? Ish?
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Just?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
What are you writing a letter to my aunt?
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Hazelin Petaluma?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
How's the egg business?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Just standing? And I'm accepting your offer?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
What offer?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well?
Speaker 7 (05:11):
She's looking for a nice young couple to take over
the ranch for her, and we are a nice.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Young couple where I hate eggs. You're turning me down,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Do me a favor.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Will you get my engagement ring out of the pawn
shop so I can throw it at you? No? No, baby,
were you kidding me about having a client?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Nope?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Who is it?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Well? I don't know yet.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Now?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Look, honey, look I ran into something big tonight, something
that sounds promising, might even be terrific.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Oh, here we go again.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You string along with me, baby, this one.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Time, haven't I always?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Now, Look, I gotta get on this right away and
see a guy. I'll call you sometime tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Not here, you won't.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
You're really serious about Quinton?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
No, No, I'll.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Be here all right, But the phone might not.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Be You see the jingle.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
People were here today. They want the phone or their money.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You're quite anxious to follow up your hunch, aren't you.
Walt Yes, And five minutes later you walk into a
small bar not far from the Hall of Justice, walk straight.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Back to the man at the piano. Ulippins, Oh, I
don't an I won't. I want some information on credit. Yeah, sure,
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I can't hear you. These couplings to mind, you've always
liked they're yours.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Suddenly I'm tuned in.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
You've heard a chick Carter.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, I've heard.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
You know where he's staying.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He's coupling solid gold Solid. He's staying at the Alva Hotel. Well,
not much class wouldn't do for Cotta to look too prosperous.
The cuffs might want to start asking questions.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
What's his financial position at the moment? Lovely loaded?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, and he ain't winning it poker. He's losing.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I think he's in business again.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I would say he has another picture, Yeah a day,
maybe a dame usually thanks Vince, he'd been grand. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Sure is a nice tune, ain't it.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
The following morning you pick up Carta's trail, a close
watch on him, and the days that follow, day after
day you keep after him.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Finally, at the end of the second week, your patience
is rewarding.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
In a crowded cafe, you see a woman brush past
Carter's overcoat hanging on the rack. You see your slip
and envelope into the coat pocket. Then hurry out. You've
found the pigeon you've been looking for, haven't you at.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Hello?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Isn't it?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Well?
Speaker 7 (08:34):
You certainly caught me at a most inopportune moment.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I just took off my face.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
I look, don't you know? It's after midnight?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I just dropped by to tell you the good.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
News, Oh, something to do with Carter?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
What else?
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Well, all I know is that you've been tagging him
around for days, but you haven't told me why.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I'll break it down to you quickly, honey. His business
is blackmail, and tonight I saw a dame make a payoff.
She slipped an envelope into his pocket.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Oh who is she to know?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
It didn't take long to find out. She's Louise Murdoch.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
The Louise Murdoch, Franklin Murdoch's wife.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, it's Farmer secretary. She married Murdoch six months after
his first wife died in an accident.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Well, the police were never too sold on the idea
that it was an accident. I don't know if they
are yet. So so here's Louise, the second missus Murdoch
paying off a blackmailer. Why.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
There could be a lot of reasons. What I'm interested
in is where you fit in.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
In a setup like this. There's always room for a
smart guy to make a few bucks.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
And you're the smart guy.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Right.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
You'll see baby in the good old summer time.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
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Speaker 3 (10:46):
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Speaker 1 (10:47):
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Speaker 2 (11:19):
You're certain you've stumbled on to something good, aren't you, Walley,
a simple case of blackmaid, and you feel it may
be well worth your.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
While to follow it up.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Next morning, you decide to risk a personal call on
Louise Murdoch at the Murdoch town House on Pacific Heights,
where posing is a newspaper reporter. You learn she's horseback
riding at Golden Gate Park. The park offers a better
chance for an uninterrupted chat than the house, doesn't it, Whalley, Yes,
So you drive out, park your car, seat yourself on
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one of the benches near the bridle path, and wait. Presently,
a rider approaches a woman.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
You recognize as Missus Murdoch.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Oh, Missus Murdock, Missus Murdock, I see you for a minute. Yes,
what is it, Oh, Wally lateon's the name. I'm a
private investigator. Oh, I thought we might have a little chat.
What about blackmail?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Blackmail?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
That's right, Maybe I can get you off the book.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I'm afraid I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I was at the Regius Cafe last night, so you
were at the Regil Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm
not the owner of the trench coat.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I still don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Well, maybe you need a little time to think it over.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Okay, Look I'm on my way out to the beach.
I'll be on the midway having a cup of coffee
and the diner right next to the Merry Go Round.
I'll be there one hour where well said now, Missus Murdoch. Copy.
Speaker 9 (13:08):
No, I want to know what you have in mind,
mister Layton, I want to know right now. Sure you
do all this ridiculous talk about ridiculous?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Oh, come knock, come, I saw what happened last night.
I saw you put the money in Carter's coat. Everything,
And Missus Murdoch, is this man You're dealing with. He's
well known in the gentle art of shakedown. The police
would be vary, and we'll leave the police out of this,
will we. Well, now that depends, Missus Murdoch. But I
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can get you off the hook.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
You insist, I'm on.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I do. If you weren't, you'd still be on that
horse trotting about enjoying a ride in the park.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Go ahead, you're doing the talking.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You're making it very difficult, Missus Murdoch. I'm supposing, only
supposing now that you were paying off somebody for.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Something amusing thought.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Oh not too, But it might be more amusing if
the man you're dealing with suddenly found the heat on
him so strong that he just might find it smart
to forget the Murdoch's.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
This does sound interesting, mister Layton. Just how could you
bring that about?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Well, I have several ideas. Like I told you, I'm
a private investigator, and I have some pretty good connections
I see naturally to arrange things for you.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You would expect a small fee.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Let's just say a fee, but it'll be a fair
shake this time, Missus Murdoch. Honest, Wally, they called me.
Speaker 9 (14:38):
I'm sure of it, all right. I'd like the Arrangementster Layton.
I think it might work. Of course, the evidence this
man holds happens to be trumped up.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Oh sure.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
Also, just so we understand one another, it's my husband
who's paying off, not me.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I'm simply a go between.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Naturally. Are you sure you won't have that coffee now,
Missus Murdoch all right?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Might warm me up?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yes, it will help, Missus Murdock. That quest the fact
that we're well working together.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
You don't believe anything she said, do you, Wally, or
anything she tells you in the next half hour. But
it doesn't matter who's guilty or what's been done. Just
so there's something in all this for you. And there
seems to be Wally, Yes, there should be money. And
there's also missus Murdoch. She's an exciting person, isn't she.
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And when you have lunch together the next day to
discuss your plan, you find yourself even more impressed by
Louise Murdoch herself. You find that you want to linger
in the corner booth of the quiet little cafe as
long as possible. This whole thing is going to take time,
Missus Murdock.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I understand, but you just leave it to me.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I'll get the guy on the run.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I'm sure you will, Wally.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Of course, you know how I'm starling just to talk
to you.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I rather thought you were.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I'm kidding, are you Pally sure? I? No, No, I'm
not kidding.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Louise.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Naturally, I'm going to take care of this thing. But
I well, I hope that that won't wind everything up.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Aren't you forget it?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
But you're a married woman. Yes, yes, you make me
forget lots of things.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
You say all the right things, don't you worry?
Speaker 4 (16:45):
You make me think of all the right things.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
No, we're both wrong with very wrong.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
For any of those lyrics don't seem to match the music.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Please, Wally, let let's forget it for now, shall we?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Sure?
Speaker 10 (16:58):
Sure, we'll forget it for now.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Louise has made you almost forget something else, hasn't she?
Speaker 7 (17:17):
All?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yes, the fact that you're engaged to Edna, whom you've
scarcely seen since Louise Murdoch became your client. In the
days that follow, you find excuses to be with Louise
Murdoch more and more, giving her one excuse after another
for your lack of progress, and you're almost sure she
feels the same way about you, doesn't mind the situation
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being dragged out in the lease. And you know you
don't really intend to do anything about Carter, the man
who is blackmailed, not anything that is, except watch for
the next payoff and lead him to the money. But
you do want to talk to Louise, be sure of
her feeling for you, explain that the two of you
can leave together. And there's one other thing you must
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be certain. Next day, after lunch, parked in a secluded
spot on the beach road, you learn what you want
to know.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Louise. You sure what you told me in the beginning.
It's your husband who's been blackmailed, not you.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
But that's what I told you, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yes? Yes, but I've got to know for sure?
Speaker 9 (18:21):
You do know I told you I I couldn't lie
to you, Wally.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Don't you know that?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yes? Yes, I'd yes, I'd.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Do Oh, Wally, I I don't know. I just don't know,
don't know what I can stand it when this is over,
when when I won't see you anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Well, I've got some ideas about back tool. Any chance
for me to get away and have dinner with me tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yes, Wally, I'll make it somehow.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I'll tell you everything I've got on my mind tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You still don't quite believe her, do you, Wally?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
And you determine to test Louise.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Find out for yourself whether it's Louise or her husband
who is the subject of Carter's blackmail. And the test
is simple, infallible, isn't it, Wally. Louise has already told you.
The next payoff is to occur the next evening at
eight o'clock, and it will happen in the same way
as before. Another envelope filled with currency twenty thousand, this
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time the overcoat hanging innocently in a restaurant at dinner
that evening. You watch your expression closely as you tell
her what's on your mind.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Why not, Louise? Why not keep the money? We could
get out of town together. It would give us a
real start somewhere else.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
No, Wally, my husband would be exposed immediately if that
money wasn't received.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
He must have done something pretty big.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
What was it?
Speaker 9 (20:06):
That's something I can't talk about, not even to you.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
You're that concerned about him, I mean, considering the way
we feel, I can't be unfair or that careless.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I didn't like that.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
Sorry, sounded like you still doubt me that you think
I'm afraid of mice.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Maybe it did sound that way. Oh look, honey, you
don't love Murdoch, not anymore, not ever, if you ask me,
Maybe that's right.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
It's taking me a while to find it out.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Look, Louise, look you know I love you, don't you
I and you either love me or you don't. If
you do, you've got to leave Murdoch. I'll be waiting,
Louise tomorrow night at nine o'clock at my apartment. I'll
have two plane tickets. I want us to use them.
Get away from here a long way.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
You want me to bring the money to you, and
instead of giving it to God.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Why not? As far as your husband's concerned, the money's
gone anyway. Think it over, Louise. Like I said, I'll be.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Waiting somehow thinking about it. After you leave her. You're
more certain than ever that she's the guilty one, aren't you.
Wally that you'll never show up at your apartment.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
For the money.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
You decide to take things in your own hands. So
next evening, a few minutes before Louise is due to
make her pay off to Carter. You're loitering near the
cafe where the money is to be passed. Soon Carter appears,
confidently approaching the place. You step back into the protective
shadows of an alley, and then, as he passes close
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to you, Carter.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Muh, come here, look, Paul, what's the gun. Let's conversation, Carter,
I haven't much time. This gun is just to get
you close enough for.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
A less.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
He looks strange to your doesn'ty.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Wally huddled in.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
The heap near the alley wall, you wonder if you
hit him harder than you should have. Then you notice
that he must have struck the wall as he fell back.
You kneel down, quickly, listen, straighten up. As you realize
that he's dead, you grab up the overcoat he was carrying,
hurry into the cafe. Once inside, you hang up the overcoat,
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then stroll into the bar, where you watch the cafe
entrance unobserved.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Just as you expected.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It's only a few minutes before Louise arrives to keep
her appointment with caught her admitting her guilt. As far
as you are concerned, you reflect that it's too bad
that at least you'll have the money. She leaves and
there's still Edna. Louise moves forward slips the envelope into
the pocket of the trench coat you snatched from Carter.
You wait until she turns and hurries out.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Then you stroll.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Casually to the overcoat, slip it up, walk rapidly to
a drug store three blocks away.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Will you enter a phone room?
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Hello, Hi, had no baby, Oh it's you.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
How would you like to go on a honeymoon to
Rio de Janeiro.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I have a no more for gag.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Oh, this is no gag, baby. That guy I told
you about just paid me off big to forget about
that case I've been on. I'll pick you up in
about an hour, Remember, honey, I told you. In the
right kind of a set up, a smart guy could.
Speaker 11 (23:39):
Always pick up a few bucks.
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Speaker 2 (25:18):
Back at your apartment with the money in the pocket
of the stolen trench coat, you're satisfied that you're in
the clear, aren't you, Walley. You have no fear at all.
When the telephone rings, Louise will say nothing, and Catter
is dead, and no one else will associate you with
either Carter or Louise Murdoch.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
It looks clear and clean, doesn't.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
It, Wally?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
And you're sure you can go your way?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
And then.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
Hello, Wally, it's Louise.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Yeah, Wally, I started your apartment to night with the money.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Oh sure I did, Wally.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
I want to go away with you.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I mean you sure, sure you do. That's why you
went to the cafe.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
I had to go on to the cafe Walley and
leave the money.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
My husband was following me.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
He had a gun.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
The quarterre you trying to tell me anyway? Holy hang up?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Now, sit down over there, operator, give me the police department.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Hey, wait a minute, what's the idea?
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Here?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Pal Police Department Operator twenty six.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
I'm calling to report a murder where Apartment D thirty
one fifty one Witton Street.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Who's walking? I'll tell you when you get here, I'll
wait for you. Look, you're crazy. There hasn't been any murder.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Is going to be one?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Right now?
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Blackmailer?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Your murder? Yes? Oh I wait a minute, murderch I
can explain there, explains everything I saw.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
My wife put the money in it, the last twenty
thousand I had. You've broken me blackmailer all the way.
Now I'm losing my wife, somebody I once murdered for.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Yep, then it was you who was paying off.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
She's fallen for another man. Now I've got nothing more
to live for. So it's the end of the line
for you too, blackmailer.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Oh wait, murdach that money wasn't.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
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Speaker 2 (01:26):
It was clearly a mistake, a perfectly natural, understandable mistake.
It could have happened to anyone, and it happened to
Wally Lake. But he wasn't yet aware of that mistake.
As he strode out of the North Beach restaurant, the
trench coat draped over his arm, and walked back to
the parking lot. As he approached his car, Wally reached
into the coat pocket for the keys, and a strange,
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puzzled expression crossed his face as he withdrew an unsealed
envelope and opened him money, Wally, money, A lot of it,
folded neatly inside the envelope, and you wonder how it
got there.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Suddenly you're aware.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Of footsteps behind you. Quickly you slip the envelope back
into the coat pocket. And then as you're about to
get into your car.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Hey you just a minute, you're talking to me. Yeah,
hand it over hand? What over my coat?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
The one you just picked up on the restaurant.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
This?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Oh, I'm afraid your mistake.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Hand it over, I said.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Fellow, this happens to be my coat. Why should I
hand it out? Book?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
This is reason enough.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Oh? Yes, I never argue with a gent when he's
waving an automatic in my face. Okay, power, here's the coat.
Nice my mistake.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yeah, and just to make sure it doesn't happen, a gun.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
The gun butt catches you on the side of the
head and you fall back against the car, slip down
to the pavement, and for a few seconds a black
fog envelopship. Then, as you shake it from your brain,
staggered your feet, you see the man with the gun
drive away in a big gray sedan.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Then you returned to the restaurant. Thank you, come back
here here.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Oh, mister Layton, you forget something. Yeah, the you know,
it looks like I forgot my top.
Speaker 6 (03:21):
Coat your topic.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
But you had to go where you were at when
you have a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
It wasn't mine. There's mine still hanging where I left it. Look,
you know I've done some things for you. Well, then
tell me a man just left here right after I
did pop my bills mustache, wearing the brown suit. It
was his coat. I took ozy suite. Now that's a
big sedan. Maybe he's a regular customer. Oh sure, that's
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the Carter Carter. Oh sure, that's a Chick Carter.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
He's he's in trouble.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
What private eye? And when the private eye starts ask
him question? Oh no, no, nothing like that. Do you know?
I was just curious? That's all. The name Chick Carter
means something to you, doesn't it.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Why?
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yes, he's a racketeer specializing in blackmail. And as you
drive downtown you wonder about the money in Carter's coat.
Arriving at your office, you're surprised to find a light
still burning inside.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well, hello, adn't it you still here? What are you typing?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
My resignation?
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Ah?
Speaker 7 (04:32):
Now, honey, get yourself another secretary.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Oh come on, now, what do you say about now?
Speaker 7 (04:38):
We had a date tonight for dinner. Remember, Oh, dam
I know it slipped your mind.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
When I look at the baby, I was tied up
see a client? Ha honest, honest, anything happened today while
I was out?
Speaker 7 (04:52):
The landlord was in again. And your tailor he's gonna
snatch your shoulder pads right out of your suit any
minute now?
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Anything else?
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
How do you spell? Ish?
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Just?
Speaker 4 (05:02):
What are you writing a letter to my aunt?
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Hazelin Petaluma?
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
How's the egg business?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Just standing? And I'm accepting your offer?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
What offer?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Well?
Speaker 7 (05:11):
She's looking for a nice young couple to take over
the ranch for her, and we are a nice.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Young couple where I hate eggs. You're turning me down,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Do me a favor.
Speaker 7 (05:21):
Will you get my engagement ring out of the pawn
shop so I can throw it at you? No? No, baby,
were you kidding me about having a client?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Nope?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Who is it?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Well? I don't know yet.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Now?
Speaker 4 (05:37):
Look, honey, look I ran into something big tonight, something
that sounds promising, might even be terrific.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Oh, here we go again.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
You string along with me, baby, this one.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Time, haven't I always?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Now, Look, I gotta get on this right away and
see a guy. I'll call you sometime tomorrow.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Not here, you won't.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
You're really serious about Quinton?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
No, No, I'll.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Be here all right, But the phone might not.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Be You see the jingle.
Speaker 7 (06:00):
People were here today. They want the phone or their money.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
You're quite anxious to follow up your hunch, aren't you.
Walt Yes, And five minutes later you walk into a
small bar not far from the Hall of Justice, walk straight.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Back to the man at the piano. Ulippins, Oh, I
don't an I won't. I want some information on credit. Yeah, sure,
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I can't hear you. These couplings to mind, you've always
liked they're yours.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Suddenly I'm tuned in.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
You've heard a chick Carter.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, I've heard.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
You know where he's staying.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He's coupling solid gold Solid. He's staying at the Alva Hotel. Well,
not much class wouldn't do for Cotta to look too prosperous.
The cuffs might want to start asking questions.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
What's his financial position at the moment? Lovely loaded?
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yeah, and he ain't winning it poker. He's losing.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
I think he's in business again.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I would say he has another picture, Yeah a day,
maybe a dame usually thanks Vince, he'd been grand. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Sure is a nice tune, ain't it.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
The following morning you pick up Carta's trail, a close
watch on him, and the days that follow, day after
day you keep after him.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Finally, at the end of the second week, your patience
is rewarding.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
In a crowded cafe, you see a woman brush past
Carter's overcoat hanging on the rack. You see your slip
and envelope into the coat pocket. Then hurry out. You've
found the pigeon you've been looking for, haven't you at.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
Hello?
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Isn't it?
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Well?
Speaker 7 (08:34):
You certainly caught me at a most inopportune moment.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I just took off my face.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
I look, don't you know? It's after midnight?
Speaker 4 (08:40):
I just dropped by to tell you the good.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
News, Oh, something to do with Carter?
Speaker 4 (08:44):
What else?
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Well, all I know is that you've been tagging him
around for days, but you haven't told me why.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
I'll break it down to you quickly, honey. His business
is blackmail, and tonight I saw a dame make a payoff.
She slipped an envelope into his pocket.
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Oh who is she to know?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
It didn't take long to find out. She's Louise Murdoch.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
The Louise Murdoch, Franklin Murdoch's wife.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, it's Farmer secretary. She married Murdoch six months after
his first wife died in an accident.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Well, the police were never too sold on the idea
that it was an accident. I don't know if they
are yet. So so here's Louise, the second missus Murdoch
paying off a blackmailer. Why.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
There could be a lot of reasons. What I'm interested
in is where you fit in.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
In a setup like this. There's always room for a
smart guy to make a few bucks.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
And you're the smart guy.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Right.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
You'll see baby in the good old summer time.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
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Speaker 3 (10:46):
It's so easy.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Just drive into a signal station and fill her up
with signal ethyl and you'll know what Marvin Miller means
by pleasure driving.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
You're certain you've stumbled on to something good, aren't you, Walley,
a simple case of blackmaid, and you feel it may
be well worth your.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
While to follow it up.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Next morning, you decide to risk a personal call on
Louise Murdoch at the Murdoch town House on Pacific Heights,
where posing is a newspaper reporter. You learn she's horseback
riding at Golden Gate Park. The park offers a better
chance for an uninterrupted chat than the house, doesn't it, Whalley, Yes,
So you drive out, park your car, seat yourself on
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one of the benches near the bridle path, and wait. Presently,
a rider approaches a woman.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
You recognize as Missus Murdoch.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Oh, Missus Murdock, Missus Murdock, I see you for a minute. Yes,
what is it, Oh, Wally lateon's the name. I'm a
private investigator. Oh, I thought we might have a little chat.
What about blackmail?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Blackmail?
Speaker 4 (12:15):
That's right, Maybe I can get you off the book.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I'm afraid I don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I was at the Regius Cafe last night, so you
were at the Regil Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm
not the owner of the trench coat.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I still don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Well, maybe you need a little time to think it over.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
Okay, Look I'm on my way out to the beach.
I'll be on the midway having a cup of coffee
and the diner right next to the Merry Go Round.
I'll be there one hour where well said now, Missus Murdoch. Copy.
Speaker 9 (13:08):
No, I want to know what you have in mind,
mister Layton, I want to know right now. Sure you
do all this ridiculous talk about ridiculous?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Oh, come knock, come, I saw what happened last night.
I saw you put the money in Carter's coat. Everything,
And Missus Murdoch, is this man You're dealing with. He's
well known in the gentle art of shakedown. The police
would be vary, and we'll leave the police out of this,
will we. Well, now that depends, Missus Murdoch. But I
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can get you off the hook.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
You insist, I'm on.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
I do. If you weren't, you'd still be on that
horse trotting about enjoying a ride in the park.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Go ahead, you're doing the talking.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
You're making it very difficult, Missus Murdoch. I'm supposing, only
supposing now that you were paying off somebody for.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Something amusing thought.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Oh not too, But it might be more amusing if
the man you're dealing with suddenly found the heat on
him so strong that he just might find it smart
to forget the Murdoch's.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
This does sound interesting, mister Layton. Just how could you
bring that about?
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Well, I have several ideas. Like I told you, I'm
a private investigator, and I have some pretty good connections
I see naturally to arrange things for you.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You would expect a small fee.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
Let's just say a fee, but it'll be a fair
shake this time, Missus Murdoch. Honest, Wally, they called me.
Speaker 9 (14:38):
I'm sure of it, all right. I'd like the Arrangementster Layton.
I think it might work. Of course, the evidence this
man holds happens to be trumped up.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Oh sure.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
Also, just so we understand one another, it's my husband
who's paying off, not me.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I'm simply a go between.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Naturally. Are you sure you won't have that coffee now,
Missus Murdoch all right?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Might warm me up?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yes, it will help, Missus Murdock. That quest the fact
that we're well working together.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
You don't believe anything she said, do you, Wally, or
anything she tells you in the next half hour. But
it doesn't matter who's guilty or what's been done. Just
so there's something in all this for you. And there
seems to be Wally, Yes, there should be money. And
there's also missus Murdoch. She's an exciting person, isn't she.
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And when you have lunch together the next day to
discuss your plan, you find yourself even more impressed by
Louise Murdoch herself. You find that you want to linger
in the corner booth of the quiet little cafe as
long as possible. This whole thing is going to take time,
Missus Murdock.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I understand, but you just leave it to me.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I'll get the guy on the run.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I'm sure you will, Wally.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Of course, you know how I'm starling just to talk
to you.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I rather thought you were.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
I'm kidding, are you Pally sure? I? No, No, I'm
not kidding.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Louise.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Naturally, I'm going to take care of this thing. But
I well, I hope that that won't wind everything up.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Aren't you forget it?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
But you're a married woman. Yes, yes, you make me
forget lots of things.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
You say all the right things, don't you worry?
Speaker 4 (16:45):
You make me think of all the right things.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
No, we're both wrong with very wrong.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
For any of those lyrics don't seem to match the music.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Please, Wally, let let's forget it for now, shall we?
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Sure?
Speaker 10 (16:58):
Sure, we'll forget it for now.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Louise has made you almost forget something else, hasn't she?
Speaker 7 (17:17):
All?
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yes, the fact that you're engaged to Edna, whom you've
scarcely seen since Louise Murdoch became your client. In the
days that follow, you find excuses to be with Louise
Murdoch more and more, giving her one excuse after another
for your lack of progress, and you're almost sure she
feels the same way about you, doesn't mind the situation
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being dragged out in the lease. And you know you
don't really intend to do anything about Carter, the man
who is blackmailed, not anything that is, except watch for
the next payoff and lead him to the money. But
you do want to talk to Louise, be sure of
her feeling for you, explain that the two of you
can leave together. And there's one other thing you must
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be certain. Next day, after lunch, parked in a secluded
spot on the beach road, you learn what you want
to know.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Louise. You sure what you told me in the beginning.
It's your husband who's been blackmailed, not you.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
But that's what I told you, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yes? Yes, but I've got to know for sure?
Speaker 9 (18:21):
You do know I told you I I couldn't lie
to you, Wally.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Don't you know that?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yes? Yes, I'd yes, I'd.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Do Oh, Wally, I I don't know. I just don't know,
don't know what I can stand it when this is over,
when when I won't see you anymore.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Well, I've got some ideas about back tool. Any chance
for me to get away and have dinner with me tonight.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yes, Wally, I'll make it somehow.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I'll tell you everything I've got on my mind tonight.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You still don't quite believe her, do you, Wally?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
And you determine to test Louise.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Find out for yourself whether it's Louise or her husband
who is the subject of Carter's blackmail. And the test
is simple, infallible, isn't it, Wally. Louise has already told you.
The next payoff is to occur the next evening at
eight o'clock, and it will happen in the same way
as before. Another envelope filled with currency twenty thousand, this
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time the overcoat hanging innocently in a restaurant at dinner
that evening. You watch your expression closely as you tell
her what's on your mind.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Why not, Louise? Why not keep the money? We could
get out of town together. It would give us a
real start somewhere else.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
No, Wally, my husband would be exposed immediately if that
money wasn't received.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
He must have done something pretty big.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
What was it?
Speaker 9 (20:06):
That's something I can't talk about, not even to you.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
You're that concerned about him, I mean, considering the way
we feel, I can't be unfair or that careless.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I didn't like that.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
Sorry, sounded like you still doubt me that you think
I'm afraid of mice.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Maybe it did sound that way. Oh look, honey, you
don't love Murdoch, not anymore, not ever, if you ask me,
Maybe that's right.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
It's taking me a while to find it out.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
Look, Louise, look you know I love you, don't you
I and you either love me or you don't. If
you do, you've got to leave Murdoch. I'll be waiting,
Louise tomorrow night at nine o'clock at my apartment. I'll
have two plane tickets. I want us to use them.
Get away from here a long way.
Speaker 9 (20:50):
You want me to bring the money to you, and
instead of giving it to God.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Why not? As far as your husband's concerned, the money's
gone anyway. Think it over, Louise. Like I said, I'll be.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Waiting somehow thinking about it. After you leave her. You're
more certain than ever that she's the guilty one, aren't you.
Wally that you'll never show up at your apartment.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
For the money.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
You decide to take things in your own hands. So
next evening, a few minutes before Louise is due to
make her pay off to Carter. You're loitering near the
cafe where the money is to be passed. Soon Carter appears,
confidently approaching the place. You step back into the protective
shadows of an alley, and then, as he passes close
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to you, Carter.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Muh, come here, look, Paul, what's the gun. Let's conversation, Carter,
I haven't much time. This gun is just to get
you close enough for.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
A less.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
He looks strange to your doesn'ty.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Wally huddled in.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
The heap near the alley wall, you wonder if you
hit him harder than you should have. Then you notice
that he must have struck the wall as he fell back.
You kneel down, quickly, listen, straighten up. As you realize
that he's dead, you grab up the overcoat he was carrying,
hurry into the cafe. Once inside, you hang up the overcoat,
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then stroll into the bar, where you watch the cafe
entrance unobserved.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Just as you expected.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
It's only a few minutes before Louise arrives to keep
her appointment with caught her admitting her guilt. As far
as you are concerned, you reflect that it's too bad
that at least you'll have the money. She leaves and
there's still Edna. Louise moves forward slips the envelope into
the pocket of the trench coat you snatched from Carter.
You wait until she turns and hurries out.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Then you stroll.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Casually to the overcoat, slip it up, walk rapidly to
a drug store three blocks away.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Will you enter a phone room?
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Hello, Hi, had no baby, Oh it's you.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
How would you like to go on a honeymoon to
Rio de Janeiro.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
I have a no more for gag.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Oh, this is no gag, baby. That guy I told
you about just paid me off big to forget about
that case I've been on. I'll pick you up in
about an hour, Remember, honey, I told you. In the
right kind of a set up, a smart guy could.
Speaker 11 (23:39):
Always pick up a few bucks.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
In the good old summertime, when you head for new
places or the wide open spaces, it's mighty handy to
have a good map in the car. And there's no
map handier than the free ones you'll find at signal
service stations. No need to squint to find where you're
going on a signal map, they're jumbo size for quick,
easy reading and no need to wrestle with them getting
them open or folded again. Signal maps have the new
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accordion fold for more convenient handling, but that's only the beginning.
In addition, signal road maps contain a guide to interesting
places to visit, plus a traveler's radio guide so you
can follow your favorite programs as you travel, plus and
large sections of metropolitan areas. And if you happen to
need a street map to guide you in the larger
cities of the Pacific coast states, signal stations have them
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free too. In fact, whether you need a free map,
some helpful advice, or just a tankful of the famous
go Farther gasoline, you'll find those friendly in the dependent
signal dealers have just about everything it takes to make
your driving in the good old summer time or anytime
more pleasant.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Back at your apartment with the money in the pocket
of the stolen trench coat, you're satisfied that you're in
the clear, aren't you, Walley. You have no fear at all.
When the telephone rings, Louise will say nothing, and Catter
is dead, and no one else will associate you with
either Carter or Louise Murdoch.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
It looks clear and clean, doesn't.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
It, Wally?
Speaker 4 (25:37):
And you're sure you can go your way?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
And then.
Speaker 8 (25:42):
Hello, Wally, it's Louise.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Yeah, Wally, I started your apartment to night with the money.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Oh sure I did, Wally.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
I want to go away with you.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I mean you sure, sure you do. That's why you
went to the cafe.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
I had to go on to the cafe Walley and
leave the money.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
My husband was following me.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
He had a gun.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
The quarterre you trying to tell me anyway? Holy hang up?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
Now, sit down over there, operator, give me the police department.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Hey, wait a minute, what's the idea?
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Here?
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Pal Police Department Operator twenty six.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
I'm calling to report a murder where Apartment D thirty
one fifty one Witton Street.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
Who's walking? I'll tell you when you get here, I'll
wait for you. Look, you're crazy. There hasn't been any murder.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Is going to be one?
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Right now?
Speaker 6 (26:48):
Blackmailer?
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Your murder? Yes? Oh I wait a minute, murderch I
can explain there, explains everything I saw.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
My wife put the money in it, the last twenty
thousand I had. You've broken me blackmailer all the way.
Now I'm losing my wife, somebody I once murdered for.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Yep, then it was you who was paying off.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
She's fallen for another man. Now I've got nothing more
to live for. So it's the end of the line
for you too, blackmailer.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Oh wait, murdach that money wasn't.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program.
The Whistler each Sunday night at the same time meantime
Signal Oil Company and the friendly independent dealers who help
you go farther with Signal gasoline. Hope you'll remember. Regardless
of what gasoline you use, you'll enjoy more miles of
happy driving. If you drive at sensible speeds, obey traffic regulations,
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and avoid taking chances. You may even save a life,
possibly your own. Featured in Tonight's story were Bill Foreman,
Wally Mayer, Betty lou Gerson, G. G. Pearson, John Stephenson,
and Shepherd MANCN. The Whistler was produced and directed by
George w Allen, with story by Adrian Jon Doe, music
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by Wilbur Hatch, and was transcribed and transmitted to our
troops overseas by the Armed Forces Radio service. The Whistler
is entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the Whistler
are also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance to
persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Remember to tune
in at the same time next Sunday when the Signal
Oil Company will bring you another strange story by the Whistler.
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Marvin Miller speaking for the Signal Oil Company. Stay tuned
now for our Miss Brooks starring Eve Arden, which follows
immediately over most of these stations. This is CBS, the
Columbia Broadcasting System
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