November 21, 2025 • 30 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):
Forces Radio invite you to sit back and enjoy another
strange story by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I am the whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And now the whistler strange story the prosecutor.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The courtroom was tense now.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Assistant District Attorney Philip Graham was beginning to soris for
the prosecution in the case of the People versus Thomas Anderson.
A thrill of success was in his speech as he
moved in for.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
The killed ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
In addition to the fact that circumstance links the defendant
irrevocably to the killing, he still persists in his refusal
to testify, still offers no explanation as to his whereabouts
on the night in question, solely on.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
The basis of possible self incriminate.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
And you were right, weren't you, Philip.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Less than ten minutes after the jury retired, they walked
back in with a verdict you knew was coming, and
Tom Anderson was on his way to the cell and
condemned Row. But that wasn't also, No far from it.
Most important was what your colleagues were saying as they
clustered around you.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, let's it put you to the top of the
heat film.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
You'll had that mahogany desk, O man in the Hall
of Justice.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And there'll be a brass nameplate Philip B. Graham District
can get here.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
But you were this conviction you can't miss.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And they were right, weren't they, Philip. The voters made
it official two weeks later, and only you know what
kind of a job you really did.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yes, it isn't.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Easy to convict a man when you know in your
heart that he's completely innocent. But you're not thinking about
that at the victory celebrations. There's too much else going on. Congratulations,
backslapping important people, and above all, a beautiful brown haired
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girl with clear blue.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Eyes and a quick, easy smile.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I didn't quite get that name, Coren Scott.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
Oh, mister Graham, how wonderful to actually.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Meet you, Not at all the pleasures.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
I know you've heard it many times, mister Graham, but
well I thought you were magnificent at the Anderson trial.
I was only doing my job a public prosecutor. My
it's almost like playing fate. Now, wait a minute, I
mean the idea of holding the fate of a fellow
human being in the palm of your hand. It's a
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little frightening. Such a responsibility.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yes, it is a responsibility.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Of course, we make pretty certain of our facts before
we step into a courtroom and start making accusations. Of
course you do, old American customer. You know a man
is innocent until proven guilty.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
But just think, mister Graham, in this case, the jury
was about to let that killer go free. Why if
it hadn't been for you.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Yes, I had a feeling about Tommy Anderson from the
very beginning.
Speaker 8 (03:44):
It must have been a very hard fight.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It wasn't easy, of course, if a man knows what
he's doing and where he's going.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
What do you mean, really, I guess I admire ambitious man,
mister Graham. I admire them very much.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Thank you, miss Scott.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
I probably shouldn't say this, but you do well. I
think this is a silly way to celebrate anything so
important as becoming district attorney. A stuffy reception and a
lot of politicians Now, if I were running things, yes,
I'd get rid of the politicians. I'd reserve a table
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for two over a little restaurant. I know where the
stakes are heavenly and there's vintage wine Craig Susi and
Champagne Verkno. Nineteen forty or less. How does it sound
you're a pretty good sales Well, that's all. That's what
I do.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
And when would you do it? Oh?
Speaker 8 (04:45):
Tomorrow night, perhaps, say about nine.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
You know I'm a married man.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Of course, what's that got to do with the victory celebration?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Well, if that's the way you look.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
At it, nine o'clock tomorrow night, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This guy, well, Philip, you know it's a foolish thing
to do. But there's something in the way she looks
up at you and smiles that makes it all sound
very reasonable.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And you forget about everything else.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Your wife, your son David in medical school, his good
friend Professor Bentley, who thinks you're the greatest man.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Who ever lived.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
At eight fifteen the following night, you're standing before the
mirror in your bedroom, adjusting your time. Karin is lovely,
isn't she, And as you put on your dinner jacket,
you're thinking of the soft lights and a music.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Oh there you are, dead curious.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Professor almost gave you up.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Dad thought you wudn't come allos got the culprit at last.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I told you wouldn't walk out on his dad.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Hurry up, Dad, we're a half hour late as it is.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I mean we're late.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Say what's the idea of the dinner jacket?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Mister Graham?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, there's nothing formal.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Wait a minute, what's this all about?
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
You going somewhere?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Are we going somewhere?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You didn't forget?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
We'll forget what tonight? You promised you'd go, promised i'd
go where? Don't you remember?
Speaker 9 (06:18):
The faculty's having a father and son night. Professor Bentley's
in charge. Good lord, I did forget. Oh I know,
mister Graham. You're you're a busy man.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Dad.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
You've never forgotten before.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
You've come with us every year.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Now I'm I'm awfully sorry, son, Professor. I just can't
make it.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
What is it? Where are you going?
Speaker 10 (06:40):
Well?
Speaker 5 (06:40):
It's it's a committee dinner, son, very important. I simply
can't get out of it. But I said I can't
get out of it. Let it go with that will
you all right?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Dad?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
That was beginning, Philip.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You didn't know it then, but you made a choice
that night, a choice between your family, your home, and Korean.
And as you and Karin continue to meet secretly during
the weeks that followed, it again to worry you. Not
your family, of course, it was your position, your reputation.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Oh Philip, I think it's wonderful all you've accomplished Korean.
There's something I don't have to say it. I know
what you're thinking, do you. You're wondering when I'm going
to tell you I want out, when I'm going to
tire of loving a man I can never be seen with.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Frankly, yes, please don't.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
Think about it anymore. I don't want to break up
your homes. I never will, Darling, because it would hurt
the very thing I admire you for most of all,
your career.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Well, Philip. You can have it all now, your family,
your career, and Krin. She's right, isn't she? The one
all important thing in your life is that name plate
on your.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Desk, Philip B. Graham, District Attorney. And you know now
that you'll never have to choose between that and Krim.
And then one night a few weeks later, you return
unexpectedly from a business trip and decide to drop in
to see her before going home.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
As you walk up the.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Steps out of the porch, you hear voices, disturbing voices.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Just the way I feel about it.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
You can't tell me everything's over between us. I can't
turn my love off, just like this.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
As you grab the handle of the front door, a
rage wells up inside you, gripping your stomach, rising in
your throat, and bursting in your brain like a sh shell.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Open this door, her in, Why did you come here?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Never mind that? Who are you talking to? Don't lie
to me?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Where is he?
Speaker 12 (09:13):
Philla?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Tell me I heard someone in there? Where's he hiding?
Out of my way?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You step past her, The closet doors partly open, and
as you walk toward it, her in steps to the
light switch and the room goes dark.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Turnue on that light.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Here you are I just struggle with him in the darkness.
You realize he's too powerful for you. He forces you
back against the table. Your hand lights on a heavy
metal bookend. In a blind rage, you swing it high.
Speaker 13 (09:54):
Now, doll, you let it turn on the lights crea,
hurry up, Hi, good lord.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Oh Philip, Why did you do it? He didn't mean
anything to me, nothing at all. He came here because
he found out about us. He wanted me to.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Stay away from you quickly.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
It's no use. He's dead. You've killed Professor Bentley, your
son's best friend.
Speaker 10 (10:42):
What is Alfred Hotskick? Does the name John Nicole mean
anything to you? Perhaps it should, and I shall tell
you why. Four hundred years ago was all nic What
was the respected scholar and diplomat He wrote men, learned articles,
and compiled a dictionary of the French language. Quite appropriately,
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his own name came to be part of most later dictionaries.
For you see one Monsieur Nikou was serving as ambassador
to Lisbon. He became fascinated by a strange plant that
had been brought over from the New Land of America.
When he returned to his own country in fifteen sixty,
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he took some specimens of the plant with him, and
in this manner he introduced tobacco to France. Nico's countrymen
began to associate his name with the smoke producing the leaves,
but the older Indian word, which sounded like tobacco became
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more common. Nicko, however, was not completely left out.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
His name lives on in.
Speaker 10 (11:59):
Nikko scene, the poisonous drug in the plant he introduced
to France, so they have.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
The moral my story.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
Beware of those who would name something after you.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Should it be the long thing, you.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
May find your good name poisoned.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Well, Philip, you never expected anything like this. This couldn't
be happening to you. It's all so horrible, so fantastic.
For weeks now your association with Krin Scott has seemed
so completely wonderful. Now, with a suddenness of the jealous
rage that spurred your wild action there in the dark room,
a beautiful dream is turned into a nightmare, and Professor, gentle,
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friendly Professor Bentley, your son David's friend, lies dead at
your feet. I just stand there, stunned, looking down at
what you've done. You're vaguely aware that Karin has come
forward and picked up the heavy book end you use.
You sink down into a chair as she moves about
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straightening things up, scarcely looking at you. Slowly, you lower
your hands from your face and look up at her.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Karen, karm, what are we going to do?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
You've killed him, Philip. You've killed an instant man who
did nothing more than come here to ask me to
stay away from her.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
As soon as the light went on and I saw
who it was, I knew why he was here. Oh, Karen,
Professor Bentley was such a good friend to my son.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
To me, What am I going to say? How can
I explain it?
Speaker 8 (13:48):
You wouldn't have to explain it if you could get
him out of here, Philip. What if you were found
somewhere else, maybe miles.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
From here, Karen, would would you help me do that? Yes, Philip,
I would. I never knew anyone could be so devoted,
so much in love with the person.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
I'm not doing it because I love you, Philip. What
because I don't? I never have grin What are you
talking about? I loathe you, Philip. I despise you and
everything you've ever stood for.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Have you lost your mind?
Speaker 13 (14:19):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (14:20):
The man of Stone is crumbling.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
What's the matter of Philip?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
You're shaking, shaking like a man in the death house.
You're scared and bewildered, just like Tommy Anderson up there
in the State penitentiary.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
And Tommy Anderson, what do you know about him.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
I know that he was innocent, Philip, and so do you.
I know that you put him where he is in
condemnedro because it made you a district attorney.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I don't know what you're saying, but I don't see
what it has to do with.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Has everything to do with this, Philip, everything in the world,
because that's what Tommy Anderson means to me. What I knew.
You'd be surprised you see Philip or not the prosecutor
on the case anym more.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I am you mean you you plan this? You've got
the professor and.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Not the professor. I had nothing to do with you
coming here. I simply intended to involve you in a scandal, Philip,
or rather a threatened scandal. Then I was going to
give you a choice, a choice of being ruined through disgrace.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Horror, of telling the truth about Tommy Anderson right exactly.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Now, you have two alternative, Shillip. You can either free
Tommy or stand trial for murder.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
But it's impossible. I can't go back on what I've
said about Anderson, not without not.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Without admitting you produce false evidence.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Again, I'd be thrown out of office. In twenty four hours.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Is that worse than the grass chamber?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Is? Is that the choice you're giving me? Care in?
Speaker 8 (15:45):
That's it. You haven't long to make up your mind,
and maybe you should be coming home any minute now.
They might get curious if they saw a body being
Don't talk about it, Hi.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I'll do what you say to Godley's.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Car, he said, he parked in the next block. He
didn't want to be seen.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I'll go with you. You don't have to. I'll come back.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
I'm sure you'll come back, because you see, while I
straightened up around here, I hid that book nd the
one with your fingerprints.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
All over it, not missing a bit.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
I can't afford to Tommy Anderson's life depends on it.
Shall we go?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You find the Professor's car a block away, run it
into the drive alongside the duplex.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Kurin helps you carry the professor's.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Body out of the house to the car, warns you
to call her sooner, and returns to the apartment. In
the next half hour. You live your life over, don't you, Philip,
Driving grimly through the night, not knowing exactly where you're going,
trying to stay on the darkest streets until you reach
the edge of town. The university looms up ahead, a big,
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slumbering shadow. Have you decide there's no better spot than
Professor Bentley's own campus. You run the car in beneath
the clump of trees, turn off the motor, wipe away
your fingerprints, and climb out some distance from the campus.
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You swing onto a trolley car and get off twenty
minutes later.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
And walk the few blocks to your home.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Not much hope for sleep, business will nothing to do
but wait for the acts to fall the minute the
morning papers hit the streets.
Speaker 14 (17:46):
University Professor Swayne, please offer the theory that the killing
might be a gang land reprise, all against District Phil Graham,
who's home the slave professor often visited.
Speaker 12 (18:03):
Recent efforts about the Graham regime to rid the city
of gangster domination are known to have caused threatening talk
in many quarters. The city hall spokesman said today, while
Graham himself could not.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Be rich, oh Phil hellove that anything to wish there was.
The boys had been out of forty eight hours now
without arrest.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
And not giving up all.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
You you know me better than that day I give up,
I'll resign as a police commissioner. You know what the
professor meant to you and your boy, phil We'll get
the guy who did it if it takes his twenty years.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Just a second year. Wait a minute, time, but all right,
put her on. Hello, Philip, you cold it a bad time.
I'm busy with the police commissioner.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
I've waited two days now, that's all I intend to wait.
I want a signed statement about Tommy.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Look, i'll have to see you first.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
I told you I'm going to wait any longer.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
It had better be tonight, all right, tonight, nine o'clock,
make it ten, all.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Right, ten? And I wouldn't be late.
Speaker 12 (19:22):
If I were you.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Oh no, of course, goodbye. Appointments favors business as usual.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
What do you think I am anyway, Caliphni?
Speaker 6 (19:32):
I know, Phil, Well, I'll bet get back and see
if the boys did anything with the one lead we've got.
What's that girl? We think the professor had a date
with a girl that night some day it was paid
the lure. I'm end of the trap. You mean on
the campus. He wasn't killed on the campus. We knew
that from the first. It was probably murdered in the
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girl's apartment. Oh, I see, we're checking every movie made
that night we'll find her if she's alive.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 6 (20:06):
She's a pretty important girl to both our side and
there's I wouldn't be surprised to find her in the
river one of these mornings.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I see you later, phil.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
And you're thinking about the girl as he talks to you,
aren't you, Philip, of what she told you that terrible
night in her living room. That you have two alternatives, Philip.
You can either free Tommy or stand trial for murder.
But there's another choice, now, isn't there. Yes, it's been
done before the usual disappearance of the key witness, with
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all the gangster trimmings.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
They'll never question it for a moment.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
At five minutes of ten, as you walk onto the
porch of Karim's house for the first time since the murder,
you've made a terrific decision.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
You're going to kill her.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
So you're right on time, Philip, time I won't take long.
I didn't quite understand what you meant this afternoon about
discussing it. There's nothing to discuss. I wanted a signed
affidavit that you've sent Tommy Anderson up on manufactured evidence.
I'll be only too happy to walk out of your life.
It's very simple.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
It's not that simple, Karen. I want that book in
for one thing.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Naturally, what about your science statement?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Here you are, I wrote it at the office this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It's all Anne, certainly is.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
What about the book end?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Just a minute.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I'm enjoying this.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
General, Philip. I'd never believe you could be so free.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Where is it?
Speaker 8 (21:43):
It's there on the table and play in sight.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
You didn't hide it, not that one.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
I hit the mate to it, Philip, very conveniently, just
in case you decided to steal it in a drawer
under a pile of papers, where I knew you'd find it.
You could never tell them apart without a microscope, of course,
fingerprints are hard. You see you Wait a minute, you
can't get it.
Speaker 15 (22:07):
Wait, sorry, Korean, It's too bad you didn't realize there
was a third choice.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Graham speaking, there's a big break in the Bedley case.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Go on, the girl I told you about, she's more
than a theory now she's a corpse utter getting her
apartment this morning?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Any idea?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Who did it?
Speaker 16 (22:48):
We know who did it?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
So huh, that's pretty quick work.
Speaker 16 (22:54):
You want me to send a car for you, but
for me afraid. So where are your apartment? You've got
this respect here with us?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Oh, you you're having there for sure?
Speaker 17 (23:09):
Man, send the car, I'll be right over.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
All. This is Alfred Hotskin speaking.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Once upon a time, there was an Apache named Goyafle.
Freely translated, this means one who yawns. Obviously, this was
not a proper name for a warrior who wished to
strike terror in his opponents.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
So Guyafle, perhaps after.
Speaker 10 (23:51):
Consulting an early day version of an actor's agent, selected
a name which he felt was more appropriate.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Soon he was the terror of the Southwest.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Throughout the area, people trembled with fear when they heard
the name Geronimo. Years later, of course, Gayafele's nom de
guere came into different years. American parachutists added it to
the English language when they cried Geronimo as they leaped
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from their planes. The exact meaning of their cry is
a bit obscure. Old Geronimo, by the way, did not
die in battle. He retired to reservation life in order
to work on his memoirs and join.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
The Dutch Reform Church.
Speaker 18 (24:51):
May I add there is absolutely no truth to the
stories that Geronimo entitled his auto byiography aloft.
Speaker 10 (25:02):
When I raided a village and then I changed my name.
The idea is absurd.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Well, Philip, it was a terrible moment, wasn't it, listening
to police Commissioner Matthews telling you over the telephone they
knew who killed Kern Scott while your mind reached out
frantically for some detail.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You might have overlooked the book end, the bottom of
the river where it belonged.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
He AffA David carefully burned after you left the apartment, fingerprints,
tire tracks, witnesses. You've been too careful for that. Then
the wonderful words almost made your heart stop. That they
had the suspect there with him, someone else, Philip. They
made a mistake, a staggering, wonderful mistake. The homicide squad
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is all over the apartment when you arrived. Glad you
got here so soon, Hi, I dropped everything. Of course,
where's the suspect.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
In the bedroom?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
You know, phil I wish there was some mistake about this, huh.
But the first time in my life I wish I
had nothing to do with cracking a case.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
What are you talking about? Making men here?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Boys?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Matthews? What do you mean by that.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I was hoping we'd be wrong.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
There's just no other answer.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
And the guy comes walking right out of the victim's
house and can't tell why.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
David, Hello, Dad.
Speaker 19 (26:35):
He won't say a word. I was waiting for my father.
She called me up early last night, Dad. She said
she could tell me something about what happened to Professor Bentley.
I came on over and she.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
She told me everything I see.
Speaker 19 (26:55):
It sounded crazy. I told her it was a pack
of lies. After I went home last time, I couldn't sleep.
That's why I came back here this morning.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
And what did she tell you? David?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I've said all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
You know what that means? Of course? I think so.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Dead.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Matt.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Yeah, Phil, you'd better get a stenography. I've got a
story to tell you, A story that begins with with
Tommy Anderson.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
And the ends.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Right here.
Speaker 20 (28:00):
Featured in Tonight's story where Bill Foreman is the whistler,
Frank Nelson, Jeannette Nolan, Paul Stratton, Junior hal Gerard, and
Herbert Litton. The Whistler was directed by George w Allen,
with story by Joel Malone, music by Wilbur Hatch and
was transmitted overseas by.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
The Armed Forces Radio Service.
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The Whistler was entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on
the Whistler are original. Any similarity of names or resemblance
to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Tune in
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Speaker 4 (30:02):
I S.
Forces Radio invite you to sit back and enjoy another
strange story by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I am the whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
And now the whistler strange story the prosecutor.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
The courtroom was tense now.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Assistant District Attorney Philip Graham was beginning to soris for
the prosecution in the case of the People versus Thomas Anderson.
A thrill of success was in his speech as he
moved in for.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
The killed ladies and gentlemen of the jury.
Speaker 5 (01:11):
In addition to the fact that circumstance links the defendant
irrevocably to the killing, he still persists in his refusal
to testify, still offers no explanation as to his whereabouts
on the night in question, solely on.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
The basis of possible self incriminate.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
And you were right, weren't you, Philip.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Less than ten minutes after the jury retired, they walked
back in with a verdict you knew was coming, and
Tom Anderson was on his way to the cell and
condemned Row. But that wasn't also, No far from it.
Most important was what your colleagues were saying as they
clustered around you.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Well, let's it put you to the top of the
heat film.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
You'll had that mahogany desk, O man in the Hall
of Justice.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
And there'll be a brass nameplate Philip B. Graham District
can get here.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
But you were this conviction you can't miss.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
And they were right, weren't they, Philip. The voters made
it official two weeks later, and only you know what
kind of a job you really did.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yes, it isn't.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Easy to convict a man when you know in your
heart that he's completely innocent. But you're not thinking about
that at the victory celebrations. There's too much else going on. Congratulations,
backslapping important people, and above all, a beautiful brown haired
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girl with clear blue.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Eyes and a quick, easy smile.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I didn't quite get that name, Coren Scott.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
Oh, mister Graham, how wonderful to actually.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
Meet you, Not at all the pleasures.
Speaker 8 (02:54):
I know you've heard it many times, mister Graham, but
well I thought you were magnificent at the Anderson trial.
I was only doing my job a public prosecutor. My
it's almost like playing fate. Now, wait a minute, I
mean the idea of holding the fate of a fellow
human being in the palm of your hand. It's a
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little frightening. Such a responsibility.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yes, it is a responsibility.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Of course, we make pretty certain of our facts before
we step into a courtroom and start making accusations. Of
course you do, old American customer. You know a man
is innocent until proven guilty.
Speaker 8 (03:33):
But just think, mister Graham, in this case, the jury
was about to let that killer go free. Why if
it hadn't been for you.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Yes, I had a feeling about Tommy Anderson from the
very beginning.
Speaker 8 (03:44):
It must have been a very hard fight.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
It wasn't easy, of course, if a man knows what
he's doing and where he's going.
Speaker 8 (03:53):
What do you mean, really, I guess I admire ambitious man,
mister Graham. I admire them very much.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Thank you, miss Scott.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
I probably shouldn't say this, but you do well. I
think this is a silly way to celebrate anything so
important as becoming district attorney. A stuffy reception and a
lot of politicians Now, if I were running things, yes,
I'd get rid of the politicians. I'd reserve a table
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for two over a little restaurant. I know where the
stakes are heavenly and there's vintage wine Craig Susi and
Champagne Verkno. Nineteen forty or less. How does it sound
you're a pretty good sales Well, that's all. That's what
I do.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
And when would you do it? Oh?
Speaker 8 (04:45):
Tomorrow night, perhaps, say about nine.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
You know I'm a married man.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Of course, what's that got to do with the victory celebration?
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Well, if that's the way you look.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
At it, nine o'clock tomorrow night, all right.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
This guy, well, Philip, you know it's a foolish thing
to do. But there's something in the way she looks
up at you and smiles that makes it all sound
very reasonable.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And you forget about everything else.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Your wife, your son David in medical school, his good
friend Professor Bentley, who thinks you're the greatest man.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Who ever lived.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
At eight fifteen the following night, you're standing before the
mirror in your bedroom, adjusting your time. Karin is lovely,
isn't she, And as you put on your dinner jacket,
you're thinking of the soft lights and a music.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Oh there you are, dead curious.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Professor almost gave you up.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Dad thought you wudn't come allos got the culprit at last.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I told you wouldn't walk out on his dad.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
Hurry up, Dad, we're a half hour late as it is.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I mean we're late.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Say what's the idea of the dinner jacket?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Mister Graham?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, there's nothing formal.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Wait a minute, what's this all about?
Speaker 7 (06:07):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
You going somewhere?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Are we going somewhere?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Dad?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
You didn't forget?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
We'll forget what tonight? You promised you'd go, promised i'd
go where? Don't you remember?
Speaker 9 (06:18):
The faculty's having a father and son night. Professor Bentley's
in charge. Good lord, I did forget. Oh I know,
mister Graham. You're you're a busy man.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Dad.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
You've never forgotten before.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
You've come with us every year.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
Now I'm I'm awfully sorry, son, Professor. I just can't
make it.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
What is it? Where are you going?
Speaker 10 (06:40):
Well?
Speaker 5 (06:40):
It's it's a committee dinner, son, very important. I simply
can't get out of it. But I said I can't
get out of it. Let it go with that will
you all right?
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Dad?
Speaker 7 (06:50):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
That was beginning, Philip.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You didn't know it then, but you made a choice
that night, a choice between your family, your home, and Korean.
And as you and Karin continue to meet secretly during
the weeks that followed, it again to worry you. Not
your family, of course, it was your position, your reputation.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Oh Philip, I think it's wonderful all you've accomplished Korean.
There's something I don't have to say it. I know
what you're thinking, do you. You're wondering when I'm going
to tell you I want out, when I'm going to
tire of loving a man I can never be seen with.
Speaker 7 (07:45):
Frankly, yes, please don't.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
Think about it anymore. I don't want to break up
your homes. I never will, Darling, because it would hurt
the very thing I admire you for most of all,
your career.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Well, Philip. You can have it all now, your family,
your career, and Krin. She's right, isn't she? The one
all important thing in your life is that name plate
on your.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Desk, Philip B. Graham, District Attorney. And you know now
that you'll never have to choose between that and Krim.
And then one night a few weeks later, you return
unexpectedly from a business trip and decide to drop in
to see her before going home.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
As you walk up the.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Steps out of the porch, you hear voices, disturbing voices.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Just the way I feel about it.
Speaker 8 (08:42):
You can't tell me everything's over between us. I can't
turn my love off, just like this.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
As you grab the handle of the front door, a
rage wells up inside you, gripping your stomach, rising in
your throat, and bursting in your brain like a sh shell.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
Open this door, her in, Why did you come here?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Never mind that? Who are you talking to? Don't lie
to me?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Where is he?
Speaker 12 (09:13):
Philla?
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Tell me I heard someone in there? Where's he hiding?
Out of my way?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You step past her, The closet doors partly open, and
as you walk toward it, her in steps to the
light switch and the room goes dark.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Turnue on that light.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Here you are I just struggle with him in the darkness.
You realize he's too powerful for you. He forces you
back against the table. Your hand lights on a heavy
metal bookend. In a blind rage, you swing it high.
Speaker 13 (09:54):
Now, doll, you let it turn on the lights crea,
hurry up, Hi, good lord.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Oh Philip, Why did you do it? He didn't mean
anything to me, nothing at all. He came here because
he found out about us. He wanted me to.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Stay away from you quickly.
Speaker 8 (10:19):
It's no use. He's dead. You've killed Professor Bentley, your
son's best friend.
Speaker 10 (10:42):
What is Alfred Hotskick? Does the name John Nicole mean
anything to you? Perhaps it should, and I shall tell
you why. Four hundred years ago was all nic What
was the respected scholar and diplomat He wrote men, learned articles,
and compiled a dictionary of the French language. Quite appropriately,
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his own name came to be part of most later dictionaries.
For you see one Monsieur Nikou was serving as ambassador
to Lisbon. He became fascinated by a strange plant that
had been brought over from the New Land of America.
When he returned to his own country in fifteen sixty,
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he took some specimens of the plant with him, and
in this manner he introduced tobacco to France. Nico's countrymen
began to associate his name with the smoke producing the leaves,
but the older Indian word, which sounded like tobacco became
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more common. Nicko, however, was not completely left out.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
His name lives on in.
Speaker 10 (11:59):
Nikko scene, the poisonous drug in the plant he introduced
to France, so they have.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
The moral my story.
Speaker 10 (12:10):
Beware of those who would name something after you.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Should it be the long thing, you.
Speaker 7 (12:18):
May find your good name poisoned.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Well, Philip, you never expected anything like this. This couldn't
be happening to you. It's all so horrible, so fantastic.
For weeks now your association with Krin Scott has seemed
so completely wonderful. Now, with a suddenness of the jealous
rage that spurred your wild action there in the dark room,
a beautiful dream is turned into a nightmare, and Professor, gentle,
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friendly Professor Bentley, your son David's friend, lies dead at
your feet. I just stand there, stunned, looking down at
what you've done. You're vaguely aware that Karin has come
forward and picked up the heavy book end you use.
You sink down into a chair as she moves about
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straightening things up, scarcely looking at you. Slowly, you lower
your hands from your face and look up at her.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Karen, karm, what are we going to do?
Speaker 8 (13:32):
You've killed him, Philip. You've killed an instant man who
did nothing more than come here to ask me to
stay away from her.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
As soon as the light went on and I saw
who it was, I knew why he was here. Oh, Karen,
Professor Bentley was such a good friend to my son.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
To me, What am I going to say? How can
I explain it?
Speaker 8 (13:48):
You wouldn't have to explain it if you could get
him out of here, Philip. What if you were found
somewhere else, maybe miles.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
From here, Karen, would would you help me do that? Yes, Philip,
I would. I never knew anyone could be so devoted,
so much in love with the person.
Speaker 8 (14:06):
I'm not doing it because I love you, Philip. What
because I don't? I never have grin What are you
talking about? I loathe you, Philip. I despise you and
everything you've ever stood for.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Have you lost your mind?
Speaker 13 (14:19):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (14:20):
The man of Stone is crumbling.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
What's the matter of Philip?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
You're shaking, shaking like a man in the death house.
You're scared and bewildered, just like Tommy Anderson up there
in the State penitentiary.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
And Tommy Anderson, what do you know about him.
Speaker 8 (14:35):
I know that he was innocent, Philip, and so do you.
I know that you put him where he is in
condemnedro because it made you a district attorney.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
I don't know what you're saying, but I don't see
what it has to do with.
Speaker 8 (14:45):
Has everything to do with this, Philip, everything in the world,
because that's what Tommy Anderson means to me. What I knew.
You'd be surprised you see Philip or not the prosecutor
on the case anym more.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
I am you mean you you plan this? You've got
the professor and.
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Not the professor. I had nothing to do with you
coming here. I simply intended to involve you in a scandal, Philip,
or rather a threatened scandal. Then I was going to
give you a choice, a choice of being ruined through disgrace.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
Horror, of telling the truth about Tommy Anderson right exactly.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Now, you have two alternative, Shillip. You can either free
Tommy or stand trial for murder.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
But it's impossible. I can't go back on what I've
said about Anderson, not without not.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
Without admitting you produce false evidence.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Again, I'd be thrown out of office. In twenty four hours.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
Is that worse than the grass chamber?
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Is? Is that the choice you're giving me? Care in?
Speaker 8 (15:45):
That's it. You haven't long to make up your mind,
and maybe you should be coming home any minute now.
They might get curious if they saw a body being
Don't talk about it, Hi.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I'll do what you say to Godley's.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Car, he said, he parked in the next block. He
didn't want to be seen.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
I'll go with you. You don't have to. I'll come back.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
I'm sure you'll come back, because you see, while I
straightened up around here, I hid that book nd the
one with your fingerprints.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
All over it, not missing a bit.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
I can't afford to Tommy Anderson's life depends on it.
Shall we go?
Speaker 2 (16:35):
You find the Professor's car a block away, run it
into the drive alongside the duplex.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Kurin helps you carry the professor's.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Body out of the house to the car, warns you
to call her sooner, and returns to the apartment. In
the next half hour. You live your life over, don't you, Philip,
Driving grimly through the night, not knowing exactly where you're going,
trying to stay on the darkest streets until you reach
the edge of town. The university looms up ahead, a big,
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slumbering shadow. Have you decide there's no better spot than
Professor Bentley's own campus. You run the car in beneath
the clump of trees, turn off the motor, wipe away
your fingerprints, and climb out some distance from the campus.
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You swing onto a trolley car and get off twenty
minutes later.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
And walk the few blocks to your home.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Not much hope for sleep, business will nothing to do
but wait for the acts to fall the minute the
morning papers hit the streets.
Speaker 14 (17:46):
University Professor Swayne, please offer the theory that the killing
might be a gang land reprise, all against District Phil Graham,
who's home the slave professor often visited.
Speaker 12 (18:03):
Recent efforts about the Graham regime to rid the city
of gangster domination are known to have caused threatening talk
in many quarters. The city hall spokesman said today, while
Graham himself could not.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Be rich, oh Phil hellove that anything to wish there was.
The boys had been out of forty eight hours now
without arrest.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
And not giving up all.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
You you know me better than that day I give up,
I'll resign as a police commissioner. You know what the
professor meant to you and your boy, phil We'll get
the guy who did it if it takes his twenty years.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Just a second year. Wait a minute, time, but all right,
put her on. Hello, Philip, you cold it a bad time.
I'm busy with the police commissioner.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
I've waited two days now, that's all I intend to wait.
I want a signed statement about Tommy.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Look, i'll have to see you first.
Speaker 8 (19:12):
I told you I'm going to wait any longer.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
It had better be tonight, all right, tonight, nine o'clock,
make it ten, all.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Right, ten? And I wouldn't be late.
Speaker 12 (19:22):
If I were you.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Oh no, of course, goodbye. Appointments favors business as usual.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
What do you think I am anyway, Caliphni?
Speaker 6 (19:32):
I know, Phil, Well, I'll bet get back and see
if the boys did anything with the one lead we've got.
What's that girl? We think the professor had a date
with a girl that night some day it was paid
the lure. I'm end of the trap. You mean on
the campus. He wasn't killed on the campus. We knew
that from the first. It was probably murdered in the
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girl's apartment. Oh, I see, we're checking every movie made
that night we'll find her if she's alive.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 6 (20:06):
She's a pretty important girl to both our side and
there's I wouldn't be surprised to find her in the
river one of these mornings.
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I see you later, phil.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
And you're thinking about the girl as he talks to you,
aren't you, Philip, of what she told you that terrible
night in her living room. That you have two alternatives, Philip.
You can either free Tommy or stand trial for murder.
But there's another choice, now, isn't there. Yes, it's been
done before the usual disappearance of the key witness, with
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all the gangster trimmings.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
They'll never question it for a moment.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
At five minutes of ten, as you walk onto the
porch of Karim's house for the first time since the murder,
you've made a terrific decision.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
You're going to kill her.
Speaker 8 (20:58):
So you're right on time, Philip, time I won't take long.
I didn't quite understand what you meant this afternoon about
discussing it. There's nothing to discuss. I wanted a signed
affidavit that you've sent Tommy Anderson up on manufactured evidence.
I'll be only too happy to walk out of your life.
It's very simple.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
It's not that simple, Karen. I want that book in
for one thing.
Speaker 8 (21:20):
Naturally, what about your science statement?
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Here you are, I wrote it at the office this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
It's all Anne, certainly is.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
What about the book end?
Speaker 7 (21:33):
Just a minute.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I'm enjoying this.
Speaker 8 (21:38):
General, Philip. I'd never believe you could be so free.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Where is it?
Speaker 8 (21:43):
It's there on the table and play in sight.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
You didn't hide it, not that one.
Speaker 8 (21:48):
I hit the mate to it, Philip, very conveniently, just
in case you decided to steal it in a drawer
under a pile of papers, where I knew you'd find it.
You could never tell them apart without a microscope, of course,
fingerprints are hard. You see you Wait a minute, you
can't get it.
Speaker 15 (22:07):
Wait, sorry, Korean, It's too bad you didn't realize there
was a third choice.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Graham speaking, there's a big break in the Bedley case.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
Go on, the girl I told you about, she's more
than a theory now she's a corpse utter getting her
apartment this morning?
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Any idea?
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Who did it?
Speaker 16 (22:48):
We know who did it?
Speaker 5 (22:50):
So huh, that's pretty quick work.
Speaker 16 (22:54):
You want me to send a car for you, but
for me afraid. So where are your apartment? You've got
this respect here with us?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Oh, you you're having there for sure?
Speaker 17 (23:09):
Man, send the car, I'll be right over.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
All. This is Alfred Hotskin speaking.
Speaker 10 (23:28):
Once upon a time, there was an Apache named Goyafle.
Freely translated, this means one who yawns. Obviously, this was
not a proper name for a warrior who wished to
strike terror in his opponents.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
So Guyafle, perhaps after.
Speaker 10 (23:51):
Consulting an early day version of an actor's agent, selected
a name which he felt was more appropriate.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Soon he was the terror of the Southwest.
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Throughout the area, people trembled with fear when they heard
the name Geronimo. Years later, of course, Gayafele's nom de
guere came into different years. American parachutists added it to
the English language when they cried Geronimo as they leaped
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from their planes. The exact meaning of their cry is
a bit obscure. Old Geronimo, by the way, did not
die in battle. He retired to reservation life in order
to work on his memoirs and join.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
The Dutch Reform Church.
Speaker 18 (24:51):
May I add there is absolutely no truth to the
stories that Geronimo entitled his auto byiography aloft.
Speaker 10 (25:02):
When I raided a village and then I changed my name.
The idea is absurd.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Well, Philip, it was a terrible moment, wasn't it, listening
to police Commissioner Matthews telling you over the telephone they
knew who killed Kern Scott while your mind reached out
frantically for some detail.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You might have overlooked the book end, the bottom of
the river where it belonged.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
He AffA David carefully burned after you left the apartment, fingerprints,
tire tracks, witnesses. You've been too careful for that. Then
the wonderful words almost made your heart stop. That they
had the suspect there with him, someone else, Philip. They
made a mistake, a staggering, wonderful mistake. The homicide squad
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is all over the apartment when you arrived. Glad you
got here so soon, Hi, I dropped everything. Of course,
where's the suspect.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
In the bedroom?
Speaker 6 (26:08):
You know, phil I wish there was some mistake about this, huh.
But the first time in my life I wish I
had nothing to do with cracking a case.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
What are you talking about? Making men here?
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Boys?
Speaker 4 (26:21):
Matthews? What do you mean by that.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
I was hoping we'd be wrong.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
There's just no other answer.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
And the guy comes walking right out of the victim's
house and can't tell why.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
David, Hello, Dad.
Speaker 19 (26:35):
He won't say a word. I was waiting for my father.
She called me up early last night, Dad. She said
she could tell me something about what happened to Professor Bentley.
I came on over and she.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
She told me everything I see.
Speaker 19 (26:55):
It sounded crazy. I told her it was a pack
of lies. After I went home last time, I couldn't sleep.
That's why I came back here this morning.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
And what did she tell you? David?
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I've said all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
You know what that means? Of course? I think so.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Dead.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Matt.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
Yeah, Phil, you'd better get a stenography. I've got a
story to tell you, A story that begins with with
Tommy Anderson.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
And the ends.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Right here.
Speaker 20 (28:00):
Featured in Tonight's story where Bill Foreman is the whistler,
Frank Nelson, Jeannette Nolan, Paul Stratton, Junior hal Gerard, and
Herbert Litton. The Whistler was directed by George w Allen,
with story by Joel Malone, music by Wilbur Hatch and
was transmitted overseas by.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
The Armed Forces Radio Service.
Speaker 20 (28:18):
The Whistler was entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on
the Whistler are original. Any similarity of names or resemblance
to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Tune in
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again next week at the same time for the Whistler.
The Whistler has come to you through the worldwide facilities
of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
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