October 6, 2025 • 29 mins
Barrie Craig 51-11-07 The Case of the Borrowed Knife
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One thing about marriage, folks. Many are made in heaven,
but there are others that are unmade by the fourth
application of the vowel until death it US part.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The National Broadcasting Company presents William Gargan in another transcribed
drama of mystery and adventure with America's number one detective,
Barry Crave confidential investigator.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Barry Craig speaking, that's the name, Barry Craig. You rant
an office on the third floor of the old Mercantile building.
You've got a city license which says you're a confidential investigator.
So most of your life you sit around and waits.
A business hire blonde and call them secretary. Others confide,
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and cab drivers bend bartender's ears. Even by dictating machines.
Maybe it helps them forget that they're the loneliest guys
in the world, because nobody really talks to you. The suspicious.
Why was the frightened parents, These desperate kids who walk
into your office never even seen to them. You're a license,
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a pair of ears, sometimes a gun, nothing human, and
after a while, maybe you're not. It's open.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
How do you locked this door?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
There's a thing underneath the doorknob. You slide it over.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You're very creek. Yeah, they're not doing very well, are you.
I could write my name on the dust in your desk.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
What name would that be?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Will my lord?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
How do you do? Miss lord?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
It's the greed? Have you evere?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Not for a fee?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Will you answer a question about the weather.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I don't know much about the weather. Well? Why'd you
lock the door behind you? Miss lord?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I can't have anybody see me here.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
There's a woman comes around a couple of times a week.
I'll speak to her about the Dutch.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Oh that's not I'm going to marry a man named
John Wearing.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
He's older than I am, a lot older.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
It's a question of taste. He's rich, sweetens the taste.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
We're going to be married in a few weeks. I
want nothing to happen to that marriage.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I'll hire you, stupid Craig with a dollar sign in
front of the cupan. What do you think might happen? Yes,
something wrong with Wearing's health.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
You've heard of murder, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I've heard of it. Who's murder? Yours or Wearing? The
door's locked? Who's murder?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I can't say? Is there another way?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Out back of the water cooler leads to the back hallway,
and the fire stays awful. Sure, yeah, go get out
of my way. That gun a little heavy for him. Okay,
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well this day you don't look too good. Got a
name for him? But what did the ice say that?
And now you wanna take another look?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
What that give her back?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
A knife? The floor stopped him. I kicked the door
shut behind him. The knight he'd mentioned was angling out
between the shoulder blades. I didn't want anybody to confuse
him with a client. The homicide squad arrived and went
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to work. I don't like watching the boys. They're too smooth.
I start thinking of all the stiffs they practiced on.
I shut my eyes. Are we boring you, Craig, Lieutenant Rogers,
I've seen it all before.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Too bad morning. We could work out an entirely new approach,
and perhaps you'd watch us.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Stop being a tough drave. Everybody's forgiven you for having
gone to college. Thanks, you're welcome, Craig. The story's no good,
the only one I've got on him.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I'll tell you why it's no good. The punk fare
with a knife in his back was on the Harry
otis payroll. Oh, Wilma Lord is on the Otis payroll
must be a large payroll. Among his very largely illegal activities.
Otis also runs a supper club over on the east Side,
the Gilded Lily. You can have Wiman Lord for supper
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there six nights a week and twice.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
On Sundays, too early for supper.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
The last couple of months, Otis has been very busy covering.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Up the Crime Commission.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
The Crime Commission, Mistrotis is a very large target for them.
He's been doing his best to shrink recently. Wilma Lord
could have come to you because she planned a anthetized
with the Commission and wanted protection.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Why me, You're big, you're.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Good natured, and well I'm stupid. No, no, no, but
you like to believe people when they give you a
chance to.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
What about the Wearing angle? Did she pick him out
of the phone book?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
There is no Wearing angle. John Wearing happens to be
a distinguished philanthropist. That means a guy with so much
money he can give some of it away.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Thanks for the translations. I still believe well my Lord's story.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Why because she's young, beautiful? Because she looked too straight in.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The eye when she told you all, no tram because
she was nasty. Homicide wound up and went away. One
nice thing about it. After they were through the office,
no longer needed dusting. The crock in the church tower
across the street made noises, so after a while did
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my stomach. But I was waiting for a phone call.
Maybe the cops would get will the Lord before she
could reach your phone. Maybe Will the Lord had no
intention of phoning. I've been a sucker before. I prefer
it to being a white guy. So I listened to
the bell, gnawed my stomach, and was rewarded Hello. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Later I thought you might have gone home.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I'm still here.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
You're alone.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah, I've got that is if that's what happens.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You want to, I want to. I always believe a client.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I didn't know you're taking the case.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Where do we meet?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Not here at my apartments?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Too dangerous? Wait a minute, would there be a couple
of cops sitting on your lap by any chance?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Why not? They've got an alarm out for you.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
The apartment isn't in my name. Look, let's make it
part sixty in an hour.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The park in an hour, or miss lord, don't bring
a friend. I locked the office door. Nothing in the
office worth stealing. But this way maybe I could tempt
a burglar. I fell on the privilege I'd never been burgled.
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Hy missus Craig, never mind the glad greetings, Jakes.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Terrible tragedy you had, mister Craig.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
That's what I meant. Stop licking your chops and let's
ride downstairs. Huh, terrible tragedy.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Lieutenant Rogers says, you didn't bleed much.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
You take the lieutenant's word for it. By the way, Jake,
did the corpse come up in the elevator?
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Lieutenant asked me that a coincidence? Did he here come
up from the elevator? Didn't have that knife in his
back at the time.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Though, maybe the elevator was too crowded. Oh, I didn't
thought of that. How about the girls she come up
the same trip?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Lieutenant asked me that too.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
One of the major give up that farm. And for
a month Jake.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Got tired of watching the Four Seasons. What I told
the lieutenant was, maybe she did come up in the elevator,
but I didn't see her.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Uh huh, have out opening the door, and.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
If she was young and pretty like the lieutenant said,
why I just spotted her?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Sure, after all your experience with the four seasons, Jake?
How up? Oh? I keep forgetting It's great. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
In case anybody stops around and asks for what did
I tell him?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Tell him my mouth checking his season. Good night, Jake.
The park was close enough so I could take a
couple of hamburgers aboard it Willie's wagon, A couple of
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hamburgers and a couple of the stuff Willie calls coffee.
Willy keeps his coffee shined. I was facing it. What
I saw in the iron looked like what you see
under distorting mirrors and the Corney Island Funhouse, except not
so funny. Welly, you gotta complaint. Take it up with
a mirror.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Take a look over my left shoulder, Wily, that's gorgeous.
You want I should pin at a gardenia on it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Somebody looking into the wagon had his face placid against
the window. I don't want to turn a tip him off.
You hitting the pipe again? No face?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I bet you inhale too.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Oh, forget it? Really he must have done. Yeah, take
that up with a Bureau of Internal revenum or you
throwing door around. What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You had a horse in the fifth.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
No, I had a corpse and a third. The park
was half a dozen blocks over and wet. I couldn't
spot a tail on me, which didn't mean a thing.
Good tales don't get spotted, especially working on me. I'm
easy to keep in sight from a long way off.
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Nobody had moved the park around At sixty seventh Street,
entrance looked cozy and dark. I tossed a mental coin.
Came up ahead, which meant I should go home and
spend a few hours of sleep. Then I cheated. I
went on into the park. An investigative job is a
funny one. Either you play it hard and believe nobody,
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which is fine. It it's safe you stay out of trouble.
Maybe after ten years you're growing houses because nobody likes you,
but an ouse never killed anyone yet, or else you
believe people. Then you've got trouble. You're not smart, except
maybe it's not a choice. Kept getting darker. Not a choice,
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because it depends on the way you're built. The way
I'm built. You stick your neck out. I did only
warning with a slide of feet on the gravel path
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if you hit on the head hard enough. If you
get knocked out, well you remember afterwards? Was getting up
in the memory. You're willing to trade the cheap gay.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
It looks like he was returning to us, mister Otis,
you might have fractured his skullper private Eyes, You've got
very thick skulls.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Oh, I know?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Is?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I read about them all the time.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Private Eyes are always getting bumped on his skull.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It don't bother him, It bothers me.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Beeper, help the gentleman. Never mind, Craig, I've got a headache.
I'm sorry. Beeper is so enthusiastic. Send them over a
little closer to me. I'll calm him down. I'm afraid not,
mister Craig, Deeper is armed. He was acting on instructions
from me.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Was he supposed to bring me in alive? I'm not
that funny. Ho he find me in the park?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
He tailed you there from your office?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Rather a cold, unpleasant night, mister Craig. You often walk
in the park.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I managed to get there from time to time.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
You wouldn't have been meeting anyone there.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I could use a couple of aspirins. Hm.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Beeper was perhaps a little impatient.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
How was I supposed to know he had a point paper?
I beg your pardon, mister oas well, Craig, I could
still use those aspirins. I see.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Oh, perhaps it isn't very important. What's more to the
point with the craig. You had a visitor this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I had lots of visitors, most of them in uniform.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I'm referring to the gentleman who preceded the police, the
gentleman whose untimely death was responsible for the visit. You
didn't happen to kill him by any chance.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
The cops didn't think so. They might be prejudiced. Also,
you may have pleaded self defense. Oh does you know
better than that? Man like you has pipelines to the
department very well?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
A question? Then, what was the gentleman you mean, the
punk with the knife on his by doing in your office?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
He was dying there? Hey, I'm hearing music ringing in
my ears, A rather good little orchestra him. I'd be
insulted by your description. Don't tell him about it. This
wouldn't happen to be the guild that lily, would it?
You know the place? Sure? Some of my best friends
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have had supper in it. What was Jimmy doing in
your office, of punk? He might have been looking for
a confidential book to get it, Oh, for what purpose?
To help him find his lost innocence? Maybe I'm not joking.
What job was he doing for you?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
What makes you think he was doing anything at.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
All for me? It was on your payroll. Indeed, the
cops told me they're blabbermouths. Pity about the civil service.
Things would be so much easier.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Otherwise you could buy more for less. Huh, you're not
going to tell me why Jimmy came into your.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I didn't say that. I'll tell you why he was
looking for the owner of the knife in his back. Oh,
he never got around to telling me who it was.
Would you like some information very much?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
At what price?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
We'll discuss that later. The information goes like this, Your
boy came up in the elevator. He didn't have the
knife in him. Then he did have when he got
to my office. So some one presented him with a
knife someplace between the elevator on your floor and your office. Yeah.
One thing more, it wasn't right outside the office door. Oh,
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he got it near the elevator. He went down. There
were a couple of bloodstains on the hall floor indicating
that he went down, stayed down for a while, pulled
himself to his feet, and made it to me why
you didn't like my previous suggestion?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Now, Craig, whom did Jimmy follow to your office?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It'd be nice to know, wouldn't it? I mean for me,
because you know, don't you?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
You mentioned something about a price for the information?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
What price? What do you think about matrimony? I have
no time to discuss philosophy at the moment, or philanthropy, paper, Yeah,
miss Jeles. Until this moment, I've been considering mister Craig
an honest, if somewhat stupid man. Now I'm not so sure. Yeah,
either of his honesty or of his stupidity. I can
get your references on both currents. I would like to be.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Sure, Peper, I take him apart. Unless mister Craig would
like to tell us another story.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I'm out of story.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
You're in trouble, however, Paper, we want mister Craig to
explain his remarks about matrimony and philanthropy.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Yeah, hold it, Craig, you wouldn't mind plugging you in
a leg.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Shay, give me excuse. You're gonna stand and take it nice? Okay? Chasing.
I hope the gun barrel don't scare you permanent.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
How about putting your arms behind your back.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Eh, I'm gonna start getting painful soon. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Hey, who opportunity knocks?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
No inherited a gun? Beeper. You weren't expecting company, mister Rhotas.
I've been knocked unconscious, I've been pistol whipped. Maybe I'm sorry.
I wasn't expecting company. Yeah, that's the reason Beeper was startled.
All right, opened the door. Let's see who it is.
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All the marine. Hello, trav I Craig, I come in
the office. Belongs to Otis. You're holding the gun that
belongs to Beeper. Beeper.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
He's lying down, tired.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
He ran into a doorn. Now have a gun on it.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Thanks, Who knows, maybe he has a license for it.
We'll see exactly what do you want here, lieutenant. We've
had the place staked out. Nobody we were interested in
showed up. I got the report that a big man
was carried in.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Turn, that was mister Craig. That's how it turned.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Turns out the place staked out and you're looking for.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
If nobody minds, I'll get up in a hurry. Berry,
I'm late for what a date?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I wait a minute, Wait, looks you were slugged and
brought here.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I guess it does look that way.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Good preferred charges. H it was all in fun and
well across your face doesn't look funny.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
One of the reasons I'm in a hurry. What I
want to have the nasty little bruise kissed away. Lieutenant
Rogers didn't argue with me. He wanted conversation with Otis
and deeper. Nobody had mentioned Will my Lord yet not
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Otis not prayers, but they were thinking of her, so
was I. I tried to park a couple of hours.
It died since the appointment, but I had to make sure.
I made sure. Maybe Will my Lord had been waiting
for me, maybe not. Either way, she wasn't waiting anymore.
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Trad would annoy Otis for a while. He had nothing
to hold him on. He had nothing to hold Beeper on.
For a while. Otis and Beeper would be busy with
the lieutenant. After that, they might be busy about something else.
I remember Trad's definition of a philanthropist. I could use
some money. My name is Barry Craig. Yeah, you're John Warring.
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Mind if I come in? It's rather late, so late.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
You sent the butter to bed? No, that is hardly
What did you say you were Barry Craig? Should I
know you?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah? Why because you're a philanthropist. But no, I didn't finish.
Because you're a philanthropist about to get married.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I mean, thanks, and here if you please. Well, then
your name is Mary Craig. You're a reporter.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Perhaps not exactly. Then why you're interested in my marriage?
I've been hired to make sure that you're through on schedule,
a r by whom your fiance didn't I use the
right word?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
You mean, miss lord?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
How many girls were you planning to marry? Craig?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I permitted you to enter my home because you seem
to know about about my marriage. I didn't expect you
to insult me.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I'm sorry. Blood gets on my nerves. Blood. A man
was murdered in my office to day, and that's why.
That's why what nothing?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
This man was murdered? Had he any connection with your marriage?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yes? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I can't think anything about it? I am confused, so confused.
You haven't thought of offering me a drink. I beg
your pardon.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Oh yeah, I could almost think you were expecting me.
There's two glasses you've got sitting on that coffee table.
I would be drinks in them. One's rye by the color,
the other.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Oh, mister Craig, you're in my home.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Looks like cream DeMont a girl drink.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I suppose it's too much to expect the behavior of
a gentleman from a confidential investigator.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, we're the sordid type. I had an appointment with
miss Lord. She kept it, didn't you. Why don't we
ask her? Ask nice drapes? You've got pity they don't
quite reach the floor.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Now look here, young man.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Hello, miss lord?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Did you decide the park was too cold at this
time of the year?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I what made you come here?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You wouldn't be holding up in your apartment listed in
your name or not? The cops are bright nowadays. Well,
what else would you duck for color? It was simple?
Lucky for me, it was simple. I get confused, what
do you want? You hired me to do a job.
I believe you. I always believe my clients. Sometimes I'm suckered.
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Sometimes not, because sometimes clients don't expect to be believed.
Her resental this don't get in too big a hurry,
mister Wellings. Miss Lord was afraid that the marriage was
going to be interrupted by murder murder. She didn't get
around to telling me who's murder yours or hers, because
another murder happened to somebody else. I didn't somebody on
Harry Otis's payroll whose idea was this marriage.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I asked miss Lord to be my wife.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And she said yes, why I love you.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Don't have to laugh at me.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Harry Otis. You were on his payroll too, Miss Laud.
The Crime Commission was getting ready to ask him questions
about his business, his tie in with officials, his uh fuckers,
I must ask you. You were going to say leave. Let's
pretend it was explained. Wilma Lodge's young, she's beautiful. Maybe
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she could have wrangled a marriage or offer out of
you anyway, but her working for Otis can't be a coincidence. Sure,
you asked her to marry you. That's she told you.
She knew about your connection with Otis, my connection. Financial
dollar bills don't have pedigrees on them. That's a shame.
How many of the dollar bills making up your bank
account came out of Harry Otis's dirty enterprises.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
This is absolutely, absolutely unwarranted.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
No, up until five minutes ago, it was a guest,
a stupid guess, because I couldn't figure any other reason
for the whole deal. Now it's not a guess anymore.
It's not a guess anymore. Hello, Otis, I've been expecting
you and the gun.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
At nice seepers outside with a gun too, and the
car with the motor idling, another stupid guess. Sure, stupid
ones give the most trouble. You'd had brains enough, Craig,
you have stayed out of us.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I couldn't. I was hired by miss Laws.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I had had.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
You set up wherein was going to marry you, so
you couldn't testify against him. Why'd yourry the knife and
Jimmy's back?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I had him on you all the time.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
We do you have had any reasons for killing him? Otis?
What reason? Not even a stupid guess? Otis?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yes, this this squabbling, it's unpleasant and a waste of time.
Meaning what whatever Mislawd did, I didn't do mister Craig
is now in a position to inform the Crime Commission
of our business Association. Yes, that would be disastrous, not
only for myself but for you as well. I hesitate
to suggest anything violent, but what choice have we got.
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You've still got Jimmy's death to account for you, miss Lord,
don't drink that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
What do you want to hurry to dive?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
The man is? He's insane?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah? Otis a man looking for a murderer.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I was wrong with a drink.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Another guests a solid one this time. Will my Lord's
wanted by the police for the murder of your punk.
Will the Lord disappeared. Suppose she died in his house,
Wearing would have the body watch buried, burned. Either way,
no more Wilma Lloyd. The cops would spend the next
century looking for her. The case would be closed. Also,
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John Wearing wouldn't have to marry her. He'd be rid
of a witness against him. But he hadn't mind for you, Otis.
I wouldn't know, but he had something in mind. Then
he'd be free. He could go on being philanthropic. This
is it's childish melodrama, murder's melodrama. Only he's not childish,
mister Wearing. When I walked in here, you asked me
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if I was a reporter, the gag being you'd never
seen me, heard of me before. But a little later
on you said something about a confidential investigator not being
a gentleman. Must have followed me too, you said, will
my lord had kept her appointment with me. How did
you know if she told you? You wouldn't have confused me
with a reporter. If she did a minute, he was
checking on her because he was planning to get rid
of her. But your boy Jimmy spotted him on the
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third floor where my office is. Nobody else would have
had any motive for killing him. Wearing had to because
the tiptoes about his plan for the girl. Nonsense, absolute nonsense.
Don't suppose you drink this, huh I?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I had to test come them drink it, Wearing, I
shall leave No. I find this fight to drink it
a fool.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
A fool had to be done done the reason I
knew that drink was poisoned. Take a snip out of
notice by the deep sniff. Oh sorry, got it in
your eyes. Thanks for the gun. You mustn't lose your temper.
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Wearing killed Jimmy. Sure, but you had to kill Wearing,
didn't you? If you turned him over to the copse
heat that blabbed the crime commissioner. Deeper, you know something
otis You must be a sinking ship. That was it
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all wound up. I went home, I slept. The next day.
I was back on the third floor being lonely.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
How do you lock this door?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
There's a thing underneath the doorknob. Oh, you remembered somebody
following you again?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
No, I just don't want to be interrupted. And what
thank you? I don't have any money. I'm not marrying
a rich man anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
But I don't think you'll mind. Mm. I always believe
a client. Good night, folks, see you next week.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
You have been listening to William Gargan in another exciting
transcribed mystery drama from the Adventures of Barry Craig, Confidential
Investigator to Night story, The Case of the Borrowed Knife,
was written by Lou Vittes. Next week, it's an exciting
story titled Dead on Arrival, about which Barry Craig has
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this to say.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Next week, I've devote my time to a bashful blonde,
an escaped lunatic, and a Stone Cold Corpse and Brothers
Is It Murder? See you next week, folks.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Featured in the role of Wilma was Elspeth, Eric Barry,
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This is Don Pardo speaking.
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but there are others that are unmade by the fourth
application of the vowel until death it US part.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
The National Broadcasting Company presents William Gargan in another transcribed
drama of mystery and adventure with America's number one detective,
Barry Crave confidential investigator.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Barry Craig speaking, that's the name, Barry Craig. You rant
an office on the third floor of the old Mercantile building.
You've got a city license which says you're a confidential investigator.
So most of your life you sit around and waits.
A business hire blonde and call them secretary. Others confide,
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and cab drivers bend bartender's ears. Even by dictating machines.
Maybe it helps them forget that they're the loneliest guys
in the world, because nobody really talks to you. The suspicious.
Why was the frightened parents, These desperate kids who walk
into your office never even seen to them. You're a license,
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a pair of ears, sometimes a gun, nothing human, and
after a while, maybe you're not. It's open.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
How do you locked this door?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
There's a thing underneath the doorknob. You slide it over.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
You're very creek. Yeah, they're not doing very well, are you.
I could write my name on the dust in your desk.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
What name would that be?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Will my lord?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
How do you do? Miss lord?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
It's the greed? Have you evere?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Not for a fee?
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Will you answer a question about the weather.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I don't know much about the weather. Well? Why'd you
lock the door behind you? Miss lord?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I can't have anybody see me here.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
There's a woman comes around a couple of times a week.
I'll speak to her about the Dutch.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Oh that's not I'm going to marry a man named
John Wearing.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
He's older than I am, a lot older.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
It's a question of taste. He's rich, sweetens the taste.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
We're going to be married in a few weeks. I
want nothing to happen to that marriage.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
I'll hire you, stupid Craig with a dollar sign in
front of the cupan. What do you think might happen? Yes,
something wrong with Wearing's health.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
You've heard of murder, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I've heard of it. Who's murder? Yours or Wearing? The
door's locked? Who's murder?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I can't say? Is there another way?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Out back of the water cooler leads to the back hallway,
and the fire stays awful. Sure, yeah, go get out
of my way. That gun a little heavy for him. Okay,
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well this day you don't look too good. Got a
name for him? But what did the ice say that?
And now you wanna take another look?
Speaker 3 (03:21):
What that give her back?
Speaker 1 (03:23):
A knife? The floor stopped him. I kicked the door
shut behind him. The knight he'd mentioned was angling out
between the shoulder blades. I didn't want anybody to confuse
him with a client. The homicide squad arrived and went
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to work. I don't like watching the boys. They're too smooth.
I start thinking of all the stiffs they practiced on.
I shut my eyes. Are we boring you, Craig, Lieutenant Rogers,
I've seen it all before.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Too bad morning. We could work out an entirely new approach,
and perhaps you'd watch us.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Stop being a tough drave. Everybody's forgiven you for having
gone to college. Thanks, you're welcome, Craig. The story's no good,
the only one I've got on him.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I'll tell you why it's no good. The punk fare
with a knife in his back was on the Harry
otis payroll. Oh, Wilma Lord is on the Otis payroll
must be a large payroll. Among his very largely illegal activities.
Otis also runs a supper club over on the east Side,
the Gilded Lily. You can have Wiman Lord for supper
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there six nights a week and twice.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
On Sundays, too early for supper.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
The last couple of months, Otis has been very busy covering.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Up the Crime Commission.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
The Crime Commission, Mistrotis is a very large target for them.
He's been doing his best to shrink recently. Wilma Lord
could have come to you because she planned a anthetized
with the Commission and wanted protection.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Why me, You're big, you're.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Good natured, and well I'm stupid. No, no, no, but
you like to believe people when they give you a
chance to.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
What about the Wearing angle? Did she pick him out
of the phone book?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
There is no Wearing angle. John Wearing happens to be
a distinguished philanthropist. That means a guy with so much
money he can give some of it away.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Thanks for the translations. I still believe well my Lord's story.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Why because she's young, beautiful? Because she looked too straight in.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
The eye when she told you all, no tram because
she was nasty. Homicide wound up and went away. One
nice thing about it. After they were through the office,
no longer needed dusting. The crock in the church tower
across the street made noises, so after a while did
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my stomach. But I was waiting for a phone call.
Maybe the cops would get will the Lord before she
could reach your phone. Maybe Will the Lord had no
intention of phoning. I've been a sucker before. I prefer
it to being a white guy. So I listened to
the bell, gnawed my stomach, and was rewarded Hello. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Later I thought you might have gone home.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I'm still here.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
You're alone.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah, I've got that is if that's what happens.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
You want to, I want to. I always believe a client.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I didn't know you're taking the case.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Where do we meet?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Not here at my apartments?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Too dangerous? Wait a minute, would there be a couple
of cops sitting on your lap by any chance?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Why not? They've got an alarm out for you.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
The apartment isn't in my name. Look, let's make it
part sixty in an hour.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
The park in an hour, or miss lord, don't bring
a friend. I locked the office door. Nothing in the
office worth stealing. But this way maybe I could tempt
a burglar. I fell on the privilege I'd never been burgled.
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Hy missus Craig, never mind the glad greetings, Jakes.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Terrible tragedy you had, mister Craig.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
That's what I meant. Stop licking your chops and let's
ride downstairs. Huh, terrible tragedy.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Lieutenant Rogers says, you didn't bleed much.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
You take the lieutenant's word for it. By the way, Jake,
did the corpse come up in the elevator?
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Lieutenant asked me that a coincidence? Did he here come
up from the elevator? Didn't have that knife in his
back at the time.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Though, maybe the elevator was too crowded. Oh, I didn't
thought of that. How about the girls she come up
the same trip?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Lieutenant asked me that too.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
One of the major give up that farm. And for
a month Jake.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Got tired of watching the Four Seasons. What I told
the lieutenant was, maybe she did come up in the elevator,
but I didn't see her.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Uh huh, have out opening the door, and.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
If she was young and pretty like the lieutenant said,
why I just spotted her?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Sure, after all your experience with the four seasons, Jake?
How up? Oh? I keep forgetting It's great. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
In case anybody stops around and asks for what did
I tell him?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Tell him my mouth checking his season. Good night, Jake.
The park was close enough so I could take a
couple of hamburgers aboard it Willie's wagon, A couple of
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hamburgers and a couple of the stuff Willie calls coffee.
Willy keeps his coffee shined. I was facing it. What
I saw in the iron looked like what you see
under distorting mirrors and the Corney Island Funhouse, except not
so funny. Welly, you gotta complaint. Take it up with
a mirror.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Take a look over my left shoulder, Wily, that's gorgeous.
You want I should pin at a gardenia on it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Somebody looking into the wagon had his face placid against
the window. I don't want to turn a tip him off.
You hitting the pipe again? No face?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I bet you inhale too.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Oh, forget it? Really he must have done. Yeah, take
that up with a Bureau of Internal revenum or you
throwing door around. What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
You had a horse in the fifth.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
No, I had a corpse and a third. The park
was half a dozen blocks over and wet. I couldn't
spot a tail on me, which didn't mean a thing.
Good tales don't get spotted, especially working on me. I'm
easy to keep in sight from a long way off.
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Nobody had moved the park around At sixty seventh Street,
entrance looked cozy and dark. I tossed a mental coin.
Came up ahead, which meant I should go home and
spend a few hours of sleep. Then I cheated. I
went on into the park. An investigative job is a
funny one. Either you play it hard and believe nobody,
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which is fine. It it's safe you stay out of trouble.
Maybe after ten years you're growing houses because nobody likes you,
but an ouse never killed anyone yet, or else you
believe people. Then you've got trouble. You're not smart, except
maybe it's not a choice. Kept getting darker. Not a choice,
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because it depends on the way you're built. The way
I'm built. You stick your neck out. I did only
warning with a slide of feet on the gravel path
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if you hit on the head hard enough. If you
get knocked out, well you remember afterwards? Was getting up
in the memory. You're willing to trade the cheap gay.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
It looks like he was returning to us, mister Otis,
you might have fractured his skullper private Eyes, You've got
very thick skulls.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Oh, I know?
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Is?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I read about them all the time.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Private Eyes are always getting bumped on his skull.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
It don't bother him, It bothers me.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Beeper, help the gentleman. Never mind, Craig, I've got a headache.
I'm sorry. Beeper is so enthusiastic. Send them over a
little closer to me. I'll calm him down. I'm afraid not,
mister Craig, Deeper is armed. He was acting on instructions
from me.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Was he supposed to bring me in alive? I'm not
that funny. Ho he find me in the park?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
He tailed you there from your office?
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Rather a cold, unpleasant night, mister Craig. You often walk
in the park.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
I managed to get there from time to time.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
You wouldn't have been meeting anyone there.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I could use a couple of aspirins. Hm.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Beeper was perhaps a little impatient.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
How was I supposed to know he had a point paper?
I beg your pardon, mister oas well, Craig, I could
still use those aspirins. I see.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Oh, perhaps it isn't very important. What's more to the
point with the craig. You had a visitor this afternoon.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
I had lots of visitors, most of them in uniform.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
I'm referring to the gentleman who preceded the police, the
gentleman whose untimely death was responsible for the visit. You
didn't happen to kill him by any chance.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
The cops didn't think so. They might be prejudiced. Also,
you may have pleaded self defense. Oh does you know
better than that? Man like you has pipelines to the
department very well?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
A question? Then, what was the gentleman you mean, the
punk with the knife on his by doing in your office?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
He was dying there? Hey, I'm hearing music ringing in
my ears, A rather good little orchestra him. I'd be
insulted by your description. Don't tell him about it. This
wouldn't happen to be the guild that lily, would it?
You know the place? Sure? Some of my best friends
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have had supper in it. What was Jimmy doing in
your office, of punk? He might have been looking for
a confidential book to get it, Oh, for what purpose?
To help him find his lost innocence? Maybe I'm not joking.
What job was he doing for you?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
What makes you think he was doing anything at.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
All for me? It was on your payroll. Indeed, the
cops told me they're blabbermouths. Pity about the civil service.
Things would be so much easier.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Otherwise you could buy more for less. Huh, you're not
going to tell me why Jimmy came into your.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
I didn't say that. I'll tell you why he was
looking for the owner of the knife in his back. Oh,
he never got around to telling me who it was.
Would you like some information very much?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
At what price?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
We'll discuss that later. The information goes like this, Your
boy came up in the elevator. He didn't have the
knife in him. Then he did have when he got
to my office. So some one presented him with a
knife someplace between the elevator on your floor and your office. Yeah.
One thing more, it wasn't right outside the office door. Oh,
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he got it near the elevator. He went down. There
were a couple of bloodstains on the hall floor indicating
that he went down, stayed down for a while, pulled
himself to his feet, and made it to me why
you didn't like my previous suggestion?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Now, Craig, whom did Jimmy follow to your office?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
It'd be nice to know, wouldn't it? I mean for me,
because you know, don't you?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
You mentioned something about a price for the information?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
What price? What do you think about matrimony? I have
no time to discuss philosophy at the moment, or philanthropy, paper, Yeah,
miss Jeles. Until this moment, I've been considering mister Craig
an honest, if somewhat stupid man. Now I'm not so sure. Yeah,
either of his honesty or of his stupidity. I can
get your references on both currents. I would like to be.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
Sure, Peper, I take him apart. Unless mister Craig would
like to tell us another story.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
I'm out of story.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
You're in trouble, however, Paper, we want mister Craig to
explain his remarks about matrimony and philanthropy.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Yeah, hold it, Craig, you wouldn't mind plugging you in
a leg.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Shay, give me excuse. You're gonna stand and take it nice? Okay? Chasing.
I hope the gun barrel don't scare you permanent.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
How about putting your arms behind your back.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Eh, I'm gonna start getting painful soon. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Hey, who opportunity knocks?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
No inherited a gun? Beeper. You weren't expecting company, mister Rhotas.
I've been knocked unconscious, I've been pistol whipped. Maybe I'm sorry.
I wasn't expecting company. Yeah, that's the reason Beeper was startled.
All right, opened the door. Let's see who it is.
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All the marine. Hello, trav I Craig, I come in
the office. Belongs to Otis. You're holding the gun that
belongs to Beeper. Beeper.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
He's lying down, tired.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
He ran into a doorn. Now have a gun on it.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Thanks, Who knows, maybe he has a license for it.
We'll see exactly what do you want here, lieutenant. We've
had the place staked out. Nobody we were interested in
showed up. I got the report that a big man
was carried in.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Turn, that was mister Craig. That's how it turned.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Turns out the place staked out and you're looking for.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
If nobody minds, I'll get up in a hurry. Berry,
I'm late for what a date?
Speaker 3 (17:08):
I wait a minute, Wait, looks you were slugged and
brought here.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
I guess it does look that way.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Good preferred charges. H it was all in fun and
well across your face doesn't look funny.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
One of the reasons I'm in a hurry. What I
want to have the nasty little bruise kissed away. Lieutenant
Rogers didn't argue with me. He wanted conversation with Otis
and deeper. Nobody had mentioned Will my Lord yet not
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Otis not prayers, but they were thinking of her, so
was I. I tried to park a couple of hours.
It died since the appointment, but I had to make sure.
I made sure. Maybe Will my Lord had been waiting
for me, maybe not. Either way, she wasn't waiting anymore.
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Trad would annoy Otis for a while. He had nothing
to hold him on. He had nothing to hold Beeper on.
For a while. Otis and Beeper would be busy with
the lieutenant. After that, they might be busy about something else.
I remember Trad's definition of a philanthropist. I could use
some money. My name is Barry Craig. Yeah, you're John Warring.
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Mind if I come in? It's rather late, so late.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
You sent the butter to bed? No, that is hardly
What did you say you were Barry Craig? Should I
know you?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yeah? Why because you're a philanthropist. But no, I didn't finish.
Because you're a philanthropist about to get married.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I mean, thanks, and here if you please. Well, then
your name is Mary Craig. You're a reporter.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Perhaps not exactly. Then why you're interested in my marriage?
I've been hired to make sure that you're through on schedule,
a r by whom your fiance didn't I use the
right word?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
You mean, miss lord?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
How many girls were you planning to marry? Craig?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I permitted you to enter my home because you seem
to know about about my marriage. I didn't expect you
to insult me.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
I'm sorry. Blood gets on my nerves. Blood. A man
was murdered in my office to day, and that's why.
That's why what nothing?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
This man was murdered? Had he any connection with your marriage?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Yes? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I can't think anything about it? I am confused, so confused.
You haven't thought of offering me a drink. I beg
your pardon.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Oh yeah, I could almost think you were expecting me.
There's two glasses you've got sitting on that coffee table.
I would be drinks in them. One's rye by the color,
the other.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Oh, mister Craig, you're in my home.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Looks like cream DeMont a girl drink.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
I suppose it's too much to expect the behavior of
a gentleman from a confidential investigator.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah, we're the sordid type. I had an appointment with
miss Lord. She kept it, didn't you. Why don't we
ask her? Ask nice drapes? You've got pity they don't
quite reach the floor.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Now look here, young man.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Hello, miss lord?
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Did you decide the park was too cold at this
time of the year?
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I what made you come here?
Speaker 1 (20:48):
You wouldn't be holding up in your apartment listed in
your name or not? The cops are bright nowadays. Well,
what else would you duck for color? It was simple?
Lucky for me, it was simple. I get confused, what
do you want? You hired me to do a job.
I believe you. I always believe my clients. Sometimes I'm suckered.
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Sometimes not, because sometimes clients don't expect to be believed.
Her resental this don't get in too big a hurry,
mister Wellings. Miss Lord was afraid that the marriage was
going to be interrupted by murder murder. She didn't get
around to telling me who's murder yours or hers, because
another murder happened to somebody else. I didn't somebody on
Harry Otis's payroll whose idea was this marriage.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
I asked miss Lord to be my wife.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
And she said yes, why I love you.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Don't have to laugh at me.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Harry Otis. You were on his payroll too, Miss Laud.
The Crime Commission was getting ready to ask him questions
about his business, his tie in with officials, his uh fuckers,
I must ask you. You were going to say leave. Let's
pretend it was explained. Wilma Lodge's young, she's beautiful. Maybe
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she could have wrangled a marriage or offer out of
you anyway, but her working for Otis can't be a coincidence. Sure,
you asked her to marry you. That's she told you.
She knew about your connection with Otis, my connection. Financial
dollar bills don't have pedigrees on them. That's a shame.
How many of the dollar bills making up your bank
account came out of Harry Otis's dirty enterprises.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
This is absolutely, absolutely unwarranted.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
No, up until five minutes ago, it was a guest,
a stupid guess, because I couldn't figure any other reason
for the whole deal. Now it's not a guess anymore.
It's not a guess anymore. Hello, Otis, I've been expecting
you and the gun.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
At nice seepers outside with a gun too, and the
car with the motor idling, another stupid guess. Sure, stupid
ones give the most trouble. You'd had brains enough, Craig,
you have stayed out of us.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I couldn't. I was hired by miss Laws.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I had had.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
You set up wherein was going to marry you, so
you couldn't testify against him. Why'd yourry the knife and
Jimmy's back?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
I had him on you all the time.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
We do you have had any reasons for killing him? Otis?
What reason? Not even a stupid guess? Otis?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yes, this this squabbling, it's unpleasant and a waste of time.
Meaning what whatever Mislawd did, I didn't do mister Craig
is now in a position to inform the Crime Commission
of our business Association. Yes, that would be disastrous, not
only for myself but for you as well. I hesitate
to suggest anything violent, but what choice have we got.
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You've still got Jimmy's death to account for you, miss Lord,
don't drink that.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
What do you want to hurry to dive?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
The man is? He's insane?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah? Otis a man looking for a murderer.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I was wrong with a drink.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Another guests a solid one this time. Will my Lord's
wanted by the police for the murder of your punk.
Will the Lord disappeared. Suppose she died in his house,
Wearing would have the body watch buried, burned. Either way,
no more Wilma Lloyd. The cops would spend the next
century looking for her. The case would be closed. Also,
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John Wearing wouldn't have to marry her. He'd be rid
of a witness against him. But he hadn't mind for you, Otis.
I wouldn't know, but he had something in mind. Then
he'd be free. He could go on being philanthropic. This
is it's childish melodrama, murder's melodrama. Only he's not childish,
mister Wearing. When I walked in here, you asked me
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if I was a reporter, the gag being you'd never
seen me, heard of me before. But a little later
on you said something about a confidential investigator not being
a gentleman. Must have followed me too, you said, will
my lord had kept her appointment with me. How did
you know if she told you? You wouldn't have confused me
with a reporter. If she did a minute, he was
checking on her because he was planning to get rid
of her. But your boy Jimmy spotted him on the
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third floor where my office is. Nobody else would have
had any motive for killing him. Wearing had to because
the tiptoes about his plan for the girl. Nonsense, absolute nonsense.
Don't suppose you drink this, huh I?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
I had to test come them drink it, Wearing, I
shall leave No. I find this fight to drink it
a fool.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
A fool had to be done done the reason I
knew that drink was poisoned. Take a snip out of
notice by the deep sniff. Oh sorry, got it in
your eyes. Thanks for the gun. You mustn't lose your temper.
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Wearing killed Jimmy. Sure, but you had to kill Wearing,
didn't you? If you turned him over to the copse
heat that blabbed the crime commissioner. Deeper, you know something
otis You must be a sinking ship. That was it
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all wound up. I went home, I slept. The next day.
I was back on the third floor being lonely.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
How do you lock this door?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
There's a thing underneath the doorknob. Oh, you remembered somebody
following you again?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
No, I just don't want to be interrupted. And what
thank you? I don't have any money. I'm not marrying
a rich man anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
But I don't think you'll mind. Mm. I always believe
a client. Good night, folks, see you next week.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
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transcribed mystery drama from the Adventures of Barry Craig, Confidential
Investigator to Night story, The Case of the Borrowed Knife,
was written by Lou Vittes. Next week, it's an exciting
story titled Dead on Arrival, about which Barry Craig has
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this to say.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Next week, I've devote my time to a bashful blonde,
an escaped lunatic, and a Stone Cold Corpse and Brothers
Is It Murder? See you next week, folks.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Featured in the role of Wilma was Elspeth, Eric Barry,
Craig spowring William Gargan is under the direction of Rimond Brown.
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