1053 - The Saint Goes Underground (The Saint)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
A journey into the realm of the strange and tell
a bi.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I hope you will enjoy the chap that it will
till you a little and kill you a little.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerves.
Where are we going? You'll find out when we get there.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
The Adventures of the Saint starring Vincent Price. The Saint
based on characters created by Leslie Chargers, unknown to millions
from books, magazines, and motion pictures. The Robinhood of Modern
Crime is now transcribed for radio, starring Hollywood's brilliant and

(01:13):
talented doctor Vincent Price as the Saint.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Anything wrong, Captain, nothing serious, missus Templer, just coming down
here for a check.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Go on as soon as we can.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh, and where is here?

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Headstone, New Mexico used to be a big silver mining town,
but not just not a little town, I guess, although
I did notice there's a carnival playing over on the
edge of this emergency landing strip of How long are
we to enjoy the hospitality of Headstone?

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh? Two or three hours? Long?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Up to see the town after dinner if you like,
Sorry to delay, sir, All right.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
All right, captain, I'm seldom forward in a strange town.
Are you better go back and fasten your seat? Set
that captain, We're coming down now right, I'll see you later. Well,

(02:15):
good evening, Saints. You know me yet I don't seem
to recall your face, Harry Kelly.

Speaker 5 (02:22):
You don't recall my face because we've never met. But
I've seen many pictures of you, and so I recognize your.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Meeting well, very very flattering. Tell me, mister Kelly, how
can I get into town?

Speaker 5 (02:31):
You can find the camp on the other side of
the car.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Planning on staying long? Not at all should I.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
On the contrary, I was just going to suggest that
I doubt if Headstone would welcome the presence of the saint.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Just a friendly remark, you an say, uh, naturally, and
if I may be permitted a friendly question, why are
you telling me this?

Speaker 5 (02:51):
Just an interest in the continued health of my fellows you.
If you have any trouble in town, look me up.
Anyone can tell you where to find.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Show it just about the shirt.

Speaker 6 (03:01):
See little Fatima, the girl who shakes and shivers like
a bowl full of jelly.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Only one time ten cents the thim parts of a
dollar for you.

Speaker 7 (03:15):
I read the past the present and the future. Learn
your fortune, young.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Man, I already know it, Grandmother. I'm destined to meet
a tall, dark and beautiful woman.

Speaker 8 (03:26):
I'll settle for nothing left.

Speaker 7 (03:28):
I see strange lines on your face, young man, I
will tell your fortune without charge. Give me your hand.
I see danger. Beware of a blonde young woman. She
will bring you.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Death, the worst ways of dying.

Speaker 7 (03:46):
Grandmother, I see danger, much danger for one with a
halo about his head, blood and death, and as he
travels I see.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
I think I'm beginning to get the idea. You might
tell your crystal ball that I'm beginning to be interested.
Good Bye, grandmother, and made the thing. Bless you, Taxi messer,
Oh thank you? Say? Do you suppose you can drive
me somewhere that serves a good dinner? Sure? Silver Dollar Hotel?

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You know I was just sitting there a communter with
nature about how many guys there are who blow their
want to watch some dame do a holder or won't
spend a dime on a hack? Do I detect a
touch of Brooklyn? How could you miss? That's me? I'm
Ziggy from Flat for you. I used to drive a
hack in Brooklyn. Now I own the only hacking Headstone.

(04:42):
It's like you know, I ain't seen a brooklyn Bridge
for ten years since I come out here for my health.
I always think it's a smart man who knows when
it's healthy to get out of town. Meaning what does
everything have to mean something me? I'm in my own business.
I stay healthy. That's why I'm living in Headstone instead

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of underwork. I see. But if you didn't mind your
own business, I suppose you'd give me some advice about
leaving Headstone. Is that it no advice man? That's part
of minding my own business. Headstone is a great place,
the strangest to visit if they paid up their insurance.

(05:35):
Here you are waiting, very nice dinner. My check, Chris, no, no, no.

Speaker 8 (05:39):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Keep the change.

Speaker 9 (05:44):
Hello.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Well, well this is a surprising hotel. First a beautiful
dinner and then an even more beautiful blonde.

Speaker 9 (05:50):
But may I sit down?

Speaker 1 (05:51):
By all means?

Speaker 9 (05:52):
Missy you Simon template, I.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Should have worn my dark glasses, but now that the
truth is out, you might have.

Speaker 8 (06:00):
I'll call me Simon.

Speaker 9 (06:01):
All right, Simon, Now.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
How did you know who I am? Now?

Speaker 8 (06:04):
Don't tell me that you were just passing and recognized Well.

Speaker 10 (06:07):
Ziggy told me that you were here. He owns and
drives the taxi here a headstone.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
I know I shouldn't look a gift blonde in the hair,
But why did Ziggy tell you why I was in here?

Speaker 10 (06:16):
Well, Ziggy knows that I need help, and he thought, well,
that is, since you're the saint, you might help me.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Well. I have been known to help beautiful blondes on occasion.
But tell me why you should need help, Eddy.

Speaker 9 (06:31):
Someone's been trying to kill me.

Speaker 8 (06:32):
Oh, it should be a law against that. Are you sure?

Speaker 10 (06:34):
I've been shot at twice and everybody here has been
very unfriendly except Viggy and a man named Harry Kelly.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Huh. I've noticed the unfriendliness in this town, but being
unfriendly towards you is obviously an indication of insanity.

Speaker 9 (06:49):
Please don't joke about it. I'm frightened all right now.

Speaker 8 (06:52):
Tell me about it.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Well.

Speaker 10 (06:55):
My father was known as silver Slim, calmly. He lived
here for years, but he sent me east to school
when I was very young, and I didn't come back
here until recently.

Speaker 9 (07:04):
My father died about a month ago.

Speaker 8 (07:06):
Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 10 (07:07):
He was broke and all he left me was his
old silver mine. He called it the Betty mine.

Speaker 8 (07:13):
After me and I take it. Somebody wants the mine?

Speaker 10 (07:16):
No, no, the mine is completely worthless. There hasn't been
any silver in it for years.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
But my dear, you were shot at twice. Have you
any idea who did the shooting?

Speaker 10 (07:25):
No, but it might be the same man who told
me to get out of town. Oh who Mike McCarthy.
Ziggy says he's an Eastern gangster who has been living
out here for several months. Will you help me, mister
temp Simon.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, I've never been able to say no to a
pretty girl. You mentioned a man named Harry Kelly before.

Speaker 8 (07:44):
Just who is he?

Speaker 10 (07:45):
He knew my father. He's been very friendly to me,
although he thought I ought to leave town too.

Speaker 8 (07:50):
Has met mister Kelly and he cheats me much.

Speaker 10 (07:54):
I think we'll go all right. Oh just a minute,
it was a red dust on your coat.

Speaker 8 (08:01):
Oh thank you.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Viggy apparently doesn't get enough passengers to keep his cab dusted.
Did you say Viggy was parked outside.

Speaker 9 (08:11):
In his giant He was when I came in.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Oh there he is, yes, looking exactly as if he
were back in Brooklyn. Viggy what you found you thanks
to your bird dogging, which I must admit in this case,
has done much to overcome any natural prejudice against cab
divers that I might have. Say, do you know where
Harry Kelly lives? Sure, and let's go there. Hey, don't

(08:35):
you ever clean out this hack? What's all this dust?
Who knows? Maybe it was that redhead that hired me yesterday,
so she had andr Viggy, you missed your calling. You're
as funny as an undertaker. Well, now, Viggy, I don't
suppose you cared to tell me why you warned me
to get out of Heckstone got me all wrong, Saint.

(08:56):
I wasn't warning you. I was just talking about myself.
And as you care to tell me why somebody took
pot shot at miss Connolly here and told her to
get out of town too? Me, I don't know nothing,
like I was telling you saying, I mind my own business.
Maybe you stay ignorant that way, but it's healthier and
I like it like that. And in that case, why
did you send miss Connolly into being me? Well, like

(09:19):
you can see, she's a pretty little pigeon. She needs
to know some guy will help her. Now, it ain't
no secret that the saint goes around mixing in other
people's business. So I tell her to see you? And
who told you? I was the thing? I got eyes
in my head? Ain't I? Like I said? I used
to hack in Brooklyn? I got around? What about this
Mike mccott strictly smart money? H huh? A lot of guys

(09:43):
have crossed his bed once you get what I mean?
What about uh? Harry Kelly vocal stuff, nice schmoe, but
no more. You're doing all right for a guy that
doesn't know anything. You got me wrong, Pal, He looks
people over, but he don't see nothing except one guy
is tough, but another guy is small, and maybe another

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guys don't know.

Speaker 9 (10:07):
I really don't think we should try to involve Diggie Simon.
He's been very nice as it is.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
He's got something, Pal, I ain't really equipped for it,
because the way your head is, only a saint could
feel at home. Well, here we are saying Kelly lives

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on the first floor, and oh thanks, wait for it, Diggie,
We've got a couple of other calls to make after this.
Don't worry, I'll wait. You're getting any trouble just yell.
Then I'll drive over and tell the sheriff. I heard
somebody yell. P thanks pal. Come on, Betty, and I
hope our friend is in and that he talked.

Speaker 9 (10:54):
Yeah, strange howry telling you to come and see him.

Speaker 10 (10:58):
If you had any trouble he had any connection with me,
then why hasn't he said something to me?

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Well? It sounded to me like a cautious man. Maybe
he did know something that didn't want to say anything
unless he felt sure something was going to be done.
I will soon, No, yes, so is it Simon Templer?
Oh the same? Just a minute?

Speaker 9 (11:19):
Oh, shot were in that room.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
This is no time for conversation darting.

Speaker 11 (11:22):
We're going now, Kelly, Oh, Simon, Kelly, Kelly, this is
Simon Templer.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
Yes, Kelly, the saint who shot you? H mine? Kelly? Well, Betty,
he isn't going to tell us anything now. Killer did

(11:59):
a very thorough job. Window open. Must have shot from here.
There's a shell out the fire place. What was he
saying sounded like like sins. Come on, Beddy, We're going
to spread a little saintliness. And I think I know
where to begin. But Ziggy, didn't you hear anything? Well?

(12:44):
I noticed some noise, but like I know, you mind
your own business.

Speaker 9 (12:48):
Are we going to the Sheriff's No, not.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yet, Ziggy, who's the estare in this time? All man matters?
The office is claused now, but he lives right ahead.
There's that big white house. Okay, stop there. I'd like
to satisfy a little curiosity about that mine of yours.
I'll be right back.

Speaker 8 (13:04):
You send here, Betty?

Speaker 1 (13:21):
What do you want? Mister Matthews? Who else should be?
Here's my house? Ended? What do you want? My name
is Simon Templar. I wanted to ask you if you
know the Connolly silver mine.

Speaker 6 (13:30):
I know every mine within two hundred miles to hear
young fellow. Hey, ain't that Betty Connolly is sitting up
there in that taxi?

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yes? And why can't she tell you about the mine?
She owns you what she has told me. But I
just wanted to check about the possibility of a mistake.
How much silver would you say? There? Wasn't the Connolly
mine about enough to put in your eye and still
leave room for your finger. Couldn't there be a hidden
vein in it? Nope, there ain't been enough silver around
here to make a dime for years and years? Could

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there be anything else of value? Mud didn't watch you?
If you call that valuable? You're sure, of course, I'm sure,
young fellow.

Speaker 6 (14:06):
I've been here, man and boy for seventy years, and
I ain't got no time to stand around answer and
durn fool questions.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Good Bye, oh, goodbye, and Betty you may be right,
oh man, Matthew says the mine is worthless too, So
Diggy take us to see Mike McCarthy. Are you sure
you want to go there? Saying I was you, I
get on that plane. It's leaving pretty soon. No, I've

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decided not to leave Headstone just yet. Later you can
drive me over to Alphuquerque and I'll take the chief
the rest of the way. Okay, charm, it's your.

Speaker 9 (14:39):
Funeral, Simon, Please be careful, don't you worry?

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Betty. The halo where his benevolent association would be very
upset if anything happened to me.

Speaker 8 (15:01):
I'll be right.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, I'm looking for Mike McCarthy where you found him?
My boy scout training had never fail. My name is
Simon Templar the Saints. I've been known by that name,
so what it's a very interesting question, I must try
to think of an answer sometimes. Meanwhile, I thought you
might like to know that I heartily disapprove of you
are telling a certainist Betty Connolly, that she ought to

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leave town. What's the girl to you?

Speaker 8 (15:33):
It's my business.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
I could make it mine. And if I do, your
halo's going to slip down to start choking it.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
I thought bullets were more in your line, mean, and
what eating the shot spied at missus Connolly and a
little gunning job only a few minutes ago.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
I didn't do any gun and but I'm liable to
if you don't beat it. And you sound so sure
of yourself, Michael, that's because I got more in my
hand than an itching palm.

Speaker 8 (15:56):
That's very pretty gun, Mike.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
But I'm very much afraid that nothing was satisfied my
curiosity short of knowing why you want to get miss
Connolly out of town.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
I got answers for those guys, six of them. I
just stand right there. Stay away from that death saint
or worry, Mike.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
I have no interest in the desk at Call, but
I do have an interest in miss Connolly.

Speaker 8 (16:18):
And now, Michael, how did you ADU? What happened to Nah,
not much.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
I'm afraid the conversation was just getting interesting when Mike
had a sudden attack of drops me.

Speaker 8 (16:39):
That's funny. I never heard of being single.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
It's because you mind your own business, Vicky, Like you
tell me Betty worries that silver mine of.

Speaker 9 (16:46):
Yours about two miles out of town.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
Any place in town where we can rent a car.
Why I have a car? Why I see the prospecting
urge coming over me, Ziggy, take us to Miss Connolly's car,
and then we can dispense with your valuable So what's
wrong with my curt Nothing, It's just that I don't
like people looking over my shoulder, especially when I visit
a lonely mine in the company of.

Speaker 8 (17:09):
A beautiful girl.

Speaker 9 (17:25):
Well, here's the batty mine, although I don't know why
you want to.

Speaker 8 (17:28):
See it, right, I don't know either.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
As long as I'm here, I might as well take
the forty cent tour.

Speaker 10 (17:34):
Certainly, sir. Right this way, this old cable car goes
down into the mine. All we have to do is
stand on the platform and pull the cable. It works
with balance, wit.

Speaker 8 (17:43):
Cleverly forty ninety I'll find.

Speaker 10 (17:45):
Out on the forty cent tour we give the exact
distance three hundred and fifty four feet six inches.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Thank you, and thank you for having electric lights in
a mine that hasn't been worked for years.

Speaker 10 (17:57):
Oh, the mine has its own battery. Here's a bulb
on the car. Shall we go down?

Speaker 8 (18:03):
What are we waiting for? Let's go. Maybe the light
will go out.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Just hold it like that.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
I've been waiting for you too.

Speaker 8 (18:09):
Well, Michael McCarthy.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
I was wondering if we were going to have your company.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
And this time wise, I don't try any.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Don't tell me, Michael that you're going prospecting with us.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
I'm riding down with you, but I'm coming back alone.
Start the car down, Saint, but don't try no tricks.

Speaker 8 (18:25):
You have a suspicious mind, Mike.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Well, here we go. Call out your floors please, mezzanine ladies, underwear,
goloshes and acce. You'll be singing a different tune pretty soon. Saint.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
You both had your chance to leave town your way.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
Now you're going to leave my way. I'm sorry. Don't
be betty. This is my first ride. I'm an open
cable car and it'll be your last. I wouldn't be
too sure unless that cable breaks before we get to
the bottom. What are you talking about?

Speaker 11 (18:58):
A little crowding here one too, so I guess the
one that I have to do.

Speaker 9 (19:08):
What terrible.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
It's all right, Timan.

Speaker 9 (19:15):
It could have been you. He almost knocked you off
the platform two.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
With the padded shoulders in my coat, I helped them
hit the side.

Speaker 9 (19:25):
Look at your shoulders, they're covered with dirt from the
side of the shaft.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Yeah, huh, it's red. Wait a minute, Well we can
go back up, Betty. Mike doesn't need our help, and
I don't need anybody to answer questions anymore, Simon.

Speaker 9 (19:56):
I'll never understand you.

Speaker 10 (19:58):
Why did you look at the dirt on your coat
and say you didn't need any more questions?

Speaker 1 (20:01):
Because that dirt with red sulfide, Betty, and it explains
why Mike was so anxious to run you out of town.

Speaker 10 (20:07):
Well, I don't see how red sulfite is used in paint,
but that doesn't.

Speaker 9 (20:11):
Make it valuable.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Red sulfide is also cinnebar or, from which we get mercury,
and that is pretty valuable. Evidently your mind is rich
in cinebar so it's worth a lot of money. Betty.

Speaker 9 (20:21):
Oh, then that was what Kelly was trying to tell
us when he.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Said sin, yes, he was trying to say, cinebar.

Speaker 9 (20:27):
How can I ever thank you? Simon?

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Well, I have a couple of ideas on the subject.
But now people would say I was chasing you for
your money. So I guess you can just see me
off on the train. We'll stop in town and have
the diggy drivers to albuert Tuerkey.

Speaker 9 (20:41):
Oh but i'll drive you now.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
I insist on taking a cab. I don't want you
coming back alone. I may want to change my mind
about fortune.

Speaker 12 (21:00):
Yeah, like I said, saying, I'm glad to see you leave.
But it's Donalds just plenty of Bond's changes. You want
to take miss Conley with you, but.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
She doesn't have to go now, Ziggy. And besides, she's rich,
is what?

Speaker 10 (21:15):
Yes, Viggy, we found out the dead mine is valuable
after all? You mean you found silver, no mercury? Oh
the stuff they put into themometer.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
That's the tough diggie that it's used for a lot
of other things, particularly in wartime, and it's worth a
lot of money, what do you know? So that's why
Mike was trying to make you leave. That's this well,
did you stop and tell the.

Speaker 10 (21:34):
Sheriff We didn't have time, but I'll see him when
we go back.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
That's pretty nice for you or anybody. Oh, anyway, are
just in time, so the chiefs it very nice timing.
D thanks Betty for keeping my force to visit the
Headstone from being fellow.

Speaker 10 (21:49):
Oh Simon, well why don't you stay in Headstone? I
won't know how to run the mine or what to
do with the money or anything.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
You know what to do when you get back to town.

Speaker 10 (22:02):
Yes, what will the sheriff believe me? I mean about
Mike McCarthy killing Harry Kelly?

Speaker 1 (22:06):
I don't think he will, since Mike didn't kill Kelly.
But Kelly was shot with an automatic dejected a shell
on the fireplace. Remember, but Mike McCarthy carried a revolver.
You saw it.

Speaker 9 (22:17):
Yes, will the sheriff.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
The sheriff will believe when you show him that the
gun that killed Kelly is in Diggie's podcast.

Speaker 8 (22:25):
What what are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (22:27):
You knew about the cine bar or in the mind.
You carried some of it away to be tested in
your cab, and there was red dust in it, which
he tried to explain with a corny gag. You're crazy, Harry.
Kelly had an idea of what was going on, so
you slipped around to the back while we were at
the front door and killed him. All right, wise, guy,
you're so smart. What about Mike.

Speaker 10 (22:45):
Mike was working for you, but Simon Viggie told me
that you were in town.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Sure he couldn't be sure that I wasn't here to
break up his little scheme, So the smartest thing to
do was to get us together so he could watch
both of us. He thought I would use his cabs
as I did, and it would be easy. But he
slipped up when he sent Mike out to the mine
ahead of it. Vicky was the only one who knew
where we were going. Okay, the US four.

Speaker 8 (23:13):
Like you said, you should have followed your own advice
about minding your own business.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
He's all your, daddy. The gun that killed Kelly is
now on the seat beside him. All you have to
do is turn the body and the gun over to
the sheriff, and from there on in here'll mind Ziggy's
business for him. But don't worry, daddy, I'll stop back
someday to make sure that Dean is he in conjunction
with Mercury.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
You have just heard another adventure of the Saint, the
robin hood of modern crime. Now here is our starves and.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Price, ladies and gentlemen. How many times there have been
men just like Ziggy, led into crime by insatiable greed
forgetting the simplest truth. So aptly phrased by John Dryden,
murder may pass unfamished for a time, but hardy justice
will overtake the crime. This is Incent Prize extending a
personal invitation to all of you to join us again

(24:20):
next week at the same time for another adventure of
the Saint. Good Night.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Tonight's script of The Saint was written by Michael Cramoy.
Our cast included Harry Bartel, Barney Phillips, Colleen Collins, Fred
Howard and Tony Barrett. The music was composed and conducted
by Harry Zemmermin. The Saint is a James L. Saffire
Agency production and was transcribed and directed by Thomas A.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Mcavenny.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
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