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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Another journey into the realm of the streets to get
a bide. I hope you will enjoy the chap that
it will till you a little and kill you a little.
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerve.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Where are we going?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
You'll find out when we get there.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Oh, beautiful person that matter?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh Mally, what a beautiful model in that dress?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Well she is a bad oh John.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
And you're not looking at the drinkers.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And I want you to help me pick out enough.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
This is a fashion show.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Which of those girls will be in fashioned this season?
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I'm going to pick out a dress by myself.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Do you mean this performance and continuous? A fine time
to tell me, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
I'm so glad you attended my fashion show. Oh hello, yer,
you and the man said you have seen something you like?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
No, I like that model over there here? Which the
red satin Blackie?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
No, the red head, Pierre, get the phony p s Duff, Blankie,
call me Joe, go on inside. I want to talk
to you. And now back to Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie.
Enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to
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those who have no friends.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
Why doesn't that jennittor hurry up? Why doesn't he give
me through?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
What took your so long?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Harry?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I sent the elevator man.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Down for you fifteen minutes, sorry, miss Roz.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And I was fixing one of the furnace stores down
in the basement. Oh, what's the many? Can you get
into your office?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I forgot my key, Harry.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well, I guess I can let you in.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I'm good here.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It works in kind of la nature.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
And I'm worried about some papers in my safe.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Papers in the safe, ought to be safe parton Ny.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yes, but we are there. You goes off for you,
Thank you, Harry.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Wait out here and on the night for you there,
Thanks Harry.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Why mister Rhodes, look out, papers all over it's open.
I've been robbed.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Rob Let's call the police, Harry pass.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
This is the safe that was Robbins fair day.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Uh huh? When did to discover it's been robbed, mister Rose?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Help?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And I came to hear to my office just now.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You sure it was locked when you left here?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But I'm positive inspeaker, high knock at myself.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Anyone else near office? Not the combination.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
There is no one else in my office in sticker.
I operate them money than the service, but I I
work alone.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Rowlins will find fingerprints on it for his through we'll
find out who opened it, anything of real value, missing.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Everything, cash, twenty five thousand dollars, all the money I
have in the world, and then I owe you for
fifty thousand dollars signed by Pierre.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, who's he?
Speaker 7 (03:22):
He's a press designer with a swanky shop and sellow
on the apple.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oh yes, I know that Pierre. In fact, my wife
tract Arlens. Excuse me, inspect if I've gone over that
tape and talked about them and over the whole works.
Huh How many prints again?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Not one?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
See?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I told joelsners soon Why did you sns? There's not
a fingerprint anywhere on that safe and it wasn't fried
ports or blown open them. No print, No, Prince, No,
this can't be. He couldn't have done this.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I won't believe it. He need expected Paraday.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Who's he, Boston Blackie?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Who's he?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
The cleverest safe cracker in the world. If there are
no prints on your safe and it was opened without blasting,
only one man could have done it, Boston to be
opened by someone with pensitive fingers, someone who could feel
the drop of the tumblers to his gloves. And I
know only one man who fits that description, in factor
Boston Back. I know that Romans Olson. You say you
don't know Boston Braggy, No, not at all. Why would
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you want to rub your safe?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I don't know. I don't know the man. He doesn't
know me or anything about you.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Know one thing about you? I know you had a
say full of cash, mister Rawson, Blankie had twenty five
thousand reasons for robbing.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
You an Hello, Blanky, Hello, Paraday knows everything, Blackie fine
inspect huntil you came in.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What's on your alleged mind?
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Nothing in particular. Have a nice time last night?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Oh I didn't do anything special?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Much of anything? You said around red?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
What something? Dull? I forgot what it was.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You didn't run down town for a little while, did you?
Speaker 7 (05:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
He didn't happen to drop in at the Bridge Building
sometime last night.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Did you? No? Not unless I walked in my.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Sleep, well in your sleep, of course. You didn't happen
to meet to Roger Olson's office on the eighteenth floor
of the bridge building. Oh he you were asleeper last night? Huh?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Soundly impleasantly, Paraday? Who does Roger Olson?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Someone you met your dreams last night and robbed?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Oh here we go again.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Come on, you might as well admit it because I
know you did it?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Did Why?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I play Tom Blackie. You're the only one in this town.
I've got to rob Olson's safe and not leave a
mark on it.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Roger Olson's safe robbed last night of twenty five thousand
dollars in cash and a fifty thousand dollars I owe
you signed by some guy named.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Pierre, Yeah, the dress designer.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Are you beginning to remember?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
And I remember Pierre? In fact, I was at his
fashion show yesterday. I had quite a talk with him.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh and what you and Pierre talked about yesterday was
robbing olson Safe and stealing his iowe you.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Ha ha, You're all away.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That I owe you is due tomorrow morning, and Pierre
couldn't pay it, so he bribed you to state it
by telling you about the cashless safe Sturday.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You don't have a brain in your head. Yeah, what
Pierre and I talked about was strictly a personal matter.
I never heard of an io you signed by Pierre
and held by Awsome.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
That's all period, flat lying, Blackie, you and Pierre.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Somebody's at the door. Maybe it's that twenty five thousand
dollars calling on me.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Come in, Oh, Blassie, I'm glad you home.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Hello Mary, Hello, Miss Wesley.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Hello, and.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
My goodness.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
You look as if you were in the mood to
arrest somebody.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Here's Mary.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And guess who I don't have to get Darling? What
if he wanted for this time?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Oh wait wait, I know and inspector your life.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Married at last year? Getting some sense, Miss Wesley.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
It's not anything I'm getting. It's what I've gotten.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Six brand new dresses from Pierre. What ah ha, six
brand new dresses, Blackie and in secu Sturday. I think
a man who wastes his money like that he put away.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So help me, Mary. I didn't buy those dresses for
you know one of them who did? Wow? Good reason
to believe that Pierre sent them. In fact, he wrote
me a note saying he was going to.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Sure it is. That's part payment for you robbing Roger Rowson,
safe for Paraday.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
If you're going to insist that Pierre asked me to
Rob Olson say call him up on the phone and
ask him.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Don't bother me. I'll do better than that. We'll go
out and see this guy, Pierre. I gotta hunch this
dress maker will help me get the goods on. You
would like to see Pierre.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Please, I'm sorry he can't.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Why not, beautiful? Have you just seen you? And he's
disturbed enough for one evening.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I'm from the police, lady. Is Pierre in his office?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yes, but we're taking inventory tonight and he doesn't want to.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Not even you. Huh. I can't understand that.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Quiet lady, you Piers secretary, you don't have to disturbing
I'm sorry, in his.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Office for quite a while without coming out, except to
mail a letter an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I suppose you wouldn't mind, all.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Right, thanks me too.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Of course, you seem to say things that are not necessary.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
I suppose you will go away or not wanting.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
That's all right here, thanks, Come on, Blankie, bere right,
I'll do the talking, Blankie okay, Oh, oh, well.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Go ahead, Paraday. I talk to him, but I doubt
if you'll answer, because from here it looks like Pierre
is dead.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Keep poking around rons, see what you can find. Well,
let Karna well inspector quiet, Blankie, I'll do all the
guessing on here.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Mess.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
What's your name? You're Pierre secretary?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I told you that.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, I was here late because he was taking inventory.
What are you doing here so late?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I always stay late on inventory life in case Pierre wants.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Anything, well, what he didn't want. Believe me, my icy
friend was to be murdered. You didn't buy any chance.
Help him with that. That'll be enough.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Out of your blanky. We don't even know what it
was murder yet unless you killed him. There's not a
mark on him. Because I'll take n I'll think of
a bitch to be found, infector anything else. Yeah, rollins,
get out of here, all of you get out of here.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Okay, come on for it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
You told itself, so you can go, but stay in
the building. No better than that. Don't leave your office.
I want to talk to you later.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And so what I'm beautiful.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I'll be glad to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Ouch again. Parad say, I'm beginning to hurt Amal.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Save your wise cracks for your future. Sell mats, Blacky.
You're under arrest for robbing Olson's safe and maybe for murder.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I couldn't pull a gun on you while Beautiful was
in the room, Parody, but she's not here now.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Unless you trying to convince me you murdered Pierre. But
that John away blanking.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Oh no, what it's gunna wear? You'll put me away.
And I have a few things to take care of
the side of prison bars. Yeah, yeah, And the first
thing I'm gonna take care of is you. Oh Mary,
(10:31):
this is Blackie.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Oh hello, did Pierre everything up?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Beautifully? Mary? He's dead. Verry and Thorody tried to arrest
me in the event it turns out to be murdered.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Oh where are you not.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Not in jail, Mary, I'm in a drugstore, tied and
gagged and locked up inside a closet in Pierre's office.
As I left, I told PS secretary the inspector didn't
want to be disturbed for a couple of hours.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I'm worried about you.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You let me worry about me and Mary. You call
PS secretary in an hour to get parently out of
that closet while I get myself out of a jam.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
And now back to Boston. Blackie, Blackie and Mary go
to Pierre's fashion show, and when Pierre gets Blackie alone,
he announces that his real name is Joe and he
wants to talk to Blackie. The next morning, a Roger
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Olsen's safe has robbed twenty five thousand dollars in cash
and an I owe you for fifty thousand dollars signed
by the phony Pierre. Inspector Faraday suspects Blackie and takes
him to Pierre's for questioning, but Pierre is dead. Paraday
then attempts to arrest Blackie, but Blackie gets away.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
As we return to our story, Blackie is talking with
Roger Olson, the man who states Blackey you killed robbing
You know? Olson, I keep thinking I've seen you somewhere before. Well,
I don't think you have flaggy. That's it. That's what
I know where I've seen you behind Barz. You were
held in a charge of larsony a few years ago.
I remember seeing a picture in the paper.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
If you remember that, you'll probably also remember that I
was freed of the charge.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yes, Olson, you were tried and quitted. That's right, so
you can't be tried again. But I have to know
you were guilty. So what so maybe you took a
chance on breaking the law again. Maybe you admit you
killed Pierre. You had a good reason. He robbed yourself safe.
He could completely wipe you out by stealing that cash,
not fifty thousand dollars. Iowe you. You had a pitch.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
If I thought Pierre had robbed my safe, wouldn't I
have said so the minute I discovered his iou was.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
God no, because then when the police found him dead,
they'd figure you had a motive killing him.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Get out of here, I said, get out.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Sure. As soon as you admit you killed Pierre, I said.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Get out route.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
You're a pretty good fit. I think I'm not. I
know you're not all right, mis Terarlson. Sometime after you
get up and see me through those black eyes of yours,
I'll be up to see.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You paradise, thinking, Frankie, we found Pierre was killed by poison.
We take a suicide. But you stay where you are.
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You're under arrest for Robbie Olson's safe.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
No paradase. The only place I'm gonna stay is away
from you.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Look blanky. Unless you come down here right away, I'm
arresting Mary Wesley. I'll hold it for complicity, maybe or
easier still as a material witness. You'll be a good boy.
Come down here and give you a somelf path. Come on, Blankie,
we're booking only on the safe pranking rap.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I'll make a deal with no.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Either you give yourself or I'm arresting Mary Mary Wesley.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Give me twenty four hours, Hardy, No, all p a sport.
Let Mary alone and give me twenty four hours to
prove I didn't rob Olson's state and who might have
killed Pierre if he if it wasn't suicide.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Okay, one day and that's all.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Thanks, Farnday. You're a great guy. Only I need more
than one day to prove that. Hello, you're the manager
of this restaurant. Yes, and you are busted and Blackie,
are you not? Oh? You know me by an education
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of God. What can I do for you? This restaurant
of yours is the same building where Pierre Designer has
his offices and his sellof that is hid. Then you
are investigating, is there, Blackie? I can help you.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
You can, yes, you see, I read every detective magazine
and novel as soon as it comes out.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
We will go hunting for clues together, you and I.
I'm sure that won't be necessary, but thanks anyhow, just
tell me this. Did Pierre ever eat here?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Here?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Years are you away? Do you think that he's a grue?
That might be Pierre died of poisonon it could have
been suicide. But was he him here for dinner tonight?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
He was, he's something he was. He ANDed up. Our
gentleman came in.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
They looked furtively about and then selected that table there.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well, let's forget that further pusiness and tell me who
was the other gentleman? Oh orson?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Is he be?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
He could be, that is, if he had a chance
at dinner to slip poison Pierre's food. But that is
not possible. No, why Well to night? Only mister Olson
eat dinner?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Yeah, didn't eat or drink anything.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Hello, beautiful, I'm glad you waited for me.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I'm waiting here because the police tell me Blackie and
my name is Thompson, Maryon Thompson.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
How could I forget the name or the faith?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Hell of information? Olson? Pierre had been it downstairs? Did
they come up here later?
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
They went to Pierre's private office and had an awful
rower then mister Olson. Then a few minutes later I
heard Pierre's typing something, and then he went out in
the hall for a second to mail a letter.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
He wrote a letter to whom.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I hadn't the slightest idea M.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
That's giving me a very good answer.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Maybe you didn't ask the right question.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Okay, I'll find another. You look like an intelligent girl.
If Roger Olsen killed Pierre, he had to buy that
poison somewhere. If you wanted to buy poison, where would
you get it?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I don't know, drugstore.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Maybe you couldn't get there without a prescription.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Will I go to a doctor and get one.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
You wouldn't know Olson's doctor by any chance.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
No, but I know Pierre Tall. I get him on
the phone.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Please. You know along numbers, don't you?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
You?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
But yours?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I should tell you, but it wouldn't do you any good.
My line is this.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It can't always be this M.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
But when it's not, Oh, doctor Brennan speaking one moment,
please yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Hello, Yes, a doctor. I'm investigating the death of Pierre
as a designer. I understand he came to see you
from time to time. No quite offense. I didn't know that.
But it doesn't matter. Uh, what does matter is this.
Suppose the murderer wanted to obtain poison, how would he
go about it.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Well, in the case of Pierre, he wouldn't have to
go very far. I happened to know he kept the
poison in his office. In fact, it was in a prescription.
He was taking poison in a prescription, certainly, but he
was as directed. It was harmless in large quantities. Of course,
it would prove fatal. Let me understand this.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Somebody could have forced Pierre to take make an overdose
of the medicine you've prescribed and it would kill him.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Thank you very much, doctor goodnect. Well, then that is
settling down over our friend, mister Olson. It's too bad, beautiful,
your job is gone.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
It wouldn't have lasted very long anyhow. Business was awful,
We were going to close up. The only one I
feel sorry for was his sister. She was so faithful
to it. He had a sister named Sally Barton. You know,
of course that Pierre's name wasn't Pierre.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yes, I knew name. Well, thanks, beautiful. You've been very helpful,
and intimately, as you probably know, you've also been.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Kind of cold. It's starting to go out here.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Too late. I've only got twenty four hours to prove that,
Ultimo Pierre and part of what's going now, I've got
to get out of here.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
No answer yet, humbucky.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
No Mary, but we're gonna wait.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
You know you made me leave my apartment so early
this morning, I didn't get a chance to see what
I looked like.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I shouldn't go calling like this.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You'll look fine, Mary, And besides PR's sisters we had
a care what you looked like.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Okay, anyway, nobody seems to be home.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Maybe we're at the wrong house.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Oh, there isn't a number on the door. How can
we be sure?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well, well, how's next door is two forty seven? The
telephone book sells ps sister lives at two forty five.
I think it did anything like.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Here's a mailbox, its several letters in it. Maybe if
we look at the envelops we can tell us the.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Sister lives here.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
You who am to a detectives so pot sometimes only sometimes? Uh,
you're wonderful all the time.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Oh, say that a door later.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Hey, maybe it's une little Mary. Well I just took
out of the mailbox.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Well, it's addressed to miss Sally Button at least we
no worth right house anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Look at the return and dress, though, Mary, even though
someone did try to sprint it.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Out he had from Pierre's. It might contain evidence proving
that dose and killed him. Let's open up.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
This might be the letter Pierre was writing just before
he died. But there's a law against oping it, he says.
One time. I am going to Faraday. If the law
has to be broken, let's get the.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Law to do it. Yeah, thanks, thanks, thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Well Faraday, one of the post offers say.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Under the circumstances, it's all right to open the letter.
I'll open it, all right, open it. I feel like
a peeping term.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I'll feel worse than that. If that letter isn't pro
will killed Pierre, I'll be peeping through bars a lot
to say, Faraday.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Well, let me see.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Well, come on, Faraday, let me have it. I'll read it. Thanks.
It says dear Sally. My business is gone, my health
is bad. Everything is closing in on me. Roger Olson
is responsible for everything that has happened to me. And
last night I robbed his safe of every cent he
had in the world. Well, that clears up one point. Anyhow,
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let me finish this because I took his money and
I destroyed the iou I had given him, so that
if there is anything left of my business it will
go to you. I have taken poison and we'll be
dead in a few minutes. Goodbye, and saying Pierre.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
It's suicide. That's what I've said all along.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I got a note from Pierre in my pocket. I
just want to compare this signature of before we caused
this case. Yeah, with no doubt.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Huh that's that then?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Not yet not. There are two things I still don't understand.
That's that how he could have opened Lton's safe and
why he signed a personal letter to his sister with
his business name.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
H wow, what's wowing your genius?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Hit isn't to you? You can bet on that.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Let me see that enveloped a lot of Kingdom Freddy, Yeah,
master mind, you think that's secret writing out of the
staff or something.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
No, No, here's something better than that. What time did
the carn I say he had died seven last night? Why? Why?
Because this letter is postmarked midnight? That's why can a
dead man mail a letter? Berry get Olson met Marian's
Thompson to come down here. We'll have a meeting very soon.
After the meeting is open. This case will be closed.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
When you get going Blackie, Miss Thompson and mister olsenapping
that all day. I'm gonna sit back and listen.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
That's right, inspeaker. I'm a busy man. Take it easy, Olson,
I'm ready. First of all, let me tell you something.
Nobody opened your safe the other night. You did it
yourself and robbed myself. That's right, and robbed yourself. You
were insured. You simply hid the cash you took out
and stand to have the money duplicated by the insurance company.
That's an old trick. I think I'm cleverer than that.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Blackie.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Ooh, you very clever, destroying ps Iou made him a suspect,
and then after his post suicide and very handy a
confession to assist it. You were in the clear. Only
Pierre didn't write that note.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah that's Blacky. You yourself said it was his signature.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
It was his signature, but he still didn't write it.
That's where our friend, Miss Thompson here comes in.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Oh, this is where I go out. You've got no
reason to hold me here.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Sword ancestor, your partner scheme is this? You had a
Pierre a lot of mail. The sign He probably read
the first couple of letters and then signed a blank
sheet of paper without bothering to look at it. That
blank sheet later became his supposed suicide note.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
With your guessing talent, Blackie, you ought to have the
waking session in the conference.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I've got thanks to make up my guess it's beautiful.
Pierre was dead at seven. I checked and found out
that at seven point fifteen it was a mail pickup
from your building. No letter. At nine it was another pickup.
The letter was in that. In other words, Pierre mailed
this after he was dead.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I mailed the letter. He called me and gave it
to me, and I mailed it myself at eight city.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
No good, lovely lady, you told me before he mailed it.
I can see the headlines now, Beautiful secretary murders designer.
P's enough arsenic in water glass to kill employer who
had been taking arsenic and smallers of course two cure ailments. Well, well,
if she killed Pierre, I guess you don't want me
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any long time. Oh it's Roger, is it?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Troger?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
You contn out of me? You planned this whole thing.
You said it was foolproof.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
It was foolproof. Only I am not a fool. Marry him.
I never in dinner the Pierre to die. That was
your idea.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
You were in love with him, and he wouldn't have
anything to do with you. It was your idea to
poison him.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
My ideas you said. You said, I get half of
the money from the insurance company out you collected your plane.
You had as nice to do with killing him as I.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
You can't believe for you what I confess. I robbed
my own sainte and.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I didn't st here.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
You've got to believe that I didn't kill it.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
No, Now, I'll tell you something Faraday. All Pierre wanted
from me that day in his cellar was Mary's address. Well,
that winds up your case, and the the two characters
also wind up behind the eight ball.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
H
Another journey into the realm of the streets to get
a bide. I hope you will enjoy the chap that
it will till you a little and kill you a little.
So settle back, get a good grip on your nerve.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Where are we going?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
You'll find out when we get there.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Oh, beautiful person that matter?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh Mally, what a beautiful model in that dress?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Well she is a bad oh John.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
And you're not looking at the drinkers.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And I want you to help me pick out enough.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
This is a fashion show.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Which of those girls will be in fashioned this season?
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
I'm going to pick out a dress by myself.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Do you mean this performance and continuous? A fine time
to tell me, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
I'm so glad you attended my fashion show. Oh hello, yer,
you and the man said you have seen something you like?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
No, I like that model over there here? Which the
red satin Blackie?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
No, the red head, Pierre, get the phony p s Duff, Blankie,
call me Joe, go on inside. I want to talk
to you. And now back to Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie.
Enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to
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those who have no friends.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
Why doesn't that jennittor hurry up? Why doesn't he give
me through?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
What took your so long?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Harry?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I sent the elevator man.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Down for you fifteen minutes, sorry, miss Roz.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And I was fixing one of the furnace stores down
in the basement. Oh, what's the many? Can you get
into your office?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I forgot my key, Harry.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well, I guess I can let you in.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I'm good here.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It works in kind of la nature.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
And I'm worried about some papers in my safe.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Papers in the safe, ought to be safe parton Ny.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yes, but we are there. You goes off for you,
Thank you, Harry.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Wait out here and on the night for you there,
Thanks Harry.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Why mister Rhodes, look out, papers all over it's open.
I've been robbed.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Rob Let's call the police, Harry pass.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
This is the safe that was Robbins fair day.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Uh huh? When did to discover it's been robbed, mister Rose?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Help?
Speaker 2 (02:55):
And I came to hear to my office just now.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
You sure it was locked when you left here?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But I'm positive inspeaker, high knock at myself.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Anyone else near office? Not the combination.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
There is no one else in my office in sticker.
I operate them money than the service, but I I
work alone.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Rowlins will find fingerprints on it for his through we'll
find out who opened it, anything of real value, missing.
Speaker 7 (03:14):
Everything, cash, twenty five thousand dollars, all the money I
have in the world, and then I owe you for
fifty thousand dollars signed by Pierre.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, who's he?
Speaker 7 (03:22):
He's a press designer with a swanky shop and sellow
on the apple.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Oh yes, I know that Pierre. In fact, my wife
tract Arlens. Excuse me, inspect if I've gone over that
tape and talked about them and over the whole works.
Huh How many prints again?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Not one?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
See?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I told joelsners soon Why did you sns? There's not
a fingerprint anywhere on that safe and it wasn't fried
ports or blown open them. No print, No, Prince, No,
this can't be. He couldn't have done this.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I won't believe it. He need expected Paraday.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Who's he, Boston Blackie?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Who's he?
Speaker 1 (03:53):
The cleverest safe cracker in the world. If there are
no prints on your safe and it was opened without blasting,
only one man could have done it, Boston to be
opened by someone with pensitive fingers, someone who could feel
the drop of the tumblers to his gloves. And I
know only one man who fits that description, in factor
Boston Back. I know that Romans Olson. You say you
don't know Boston Braggy, No, not at all. Why would
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you want to rub your safe?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I don't know. I don't know the man. He doesn't
know me or anything about you.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Know one thing about you? I know you had a
say full of cash, mister Rawson, Blankie had twenty five
thousand reasons for robbing.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
You an Hello, Blanky, Hello, Paraday knows everything, Blackie fine
inspect huntil you came in.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What's on your alleged mind?
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Nothing in particular. Have a nice time last night?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Oh I didn't do anything special?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
What did you do?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Much of anything? You said around red?
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
What something? Dull? I forgot what it was.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
You didn't run down town for a little while, did you?
Speaker 7 (05:06):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
No, I didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
He didn't happen to drop in at the Bridge Building
sometime last night.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Did you? No? Not unless I walked in my.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Sleep, well in your sleep, of course. You didn't happen
to meet to Roger Olson's office on the eighteenth floor
of the bridge building. Oh he you were asleeper last night? Huh?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Soundly impleasantly, Paraday? Who does Roger Olson?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Someone you met your dreams last night and robbed?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Oh here we go again.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Come on, you might as well admit it because I
know you did it?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Did Why?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I play Tom Blackie. You're the only one in this town.
I've got to rob Olson's safe and not leave a
mark on it.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Roger Olson's safe robbed last night of twenty five thousand
dollars in cash and a fifty thousand dollars I owe
you signed by some guy named.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Pierre, Yeah, the dress designer.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Are you beginning to remember?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
And I remember Pierre? In fact, I was at his
fashion show yesterday. I had quite a talk with him.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh and what you and Pierre talked about yesterday was
robbing olson Safe and stealing his iowe you.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Ha ha, You're all away.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
That I owe you is due tomorrow morning, and Pierre
couldn't pay it, so he bribed you to state it
by telling you about the cashless safe Sturday.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You don't have a brain in your head. Yeah, what
Pierre and I talked about was strictly a personal matter.
I never heard of an io you signed by Pierre
and held by Awsome.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
That's all period, flat lying, Blackie, you and Pierre.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Somebody's at the door. Maybe it's that twenty five thousand
dollars calling on me.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Come in, Oh, Blassie, I'm glad you home.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Hello Mary, Hello, Miss Wesley.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Hello, and.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
My goodness.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
You look as if you were in the mood to
arrest somebody.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Here's Mary.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
And guess who I don't have to get Darling? What
if he wanted for this time?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Oh wait wait, I know and inspector your life.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Married at last year? Getting some sense, Miss Wesley.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
It's not anything I'm getting. It's what I've gotten.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Six brand new dresses from Pierre. What ah ha, six
brand new dresses, Blackie and in secu Sturday. I think
a man who wastes his money like that he put away.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
So help me, Mary. I didn't buy those dresses for
you know one of them who did? Wow? Good reason
to believe that Pierre sent them. In fact, he wrote
me a note saying he was going to.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Sure it is. That's part payment for you robbing Roger Rowson,
safe for Paraday.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
If you're going to insist that Pierre asked me to
Rob Olson say call him up on the phone and
ask him.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Don't bother me. I'll do better than that. We'll go
out and see this guy, Pierre. I gotta hunch this
dress maker will help me get the goods on. You
would like to see Pierre.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Please, I'm sorry he can't.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Why not, beautiful? Have you just seen you? And he's
disturbed enough for one evening.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
I'm from the police, lady. Is Pierre in his office?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yes, but we're taking inventory tonight and he doesn't want to.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Not even you. Huh. I can't understand that.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Quiet lady, you Piers secretary, you don't have to disturbing
I'm sorry, in his.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Office for quite a while without coming out, except to
mail a letter an hour ago.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I suppose you wouldn't mind, all.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Right, thanks me too.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Of course, you seem to say things that are not necessary.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
I suppose you will go away or not wanting.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
That's all right here, thanks, Come on, Blankie, bere right,
I'll do the talking, Blankie okay, Oh, oh, well.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Go ahead, Paraday. I talk to him, but I doubt
if you'll answer, because from here it looks like Pierre
is dead.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Keep poking around rons, see what you can find. Well,
let Karna well inspector quiet, Blankie, I'll do all the
guessing on here.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Mess.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
What's your name? You're Pierre secretary?
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I told you that.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, I was here late because he was taking inventory.
What are you doing here so late?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I always stay late on inventory life in case Pierre wants.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Anything, well, what he didn't want. Believe me, my icy
friend was to be murdered. You didn't buy any chance.
Help him with that. That'll be enough.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Out of your blanky. We don't even know what it
was murder yet unless you killed him. There's not a
mark on him. Because I'll take n I'll think of
a bitch to be found, infector anything else. Yeah, rollins,
get out of here, all of you get out of here.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Okay, come on for it.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
You told itself, so you can go, but stay in
the building. No better than that. Don't leave your office.
I want to talk to you later.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And so what I'm beautiful.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I'll be glad to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Ouch again. Parad say, I'm beginning to hurt Amal.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Save your wise cracks for your future. Sell mats, Blacky.
You're under arrest for robbing Olson's safe and maybe for murder.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I couldn't pull a gun on you while Beautiful was
in the room, Parody, but she's not here now.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Unless you trying to convince me you murdered Pierre. But
that John away blanking.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Oh no, what it's gunna wear? You'll put me away.
And I have a few things to take care of
the side of prison bars. Yeah, yeah, And the first
thing I'm gonna take care of is you. Oh Mary,
(10:31):
this is Blackie.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Oh hello, did Pierre everything up?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Beautifully? Mary? He's dead. Verry and Thorody tried to arrest
me in the event it turns out to be murdered.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Oh where are you not.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Not in jail, Mary, I'm in a drugstore, tied and
gagged and locked up inside a closet in Pierre's office.
As I left, I told PS secretary the inspector didn't
want to be disturbed for a couple of hours.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
I'm worried about you.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You let me worry about me and Mary. You call
PS secretary in an hour to get parently out of
that closet while I get myself out of a jam.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
And now back to Boston. Blackie, Blackie and Mary go
to Pierre's fashion show, and when Pierre gets Blackie alone,
he announces that his real name is Joe and he
wants to talk to Blackie. The next morning, a Roger
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Olsen's safe has robbed twenty five thousand dollars in cash
and an I owe you for fifty thousand dollars signed
by the phony Pierre. Inspector Faraday suspects Blackie and takes
him to Pierre's for questioning, but Pierre is dead. Paraday
then attempts to arrest Blackie, but Blackie gets away.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
As we return to our story, Blackie is talking with
Roger Olson, the man who states Blackey you killed robbing
You know? Olson, I keep thinking I've seen you somewhere before. Well,
I don't think you have flaggy. That's it. That's what
I know where I've seen you behind Barz. You were
held in a charge of larsony a few years ago.
I remember seeing a picture in the paper.
Speaker 7 (12:16):
If you remember that, you'll probably also remember that I
was freed of the charge.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Yes, Olson, you were tried and quitted. That's right, so
you can't be tried again. But I have to know
you were guilty. So what so maybe you took a
chance on breaking the law again. Maybe you admit you
killed Pierre. You had a good reason. He robbed yourself safe.
He could completely wipe you out by stealing that cash,
not fifty thousand dollars. Iowe you. You had a pitch.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
If I thought Pierre had robbed my safe, wouldn't I
have said so the minute I discovered his iou was.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
God no, because then when the police found him dead,
they'd figure you had a motive killing him.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Get out of here, I said, get out.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Sure. As soon as you admit you killed Pierre, I said.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Get out route.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
You're a pretty good fit. I think I'm not. I
know you're not all right, mis Terarlson. Sometime after you
get up and see me through those black eyes of yours,
I'll be up to see.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
You paradise, thinking, Frankie, we found Pierre was killed by poison.
We take a suicide. But you stay where you are.
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You're under arrest for Robbie Olson's safe.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
No paradase. The only place I'm gonna stay is away
from you.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Look blanky. Unless you come down here right away, I'm
arresting Mary Wesley. I'll hold it for complicity, maybe or
easier still as a material witness. You'll be a good boy.
Come down here and give you a somelf path. Come on, Blankie,
we're booking only on the safe pranking rap.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I'll make a deal with no.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Either you give yourself or I'm arresting Mary Mary Wesley.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Give me twenty four hours, Hardy, No, all p a sport.
Let Mary alone and give me twenty four hours to
prove I didn't rob Olson's state and who might have
killed Pierre if he if it wasn't suicide.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Okay, one day and that's all.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Thanks, Farnday. You're a great guy. Only I need more
than one day to prove that. Hello, you're the manager
of this restaurant. Yes, and you are busted and Blackie,
are you not? Oh? You know me by an education
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of God. What can I do for you? This restaurant
of yours is the same building where Pierre Designer has
his offices and his sellof that is hid. Then you
are investigating, is there, Blackie? I can help you.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
You can, yes, you see, I read every detective magazine
and novel as soon as it comes out.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
We will go hunting for clues together, you and I.
I'm sure that won't be necessary, but thanks anyhow, just
tell me this. Did Pierre ever eat here?
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Here?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Years are you away? Do you think that he's a grue?
That might be Pierre died of poisonon it could have
been suicide. But was he him here for dinner tonight?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
He was, he's something he was. He ANDed up. Our
gentleman came in.
Speaker 7 (15:19):
They looked furtively about and then selected that table there.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well, let's forget that further pusiness and tell me who
was the other gentleman? Oh orson?
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Is he be?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
He could be, that is, if he had a chance
at dinner to slip poison Pierre's food. But that is
not possible. No, why Well to night? Only mister Olson
eat dinner?
Speaker 7 (15:42):
Yeah, didn't eat or drink anything.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Hello, beautiful, I'm glad you waited for me.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
I'm waiting here because the police tell me Blackie and
my name is Thompson, Maryon Thompson.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
How could I forget the name or the faith?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
What do you want?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Hell of information? Olson? Pierre had been it downstairs? Did
they come up here later?
Speaker 5 (16:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
They went to Pierre's private office and had an awful
rower then mister Olson. Then a few minutes later I
heard Pierre's typing something, and then he went out in
the hall for a second to mail a letter.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
He wrote a letter to whom.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
I hadn't the slightest idea M.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
That's giving me a very good answer.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Maybe you didn't ask the right question.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Okay, I'll find another. You look like an intelligent girl.
If Roger Olsen killed Pierre, he had to buy that
poison somewhere. If you wanted to buy poison, where would
you get it?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I don't know, drugstore.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Maybe you couldn't get there without a prescription.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Will I go to a doctor and get one.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
You wouldn't know Olson's doctor by any chance.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
No, but I know Pierre Tall. I get him on
the phone.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Please. You know along numbers, don't you?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
You?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
But yours?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
I should tell you, but it wouldn't do you any good.
My line is this.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It can't always be this M.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
But when it's not, Oh, doctor Brennan speaking one moment,
please yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Hello, Yes, a doctor. I'm investigating the death of Pierre
as a designer. I understand he came to see you
from time to time. No quite offense. I didn't know that.
But it doesn't matter. Uh, what does matter is this.
Suppose the murderer wanted to obtain poison, how would he
go about it.
Speaker 6 (17:41):
Well, in the case of Pierre, he wouldn't have to
go very far. I happened to know he kept the
poison in his office. In fact, it was in a prescription.
He was taking poison in a prescription, certainly, but he
was as directed. It was harmless in large quantities. Of course,
it would prove fatal. Let me understand this.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Somebody could have forced Pierre to take make an overdose
of the medicine you've prescribed and it would kill him.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Mm.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Thank you very much, doctor goodnect. Well, then that is
settling down over our friend, mister Olson. It's too bad, beautiful,
your job is gone.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
It wouldn't have lasted very long anyhow. Business was awful,
We were going to close up. The only one I
feel sorry for was his sister. She was so faithful
to it. He had a sister named Sally Barton. You know,
of course that Pierre's name wasn't Pierre.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yes, I knew name. Well, thanks, beautiful. You've been very helpful,
and intimately, as you probably know, you've also been.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Kind of cold. It's starting to go out here.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Too late. I've only got twenty four hours to prove that,
Ultimo Pierre and part of what's going now, I've got
to get out of here.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
No answer yet, humbucky.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
No Mary, but we're gonna wait.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
You know you made me leave my apartment so early
this morning, I didn't get a chance to see what
I looked like.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
I shouldn't go calling like this.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You'll look fine, Mary, And besides PR's sisters we had
a care what you looked like.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Okay, anyway, nobody seems to be home.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Maybe we're at the wrong house.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Oh, there isn't a number on the door. How can
we be sure?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well, well, how's next door is two forty seven? The
telephone book sells ps sister lives at two forty five.
I think it did anything like.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Here's a mailbox, its several letters in it. Maybe if
we look at the envelops we can tell us the.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Sister lives here.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
You who am to a detectives so pot sometimes only sometimes? Uh,
you're wonderful all the time.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Oh, say that a door later.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Hey, maybe it's une little Mary. Well I just took
out of the mailbox.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Well, it's addressed to miss Sally Button at least we
no worth right house anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Look at the return and dress, though, Mary, even though
someone did try to sprint it.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Out he had from Pierre's. It might contain evidence proving
that dose and killed him. Let's open up.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
This might be the letter Pierre was writing just before
he died. But there's a law against oping it, he says.
One time. I am going to Faraday. If the law
has to be broken, let's get the.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Law to do it. Yeah, thanks, thanks, thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Well Faraday, one of the post offers say.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Under the circumstances, it's all right to open the letter.
I'll open it, all right, open it. I feel like
a peeping term.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
I'll feel worse than that. If that letter isn't pro
will killed Pierre, I'll be peeping through bars a lot
to say, Faraday.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Well, let me see.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Well, come on, Faraday, let me have it. I'll read it. Thanks.
It says dear Sally. My business is gone, my health
is bad. Everything is closing in on me. Roger Olson
is responsible for everything that has happened to me. And
last night I robbed his safe of every cent he
had in the world. Well, that clears up one point. Anyhow,
(21:01):
let me finish this because I took his money and
I destroyed the iou I had given him, so that
if there is anything left of my business it will
go to you. I have taken poison and we'll be
dead in a few minutes. Goodbye, and saying Pierre.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
It's suicide. That's what I've said all along.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I got a note from Pierre in my pocket. I
just want to compare this signature of before we caused
this case. Yeah, with no doubt.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Huh that's that then?
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Not yet not. There are two things I still don't understand.
That's that how he could have opened Lton's safe and
why he signed a personal letter to his sister with
his business name.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
H wow, what's wowing your genius?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Hit isn't to you? You can bet on that.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Let me see that enveloped a lot of Kingdom Freddy, Yeah,
master mind, you think that's secret writing out of the
staff or something.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
No, No, here's something better than that. What time did
the carn I say he had died seven last night? Why? Why?
Because this letter is postmarked midnight? That's why can a
dead man mail a letter? Berry get Olson met Marian's
Thompson to come down here. We'll have a meeting very soon.
After the meeting is open. This case will be closed.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
When you get going Blackie, Miss Thompson and mister olsenapping
that all day. I'm gonna sit back and listen.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
That's right, inspeaker. I'm a busy man. Take it easy, Olson,
I'm ready. First of all, let me tell you something.
Nobody opened your safe the other night. You did it
yourself and robbed myself. That's right, and robbed yourself. You
were insured. You simply hid the cash you took out
and stand to have the money duplicated by the insurance company.
That's an old trick. I think I'm cleverer than that.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Blackie.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Ooh, you very clever, destroying ps Iou made him a suspect,
and then after his post suicide and very handy a
confession to assist it. You were in the clear. Only
Pierre didn't write that note.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Yeah that's Blacky. You yourself said it was his signature.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
It was his signature, but he still didn't write it.
That's where our friend, Miss Thompson here comes in.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Oh, this is where I go out. You've got no
reason to hold me here.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Sword ancestor, your partner scheme is this? You had a
Pierre a lot of mail. The sign He probably read
the first couple of letters and then signed a blank
sheet of paper without bothering to look at it. That
blank sheet later became his supposed suicide note.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
With your guessing talent, Blackie, you ought to have the
waking session in the conference.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
I've got thanks to make up my guess it's beautiful.
Pierre was dead at seven. I checked and found out
that at seven point fifteen it was a mail pickup
from your building. No letter. At nine it was another pickup.
The letter was in that. In other words, Pierre mailed
this after he was dead.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I mailed the letter. He called me and gave it
to me, and I mailed it myself at eight city.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
No good, lovely lady, you told me before he mailed it.
I can see the headlines now, Beautiful secretary murders designer.
P's enough arsenic in water glass to kill employer who
had been taking arsenic and smallers of course two cure ailments. Well, well,
if she killed Pierre, I guess you don't want me
(24:20):
any long time. Oh it's Roger, is it?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Troger?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
You contn out of me? You planned this whole thing.
You said it was foolproof.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
It was foolproof. Only I am not a fool. Marry him.
I never in dinner the Pierre to die. That was
your idea.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
You were in love with him, and he wouldn't have
anything to do with you. It was your idea to
poison him.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
My ideas you said. You said, I get half of
the money from the insurance company out you collected your plane.
You had as nice to do with killing him as I.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
You can't believe for you what I confess. I robbed
my own sainte and.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I didn't st here.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
You've got to believe that I didn't kill it.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
No, Now, I'll tell you something Faraday. All Pierre wanted
from me that day in his cellar was Mary's address. Well,
that winds up your case, and the the two characters
also wind up behind the eight ball.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
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