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The original aired eight January the twenty sixth, nineteen 11 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:34,599 forty nine, and the title is The Orphanage Murder Case. Next Mister Chameleon 12 00:01:34,920 --> 00:02:07,039 and the Orphanage Murder Case. Tonight we again present the famous Mister Cameleon of 13 00:02:07,199 --> 00:02:13,400 Central Headquarters in his most famous cases of crime and murder, brought to you 14 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:17,680 by the makers of genuine Bayer Aspirin. Now let me tell you just who 15 00:02:17,879 --> 00:02:23,199 mister Camellion is a college man. He tried from childhood to live up to 16 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:29,719 the name he bore Chameleon, by taking on the color of whatever situation in 17 00:02:29,719 --> 00:02:35,680 which he found himself, appearing in endless guises, finally entering the police force, 18 00:02:35,719 --> 00:02:39,080 where he became known as Cameleon, the man of many faces, the 19 00:02:39,199 --> 00:02:46,039 underworld's most dreaded man. The listener invariably knows who mister Camelion is, no 20 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:52,199 matter which disguise he assumes, but the criminals tracking down seldom does. Tonight 21 00:02:52,240 --> 00:03:05,360 we give you, mister Camellion. In the Orphanage murder case, the name 22 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,680 of Martha Phillips is known to thousands, for she has devoted her life and 23 00:03:08,759 --> 00:03:14,240 all of her wealth to establishing a home where ortan children can be brought and 24 00:03:14,319 --> 00:03:17,639 from which they are sent out to fine established homes. This New York haven 25 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,599 for children is known as Philip's Mansion, and was the lovely old home of 26 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:27,439 Martha's father. And we find her now late at night, this remarkable spinster 27 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,719 sitting in her office working on her memoirs. Of course, a child can 28 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:38,680 resemble someone, and it may be an accident of nature. There may be 29 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:45,439 no relationship between the child and the adult, they resemble. But even so, 30 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:53,199 this particular resemblance is amazing, and every once in a while I cannot 31 00:03:53,240 --> 00:04:00,800 resist saying, Mary, Jane looks exactly like you. What's that? What 32 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:09,639 happened? Who turned off the lights? Who's locking the door? Who is 33 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:26,199 it? Oh? No? No. A few hours later, we find 34 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:30,759 mister Camellion, the Great Detective, the Man of many disguises, kneeling beside 35 00:04:30,759 --> 00:04:33,319 Martha Phillips's dead body, and he is saying to the man and woman standing 36 00:04:33,399 --> 00:04:39,560 next to him, who discovered to mister Dalton, you were Miss Adams. 37 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,600 We both did. We knocked on her door, mister Comelian. It was 38 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,879 late, but we wanted to tell her the news that we intended to get 39 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,199 married next week. I see, and this is what you found, a 40 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:56,240 woman horribly strangled, a great and good woman, mister Dalton. I understand 41 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:59,959 that you were Martha phillips assistant, all right, hand man. Yes, 42 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,600 I've worked here at the family home for fifteen years. I worshiped Miss Phillips. 43 00:05:03,639 --> 00:05:08,439 We all did, not all of you, mister Dalton. Someone hated 44 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:14,279 her enough to murder, and I intend to find out who Miss Adams you're 45 00:05:14,319 --> 00:05:17,560 the house mother, aren't you. Yes, I've always loved working with children. 46 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:23,560 I've only been here a year. That's all right, sweetheart. Oh 47 00:05:25,319 --> 00:05:29,319 John, mister comedian is right. Someone must have hated Miss Phillips enough to 48 00:05:29,399 --> 00:05:33,519 kill him. That's what's so completely incredible. So who is Mary Jane? 49 00:05:34,639 --> 00:05:40,319 What? What does that? Mister comedian? Who is Mary Jane? Well? 50 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:44,279 Who is shame? She's a little girl here at the home, about 51 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:47,600 three years old. She was Martha Phillips pet. In fact, Miss Phllips 52 00:05:47,639 --> 00:05:50,240 couldn't bear the part with her. I think she intended to adopt the child 53 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:55,920 herself. Where is Mary Jane? I'd like to say him. Miss Adams 54 00:05:56,120 --> 00:06:00,319 is shame. She's not here. She's spending a week with Miss Phillips during 55 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,319 the country. She's due back in a day or two. Mister Camelian, 56 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:08,279 what made you ask about Mary Jane? This, mister Dalton, a scrap 57 00:06:08,319 --> 00:06:12,279 of paper torn out of a notebook and clutched in Miss Phillip's hand. There's 58 00:06:12,319 --> 00:06:18,000 writing on it. It says Mary Jane looks just like you. What does 59 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:23,800 that mean? Whom does the child resemble? I don't know, mister Dalton, 60 00:06:24,399 --> 00:06:29,600 I don't know Sir, can't imagine Mary Jane's very pretty, quite blond 61 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,199 blue eyes. Have you a picture of her hair? No? Are you 62 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:35,360 sure? Didn't you hear him say? No? Mister commiedian, John doesn't 63 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:40,879 lie. You're getting very excited, Miss Adams. I'm not. I'm upset, 64 00:06:40,959 --> 00:06:44,519 but that's natural, isn't it. Yes, come in, Dave, 65 00:06:45,319 --> 00:06:48,680 This is miss Adams, mister Dalton, Detective Sergeant Dave Arnold, what's on 66 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:54,240 your mind? Day? It's Missus McLaughlan, the housekeeper here. She says 67 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:59,639 that Martha Phillips was working on her memoirs that the Williams Publishing Company had already 68 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,079 control to publish them. Miss Phillips was writing the story of her life. 69 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,879 Uh huh. And the last time Missus McLachlan saw her, about eight o'clock 70 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:12,439 in the evening, Miss Phillips was sitting at her desk here writing, mister 71 00:07:12,519 --> 00:07:16,120 Dalton, did you know about these memoirs? Well, no, mister comedian. 72 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:19,040 That is Miss Phillips said she was going to write them, but I 73 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:24,319 didn't know she'd started them. You didn't know that she'd started you who were 74 00:07:24,319 --> 00:07:29,319 so close to her, yet the housekeeper knew? How is that mister Dalton, 75 00:07:29,399 --> 00:07:31,240 are you calling him a liar again? No, no, miss Adams, 76 00:07:31,279 --> 00:07:34,360 I'm simply asking him a question, and I intend to keep right on 77 00:07:34,519 --> 00:07:40,079 asking a great many more questions. Dave here, sir, get miss McLachlan 78 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,240 the housekeeper. Bring her in here. I want to know all she can 79 00:07:43,279 --> 00:07:47,000 tell me about those memoirs that Martha Phillips was writing when she was murdered. 80 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,040 Miss McLachlin. You say when you last saw miss Phillips, she was writing 81 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,480 in a notebook, a big black notebook. That's right, mister comedian. 82 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:09,079 Yet that notebook has vanished. We've turned this room inside out and there is 83 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:13,560 no such notebook, just the same she was writing in it. What were 84 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,720 her last words to you? I said, good night. I guess that 85 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:18,600 was all, Miss McLaughlan, just good night. Are you calling me a 86 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:22,879 liar? You know that's very interesting. You all seem convinced that I'm accusing 87 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:28,879 you of lying. Why is it possible that you all feel guilty? Well, 88 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,120 I'm not guilty. I'm not guilty of anything, mister comelion. And 89 00:08:31,159 --> 00:08:37,200 if mister Dalton and miss Adams have been spreading stories about me, I'll bet 90 00:08:37,279 --> 00:08:41,120 you haven't. I know you, John Dalton, pussy footing around Miss Phillips 91 00:08:41,279 --> 00:08:45,200 buttering her up. She left you a lot of money in her will, 92 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:48,200 didn't she, Mister Dalton, wasn't it convenient of her to die just when 93 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,919 you were thinking of getting married to Miss Adams. Be quiet, I won't 94 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:54,559 be quiet. All right. Then I'll tell mister Comedion about you. I'll 95 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,799 tell him you a fire yesterday afternoon, because you were so rude, so 96 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:01,919 arrogant with the children, and because you were even suspected of stealing. Shut 97 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,480 up. If you saw Martha Phillips tonight, she didn't say goodbye to you. 98 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:09,799 She said goodbye, Why you puny little white? All right, ladies, 99 00:09:09,799 --> 00:09:13,240 that's enough. But mister I said that was enough for the present. 100 00:09:13,399 --> 00:09:16,279 You both managed to tell me a great deal. Now, I'd like to 101 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:20,240 look over the building. The children are asleep. I sha'n't disturb them. 102 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:26,440 Mister Dalton, you're very careful of the munch Naturally, they're orphan children, 103 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:30,759 and they're in my charge, especially now that that Martha Phillips has gone, 104 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:35,320 and now that you have possibly inherited a fortune and her position as guardian angel 105 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:39,919 to a lot of unfortunate children. Miss Adams, come along. I'll need 106 00:09:39,919 --> 00:09:43,399 you as a guide. I want you to show me over this house from 107 00:09:43,519 --> 00:10:00,919 top to bottom. Well, one thing is clear, miss Adams. The 108 00:10:00,919 --> 00:10:03,440 way this officer's placed the killer had to come down this corridor to reach it. 109 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:09,200 What are these rooms opening out from either side? Uh? Classrooms mostly, 110 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:11,240 mister commedian. Oh, we have children here at the home up to 111 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:16,159 seven and eight years old. Quite a few of them are a foreign extraction. 112 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,559 They are taught to speak English or to read and write. Did you 113 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:24,000 love little Mary Jane too, Mary Jane? Why? Yes, Well it 114 00:10:24,039 --> 00:10:26,159 may interest you to know that I've had a police guard placed over the child. 115 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,840 Police guard what for? I intend to go up to the country to 116 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,639 see her tomorrow, and I wanted to be sure that she'd still be there 117 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:39,759 at miss Phillips's sister's place when I arrived. Mister Comeleon, that's another classroom. 118 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,879 Oh, yes, I see the blackboarder, Miss Adams. Yes, 119 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,200 look, a child has been writing on the blackboard. You see what they've 120 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:54,200 written? Read it? Mary Jane, looks just like you. The identical 121 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:58,440 words Miss Phillips was writing in her memoirs when she was murdered. Mister Comellion 122 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,799 I don't understand in here, Miss Adams, who could have written that? 123 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,960 What child or children took their lessons in here? Well, it must have 124 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:09,759 been Marguerite. Margueritea siren. She's seven years old, a little Italian girl. 125 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,639 She's learning to write English. Why would she write Mary Jane looks just 126 00:11:13,799 --> 00:11:18,559 like you? Answer me? Please? Well, she was told to write 127 00:11:18,559 --> 00:11:22,840 down what she heard people say, and she must have heard someone say that. 128 00:11:24,039 --> 00:11:28,600 Exactly where does margueritea sleep on the second floor? She and Mary Jane 129 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:31,840 have a little room to themselves. They're devoted to each other. She's up 130 00:11:31,879 --> 00:11:35,000 there alone. Yes, show me where she is, Miss Adams. Take 131 00:11:35,039 --> 00:11:52,159 me up there, just as quickly as you can. Here's Margherita's room, 132 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:56,399 mister comedian. We'd better go in quietly. She's probably sleeping. Well, 133 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:00,320 I'm afraid this is one child you'll have to waken, Miss Adams. Find 134 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:03,240 out who it was that she overheard saying Mary Jane looks just like you. 135 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:11,200 Oh, yes, of course, Well let's go in. There's a night 136 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:15,480 lamp burning by her table, mister Comelian. Marguerite is afraid of the dark. 137 00:12:16,919 --> 00:12:22,440 There you see, she's sleepy, lovely child, isn't she though she 138 00:12:22,519 --> 00:12:28,360 and Mary Jane make a beautiful pair. She's so dark and Mary Jane's so 139 00:12:28,519 --> 00:12:33,519 fair. Miss Adams. Yes, this child is not sleeping. She's dead. 140 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:50,120 She's been smothered to death with a pillow. No coroner's verdict has just 141 00:12:50,159 --> 00:12:56,879 come in. I was right. Little Marguerita died of suffocation. Someone held 142 00:12:56,879 --> 00:13:01,840 a pillow over the child's nose and mouth until she stopped breathing. Well, 143 00:13:01,919 --> 00:13:05,360 John Dalton, what do you have to say? What can we say, 144 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:11,960 mister comedian? This is awful, simply awful, less than five hours after 145 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:16,919 Martha Phillips's death, and a child, a child crocodile tears. What do 146 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,279 you say, miss McLaughlin, I said, crocodile tears. Mister comeleion. 147 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:26,000 I tell you I saw mister Dalton coming down the hall away from Marguerita's room, 148 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,039 just about the time she must have been murdered. You couldn't have seen 149 00:13:28,039 --> 00:13:31,519 me, missus McLaughlan. You couldn't have I was in the kitchen at the 150 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:33,960 time. Did anyone see you in the kitchen at the time, mister Dalton? 151 00:13:33,039 --> 00:13:35,279 Why no, mister comedian, there was no one there. Then you 152 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:39,080 have no witness. No, I haven't, but just the same. I 153 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,840 was tell in the kitchen and I say you were in the upstairs hall. 154 00:13:41,879 --> 00:13:43,720 I saw you there. Miss mc doughlin. You're an ugly, brutal old 155 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:48,759 woman. You're quite capable of killing that child yourself, for she is John. 156 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,960 She's trying to make you seem like a monster, and she can't do 157 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,279 that. Mister comedian, you shouldn't let her do that. My dam As 158 00:13:54,320 --> 00:14:00,120 Adams, I have a motto hanging over my desk at Central Headquarters. The 159 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:03,320 innocent must be protected, the guilty must be punished. That is my only 160 00:14:03,399 --> 00:14:09,080 concern that in getting at the truth and speaking of the truth, there was 161 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:13,879 a picture of little Mary Jane, a snapshot. I found it among Marguerita's 162 00:14:13,879 --> 00:14:18,399 things. Yet you, John Dalton told me there was no picture of her. 163 00:14:18,519 --> 00:14:22,440 John didn't know about it. Well, that seems rather odd, Miss 164 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:24,879 Adams, since he was in the picture, he and Miss Phillips and the 165 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,799 two little girls. I forgot, mister Camelion. It has taken such a 166 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:35,600 long time a call, No, not so long two months and now I 167 00:14:35,679 --> 00:14:39,879 know, mister Dalton, who little Mary Jane looks like? She looks like 168 00:14:41,039 --> 00:14:46,080 you, and you're being taken to Central headquarters and held for further questioning. 169 00:14:54,840 --> 00:15:01,480 Mister Cameleon and the orphanage murder case continues in just a moment. When you 170 00:15:01,559 --> 00:15:07,200 have an ordinary headache, fast relief is important, but even more important is 171 00:15:07,279 --> 00:15:09,840 gentle, dependable relief. And that's why it will pay you to always use 172 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:15,759 genuine Bayer aspirin. 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And mister Camelion, the Great Detective, 188 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,639 is convinced that back of these murders there is a strange, twisted mystery 189 00:16:30,039 --> 00:16:33,639 which he is just beginning to penetrate. And as he sits in the office 190 00:16:33,639 --> 00:16:37,720 of the Commissioner of Police, he says to the Commissioner, there's something so 191 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,679 horrible about the killing of a child. Commissioner, Yes, that child, 192 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,840 Marguerite had died for a very simple reason, because she wrote on a blackboard, 193 00:16:45,519 --> 00:16:49,960 mary Jane looks just like you. And Mary Jane apparently looks just like 194 00:16:51,039 --> 00:16:53,159 John Dalton. She does look just like him, no question of that. 195 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:57,600 On the other hand, that does necessarily prove a thing. Mary Jane was 196 00:16:57,679 --> 00:17:00,679 left on the steps of the Founder Home three years ago. She was six 197 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:06,440 months old at the time John Dalton was working there. She might be his 198 00:17:06,559 --> 00:17:11,240 child. And yet yet there's more to it than that. There's something that 199 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:15,759 eludes me. Chameleon. Do you think that Dalton is deliberately withholding information? 200 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,160 And I think he's just about as shifty and uncooperative as he can be. 201 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:22,440 We've been holding him now for over twenty four hours, and we don't know 202 00:17:22,519 --> 00:17:26,039 any more than when week is mister Chameleon in here? Yes, Dave, 203 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,759 come in, say, I've got news for you about Dalton. What a 204 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:32,720 character he is. What do you mean, Dave? Why he even lied 205 00:17:32,759 --> 00:17:36,240 to you about his birthplace? He said he was born in Medina, Ohio. 206 00:17:36,519 --> 00:17:38,440 Well, there's no record there or the birth of anyone named John Dalton. 207 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:41,960 Did you tell him that? Yeah? And then he said they must 208 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,519 have lost his birth certificate. He's our first class liar if I ever heard 209 00:17:45,519 --> 00:17:49,720 one, Dave. The chances are that Dalton was born somewhere in that area. 210 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,279 Now check every town nearby for a record of his birth, every city, 211 00:17:53,599 --> 00:17:57,000 every state in the Union if necessary. Okay, Meanwhile, I have 212 00:17:57,079 --> 00:18:02,559 a hunch I'm going to act. I'm going to pose as a man named 213 00:18:02,599 --> 00:18:07,160 Henry Willard one of the senior editors of the Williams Publishing Company who were going 214 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:14,799 to publish Martha phillips memoirs. I shall be a little stuffy with a reddish 215 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:18,799 goatee beard and reddish hair, and I'm going to that children's home to pay 216 00:18:18,839 --> 00:18:23,559 a call on Miss Claire Adams and Miss McLachlan, the housekeeper. I think 217 00:18:25,359 --> 00:18:37,799 it'll bring results. And so we find mister Cameleon in his disguise as Henry 218 00:18:37,839 --> 00:18:41,559 Willard, pacing up and down the reception room at Phillip's Home for Children, 219 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:47,000 and a white faced Claire Adams, and a sullen missus McLachlin sits watching him 220 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:53,400 nervously as he ponderously declares, So my point is that it seems a frightful 221 00:18:53,440 --> 00:19:00,759 pity that such magnificent materials should go to waste Martha Phillip's tragic the murder of 222 00:19:00,799 --> 00:19:04,440 that poor child. We think how it would boost the sales of a book, 223 00:19:06,279 --> 00:19:11,400 not that we're concerned with that. You understand, Martha Phillips was a 224 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:15,880 great woman and there should be a record of her life. But the manuscript 225 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,319 of her memoirs disappeared. It couldn't be found. Someone stole the pages and 226 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:23,960 destroyed the man. It wasn't me, But ladies, I have a detailed 227 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:30,160 outline of those memoirs, which Miss Phillips herself gave us, very detailed, 228 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:33,920 almost as detailed as the book itself. You mean, I mean, Miss 229 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:40,559 Adams. It would be a very simple matter for someone to write that book 230 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:48,440 working from the outline. All the facts are there in the outline. By 231 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:52,079 the way, is the child Mary Jane here in the house? What do 232 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:56,680 you know about Mary Jane, Miss McLauchlan. Miss Phillips mentioned her quite often 233 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:03,680 in the outline of her memoirs. She mentioned you and Miss Adams and mister 234 00:20:03,759 --> 00:20:07,880 Dalton. Of course, what you say about us? Mister Dalton she regarded 235 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:14,400 with high esteem, which happens to be the point of my visit. Do 236 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:18,640 you think that he would be willing to take on the job of writing that 237 00:20:18,759 --> 00:20:22,559 book for a very substantial sum of course? Well, Miss Claire Adams, 238 00:20:22,599 --> 00:20:26,039 do you think your darling John would do it? I don't know. But 239 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:30,400 is he here? Could I talk to him? Is he here? You 240 00:20:30,559 --> 00:20:33,920 serious? John Dalton's in jail. Ah, But it isn't Miss mclucklan. 241 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:37,599 You read the morning papers. John Dalton was released on bail last night. 242 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,200 Actually I thought he'd comes straight here for the children's home. Well he had 243 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,319 no I hadn't heard from him. Mister Willing, surely you will, Miss 244 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:48,039 Adams, and when you do, please ask him to contact me at the 245 00:20:48,039 --> 00:20:55,319 Hampton Hotel Room fifteen oh four. I have the outline there of Miss Phillip's 246 00:20:55,359 --> 00:21:07,759 memoirs and I'd very much like to discuss it with him. And the next 247 00:21:07,839 --> 00:21:11,279 night, in the hotel room which mister cameleon has engaged in the name of 248 00:21:11,279 --> 00:21:14,759 Henry Willard, we find him with Dave Arnold, and both of them are 249 00:21:14,839 --> 00:21:18,839 unusually tense and on edge, so much so that Dave exclaims, mister Commillion, 250 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,799 if nothing happens tonight, I think I'll blow my towel with Dave. 251 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,680 That's no way for a cop to talk. But this is the most dangerous 252 00:21:25,759 --> 00:21:27,400 kind of killer. This is a maniac. I don't want to sit here 253 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,480 and wait for them. I want to go out after them. And the 254 00:21:30,559 --> 00:21:36,880 quickest way to go after them is to sit here and wait. Hello speaking, 255 00:21:37,079 --> 00:21:41,599 thank you, thank you very much. Claire Adams is on her way 256 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:45,200 up. Dave. Where is that package with the phony appline? Right? 257 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,279 Here, mister Commeron, Why look all right? In my disguise is the 258 00:21:48,319 --> 00:21:52,160 publisher, Henry Willard, my bid and place. You'll fold her once? 259 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:53,799 You can do it again, mister Commerian. Probably, but that is something 260 00:21:53,799 --> 00:21:59,240 I can never be sure of. Yeh, she is. Go in the 261 00:21:59,279 --> 00:22:02,279 closet, Dave, don't come out until I call you. Okay, mister 262 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:14,720 mister Willard, Good evening, Miss come in. Hey just telephoned you and 263 00:22:14,759 --> 00:22:18,960 on your way up. Didn't you bring mister Dalton with you? No? 264 00:22:18,559 --> 00:22:23,160 I didn't. Well, I am disappointed. I am deeply disappointed. Don't 265 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,960 tell me that he's not interested in finishing the book that Miss Phillips had been 266 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:30,920 writing when she was killed. Oh, he's very much interested, mister. 267 00:22:32,279 --> 00:22:36,319 Well, you see, he was so upset, so hurt and humiliated by 268 00:22:36,319 --> 00:22:41,039 this horrible business of being arrested and questioned about Miss phillips murder. Yes. 269 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:45,039 Well, he's gone into seclusion for the time being. He doesn't want anyone 270 00:22:45,079 --> 00:22:48,480 to know where he is. He's been hounded by newspaper man and as I 271 00:22:48,519 --> 00:22:52,799 say, he's very sensitive with the book, my dear young lady, the 272 00:22:52,839 --> 00:22:56,599 book, the book he wants me to bring him the outline that miss Phillips 273 00:22:56,599 --> 00:22:59,680 made so he can read it. Then if he decides he can make a 274 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,640 book out of it, then I'll bring him here to talk to you. 275 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:07,319 Mister Willard. Will he come with you? He is so sensitive, so 276 00:23:07,519 --> 00:23:11,119 badly shocked. I love him, mister Willard. I think John loves me. 277 00:23:12,279 --> 00:23:17,680 I'll get him to come, splendid, splendid. Here is the outline, 278 00:23:18,279 --> 00:23:21,599 just as miss Phillips wrote it. I'll take good care of it and 279 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,559 tell mister Dalton to do the same. Thank you, I will. Good 280 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,880 night, mister Willard, Good night Miss Adams. Let me hear from you 281 00:23:29,039 --> 00:23:34,079 soon, Dave. Yes, mister, come on, let's go. We 282 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:37,000 mustn't lose sight of him. If we do, nobody will ever hear of 283 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:51,440 her again. Who is it? It's I John, Let me in. 284 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:56,440 It took long enough. Did you get the outline? Yes, right here, 285 00:23:56,519 --> 00:23:59,799 darling, mister Willard. The book publisher was very nice. Let's have 286 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:04,200 it. Oh, my gracious, this room is close. You have a 287 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:10,000 fire burning in the fireplace. It's such a dreadful room, in such a 288 00:24:10,079 --> 00:24:15,440 dreadful neighborhood. John. The title page looks genuine outline for proposed memoirs of 289 00:24:15,599 --> 00:24:23,480 Martha Phillips. Let's see what the first page is. Yes, mentions that 290 00:24:23,599 --> 00:24:27,759 child little Mary Jane. John, I don't understand this business about Mary Jane. 291 00:24:29,039 --> 00:24:33,359 It frightens me. You frighten me a little too. Now that's too 292 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,440 bad. Well, I can't wade through the whole thing. Sooner I got 293 00:24:37,559 --> 00:24:41,440 rid of it, the better, John, John, you've thrown it on 294 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:44,640 the fire you bet I have makes a pretty flame, doesn't it, John? 295 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,960 Are you crazy? That outline didn't belong to you? That player? 296 00:24:48,079 --> 00:24:51,160 Keep your voice down? Oh sweetheart, what's the matter? Why do you 297 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,880 speak to me like that? Why do you look at me like that? 298 00:24:55,839 --> 00:24:57,519 Oh Joe, do you hear me? Tell you to keep quiet? Do 299 00:24:57,559 --> 00:25:03,839 you want to get me in trouble? You probably will? Anyhow, I 300 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,799 shouldn't take any chances with you. What do you mean? Don't run away, 301 00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:12,440 Claire, don't run away. You haven't got a chance now, the 302 00:25:12,759 --> 00:25:18,119 chance in the world. No, see, I told you you didn't have 303 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:25,880 a chance. Opening the name of the law, we break it down, 304 00:25:27,039 --> 00:25:30,400 all right, Dalton, put your hands up. Don't reach for the gander. 305 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,160 Though you prefer to strangle people or smother them, don't you? You're 306 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,559 the one who hasn't a chance now Dalton, But I haven't done anything. 307 00:25:36,599 --> 00:25:37,839 What's this all about? How about it, Miss Adams. Isn't he trying 308 00:25:37,839 --> 00:25:42,319 to kill you? Yes, mister cam Yes he did, and he burned 309 00:25:42,319 --> 00:25:47,799 the outline John whom I love? Johnny? What try to help it, 310 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:52,039 Brijett. Only this doesn't happen to be John Dalton. What I'm not John? 311 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:56,319 No, you're not John. You're John's identical twin, Herbert. You 312 00:25:56,359 --> 00:26:00,200 and John were born in the town of Littleton, Ohio. Detective sergeanty Vin 313 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,559 dug up your birth records there. What you're crazy? Even when you were 314 00:26:03,599 --> 00:26:07,359 a small boy, you were always in trouble and your twin brother, John, 315 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,400 who loved you, pitied you, was always trying to protect your mister 316 00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:15,160 Commellion. You mean it wasn't John who murdered Miss Phillips. John Dalton is 317 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,599 innocent, Miss Adams, and he suspected his brother Herbert here from the very 318 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,319 beginning. And missus McLaughlin was not lying when she said she saw John Dalton 319 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:26,680 coming away from Marguerite's room. She wasn't lying. She was mistaken. She 320 00:26:26,799 --> 00:26:30,200 thought it was John, but it was you. She saw Herbert But why 321 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:36,319 would I want to murder Martha Phillips Because of your daughter Mary Jane, who 322 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:40,240 happens to look just like you and your twin brother John. Of course, 323 00:26:41,519 --> 00:26:45,119 three years ago, Herbert Dalton, your wife was murdered, presumably by kidnappers 324 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:51,640 who told your baby that was your story. Your wife was strangled to death, 325 00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,720 and your baby disappeared. She was never seen again. Yes, that's 326 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:57,799 true. A few months later, Mary Jane was found on the doorstep of 327 00:26:57,799 --> 00:27:03,119 the Phillips foundling home where your brother John was working. And then Miss Phillips 328 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:07,680 began to notice the resemblance between Mary Jane and John, and she spoke of 329 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,799 it to him, and he, who kept in touch with you, told 330 00:27:10,839 --> 00:27:12,960 you about it. What if he did? That was all you needed. 331 00:27:14,519 --> 00:27:19,000 Your warped killer's brain immediately decided the situation was dangerous to you. Somehow the 332 00:27:19,039 --> 00:27:22,839 police might get on your trail again, mister cameleon, so he killed Miss 333 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,640 Phillips and burned her memoirs because he was afraid she'd find out the truth. 334 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,119 Yes, Miss Adams, just as he burned the outline, which was a 335 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:34,839 complete phony. There was no outline. I see. You're a very smart 336 00:27:34,839 --> 00:27:38,079 detective. Aren't you, mister comedian? Very smart? Except for one thing. 337 00:27:38,759 --> 00:27:41,759 I'm not Herbert, I'm charn. It's true that Herbert, my twin 338 00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:45,799 brother, murdered miss Phillips to get her money. He depended on your discovery 339 00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:48,039 that he had a twin but only Herbert is guilty. I'm John and I'm 340 00:27:48,079 --> 00:27:55,079 innocent. Well, that's fine. You're smart. You're very smart, except 341 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:59,599 for one thing. You see, my dear Herbert, John is still in 342 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,400 jail. What We never released him. We thought we'd quietly hold him until 343 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,279 his twin brother was brought in. It was so much less confusing to have 344 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:21,599 only one of you at large. And with these words, mister Cameleon concludes 345 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:34,359 tonight's murder case. 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It's called Lion's Toothpaste, and 362 00:30:11,279 --> 00:30:15,079 it's not just another old toothpaste with an added ingredient, but is completely new 363 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,680 and radically different in formula. For this reason, New Lion's Toothpaste does what 364 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:25,880 no other toothpaste can do. Yes, laboratory test on scores of individual teeth 365 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,279 prove that it actually gets teeth brighter two and a half to five and a 366 00:30:29,279 --> 00:30:33,920 half times brighter than any of the five leading brands, brighter by far than 367 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:38,039 any other toothpaste. So for a brighter smile, try this toothpaste that cleans 368 00:30:38,079 --> 00:30:52,240 without soap, polishes without chalk, Lion's Toothpaste. Listen for Mister Chameleon in 369 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,359 the dual to the Death Murder Case next Wednesday night at this time. This 370 00:30:56,519 --> 00:31:18,119 is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back. Now. If you're 371 00:31:18,279 --> 00:31:25,079 put off by the use of something as absurd as the use of a surprise 372 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:30,160 identical twin, keep in mind that this comes from people who made soap operas, 373 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,640 So if you've got that in your writer's toolkit, you're gonna end up 374 00:31:33,759 --> 00:31:38,839 using that quite a bit. The one thing that I find a bit surprising 375 00:31:40,599 --> 00:31:45,400 in a Mister Chameleon episode is a child being the victim of a crime. 376 00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,400 However, it's not unheard of for that to happen in these sort of mysteries. 377 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,680 Even Agatha Christie did it in one book. It's one of those twists 378 00:31:53,759 --> 00:31:59,960 that hits harder I think with modern audiences, although in this case, given 379 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,640 that we never heard the child, or any children at all for that matter, 380 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:08,960 it seems less impactful and real. Well, now we turn to listener 381 00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:15,119 comments and feedback and we go to Spotify, where Dino writes regarding the rich 382 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:22,880 Uncle murder case, I enjoyed it. Cameleon is a rare but real surname. 383 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:27,880 The name seems to exist on the British Isles as well well, Dino, 384 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,440 thank you so much for the comment. I did a free search of 385 00:32:31,519 --> 00:32:37,839 ancestry dot com. I'm not a paid member there, but they did show 386 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:43,759 some birth, death, and marriage records for Chameleon. However, they were 387 00:32:43,839 --> 00:32:47,640 all in single digits, so it'd be a very rare name indeed, so 388 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:52,920 maybe it is an actual name. Like I said, I've never heard the 389 00:32:52,599 --> 00:32:59,440 surname before, but apparently it's out there. I will still stick with my 390 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:05,960 ls Island theory for a Young Chameleon series, but it's certainly I guess possible 391 00:33:06,039 --> 00:33:10,480 that it would be another way. And then over on YouTube, Ron captures 392 00:33:10,559 --> 00:33:17,640 a lot of listeners feelings. He writes in such an odd show slash series 393 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:22,559 Yet somehow I cannot miss an episode. Thanks for this well, Thank you 394 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:28,599 so much, Ron, And now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of 395 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:34,359 the day and thank YouTube Mimi. Mimi has been one of our Patreon supporters 396 00:33:34,359 --> 00:33:38,839 since February twenty sixteen, currently supporting the show at the Shawmus level of four 397 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:44,319 dollars or more per month. Thank you so much for your support, Mimi, 398 00:33:44,799 --> 00:33:49,079 And that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, 399 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,920 please follow us using your favorite podcast software and be sure to rate and review 400 00:33:53,960 --> 00:34:00,480 the podcast wherever you download it from. We will be back next ourday with 401 00:34:00,519 --> 00:34:07,440 another episode of Mister Chameleon, but join us back here tomorrow for the conclusion 402 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:12,400 of this week's Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar Cereal. Where not too many of 403 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,920 this kind of mine anymore? With the entrance going into the hillside this way? 404 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:22,079 And I better use this flash name, I'll change. Hey, tell 405 00:34:22,119 --> 00:34:25,960 me something, bust he If this mine is worthless? How could hide luck 406 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,440 get the Haskell brothers to chip off chunks of ore that I sayed over one 407 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:34,320 thousand dollars a time. Well, I got kind of a theory about that. 408 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,559 Let's see if I'm right everything's so covered up with dust down here, 409 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:43,000 and I haven't been worked for years, or it'll be easy to see where 410 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:47,239 they knocked off chips for sample to take it back. Well, well, 411 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:51,320 well, what are you doing down here? Holy smaw, that's a rightler. 412 00:34:51,559 --> 00:34:53,719 I hope you'll be with us then. 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