1 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:33,479 Hello, this is Adam Graham and we're bringing you yet another Sunday on Core. 2 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:38,880 This week's Encore is an episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective, starring 3 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,039 Dick Powell. You can find all of the episodes of Richard Diamond on our 4 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:48,399 Richard Diamond podcast feed wherever you download your podcast from. As a reminder, 5 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:53,920 this episode was recorded many years back, so any offers or websites mentioned maybe 6 00:00:54,039 --> 00:00:59,439 out of date, please refer to our current website for current offers. And 7 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:06,319 now your Sunday Encore. Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from 8 00:01:06,319 --> 00:01:08,680 Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have 9 00:01:08,719 --> 00:01:14,840 a comment, send it to me Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net, follow 10 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:19,879 us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and become one of our friends on Facebook, 11 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,640 Facebook, dot com slash Radiodetectives. In a moment, we'll get into 12 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:27,519 today's episode of Richard Diamond right after a word from our sponsors at audible dot 13 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,920 com. But let me go ahead and give you the details on today's episode 14 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:36,680 of Richard Diamond. The original air date February the fifth, nineteen fifty and 15 00:01:36,760 --> 00:02:06,959 this one is Timothy the Seal National Broadcasting Company presents Dick Powell as Richard Diamond 16 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:19,360 Private Detective Diamond Vicious Walk where they allow you? Where I started out to 17 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,919 be down on River Street looking for the guys. You're right there and wait 18 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:23,479 for me. What you might as well stop logging? Why stop logging? 19 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,879 Take my word for it. He's not there. Well, if you're so 20 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,680 smart, where is he the city Morgue, we fished him out of the 21 00:02:29,719 --> 00:02:36,240 river ten minutes ago. Here's another exciting case from the files of Richard Diamond 22 00:02:36,319 --> 00:02:53,560 Private Detective starring Dick Powell di'mond Detective Agency. First over the Bars. Oh 23 00:02:53,599 --> 00:03:00,800 hello, helln baby, No whome honey. I'd love to, but you 24 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:07,080 can never tell mister Diamond. Oh see what I mean? Customer. Well, 25 00:03:07,159 --> 00:03:10,400 let's see what can I do for you. I want to hire you, 26 00:03:10,599 --> 00:03:15,280 Ellen, the man wants to hire me. I'll call you back. 27 00:03:15,039 --> 00:03:23,159 Bye bye now, mister Wellington, mister Diamond, Casper Wellington, Oh, 28 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,039 pull up a couch and tell me the details. Mister Wellington. I need 29 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,879 a bodyguard, mister Diamond. Why, well, it's not for myself, 30 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:34,479 it's for Timothy. Well, why does Timothy need a body guard? Someone's 31 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:36,879 trying to kill him. Oh you've been to the police. Oh, yes, 32 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,360 yes, but they feel it's not quite important enough for them. You 33 00:03:39,439 --> 00:03:43,400 mean this Timothy's life is in danger and the police won't handle him. Yes, 34 00:03:43,719 --> 00:03:46,759 isn't it ridiculous? I know? Has anybody tried to kill Timothy before? 35 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,159 Well, no one has exactly tried to kill him, but I very 36 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,960 definitely expect an attempt. Hmm. And now look this, sir, Timothy. 37 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,080 Is he a friend of yours? Oh? Yes, a very good 38 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:00,680 find. So what makes you think that someone is going to try to kill 39 00:04:00,719 --> 00:04:03,800 him? Mister Damond, I came here to hire you to protect Timothy. 40 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,360 I'm perfectly willing to pay you your fee, but for the moment, the 41 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:13,159 rest of your questions must go unanswered. Well, my phase one hundred dollars 42 00:04:13,199 --> 00:04:15,920 a day and expenses, mister Bellington, still perfectly willing to pay it. 43 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:20,639 Here's the cash, and there'll be another hundred if you protect Timothy long enough 44 00:04:20,639 --> 00:04:24,120 for me to get him on a train tomorrow. Where's he going out of 45 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:29,000 town where he can be safe? What's Timothy's last name? That will also 46 00:04:29,199 --> 00:04:31,439 have to go unanswered. Oh, I'll wait a minute. Supposing I do 47 00:04:31,519 --> 00:04:34,040 take the job. Where do I meet this Timothy? How will I know 48 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,800 him? If you take the job, he'll be in your office in a 49 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:41,319 matter of minutes. Oh something sure doesn't ring up right? But the two 50 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,639 hundred fish in expenses? I play footses with the cobra. Good. Now, 51 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,759 I'm going down to the train station to pick up Timothy's ticket. When 52 00:04:46,759 --> 00:04:53,279 he arrives, I expect you to remain with him constantly until tomorrow. I 53 00:04:53,319 --> 00:04:56,160 got a small apartment. I hate the bundle. Don't let him out of 54 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,199 your sight for a moment. I want him alive and a well. When 55 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:01,279 he gets on that train in the morning, does he play Pacisi? Well? 56 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,839 I doubt it, but you never can tell. He might like it. 57 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,720 Have him met Grandson trough tod eight o'clock, I'll meet you. Do 58 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,959 you know of any way I could possibly learn to hate money? If I 59 00:05:11,959 --> 00:05:19,439 did, I would never have come to you. Good days to that Atlantic 60 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:24,800 bone and fertilizer. Oh, that's just wondering how a new business would work 61 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:28,720 on now it's wrong. I have a very unhealthy feeling that I've just let 62 00:05:28,759 --> 00:05:30,839 myself in for something I won't like. Oh, the client, well kind 63 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:33,639 of, I've got a guard a friend of his. What's the matter with 64 00:05:33,759 --> 00:05:36,959 that? Oh, I'm not going all through that again. The client just 65 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,959 came on like secret service. I got the name of the guy he wants 66 00:05:40,959 --> 00:05:43,360 guided, and I know that someone's going to try and kill him. And 67 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,879 that's it. Rid. You be careful, honey, honey. The client 68 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,759 shoved two hundred bucks in my rural hot hand. Oh good, what do 69 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:54,120 you want me to do? I'm trying for capitalists this year. Didn't your 70 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,519 client go to the police first? Sure, he went to the police with 71 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,759 it. Hey you me? Rick? Are you listening? Yeah, I'm 72 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,839 listening. He's down the phone. Friendly. Want to talk to you. 73 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:09,160 Well, if you're listening, why don't you answer my question? If your 74 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:13,920 client? Why did the police? That's better? Well, I'm a sport, 75 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:16,040 especially when someone's got a gun pointed at me. Oh it done. 76 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:19,199 Ain't going to hurt you, Jim. If you answer a couple of questions, 77 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:24,279 where's Casper Wellington? Who you're going to be difficult? Look? You 78 00:06:24,399 --> 00:06:28,079 got a gun on me? Who wants to be difficult? You don't know 79 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,720 Casper Wellington? Friend? Uh, never heard of him. We've seen him 80 00:06:31,759 --> 00:06:34,399 come into the building now, so you figured he came to see me. 81 00:06:34,480 --> 00:06:39,279 It's such a small building, only about one hundred offices. Oh that's pretty 82 00:06:39,319 --> 00:06:42,639 funny. Glad you liked it, Yeah, but we didn't. You're the 83 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:46,959 only private detective in the building. We figured maybe Cashper wanted to hire you. 84 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,079 What would he want to hire me for? What did this guy do? 85 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:54,759 How do you like that? George? Now he's a nosy coming Randy 86 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:59,519 gets away with it. Friend, I have just decided your humor bores me. 87 00:07:00,040 --> 00:07:02,480 Yeah, it's pretty bad here, Tony. Well, we push his 88 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:05,519 face around him. Maybe don't feel like no more, Joe. Oh no, 89 00:07:05,639 --> 00:07:09,639 wait a minute, I don't know anything about this Casper or whatever his 90 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,920 name is. What good is going to do to work me over? Well, 91 00:07:12,959 --> 00:07:16,480 now you see, honey, you may got real nasty dispositions. We've 92 00:07:16,519 --> 00:07:19,079 been crossed, and then you'll make with the jokes. We don't like being 93 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:25,480 the only ones unhappy, so we think maybe you ought to joint all. 94 00:07:25,519 --> 00:07:28,519 At a second, what's for is your set up? Oh? Way, 95 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:31,519 we mess him up? The law comes. We gotta find cast. But 96 00:07:31,519 --> 00:07:34,519 we ain't got no time to play patty cake with the cuts. I just 97 00:07:34,639 --> 00:07:39,319 want to cross them all. Forget it. Look, friend, you sure 98 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:46,040 Casper Wellington didn't commit here. I couldn't be more positive. Okay, Donald 99 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:50,720 Rode, that don't look so unhappy. Maybe the Shamas is lying. We 100 00:07:50,879 --> 00:07:54,720 catch him telling them five. Just think of the fun you can have later 101 00:07:54,800 --> 00:08:00,240 on. We'll leave him. Yeah, sell on, friend, and yeah, 102 00:08:00,279 --> 00:08:03,920 for us sake, I hope you've been living. Yeah. See it's 103 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:11,480 your aunt. Yeah. Bye, there's a fool sposhy pa. Now you 104 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:15,240 listen to me, Richard Diamond. The next time you hang up on me, 105 00:08:15,639 --> 00:08:18,879 I'll never speak to you again. But you gotta have a pretty good 106 00:08:18,879 --> 00:08:20,480 excuse for doing it this time. But you know, I take a lot 107 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,480 of things from you, Rick, but never, never, once have you 108 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:26,000 hung up on me. Helen. Please, I think it was rude and 109 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:28,800 inconsiderate. Hell And I want to know, right now, this minute, 110 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:31,639 just what kind of a poor, lame brain excuse you're gonna come up with, 111 00:08:31,759 --> 00:08:35,759 Helen. Well No, look, baby, I don't know what's going 112 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,759 on. This is like doing business in a roundhouse. The only reason I 113 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,919 hung up on you was because two guys stolen here and shoff guns in my 114 00:08:43,039 --> 00:08:46,000 face. Rick. And they were looking for the guy who came in earlier 115 00:08:46,039 --> 00:08:50,399 and hired me to look after someone named Timothy that I haven't even seen yet. 116 00:08:50,639 --> 00:08:54,360 It sounds confusing. It is, Hold a phone, here's somebody else. 117 00:08:54,720 --> 00:09:00,039 I'm in with your hands up. You're richt diamond. Yep, you 118 00:09:00,159 --> 00:09:03,159 got a crack your addressed to you? Well, let figures bring it in. 119 00:09:07,399 --> 00:09:13,639 Ellen, you sent me maybe a present you want me to Yeah, 120 00:09:13,759 --> 00:09:18,399 but someone's beating you to it. Why do you want it? Good grief? 121 00:09:18,519 --> 00:09:24,600 Put it down right there? The present? The biggest crage you ever 122 00:09:24,639 --> 00:09:28,200 saw. How do I know how open it? O? Game? Is 123 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:33,360 the diamonds down right here? Yeah? Yeah, I hope you still be 124 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:41,360 very happy? Ellen, hold uphone, I'm going to open this thing. 125 00:09:41,679 --> 00:10:01,759 Oh no, oh, get away, I get on, Get down, 126 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:05,440 don't come up here, don't don't don't Helen up in the world matter, 127 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:09,480 Helen. This is your idea of a joke. Please calm down and tell 128 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:11,679 me what's wrong. Can't you hear it? Well? I heard something, 129 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,200 but I thought you must have eaten your lunch too fast. Well, I'm 130 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:18,240 standing on my desk trying to fight off a monster. Call up Charles Adams 131 00:10:18,279 --> 00:10:22,039 right away. Yes, I swear it was a seal, but I know 132 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:26,879 my friends better than that. This thing has got to be poisonous. Yes, 133 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,799 a seal. Hey, he's not so bad. He's applauding. You 134 00:10:31,879 --> 00:10:35,519 must have liked that remark about Adams. Now you stop it. Do you 135 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:37,399 expect me to believe all this? She doubts, She fell. I say 136 00:10:37,399 --> 00:10:41,039 a few words, Rick, who in the world would send you a seal? 137 00:10:41,159 --> 00:10:46,320 I don't even need the look. This is got to Timothy. Oh 138 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,679 it is Timothy. When he heard his name, he made like a curtain 139 00:10:48,759 --> 00:10:52,799 call. Sounds like one Richard Diamond. Hey, that's pretty nothing. I'll 140 00:10:52,799 --> 00:10:56,919 call you back. Where are you going? I'm gonna take Timothy right back 141 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:03,159 to mister Casper Wellington and tell him that, Oh for the lover, I 142 00:11:03,159 --> 00:11:11,159 don't know where to find mister Casper Wellington. Well, there it was. 143 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,919 It was pretty silly. The smart, shrewd, level headed Richard Diamond, 144 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,720 for the sake of a couple of hundred fast bucks, winds up playing nursemaid 145 00:11:18,759 --> 00:11:22,840 and companion to a honking seal. Just to make sure it was Timothy, 146 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:24,200 I took a look at the crate, and there on top of a small 147 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:28,639 printed card, it read, this is Timothy. If you want him to 148 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:35,799 do something, throw him a fish carrying signed Casper Wellington. Well that tore 149 00:11:35,799 --> 00:11:39,159 it. My temper was already pushing my hair up to attention. So I 150 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:41,879 went out to the nearest delicate testament and came back with a bag of fish. 151 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,480 With this, I loured Timothy out of the building and down on the 152 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:50,320 street. I had to find Casper Wellington. So sixty pedestrians and one unhappy 153 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:54,159 Cabby later, Timothy and I stole casually into the fifth Precinct Police station. 154 00:11:58,759 --> 00:12:05,200 Well, hello, side you notice oh hiya Shamus? Huh how what what 155 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,759 did you just say? I said hello, Sergeant Otis? No after that? 156 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,480 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was it? Something wrong? Sergeant? 157 00:12:13,039 --> 00:12:16,039 Yeah? This? Oh this, say hello to Timothy. Timothy. 158 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:22,799 This is Sergeant Otis t Water kisses Sergeant Timothy, go on, oh no, 159 00:12:22,639 --> 00:12:26,519 no, not gonna want something, get away, ODIs. He's not 160 00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:31,159 so bad now, Otis, Come down off that desk. You look sillier 161 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:37,840 than I did. Eat me. Oh be quiet you too, Timothy. 162 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,440 You'll wake up the lieutenant. Here's a fish. Throw at the Timothy, 163 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:45,639 you diamond. You probably take my arm along with it. Hello, I 164 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:50,679 didn't go ha, what's going on out here? Otis? What are you 165 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:52,360 doing up there? Oh well, what are you doing to my sergeant? 166 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,240 And you shut up? Otis, that wasn't me. What do you mean 167 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:58,440 it wasn't you. Of course it was you, Walt, meet Timothy, 168 00:12:58,519 --> 00:13:03,519 How do you? Ah? I didn't think what would happen if someone wanted 169 00:13:03,519 --> 00:13:07,080 to give her the Walrus? Come on, Timothy, let's go see the 170 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:09,679 brave old head of homicide. Hey, I get him out of here, 171 00:13:09,759 --> 00:13:13,840 Ah, redlaxed, Otis. Timothy is as scared as you are. Oh 172 00:13:13,919 --> 00:13:16,480 yeah, what makes you say that? He's probably thinking there's more like you. 173 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:20,879 That would be a horrible shock to anyone, even a seal. Come 174 00:13:20,919 --> 00:13:24,120 on, Timothy, are you get that thing out of here? Right now? 175 00:13:24,159 --> 00:13:26,720 Diamond? Everybody's standing on something. You'd think it was a steam bath. 176 00:13:26,879 --> 00:13:30,480 Up till now, I've had two reported homicides and a couple of flat 177 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:33,039 robberies. And if you think you're going to wander in here with that thing 178 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,759 and confuse the whole department, you're mistaken. I'll get it out of here. 179 00:13:35,879 --> 00:13:37,960 Oh, wal it's only a seal. Have a fish. I'm not 180 00:13:39,039 --> 00:13:41,919 hungry. No, No, Walt, it's for Timothy. Feed it to 181 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:46,720 him. You love you eh do you think so? Sure? Sure, 182 00:13:46,799 --> 00:13:54,440 Wall, go ahead try it. Okay, here Timothy, he's applauding. 183 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:56,879 Sure, he's a nice little fellow. Now climb down and help me give 184 00:13:56,879 --> 00:14:01,720 me another fish. Won't come down without it? Okay, well speak, 185 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:05,840 Oh don't be ridiculous. I want to feed it to Timothy. He likes 186 00:14:05,879 --> 00:14:22,720 me. See, Oh lovely, Why don't you to get engaged? Oh? 187 00:14:22,799 --> 00:14:24,600 Well, after everybody got used to him, Timothy made the round of 188 00:14:24,639 --> 00:14:28,279 the whole department, with the Commissioner being the only exception. Of course, 189 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,360 I told Walt the story about Casper Wellington and the two gneps who had come 190 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:35,919 into my office looking for him. So Walt put Otis to work checking on 191 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:39,200 the whereabouts of my missing client. Along about three in the afternoon, Otis 192 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:45,679 pounced in with some news. Hey, Diamond, you find something. Oh 193 00:14:45,759 --> 00:14:52,000 hi, Timothy, Yeah, say, I check with the Humane Society and 194 00:14:52,039 --> 00:14:54,039 they report some guy who lives down with the docks. The name's Wellington, 195 00:14:54,039 --> 00:14:58,360 all right. He'd been turned in a couple of times because he raises seals 196 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,080 and they make a lot of noise. Oh a lieutenant, we just got 197 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:05,399 a report on another homicide. Thanks, Bordie, you tell the lieutenant all 198 00:15:05,399 --> 00:15:09,080 about it, Otis, I'm going after Casper Wellington. What's the address here? 199 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:15,080 It is nine to eighteen Rivers Street. Come on, tim good bye, 200 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,639 Timothy Otis. Oh yeah, yeah, what was I saying? Homicide? 201 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:26,679 Remember, just a little old homicide. I left Walden Otis climbing over 202 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:31,399 the furniture and headed for the address of Casper Wellington. Timothy and I grabbed 203 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,159 the first Cabby who didn't believe what he was saying, and twenty minutes later 204 00:15:33,159 --> 00:15:39,399 we pulled up in front of a building on River Street. Thanks Cabby, 205 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:46,440 Yeah, sure, thank the man. Timothy and mister Yeah. I didn't 206 00:15:46,519 --> 00:15:50,639 ask you know when you got in the cab, because I just didn't believe 207 00:15:50,679 --> 00:15:54,679 it. Is that to seal you got with you? You're expecting maybe a 208 00:15:54,759 --> 00:15:58,399 raccoon. You always take him around with you like that. Sure, we're 209 00:15:58,399 --> 00:16:00,360 brothers. Babout the haw something for dinner? When my mom isn't taking a 210 00:16:00,399 --> 00:16:08,440 swim. She's not a very good driver, is a you know it? 211 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:14,360 Come on, you're going home al right here? Friend, you haide him 212 00:16:14,519 --> 00:16:18,440 that she's a gun in your back? Oh yeah, oh you lied to 213 00:16:18,519 --> 00:16:22,679 me. I'll go stand in the corner. I don't move, okay, 214 00:16:22,639 --> 00:16:26,240 George, grab a seal. Oh no, wait a minute, wait, 215 00:16:26,279 --> 00:16:33,240 but you can't do that. You take your hands off that seal. Next 216 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:34,639 time you don't get it across the neck, I'll give you the rod on 217 00:16:34,679 --> 00:16:37,960 the scale. Okay, friend, I got him right, Get him in 218 00:16:38,039 --> 00:16:42,200 the car. You stip put one bad move. You're gonna get shot up 219 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:47,919 very bad. My George, you got that thing in the car? Yeah? 220 00:16:48,039 --> 00:16:51,240 You saying, let's get out of here. Hi, friend, Yeah, 221 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:53,559 you will see this. I got pointed at you. I see. 222 00:16:55,039 --> 00:16:59,480 Good forget about today. You won't see it again. Open that big yappy 223 00:16:59,559 --> 00:17:03,120 yours goes boom that's in around because when we leave it, I don't want 224 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:11,160 you to look them back for no license number. Well, I stood there 225 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:15,720 while they drove off with poor little Timothy. Then I made a quick dash 226 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,039 across the street and to a store with the phone booth. Seconds later, 227 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:22,119 I was hearing one of the most beautiful sounds in the world, Diamond, 228 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,680 This is wal Where the devil are you? Where I started out to be 229 00:17:25,759 --> 00:17:27,519 down on River Street looking for a client. You stay right there and wait 230 00:17:27,559 --> 00:17:30,000 for me, but you might as well stop looking. Well, why stop 231 00:17:30,039 --> 00:17:32,759 looking? His house? Is just down at the end of the block. 232 00:17:32,799 --> 00:17:33,880 Well, take my word, pretty, isn't there? Well, if you're 233 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:37,359 so smile, where is he? The city Morgue? We fished him out 234 00:17:37,359 --> 00:17:38,920 of the river ten minutes ago. What he was suffering from a hole in 235 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:44,480 his chest then before he was tossed in? Oh what what you remember those 236 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,599 two guys who came into my office earlier. Yeah, well they just put 237 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:49,319 the snatch on Timothy and belted me across the neck. From my trouble, 238 00:17:49,559 --> 00:17:52,119 they swiped the seil. Yeah, so get on here. I'll meet you 239 00:17:52,119 --> 00:18:10,799 at Casper Wellington's house. Anybody in the house wreck? Wow? Mm hmm. 240 00:18:11,559 --> 00:18:14,720 I have no answer, but let's kase the place. I've got a 241 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:19,880 skeleton keys Wald Wald it's open. See now if you'll notice as I walk 242 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:23,000 in and no time to my feet, leave my legs. Very funny. 243 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:30,079 Who yeah, smells like somebody's been cooking up a fish to crumb eat you 244 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:33,319 wint. We'll get a load of that kitchen. What a mess. Weren't 245 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,119 cooking fish, wall just cleaning it. It's still a mess of them left 246 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:41,640 on the sink. Well, Caspar raised seals where the rest of them? 247 00:18:41,759 --> 00:18:45,119 Wholly? Come here? What is it? Get a look at this backyard. 248 00:18:45,799 --> 00:18:49,279 Holy come, a bunch of dead seals in the world would do anything 249 00:18:49,319 --> 00:18:56,240 like that. Maybe your two friends. What's what? What's in it? 250 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,079 Nothing? Wait a minute, some kind of at the bottom. I'll save 251 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:02,960 it. We'll have it analyzed, and we get out of the station. 252 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:04,359 We got to check up on those two guys who kidnap Timothy. And this 253 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:08,039 is the craziest I got a hunt. Sure it's crazy, but if I'm 254 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:22,440 right, it's also pretty smart. Let's go to the station. Hey, 255 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:26,400 lieutenant, Yeah, Otis. We just got up Melson at Casper Wellington. 256 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:30,519 Guy, Oh what did he steel? Hey, how do you know? 257 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,400 Just to guess? Well, what is it? Hammerhead? It seems just 258 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,880 Wellington guy works, said, I mean used to work for David and Son. 259 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,160 David and Sons diamond importers. Oh that ties it would somebody mind telling 260 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:42,920 me what the devil this is all about? And Rick, you say, 261 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:47,279 out of it? Otis? What about Wellington? Wellington? Oh he ran 262 00:19:47,319 --> 00:19:49,960 off with a load of diamonds. Yeah, fifty thousand bucks worth. Hey, 263 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,359 but you Rick, will you please, for the sake of my sour 264 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,799 stomach, tell me exactly what it is? You know, I'd be glad 265 00:19:55,839 --> 00:19:59,240 to Lieutenant. It's very simple. Wellington comes to me and asks me to 266 00:19:59,279 --> 00:20:02,960 guard Timothy. Two guys kidnapped Timoth that we heard. Then we find a 267 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,400 bunch of dead seals in Wellington's backyard and the remains of a pile of clean 268 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:11,039 fish. So so the two guys who kidnapped Timothy were obviously after something and 269 00:20:11,039 --> 00:20:15,200 the seal was part of it. Hey, maybe Timothy wasn't the seal after 270 00:20:15,279 --> 00:20:18,160 all. Now what would he be otis? Well, if those guys wanted 271 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,240 him that bad, maybe he was a mink. Oh that bag he picked 272 00:20:22,279 --> 00:20:26,839 up waalt have that powder in the bottom? Analyzed a lay six too, 273 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,200 and even that his diamond does well you think, yeah, yeah, I 274 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:33,400 think Timothy's got a stomach full of diamonds. What I think Casper was mixed 275 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,960 up with the two guys who grabbed the seal, but in some way crossed 276 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:38,359 them. Why he had to hide the loot, so he stuck in some 277 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,720 fish and fed it to Timothy. Then he left Timothy with me for protection 278 00:20:42,079 --> 00:20:45,640 until he could get him shipped out on the train. And in the meantime, 279 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,920 the two guys who found Casper killed him. And went back to his 280 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:49,359 house to find the loot. They figured out the fish like you did, 281 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,319 and killed the seals in the backyard trying to find This time you, my 282 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,519 friend, went a herring otis had the powder in the bottom of this bag, 283 00:20:56,559 --> 00:20:59,119 analyzed put out of one O eight on Timothy. Yes, diamond, 284 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:00,680 Hi'll give you the description. And the guys who grabbed him we'll never find 285 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,400 in that way. He got a better idea maybe. Ah, Look, 286 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,240 you said, those two guys kill Casper and then one right over the house 287 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:08,920 to look for the missing diamonds. All right, they knew where to look, 288 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:11,960 but they didn't find anything, so they waited for me in Timothy. 289 00:21:12,039 --> 00:21:17,160 So Casper Wellington probably told them all about it before they killed him, trying 290 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,359 to save his own life. All right, I'll buy that. So what 291 00:21:18,559 --> 00:21:22,400 so by now they must know how hot those diamonds are. They're certainly not 292 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,759 going to try to get rid of near in town and then they leave town. 293 00:21:25,839 --> 00:21:27,279 Yeah, and with that much loot, it would be a little risky 294 00:21:27,319 --> 00:21:30,480 if they tried it by car. All right, all right, how do 295 00:21:30,519 --> 00:21:33,000 they do it the same way Casper thought of ship Timothy out on a train. 296 00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:36,279 Wait a minute, Rick otis. Yeah, put in the court of 297 00:21:36,319 --> 00:21:38,039 all units. Tell them to cover the airport's training bus stations. Be on 298 00:21:38,039 --> 00:21:40,799 the lookout for a seal. It's about to be shipped. Come on, 299 00:21:40,839 --> 00:21:44,359 walk where too. As long as Casper Wellington already made the arrangements by train, 300 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:47,960 let's get on to Grand Central. Maybe our two seal nappers will keep 301 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:56,519 the reservation. Well Wald and I piled in the squad car again. At 302 00:21:56,559 --> 00:21:59,480 twenty minutes later we were standing in the middle of Grand Central station with a 303 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,720 bag of you know weather. I are for the missing seal and there's two 304 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,799 abductors. Now where do we start? Well Wald, why don't you just 305 00:22:06,839 --> 00:22:10,519 go ask information? Just say I'm looking for two men and the seal. 306 00:22:10,559 --> 00:22:12,799 The seal is hiding fifty thousand dollars worth of dime. Now you'll stop that. 307 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:15,960 This was plenty silly before a jewel robbery and a homicide get into the 308 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,480 picture, but now it's gotten ridiculous. Well, if I was a seal, 309 00:22:18,519 --> 00:22:22,960 where would I go? They have to create him for shipping depart and 310 00:22:22,039 --> 00:22:26,720 so with her trusty bag of fish, the two brave detectives walk n got 311 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,480 out by Let's go, well, smile Wald, this kind of case doesn't 312 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,400 happen, but once every ten thousand years. Think of your report to the 313 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,480 commission. And if you don't stop kidding with me, so help me, 314 00:22:36,519 --> 00:22:41,480 aid Wald. Well, now look those two guys where going down the ramp. 315 00:22:41,839 --> 00:22:44,440 Oh I got a big box. That's it. Let's take them. 316 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,119 You said they got guns, were appointing things that shot bullets could be guns. 317 00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:51,039 Take it easy. They're going up to that counter. Yeah, hold 318 00:22:51,079 --> 00:22:53,960 it, hold it here. No sense in starting a shooting match too many 319 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,839 people. Well, what'll we do? Maybe the seal's not in the box, 320 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,880 and if I picked them up without the loot, we may never find 321 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,319 If I got an idea, go ahead, genius. Timothy likes fish, 322 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,480 doesn't he? Yeah, we'll take this bag. They know me, So 323 00:23:06,559 --> 00:23:08,759 you walk down there, moving close to the box. Timothy's bound to get 324 00:23:08,759 --> 00:23:11,480 a whiff. And if I know Timothy, he'll raise a few flippers. 325 00:23:11,519 --> 00:23:15,759 You want me to do? You want to get those diamonds? Don't you 326 00:23:15,799 --> 00:23:18,319 give me the bag? Don't snap? People will just think you ran out 327 00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:26,720 of cologne. I get going. Yeah, pardon, but I like to 328 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,480 find out about sending something. Oh yeah, well, what's the idea? 329 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,480 Bus do we always here fight stupid thing. You boys must be really sending 330 00:23:33,519 --> 00:23:40,079 something big, do know? You don't get to shut up? Yeah? 331 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:44,119 Some live ones? He finy? What put the sea? I hate to 332 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:48,400 mention that, but your furs are throwing a fit. Okay, boy, 333 00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,880 that's all I wanted to know. Just think and see you after this. 334 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,880 Hey, what's the idea? Hellos? Stay right there? Hey, Rick 335 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:00,200 cop are you all right? Bud? Drop it? I said, drop 336 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,559 it? Okay, okay, it's taking me. Look out wreck. This 337 00:24:03,599 --> 00:24:08,400 guy's got a gun lego like on my hand. When you get to seal 338 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,720 off, he's chewing my hand off and dropped the gun. All right, 339 00:24:11,079 --> 00:24:17,599 get him like that. Timothy grabbed this gun up by the gun hand. 340 00:24:17,599 --> 00:24:19,759 I made him drop it. I'll be done crazy ceally kill me. You 341 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:25,359 and your bright eyedy ship this sheer you sh Okay, boys, here's a 342 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:29,200 bracelet for you. Let's go outside. Well, wait a minute, we 343 00:24:29,279 --> 00:24:32,799 gotta get the jewels. Oh oh yeah. Allow'll take care of these two 344 00:24:32,839 --> 00:24:36,440 guys, and I'll take Timothy. Do a good veterinary okay, uh wald 345 00:24:36,599 --> 00:25:02,799 yeah if it means surgery, keep in touch sure by Timothy. Rick, 346 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:07,960 don't be unhappy. Oh how can I help it? Honey, He's been 347 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:11,119 in surgery for nearly an hour, but he'll be all right. He got 348 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:15,279 a good vet, I hope. So I was getting attached to that seal. 349 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,039 Oh I got it? Yeah, Rick, Yeah, Walt, yeah, 350 00:25:19,319 --> 00:25:22,240 hos Timothy. He had the diamonds in them all right? But how 351 00:25:22,319 --> 00:25:26,119 is he? Well, go ahead, Walt, you can tell me. 352 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:30,720 I can stand it. He's very weak. Doctor says he thinks he doesn't 353 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:33,559 want to live, nor will Oh, what's the matter? He was such 354 00:25:33,559 --> 00:25:36,519 a happy seal. I think he misses you. Rick. Every time someone 355 00:25:36,599 --> 00:25:38,559 mentions your name, he kind of honks and raises a weak flipper. I 356 00:25:38,599 --> 00:25:42,240 better come right down. He's sinking fast. Oh you think maybe if you 357 00:25:42,279 --> 00:25:45,519 heard my voice? Can you get a phone near him? Yeah? Yeah, 358 00:25:45,559 --> 00:25:48,359 wait a minute, Okay, I got it next to his ear. 359 00:25:48,519 --> 00:25:56,960 Say something hello, Timothy Wald. Yeah. Well, ask him if he's 360 00:25:56,079 --> 00:26:03,440 seen a picture called Missus Mike. He says he saw it. Didn't like 361 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:07,599 the leading man Love Devil Keys. Ask him if you like the music? 362 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,279 Yeah, you like that? Well, put the receiver next to his ear 363 00:26:12,319 --> 00:26:17,839 and I'll singing the theme song. Well, go ahead and try anything in 364 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:34,359 case of an emergency. Her name is Kathy. She's mine alone. When 365 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:49,519 I walk with Kathy, prowd of my She's the girl marry and cross the 366 00:26:49,680 --> 00:27:07,319 threshfold our Carrie and I love but Kathy until I die. She the oldlyngel 367 00:27:07,839 --> 00:27:21,720 i've ever know. She's a maid. No man is worthy of all. 368 00:27:22,079 --> 00:27:51,920 The girls are many compared to her. There isn't any ohly Katy to well 369 00:27:52,000 --> 00:28:00,319 Wald, he's better listen lit Old Timothy. That a boy. I guess 370 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:02,880 the singing? Did it? What do you mean you guess? When I 371 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,119 sang with a Peter pan five. We played two weeks at the Carl Gables 372 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:10,400 Hotel in Florida. So what so what? I'll have you know? Five 373 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,200 minutes after I opened my mouth, every seal and the biscame keys came in 374 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,160 and sat ringside. That sounds like a pretty good act. What'd you give 375 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:18,759 it up for? I got a sore throat one night and the place was 376 00:28:18,839 --> 00:28:47,680 up to its ears and alligators. Rick, Yes, wal Ah, you 377 00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:52,200 have just heard Richard Diamonds Private Detective, starring Dick Powell. Ed Begley played 378 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:56,880 Lieutenant Walt Levinson. Also in the cast were Willlams, Herbert Faye Baker Junius 379 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:02,160 Matthews, Billy Bletcher, Tony Barrett and Larry Dodkin. Music was under the 380 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:06,880 direction of Frank Worth. Richard Diamond is written by Blake Edwards and directed by 381 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,440 Russell Hughes. Dick Powell currently may be seen in the motion picture version of 382 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,440 the best selling novel Missus Mike. Isn't that right, Dick, Yeah, 383 00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:18,039 Yeah, that's right Eddie. Oh, by the way, Ed Begley, 384 00:29:18,039 --> 00:29:21,480 who plays Lieutenant Levinson on our show, would like to say a few words 385 00:29:21,519 --> 00:29:23,759 to his old friends in Hertford, Connecticut. I just want to say, 386 00:29:23,799 --> 00:29:29,000 on behalf of all of us here on Richard Diamond, congratulations to radio station 387 00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:33,519 WTIC in Hertford, Connecticut, where I got my start in radio and which 388 00:29:33,519 --> 00:29:37,240 this week celebrates its twenty fifth anniversary of service to the people of southern New 389 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,960 England. Thank you, Ed Begley. Now this is Eddie King inviting you 390 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:42,880 to be with us next Sunday at this same time, when we will again 391 00:29:42,920 --> 00:30:00,279 bring you Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, private detective. Governing a cut is 392 00:30:00,319 --> 00:30:03,720 a pretty hard headed business, and we don't usually think of our government as 393 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,160 a dealer in dreams, but in one respect. It is because it's a 394 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,039 dealer in savings bonds. Your particular dream for the future can come true through 395 00:30:11,119 --> 00:30:17,200 the judicious purchase of United States Savings bonds today. As for buying United States 396 00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:21,720 Savings bonds, the process is simplicity itself. If you're employed by others, 397 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,759 use the payroll Savings plan where you work. Your employer will set aside a 398 00:30:25,799 --> 00:30:30,160 specific sum from each paycheck for the purchase of bonds. If you're self employed, 399 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,480 use the Bond a month plan where you bank. Either way, you'll 400 00:30:33,519 --> 00:30:37,960 be saving with regularity, with certainty, and with profit through the purchase of 401 00:30:37,119 --> 00:30:45,960 United States Savings bonds. What's on NBC today? You'll hear Charles Boyer and 402 00:30:47,039 --> 00:30:52,039 Dorothy McGuire today on Theater Guild on the Air in Autumn Crocus, and there's 403 00:30:52,079 --> 00:30:56,680 the Phil Harris Alice Fay Show to add to your Sunday listening pleasure. Be 404 00:30:56,759 --> 00:31:02,480 sure to hear Charles Boyer and Dorothy McGuire, Theater Guild on the Air and 405 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:18,119 the Pill Harris Alice Fay Show today on NBC. This is Andrew from Otrwesterns 406 00:31:18,119 --> 00:31:19,720 dot Com. I wanted to invite you to come take a look at her 407 00:31:19,759 --> 00:31:25,319 site. Where we put out podcasts of old time radio Westerns. Check us 408 00:31:25,319 --> 00:31:29,359 out at Otirwesterns dot com. You're listening to the great detectives of Old time 409 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:41,240 Radio with Adam Graham. Now let's get back into the show. Welcome back. 410 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:48,200 A fun episode and that's a lot of comedy around this absurd idea of 411 00:31:48,759 --> 00:31:55,200 Richard Diamond being accompanied everywhere by Seal, and of course in the last few 412 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:59,920 minutes it practically turns surreal. And I also have to admit I love the 413 00:32:00,079 --> 00:32:05,319 in jokes about missus Mike, and of course Dick Powell was the star of 414 00:32:05,359 --> 00:32:08,160 that movie. I've listened to the Lux Radio Theater version, though I forget 415 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:15,440 whether it contains any music in it. This story was actually adapted for television, 416 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:19,559 and we're going to bring that to you probably next month, but I 417 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,759 warn you it's not going to be anywhere near as funny as this episode has 418 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:28,000 been. All Right, Well, listener comments and feedback, and we have 419 00:32:28,519 --> 00:32:32,200 one from Judy who says I really like the Richard Diamond series. Well, 420 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:37,039 thanks so much for listening, Judy, I appreciate it. That will actually 421 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:43,880 do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with Boston Blackie and then 422 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:49,279 next Wednesday, join us for another episode of Richard Dimond. 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