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this week's episode of Mister Chameleon. The original aired eight December the fifteenth,
nineteen forty eight, and the title is Mister Chameleon's Strangest Murder Case. Next
Mister chameleon Strangest Murder Case. Tonight, we again present the famous mister Cameleon
of Central Headquarters in his most famous Cases of Crime and Murder, brought to
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who mister Camellion is. A college man, he tried from childhood to live
up to the name he bore Chameleon, by taking on the color of whatever
situation in which he found himself, appearing in endless guises, finally entering the
police force, where he became known as Cameleon, the man of many faces,
the underworld's most dreaded man. The listener invariably knows who mister Camellion is,
no matter which disguise he assumes, but the criminal's tracking down seldom does.
Tonight we give you mister Camellion. In Mister Cameleon Strangest Murder Case.
It is early evening and in the luxurious duplex apartment of Jim and Polly Towers.
Jim is angrily pacing up and down. His face is livid, his
voice trembling with rage as he says to the weeping girl on the sofa,
tell me the truth, Polly, what was that man doing here? Why
was Billy Kellum here? In this apartment. Jim, dear, please don't
let your taper get the best of you, and tell me what the shady
nightclub hanger on was doing. Hair I told you I knew him when I
was singing at the Gilded Lily. After all, Dear, all night club
people are shady. I was one before you married me. Oh, Jim,
Jim, I'm so miserable, so frightened, darling. I'm sorry,
Jim. You're quite right. Billy Kellum is a dreadful creature. I thought
i'd gotten rid of his kind long ago, but suddenly last month he turned
up here at the apartment. He's been telephoning me, he hasn't been following
me on the street, and I don't know what to do about it.
I really think the man is mad. I suppose he's been making love to
you. Yes, yes he had. He was a horrible nuisance in the
old days, and now it's unbearable. Holly, why didn't you tell me
before? I was afraid too, But I really think Billy is mad.
I cannot get rid of him. You won't have to get rid of him,
that's my job. Now. Many hours later, we find mister Camellion,
the famous detective, the man of many disguises in his own attractive home.
But mister Cameleon is doing something most unusual for him. At eleven o'clock
at night. He is in his bed and sleeping soundly, but not for
long, for the telephone beside him shrills out, Hello, Hello, Chameleon,
commissioner. Oh no, no, no, not you. This is
the first night in two months I've gotten to bed before midnight. Sorry,
Chameleon, but I've got a nice little job for you. Never hear of
Jim Towers, the Oklahoma oil man who hasn't heard of him? A few
years ago he married that lovely girl who is such a nightclub sensation, Polly
Newell. Right about Jim towz hell is a man named Billy Kellum mean the
nightclub press agent. That's right. Billy Kellum was found shot to death in
the parking space back of the Kilded Lily. Who shot him? We don't
know, That's why I'm calling you, chameleon. But less than an hour
earlier, Jim Towers was looking for him, flourishing a gun and threatening to
kill killum. Ah, wow, were you, chameleon? I take Detective
Sergeant Dave Arnold and get over to Jim towers apartment immediately. I'll be over
there in three minutes. Mister Comedion, It's unthinkable that my husband would kill
anyone. Jim Towers is the sweetest man in the world. Everyone will tell
you that. Quite a few already have told me that Missus Tars, one
of your husband's friends, and the doormen of this apartment has They agreed that
Jim Towers is a wonderful guy with a terrible temper. But even saw mister
commed Billy Kellum was murdered about ten o'clock. Well was your husband at that
time? He was out here. He stayed downtown on business. He isn't
back yet. Well, no, yes, yes. He came in about
eleven and said he didn't feel well. He went to his room. But
but what Missus Tars. He went out again. He said he was too
restless to sleep, said he wanted to take a walk. He'll be back
any minute. What did he have against the murdered man, Billy Kellum?
Oh nothing? Why was he looking for him and waving a gun in several
night spots earlier this evening? Well, Billy Kellum used to be my presaged
when I was a nightclub singer. But Jim couldn't have threatened him. He
had no reason to. Missus Tars, you are lying to protect your husband.
Dave, yes, bring him, missus Tar's maid. Please. What
does Ada have to do with it? Ada? How missus Towers? They
asked me, and I have to tell him. I told him. I
heard mister Towers saying that that he'd kill mister Killum because mister Kellum was bothering
you. But you didn't even know about him. Oh, yes she did.
The door was out into the kitchen. I couldn't help hearing you were
eavesdropping. I heard it, Missus Towers. I couldn't help hearing. Thank
you, Ada, Dave keep an eye on up, please, will you?
I am right, missus Tars, I've got to search your husband's room.
What for, mister Klian? Why should you search Jim's room? You
won't find anything in here. Nevertheless, I would like to search it.
This is the clothes pleasant, mister comedian. My husband hasn't committed any crime.
I love him, I know him. He couldn't be guilty of murder.
What's this sort of shoe box? Mister comedian? Listen to me if
Jim was jealous and hot tip, but it was only because he loved me
so much. You must believe me. There's Tars. Is this your husband's
gun? Yes, I guess so. Holly. Oh, here's Jim,
now, Holly, I just good. Who's this Jim? Who's this man?
My name is Comedian, mister Tars. I'm a detective from Central Headquarters.
Detective, you're the famous chameleon. What are you doing here? What
are you doing with my gun? Jim? Jim, Billy Callum has been
murdered. Murdered, yes, mister Tars. And the bullet that killed him
came from a cold forty five like this gun of yours. I see that
as one cartridge missing. Jim. He thinks you killed Billy Kellum. I
didn't kill him, mister comedian. I didn't even see Billy tonight, Polly.
I'm innocent. You must believe me. I'm innocent. I repeat.
The bullet that killed Kellum was from a forty five Colt, a popular weapon
in Oklahoma. I'm told in you, mister Towers, come from Oklahoma.
The whole picture doesn't look very good for you. I tell you I didn't
do it. It remains to be seen, mister Tars. For your sake,
I hope you didn't do it anyway, Detective Sergeant Donald, and I
will see you and missus Towers later. Dave, come along, let's be
on our way, right, mister Commeleion, good night, good night,
good night, Dave. What do you think about this affair? Oh?
It looks like Jim Towers did it all right, It's too bad. The
wife of his Polly is sure a peach, mister Comellion. If I could
find a girl like that, I'd get married tomorrow before she managed Jim tarrs
She was a nightclub singer, the toast of the town. Sure a tough
break for the kid. But you said to Towars was right though, mister
Comedion, The case certainly looks black for him, black, you say,
Dame, Well, that gives me an idea. First thing tomorrow, I
am going to question some of the murdered man's friends, and mister Comeleon does
find the murdered man's girlfriend. We hear him say so, Daisy, o'mello,
you were Billy Keillum's girlfriend. Em listen, mister comedian, you're a
smart cop. I know lots of guys that are scared to death of you.
Maybe they're right, But what the devil makes you think? I was
Billy Kellum's girl, weren't you? Miss o'mellan call me Daisy Dandy, Daisy
the dancing doll. And I had a dyn sight better act than Polly Towers
did too. She just stood there, looking pretty and chirping a few high
notes, and what happens? She married Jim Towers, a millionaire Oklahoma.
So you're jealous of Polytwers. I was not jealous of her. She may
have got Jim Towers, but I had Billy Killum and that was good enough.
Oh that's all right, Daisy. I was pretty sure you were Billy's
girl. Did you kill him? Huh? He was shot in the dark
in a parking lot back of that nightclub, the Gilded Lily. No one
saw it happen. It might have been anyone, even you, mister chameleon
of Younu. You were jealous of poly Towers and Billy Killim was still in
love with him, in love with her. He couldn't stand Polly Towers,
he told me he couldn't stand Is that why he was always bothering him,
always trying to say him he had to see her. He was shaking her
down for something. Yes, he was. He had something on Polly Towers.
I don't know what it was, but he was trying to get money
out of her. Daisy, you're kidding yourself. What could he have on
her? The lovely Polly, the lovely missus Jim Towers. I don't know,
mister comedian, but but maybe it had something to do with Jack who
Jack Burton, serious type guy was crazy in love with Polly. You mean
Jack Burton, a newspaper man. Yeah. Sure, Why don't you look
him up instead of pastor and me trying to make me think my Billy wasn't
in love with me. You may have an idea there, Daisy. I
think I look in on Jack Burton and have a little chat. My name
is Chameleon and this is Detective Sergeant Nonal Camellion, the famous detective. Sure,
I know you. You're famous for disguises. You must read the newspapers
you work for, mister Burton. I understand you're a rewrite man. That's
right. We're here in connection with the murder of Billy Kellum. Want to
talk to you about polytars Polly. That's right. I've been told you're in
love with polytars Well, mister Camellion, I'm not in the habit of discussing
my emotions with a police or anyone else. This is a case of murder,
mister Burton. Polly's husband, Jim Towers is being held for the shooting
of Billy Kellum. I know that. Would you be pleased if Jim Towers
were out of the picture. If Jim Towers were convicted, that would leave
the field open for you with Polly, wouldn't it. Just what do you
think? I am a man who's in love with a very lovely girl.
Yes, Polly Towers is lovely and fine and good. But what could I
give? Nothing at all? But let me tell you something. I'm glad
that Billy Kellum is dead. I'd be glad to kill anyone who tried to
hurt Polly. Oh you would? Huh? Did you hear that, mister
Communion? I did, Dave, But that doesn't mean I did. And
now excuse me. The paper's almost ready to go to press. And don't
worry, chameleon. I'll be right here in this newspaper office in case you
want me. Goodbye, So mister Comellion, This guy, Jack Burton,
I'd be willing to kill anyone who tried to hurt Polly Towers, so he
says. And Dave, did it all look quite so simple? Now,
simple, mister Comellion, There are wheels within wheels within wheeds, exactly.
I have a feeling before this mystery of Billy Kellum's is finally solved, it
may be the strangest I've ever handled, and in its way, one of
the most horrible. Mister Chameleon's strangest murder case continues in just a moment.
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time later and in the office of the Commissioner of Police. The Commissioner is
frowning intently at Chameleon, and Detective Sergeant Dave Arnold, too, looks puzzled
and disturbed as he says, what do you expect to accomplish? Mister Chameleon.
Hasn't Polytars gone through enough without putting her through more unpleasantness and trouble?
Dave, her husband is being held for murder. Circumstantial evidence is all against
him. The maid's test Simone is looking for Kellum that night of the murder,
like the fatal bullet came from a forty five, like his, only
it might not have been his gun. Chameleon O. Ballistics experts can't say
positively, Well that's it, Commissioner. That are other forty five's, plenty
of them. No one saw the actual shooting. Might have been Jack Burton,
It might have been Daisy O'Malley. Who knows, But I intend to
find out. But what will we gain by hounding poly Towers? Why Dave
I didn't realize Sir galahad to join the police force. Oh me listen,
I'm as hard as nails. Yes, yes, Billy Kellum's killer is as
hard as nails too, but really hard. And Dave I propose that we
get them. So why I am going to pose as Billy Kellum's partner partner
in blackmailing? Blackmailing? You're going to go in disguise and pose as a
blackmailer, that's the idea. Dave and Daisy O'Malley say that the murdered man,
Billy Kellum might have been blackmailing Polly Towers about Jack Burton. Yeah,
yeah, so she did. In my disguise as a blackmailer. I'll take
the name of the lul Ludovic, one of those creatures who crawl out of
the woodwork. Do you think that poly Towers will turn to Jack Burton when
you start your blackmail act, Honor, Yes, possibly, her husband is
jail. She has no one else to turn to. Also, I'll see
to it the daisy o'melly finds out that this Ludovic's making the rounds, claiming
he has absolute evidence against the killer. So that's your game. Mm hmm,
that's my game, Commissioner. That's what I'll tell Polly Towers when I
manage to get in to see it as lu Ludovic, which may take quite
a lot of time. Also, I hope will lead me somewhere. And
mister Chameleon is quite right. It does take a lot of time for the
oily lu Ludovic to get to see missus Polly Towers. But we find Chameleon
now in his disguise as Lu Ludovic, slick back hair, pin striped suit,
gray fedora hat, saying to Polly's made Ada, please tell missus Towers
that mister Ludovic is here. I'm sure she will see me well, I
know she won't. And if you don't stop bothering us, we'll call the
police. The police. I do not fear the police. I am here
as a friend you, oh, no friend of Missus Towers. Or she
says she never heard of you. She has heard of Billy Kellum, and
you're just as bad as he was. You act just like he did.
Billy was persistent, So my Missus Towers might better see me and get it
over with you. Missus Towers has had enough trouble. It's all right,
Ada, let him in. Maybe he's right. I might just as well
see him and get it over with Missus Towers. This is a great pleasure.
I have long wanted to meet you. I am sure Billy Kellum spoke
of me. You're mistaken. He never mentioned you. Come into the living
room, Ada, you can go, yes, Missus Towers, but if
you need me, I'm not afraid. And please close the kitchen door,
yes, ma'am. Now, mister Ludovic, what can I do for you?
As uh Daisy O'Malley would say, uh, please call me lou Though
Daisy would say please call me Daisy, wouldn't she? Who is Daisy o'melly?
What has she got to do with this. She was a friend of
Billy Kellum's too, just as I am. Missus Towers now admit that he
must have mentioned me. I don't think you quite understand. Mister Kellum never
discussed any one. He made my life miserable with his personal interest in me.
Who can blame him? You're even more beautiful than he said. But
he never spoke of you, Mister Ludovic, never, at any time,
he did not tell you I was his partner, his partner in his er
blackmailing activities. There was I who got the goods on you and Jack Burton
blackmail? Are you crazy? Billy never blackmailed me and Jack Burton? White
Jack and I were simply good friends. How could you get the goods on
us? I don't know what you mean, don't you, Missus Towers.
No, Billy never blackmailed me. He thought he was in love with me.
That was all. Is it possible that I could be mistaken? You
certainly are mistaken, And now, mister Ludovic get out of my house very
well. I'm mistaken. It was a shot in the dark. But Missus
Towers, I am not mistaken when I say I have evidence that will convict
Billy Callum's murderer. You mean you have evidence against my husband? Try your
own conclusions. No, I don't believe you. This is a trick of
some kind. You couldn't have evidence. You couldn't possibly do you wish to
take a chance on that? Do you, Missus Towers? What is the
evidence you think? I am Santa Claus. It will cost you a thousand
dollars to know, and for me keep my mouth shut. I don't believe
you. I wouldn't take a chance on that. In fact, if I
were you, I would bring eight thousand dollars to my rooming house down on
Sullivan Street. I will give you the number you simply walk in. My
room is on the ground floor they first started right. I would be there
the night at eight o'clock if I were you, Missus Dowers. This is
a charming little rat hole, mister chameleon. Yes, Dave, just the
kind of place where Luladovic would conduct his business. He live at a swanky
uptown hotel. I'm shore, but this is the sort of hole where he'd
blackmail helpless women. Dave, I expect to tramp to kill her the night
to tell the landlady. We want known to the service for a while,
and I paid her plenty, and the poor guy who really rentsless too.
Mister Comillion, are you really going to stand with your back to the window
so someone from the street could take a shot at you. I've got to
day. Well, at least a couple of plane clothesmen outside. I'll grab
them quick. And I'm not worrying. Well, you should be a shot
in the back. I'm not worrying. Just you get behind that curtain when
she comes, if she comes, no if about it. My friend who's
there, mister Ladovic, okay, Dave behind the curtain is that you Missus
Towers. Yes, will come in. Welcome to my humble aboard Missus Towers
a poor thing, but mine own. As your mister Shakespeare would say,
mister Ludovik, you uh still will not call me loose, Mister Ludovic,
I only came here to tell you I don't believe you. You have no
evidence that Jim, that my husband and murdered Billy Kellum. I have evidence
which will convict the killer, Missus Towers. Will you pardon me for not
turning on more light? My dear, this shade is broken, and I
feel better without too much light on mister Ludovic, you're lying, you have
no evidence. I know you're kind. The Gilded Lily where I once worked
was crawling with them. That's why it was so wonderful to get out of
that awful atmosphere. Come to that point, please, I have the evidence.
Give me a thousand dollars. I know you brought it with you.
No, no, I didn't, of course you did. What's a thousand
dollars to you? Missus Polly Towers? Jim Towers is very, very rich
man. Give me the money, all right. I couldn't take the chance.
Though I still don't believe you have any evidence. Give me the money.
The only thing is, mister Adobe, this won't be the end.
If I give you this, you'll keep on asking me for more. Missus
Towers, you will have to take a chance on that tool the money place.
I have it here in my purse. What's the manday, mister?
Do there's someone outside on the street watching us through the window. Yes,
there is. They're standing quite close to the window. Is it a man
or a woman? Why don't you look for yourself? They have a gun.
They're raising it to shoot that they're gonna kill you. Tell me,
yes, you cheap blackmailer. Only I'm the one that's gonna kill you.
Did you think tonight rarely turn my back on you, poly Towers? Do
you think I wasn't prepared to have you pull a knife on me or shoot
me in the back. A knife was smarter this time. God, you're
not Lula Dovic, You're mister Kami. Quite right, Missus Tars, and
I'm arresting you for the murder of Billy Kellum. Dave, don't tell me
it's Missus tarrs frightfully sorry, solution you, Dave. I couldn't bear to
do it till the last minute, but I kind of need help to get
this little wildcat down of a cell and central head barter. So now,
mister Burton, mister Camellion, I wanted you present during our little talk with
Polytars. I want you to understand what sort of a woman you've been involved
with and how easily you yourself could have been charged with being an accomplished a
murder. What Jack, don't listen to him. If I pulled a knife
on Commedian, it's because I thought he was a dreadful creature like Billy Kellum.
Now, missus Tars, you worked out a clever plot for the killing
of two men you wanted out of your life and not listened to it.
First you murdered the blackmailer, Billy Kellum, and then you're tried to have
your husband pay the death penalty for a murder that you committed. I didn't
You planted your husband's gun, the gun you used to kill Kellum, where
I couldn't fail to find it in your husband's room, and you left the
kitchen door open so that your maid Aida couldn't fail to hear your husband's threats
against Billy Kellum. That's a lie, and you knew that maid would tell
me and I'd be hot on the trail of your husband with deadly evidence against
him dream on commit. But what you didn't know was that the domen of
your building told me that you left and returned to the building and exactly the
time you needed to kill Billy Kellum. He was murdered about ten fifteen,
that is when you were out. I had no reason to murder Billy Killum.
My husband was jealous of him. I say, there it is.
You're trying to plant it on your husband again. Now I'll tell you why
you killed Billy Kellum. Polly. You've been paying him hush money for months.
Your bank has a record of the checks, and I have the canceled
checks, five hundred dollars every month. This was your way to silence the
blackmailing Killum, your way to get rid of your husband so that you could
marry Jack Burton. Here, listen, Camelle, and I've had nothing to
do with it. You've been seeing her without her husband's knowledge, haven't you.
Burton. Yes, I loved it, and I love you Jack in
all my life. You're the only person I've ever loved. But I couldn't
live on your salary. You know that I needed Jim's money, Paul.
With Jim out of the way, we could both use his money for you
as well as myself for both Officer Jack. Jack. Look at me,
Polly, I can't believe this, that you did as she did Burton and
supplied me with one of the strangest murder cases of my career. An extraordinary
way to get rid of her husband. She killed Kellum and then expected the
state to kill her husband for her a diabolical pattern and criminal psychologist. Jack
Jack, take me out of here. Nobody will ever take you out of
here. Polly Dave lead this woman to her cell place. Come along,
mister Jack. Yeah. I hope, Chameleon, that you're really convinced,
I knew nothing of this terrible thing. If I weren't Burton, you would
be out of luck. You see that motto of my desk. Read it
you'll know why both you and Jim Towers walk out of here free men.
I see the innocent must be protected, guilty must be punished. And I
don't mind telling you Burton that all my sympathies are with Jim Towers. And
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At this time, this is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System, Welcome back.
Maybe this should have been called mister Chameleon's most bog standard murder Case.
I mean, even in the nineteen forties, framing your husband so that he
gets convicted and you get his money is pretty standard for a detective story.
It really didn't live up to its billing. And then there's a reference to
the motto. And yes, I know I go on about it, but
it's one of those things I don't recall at being mentioned, certainly, you
know, not in nineteen fifty and I don't think in the fall nineteen forty
nine episodes that are in circulation, because it's one of those things that if
it existed, it would have a really embarrassing origin story. It would go
something like this, Hey, camelean got a moment, Sure, Commissioner,
I need to talk to you about the arrest of Mary Brandeis. Yes,
well, she was in Wisconsin at the time of the murder with eight US
senators and there's a photograph taken at the time showing that she was in her
wheelchair at the state capitol. Yeah, and well, and since she's innocent,
she has to be punished. Oh no, I did it again.
I got it wrong. Yeah, well, we've got it covered. Her
lawyers aren't gonna ask for much, but we've gotta stop doing this, I
said Officer Dave Arnold to arrest Muggsy Wilson, and then Camellons said, wait,
the ballistics showed the bullet matched his gun, and he did it in
front of a dozen witnesses. He was obviously guilty and therefore needed to be
protected. And the commissioners are shaken and said, uh, you know,
I'm doubting you as a college man. No, I'm smart. I just
have trouble keeping this straight. And then we have the brainstorm. Why don't
you make a reminder to yourself make it a model and put it on a
sign on the wall. The innocent must be protected and the guilty must be
punished. And CAMELEON's eyes get wise. You're a genius. I'll hang it
up on my wall. If I stare at it for hours on end,
there's no way I'll get mixed up. I'll also tell everyone about my motto.
I guess you can do that, but it might make them wonder why
you need reminded that it'll never happen well, and that, I imagine is
how Cameleon got his motto. All right, listener comments and feedback now and
Leonard as a comment regarding the Mister Cameleon episode The Case of Death and the
Blue Parrot, and he writes, the Blue Parrot is the name of the
cafe owned and run by Senor Ferrari in the movie Casablanca. Well, thanks
so much for the comment. There was something about the name that sounded vaguely
familiar, but I couldn't place it right off. And likely that's just a
case of someone having seen the movie and the name just being in their head,
betther than any attempt to rip off Casa Blanca. Because say what you
want about the case of Death and the Blue Parrot. It didn't really a
vote Casablanca in any other way, but still that that's an interested reference all
the same. And then we have a question from Richard regarding a program ever
on Stars in the Air. Richard writes one of the radio commercials towards the
end of that show reference to series called City Hospital. I've never heard of
it and can't find any episodes available. Have you ever heard any episodes of
that show? Well, thanks for the question. Now, there do appear
to be a couple of episodes available on radio echos dot com. From all
reports, it appears to be a bit of a medical melodrama, and it's
got a bit of a complicated history. Now, I found that there was
a City Hospital radio program and a City Hospital television program. The City Hospital
television program starred Melvin Ruick, and there was a radio program that starred Santos
Ortega and later Melvin Ruick. The radio series began oversea. TV series began
over ABC and then moved over to CBS. Now there does seem to be
some confusion as to which started first. I found one book that stated that
City Hospital was an example of a program that began on television and went to
radio. However, as best I can find, I found a radio listing
for City Hospital from October of nineteen fifty one, and according to Wikipedia,
it didn't start airing on television tell November of nineteen fifty one. Be that
as it may, Melville Ruwick heard on the TV show and then he took
over the radio show at least by nineteen fifty four, and the series stayed
on the air till nineteen fifty eight. Again, there are only two episodes
in circulation. There are also some South Radio episodes of City Hospital, but
I'm not certain if that had any relation to the American series, So thanks
so much for the question. The episodes that are out there are not in
great shape. There are a couple that I guess give a sample of the
series. Well, now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day.
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