WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.440 --> 00:00:32.640 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:36.479 is your host, Adam Graham. Got a comment, email me Box thirteen 3 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:40.840 at Great Detectives dot net, cast your vote for the show on podcast Alley, 4 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:45.759 Podcast Alley dot Great Detectives dot net, and become a fan of the 5 00:00:45.759 --> 00:00:51.000 show on Facebook, Facebook dot Great Detectives dot net. I did miss spake 6 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:56.119 slightly on Friday show when I said that The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio 7 00:00:56.159 --> 00:01:02.520 I had finished twenty five on Podcast Alley last month. I was making that 8 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:06.959 statement before the month was over, but in the last hours we slept into 9 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.719 number twenty six. So I encourage everybody to vote. You don't have to 10 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.560 leave a comment. It's appreciated but not required. Up at podcast Alley. 11 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:21.319 Tommy from Kentucky emails in they love the podcast. But to the subject, 12 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:23.640 I was listening to Box thirteen one night and a thought hit me. The 13 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:29.760 show Castle uses pretty much the same format that Box thirteen did. The main 14 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:33.719 characters are both writers trying to come up with ideas for new stories while trying 15 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:37.760 to solve mysteries. I find it kind of funny that the concept of an 16 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:42.519 old show like Box thirteen would be so successful today. 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I have exactly forty eight hours to 55 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:15.279 live, no more than that unless you can do something which no one else 56 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:17.000 has been able to do. Get me out of the death cell of the 57 00:05:17.079 --> 00:05:21.360 State Penitentiary. I was tried and convicted from the murder of one of my 58 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:30.399 best friends. I was tried and convicted for the murder of one of my 59 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:34.800 best friends. I didn't do it. Will you try to help Martin Kirby. 60 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:39.800 When I received the letter from Martin Kirby, I wondered how a man 61 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:43.680 felt who had only a short time to live and knew it before the thing 62 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:59.120 was over and I had stopped wondering, I knew And now back to Botch 63 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:10.000 thirteen and Dan Holiday's newest ad Budge your compact gee as your holiday. What 64 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:12.959 can you do about it, Susie? I wish I had an answer for 65 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:15.759 you. You're gonna stan him, aren't you. Well? If I don't, 66 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.120 I'd kick myself all over the city for not doing what I could. 67 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:21.399 On the other hand, he was tried, convicted and sentenced, but it 68 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:26.360 could be wrong. I mean, I know what you mean, Susie's Sentencing 69 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:30.040 a man to death is a terrible thing. The evidence against Kirby must have 70 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:33.279 been pretty strong. Oh, I guess it was. You're on the horns 71 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:38.839 of an an Emma dilemma this time, Susie. I don't laugh. What 72 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:42.160 are you going to do? The only thing I can do? See Martin 73 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:49.600 Kirby and well, at least listen to him. I didn't think you'd come, 74 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:54.839 mister holiday. Why not? Well, there must have been a million 75 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:58.519 guys in this place, all innocent. Sure, maybe some of them were. 76 00:06:58.600 --> 00:07:04.399 And are I am? I what time? I mean? I know 77 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:09.600 what you mean. It's one thirty now, I've got the rest of to 78 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:15.560 day and till tomorrow night at eleven thirty thirty four hours. I know I've 79 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:19.560 counted them too, all right, Kirbly, What can I do? I 80 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:24.240 don't know. Is there anything you can tell me something that didn't come out 81 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:27.800 of the trial. The only thing that didn't come out at my trial was 82 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:30.759 the fact that I didn't kill Leslie Roberts. Oh. I kept saying it, 83 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:34.240 but there was too much against me. At first, when I got 84 00:07:34.279 --> 00:07:38.959 here, I didn't care anymore. If they wanted to see an innocent man 85 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:42.199 die for something he didn't do, then it was murder on their heads. 86 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:46.439 But now, mister Holiday, I want to live. Sure, sure, 87 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:50.560 but there's nothing you can tell me, anything that I can go to the 88 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:55.519 police with and get a reprieve, a stay of execution. My lawyers tried 89 00:07:55.560 --> 00:08:00.040 that a hundred times. My case has been reviewed, nothing doing, And 90 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:01.720 what you're asking of me is to do what everyone else has failed at. 91 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:07.519 I guess that's it, you know, Kirby. It's at times like this 92 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.000 I wish I'd never put that box thirteen head in the paper, meaning there's 93 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:15.160 nothing you'll do. No, No, I didn't say that. I'll try, 94 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:18.879 but thirty four hours is a short time. Look, maybe you will 95 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.639 go at this with a fresh slant. Maybe something will hit you that everyone 96 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.839 else has missed. Yeah, maybe, all right, Kirby, it'll take 97 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:30.000 me two hours to get back to the city end. If I'm going to 98 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:37.559 do anything, I'll have to do it fast. Driving back to the city, 99 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:41.360 I felt like someone who has to tell a kid there's no Santa Claus. 100 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:45.279 Because I was almost sure that Kirby had no chance. What could I 101 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:48.399 do? The police were no fools. The district attorney must have had an 102 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:52.159 airtight case against Kirby when he went to trial. Well, I'd promised to 103 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:54.440 help, So my first stop in the city was the Star Times and down 104 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:58.679 to the Morgue to read up on the case. It was all there wherever 105 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.480 Kurby the case for the Star Times has done a great job of reporting. 106 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:07.200 I looked at my watch. It was three forty five. Martin Kirby had 107 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:09.639 two hours and fifteen minutes less than the original thirty four. And all I 108 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:13.600 had done so far was it was the stack of a pile of newspapers. 109 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:18.080 I started from the beginning, but the story of the murder of Leslie Roberts 110 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:20.600 itself told me nothing. Then I got into the transcript of the trial. 111 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:24.960 It took me three hours to read everything carefully, and when I finished, 112 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:28.639 I could I could have summed up the whole thing, just as the prosecutor 113 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:33.879 did. You've heard the testimony in this case. The state has proved the 114 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:41.200 following facts. One, Martin Kirby was desperately in need of money. Two, 115 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:46.519 the deceased Leslie Roberts was insured for one hundred thousand dollars, his beneficiaries 116 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:52.360 being the accused Martin Kirby and another partner, William Morgan. The double indemnity 117 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:58.480 clause in the insurance policy meant that both Kirby and Morgan would receive one hundred 118 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:07.679 thousand dollars each. Third point, we accused quarreled with a deceased over Missus 119 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:13.360 Roberts, wife of the murdered man. Four we have established the murder weapon. 120 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:18.200 This gun belonged to Martin Kirby through the serial numbers were filed off. 121 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:22.960 But scientific work revealed the numbers and this gun belonged to Martin Kirby. He's 122 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:26.759 admitted it, and, thinking to get rid of it, he threw it 123 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:31.919 into a sewer near Leslie Roberts's home. Now, perhaps mister Kirby believed the 124 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:35.399 police of this city to be fools. Far from it. Their work has 125 00:10:35.519 --> 00:10:39.440 established beyond doubt. If Martin Kirby is a murderer. Oh sure it was 126 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.720 a good case. I stacked the papers in a pile and left the Star 127 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:48.759 Times and went down to police headquarters to see Lieutenant Kling. Sit down, 128 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:54.200 Dan, what's on your mind? Martin Kirby? Oh? Why it's see 129 00:10:54.279 --> 00:11:00.200 him? He wrote to Box thirteen. He's innocent. There did you kind 130 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:03.639 of case? No? Inspect the Rowling's handle it? Why? But you 131 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:07.720 know about it? Sure? I sometimes managed to know what's going on. 132 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:11.279 Well, Cling, you're a good detective. You've got brains. I'll buy 133 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:13.240 him all at milk sometime. But you didn't come here to handmade posies. 134 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:18.000 Do you believe Kirby is guilty? Yes, from the evidence. That's what 135 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:22.399 we base our cases on. It's inherited the judicial and legal system. Now 136 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:24.720 what do you want from me? A new system? I told you I 137 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:28.799 saw Kirby cling. He doesn't act like a guilty man. Oh no, 138 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:37.440 no, wait a second. Who's this? That's a photograph of maryon Obling? 139 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:41.200 So what am I supposed to do? Look at it? Nice and 140 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:45.240 sweet, isn't she I've never met her, but I did, But I 141 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.399 wouldn't melt in my mouth A smile it would soften up the Rock of Gibraltar. 142 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:52.840 Talks like an angel, but she killed a kid to get thirty five 143 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.519 cents from him. He look, you've got a soft heart, Dan, 144 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:01.080 which you've got a tendency to let it run right into your head, maybe 145 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:05.080 a right cling. But I promised, Kirby, I'd plug away until time 146 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:09.639 was I. I like to keep promises, and that's your business, Dan. 147 00:12:09.840 --> 00:12:13.799 But why did you come to me for any help you could give me? 148 00:12:13.879 --> 00:12:16.799 Which adds up to a big zero playing I read the transcript of the 149 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:22.600 trial. Kirby was the only suspect. He had motive opportunity, So did 150 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.440 Missus Roberts and William Morgan. It was Kirby's gun that put Leslie Roberts in 151 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:28.759 the obituaries. Someone else could have used it, so, as defense lawyer 152 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:33.320 said, But Kirby couldn't explain how I'd get into that sewer. But Kirby 153 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:35.159 called the police when he went to Roberts house that night and saw Roberts dead. 154 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:39.320 Sure, Shure, we get dozens of cases where the killer tries to 155 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:41.879 police smile. He calls the police, figuring it'll make him look good. 156 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:45.679 But he had to kill Roberts run outside and throw the gun under the sewer, 157 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.440 then go back inside and call the police. So it's a big chance 158 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:52.519 to take in case someone heard the shot and came to investigate. Killers. 159 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:56.399 Take chances, Dan, Okay, Okay. Now, the paper said there 160 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:58.799 was a note from Roberts asking Kirby to come to his house that night. 161 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.399 Yeah, that's why Kirby said he happened to go to Robert's house that night, 162 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:05.440 the only night in the week that Missus Roberts is always out. The 163 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:09.840 police said Kirby could have typed that note, right. The Kirby's defense lawyer 164 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:13.240 said, Roberts could have typed it. Look, you type a note to 165 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:16.799 me asking me to meet you, then what do you do? What do 166 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:20.039 you mean? What do I do? You write your signature. Nine times 167 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:24.080 out of ten you don't type it, So that means anyone could have typed 168 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:28.679 it. I know, I know to get Kurby to Robert's house. That's 169 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:31.480 it. So that was all brought out at the trial. The jewelry saw 170 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:35.679 it the way the prosecution summed it up. The Kurby typed that note to 171 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:37.399 make it seem as though he was asked to Robert's place, but both missus 172 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:41.519 Roberts and Morgan also stood the game by Robert's death. Each gets one hundred 173 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:46.360 thousand. Look, the case is closed. Too many things added up against 174 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:50.200 Kirby. Sometimes things can be added up wrong figures and facts. You're knocking 175 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:54.440 your head against a stone wall, so I'll get a headache. That's about 176 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:58.879 all. Okay, I'll carry aspens with me, But say, could I 177 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:05.080 at that note before? This is a favor? Okay, I'll take care 178 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:09.120 of it for you, but i'll give you a six two and even that 179 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:16.679 Michael Kirby will be executed tomorrow night at eleven thirty. Well clean got me 180 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:20.360 in the note, So I had it and saw what all it said was 181 00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:26.039 Muddy be at my house tonight at day thirty less. It was typed and 182 00:14:26.080 --> 00:14:28.960 had been left in Kirby's typewriter at the office. Susie and I studied it. 183 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:31.720 What do you expect to get out of it, mister Holiday. I 184 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:35.600 don't know, Susie. Gee, Like you said, anybody could have typed 185 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:39.639 it. That's right, Kirby denies he did. Nobody can prove Roberts did 186 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:46.279 or didn't not know. Maybe maybe got mister Morgan or missus Roberts did Gee? 187 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:50.240 What if either one of them did it and they're letting an innocent man 188 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:56.480 be executed? Oh, it wouldn't be a comfortable feeling, Susie. What's 189 00:14:56.519 --> 00:15:01.039 the matter? Did I say something? Yeah? Yeah, yeah? Maybe 190 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:09.600 you did, Susie, Maybe you did? What conscience? Who's Missus robertson 191 00:15:09.720 --> 00:15:13.919 Morgan's You mean both of them? Kill mister Roberts. Give me that phone 192 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:20.919 book? Here it is, thanks Roberts Roberts, Leslie Roberts. What are 193 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:24.240 you going to do, mister Holliday by a little poker? You're gonna play 194 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:28.399 cards at a time like this? Not quite just a bluff. I'm holding 195 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:37.240 a pair of deuces. I don't get it. Hello, is this missus 196 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:43.679 Leslie Roberts? Yes, never mind, just listen. Tomorrow out at eleven 197 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:48.360 thirty, just twenty four hours from now, Martin Kirby will be executed for 198 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:52.480 the murder of your husband. Who are you? What do you want? 199 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:56.279 Does your conscience bother you? Missus Roberts? What do you mean by that? 200 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:00.879 Don't you know? Missus Roberts is some kind of a stupid hardly they're 201 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:08.360 not joking at the State penitentially, missus Roberts. Yes, I know something 202 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:12.960 that can make you uncomfortable, but I'm willing to talk about it. I 203 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:18.159 don't know what you mean. You're either insane or completely without feeling. If 204 00:16:18.200 --> 00:16:22.919 you're interested, meet me at the corner of Carpenter and Pastel Place at midnight. 205 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:29.200 Why should I do that? That's for you to think about, But 206 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:33.879 I think you know already. I listen carefully. I'll be wearing a light 207 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:40.399 tan top coat, brown felt hat. I'll carry a leather briefcase. Goodbye, 208 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:45.720 mister Holiday. What was that for? I told you all I've got 209 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:48.679 is a pair of deuces. Now I'll make the same call the Morgan, 210 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:52.240 but first one to Cling. I'm certainly be wounded. Don't you ever change? 211 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:56.639 You're wonderful? As is? What did I do? Never at all, 212 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:59.639 Susie. After I make this call to Cling and one to Morgan, 213 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:04.680 I'll either have something to help Martin Kirby or a what or a wonderful notice 214 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:21.119 in the obituary column of the Star Times. And now back to hunting Pett 215 00:17:21.279 --> 00:17:30.519 another Box thirteen adventure with Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday. I made the same 216 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:33.960 phone called the William Morgan that I made the missus Roberts, but I tipped 217 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:37.720 Cling to something before I did. At midnight, I was the corner of 218 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.920 Carpenter and Pastel Place, waiting, sure it's a bluff, and I figured 219 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:47.519 all was fair in this game. Ten minutes went by, no one showed 220 00:17:47.599 --> 00:18:06.119 up. Then a light blub Yeah sure, hm, thanks, it's all 221 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:10.400 right. So wonder they wouldn't put street lights here? Guy could get lost 222 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:15.039 easy, Yeah I could. Yeah, okay, thanks for the light. 223 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:30.559 You're welcome, okay, jack the wild, good night. Maybe I played 224 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:33.480 the wrong cards, maybe no one would show up. It was twenty minutes 225 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:37.200 past midnight. I stepped out of the shadows where I've been standing. I 226 00:18:37.279 --> 00:18:41.839 thought pretty silly, and I knew what Cling would say. I was twenty 227 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:45.960 feet away from the corner, walking slowly, looking up and down the street. 228 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:49.200 There's no one in sight. Lights in the windows of the houses went 229 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:53.359 out slowly, one by one. I was studying, feet away from the 230 00:18:53.400 --> 00:19:07.519 corner when right here, quing you get it, yeah, yeah, on 231 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:11.519 the arm, say listen it does people back paper now houses talks to take 232 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:15.720 a couple of poison star in this neighborhood, crying the person will fire that 233 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:18.920 shot, whoever it was the one who should die in Martin Kirby's place. 234 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:22.839 You're an idiot. You set yourself up like a clay pigeon house bad hout, 235 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:26.400 that's the armor. It's not so deep as well or white as a 236 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:29.519 church star. But we'll do it. How do you like this guy? 237 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:33.079 He gets winged and quote Shakespeare. Okay, let's get you out of here. 238 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:45.279 Feel better? Yeah? Thanks, right, for we've fired the shot. 239 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:49.160 I don't know, no luck, whoever it was was in one of 240 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:52.599 the buildings, and running somebody to ground in that neighborhood takes a squad of 241 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:56.400 men. Yeah, it's afraid of that. Okay, so what have they 242 00:19:56.440 --> 00:20:02.960 got now? The bullet three or Morgan is the real murder of Leslie Roberts. 243 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:07.079 Boy, this is Roberts reported my phone call to you, didn't she 244 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:11.359 That's right that Morgan didn't. I know that? So he was afraid it 245 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:15.279 was a blackmailer who knew he killed Roberts. He would have reported my call 246 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.839 to you if you had nothing to be afraid of. Sure, sure looks 247 00:20:18.839 --> 00:20:21.799 good in your head, but what proof have you got that Morgan fired that 248 00:20:21.799 --> 00:20:23.920 shot tonight? None? But on the strength that I can't you get a 249 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:27.720 stad of execution for Martin Kirby? How I called up and say you good 250 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:32.880 shot? You think it was Morgan? Morgan denies it. No, no, 251 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:34.559 no, no, soap Dan. To get a stay for Kirby, 252 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:38.240 you need positive evidence. And this whole of my arm doesn't come only as 253 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:41.920 a strike against you. And you're lucky at that. What do I have 254 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:47.160 to do? If you could prove Morgan fired that shot, you'd have something. 255 00:20:48.119 --> 00:20:52.440 But what you'd have is that he fired at you, not that he 256 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.119 chilled Roberts say so, swear out of warrant. We'll bring him in. 257 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:57.319 No, no, no, no, don't do that. Let me ask 258 00:20:57.440 --> 00:21:00.960 one more question. What do you think of the whole thing? Though? 259 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:07.640 Well, I come on, come, what do you think? I think 260 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:11.519 you've got something? But the police haven't. That's a fat of that, 261 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:15.000 all right, cling and he objections. If I keep going none for me, 262 00:21:15.400 --> 00:21:19.039 I shall have to do it alone. As far as the department's concerned 263 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:22.440 that Robert's case is closed, I'd never get permission to work on it day, 264 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:30.640 not even on your own time. That's different. Okay, keep in 265 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:38.440 touch, yeah I will. Meanwhile, you'll keep alive well, there wasn't 266 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:41.880 anything more I could do. That night, I took my punctured arm and 267 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.039 myself home and got some sleep, not much, though, because I knew 268 00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:48.960 I was right, clingt was right. Only two people knew I'd be at 269 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:55.359 Carpenter and Pastel at midnight, Morgan and Missus Roberts. Missus Roberts had called 270 00:21:55.359 --> 00:21:59.920 the police to report my call. Morgan hadn't all Morgan had to do now, 271 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:03.960 I was to lay low until Kirby was executed. But he had been 272 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:07.200 worried enough to take a shot at me. Then I thought of something else. 273 00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:15.480 The next morning in my office to Holiday, Oh, good morning, 274 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:19.000 Susie. Your arm it kind of sling becoming, isn't it? What happened? 275 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:23.720 It was shot? Oh? Who shot you? William Morgan? I'm 276 00:22:23.720 --> 00:22:29.000 sure never mind that. Now I want you to help me. What's showing 277 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:32.839 it? To Holiday? But I won't get shot, will I? He 278 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:36.920 said? I'm the type rutter All right? Now, Look, I've typed 279 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:40.200 out a bunch of slips with Now is the time for all good men to 280 00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:42.440 come to the aid of their party with one arm. Good enough, Now 281 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:47.000 you do the same, Go ahead. I don't understand. I'll explain why 282 00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:51.240 you're typed. Go ahead, Hey, the note left for Martin Kirby was 283 00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:53.000 typed. What I'm trying to do is to find out if the style of 284 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:56.440 typing can be definite enough to pin on one person. You mean I tied 285 00:22:56.480 --> 00:23:00.640 differently from you? I use hunting. Can you use the touch system? 286 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:06.200 Oh? You say missus Roberts used to be a secretary. She'd use the 287 00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:10.240 touch system of typing. Martin Kirby could type. So I'm so good will 288 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:14.720 you Morgan? Then what good will allas? Do you? I don't know. 289 00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:21.119 I don't know. Okay, Susie, that's enough. Now mix up 290 00:23:21.160 --> 00:23:23.160 the slips and pick one at random. Then you tell me who typed it? 291 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:29.680 All right, I type that one. How do you know it's smoother 292 00:23:29.799 --> 00:23:34.759 than yours? That's the only way you can tell. And if I type 293 00:23:34.839 --> 00:23:38.359 touch system, it'd be pretty tough to tell us slips upon Oh sure, 294 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:44.000 all touch system. It's smooth looking. The letters are well, they're all 295 00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:48.079 about the same blackness. I don't care. It's another lead shot. Gee, 296 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:52.519 I'm sorry, mister Holliday. Look at that clock. Ten minutes past 297 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:56.680 twelve, less than twelve hours left for Kirby. Susie, I'm as sure 298 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:00.000 as I can be that Morgan's guilty. But he shot me last night. 299 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:03.839 Then what are the police arrestings? It's dangerous for a man I got to 300 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:08.039 be loosed. Yes, I think you're right, But Susie, remember what 301 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:14.359 you said about conscience. Well, look, if Morgan was sure of himself, 302 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:17.839 he wouldn't have tried that stunt last night. All right, because he 303 00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:19.519 did, it means that a little more work on him might make him break. 304 00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:22.480 Huh. You're not going to let him shoot at you again? Oh 305 00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:26.960 not if I can help it. But I am going to see him. 306 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:30.920 You will be careful, won't you, mister Holiday, Susie, I have 307 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:34.359 only one life to give my work, But it so happens, I like 308 00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:42.319 it took the rest of the day, but I learned all I could about 309 00:24:42.359 --> 00:24:45.720 mister William Morgan, and I wasn't one thing that pointed at him as a 310 00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:49.680 killer. But I was sure he'd killed Robertson frame Kirby. He knew Kirby 311 00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:52.799 and Robertson quarreled. He could have taken Kirby's gun from Kirby's desk at the 312 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:56.039 office. He could have typed the note leading Kirby to Robert's house, and 313 00:24:56.119 --> 00:25:00.759 among other things, he had been a demonstrator for a typefier concern. How 314 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:04.160 did that happen? Answer? Not at all, because missus Roberts and Kerry 315 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:07.079 both type touch system that I found out when I read the report of the 316 00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:12.559 trial. Okay, I had one angle left. Work on Morgan, work 317 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:17.039 on him hard enough to crack him wide open if it could be done. 318 00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:21.279 So that night, two hours before markin Kirby was to die, I buzzed 319 00:25:21.279 --> 00:25:32.119 at Morgan's house. Yes, what is it, mister William Morgan? Yes? 320 00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:33.799 Who are you? I'm a writer. I have nothing to say. 321 00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:37.920 Excuse me, get your foot away just a minute. Did you receive a 322 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:48.799 phone call last night? Come in? Thank you? What about a phone 323 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:52.920 call? Did you have one last night? I don't know what you're talking 324 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:56.759 about, but you left me in when I mentioned it. Sit down, 325 00:25:56.920 --> 00:26:03.400 okay you you hurt your arm? Yes, it got in the way. 326 00:26:03.799 --> 00:26:08.640 You mentioned a phone call? Yes, I didn't cigarette. No, thanks, 327 00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:15.359 That ashtray is awfully Foh you must have been smoking a lot, so 328 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:18.440 what nervous mister Morgan? Now look here, I've had enough for this. 329 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:22.640 What do you want? And who are you My name's Holiday. I called 330 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:26.279 you last night. It was a gruesome joke, Holiday, one I didn't 331 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:30.759 appreciate at all. I wasn't trying to amuse you, Morgan. Why did 332 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:33.599 you make that call? Before I answer that? Take a look at your 333 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:40.480 clock? Well, what about it? In one hour and fifteen minutes, 334 00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:42.839 Martin Kirby will be executed for a murder he didn't commit. Why don't you 335 00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:47.039 say what you've come to say? Because I'm waiting for you to say something. 336 00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:52.680 You mean you'd like me to say something that would Oh? No, 337 00:26:52.559 --> 00:27:00.160 Why didn't you tell a police about that call night? Yes, so the 338 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:06.079 police know that you made that call? Yes? I Oh that was very 339 00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:08.640 bright of you, mister Holiday. No blackmailer would have told the police he 340 00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:11.640 made that call. If you knew anything and we're planning to trap me, 341 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:15.839 you'd have kept it to yourself, right, Morgan grinned at me. You 342 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:18.839 knew I'd walked right into it. His nervousness seemed to just ooze away. 343 00:27:19.720 --> 00:27:23.279 He lighted another cigarette and kept grinning at me through the smoke. Then don't 344 00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:27.400 you think you'd better leave now? Holiday? Morgan? There was a note 345 00:27:27.720 --> 00:27:33.400 typewritten you typed it did I. Yes, maybe you don't know this, 346 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:37.240 but that note can put you in Kirby's place. Yes, how well, 347 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:41.400 there's a way of telling who typed a note. Every typist is a different 348 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:44.759 touch, and when in large, the touch of one typist will show up 349 00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:49.119 differently from another's. Kirby's defense lawyer missed that bed, But I didn't you 350 00:27:49.240 --> 00:27:52.119 talk a great deal too much? Holiday? But it's interesting conversation. I 351 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:57.759 don't believe what you said. No, here's the note. The police led 352 00:27:57.759 --> 00:28:03.759 it to me, and that's all holiday stay sitting. You really wanted that 353 00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:07.440 note, didn't you? And I've got it. And that gun in your 354 00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:10.960 hand it's the same one you shot me with last night. This time it 355 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:17.680 won't be in the arm. No, I suppose not. Look, Holiday, 356 00:28:17.720 --> 00:28:21.079 it's almost ten. In about one hour and a half, Kirby will 357 00:28:21.119 --> 00:28:26.880 be executed. Now you settle down and wait until eleven thirty. What do 358 00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:42.799 you mean two birds with one stone, Kirby and you at eleven thirty even 359 00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:48.079 twenty five Holiday, You and Kirby have five minutes. You won't get away 360 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:51.240 with the morning. Why not? If I kill you in my apartment, 361 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:59.160 it'll be legal. Look, that's set for can't you guess papers scattered around 362 00:28:59.319 --> 00:29:03.599 drawers? Ranch, It's simple. I came in surprised to rifling my apartment 363 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:10.119 and shot you sing with that gun? Why not? You know? I 364 00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:12.480 almost wish you would, Morgan, because ballistics has the bullet taken from my 365 00:29:12.559 --> 00:29:17.839 arm, and if it matches the one that kills me tonight? You figured? 366 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:23.240 Are you mentling? Food'll be sorry, good work time with one arm? 367 00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:27.400 Soon you better stay where you are, Morgan Clang, Hey, Hey, 368 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:32.920 Cling the phone the penitentiary. Oh, I took care of that an 369 00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:34.960 hour ago. You did what? Sure? I heard the whole thing from 370 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:37.920 outside the window. But but you said the case was closed. You couldn't 371 00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:42.519 work on it. I've got news for you, Danny boy, I'm off 372 00:29:42.599 --> 00:30:03.039 duty. Heartach. You've said nobody could tell a difference between typer that he 373 00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:06.839 did, Susie and a bluff about the bullet. Well, any bluff in 374 00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:11.000 a poker game. Cling. Oh, by the way, let me ask 375 00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:17.160 you one question. Yeah, what why did you hold off until the last 376 00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:21.480 minute? Oh? Why had time? Morden Wooden dead kill laughter. Kurby 377 00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:23.680 was executed at eleven thirty. So I looked at my watch and I figured 378 00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:27.119 I had time to get the headquarters, pull strings to stop the execution and 379 00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:32.359 get back to you. Get it clean. What's Susie? Look at your 380 00:30:32.359 --> 00:30:34.319 watch? It stopped. Oh that's I think it does that every listen a 381 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:41.559 while, just shake it into oh holy catch, Oh no, good night, 382 00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:48.720 Susie. Next week, same time. Through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures. 383 00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:55.759 Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holiday and Watch thirteen. Watch thirteen is directed 384 00:30:55.759 --> 00:31:00.400 by Richard Sandville, with an original story by Robert M. White adapted radio 385 00:31:00.440 --> 00:31:04.279 by Russell Hughes. Original music is composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager. Part 386 00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:08.720 of Susie is played by Sylvia Pecker and that of Lieutenant Kling by Edmund McDonald. 387 00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:15.519 Production is supervised by Verne Carstenson. Wat's thirteen is a Mainfair production from 388 00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:27.000 Hollywood. Watch for Alan Ladd in his latest Paramount picture, Welcome Back. 389 00:31:27.079 --> 00:31:33.759 This was one of the more interesting episodes, not so much for the mystery 390 00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:40.559 or the action, but just for the character interactions. The show really portrays 391 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:48.559 a growth in the relationship between Dan and Lieutenant Kling that's pretty marked from when 392 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:55.599 the series began. I also thought that Susie came off better in this episode 393 00:31:55.599 --> 00:32:00.920 than she has in any other show in the series in terms of really contributing 394 00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:06.200 to the plot. So this was a nice change up here. All right, 395 00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:10.160 Well, we have got a few comments here. First one comes from 396 00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:15.920 the iTunes app review, who writes, thanks to ever created this. If 397 00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:20.440 you like a good mystery, it doesn't get any better, and just really 398 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:23.759 nice support of comments from podcast Alley. I've been listening to the Great Detectives 399 00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:27.920 of Old Time Radio for a few months. It's a great podcast. 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