WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:32.560 Welcome to the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:32.679 --> 00:00:36.000 is your host, Adam Graham. If you've got a comment, email it 3 00:00:36.079 --> 00:00:40.079 to meet Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. I'll be sure to cast 4 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:44.759 your vote for the show on podcast Alley Podcast Alley dot Great Detectors dot net, 5 00:00:44.799 --> 00:00:48.799 and remember to fill out our listeners survey survey dot Great Detectors dot net. 6 00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:53.520 This episode of Rugue's Gallery is brought to you by our fantastic listeners. 7 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:58.520 Thank you so much for your financial support. And now here is today's episode 8 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:04.079 where there's a Will, There's a Motor. F W. Fitch Company prevents 9 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:19.519 Dick Powell as private investigator Richard Rogue in Rogue's Gallery. Spare Use your Head, 10 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:26.560 Save your Hair. U. F W. Fitch Company, makers of 11 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:33.000 Fitchers, Denver Remover shampoo and Ideal Hair Tonic prevents Dick Powell as private investigator 12 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:48.719 Richard Rogue in Rogues Gallery. Rog speaking business was booming like California real estate, 13 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:53.239 and I was lending my magnificent talents for about a half a dozen different 14 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:57.560 investigations. On this day I'm going to tell you about. I was as 15 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:00.319 happy as a catnic canary cage. On my way back from lunch, I 16 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:04.400 stopped at the cigar stand in the lobby of my building to buy a packet 17 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:08.919 of cigarettes. Herb Hind, the character who owns and operates that cough emporium 18 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:13.800 when he's not playing Jen Ronnie with me and cheating, gave me a big 19 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.479 win. Herb's a little guy who was at all times conversant with a score, 20 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:22.599 who is playing and whether the game is fixed or not. He's slightly 21 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:27.120 bigger than the fox, twice as smart, and that balding gray head it 22 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:31.159 is, contains more pertinent knowledge than you're nearest library. When he slyly closed 23 00:02:31.159 --> 00:02:37.080 his left optic and justice slyly opened it again, I bent by many torso 24 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:39.520 over the counter and gave him my undivided attention. He rogue, Hey, 25 00:02:39.719 --> 00:02:43.919 you got company, Rogui big stuff. Yeah, yeah, somebody wedding in 26 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:46.520 the office. Yeah, a couple of million bucks waiting up there. Angela 27 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:52.439 Mullins, Angela Mullins, yehead, that's right at Rachel whistle from anyone. 28 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:57.560 She's got ten year door Roguie's money and she's looking for a private investigator. 29 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:01.120 Something's up. But look after you shake hands with her. Be sure to 30 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:05.039 count your fingers. Yeah, I stand. She throws a door round like 31 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:07.360 an armless a woman. Yeah, she ain't had it a cool movie. 32 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:10.680 And when her husband kicked the bucket and she's running up to devil now by 33 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:15.360 sharp dudes. You know, I understand she killed a husband with her meanness. 34 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:19.199 Wouldn't even give enough to eat. She's got a niece and a nephew, 35 00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:23.639 her only liver relative Niche lives with her nephews, married and lives in 36 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:28.039 San Francisco. She won't give either of them a dime. Meanest woman in 37 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:30.240 the world. She's sixty. Don't you got her? How do you know 38 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:34.159 all these things? What have you been doing making a study of the old 39 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:37.080 girl? Just in case she ever dropped in to talk with me? You 40 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:39.360 know how how the rugging Wanting a place like this, you get all the 41 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:43.639 gossip her. If you're the poor man's winshield, you store it up information 42 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:46.080 like a squirrel store is up nuts. Ye oh no, no, no, 43 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.960 what you see. I'm just a dummy. I wouldn't be running a 44 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:52.879 little stand like this. I'd have a big one, big you know, 45 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:55.479 in a better building. Now, how about some jin running in my appipement. 46 00:03:55.479 --> 00:04:06.199 Tonight, goat shore short, I'll be over at nine. I'll admit 47 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:11.080 that I was running a high fever in my curiosity department during the elevator ride, 48 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:15.080 which whisked me toward my interview with Angela Mullins. The old lady was 49 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:18.759 a legend in my town. She was a rascible, mean, miserly, 50 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:24.279 and cruel. She drove the only remaining electric car in the world and drove 51 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:28.000 it wide open, right through the heaviest traffic. She had a sea bag 52 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:32.040 full of residence mortgages and took great personal delight in foreclosing them. Grand girl. 53 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:36.199 She was waiting in my outer office, black bonnet tied under her chin, 54 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:41.759 black alpocket dress, shanny with age, low heeled button shoes, and 55 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:46.519 gimlet eyes. You're Richard Rome, the Investigator. Yes, you don't look 56 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:48.319 as smart as the newspaper stories about your sound. Well, I'm quite a 57 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:51.040 bit brighter than I look, I hope. So you know who I am. 58 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:54.759 Yes, of course, of course you're missus Angela Mullin. Yes, 59 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:58.439 right, I school. You think I'm a little crazy, most people do. 60 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:00.879 Do you think I'm a miserly old head? You know? I hardly 61 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:03.639 ever think about it. Sit down, please, missus mullins, I will. 62 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:06.680 I want to talk with you, rogue, but first I want to 63 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:10.480 know what your charges are. One depends on the case. You tell me 64 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:12.439 what you want me to do, and I'll name my price. If you 65 00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:15.000 want me badly enough, you'll pay it. If you don't, I've I've 66 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:17.839 lost nothing but time. Now what do you want me to do, young 67 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:21.360 man? I've done business with people like you for over half a century. 68 00:05:21.639 --> 00:05:27.199 I don't tell my problems until I get a price. I've got great respect 69 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:30.600 for the sanctity of womanhood and for old age, so I'm not going to 70 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:34.000 ask you to leave until you're arrested. If you're as clever as you think 71 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:36.439 you are, you can accomplish what I want you to do in twenty four 72 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:40.639 hours only your charge. It's for twenty four hours, depends on the work. 73 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:43.680 It's as simple as you say it is. It'll cause you go five 74 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:47.319 hundred dollars for the first twenty four hours. I've hundred dollars. I'll take 75 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:51.319 it, mister rogue. I want you to find out who it was who 76 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:55.480 stole my will, stole your will? Yes, a few weeks ago, 77 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:58.759 I was supposed to die a half with a doctor who's been taking care of 78 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:01.639 me for many years told me I was going to die. My relatives had 79 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:05.199 a great celebration, I suppose I for them, though I lived. Yes, 80 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:09.040 I say you did. Why are you supposed to die of my heart? 81 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:11.959 I'm supposed to have a bad heart. I's as strong and steady as 82 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:15.079 yours. I feels fine, but that food doctor keeps warning me to take 83 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:17.839 care of myself, trying to make an invalid of me. Mister Ogue. 84 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:20.480 Look, if you had a heart attack two weeks ago, shouldn't you be 85 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:24.199 home in bed. I came down to see my dentist. He's here in 86 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:27.759 your building. I had a two following mean that was my excuse for getting 87 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:30.600 out of a house without my spying meat, knowing I was coming down to 88 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.319 you. Somebody stole my will, mister rogue, and if I died to 89 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:36.759 day, I would die intestate. My money would all go to my only 90 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:41.680 living relatives, a niece whom I loathe and a nephew whom I detest. 91 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:45.439 Now tomorrow I'm going to see my lawyer and write another one, just like 92 00:06:45.519 --> 00:06:48.040 the one which was stolen. I see with what disposition to the will make 93 00:06:48.079 --> 00:06:53.160 of your state? I left five thousand to each of those helpless little fools, 94 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:56.079 and all the rest to a missionary society. You think it was either 95 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:59.519 your niece or your nephew who stole the will? Who else would have any 96 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:01.519 interest in it? I kept it in a strong box under my bed. 97 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:06.680 It's gone now, strong box. And all ah, here's your five hundred 98 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:11.720 dollars. Whoever stole that will expect me to die. They were disappointed the 99 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:14.759 last time, mister Roge, and now I don't know what they'll do next. 100 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:16.600 All right, all right, now, Now your nephew lives in San 101 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:19.319 Francisco, doesn't he? Yes? How did you know that? Oh? 102 00:07:19.399 --> 00:07:23.959 I'm an investigator. I try to keep informed of everything. Was your nephew 103 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:26.560 in town at the time the world disappeared? He was? He was by 104 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:30.600 my bedside, waiting for me to die and arguing with me. I thave 105 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:32.839 your partner, mister Rogue, Angela, you should be at home in bed. 106 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:35.519 I told you that when you left my office, and I told you 107 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:39.759 I wasn't gone there until I took care of some business. Sam This is 108 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:42.160 my dentist, mister Rogue. Samuel Hall oh, yes, we've passed the 109 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:44.920 lobby several times. Sure if you elevators, how are you doctohol K? 110 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:46.879 Thank you, Angela. I want you to go right, Sam. If 111 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:50.879 you don't stop ordering me around telling you for your own good go home now. 112 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:54.240 I'll see you there to night. And if that new crown anstall gives 113 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:58.920 you an remember this, mister rogue. Our discussion has been strictly private. 114 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:03.000 Now she'll help me out of this chair. I go home, of course, 115 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:05.519 yes, I'll see you both need to talk this evening at my home. 116 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:16.399 I'll be there at five hundred dollars check in my pocket did its best 117 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:20.279 to pay for the depression I felt that afternoon, and it came in second. 118 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:26.040 I didn't like Angela Mullins. I called up some of the old timers 119 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.000 around the banks and the newspapers in town to put the bite on them for 120 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:33.000 some information about the old girl. And the best any of them could say 121 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:35.039 for her was that she had been the best speller in the third grade. 122 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:41.679 Evidently she'd done nothing decent since my conscience told me to give back to five 123 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:45.519 bills and bow out of the case. Five hundred dollars is a lot of 124 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:48.679 money. But I have to shave every morning, and when I shave, 125 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:52.559 I have to look at myself. So I decided to turn the case down. 126 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:58.480 When I arrived in front of the dilapidated old mansion where Angela Mullins lived 127 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:01.679 and counted her money, there were two other cars in the driveway. One 128 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.759 was an old model coop with the ear marks of hard use. The other 129 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:09.840 was a shiny sedan with the insignia of a doctor on it. It was 130 00:09:09.879 --> 00:09:13.840 just eight o'clock as I went up the creaky steps across the porch and knocked 131 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:20.080 with the old fashioned knocker. Hello, mister Rope, I'm afraid we're too 132 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:22.639 late. What you mean we're too late? Doctor Hall, I'm right on 133 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.480 time. We're too late, mister Rope. Angela had a heart attack at 134 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:37.240 six o'clock. She's dead. We'll continue our story in just the moment. 135 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:41.759 First. Sometimes after we've talked about pitch shampoo, some one will remark, 136 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:46.159 yes, but I still don't see how a shampoo will remove dandruff. Well, 137 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:48.480 there are really two reasons. The first lies in the nature of dandruff 138 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:52.879 itself. Contrary to many ideas, scientists do not consider dandruff to be a 139 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:58.600 disease, but a natural scalp condition. Therefore dandruff has to be removed, 140 00:09:58.759 --> 00:10:03.279 not cured. The second reason is that Fitch shampoo removes dandruf for the first 141 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:07.600 application, and this means not only loose dandruff but the kind that clings to 142 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:11.399 the scalp as well. For Fitz shampoo penetrates the thousands of tiny hair openings 143 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:16.639 on the scalp, cleansing them thoroughly and dissolving every trace of dandruff. Ask 144 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:22.600 for a big economical bottle of Pitch's dandroof remover shampoo at your drug or toilet 145 00:10:22.600 --> 00:10:26.919 gooods counter, or have a professional application at your barber or beauty shop. 146 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:31.519 Remember Fitch is the only shampoo maid whose guarantee to remove dandruff is backed by 147 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:37.000 one of the world's largest insurance firms. Use it regularly each week. Now 148 00:10:37.080 --> 00:10:52.600 back to Dick Powell as private investigator Richard Rogue. In Rogue's gallery, Angela 149 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:56.759 Mullins was dead. Whoever had lifted that strong box containing her well from under 150 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:01.519 her bed had made millionaires of the only two living relatives the old lady left 151 00:11:01.559 --> 00:11:05.519 behind. I had accepted a five hundred dollar fee for finding out who the 152 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:09.279 strong box lester? While when I walked into the house, the nephew, 153 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:13.440 Paul Warner, the niece Claire Mullins, and doctor Hall, the dentists were 154 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:18.279 there. Paul and Claire were in the living room when doctor Hall ushered me 155 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:22.320 in. Claire was as stunning as a blackjack behind the year and was the 156 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:26.440 lyrics to every love song. She was sitting in a big old fashioned chair 157 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:31.480 crying. Paul was standing in front of the fireplace, his rugged face caricatured 158 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:35.879 into a sad scowl. Doctor Hall introduced me, Claire, this is Richard 159 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:39.600 Rope, private investigator Fair Mullins. Mister Rope, how do you do? 160 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:43.360 Hello? And this is Paul Warner, mister Rope and graather than your Warner, 161 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.240 I asked. Doctor Stevens is still upstairs, mister Rope, He'll be 162 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.000 here in a moment. I suppose may I squat your businesses here at this 163 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:52.200 time, mister Rome with your aunt's commissioned me as afternoon to do a job 164 00:11:52.240 --> 00:11:56.240 for she doesn't need any jobs done for now she's dead. Yes, I 165 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:01.480 know, I'm sorry, You're sorry. I'm not. Oh, don't say 166 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:03.480 that. After all, she was your mother's sister. I'm sorry, Claire, 167 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:07.600 but I can't be hypocritical. The only reason I'm sorry she's dead is 168 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:09.960 I wanted to talk with her to night. I wanted to try again to 169 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:11.519 borrow some money from her. And don't worry about that, Paul, I 170 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:13.919 can help you out with the amount you want. Mister rogue, I think 171 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:16.840 you've got to conduct some other times. Your aunt's death doesn't in my job 172 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.720 for her, miss What do you mean though, I still have to find 173 00:12:20.720 --> 00:12:22.600 out who stole her will from under her bed when she had her last heart 174 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:26.360 attack. Her will, Yeah, she came to see me about that afternoon. 175 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:30.759 He'll means something has happened to that will, the one that left everything 176 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:35.360 to that mission into better someplace. Has she written another will? No? 177 00:12:35.360 --> 00:12:37.840 No, not that I know. She said she was going to make a 178 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:41.600 new one tomorrow. Do you know anything about the missing will, mister Warner? 179 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:43.399 No, are you accusing me of this death? Rogue? I'm not 180 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.799 accusing anybody at the moment. But there were only two people in the world 181 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.919 who stood the wind by the disappearance of that world. I don't understand what 182 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:52.519 you mean, mister him. If your aunt died without leaving a will. 183 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:56.879 Her estate will be divided between her living heirs. That's you and Warner. 184 00:12:58.159 --> 00:13:03.080 Eh, that's right, Claire, ha ha, we're rich Oh, mister 185 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:05.399 Rogue, I don't think this respect the change to discuss the affair of the 186 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:09.240 missing wills. I would like to talk to the doctor on the case. 187 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:11.960 Who excuse me? Please? Why do you want to talk to doctor Stephens 188 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:15.120 Robe? Because I think under the circumstances that he should be very sure the 189 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:18.559 death was caused by unaided heart failure. Before he signed that death certificate. 190 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:22.159 Missus Mullins was afraid of an attempt on her live. Do you think one 191 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:26.759 of us murgertives for money? It's been done before. I'm not saying it 192 00:13:26.799 --> 00:13:30.440 was done this time, but I think there should be an autopsy to protect 193 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:33.840 the heirs from suspicion. As long as neither you had anything to do with 194 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:35.600 your ram's death, I'm sure you'll agree that such a procedure is for your 195 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:39.960 protection. I here to talk of an autoptsey in here. Oh you're doctor 196 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:43.519 Stevens. Yes, this is Richard Rogue, the private investigator, Doctor Stevens. 197 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:46.200 Oh, yes, mister Rogue. Could I help you in any way? 198 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:50.879 I'm working for the late Missus Mullins. Doctor, you are you positive 199 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:54.720 that her death was due to a heart attack? Are you questioning my knowledge 200 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:56.919 of my profession, mister Rouge, I'm merely asking you a question. Doctor. 201 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:01.799 Under the circumstances surrounding the death of Missus Mullins, there is a possibility 202 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:05.600 of murder. I'm sure you wouldn't care to assist a murderer, murderer when 203 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:09.799 I certainly would not. You think Missus Mullins was murdered, Oh, I 204 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:13.200 think it's possible. I am going to tell the facts that I know them 205 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:18.600 to the police, and I also am going to suggest an outipsey. That's 206 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:20.759 a lot of foolishness, mister Rogue, and I shall so inform the police. 207 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.240 You're willing to say that only a heart failure could have caused Missus mullins 208 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:37.000 death, mister Rogue, my diagnosis is heart failure. Good day. I 209 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:41.639 left and called Urban from the nearest drug store and gave him a quick pitch 210 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:45.720 on the case. He owed and add a little bit and finally decided he'd 211 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:50.240 talked with the commissioner about an eugipsy. I remembered my jen rummy date with 212 00:14:50.279 --> 00:14:52.399 herb hide, so I told Urban to call me home later that night. 213 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:56.600 I didn't get the call. When I got home, somebody was waiting for 214 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:03.240 me. I opened the door. Oh oh, and the world caved in. 215 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:11.840 I fell into a great void. I fell and fell and fell into 216 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:18.440 a blackness so heavy it felt like velvet against my skin. I fell for 217 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:24.120 centering before the blast hit, and the blackness was shattered with a zig zagging 218 00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:28.679 red, blue and yellow lights. And I was picked up in a blast 219 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:31.960 so strong that it shot me up into the heavens of the steam faster than 220 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:39.320 light. I opened my eyes and saw a cloud age my home away from 221 00:15:39.399 --> 00:15:50.960 home. I called you, Gord, you gor, you Gorn. I'm 222 00:15:50.960 --> 00:16:00.919 I'm coming. Oh you go. Somebody hit me. You're making another statement. 223 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:06.879 That's not like you, Chief. Somebody beat your brains out. Oh 224 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:11.840 it's so good to be here on cloudy. It's so peaceful, And if 225 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:15.600 you'd shut up, it'd be so quiet. You won't wait tonight. I 226 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:19.279 thought maybe you were going to get by without coming up. Oh no, 227 00:16:19.279 --> 00:16:25.639 no, who hit me? You know somebody did cheat me. Now you 228 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:29.559 got to get to work. You gotta get back downstairs. Oh, don't 229 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:33.919 mention it. I'm staying up here a good long time. I'm kind of 230 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:38.120 sick. You won't feel any better until you get downstairs, Rogy. Now 231 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:42.759 come on over the side with you. No, no, you go stop 232 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:48.039 hanging on cheeping. You've got those best You have to go back downstairs. 233 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:55.679 Well I'm int stick. Oh no, over you go open the side, 234 00:16:56.320 --> 00:17:18.200 so long, Rogy. Okay, hey, rog For the love of Mike, 235 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:23.200 Rogie, Oh what do you want, Rogi? It's half high? 236 00:17:23.799 --> 00:17:30.319 Remember Jean Rummy day? Oh oh it's you out high her? Fine? 237 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:33.240 Fine, And what's the matter, Rogie? What happened to you? Well? 238 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:38.079 Isn't that pretty obvious? Yeah? Yeah, sure is here. Take 239 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:41.640 a drink of this water. No, get me a get me a brandy 240 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:45.839 some over there in that cattle shut. Can you see now? Of course 241 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:48.720 I can see. What have I got to look at? There's a note 242 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:55.480 here? Yeah? Oh, I mean have it, Rogie. Somebody wants 243 00:17:55.480 --> 00:18:03.359 to get Rideo huhm of it. It just says get out of town. 244 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:11.839 Oh, it's not even signed all tont go, devil. Somebody was looking 245 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:15.440 for something. Ho do you suppose to wich? Roki? Who knows? 246 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:18.119 Who knows? There are plenty of people who would like to see me move 247 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:21.559 out of town. Get Urban on the phone. Will you tell him to 248 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:26.559 come over here? Sure? Sure, I'll get him right away. Every 249 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.160 nerve in my head was doing the Highland fling of the tune of the anvil 250 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:33.559 course was. I lay there and tried to figure out who it was that 251 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:37.359 slipped me that lead pipe sleeping pill. I was working on a half dozen 252 00:18:37.400 --> 00:18:41.519 cases, and I didn't know which one of them had enough dynamite even to 253 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:45.200 cause the man herb hide. Called Urban. We sat there and played gen 254 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:51.000 Rome until Urban arrived. A part of my mind, which was still working, 255 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:55.279 was on my troubles, and Herbs was on the cards. I was 256 00:18:55.319 --> 00:19:02.119 three seventy behind when the door opened and Urban walked in. Well what happened? 257 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:04.680 Oh? Oh, what our question? Somebody here among the head Yeah, 258 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:07.319 that's right. Kind of shook the place down a little too, didn't 259 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:11.960 I? Roggie? Yeah, but you know all the cases I'm mixed up 260 00:19:11.960 --> 00:19:15.519 in at the moment where am I near enough to pinch to cause somebody to 261 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:18.759 bend the plumbing over my head? Well we ordered that. Oudipsey and Angela 262 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:21.960 Mullins, As you asked us to a Mullins, she said, what did 263 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:23.960 you find u urban It was a good chip roguie. She'd been fed enough 264 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:33.759 poisoned to kill an elephant. Poison Huh, that's right, poisoned with cyanine. 265 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:40.519 We'll return to our story in just a moment. First, the word 266 00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:44.759 of the ladies. A beautiful woman is like a symphony care and technique in 267 00:19:44.839 --> 00:19:48.480 details adding up to a lovely theme. That's why millions of beauty wise women 268 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:55.000 choose Fitches Dandrefremover shampoo with their hair glooming, soft, lustrous hair is a 269 00:19:55.000 --> 00:20:00.440 beauty detail. They've learned the value. Fitches Dandroofremover shampoo cleanses the hair gently 270 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:04.000 and efficiently with its moums of snowy lather. And while it's cleansing, fitz 271 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:10.240 shampoo is also reconditioning the hair and scalp. This reconditioning action gives the hair 272 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:14.759 strands greater elasticity, so your hair will take a wave better and hold it 273 00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:19.319 longer. And when you use Fitches Dandroofremover shampoo, notice how quickly and easily 274 00:20:19.359 --> 00:20:23.920 it rinses out, leaving your hair with a satiny texture, sparkling with natural 275 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:30.319 color highlights. Make Fitches Dandroofremover shampoo, your regular aid to lovely shining hair. 276 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:37.240 Always ask for Fitch spelled f I T fitches Dan roof remover shampoo. 277 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:55.160 Now back to Dick Powell as private investigator Richard Rogue in Rogue's gallery. For 278 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:57.880 some reason or other, I was expecting Urban to crack that news about the 279 00:20:57.880 --> 00:21:03.440 death of Angela Mullins being murder. One of my famous hunches had whispered that 280 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:06.200 suspicion of my subconscious. As soon as I had heard of her death, 281 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:10.640 herb Hide had come over to play Jen Rami and remained to put my head 282 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:15.160 back on after some character unknown and knocked it off. Was delighted to find 283 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:18.599 himself in the middle of a murder investigation. Urban gave me all the dope 284 00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:23.079 and words of one syllable. She was poisoned with cyanine. That's all there 285 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:26.440 is to it. It was fed to her some way, and she died 286 00:21:26.440 --> 00:21:30.000 in a matter of minutes of what looked like heart failure. How did you 287 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:33.200 know it wasn't a heart attack, Roguy? What made you so smart? 288 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:36.279 Well? Angela Mullins was up to see me this afternoon. She was expecting 289 00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:38.960 an attempt on her life. Yes, she wasn't disappointed. Washing Now I 290 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:41.680 only lost a client, rogie. Did you get your dough in advanceage? 291 00:21:41.720 --> 00:21:44.720 Yes, and I'm going to keep run on the job. Who do you 292 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:47.400 think did it? Urban? There are only two suspects in the case. 293 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:49.000 I've talked to both of them. That he's the nephew. That's right on 294 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:53.119 the h had plenty of motive. Yeah, what do you know about it? 295 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:56.640 Well, I know the old lady's will was missing, and I know 296 00:21:56.680 --> 00:22:00.200 they'll divide the estate between them. That the will isn't found. A couple 297 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.720 of million dollars is a great motive for murder. Yeah, it's a nice 298 00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:04.079 price. You managed to break it down yet, Urban, No, they 299 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:07.440 both were they didn't have anything to do with it. No, that's a 300 00:22:07.519 --> 00:22:11.240 fairly normal reaction. Yeah, shot, thank you can get an indictment that 301 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:12.960 they a's thinking it over. One of them did the job, all right. 302 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:15.960 They were the only two people around when the old lady died. And 303 00:22:17.039 --> 00:22:19.680 this cionide takes less than a minute to be effective. We got an open 304 00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:23.200 and shut case against one of them. I think I'll take a run over 305 00:22:23.240 --> 00:22:36.759 the Mullin's house. So see a little Urban, mister rogue, I didn't 306 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:37.880 poison her. I want you to know that you might as well face it. 307 00:22:37.960 --> 00:22:41.920 Claire sanide. That's a poison that you found your aunt had died of. 308 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:45.279 It is one of the fastest acting poisons. And on. There was 309 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:47.759 nobody in the house but you and water at the time, was there No, 310 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:49.400 There was just the three of us here. Paul and I were sitting 311 00:22:49.440 --> 00:22:52.200 downstairs here, and Antie had just gone up to lie down for a while. 312 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:56.119 Next thing we knew she was dying. Well, let me look around 313 00:22:56.160 --> 00:23:00.400 a little bit. Where did you aunt keep her important papers? Really important 314 00:23:00.440 --> 00:23:03.599 once she kept in that strong box under her bed. The strong box at 315 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:06.480 the wheel was in. The police have been over the house. It isn't 316 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:07.960 here. Did you have a desk? Yes, it's in her office to 317 00:23:08.039 --> 00:23:12.279 study upstairs, studies upstairs, But you won't find anything there, really, 318 00:23:12.319 --> 00:23:15.319 mister Rogue, I wish you'd go. The police are taking care of everything. 319 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:18.680 I want to take a look through that desk, Claire. Oh, 320 00:23:18.759 --> 00:23:21.400 now, look, don't clad up and cry at me. I'm just trying 321 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:23.400 to help you. That's all. I didn't do it, Oh, mister 322 00:23:23.519 --> 00:23:32.359 rogue. I wish there's something about a beautiful girl's tears that turns my iron 323 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:36.119 will to sugar and melts my good intention away like snow in the sunshine. 324 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:41.720 I comforted Claire for a while, all the time wondering whether or not I 325 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:45.680 was getting all that fine philosophy away to a murderous and then I went to 326 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:48.200 work. I calmed that house like a head of hair, and I didn't 327 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:52.960 find the wheel, but I did find some payders, a letter written on 328 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:59.000 distinctive stationary. A little buzz I get in my sort of plexus told me 329 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:03.079 that I've solved that letter. And that interview with Angela Mullins in my office 330 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:07.960 added up to a pointing finger, which I followed right out of the house. 331 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:11.559 I was on the trail of the missing strong box. I called Urban, 332 00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:17.000 gave him a hot tip on murder, then went to work. When 333 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:19.240 I arrived at my destination, no one was home, so I let myself 334 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:23.240 into a basement window. I went to work like I only had five minutes 335 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:29.359 to live. I started in on the top floor and hurricaned my way back 336 00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:33.440 into the basement before I found what I was looking for, the missing strong 337 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:37.799 box with the name Angela Mullins stenciled on its lid. I put it under 338 00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:41.839 my arm and walked up the stairs with it. As I walked into the 339 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:49.680 kitchen, I saw him standing there with a gun in his hand. Hello, 340 00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:53.960 mister Rope. Oh hello, doctor Hall. I see you've found it. 341 00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:57.160 Yes, you're a little bit too sure yourself, Doctor, Yes, 342 00:24:57.720 --> 00:25:02.480 I can see now that very well. Where did I slip up? Rogue? 343 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:06.359 I found a letter of MWe to missus Mullins, a letter about a 344 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:10.319 fifty thousand dollar notes you was pressing you for, yes or Doc? You'd 345 00:25:10.359 --> 00:25:12.480 carelessly written that letter on the same station there you'd use to write me a 346 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:17.039 note, the one you left in my apartment telling me to leave Tom when 347 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:21.480 you batted my brains out. Remember, yes, how unfortunate you know. 348 00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:26.240 Rogue killing is like lying one leads to another. What God is he going 349 00:25:26.279 --> 00:25:29.039 to do? You to kill me? You're the only person who even suspects 350 00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:32.160 me of murdering Angela. I tore up the note, and incidentally, I 351 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:36.119 also tore up the wheel. There's absolutely nothing now to tie me into this 352 00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:38.559 murder rogue except you. Look, Doc, Doc, you'll never get away 353 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:42.200 with this. No, no, no, you He'll never get me alive. 354 00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:48.799 Well, I guess I'll have to well rogue. Guess we got here 355 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:52.359 too late. I'd say, you got it just in time. There's your 356 00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:53.640 murder. Yeah, we check that information you gave us, rogue, And 357 00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:57.039 what did you find? Doctor Hall was the killer, very clever job. 358 00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:00.359 He put enough to sign I had to kill a horse into a little gelatine 359 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:04.240 capsule, and then he put the capsule in the crown on Missus Mullins's tooth. 360 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:08.880 Oh brother, And when the capsule melted, the snide hit the bloodstream. 361 00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:18.200 Oh Urban, what would you do without me? Well that was the 362 00:26:18.319 --> 00:26:22.119 end of that case. When the doorbell rang, Dot got rattled and I 363 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:26.960 knocked him cold. Urban was very proud of me. Doctor Hall admitted he'd 364 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:30.559 put the capsule full of cyanide and the gold crown he'd made for Angelo Mullins. 365 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:33.400 She had been pressing him for payment of a fifty thousand dollars note, 366 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:38.200 which he couldn't pay. He was executed. The will was never found. 367 00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:44.160 Claire and Paul got the old ladiest money, but they did very handsomely by 368 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:47.720 me for getting them off the hook. And I spent the money and pursued 369 00:26:47.799 --> 00:26:52.000 better. Callahan. She was playing hard to get in those days, but 370 00:26:52.799 --> 00:26:57.559 I wore down case of mouse catching the mouse trap. You know what I 371 00:26:57.559 --> 00:27:11.640 mean. This is Dick Powell again, Ladies and gentlemen. I hope you 372 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:18.680 enjoyed our story tonight. Ray Buffam wrote it, Leith Stevens composed and conducted 373 00:27:18.680 --> 00:27:22.880 the music, and the Anglebach produced and directed. Be with us again next 374 00:27:22.880 --> 00:27:26.960 week, will you We have a story for you entitled and the sun shines 375 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:30.960 to the roofe sits on the skies of past. Thanks for listening, and 376 00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:37.079 now here's Jim Doyle. Listen again next week at this same time to hear 377 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:41.200 Dick Powell as private investigator Richard Rogue in Rogue's gallery. And by the way, 378 00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:48.039 Dick will soon be seen in his newest Columbia picture Johnny o'clock. A 379 00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:55.680 while then a song. Be your style you Stitch Sam Fool despair, use 380 00:27:55.720 --> 00:28:02.680 your head, save your hair. Use Stitch sham pool after and between Fitch 381 00:28:02.680 --> 00:28:06.720 shampoos. You can keep your hair shining and manageable by using a few drops 382 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:11.279 of Fitch's Ideal hair tonic every day. Fitch's Ideal Hair Tonic is not sticky 383 00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:23.319 or greasy, yet it gives your hair that well groomed look. Welcome Mac 384 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:30.559 the solution to this case seemed a little bit familiar to me because I saw 385 00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:38.240 a nineteen ninety Colombo movie Uneasy Lies the Crown, where the exact same method 386 00:28:38.519 --> 00:28:45.519 of murder was used, But that was written by Stephen Bacco, who was 387 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:49.400 three years older than when this aired. So probably more case of great minds, 388 00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:55.160 I think, alike, than any sort of actual borrowing. And this 389 00:28:55.279 --> 00:29:00.200 is our last episode of Rogue's Gallery with Dick Powell. I should say we're 390 00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:04.400 not completely done with mister Powell. He'll be in some other series and specials, 391 00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:10.759 including and most notably Richard Diamon. And there were ten more weeks in 392 00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:17.960 the Rogues Gallery summer season before Powell left the show to focus on his movie 393 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:22.960 career for a few years and would not return to being a radio detective for 394 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:27.720 about three years. But there were attempts to have Rogues Gallery without Powell, 395 00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:34.000 and we'll see how that works next week and the week afterwards. One of 396 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:41.839 the interesting technological changes I found was when Rogue mentioned her having an electric car, 397 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:45.519 being the only one who still had an electric car. We think the 398 00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:52.440 Chevy volt is something I knew all right well. Listener comments from podcast Alley 399 00:29:53.200 --> 00:30:00.240 phil In West Virginia says, please accept my thanks for providing these podcasts five 400 00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:03.440 days a week. Well, thank you, Phil, I appreciate your support. 401 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:07.079 In contact encourage everyone if you do have a common emails box thirteen at 402 00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:11.160 Great Detectives dot net. Remember to cast your vote every month for the show 403 00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:17.759 on podcast Alley podcast Alley dot Great Detectives dot net. Become one of our 404 00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:22.359 friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com, slash Radio Detectives, and please fill 405 00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:29.319 out our listeners survey even if you filled it out before this month, there's 406 00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:33.200 a new version out survey dot Great Detectives dot net. But from Boise, 407 00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:37.839 Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham signing off