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Well, now it is time for this week's episode of Follow Vans.
The original air date made the Twine third, nineteen fifty and the title is
The Money Machine Murder Case. Oh you see how simple it is, missus
Willoby. You make your own money, just exactly the way the government does.
You put this blank piece of paper in the machine, join the crank.
Doubt comes a brand new one dollar bill, It certainly does. Yeah.
Now those one dollar bills I made up yesterday with this machine. You
took them to the bank, Yes, and they said it was real money.
You see what I mean? And you saw me make them, made
them right in front of your eyes. With this machine. You sure did.
Oh, you give me ten thousand bucks and it's yours. You can
make as much money as you want whenever you want. Ten thousand dollars.
That's right. Tell me, mister crane, why are you so anxious to
sell this machine? Oh? You would have to do is turn the crank
and that would come real bills. Lady, I've got a lot of machines.
I want to sell them and quit. That's simple, isn't it.
You've got plenty of dough. But there's enough larceny in you, you say,
don't let it buy you. Lady, there's larceny in everybody. Proof
that it's in you is that you asked me to come back today, mister
Crane. I'll give you ten thousand dollars for your machine. Good, providing
I'm sure that the paper you insert in the machine is actually the one that
comes out as a dollar bill. Oh that ought to be simple. Yeah,
I'll put my initials on the blank paper. If my initials appear on
the bill when it comes out, I'll buy the machine. Oh wait,
I've got a pen and ink right here, all right, now me one
of your blank pieces of paper. All right, there you are, thank
you my initials e W. There we are, all right, mister Crane.
Okay, I'll take the paper. We're in the machine. They got
a brand new dollar bill there you are. Take a look at it,
missus Willoughby, a brand new buck with the initials e W on it,
just as you put them on a blank piece of paper a second ago.
It's the same piece of paper, and those are my initials. All right.
Oh, like I said, now, what about the ten grand?
What's to stop me from turning that crank handle ten thousand times, getting you
ten thousand dollars and paying you with that? Nothing except I don't deliver you
the paper you need till I get your money. I have it here in
my safe. I'll get it. And I've got the paper all cut out
to dollar bills size right here too. You'll get the money, missus Willoughby,
and from now on you can manufacture your own the best kind handmade Malcolm
speaking. Is this the district attorney? Yes it is, Well it'd better
be, and you'd better do something about me. I'd like very much too.
Don't be cute. I'm Emily Willoughby and I've been swindled. I'm the
district attorney, and I'm very sorry. This is Willoughby. Tell me exactly
what happened and I'll do what I can. Well, somebody sold me a
money making machine and it doesn't work, and I paid ten thousand dollars for
it yesterday. Aren't you calling me twenty four hours too late? Well?
Never mind. When I'm calling you, I want to do something. I
want you to do something. I paid the man ten I know, ten
thousand dollars. He demonstrated a machine and took blank paper and converted it into
five dollar bills one dollar bill. But how did you know what he did?
It's a very old racket, missus Willoughby, and it wouldn't work except
that people are such as yourself, are looking for something for nothing. Really,
have you any idea who the man is? He said his name was
Crane, Joe Crane. Do you know him? No? I don't.
Do you know where you can get him so you can arrest him? No,
but I'll have a man put on it right away. You shouldn't have
had anything to do with Crane, missus, Willoughby. Look, don't talk
to me like that. He's the criminal. I'm not the only reason you
aren't, missus Willoughby, is because the machine didn't work. Am I name
the door? Ain't Hi Jean, Hi has chicks. So so that's with
you. Okay, get the money. What money? Oh, it's gonna
be like Dan Joe. I'll give you money making machine and the gimmick that
makes a foolproof. You had a sucker. Give me my cut of the
dough. You got all the machine. I couldn't get rid of it.
The sucker got smart. Yeah, so I'll take the machine. Well,
where is it? I can get a front man, get rid of it
easy, come on, let's have it. I'll blow. I don't have
it here. Oh so that's the way it is. Huh, Come on,
train, stop stalling, Jimmy, that machine roll breaking a dime?
Spot? Where is it? Where is that? Call man, Jimmy my
machine, give it a roll? Choking up the double crossing? Right,
use a knife on me? Did you, Jenny? Get out of here?
Ah? So you killed snippy Joe. Now look don't scream, don't
do nothing, just get out of here. Fair he was choking me.
I headed to it. You wouldn't want me dead, would you? You
killed him? Yeah, I killed him. Now get out of here before
you get wild and start yelling. So somebody out here you ain't get the
cops go opit it. I don't want you getting hysterical. Seems to me
you're the one getting hysterical, Joe. I'm not take it easy. I
won't blow. All I'm gonna do is help you get rid of that knife
you're holding and this body. Well, Vans, there's the body lying just
where a farmer found it, and it obviously had been knife somewhere else and
thrown from a car. You know who the victim is, Markham. Sergeant
Heath identified him Larson as individual named Sniffy Edwards. I don't suppose this is
any case that will intrigue you, but you were in my office when the
call came, and I insisted on going with you. I know. Notice
anything peculiar about Sniffy Markham. No, he has a knife, phone in
his chest and he's dead, which certainly is normal enough. Look at his
shoe. Souls are very thick. Well, yes, I suppose they are.
But this isn't a case for you, Vans, It's undoubtedly an underworld
murder, and Sergeant Heath will get whoever killed this man? Mind if I
look at the souls a minute, Go ahead your penknife vans. You need
that to look with you never can tell what it will help me see.
What you're doing is a little illegal vance? Oh, my friend, is
there such a thing as a little illegal I stand corrected? Do you find
anything? Yes, there was a piece of paper and the soul of the
shoe. Take a look. It's a diagram of some kind of machine.
Arrow indicates where blank paper is inserted, another arrow where money comes vance.
I know what this is. It's the diagram for a money making machine.
I gotta complaint this morning from a Missus Willoughby that she had been swindled by
a Joe Crane who sold her a money making machine. This couldn't be a
coincidence, and all probability it isn't. I had a man traced Joe Crane.
He called in his address just before we left. I think perhaps we
are. But see Crane, what about it. I'm with you. Let's
go call on Joe Crane and see if this plan for a money making machine
was the instigation of his plan to murder Sniffy Edwards. Come on, Jeannie,
hurried up. Okay, okay, Joe, this police is heavy.
It's the last one though. We're all packed made to move. He got
plenty of gas in the car. Yeah, it's loaded up to the top,
and I got a fifteen gallon Canada back so we don't have to stop
for at least five hundred miles. Oh good, here, I'll put that
bag in the back. Here, clows the backup. Come on, let's
get in and get going. You think it's smart to blow down right after
you knocked off Sniffy. You think it's smarter to wait around here to get
picked up. Oh maybe nobody's got anything on you. Nobody's gonna have either.
That's the reason we're blowing. Wait a minute, Let make it in
first. Okay, hop in, close the door, and we'll get gone.
That's okay with me. I don't even care where we're gone, as
long as I'm with you. We're off. We won't speed, we won't
do nothing to attract attention a little while we're in the clear. With ten
grand of missus Willoughby's dough, nobody to finger me for Sniffy's killing. Sounds
swell to me. Joe mde I like being with you. Oh boy,
honey, I gotta keep my mind on driving like ginny. Huh. There's
a car following us where How do you know what's following us? Joe,
take it easy. I'm gonna step on it and see if it is.
The other car's picking up speed too. There are two guys in a Joe
cops. I guarantee, well, they won't grab me. This car of
mine can get away from anything on the road. You got my gun?
Yeah, sure, your jo take and shoot it out with him and they
get closed. Oh the gun out the window? Quick, out the window?
Are you dope? You want to get caught with it on? You
throw it when we go around this bend. Okay, Joe, I got
rid of it. Let's see if we can get rid of that car.
You're going very bad. Nahda, cut my foot on the floor. This
cradle will pick up the eighty five on a straight away road. Just hold
tight and say nothing. Gee, this is exciting. Yeah, sure,
so I'm exciting. I don't lose that car and back of me, I
get Oh, they're getting closer. Joe, can you made me throw your
gun away? Joe. We can't lose im, Genie, so keep quiet.
Let me do the talking. I'm gonna stop. You made me throw
your gun away, Joe? What'd you make me do it? You gotta
killed him when they drove us? Shut up? What do they do to
was? Joe? What do you? I don't know. I don't think
they gotta think you're coming? Two guys? I see him? Remember what
I told you? Shut up? Well, you too, certainly let us
a chase. I'm mister attorney Markham. You're Joe Crane. That's right.
Who's the young lady with u? Crane? Oh? You ought to be
asking questions? He's final ants? Who is she? My girl? What
do you want with me? Da? It remains to be seen right now.
I want you to come back to my office with me. Then I'm
going to call on Emily Willoughby and see if she can identify you as the
man who sold her a money making machine. That's the rap part of it,
Crane. There's a possibility we might be able to prove you killed a
man named Sniffy Edwards too. Edwards Edwards never heard of me. I suppose
you never heard of a money making machine, that's right, the things these
people don't know. Markham. Yes, well, let's get going back to
your office. I'm not half as concerned over what they don't know as they
will be over what we do. Yes, that's him. That's definitely the
man who sold me the money making machine. Dame's off her beam. I
never saw her before. You're a positive of missus Willoughby. Yes, of
course I am. Well you have him right here. You have a machine
your men picked up at my house right here. Well, Markham, we'll
take care of him. Markham. Yes, Vance, suppose you take Missus
Willoughby into the next office and get her to sign a complaint against Crane.
I want to talk to him, certainly, Missus Willoughby. I'll be glad
to sign a complaint. I'll sign anything, just to make sure. Well,
Vance, what do we talk about? The weather? Baseball? Take
a subject. Don't be cute, Crane. You're in a spot. Missus
Willoughby's identification is all Markham needs to send you away, hur Really so she
identified me? So what so I sold her a machine? So what?
So? Legitimate business transaction. There's nothing wrong with that machine except that it
doesn't make money, as you claim. Although even if it did, that,
of course would be illegal. That would be the government's worry, not
the district attorneys are yours. That's partially true, but the fact remains that
the machine doesn't work. No, no, Look, here's some of the
paper that came with it. Just hunk here, just the size of a
dollar bill. Put your initials on it, or anything you want on it.
What for, I'll show you it does work. Go ahead, write
something on the paper. Well, so matter, can't you right? I
think I will test Ukraine. I'll take my fountain pen and draw a little
design on this paper. Okay, I take a paper, put her in
the machine, turn the handle, and look what comes out? A brand
new one dollar bill. Where's the design I put on the blank paper on
the bill? Here it is. Take a look, and that dough is
good dough. You can take a tenny bank. I'm quite certain it is
really money. That is the design I put on the blank paper. The
guy don't sell the money. Just a machine. I'm not responsible for what
people use it for. I ain't in competition with the government. How I
think it would be an idea if you talk to the district attorney and saw
to it that the three of us get out of here. The three of
you, sure, Genie and me, and this machine which has you stopped
so good. You haven't the slightest idea how it works. This is just
your attorney, Markham. The money machine murder case is an unusual one.
Final Vans is quite certain that Snippy Edwards, an Underworld character, was killed
because he'd invented a money making machine. And we are equally certain that a
man named Joe Crane, whom we have had in custody, is the killer.
Although we have a loss in any case against Crane, this is more
interested in proving murder against you. We have led him and his girl out
on bad I don't know where they are scared. Of course I wasn't scared.
It was wonderful, the DA chasing me in his car and then advancing
him, questioning Joe and me, Joe thinking I was his girl in that
years. It was swell. I'm glad, sure it was swell. Frankie
the one. The thing is, it's going to keep me from getting that
money making machine from Joe. He doesn't know what I'm playing along with him
for sometimes I ain't sure either. You double cross anybody in a minute.
If there was some excitement in the Genie, you're double cross and Joe Crane
could do it to me too, if you got a chance to you,
Frankie, Oh never never. She says, you have a lot on me,
Jeannie, and I'm not sure whether I like that or not. Well,
look, Frankie, I gotta get over to see Joe. We gotta
stay in town because the cops told us too. I better see him so
I can make plans to get that machine away from Sudan Jeanie. But I
got shut up. Hi, what for what's going on? Because I said,
you know too much about me? So I have a little present for
you this Hey, you avoid a minute, frank what's a gun for you?
You are going to kill me. I didn't do anything, Frankie,
anything about killing you. I said, I have a present for you.
This gun. Here. Take it. You're gonna need it if you keep
trying to outsmart a guy like Joe Crane Markham. You don't have to tell
me that it's all very irregular and very illegal. I know it. I'm
rapidly becoming convinced that it was a mistake to let Crane and his girl out
of custody as you only allowed them to leave because I asked you to.
And believe me, Markam, you can pick him up on a lossenty charge
at any time. All that's so. But I want him free so I
can prove murder against him, so you said yesterday, All advance, I'll
go along with this a little while longer. By the way, how does
that money making machine work? I think I have an idea. The design
you put on a blank piece of paper actually came out on the dollar bill.
It was on it when Crane gave me the bill, and it was
a good bill. Markham. Perhaps there was a camera in the machine.
It took a picture of the design and stamped it on the No, No,
that's preposterous. It couldn't possibly be done that way. It wasn't.
Don't tell me that machine actually makes money from blank pieces of paper bats.
No, I won't tell you that either, because that isn't true. But
Markham, talking to you just now has given me an idea. Yes,
what details of the death of Sniffy Edwards have you released? None except that
we found his body. That's all anybody knows. Good now, Markham,
if I'm right about how that machine works, I think I can promise to
bring Joe Crane into your office again, only this time with a very solid
murder charge against him. You're sure you go for me, Jeanie, you're
pastor, I'm tasted a perlative, I'm everything, Joe. I just don't
want to do a thing except hang around you. That proves something? Maybe,
my dear, what about Frank Lacy used to be pretty sweet out of
heaven? Sure, I used to be. I didn't give you any guarantee.
I'm going to be in love with you forever, Joey, But I
hope so all I know is right now you're for me. Maybe Joey,
show me the money making machine. So we're there in the corner, go
look at it. Oh, I don't mean that I can show me how
it works. I know that machine is nothing but a roller with two slits
and a phony bottom. If eat blank paper in one slit, turn the
roller and it picks up a legit dollar bill from the bottom and slips it
out the other side. Only how do the initials get on the bill?
I write you letter about it sometime. Come on Joey telling me. I
okay, Joey, on your feet, Frank sure, Frank, Frank lazy
and I'm getting a little tired of playing games. Come here, Joey,
Hey, leave him alone, Frankie. Okay, Frank, what's with you?
What's going on? What do you want? Fred machine over in the
corner? One Stephy Edwards invented and I want the monogram gimmick. Jeanie here
was supposed to get it for me, but I've been waiting too long.
Let's have the story, Joey. How do you do the monogram thing?
Oh? That well, you see? Frank? You? Thanks? He
was killing me. Thanks for shooting him. That's all right, Joey.
Pleasure was all mine. That's a funny thing, though, Frank, give
me the gun this morning and I kill him? What it's this afternoon?
Yeah? That's live. Hi, thank you a little more, Ginnie if
I was awful? Sure who you was aiming at when you shot Joey me?
Let's you and I? What any much? Talk about you and me
in a little while. Yeah, it's Joe Crane. Who's this friend of
Sniffy Edwards? So so I got all the Sniffy's machines and I thought maybe
you like to buy him cheap check on a bus apiece. I got a
ton of them. You can get a fortune from all right, you sell
them. I'm hot, I'll leave the country. I don't I know this
is on the level. Nobody knows Sniffy's gimmick on how their monograms going the
blank paper to the good dough do they? Nobody except you and Sniffy and
you that's right, and me. I got the whole gimmick right under my
thumb. I'll tell you enough for you to meet me. You know it
is. Where are you a joint called Mulley's in the waterfront? Walk right
through and into the back room. I'll be there, only don't be too
long, Joey, I'm hot, Like I told you. The only think
it will cool me you off is cold cache. It's you look like a
professional panhandler if I ever saw one. Where did you get some juggly looking
clothes? Bought them Markham. These overalls, this jacket, this cabin of
these shoes cost me seven dollars. I think I got cheated. Well,
I don't know. Now you've been doing some cheating yourself. I think cheating
the barber? That is? What did you shave last yesterday morning? Pretty
bad for what you're trying to do if you can get what you think you
can on, Joe Crane, what's the difference? How you look? That's
exactly who is it? That's your que Markham. Go out the back door
there and don't come until I call you, right blanks? What's going on?
I'm coming, I ain't Crane. Where are the machines? You don't
think I keep in head? Do you? It's sure you'll keep them anywhere?
Then? What are you doing here? Look? But you know how
Sniffy's monogram gimmick worked. You know he let me have one of his machines
to pedal. What else do you know? It's you knocked him off?
Ah, so that's the story. Huh yeah, so long, but don't
take care of us. Wait a minute. Well, I'm still hot and
I still need though, like I said, to get a waist way and
cool off. And I still got those machines, ten of them. I'll
give you a hundred bucks for him take it or leave it, and I'll
take it now. You give me a thousand bucks extra for keeping my mouth
shut about you shooting Sniffy. Shooting Sniffy. You don't allow to like,
do you? Sniffy? Was knife though. Go ahead, talk all you
want it, you get the hundred for the machines, and you get moving
out of time. I don't think I will. I think you will be
doing the moving Crane right into jail. Hey, you know, bum what
comes with that talk? Wwire you we've met Crane. I'm fellow events you've
told me all I wanted to know about you. Only one person would know
how Sniffy Edwards was killed, and that was the man who killed him.
What you know won't do any good. I'm good, all right, Markham,
you can come in now. I heard your two fighting, but I
didn't want to spoil your fun vans. I'm glad you didn't. Well,
there's your lossonist Markham. Yes, only now he's your murderer too. You
will have no trouble getting a conviction after we take him downtown. I'll tell
you the details of the traveling monogram, which was the initial step in making
Joe Crane show his hand to begin with Markholm. As soon as Crane was
convinced that I knew how a monogram on a blank piece of paper could be
transferred to a real dollar bill, he had no hesitancy about coming down to
the waterfront and talking to me, and in talking to your fancy gave himself
away. I know that, and I know we found Frank Lacey's body in
the Crane's apartment, so we actually have him for two murders. But I
don't understand how the device work. I'll show you. Here's the machine Crane
used and some of the paper that comes with it. Yes, write something
on the paper. Ye, he's my pen. All right, I'll put
down my initials f x M. There we are very well. I take
the paper yes, and slip it into the machine. But before I do,
I cover what you wrote with my thumb, so the ink gets on
my thumb. The ink gets up. Then I turn the handle of the
machine and outcomes a new dollar bill. I take it out of the machine,
and as I do, I press my thumb, still with the wet
ink on it, on the bill, and your initials are transferred to it.
Oh, brother, no, it can't be that simple. I hope
what it was. I see the dollar bill with my initials on it,
but I'd never have known how they got there. Oh, really, I
would have sworn that dollar bill actually was the blank piece of paper I saw
you put in the machine. Well, Markham, the secret of the device
was in its simplicity. It certainly was. Well, we don't have to
worry about it now, nor about Sniffy Edwards murder, nor about any of
the people concerned with it. That's right. Let's cut this machine down to
the river and throw it overboard. That will be the end of it,
the end of it, and thanks to you, the end of the money
machine the murder case. Welcome back. Okay, First thing, I am
pretty sure that under normal prosecutorial guidelines, who want to preserve any exhibits that
might be used as evidence at trial. Now, let's imagine the hearing,
mister Markham, the defense is requesting, and I think this is quite reasonable
that you produced the money machine that you allege was part of this whole and
the possession of which is at the core of the motive for the murder.
Your honor, I can't because it's currently unavailable. And why would that be,
Because your honor, I threw it into the Hudson River. And why
did you do that? Because Filo Vance told me. Now, in real
life, Markham would be all in all kinds of trouble. But I kind
of imagine that in the Filo Vance universe, the judge would say, so,
I'll allow it, sure, And why did Vance what to throw this
thing in the river? I mean, it's not like it was some terrible
secret that could destroy mankind. No, I don't know. It is the
Filo Vance universe, and I suppose someone could get a hold of it,
and there are so many people who are gullible enough to fall for it that
Vance is just not taking the risk. I mean, I imagine in the
Filo Vance universe people will fall for almost anything. And of course you have
to wonder once again what Markham thinks his job is, because at the end
of the episode, Vance says, you know, we're not gonna have to
worry about anybody involved in this case, and we're just totally completely through with
it, and Markham agreed, Yes, we're totally done, when in reality
Vance would have to testify in court and Markham is going to have to be
worried about all of these people, many of whom are either defendants or potential
witnesses, and in prosecuting them. But on the other hand, Markham continues
to fulfill police officer responsibilities like hot speed chases. It makes you wonder how
the public forums go for district attorney elections. Now, mister Markham, you
can ask a question of your opponent. Yes, I'd like to ask you.
Do you have any experience as a stunt driver? No? I don't
see how that's relevant to being district attorney. Oh you don't. And let
me ask do you have a fast car? I just just drive a normal
sedan. I see you are not prepared to be district attorney. Are you
ready to hunt down criminals and bring them back alive yourself? Are you ready
to obsessively investigate every crime, guessing horribly all the time, and then finally
what somebody else solves the case? Apprehending the criminal? You know, this
is not really the job of district attorney. I mean, we just prosecute
the cases. What's they're arrested? Oh no, no, no, Once
they're arrested, we're just done. We're done. I never have to think
about these people. What's they're arrested? That's I don't know actually whose job
that is, but it's not mine. At the same time, I have
to say, of the woman who was the victim of the scam, how
bad do you have to be handling life? To be chewed out by Markham
for being very foolish. Listen our comments and feedback. Now and we start
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the conclusion of the Bennett Matter, where the building was destroyed by fire.
I worked with arson experts from my own organization and with the police here to
determine the cause of the fire. Go on please. At the scene of
the fire, our expert William Underwood located certain items which we recognized as part
of the parafernalia generally used by professional arsonists. Will you please steep what those
items were? A scrap of celluloid and a paraffin wick, anything else samples
of the ashes which were later analyzed and proved to be celluloid ashes. I
wish to remind the ladies and gentlemen of the jury that the public fire adjusted,
the gentleman from the Skyline Laboratories and the two gentlemen from the Fire Inspection
Department have previously testified as to the identity and uses of these items. Will
you continue, mister Dollar, Well, these particular items suggested that the fire
was of an incendiary origin. The next problem was to establish the exact method
used in starting the fire. Were you able to determine that method? Yes?
In order to refresh the minds of the jury, would you mind describing
what was established? A heavy woolen wick. This one, mister Dollar,
add one or one like it? Exhibit C. Please continue. This wick
had been soaked in paraffin and then stuffed into a paper sack that was filled
with celluloid. It's a simple method. The wick is lit and takes anywhere
from three to ten minutes to burn down to the celluloid. Now, once
that happens, the celluloid flares up and fires anything combustible in the vicinity.
And that is the method you determine caused the fire on the Bennett Building.
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