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Mister Chameleon. The original aired Eate February sixteenth, nineteen forty nine, and
the title is the Case of Murder and the Smoking Gun. Next Mister Comedian
and the Case of Murder and the Smoking Gun. To night, we again
present the famous mister Chamelion of Central Headquarters in his most famous cases of crime
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let me tell you just who mister Chamelion is. A college man, he
tried from childhood to live up to the name he bore Chameleon by taking on
the color of whatever situation in which he found himself, appearing in endless guises,
finally entering the police force, where he became known as Chameleon, the
man of many faces, the underworld's most dreaded man. The listener invariably knows
who mister Chamelion is, no matter which disguise he assumes, but the criminal
he's tracking down seldom does. To night, we give you, mister Chamelion,
in the case of murder and the smoking gun. Youthful faces and young
laughter are pleasant things to see and hear, And the beautiful Willoughby home is
alive with laughter tonight, for Larry Willoughby and his sister Barbara are getting a
dance, and the cleared floor of the drawing room is filled with whirling figures,
figures will little dream that the music is soon to be shattered. What
was that a shot? It couldn't have been. That's just a backfire from
an automobile. I'm sure it was a shot that came from a library.
Look, there's Arry Willoughby in the library door, and he's holding a gun.
What's happened? He's holding a smoking gun. He's gone crazy. He's
gonna kill us all I'm not gonna shoot anybody. Edward Lano has just been
killed. Somebody call the police now. A little later, we find mister
Comedion, the Great Detective, the Man of many disguises, kneeling beside the
lifeless body in the Willoughby library. He's saying to Larry Willoughby, as I
understand it, mister Willoughby, a shot was heard from this room by nearly
everybody at this party. Here's that's right, mister Camillion. And then you
rushed out of the room with this gun in your hand. Whose gun is
it? Where did you get it? And why did you have it in
your hand? All right? I just tatter there. I suppose why did
you kill this man? And who is it? He's count Edward Orlano,
count Edward Leno, Larry, how terrible Edward. Just get out of this
room, Barbara. I'll take care of this. I'd rather have you stay,
miss Barbara. You are yes, he's my sister, mister chameleon.
Barbara, Please leave. What was that's your connection with Count of Leno,
Miss Barbara. I thought I was going to marry him, but something came
up. What came up? He was a no good rutterer, Mister Chamelion,
I warned Barbara against him. I'm questioning Barbara, mister Willibay. Now
I asked you, Miss Barbara, and what was the something you say came
up between you and the dead man? Mister Comelion, you can accuse me
of murder, arrest me and me convicted of murder, but I won't tell
you what came up between cod Ar Lawn and me. I'd rather die.
Her head was turned by his title. The idea of being the condess Rana
is what got her, Mister Camelion, I warned her, American girl should
marry American boy. She would have married an American boy, all right if
she'd married this man, only not a very nice American boy. What he
is no more count Edward Orlano than I am. His name is Jim Pierrey,
Slippery Jim Piarrey, to give you his full name, one of the
cleverest of the younger confidence men in the business. Barbara, tell me,
why did you kill him? She didn't kill him, mister Camelion, I
did. Larry didn't kill him. I killed No. Don't listen to a
mister Camelion. I show him, and I'm glad off is Barbara's trying to
protect me. This gun, of course, is yours, Lannie. Yes,
that's right, it's my gun. I'm afraid I'll have to correct you
again. The gun is not yours. It's Jim Perry's, the bogus Count
Lano's gun. Here. Look at this double leg scratched on the handle.
That is the one thing the police knew about Peerry. He got this gun
from a pair of his who went up for murder. We're can never trace
it. So now let's have the truth from both of you. Well,
I took the gun away from him and killed him. Mister Comelion, he
carried that gun in his right hand coat pocket. And and what, Barbara,
I knew it because he showed it to me last week when the papers
were so full of jewel robberies. He said, I needn't be afraid of
being held up with him with me. Then tonight I let him put his
arms around me. I pulled the gun out of his pocket and killed him.
That's what happened, mister Chamelion. Barbara, you're mad, you grasps,
both of you are mad. Oh very very clever. Oh Dave,
here you are. Yes, mister Comedion, I just got the call to
come here on the police radio a few minutes ago. It's Barbara Willoughby.
Mister Larry Willoughby, this is a detective serge. You take both of these
people downstairs, Dave, turn them over to Officer Poley and have them held
at headquarters. Further questioning, Right, mister Comelion, come along you two,
and do you come straight back here, Dave. I'll be looking at
the body back and two minutes, mister Camillion. And now, as mister
Comedian looks at the body of Jimmy Pierry Ilias count Edward Orlano, he's saying
to himself, there's something strange, something most infernally strange about this wound.
I wonder could I be right? No, that's impossible. I'll watch it
all about, mister Commelion. Twisters, Dave, twisters, one incredible thing
after another, enough to make me dizzy. Well, you won't stay dizzy
very long, mister Commellion. Look at the wound in this man's body,
Dave, recognize him? What holy smoke, it's Jimmy very posing here as
counted with Alano. And if I'm not utterly wrong, he was stabbed to
death and shot to death. Did you see the wound? Looks like a
knife first and then a bullet. But why stab a guy first and then
shoot him? It's like killing him twice. Well that's not half, Dave.
Two people have confessed to killing him. Well, I guess that's it.
Yes, that would settle everything. I both hadn't claimed to have shot
him. Nobody said anything about stabbing him. In the meantime, in the
drawing room of the Willoughby House, which a few minutes ago was filled with
happy dancers, we find a horror stricken group of young people. The police
have arrested Larry and Barbara. I saw them being taken out ghastly. The
thing to do is to make a break for it and get out and have
the police haul us in. Must be crazy. I'm chameleon of the police.
Now everybody here will be questioned. I'm sorry to detain you, but
there's no way out. Which of you saw Laddy Willoughby come out of that
door with a smoking gun in his hand. Which one saw him first?
I did, mister comedian. My name is Charles Gray. I was dancing
with Mary Downey when Larry rushed in with the gun, Are you miss Darnaim,
Yes, but I really didn't see very much. My back was to
the door, I understand, and your dancing partner here, mister Gray,
was facing it. I wish I hadn't been, mister comedian. I can't
believe it of Larry, and I certainly can't believe it either, mister Cameleon.
I had taken that both of you knew Laddy Willoughby and his sister very
well. Oh, yes, very well, mister comedian. Well, if
you'll both step into the library with me, i'd be grateful that a few
things that you might help me clear up. Come on, Mary, we
may be able to help Larry and Barbara. I only hope we can,
mister comedian, Yes, so do I I also hope that you can help
me find the murderer. Now, are you a good friend of Barbara and
Larry's, Miss Dannay. Barbara's the best friend I have in the world.
You see, Larry and Barbara were left orphans. Mister Camellion about five years
ago, and so was I. I suppose that drew us together. Larry
acted as as sort of a protector to both of us. This his protective
instinct may have been so highly developed that he committed a murder. But Larry
couldn't have murdered anyone as far as Barbara. It's it's just too ridiculous,
Barbara, Barbara of all people. Yes, I understand you're in love of
the mister Graham. What who told you, mister comedian? Who told you
that you did? Just now, mister Gray? The way you spoke her
name and the look on your face, did you know, mister Gray,
that count Edward Lano was rarely Jimmy Perey a confidence man? What a confidence
man? Oh? No, not really, But that's dreadful when Barbara had
been going around with him for months. Are you sure, mister Comelion,
Are you sure about that? Positive? Miss Dannay? One more thing?
What became of the knife that was here in this room? Knife? What
knife? What do you mean, mister comedian? I don't understand. Oh,
oh, yes, you mean the paper knife, the one they called
the collector's item that Larry brought Barbara from Italy. That's it. Why I
don't know, isn't it here? Barbara kept it on the desk. It
seems to be gone. Why do you ask, mister comedian? Yes,
what's that got to do with Orlando's murder? Or a Peerier or whatever his
name was. I just wondered. That's all. We cops ask a great
many questions, you know, mister Comelion. Yes, Dave, all right,
Miss Downey, that's all, and miss Gray, thank you. If
you should need us again, mister comedian, don't worry, I'll call on
you. What is it, Dave, Mister Comedion, this place is running
over with crooks. Benny Morgan is out there, and so is his girlfriend.
How could they get into a swell dump like this? Well, these
kids pick up all sorts of odd trends at night spots, and there isn't
any The lad that we were tipped off to that he was gunning for Jim
Pitty Hey, Yes, what a dumb bell I am for forgetting? Of
course, that was the tip. Two fatal wounds, two confessions, and
now two more bad ones here at the scene. Dave, this thing is
getting more interesting all the time. What do I do about Benny I hold
him, Dave, I'll talk to him, and after that, I think
I'll have another chat with Barbara and Laddy Willoughby. A Short time later,
after mister comedian has finished questioning the criminal Benny Morgan, we find him again,
facing Barbara Willoughby and her brother Larry. Larry is saying, mister comeleon,
why must you continue with this. I've confessed, I've told you that
I'm the murderer, and I insist my brother Larry's protecting me. Mister commlion,
I'm the one that shot Edward whatever his name is, Perry, Jimmy
Perry. Incidentally, I've just been talking to Benny Morgan. Benny Morgan,
who is a friend of Jim. Pierrey's a small time crook. He and
his girl were at your party. Two very strange guests to have in your
home, Barbara and Larry. I didn't know about, did I. Bennet
had threatened Pierry's life. We're holding him despite your joint confessions. Benny told
me something very interesting, Miss Barbara. When Pierry was courting you, did
he spend much money on you? Why? Yes? And you thought nothing
of it. Naturally, since you believed me to be conde Urolano. Heyes,
what about this Benny you said? Benny told you something, mister cameleon.
He told me that Pierry, who was flat broke six months ago,
had suddenly gotten ten thousand dollars from somewhere. How did he get that money?
Who did he get it from? Who? This? Barbara? You
feeling ill? Barbara Donning, are not going to faint? No, I'm
all right. Do you know anything about this money, miss Barrow? Of
course not. We know nothing about Pierry's finances. And I still insist that
I killed him, and your sister does the same. Mister Willoughby, I
have a muddle. The innocent must be protected, now guilty must be punished.
But there is one thing sure. It isn't possible that both of you
could be guilty of murdering Pirie, mister cameleon. And the case of murder,
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now back to mister Chameleon and the Case of Murder and the Smoking Gun.
Larry and Barbara Willoughby have both confessed to the murder of Jim Pierrey, the
confidence man who posed in society as count Edward Orlano. We now find mister
Camelian at police headquarters talking to the Commissioner of Police, who is saying,
would you say you have two confessions, Tom Meet, one from Larry Willoughby
and the other from his sister Barbara. Yes, that's right, Commissioner,
but as you know, two confessions are sometimes worse than one. What about
this ten thousand dollars? Where did Jimmy Peery get it? Why was he
going under the name of Count Orlano. I think that Barbara Willoughby knows or
suspects where he got the ten thousand, But you won't tell me that anymore,
and she'll tell me why she broke off with a man she thought was
Count Dolano, a comedian. What about this business of Peery's being stabbed as
well as shot? Karena says, you're quite right. Peerry was stabbed first,
and the weapon is still missing. The house has been searched, but
so far there's been no sign of bloodstained knife. My guess is that it
was the paper knife that Charles Gray referred to tricked him into mentioning it.
The knife belongs to Barbara. But where is it, I, Commissioner,
I'm going to look for it. I'm going to conduct a personal search for
that knife. I also want to find out more about Charles Gray and Mary
Donne disguise. Mm hmm, I'm going into the Willoughby home disguised as a
representative of Larry and Barbara's attorney. My name will be Willard Hawkins. Their
attorney has appointed me to take over the running of their home while they are
in police custody, and I will send for Charles Gray and Mary Downey and
talk to them about Larry and Barbara's affairs. And so it is we later
find mister comedian in his disguise at Willard Hawkins, sitting in the Willoughby library,
be saying to Marry Downey and Charles Gray, who said facing him,
of course, we'll that you our best to get Larry and Barbara Willoughby out
on bail. But I must say they're making it very difficult for us,
both of them insisting their guilty of murder. What did you want to see
us? For? Two reasons, mister Gray. First, then some one
should be in charge of the running of this house. Miss Downey, would
you for a uh proper remuneration? Oh, I'd be glad to mister Hawkins.
I've done work for Barbara before. I mean I've helped you with the
secretarial chores, things like that. God uh, mister Gray, how you're
a good friend at the Willow Bays. Spent a great deal of time here
in the house. Yes, sir, do you remember ever seeing a knife
in this room? What sort of knife? Oh? Paper knife? I
shably no, I never did. Why, mister Hawkins, I just wondered,
Well, I'm very glad to have met both of you, and if
you don't mind, i'd like to be left alone. I'll call you to
morrow, Miss Downey. Very well, mister Hawkins. Anything I can do,
I'll be glad to thank you. Good day. Well, what is
it, mister Gray, I was just wondering. You say you want to
be left alone? Yes? In this room? That it's a very odd
question. I have business a too attent to the er police, Sir,
I simply have business to attento. Good day, Good day, mister Hawkins,
Spicer, and be sure to call on me too. I'll do anything
for Barbara and Larry too. I'm as sure you will, young men,
and especially for Barbara. I'm counting on your being willing to do something for
Barbara. But then anyway, I think that's all now, good bye,
good boy. That knife must be somewhere, that vanishing knife. There was
that knife that killed Pierre. The shot was fired later. The gunshot wound
was intended to cover up the knife wound. You see this wood paneling,
I wondered if it's hollow. No, not this part of it yet Detective
Sergeant Arnald searched the room and perhaps over here. Why did Charles Graham line
just now denying that he knew about the knife when before he spoke quite readily
about it. Yes, that's an interesting point too. Oh turned off the
lights. Oh, turned off the lights. There's someone in here, I
can tell now, what is this all about? Get up? How does
that cut on your head? Mister Common It's all right, Detective Sgeant Donald.
I knew he was coming at me, so I was able to protect
myself. I made such an outcry that he ducked out of the room again,
but not before I grabbed a button off his coat. Mister Charles Gray
is a very excitable young man, and he was not going to have me
or anyone looking for that knife. And it must be hidden in the library.
Yes, I'm sure of it, Dave. The killer never had time
to get rid of it. Why I told oppicer Foley to turn the place
inside out, rip the paneling off the walls if necessary. It sure looks
bad for Charles Gray attacking her like that. Well, it looks bad for
quite a few people, Dave. You mean Charles Gray is in love with
Barbara and because oh just a minute, Dame hello speaking. Oh yes,
Polly, you did wear behind the paneling. Good work fully now handlook carefully,
we don't want to disturb any fingerprints on it. Yes, bring it
down here immediately. Yes, thanks fully found the paper knife, Dave,
in a hidden compartment in the paneling. I'd have it examined for fingerprints and
also for bluntstains. Oh, I want to check on a couple of bank
accounts, rank accounts, Yes, Dave. Then I hope I'll be able
to solve this riddle of a double killing. Why a man should be stabbed
to death and then shot? Okay, Dave, is the stage all said,
Yes, mister Camellion, there are all of them waiting in the Willoughby
Library. Larry and Barbara were brought here in the custody of Officer Fawley.
All right, stand by, I may need you. Have you got the
knife? Yes, right here, carefully wrapped and protected as if it were
a jewel of great price, which it is. Barbara and Larry, what's
it mean? It's wonderful to see you here, But what's it all about?
I don't know, Charles, and Larry doesn't either, do you.
Larry? Oh, bar Maybe mister comedian has good news. Maybe that that
crook Benny Morgan they picked up. Maybe he confessed. Oh coody, Mary,
when I've confessed to the murder? You mean both of us have?
Larry and Oh, here's mister Camelion. But I've known everyone. Mister Camillion,
what is this? Why have you brought us all here this way?
Because I thought you all had an equal interest in this case. Your friend
Charles Gray is more than a friend, Miss Barbara. He is so devoted
to you that he tried to stop me from finding this knife. Knife,
Marry, it's the paper knife you gave me. Hi, yes, Bob,
Wait a minute, mister Commedion, where did you get that knife?
Oh? I bet the fellow Hawkins you had and here was a police spy,
not somebody from the lawyers at all. Yes, sure, cried right,
Charles. I was Hawkins. You, mister Cameleon, you were Hawkins,
and in my disguise of Hawkins, I learned several very interesting things.
One was that you lie. I didn't when was there when this investigation started,
Charles Gray. You did not hesitate to tell me about the paper knife
which Larry had given Barbara, but you denied the existence of such a knife
to me when I was disguised as Hawkins. Why where did you learn,
Charles Gray, that that knife was the murder weapon, not a gun.
Mister Camellion, I don't understand. It's very simple, Miss Barbara count Olano,
who was really Jim Pearry, was stabbed to death. The shot was
supposed to conceal the stab wound, only it didn't. Charles Graham, answer
me, who was it who told you that Perry was stabbed to death and
that Barbara probably did it? No one. You're lying, and it's very
foolish of you to lie. I'm not Charles Gray. This is a mistaken
chivalry. You're not even helping Barbara now. But I don't know what to
say now, Well, and I'll say it for you. Mary Downey told
you that she feared a knife had been used, and she was also afraid
that Barbara might have used it. Mister Cannie, the knife had disappeared,
but Mary guessed correctly that it must be hidden in this room. She knew
that Larry didn't have time to take it far or get rid of it.
But it wasn't Mary. Yes, I know, Larry. You thought it
was your sister Barbara who murdered Perry. You walked in here and found Peerry
with a knife in his heart. You pulled out the knife, pressed the
gun over the wound, the severe burns on Peerry's shirt front to me that
you recognized the knife. You took it for granted that Barbara was the killer,
but she wasn't. Mister Camellian, are you accusing me of murder?
Do you actually believe I'm guilty of murder? Marry? I think your friends
will be able to answer that question. Larry, did you find a knife
in Perry's heart? But tell me the truth, tell me the truth.
Yes, yes, I did. I I thought Barbara had done it.
Charles. Did Mary Downey tell you that she was afraid that Barbara had done
it? Did he tell you that no one must be allowed to find that
knife. Yes, oh Mary, all right, Barbara, now't your turn?
Why did you break it off for the man you thought was count Edward
Alano? And who was really the confidence man? Peerry? I can't tell
you, mister Camellion, My dear, this is misplaced loyalty. I know,
for instance, that Mary Downey was in bad financial circumstances. Over a
period of a few months, she drew ten thousand dollars all that she had,
all that her father left her, and she gave it to the man
she thought was in love with her. No, yes, you did marry.
But once Pierry got your money, he was through with you. He
started making love to Barbara until you. Mary put a stop to it,
didn't she? Barbara didn't Mary put us up to it. No, I
did not. I deny it, mister Comeleian, I deny the whole thing.
I went around with it. Would yes, but that was some time
ago. I certainly did not kill him, and you can't prove it.
I think I can marry. The Knight of the Murderer was a farm of
dance, Laddie. Were you wearing gloves? I don't remember. You must
have been wearing gloves, and in your haste and your emotional excitement, you
forgot about it. You forgot to leave your fingerprints on the gun, laddie.
And you also left no fingerprints on the knife when you pulled it out.
The murderer's fingerprints are on that knife, and those fingerprints are Mary downy
stop. Oh no, she's not okay, down he take it easy.
You can't get out of it as easy as that. I never get out
of anything, never had anything, no look, not even enough money.
Edward Jim Pierrey made love to me. It was the first man who ever
did. I couldn't give him up. I couldn't let Barbara have him marry
You mean you lied to me when you said you'd been living with him.
Is his common law wife, but you were going to have a baby.
Of course, I knew you'd stop seeing him then, Barbara. But even
that didn't bring him back to me. So I killed him. I had
to kill him. Poor May, Yes, Barbara, poor Mary, except
that she was willing to let your brother die, and you too. You've
all of you been magnificently loyal to each other, except poor Mary, who
was loyal to nothing except her own ungovernable emotions. All right, Dave,
let's go marry Donae. I arrest you for the murder of Jim Perry.
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of the Man Who Expected Murder Next Wednesday night at this time there's a CBS,
the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back now. If you're like me,
When the announcer stated his name, you heard Ward Bond, who was a
character actor for quite a while during Hollywood's Golden Age, usually associated with John
Wayne. However, on listening to it again, he actually identified himself as
Ford Bond, an entirely different person with a long career in New York radio.
He was the announcer for the Craft Music Hall at one point, as
well as Ripley's Believe It or Not. He also served as a radio consultant
for Dewey's nineteen forty eight presidential campaign. The Hummers would have known him for
his work as an announcer on Easy Aces and Backstage Wife, which, as
we reference, was also a production that James Mehan worked on as the mailed
lead, which I guess goes to something about how New York radio operated and
how so many people there had some connection to the Hummers. Now, I
don't feel too bad about getting confused about the Ford Bond Ward Bond thing,
because I'm not alone. I was checking the Radio Gold Index, which is
as close as we're going to get to an IMDb for old Time Radio and
Ward Bond's entry in the Radio gold Indeck. Most of it was announcing work
that was done by Ford Bond. As to the case itself, it was
actually pretty good, and his disguise didn't seem to have a point to it,
unlike some of the more recent ones. It was interesting that you had
this murder get so complicated because all but one person was being loyal to someone
else and trying to cover for somebody, even if that person was innocent,
of course, except the murderer. It also has to be said that conman
pretending to be noblemen is a bit of a recurring theme in Mister Chameleon.
You'd think people would catch on, but this is the hummerk verse after all.
All right, well, listener comments and feedback, and we go to
YouTube where Catherine comments regarding the curious case of club Foot louis excellent episode.
Mister Comeleion is one of my favorites, and this episode was definitely a cut
above script wise. And then I received an email from Derek. Was just
thinking about how funny it would be if Johnny Doller approached cases like Mister Cameleon
and put on his expense account. Two pays for fake knows this glasses,
false teep, makeup, glue on hair. I actually laughed out loud thinking
about it. Well, thanks so much for the comment, Derek. I
will say that Johnny does occasionally assume a fake identity, but the most extreme
that he really went to was during the John Lund era when he pretended to
be a Texan and did this really deep Texas accent. In fact, I
wonder who had the better Texas accent, Carl Swinson or John Lynn. I
don't think we'll have a point of comparison until mister Cameleon has a reason to
do a Texas accent. Now, the reason that mister Cameleon has to go
to such elaborate means to disguise himself physically is because he is the chief investigating
officer of the case that Chameleons' talents do have some value as an undercover man.
The reason he has to go with the elaborate disguises is because they've already
seen him, and he is also a famous investigator, and that's a problem
if you are needing to sneak around and pretend to be someone else if you
are famous. So of course he has to disguise himself because he's a famous
investigator, and once again an illustration about why being famous as an investigator is
more often a hinderance than a help. Thanks for the email, Derek,
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that every facility of law enforcement in this town is working round the clock to
bring the culprits to justice. Yeah that's very comforting, man, but actually
I'm not sure I was the target. What do you mean. Well,
when I left you and Dave Sherman and came out onto the sidewalk, Mighty
Blake was waiting for me in a car part of the curb. She'd been
there about twenty minutes. She told me, yes, but let her fire
those shots. Had the setup plan worked out? And I don't think they
could very well have planned it for me? Why not? My schedule wasn't
predictable enough. They didn't know when i'd leave city, whether I be a
loan or not, or what I do when I stepped outside. It's a
point, all right. My day, on the other hand, had been
there for twenty minutes, plenty of time to arrange the thing. But why
why should anyone want to kill her? Well, there you got me.
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