1 00:00:28,679 --> 00:00:35,159 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:35,359 --> 00:00:39,679 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:39,719 --> 00:00:43,920 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. Follow us on Twitter at 4 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,840 Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, 5 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:59,119 slash Great Detectives. And today we're continuing with a round robin crossover with several 6 00:00:59,159 --> 00:01:04,519 other old time I'm host who are here from their podcast, and I've already 7 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:08,200 been on their programs, So let's go ahead and we will go around, 8 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:14,799 and first of all, let's hear from Ron Echlebarger. Hi, Adam, 9 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:18,519 thanks for having me on. My name is Ron Ecklebarger, and I am 10 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:26,560 host of Classic Comedy of Old Time Radio. That's CLASSICCOMEDYOTR dot com. We 11 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:30,719 do three shows a week right now, we're doing The Older Family on Mondays, 12 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:36,599 Bob Hope on Wednesdays, and the Life of Riley on Fridays, although 13 00:01:36,599 --> 00:01:40,079 we're getting near the end of the run on actually all three of those, 14 00:01:40,159 --> 00:01:45,799 so it won't be too many months before we're going to have some new new 15 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:51,840 comedy shows on the podcast. And Andrew Rhymes, Hi, Adam, this 16 00:01:51,959 --> 00:01:55,719 is Andrew Ryins from OTR Westerns dot com. Not only do I edit Adams 17 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:59,959 shows, I actually have a Western genre of podcast, put out an episode 18 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,159 at least one to day, if not three to four, just depends. 19 00:02:02,159 --> 00:02:07,319 We're definitely over about one hundred a month we're putting out and again check us 20 00:02:07,319 --> 00:02:12,840 out OTR Westerns dot com and see if there's anything we like. And last, 21 00:02:12,879 --> 00:02:15,240 but not least virtual, Bennie. Yes, in this case, I'm 22 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:20,400 not virtual at this point, but yeah. I host I Level Time Radio 23 00:02:20,439 --> 00:02:24,080 at Ieleveltimradio dot com, where each day we do a different podcast with a 24 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:29,879 different theme. Mondays we do actions where we're covering the Green Hornet. Tuesdays 25 00:02:29,879 --> 00:02:34,800 we cross over and Ron's area with comedy and my favorite husband. Wednesdays we 26 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,919 cross over in Adams area and do detectives, and right now we're doing let 27 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:45,120 George do It. On Thursdays we hit suspense with suspense actually this time, 28 00:02:45,199 --> 00:02:49,120 and then on Fridays we do some variety stuff and we're doing the Abbott and 29 00:02:49,199 --> 00:02:53,759 Costello Show. All right, and we will talk more after the after today's 30 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:59,080 episode, which will be Mister Chameleon. We're gonna find out if mister Chameleon 31 00:02:59,159 --> 00:03:04,439 can save Smith. The original airdate on this program is December twenty second, 32 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:10,520 nineteen forty eight, and it's The Woman's Weapon Murder Case. Next, mister 33 00:03:10,599 --> 00:03:44,080 Chameleon in the Woman's Weapon Murder Case. Tonight we again present the famous mister 34 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:49,800 Chameleon of Central Headquarters in his most famous cases of crime and murder, brought 35 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,759 to you by the makers of genuine Bayer Aspirin. Now let me tell you 36 00:03:53,879 --> 00:04:00,400 just who mister Chameleon is. A college man he tried from childhood up to 37 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,639 the name. He bore Chameleon by taking on the color of whatever situation in 38 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:11,520 which he found himself, appearing in endless guises, finally entering the police force, 39 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:15,759 where he became known as Cameleon, the man of many faces, the 40 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:20,560 underworld's most dreaded man. The listener invariably knows who mister Chameleon is, no 41 00:04:20,639 --> 00:04:28,279 matter which disguise he assumes, but the criminal's tracking down seldom does. Tonight 42 00:04:28,319 --> 00:04:42,360 we give you mister Camellion in the Woman's Weapon Murder Case. The holiday season, 43 00:04:42,439 --> 00:04:46,199 which brings happiness to so many, can also be a period of desperate 44 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,240 heartache, especially to the innocent grief stricken families of those who have run a 45 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:55,000 fall of the law. No one knows this better than mister Camellion, the 46 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:59,360 great detective, who has encountered so much tragedy in his time. And he's 47 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,560 looking unusual, grave and thoughtful as he sits in the office of the Commissioner 48 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:06,000 Police, listening to the Commissioner as he says, I don't know, Chameleon. 49 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,839 I've just never been satisfied about the Helen Drake case. The evidence was 50 00:05:10,879 --> 00:05:14,000 all against her. She was at odds with a mother in law. It 51 00:05:14,079 --> 00:05:16,040 was she who gave her mother in law the poison candy which killed her. 52 00:05:16,879 --> 00:05:20,639 Even so, the evidence wasn't strong enough to get her convicted of first degree 53 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:25,680 murder. Helen Drake got twenty years in prison. Commissioner, do you think 54 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,839 of anything much worse for a woman like that? Did you know her, 55 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:31,839 Chameleon? No, I never met her. I followed the case with great 56 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,040 interest at the time. I had met her mother in law, missus Orlando 57 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:40,079 Drake, a pipe fested tyrant if I ever saw one. So wonder she 58 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:44,519 allowed either of us sons to marry. I bet she interfared constantly. Well, 59 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,720 she's dead and gone now. John Drake, Helen's husband, and his 60 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:53,240 brother Horace, are two wealthy men and independent. John's wife, Helen is 61 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:57,759 imprisoned. Yes, Chameleon, John Drake will spend this Christmas without his wife. 62 00:05:58,319 --> 00:06:01,319 Two fine sons will spend Christmas without their mother, to say nothing of 63 00:06:01,399 --> 00:06:06,000 the disgrace connected with such a thing. Pretty tough for two boys of sixteen 64 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:10,959 and eighteen. I take it that you've seen them recently, Commissioner. Yes, 65 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:14,600 they were in here this afternoon with their father. John Drake is still 66 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,600 convinced his wife is innocent, and the hard boiled commissioner of police is touched. 67 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:23,519 You're a hard boiled detective yourself, Chameleon, and I notice you're interested 68 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:28,680 in Helen Drake's possible innocence. I always have been, Commissioner. I have 69 00:06:28,759 --> 00:06:33,040 a feeling that missus Orlando Drake's murderer is still walking the streets. But how 70 00:06:33,079 --> 00:06:38,800 to smoke her out? That's the question, her or him. Poison candy 71 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,920 is a woman's method, but a man might have been smart enough to use 72 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:46,000 it for that very reason. John Drake's brother, Horace, or even John 73 00:06:46,079 --> 00:06:49,920 himself. What why not? Since I wasn't on the case, I've never 74 00:06:49,959 --> 00:06:54,639 met any of them. I would like to do that, Commissioner, meet 75 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:58,199 them, mm hm. Reopen the case if I feel it should be reopened. 76 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,560 I think I know how to make the killer stick his neck out if 77 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:05,360 I'm convinced the killer is still loose, and question them by all means. 78 00:07:05,879 --> 00:07:10,399 Take the surgeon Dave Arnold with you. John Drake and his sons are living 79 00:07:10,399 --> 00:07:13,920 in the mother's house. His brother Horace and his wife Sonya with him too. 80 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:17,079 Any servants who are with Missus Orlando Drake, her housekeeper. I believe 81 00:07:17,079 --> 00:07:23,199 a Missus Sterling is Missus Sterling's testimony which convicted Helen Drake. I see, 82 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,680 you know Assembling, Commissioner. Wouldn't it be nice if I could get Helen 83 00:07:27,759 --> 00:07:30,879 Drake released from prison in time for Christmas? Are you kidding? Well? 84 00:07:31,279 --> 00:07:36,079 Partly It'll still be nice. And don't remind me how near Christmas is. 85 00:07:36,279 --> 00:07:47,759 I know that just as well as you do, Commissioner. And so a 86 00:07:47,759 --> 00:07:51,600 few hours later we find mister Cameleon sitting in the drawing room of the magnificent 87 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:57,040 Drake House, and with him is a haggard, white faced man John Drake, 88 00:07:57,079 --> 00:08:00,040 who is saying, mister Camelian, I was hoping that even at this 89 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,279 late date, you'd be put on the case. I'm sure my wife is 90 00:08:03,319 --> 00:08:05,319 innocent. I know it was Helen who gave my mother the candy. She 91 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:09,040 actually handed my mother the very piece which killed her. But still, your 92 00:08:09,079 --> 00:08:13,079 mother's housekeeper, missus Sterling, was in the room at the time, and 93 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,720 she saw your wife actually give your mother the candy. Yes, and Helen 94 00:08:16,759 --> 00:08:18,439 admitted it was she who bought the candy, but even said, your wife 95 00:08:18,519 --> 00:08:22,959 quarrel with your ma'am. I'm afraid so, mister Comedian. But on my 96 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:28,279 behalf. You see, my brother Horace had always been mother's favorite. Mother 97 00:08:28,439 --> 00:08:31,519 was very unkind to me, and Helen is very outspoken. She wasn't afraid 98 00:08:31,519 --> 00:08:35,960 of mother. Ah, your brother's here with you now, Yes, sonya, 99 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,320 his wife's been wonderful. She felt my boy should have someone to look 100 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:41,440 after them. The housekeeper, missus Sterling, is old and a bit eccentric. 101 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:45,200 I'm afraid, I say, mister Drake, and will you have one 102 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,039 of these? What are they? Mis Chmelian. Oh, they're a very 103 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,639 special candy. I'm extremely fond of sort of a coffee mint. No thanks, 104 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:56,600 are they really delicious? Only one shop in New York. That makes 105 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:01,519 them Marnell's. I always carries them with me. Now, if you don't 106 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:03,480 mind, I would like to talk to your brother Horace and his wife Sonya. 107 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,639 They're in the study across the hall waiting for you. Thank you. 108 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:16,759 I'm going to see them, mister and missus Drake. I'm chameleon of Central 109 00:09:16,799 --> 00:09:18,200 Headquarters. How do you do? How do you do? I'm here to 110 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:22,039 ask some questions. We have reopened the case of the poisoning of your mother 111 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,879 last summer, mister Drake. But mister Comedian, what makes you think that 112 00:09:24,919 --> 00:09:28,840 my sister law Helen didn't kill my mother. I am not saying that she 113 00:09:28,919 --> 00:09:31,440 didn't. The jury seem to think she did. I never thought she did. 114 00:09:31,519 --> 00:09:35,039 Never horrace o Son, I mean it. Believe me, mister Comedian. 115 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,919 If you have evidence to show that Helen is innocent, well, it's 116 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,600 wonderful, that's all. It's simply wonderful. Have you such evidence. I 117 00:09:41,639 --> 00:09:46,919 am not free yet to say, Missus Drake, would you like one of 118 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:50,320 these candies? What one of these special candies I'm very fond of I get 119 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:52,200 them at Marnell's. Oh no, no, thank you, mister Drake. 120 00:09:52,519 --> 00:09:56,000 No, thank you mister comedian, have you talked to missus Sterling the housekeeper? 121 00:09:56,039 --> 00:10:00,919 And not yet missus Drake. Detective Sergeant Arnold has got upstairs to fetch 122 00:10:00,919 --> 00:10:03,720 her. Well, she can't help you. Good heavens, mister comedian. 123 00:10:03,759 --> 00:10:05,360 If Helen didn't kill my mother, who do you think did I? For 124 00:10:05,399 --> 00:10:09,840 instance, I inherited the largest share of my mother's fortune. Do you think 125 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:11,320 that I killed her? Pr Is Darling, don't get so excited. I 126 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,519 have reason to get excited, Sonya. If mister Comedian suspects me, I 127 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:18,799 haven't said a word about suspecting anyone. I haven't even said I have concrete 128 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:24,039 evidence. But you must have if you're reopening the case. A famous detective 129 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,519 like you, mister Comedian, isn't asking questions for the exercise Chamelion, Yes, 130 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:30,879 Dave, Missus Sterling the housekeeper is here. Oh send her in, 131 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,360 please, I'm already in. I have lived in this house for thirty years, 132 00:10:35,759 --> 00:10:39,039 and no cop is going to tell me when I can come in and 133 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,399 out of rooms. When there's murder involved, Missus Sterling, the police have 134 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:46,759 certain rights. The murder was taken care of. Helen Drake gave her mother 135 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:52,639 the poison candy. I saw her. She was sent to jail and good 136 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,919 riddance. I never liked her. She was too windopen, Missus Sterling, 137 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:01,120 that's no way to speak of Helen. Mister Cameleon. I think it's wicked 138 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:05,399 to reopen this case. We've all gone through enough. Let sleeping dogs lie. 139 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:09,519 That's my morrow. Well, my motto, Missus Sterling, is the 140 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,919 innocent must be protected, the guilty must be punished. And frankly, missus 141 00:11:13,919 --> 00:11:26,919 Sterling, I like my motto a great deal better. And now back in 142 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,960 the office of the Commissioner Police, mister Camelion is saying, have a candy, 143 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,679 Commissioner. They're really delicious, special confection put up by man El's. 144 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:39,320 Thanks since one of you taken eating candy, that's what I want to know. 145 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,039 Every time I look at me has a piece in his mouth. Well, 146 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:45,039 that goes to show Dave how easily you can acquire a certain habit. 147 00:11:45,399 --> 00:11:50,480 I never ate candy before. Now I like it, especially these coffee flavored 148 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,120 mints that I so carefully told the Drakes were my favorite confection. So that 149 00:11:54,519 --> 00:12:00,960 was the idea. Hmm, that was the idea, Commissioner. I am 150 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,200 more convinced than ever that Missus Orlando Drake's murderer is still walking the street. 151 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:11,120 I know actual proof, but I have laid the groundwork for the smoking out 152 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:15,600 process. Shall we say? Now? I want to release two newspaper stories 153 00:12:15,919 --> 00:12:18,879 seuch airs. First, that mister Comedian has a definite lead on the killer 154 00:12:18,919 --> 00:12:24,840 of Missus Orlando Drake, said, mister Comedian firmly believes that Missus Helen Drake 155 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:30,440 was wrongly accused and convicted of the crime. Secondly, and secondly, I 156 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:33,600 am releasing the story. The day after Tomorrow is mister Camellion's birthday. U. 157 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:37,320 Yes, it really is. I had the tough luck to be borne 158 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:41,720 just before Christmas, but even so I expect to receive plenty of presents, 159 00:12:41,759 --> 00:12:46,519 including some of my favorite candid what well, of course, Dave? And 160 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:50,559 what better gift from a well wisher, or rather from some one who doesn't 161 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:54,919 wish me well? Meanwhile, Commissioner, as of tomorrow, I expect to 162 00:12:54,960 --> 00:13:01,360 be working at Marnell's the very French, very elegant candy. And when I 163 00:13:01,399 --> 00:13:05,200 say elegant, I mean elegant, all satin and guilt and candy five dollars 164 00:13:05,279 --> 00:13:09,440 a pound. Have you talked to him. Yet, as I've talked to 165 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,360 Marnell himself, he's engaging me as a clerk tomorrow under the name of Peter 166 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,879 LaRue. And I am very curious to see if any of the Drake family 167 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:22,879 come in to buy some of mister CAMELEON's favorite candy. I am looking for 168 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:35,960 evidence, commissioner evidence. And now the following day, in Marnell's fashionable candy 169 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,799 shop, we find mister Cameleon in his disguise of Peter LaRue, very French, 170 00:13:39,919 --> 00:13:43,480 very distinguished, with his pants and egg glasses, and he's saying to 171 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:48,000 Detective Sergeant Dave Arnold, how do I look, Dave, mister camellon, 172 00:13:48,039 --> 00:13:50,919 all I can say is you don't look like any candy clerk I ever saw. 173 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,200 Well, that's because you've never patronized Marnell's I wonder if the Drake saw 174 00:13:56,240 --> 00:14:00,399 my stories in this morning's paper, both stories I think that he did. 175 00:14:01,519 --> 00:14:05,519 Here comes Horace. Now, good, very good. Go in the bank 176 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:09,120 room, Dave, and keep me Schumann company. Don't let horrors drinks see 177 00:14:09,159 --> 00:14:15,559 you now, watch my friench accent. Good afternoon, sir. What can 178 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,960 I do for you? Well, I'm looking for a certain candy. Who 179 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:22,399 sell here a coffee favored mint? Ah? Yes, yes, this is 180 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:26,960 our specialty. I'd like something. He's a pound box. Oh, dear, 181 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:31,639 I am very sorry. I am afraid we have none today. Now. 182 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:35,200 These coconut creams are another specialty of the house. No, no, 183 00:14:35,279 --> 00:14:41,919 I want the others. Oh you and mister Camillon. What there is a 184 00:14:43,279 --> 00:14:48,360 mister Chameleon. I believe he's the well known detective who like these same coffee 185 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:54,039 mints. He is just as insistent as you are. I'm getting them. 186 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:56,559 Unfortunately, I must have them. When will they be in late this afternoon 187 00:14:56,559 --> 00:15:01,159 tomorrow? Perhaps? Mister Horace? What are you doing here? Missus Sterling? 188 00:15:01,759 --> 00:15:05,840 What are you doing here? I came to buy some candy. I 189 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,480 don't believe you you followed me. Don't be silly, mister Horace. Young 190 00:15:09,519 --> 00:15:13,480 man, woman and I what can I do for you? I want some 191 00:15:13,519 --> 00:15:20,080 of that special candy of yours, coffee flavored mints. Oh that makes it 192 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,840 three of you like our men's, three of us, missus Sterling. They 193 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:26,879 haven't got any. They're out of them today. Out of them? Is 194 00:15:26,919 --> 00:15:30,960 that true? Young man? Oh? Wait a minute, wait a minute, 195 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,000 to have just a count to me and you. Shipment came in from 196 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,559 our candy kitchen a while ago. Let me look under that counter. Excuse 197 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,840 me, please, missus sterling, what do you want with that candy? 198 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,759 I could ask you the same thing, mister Horace. I'm only buying it 199 00:15:43,759 --> 00:15:46,360 because I like it, because I want to eat it myself. There's no 200 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:52,279 reason for you to get so hysterical, mister Horace. Sometimes you still act 201 00:15:52,320 --> 00:15:54,200 like you did when I took care of you as a spoiled little boy. 202 00:15:56,279 --> 00:15:58,399 Maybe you should go up to your place in Connecticut and take a short rest. 203 00:15:58,559 --> 00:16:03,200 Don't the rest there? We are there, we are coffee means, 204 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:07,440 or this is splendid. Will you each take a pound there for fifty pounds 205 00:16:07,559 --> 00:16:11,200 for fifteen I was only given. Well, all right, here it is 206 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:15,840 here you are. Oh, thank you your candy, madame yours, monsieur? 207 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:22,120 Do come again? Thank you? Have I gone, mister Chameleon, 208 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:26,879 Yes, Dave, they've gone. After the very strange and a very revealing 209 00:16:27,039 --> 00:16:33,039 conversation. Now I can hardly wait to find out whether mister Chameleon gets a 210 00:16:33,039 --> 00:16:47,320 present of some of his favorite candy on his birthday. It came, all 211 00:16:47,399 --> 00:16:49,200 right, Commissioner, a pound of my favorite candy is a birthday present, 212 00:16:49,519 --> 00:16:52,039 brought in, of course by the story I put in the paper saying my 213 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:56,440 birthday for is just before Christmas. David is a candy now it's being tested 214 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,799 in the laboratory. How is the package wrapped? Comeleon? Plain brown paper? 215 00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,120 The address was printed and the poison, if there is poison, could 216 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:06,960 easily be inserted in the candy. And if it was, I'll take that 217 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:11,599 commissioner. Hello, Hello, is this mister Comellion. This is Sonia Drake. 218 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,799 Oh, yes, missus Drake, mister comedian, can you come out 219 00:17:14,799 --> 00:17:18,920 to our place immediately? I mean our country place near new Haven. They 220 00:17:18,039 --> 00:17:22,039 just called me from there. Something horrible has happened to your husband. How 221 00:17:22,079 --> 00:17:26,359 did you know? Horace prove out there last night? His body was found 222 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:30,759 just an hour ago. He'd been robbed at a shot shot. I'm leaving 223 00:17:30,799 --> 00:17:33,880 New York for new Haven immediately, I thought, if you could, I'll 224 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,799 be there by the next train or by motor, whichever is the quickest. 225 00:17:37,799 --> 00:17:41,759 Do you give me the dress. We're on Red Rock Road, six miles 226 00:17:41,759 --> 00:17:44,799 out of New Haven. Thank you, missus Drake. I am shocked, 227 00:17:44,799 --> 00:17:48,000 and I promise you I will do my best to find the killer. Commissioner 228 00:17:48,279 --> 00:17:52,279 Horrace Drake was murdered last night near this country place. What where is Dave 229 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,960 Arnold? He should be back from the laboratory with that candy that was sent 230 00:17:56,039 --> 00:18:00,079 me. And if it does contain poison, well, Commissioner killer has rarely 231 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,240 stuck his neck out this time. The term is getting short, Chameleon. 232 00:18:03,599 --> 00:18:07,240 You expect Helen and Drake to be released in time for Christmas? You'll have 233 00:18:07,279 --> 00:18:10,640 to work awfully fast, and I'm doing my best, Commissioner. Even so, 234 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:14,440 I didn't work fast enough to save Harras Drake. Sure he wasn't killed 235 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:18,160 by a hold up man? Positive, Horrace Drake was losing his nerve. 236 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:21,200 Somebody killed him to fear that he go to pieces and tell what he knows 237 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:23,559 about his mother's murder. Chameleon, has it occurred to you that even if 238 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:29,000 Helen Drake should be released from prison or Christmas might not be a happy one. 239 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,640 You mean her husband, John Drake, might be the murderer. Well, 240 00:18:32,759 --> 00:18:37,200 he benefited financially from his mother's death. Of course, a man must 241 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,119 be a monster to kill his own mother and let his wife be set a 242 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,440 jail for it. Monsters have no novelty to Megian Missioner. But I have 243 00:18:42,519 --> 00:18:47,160 a thady an. Mister chameleon, you guessed right that parts of your favorite 244 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,319 county was full of poison. Every piece had a lethal dose, I thought, 245 00:18:49,359 --> 00:18:52,400 So, how has it done, Dave? Tiny hall was made in 246 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,400 the candy with a needle, but the hole was big enough to take in 247 00:18:56,519 --> 00:19:00,559 enough poison. Wonderful, wonderful, you have a weird sense of what's wonderful, 248 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,640 Chameleon. No, no, but at least I have a weapon to 249 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:07,319 use now. Before I had nothing but vague suspicions. But the killer made 250 00:19:07,319 --> 00:19:08,839 the mistake of placing a weapon in my hands. What do you mean, 251 00:19:08,839 --> 00:19:12,880 mister cameleon. No weapon? The candy day a box of candy, not 252 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,519 the one with a poison in it, but a duplicate box, which I 253 00:19:15,519 --> 00:19:19,519 shall buy at Manell's, and armed with that candy, we shall go to 254 00:19:19,559 --> 00:19:23,559 the Drake's country home near New Haven. What horrace Drake went out there last 255 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,799 night? He was waylaid, robbed, and shot to death in his car. 256 00:19:27,319 --> 00:19:33,279 Mister Camelion, the killer is really losing their nerve, and my birthday 257 00:19:33,319 --> 00:19:45,359 box of candy will make them lose it completely. Mister cameleon and the woman's 258 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:51,880 weapon murder case continues in just a moment. 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So to relieve painful cold symptoms, take two 267 00:20:27,079 --> 00:20:32,759 Bayer aspirin tablets with a full glass of water, and to ease accompanying sore 268 00:20:32,799 --> 00:20:37,480 throat gargle with three Bayer tablets dissolved in one third of a glass of water. 269 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:41,319 When you buy ask for Bayer aspirin by its full name. Never buy 270 00:20:41,319 --> 00:20:45,279 the name aspirin alone. Get the one hundred tablet bottle and you get Bayer 271 00:20:45,319 --> 00:20:55,720 Aspirin tablets for less than a penny apiece. And now back to mister Chameleon 272 00:20:56,039 --> 00:21:02,599 and the woman's weapon murder case. Mister Camellion has become convinced that Helen Drake, 273 00:21:02,759 --> 00:21:06,039 who is now in prison, was wrongly convicted of her mother in law's 274 00:21:06,039 --> 00:21:10,559 poison murder, and the behavior of the wealthy Drake family when he reopens the 275 00:21:10,599 --> 00:21:15,000 case convinces him further that justice has not been done. And we find him 276 00:21:15,039 --> 00:21:18,359 now a detective Sergeant Dave Arnold, near the country home of Horace Drake, 277 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:22,240 who has just been killed. Here we are, damn, that's the Drake 278 00:21:22,319 --> 00:21:26,599 house right ahead of his USh. This is sure a lonely spot, mister 279 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:30,160 Chamelion, isn't it. Horrors Drake must have been killed just about him. 280 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,880 Hey, mister Camelion, there's no light in the house. Well, that's 281 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:41,559 strange, sonya. Drake should have been here at this hour ago. Come 282 00:21:41,599 --> 00:21:51,240 along day. Do you suppose they heard the car stop? Possibly? I 283 00:21:51,319 --> 00:21:52,720 doubt if anyone will take his shot at us. This is the type of 284 00:21:52,839 --> 00:21:56,920 killer who prefers more subtle methods. Mister camilion. Look, there's a light 285 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:02,519 in that room, just one life, and there's someone pacing up and down. 286 00:22:03,839 --> 00:22:07,880 John Drake, m m A murdered man's brother, not all housekeeper. 287 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:17,440 Missus Sterling is sitting watching him, ring the bell, Dave, bring it 288 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:25,920 again, keep your finger on if necessary. That's enough. Someone's coming. 289 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:33,839 Open up, Missus Stelling. It's mister chameleon. What are you doing here? 290 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,599 Sonia Drake sent for me. I suggest that you let us in, 291 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:44,519 and quickly too. Missus Drake is upstairs. She's been prostrated by your husband's 292 00:22:44,559 --> 00:22:48,680 death. Go upstairs and fetch her. Please upstairs and fetcher, Missus Sterling. 293 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,880 Yes, I shall be in the other room with John Drake. Come 294 00:22:52,880 --> 00:23:00,519 along, David. Mister Drake, oh, mister cameleon. O. Sonya 295 00:23:00,559 --> 00:23:03,839 sent for you. Yes, your sister in law, Sonya told me that 296 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,279 your brother Horace has been murdered. I can't believe it. I can't believe 297 00:23:07,319 --> 00:23:11,799 it. Poor Horace. Yes, poor Horace. I am almost as sorry 298 00:23:11,799 --> 00:23:15,440 for him as I am for your wife, Helen. What do you mean 299 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,400 you don't believe my brother was killed by hold up men. He was killed 300 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:25,000 because he knew too much about your mother's murderer. What tell me, mister 301 00:23:25,039 --> 00:23:27,039 Drake, where are your sons? They're not here in this house. No, 302 00:23:27,039 --> 00:23:30,559 no, that their school holidays don't begin until tomorrow. Why what I 303 00:23:30,599 --> 00:23:33,880 have to say may be extremely shocking, though no more shocking than the belief 304 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,880 that their mother is a murdress. Mister Comedian, My wife, Helen isn't 305 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:40,759 a murderers now, she is not. I know that now, just a 306 00:23:40,799 --> 00:23:45,359 case of getting a confession from the real murderer. I intend to get that 307 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,359 confession before I leave this house. Oh here, Missus Sterling, and your 308 00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:52,079 sister in law, Missus Drake. Mister Comedian, it was very good of 309 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:55,799 you to get here so quickly. Might have gotten here sooner, Missus Drake, 310 00:23:55,839 --> 00:23:57,559 if I hadn't stopped along the way to talk to a night watchman on 311 00:23:57,599 --> 00:24:02,160 your block in the city. Night watchman, yes, Missus Sterling, a 312 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,319 night watchman. I want to find out if he'd seen Horrace Drake drive off 313 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:10,880 last night. It seems that he had. Horror Drake left New York at 314 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:15,200 ten o'clock. He was murdered, I believe a little after midnight. Well, 315 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,279 mister Drake, where were you last night? Between nine o'clock and three 316 00:24:18,319 --> 00:24:19,640 in the morning. Mister Camelian, are you implying that one of us here 317 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,519 killed my brother Hans? Please? I was home in bed, I went 318 00:24:22,559 --> 00:24:27,880 to bed early, you Sonia Drake, and so did I. One of 319 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:32,319 you happens to be lying now, mister Drake, I have been going over 320 00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:34,880 the evidence which was given at your wife Helen's trial, the evidence to put 321 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,480 her in prison where she is now two days before Christmas? What evidence? 322 00:24:38,759 --> 00:24:44,200 The evidence at the trial showed that she bought the candy which killed your mother, 323 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,960 as Missus Sterling testified, she even gave it to your mother. Oh, 324 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,039 which reminds me as some one sent me some of my favorite candid days 325 00:24:51,039 --> 00:24:53,880 a gift. I have it right here. Do you like some? No, 326 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:56,359 and please get to the point, mister commedianyess, I am getting to 327 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,000 the point. But I must have a piece of this day. Huh. 328 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,440 Oh, yes, I really delicious. I think I have a second piece 329 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,640 now, was I? Oh? Yes? The candy which killed your mother, 330 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,599 mister Drake, was in the house half a day, so there were 331 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:17,720 several people who had plenty of time to poison it. Missus Sterling, Sonya 332 00:25:17,799 --> 00:25:19,880 Drake, and you John Drake. All of you could have done it. 333 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:25,039 But how yes, how by making a tiny hole in the candy with a 334 00:25:25,079 --> 00:25:30,200 needle and inserting the poison, which sure reminds me, Missus Drake. Won't 335 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,400 you have one of these? You mean one of your candies? Yes, 336 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,839 I'd specially like to have you try them. But I don't eat candy. 337 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,720 I'm afraid I must insist take a piece, please, I don't want you 338 00:25:40,759 --> 00:25:42,920 have to. No, you can't make me, John, Missus Sterling, 339 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,920 don't let him do this, Miss Drake, I don't want any candy. 340 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,759 You're going to eat some of it just the same. Or are you afraid 341 00:25:48,759 --> 00:25:52,960 they're poisoned? No, no, of course not. I won't. I 342 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,000 won't do it because you're pretty sure they are poisoned, and you are the 343 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,480 one who poisoned them. You sent both your husband and Missus Sterling buy them. 344 00:26:00,839 --> 00:26:03,720 Your husband suspected what you were up to. Missus Sterling wasn't sure, 345 00:26:03,079 --> 00:26:06,440 but you figured if the worst should happen, you could push it off on 346 00:26:06,519 --> 00:26:10,319 them. You weren't anywhere near that candy shop, and neither were they. 347 00:26:10,599 --> 00:26:15,279 Oh yes they were. I have no weight on them myself. Mister Camelian, 348 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,160 the clerk in the candy shot that was you and dis guise. Yes, 349 00:26:19,279 --> 00:26:22,839 missus Sterling, did she send Joe? Did you go to buy that 350 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:29,240 candy Sonia Drake's request, Yes, I have suspected, but I didn't want 351 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:33,119 to believe it. I didn't want to believe that I had said an innocent 352 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,359 woman Helen Drake to prison. You still haven't proved anything, mister comedian. 353 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,079 No, Sonia Drake, but the watchman saw a woman leave your house in 354 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,640 New York at nine o'clock last night. He saw her return at three this 355 00:26:45,799 --> 00:26:48,480 morning. That gave you plenty of time to get up here and kill your 356 00:26:48,559 --> 00:26:52,839 husband and take the train back. Now, would you try this candy? 357 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,720 Or must I force you to? No, you can't force me to take 358 00:26:56,759 --> 00:27:03,000 it. I admit that I did it. I killed my mother in law. 359 00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:07,440 I wanted the money that Horace would inherit from his mother. You let 360 00:27:07,519 --> 00:27:11,640 Helen go to prison for something you did. You sent my wife to prison. 361 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:14,480 Yes, John, I admit it. Just don't make me eat that 362 00:27:14,599 --> 00:27:21,079 candy. It means death, the most horrible kind of day. But you 363 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:26,039 took some. Mister Chamelion and Detective Sergeant Arnold, and we are both still 364 00:27:26,079 --> 00:27:29,400 alive. This is not the candy that you sent me, Missus Drake. 365 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:33,240 You would have been quite safe in taking a piece of it. What now? 366 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,400 I have been sure all along that a woman was the killer. Poisonous 367 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,480 so often a woman's weapon, and I counted on a woman's emotionalism tool. 368 00:27:41,039 --> 00:27:45,079 I was pretty sure that in a crisis that emotionalism would betray you. Why 369 00:27:45,319 --> 00:27:47,920 why did I give my suppor I arrest you, son, your Drake for 370 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,640 the murder last summer of your mother in law, missus Orlando Drake, and 371 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:59,720 for the murder last night of your husband Horris A mister Chimeleion, Please Dave. 372 00:28:02,839 --> 00:28:06,079 I always knew my wife Helen couldn't have done it, but it took 373 00:28:06,079 --> 00:28:08,720 you to prove it. Mister Camellion, I'll never forget your motto the innocent 374 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:17,160 must be protected. When when will they let Helen out of prison tomorrow in 375 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:27,359 time for Christmas? And twenty four hours later, at the blend In Prison 376 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:32,400 for Women, a glowing faced mister Camillian is walking arm in arm with a 377 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,960 pale but happy woman and he is saying, I couldn't resist it, Helen, 378 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,000 Drank. I just couldn't resist coming here and getting you myself and delivering 379 00:28:41,039 --> 00:28:45,680 you personally to your husband and your two boys. Mister camellion, I'll never 380 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,240 be able to thank you enough. I still don't know how you did it 381 00:28:48,559 --> 00:28:52,720 well. Your sister in law Sonia co operated as I told her, I 382 00:28:52,839 --> 00:28:56,720 was positive that a woman had committed that murder. That narrowed the field to 383 00:28:56,759 --> 00:29:03,720 her and missus tling. But I'm yes. But my shall we say, 384 00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:07,880 my male intuition told me that you were innocent, all my cops intuition. 385 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,880 That's a great deal more accurate. You know, of course, mister chameleon, 386 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:17,720 that you're giving me the most wonderful Christmas present. And John and the 387 00:29:17,759 --> 00:29:21,960 boys, what's the best Christmas we've ever had? Well, perhaps that goes 388 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,440 for me too. No, we all like to play Sandy Claus, and 389 00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:29,480 I have been able to play Sandy Clause and see justice done at the same 390 00:29:29,559 --> 00:30:00,240 time. And with these words, mister Cameleon concludes tonight's murder case. Next 391 00:30:00,279 --> 00:30:04,720 time an ordinary headache threatens to spoil your plans, get fast relief by taking 392 00:30:04,799 --> 00:30:10,799 Bayer aspirin. You'll be amazed at how quickly Bayer aspirin works. 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This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back. 418 00:32:57,119 --> 00:33:00,599 Now, before we get into discussion, I do want to just make 419 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:07,359 this observation. By my calculation, the solution to the case came on December 420 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,559 twenty third, so mister Chameleon could escort the woman home on Christmas Eve. 421 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:17,440 Mister Chameleon's birthday was the previous day, and this will be released on December 422 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:22,440 twenty first, So mister Chameleon's birthday is tomorrow, so it's probably appropriate just 423 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:28,880 to wish a happy mister Chameleon's birthday to all who celebrate. With that. 424 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:32,920 Let's go ahead and we'll talk about your thoughts on the episode. Can you 425 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:39,680 say that again? Yeah, tomorrow is mister Chameleon's birthday. So okay, 426 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:45,240 mister Kameleian's birthday to everybody who celebrates. I just like the thought process you 427 00:33:45,279 --> 00:33:50,880 got to it. Yeah, today's tomorrow's birthday. I thought it was yesterday. 428 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,960 No, it's tomorrow. It's December twenty second. Well, I want 429 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:58,519 to say one thing about I noticed that. I don't know if anybody else 430 00:33:58,559 --> 00:34:00,200 notice, but Adam, you're the only one. They did not have Christmas 431 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:04,160 in your title. Yeah. I don't know if we should we should allow 432 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,799 we should probably start all over. I think you should pick another episode. 433 00:34:07,639 --> 00:34:13,400 Not Actually none of our Christmas episodes actually have Christmas in their title this week. 434 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,639 I don't know mind what's called the twas the Night before Christmas? Well, 435 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:21,599 not of mine, I'm saying. So, oh okay, I just 436 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:28,440 I I will say that for me, coffee flavored mint sounds awful. Yeah, 437 00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:31,199 I was hoping we weren't going to bring that one up. Leave it 438 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:35,360 to me. Of course, mint flavored coffee is okay, it's just the 439 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:37,559 other way around. See, I'm a big fan of coffee, so my 440 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,920 yeah, exactly. My wife would would love that, I'm sure. But 441 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,480 even though I grew up in Seattle, the coffee capital of the world, 442 00:34:45,599 --> 00:34:50,199 I am not a coffee drinker. But I think my wife would have loved 443 00:34:50,199 --> 00:34:52,599 the mints. She would have she would have taken one from mister Chameleon, 444 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,920 but I would have passed, not because of the poison, but just the 445 00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:00,599 flavor. Yeah. I'm from Vermont and we have Green Mountain con which is 446 00:35:00,639 --> 00:35:02,400 pretty big around here. And yeah, I'm not I'm not a fan, 447 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:08,639 and I like that. I think that it actually works for mister Kameelian's purpose 448 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:14,199 to have that as the candy, because if somebody goes to buy the candy, 449 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,599 it's to poison them, not because they actually want the stuff. True, 450 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:22,719 that definitely does make it stick out like a sore thumb. The other 451 00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:28,880 thing I noticed is as the sorry the music in this series, in all 452 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,800 of mister Camillion. I'm sitting here listening to them. I know I've heard 453 00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,559 these, you know, intro and outros, right, so they're cutting to 454 00:35:35,599 --> 00:35:38,000 commercials and stuff, and I'm like, I've heard these before. And then 455 00:35:38,079 --> 00:35:42,719 I'm flipping through old TV shows and I'm like, oh, this is just 456 00:35:43,039 --> 00:35:50,480 stock radio music put into TV. And when I first heard them, they 457 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,559 were on TV. So it's just kind of cool to see where a lot 458 00:35:52,559 --> 00:35:59,320 of these older sound bites came from. And we're still using, probably still 459 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:04,119 used on t T this day. We're a world of recycling ideas and recycling 460 00:36:04,199 --> 00:36:07,599 music. Well, John Soller, Well go ahead. I was just gonna 461 00:36:07,599 --> 00:36:12,199 say King Solomon said there is nothing new under the sun, and that was 462 00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:16,679 what three thousand years ago, So yeah, we recycle a lot. Oh 463 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:25,199 yeah, and uh music wise, Uh, Dick Tricy, actually the TV 464 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:31,119 show used the Johnny Dollar theme, although the Dick Tracy TV show same came 465 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:37,280 before Johnny Dollar Radio the serial, so it may have been a case of 466 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:42,360 vice versa on the recycling. Now, did did you know? I used 467 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,800 to like love listen watching, like reading detective books, and usually I used 468 00:36:45,840 --> 00:36:51,159 to be pretty good at figuring them out, but every time these old time 469 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,960 radio shows. I don't know, like with let George do it or with 470 00:36:54,079 --> 00:36:59,039 mister Cameleon, I still don't know how they just oh yeah, I knew 471 00:36:59,039 --> 00:37:04,039 who the killer was like like a half hour ago. I really thought it 472 00:37:04,079 --> 00:37:08,000 was the other brother. Well, mister Coneli made an assumption about who did 473 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:15,119 it. And it's kind of interesting because he actually, with the commissioner, 474 00:37:15,199 --> 00:37:20,920 was open to the idea that a man might have committed the crime, but 475 00:37:21,119 --> 00:37:24,639 then when he was explaining the solution, he acted like I was one hundred 476 00:37:25,519 --> 00:37:31,199 sent sure it was a woman and therefore it was you. Well, even 477 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:37,480 even today in modern detective shows, they do, you know, profilers do 478 00:37:37,559 --> 00:37:44,119 make a point that there are certain weapons that women tend to use to commit 479 00:37:44,199 --> 00:37:49,679 murders and certain weapons that men tend to use, so that that is a 480 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,320 concept that's been around for a while. But I thought it. I thought 481 00:37:52,360 --> 00:38:00,800 it was a good twist for the woman who committed the original murder using poison. 482 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:02,840 She went ahead though, and killed her husband with a gun, and 483 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:07,000 that kind of I think, at least it seemed to me that mister Camellian 484 00:38:07,079 --> 00:38:10,119 was a little bit surprised at first. Oh wait, this guy just got 485 00:38:10,119 --> 00:38:15,920 shot with a gun. Maybe that doesn't fit my thought that a woman was 486 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,239 doing this, but of course, I mean he was right, it was 487 00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,960 I was way off. I thought it was a team between the missus Sterling, 488 00:38:24,039 --> 00:38:30,239 the housekeeper, and you know, John the brother. I was way 489 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:34,360 off. Yeah, I don't know. I think the fact that they were 490 00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:38,199 both at the store, yeah, I don't think they I didn't think they 491 00:38:38,199 --> 00:38:45,280 were working together because or otherwise there would have been a third person involved, 492 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:50,920 I would think, which I guess would would kind of go back to John's 493 00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:55,960 wife or the brother's wife. Well, that's the thing is because Horace was 494 00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:00,159 the one at the store and he was surprised. I just see Missus Sterling, 495 00:39:00,199 --> 00:39:02,880 so I knew they weren't working together. And then Horace gets shot, 496 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,159 so I'm like, well, then it's got to be John. It's got 497 00:39:07,159 --> 00:39:10,199 to be John. That because she met Missus Sterling made that comment like I 498 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:15,719 was only given this amount, So I knew she was working with somebody, 499 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,639 or she was there because of somebody else. But I did not even think 500 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:25,800 it was Horace's wife. I kind of figured it wasn't John, just because 501 00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:31,159 it was Christmas and they were going gonna probably go for a happy ending, 502 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:37,880 but that's not really something you can gather organically from the mystery. No, 503 00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,320 I just did. I just did suspense, so you know, I didn't 504 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:45,320 expect that to have a happy ending either. Well, any other comments on 505 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:51,920 the episode before we go, I I didn't want to talk, just kind 506 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:55,800 of go around and talk about because we've got the Old Time each of us 507 00:39:55,840 --> 00:40:02,199 have got our own Old Time radio podcast. U. What can listeners expect 508 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:07,559 to hear on each of your podcast in the new year? Are there any 509 00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:12,119 new shows you've got planned or are looking at. Let's just go ahead and 510 00:40:12,519 --> 00:40:17,480 talk about what listeners can expect in twenty twenty four. So for my show 511 00:40:17,639 --> 00:40:22,480 doing the Westerns, we have a lot of shows that are hopefully coming to 512 00:40:22,519 --> 00:40:25,559 an end. Some of the song and dance ones are get a little tiresome 513 00:40:25,559 --> 00:40:29,880 after a while, but there's some ones that we haven't actually released yet, 514 00:40:30,159 --> 00:40:34,800 a Ranger Bills one that we're looking at doing Tales of the Diamond k There's 515 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:38,519 just a lot of different ones that our genres we've never or shows we've never 516 00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:44,920 put out there, and we're definitely always trying to get those mixed in and 517 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:51,360 trying to fit within our release schedule because, of course the problem with some 518 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,480 of the shows. The Lone Range is an example. I've got twenty thousand 519 00:40:53,559 --> 00:40:59,440 episodes, so it takes me a while to get through a year on those, 520 00:40:59,519 --> 00:41:01,920 so we're always trying to burn through them. But yeah, we've got 521 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:07,039 a couple of new shows coming, ones I've never heard of and definitely look 522 00:41:07,079 --> 00:41:09,840 forward to putting out there and hopefully everybody comes over and takes a listen. 523 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:16,639 Now on classic comedy, we have been I've been doing the podcast for five 524 00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:22,440 years and doing Bob Hope once a week on Wednesdays. We are just now 525 00:41:22,559 --> 00:41:29,519 coming to the end of Bob Hope. That'll be in twenty twenty four. 526 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:34,920 I think we're going to replace him when we finally end Bob Hope in spite 527 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:37,719 of the fact this is I mean, he did so many years that he 528 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:43,119 was on from like I think it was thirty eight to fifty four, but 529 00:41:43,519 --> 00:41:47,239 we're still missing way more than half of the episodes. But eventually, I 530 00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:52,280 think we're going to replace him with Jack Benny, another type of sketch comedy. 531 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:57,840 When we come to the end of the life of Riley and the Aldrich 532 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:02,519 Family, I'm looking at Fiver McGee and Mollie, our Miss Brooks and a 533 00:42:02,559 --> 00:42:07,159 couple of others, but yeah, we will all all three of our shows 534 00:42:07,199 --> 00:42:14,000 will be new sometime in twenty twenty four. Mannie for I Levell Time Radio. 535 00:42:14,599 --> 00:42:16,760 We just started the Green Hornet, so that will be with us for 536 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:22,360 a while. Suspense has got thousands, over one thousand episodes, so we'll 537 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:27,360 be doing that for quite a while. Our Miss Brooke and not you you're 538 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:32,199 doing ar Miss Brooks, I'm doing My Favorite Husband. That one will be 539 00:42:32,519 --> 00:42:39,079 probably ending. And it looks like we're gonna have George Burns and Gracie join 540 00:42:39,199 --> 00:42:45,840 us for on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Let George do It will be with us 541 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:47,960 for a little bit. And on Fridays, ab A Castelle will be leaving 542 00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:53,079 and we'll have Bing Crosby joining us on Fridays. Wow, some uh big, 543 00:42:53,400 --> 00:43:02,400 some big schedule changes over here. On Great Detectives, we're going to 544 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:07,480 reach the end of the Johnny Dollar serials and we're going to have a couple 545 00:43:07,639 --> 00:43:13,599 of surprise returns that people want to listen for, and then we will be 546 00:43:13,639 --> 00:43:19,119 getting into bulldog drumming and I think that will carry us through most of the 547 00:43:19,119 --> 00:43:22,599 rest of the year, and then at some point some point this year, 548 00:43:22,639 --> 00:43:30,679 we're going to wrap up both Dangerous Assignment and Mister Chameleon and they will be 549 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:38,079 replaced, respectively with Broadway is My Beat, and then we will be playing 550 00:43:38,199 --> 00:43:44,159 Mister and Missus North on Thursday. So we've got those changes. Those are 551 00:43:44,159 --> 00:43:47,039 going to be more towards the second half of the year, but I think 552 00:43:47,079 --> 00:43:52,519 we've got some great shows to look forward to. And I want to thank 553 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:59,480 each of you for joining us and for sharing about today's episode, and you 554 00:43:59,519 --> 00:44:05,119 can check out each of their podcasts and we will include them in the show 555 00:44:05,199 --> 00:44:14,039 notes, and they were actually hosted me each of the last three days, 556 00:44:14,079 --> 00:44:20,039 so go back and check out those episodes over at their websites, and again 557 00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:27,880 all that going to be in the show notes and at your specific websites, 558 00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:32,960 and that will actually do it. I do want to thank our Patreon supporter 559 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,000 of the day really quick. Thank you so much to Deborah. Deborah has 560 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:42,079 been one of our Patreon supporters since December twenty eighteen, currently supporting us at 561 00:44:42,079 --> 00:44:45,599 the Detective Sergeant level a seven dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. 562 00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:50,960 Thanks so much for your support. Debra and we will be back next Thursday 563 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,760 with Actually we'll be back in two weeks on mister Chameleon, as next week 564 00:44:54,800 --> 00:45:00,320 will be our vacation week. But join us back here tomorrow for the conclusion 565 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:05,159 of the Nick shar matter, where Johnny, I want to ask you something 566 00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,239 about my daughter, and I want you to answer me honest, all right, 567 00:45:09,079 --> 00:45:12,320 you know he was trying to fool your She's here, all right, 568 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,679 I know, but she hasn't told me what it was. It happened in 569 00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:20,079 the York, but she ran away from it somehow. I figured it was 570 00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,800 just as well not to ask her your sure if Dan Martin said practically the 571 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:27,239 same thing. Dan's been in love with Kathy since he was twelve years old. 572 00:45:27,239 --> 00:45:30,920 He's a good man sold so I forget. Anyway, she was scared, 573 00:45:31,639 --> 00:45:36,760 scared have to dick, and she'd come home for help, so we 574 00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:38,719 tried to help. What wasn't you wanted to ask me, mister O there 575 00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:44,440 you mentioned a murder case, Johnny. You didn't give any of the details, 576 00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:49,159 just said that Kathy was her witness. Is is she mixed up in 577 00:45:49,199 --> 00:45:53,159 this murder? And you wanted an honestancing In the meantime, do send your 578 00:45:53,199 --> 00:45:57,800 comments box. Thore Peen at Right Detectives dot net. Follow us on Twitter 579 00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,960 at Radio Detactives. Check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, 580 00:46:01,039 --> 00:46:06,679 slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham 581 00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:07,480 signing off.