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The National Broadcasting Company 19 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:35,120 presents the Adventures of Sam Spade. Detective can't say detective agency boon no boow 20 00:02:35,599 --> 00:02:40,719 no, I beg your part? Why not to you companello? And why 21 00:02:40,759 --> 00:02:44,960 are you nothing at all? Sweetheart? I just happened to have the tourist 22 00:02:45,039 --> 00:02:47,960 lists of handy Italian phrases before me. North Beach. Never did that tube 23 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,639 North Beach, never did anybody like it just stood me. But I thought 24 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,560 you said, oh, by Tolomeo just wanted you to drop by for a 25 00:02:55,599 --> 00:03:00,800 friendy time and some garlic, bread and red wine. But that explained the 26 00:03:00,879 --> 00:03:05,000 knife gash on my coat, my old tweet. Now, Cherub, you 27 00:03:05,039 --> 00:03:08,800 see it was never meant to be swimming day. Yeah yeah, what else? 28 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:13,199 By Now, your keen feminine instinct should tell you this is not the 29 00:03:13,319 --> 00:03:15,400 social call, wonder girl. As a matter of fact, I plan to 30 00:03:15,439 --> 00:03:22,080 drop by Presto presto with words and a little something I call view of Fisherman's 31 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:35,080 Wharf from the water or the crab Louis Caper Transcribe brand d C. William 32 00:03:35,159 --> 00:03:39,520 Spear, Radio's outstanding producer, director of Mystery and Prime Drama, brings you 33 00:03:39,599 --> 00:03:53,759 the greatest private detective of them all in the Adventures of Sam's Bade. One 34 00:03:54,280 --> 00:04:08,439 young old well blowning up on carbatory. Taylor, How Taylor great? Great? 35 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:12,560 What's it mean? I found my secretary sist of most used Italian phrases? 36 00:04:12,599 --> 00:04:18,959 Then it means I want a carburator for my vatchuret I'll remember that the 37 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:26,720 show we proceed with the business at hand. They fill it in two by 38 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,480 a Ptolommeo Majore, copied to Lieutenant Rossi in North Beach Division from Samuel's Fade, 39 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:34,959 License number one three seventy five nine six, subject the crab Bluie Caper, 40 00:04:35,439 --> 00:04:42,279 Dear Partolomeo. Fisherman's Wharf, as you know, is as changeable as 41 00:04:42,319 --> 00:04:46,680 an Italian winch all smiles and laughter of a Saturday night with the lights blazing 42 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,519 in the chapino palazzas and the tourists three DP around the steaming cauldron's outside. 43 00:04:50,879 --> 00:04:56,120 But it's something else again of an early dawn, dark and lonely and quiet, 44 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,120 except for the mutter of engines as the crab boat snows out into the 45 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,480 fog to hang over the gate. Last night was somewhere in between. The 46 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,639 lights were blinking out as I left my cab and walked over to your place 47 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:10,000 of business, a gaudily painted building at the foot of the wharf with a 48 00:05:10,079 --> 00:05:16,680 red, yellow and blue sign reading Musaio majori Curios Souvenirs waxworks Admission ten cents. 49 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:27,920 Who is it? I'm Sam Spade by Tolomeo called me here fast grod 50 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:35,079 with the end of the war. Is there anything I can do? Sorry? 51 00:05:39,439 --> 00:05:42,399 Except for Foske's at the very end. The wharf was dark now. 52 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,680 It seemed early, as if something had interfered with business as usual, and 53 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:47,480 my late customers had been brushed off a couple of hours ahead of time. 54 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,279 I peeked through a hole in one of Foske's window shades and saw why. 55 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:59,360 It looked like the entire population of North Beach was inside. If everyone is 56 00:05:59,439 --> 00:06:02,839 ready? A man? Was it this me? Yes? You, what 57 00:06:02,879 --> 00:06:05,600 do you want? I'm saying Spade by telling me I'm jure I sent for 58 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:15,040 me, He say you're senior Spade. Ah see see out there, missus 59 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:20,680 pad You are wondering why you are here. It was a matter of fact. 60 00:06:20,759 --> 00:06:23,959 I am but telling me. I thought, I know, I know 61 00:06:24,519 --> 00:06:29,480 it. It's about my son. Louis my son, my only son. 62 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:36,040 Oh he's an inside no no, not inside out in the darkness somewhere called 63 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:42,920 and alone. You you mean he can see? Six days now they have 64 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,319 searched for his body. Oh when did it happen? One week today? 65 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:53,319 Crab bone? He's about something? Was he alone when it happened? You 66 00:06:53,519 --> 00:07:00,360 detectives, You strike the point. Louis always always official, long until this 67 00:07:00,439 --> 00:07:06,600 time. Who went on Dominictorio, his friend Dominick. This gathering is assembled 68 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:13,839 in Dominic's on. You see you mean hearing or something something more than that. 69 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:19,879 Come listen to them. I'm a sick in my belly. I'm a 70 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:25,839 sick. This all prepo factory. You should telling the ticket your temper A 71 00:07:27,879 --> 00:07:34,000 fact fact fact six years louis fishing the crab along. Each day's a layover, 72 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:38,639 close the brake, a line and stringing the party. Each day he's 73 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:44,439 bringing the sun Philippe home, hockey Donckey, that's writing a body so sure, 74 00:07:44,839 --> 00:07:47,600 until one fine day Dominic to hit the goal with Louis for help. 75 00:07:48,199 --> 00:07:58,279 Hell, although we must deal in fac dominic is spending fact hits, the 76 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:03,480 kill Louis, showy the Louis and you know why because it's the water Rodaliah, 77 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:09,920 not the why. See how? Who's Rosalia? We must have seen 78 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:16,800 her at the crying yes with the reason. Next week she and my Louis 79 00:08:16,839 --> 00:08:22,720 were to be married. It's tough. Do you think it's done? Was 80 00:08:22,759 --> 00:08:26,399 in love with her? Maybe? I think nothing? Senor. Two men 81 00:08:26,839 --> 00:08:31,000 friends alone and about and heavy fog. One of them dies, the other 82 00:08:31,159 --> 00:08:35,600 says it is an accident. It's not for us to think or make guesses. 83 00:08:37,279 --> 00:08:39,519 Say what am I supposed to do? In the records of the police, 84 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:45,879 Senor, my Louis die in an accident in the Heartspitz friends, he 85 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,840 was murdered for my sake, for Dominic's, for the sake of us own. 86 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,879 We must know the truth for this, I prefer to employ one who 87 00:08:54,960 --> 00:09:03,240 is a professional and impartial. God We're going I don't believe it, We 88 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:11,559 believe me before heaven. I mit it once again. Dominic oh far was 89 00:09:11,639 --> 00:09:16,159 the boat from seal Rocks on one hundred yards. I think heard the break 90 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:24,600 Sileno. Let Dominic tell the story. Go on. No, you had 91 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:28,840 dropped the last crab pot over the side. Then something went wrong with the 92 00:09:28,919 --> 00:09:31,200 motor. Louis told me to look at it. I went below. Then 93 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,600 it happened Louis was leaning over the gun on. We untangled a float and 94 00:09:33,639 --> 00:09:37,080 the sea took us by the stern we broached. I saw him go over 95 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:41,919 and plunge into the white water. I brought the boat about him for two 96 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,879 hours. I yelled, I circled around, I blew the whistle everything, 97 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,840 and the coast guard came fosky. I swear it. That's all I know. 98 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:58,799 I never saw her. Silence, My brothers, it was your will 99 00:09:58,919 --> 00:10:03,919 that I sit here and judgment of Dominicatorio before I go on. Are there 100 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:11,519 any more questions you'll have to ask him? Are there any among you who 101 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:18,159 have evidence to offer against him? So be it. You know as well 102 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:24,600 as I there is only one verdict. Heere the charges dismissed. The court 103 00:10:24,759 --> 00:10:35,159 is adjourned. Everyone was still for a second, like a big table, 104 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:39,200 usky, white haired and dignified on the platform, looking down at Dominic and 105 00:10:39,279 --> 00:10:41,279 the rest of them, all on their feet now boring holes through him with 106 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:46,080 their eyes. He was the first to move, turning slowly walking out through 107 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:50,279 the crowd toward the door, looking tentatively from face to face, knowing now 108 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:52,759 he hadn't been acquitted at all. As one by one they turned their backs 109 00:10:52,799 --> 00:10:58,679 on me. I felt terribly sorry for Dominic until he walked past me. 110 00:10:58,919 --> 00:11:01,639 I got to look at his face, at his eyes in my racket, 111 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,679 I see that looked more often than the next guy. I never saw it 112 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:11,320 any clearer than I did now. It was fear and hatred and guilt. 113 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,120 So I left you talking to Fasci Bartlomeo and walked back down to the wharf 114 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:28,559 to the Missaio Rosaliah. I told you bartelomme was not here. I've seen 115 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:31,240 Bartelommeo. I want to talk to you. Sit down. I don't want 116 00:11:31,279 --> 00:11:39,399 to sit down. That's a good girl. It was quite a place, 117 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:43,039 the missel i catch all for everything Naughtico you would run across in sixty odd 118 00:11:43,159 --> 00:11:46,440 years of living on the sere next to it, from a ten foot shot 119 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:50,919 pickled in formaldehyde to a life size figure of Captain Kid complete with drawn sword, 120 00:11:50,039 --> 00:11:54,519 lace cuffs and treasure chest at his feet next to the door. I 121 00:11:54,639 --> 00:11:58,639 turned back to Rosalia, sitting on a rum keg under a flickering hurricane lamp, 122 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:01,039 the only light in the What do you want of me? Telling me? 123 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:05,120 Or wants the truth about what happened on the sand? Felipe deciding that 124 00:12:05,279 --> 00:12:11,159 at the meeting they already did you mean Dominic? How did they decide? 125 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,960 Dismissed the charges? No evidence, no witnesses was the only thing Fusty could 126 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:20,320 do. You feel better? It doesn't bring back my Louis, No, 127 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,919 it doesn't. Dominic's going free now from both the law and his people. 128 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,960 No vengeance for Louis? Why were you crying when I came by tonight? 129 00:12:28,159 --> 00:12:31,440 Haven't either right to cry with my Louis? Drop it? Why didn't you 130 00:12:31,519 --> 00:12:35,600 go to the meeting afraid to give yourself away? I didn't feel like it, 131 00:12:35,720 --> 00:12:39,600 That's all. You're a Sicilian, Rosaliah. Vengeance is pretty important to 132 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:41,600 you. If you'd loved Louis, you would have been in there screaming for 133 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:45,639 Dominic's scout you shut your mouth. But no, you sat home crying, 134 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,200 not for Louis but for Dominic. Right, how long had it been going 135 00:12:48,279 --> 00:12:52,559 on? Did you know? Dominic was going to kill him when they put 136 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,279 out in the sand, Felipe, Why would Dominic kill him? That's a 137 00:12:56,360 --> 00:13:01,080 stupid question. He's in love with you, in love with me. I 138 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:07,159 love with me, You love with me? Oh, I wish it were 139 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:11,840 so. He came for me. Has that what they say? It's all 140 00:13:11,039 --> 00:13:16,840 very flattering, very I love Dominic. I both with love Dominic. Since 141 00:13:16,879 --> 00:13:20,519 I was a little girl, I threw myself a Dominic and I begged him 142 00:13:20,519 --> 00:13:24,879 to marry me. That's not easy for a girl to do, mister spaith. 143 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:28,720 I begged him and I promised to work for him, to be a 144 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:37,559 slave. You know what he did. He laughed upon me. You you 145 00:13:37,759 --> 00:13:39,159 stand there and you tell me that he murdered for the love of me. 146 00:13:41,399 --> 00:13:43,440 You wouldn't mark across the street A right? All right? Take it easier, 147 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:48,919 now, come on, So I do the silly woman thing I promised 148 00:13:48,919 --> 00:13:52,720 myself to. Louis the crazy Louis to a madman. Crazy. You don't 149 00:13:52,759 --> 00:13:58,000 believe that, eh. Louis the Great Capione, a champion of the crab. 150 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:03,240 Fisherman dares the fish right on the breaker line, catches more crab than 151 00:14:03,279 --> 00:14:07,200 anyone else. Louis the fearless. You know why he's fearless. He's so 152 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:11,879 crazy to be afraid. What do you mean? He mutters? He talks 153 00:14:11,879 --> 00:14:15,840 to himself, A rig richest, a thousands of dollars of him and me, 154 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,919 Louis the crab, fisherman and Knee living in the finest house and North 155 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:24,000 Beach. When was this last week? He went up in Marchelomeo's atticorn night 156 00:14:24,039 --> 00:14:28,159 and he came down with a big hunk of his raw wax from the wax 157 00:14:28,279 --> 00:14:33,399 works Betrosore. He called it a stupid lump of wax, and he held 158 00:14:33,440 --> 00:14:35,759 it up before me. So and he says, with a mad gleam in 159 00:14:35,799 --> 00:14:39,600 his eye, from this, Rosalia, from this, I woca for us 160 00:14:39,639 --> 00:14:46,440 the biggest finest house you can dream of. Here, Look what's Captain Kidd 161 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:50,480 got to do? He puts it in the treasure chest. See you will 162 00:14:50,559 --> 00:14:54,759 keep this a secret, Rosalie, He says, if you love me, 163 00:14:54,360 --> 00:15:00,039 and he laughs again like a madman. Me love, Louis Majori. He 164 00:15:00,159 --> 00:15:09,600 hated it. It was too good to be phoning a triangle. Notion had 165 00:15:09,679 --> 00:15:11,919 to go. You could hardly blame Rosalia for thinking he was crazy. And 166 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,320 the treasure chest was a hunk of tallow, not a very fresh hunk at 167 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,840 that, and Louie's routine with it must have hit her like the graveyard scene 168 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:24,799 from Hamlet. Therefore, having no theory nor evidence, no witnesses, I 169 00:15:24,879 --> 00:15:28,240 also had no motive. As always in situations like this, I did the 170 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,559 sensible thing. I went home and went to bed. All I thought I 171 00:15:31,679 --> 00:15:37,320 went to bed. Hello Spade, Yeah, I got a tip for you. 172 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:39,919 Find yourself a nice, dirty divorce case somewhere and stay out of North 173 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:45,759 Beach. The lists almost sounds like a threat advice. There's a hundred bucks 174 00:15:45,799 --> 00:15:48,600 in the mail for you. You'll get it this morning, plus O'Brien gift. 175 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,919 Can I keep it if I don't play. If you don't play, 176 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:58,960 you won't need it. I suppose it's useless to ask who this is Louis 177 00:15:58,039 --> 00:16:03,600 MAJORI say that again, Lowie Majority. Shall I spell it? You might 178 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:06,960 explain it. You talked to Rosalia figure it out for yourself. Sure, 179 00:16:07,159 --> 00:16:08,960 sure, so she never loved you and you knew it. So you go 180 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,000 over the side when the comer hit swim Ashore, then discover they think you're 181 00:16:12,039 --> 00:16:15,480 dead, and decide to leave it that way rather than go through with a 182 00:16:15,519 --> 00:16:18,840 wedding, I got more. So life without Rosalia and North Beach is impossible. 183 00:16:18,879 --> 00:16:22,240 You can't face the shame and loose talk that goes with a busted wedding. 184 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:25,919 So you're going over the hill and find a new life for yourself. 185 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,159 Wait a minute, space, Oh there's more. There's more. So you're 186 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,799 tossing over a car, a bank account, a boat worth seven thousand dollars, 187 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:34,840 walking out on your old man, to say nothing of three years apprenticeship 188 00:16:34,879 --> 00:16:37,679 and six years of hard work to get where you are. I understand perfectly, 189 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,200 and you're being a little in Sulling. I make a lot of my 190 00:16:41,399 --> 00:16:45,320 dough with my big flat feet, but I do make some of it with 191 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,519 my head. I'll try again. You don't believe on Lowie, majority that 192 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,360 is the general idea, and it might surprise you to know that five minutes 193 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:56,600 ago I was ready to chuck the whole andy pasto. Now I'm back in 194 00:16:56,759 --> 00:17:02,759 with both feet. What's with the music box? Nothing? Tell me? 195 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:04,279 Would you know, Lowie? If you saw him? I've seen his picture. 196 00:17:04,519 --> 00:17:07,960 Fine, I guess I'll have to prove it to you. If I 197 00:17:08,079 --> 00:17:11,359 satisfy, I'm Louie Ma Jory will you stay homes on it. Now, 198 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:15,680 where do we prove it? You know Costellani's crowd of halfway out in the 199 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,920 wharf, y'all. There's a ramp running around behind it. I'll see you 200 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:25,720 there in a half hour. I know just what you're going to say by 201 00:17:25,799 --> 00:17:29,119 TELLINGMEO. But I didn't go alone. Roscoe was right there with me, 202 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:33,960 with his safety off. It was a kind of spog San Francisco puts on 203 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:40,200 once a year for the tourists, just to nail down its position as runner 204 00:17:40,279 --> 00:17:44,039 up to London. I had to feel my way along the row of dark 205 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:48,680 chowderhouses to Castellani's. Except for the fog horn and the lapping of the water 206 00:17:48,759 --> 00:17:51,680 below, there wasn't a sound. The only cheerful thing in the picture was 207 00:17:51,799 --> 00:17:53,559 Roscoe, who was now out of my pocket. At the redditt, I 208 00:17:53,640 --> 00:17:56,759 eased up to the corner of Castellane's. There was an alley between it and 209 00:17:56,799 --> 00:18:02,200 the next building leading around on the ramp over the water. I could see 210 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,519 the glow of his cigarette first. Then I made him out in a slouch 211 00:18:04,599 --> 00:18:10,240 hat and overcoat. He was standing at the rail. Stay right here, 212 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:19,440 Well is satisfied now, I'll let you know I moved out from the side 213 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:22,279 of the building and walked toward him. He must have known about Rascoe because 214 00:18:22,279 --> 00:18:25,599 he didn't move, just let me come right up next to him. I 215 00:18:25,759 --> 00:18:27,440 was stupid, sure, but it wouldn't have worked for him. Except for 216 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:30,640 the five two feet away I saw what I thought was Louis was a booby 217 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:34,079 trap. The hat and overcoat were slung over a piling with a burning cigarette 218 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:37,039 on the rail next to one of the sleeves. I rolled a one side 219 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,799 dust in time. The knife slashed through the petting on my left shoulder and 220 00:18:40,839 --> 00:18:42,279 he was on me. Rascoe winning the drink, and I took on the 221 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:47,119 arm with a knife with my two hands thirty two teeth, unhappily overlooking a 222 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:51,599 spare foot tea knew what to do where I went through the railing like an 223 00:18:51,599 --> 00:18:55,839 a silent version of the sea wolf, arriving dust in the limpid and soothing 224 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:59,880 waters of San Francisco Bay. At the moment, I was not sow. 225 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:11,119 You are listening to the weekly adventure of radio's most famous detective, Sam Spade. 226 00:19:26,279 --> 00:19:30,640 Three Chimes Mean Good Times on NBC Sunday. Theater Guild on the Air 227 00:19:30,799 --> 00:19:36,240 presents one of the greatest dramatic undertakings in the history of radio. It's a 228 00:19:36,319 --> 00:19:41,599 full hour and a half adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece Hamlet. The immortal lines and 229 00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:45,759 matchless beauty of Hamlet come to life Sunday with John Gielgut, Darthy McGuire and 230 00:19:45,839 --> 00:19:52,519 Pamela Brown in Theater Guild on the air, and a reminder this Sunday also 231 00:19:52,599 --> 00:20:03,559 means another Gala broadcast of the Big Show. And now back to the crab 232 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:17,759 Louie Caper. Tonight said venture with Sam's Bay. Wetting my finger and holding 233 00:20:17,799 --> 00:20:19,839 it up in the wind, I quickly determined where North was, and just 234 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,759 as quickly decided there was no percentage in swimming the Golden Gate. A bright 235 00:20:23,839 --> 00:20:27,039 blur on my starboard bow called to mind the old saying, where there's a 236 00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:32,240 light, there's light. So I headed there three strokes this side of exhaustion, 237 00:20:32,319 --> 00:20:34,079 I pulled up at what proved to be a landing with a Jacob's ladder 238 00:20:34,079 --> 00:20:37,559 at the top of which I found a rear entrance to Foskegs, or more 239 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:45,000 accurately, FAST's private office. The door was open. I'm Sam Spade. 240 00:20:45,039 --> 00:20:48,720 I've been swimming. If you're wondering a mayor told me about you. You 241 00:20:48,799 --> 00:20:52,160 didn't say you were crazy. Now, maybe he didn't know you wouldn't have 242 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:56,640 a brandy lying around loose? Would you sure she don't? Thanks? I 243 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:10,039 think I saw Louie that night. Louie impossible beyond Castellan's bus shoe fasque hit 244 00:21:10,079 --> 00:21:12,119 me again, William Man? What about Louis call me up, said they'd 245 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,480 meet me there. Just try to knife me. But it's impossible, is 246 00:21:15,519 --> 00:21:18,920 it? Why would he plaintain and why would he try to kill you? 247 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:25,279 Maybe he's crazy? How do you mean you've heard of the dear old lady 248 00:21:25,319 --> 00:21:30,319 who had the trunk full of pancakes? Avenger Louise saves Old Tallow Captain Kidd's 249 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,119 treasure chest at the Museo is full of it. Who told you this? 250 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:37,839 Rosaliah showed it to me? May I hope you? Thanks? Might be 251 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:44,200 a good idea to call another meeting and tell the people make it easier for 252 00:21:44,319 --> 00:21:48,319 dominant. It was a whole meeting here, I alone a good thing they 253 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:52,079 made you. The judge Ury might be six feet under by now, got 254 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,480 a cigarette? You're in the box there next to the phone. Thanks. 255 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,559 Yeah, I went right along with him too. Shows how wrong you can 256 00:21:59,599 --> 00:22:04,440 be when you went word, when you when you go by emotions and not 257 00:22:04,559 --> 00:22:11,519 by evidence. This is quite a cigarette box. It stops when you put 258 00:22:11,599 --> 00:22:18,880 it down. Wow, I suppose now you'll drop your sign. Sure, 259 00:22:19,039 --> 00:22:22,359 sure, I'm a detective, not a psychiatrist. You've got a lunatic running 260 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,920 around, that's your problem. Good night, Fosky, and thanks for the 261 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:33,440 brandy. If Roscoe had been along, I might have played it differently. 262 00:22:33,559 --> 00:22:37,720 But when you're sitting across a coffee table from a guy, you suddenly realize 263 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,240 as the wet cement already. You do what I did, Make polite noises 264 00:22:41,279 --> 00:22:44,519 and concentrate on getting out on two feet. It was seven to three. 265 00:22:44,559 --> 00:22:47,519 Dominic was stashed in a handy closet, listening to the whole thing, which 266 00:22:47,599 --> 00:22:51,200 was handy since the next obvious move was his room and a house on Jefferson 267 00:22:51,279 --> 00:22:55,880 Street, a rooming house owned and operated by a four cossage Bosom type lady 268 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,920 known as Mama Lucas Good. I don't know nothing, I don't know nothing. 269 00:23:00,039 --> 00:23:02,480 You're scared, Mama. The Dominic threaten you. No, no, 270 00:23:02,599 --> 00:23:07,000 they don't ask commit Look he killed Louis MAJORI I gotta know why. I 271 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:10,440 don't know why. I don't know nothing about it. Louie came here, 272 00:23:10,759 --> 00:23:14,880 yes, yes, Louie Camill the night before it happens. Why, I 273 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,920 don't know. He was all excited, A handful of wax. Wax, 274 00:23:18,279 --> 00:23:22,480 you know what about it? He sure did, the Dominique, and they 275 00:23:22,599 --> 00:23:25,880 go into his room and talk, and then he ran off to send a 276 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:33,880 telegram. Telegraph office. Huh, well, since its official business, I 277 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,799 can let you read the office copy him. This message just came in tonight, 278 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:45,839 dominic Toorio regarding your inquiry analysis of samples sent here by Louis Majori, 279 00:23:45,039 --> 00:23:52,160 highly promising if quality uniform and wait correct, would estimate value minimum sixty thousand 280 00:23:52,319 --> 00:24:03,119 dollars partly associates Vancouver, BC. A lump of smelly stuff that looked like 281 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,480 old tallow picked out of the ocean and worth sixty thousand dollars was a strong 282 00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:11,400 enough clue for even stupid Sam to pick up. I left the Telegraph office 283 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,519 on the double and pulled up at the mu Sayo Majori. Ten minutes later 284 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:23,680 plastic fluck his gym. He was too busy to notice. Man I slid 285 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:30,039 a Marlin spike out of a rack next to the rum keg luck must be 286 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,400 lucked. I hate to do this, Fasky. The next voice you'll hear 287 00:24:34,519 --> 00:24:37,359 will be the nurse with a breakfast tray. But tell him, ma A, 288 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:47,119 what have you look? What? What have you done? His honor 289 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:56,599 was playing Pandora with Captain Kidd's treasury. Why who is Fasky surprised? Fusk 290 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,240 you? Why would he of old people? He likes a buckers well as 291 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,519 a next one, possible even more when there are sixty thousand of them? 292 00:25:03,759 --> 00:25:07,279 Sixty thousand dollars? Yeah? Is it mad like a fox? And let 293 00:25:07,319 --> 00:25:15,160 me try this cover off? Yeah? What is this? That may not 294 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,480 look like much to you and me, but to a perfume manufacturer, it's 295 00:25:18,519 --> 00:25:23,079 prettier than a venus than Milo Padlow Ambergriss. That's what happens when a whale 296 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:26,000 gets a tummy egg. Louie must have run on to it ten days ago. 297 00:25:27,039 --> 00:25:32,039 Sixty thousand dollars. Yeah, that's the big why of it. By 298 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:34,279 telling MAO, what, no you think? First one, I'll talk, 299 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,599 neither will Dominic. It is there next and they know it. Still two 300 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,079 men alone in a fog in a boat. See, there were only a 301 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:47,759 witness there was a witness. The eye of God was on Dominick when they 302 00:25:47,799 --> 00:25:52,079 did it, the judgment of God, the swift and the shore. Dominick, 303 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,720 nos it? Do you think so? I love Dominick. What you 304 00:25:55,799 --> 00:25:57,359 ask? There's a way to find out? What time is it? I 305 00:25:57,519 --> 00:26:02,039 bust the one. There's time? Where do you keep your razor? Yeah, 306 00:26:02,519 --> 00:26:11,200 I'm going to shave Captain Kidd, which I did, finishing around two 307 00:26:11,279 --> 00:26:15,599 am. During the next three hours I got wet, cold and seasick and 308 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,400 the order name, but made it back to the Museo in time for a 309 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,319 couple of stiff horns at Grappa before you and I hustled down to the wharf 310 00:26:21,759 --> 00:26:29,240 where Dominic was picking up bait for his crab nets. Bubb oh It, 311 00:26:29,319 --> 00:26:33,160 Pollo Nail and the senior spit. I remember, mister Spade. Yeah, 312 00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:37,799 last night back at Castellane's what you're talking about about, sure, Dominic, 313 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,599 It's all a horrible mistake. Lay you off me, will you? Herbert 314 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,000 Flosky said, didn't you? They dropped the charges. I'm innocent. They 315 00:26:42,039 --> 00:26:45,200 cleared me. That's just why we're here. We want to make it up 316 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,359 with my boy. What's in your mind? You did louis a great favorite, 317 00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:52,240 Dominic. When his thirty two crab pots got too much from the handle, 318 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:53,799 you went along to help him. Today we're going along to help you. 319 00:26:55,480 --> 00:27:07,960 Now when do we cast off? There's a float up ahead? What 320 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:11,680 color yellow and red is? That's yours? Dominic? That's mine? Brace 321 00:27:11,839 --> 00:27:15,960 great hould up alongside? Well? What's this sol of fot? I told 322 00:27:17,039 --> 00:27:18,240 you, Dominic, reliant? What are you trying to do? Break me? 323 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,599 Towny? He's fit in an accident? You hurt? What fast? 324 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:22,400 Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get it, Dominic, I 325 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:25,599 get it. We love you like a brother, and I told the truth. 326 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,200 I told the truth. When are you trying to throw torture me? 327 00:27:27,319 --> 00:27:30,680 Is that what you want? For venge? The murder is another hand's no? 328 00:27:32,759 --> 00:27:37,200 What you mean? There is always one witness, isn't that? Dominic? 329 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:44,759 Oh that's what you mean? Now? Is that way you came to 330 00:27:44,839 --> 00:27:48,599 tell me that that's a good one hold of wheel spade. I'll bait my 331 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:55,759 neck. I'll spit in your eye one day, old man, one day, 332 00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:57,960 when you get smart, you want the whole house. He wore a 333 00:27:59,039 --> 00:28:02,599 lot what you get playing? I don't pratling himself like a little kid whistling 334 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:06,119 in the dark. He was a lousy actor, hail under his sun burned 335 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:11,759 and drenched with coiled by a cord. Then it began to come slower and 336 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:14,119 make it stick. When I can, I prove it in cord. I'll 337 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:19,200 see it to you. Please. Hey, what's the matter here? What's 338 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:22,640 pulling on this line? Maybe it's your conscience, Dominic. It's heavy, 339 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:30,240 it's what the Lord moves in strange ways. Okay, get it up, 340 00:28:30,599 --> 00:28:37,920 let me help you there, we go fun too, like you like me, 341 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:52,799 Let it go. I hauled Louis up onto the deck and the gristly 342 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,680 sight. He was too, with the knife still sticking in his back. 343 00:28:56,079 --> 00:28:57,400 I figured that that was where Dominic would put it. I was right, 344 00:28:59,599 --> 00:29:02,720 not that it mattered, because Domnick wasn't thinking logically. From a moment he 345 00:29:02,759 --> 00:29:07,119 saw Lowe's buddy tangled in his crab line. He sang us all fifty verses 346 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:08,680 then and there, and repeated them for the police demographer later when we got 347 00:29:08,759 --> 00:29:11,880 him to the headquarters. It looks like a first degree rap for both him 348 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,839 and Fusky, and I'm waiting till it happens, before telling him the corpse 349 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:22,160 was Captain Kidd minus beard and ruffles period end of report. Damn again and 350 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:27,519 again I rediscovered, and each time a new facets a new thrill. Just 351 00:29:29,279 --> 00:29:32,480 one. It's true, true, but it pleases me to hear it from 352 00:29:32,599 --> 00:29:36,599 UF and so I propose to reward you in a fitting manner. First Exello 353 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:41,000 Tut tut, a corp writer for your washurette and second tax salary, ten 354 00:29:41,119 --> 00:29:47,480 free tickets to the Museo MAJORI. Third an invitation to accompany me your employer, 355 00:29:47,599 --> 00:29:51,200 to browse upon two bowls of chapino to and I at Castellani's and four 356 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:56,240 back salary counted, girl, counted, and bless you. But what you're 357 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,039 at complete with corb writer will call at your door and pres cisely one out 358 00:30:00,559 --> 00:30:22,119 until Lennon good night, Sale, good night sweetheart. Three chimes mean good 359 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,799 times. On NBC. You're invited to a one hour concert tomorrow by the 360 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:32,759 renowned NBC Symphony under the direction of noted conductor Wilfred Pelletier, featured soloist on 361 00:30:32,839 --> 00:30:37,759 tomorrow Symphony performance as Helen travel for the world's greatest music. Here the NBC 362 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:45,720 Symphony Tomorrow and every Saturday. Tonight's transcribed adventure of Sam Spade was produced, 363 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,400 edited and directed by William Spear. Sam Spade was played by Stephen Dunn. 364 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:56,039 Lourene Tuttle as Effie Strip for Tonight's Adventure by Harold Swandon, Musical scoring by 365 00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:15,319 lud Gluskin, conducted by Robert arm Brewster. Join us again next week, 366 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:22,039 same time for another adventure with Sam Spade. Through the years, the Red 367 00:31:22,119 --> 00:31:26,599 Cross has helped the victims of disaster and help protect the health of our nation. 368 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,519 Today, with the country rising to meet the challenge of possible aggression, 369 00:31:32,039 --> 00:31:36,519 the Red Cross has been asked by the government to undertake additional tremendous tasks. 370 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,680 A goal of eighty five million dollars must be reached during the nineteen fifty one 371 00:31:41,799 --> 00:31:45,160 Red Cross campaign this year. When you support the Red Cross, you'll be 372 00:31:45,279 --> 00:31:51,680 helping to mobilize for the defense of our nation. Join the Magnificent Montague. 373 00:31:51,759 --> 00:32:07,319 Then it's Duffy's Tavern on NBC. Welcome Back. I have to say that 374 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:15,559 I appreciated the effort that Sam put into getting the confession from someone with a 375 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:22,039 guilty conscience. It's a little less silly to find a body that looks like 376 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,960 the person you killed, rather than doing the whole try and convince them it's 377 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:30,200 a ghost thing. Now. As Martin Graham's notes in his book, crab 378 00:32:30,359 --> 00:32:35,160 Lewis is a famous salad that originated on the West Coast, and there are 379 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,920 a few restaurants both in San Francisco and Seattle that will claim to be the 380 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:45,079 originator of it. And so that was a nice upon in the title. 381 00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:51,559 So overall, just another really solid episode of Sam Spain. Now we turn 382 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:58,640 to lessener comments and feedback, and Debra included a post and a picture with 383 00:32:58,839 --> 00:33:04,400 her becoming a Patreon supporter. I've been listening to your podcast off and on 384 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,160 for several years. As a small business person myself, I can appreciate the 385 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:14,839 leap of faith you took to work for yourself full time. Best wishes and 386 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,279 keep up the great work. God's blessings to you and your family. Well, 387 00:33:19,359 --> 00:33:25,400 thank you so much. Yesterday actually was the sixth month anniversary of me 388 00:33:25,599 --> 00:33:32,200 leaving my day job, which was something I'd been hoping for for so many 389 00:33:32,359 --> 00:33:38,799 years. But that didn't make it easy because they're still uncertainty, given that 390 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:46,200 podcasting is such a new industry and there are no guarantees. But I think 391 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:52,000 I was reminded as there were layoffs within my former company even while I was 392 00:33:52,119 --> 00:33:58,640 there. That's not guaranteed either, and being able to work and do things 393 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:05,359 that you'll to do is really a tremendous gift, and I think that Debrah 394 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:10,159 and all of my Patreon supporters have made that possible. Your faith and your 395 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:15,280 confidence in what we're doing on the podcast, it makes it easier for me 396 00:34:15,599 --> 00:34:21,400 to make a tough career decision that is the right one in the end. 397 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:25,599 So again, thank you once again for your support and for your con Note 398 00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:30,760 Debrah. Now let's go ahead and thank all our Patreon supporter of the day, 399 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,760 and I want to go ahead and thank Scott. Scott's been one of 400 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:38,320 our Patreon supporters since June of twenty sixteen, currently supporting the program at the 401 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:44,119 Master Detective level of fifteen dollars or more per month. Thank you so much 402 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,400 for your support, Scott, and that will do it for today. If 403 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:52,760 you are enjoying this podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software and 404 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:58,920 be sure to rate and review the podcast wherever you're downloading this from. We'll 405 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,960 be back next Monday with another episode of Sam Spade, but join us back 406 00:35:04,039 --> 00:35:08,519 here tomorrow for the beginning of this week's Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar Cereal, 407 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:13,280 where I'm at the Beverly Hilton. You call me when you've made up your 408 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,159 mind to talk about this matter, fine, now get out. I got 409 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:20,079 in town last night and contacted your office first thing. I wanted to talk 410 00:35:20,119 --> 00:35:22,880 to you about it first, for several reasons. One year, David Parson's 411 00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,320 father. It's your company, not his, that can be jeopardized in a 412 00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:30,400 situation like this too. You seem the logical man to see to clear up 413 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,719 the matter easily. Now that I've seen you, I'm not so sure of 414 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,880 that. I'll have to go to somebody else. Wait a minute, what 415 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:38,159 do you mean go to somebody else? I mean I'm not going to sit 416 00:35:38,199 --> 00:35:40,519 in the hotel room, cooling my heels waiting for you to call me. 417 00:35:42,199 --> 00:35:44,480 I have to find out about this, and there are other people to talk 418 00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:46,840 to, your son's wife, the whole household. They wouldn't let you in 419 00:35:47,119 --> 00:35:51,119 the police. If I have to, I'd break you. I'd break you 420 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,320 in half. Then I'd get pretty mad and both halves of me and figure 421 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,639 this thing out. If it took a million years and a million dollars, 422 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:05,320 Okay, Yes, sir, get out of here. Yes, you've got 423 00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:09,119 five minutes. I've got five minutes, and ten minutes and a million minutes 424 00:36:09,159 --> 00:36:13,360 if I need them. We have a report. Your son's been missing for 425 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,199 ten days now. One of our brokers reported it. He happened to be 426 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:21,519 one of your son's clients. Missing, all right, where risy? How 427 00:36:21,559 --> 00:36:23,039 would I know? I take that to me and you don't know? Do 428 00:36:23,119 --> 00:36:27,519 you have any ideas? Of course not. Have you had an audit to 429 00:36:27,559 --> 00:36:30,599 be a book? Since he disappeared? What have you had an audit? 430 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:34,599 Is there anything missing? Bonds? Cash in the company? Hecker, Hecker, 431 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,119 Throw this bum out of here and make sure he bounces a couple of 432 00:36:38,199 --> 00:36:43,079 times. Throw him out. I've got you by a good twenty five pounds, 433 00:36:43,159 --> 00:36:45,280 Hecker. Maybe you'd better leave, mister Dollar. I think I'll stay. 434 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,599 Oh wait, I get out of this bed. I do it. 435 00:36:49,599 --> 00:36:51,960 Run along, mister Recker. He'll calm down. I can wait an out. 436 00:36:52,119 --> 00:36:53,880 I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, do send 437 00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:59,760 your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives not nap, follow us on Twitter 438 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,920 at Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram dot com. 439 00:37:05,199 --> 00:37:10,679 Slash. Great detectives from Boiseatto. This is your host, Adam Graham's son and off