Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it
to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us on Twitter at
Radio Detectives, and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com
slash Radio Detectives. Before we do get started, I do want to encourage
you, if you've not already, pick up your copy of What Made the
Golden Age Shine. It's my eight thousand word commentary on what made the Golden
Age of entertainment so special and so enjoyable? And it is available for the
kindle for nine nonsense. So pick up your copy of What Made the Golden
Age Shine. Also over at Great Detectives dot net this weekend my review of
Johnny Dollar the Comic Book. We take a look at Moonstone Comics Johnny Dollar
issue from a few years back. Oh be sure and read my review of
the brief Candle Manner. Well, now it's time for today's episode of Police
Headquarters. It's William Spencer killed and racetrack on Police Headquarters. All those off
qualls calling detectives pay six Paul of course six Hawtin Fraser publication. Well,
Len, it's a box here, y right, Captain, wonder what they
want? Don't know as we'll find out its Adeptain Fraser m all right,
we're at six and Sauce. Now we'll run right over Oliver doct Brady and
an ambulance. What's up, Captain, I don't know yet. They just
discovered the body and a y can plot over there the river on sixteenth Street.
Step on it, okay, oh captain, oh heaven, I see
you for us of keeping yourself beay. Yeah, we find a case for
you, but you'd better not moving in the until we got here. Who
is it? I don't know. I'll throw your light on him. Monday
guy. M I know this guy when we were kids. We used to
live next door to each other. I busted his nose once for cheating at
marbles, but he was a nice kid. Names Spencer, Spencer, Gambler.
Yeah, he'd bet on anything. I used to tell him, Ace,
we're gonna pick you up that sometime. It'll either by be by your
own hand because you're broke er because you've cut corners on some guy and well
who found him? I did? I was blotting along the River Road about
four blocks from here. When I heard her shot, I figured it was
up this way. I guess we're about ten minutes before I found him.
I sorry, was shopping at chest, so I beat it to an all
like restaurant on the corner and called for you. I'm glad you did.
Of course the world won't miss say spent so much. But he was a
swell guy. Yeah, what do you know about him? Must captain?
I disagreeing with you? Did you see her? Here? A car around
after the shopping? Shirts and chester powderburn looks like he let himself have it
and pitched forward. Here's a rod Captain, thirty two automatic loaded for one,
and here's the ejected shell. Did you go through his pockets? First
thing had five dollars and sixty cents in the spans, not a diamond his
wallet. There's a package of matches. Was a name Carrington Hotel stamped on
him? Five bucks? Right? Yeah? Last time I saw him he
was carrying ten grand or so. He must have taken an awful beating.
Yeah you go back on your beat Ovans, Yes, glad to get rid
of that guy's tending around saying, yeah, it gives me the Williams.
Yeah, let me see that gun. M he's gone all right. He
wanted to get a license to carry it. The last time I talked to
him, I told him nothing doing. He laughed and said he wouldn't need
it. That's the only one he'd ever use it on. It be himself.
Do you think he'd done that job himself? Captain Bills all the your
marks of a homemade job. We might check up on the Carankin hotel.
It's a pretty richard place for a guy who only five bucks to be staying.
But we'll come on. I'm Captain Fresser from police headquarters. Do you
have a man registered here with the name of Spencer? William Spencer. That
guy didn't live here the way he was. He must have picked those matches
up. It's the only thing we have gone. It doesn't seem to be
anyone registered here about the name of Spencer. Let me see your registered minute
certainly. What do you look at the far cap Oh? I don't know.
Just some of their names. Here's one you have Collins at Bull Collins
another gam we're in. Here's Flash Douglas seems to be a hangout of Gamb're
yeah, but a Spencer right in their class. Oh he isn't they listen?
Those guys couldn't hold a counbaa Spencer and his prime Come on, well,
no, that's a matter of routine. We're going to make their arms
of the chieaper hotels. I've got a hunch of days had a room at
one of them. How long he's going to keep this up? Captain?
Do you know we haven't stopped for lunch. We'll try that one and then
call her today. Hey you yeah, do you have a William Spencer living
here? Yeah? Room nine? But he eat in we know it,
and he's on a slab in the county. More give me the key to
his room. A surprise, none. He's been acting funny ever since the
boss told him to have to pay his rander get out. Was they much
behind? Oh? About two months? Yeah, I couldn't save it.
That guy never had a diamond yet he was wearing a diamond sparkler on his
fingers. That knocket did, yeah, I remember seeing it the last time
I saw him alive. He always wore it for sentimental reasons. Bought it
for a girl who died, said, no matter how coup he found the
sledding he's never found it? Well he they pondered, or had it left
it tonight? What do you mean? Well, I mean he wasn't wearing
it when we found him. Maybe it's in his room. We looked,
Come on, Andy, Diamond's hall, whoa's not here? And here's the
reason A pond ticket for a diamond ring David yesterday? Where'd you find that?
In his suitcase? Here? So it finally decided the phone doing.
You know, Andy, he must have had a reason for doing it.
Why what was the ring war? Not as senseless than Tim Graham? And
he was walking around and penniless with a sparkware like that. He wouldn't have
parted with it for a million unless he had a certain use for the money.
He was a well guy, sentimental. Two. Well you're getting that,
Captain. It's something there, Andy. I'm not saying that a spencer
didn't kill himself, but I am saying that he must have had a reason
for pawning that ring. And I'm going to find out what happened to the
money. Say how about something deed. First we go to the Powden shop,
that we go down the thoughts to that stool pigeon and we come back
here to Carrington Hotel. Oh you've got to see down here. Keep your
shirt on. Andy. If Ace bumped himself off, he must have had
a reason. I'm going to find out what that reason was. We're looking
for room six to eighty one. What does that stool? He mean?
When he said Ace was framed in a Polker game? He was talking about
last summer. Ace Spencer dropped twenty three thousand bucks in one game, and
I was talked that he was framed. Maybe it was Maybe he wasn't.
Maybe if he was framed last summer, he was framed again tonight. That's
why I bumped himself off. Saw Levison says he getting ten grand on a
rain. Ace told him he get it back tomorrow. Here we are who
lives here? Bull Collins? I got a hunch that maybe Ace came up
here tonight for a game. Bull Collins is supposed to be the guy who
broke him last summer. Maybe he's Oh, oh, Bull, remember me?
Whoa? I mean? Captain? Time for a little drink? No
thanks, the car, You can skip the rope too. Who's your frame?
Oh? No flash a flash stoclast Captain frag How do you do?
How can I do be a captain? Ace Spencer bumped himself off tonight.
No, yes, he did it because he lost heavily in a poker game
earlier in the evening. We found a packet of matches from this hotel,
and I found your name on the register downstairs. Putting two and two together,
I figured that maybe Ace was in a game with you and Douglas.
A swell job of figure in cap'n Ace was up here tonight lost ten grands
that he was clean, but I doubt it he was given it too year
straight we found him only five bucks on him. No, what have I
had to known that I turn him today? Show up? What fenty this
afternoon? Whose times did you use? Well? What do you mean by
that? You know what I mean? With the game on the level?
Both? You know it was My games are only down the level. Anyway,
He had me sent down on the cigars then for two French tacks.
Oh he did, did he? Well? It was a fishoon. No,
come on, Andy, we won't be bothering these these gentlemen any longer.
Can we stop at the coffee shop for a fight each? Yet?
Pretty soon, Andy, we have some important business over here at the cigar
stand. Hey buddy, Yes, what can I do for you? Flenty?
We're officers? You were working at four thirty? Yes, afternoon,
won't you? Why? Yes? Do you remember sending some cards up to
room six eighty one? He is, yes? What are you getting to
flucted about? I merely asked if you remember send him up? Yes?
Yes, I send him up for two ditch? I see, whyn't you
get him out of the showcase here? Why are you sure you got him
out of the showcase? Why? Sure? How many decks you got to
web? Hi? I don't know. Conm Yes, up here in plain
side, I said, bring him all up? One, two, three,
four, fIF seven, nine ten. What's your name? Son?
Bailey? Fred Bailey? I've been working here long? No, sir,
Well, how is it that the day clerk inventory is there playing cards?
Before? You came on at ten decks and you sent two decks to room
six eighty one and you still got ten decks in the showcase? What kind
of a rhythman ticket is that? Why? I I don't know. Listen't
Bailey? You didn't know it at the time, but you got yourself mixed
up in a pretty pickless matter. I'd advise you to come clean with us.
You sent two packages of cards to six eighty one that didn't come from
your stock, didn't you, didn't you? Well, well, yes,
yes, I sign him up. He said he'd give me a hundred dollars.
And I didn't know all this. I didn't die. That's all we
want to know. You stay here and take this all a statement, and
I'm going back upstairs. I don't know that there's anything I can do about
it, but we'll see. Oh I didn't expect your back, captain,
come back here for the drink. No, well, so let's tell a
little talk. You can skip that too. In fact, you can skip
all the balogna. What do you mean? I mean that it'll be a
long time before you do any more gambling in this town. Both. In
fact, I'm going to see what the chances are getting you tossing the can?
Are you crazy? No? Are you up here? Both? It
was a Spencer's own funeral when he came in here. I'm not driving about
that. I know I had to come and to him someday. That's all,
okay, But I can't understand why a big shot like you a deliberately
take days with a couple of sack decks. When you knew he was down
and out and trying to make a come back, you knew that you're driving
to suicide. Maybe I've been wrong all my life about giving a guy a
break when he's gone, But I'll get that. You stay where you are.
Hello, Yeah, this is me Andy. I've been talking to who.
Well, there's a guy clerk. What what he said that? He?
Hey, oh you will pull a gun on me? You? Y?
I broke my arm? Hello, Eddie, come on up right away.
It's Tinhorn. Tried to pull a rod on me. Yeah, I'm
okay, Well that's one on me. I was working this thing up just
backwards. It was a spencer who drives as a guard correctors and those fixed
cards to your room. But it was you both found it out, and
after Race had taken every sense you had, you followed him with that back
and bluff and killed him with his own gun. HELLI, franger, you
shouldn't have done that both. Ace was a swell guy. All these headquarters.
Sergeant finds day off, I imagine will find him with the racetrack of
starting her shade. It's another drink. You're only sord a name you picked
didn't even make the back stretch. Yeah that's lee bit and skate you pick.
Didn't bring two bits of the clue factory anyone I raised in me?
Hey, I'm sorry, Okay, where do you get that is? I
want to see the big rade? A handicapped onto a seven right thing to
go to? He didn't get back. But then, okay, Michael,
either way, we missed a big race. I'll be one son of Ireland
who's up to police do an arrow with a buffo? He is, And
if I do, it'll be because I walked into one the door. You
a big leader, Nick, Nick? Come on, hey, guy over
there trying to track your attention. Where Oh that's done? His stone was
the fighthead stable whoever he is, he's fucking his next trying to get through
the crowd to see you. He's a pretty nice guy, right, I'll
see what he wants. Thank I got a tip for you all. If
he has it's a square one do His stone is a square shooter? Oh
don that's only mine. Can I talk to you for a minute, Sorr,
I just I don't know do anything important? Kid, it's about the
big race. I'd like to see you right away. All right, supposing
you beat it over to your stables, Donnie. Oh, this is starting
to say bad. No Yah, let's start through here, Sergeant, say
the way, what's on your mind? I'd rather not talk until we get
out of this crowd. The motto, it's something he has me worried,
man, worried to death. You know he's doing them what to do prop
them concerning the truck. Yeah, here I think the tours are not can
I'm sorry? Dinner shade? All right, Johnny, the up in the
air stillip, wait until I flow down the shade. That's like somebody was
up gunning for you. They are, that is, they will be if
high Knight wins the handicap. What do you mean? I'm in a jam,
Flynn, a bad one. My horse is set to coat. She
looks like a winner to me, and then these torpedo men come in with
instructions that she's not to win. Who Brick Randall and Tony Madero. Oh
you've got those two hops off on the trail off. Yes, they mean
business, Sergeant, I know them. They wouldn't hesitate to kill me if
I crossed them up. Remember, Johnny, every big shot as a stick
of yellow on his back when you talk back to him. Yeah, but
you don't know these two for us, they wouldn't do the jobs. And
how if they've hired someone from out of town to do it? Oh,
what they're gonna do about it? I don't know. I've always run a
square stable and I don't like the idea. Tell him this jerk to pull
a horse. Then another thing, my word is said to go. I
bet every penny I could scrape up on this race, and I want to
see my colors come through. Then why don't you tell vend and there to
go away a leg? Because because I'm afraid to, I guess I listen,
Johnny, all of those guys who bluff you, Oh, call back
into the shell. If you tell them where the head end go on?
You think you're a horse and set to deliver as a kid rider for all
she's worth? All back you, William Flynn, just until the race is
over. Then I'll hire some I'm going to look after him. Sure we
will, hope, be like sure thing. I hate to come falling this
way, but I've got a wife and two fine kids. When I stand
a winner, lose wouldn't be worth the pain. Made sure for If anything
happened to me, nothing will happen to you. Johnny. We'll see the
last about the joy. I think they got to him. I don't think
so. I think you'd tell me right away anyway. He wouldn't. Dare
poor. I know that horse like a look, she said, for a
wind to day and nothing can stock good boy. You stay here with him,
Mic and now'll fall her over and place a few bucks to missus Clinton's
grocery money on high flight the wind sure, and here's a five spot for
me. I guess who is it? Are you doing? Open the door,
Mike and house let back behind this her? Oh? What's you?
Yeah? Whatected h r an onion Tony? Who? How do you want?
Right now? You know whats want? How's your horse going to finish
in the seven up in front? Yeah? And you know how you would
finish up in front of a funeral procession. Listen, Stone, if you're
listen to me, you cheap tin horn gambler. That horse winds and you're
not gonna stop him. Say, oh, are you're calling the bulls?
Did your journey? Oh? He didn't call him the bulls. We happened
to be friends of Johnny's and we're not going to see him bluffed out of
this race by a couple of yellow back bracket theres. Kirk and Mike say,
listen, take your hand check. You can't go this Oh I can
huh, turn around and place the wall before I take a pop at your
Yeah. First of Mike, can't be mind a gat on. Either one
of them will call the wagon. I'm gone right. I'm not getting away
with the kid. I know. I'll listen, Sad. If you're a
smart Joe Cary, ou up here as fast as you came in, both
of you first saying that Johnny's the lads of the race, and if anything
happens to Johnny is the horse, we'll look Yet I'll get boy, did
you hand that guy a mouthful? That's what he needed that I couldn't clap
him in the jug, But the rest of him he beat the rat.
Oh, he heat times. That's a big great They're called him to the
post. Come on, let's go out this way. I've got a fox
right close to the can you go with it, Mike's I've got the beat
of the deadline of the mutual. If we put up any of the billions
on the high player, I'll eat you the ball. I gotta be background.
I oh right here he is all black starts. Did you get bread
to me? Sick? And I have to love you're a horse better winds.
If she don't all be as surprised as you are, Flinn, and
it won't be because she was pulled. I send word to Freddie to boot
her home. Oh, Freddie, tape right in the night again over the
tens to win. That's two months if I could stop you out of my
rights rightly yours. And it's a back and a buff looking like somebody stept
on him. As I learned the tape a position HiPE tight, running in
and free. He looks like a cinch o Hi flight, crunching of the
turn on, Hi starting, let your own black starting right now, I
riding moving in the pit place that yucky right out right. There'll be no
coaches for the flint like he didn't get right now. He'll be pulling up.
Yeah. Yeah, he's a bird arousing the turn of heading for the
switch. Come on, HiPE fly, come on, actually on right now,
come on, come on, hi, come on, old go fool,
you're pready please, it's in the back bit, Come on, come
on, highlight season can make pulling it? Please? What's going? I'm
down? Are come? Jockey hurt? It's ready. He's go on over
the place here and houlding pick you down there. That's so he didn't do
the doctor report. The jockey was shot to the head with a steel jacket
a bullet. That's just what I said. Hur's Johnny Stone in my home.
A couple of men watching the place. Good idea they might have something
crazy idea of trying to get Johnny man. I told Williams and Ryan to
cover the house every minute. Do you want me down here for don't give
me a hand. I send two of the boys out to bring rands on
the arrow into the station. And you think they did it, and I
think they had it done, but they were or either one of them have
taken name at the track with our rifles. There's been a hundred people's all
them. Yeah, it done shot and had to be fairly good to the
track for accuracy. Somebody would have seen him. Yeah, that's just what
causing me all the worry. Something. You can't kill a jockey in front
of twenty thousand people and that nobody seen him doing. It's like running in
the book. Yeah, the on. Maybe we can tell something out of
Randle on the Darrow. I got a hunts though that those two birds though
yellow our heads off for a lawyer and shut up better than a clan.
Yeah, there was your low. Send them out in hand on the Darrow
or off done. I'm not gonna waste any time for them. I'm kind
of straight to the point. I used to go around. Give me a
hand, Okay, I mean I'm here, you guys in those two chairs
there, No listen, you got to be the one of you and I'll
knock your feet on your throat. Would you hire to put the finger on
done? Its own jockey. I'm not talking, and I see my lawyer
see that? Oh you Mike and a couple? No, right that happen?
Now that's Mike. I'm gonna be something going on in here. But
it wouldn't sound nice outside. Now you're a rap? Who did you a
hire for that job? Oh? I didn't think they'd talk. Keeping in
the jug as long as we can meantime, I'll hope that something will break
where you're going now. I'm the sweet at the Bagial Theater going the first
picture of that, right, I think maybe let's seeing it again. I'd
refreshed my mind. Not a few things, tigred han in, I've got
everything, all of that. Mike, Yeah, all right, captain already
for those two guys, we get them in here, we'll show you.
Does that happen there? You seem pretty sure of your so oh we are
all right, Mike. Bring them in over there, and you take that
chair and you said over here in dar hey, what's all the bologne for?
You haven't got a thing on. I wouldn't be too sure left.
Yeah, oh, mister this a attorney that time. I think that chair
right over there with the captain. He oh, I'm gonna show you,
mister this with attorney and you, captain, all these two rats got a
Chicago stud to kill Johnny Stones jockeys, so high flight wouldn't in that rate.
You're full of hot? Yeah, all right, sols off, Mike,
game, I'll sell us a picture machine operator. And I was seeing
the pictures of pretty tapes. Last ride a big time. We're showing one
of the final stretch. At the rate you see the horses lying down the
track. If you're a partial view of the crowd, and if you'll look
real coats in the lower right hand corner, you'll see two men with a
camera. Noticed that one of the men has a black hood over the camera
and over his head. Now I slow down, operator. They you can't
pull it. I won't shut that guy up, mikel I'll watch that camera
closely. There is a little cup of white smoke. I'll watched the man
come out from under the hood and turn around and face the camera. There.
Don't the machine there, great Scott Bike Adams. Yeah, Mike and
I read it his hotel room and found a trick camera and a rifle with
a silence rod. It bounded black inside under the hood like him. And
while we were searching the place which brings Rod and Mike shot into the summit.
He died about an hour ago. Before he died, he gave us
a full statement saying that he was paid a thousand bucks for the job.
These gentlemen ride here, Randal and Madarrol, welcome back. It was somewhat
interesting in the first story, and as a book I was reading recently pointed
out somebody typical for the area era in terms of having the police sympathetic with
a criminal. Though It's somewhat funny that they kept insisting that he was such
a marvelous guy, and pretty much there was no proof of that by anything
we learned about his life. Particularly it is yeah, he died as a
result of trying to cheat ten thousand dollars out of somebody at cards. Such
a great guy, but it was an interesting twist end, particularly with the
way they had been thinking of the solution. With that, we turned to
some listener comments and feedback, and we have this from James, who says
on Facebook last night, I was listening to you read comments when I heard
that someone doesn't like the loud, irritating music you play at the start of
every show. Well, I agree, Well, I appreciate your opinion.
All definitely take that into consideration. Another listener comment on a pretty interesting note,
received an email from Travis, who says, Hello, If you recall,
I made a post on the wall a while back about listening to radio
shows to better my reference level for improvisation. I thought I would update you
on how that's been going. A few nights ago, my team and I
did a whole twenty minute comedian film war esque improvisation. In short, it
brought the Housetown. All of my listening to the podcast really paid off as
a step as a stepped up to play the detective in the story, who
I perhaps not so cleverly introduced as yours truly, Nicki Nichol, My team
and I are now exploring the possibility of taking a while to only improvise stories
in this style and really master it. Thank you again for your wonderful podcast.
I'm now getting my team to into it as well. Keep up,
keep it up well, thanks so much, Travis. And it's definitely an
interesting thing with improvisation. If you watch or tend improv, there tends to
be certain games that kind of everybody plays, things like blind Line, which
if you saw the show who Was Line? Is it anyway? You basically
you right, You get lines from the audience with all the players out of
the room who are going to participate in the sketch, and then the players
have to work the lines into the sketch. And there are a bunch of
standard games like that. But I really appreciate when it comes to improv groups
those that work in their own special games, their own little special things they
do. I saw, for example, the Comedy Sports World Championship back in
two thousand and eight, went to Portland to see those and they did a
game called Randy Newman, which was very unique to the provo comedy sports,
where they would actually have someone singing a song in the style of Randy Newman,
thus the game. It's always great to have those special touches. I
appreciate that you're listening to the show, and best of luck to you with
all your improv efforts. All right, well, that will do it for
today. We'll be back on Monday with Pursuit and then join us back here
next Saturday for another episode or two episodes of Police Headquarters. In the meantime,
send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow us
on Twitter, Radio Detectives, and to become one of our friends on Facebook,
Facebook dot com. Slash Radio Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is
your host, Adam Grahamson and Ath