WEBVTT 1 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:33.159 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:36.399 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:41.159 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. Be sure to cast your 4 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:45.960 vote for the show on podcast Alley Podcast Alley dot Great Detectives dot net, 5 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:50.439 and become one of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com, Slash Radio 6 00:00:50.479 --> 00:00:55.159 Detectives, and be sure to take our listener survey survey dot Great Detectives dot 7 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:59.520 net. Well, this show is brought to you by the faithful support of 8 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:03.719 our great listeners. Thank you so much for your great financial support. Well. 9 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:11.400 As we've mentioned before, Dick Powell left Rogues Gallery after the summer nineteen 10 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:18.519 forty six series Well Fitch his Shampoo. The sponsor decided to bring Rogues Gallery 11 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:23.079 back without Dick Powe in the summer of nineteen forty seven, and they chose 12 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:30.879 a film star, Barry Sullivan. Sullivan was a very solid working actor who 13 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:36.719 would enjoy some success, particularly later on in television when he would play Ken 14 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:42.400 Thurston in The Man Colbeck's TV series, and would also star in The Horror 15 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:48.599 Master and The Tall Man. Over Radio. He did fill in for two 16 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:55.920 weeks for Vincent Price when Price was not available to play the role of the 17 00:01:56.040 --> 00:02:01.239 saint, and so he took on in eighteen weeks mer series of Rogues Gallery 18 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:07.560 in nineteen forty seven. This is the fourth episode of the eighteen It's called 19 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:17.639 Phyllis Adrian is Missing from June twenty ninth of nineteen forty seven. Laugh awhile, 20 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:24.319 let a song, do you sire? You said stamp so to say, 21 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:31.039 use your head? Said your head, you said stamn. The F 22 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:38.240 W. Fitch Company presents Barry Sullivan as Brivate Detective Richard Rogue in Rogues Galleries 23 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.319 Rouge speaking. You know, in my business it's hard to get ahead, 24 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:59.240 but so many other people trying to get ahead my head. That is sometimes 25 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:01.280 I think it might be to let them scrape my name off the door before 26 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:06.240 they sizzle it into a headstone, because I'm just a guy who doesn't like 27 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:09.960 to see people get pushed around, myself in particular, and I often wonder 28 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:14.240 if there's any real future for me and a sneak snoop and snitch racket, 29 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:16.759 and so many people don't want me to have one. That was a frame 30 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:21.240 of mind I was in one Saturday afternoon one, Howard Adrian, a well 31 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:25.960 known mouthpiece, cold to tell me his troubles. Hello, Rogie, this 32 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:29.599 is Howard Adrian. Hey, how are you say? You're just in time? 33 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:31.199 I'm thinking of selling out? Got a wonderful set a law books here. 34 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:34.639 Let you have the cheap never even cut the pages, never had time. 35 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:38.560 My wife is missing. Well she's not here. I just took inventory. 36 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:42.520 You don't understand she's gone time. I'm worried, Rogie. How long 37 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:44.479 have you been gone, Howard? In two weeks? What have you done 38 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:46.639 to Lokay that nothing at all? Until now? This has got to be 39 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:51.919 between you and me, Rogan. You see it. It's rather Phillis is 40 00:03:51.960 --> 00:03:54.000 pretty headstrong, and I've got to move cautiously. Okay, Howard, I 41 00:03:54.000 --> 00:03:57.520 think I understand you. Sit tight. I'll be right over and relax, 42 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:06.560 Richard. Rogue will bring her back alive. Yeah, that's what I said. 43 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:14.000 But the way it turned out, I didn't. I paid a call 44 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:16.519 on Howard Adrian. His outer office was empty, and when I ended his 45 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:21.160 private office without knocking, I found him kissing his secretary. Made a pretty 46 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:27.240 picture suitable for framing. Well, well, now I get it. You 47 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.120 buried your wife in the cellar, like Edgar Allan fozy, you could marry 48 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:33.120 your beautiful secretary. You only hired me for a blind like in the Detective 49 00:04:33.160 --> 00:04:36.160 story. Cut it out, rogy or attempted humor isn't funny. Yeah, 50 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:40.040 I guess you're right. Sorry, no time for me to go fipping off. 51 00:04:40.160 --> 00:04:43.680 All right, this is miss Carbon, Miss Crystal Carbon, Richard Roll. 52 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:46.480 I'm sorry. Likewise, now, Howard, how about your work just 53 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:49.199 a minute, that'll be all miss Carb the no way, Maybe she can 54 00:04:49.279 --> 00:04:54.839 help you. Suppose we may as well as help mister Rode. You see. 55 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:58.360 And it's an old story. I hope we're not boring you, not 56 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:00.199 at all. Well, here's some good news. I may have a line 57 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:03.439 on her already. The elevator operators tells me he took her down from here 58 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:08.000 on the day she disappeared. She was with a tall man with brown muscles. 59 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:10.519 Oh yeah, that would be Nicky Barren. Nicky Barren, I know 60 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.319 him. He used to be mixed up with Rockey Malachesta when they were running 61 00:05:13.319 --> 00:05:15.519 the gambling ships off the coast. Good trial for the murder of Pig Muldoon 62 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:20.240 and Fristo gang war, say Howard, didn't you handle Barren's defense at that 63 00:05:20.279 --> 00:05:24.639 file? That's right. He must have been clean or you wouldn't have touched 64 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:27.319 them. Thanks, and you're right. That's how I broke my reputation, 65 00:05:27.360 --> 00:05:30.720 and the reputation helped. Nicky was acquitted and he stayed clean ever since. 66 00:05:30.720 --> 00:05:33.639 He's doing what doing all right? Apparently operates a small club in the valley. 67 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:36.680 The Mandalay stopped in the sun me the other day, look shop and 68 00:05:36.839 --> 00:05:40.800 walked out with your wife. Hey, this is radically there was nothing between 69 00:05:40.839 --> 00:05:43.759 missus. Who side are you on? Mis car He's only trying to help 70 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:48.959 Howard. You know your working conditions are so pleasant. I can't see why 71 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:53.199 you want me to find your wife. Why not leave well enough alone? 72 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:56.120 Because Howard wants her back to way to make a clean break, that things 73 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:58.959 settled once and for all. All that's right. You'll find us so I 74 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:01.720 could lose it legally. She'll give you a divorce, won Hortel? Oh 75 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:05.120 why she doesn't like me? Oh she doesn't like you? No? Does 76 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:13.000 she love you? Cigarette? Thanks? Thanks, Rogie, don't worry about 77 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.759 it. Just fine, Phillis and forget the rest. Sure, how I'll 78 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:18.240 remember that. But if I don't forget it, you remind me. Hum 79 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:27.319 Phillis Atian seemed to advantage like Judge Crayton. She seemed to have rolled a 80 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:30.519 footsteps up behind her, and even her shadow must have been following a wrong 81 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:34.240 blund. My first move in locating it was refreshingly simple. I merely called 82 00:06:34.279 --> 00:06:39.600 another private detective and assigned him to check every hotel in town at half my 83 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:43.040 daily feeds. Yeah, I should have been an agent. Then I headed 84 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:49.639 for the Mandalaid. The Mandalaid was lined with woven grass mats and paneled with 85 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:54.160 bamboo. He should have held hands across the dance floor, and in the 86 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:56.879 middle of it, a girl was trying to shake herself out of a coat 87 00:06:56.920 --> 00:07:01.079 of three spain and a surround taster all right without being hit by a flying 88 00:07:01.120 --> 00:07:04.959 hip and lade the door of Nicky Barron's office. It was easy money. 89 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:11.240 Laus Adrien was there. Well, well, hello missus Adien, good bye 90 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:14.399 mister Rogue. Why Nicky, that's not a very warm welcome. I make 91 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:16.319 it warmer if you get funny, Snooper. My friends say I am naturally 92 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:19.279 funny. Maybe we'd make a team. I think you're a wonderful student. 93 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:26.680 I warn't you come shoot? Yeah, wouldn't that be a shade? Okay, 94 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:29.319 rogue, stand up and take it all? Relax? Will you start 95 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:30.639 off like that? What you're gonna do for an encle? I don't shoot 96 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:34.000 snoop clay me alone. I'm in the clear with this joint. Very interesting. 97 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:36.920 Fall back and regroup, Nikki, I'm not interested in you, and 98 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:40.800 then put that suck on your account in case you get that way? Do 99 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:43.800 you mind get off the floor. It's a new carpet, Missus Adrien, 100 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:47.959 I care about shown off baby. Can't think of anybody I care more about 101 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:51.160 at the moment. Well, Lucky the man is that home? Yeah? 102 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:54.519 The life of the party, that's him. Will you see me when I 103 00:07:54.560 --> 00:08:00.720 try on the lamb shades? Missus Adrian's how rum as just one of the 104 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.720 thing, says Nicky. Would you step over here a minute? No, 105 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:11.279 a little more this way please? That's good comedy, Team slapsters. Did 106 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:16.519 you get that wonderful pull you have? Mass I just blow myself up with 107 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:28.600 a bicycle pump. Shall we go? And that's the first act of tonight's 108 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:33.720 graphic adventure from Rogues Gallery. The F. W. 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When 124 00:09:56.919 --> 00:10:00.320 I walk in on a tender love seeing between Howard Adrian and has set Terry, 125 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:03.039 I couldn't see why he was so anxious for me to locate his missing 126 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:07.600 wife. But I did locate her, and I was ready to take her 127 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:11.519 home. So I had to overcome the objections of one Nicki, baron and 128 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.480 proprietor of a mandalaide. I guess Nickie was convinced he because as he lay 129 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:18.360 there on the cop as, he didn't seem to have another word to say. 130 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:22.759 Well, for a moment, Philosadrian seemed undecided between the horizontal mister Baron 131 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:26.759 and the perpendicular mister Rhode, and he began to smile. I'm not to 132 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:31.080 look that an out of the divine someday Wallace, who just part of life 133 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:35.960 at its best. Yeah, it's given me an idea. We're nice? 134 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:39.720 Were will you and wait for me in the lobby? Well, I don't 135 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:43.080 like to wear out my welcome. I long to bear. When this wiltor 136 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:46.159 snap dragon revived, I'll have something to say to him. The reason for 137 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:54.879 yours. Shall I here heard? So I was a darling? What else 138 00:10:54.879 --> 00:10:58.519 did I do in that silk dressed Philishadrians? Geography was making history. I 139 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:01.480 waited in the lobby and I was just telling the hat check girl to look 140 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:05.000 out for men? Who tell hat check girl to look out for men? 141 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:09.320 When someone tug at my sleeve. I turned around. At first I didn't 142 00:11:09.320 --> 00:11:13.720 recognize it without ellipstick Smith. It was Crystal Corbon. Well, well, 143 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:16.879 this Carbon, you're looking a little like a Dresden doll to night thanks to 144 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.000 you look, mister rogue. But then your job, your Thomas's agim. 145 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:24.240 That's all how it's playing you to do. I'll I'll be smart and stop 146 00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:28.399 playing with Dynamo. Nicky Barren alone the st kid. You surprise me. 147 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.559 What makes you think I'm interested in Nicky Barren because I know you had Deddy 148 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:33.799 Callaham tucking the news take a file this afternoon on the death of pigmal GM 149 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.480 and Nicky won't like that. It's a crime to waste those games doing Nikki's 150 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:43.080 leg work. What's your interest, Crystal? Well? You interest me enough. 151 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.120 Why I wouldn't like to see that smile without any teeth? And why 152 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:50.440 Chris, I didn't know you're killing mister rogue. But get Nicki barn and 153 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:54.559 get missus abim back to our husband. Maybe I will. It's just what 154 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:56.919 I'm trying to do, Darling. If people will stop shoving Nikki Baron down 155 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:01.559 my throat, I comes, Fillip, I get to stand. Good boys, 156 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:07.200 r ready to go back to Poppins. Don't be so easy to get 157 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:11.399 rid of me, I said, I have one more statement to doing about 158 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:18.519 everything I've been trying to do this week. You're important in my blind Look 159 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:20.080 where do I get in? We want to just met? Well, it's 160 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.080 complicated. Did you set in? I tell you just smell. I'm up 161 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:26.960 to my master. I'm a pretty business. I'm with a lever. I 162 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:31.320 need the swinging. There along a few more hands without looking at my cards, 163 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:35.440 and I'll fling him a card. I've already got a deal from your 164 00:12:35.480 --> 00:12:39.840 husband. Remember, I'll after your collection on that too, and I'll be 165 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:43.519 bored. Say no more. I'm in Now, who's grave do I have 166 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:50.399 to rob? Not to far on with that list we're staring, of course, 167 00:12:50.120 --> 00:13:03.320 But all you have to do is stand in the background and let's we 168 00:13:03.399 --> 00:13:07.120 got where we were going at ten twenty five. It was a house on 169 00:13:07.159 --> 00:13:30.080 the ocean front near Malibu. Whose places there asking no question? What are 170 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:35.000 you waiting for, lady? No, just looking for the light switch. 171 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:41.200 Here it is. The place was a man's idea, what a woman would 172 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:46.159 think a man's place. Order looked like lots of copper, knotty pine, 173 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:50.039 big brick fireplace, white baskin rugs, you know, the woods. One 174 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:54.039 another room was sliding glass windows from top to bottom, looking out my private 175 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:56.840 beach and plenty of Pacific. I'd no sooner taste the layout than philos adrians 176 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:05.200 snapped off the lights. He cut it out. I'm sit of the dark. 177 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:09.440 Oh no, don't tell me you're frightened. The pool a little could 178 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.679 be, baby could be. But I just don't like the idea of making 179 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:20.080 mud pies and somebody else's sandbox. Come here, ins down. Do you 180 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:24.080 love the moonlight? It's overlated. It shines on the same thing as the 181 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:28.639 sun does. Baby. Yeah, yeah, I guess there's none of us 182 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:35.799 so perfectly. We couldn't stand the softer focus more ways than one. More 183 00:14:35.879 --> 00:14:41.320 ways, let's just stick to one. What's happening? Whose place is this? 184 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:48.200 It's my uncle didn't answer, and it was right. Then I began 185 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:52.000 to feel that not in my chest, the uncanny vibrations of something about to 186 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:54.480 happen. And from then until it did happen, my heart was on a 187 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:58.039 pogo stick, and my nerves was skipping rope through list bunch of a record 188 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:03.360 cabinet and fumble through a row of flatters until she found the ones who wanted, 189 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:22.240 and pale the cereal strains of the violin until the room. Then and 190 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:26.960 ghostly mist Is Adrian listened like someone in a dream. She flowed into the 191 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.320 chair oppositely and settle herself in it, like a cloud coming to rest on 192 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:35.720 a hill. Recognize d who is it? Evelyn? And a magic violin? 193 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:41.480 No God, because you how? In this composition he wrote, O 194 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:48.200 pretty man, Yeah, come on over here and sit on my sofa. 195 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:56.799 I always sit here when you please. She stands right there, nice with 196 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:18.200 you always. You always close your eyes. Had anything throws through well, 197 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:22.679 thesic appreciations a wonderful thing, But gunshot crescendos are two models for my taste. 198 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:26.519 I opened my eyes and left to my feet, and that not in 199 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:30.039 my chest pulled tight as a hangman's noose. Philos Adrian still sat where she 200 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:33.440 was sitting. There was still a smile on her face. She still looked 201 00:16:33.480 --> 00:16:37.919 good. Yeah, wood and dead. There was a gushing red hole in 202 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:51.000 her throat. The clock said eleven h five. I don't know why. 203 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:52.519 The first thing I did was knocked the playing arm off that record. I 204 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:56.600 guess it made me nervous. Then I took a quick study around the house. 205 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:59.159 There was no one in the kitchen. The closets are under the bed. 206 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:03.039 I don't seem to have come from close by, maybe from a private 207 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:06.759 beach beyond the big window, so I dived through them. There's nothing out 208 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:11.519 there but sand, pounding surf and fog. Fog thickest taffy was rolling in 209 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:15.240 off the sea, coming in fast like they do at Malibu, plotting out 210 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:18.680 everything, everything but one shape of the shoreline that didn't look like driftwood. 211 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:22.960 I ain't got my heater and dropped it a sand Hey, yo, stop, 212 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:26.559 women are digging. I'm coming after to give you the first one office 213 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.599 tell me I'm meant to like. That's truth, I have got one. 214 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:37.119 You better start sitting bullets here. I make that first one's house. I 215 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:40.000 started inching toward him. My fingers tumbling on a tiger, ready for a 216 00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:41.799 duel on the fog. But he foxed me. He stood up and started 217 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:45.319 waving his arms over his head. So up, okay, fuddy, just 218 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:51.960 hold it like that? How start talking? Who are you? Bred? 219 00:17:52.039 --> 00:17:53.319 Heck? Hey, the private snoop? I what you know? No? 220 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:56.200 Why? I'm the guy who hired you, the fine missus alien. You're 221 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:00.279 Richard Grove. Yeah, you're working for me bull It's fun. Yeah, 222 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:03.599 but I said find it, not get her? That her alive? Wait 223 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:07.119 a minute, you ain't telling me I who else? You won't get sure? 224 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:11.759 No, I won't get sore? He is sure. I seen you. 225 00:18:11.000 --> 00:18:14.599 I was watching through the bag windows. She was sitting in the touch 226 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:15.519 with her back to me. She was sitting in the chair facing me. 227 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:18.079 She was listening to the music, and all of a sudden, you'll let 228 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:22.519 her hap us? What another doing some look music? At that time you're 229 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:26.240 making I want to know how you happened every outside that window. I told 230 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:29.680 you to check hotels from missus aprien. Tonight I find your keeping two windows 231 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:32.880 that belonged to a friend of hers. You'll get around. You're terrific. 232 00:18:32.920 --> 00:18:34.720 Tell me a secret. Oh well, well, I found the same registered 233 00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:38.359 at the worship pot terrist is Aprien? Howard? How would I if you 234 00:18:38.400 --> 00:18:41.000 an Aprien? How would you get it wonderful? How'd you ever figure it 235 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:44.519 out? Listen? If you can't pray for the other guys, what's Turnno? 236 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:47.279 Okay, keep talking? Well, I keep the telephone calls, and 237 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:49.400 they was all to this spee chairpers She wasn't nun, So I come out 238 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:52.119 looking for her. I looked through the window and I seen it happened? 239 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:57.480 You saw me killer? Huh? Whoa? It was turner dust. Maybe 240 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:04.960 it was too wonderful and you're holding the gun road. Yeah, it's going 241 00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:07.559 must to make a mistake. If you thought I did it wanting to go 242 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:11.759 for a cop instead of hiding out here on a bib age, Well, 243 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:14.920 I didn't want no cops in on the tail. I was gonna tell you 244 00:19:14.920 --> 00:19:18.359 when you left, you putting this racket long enough to know that there's there's 245 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:19.759 more, mother, and not telling who's done it? You know what? 246 00:19:21.240 --> 00:19:23.480 You put the hooks in me for a hushing. Well we all make mistakes, 247 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:26.640 rugs here, but you're overdoing it. Okay, bird, let's go 248 00:19:26.720 --> 00:19:37.039 inside the house. I'm calling hamas sure, somebody's gonna be sorry. All 249 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:41.799 right, rog got that here and race You're all right? First, I'm 250 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:45.279 sorry. Okay, Baron, this makes you dealer, My boy Rose, 251 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:49.480 hand over those papers. Amen. Oh I might have known it'd be papers. 252 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:52.920 Well. I hate to say this because I know what will happen. 253 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:59.680 But what papers? Oh that's did it happened? If you want it bad 254 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:03.400 enough about missus Adrian for Oh now you're telling me I didn't who else I 255 00:20:03.480 --> 00:20:07.839 thought you did? No? Wait a minute, I just walked into this. 256 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:10.599 I found her that way. I'll try to hang it on me. 257 00:20:10.839 --> 00:20:14.519 Don't mind him, so I hang it on anybody who comes along. It 258 00:20:14.720 --> 00:20:18.799 was just create a business associated you're can talk in front of him. Okay, 259 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:22.200 you have benefit. Createst dame tried to shake me down tonight. As 260 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:26.640 supposed to meet her at twelve o'clock with ten grand and hush money. When 261 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.000 I walked in, she was like that, go ahead, tell him where 262 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.880 I come in. Oh sure, I was having trouble raising the dough. 263 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:37.240 So she tells me to night. She's taking a rogue into the deal with 264 00:20:37.319 --> 00:20:41.079 it. There's a smart Chamas like him would know how to pedal that kind 265 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:45.559 of dope. The rogue here couldn't wait for the split, so he cut 266 00:20:45.559 --> 00:20:48.039 her out with a slug. Claps it up, promoter. Oh but one 267 00:20:48.079 --> 00:20:51.720 thing, what was he shown? I don't mind telling you now. I 268 00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:55.519 got nothing to lose beside, you two have a murder rep of your own 269 00:20:55.519 --> 00:21:00.480 to settle between you. Okay, I got a little careless once up in 270 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:03.880 Frisco, was tossing letter on for a bluff and a gent named Pig Muldoon 271 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.440 stepped in a one and called me. Oh, I was very sorry, 272 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.359 but it couldn't have happened to a worse wreck. Sure, I remember, 273 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:15.039 but I thought you was cleared. Yeah, it was. There was just 274 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:18.680 one little technicality. I was guilty, Howard. Adrian didn't know that when 275 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:21.920 he took the case. No, not when he took the case he didn't. 276 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:25.920 But before the fire was over he did see. The jury was already 277 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:27.880 out when a guy called Meathead Maxwell paid him a call. He was the 278 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:30.880 boy who was with me at the time. It wasn't trying to finger me. 279 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:34.319 He just wanted a little powder money to blow down before anyone caught up 280 00:21:34.319 --> 00:21:37.359 with him and started asking questions. You mean Adrian made a deal with Hell 281 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:41.599 stace evidence. Yeah, he probably wouldn't have, but the jury was already 282 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:45.720 out and he built up to the beautiful case. But he still didn't like 283 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:48.480 it. No, he got me off all right, but he also got 284 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:52.880 a statement from the meathead and he's been holding it over my head, making 285 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.920 me walk the chuck. That was what was in the paper to catch on 286 00:21:56.160 --> 00:22:00.440 quick kid. But I was doing all right, you seem until missus Adrian 287 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:04.039 gets her miss on the safety deposits seem all in the line of her wifely 288 00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:08.119 duties, going through his pockets one night. Next day she opens a box 289 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:12.319 and pulls out my pack and starts in selling it back to me. I 290 00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:15.960 can't see your doing. And she's doing all right, Ain't she just doing 291 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:19.559 missus as Yeah, but she's not being just missus Adrian. She's being a 292 00:22:19.640 --> 00:22:25.119 patron of the arts. I'm aside, sponsoring concerts here and there, and 293 00:22:25.319 --> 00:22:30.119 I am the angel. Either I angel her boyfriend Egosky or she's fade drop 294 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:34.240 muldoon nice bitter. I thought she'd like it all right now roads on it 295 00:22:34.279 --> 00:22:38.319 huh No, no hot feeling. If you're still telling I'm still buying If 296 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:42.079 the killing that dame all I got to you was congratulates. Okay, you 297 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:45.880 put it that way. Did you bring the money with him? Joe? 298 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:47.960 So I got it right here, let's see it. Yeah, it is 299 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:52.880 run here if a bird. He's not so tough at the second time tonight 300 00:22:52.920 --> 00:23:00.279 he's dropped his guide. You don't you You make the very same as take 301 00:23:00.759 --> 00:23:06.960 clothing money legal. Let us contited. So on, kitty, yst easy, 302 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:19.720 now you're look, we're chief there. Cheek to cheek, folks. 303 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:25.680 Here it is a bullet ballpoint pens especially for you from the Fitch Company. 304 00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:30.759 Yess. It's made from a genuine US thirty caliber machine gun cutridge. It's 305 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:34.680 leak streamlined, all metal and chrome plated, filled with non smear ink. 306 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:40.279 It writes for months. Its neat come pack only four inches long, just 307 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:44.119 writes to slip into purse of pocket. Dad will want one for notes, 308 00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:48.279 Mother will want one for her purse and kids. You be the envy of 309 00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:51.559 the neighborhood if you have one. And here's all you do to get your 310 00:23:51.599 --> 00:23:55.720 bullet ballpoint pen. Send your name of the dress with twenty five cents and 311 00:23:55.799 --> 00:24:00.599 the box top from any one of these three fixed plotts, Fitches, Fremover 312 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:04.680 shampoo, quin oil, haired tonic or skin pep after shaving luction nail to 313 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:11.240 Fitch des Moines six Iowa. That's Fitch des Moines sixth Iowa. It is 314 00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:18.000 spelled f I TC, and I'll back to Barry Sullivan as private investigator Richard 315 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:30.920 Rogue in rope gallery. I woke up with a lump the size of a 316 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:34.680 hat on my head. Both my playmates were gone, Hecked with a ten 317 00:24:34.759 --> 00:24:38.640 grand and Baron probably after him with a grudge, and me with nothing but 318 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:42.240 a corpse. I'd have a swell time explaining. I dragged myself to the 319 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:45.920 phone and called Betty Callahan, a newspaper guys who sometimes knows the answers. 320 00:24:47.359 --> 00:24:49.559 I told her what happened and asked her to check the alibis of three other 321 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:53.640 people, Crystal Corbin, Howard Adrian, and the violinist, even the GHOSTI 322 00:24:55.279 --> 00:24:56.880 then I spent the next twenty minutes trying to figure out one for myself. 323 00:24:57.599 --> 00:25:00.960 I still didn't have one when I tell phone Rang it was Betty. At 324 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:04.039 the time of the murder, Howard Adrian had been making a speech in front 325 00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:08.519 of seventy lawyers in a downtown hotel. Ivana Gerski was in San Diego giving 326 00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:14.119 a concert. He only had two thousand witnesses away. The olibis were stacking 327 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:17.160 up. I figured Crystal Corbin would have been taking a bath in the Hollywood 328 00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:21.000 Bowl, but knows he'd been with Howard. Betty said she'd notified him and 329 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:22.480 he was on his way out. So I had to have some answers ready 330 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:27.359 fast. And then I saw it, he answered in front of me. 331 00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:32.480 All the time, Phyllis Adrian. The bullet had entered her throat at an 332 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:36.400 up angle from somewhere in the floor. From then, I traced the possible 333 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:40.440 trajectory of a slug to its point of origin and found myself looking at a 334 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:44.279 wall guess heater with an aluminum grill work. I went over to it and 335 00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:48.960 heilt down, twisted some knobs, and removed the grill. There the wire 336 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.759 to the pipes inside was a twenty two target pistol. A little further back 337 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:56.160 slam to another pipe with a silver tuning fork. Two fine top of wires 338 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:00.359 ran from the tips of the fort with the trigger of a gun. The 339 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:03.599 certammer of a gun had been worked on with a file to make it respond 340 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:07.160 to a hair trigger touch. I didn't have to test it to know that 341 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:11.000 the tuning fork would vibrate with a crescendo in a Drowski's concerto, The Concerto 342 00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:22.039 of Death. We got your restest as we could. What happened? It's 343 00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:23.279 Betty, you don't I think you'd want to sort the focus. But I 344 00:26:23.319 --> 00:26:26.119 don't understand. How could it happen? Would you right here as you killer 345 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:30.960 Howard? Death by a remote control commits murder on qu to a musical note? 346 00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:34.319 Good lord? But who? Why didn't you tell me your wife was 347 00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:37.359 in love with another man? But how could I? I never knew. 348 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:40.799 Y're sure of that, of course, I'm sure. What are you driving 349 00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:42.880 at? Rogue? Well, somebody knew whoever plan of this gadget knew every 350 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:47.359 detail, as she always sat in that chair in that exact spot whenever she 351 00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:48.880 listened to him play. Who could have known that except the other man? 352 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:52.359 Yeah, that's a nactual thought, Crystal. I think it's what we were 353 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:56.240 meant to think that. It isn't the answer. You know the answer. 354 00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:59.559 I know a lot of answers. Baby, Now, did you ever tell 355 00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:04.640 Howard you were Nikky Baron's sister? Your old newspaper files to the trial. 356 00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:07.240 Baby, you changed your name and the color of your hair, but you 357 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:11.000 were still Nikki's sister, and you couldn't hide that. She wasn't trying to 358 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:12.640 hire it if I knew it all the time. You can't persecute the girl 359 00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:15.920 because of her block trying too. I'm just saying she made a play for 360 00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:18.400 you so you could get her hand on those papers you were holding over a 361 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:23.839 brother's head and destroy them. Right, Crystals, you're not trying to say 362 00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:26.880 that. I'm not saying anything. I'm just clearing a record. No, 363 00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:33.279 Crystal didn't kill your wife, Howard, because you did me. Well, 364 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:37.039 do you realize what you're saying? What possible motive could I have? Well, 365 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:40.079 I've got my choice of several, but most of them involved blackmail and 366 00:27:40.200 --> 00:27:42.240 legal loopholes, and you would have had a neat way of getting around those. 367 00:27:42.279 --> 00:27:45.960 So I two good old fashioned jealousy, the one thing you wouldn't have 368 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:48.279 known how to handle. You must be out of your mind. How could 369 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:51.759 I be jealous of something I didn't even know about? But you did know 370 00:27:51.799 --> 00:27:52.960 it, Howard? And the very fact that you want to such pains to 371 00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:56.119 conceal your knowledge as the tip of that couldn't be. Doesn't make sense. 372 00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:00.319 Howard loves me. You know you saw, I saw, I was meant 373 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:03.279 to see. The guy's a lawyer. Baby, you were exhibit A, 374 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.279 and I was going to be a star with us. You're skating gun very 375 00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:08.599 thin, nice world. What makes you think I knew a little guy named 376 00:28:08.599 --> 00:28:12.200 Bert Heck, a guy I hired to help me find your wife. Only 377 00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:15.880 he found her too fast, and he isn't that good. I figured right 378 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.759 then he'd been keeping an eye on her for a long time by somebody else. 379 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:22.680 But why me? You? Because he said you? Howard? Who 380 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:26.839 would a jealous husband hires a detective to follow his wife? Yeah, extra 381 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:30.039 ports must have made good reading all the unimate details about the private concerts and 382 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:34.039 a special how old that's closed enough. I'm sorry. Put on a gun. 383 00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:37.440 Yes, yes, I'm really sorry. Rogue to you. It's you. 384 00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:40.960 I'm sorry for how I told me that nobody feels sorry for me, 385 00:28:41.079 --> 00:28:42.359 not me, not Howard Adrian. I don't need it. How you, 386 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:48.200 Crystal, You you try to get close enough to hurt me, just like 387 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:51.119 all the rest, but you never could. Nobody gets close to me. 388 00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:53.359 Nobody knows what makes me take in here? Even for the cart room pay 389 00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:56.480 you finished here? Yes, I know, but so are you old? 390 00:28:56.599 --> 00:29:00.319 So are you if it happens in for you? I well, you're just 391 00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:12.920 too smart to live. Goodbye, mister roge or an instant. I stood 392 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:18.519 expecting to fall dead, but I didn't. Instead, Howard jerked, arrested, 393 00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:22.480 fun around like a ballet answer, and crumpled to the floor body again. 394 00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:26.960 I got it. The tuning force was still attached, the gun was 395 00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:30.640 an automatic, and Crystal's high pitched scream had set the thing in most in 396 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:33.079 a second time. Howard hadn't thought of that when he stood in the line 397 00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:36.839 of fire, and when he did think of it, it was too late. 398 00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:40.200 He was killed, as you might say, by his own ingenious hand. 399 00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:52.000 Well, that wrapped it up. It is a good Hexul who prompt 400 00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:55.680 appearance on the scene of a crime that at start of the hunts I played 401 00:29:55.720 --> 00:30:00.480 against Howard's alibi just a little too coincidental. The police snared Hecked crossing the 402 00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:04.400 border to Mexico, and they picked up Barren while he was boarding a plane 403 00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:10.720 for Las Vegas. Hex's original thought was the blackmail Howard. That's why he 404 00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:14.559 didn't tell me. Howard had hired him three months before the spy on his 405 00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:18.640 wife, but the ten grand was quicker, so he took that instead. 406 00:30:18.279 --> 00:30:23.440 Oh yes, the papers. We never did find any papers. I kind 407 00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:27.039 of like to think that they didn't exist. You know what I mean. 408 00:30:36.559 --> 00:30:40.759 You had just heard Barry Sullivan as five A Detective Richard Rogue in this week's 409 00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:49.160 glashic Adventure from Rogues Gallery. I'd like to thank our Rogues Gallery players who 410 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:53.480 were Loreene Tuttle, Gerald Moore, Peter Leaves and Ed Matt Thanks to the 411 00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:59.880 Charles Bender, producer and director of Your Fix Bandwagon summer series Rogues Gallery Until 412 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:03.319 Sunday. Then, this is Barry Sullivan saying, don't forget to switch to 413 00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:12.359 pick last awhile let us on New Time. Must damnpool Son to stay, 414 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:22.079 use your head, save your hair, you spitch Sao men after shaving the 415 00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:26.920 smile happy for that tingling, frosty fresh feeling. Use Switches skin Pep after 416 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:30.440 shaving lotions. It's a smooth ataseptic lotion with a lasting he man cent. 417 00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:37.039 Get Switches skin Pep after shaving lotions to get your bullet ballpoint tents and name 418 00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:41.000 addressed twenty five cents and the boxtops from Fitch Shampoo, Quinn Oil Hair Tonic 419 00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:49.119 or after Shaving Lotions to Fix the Mine six Iowa Jim Doyle seeking the National 420 00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:56.160 Broadcasting Company. The preceding NBC program was transcribed earlier to be heard at this 421 00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:02.000 time k f I Los Angeles or the Anthony Incorporated, California distributor of Packard 422 00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:15.559 Motor Card welcome back. Well, I have to say, quite honestly, 423 00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:22.599 not quite as good as the Dick Powe version, and that's vain generous. 424 00:32:23.319 --> 00:32:30.000 Not only was Sullivan's performance of Rogue quite different from Powell's, but the writing 425 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:34.359 felt a little bit off. Of course, if there were more episodes, 426 00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:42.319 Sullivan might grow as at least a passable private detective show, but clearly a 427 00:32:42.519 --> 00:32:47.079 lot more generic than a role that was really best associated with Dick Powell. 428 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.720 Well, there actually is one more version of Rogue's Gallery. This one will 429 00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:57.200 take us into the nineteen fifties. I'll tell you about it next week. 430 00:32:57.640 --> 00:33:02.160 Remember we do do one Dragnet episode per week, and you can listen to 431 00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:07.960 those who are old Time Dragnet podcast, the one that started at all Radio 432 00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:13.319 Dragnet dot com and the Old Time Radio Superman Show at a laserinsword dot com. 433 00:33:13.880 --> 00:33:16.119 If you have a common email at to me box thirteen at Great Detectives 434 00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:21.119 dot net, follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectors and give us a call 435 00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:24.720 two eight nine nine one four seven eight three. Be sure to become one 436 00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:30.119 of our friends on Facebook, Facebook dot com, slash Radio Detectives and take 437 00:33:30.200 --> 00:33:34.079 the listener survey survey dot Great Detectors dot net. But from Boise, Idaho, 438 00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:36.799 this is your host, Adam Graham signing off.