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Fitch Company presents Dick Powell as private investigator Richard Rogue 19 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:14.000 in Rogues Gallery. A while lighter song, be your style, you stitch 20 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:25.840 shampoo is better use your head Baker Hair, U Stitch. He f W 21 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:30.879 Fitch Company, makers of Pitchers have Pomified coconut oil shampoo and Pitcher Shaving Creams, 22 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:46.759 presents Dick Powell as private investigator Richard Rogue in Rogues Gallery. Rogue speaking, 23 00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:51.599 I guess it wouldn't be polite for me to make the statement that Judge 24 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:55.759 Colin Baker was a snake. I'll just say I think there was some truth 25 00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:00.759 of the rumor that he did shed his skin three times a year. The 26 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:06.120 judge, who isn't a judge anymore, was a big barrel chested guy with 27 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:09.280 a dramatic mop of wavy white hair worn in a sort of a modified wind 28 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:15.039 blown bob, the better to impress the juries with He'd made himself a reputation 29 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:21.360 back East as a fire eating da and then later as a hanging judge. 30 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:25.159 He'd been not here about five years, and it built a statewide reputation as 31 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:30.840 a brilliant criminal lawyer on a Seva thief to catch the thief faces. He 32 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:34.840 had just won a big case, and he was having a cocktailed party of 33 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:39.520 his penthouse apartment on top of the building which housed his flush officers. Betty 34 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:46.479 Betty Callaghan had covered the trial, and now she and the photographer from her 35 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:51.080 paper were covering the party. I tagged along. Oh, there was a 36 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:57.439 dandy crowd there, pasty faced politicians, tired faced women, and the old 37 00:03:57.479 --> 00:04:02.719 two faced judge and all of his glory. Oh, Richard, isn't this 38 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:09.080 a lovely place? Clear up here on top of this building? Just like 39 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:13.159 living on a mountain, only you can't lock the bottom entrance of a mountain. 40 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:15.439 Didn't see anybody here? You would really like to know? Now, 41 00:04:15.519 --> 00:04:19.480 don't step better? You know I had to come here tonight. I don't 42 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:23.399 like these people any better than you do. I'll get it over with as 43 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:26.800 soon as you can. Let's go someplace where I can take my hand off 44 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:30.920 my pocket an maybe, Miss Cannahan, And sorry, I couldn't get over 45 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:33.120 to you before. Indeed, I am mate, so you coming, but 46 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:39.720 Richard Rogue games so glad you could come, sir, Thanks and now made. 47 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:42.800 And I suppose you like some pictures. I see you have a photographer 48 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:46.759 with you, Oh thoughtful love you. Yes? Could I get a group 49 00:04:46.800 --> 00:04:49.079 around the fireplace, just you and the people connected with the trial, the 50 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:55.079 defendant and the witnesses. Of course I'll run them up for you immediately. 51 00:04:55.439 --> 00:05:00.079 Thank you, Joe my, Yeah, you're ready to go. Oh hey, 52 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:03.319 it's your serving. Good. Look you're here, real Scotch, None 53 00:05:03.319 --> 00:05:06.319 of that near Scotch. I get at the bar. Good. Now, 54 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:09.879 here's what I want, Mike, get me some shots of the group that's 55 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:12.720 forming over by the fireplace. Right. We'll put the judge in the middle 56 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:16.439 and had everybody congratulating him and the man he faded from the gas chamber. 57 00:05:16.519 --> 00:05:20.040 I can think of a few captions for that picture, Richard. We couldn't 58 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:25.199 credit him. You can't call a prominent guy like the judge of Crook, 59 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:28.920 And you can't call a murderer a murderer after a boort, jury says he's 60 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:30.959 not. You get the idea, Mike, none, Mike, you stay 61 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:34.120 right here, Richard I'll be back as soon as we've covered the art angle. 62 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:38.240 I'm the starry and then we leave, right, yeah, just as 63 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:50.399 soon as I can. Here, I wandered around in the crowd and listening 64 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:56.839 the scraps of conversations. Jim Dorset and Oily, a politician on the judge's 65 00:05:56.839 --> 00:06:01.879 payroll, was talking with the merry miller Mary as herself made wealthy widow, 66 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:08.439 whom the judge had defended after she had poisoned her husband. She was glaring 67 00:06:08.519 --> 00:06:12.279 hate at the judge like a death ray, and I moved with an earshot 68 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:17.480 at them. Well, Mary, you enjoying yourself at this testimonial to our 69 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:21.879 friend's genius. I'd rather be adeous weak. I'd enjoy my cocktails more. 70 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:26.480 You can count me in on that too. I'm surprised at you, though, 71 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:30.319 Mary. He got you out of a pretty bad spot, didn't he. 72 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:34.040 Yes, exactly half the money Fred left me. I didn't kill Fred. 73 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:38.839 You know I was innocent. Oh sure, sure, Well, haste 74 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:46.759 to meeting you again soon. At his wake, happy little gathering, The 75 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:49.399 laughter, which was bouncing off a high ceiling, had all the gay spontaneity 76 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:54.480 of an open grave, but everybody was getting along with the judge. He 77 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:57.560 was a big man. He had lots of money, lots of power. 78 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:01.680 In a way I couldn't help it. Ring the old boy posing over by 79 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:06.319 the immense fireplace, tossing that snowy mane of his about, and filling the 80 00:07:06.399 --> 00:07:11.600 rooms with his deep throated laughter. Betty finally got all of the pictures she 81 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:15.800 wanted and came glaring over to me. I got a little lump in my 82 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:21.920 throat, like I always do when I see Betty. Oh, if Mark 83 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:28.360 Anthony could have seen her, Cleopatra would have been in a second barge rowing. 84 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:33.959 We'll leave in just a moment, Richard, we happy to stay and 85 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:38.279 drink fue toast of the jack. He's going to be hurt. We don't 86 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:41.360 well, I wouldn't want to cause him pain. Oh, he's getting our 87 00:07:41.399 --> 00:07:45.600 cocktails now, he's going to bring them over. Okay, did you get 88 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:48.639 some pretty pictures of the old wind Bang? He's charming. I like it. 89 00:07:50.120 --> 00:07:54.759 Here, Come, how can you like a guy like that? Here? 90 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:59.199 We are open enough, too strong. If he's kind of him? 91 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:01.639 I wonder if you forgive me if I borrowed mister rogue ball. Just a 92 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:07.120 moment, I have something I wish to ask his advice on private later. 93 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:11.160 Why couldn't we make it tomorrow, Judge, Betty and sorrow will be too 94 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:13.319 late? Time a faid, mister Rogue, This will only take a few 95 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:18.160 minutes. You won't mind, willy, miss Callahan. Now, okay, 96 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:33.559 all right, Judge, I study right through here. Now. I received 97 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:37.879 a rather alarming note tonight, mister Rogue. Yes, when it was under 98 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:41.240 my glass and I returned to the saving table after those pictures were taken here 99 00:08:41.279 --> 00:08:43.960 it is m paper and then blow up from the dime store. Huh, 100 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:52.519 I can't trace them. Oh, let's have a say here, m have 101 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:56.799 a good time, you murderer. You won't be alive at this time tomorrow 102 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:01.879 night. You're going to sell them rate an anniversary. You can't run so 103 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:09.200 far that I won't find you and kill you. Unsigned of course credit in 104 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:13.639 block letters with no skill, anybody could have written man, and anybody could 105 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:16.759 have lifted here on the saving tables. Right. There've been a hundred people 106 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:22.080 drifting in and out of here. You take the notes seriously, Rogue. 107 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:26.480 I've head thrifting litters before, of course, but this one will I have 108 00:09:26.559 --> 00:09:37.440 a hunch about it. A premimission. We'll return to our story in just 109 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:41.679 a moment. First, when it comes to good grooming, your mirror can't 110 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:46.200 tell you everything. 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I wasn't particularly happy when 126 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:18.440 the judge took me in his study and showed me a note threatening him with 127 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:22.000 death within the next twenty four hours. In fact, I didn't pay much 128 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:26.480 attention until I looked at the judge's face. He was scared. Rogue. 129 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:31.600 I've had threatening letters before, but this one may I have a hunch of 130 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:33.840 body to crimination. What are you going to do about him? The safest 131 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:37.679 place in the world for me to stay is right here in this penthouse, 132 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:39.960 and I want you to stay with me. Rogue at me. I'll pay 133 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:45.320 you him for your time and what's well, I'll give you five hundred dollars 134 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:48.480 if you'll stay with people the next twenty four hours. Mister Rogue, Oh, 135 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:54.000 five hundred clams. Huh wow, Judge, that makes it very interesting. 136 00:11:54.080 --> 00:11:58.279 You'll accept the assignment in like a flash. Just let me explain it 137 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.879 to Betty Callahan. I was to take her off to night and very billy. 138 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:05.639 I'm sure miss Kahan will understand when you tell her about the fee. 139 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:22.679 I need you, mister rogue. It's so busy you have to break your 140 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:26.799 date with me. That's a habit of yours, is in the preacher. 141 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:30.080 Oh well, you won't ever have to do it again. You'll never have 142 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:33.159 another chance. All but daddy, maybe listen to Judge figures someone who's gonna 143 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:37.080 try to kill him tonight. You don't want to be a party to a 144 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:39.000 murder, do you. You're not worried a bit about the judge, and 145 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:43.799 you know it richer. You're thinking about five hundred dollars, Well, is 146 00:12:43.840 --> 00:12:46.919 that bad? Five bills will buy a lot of entertainment. You can have 147 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:50.080 a lot of joy on five hundred dollars. Don't knock it, don't snare 148 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:52.120 at it. Well, I suppose I might just as well get Mike to 149 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:56.360 take me home. I should have known that you get a better offer. 150 00:12:56.679 --> 00:13:03.440 You always do, Mike. It's Callahan, Miss Callahan. I am afraid 151 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:07.039 I owe you an apology. Oh no, Judge, I can't very well 152 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:11.200 blame you if my friend Richard is so crazy about that money. Judge, 153 00:13:11.279 --> 00:13:15.799 I I got word for you. I can't take the assignment, but I 154 00:13:15.879 --> 00:13:18.039 have your word, mister Rogue. Why wouldn't want to bake your word? 155 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:22.519 If anybody else would you? Oh? No, are you ready? Mike? 156 00:13:22.759 --> 00:13:26.879 You can shove off, Mike. I'm taking miss Callahan home, okay? 157 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:30.960 By me? I'm really sorry, Judge MS. Look, you two 158 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:35.159 youngsters, there's no point in having a disagreement over this. Why don't you 159 00:13:35.320 --> 00:13:39.279 just stay here until the rest of the guests leave. They are beginning to 160 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:43.120 leave now, then, mister Rogue, you can take Miss Callahan home and 161 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:48.879 come back. That will leave you alone for about an hour. There's only 162 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:54.200 one entrance to this place. That's my private elevator. I'll give you the 163 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:58.759 key. You can knock it as you leave. No one can possibly get 164 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:00.840 up here. Oh I don't want to go. Was all that trouble? 165 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:03.600 Oh alone to be a little while, Dibi. I hope you do this 166 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:09.080 fever for me, Miss Kellaan, I need mister Roogue's moral support tonight. 167 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:20.799 Even at my age, I feel that I'm too young. Could die. 168 00:14:24.360 --> 00:14:28.759 Betty and I hired on for another hour until all the guests either walked or 169 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:31.759 were helped from the cocktail party. Then the Judge and I went through the 170 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:37.399 penthouse like acid goes through cotton. We looked under everything that was raised from 171 00:14:37.440 --> 00:14:41.559 the floor and behind everything that stood a foot high. Then we turned on 172 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:46.480 the floodlights and searched the area surrounding the penthouse, then the roof. There 173 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:50.320 was nobody there. The judge was alone when Betty and I rode his private 174 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:54.240 elevator and locked it with a food proof lock before we got into my car 175 00:14:54.320 --> 00:15:01.080 and headed for her place. Betty was annoyed, and that ride home was 176 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:05.360 as romantic as a tub full of wet wash. She'd been annoyed before, 177 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:09.799 and I wasn't worried. I left her at her apartment and fiddle foot it 178 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:13.799 out of my car. I opened the car door bent to get in. 179 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:26.960 Lightning struck me in my ear. I heard the thunderboats rocketing past and latched 180 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:35.159 onto one for a wild ride through the firmament. Stars kept exploding in my 181 00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:41.480 face, but I hung on until I saw my home away from homes, 182 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:50.039 good old cloud aid. I let go dropped in me on or two and 183 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:56.639 landed as softly as smoke ring. I didn't know my eyes for a moment. 184 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:06.240 Keep me jep, wake up. You're home. Hello, you gore. 185 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:10.440 I didn't think you were ever gonna get here, Rokey. I was 186 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:17.120 worried. Well, where have I betten it? I saw you go by 187 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:21.639 here a couple of centuries ago. You went right past. I saw you 188 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:26.120 way upstairs, knocking at the party gates, I think, but they wouldn't 189 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:32.720 let you in. You go, this isn't. Oh, tell me that 190 00:16:32.840 --> 00:16:37.519 this isn't. Oh, no, giv you way. Not a bear and 191 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:42.519 you're a wife. Oh, I'm glad to know that. What happened. 192 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:45.960 Somebody knocked you out of the pot, rokey, and then you went for 193 00:16:47.039 --> 00:16:49.120 an automobile ride. And well, I've got to get out of here. 194 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:53.960 Oh, yes you do. You've been gone a long time. An old 195 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:59.559 friend of yours is trying to get through to you. You know what time 196 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:06.799 it is? No, it's not th emmon one. All right, you 197 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:30.000 go, give me a shove, see you next week. No, oh, 198 00:17:30.079 --> 00:17:33.480 Harman, and what are you doing. I'm trying to get these handcuffs 199 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:37.839 off you. Oh we have. We're in the hills about Mulholland Drive. 200 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:42.200 Somebody brought you up here chloroforms your and handcuff you to this tree with your 201 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:48.319 own handcuffs. You need a bodyguard, Rogy, how did you find me? 202 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:51.440 No, you got a phone call telling me where you were to bring 203 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:56.519 a file. Fan Still, I'll leave you here? Okay? Who did 204 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:00.200 it? I'm waiting for you to tell me that. I don't get it. 205 00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:03.880 Somebody wanted you out of the way for a while. Rogie, how 206 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:07.599 do you want to tell me what you're mixed up in? I wasn't on 207 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:12.519 a case. And oh oh, madam, I don't even have to get 208 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:17.279 a new chain for your bracelest. But anyway, you're unharnessed from that treeck 209 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:22.599 Urban, I was supposed to be bodyguarding Judge Colin Baker last night, bodyguarding 210 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:29.640 that crook? Why you got a death threat note found on the serving table? 211 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:33.759 Doing it? Cock? Go on? Yeah? Somebody promised to kill 212 00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:37.079 him within twenty four hours. What're you're leaving for? I took good Betty 213 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:41.000 Callahan home. Somebody wants to follow me when I left the judge's gun house. 214 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:45.599 They knocked me out as I left, Betty. Maybe we'd better check 215 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.519 on the judge's health. Maybe that note wasn't kidding, How do you feel 216 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:52.880 h woozy? You can hang your head out the window on the way bank. 217 00:18:53.200 --> 00:18:57.359 We'd better see whether your client needs a bodyguard or an undertaker. Oh, 218 00:19:00.799 --> 00:19:04.440 my head was full of feathers and my hands felt heavy on my arms, 219 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:08.960 my mouth was lined with brown blotting paper, and my shoes were full 220 00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:15.319 of lead. I wasn't feeling very well as I got an Urban's official sedan 221 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:19.279 and headed for the penthouse where I had left at Colin Baker. My head 222 00:19:19.319 --> 00:19:23.440 ached like a broken heart until I took a cup of pills from Urban's first 223 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:27.839 aid kits, and by the time we pulled up in front of the office 224 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:33.079 building, I felt like I had a chance at lifting if I wanted to, 225 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:38.319 And I decided I wanted to the private penthouse. Elevator was still locked, 226 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:42.319 just as I had left it. That made me glad we entered it. 227 00:19:49.640 --> 00:19:53.000 Maybe we should have called before we took this trip. No, I 228 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:56.960 want to see the old boy. I owe him an apology that he's still 229 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:00.079 alived. How could he be dead unless somebody else had a key to if 230 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.200 elevator. It didn't be on the other keys on the Judge's keyring. He 231 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:04.880 told me that, and what are you worried about? I'm not worried. 232 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:10.599 I just hate to give him back those nice crisp sea notes. I saw 233 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:21.160 him. I hope he's out ze. Oh good lord. Well, a 234 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:33.160 judge will never be any debtor wruin the face. He's been strangled, Roggie. 235 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:38.079 We'll continue our story in just a moment. First, the word of 236 00:20:38.119 --> 00:20:44.319 the ladies. It's long been acknowledged that fragrance and charm go hand in hand, 237 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:48.200 but unpleasant hair and scalp odders can banish charm in a hurry. 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He's been strangled, Rogy, Yeah, yeah, 255 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:33.920 it looks like it. And he marks on his thought. No, no 256 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:37.000 marks looks likely with a struggle though, table kicked over. How could anybody 257 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:40.480 get in here? I love it. There was locked. There's no other 258 00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:42.279 entrance. What are you trying to do? Tell me this guy's not bad. 259 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:45.519 No, he's dead, all right? But how could he be strangled? 260 00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:52.759 Cigarette? Urban? No thanks, Ruggy. So he was murdered, 261 00:22:52.839 --> 00:22:57.079 wasn't me? Yeah? That calls for the medical examiner. Oh, I 262 00:22:57.119 --> 00:23:00.839 don't get it. There was nobody here. Why I left? There's been 263 00:23:00.839 --> 00:23:07.519 nobody here since there's Hey, there's a peculiar order in here. No, 264 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:10.319 no, no, sit down, rog, He want to look around. 265 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:12.599 There's been a murder. You're mixed up in it, and I want to 266 00:23:12.599 --> 00:23:17.240 talk with you. You think I killed him? I didn't know him that 267 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:22.079 well. I wasn't even mad at him. Hey, what's that shack check 268 00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:26.720 for twenty five hundred dollars made out of the victim and signed by Mary Millard? 269 00:23:29.039 --> 00:23:32.000 Was she here last night? Yeah? She was here, and she 270 00:23:32.119 --> 00:23:33.880 didn't like to judge. But I've ever heard of a dame her age doing 271 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:37.440 a human fly act. Maybe she had a key to the giant, but 272 00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:40.920 she didn't believe me. She didn't wave the phone. It's in the bedroom. 273 00:23:41.160 --> 00:23:51.119 I'm going to use it. Wait here, Rog. There was a 274 00:23:51.160 --> 00:23:53.559 peculiar order in that room, a faintly familiar order, but I couldn't place 275 00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:57.680 it. My pole beat up mind was whirling a million revolutions, a minute 276 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:03.000 and getting no place, And then I remembered the note the judge received. 277 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:08.599 It had mentioned an anniversary, so I decided not to wait. Instead, 278 00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:14.599 I took that long elevator riot and grabbed a cab for the library. Yeah, 279 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:17.880 I hope you. Oh yes, I I want to see the files 280 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:21.119 on the Gotham City newspapers for the last ten years. All right, sir, 281 00:24:21.559 --> 00:24:22.920 it's going to take me some time to get them out of the storeroom. 282 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:27.039 Any specific date. Yes, I would like to see copies of the 283 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:30.279 editions five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten years ago today. 284 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:33.079 All right, sir, If you just have a chair, you too, 285 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:37.559 You feel all right? You look at you? Oh, I always 286 00:24:37.559 --> 00:24:40.319 look like this. Thank you. Just get me the papers, please, 287 00:24:40.319 --> 00:24:44.160 They're mighty important. Confidentially, I think they're going to solve a murder. 288 00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:56.519 The librarian got me the papers. I'm at work on them. Gotham City 289 00:24:56.920 --> 00:25:02.000 was the city where Judge Colin Baker made his reputation as a hanging judge. 290 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:07.720 My hunt was as strong as a bride's coffee and had paid off in the 291 00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:11.079 issue for seven years ago. That day I found the name of Judge Colin 292 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:15.640 Baker on the front page a man he had sentenced to the chair for murder 293 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:21.960 had been executed, screaming his enness. Within an hour after the electricity had 294 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:26.400 torn through the body of this man, Harold Michael, the real killer, 295 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:32.799 had confessed. And this was the anniversary of that legal murder. I called 296 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:36.240 Betty Callahan at her paper. She wasn't there. She was covering the police 297 00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:41.559 investigation of Judge Baker's murder. I took a cab back to the Judge's penthoff. 298 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:48.440 Isn't this terrible? Richard? Hadn't been for me insisting on you taking 299 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:51.759 me home, Judge would have been a lie or I would have been dead. 300 00:25:51.880 --> 00:25:53.640 Where have you been, Rogie? I told you to stay here. 301 00:25:53.680 --> 00:26:00.119 I'm not doing your work for Urban I got demoted for this murder. What 302 00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:03.440 did the medical examiner I have to say? Ah, you know the duck. 303 00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:07.440 He just did a little muttering about cyanide. Won't give any official opinion 304 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:11.680 until he's had a chance to analyze the contents of the body. What's your 305 00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:15.720 theory on the motive? Well, anybody, where are you going? I'm 306 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:18.640 with the working press, Mike and I. When you get some pictures on 307 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:22.599 I can hear that massive intellect of yours taking, Rogie, and I recognize 308 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:26.920 that far away look in your eyes. Now what goes? Don't stand there 309 00:26:26.960 --> 00:26:30.960 like a dummy. If you've got any theories, let me in on him. 310 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:34.799 Cyanide. Huh, Look, Urban, this place is air conditioned, 311 00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:38.079 isn't it? The penthouse is the building isn't. Yeah, I'll be back 312 00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:41.200 in a minute. Hey, where are you going? I'll be back in 313 00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:52.640 a minute. I want to check that theory of mind. Cyanide. That 314 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:56.079 word brought back that dainty smell I'd noticed in the apartment when Urban and I 315 00:26:56.200 --> 00:27:03.480 had discovered the judge's body. Cyanide. The order of cyanide is bought out 316 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:08.000 by a cigarette smoke I had been smoking when I detected it. The pieces 317 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:12.240 of this murder were falling into place like a well trained course. I found 318 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:15.680 the ladder that led to the top of the penthouse where the air conditioning machinery 319 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:21.839 have located, ran up the ladder, gun in hand, and there he 320 00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:26.759 was, the murderer, just lifting an earthenware croc from inside the housing of 321 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:32.480 the intake fan on the air conditioning system. Put it on. Mike, 322 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:36.960 take another move toward me, Rogue. Now let you have this cluckful of 323 00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:38.200 asset right in your face? What good luck do you? Mike? You 324 00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:42.960 can't get away Another five minutes and I would have been at home free. 325 00:27:45.079 --> 00:27:48.319 How did you figure me, Rogue? Why did you have to horn in? 326 00:27:48.599 --> 00:27:51.680 I looked up the Gotham newspapers for seven years ago to day that day 327 00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:55.440 Judge Baker executed the man named Harold Michaels. And then it's a man. 328 00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:59.519 Was he your brother? Your name's Michaels, isn't it? It was my 329 00:27:59.599 --> 00:28:04.559 father, And I executed the man who executed him in his own private guess 330 00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:10.440 chamber, just like they do it at Quinton. I waited a long time 331 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:12.720 for the chance. Look, Mike, I'm not arguing right a wrong with 332 00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:15.480 you, but now you're a killer, and I'm going to take you in. 333 00:28:17.200 --> 00:28:22.000 Put that crock down. Oh I don't think so, Rogue. I'll 334 00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:26.799 just stand here. I have to think, just for my information, Mike. 335 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:30.519 How did you delay the action of the gas until you knew the judge 336 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:34.160 would be along? I thought of everything. I didn't want to hurt anybody 337 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:37.839 but Baker. I hung the cyanide tell it over the acid on a piece 338 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:44.799 of cotton cord. I tested it half dozen times. You know it took 339 00:28:44.799 --> 00:28:48.400 a drop of acid three hours to heat through the cord. I'm glad I 340 00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:52.920 killed him. Rogue. I'm coming after your Mike. I'm not waiting, 341 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:56.720 Rogue. I don't like the gas chamber, Mike. Mike, don't come 342 00:28:56.759 --> 00:29:00.519 back here. I'm not sorry for anything, Helen. That was my payoff 343 00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:06.279 line when your rogue so long. No, don't Mike, don't jomp it. 344 00:29:15.759 --> 00:29:19.839 Mike's plan for murdering the man who had caused his father's execution was as 345 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:25.319 near perfect as any murder will ever be. While the guests were having whoopie 346 00:29:25.319 --> 00:29:27.519 at the cocktail party, he put that jar of acid in the air conditioning 347 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:33.240 intake, hung the cyanide pellet over it, and was back at the party, 348 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:37.519 leaving that note before anybody missed him. When he found that I was 349 00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:40.359 going to return to spend the night with the judge, he ever had to 350 00:29:40.400 --> 00:29:42.720 knock me out, get me out of the way for at least five hours, 351 00:29:44.519 --> 00:29:48.039 three hours before the cyanide fell into its acid bath, and two more 352 00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:52.920 hours which it took for the air conditioning system to completely change the air in 353 00:29:52.960 --> 00:30:00.039 the penthouse. Claire, I thought it, yes, it looks like I 354 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:04.480 did it again. Had a narrow escape though, but that didn't bother me. 355 00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:08.839 I'd drive every day in the Los Angeles traffic. Do you know what 356 00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:26.799 I mean? This is Dick Powell again. Ladies and gentlemen, I hope 357 00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:30.759 you enjoyed our story tonight. 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On the 367 00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:48.839 bright side, we found out that rogue leaving the apartment did not lead to 368 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:52.960 the judge's murder. As a rogue Express. The only thing that would have 369 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:57.240 happened differently was that he would have been killed as well. And of course 370 00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:05.000 we have Gerald Moore back in the role of the murderer, and I was 371 00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:09.559 thinking about that last week. It's an episode of Rogues Gallery and Gerald Moore 372 00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:15.200 is not the heavy He's not even in the episode. But thankfully balance has 373 00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:20.079 been restored. All right. Well, now, as promised, I'm going 374 00:32:20.119 --> 00:32:24.400 to share with you about the shows that we are going to be adding on 375 00:32:24.440 --> 00:32:30.599 Tuesdays during the two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve season. Rogues Gallery 376 00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:34.319 will take us through the rest of this season and a couple weeks into the 377 00:32:34.319 --> 00:32:37.559 next one. Those that will do will be Kendy Matson, The Adventures of 378 00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:43.920 Christopher London, the old time radio Poirot shows from the nineteen forties, and 379 00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:50.920 that will be replaced by Pete Kelly's Blues, then Leonidas Witherall and finally The 380 00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:55.400 Fat Man. So to repeat, Candy Matson, Christopher London, Poirot, 381 00:32:55.960 --> 00:33:01.000 Pete Kelly's Blues, Leonidis Witherall and The Batman. So a lot of shows 382 00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:06.599 will be parking in on Tuesdays on next season, all right, and we 383 00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:13.240 do have one listener comment simple best podcast around. Well, thank you so 384 00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:17.200 much and appreciate all of your support. 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