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The original air date March the fourteenth, nineteen fifty and the title as
the Mathematical Murder Case. You think you got the step now, Betty Low,
Yeah, only in mature. Let's try it once more, Eddie,
Okay, I'll set the temple you're coming after ready? All right? At
that? At that? Alright, alright, alright, let's quit. You
missed it again. I'm sorry. I guess my brains aren't in my feet.
Let's try it once more. I won't miss it this time. Once
to us to trying it again. See, you'll get it this time.
You'll miss the next. I will never make it. Betty Lowe might as
well quit right now, quick, you'll quit. Oh no, what do
you think this is fun? Rehearsing gonna joint with no mirror to watch yourselves,
no piano, no nothing, trying to teach you a sock routine when
you can't even do a simple routine? What is this fun? Well,
it isn't fun for me either. In well, right now, I'm selfish.
I'm worried about me. Right now, you stay here and practice that
routine. I'm going out for saying, Oh, bring me one, Eddie,
good yourself when you're finished. Aren't you coming back? I don't know,
I ain't sure. Maybe i'd better make up your mind for you.
You're coming back, Eddie, and you ain't gonna be too long either.
What makes you think so? I'm telling you that's what makes me think,
So don't try to walk out on me, Eddie. It isn't smart and
it isn't healthy. Oh, the sweet little girl's getting tough. I used
to be a sweet little gal before I met you. If I'm tough,
you made me tough. So don't try walking out, Eddie. Just make
sure you come back, boy, or the next dance you do is gonna
be at the end of a rope. Hello, what ay hi? What
can I get to? Eddie? Throwing for me? Black Danny? You
are ready drowing for you? Black? Hush your business? Eddy? Why
ask me? Why ask you? Who else would I asked? See?
You've been up there in front of people, hope and listening to them applaud.
That's living, Eddie, that's really living. What happened to the coffee
I ordered? Coming up? How's Betty Louse? She all right? She's
sure is a swell kid. She's real show business. She is. See
how I was coffee Dan? The coffee It draw one in the dark.
Sometimes at night I kind of imagine this restaurant is a stage, like and
I'm only acting. I've been a waiter. I guess that's just another kind
of dreaming, isn't it an Yeah, I guess Look, Dann, I
got a problem now, how by room at this table for one morning?
Hello, Joey, sure, I'll go get you your coffee. Eddie here,
aren't you gonna wait and see what I'll have? You'll decide what you
want, yelling out yourself. You're in a show business. I don't have
to wait on you. What a character that, Dannis? How Joey?
Hey? Yeah? Should that has a dance team going? Eddie, it's
going bad. That's going with you? Oh? I got a new little
gimmick that's paying off. Kind of cute guy named Euclid taught it to me.
Mathematical trick, Yoklid. Didn't they do a mind reading act? And
Yulklid was a Greek? Well, I think this guy I'm talking about it
was a Greek two He worked with a black Yulkid's been dead a thousand years.
Oh, couldn't be the same guy, the nice figuring. I'll look
at him. I get a sucker to put any three numbers down on a
hunk up paper, and underneath them he reverses a number in some tracts.
So then he gives me the last number of his answer and I bet him,
I can tell him the first two whoa everybody bets natch. I know
I didn't look at their numbers, and I collect were your kidding? That's
a cinch or you gotta dope, shut up, shut up, or break
your neck. What's with you, Joey? All I was doing was telling
you how that thing works. Yeah, the guy used to doing Infordville showed
it to me. Any three numbers, you reverse them out? Shut up
at him, Stop wising up the suckers. I'm good for a couple of
hundred bucks a week betting guys on this gimmick. You don't spoil my racket,
or I'll spoil your kisser. I'm sorry, I can't talk to him
right now. Final answers in my office. Tell him I'll call him back.
Bye, Sorry Vans, where were we? No reason to apologize,
markam Well. Anytime a private investigator drops in to see the district attorney,
he expects into rustions. We were discussing some complaints you said you've been getting.
Yes, of course, it seems that some people have called and mentioned
a fellow named Joey Sanders who has a mathematical gimmick of some sort. You
take any three numbers, reverse them, subtract, tell him the last number
of the answer, and he tells you the first two. How's that done,
Vans. It's very simple, Markham. In fact, there's a much
cute trick with four figures. You see, all mathematics is based on the
figure nine. Now remember, I'll be right with your fans. I want
to hear that. Hello, Markham speaking all dear he Thomas. Yes,
he got a murder da murder stone dancer. What are the details? I've
been found him in a deserted section of town. No fingerprints, but we've
got one clue, and I'm picking up a girl who was his dancing partner.
Name's Betty Lew Taylor. You want to come down a question her.
I'll meet George your office at an hour. I don't answer, and I
were just discussing a mathematical formula. I'm sure he'd much rather figure who killed
Eddie's stone? No, no, no, I don't know, so Die
and he I tell you I don't know who killed it? And I tell
you you do. Look, miss, this is my job, this is
my office. I'll keep you here with me all week if I have to.
You know something about the murder of Eddie Stone, and I'm gonna find
out what it is. I don't know anything about it. I danced with
him and that's all. I didn't kill him, and I don't know who
did. I know. Differently, you were at the scene of the murder.
We know definitely you were there. It wasn't I wasn't near the place.
I didn't know Eddie was dead until you came from me. Please leave
me alone. I can't tell you anything I don't know. Oh, hello,
mister Markham advance. This is the young lady who told me about him
a telephone here. Yeah, she says she didn't even know the guy was
killed. But what she really doesn't know is that we can put her right
at the scene of the murder. Oh, he We found a girl's footprint
right near the body. That's how a footprint is the same size as this
girl's shoe. No, she says, yeah, that's hardly conclusive evidence.
A footprint of a woman's shoe isn't completely incriminating. This one is da.
This girl's a dancer. The footprint we found at a mark on the toe
and the heel. You know what made that mark? Toe plates and heel
plates, whole plates and heel Yeah, and who wears toe plates and heel
plates? Only a dancer? Now, miss Taylor, will you still deny
that you were at the scene of the murder? Isn't it rather unusual for
a dancer to wear her dancing shoes out in the street heat, Well,
you're getting no, mister, dance, not if it's the only pair of
shoes she had. I was there. Oh, I saw Eddie's body after
he was killed. We quarreled, and I went out looking for him,
and I found him. I lied about it because I wanted to keep out
of all this. That's your story. You found him and you killed Yeah,
there's no need of you were wasting your time here, Da, I'll
have a confession out of this girl in an hour. Friends, Apparently Heath
doesn't care how I waste my time. I think I'll take a look into
this case. What for fans, I tell you this girl did it?
Perhaps maybe I don't care how I waste my time either, Sergeant he Maybe
if I spend a few hours, I can save the state a lot of
trouble. You mean all I have to do, joeyus think of a card
and you'll tell me what the card is. That's right. You can't do
it? How much? Says I can't do it? Saying a buck?
A buck? You no, I wouldn't try to read a mouse's mind for
a buck. You make it five and I'll show you something that you never
saw before in your life. I never have to tell you the card.
All I do is think of it and you'll tell it to me. Five
bucks, says I can do it. Okay, you got it. I'm
thinking of a card. What isn't a Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
you're going too fast. First, the card has a number on it,
right, sure, take that number, double it, add one,
got it, we'll apply it by five. Okay, I did it?
What's my card? Wait a minute, carle, relax. You got that
number right now. If your card's a club, add six. If it's
a diamond, ad seven. If the mart at eight and Spade at night
got them? All right? What's the total? Ninety two? The card
was the eight of diamonds. That's right, Joey, how'd you do it?
Come on? Tell me how did you do that? I'll give you
ten bucks if you show me how it's donned? Are you kid? Get
lost? You don't defended me. What do you want to do? Live
here the rest of your life? Come on, Stucker, move out before
I stood? Do you tell anybody you were coming here? Right? Didn't?
Okay? Stick tight? Who is missus Leeds? Your landlady? What
do you want? My rents paid? Open the door? Joey? Please?
Hello, Joey. Why don't you be nice to me anymore? Why
don't you my rents paid? You want me to move up? When my
week's up? I move out? What do you want up here? Joey?
Don't be mean to me. I don't want you to move. I
want you to stay here as long as you want to. Let me come
in. Joey here? Oh so finally you see that I got company?
Congratulations? What's keeping you here? Now? Please come out in the hall.
This is important? Okay, wait here, Sammy, Well, what
is it that's so important? Joey? Eddie Stowe has been murdered. I
just heard about it on the radio. What makes you think that concerns me?
You don't have to talk like that to meet Joey. I wouldn't say
anything never. That's better. Wild horses couldn't drag it out of me that
you and Eddie had a fight today. Edie, you know about sure,
but I wouldn't say anything about it, Joey, I wouldn't say a word.
Okay, I'll get rid of the sap inside. Come back to see
me in an hour. Mike, Coffee shop, Danny speaking Hello. This
is just your attorney, Markham. Danny, yes, attorney. Look is
there a man in your shop named Final Vance? There isn't anybody in my
place right now, mister Markham, not a soul. Well. Vance is
on his way there with the young lady named Eddy Lou Taylor. Eddy Lou,
Yes, you know for sure. I know she's in show business,
ain't she? If anybody's in show business, I know it. Don't believe
me very well? I believe now. Look Christmas Taylor has been released in
Vance's custody. You know they've gone to your shop. I want you to
have Vans call the minute he comes in. Sure thing, mister Markham,
Short thing? Bye, Danny. Hey, Joey, you scared me.
What's the idea of sneaking up on a guy when he's on a telephone to
you? Scared me? Danny, listen to me. I'm listening to you.
Joey and I I'm listening. Okay, keep your ears open and your
trap shut. Danny, quit it. You bend on my apron. I
only just put it on, Danny. Anybody comes in here, And as
if Eddie Stille and I had a fight this morning, you say we didn't
you hear you get me? We didn't have any argument? Sure you didn't.
I didn't hear any argument. Of course I saw your slug him twice,
but didn't see me clip them. You didn't see nothing. You better
cut it out, Joey. Somebody's coming in. So this is the place
where Eddie Stone used to hang out with this Taylor. That's Dan the waiter
right there. Hello Danny, Hello miss Taylor. Gee. I was sorry
to hear about them arresting you. Do you ever need anything? You ever
need a friend to stand by it? Just count on me for so long,
Danny. I'll be seeing you just a moment. My friend. My
name is Filo Vans. Did you buy any chance happen to know Eddie's Stone?
Edie Stone? Let me see? Yeah, yeah, I think I
didn't. A dancer? Wasn't he a dancer? Wasn't he? He was
the best dancer in show business? Present Company accepted, of course, Miss
Taylor. Of thanks. This is Joey Sanders. Mister Vans, he knew
Eddie, he knows everybody. Joey Sanders, I know that name. Well,
you're the young man who's been the cause of a lot of complaints at
the District Attorney's office and then flatted something about swindling people with a mathematical trick,
the very old three number routine. Hey, that's no swindle. I
bet I can't name the first two numbers and their answer right, but I
can. Sometimes they win, sometimes I win. Yes, of course,
I know that trick is awfully old and completely fool proof. If you take
any three numbers, reverse them, and subtract them, the answer will always
have a nine in the center, and the first and third numbers will add
up to nine. So that's how it's done, you know, kitten gee
smart like you. Dan. Now suppose Miss Taylor and I escort you over
to that table there, mister Sanders, where we can talk about what Eddie
Stone's murder. You see, I think I know who killed Stone. Danny.
He's making a break for the tour. Never mind, I'm near to
him. I'll get him. I got him vance think I knocked him up
when I tackled. Yes, I imagine you did. I guess you owe
me one now, Vans, He said, you knew who killed Stone?
Well, this Dan character made a break and I grabbed him for you.
You most certainly did. But I don't think I owe you anything. I
don't remember ever saying that Dan here was the man I thought murdered Eddie Stone.
This is just your to Tony markham Our current murder case opened with the
knifing of Eddie Stone. Dancer his partner Betty Lou Taylor, has been picked
up and released Advance. In an attempt to track down the killer, has
made the equips of Joey Sanders a small time swinder. Something about a restaurant
called Mike's Coffee Shop and Dan the waiter there seemed to intrigue Vans, And
he and I are approaching the place right now. What is there about this
Dan that intrigues you? Vans? A lot of things. First of all,
I want to know why he'd tried to get out of that coffee shop
when I said I knew the murderer of Eddy Stone? Oh do you know
who killed Stone? No? Believe me? It wouldn't surprise me if you
did. Nothing you do surprises me anymore. Sorry to hear that, Markham.
However, I promise you you won't be able to say that with any
honesty very soon, won't. I you know why I said I knew who
killed Stone to see the reaction of Joey Sanders and Dan exactly. Well,
this is the shop and in one moment we'll be talking what what vants?
Somebody through this coffee cup through the window? Somebody inside the shop? Come
on, Markam, I'm with your vans. That's Dan, the waiter over
there with his head on the counter. What happened in here? What happened
to remember me, mister Vance here, This is District Attorney Mackham. We
were outside when that coffee cup went through the window. I threw it.
A man wearing a handkerchief over his face was in here. He held me
up, took the money out of the register. I threw the cup through
the wind and grabbed him. Yes, he hit me on the head with
the gun and we're out the back way. You recognize him? Well,
I don't know. I'm not sure. I wanted to think it over.
Well, I port this to headquarters one thing is certain. Vance this hold
up has nothing to do with the murder case we're working on. Asn't did
in Mockham. I don't think so, you said, I couldn't surprise you
anymore. Try this for a surprise. The hold up has a great deal
to do with the murder, and we'll have a great deal more to do
with solving it. You don't like me, do you, Betty? You
really can read minds, can't you? Do? You know? Wait a
minute, take you, daisy. I didn't come over to hear you insult
me. Anyway. For you to stop that is to leave. I get
a business proposition for you, Betty. Now, thanks, but this is
honest. Look what that he did? What are you gonna do? You
gotta do something? Yeah, that's true enough. Now this is what I
got in mind. Shoot, I'll teach your card code. You stay here
in your place, and I'll be out with a sucker. Yeah. I
bet him. I can dial a phone number, then have him show me
a card, and the voice on the other end of the phone will say
what that card is. This is how it works. The phone rings,
you answer it. I Instead of saying hello, you say clubs, diamonds,
hearts, well till I stop you by saying hello, Okay, now
right away? If I stopped you when you were saying hearts. You know
the card the suckers showed me. He was a heart. Yeah, but
how do I tell the number? Well, as soon as you know the
suit, you start to count one, two, three, four, you
know, like that all the way up to the king. And when you
get to the right number, I'll say, wait a minute, and the
phone to the sucker and you tell him his card. It's a sense.
It's a sense. We'll clean up. It isn't bad out of that.
Ye see what I told you? And I aren't you glad? I come
over? Sure, but you're not going to be so happy. I don't
need you to work that gimmick with. All I need is some stews to
stand by a telephone. You wouldn't kid around with me, Betty Loose,
No, you wouldn't do anything about it, Joey, you wouldn't. Dare
The cops have it in for you right now? And I have an idea
file of vance thinks you killed Eddie. Maybe what you say yourself. But
all I gotta tell you, kid, is this what you try and use
that code. I touch you and you'll get what your ex partner got.
Joey, Please now leave me alone with Joey. Han't you got anything to
do but follow me up these steps. Please? It doesn't run in this
room and house. Keep you busy enough, all right, Joey, all
right. All I wanted to tell you was that there was a fellow in
your room. You did what, I'll let him in. He asked for
you, so I opened the door and let him. Wait. What do
you look like? Come on talk? Tell me? Was he a tough
fellow, good looking final fants fans? No? No, it was the
same fellow you had him here yesterday, the fellaw Sammy, Oh that's different.
Look out, come downstairs when I through with him. Wait for me,
all right, Joey, Hello, Sammy, Hello, Joey. You
don't mind me coming here, do you? Well? Depends on why you're
here. Oh, Joey, listen. I've been a fall guy for you
for a month now, betting on things and always losing. Give me a
chance to get my dope back. What do you mean? Well, show
me how you do that thing where I think of a card, then you
tell me to add muliply and everything, and then you say, what the
card it is? Let me get my dope back from some other sucker.
Oh is that what you want? Yeah, I'll go away, Sammy get
lost. Not a chance. I just I hope I'm interrupting something. Aunt,
what do you want here? I want to talk to you. Who's
your friend? You're a cop. I'm no friend of his. I just
came here to get him to tell me how a trick was done so I
could get some of my Doughba what trick? He tells me to think of
a card, double it, add one, muliply it by five, and
if it's a club, add six a diamond, add seven, a heart
eight and a spade nine. That's right. And he gets me to tell
him the total. He tells me the card. I'll teach you that.
In fact, I think i'll give it to the newspapers so that nobody will
ever bet. It can't be done at things. Guys who got nothing to
do? Thank God, don't like that, do you? Well? How's
it done? It's a mathematical formula. Whatever the total is gives you the
card. If the total ends in a one, the card is a club.
If it ends in a two, it's a diamond, it's a heart,
and four it's a spade. How do you find the figure? Whatever
the first number is, you subtract one, understand. Oh. In other
words, if the total is sixty four, the card is the five of
spade. Right, nice wise and up a sucker, fans, you could
be thrown out of the union for that. I know, Joey. I
came here because I just learned about a fight you had with Eddie Stone the
day he was killed. Dan told you, huh okay, so I clipped
him a couple of times. Would you come up here for to pay me
back? I better get out of you stay okay, No, Joey,
I didn't come here to slap you around, although I'd enjoy that very much,
fake Todd. I just want to warn you not to leave town,
at least for the next few hours. After that, after I prove what
I'm going to in that time, District Attorney Markham may have especially prepared itinerary
for you. What time is it? He almost time? Do you a
pretty nearly another thirty seconds. We've got to do this exactly on schedule of
Van slept explicit instructions. And after we do then what then we'll know who
killed Eddy Stone and what's small, we'll have proof twenty seconds. All right,
you're ready, miss Henderson. Yes, that's secretary of yours is always
ready. Da, she's solid. I hope that means something good. Yes,
Okayda. Now they go up the phone to make the call as Henderson.
Yes, I sure hope this works. I hope Vance doesn't get into
trouble. We're miles away and can't help him. Mike's Coffee Shop Dance speaking.
Hello Dan, This is Betty Lou Taylor, Miss Taylors. Hello,
Miss Taylor. I have a cold and my voice may sound different, but
Dan, I want you to meet me right away. What you what for
a lot of reasons. I think the police are going to figure out you
stage the phony hold up in the store. You can't get away money for
yourself. I think I'm pretty sure they're going to know you killed Eddie.
What are you talking about, Betty Lou? Yeah, that was somebody pretended
to be you. That's right, somebody said they were you. How could
they know I faked the hold up and that I killed Eddie? How was
the cops? The cops are final? Vance, Vance, My friends,
I've been here all the times the fans. How'd you get here? I've
been in here for quite some time hiding? Of course? What are you
doing with that telephone? Who are you calling? Nobody? If you object
to my being near the phone, I'll move away, then that better?
What do you want? Vans? You realize I heard enough of the conversation
between you and Betty Low while I was in hiding to know that you killed
Eddie Stone? Dan? Oh what if I did? Sure? I killed
Eddie Stone and I faked the hole up? Dan? What's the difference if
I tell him that he knows it already, isn't got to doom any good?
What he knows and what he can prove it two different things. What
was the idea of that phone call? Vans? It was a trap.
I knew what would make you talk, and it did. So you listen
only it's our word against yours. See, if you can prove I killed
Eddie, go ahead. I don't have to prove it, Dan, you've
done it already. Oh yeah, The district attorney has your confession in your
own words. What do you mean. Let's get down to see him and
you can hear yourself confess to murder. It couldn't hear me just now?
I hung up the phone myself. Yeah, that connection was broken when Dan
hung up, was it? In that case? Suppose you come down to
Markham's office, find out how he heard Dan confess. Throw the switch on
that playback machine. Mark M. I want to hear this before I bring
Dan and Betty lew in here. Certainly, here's the part you want.
Well, what if I did? Sure, I kill Thattty Stone and I
faked the hold up Dan? What's the difference if I tell him that he
knows it already, there's going to do him any good. What he knows
and what he can prove a two different things. Well, there's his confession
in his own voice. Man's just as you promise. Yes, there it
is. Now why did he kill Stone? Well, he idolized Betty Lou.
She probably goaded him into killing Stone, was threatening to walk out on
her. She even went along to see that the job was done. That's
why her footprint was at the scene of the murder. Never forgot that,
did you, vance No? I knew it was important all the time,
but I had to resort to a trick to get the proof we needed.
I still don't understand how you got Dan to confess in front of a telephone
connected with this office so we could record his words. He didn't know I
had taken the phone off the hook mark of him, And even if he
did know it, he wouldn't have realized that the connection between this office and
the coffee shop wasn't broken just because he had hung up. I wouldn't have
realized it either. In order for a connection to be broken, both parties
have to disconnect. Try it some time and see. The connection must be
discontinued at both ends. If you say so, it's so bad. And
the only end I'm interested in right now is that this is the end of
The Mathematical Murder Case. The Piper welcome back, Okay. Even though PI
Day wasn't a thing back in nineteen fifty, I guess it is appropriate for
a story called The Mathematical Murder Case to be released on March fourteenth. I
enjoyed all of the little math tricks in this episode, and it did provide
some insight into how some card tricks might work and some of the tricks that
various mentalist entertainers do. The one thing the episode made me wonder is what
the exact relationship is historically between illusionist and mentalist and con men like, were
there some con games that were then adapted for magic show or mentalist shows the
full purpose of entertaining or were there some magic tricks which were repurposed into con
games. Now, obviously there is some relationship. In one of the short
series we played Easy Money a few years back, it was explained how a
sleight of hand gadget that a magician might use could also be used in a
theft, So there's definitely a relationship. I'm dubious that this guy could be
as successful as he was in these sort of mental tricks, certainly not to
the degree that comes a matter of discussion for the district attorney. Essentially,
these feel like pretty well thought out bar tricks. It's the type of thing
you'll win a buck or two from your buddies at a bar, and the
scheme has an obvious problem at some point folk In I think a normal and
sane world, people would stop betting with the guy on the sort of thing.
Word would get around. Only in the file of vance universe would this
type of thing grow to the level of a concern that the DA needs to
address, because essentially the guy walks up to people that he has taken a
dozen times in a month, ask them a question, and the people say,
in effect, you know that sounds interesting. Will you take my money
and trick me? As for how they got the confession, I think that
that was mostly sound, though if anyone is expert in the way that landlines
worked, I'd be open to hearing a correction or clarification of Vance's explanation of
how ending a call work, the idea that both sides have to hang up
for connection to actually be severed, because certainly I had the experience where I
would in the call and I would come back and connection wasn't closed like the
other person had left, but they'd left the line off the hook. But
I was generally able to end the call even if they didn't come back,
although that may be to some advancement beyond where the telephone was at in nineteen
fifty. Now it is time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
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here doesn't it ever cool off in your Orleans sometimes? But I'm not here
to talk about the whether, missus Valentine. You know that? Yes?
No, Well, don't just stand there and give me the tears. Then,
if you've got anything to say, say it. If you know anything
that'll help let me know about it. You're perfectly right in being angry with
me, mister Doller. I honestly don't know where Dan is. Well,
do you know why he'd get up out of a hospital bed and in danger
his life? I have an idea he might have wanted to see somebody who
I don't know. The two men a shot at him, Seraps, I
just don't know. We aren't getting anywhere, missus Valentine. Look, I'm
going to talk to you, frankly. Why did he come here to live
in New Orleans? Well, you live in New England with your daughter,
Teresa. Obviously, Dan thinks a great deal of you in her. He's
given you everything, provided for you with all of his troubles, spent thirteen
years in prison. I can imagine its thoughts about you and her while he
was in there, and yet he comes out and lives two thousand miles away
from you. He didn't want to interfere with Teresa in any way, sure,
but it seems to me he'd want to look at you and her,
certainly, even if it was a matter of living in Boston and taking a
bus to New Salem and standing on a street corner one day to watch the
two of you cross the street. That sound reasonable to you if you put
it that way. Well, look, there's some reason he picked New Orleans,
some reason he didn't give himself the little gratification of just looking at you
and Teresa. Why why here hand sure, I don't know, and why
is he running around now? I can't answer that either, but it must
have something to do with you and your daughter. Obviously you're the only ones
they ever cared about. Well, I honestly don't know well, and I
can't help you, and I can't help myself or him. You mentioned his
having a reason to be in New Orleans. I hope you'll be with us
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