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nineteen forty nine is the cold Blooded Professor.
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The sun was just fading and the shadows were disappearing
along a country road about one hundred miles west of Chicago,
on the outskirts of a certain college towns Lippton. On
a large flack sedan moving slowly, came to.
Speaker 2: A full stop. I'm a driver, spoke to a farmer
beside the road.
Speaker 5: Hey, I wonder if you can tell me that house
up on the hill there for rent. Oh no, that's
the professor, Oh, Professor hol Horn. Professor Horn, he teaches
the college. Heer.
Speaker 7: No, everybody says he's a genius.
Speaker 5: Nice, big articles for scientific papers.
Speaker 2: And bender too. How long has he live there?
Speaker 7: Oh about five years? Nice fellow.
Speaker 5: When he comes to town, nice smile. Folks like him,
You have many visitors, don't seem to like visited, mister.
That a lady housekeeper though, ah see a nice person.
Oh you can take her leaver about fifty only good,
I guess, But homely old.
Speaker 2: Is professor Horn old.
Speaker 7: Pression fifty seven hard?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 5: Hey, you want to know an awful art mystery going
up there?
Speaker 2: I might?
Speaker 5: Thanks for the information. Goodbye.
Speaker 8: So there's a horn. Where do you want these books
to go?
Speaker 2: The left?
Speaker 5: Handshells and I are next to the books on nuclear fissions.
Speaker 8: Say, I'd be glad to see a plain, ordinary novel.
Speaker 5: And this library is the one, my dear, the only
books worth reading of scientific spectual work.
Speaker 9: The Anatomy of Toxicology, treats on molecular growth.
Speaker 8: In the case, what's this.
Speaker 5: One, my scientific daddy, I'll put that one away in.
Speaker 8: That closet you never wanted me to look in, or
you should let me do that. The lame leg gets
tired so easy.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 6: I never want my leg mentioned, Dana.
Speaker 9: And I never could understand why you won't let me
go down cellar and see some of your inventions.
Speaker 7: I have a lifelong principle, Anna, better to.
Speaker 5: Anticipate than to regret. Meanwhile, it proves bad in mind
that I tell you well, and this does not include
your asking questions.
Speaker 8: Somebody is at the door. There's a black sedan in
a driveway.
Speaker 5: Bro see who it is, but don't bring anyone in
unless absolutely necessary.
Speaker 7: I want Professor close that door.
Speaker 5: And of course, yes, I'd like to see Professor horns.
Speaker 2: He's busy my credentials.
Speaker 9: There's the camera in the United States counter of style
its way, mister Cameron, thank you. But there's a horn,
mister Cameron of the counter size.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Adam. That will be all, mister Cameron. I
live on an arm squab schedule. I should now be
in my laboratory downstairs, harded work.
Speaker 7: I'd trussed you kended brief two.
Speaker 5: Nights ago at eleven o seven pm in Amberville, forty
two miles south of here. The Farmer's Exchange bank was
robbed of one hundred and twenty one thousand dollars in cash.
The robber used a very ingenious electronic methods of silencing
the vault alarm system. However, the car used by the
robber went through a puddle of oil and left certain
fire franks.
Speaker 2: Am I being brief enough? No?
Speaker 7: But continue.
Speaker 5: Every garage within fifty miles of Amberville has been checked
for a car with those treads. The car in your garage.
Speaker 7: Has those tire treads. That's a coincidence, mister Cameron. That's
no coincidence, Professor Horn, I'm.
Speaker 5: Placing you under arrest on suspicion of robbing the Amberville bank.
Speaker 2: Now this is upsetting, mister Cameron.
Speaker 5: Leave it rawer along. Put your hands in the air.
I said, put your hands in the air.
Speaker 2: Uh as you say, I heard it?
Speaker 8: Stop what happened? Oh? I see? How's you shooting? There's
no gun in your hands.
Speaker 5: Professor, see under my codema, my invention, small flat handed
gun steps alongside my chest and the wire up through
your sleeve when I raise my hands by the gun. Now,
no more questions. We're leaving an I help me unpack
the closet.
Speaker 8: Last all, see what you keep in there, money, tack money.
Speaker 2: You will pack this money into those two suitcases.
Speaker 9: And all right, how about these two small packages.
Speaker 5: I don't touch them. I'm never going to be captured alive.
Speaker 2: Anna.
Speaker 5: There's enough explosive in this package to kill me and
anyone else around. And this is a bottle of Adriolic
powder to throw into police officer spaces in close quarters.
Speaker 2: It burns rightfully.
Speaker 8: I hope you'll never have to use.
Speaker 2: As I told you, it is better to anticipate than
to regret. You. You will pack this too, Hannah.
Speaker 8: All right to sess a horn. You've been wearing a Wii.
Speaker 5: Some fools wait until they're escaping to disguise themselves. I've
been disguising myself for ten years. Now I return to
what I really look like. He looks ten years younger
without that week. And one thing more, this build up
shoe which has made it appear that I limp.
Speaker 2: Two good legs.
Speaker 8: So you haven't been laying the.
Speaker 5: Tour as a horn has now disappeared off the face
of the earth. No one, Anna, you will call me
mister Harris.
Speaker 2: Now let us get out of the baking.
Speaker 8: What about the body of that man on the floor.
Speaker 5: I have everything planned, Anna, beautifully planned. The three of
us are leaving together.
Speaker 2: We've been driving some time.
Speaker 7: Ana, you're getting hungry.
Speaker 8: He needs to get and he needs to have.
Speaker 2: Here. I have some candy bars in my pocket.
Speaker 8: Take one, thank you. There. Do you know where this
side road goes?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 7: To the most deserted portion of the space.
Speaker 8: Even so, Cameron's body may be found over there in
the bar.
Speaker 2: Not for weeks.
Speaker 7: If they're.
Speaker 2: The car space, I'll get a little bit as soon
as I've.
Speaker 5: Hid my money, in securities and these fills against the future.
Speaker 8: What will we live on? Meanwhile?
Speaker 2: And I can get all the money I want anytime.
Speaker 5: You forget my constant studies of crime techniques and scientific methods,
even of murder by accidents, by weapons, and.
Speaker 2: By poison. Wasn't the candy bar going there?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 5: I can't see you, of course, you're the only person
in the world who knows what I read.
Speaker 7: It looked like, How could you expect to go on living?
Speaker 4: To David Hardy, United States counters by Washington from Edwards
and Chicago Field Office countered by eld Cameron vanished while
investigating Amberville.
Speaker 2: Thank Robberish local farmer reports.
Speaker 4: Talking with Cameron about a Professor Emery Horn of Lipton, Illinois,
or an house king blood spots on library floors, or
housekeeper and a table and car have all so famished.
Speaker 2: Ad fot.
Speaker 5: Icaugo from Harding Peters and I are flying to join
you at Professor Horn's house. Immediately allow nothing to be disturbed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of the strangest houses I've ever been in.
Speaker 5: Yes, And people in the town they had horntedness Harding.
It is Edward with the invisible presence of a fantastically
clever man in the entire house, not one fingerprint.
Speaker 7: Except for the woman.
Speaker 5: Several trades people in the town say Horn always wore gloves.
Only Horn spread the story that he once burned his
hands very badly in an experiment.
Speaker 2: It might be true, Peters again, it might not be so.
His laboratory in the cellon.
Speaker 7: Yes, and look at these.
Speaker 10: Books, Mrhergy and Practical Applications, Calculus and the Theory of Relativity,
Works on Atomic energy, Chemistry, poison exposal.
Speaker 5: It's an extraordinary man to absorb all that hands obviously extraordinary,
and a d is at covering up we know one
of our own men was murdered here, and there's not
a clue, not even one piece of handwriting. Well, this
man may strike again soon. Edward instruct every counterspight for you,
law but throughout the country to report immediately all crimes
committed for gain, except where the criminal is definitely known. Yes,
I'm leaving for a while. What are you up to
this Somewhere there's a clue to this man. I want
to flounder around a little by myself, see what I
can turn up. Doctor Connor's in one of the grocery
stores in town of Clerks told me that the eure
so Professor.
Speaker 7: Horne wasn't feeling well and that let me.
Speaker 11: Yes, mister Harthy, I did d Professor Horn a year
or so ago. Now this is the record of his
visit to Starney. Didn't pay you by tanks or text
uh cash to my nurse. Rick Cory wore great dose
skin gloves throughout his visit. Here did he mention having
burned his hands? Yes, but he never removed the gloves
in my presence? Huh did he limple walk normally? Frankly,
mister Harding, I didn't notice, but one thing may interest you.
I took some X rays of his stomach. He let
me show you. We free show all. It's important. These
small darker factors olten peptic uncers, a severe case of
time A one is one of those. Apparently, if I
am nerved, men, he gets you outward signs of the
emotions and all them making the biggest thing. They have
no emotion, actually they do, and their nervousness and emotions
seek other outfits. In this case peptic ousis course whatever
they high strung of theous conditions. Doctor, did you give
him a prescription? Yes, a special business powder compound, and
he tried them and they gave him relief. Do you
think he's cured and he's also yes, well, I would
doubt if I a must when doctor, he'll be buying
business owners more or less regularly. You might assume so much, honey,
doctor Connors, I'm very grateful to you. This is the
first clue of its cold blooded scientific killer we found.
The big question is where will he strike next?
Speaker 7: Miss Florence turn these chemical orders.
Speaker 8: To hand a hand of the local jamer Id and Lento.
Speaker 7: But what is it?
Speaker 2: What's the matter with all of you? Good day, everybody?
Why I stop working. Don't point those guns at us.
Are you the boss here? By yes?
Speaker 5: I like your desk, Move away from it quickly. Yes,
listen everyone, I have only a few seconds. I've just
robbed the finance company office down the hall of one
hundred and thirty thousand dollars and there's a big commotion
on the ground floor.
Speaker 2: Purse.
Speaker 5: The police expect me to leave that way, but instead
I'm going to put my two guns.
Speaker 2: On this desk.
Speaker 5: Have them with this newspaper. Now get this. In a moment,
the police may come in here. If one of you
makes a false move, I shoot, and I am a
perfect shot. Does everybody understand now I have a camera here,
and I'm going to be taking your picture. Where's the text?
Anybody see anything of a stranger?
Speaker 2: Hold up man?
Speaker 12: Why?
Speaker 2: Uh? No?
Speaker 5: All of a sudden, speaker, did anyone here see anybody
who might.
Speaker 7: Be a hold up man?
Speaker 8: Wait?
Speaker 2: Down? The hall was stuck us got away.
Speaker 5: I hope you catch him, lieutenant, But just a moment,
I'm taking some pictures for ourselves convention.
Speaker 7: Would you mind standing there just the second?
Speaker 2: Please not be a fool.
Speaker 6: No, no, no, no, keep a gun in your hands
hand a lot.
Speaker 2: Thank you, lieutenant.
Speaker 5: Anybody sees any suspicious stranger to the officers who posted
my yes, we said me. Well, okay, I owe you
all my thanks.
Speaker 2: You behave very well.
Speaker 8: Why don't you leave this alone?
Speaker 5: Why, young lady, I couldn't think of it. Yeah, stand
over here with him. I want a photograph of you.
That's good. Yes, you are forty smile, can't you?
Speaker 7: I care?
Speaker 5: Oh, come now, come now, I want a picture of
that sincere honest face. So different from your employers.
Speaker 2: What do you mean?
Speaker 5: I noticed the chemical ingredients in that container on the
shelves instead of penium to present a lixtum dichlorosulfate and
ticking of the boys and colloidal suspension and entirely ineffective combination.
My dear fellow, No, my dear, that smile. Now come, come, come,
a lovely girl like you can always smile.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 5: Hold it, thank you, and now everybody, I'm going out
of that job. My guns are in my pocket. Remember
I have photographs of all of you. If anyone of
you who talks to the police, I'll come back and shoot.
Oh claim, good day.
Speaker 7: And goodbye to you.
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to Todder's five. David Harding and his assistants or in
the communications room of a tower Spyfield office in Chicago. David,
the support of that big robbery in Denver yesterday. I
have a hunch that was Professor horn.
Speaker 5: Oi Peter's the cleverness of the planning a daring, that
camera gag, but no gloves and no limp No.
Speaker 2: I can't accomfort that. And from a.
Speaker 5: Description he must have been ten or fifteen years younger
than harn Yes, but it's the tricky method of committing
the crime that strikes me hardest. What's my moves? Well,
send out this new description of him to all police
and commisspirefield officers. Also a description to all gruggists in Colorado,
and struct him to watch for a stranger who may
him in in order a busmus powder compound a man
similar to this new description.
Speaker 2: Edwards from the Denver.
Speaker 4: Field Office to David Hardy Denver guess report to the
man answer description of Professor Horns came in to have
a business powder compound prescription field. The druggist expects the
man's return in two hours for the prescription.
Speaker 2: Parting to Denver.
Speaker 5: Set up a bought surveillance of suspect immediately, but do
not alarm him. We may carry explosive or poison for
self destruction. I'm joining you by get Plaine.
Speaker 2: Hardly any noise. Get plane for me from now on.
Speaker 5: Remind me to ask for a get propelled Planford model
on the next budget to Denver, reporting man, go ahead, Denver.
Speaker 4: Edward's reporting for the drug store.
Speaker 2: Where Hornets got his metas.
Speaker 13: We have a walking doggie set up with all Asians
conducting surveillance.
Speaker 2: You want to be cut in, you bet your life
I had and I'll have you cut in there.
Speaker 7: The suspect has turned out of my side.
Speaker 13: Our next agent is today in one block op Agen
d Agen d is a sussext in your sight.
Speaker 5: Sus Beck is walking down the other side of the
street from me, taking his time, walking fast.
Speaker 8: Now heading straight up the street.
Speaker 7: Edward should be near.
Speaker 6: I'm now in a taxi tab.
Speaker 2: How about it, Edwards come in Edwards.
Speaker 13: Edward's reporting again mister Harding. I'm now in a taxi
cruising about one hundred feet behind Horn. We're walking faster now,
maybe for the bus station on the corner.
Speaker 2: Oh, what is it?
Speaker 14: A very pretty girl out of the crowd to meet him.
Speaker 2: He kiss? Is it now?
Speaker 7: They're heading for one of the bucks.
Speaker 5: Edward all to one a while. I just drive ahead
and get on the bus. We'll be with you in
Denver in another hour. Yeah, I get it, thankfully.
Speaker 2: Layout Horn and the girl under that bungalow there.
Speaker 7: But he's almost entirely done letting.
Speaker 2: The lights are on, but all the blinds are gone
the place around. Yeah, set up the tumented each post
and what if us I don't want Horn alive. But
not telling what trick he might pull. Let me have
your walk talking yes, thanks parting to Peter.
Speaker 5: Peter, Peter, pull all agents back to set up to
see father from the house.
Speaker 7: Mother seen me.
Speaker 2: We have to work out a different plan of attack.
Speaker 7: It's not a big.
Speaker 2: Emory. You play beautify, Thank you, madam.
Speaker 14: I saw you a a package from the good story.
Speaker 2: You're not speaking, Oh no, they're not just business pas.
I help my stomach. Emory.
Speaker 7: That's guil that I feel very happy with you. I'm glad.
Speaker 14: Funny sometimes once you know why, you meet someone you
feel you've known all your life.
Speaker 2: It's only been three days, guil down, I.
Speaker 14: Feel though I know you all my love, and still
I don't know it's thing about you. Accept it.
Speaker 7: I love you.
Speaker 2: That's a very sweet guil them.
Speaker 14: On the second thought, I do know something about you,
something to try to hunt from me.
Speaker 2: And what is that? Guil there?
Speaker 14: I guess you do it because you really think I'm.
Speaker 2: Not very broad, Gilda.
Speaker 14: What is it you're agreement the book shot about doing
wrottoons in the newspapers on the radio, and.
Speaker 2: Compared to you, my dear, it is nothing emory.
Speaker 14: There's something else.
Speaker 2: I know You're not as I'm observing as I thought, Guilder.
Speaker 14: I mean, I think you've almost asked him to know you.
An emmy if you do.
Speaker 15: I m car crie into the lamp post right in
front of the house, and he's been thrown from no, no, no,
he was hit by the car. The cars racing away
down the street getting.
Speaker 1: On driv it.
Speaker 14: We got healthy A wait, we can't let him lie
there very well, I'll go with you. Oh, sadly taking
to him, bloody looking.
Speaker 12: No, no, no, no, I'll good like you must never
move an injured person and had if they have a
closer love, unbroken, no God, all very stereo.
Speaker 2: I had conclusions and abraid. Hm hmm, that's funny. I
can just see better than this lie.
Speaker 4: What hard?
Speaker 2: What right?
Speaker 5: When I get the handcuff from it, I got David
while tell off my back.
Speaker 2: Let me.
Speaker 5: All right, young woman, United States colored Fires. You better
be glad this happened. In another week, you'd have been
as dead as an a cable, as man's housekeeper and
countess by age and Cameron.
Speaker 11: I can't believe it.
Speaker 2: You are right.
Speaker 7: This is a violin him, and I'm betting it's explosives.
Speaker 2: All right, Honting.
Speaker 5: I don't know how you found me, but you'll never
keep me until you go to the death house. I'll
see that you're kept in the safe of penitentre in
the country horn.
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water and wire, and escape from an escape proof penitentiary.
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Speaker 1: Well some good stuff in here. In addition to the
name cast, I heard Maurice Trplin doing doubles, most notably
as the Faraday like police lieutenant pursuing Professor Horn. Professor
Horn himself, of course, played by Ralph Bell, who shows
some of his range here. He's often associated with sort
of underworld characters who make cup series like Boston Blackie,
but here played a far more elegant and refined menace.
Professor Horne is a very entertaining villain, though there's definitely
a theatrical tone to his antics. Although it reflects the
type of story that we're telling here with this big,
over the top crime story. Who's closer to a Batman
comic book villain than a dragnet radio villain. In real life,
a somewhat less clever but more cautious criminal would probably
have gotten further harding as usual rose to the occasion.
And I think if there is a real life, if
there's a principle that can be taken from this episode
and applied to real life, it's that it is very
hard to hide all distinguishing characteristics. There are small things
that lift you up even when you go to the
extremes that Professor Horn did. Imagine a guy who spent
ten years wearing a wig and probably causing himself severe
pain by walking with a fake lamp, and had sweaty
hands so much for that period, so he didn't spread
fingerprints all that, and he gets caught because he needs
some powders for his ulcer listener comments and feedback, and
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