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But now, from January nineteenth, nineteen fifty two, here is
the Lynn Halstead murder case.
Speaker 2: Broadways might beat some times for it. The Columbus Circle,
the Guardian, the most Violent, the lonesomest mile in the World.
Speaker 3: Broadways My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
Speaker 2: Broadway tyles down to another year's living. The days begin
to drift backward again, away from you like they did
last year, and it starts all over. Punch the time card,
smile at the boss, and the income tax forms can
be picked up at any bank or branch post office.
But there's still the dream, and it could happen on Broadway.
It's the corner of the world where a million performers
do their bit just for you. It's Carnival and a
clown and a girl with yellow hair blowing kisses, the
end of a ride that costs you a dime. Maybe
you'll get your money's work. There were no dreams where
I was in the big room, the chill room, the
room of the lost dead, the city Morgue, the man
with me, the seeker of sorrow, a father, and she
wanted to laugh. Letter I got from and told me
how much she missed that Cromit. Not that she didn't
like New York, but big so hot to make man. Yeah,
you want to look now, doctor Houston? Yes, doctor, how
did she die? Hearing shot? I mean shot? Where's to find? Look? Doctor?
I want to know where was she found? The river?
She's been here for three days. No, No, I want
to look at her. I want to look at her faith.
You haven't said it directly, doctor, she is your daughter.
My touch feeling all right? Doctors, I just want to doctor,
sit how long has Lin been in New York about
three years. She left acting on her eighteenth birthday. She
didn't have much trouble getting jobs as far as I knew.
Her last employment was at a private secretary, private secretary
with whom she didn't say. She just mentioned it was
a real estate office and that she liked her work.
Where did she live here in town? I addressed my
letters to her at the Linden Apartments in Fantasy Park.
Pleased us to leave me alone with her? For everyone
and know that outside the light of the winter's morning
is brilliant, dazzling. It strikes the frost veiled chrome of
the city. But here it must filter through steel webbed windows,
reflect off the faces of the dead, grow dim. Here
it lies against the closed eyes of a man who
has made the journey, found at its end his child's death.
Then his hand reaches out to the girl's part, draws
aside a strand of hair. It tries to smooth away
the pain, the shock that had been frozen there, and
walk away from it. Because this is an image of
vanguish scene, too many times go down to the Lindon Apartment,
yellow ivy clinging to all marble facing the steel fenced
Winter's Garden, whose paths can be walked only by those
privilege for the key to its gates. Gramercy Park brought
to a man who, among his other duties, had dispent
such a key to Lynn Halstead.
Speaker 4: You understand it's quite a privilege, our private little park.
And I must say of miss Halstead, she availed herself
up at par to rally for what reasons?
Speaker 2: I shudder to think, Why, mister Clement, Why do you shudder?
Speaker 4: Well, after all, it is rather desirable to maintain residents
here in Gramercy. I could show you waiting list year's
long has lived here. Of course she lived here, but
so sporadically, weeks on weeks would go by with her
apartment standing for lawn empty lonely.
Speaker 2: You're saying, mister Clement, that she lived here.
Speaker 4: But didn't only use this as the mailing address I've
hear in a kind of phone service, or what reason?
Speaker 2: I know, you shudder quite to see.
Speaker 5: Her mail box is filled with uncalled for levers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, from a doctor hosted relative, given from.
Speaker 4: The apartment stores, book clubs, and these phone methodes. This
man has been calling for three days now, I keep
telling him miss Linne isn't in leaves his number, not
his name, of course, no one else to.
Speaker 2: Give it to. Now he is there, show me her apartment, mister,
I did like to do.
Speaker 4: It's one of our most desirable.
Speaker 2: Now I'm free to inform the management that which one isn't.
Just down the hall here we are.
Speaker 4: Oh what a mess, what a frightful mess, the dis arrayed,
the things left about.
Speaker 2: Why these stains on our carpets? Blood stains? Yeah, that
kind of stein. That means she must have been here
when she here in Gramercy Park. Where's the phone? Why there?
They're under that French doll. Gotta call that number I
gave you. That's that man?
Speaker 5: Kay h.
Speaker 2: James montro Who is this? That's the police, mister Blake?
Where are you?
Speaker 1: One of coffee?
Speaker 2: Stay there, I'll be here, h something for you. Coffee'd
be fine, brushed on it and just coffee. M M
traffic here you take free? This is fine. Your name
Jean Blake, that's right. Oh you must be the phone
call I had a little while ago. My name is
Stanley Toober. You're the policeman. You know a girl named
Lynn Halsted? Sure I do. One was the last time
I saw her. You tell me first, Danny, what's the trouble.
She's dead, She's not dead. I've got a date with
her tonight. When it was the last time you saw her.
I see the four days ago, the last time we
talked to her, when I haven't talked to her, but
since the last time I saw her, she's dead. Cut
it out with you. This morning her father identified her
at the morn. There's no doubt about it. I said,
cut it out with you. So that's why, that's why. Well,
I've been calling her, you know, to talk to her,
to remind her about that day. Tonight. She was never
in She never returned my cause in her hospital six
Lynn was murdered. She was found. I want you to
tell me. I don't want you to tell me. You
know it for long August, I think it was. I
didn't get to fall in love with it until September.
I'll just meet her Jimmy, and she wanted him here
one night late shat down man Head coffee. She talked
to me and thought my line of patty was kind
of We got along that so I closed joint, took
her dancing. Neither one of us did things very well,
or dance, a conversation things. That's why we got along, sipce.
Did you see her off them? Yeah? A couple of
times a week, sometimes three, a movie, walking or drink.
It's funny though I never took her home. She wouldn't
let me just give me her phone number. Do you
know where she worked? The secretarial or something. A couple
of times I picked her up in front of the
Equitable Building. I guess there, but she never said, you'll
be here whenever I want you, Jim, Yeah, where am
I going to go? Gather up the pieces that had
once shaped the pattern of a girl's life. An apartment
in Gramercy Park, for mail, for phone messages, for death,
her wandering on to a man who then walked with her,
advanced loved her, a father who had seen her lying
in the morgue, and against them, the barrier of secrecy
the girl had woven out of the city's darkness. Not
to tell them where she worked, to give them only
a phone number, a mailing address, against the sudden need
of her and take what Jean Blake has given you,
among other things, the name of a building, the Equitable Building.
Find it. In the forties on Madison, try it a
and after many real estate offices and receptionists who live
or not moist enough, had to be moistened again before
answering the policeman. After the long parade of friendly real
estate brokers, with the bone crush, her handclasp, and the
sorrow of not knowing a girl named Blynn Halstead, find
the man who did know her, whose private secretary she was,
John Martin real Estate. Don't look anymore. We'll find you
a home.
Speaker 5: And I mean it, mister Glover.
Speaker 2: I'm dedicated to it.
Speaker 6: Why it's the passion of John Martin's wife finding the
right home for.
Speaker 2: The right people. It must be gratifying when you do,
mister mit, Oh it is. Let me test you. What
it is photographing your desk, mister Mattin. Yeah, your family?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Oh I like you for that, mister Glover, I like it.
If I'm taking notice or something like that, go on,
think it. I'll take a good long look at it.
Fine looking boy. Yes, this woman is Missus Martin, my dog,
my sister, my mother, my wife takes care of me
like I was a baby with a cor.
Speaker 2: Now you were saying about Lynn founder in the river
shot to death. She lay in the more three days
before anyone identified her, and one finally did. He Yes,
her father, doctor Stephen Houston. He came from Macron to
take his daughter home. She'd written him she wanted to
go home. No, don't know. A girl who works for
your day in and day takes your dictation.
Speaker 6: Remind you it's a wife's birthday, trudges across the street
on her own time to bring your coffee and snack,
and police finding a river.
Speaker 2: Don't you didn't know she wanted to go home. Oh,
it's like a boat from the blue, mister Clilver. I
thought Lynn was happy here working for me.
Speaker 5: She told me many times.
Speaker 6: How glad she was, how I'd helped her to finally
cover a niche for.
Speaker 2: Herself in this crazy town. Yeah, it was something I
said before, mister mind. Lynn was in the morning for
three days. No one came to identify her. I should
have done that.
Speaker 6: A girl is beautiful, she takes three days off. I'm
not the man to question such wins. She could have
gone a week or a month, A job would have
still been here for her. But there are other private secretaries,
How you're kidding?
Speaker 2: None like Lynn? Why excuse John Martin real estate.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yes, thanks, Yeah, this is doctor called every
real estate agent in the equitable building.
Speaker 2: Danny, I'm an emergency. Would get down here. I'm busy.
I assure you're busy.
Speaker 5: So am I low? Keep?
Speaker 8: Just get down here, fast, all down, We'll go, Doctor Siinsky, Fine, very,
doctor Sinsky.
Speaker 2: Hello, Danny.
Speaker 9: It never stops it all right? Just tell me what
happened for a code over there on the chair. She
was worrying when she was brought in here at ten
o'clock and under the nightdown she has wandering around the
street that way?
Speaker 2: What happens to people? Danny? Who is she? Who is she? Wait?
Miss can you hear me me? I want you to
tell me your name, miss.
Speaker 5: Name?
Speaker 2: I want you to tell me again.
Speaker 10: When when.
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Morton Fine and David Bridgen and starring Larry Thorr as
Detective Danny Clover and homes all over the country, everything
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new year has taken hold now, and already Broadway scurries.
Speaker 2: To quicken his passing. There are ways to do that.
Add more neon to burn away the night times, more
masters in the spectaculars, to wink away the long darkness,
the illusions. No new ones, kid, last year's models heat
it up and with a new paint job, no one'll
know the difference. Need an illusion, kid, to pass the
time for free. Just reach in the bank. Every color,
every size faded a little, worn a little. But at
these prices, what do you expect, Big Red Rose all
we were tears, preach in kid, take your pick and
hurry because Broadways waiting in line. But the lost girl
who had wandered the city drifted on winters when this
was no illusion, Nor was her slow still dying.
Speaker 9: I tell you this, Danny, this girl could have stayed
alive even with the.
Speaker 2: Bullet wound that is in It mean she wanted to die.
Speaker 9: No, No, I don't think so. I think what made
her get out of whatever bed she was in, made
her walk in the cold, only in the nightgown and
the COVID. What made her do that was something in shock.
Speaker 2: Maybe hurt, maybe your memory. You're saying that if she'd
stayed where she was, she wouldn't have to die. What
else moves?
Speaker 9: The wound had been tended to, the bullet removed three
four days ago, profession, the healing had already begun to
take hold. It was not the work of a clumsy man.
It was the work of a profession a doctor, for sure.
That something very noble. I'm saying to you, this girl
undid what was done for her.
Speaker 2: Can't she be moved? Yeah, it won't matter. Put her
in a room upstairs. All right. We've been going all
around it, Danny. We haven't let ourselves dwell. And what
she told them because she was Linn Halsted, that she
was Lynn Holsted. I'll make a call doctor Holsteed, the
man who called another dead girl his daughter. Tell him
to get here quickly, Danny and nothing. Just tell him
to get here quickly. One more thing, doctor, Well, don't
plant to any reporters. I don't want this to get
out to Danny. Please get this girl's father here quickly.
You could only explain to me, mister club of why
why are you ask me to come down here? After
we get all the explanations you need, Doctor Houston, very well,
here is it my mind, this is do go ahead
doctor on the other side of the stream, Len.
Speaker 10: Hell on, man it we are right, No, daddy, of
course it will all right now.
Speaker 2: Yes, I can't go away again.
Speaker 5: I waited. It was so long.
Speaker 2: It was just a little gun and that's no more
than an hour, it seems, seem don't talk, Lynn disclosing. Yeah,
my daughter is dead. Yes, I'm sorry. This is my dad.
This is Lin, that other girl, one of the morgu
Who is she? I don't know. I've never seen her before.
It's over. I suppose you have to do something about me,
an obstruction of justice doctrine. There'll be something in the charge.
You want to talk with me now outside? All right?
All right, Donald, I got to New York four days ago.
I came here to bring Wyn home. I found her
apartment house, and I found Lin. She didn't shot doctor,
did you she? I found Lynn. She was dying when
I got I didn't shoot her, mister Kob. But you
can think so. I don't care. I really don't if
you want me to say I shot her, and you
want to charge me with that, It's all right if
you want me to, I'll say I did. Just tell
me what happened at Houston. She'd been shocked, she was
barely conscious. Tell you who shot her? No, she cried
when she saw me, That's all. Then she went into
sharp after that. After that, she just baked about her childhood,
about her home, about the far away here. And you
were a doctor, you removed the ballatry. Yes, I didn't
know whether she was going to live. I just sat
beside her and waited for her to say the person's
name who shot her. There were phone calls and people
knocking on the door. I never moved from her side,
but she never spoke the person's name who shot her?
Or how did she get away from her? And I
came to the morgue this morning, then was gone when
I got back. I guess she wandered around looking for
me or looking for something. I don't know. Why did
you come to the morning, Those phone calls, those people
at the door. I suddenly realized that one of them
might be my daughter's assailant. And the doctor. I've been
in morgues before, there was a good chance to be
an unidentified girl in your monk there was. I identified
her as lin because I wanted to keep Linn alive
and did all that. You put a gunder the police.
I'm here now, and you'll do what you have to do. Annie,
What do you want? You know?
Speaker 11: At least look at me when you ask me what
do I want? Where you stand at the window staring
out into the nowhere in the beyond gives a person
you're going sorry. You know my eldest Tina does the
same thing, a star up from coal windows.
Speaker 2: What am I to do with you too? How I'm
looking at your sergeant, I ask again, what do you
want to give you?
Speaker 11: Things like the doctor Hallstead is now being held by
the DA for Raymond, go ahead, thank you.
Speaker 5: The more whom.
Speaker 11: Doctor Holstead called his daughter, has been identified. It's time
for sure. Oh and miss Lily Follette a frequent of
bars where there was frequent mayhem. The last one she
so attended course of her life. Our boys have ascertained
it was there she was shot from their cost into
the river. Several characters are now being held on suspicion.
Speaker 2: Of hummed anything else.
Speaker 11: They rundown under Truelin Horstead, the girl who it goes
without saying. Miss Holsteed left Akron, arrived in our city
three years ago. Chris checks with her father's testimony. While
here attempted all the things bright out of town girls
attendant Ramar school modeling.
Speaker 2: What else? What else?
Speaker 11: Is that our checkers have discovered where miss Holstead was
staying when she was not staying at the Linden apartments.
Speaker 3: Oh indeed, our.
Speaker 11: Checkers, having gone over Miss Holsteed's place at the Linden
with fine tooth and comb, came up with the commuter's
ticket to Long Island in Holy Tanks and the Long
Island they went.
Speaker 2: You want to tell me what they found? You know?
Speaker 11: A cottage, small, quick sound and highway own buy Miss Halsted?
Nice going for a secretary to maintain two residences.
Speaker 2: Nice going to you too? You know you understand everything
now often I think so I can go over it
for you again if you want, I'll be okay, use
this phone. I'm listen in on the extension. Go ahead,
try to act hurt.
Speaker 10: I'll try, Lieutenant, but I've never been shot. Hella John,
It's it's Lynn.
Speaker 5: Who is it?
Speaker 10: Lynn? Lynn Halstead? Right where you left me. You know
where I am? John? All right, Lieutenant?
Speaker 2: Just fine?
Speaker 7: H h.
Speaker 2: Then Lenna, Oh, sit down, mister Marco, I said, sit down,
that's right. Where's Lynn dead? I don't believe you. I'll
talk to you.
Speaker 5: Look once before you told me Lynn was dead. I
just talked to Lynn less than an hour ago.
Speaker 2: That's funny. She's dead?
Speaker 5: Whereas she aaron a bedroom?
Speaker 2: You want to see her?
Speaker 5: Died after she called me?
Speaker 2: Huh? You want to see her? Mister Martin?
Speaker 12: No, no, I have a good stand. Well, I guess
I'll be going, mister Clover. I guess the papers will tell.
Speaker 5: Me the where and plant about it.
Speaker 2: That's Guneral, don't go, mister Markham. Why not? Then's not
in her bedroom? She died hours ago.
Speaker 12: I don't get you. What are you doing playing crazy games?
You get your kicks playing with a dead girl's name?
She is here, she isn't here, she's dead, she isn't dead.
Who called me anyhow?
Speaker 2: Police woman?
Speaker 5: Policewoman? Well be proud, funny funny game you policeman play?
Speaker 2: Why did you come here? Mister Markham?
Speaker 12: I'm a sucker for phone clothes. A girl calls and
tells me she's alive. I get happy about it, and
I call it cat.
Speaker 2: That's not the reason. Read my mind for me, all right.
You came here to finish what you started out to do,
to kill in Housetead. I got to take this from you. No,
you can just submit to arrest. Come downtown, call a
lawyer and tell him you're being held for murder. Even
let you call your family, tell them the same thing.
What's on your mind? You didn't know whether Lynn was
dead or alive, and for just now did you? You
just knew the girl who was first identified as Lynn
wasn't really her.
Speaker 5: You told me she was. I believed you. I shouldn't.
Speaker 2: I believe you didn't believe me. The first time I
talked to you. You knew the girl dragged out of
the river wasn't Lynn, because how could Lin have gotten
to the river. You must have gone out of your mind, mister,
shoot her girl? And there's no no news of the shooting,
just waiting and a girl has identified as Lynn holstaid.
You knew it wasn't Lynn Holstead at all. All you
could do was wait, what are you mixing me up?
Speaker 5: In this war? Anyhow?
Speaker 2: I got a family, I had a family. When Lynn
Holst did walk into your office, she's a beautiful girl,
and I told her that how much were you paying
her as the secretary?
Speaker 5: Well, well she was a good secretary. I paid her
seventy five dollars a week.
Speaker 2: She could have recorded her play here at the Lena
de Poppins Man.
Speaker 5: She started at fifty, but I raised her at seventy five.
Speaker 2: How could she afford to buy that cottage in Long Island?
I thought about that, mister Montshom, and I asked myself
a question. If a real estate broker has a friend,
then he wants to keep the friendship quiet.
Speaker 5: Right, all right?
Speaker 2: All right? I gave her, but she gave it back
to it, didn't she everything in it? She found her boy,
She fell in love with love.
Speaker 12: That's love that she had with that soap slinger in
that Ten Saint restaurant.
Speaker 2: I told you the selad do anything you wanted, but
she didn't want any strings attached to you anymore. So
you killed her.
Speaker 5: That's love what she had with that soap slinger. Cheap movies,
walking in the park, that's love. Listen.
Speaker 12: I've been through it when I was a young plunk.
Do you think that kind of stuff was for Lynn
you I thought I did. I'd sweated through it for
four days.
Speaker 5: I did.
Speaker 2: Let's go down on you think that's fire.
Speaker 5: It's all right, children. What do you think I want anyhow? Punk?
Tell me you punk? What do you think I want? Anyhow?
Speaker 2: Broadway is quiet now the hour without color, six o'clock,
on the hour of going home. But in a violet
night will dip down and touch the streets, and they'll
be fury again. I rack and roar and crowd the
puppet dance into a screaming furnace of light. It's Broadway,
the gaudiest, the most violent, lonesomest mile in the world.
Broadway might beat.
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with Charles Caliptasta Taglia, and Jack Krushian as Muggavan. The
program was produced and directed by Elliott Lewis, with musical
score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In Tonight's story,
William Conrad was heard as John Martin and Herb Butterfield
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Speaker 3: About the arrangements your husband made with Daniels to Leasea's apartment,
Miss Cameron.
Speaker 13: When it was all this we could go Monday, the
day after I moved down here. My husband and Ralph
Ashby saw the rental ad in the paper and they
went over and talked to Daniels. He said, all right,
he had an apartment for the Ashby's one for us,
nice places too.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 13: Ralph and my husband signed the leases, gave him the
first and last month's rent in advance.
Speaker 10: Was all decided.
Speaker 2: Well, how is it you couldn't move in right away,
miss Canton?
Speaker 13: He said he was having an apartment house redecorated. Daniels,
did I mean? He told Ralph and my husband the
apartments would probably be ready for us on the eighth
That was yesterday, he said, the ninth, for sure, And
that's today.
Speaker 3: And you tried to move in this afternoon and Daniel's
refused to let you in.
Speaker 13: As that is, I had the movers get all our
things out of storage and move them out to the apartment.
So then my girlfriend Doris the movies. We're just starting
to get our furniture out of the van and moving
into the apartment with mister Daniel showed up. He acted
like a crazy man.
Speaker 2: Want'd you give you any reasons why he couldn't move in?
Speaker 13: We tried to give us a lot of reasons. None
of them made me sin.
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