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Just go over 12 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:18,040 to Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net now. From August 13 00:01:18,159 --> 00:01:22,640 twenty sixth, nineteen fifty one, here is the Elizabeth Price 14 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:23,719 murder case. 15 00:01:36,719 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 2: Broadways might Be from Time Square, the Columbus Circle, the Gaudius, 16 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,480 the most Violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. 17 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 3: Broadways might Be with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. 18 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,199 Speaker 2: The time comes to Broadway when the August Night summons 19 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:13,919 its mists, it's trumpets, it's banners of Neon departs the 20 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,439 avenue littered with its conquests, and the defeated, The once 21 00:02:17,479 --> 00:02:20,280 brave revelers gather in the draining light of the spectaculars 22 00:02:20,319 --> 00:02:23,319 to compare wounds to grub. In the now asylum gutters 23 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,319 find only the refuse of pay, the neon stained memories, 24 00:02:27,319 --> 00:02:30,599 the scraps and bones of illusions. And you tear up 25 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:32,840 the embrace of your own shadow. Try to move away, 26 00:02:32,879 --> 00:02:36,039 but you can't. You belong to it, kid to all 27 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:44,280 of it. And at headquarters stack the violence of the night. 28 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:46,199 Passed in a neat pile on the left hand corner 29 00:02:46,199 --> 00:02:48,479 of the desk. Check the drawers for a cigarette for 30 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:50,960 the road, find none, Turn out of light, with no 31 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,680 last look around, Open a door, close it. Walk a 32 00:02:54,759 --> 00:02:57,360 corridor whose walls are moist now with the first thin 33 00:02:57,479 --> 00:02:59,960 coat of dawn. And where it turns here a voice, 34 00:03:01,759 --> 00:03:03,759 and in it a quality that a policeman hears in 35 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:07,599 his sleep, a voice tuned the whittle to penetrate shock. Listen, 36 00:03:08,479 --> 00:03:12,879 don't worry, may walk to You'll be your life. Lady, 37 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,000 you just come with me. What's you know this? Lady 38 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:16,400 dan Is? 39 00:03:16,599 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 4: She wanders in off the street, says she's looking for help. 40 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,319 She saw the police. 41 00:03:21,759 --> 00:03:22,719 Speaker 2: I want to go home. 42 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 5: Take me home. 43 00:03:24,479 --> 00:03:27,319 Speaker 2: Someone, don't be frightened? Will I hate it? 44 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 5: Ugly and dirty? And they laugh at a woman when 45 00:03:30,199 --> 00:03:34,159 she all I wanted was to make friends. I bought 46 00:03:34,199 --> 00:03:39,199 new things, paid their way. Why I shouldn't have to 47 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,000 pay the things back? 48 00:03:41,039 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 2: Homeless? Where is your home? 49 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 5: Miss They say that missus Bryce, That Elizabeth, she's a 50 00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:49,199 deep one, more than. 51 00:03:49,159 --> 00:03:50,159 Speaker 6: Meets the eye. 52 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:52,639 Speaker 5: You could like marsh fires with. 53 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 2: Where do they say that, missus Bryce? 54 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:56,159 Speaker 7: In Vermont? 55 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:57,759 Speaker 2: In the village. 56 00:03:57,759 --> 00:03:58,599 Speaker 6: When I walk down. 57 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,879 Speaker 5: Main Street to shop put in provisions, I hear that 58 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:04,479 whisperers so loud. 59 00:04:04,719 --> 00:04:05,919 Speaker 2: You'll be all right, lady. 60 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:08,439 Speaker 4: You are now with Danny Clover's hands and for an 61 00:04:08,439 --> 00:04:09,719 out of town a loss. 62 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:15,319 Speaker 2: Unhappy? Please please, that's strong. 63 00:04:15,719 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 5: Pill happened my first kid. 64 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:22,120 Speaker 2: Sure quickly water Roger your personas Price, give it them 65 00:04:23,439 --> 00:04:29,639 hold on so tight. That's it. Yep, that's please. Yes 66 00:04:30,759 --> 00:04:35,120 to me, thank you? What if you are anything, give 67 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:37,680 it to it you know? Oh sure, sorry, missus Price? 68 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:45,079 Here h cool, go. 69 00:04:45,079 --> 00:04:52,079 Speaker 5: Ahead, perfect a pale. Don't look like that. There's nothing 70 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:52,759 to be afraid of. 71 00:04:52,879 --> 00:04:55,839 Speaker 6: It happened of from these attack. 72 00:04:57,199 --> 00:04:57,639 Speaker 5: They comes. 73 00:04:58,759 --> 00:05:02,839 Speaker 2: Oh, missus Price, she fainted? 74 00:05:03,319 --> 00:05:04,319 Speaker 6: Shall I go up with doctor? 75 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 2: Sisky, shall I. 76 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 6: Why what can I do? Danny, tell me what? 77 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:16,519 Speaker 2: Nothing? You know nothing, she said, And somehow it held 78 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,079 the attitude of it, the lost woman never to be 79 00:05:19,160 --> 00:05:23,040 found again. Dead. Now the policemen standing over the two 80 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,000 of us, holding a paper cup of water yellow for 81 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,040 the tail overhead light, and the silences scurried out of 82 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:32,160 their secret places surrounded us, and only time moved to 83 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,480 the big faced wall clock in the corridor. It held 84 00:05:36,079 --> 00:05:38,160 held until it was imprud of the farm. The car 85 00:05:38,319 --> 00:05:41,319 outside to turn the corner and sped away, the festive 86 00:05:41,399 --> 00:05:45,399 car with festive people. Then I got up, and I 87 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,639 carried the woman to a cold room and put her 88 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:52,439 on a cold bed bed labeled for autompsey and leave instructions. 89 00:05:53,240 --> 00:06:08,399 Go home, sleep, sleep, meet through with it the new day, 90 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:12,120 and return to headquarters. Return Hello's shake a hand wave 91 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,000 at somebody. Finally get to your office, and a report 92 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,839 on your desk, Elizabeth Price, honestly performed upon death by 93 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:24,560 poisoning poison. Consider that, then read on name of poison 94 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:27,560 not to be pronounced. Question mark neatly written in blank 95 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:32,240 opposite suicide, another opposite homicide, and in blank labeled remarks. 96 00:06:32,319 --> 00:06:35,600 The key was found in missus Price's effects stamp Regent Hotel. 97 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,600 Go there and in a plush office off of plush lobby, 98 00:06:39,639 --> 00:06:42,720 you get a plush greeting. Danny, Danny close? 99 00:06:42,879 --> 00:06:43,199 Speaker 1: How are you? 100 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 2: Danny? 101 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 8: Oh? 102 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:45,040 Speaker 2: Shaw? What are you doing with me? 103 00:06:45,319 --> 00:06:45,839 Speaker 6: You're kidding? 104 00:06:45,879 --> 00:06:48,720 Speaker 2: You didn't hear? He didn't been whispered to you, Denny 105 00:06:48,959 --> 00:06:51,000 got to be told ya, Shaw, your name hasn't been 106 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,680 mentioned around headquarters. Then I walked in and threw my 107 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,480 badge on the captain's desk. It happened, bently. What of 108 00:06:56,519 --> 00:06:59,439 the way could it happened? Could it have been whispering 109 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,439 Danny doing here? Sean security service kid? How about that 110 00:07:04,079 --> 00:07:07,519 employed by the Regent Hotel to keep the security house man? 111 00:07:07,959 --> 00:07:12,680 Security service? Yeah? Do you know a woman named Elizabeth Price? 112 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:14,439 Sure checked in a couple of days ago? 113 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 3: What about it? 114 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 2: Dead? She's dead? Stumbled into headquarters early this morning since 115 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:22,079 she was lost, had a heart attack. She took a 116 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,879 pill out of her purse poison, A poison pill mixed 117 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,040 in with other pills good for or whatever. Ail. Hey, 118 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,600 that's dramatic, Anny. What do you know about her? A 119 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:34,040 dramatic lady from ramat I think come down from the 120 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,160 Rockford Coast to go dance. What are you talking about? 121 00:07:37,439 --> 00:07:39,199 Come to me the other night? Want to know where 122 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,720 I girl could enjoy yourself in the city, A girl 123 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,319 forty five, I'd say, what would you say? Let's get 124 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,879 off at Shaw? So I give her a book courtesy 125 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,519 of the Region, Things to See and Do in New 126 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,519 York City. She tells me that's not exactly what she 127 00:07:52,639 --> 00:08:01,800 had in mind what she wanted. Sure, Missus Brace, who's this? 128 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:05,920 I'll take that? Called what I said, I'll take it. Hello, 129 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,839 who's this? There's the police with Danny Clover. I asked 130 00:08:09,879 --> 00:08:11,839 to speak to Missus Price. What's the word, chriss? 131 00:08:12,399 --> 00:08:14,439 Speaker 6: I'm her steps on, I'm Johnny Price. What's going on? 132 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,639 Speaker 2: Where are you calling from Middlesex Vermont? Look what you answer? 133 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:20,040 My mother's had an accident, Johnny, get down here right away. 134 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,879 Action got the next train. Johnny ask at headquarters for 135 00:08:22,959 --> 00:08:29,000 Danny Clover. Poor kid. I don't know he did that? 136 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,720 Real will? What else about Missus Price? Shaw? What else 137 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:36,480 is nothing? What else is? Yeah? There's a fact that 138 00:08:36,519 --> 00:08:39,000 I ranged an appointment? Was there for the hotel? Literary 139 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:59,440 tweak you. I'll get back to you Shaw. They go 140 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:01,360 outside the go a boy, I'll get it when I 141 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:08,120 finished up. Polease, mister Miller, open up. Please? Why I 142 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,000 thought you were a room service friend. A little strategy 143 00:09:11,159 --> 00:09:13,679 I use make them leave the mess kid outside the 144 00:09:13,799 --> 00:09:16,120 door saves me scrounding in my pockets for a tip. 145 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:19,879 Well you want a peppermint? Life's every little child time. 146 00:09:19,919 --> 00:09:22,759 Avoid embarrassment aloud. Tell me about it inside, mister Miller, 147 00:09:23,159 --> 00:09:27,919 wherever it's joyful for you, come on here. Maybe you 148 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,399 hit the wrong room. Friend, I'm just a notary here 149 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:32,679 when I've got to sell you. Guys can get for 150 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,440 free like almost anything a hotel has. Daughter that makes 151 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,759 you better, look friend, I'm a boy fresh out of 152 00:09:38,799 --> 00:09:42,559 law school, went night, studied hard the job placement bulletins, 153 00:09:42,799 --> 00:09:45,440 bombed up with this with you, who I thought was 154 00:09:45,519 --> 00:09:48,559 my lens tree. Why shouldn't you disappoint me like that 155 00:09:48,919 --> 00:09:54,080 Elizabeth Price, that missus who asked me to call her 156 00:09:54,200 --> 00:10:01,639 another name, You too, friend, He tagged you too. She's dead. 157 00:10:02,279 --> 00:10:05,080 I that poison took a pill for her heart. It 158 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,799 didn't work like she thought. It's a way you study 159 00:10:08,879 --> 00:10:11,480 these things in school. That's why you'll understand them. Only 160 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,759 you'll understand why a policeman works on the possibility of murder. 161 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,000 Lots of things about you boys, I understand. Friends, others 162 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:22,080 confuse me, like, what is a hungry notary got to 163 00:10:22,159 --> 00:10:25,320 do with the dying of a Oh, let's call her 164 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,039 a guest. How come a house detective arranges appointments for 165 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:30,679 a notary with a woman like Missus Price Because a 166 00:10:30,759 --> 00:10:33,919 woman like Missus Price glints said notary loitering under a 167 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,879 hotel pop tries to exchange glimpse of the eye arranges 168 00:10:37,919 --> 00:10:40,480 a conference through a third party show at the hospital. 169 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:45,240 This makes it formal, a matter of pure, unadulterated business. Look, 170 00:10:45,399 --> 00:10:49,159 let me finished that the roost. The old girl from 171 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,519 Vermont uses that she needs some papers fan, So you 172 00:10:52,759 --> 00:10:55,480 called on her and did that. For there were papers 173 00:10:55,519 --> 00:10:59,159 fans trustee on a farming from a last wheel and testament, 174 00:10:59,240 --> 00:10:59,759 et cetera. 175 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 6: She showed me. 176 00:11:01,799 --> 00:11:05,279 Speaker 2: Only I ever got around them, bossing them with my stamp. 177 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:10,519 What stopped you, Liz? That's the name? She asked me. 178 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:13,639 That Carl is well, it says to me, let's postpone 179 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,399 the doll papers. Then she goes to a part of 180 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,480 the room where the light is more friendly on her, 181 00:11:18,639 --> 00:11:22,600 runs her hand through the new upswept hairdoo, stretches a 182 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:26,440 pleat and says, any remedies for boredom, mister Millan, And 183 00:11:26,519 --> 00:11:29,720 you wrote out a prescription, I started, you know. Then 184 00:11:29,799 --> 00:11:33,519 she said she wanted to go someplace alone. I said, 185 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:35,279 if that's what you want, go ask the cabby at 186 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:38,320 the hotel accident. Now there is a doctor with ideas. 187 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,799 But whatever one of the drivers out front, so I'm 188 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:44,519 will point out the one friend give me your case. 189 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:54,919 They could help even you. Oh shut the lady you 190 00:11:55,039 --> 00:11:57,720 described the very one. Where did you take her? Will 191 00:11:57,759 --> 00:12:01,039 I ever forget this cap a mine has seen sights 192 00:12:01,039 --> 00:12:03,759 that would chill and thrill, characters of every shape, size 193 00:12:03,799 --> 00:12:06,399 and characteristic, and this lady pits of the type. Where 194 00:12:06,399 --> 00:12:09,559 did the where did it go? Join on Gleenwich Village 195 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,039 Club Domino? She looked the type like I said, and 196 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:15,639 me still enough psychology. I know just what it. 197 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 4: Annoyed the customers, not one annoy them how buying drinks 198 00:12:26,519 --> 00:12:27,039 for whoever. 199 00:12:27,559 --> 00:12:28,519 Speaker 2: All they wanted to do. 200 00:12:28,759 --> 00:12:31,759 Speaker 4: Is listen to the music. Buying drinks at such a 201 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,360 holy moment. As for the talk, the streak phase places 202 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:36,559 for drink buyers. 203 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,679 Speaker 2: Years of the music sure. 204 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 4: We got into mission, then the cats can laugh on. 205 00:12:42,399 --> 00:12:52,120 Speaker 2: They told you to come in here to George's why 206 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,840 book friend, I explained to you twice already. Next time, 207 00:12:55,000 --> 00:13:00,399 downtown downtown means cop, downtown means cop. Yeah, Well the 208 00:13:00,519 --> 00:13:03,279 dame was here. See good spender like the merchandise a 209 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:06,120 lot ate drank you with glee. She left with Billy 210 00:13:06,399 --> 00:13:09,559 Billy Who Billy Bailey sings here ballad? 211 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: You know where is he? 212 00:13:10,759 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 2: He ain't showed tonight, left with this woman you're telling 213 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:16,080 me about about one yesterday morning. How's he been back? 214 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:16,960 Where does Billy live? 215 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:19,639 Speaker 9: Glad to oblige, I'll write it down. 216 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:40,039 Speaker 2: For you, Billy Billy Bailey, Tell on it, man, nothing's 217 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:45,759 going to keep God. Sit here by the fan. You 218 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:51,759 all right, Billy? You know me? Banetta tem blid me. 219 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:57,480 I got a message for you. Man. Tell everybody it's 220 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:02,559 a happy time. It don't hurt hardly at off, Billy, 221 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,759 He get used to it. It don't hurt. What are 222 00:14:06,759 --> 00:14:10,600 you trying to say, Billy? I'm talking about how it feels. 223 00:14:12,159 --> 00:14:15,000 I have been a feeling it all day and can't 224 00:14:15,039 --> 00:14:18,200 get to a phone to tell anybody how the man 225 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:23,639 walks in sticks a knife in you what I was privileged? 226 00:14:24,919 --> 00:14:26,960 I saw the man with a knife. Who was it? 227 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:36,879 Tryat man, It's a kick, It's a kick. His body 228 00:14:36,919 --> 00:14:40,159 twisted off the iron cot shuddered and lay still. The 229 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,720 cigarette he had been holding rolled out of his fingers, gleamed, 230 00:14:42,759 --> 00:14:45,720 briefly kissed out in the leavings of an overturned shot glass, 231 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,120 and from the building across the street, the spinning electric 232 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:54,519 sign flung its colors over Billy's face, blue, red, green, 233 00:14:55,519 --> 00:14:59,039 blue again, and Billy was right. There was no hurt 234 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:01,519 in him anymore. Billy was dead. 235 00:15:13,159 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 3: You are listening to Broadways My Beach, written by Morton 236 00:15:16,679 --> 00:15:20,200 Ben and David Breakin and starring Larry Thor as Detective 237 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:20,879 Danny Clover. 238 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 2: No August dies in September. He's jumped a few calendar 239 00:15:34,519 --> 00:15:39,000 spaces for the right. Broadway keeps on dancing. Nothing seasonal 240 00:15:39,039 --> 00:15:42,679 on Broadway. It's the street that blinks color and riot 241 00:15:42,759 --> 00:15:46,039 and night sounds mottled gold, and the spectacular that drips 242 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:49,480 over the pavements. Walk it, laugh at it, bloody, your 243 00:15:49,519 --> 00:15:53,559 hands against it. Your name is written on gutterwater. Nobody 244 00:15:53,600 --> 00:16:01,399 knows you're there, even when there's pile death Broadway mourns 245 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:03,960 with a shrug. The cold whisper of it is the 246 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,679 flipping of a million newspaper pages. An aggregate call him 247 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:10,320 to page three death a village singer linked with poisoning 248 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:13,720 a Vermont woman named Elizabeth Price. What else can you 249 00:16:13,799 --> 00:16:17,320 do but shrug? If you're a policeman assigned to the case. 250 00:16:17,639 --> 00:16:19,879 If a boy from Vermont has just seen his stepmother 251 00:16:19,919 --> 00:16:22,440 in the morgue, if he has leaned against you and 252 00:16:22,519 --> 00:16:25,200 you've seen his tears, there are things you can do. 253 00:16:25,639 --> 00:16:30,120 Wait for him, offer him silences and sometimes talk, walk 254 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,360 with him, sit beside him. Mostly it's a matter of 255 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,360 waiting for him. I'm glad you broke me out here 256 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:39,720 to the park, mister Kober feeling better, Johnny, I guess 257 00:16:40,519 --> 00:16:45,399 you want to talk about what whatever you want? But 258 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:47,320 you got your stepmother. 259 00:16:48,159 --> 00:16:56,919 Speaker 6: There's nothing, Okay, there's a lot, there always is. A 260 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,639 boy grows up to be seventeen. It's a long time, 261 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:04,440 Is that much to tell? We've got as long as 262 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:04,759 you want. 263 00:17:06,599 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 2: A boy grows up on. 264 00:17:07,799 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 6: A farm in Vermont, his mother dies when he's born, 265 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:17,079 going to school, being in love with your fourth grade teacher, 266 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:23,279 and sleigh riding snow and crops, watching your father marry 267 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:26,799 again and die. How old were you when your father 268 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:32,640 died last year? I was sixteen. My father was There 269 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,920 was never anyone like my father. I just want to 270 00:17:36,079 --> 00:17:37,039 be like him, That's all. 271 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:37,279 Speaker 1: Now. 272 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 2: I wish I alll me what to say to you, 273 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:43,039 But it's happened before that. Other people who cares. 274 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 6: I'm not other people. 275 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 2: I'm me sure. 276 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,200 Speaker 6: I guess no one thinks of seventeen year olds as 277 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:53,160 being orphans. Orphan is being very young and not having parents. 278 00:17:54,839 --> 00:17:59,000 I wasn't even supposed to cry, was I at seventeen? 279 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 2: I'm sad of those. 280 00:18:02,319 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 6: I want Elizabeth back ridiculous, huh, not being mature? How 281 00:18:10,079 --> 00:18:12,759 else am I going to say it? I want her back. 282 00:18:12,839 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 2: Let's go across the street, Johnny. 283 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 6: We can have something just happening to me or alone, 284 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:26,279 nobody nothing dead words like that happened to me? What 285 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:27,079 am I gonna do? 286 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:27,559 Speaker 2: Right? 287 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 1: What am I supposed to do? 288 00:18:31,519 --> 00:18:32,079 Speaker 7: I don't. 289 00:18:34,599 --> 00:18:39,920 Speaker 2: Right, Johnny, come back here. A sudden mushrooming of shock 290 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,079 has him shaveled a wooman thrown against the windshield, lost 291 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:45,720 in the shriek of breaks, lost in the thrill, insistent 292 00:18:45,799 --> 00:18:48,839 policeman's whistled found again in the thilts of the crowd 293 00:18:49,039 --> 00:18:51,519 sunned face. This drench to the color of the sun 294 00:18:51,599 --> 00:18:54,160 warmed them with an instant before and the quality of 295 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:56,480 half silence. As I dragged the boy from the streets, 296 00:18:57,079 --> 00:18:59,880 a sudden imposed silence to let the begging cry be heard. 297 00:19:04,519 --> 00:19:06,759 Leave the boy back of the curb, hold his protecting 298 00:19:06,839 --> 00:19:09,559 strength against you. Motion the policeman to hold him back. 299 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:11,599 Keep the crowd back as you leave the boy in 300 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,319 the squad car, take him away from the place where 301 00:19:14,319 --> 00:19:22,880 he wanted his diet, and at headquarters, wait for the 302 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,559 man into whose gentleness you've so many times given the 303 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,599 care of the stricken. Wait for him. Watch the door 304 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:32,599 open slowly, tentatively, listen to the quiet voice say what 305 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:36,279 it has said so many times before. It'll be all right, Danny. 306 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,400 Speaker 6: Just don't look like that. I tell you, it'll be 307 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:38,880 all right. 308 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,519 Speaker 2: He's a kid, doctor Sensky. I had to tell him. 309 00:19:41,519 --> 00:19:44,200 I I had a shower to him on a marble slab. 310 00:19:44,319 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 9: He's a strong boy, Danny. 311 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,559 Speaker 2: He'll walk out of here in three hours, strong, young. 312 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:50,359 I gave him a sedative. 313 00:19:51,039 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 9: Together, all these things will take away this much grief 314 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:54,759 from him. 315 00:19:54,799 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 2: A pinch. You happy in your work, doctor, both of us? Danny, Yeah, yeah, 316 00:20:03,319 --> 00:20:08,880 take us to the thanks. 317 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:14,039 Speaker 9: Why do we talk about Danny. There's humidity to talk about. 318 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:15,920 There's Corney Island on a hot day. 319 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:22,039 Speaker 2: There's what I've been checking on. Billy Bailey. He was 320 00:20:22,079 --> 00:20:24,400 well thought of. No one wanted him dead, no one. 321 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:28,519 Speaker 9: I talked to the violin his death sorrow conversation that 322 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:30,720 never stops his flow between us and Danny. 323 00:20:30,759 --> 00:20:33,440 Speaker 2: Elizabeth Price killed by a capsule that was meant to 324 00:20:33,559 --> 00:20:36,079 wait to kill Danny. To take a little box of 325 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,480 pills that were meant to give relief from pain. 326 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,079 Speaker 9: Put among them a few poisonous pills. 327 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:46,839 Speaker 2: Then when they Yeah, Danny Plover speaking Henry Shaw. Danny, 328 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,079 get on here, Security services, the regional hotel has got 329 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:52,720 goodies for you over the phone. Haven't got time, Danny, 330 00:20:52,759 --> 00:20:57,240 be good to me. Get here quick. You're going on, Danny. Yeah, 331 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:16,079 let's have another nice talk sometime a doctor. I had 332 00:21:16,119 --> 00:21:18,839 a man on the shoulder, Danny clasp his palm because 333 00:21:18,839 --> 00:21:21,559 I turned a new leaf and hardly show. I tell 334 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:23,640 you you hurt me down here to tell me you 335 00:21:23,799 --> 00:21:25,799 found salvation. You can give it to me, Danny, and 336 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:28,160 return for the good thing I got for you last 337 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,000 time I saw you, last time you saw me in 338 00:21:30,079 --> 00:21:32,119 my back first stood on edge because you were still 339 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,839 on the force. You not me get through a shaw. 340 00:21:35,279 --> 00:21:37,920 It's an apology, Danny. You got to know one when 341 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,319 you meet one. We can't be friends. We can't get 342 00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,279 together on this thing about how missus Price had a 343 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:44,559 visitor the first night she guessed it at our hotel. 344 00:21:45,319 --> 00:21:50,559 A guy, a man carried boging shoulders right toward doorstep 345 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,759 comes late, saw this bright day. I beat it out 346 00:21:53,759 --> 00:21:55,400 of the night play because I wanted to make a 347 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,880 good impression around on you or my friends in the force, 348 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:03,240 because it wasn't night. Clerk didn't ask her name, don't 349 00:22:03,279 --> 00:22:06,039 remember the face, just the broad shoulders saying which way 350 00:22:06,079 --> 00:22:08,079 to missus Bryce, please, I want to talk to him, 351 00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:12,079 the clerk. Don't buy your time, Danny. I went over 352 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,200 him good, left them holding the cold compress. So anything 353 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,039 he's got to say, he's already told me. And I 354 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:23,240 tell you real goodie about the late visiting. Not much, ye, 355 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:25,799 we'll check up. WI leave anything else out show. I 356 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:28,000 knew it would register. You got a fine brain, Danny. 357 00:22:28,079 --> 00:22:31,119 Then you'll tell me why you got miss Pryce's telephone call. 358 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,720 A woman like her, Danny, like missus Price. I worried 359 00:22:33,759 --> 00:22:39,279 about her alone in this big alley ours. I worried, honestly. 360 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:41,519 That's why when I saw her go out that night 361 00:22:42,279 --> 00:22:45,240 given order prefer calls to me? Are the only one 362 00:22:45,279 --> 00:22:48,480 you took for him? Yeah? For the reason I told you, Danny. 363 00:22:48,519 --> 00:22:53,680 Honest Danny, I thought a good thought. Did you a 364 00:22:53,799 --> 00:22:57,440 good deed? Get him back in the forest? Huh? Help her? 365 00:22:57,519 --> 00:22:59,240 What I can thank Shaw. 366 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 4: The Evening's greetings, Danny, and don't posit get up. 367 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:16,759 Speaker 2: You know what you got. 368 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,079 Speaker 4: What I've got is we of the police have been 369 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,839 able to ascertain nothing as to what man visited the 370 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:23,000 deceased Missus Price. 371 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,200 Speaker 2: Uh huh what nothing? I just said? Uh huh. 372 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,880 Speaker 4: Such interruptions are thought scattering, Danny. We will mind this 373 00:23:30,039 --> 00:23:30,960 in the future, will we? 374 00:23:31,279 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 2: Sorry forgiven? 375 00:23:33,039 --> 00:23:35,279 Speaker 4: The second matter I wish to place at your disposal 376 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:36,400 concerns Middlesex. 377 00:23:36,519 --> 00:23:37,519 Speaker 2: What about Middle. 378 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 4: Danny, Middle Sex Ver month our department which concerns itself 379 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,920 for checking such matters check. No record of a phone 380 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,079 call has been found as yet of a call being 381 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:50,400 placed from middlesex Ver month to New York City. The 382 00:23:50,519 --> 00:23:51,920 last snow and phone call. 383 00:23:51,799 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 2: From these points last June by Calvert with the little 384 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,079 an issue on all points. Bulletin person was wanted for 385 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:08,920 double murder a person I'd talked to. So issue his name, weight, height, 386 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:13,559 coloring all the details necessary and wait. Fidget walk down 387 00:24:13,599 --> 00:24:15,519 to the corner Hamburg to stand for twenty five cent 388 00:24:15,599 --> 00:24:19,880 de light with onions and coffee. Come back. Stop in communications. 389 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:23,880 After a while, behanded a slip of paper. Fugitive spotted 390 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,559 in Club Domino, Greenwich Village. Issue orders to stick with him. 391 00:24:28,279 --> 00:24:31,799 Wait another slip of paper. Fugitive walked across the street 392 00:24:31,839 --> 00:24:35,119 to Phase Place. Is being followed. Then at three in 393 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,559 the morning, Phase Place closes. Fugitive leaves goes to a 394 00:24:38,599 --> 00:24:41,920 place one block down according to the pattern. I got 395 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:48,240 a squad car, went there. You back again, cop, he's 396 00:24:48,279 --> 00:24:51,960 getting ready to close him at the corner table. I'll 397 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:57,200 sweep him out. Don't put anyone else in here, Johnny, 398 00:24:58,079 --> 00:25:00,880 I'm not drinking, mister comer night huh. 399 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 6: I would have drunk if they had served me, No 400 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,279 one would. We've got to talk some more, Johnny, All right, 401 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,839 you think you can get them to give me a drink. 402 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,039 I want to see what's in it, Johnny. There must 403 00:25:13,079 --> 00:25:13,880 be something in it. 404 00:25:14,319 --> 00:25:15,359 Speaker 2: Let's get out of here, Johnny. 405 00:25:15,519 --> 00:25:18,720 Speaker 6: If there is, why do people come here places like this? 406 00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:25,519 Speaker 2: All those places? Why did you kill Bailey? Johnny? I 407 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:26,160 followed them. 408 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:34,759 Speaker 6: She am drunk. They were laughing. I've never heard her 409 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:36,079 laugh like that before. 410 00:25:36,599 --> 00:25:37,599 Speaker 2: That's why you killed him. 411 00:25:39,079 --> 00:25:42,160 Speaker 6: Then they stopped under a lamp push and then laughed 412 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:48,400 for a long time in a cab game. She went away, 413 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:50,880 She went away. 414 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 2: You followed billy. 415 00:25:54,079 --> 00:25:58,039 Speaker 6: People who lived in places like that, like the womb 416 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:05,000 he lived in. Jerk knocked on the door and he 417 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:09,720 let me in. I told him who I was. He laughed, 418 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,279 he was drunk, and then you stabbed him. Oh all 419 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:20,680 right away we talked. I wanted to see what kind 420 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:24,400 of a man he was. You want to hear something funny? 421 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:26,680 What I liked him? 422 00:26:27,759 --> 00:26:29,599 Speaker 2: I had to fight it. I didn't want to like him. 423 00:26:31,319 --> 00:26:36,599 Speaker 6: He came over and touched me on the shoulder. That's 424 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:37,400 when I was standing. 425 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:50,359 Speaker 2: Come on, Johnny, let's walk okay, Hi, Georgie, Yeah, squad 426 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:55,680 cars over there, let's stand here. Master. I still don't 427 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,839 see what she wanted all this for none of the 428 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,319 things she did with very Johnny. You know that, don't you. 429 00:27:02,279 --> 00:27:05,440 The poison tablets in your stepmother's medicine. Eventually she would 430 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,720 take one of them, but you didn't know when, You 431 00:27:07,799 --> 00:27:10,240 didn't know when she was going to die. Then the 432 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:11,839 fake called from Vermont. 433 00:27:12,559 --> 00:27:15,680 Speaker 6: You know, I thought that was clever. Long distance call 434 00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:18,200 station to station. The operator never tells the other party 435 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:19,279 where the carls coming from. 436 00:27:19,319 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 2: You put right through. You were here all the time 437 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,720 your stepmother was here. When she followed her, or wherever 438 00:27:23,839 --> 00:27:26,759 she went, he followed her. He went to her hotel room, 439 00:27:26,839 --> 00:27:28,000 try to get her to go home. 440 00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 6: You understand, don't you. 441 00:27:31,039 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 2: Your father died, you had to take care of what 442 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:33,319 was his. 443 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 6: My father would have done the same thing. 444 00:27:36,079 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 2: Your stepmother didn't do anything except look for a relief 445 00:27:39,279 --> 00:27:42,119 for her. Loneliness, You should have known that you follow 446 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:48,319 your stepmother, Yes, I was. You understand that too, don't you? 447 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:54,359 In the car chum, get in, mister Clover. 448 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 6: This afternoon, you saved my life when I tried to 449 00:27:58,799 --> 00:28:04,079 run in front of a Car's funny, isn't it now? 450 00:28:04,599 --> 00:28:06,160 Speaker 2: It bothered me before? Johnny? 451 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:13,839 Speaker 6: You think I didn't mean to die thanks for saving 452 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:18,519 me anyhow, Get in Johnny. I like you, mister Color. 453 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:24,720 You like my father so much the way you handle me. 454 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 2: I like it just like my father. The knight bursts 455 00:28:51,519 --> 00:28:55,119 open like a sudden flame, and the crowd swarm appears, 456 00:28:55,559 --> 00:28:58,000 squeezed out from under the earth, roped up by the 457 00:28:58,039 --> 00:29:02,359 silhouettes of a thousand buildings. They dance their fury away 458 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,640 against the time of morning, until the sky soaks up 459 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:11,000 the pain and turns it into the dawn. It's Broadway, 460 00:29:11,839 --> 00:29:17,599 the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. 461 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,359 Broadway My Beat. 462 00:29:32,319 --> 00:29:35,119 Speaker 10: Tonight ONPN presents You've been listening to some of the 463 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,680 best in radio drama with ber McGhee and Malay and 464 00:29:38,759 --> 00:29:42,480 Broadway is My Beats. Join us again Monday evening at 465 00:29:42,519 --> 00:29:47,480 the same time Nine Old Bought When Presents, Dragonets. 466 00:29:47,319 --> 00:29:48,519 Speaker 2: And Escape. 467 00:31:10,119 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: Welcome Back. 468 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 5: Well. 469 00:31:12,079 --> 00:31:16,960 Speaker 1: Another interesting episode, and the killer was going through a lot, 470 00:31:17,119 --> 00:31:20,799 and I think made the point that he just really 471 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:26,839 did not have the ability to even figure out where 472 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,519 he was or what he was supposed to do. But 473 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,119 the show doesn't treat that in a way that makes 474 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,680 it seem as if he's not culpable or wasn't aware 475 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:41,000 of what he was doing. Honestly, I did suspect the 476 00:31:41,799 --> 00:31:46,720 hotel detective just because he's the type of person I 477 00:31:46,799 --> 00:31:50,799 think we might have heard as a killer with this 478 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:55,519 sort of thing in the earlier like nineteen forty nine 479 00:31:55,839 --> 00:31:59,519 Broadways My Beat episodes. But what we was a guy 480 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:04,000 I think who didn't fundamentally understand why he didn't make 481 00:32:04,039 --> 00:32:07,519 it as a policeman, which is why his attempts to 482 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:13,599 get Danny to be supportive and kind him rejoining the 483 00:32:13,759 --> 00:32:18,599 force really came off badly. I think he's the type 484 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,759 of person who thinks that using force shows that he's 485 00:32:23,799 --> 00:32:27,759 a tough call. But in this case, he was using 486 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:34,279 force on someone who wasn't really a threat to show 487 00:32:34,359 --> 00:32:39,079 his own powerfulness, but also illustrated that he really didn't 488 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:46,079 have this person's respect and trust to get simple cooperation. 489 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,000 And we can really hear right from the start that 490 00:32:50,119 --> 00:32:53,119 Danny does not like this guy, does not respect him, 491 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,559 and it's all Danny can do to keep himself at 492 00:32:56,599 --> 00:33:01,519 the level of thinly veiled contempt. Well, now we turn 493 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,759 to listener comments and feedback, and I have an email 494 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,119 from Derek who writes it occurred to me today while 495 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:13,160 listening to Broadways My Beat, the different reactions we get 496 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:17,880 to murder. Dragnett is almost cold and distant, stating the case, 497 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:22,720 the results they found, and rarely the victim's family. Broadways 498 00:33:22,799 --> 00:33:27,480 My Beat has over dramatized reactions by both the police 499 00:33:27,519 --> 00:33:31,799 and family. Vile Ovance here's the word murder and almost 500 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:36,920 gets giddy along with the police. While I can pick 501 00:33:37,039 --> 00:33:40,519 and find faults with each, the fact that they are 502 00:33:40,599 --> 00:33:43,880 so different is what makes me like each program for 503 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:48,480 what it brings. Thanks for helping us remember these forgotten gems. Well, 504 00:33:48,599 --> 00:33:51,559 thank you so much, Derek, and I think the way 505 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,079 that Death's approach tends to be a part of each 506 00:33:55,279 --> 00:33:59,200 series overall tone. I mean, I guess you could put 507 00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:04,319 it on a content you have on one end, Filo Vance, 508 00:34:04,519 --> 00:34:08,880 which is trying to be a sort of puzzle mystery, 509 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:14,079 and Broadways My Bait with the very lyrical sort of 510 00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:17,440 way of storytelling, is going to have an entirely different 511 00:34:17,559 --> 00:34:22,000 reaction With Dragnet. I think it's a bit more mixed. 512 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,960 They can react, although it's not going to be over 513 00:34:26,079 --> 00:34:30,920 the top or anything, when they encounter a killing that 514 00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:36,840 particularly horrifies them. An example of this would be the 515 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:41,519 killing in the big Blast. By not having a bigger 516 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,800 reaction to every murder, it does a lot to preserve 517 00:34:46,119 --> 00:34:51,519 the show's credibility when there is a murder that leads 518 00:34:51,599 --> 00:34:56,760 to more of a reaction. Then we go to Spotify 519 00:34:57,079 --> 00:35:02,880 and regarding the David Blaine case, Mechanic sixty six says, well, 520 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:08,000 that was dark. And then we also had a question 521 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:12,760 over on YouTube. This one comes from Jeffrey, and this 522 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,559 is on the episode the Joe Gruber murder case. Quite 523 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,440 the worldly, grown up acting seventeen. 524 00:35:21,039 --> 00:35:21,920 Speaker 6: Year old girl. 525 00:35:22,199 --> 00:35:26,480 Speaker 1: Girls thought of marriage so young back then. Well obviously 526 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,880 not every girl was exactly like this character, but she 527 00:35:31,199 --> 00:35:36,480 was given a certain portrayal and characterization, which, you know, 528 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:41,239 in terms of the fact of considering marriage was not 529 00:35:42,159 --> 00:35:47,519 at all uncommon. The medium age for a first marriage 530 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:53,239 for young women back in the fifties was twenty to 531 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:57,360 twenty one years old. This could particularly be common if 532 00:35:57,639 --> 00:36:02,039 a young woman wasn't going to call now young men 533 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,440 their marriage age was a little bit higher, kind of 534 00:36:07,519 --> 00:36:12,760 in line, generally about twenty two or twenty three throughout 535 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,400 the same period. But thanks so much, Jeffrey, I appreciate 536 00:36:16,559 --> 00:36:20,719 the question. 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Just couldn't help, 553 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,079 but I got sick to my stomach. 554 00:37:11,199 --> 00:37:12,360 Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am, I can understand. 555 00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,519 Speaker 8: How about this truck that ran them down? Do you 556 00:37:14,559 --> 00:37:16,079 think you'd know it if you ever saw it again? 557 00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,519 Speaker 7: I'm not sure I think I might. Yes, it was 558 00:37:18,559 --> 00:37:20,599 one of those delivery trucks, you know. I think you 559 00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:22,840 call it a panel truck. It was a light tan 560 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,039 color all over, and there was black lettering on the side. 561 00:37:25,519 --> 00:37:27,159 Speaker 8: Could you make out any of the lettering at all? 562 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,559 Speaker 7: Well, I think there were three or four words painted 563 00:37:29,639 --> 00:37:31,280 on the side, and I know one of them was bakery. 564 00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:31,800 I'm sure that. 565 00:37:32,119 --> 00:37:34,199 Speaker 2: Did you recognize what make a truck it was, ma'am? 566 00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:34,960 You're the model? 567 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,559 Speaker 7: It was a late model, I'm pretty sure of that, 568 00:37:36,679 --> 00:37:39,239 either a Chevrolet or Ford. I'd say one of those 569 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,280 regular delivery trucks like some bakery's hues. 570 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:42,199 Speaker 2: Sure about that word? 571 00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:44,159 Speaker 7: You saw letter on the side, It said bakery, Yes, 572 00:37:44,199 --> 00:37:46,440 I'm positive with that. Know anything else. 573 00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:47,840 Speaker 8: Out of the ordinary that you might have noticed about 574 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,079 the truck, ma'am, Anything outstanding that might have caught your eye? 575 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:52,519 Speaker 7: No, I'm sorry. So that's about all I can tell you. 576 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:54,639 How is the old lady? Do you know? And a 577 00:37:54,679 --> 00:37:56,000 little boy? Could they tell you anything? 578 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:56,880 Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am. 579 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,199 Speaker 8: The woman's dead. She was killed instantly. They've taken the 580 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,000 youngster over to join the street receiving hospital. Afraid he's 581 00:38:02,039 --> 00:38:03,159 in pretty bad shape too. 582 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:06,039 Speaker 7: Terrible shame, poor lady. She lives right here in the neighborhood, 583 00:38:06,039 --> 00:38:08,480 you know, seeing her shopping in the market next door 584 00:38:08,559 --> 00:38:12,239 here Saturday afternoon. It's just tragic. Boys or grandson. 585 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:12,480 Speaker 2: You know. 586 00:38:13,119 --> 00:38:15,480 Speaker 7: Somebody said he was down visiting her for the Christmas vacation. 587 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,360 Seemed like a nice kid, well behaved. She seems so 588 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,639 proud of him. It suld be a sad Christmas for 589 00:38:20,679 --> 00:38:21,159 the family. 590 00:38:22,039 --> 00:38:23,639 Speaker 2: Just one more question, man, When the boy and his 591 00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,159 grandmother were crossing the street, would you say the visibility 592 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:26,559 was good? 593 00:38:26,639 --> 00:38:28,320 Speaker 7: I mean, is there any reason why it would have 594 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,239 been hard for a driver to see them? No reason 595 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,480 in the world, officer. It's a clear night. You can 596 00:38:32,559 --> 00:38:34,880 see how well the intersections lighted up, all the Christmas 597 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,400 lights strung up along here. The lights from the theater 598 00:38:37,519 --> 00:38:39,960 Marquee was just as well lighted then as it is now. 599 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,639 I see, the intersection was perfectly clear, no other cars around. 600 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:45,760 The boy had a white sweater on. The old lady 601 00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,119 was wearing a light colored certainly easy to see the 602 00:38:48,199 --> 00:38:51,280 traffic light too, It said, stop, I can't understand why 603 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:52,360 that driver didn't see him. 604 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:53,960 Speaker 2: Neither can Wait, how. 605 00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,639 Speaker 7: Could anybody do such a thing? Just isn't any excuse 606 00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,159 for it? No excuse in the world. It's downright murdered. 607 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,159 Speaker 2: Maybe that plains it. That's why I keep going. 608 00:39:02,519 --> 00:39:04,960 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 609 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,760 send your comments Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 610 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:14,320 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 611 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:20,519 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. 612 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,440 This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.