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Again, thank you so much for your support. 18 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 2: Well. 19 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: Now, from June twenty third, nineteen fifty one, here is 20 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:45,400 the Ruth Lawson murder case. 21 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 3: We delay the start of our scheduled program to bring 22 00:01:50,239 --> 00:01:54,840 you a bulletin from CBS News Washington. The State Department 23 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,359 has issued a statement in responds to the proposal by 24 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,239 Jacob Malick, the Soviet delegate to the United Nations, for 25 00:02:00,319 --> 00:02:04,239 a ceasefire in Korea. The State Department said that if 26 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,759 Malix's proposal is more than propaganda, adequate means for discussion 27 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,400 and end to the conflict are available. The State Department said, 28 00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:15,400 we are ready to play our part. This bulletin has 29 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:18,240 come to you from CBS News. We now resume our 30 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:30,599 regular program. 31 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:35,159 Speaker 2: Broadway's My Beat from Climesquur to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, 32 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,759 the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. 33 00:02:45,879 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 3: Broadway is My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. 34 00:03:03,479 --> 00:03:06,560 Speaker 2: The nighttime starts at the river before it closes over Broadway. 35 00:03:07,199 --> 00:03:10,080 A wind drifts in with the moistened shadows, flings them 36 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,840 into the street, flattens them against the gutter, picks a 37 00:03:12,879 --> 00:03:16,159 man waiting for a bus and wraps darkness around him. 38 00:03:16,199 --> 00:03:18,879 And a light comes on, and another, and down the street. 39 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:21,199 There where the crowd has gathered against the traffic signal 40 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:26,080 high above the mo neon sputters flames, the spectaculars dance. 41 00:03:26,159 --> 00:03:28,280 Somebody runs into the street and yells come on, and 42 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:37,919 everybody does. Night has come to Broadway. And where I 43 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:40,439 was there was a wind the built in when the 44 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,080 thing composed of poor ventilation, tears, shed and unshed and 45 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,479 bottled chemicals. It was the basic ingredient of the city Morgue. 46 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,560 Though not to be found on blueprints of bills of specifications, 47 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:53,240 it is something new to the man walking beside me. 48 00:03:55,759 --> 00:04:00,879 This place, this place, just take it, mister Larson. 49 00:04:01,719 --> 00:04:05,719 Speaker 4: I'll tell you something. I guess it'll sound funny. I've 50 00:04:05,719 --> 00:04:08,599 read about places like this, and I've closed my mind 51 00:04:08,599 --> 00:04:11,319 to what I read. I guess I never wanted to 52 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,159 visualize anything. 53 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,959 Speaker 2: Right here, mister Larson. What was your daughter wearing? 54 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 4: Missus Larson wrote it down for me. You see, I 55 00:04:21,879 --> 00:04:24,439 wasn't home when our daughter, when Ruth, went to the movie, 56 00:04:24,439 --> 00:04:29,120 So Missus Larson, Ruth was wearing a skirt and blouse, 57 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:33,079 think Bobby socks and saddle shoes. I guess you want 58 00:04:33,079 --> 00:04:35,279 to know this too. She was five feet one, she 59 00:04:35,439 --> 00:04:38,759 was fourteen in May. She had brown hair and brown eyes. 60 00:04:41,759 --> 00:04:43,879 And I want you to know, mister Clover, I guess 61 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:45,240 all fathers feel the same way. 62 00:04:45,439 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 2: My Ruth was well. 63 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:49,600 Speaker 4: Our friend said, she was a remarkable child. She's going 64 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:55,199 We're going to send it to under that sheet. 65 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 2: This girl was found in a vacant lot between your 66 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:59,680 home and the theater. Your wife mentioned when she called, 67 00:05:00,879 --> 00:05:06,759 how I mean, look, you know it fractured skull. 68 00:05:08,759 --> 00:05:09,759 Speaker 5: I have to lug Donna. 69 00:05:09,959 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 2: Yes, if it's your daughter. 70 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 5: Ruth's a nice girl. 71 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:17,800 Speaker 4: She started to go to parties with boys, and she 72 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:20,160 always gets home by eleven o'clock. She's going to be 73 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:22,800 a dancer. When people come to the house, she dances 74 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:28,000 for them. You see, as I as I told you before. 75 00:05:30,759 --> 00:05:41,000 Speaker 5: Ruth, Ruthie, Oh Ruthie, Who did it? 76 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:43,040 Speaker 2: What? Monster? 77 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,319 Speaker 5: Who did it to you? 78 00:05:45,399 --> 00:05:45,879 Speaker 2: Who? 79 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:46,519 Speaker 6: Who? 80 00:05:53,319 --> 00:05:55,959 Speaker 2: The fury took over the man trembling with the shivering 81 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,959 or that scurried from wall to wall and raged the wound, 82 00:05:58,959 --> 00:06:01,639 the death of his child across his heart, torn inside 83 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:04,759 his throat, the helpless, futile rage of the animal loose 84 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:07,759 small range of understanding has been kicked, beaten, thrown against 85 00:06:07,759 --> 00:06:13,199 the barbed wall of violence. Not once, not once more, 86 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:16,399 did he look at his child. Now, Try only to 87 00:06:16,439 --> 00:06:19,079 wipe out the memory, Try to strangle it long ago. 88 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:23,240 Laughter and sobs that the child had let echo through it. Finally, 89 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:28,639 the collapse the heap and the concrete floor, and you 90 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:30,959 call quietly to the officer on duty to help you 91 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:32,759 lift them and carry him to a place where he 92 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:41,240 can sleep away the fury of his dead. Then back 93 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:44,160 to your office and close the door on it. Stand 94 00:06:44,199 --> 00:06:47,279 at the window, watching the squalls of the nighttime wash 95 00:06:47,319 --> 00:06:51,199 against it, beat against it, and then stare at the walls. 96 00:06:52,240 --> 00:06:54,279 Then hear the door opened for him to let it 97 00:06:54,319 --> 00:06:54,879 all in again. 98 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:05,199 Speaker 7: Daddy, Danny, what do you want doctor Sinski's report? He 99 00:07:05,279 --> 00:07:07,439 was busy on another. He asked me to bring it 100 00:07:07,439 --> 00:07:07,800 to you, so. 101 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:14,279 Speaker 2: Leave it on my desk, all right, you're not gonna 102 00:07:14,279 --> 00:07:16,519 look at it, Danny. Why I know what's in it? 103 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:19,519 Speaker 7: I thought I did too, to like glance it over 104 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:20,959 on the way to your office. You'd better take a 105 00:07:20,959 --> 00:07:21,319 look at it. 106 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:23,079 Speaker 2: You're so eager. I don't want to spoil it for you. 107 00:07:23,079 --> 00:07:25,639 Tell me about it, Muggavin, Dan, you tell me I'm Muggavin. 108 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:30,560 We've had other kids, now, this one's no different that all, Muggavin. 109 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 7: That's what I've been trying to tell you. This one 110 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,319 is different. Just what you saw when you first found her. 111 00:07:35,519 --> 00:07:38,639 That's what's in the report. Beaten skull, fractioned with the 112 00:07:38,639 --> 00:07:39,959 butt of a gun. Nothing else. 113 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,439 Speaker 2: Then give me a motive, Give me another motive. Why 114 00:07:43,439 --> 00:07:53,160 I have fourteen year old child? Should Clover speaking. 115 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:56,759 Speaker 8: Sagian Tartaglia at this end? Homicide Danny. Woman in the 116 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,399 backyard of house in eighteen forty five West eleven named 117 00:08:00,519 --> 00:08:03,639 Murray upstairs wants you on it. Shall I tell him 118 00:08:03,639 --> 00:08:04,879 you're agreeable, Danny. 119 00:08:04,639 --> 00:08:09,439 Speaker 2: Tell him, I'm bring me a motor Mugaman upstairs wants 120 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:21,800 me to run an errand she's over here, mister Clover, 121 00:08:24,279 --> 00:08:30,199 right here, dead beaten. I'd say her scull had infractured. 122 00:08:30,199 --> 00:08:34,759 Mister Murray, I don't understand it. I just don't understand it. 123 00:08:34,919 --> 00:08:35,799 Tell me what happened. 124 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,639 Speaker 9: We were sitting in the library. A knock came on 125 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,279 the back door. I wanted to answer it, but Beetrice said, 126 00:08:43,279 --> 00:08:45,759 I look so comfortable. There was just you too in 127 00:08:45,799 --> 00:08:49,840 the library, you and your wife and sis. Sis my 128 00:08:49,919 --> 00:08:52,120 sister Claudia. She can't hear anything. 129 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 2: She's deaf. She never goes out of the house. I 130 00:08:55,039 --> 00:08:57,080 take care of her. Well, who's in the house with her. Now, 131 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,879 who's playing that organ? Oh? Sis? Play? I see? Go ahead. 132 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 9: Well, there was this knock on the door, and Beatrice 133 00:09:07,159 --> 00:09:09,559 went to the door, and I heard it talking to someone, 134 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,480 at least I think I did. I want you to know, 135 00:09:12,519 --> 00:09:13,480 I'm not sure about that. 136 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 2: I kept reading. 137 00:09:15,759 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 9: That's all Sis was practicing. 138 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 2: Didn't your wife? Screamed? Didn't you hear anything? 139 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:19,360 Speaker 6: Oh? 140 00:09:19,519 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 2: No, no, no, I didn't. I I happened to look 141 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:22,559 up my book. 142 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 9: A little later after she went to the back door. 143 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 2: How much later, Well, I don't know. I looked up 144 00:09:29,399 --> 00:09:32,120 and she still wasn't there. She hadn't come back yet 145 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,919 from answering that knock on the door. That's right. 146 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,639 Speaker 9: So I went out back. The back door was still open, 147 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:42,799 but there wasn't anybody there. I called to her, and 148 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:48,679 then I started toward the alley and I stumbled. I 149 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:51,120 stumbled over Beatrice lying, then what did you do? 150 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:52,919 Speaker 2: Well? 151 00:09:52,919 --> 00:09:56,759 Speaker 9: I called the police and then I told Sis. 152 00:09:56,519 --> 00:09:58,399 Speaker 2: What had happened. You speak sign language? 153 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:00,639 Speaker 9: Yes, I learned when I was very young so that 154 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,399 I could speak with Sis. She's been with me all 155 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:03,759 the time. 156 00:10:05,039 --> 00:10:06,039 Speaker 2: How long have you been married? 157 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 9: Fourteen years? 158 00:10:07,879 --> 00:10:11,519 Speaker 2: Why? What's that got to do? Happily, of course, happily. 159 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:12,559 Do you have any children? 160 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 9: No, No, that's something Beatrice and I agreed on. Sis 161 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:19,879 needs taken care of. And Beatrice is always so busy, busy, 162 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:23,919 busy doing what clubs and auxiliaries. You know, she was 163 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,080 well liked, got things done, She was admired. 164 00:10:26,639 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 2: And well liked. Then who would want to kill her? 165 00:10:29,279 --> 00:10:31,759 Nobody would want to kill Beatrice. Nobody's to marry. 166 00:10:31,799 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 9: She was a middle aged woman, mister Clover. Everybody she 167 00:10:34,159 --> 00:10:36,720 knew was her friend. She did charity work. People came 168 00:10:36,759 --> 00:10:41,639 with troubles, anybody, she'd help them. Why would anybody want 169 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:45,120 to kill her? What motive would he have? What motive, 170 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:47,879 mister Clover? 171 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:52,879 Speaker 2: It was there again? What motive? A fourteen year old girl, 172 00:10:53,159 --> 00:10:56,559 the loved child of a quiet and nameless family until 173 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:58,200 a killer had taken the button of a gun and 174 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:00,559 beaten their name and their dead child's name into the 175 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:03,200 newspapers that choked the trash been supplied for the purpose 176 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:07,440 by the Department of Sanitation. What motive for that? And 177 00:11:07,519 --> 00:11:12,279 for missus Beatrice Murray, admired, liked, charitable, a woman to 178 00:11:12,279 --> 00:11:15,080 whom the trouble came, A childless woman who sat in 179 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:17,240 the evening and sewed together the patchwork of her day 180 00:11:17,279 --> 00:11:19,799 while her husband read and his sister released the music. 181 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:24,360 She couldn't hear what motive for that brutal death? Because 182 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,279 you find no answer? Share it with, doctor Sinski asked 183 00:11:27,279 --> 00:11:29,480 the question of him. Burden the gentle doctor with it. 184 00:11:29,799 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 7: You put me a question, Danny, that is not strictly 185 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:34,840 in my department or in my education mind. 186 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 2: If I abum another cigarette, oh here, hope, so thanks. 187 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:44,320 You've been with us a long time, doctor, Some of 188 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:45,399 it must have rubbed. 189 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 7: Off, Danny. Ideal only in known quantities. You boys bring 190 00:11:49,159 --> 00:11:51,960 me the wounds, you find, I washed them, bandaged them. 191 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:55,960 You bring me the dead. I perform autopsies, known quantities, Danny, 192 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,039 like I know, like I know my name. Your name 193 00:11:59,159 --> 00:12:01,559 that dismisses he was murdered by the butt of the 194 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,120 same gun that hammered away the life of the child rule. 195 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,279 Speaker 2: Why tell me why I'll go out and buy my 196 00:12:07,279 --> 00:12:08,320 own pack of cigarettes. 197 00:12:09,759 --> 00:12:12,039 Speaker 7: If I had gold, you could have it, Danny, No 198 00:12:12,159 --> 00:12:17,519 strings to it. No for the question you ask, go 199 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,799 consult a specialist, a man who puts the microscope of 200 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:22,159 his training to the emotion. 201 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:23,799 Speaker 2: The department psychiatrist. 202 00:12:24,279 --> 00:12:28,080 Speaker 7: Yes to him, perhaps he will agree with me. And 203 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,919 I'm only an amateur, a dabbler. Minds you, Danny, that 204 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,720 this violence, this ugly bestial violence, has been committed by 205 00:12:34,759 --> 00:12:36,240 what is called a paranoid. 206 00:12:36,799 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 2: I've read about them, had them screaming in my office 207 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,440 and dream up hates against themselves that for this. 208 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 7: Day kill an animal, the child. 209 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 2: Woman. 210 00:12:46,919 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 7: Excuse me, Danny, come in, Please. 211 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 8: Are looking for me, you know, yeah, Danny Fresh homicide 212 00:12:53,759 --> 00:12:56,000 Alley on West tenth Buckerman's got a squad Collum. 213 00:12:56,080 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 2: Let me finish my cigarette, hunt Taglio. Sure, Danny, sure, 214 00:13:00,759 --> 00:13:20,639 if you want it's finished. A woman, Danny, Yeah, put 215 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:30,279 your flash on her? Where's that music coming from apartment upstairs? Danny, 216 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,519 the back of her head? It's uh huh, keep your 217 00:13:33,519 --> 00:13:36,320 flash still. We've seen it. 218 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:42,799 Speaker 7: Two times already in a short space, and this makes three. 219 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 2: It made three. The woman staring into the beam of 220 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,320 the flash like mugumun held close to her face, staring 221 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,879 in the final disbelief that this had happened to her 222 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,320 in this place, in this time. She lay in awkwardness 223 00:13:56,440 --> 00:13:59,600 for dress, disarranged her hand where it had frozen, trying 224 00:13:59,639 --> 00:14:01,759 to stray from the wisp of blood clotted hair under 225 00:14:01,799 --> 00:14:05,240 her black straw hat. The alley wind found the white 226 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:08,919 lace at her throat, riffled it, and the murdered woman 227 00:14:09,039 --> 00:14:12,159 made three. 228 00:14:19,559 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 3: You are listening to Broadways My Beat. Written by Morton 229 00:14:22,759 --> 00:14:26,120 Fine and David Friedkin, with Larry Thora as Detective Danny Clover. 230 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,279 The Peggy Lee Show bowed in over most of these 231 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,279 same CBS stations last Sunday night. Folks who heard it 232 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:35,320 will be back tomorrow for more of Peggy's charm, Peggy's vocals, 233 00:14:35,399 --> 00:14:39,159 Peggy's previews of coming popular musical events. Enjoy The Peggy 234 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,600 Lee Show for lighthearted summer listening at the stars address. 235 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 2: The night music of summer spills in the Broadway from 236 00:14:54,519 --> 00:14:57,559 the scarred throats of the loudspeakers hanging over the record shops, 237 00:14:58,039 --> 00:15:00,720 and this summer's kids in the office sho older cottons 238 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,960 and the transparent California sports shirts squeeze each other into 239 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,320 the doorways and lap it up. And then someone shrills 240 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,679 a new diversion in a new shop window on a 241 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,799 new corner, and Broadway's youth rebops on down to it. 242 00:15:13,799 --> 00:15:16,960 It's an old ceremony on Broadway that's dancing in the streets, 243 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,879 in the sweating barker with a fistful of passes to 244 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:24,399 happy upstairs lands, just the pricely amusement tax kid, that's 245 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,240 all too. A girl in the swimsuit, lying on the 246 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:31,240 billboard beach, never aging but old, and the touch of 247 00:15:31,279 --> 00:15:35,080 summer's night on your eyelids. That's familiar too. It's all 248 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:43,440 happened to you before, and where I was, where muggivn was. 249 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,399 It had happened before too, to a fourteen year old 250 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:50,039 girl named Ruth, to missus Beeters Murray. And now to 251 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,639 the woman lying dead in an alley, not feeling the 252 00:15:52,679 --> 00:15:54,879 touch of the man who had first timidly and then 253 00:15:55,279 --> 00:15:57,399 with effort, twisted the purse out of her hand. 254 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,399 Speaker 7: She was holding on it with so tight Danny, open 255 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:11,240 it so tight. Yeah, killed the same way as the 256 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:12,360 other two, wouldn't you say. 257 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:13,679 Speaker 2: Danny, Uh huh. 258 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:16,639 Speaker 7: Maybe a fair city is being honored with a mad killer, 259 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,080 maybe sick man with a grudge against the women, even 260 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:22,360 if they're a kid, much like it. 261 00:16:22,919 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 2: How long does it take to go through the purse? 262 00:16:24,519 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 7: Mogavin just sorting the unnecessary stuff, Danny tissues compact change purse, 263 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:34,840 Bobby pins just sell slip for let's see I hold 264 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:40,360 of flashy minute, Danny, Yeah, I for China were tortoise 265 00:16:40,399 --> 00:16:41,799 shelled cone with silver edgy. 266 00:16:41,919 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 2: That's all. No identification. 267 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 7: Well I haven't tried this inside flap yet, Denny. Yeah, 268 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,759 here it is a new social Security card made out 269 00:16:50,799 --> 00:16:57,039 to hold it again. Alma Russell forty two, twelve sixth Avenue. 270 00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:58,480 That's around eighth Street, Danny. 271 00:16:58,679 --> 00:17:00,679 Speaker 2: Maybe she was on her way home, took the sally 272 00:17:00,759 --> 00:17:03,279 and cuts through the sixth killer knew she took it, 273 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,319 sometimes waited for here, slucked her, made sure she was 274 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:10,079 Dad got a confession, Danny. It puzzles me. You alone 275 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:10,559 in the world. 276 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 7: Three of them dead, that girl, that woman with her husband, 277 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:16,599 and the sister plays the order. 278 00:17:18,079 --> 00:17:21,039 Speaker 2: No, this one. I could understand it if, if what. 279 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:23,480 There wasn't a mark on. 280 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,279 Speaker 7: Him, Danny, other than the beating from the gun, but 281 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:25,920 not a mark. 282 00:17:26,839 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 2: When this girl's young, about twenty five, I'd say. 283 00:17:30,039 --> 00:17:34,880 Speaker 7: Pretty, neat, clean and bet she was attractive. 284 00:17:35,559 --> 00:17:36,599 Speaker 2: Sweet. What do you build them? 285 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:36,960 Speaker 10: Um? 286 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:38,599 Speaker 2: We've had him before, Danny. 287 00:17:38,599 --> 00:17:41,039 Speaker 7: The guys who waiting all he's go to moving picture houses, 288 00:17:41,079 --> 00:17:44,480 talk to little girls in the vacant lot. This kind 289 00:17:44,519 --> 00:17:47,319 we've had before, and in a way I could understand it. 290 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:49,799 Speaker 2: But the killer who you said he was sick. Doctor 291 00:17:49,839 --> 00:17:52,880 Sinsky called him a paranoid. Whatever they call him, it 292 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:53,799 scares me. Sick. 293 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,039 Speaker 7: I got her niece lives three blocks from me with 294 00:17:58,119 --> 00:17:58,599 my brother. 295 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,799 Speaker 2: She's funny. You're trying to talk about her like the 296 00:18:03,839 --> 00:18:07,480 girl's father did, and go call him. 297 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:10,519 Speaker 5: I thought that it could happen. 298 00:18:10,519 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 2: To call him. I'll wait for you. And in a 299 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,359 little while the young woman who had hugged death in 300 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,119 an alley was attended to by gentle people, which is 301 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,319 the miracle of violent death in a great city. The 302 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:31,799 in turn, the stranger in the white jacket knelt beside 303 00:18:31,799 --> 00:18:33,759 her and shook his head and thought a thought that 304 00:18:33,839 --> 00:18:37,279 included both of them. And an ambulance driver looked at 305 00:18:37,319 --> 00:18:39,359 her and hit his lip when he put her on 306 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:46,079 the stretcher. Then the alley was no longer remarkable. It 307 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:51,000 resolved back under itself, play of refuse, mewings, and the 308 00:18:51,079 --> 00:18:54,440 short cut home. It was the end of something or 309 00:18:54,440 --> 00:19:04,519 another for me. It was the end of the day. Home. 310 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:08,079 Now in bed, adjust the mind not to dream. This 311 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:11,599 can be done by a policeman assigned a homicide. Sleep 312 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,039 the night through and wake and have the coffee, and 313 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,240 read the paper and get to work. Going out of 314 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,480 the address on tenth Street because a girl named Alma 315 00:19:19,519 --> 00:19:23,319 Russell once lived there. Ring the bell, just your mind 316 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:25,440 again to the fact that you're going to talk about 317 00:19:25,480 --> 00:19:27,359 the murder of a young woman at eight thirty in 318 00:19:27,359 --> 00:19:27,759 the morning. 319 00:19:28,839 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 11: You from the police? 320 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:31,240 Speaker 2: Yes, I am, I'll come in. 321 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,799 Speaker 11: Here your kitchen, sit down. 322 00:19:36,279 --> 00:19:39,319 Speaker 2: Thanks. What's your name, Danny Clover? 323 00:19:39,599 --> 00:19:43,839 Speaker 11: Mine's Purdon ethel Predon. I'm mine host to the borders. 324 00:19:44,079 --> 00:19:47,039 Had your coffee yt Danny? Uh huh me too? You 325 00:19:47,079 --> 00:19:49,079 won't mind if I try making up his face of mine? 326 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:49,319 Speaker 10: Do you? 327 00:19:49,799 --> 00:19:52,240 Speaker 11: I say making up because that's the phrase that choosed. 328 00:19:52,319 --> 00:19:55,799 Speaker 2: How is it that you are expecting the police, Missus Purdon, Well, I. 329 00:19:55,759 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 11: Read the morning papers, don't I. Alma got killed? Didn't she? 330 00:19:59,160 --> 00:19:59,680 She lived here? 331 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:00,079 Speaker 2: Didn't she? 332 00:20:00,079 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 6: She? So? 333 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:02,960 Speaker 3: Who should I expect? 334 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 11: Humphrey bullgot eh? How does the lipstick look, Danny kissable 335 00:20:08,559 --> 00:20:10,839 or otherwise? H otherwise? 336 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,039 Speaker 2: H Look, missus Burdana, I want you to tell me 337 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:15,279 everything you can about Alma Russell? Sure? 338 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:19,119 Speaker 11: Sure? Can you reach that mess garat Danny yeah, right 339 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:24,799 there in the shelf sea. Thanks about Alma? A maid 340 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,440 clean sweeps, does a buck an hour? 341 00:20:28,519 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 2: Who'd she worked for? 342 00:20:30,319 --> 00:20:33,319 Speaker 11: She never said quit a job a couple of weeks ago. 343 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:36,799 I think she got another one just the other day. Well, 344 00:20:36,839 --> 00:20:38,480 I guess that's the best I can do with my 345 00:20:38,559 --> 00:20:42,519 facial equipment. Mirah, Mirah on the wall? 346 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:44,559 Speaker 10: Eh? 347 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 2: What else about her? 348 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,799 Speaker 11: I don't know what else? She paid board, kept to 349 00:20:48,839 --> 00:20:51,799 herself with no trouble, didn't talk except to how do 350 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,720 you do? And a very well thank you? Nice table 351 00:20:54,759 --> 00:20:59,160 manners broke her bread and never left much crumbs. Nice girl? 352 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:00,799 Speaker 2: What about boyfriends? 353 00:21:01,559 --> 00:21:05,039 Speaker 11: None here in my establishment, old ladies? What happens in 354 00:21:05,079 --> 00:21:08,039 the street? I wouldn't know. Help me with my coat? 355 00:21:08,079 --> 00:21:08,240 Speaker 2: Will you? 356 00:21:08,279 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 6: Then? 357 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:09,400 Speaker 2: Are you going someplace? 358 00:21:09,799 --> 00:21:09,880 Speaker 10: We? 359 00:21:10,039 --> 00:21:10,279 Speaker 2: Sure? 360 00:21:10,319 --> 00:21:10,640 Speaker 11: I am. 361 00:21:10,799 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 2: I want to look at Alma's room. 362 00:21:12,319 --> 00:21:15,079 Speaker 11: First land and door on your right. You want to 363 00:21:15,079 --> 00:21:16,359 talk to me soon again, Danny. 364 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:18,759 Speaker 2: Maybe after I look at Alma's room. 365 00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:23,519 Speaker 11: I'll be easy to find your place, your morgue. I'm 366 00:21:23,519 --> 00:21:26,960 going down and cry for Alma Russell. Somebody's got to 367 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:27,440 cry for her. 368 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,920 Speaker 2: Watch her leave for a session of weeping through messcarot 369 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,480 eye lashes. The pastime the protest against her being bitter 370 00:21:37,519 --> 00:21:41,319 and lonely and unwanted. And enter the dead woman's room, 371 00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,559 search it not its primness, handle the modest belongings of 372 00:21:44,559 --> 00:21:47,359 a girl who would wash, dusted, arrange the belongings of 373 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,720 other women in other richer rooms. The pile of old 374 00:21:50,759 --> 00:21:54,759 magazines carefully saved on the closet shelf and on the bedstand, 375 00:21:54,799 --> 00:21:58,319 the new ones, the fan magazines. The romance is truer 376 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:00,759 than her own because they were printed on slick paper. 377 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,079 The dresser lined with a thin layer of inexpensive underclothes, 378 00:22:05,599 --> 00:22:09,480 the wardrobe of the bargain flowered prints, the starched maid's uniform, 379 00:22:09,519 --> 00:22:13,200 the cloth coat, and the moth proofed bag. That was it, 380 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:21,599 the sum of al Ma Russell's life. And then back 381 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,559 to headquarters and the concern of Sergeant Gino to Taglia 382 00:22:24,759 --> 00:22:26,680 for your tiredness, for your. 383 00:22:26,559 --> 00:22:29,880 Speaker 8: Paleness, Danny, not that it is mine to medal, But 384 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,440 while you should exhibit yourself to the sunshine more lull 385 00:22:33,559 --> 00:22:36,559 on far rockaway on your day off, Geno, bring cheeks 386 00:22:36,599 --> 00:22:39,599 of ten to your cheeks, bear your pale feet at 387 00:22:39,599 --> 00:22:40,960 the firemen filled rays. 388 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 2: The pale feet bother you. 389 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,799 Speaker 8: Nothing whatsoever about your personality bothers me, Danny, It's only. 390 00:22:47,599 --> 00:22:50,599 Speaker 2: That you'd feel better if I got sunburned. 391 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,319 Speaker 8: Well, it is the fashion of the season. 392 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,400 Speaker 2: As a rumor, murder is the fashion. 393 00:22:55,599 --> 00:23:00,079 Speaker 8: Yeah, this also three the members of the opposite sex. 394 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 2: Would be so simple, if only somewhere I could find 395 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:05,680 where their lives have been touched by one man, by 396 00:23:05,799 --> 00:23:06,480 one killer. 397 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:11,319 Speaker 8: Danny, don't whip yourself. I put the boys working on it, 398 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,359 like yes, they can't find it either. All they come 399 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,279 up with is a reading on a sales slip. Huh, 400 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:19,559 the sales slip you found in the purse of the 401 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,880 deceased Alma Russell. It seems the girl bought a teapot 402 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,559 from a place called ivers Pake two hundred dollars for it. 403 00:23:25,759 --> 00:23:29,000 And this makes a mishmash upsets your colleagues in the department. 404 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 2: Two hundred for a teapot bought by a girl who 405 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,319 makes a buck an hour. Doesn't it upset you? 406 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:53,680 Speaker 12: Something we can do for you? 407 00:23:53,759 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 10: Say? 408 00:23:54,079 --> 00:23:56,680 Speaker 2: Yes, there is, I'm from the police. Good. 409 00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,119 Speaker 12: Are we interested in some china ware today? 410 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 2: Yes? We are. I want you to take a look 411 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:06,000 at this. This is a sales slip. What is it? It's 412 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,519 for a teapot, one that costs two hundred dollars. 413 00:24:08,799 --> 00:24:12,079 Speaker 12: I don't understand why we're lifting our eyebrowser Of course 414 00:24:12,079 --> 00:24:14,799 it did. A Stratfordshire teapot on the current market is 415 00:24:14,839 --> 00:24:15,559 worth at least there. 416 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 2: The sales slip was found on a young lady. Young 417 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,359 lady that's been murdered. I see the young lady happened 418 00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,880 to have purchased this teapot here. I see her name 419 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,839 was Alma Russell. I see, how does a dollar an 420 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,599 hour mate by a two hundred dollar piece of china. 421 00:24:29,519 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 12: By paying two hundred dollars for it? Miss Russell paid 422 00:24:33,279 --> 00:24:34,079 exactly that much? 423 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:35,400 Speaker 2: Then you remember, miss Russell. 424 00:24:35,519 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 12: Oh, indeed, yes, we sold it to ourselves about three 425 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,240 weeks ago. I remember the transaction. Will she'd called the 426 00:24:42,319 --> 00:24:44,640 day before to price the teapot. The next day she 427 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,759 came in with the money about midday on a. 428 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 2: Thursday, unless it was a day off. She was in uniform. 429 00:24:50,519 --> 00:24:53,599 Didn't it seem strange that a house trader it did? 430 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,759 Speaker 12: I might as well tell you, tell me what the 431 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,079 sales slip says, two hundred dollars. She didn't pay that 432 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,759 for it. She paid one hundred and ninety for it, 433 00:25:03,839 --> 00:25:06,880 a tacks included. We paid the difference that of our 434 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,839 own pocket. In the trade, we are known as a 435 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:13,200 sucker for hard luck. Stories about teapots and miss Russell 436 00:25:13,279 --> 00:25:13,599 had one. 437 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,480 Speaker 2: You want to tell me about it now or later? 438 00:25:15,559 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 12: Miss Russell was dusting the china at the home of 439 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,519 her employer, broke a Stratfordshire teapot, hid the debris, bought 440 00:25:21,559 --> 00:25:24,799 another one before the accident was discovered as a replacement. 441 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,400 Speaker 2: Just one more thing. Did she say who this employer was? 442 00:25:28,839 --> 00:25:29,240 She did not. 443 00:25:29,759 --> 00:25:32,680 Speaker 12: However, However, there are some regular clients of ours who 444 00:25:33,279 --> 00:25:37,519 eat off the stuff, like who the Llewellyns, for example, 445 00:25:37,599 --> 00:25:41,440 the Crandalls, the second and third, the Murray's. 446 00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 2: The West which Murray's on West eleventh? The Paul Murrays. 447 00:25:45,839 --> 00:25:48,599 Are we being helpful? We'll never know how much? 448 00:26:00,079 --> 00:26:14,359 Speaker 9: Yeah, oh oh you mister Clover please come in. 449 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,079 Speaker 2: Thanks, mister Murray. 450 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,839 Speaker 9: You want to talk to me, don't you? This way 451 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:20,559 down the hall? 452 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:22,319 Speaker 2: Oh Claudia, that. 453 00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:25,480 Speaker 9: Is sissus practicing. We don't want to disturb. 454 00:26:25,839 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 2: Through this door. You hear the library? Now do you 455 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,240 know the man who killed my wife? We know the 456 00:26:35,319 --> 00:26:38,839 kind of man who killed your wife? Yes, a paranoid. 457 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,359 Paranoid a person who's quick to find a reason to kill, 458 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,039 and he doesn't need much of the reason. 459 00:26:44,519 --> 00:26:47,599 Speaker 9: Just cross crazy man. You could say that, but they 460 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,559 tell me a lot of crazies are clever. But why 461 00:26:50,960 --> 00:26:52,480 come to tell me about it. You should be out 462 00:26:52,519 --> 00:26:54,279 looking for the man. I just thought i'd stop by 463 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:58,599 and let you know how we were progressing. I'm busy, 464 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:02,880 Oh my hobby model trains. I was assembling this engine. 465 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:03,839 Speaker 5: It's a diesel. 466 00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,920 Speaker 2: Careful work must take a lot of patience. 467 00:27:08,319 --> 00:27:11,279 Speaker 9: Please put it down, it's fragile. I don't allow anyone 468 00:27:11,279 --> 00:27:11,640 to touch it. 469 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,039 Speaker 2: All right, I said, I stopped by to let you 470 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,519 know how we were progressing. 471 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,519 Speaker 9: Come back when you can tell me the killer's name. 472 00:27:19,279 --> 00:27:21,440 And from what I've been reading, you'd better hurry up. 473 00:27:21,599 --> 00:27:25,559 Three killings indiscriminately by the same man, by. 474 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 2: The same man. The way we figured, mister Murray, is 475 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,240 that the killer was really only interested in killing one person. 476 00:27:31,839 --> 00:27:33,680 He killed the other two to make it look like 477 00:27:33,759 --> 00:27:35,920 what you said, indiscriminate killings. 478 00:27:36,839 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 9: I er, I don't understand. 479 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,839 Speaker 2: To make it look like murder without a motive, without plan. 480 00:27:41,839 --> 00:27:42,759 But there was motive. 481 00:27:43,519 --> 00:27:46,759 Speaker 9: What motive for killing a fourteen year old girl. None 482 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,480 part of the plan, and that housemaid none. But that 483 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,359 was the killer's mistake. If he'd killed some one else, 484 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:55,720 I wouldn't be here now. 485 00:27:57,759 --> 00:27:59,680 Speaker 2: You you don't. 486 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 9: Know what you're talking about. 487 00:28:00,799 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 2: Aren't you going to ask me why anyone should kill 488 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:03,799 your wife? 489 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,839 Speaker 3: There was no motive like the other killer had one. 490 00:28:08,319 --> 00:28:10,559 Speaker 2: You had a wife, a wife, didn't want the burden 491 00:28:10,599 --> 00:28:14,559 of an afflicted sister in law. That's only a guess. 492 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,880 Did your wife ever complain about your sister? 493 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:19,359 Speaker 5: Get out of here. 494 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,799 Speaker 2: You said your wife was a warm and open hearted woman. 495 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:23,279 She wanted children, didn't she? 496 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:26,839 Speaker 9: Your presumptuous, your crude, Get out of here. 497 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,440 Speaker 2: You already had a child in your house sis, your sister. 498 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:31,880 You never let her be anything but a child. 499 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,599 Speaker 9: I don't have to take these insults and put that down. 500 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,920 Speaker 12: Put that train down, crazy crazy, You broke it deliberately. 501 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:42,359 Speaker 3: All I'd work on you. 502 00:28:44,279 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 2: I'll kill you. I'll kill you a broken toy train. 503 00:28:48,079 --> 00:28:51,359 How you're going to convince me you're copp an insanity glee? 504 00:28:53,319 --> 00:28:57,519 You're going to try harder than that, that's right, settle down, 505 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,759 I try cut it out. Murdy, You're no more crazy 506 00:29:01,759 --> 00:29:08,960 than I am. Paranoid would have had reason to kill 507 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,720 that maid at fourteen year old girl, you kill to 508 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:17,240 cover up your wife's murder. She'll find out what happened. 509 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:42,319 We'll let her know. Oh, Broadway leaps against the night. 510 00:29:43,119 --> 00:29:45,359 The sound it makes is the crash of life deep 511 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,000 inside the earth, and the hiss of neon, the laugh 512 00:29:48,079 --> 00:29:52,559 that screams. They melt together, the sounds. You get his shock. 513 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:57,480 There's another sound, the tear broke. But no one listens, 514 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:04,160 No one hears. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, 515 00:30:05,519 --> 00:30:11,200 the lonesomest, myelin the world, Broadway My Beat. 516 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:29,440 Speaker 3: Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thoras Detective Danny Clover, with 517 00:30:29,599 --> 00:30:33,480 Charles Calvernes Tataglia and Jack Krushian as Muggavin. The programmers 518 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,559 produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with musical score composed 519 00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:40,039 and conducted by Alexander Courage. In Tonight's story, Joseph Kerns 520 00:30:40,119 --> 00:30:42,160 was heard as Paul Murray. Featured in the cast were 521 00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:48,200 Charles Davis, Martha Wentworth, and Harry Bartel. Two styles of music, 522 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,920 both tops and Popularity, are heard every Sunday over most 523 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:54,960 of these same CBS stations Guy Lombardo's Sweetest Music this 524 00:30:55,039 --> 00:30:57,519 side of Him and is One the others the singing 525 00:30:57,559 --> 00:31:01,119 style of Mario Lanzer, New Vocals and Station of the Airways, 526 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,759 Enjoy God Embardo and is Weel Canadians, and the Mario 527 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,160 Lanza Show Tomorrow Night. Stay tuned now for us sing 528 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,680 It Again, which follows immediately over most of these same 529 00:31:10,799 --> 00:31:15,119 CBS stations. Bill Anders speaking, This is CBS where you 530 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:18,079 meet Adventure with Johnny Wild on Sundays on the Columbia 531 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:40,880 Broadcasting System. 532 00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:37,839 Speaker 1: Welcome back. I think that Broadways My Beat is a 533 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,759 series that did become better as it went on. There 534 00:31:42,839 --> 00:31:48,359 are subtle ways in which the series has changed. There's, 535 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:53,160 of course, the rhythm to most episodes of Muga Van 536 00:31:53,519 --> 00:31:58,160 being the one to guide Danny through the crime scene 537 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,400 to some extent, which it does a lot to make 538 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:06,279 the series feel more like a police show rather than 539 00:32:06,559 --> 00:32:10,680 a PI show. As the series often did it it 540 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,119 didn't quite feel like a police show. I think it 541 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:17,839 does now, and there have also been some subtle refinements 542 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:24,559 in Danny Clover's characterization. He's less likely to do something 543 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,000 totally off the rails like beat up a suspect now 544 00:32:29,079 --> 00:32:34,200 of course, he still has very strong feelings about these 545 00:32:34,359 --> 00:32:39,039 cases and can be very affected by his work, which 546 00:32:39,079 --> 00:32:43,799 I think makes him interesting although perhaps a bit unusual. 547 00:32:44,279 --> 00:32:47,519 But there is this sense in which he is not 548 00:32:48,119 --> 00:32:52,480 giving full vent to his rage. In some of the 549 00:32:52,519 --> 00:32:58,839 earlier episodes there would be some punching up some suspects 550 00:32:59,039 --> 00:33:02,160 and some react since that would be really, really over 551 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,920 the top. I think Danny Clover is still the same 552 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:11,680 character at his core as when Fine and Freakin first 553 00:33:11,839 --> 00:33:15,440 wrote him, but there is a sense in which he 554 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,799 feels a bit more grounded, a bit like he inhabits 555 00:33:19,839 --> 00:33:23,640 the same sort of world that Peopull actually lived in. 556 00:33:23,759 --> 00:33:27,160 Now that's not to say there aren't some trophy things 557 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,599 about broadways, my beat, and some odd things, one of 558 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:35,039 which we'll kind of get into after the episode. But 559 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,839 there is a sense where I think the drama is 560 00:33:38,039 --> 00:33:43,960 better because it's slightly more believable and realistic. And I 561 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:49,160 thought that this was a particularly powerful story. Harry Bartell 562 00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:54,960 as the father in this case, gave such a great performance, 563 00:33:55,079 --> 00:33:59,039 first that sense of denial, just then giving way to 564 00:33:59,039 --> 00:34:03,799 total rage as he realized that this actually happened. 565 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:04,240 Speaker 2: All right. 566 00:34:04,319 --> 00:34:04,519 Speaker 6: Well. 567 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:08,800 Speaker 1: Listener comments and feedback now and we're gonna go over 568 00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:13,440 to Spotify, where Mechanics sixty six comments. I did not 569 00:34:13,599 --> 00:34:16,960 recognize Peggy Weber because I've mainly heard her play much 570 00:34:17,039 --> 00:34:21,760 older women like Joe Friday's mother, a landlady, etc. Why 571 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,159 didn't Nanny take Mugavin with him to arrest a killer? 572 00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:27,599 I get why she took the picture of the murder, 573 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:31,360 but this should have only been used as a last resort. 574 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,800 If the brother had no alibi and was about to 575 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,320 be convicted, then she could have said she when she 576 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,199 got home, she had her film developed and saw the murder. 577 00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:43,360 But all that being said, he already had the butler 578 00:34:43,559 --> 00:34:45,960 as an alibi. And that, of course is regarding the 579 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:51,599 earl loss and murder case. And I think that's a 580 00:34:51,639 --> 00:34:57,559 fair point regarding the question of why he didn't bring Muggavin. 581 00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:01,679 That is one of the really odd tropes of this 582 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:07,079 series is Danny choosing to confront the killer alone. I mean, 583 00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:11,480 why doesn't he ever bring Mugavin. Ninety plus percent of 584 00:35:11,519 --> 00:35:15,119 the time he chooses to confront the killer on his 585 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:19,400 own for reasons, And as much as I just talked 586 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:23,079 about how Danny is a bit more grounded, that is 587 00:35:23,199 --> 00:35:25,960 one of the sillier parts of the program, but it 588 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:30,960 doesn't interfere with the emotional realism of the program too much, 589 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,760 I think, because it's just part of that suspension of 590 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:39,199 disbelay you have to accept. Then we have a listener 591 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,800 on YouTube who just posted a very nice thank you 592 00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,400 Adam on the Francesca Brown murder case. And then we 593 00:35:46,519 --> 00:35:50,119 turn to our listener survey, where Larry writes love old 594 00:35:50,199 --> 00:35:53,519 radio shows, keep them alive for generations to come. Well, 595 00:35:53,559 --> 00:35:55,760 thank you so much, Larry, and I appreciate you filling 596 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:59,119 out our listener survey. Well, now it's time to thank 597 00:35:59,199 --> 00:36:02,000 our patreons porters of the day. Want to thank Jim 598 00:36:02,079 --> 00:36:07,079 and Rachel, who are joint Patreon supporter since March twenty sixteen, 599 00:36:07,159 --> 00:36:10,480 currently supporting the podcast at the Shawness level of four 600 00:36:10,559 --> 00:36:13,880 dollars more per month. Thank you so much for your support, 601 00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,000 and I will do it for today. If you're enjoying 602 00:36:17,039 --> 00:36:21,519 the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. 603 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,000 And if you're enjoying the podcast on YouTube, be sure 604 00:36:25,039 --> 00:36:28,199 to lock the video, subscribe to the channel, and mark 605 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:32,239 the notification bell. All those great things that help YouTube 606 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:36,159 channels to grow. We'll be back next Wednesday with another 607 00:36:36,199 --> 00:36:39,519 episode of Broadways My Beat, but join us back here 608 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,360 tomorrow for dragon Netwear. 609 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,360 Speaker 10: That's right, I ran one. 610 00:36:44,199 --> 00:36:46,639 Speaker 6: Of those three day one ads over the weekend Friday, 611 00:36:46,639 --> 00:36:48,920 Saturday and Sunday. I thought I'd get more from my 612 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,079 car if I told it myself. I mean, instead of 613 00:36:51,119 --> 00:36:52,719 selling it to a used car lots. 614 00:36:53,199 --> 00:36:55,400 Speaker 10: How many answers did you get on your one? Ed? Well, 615 00:36:55,519 --> 00:36:56,760 just the one way it turned out. 616 00:36:57,119 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 6: This man came out and looked at my car first 617 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,199 thing in the morning to pay me exactly what I 618 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:02,079 was asking for it. 619 00:37:02,119 --> 00:37:03,840 Speaker 10: So I sold it to him. That's just the way 620 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,039 it went. Who was this man, Missus Palmer? Was he 621 00:37:06,119 --> 00:37:07,519 representing some auto company? 622 00:37:07,639 --> 00:37:09,480 Speaker 6: Yes, he said he was. Anyway, he gave his name 623 00:37:09,519 --> 00:37:12,800 to Joseph Newhall. I've got his card inside. Said he 624 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,960 was a buyer for Dan Barton's juice car lot on 625 00:37:15,039 --> 00:37:15,920 South cap Street. 626 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,559 Speaker 10: Nicely dressed man. He made it all seem so honest. 627 00:37:18,639 --> 00:37:19,760 How was the deal arranged? 628 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:20,360 Speaker 2: Could you tell us? 629 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,800 Speaker 10: I mean transfer the car payment and so for well, he. 630 00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:24,519 Speaker 6: Gave me a check for fifty dollars sort of a 631 00:37:24,559 --> 00:37:26,679 down payment to hold the car for him. Was a 632 00:37:26,679 --> 00:37:27,760 certified company check. 633 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,360 Speaker 10: I see. He told me i'd be back that afternoon with. 634 00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:32,280 Speaker 6: A certified check for the full amount of the car 635 00:37:32,559 --> 00:37:33,400 eight hundred dollars. 636 00:37:33,639 --> 00:37:36,000 Speaker 10: Did he take your car with him then, No, he didn't. 637 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,480 Speaker 6: That's why I had no reason to be suspicious. He 638 00:37:38,559 --> 00:37:40,400 left me the check for fifty dollars and said he'd 639 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,639 be back later with the rest of the money. Said, 640 00:37:42,639 --> 00:37:44,599 in the meantime one of the employees from the used 641 00:37:44,639 --> 00:37:46,400 car lot might be along to pick up the car 642 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,880 to save me the trouble of driving it downtown myself. 643 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,519 Speaker 10: Mm hmm, same mo joe all the way. Yeah, it 644 00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:53,400 looks like that. Well, how did it go after that? 645 00:37:53,519 --> 00:37:54,079 Miss Palmer? 646 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,360 Speaker 6: This worker from the used car lot came to the 647 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,679 house to pick up the car about one o'clock that afternoon, 648 00:37:59,199 --> 00:38:00,920 gave me a check with fum out of the car, 649 00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,480 and I gave him the pink slip had a pair 650 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,480 of white coveralls on lettering on the back of them 651 00:38:06,679 --> 00:38:10,280 Dan Barton juice cars. Looked like a typical mechanic or something. 652 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:11,920 I wasn't the least a bit suspicious. 653 00:38:12,599 --> 00:38:14,719 Speaker 2: How about the buyer, this Joseph Newhall. 654 00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:16,199 Speaker 10: Did he show up later in the day. 655 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,639 Speaker 6: No, he never came back. I've never seen him since. 656 00:38:19,039 --> 00:38:21,840 Haven't seen my car either. I call that Dan Barton 657 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:23,800 Juice car Lots. The next morning, they told me they 658 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,960 never heard of Joseph Newhall. Just made me a stick officer. 659 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,199 I can't afford to lose the money I had. 660 00:38:29,079 --> 00:38:29,559 Speaker 10: In that car. 661 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,280 Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am, we understand the same thing's happened to a 662 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:34,119 dozen people like you around the city. 663 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,679 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 664 00:38:37,079 --> 00:38:41,800 send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 665 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,840 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 666 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:51,199 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from 667 00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,679 boise Alohol. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.