WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.120 --> 00:00:06.559 Tired of the everyday routine. Ever dream of a life 2 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:11.480 of romantic adventure, want to get away from it? 3 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:20.079 We offer you Escape Escape Transcribe to free you from 4 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:22.559 the four walls of today for a half hour of 5 00:00:22.719 --> 00:00:23.679 high adventure. 6 00:00:25.719 --> 00:00:28.359 You were searching frantically through the dark, empty rooms of 7 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:32.039 an apartment, panic, gripping your heart, terror at your heels 8 00:00:32.600 --> 00:00:34.799 for the girl you loved, who was with you a 9 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:39.679 moment before, has disappeared, vanished as if into thin air. 10 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.359 Today we escape from reality with the gripping tale of 11 00:00:50.399 --> 00:00:52.960 a girl who vanished and the man who had to 12 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:56.200 find her to save his life. As Cornell Woolwich told 13 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:59.000 it in his great story Finger of. 14 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:12.599 Doom, nothing unusual ever happens to you, huh in your 15 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:16.719 comfortable American city? Nothing ever could could it? Let me 16 00:01:16.760 --> 00:01:20.840 tell you something, right on the common, everyday streets of 17 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:25.040 a big city, I had the strangest, most fantastic adventure 18 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:28.079 anyone could dream of it, and I've had my fill 19 00:01:28.079 --> 00:01:36.319 of adventure for the rest of my life. This happened 20 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:38.879 several years ago before the war, on an ordinary or 21 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:42.640 evening in early spring, well not so ordinary, because I 22 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:44.280 had a couple of free tickets to a good show, 23 00:01:44.319 --> 00:01:46.400 and I was picking Stephie up at her office for dinner. 24 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:48.439 See we were going to be married in less than 25 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:51.359 two weeks, so naturally I was impatient as I waited 26 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:53.200 there on the sidewalk in front of her office building. 27 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:55.719 And of course she was late, last one to leave, 28 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.439 as usual. It felt like a picket, pacing up and 29 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:00.640 down in front of the door, but only there she 30 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:04.359 was spun, gold piled on her head, blue eyes shining, 31 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:05.159 and carry. 32 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:05.599 Hi, darling? 33 00:02:05.719 --> 00:02:06.120 What's that? 34 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:07.959 Have I kept you waiting long? I try to hurry 35 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:11.400 all I could with this. Just a package, I promised 36 00:02:11.439 --> 00:02:13.080 his nibs. I deliver it on the way home. 37 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:15.879 You're not going home, we're reading out and going to 38 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:16.280 a show. 39 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:18.719 But it's right on the way. I have to leave 40 00:02:18.719 --> 00:02:20.680 it at a flat in Martin Street. It won't take 41 00:02:20.719 --> 00:02:21.120 a minute. 42 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:23.360 Why can't he get somebody else to run his errands 43 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:25.479 for him? We're late now, this will cut our eating time. 44 00:02:26.879 --> 00:02:30.240 Oh so this is what the thirteenth does to you. 45 00:02:30.439 --> 00:02:32.319 Thirteenth You mean you've forgotten? 46 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:35.080 You mean you aren't counting the days? 47 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:37.439 Oh sure, thirteen days. 48 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.240 Left, thirteen and a half. Don't forget that half of 49 00:02:40.280 --> 00:02:42.639 it's to be a noon waddy. I don't like the 50 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:45.919 thirteen all by itself. I'll be glad when it's tomorrow 51 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:47.000 when only twelve left. 52 00:02:47.240 --> 00:02:51.240 You know something, You're cute. The more I know you, 53 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:52.159 you're the cute of you get. 54 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:54.400 I bet you won't say that a year from now. 55 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:59.680 I bet you'll be calling me your old lady. Then mind, well, 56 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:03.080 not ride at first? Maybe? 57 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:05.840 Okay, come on, let's make like delivery boys. Or what's 58 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:07.240 the address, mister Miller. 59 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.879 Four fifteen Martin Street, apartment for it. 60 00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:22.360 We're on our way. Sure's a frowsy neighborhood. 61 00:03:22.520 --> 00:03:27.360 Everybody can't be rich, you knowough for eleven four thirteen? 62 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:28.280 Oh there it is. 63 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:33.000 Yeah, some clients your boss must have. I'll be glad 64 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:35.280 when you aren't working for him anymore. Oh would you 65 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:35.919 give him your notice? 66 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:39.599 Yesterday? He gave me the funniest look good thing. He 67 00:03:39.639 --> 00:03:41.080 doesn't know you. He'd eat you alive. 68 00:03:41.199 --> 00:03:43.039 I wait, huh here it is? 69 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:47.199 Oh? I was sailing right by. See how you affect me? 70 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:51.039 Okay, give it to the hall man of the janitor 71 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:51.919 somebody and let's get going. 72 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:53.639 Oh no, I've got to take it up personally and 73 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:56.960 get a receipt. Besides, there doesn't seem to be anybody here. 74 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:01.039 It's one of those push button doors. What did I say? 75 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:03.840 The name was again Muller or something, wasn't it? What 76 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:04.960 would I do without you? 77 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:10.719 For a four B fourteen? Oh? Here it is four 78 00:04:10.919 --> 00:04:13.919 F No wonder I couldn't find it. The name card's 79 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:17.199 fallen out. Oh this must be the button. You wait 80 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:18.519 down here for me. I won't be a minute. 81 00:04:18.759 --> 00:04:19.759 A minute's too long. 82 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:23.439 Well this will hold you until I get back. 83 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:28.480 M Oh, the. 84 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:30.920 Door only a minute now. 85 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:39.319 Bye bye. For a minute, I watched it through the glass. 86 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:41.759 She got into the little self service elevator and closed 87 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:44.199 the door. Then all I could see was the gleam 88 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:48.000 from the elevator in use light. Then she was gone. 89 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:56.240 I lit a cigarette and waited. How long does it 90 00:04:56.279 --> 00:05:01.199 take to smoke a cigarette? Five minutes? Ten? Anyway, I 91 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:06.240 finished it. Nothing happened. I stood around, fidgeting, shifting from 92 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:08.399 one foot to the oven, from one shoulder leaning against 93 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:11.040 the wall to the other. Woman came by with the 94 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:13.160 squalling kid, gave me a haughty look. 95 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:13.560 And went on in. 96 00:05:14.959 --> 00:05:16.959 Tried to figure out what could be taking so long. 97 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:19.959 Maybe they didn't have a pencil to sign the receipt. 98 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:23.600 Maybe they had to find one. Let another cigarette. Took 99 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:26.720 a couple of puffs, but now my patience was gone. 100 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:28.519 What is this? 101 00:05:29.399 --> 00:05:31.439 Rattled the door first, and then I pushed the button 102 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:34.240 for apartment for f I still didn't plan to go up. 103 00:05:34.279 --> 00:05:35.560 I just wanted to let her know that I was 104 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:39.279 still alive. But I got no answering buzz I kept 105 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:41.199 ringing it, holding my thumb down till it was white. 106 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:47.000 Still no answer. Suddenly I wasn't angry anymore. Suddenly I 107 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:51.600 was scared. I did the instinctive thing. I ran out 108 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:53.199 into the street again and looked up the face of 109 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:55.199 the building, searching the windows. But of course there was 110 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:57.759 nothing to see, and that move cost me a chance 111 00:05:57.759 --> 00:05:59.920 to get in. While I was out on the sidewalk, 112 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:02.079 seedy looking character came out of the door, letting it 113 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:04.680 click shut. Before I could get back in, I tried 114 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:07.160 the buzzer again. Couldn't be out of water. They'd answered 115 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:12.000 it when Staffy pushed it. Now nothing dead to the 116 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:15.439 world up there by. Now it was twenty minutes, twenty 117 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:18.120 minutes since she left me. Now I was frightened. I 118 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:19.720 knew I had to get up there. I pushed another 119 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:22.399 button anyone at random. The door was released and I 120 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:31.199 was in for f was at the back of the building. 121 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:34.040 I stood out in the dark hallway and listened. It 122 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:37.240 wasn't a sound. First, this was a relief. At least 123 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:39.360 she wasn't in any difficulty. She'd be screaming. But then 124 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:42.160 when I began to knock and kick the door, practically 125 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:43.839 break it down, and still nobody made a sound, and 126 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:46.120 began to get panicked. Heads poked out of doors all 127 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:49.639 along the hall. Where will I find the janitor down 128 00:06:49.680 --> 00:06:51.839 in the basement, I suppose. I raced down to the basement, 129 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:54.040 found the janitor eating his supper. I barged right in. 130 00:06:54.519 --> 00:06:56.800 You're looking for something, come up with me quick. Will 131 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:58.079 you bring your past care? I want to hope one 132 00:06:58.079 --> 00:06:58.519 of the flats. 133 00:06:58.560 --> 00:06:59.560 What's the matter? What's wrong? 134 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:01.439 I don't like the looks up at My girl took 135 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:03.000 a package up. I've been waiting for it for over 136 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:05.199 twenty minutes and she never came down again. Now they 137 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:07.879 won't answer the bell. Come on, please hurry. 138 00:07:07.759 --> 00:07:09.720 Oh Wi, your apartment? Is it on the fourth floor? 139 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:11.759 Come on, I'll show you what number fore aft. But 140 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:15.519 wait a minute, couldn't before. If not that one, why 141 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:18.920 not because there's nobody living there. But that apartment's been 142 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:20.120 vacant for six months. 143 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:28.519 He took me up and showed me he was right. 144 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:31.959 It was an empty flat. I went through its rooms, 145 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:36.000 calling Stephie's name, but she wasn't there. There was nobody there. 146 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:38.639 Looked like there hadn't been anybody there for months. The 147 00:07:38.759 --> 00:07:40.720 dust was thick on the bare floor, on the sills 148 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:42.720 of the locked windows. She couldn't have come in here, 149 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:44.600 but I saw her ring the bell and go in 150 00:07:44.639 --> 00:07:47.079 the door, in this door, the downstairs door. 151 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:49.600 Oh well, she could have gone to any apartment there. 152 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:51.439 But she was coming here. She rang this bell and 153 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:52.319 somebody answered. 154 00:07:52.360 --> 00:07:55.680 Nobody could have answered. Nobody's been here. She must have 155 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:56.480 rung another bell. 156 00:07:56.720 --> 00:07:58.439 Is there somebody in this apartment named Muller? 157 00:07:58.759 --> 00:08:01.480 No, we never had anybody by that name, not in 158 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:03.040 the whole twelve years have been here. 159 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:04.920 Somebody must have gotten in and was waiting for her. 160 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:07.120 Will you tell me how they could? It was locked. 161 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:09.319 You saw me open it with me past key. Didn't 162 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:09.759 you listen. 163 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:11.639 We're gonna ask all the tenants on this floor. Maybe 164 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:12.199 they heard something. 165 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:15.439 Wait a minute, I don't like to disturb them. Maybe 166 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:17.439 this girl just walked out on you. Maybe it had 167 00:08:17.480 --> 00:08:19.560 a corner. Oh no, there was nothing like that. I 168 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:22.680 know she wouldn't just walk out. Besides, how could she? 169 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:23.839 Is there a back way? 170 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:26.279 Yes, but only through the basement. She would have had 171 00:08:26.279 --> 00:08:28.319 to pass right by me. And you didn't see her. 172 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:30.040 And I was waiting downstairs at the front door and 173 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.600 she didn't come out that way. Then obviously she's still 174 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:33.000 in here. 175 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:38.279 Well maybe or maybe what I are you sure she 176 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:38.960 ever come in? 177 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:40.960 Of course you mean? 178 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:43.000 Am I sure there ever was a girl? Now, don't 179 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.600 get excited, mister. All right, we'll look we alast take 180 00:08:45.639 --> 00:08:57.240 it easy, Take it easy, Okay, you were anythinking? For uf? 181 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:58.360 How could I the places? 182 00:08:58.399 --> 00:08:58.879 And I know? 183 00:08:59.000 --> 00:08:59.840 But didn't you hear something? 184 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:04.000 Yeah, the buzzer was going like crazy, like somebody was 185 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:05.360 leaning on the button downstairs. 186 00:09:05.399 --> 00:09:06.759 But that was Yeah. 187 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:09.080 Then a little later this guy banging on the door. 188 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:10.840 He asked me where to find you have a mine? 189 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:14.600 Thank you? Sorry to have disturbed kid. Well that's all 190 00:09:14.600 --> 00:09:16.960 of them, no trace at all. Maybe now you let 191 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:19.039 me get back to my shupper. There's nothing more we 192 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:21.960 can do. Maybe figure o where she lives at work. 193 00:09:21.879 --> 00:09:26.720 She might find wait here, I'm gonna call the police first. 194 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:28.399 I got a patrolman from the corner. He asked a 195 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:31.039 lot of questions, and then called his station. A few 196 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:33.120 minutes later, a detective was dropped off a fellow by 197 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:35.919 the name of Gilmen. I must admit he was thorough. 198 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:39.039 He checked on every apartment in the building. The only 199 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:41.240 thing he learned was about the false ring which let 200 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:44.559 me in. But there was only one, not two, and 201 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:48.200 that meant that whoever buzz for Stephy was expecting. Gilman 202 00:09:48.360 --> 00:09:51.159 checked apartment for f thoroughly, the windows with their undisturbed 203 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:53.720 layer of dust, the door, the keyhole, everything, And then 204 00:09:53.759 --> 00:09:54.320 he said. 205 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:56.200 There's nothing to show that she or anyone else ever 206 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:56.639 came in here. 207 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:59.279 But look, don't do this to me. You make it 208 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:00.879 sound like she didn't come here with me at all. 209 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:02.240 That's what it does sound like. 210 00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:05.080 But don't you see, Look, I was gonna take her 211 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:07.240 to a show. Here here are the tickets. 212 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:09.240 Don't mean a thing. We're gonna build this from the 213 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:11.720 ground up and see if they've got you. Say. Her 214 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:14.360 name is Stephanie Risker, Address. 215 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:18.679 One twenty Farragut. What she looked like she's blonde, and 216 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:20.399 she came up to about here. 217 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:23.159 I mean, okay, okay, don't let it get you. 218 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:25.840 I'm not scared because she's gone. It's because she's gone 219 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:28.639 in such a fairy tale way. She just disappeared into 220 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:29.080 thin air. 221 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:31.279 All right, let's get about finding her. That you met 222 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:33.320 her at six fifteen outside the Bailly Goodlin building with 223 00:10:33.360 --> 00:10:35.399 the packets to be delivered here who she worked for? 224 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:38.759 A press clipping service called a Green Star. It's one 225 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:42.600 man organization operated by a man named Hessen, one dinky 226 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:44.120 little room on the ground floor of the building. 227 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:44.679 What do they do. 228 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:46.679 I don't know much about it. They have a list 229 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:49.519 of clients and they go through the paper and clip 230 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:51.360 out any story which mentions one of the clients. They 231 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:52.480 get about a nickeola clipping. 232 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:53.720 How is there any money in that? 233 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:54.480 I don't know. 234 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:56.799 Okay, we're going up there. We'll find out. 235 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:05.279 The night watchman let us into the office after Gilman 236 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:07.679 showed him his badge. It was a tiny room with 237 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:10.639 only a desk, a telephone, and another table in a 238 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:14.399 filing cabinet. Except for a lone can of Canadian ace brew. 239 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:16.440 All of them were bear as bones. 240 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:19.080 He says no offices. Is a telephone booth, not a 241 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:27.679 big business. I guess, hm, this is their list of clients. 242 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:30.159 They can't be making very much money. Those prices stuff 243 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:33.559 he got paid every week. There's nobody named Mueller in 244 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:34.039 the file. 245 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:36.720 What do you think? 246 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:38.639 I don't see anything here to indicate to eat And 247 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:40.840 as a secretary, you could ask the night watchman I 248 00:11:40.840 --> 00:11:42.240 already have he's never seen her. 249 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:45.519 Well, but that doesn't mean anything. He works at night 250 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:46.600 and she works in the daytime. 251 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:48.679 Okay, I only said he's never seen her, doesn't know 252 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:49.360 anything about her. 253 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:52.360 Hassan her boss. You can ask him. 254 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:54.480 We're going there next, and I guess you'll have a chance. 255 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:59.200 Wait a minute, here's something. What what kind of gum 256 00:11:59.240 --> 00:11:59.919 does your girl too? 257 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:02.240 She doesn't likes life savers, hates gum. 258 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:05.240 I'll ever sit to this table, choose gum. Let's have it. 259 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:08.759 It's all over the bottom, tuty fruity. 260 00:12:08.879 --> 00:12:13.000 Oh, that doesn't mean anything. Maybe somebody came in put 261 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:14.519 it there. Maybe it's all maybe Hessen. 262 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:21.759 Okay, let's go. We'll see what he has to say. 263 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:27.159 Hessen lived in a swanky bungalow type home in the 264 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:30.240 suburbs as Gilman and I left the police car and 265 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:31.799 walked up the drive to the house. I got the 266 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:35.679 strangest feeling of on reality, like this was all a 267 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:40.360 horrible nightmare, couldn't be happening. My knees were sagging. But 268 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:42.240 then Gilman was knocking on the door, and it was 269 00:12:42.279 --> 00:12:45.559 answered by an ugly foreign looking character. Went away and 270 00:12:45.559 --> 00:12:48.799 returned to Usherson to Hessen's presence. I'd seen him a 271 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:50.639 time or two, but he didn't know me, so he 272 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:51.799 gave no sign of recognition. 273 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:57.360 Good evening, gentlemen, mister Hessen, I'm Sergeant Gilman, Police Force. 274 00:12:57.480 --> 00:12:59.519 Oh yes, I'm pleased to know you. I won't take 275 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:02.000 up much of time, but I need a little help. 276 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:04.000 And gladly if it is within my power. 277 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:06.360 Do you ever see this young fellow before? 278 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:07.279 No? 279 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:10.879 What has he done? I'm not sure yet. Do you 280 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:14.000 know anyone named Muller at four fifteen Martin Street. 281 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:17.480 Mueller, No, I don't know anyone by that name. I 282 00:13:17.519 --> 00:13:20.120 think we have a Miller or missus Elsie Miller on 283 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:23.720 our list all the time. Divorces and remarries. Will that doo? 284 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:24.440 She owes us. 285 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:26.919 Twenty nine dollars And you didn't send the package over 286 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:30.519 the Muller apartment four f four fifteen Martin Street at 287 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:31.639 six fifteen this evening. 288 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:33.159 No, why you loll it? 289 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:37.000 You keep quiet and I'm sure I didn't, sergeant. But wait, 290 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:42.039 it's easy enough to confirm it or miss Risker. Yes, Stephanie, 291 00:13:42.080 --> 00:13:43.360 will you please come in a moment? 292 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:45.039 What steady? 293 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:47.440 My assistant happens to be right here at the house 294 00:13:47.480 --> 00:13:49.480 to night. I had some dictation to give her, and 295 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:53.720 she's transcribing it. We usually mail out clippings only when 296 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:56.639 there's some urgent request. Do I send them by personal messenger? 297 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:00.279 Yes, sir. Suddenly the room was spinning in front of 298 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:03.320 my eyes. I was looking at it, trying to see it, 299 00:14:03.399 --> 00:14:07.039 but lights kept streaking across the room like commets, and 300 00:14:07.080 --> 00:14:09.000 their voices came to me through a thick fase. 301 00:14:09.080 --> 00:14:11.960 Tipphany did we send a package to four point fifteen 302 00:14:12.120 --> 00:14:15.679 Martine Street this evening to a mister Murmuller. 303 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:17.679 No, sir, not that I know of. 304 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:21.159 I see and tell me, did you ever see this 305 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:22.840 young man before? Do you know him? 306 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:23.639 Why? 307 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:24.960 No, I don't believe I did. 308 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:25.279 Wait. 309 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:28.200 Wait, this isn't Stephanie. He's calling somebody else by her 310 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:29.519 name this isn't Stephanie. 311 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:32.759 I tell you the idea, sir, this is the only 312 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:34.960 young lady I have working for me. 313 00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:49.720 In just a moment, we will return to Escape. But first, 314 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:52.799 mister and Missus X thought they were pretty smart, smarter 315 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:55.639 than the Narcotics Bureau and the Bureau of Customs combined, 316 00:14:55.919 --> 00:14:59.120 but they overlooked a casual passenger aboard the luxury liner. 317 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:03.039 Fascinating true live tale of crime and smuggling on the 318 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:07.600 high seas Here Gangbusters Tonight, and along with it, CBS's 319 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:10.559 other great Saturday night thrill, a minute show, The Adventures 320 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:14.519 of Philip Marlowe. Both of these programs are regular Saturday 321 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:17.600 night features on most of these same CBS Network stations. 322 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:22.600 Gangbusters recreates famous crimes in their solutions by national, state, 323 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:26.240 and local agencies. The Adventures of Philip Marlowe are based 324 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:29.279 on the character of the famous private Eye, created by 325 00:15:29.440 --> 00:15:35.679 Raymond Chandler, the noted mystery story writer. And now with 326 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:38.840 our stars Harry Bartail is Kenny and with Ed Begley 327 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:41.720 as Gilman. We returned to the second act of Escape 328 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:54.519 and finger of doom. 329 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:59.120 Essen stood there and blandly said it. This strange girl 330 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:03.159 was my fiance was Stephanie Risker. He stood there looking 331 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:06.960 surprised and hurt, and she stared at me with a 332 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.799 just right puzzled expression on her face. Gilman was holding 333 00:16:10.840 --> 00:16:12.360 me with a sort of a half nelson and gritting 334 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:14.000 had stop it, stop it. But I tell you this 335 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:17.240 isn't Stephie. Steffie is blonde. This girl is brunette. Steffie 336 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:19.879 short comes up up to here. This one's tall. I 337 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:20.399 tie it up. 338 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:23.679 You're asking for trouble. I'll calm down, sergeant. I don't believe. 339 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:24.360 I understand. 340 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:28.080 I'm just beginning to myself. Miss. How long have you 341 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:29.279 been working for mister Hesson. 342 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.720 Why since October of last year, about six months? 343 00:16:32.759 --> 00:16:34.879 And your name is Stephanie Risker. 344 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:37.159 Why yes, of course she's lying. I tear you up. 345 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:41.120 I don't mean to doubt your word, miss, but just 346 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:43.559 for the record, I suppose you could show me some 347 00:16:43.720 --> 00:16:44.840 proof of your identity. 348 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:49.360 Why yes, I right here in my bag. 349 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:52.000 My driver's license. 350 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:55.039 Wait, the bag has initials where s R. 351 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:56.799 Of course s R. 352 00:16:57.159 --> 00:16:58.440 And the driver's license. 353 00:16:58.440 --> 00:17:01.399 Steffie doesn't drive. She has no car, but I do. 354 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:02.799 It isn't a very good one. 355 00:17:02.919 --> 00:17:07.920 Anything else This letter addressed to me address one twenty Farragut. 356 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:13.599 May I look why, yes, of course, huh, it's genuine 357 00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:14.799 all right, Here. 358 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:16.880 You are and I don't know what else I have here, 359 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:18.519 but oh I'll get it. 360 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:20.039 Here you are. 361 00:17:20.279 --> 00:17:21.319 Oh, thank you. 362 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:23.920 I see you carry a chewing gum in your purse. 363 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:30.119 Why yes to the fruity. Not many people like that flavor. 364 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:31.480 I never chew any other. 365 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:34.039 Well, thanks, sorry to have bother at you both. 366 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:36.640 Come on, cham, I hope you've been able to help 367 00:17:36.720 --> 00:17:37.559 such a lap. 368 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:45.839 Thanks, good night, good night sage. Okay, what's your racket kit? 369 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:48.319 Are you a pushover for the mental ward? Or are 370 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:50.680 you working off a grudge against this guy? Or did 371 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:52.799 you do something to some little blond, blue eyed number 372 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:54.200 and you're trying to set up an alibi even before 373 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:55.039 we find out about it. 374 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:59.279 Things like this don't happen. They can't. One minute she's 375 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:02.039 here and then she's on. No one will believe me. 376 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:04.759 Why should we? You haven't produced a single person all 377 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:06.559 night who actually saw this blonde of yours. 378 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:07.839 Where'd I get her name and address? 379 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:13.079 Then that's one thing I'm not sure, So I'll give 380 00:18:13.119 --> 00:18:15.680 you one more spin for your money. You stand or 381 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:18.519 fall by the place you lived one twenty Varrakeet Street. 382 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:19.559 Come on, let's go. 383 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:30.119 Okay, this is Ape. 384 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:34.200 Come on, what is it? The rooming house? 385 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:37.640 Yeah, she lived alone, just a room. She only came 386 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:40.319 here from Harrisburg six months ago. But the landlit. 387 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:42.400 No, it's the matter. 388 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:46.359 I just remembered. Hessen recommended this place to her. 389 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:48.759 I look, you want to go in, or you want 390 00:18:48.759 --> 00:18:51.000 to go to headquarters. The tougher you get with me, 391 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:53.599 the tougher I'll be on. You listen, you gotta listen. 392 00:18:54.200 --> 00:18:56.200 I was only up there once, but I remember it. 393 00:18:57.200 --> 00:18:59.519 Sticking in the mirror of the dresser is a litho 394 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:02.799 of the Holy on the radiators, a rag doll I 395 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:05.440 won for a Coney Island in a hiccock wallet I 396 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:08.720 gave her last Christmas. And on a shelf against the 397 00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:11.440 wall is a gas ring, and from the light fixture 398 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:13.319 to the gas jet is a string where she hangs 399 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:14.160 stockings to dry. 400 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:19.920 Will you remember those things? The bedspread's green, and there's 401 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:23.359