Speaker 1: Come in welcome. I'm e. G. Marshall, Majordomo of this
mansion of the mysterious and the macabre. We complain that
so many of the old values are lost on this
new generation. And it may be true, but consider some
of our old values. We were told to look before
you leap, but we were also told he who hesitates
is lost. Obviously, there has always been a problem in communication.
As the philosopher said, we must simplify, simplify, and clarify.
Our mystery drama Marry for Murder was written especially for
the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Mandel Kramer.
It is sponsored in part by Ludin's Medicated cough Drops
and Buick Motor Division. I'll be back shortly with that one.
All of us are looking for something, and if we
want it badly enough, perhaps we might visit the office
of James Kellogg. James is a private detective and he
specializes in finding things for people. On a philosophical level,
we might speculate, to whom does Jim go when he
has to find something for himself? Well, where does a
doctor go when he needs an operation? What does a
barber do when he wants a haircut. Anyhow, I've been
described as a private detective, and right off, I would
like to straighten everybody out on some basic facts. Fiction
has made a pretty good thing out of my profession.
You know, the luscious blonde with the inviting eyes who
enters the office all a fire with passion. I don't
get cases like that. I don't get sapped on the
skull and wake up in the arms of a gorgeous redhead.
You want to know what I get? I usually get.
What just walked into my office this morning, fat and
fifty issue? And what do you think her problem is?
Speaker 2: I want you to know, mister Kellogg, I investigated you
with her before coming here.
Speaker 1: As indeed you should, Missus Melvin.
Speaker 2: An influential member of the family, the personally discuss the
matter with a district attorney and asked him to recommend
someone your name was suggested. Now that you're here, I
shall explain exactly why we deemed it advisable to engage a.
Speaker 1: Private one moment, Missus Melbourne, I am not a private eye.
I am a private detective or a confidential investigator. Please continue.
Speaker 3: Here is our problem, our problem.
Speaker 2: I am acting for the family. My two brothers and myself.
We decided this would be the wisest course of action.
We have a sister who is about to make a
dreadful mistake.
Speaker 1: Yes, and the.
Speaker 2: Husband died a year ago. He was in the hardware
business and left a large amount of money.
Speaker 3: Our words, is that your main to this discussion?
Speaker 1: One never knows.
Speaker 2: After taxes two million dollars that's large, continue and intends
to marry again.
Speaker 1: This is a dreadful mistake. Yes, How old is your sister?
Speaker 3: Who's forty old?
Speaker 1: Isn't she mean turn ups to know what she's doing?
Speaker 2: Ah, she's a babe in the woods. She's always led
a sheltered life. She knows nothing of the world.
Speaker 1: And of course the man in question is younger than
your sister. How did you know, well, missus marvel this
is not a unique situation.
Speaker 3: Well, I the family wants this thing broken up?
Speaker 1: Why? Because you're afraid her money will go to her
new husband not be available to you. Now seeing him
being realistic, how can I or anybody break up this romance?
So she's determined to marry him.
Speaker 4: By exposing him for what he is?
Speaker 1: What is he?
Speaker 3: I think a confidence man?
Speaker 1: Well, if you know this and he's already been exposed.
Speaker 5: But that's just it.
Speaker 4: We don't know it for a fact.
Speaker 1: Then how can you say, because.
Speaker 5: It's true, it must be true.
Speaker 2: A fellow like him, smooth, sneaky, h and he seems
so much younger.
Speaker 1: Is your sister attractive?
Speaker 3: It's not the point. Walter Jones is too clear.
Speaker 1: That's his name, Walter Jones. Yes, what does he do? Oh?
Speaker 2: He says she's come to town to open the sales office.
Speaker 1: What kind of sales I don't know.
Speaker 2: He's obviously a swin, learned a sharper, and if so,
he must have been in trouble with the at one
time or another.
Speaker 1: Have you discussed this with your sister.
Speaker 2: Oh, she's so thoroughly infatuated she won't listen to a
single word against him. But if you could come up
with solid evidence of a criminal record, I am convinced
we could.
Speaker 3: Knit this thing in the bud.
Speaker 1: Well suppose he has no criminal.
Speaker 2: Record, impossible, one look at his face.
Speaker 1: He couldn't take a great deal of my time and
your money to find out.
Speaker 2: I consider that money well spent. It's an investment in
my dear sister's happiness.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, even if this evidence does exist.
It may not do you any good. But do you
mean we'll suppose your sisters are much in love with
this man that she decides to marry him. Anyhow, you
just buy that evidence? Well, I'll need I know.
Speaker 3: What you'll need.
Speaker 2: I have prepared a sheet of paper lifting this infamous
person's address, the places he frequents and so on.
Speaker 3: Here's his photograph. It's an excellent light.
Speaker 1: M you've come well prepared.
Speaker 2: I'm paying you for your time. I won't have you
waste one single moment.
Speaker 3: I expected to tell the report of your propress.
Speaker 1: That's one thing you can be sure you'll get out
of all this, missus Melbourne. I'll report a nice, neat, concise,
lever bound report.
Speaker 4: Talking to cut the.
Speaker 6: Mort and wanted to me, it's so lovely out here.
Speaker 1: Strift for a while.
Speaker 6: Let's lie back and look up at the sun and
not go anywhere?
Speaker 5: Yes, why not? Isn't that really what we're doing?
Speaker 1: And dere is what do you mean?
Speaker 7: Aren't we just drifting? Not getting anywhere? I know, let's
get married.
Speaker 6: I want that dear more than anything in the world.
Speaker 5: For no, why do we get married tomorrow?
Speaker 7: Where anywhere there are enough judges clergymen.
Speaker 5: No, dear, you really don't want to marry me, do you.
Speaker 6: What you're saying is let's go off and get married.
Speaker 5: Well, yes, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and your family will say, aha, we were right
about what you know about what right in thinking of
something shady about me?
Speaker 1: See, he stole her away. No, I want us to
be married properly.
Speaker 6: Oh and you do too, you know, dear, you're really
a very old fashioned conservative girl at heart.
Speaker 5: No I'm not.
Speaker 6: Oh, are you on a formal wedding surrounded by your
family and friend?
Speaker 7: Let my sister and her brother say that they won't
come very well.
Speaker 5: We gave them their chance, Darling.
Speaker 6: A marriage should be forever, even though we both had
previous experiences. But that might deny it. However, this is
the real one for each of us.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, darling, it is. I know it is.
Speaker 6: Then let's be patient, perhaps for just a little while.
Speaker 5: I've been patient with my stupid sister long enough.
Speaker 6: Let's give them a little more time and when they
get to know me better. I don't care, darling. I
am doing this for you. If it were up to me,
we'd be standing before a justice of the peace tonight.
But your family means so much to you you want
their approval. So let's wait a little while, all.
Speaker 5: Right, darling, But that's going to be a very little while.
Speaker 1: Greetings, Lieutenant, What can I do for you? James? Well,
I'm looking for a baddie that as he may be
Walla Jones. The name ring a bell, no bell at all,
Walter Jones, but Edgar in a big file under j
Jones first name Walter. See if there's a mate, Yeah,
name could be a phony. What's he supposed to have done? Well,
I don't know what he's done exactly, Lieutenant. I only
know what he wants to do. He wants to get married.
As that I'm a crime, Well maybe it ought to
be outrage perspective in law Oz blushing bride with two
million bucks clutched in her hand like a lollipop, and
friend Walter to snatch it away from her. M Well,
some guys have all of us, Lieuden and Martin. Yeah,
oh thanks, sorry, James. How about the listening from the
federals a blank and Edgar checked the all States wanted
fold the two How can we cross filing, Lieutenant, it mays,
go have to look at a lot of pictures. Man,
you might want him one day yourself. What's this guy's
m well, if he has one, he's a confidence operator,
makes a habit of marrying wealthy widows. This mugshot here
on the file. Here's your guy in the picture, Walder Junes.
It's his real name, age thirty three. Did two years
for stock swindler. That's the only rap they ever got
a moment. But look get what he be Yeah, suspicion
of homicide Carolyn Jones' wife released, lack of evidence, Tried
for murder, Julia Jones' wife acquitted. Yep, he now does
the mad wife killers strike again, And Lieutenants, suspicion will
get us nowhere and the time that he was tried
for and he beat it. I don't know what we
can do. So for all thing, he's already paid for
the suspicious stone, neither here nor there. Legally he's innocent,
so he cannot be arrested. He can't be stopped. I'm
not out for an arrest, Lieutenant. All my clients sent
me to the store for was information and I got it. Thanks, lieutenant,
and thank your apartment for your courtesy and cooperation.
Speaker 2: This piece of paper is even more than I dared hope,
for not only is he at Speace, he is also
a murderer.
Speaker 1: Now that hasn't been proved. What do you plan to
do with this information.
Speaker 2: Lester shured, I shall gives it in a manner which
I aim to be most effective.
Speaker 1: Well, then i'd say the case is closed. You will
receive the bill for my services.
Speaker 3: And our wager.
Speaker 2: All you did to earn your exorbitant fee was to
go down to police headquarters and ask a few simple questions.
Speaker 1: Well, missus Melbourne, it's not just a question of who
you know, it's what you know.
Speaker 7: Hello, Phyllis, Oh yes, and dear, how are you Phyllis?
I want to invite you to my wedding, do you now?
I don't want you to go into an entire three
act play about it. Walter and I intend to be
married this coming Sunday at Saint Maurice's at four. You
and the rest of the family can come and give
us your blessing or not, as you see fit.
Speaker 8: I ask you, what, darling, what makes you think we
wouldn't come, Phyllis?
Speaker 5: What are you saying?
Speaker 3: Four o'clock court will be there? And then whatever.
Speaker 8: Reception is my house, Phyllis and Darling, I'm so happy
for you.
Speaker 2: Don't let me call everyone goodbye, Dear, I'll talk with
you later.
Speaker 5: What do you think of that?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 7: They're coming, My family is actually coming, all of them.
Speaker 5: Roy and Bob. Everywhere Phyllis causes shot.
Speaker 6: I told you i'd see the light eventually. Now, aren't
you glad we didn't run off somewhere and have this
most meaningful and beautiful ceremony performed amongst strangers.
Speaker 5: You were right, Dear, You're always.
Speaker 6: Right to your on point of view. Dear, Eventually people
come around, Walter.
Speaker 5: I don't know what I'd ever do without you.
Speaker 6: Don't worry, Anne, Darling, You'll never be without me.
Speaker 5: Phyllis, Yes, dear, what's keeping him all?
Speaker 2: He may have been delayed in traffic, he's late. Now, Dear,
you must calm yourself.
Speaker 5: Something's happened to him.
Speaker 3: Nothing has happened to him.
Speaker 5: You did something to him?
Speaker 6: Me?
Speaker 3: Why what could I possibly do?
Speaker 7: I don't know something I can tell by the look
on your pa Now.
Speaker 4: I know that look.
Speaker 7: Since we were children, you've had that wide, superior, all
knowing look.
Speaker 2: I don't know what you're talking about whenever you were
trying to put something over on me, But what could
I be putting over on you?
Speaker 5: You're at the bottom of this of what a water disappearance?
Speaker 1: Who says waters disappeared?
Speaker 7: But why isn't he here? No, So if you did something,
you swore that you would.
Speaker 5: Break this up, but that was before I got to
know Walter. This is your doing.
Speaker 7: It's not going to work there somehow, someway, I am
going to find Walter. If it takes me the rest
of my life and every dollar that I have in
this world, I'm going to find Walter. Nothing can keep
us apart, nothing nobody.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a ringing endorsement for you. But what did
happen to Walter Jones? You know perfectly well he's not
going to show up at the church. But why not,
assuming the information on him in the police files is correct,
isn't that his thing? Doesn't he marry rich women? Obviously
we have a lot of ground to cover, and the
second act will be with you in just a few moments.
Some men can marry for love and some can marry
for money. And happy is he who can marry for both?
Walter Jones now he appeared to be in an ideal situation,
he seemed to be in love with Anne, and seven
figures are required to describe Anne's fortune. So why did
Walter leave Anne at the church? What does private investigator
Jim Kellogg think? I didn't think anything about it, if
you must know. Actually, as far as I was concerned,
the case was closed. I'd already forgotten Walter Jones and
Missus Melvin and her sister Anne until one morning when
my secretary came into my office. In case I mention
of the words secretary causes you to conjure up certain
romantic fantasies, I'm a Cisco and shoe again. My secretary
was Ponsney glasses and has snow white hair, and the
only reason I hired her is because she is the
most efficient human being I ever encountered. Yes, Missus Haskell.
Speaker 9: And missal in reference to what I believe it will
concern a missing person, I am somewhat puzzled.
Speaker 1: You puzzled, Missus Haskell. By what I see, it seems
quite familiar.
Speaker 4: But I just don't know why.
Speaker 1: Missus Traynor entered my office. Looking at her, I'd say
she was somewhere between thirty five and forty and still
looking at her, I'd say she was one of the
most attractive women I'd ever met. But that was beside
the point. Missus Haskell was right. There was something strangely
familiar about this woman, but I couldn't place it either.
Speaker 7: I don't know how I feel about all this, mister Kellogg,
what do you mean. I was walking down the street
and it started to rain. I stepped into the lobby
of this building just to get out of the wet
and I glanced at the directory and there was your name,
James Kellogg, Private investigator.
Speaker 5: And right then and.
Speaker 7: There I said to myself, why shouldn't I hire a
private detective?
Speaker 1: Why do you feel you need one?
Speaker 7: I'm I'm terribly worried. My fiancee has disappeared. Yes, I
don't know what more I can tell you.
Speaker 1: How long's he been gone?
Speaker 5: It's three weeks.
Speaker 7: He The truth is he left me waiting at the church.
Sorry that I went to his apartment. The superintendent told
me that he he had moved out.
Speaker 1: No forwarding addressed, none. He talked to his friends, his family.
Speaker 5: He has no family, and I never met any of
his friends. You see, mister Kellogg. It was one of
those world wind courtships.
Speaker 7: We were just two people who met and fell in
love and decided to get married.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, there are certain people, as the wedding
date approaches who just well, I just become frightened and
take off for a little while.
Speaker 7: Now, I refuse to believe that Walter did that. I
am sure something terrible must have happened to him.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see what we can do, Missus Trainer, we widowed,
are divorced.
Speaker 5: My first husband died.
Speaker 1: I see. And what is your fiance's name, Walter Jones?
I beg your pardon, Jones, Walter Jones, Yes, Walter Jones.
That's why she were familiar. She was the sister of
that impossible Melbourne woman. Same shape to the face, same
color in the eyes, only on missus Trayner. It all
looked good. However, this was not the time to admire
the physical attributes of Missus Traynor. I was now confronted
with a problem which seldom, if ever troubles most fictional detectives,
the little matter of professional ethics.
Speaker 5: He just disappeared suddenly, without a trace.
Speaker 1: And your first name, Anne, you have a family.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, a sister and two brothers.
Speaker 8: M h.
Speaker 1: What was their attitude towards your fiance?
Speaker 5: They were violently opposed. They thought that Walter was after
my money. But that's impossible, are you sure, of course?
Speaker 7: And talking about money, I've plenty of it, so you
needn't spare any expense in looking for Walter.
Speaker 1: Excuse me?
Speaker 9: Yes, I've been thinking why that missus Chaney looked so familiar.
Speaker 4: Finally it came to me. Could it be she is
related to that Missus Melthy.
Speaker 1: Yes, precisely, and it concerns an allied matter. Oh, it
will therefore be necessary for us to adopt an attitude
towards the situation, Missus Haskell. But don't you bother. I'll
come out to see you.
Speaker 5: You'll take the case, won't you?
Speaker 1: Miss me? Would you excuse me for just one moment?
My secretary has the most urgent problem. Guess what she wants.
Speaker 4: I would assume she wants you to sign his yante.
Speaker 1: Obviously, her sister, Missus Melbourne, didn't tell her that she
hired me earlier to dig up Walter's past, nor any
of the specifics of that past either or she would
have mentioned it. The question is, can I accept Missus
Traynor as a client. Well, wouldn't that be the same
thing as working both sides of the street.
Speaker 4: But not at the same time.
Speaker 1: Missus Melbourne hired me to break up the marriage. Well
maybe not. I mean I never agreed to do that,
of course not how could she? All I was required
to do was to secure certain information concerning Walter Jones,
and your client was now another client, quite by coincidence,
also wants information concerning the same Walter Jones, specifically his whereabouts.
Now is there any legitimate reason why I shouldn't take
the case.
Speaker 4: None that attends to me at the moment.
Speaker 1: Only one thing puzzles me is what can a woman
with her looks and charm see in a phony like
this Walter Jones?
Speaker 10: Tell me, mister, is that a legitimate area of curiosity
for a private to take to?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm I'm talking now a man, Missus Traynor. Tell
me everything you know about Walter Jones.
Speaker 5: I don't know very much. I only know I love him.
Speaker 1: Much of marriage require a firmer foundation, such as I
would assume knowing something about each other's habits, tastes, attitudes,
so forth.
Speaker 7: And how much did you know about your wife before
you married her. I've never been married, then you hardly
qualify as an expert.
Speaker 1: Still, it would seem that a successful union is based
upon mutual interests knowledge of each other.
Speaker 5: You keep saying it's important to know all about the
person you intend to marry.
Speaker 7: I say nonsense, pure unadulterated nonsense.
Speaker 5: Love at first sight. That's what it was between Walter
Jones and me.
Speaker 1: Love at first sight.
Speaker 5: It's the only real way.
Speaker 4: Mister kenn have you begun work on Missus Traynor's case?
Speaker 1: It, Missus Haskell, I have Well?
Speaker 10: Do you suppose you had any operational reports from each tape?
Speaker 1: Seems a shame to turn a man like Waller Jones
loose on Missus Trayner.
Speaker 4: That's not our problem, mister Kellogg, Is it no?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: And do you want me to hire some temporary.
Speaker 1: Operative Missus Haskell? Do you believe in love at first sight?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 10: I remember forty five years ago I was standing on
the street corner. A young man drove past and splashed
mud all over my leg.
Speaker 1: I didn't think women chowed their legs in those days.
Speaker 10: I had lifted my skirt to step over the puddle,
and the young man apologized.
Speaker 4: To you, slick. We looked at each other then, and
there we knew. We both knew. Does that answer your question?
Speaker 1: I'll be leaving town for several days, Missus Haskell, with.
Speaker 4: Whom did you fall in love at her? Sight?
Speaker 1: Now, that is a ridiculous question.
Speaker 4: I didn't have to.
Speaker 1: Sargian. I understand about seven years ago, you were the
arresting officer and the Julia Jones murder case.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, let's it try it out. It wasn't the murder,
so it never even got to be a case.
Speaker 1: What happened? Oh, she was an older dame.
Speaker 6: They went out in their boat. She drowned. He claimed
she fell overboard. Pretty heavy insurance there, and so the
relatives started pointing fingers.
Speaker 1: How did it work out?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 6: I just booked him on sufficient. The DA figured he
didn't have enough for an indictment.
Speaker 1: The thing just dissolved. And what do you think?
Speaker 6: Well, I guess we'll never know.
Speaker 1: Huh, mister Pope. I understand you're the attorney who prosecuted
Walter Jones a few years ago for the murder of
his wife Betty. I was the assistant, and that little
case may have cost the DA his job. I never
saw anything fall apart the way one did he murder
his wife? You haven't murdered anybody until the jury says,
So how did it go? She was his second wife.
He claimed she had been acting nuddices and so on
that night she came at him with a revolver, so
they grappled with her. It went on and killed her.
And doesn't sound like the strongest story in the world. No,
and especially since it came out that his first wife
had died a few years before under what might have
been suspicious circumstances drowning. Yeah, well, my ex boss, the
DA was politically ambitious. He saw a chance to get publicity.
He figured there'd be no trouble getting a verdict of
first degree murder. Considering Walter jones past record. What went wrong?
Everything turned out the wife had been psychotic, She had
threatened to kill him in front of witnesses. There was
so much doubt that judge made a directed charge for acquittal.
Or what do you think? Well, if he married my daughter,
I don't think i'd sleep nights.
Speaker 4: Well, mister knock, what did you discover it?
Speaker 1: I've discovered that we can't take a chance. Oh what
know that you'ld be on whom I'm mister Walter Jones.
How do you mean that he may or may not
be a murderer. He may or may not have murdered
his previous wives for their money.
Speaker 10: Is this what you're client is paying you to find avage?
I was under the impressions she wanted you to find him.
Speaker 1: And if I do, she'll marry him to pay country.
But I can't take that chance. I mean, suppose he
kills her too. She's very rich.
Speaker 4: Why not show her the worker?
Speaker 1: No, that won't stop her. She'll say he's being framed.
Speaker 4: Hey, what do you propose to do?
Speaker 1: I don't know. She's a woman who has a terrific
sense of loyalty.
Speaker 4: H Then why not drop the kid?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 1: I couldn't have learned.
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 1: Because she just goes somewhere else, find somebody else to
find Walter Jones.
Speaker 5: What happened to Walter Jones?
Speaker 1: No, he'll turn up.
Speaker 4: What makes you so sure?
Speaker 1: Anyway? Right now, I have a really pressing problem. When
it suits his purpose, Jones will show up to marry
Ann Trainer. There's only one way I can say. How
I have to make her forget Walter Jones.
Speaker 4: Once again, mister Kellogg.
Speaker 1: How how well, there's only one way by making a
fall in love with me. Well, here we have Private
Detective James Kellogg, who may be somewhat out of his debts.
From what you know of them, He's not the swashbuckling
romantic hero, and yet he is proposing a most swashbuckling
romantic ploy. Well, he's never done anything like this before,
which means that Act three should contain surprises for all
of us. There is always the conflict between desire and duty.
For instance, duty compels Jim Kellogg to find Walter Jones.
Desire would have Jim make sure Walter never shows up
at all. Most people finally decide to yield to desire
or heed the call of duty. Jim, on the other hand,
has decided to do both, which means he will try
to find Walter Jones and not find him at the
same time.
Speaker 10: I'm not really sure I heard what you said, mister Kellogg.
Speaker 1: I said I would make missus Trainers fall in love
with me. Missus askill, he said.
Speaker 4: He after co procedure.
Speaker 1: Mister Tillo, how can I permit her to marry Walter Jones?
He he may be a killer, give her the facts
and allow her to make her own decisions. Being a woman,
she'd only be confused. I meant nothing deprecatory. I have
every respectful woman's intellectual capacity.
Speaker 3: Oh thank you.
Speaker 1: But a woman in love is a strange creature. That's
because love itself is not a rational state. A revelation
of the facts would only make her fall more deeply
in love with Walter Jones. Why because it also give
her a chance to be a martyr. She could say,
You see, the whole world is against him, but I
shall stand by him.
Speaker 10: From a practical point of view, mister Kellogg, how do
you intend to make Missus Chayer fall.
Speaker 4: In love with you?
Speaker 1: Well, I hadn't thought about that, but there are there
are difficulties you would have to overcome.
Speaker 10: For instance, well, Walter Jones is quite tall.
Speaker 4: You are.
Speaker 11: Rich.
Speaker 1: Height isn't everything.
Speaker 4: Mister Jones is striking handsome.
Speaker 1: Well, people are like fruit. It's not the outer husk
of the shell, it's the kernel, the meat, the true
substance inside.
Speaker 10: In the conversations I have held this, Missus Traynor, I'll
understand Walter Jones talks biffly and a magic.
Speaker 1: Missus Haskell. Missus Traynor will fall in love with me
because it's the right thing for her to do.
Speaker 7: I've been trying to reach you for these past few
days to see if there's been any problem.
Speaker 1: Oh, I was out of town, Missus Trayner.
Speaker 5: I'm so worried.
Speaker 7: Is it possible for a person to disappear without leaving
a single place?
Speaker 1: Look, it's noontime. I'll take you to lunch.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm not hungry. I can't think of food.
Speaker 1: We might be able to discuss some important matters.
Speaker 7: Oh, if we're going to talk about finding Walter, then
that's something else.
Speaker 5: I think this is the first full meal in weeks.
Speaker 7: I've been so nervous enough everything since Walter disappeared.
Speaker 1: You know you look very attractive when you eat? Yes?
Speaker 5: Oh, my goodness, do you realize that was what Walter
said to me?
Speaker 7: Walter, I was sitting in a coffee shop having lunch
by myself, when a stunning looking man said to me,
do you know that you look very attractive.
Speaker 4: When you eat?
Speaker 5: We both laughed.
Speaker 7: It was as if we had laughed together so often
in the past. He was the kind of man that
I wanted.
Speaker 5: All my life. Oh, mister Kellogg, You've got to find
him for me. You've got to promise.
Speaker 1: I promise.
Speaker 5: Good. Now, let's hurry back to the office.
Speaker 7: The office, Yes, that's the most important place in my
life right now, because it's the brain center, the place
where the strategy to find.
Speaker 4: Walter's being formulated.
Speaker 5: The poem should be ringing. Undercover men should be coming
in an hour. World, I've no patience to do anything else.
Don't be anywhere else, and.
Speaker 1: I wanna help help.
Speaker 5: Please let me.
Speaker 7: I get onto the phones, take messages, assist miss's hospital.
Speaker 5: But please let me be a part of it.
Speaker 4: I see I have an assistant.
Speaker 1: What can I do? She's the client?
Speaker 4: How is your campaign coming?
Speaker 2: Which campaign the one that's supposed to make her fall.
Speaker 4: In love with you?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 10: Mister Kellogg's my husband and I agreed that I would
work here because we felt you were an unusually ethical man.
Speaker 1: Well, I try, is.
Speaker 4: What you're doing now, africal? What do you mean you
are being paid to find Walter Jones.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for Walter Jones.
Speaker 4: I am your private secretary. If you're doing any investigating,
it isn't a parent to me.
Speaker 1: What should I be doing? You should be out looking
for Walter Jones by the same token I could be
in looking for Walter Jones.
Speaker 5: There is every possibility that he is a murderer.
Speaker 4: And I can understand your.
Speaker 1: Feelings, but you're missus Haskell. I'm doing this my own way,
and it's the only way that has a chance of success.
Speaker 4: And what is that way.
Speaker 1: It's a line of investigation that has to be kept confidential,
even from you. I hope you understand.
Speaker 4: Oh, I understand.
Speaker 10: It probably has to be kept confidential because it doesn't exist.
Speaker 7: Oh, I don't think I could concentrate on tennis, mister
kill Well.
Speaker 1: Fitness that's a must for a detective, and right now
you are a detective. Come on, you need some air,
some sun, some exercise, that's right.
Speaker 5: I must be strong for Walter.
Speaker 6: I thought, I guess it was a game that match.
Speaker 4: You beat me.
Speaker 7: It was all I could do, even score a single
point off Walker.
Speaker 5: What a marvelous tennis player. And he had a killer
instinct he did huh. He was playing with me.
Speaker 4: He couldn't let up.
Speaker 5: He had to play all out.
Speaker 4: All the time.
Speaker 1: Dolly about Walter's killer instinct? Can you know anything about
his past? Oh?
Speaker 5: I don't care about his past. He was honest with me.
He told me he'd been married twice before. Not important.
Speaker 1: I suppose it should turn out that he hadn't led
a very exemplary kind of life.
Speaker 7: That's a very duffy way of putting it. That's exactly
how my late husband, Edgar would have said it. Oh,
that's kill.
Speaker 5: You could learn how to relax, you and men like Edgar.
Speaker 1: Why don't you call me jim?
Speaker 7: Oh no, you're the mister type, the correct for proper
mister type.
Speaker 1: Good morning, mister kill out, Good morning, missus Haswell.
Speaker 4: I don't mind telling you that.
Speaker 10: However lofty your motives, I slowly disagree with your tactics
in this case, ordinary I would have resigned in protest.
Speaker 1: Are you sure you.
Speaker 4: Are about to receive your come up?
Speaker 1: And what do you mean?
Speaker 10: Missus Trainer is waiting in your office? M and I
would say, she appears to be.
Speaker 4: Somewhat missed, miffed. Surely you knew you were headed for trouble.
Speaker 5: Well, sir, it has finally arrived.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Why don't you ask her?
Speaker 1: Good morning, missus Trennor, mister Keller.
Speaker 5: May I have the bill for your services rendered to date.
Speaker 1: Why, missus Trayner.
Speaker 5: You've been very pleasant. You've taken me to lunch, to dinner,
to tennis, god theaters. You've done everything but look for
Walter Jones.
Speaker 1: But I have been looking for Please.
Speaker 7: I was married to a businessman for over twenty years.
I know when things are being done in a business
like fashion. No work has been done in this office
on Walter Jones. There's been no phone calls, no reports.
It dawned on me that you are not looking for Walter.
I asked myself why, and then I realized you're in
love with me, mister Killog.
Speaker 5: Do you admit it?
Speaker 7: Yes, well, it's impossible. Why because I love Walter.
Speaker 1: It's quite possible. He murdered two wives.
Speaker 5: It's impossible.
Speaker 1: I can show you the record.
Speaker 5: I have seen the record. Walter was completely honest.
Speaker 7: He told me the police were suspicious, and he agreed
that they had caused to.
Speaker 1: Be part of the account for his first wife's drumming.
Speaker 5: She fell overboard. It was foggy, he couldn't find her.
Speaker 1: You believe that the authority believed that they refused to
prosecute accidental death.
Speaker 3: I might accept the two he was terribly lonesome.
Speaker 7: He needed companionship. He married in haste and she was
a psychotic.
Speaker 5: It was obvious.
Speaker 1: And how will I account for your murder?
Speaker 7: I think that's despicable, all right, missus Trayner.
Speaker 1: I am in love with you.
Speaker 5: See what I mean? You're in love with me? And
you call me missus Traynor. You weren't trying to find
Walter Joe and I was.
Speaker 1: Excuse me, yes, mister Kennock.
Speaker 10: I walked to apologize. You were looking for.
Speaker 7: Walter Joe after all.
Speaker 10: Benny Smith just called and said he's living at nineteen
lad Stone Oval. His stone number is five five five
eight three oh eight.
Speaker 1: Thank you, missus Haskell.
Speaker 5: Now I want to settle up our account. Send me
a bill. I shall hire another detective who will really
look for Walter.
Speaker 1: That won't be necessary. I just found him for him.
Speaker 5: What do you say?
Speaker 1: Do you want to know how your sister hired me
to dig up his past and I found his past record.
I gave it to her. She obviously decided to confront
him scare him away. She probably paid him off.
Speaker 5: It doesn't make sense. If she has this record, why
should she pay him off?
Speaker 1: The scenario she shows in the record. He says, Anne
won't care. She says, can you take that chance? Settle
for a little Walter, take a few bucks and beat it.
So he takes it. But he's going to keep coming
back and taking more and more, and when he's drained
to dry, then he'll show up and claim you in
a main fortune.
Speaker 5: This is a most despicable lie.
Speaker 1: How do you think I found Walter Jones? I had
a man watching your sister's house. Walter's been calling on her.
Speaker 5: I refuse to believe it.
Speaker 1: I don't want to believe it.
Speaker 5: Where's his phone number?
Speaker 1: Here on this pad? Finally, finally, and listen to me.
He doesn't love you?
Speaker 4: Alive? You safe? Hello, Walter?
Speaker 1: Done?
Speaker 8: Hell?
Speaker 5: Why did you disappear?
Speaker 6: And I began to worry that you might begin to
think about my record and have dounts?
Speaker 5: Oh you fool, you wonderful fool. Do you love me?
Speaker 1: Ooh man, I love you so much.
Speaker 5: Please come to my apartment. I'll be home in twenty minutes.
Speaker 4: I love you.
Speaker 7: I am so grateful to you. Mister Kellogg. Send me
the bill.
Speaker 1: He doesn't love you. He does, I can prove it.
Speaker 5: How could you prove such a thing. It's impossible.
Speaker 1: You don't want me to prove it.
Speaker 5: It can't be done. Walter and I are completely in love,
all right.
Speaker 1: You're afraid, and I don't blame you.
Speaker 5: What would I be afraid of?
Speaker 1: Afraid to put his love to test? What test I
say that only wants is your money? And I propose
a test that can prove it. But you're afraid.
Speaker 7: I am sick and tired of the synatism showed by you,
and my sister and my brothers, and everybody wants to
brand Walter Jones for life. I'd like to write that
self righteous smirk right off your face. You know, if
you have a legitimate way to put his love to
the test, I'll give you the chance to go wrong.
Speaker 6: Oh, is a Missus Traynor at home. She just stepped
out for a few minutes. She's expecting me. My name
is Walter Jones. I'm missus Trainer's fiance.
Speaker 1: Oh well, won't you come in? Thank you?
Speaker 6: Are you a friend of Ben's.
Speaker 1: I'm afraid you wouldn't think so. Actually, I've been appointed
receiver by the court. What did you say? Well, since
you're Missus Trainer's fiance, surely you should know what's going on?
Speaker 11: Say?
Speaker 6: What is go going on?
Speaker 4: Who are those men?
Speaker 7: What do they do?
Speaker 1: Easy boy, it's easy? Was it?
Speaker 7: If?
Speaker 1: I haven't say? Don't ship that table? But it should
be obvious, mister Jones, I'm the receiver in bankruptcy and
the man here are removing the furniture. You can put
two and two together.
Speaker 6: No, no, wait, I'm not sure I understand that.
Speaker 1: Little all be in the papers tonight. Anyway, it wasn't
generally known, but Missus Trainor's husband left the company in
bad shape. When he died, they declared bankruptcy. We in
order to attach Missus Trainer's assets too, Missus Trainers. Yeah,
you know her bank accounts, jewels, spurs, furnishings. She was
on the books, you see, as an officer of the corporation.
Speaker 6: Wait a minute, According to the law, an officer of
the corporation is not responsible for see.
Speaker 1: You know your law. That's true ordinarily, but in this
case we have reason to suspect fraud. Paul, I think
she'll be stripped clean. But she's lucky she have you
to take care of her.
Speaker 4: Me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you said you were a fiance, and I'm sure
you misunderstood.
Speaker 6: I said I was a friend of her fiance and
I was passing through, and I just thought i'd say hello.
Speaker 1: Well, sit down, I mean, she'll be right back. I'm
sure she could use some cheering up.
Speaker 6: Oh I wish I could do that, but I have
a plan to catch her.
Speaker 1: Hmm, well I'll tell her you were here.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Goodbye. Jim Walter Jones dropped by to say hello, so
I heard. I'm sorry you win and maybe won the battle,
lost the war.
Speaker 7: No, when I saw the two of you side by side,
I realized that I was really very happy with my
first husband.
Speaker 1: I'm not a very exciting guy.
Speaker 5: Well, at least I can be sure of one thing.
You'll never kill me for the insurance.
Speaker 7: And no woman who married Walter Jones could ever make
that statement.
Speaker 1: Proving that we should all be grateful for small favors.
Walter Jones is presumably still at large, happily married or
happily bereaved. And yet why are we coming down so
hard on the man? All of it is circumstantial. He
could be as innocent as a newborn babe. But don't
bet on it. Don't bet on anything except perhaps on
my coming back in just a few moments. We look down,
perhaps on a beautiful girl who marries an older man
for his money. But do we ever stop to consider
why he married her? True, she wouldn't marry him if
he were poor, But would he marry her if she
were old and repulsive? Why do people marry people? In retrospect?
We have presented a story of marriage and the morrow
is anyone you care to take away with you? We
present these cautionary tales, complete with morals, seven times each week.
Our cast included Mandel Kramer, Patsy Brewder, E. V. Justter,
Arthur Anderson, and Dan Acko. The entire production was under
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Speaker 1: Miss Barry Farber join us immediately following to eight o'clock
News right here over War New York. The talk of
New York. Governor Carry and his aides will be busy
this weekend trying to avoid it a fault by the state.
The city of Yonkers today narrowly avoided default. Westchester congressman
calls for another look at the welfare system. It's thirty
eight degrees in cloudy mid Manhattan Land says, cloudy and cold.
Speaker 11: To night, with a chance of a few periods of
light snow or drizzle below thirty to thirty five.
Speaker 1: I have variable cloudiness tomorrow and tomorrow night. The high
from forty to forty five tomorrow, the low round forty
tomorrow night. Mister John Scott with the eight o'clock edition
of the News aids of Governor Carry and state legislative
leaders will be busy this weekend trying to agree on
some sort of plugging that disputed hole in the budget.
The reason for the rush is this, as things now stand,
the Housing Finance Agency and Dormitory Authority don't have the
cash to pay off debts due on Monday, and Carry
says the bank