Speaker 1: Come in, welcome. I'm a g Marshall. When death comes,
he cannot be denied, and life must depart with him,
leaving behind an emptiness and avoid That's for most people.
There are a few, a resourceful few, who have been
able to get around it. Our mystery drama Pyoh's Daughter
was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dam
and stars Jack Grimes and Joan Shay. It is sponsored
in part by Dewick Motor Division and Arnheuser Busch Incorporated
brewers a Budweiser. I'll be back shortly with that one.
Carpe Dium sees the day, said the Roman poet, to
which we might add, sees the hour, the minute, the second.
There are those who, in one great intuitive flash, can
see the entire workings of the universe. It is a
gift given to great artists, great poets, great composers, and
great crooks. We're in a large city. It is rather
late at night. The dorman of an exclusive dining place
whistles up a cab. Three extremely well dressed people get in.
One is a rather distinguished looking, gray haired gentleman. The
second is a stunningly attractive woman just entering middle age.
The third is tall, dark and he looks extremely competent.
You know, Arthur, and I just five taxi saying Benjamin
had to have the night off his mother died. That
was inconsiderate of her. I don't think you should talk
this way in front of whom he probably means me, lady,
your friendly taxi cab driver. You know I'm one of
the plebeians. Well, where do you, mister crat want to go?
Take us the number eighty seven? Barclay, let me help you, Hapa,
thank you, minor, thank you? Thanks? Okay, ain't you mister
Drake be mister Arthur kate drink Gabby. Mister Drake is
not in the mood for conversation. Oh why don't Arthur darling?
Are you all right? If you haven't sid a word?
That's whom thanks. Look at him, he's so tale. He's
breathing hard and then sweating. Father, you're okay? Hey, the
the old gen zones don't look good. Something's happened to
him her, Arthur, I have your failure. Open your mouth.
You want us to drive to a hospital. Emotion of
the cab is upsetting him. Pull over of the curve.
But what is your told This is more than just
an ordinary attack. This guy, and he's a doctor. I
think I'm frightened. He's not responding to it till he'll
be all right. Now, now he should respond to me.
I don't think he'll come out of it. Can't die now,
he can't st up with the Fleichman to be unsigned
in the Corrupter's merger and the old the Drake right,
mister Drake, Arthur, Arthur's speak to us. No, he's dead.
What do you mean he's dead? He's he's dead. Wait
a second, I took a first aid course in resuscitation. Missmister,
you get behind the wheel, trive the camp to the
nearest hospital. You've found a boulbar to Henderson and turn lights.
You can't miss he's not raining. Move over into me
some room. I don't I don't need nothing. He needs
both compression and moth to mouth. M Hey, what are
you waiting for har to get us to the hospital
or find a phone and get an ambulance? Why? Ye? Now?
You never say die? Yes, he's dead. What are we
going to do? Thank? Go for crying up while I
get help? Will you trust me? Then? What you do
is I tell you without asking questions there what's the
matter with you too? The first thing we have to
do is kill him. Kill who this camp driver? Anything?
I don't believe he's the title can be bribed. Hey, hey,
are you people crazy? You see anybody about No, there's
street things deserted? Hy What do you want to do
with that girl? Are you crazy? Everybody will hit a
sh oh oh what happened to him? This pistol has
a silence of my dear, huh huh. I'm sure he's
no great mess to anyone. Can we have to kill you? Yes?
Since I'm an old author's bodyguard as well as his
personal secretary, this is the stroke of luck. It provided
us with a weapon just when we would need one.
But what are we going to do right now, at
this moment where both your late husband and our talkative
cab driver are safely in the back seat. Hand me
the cabby's cab. Now you get back in there with
them back I in there? What harm can they do? You?
Now up the street of the phone, I must make
a telephone call TOOM, to someone I can touch. Drink,
my dear, The stakes consist of the entire Arthur great fortune.
You may be apprehensive and uncomfortable for the next twenty minutes,
but it'll be worth it. Yeah. Oh ho, so of
is the guy in which guy the pornbroke and the
ponn broker? Oh kids, I never seen a lady pawnbroker before?
What did you have in mind? I got this ring?
Everybody's got ring. Let's got a diamond and oh have diamonds?
Where'd you get it? Where they get it? What kind
of question is that? So legit? In the question, what
do you think I bought it? We happened to have
the sail flip? I bought this rank twenty years ago. Huh, well,
I just remember it. I didn't buy it. Someone give
it to me as a present. The excuse me? Are
you where you're going in the box before?
Speaker 2: Where I got that?
Speaker 1: Right? I got exampled the wing, don't I? Oh y
y hmm? Here police kay, And this is missus Molly Gordon. There.
Speaker 2: I got a shop on these tenths. You know the
ring we're supposed to keep an eye open for. I
belong to the cab driver got killed.
Speaker 1: Well, hopella just flocked in with it. Where'd you get
the ring? Eddie? I found that, Lieutenant Davis. Where in
my pocket? How did it get into your bucket? Eddie?
Oh see, I I don't know. You don't have any
idea at all, you know me and Lieutenant I get drunk,
Well I I I shouldn't, but I do. I get
a few drinks in me, A few pills come on
the ring, Eddie. Well, when I get into a certain states,
don't stop now, Eddie. That's all I know. I just
get high and dan wat Eddie. I just can't remember
what I did. Did we refresh your memory? That would
be great. You killed a cab driver named Joe Paulson. Well,
what he's saying, why would I kill him? You took
his cash plus the ring? How did I kill him
with a gun? That's impossible, you know, fee, Lieutenant Davis.
I never work with a gun until now.
Speaker 3: I don't even have a gun.
Speaker 1: Oh yes you do, Eddie. We found it in your apartment,
the hot hold too, the gun that killed Paulson. But
I don't remember. If you killed him when you were high,
would you remember? Well? No, no, Well that's it, Eddie.
You got the ring and the gun. Yeah, yeah, the
ring and the gun. Now you want to make a statement,
I don't remember killing a lieutenant. But if you've got
all this evidence, I guess I did, Lieutenant. That still
fault in case. It's getting very complicated going on. Look
I was down to the tank, SI garage. It's over. Well,
how could it be? Old? Sometimes you're lucky and you
get something for nothing. What are you talking about? You
get a case that souls itself. Well, you've got the
killer of Arthur Drake and the cabby it said, hee
judged me, Eddie Jenson, but you can't be here. Look
he had the gun. He was trying to hot the
Cabby's rings. Ah No, No, I don't believe it. He
signed a statement. You mean he confessed, Well he didn't.
He didn't come on, lieutenant. When he gets into a
kind of drunken high, you know, I no, And at
that stead he doesn't know what he's doing, even in
that state. I don't believe Eddie Jackson would kill anybody.
The gun and the rings solid. It's not his style. Look,
he's a quiet hostel as far as he's concerned. A
little con game here and there, some quick flim flame.
If he's real hungry, he might chop. Sure. All this
is when he's himself but he gets kind of high
on booze and drugs and he becomes a complete other personality.
He didn't do what come on, lieutenant? But like I say,
I've been to the taxi garage. Things that don't hang
together another, I'm gonna drop a nail now, Why don't
you relax? Author K Drake? Yeah, so on. A woman
obviously Drake's wife, and the guy who fits the description
of Drake's personal secretary were the last stairs to ride
in Joe Paulson's cab, which means what things don't add up? Well,
I don't think Joe Paulson was wearing a ring. This ring,
plus his cash was taken im by some herder kill
him with a thirty two calibers and maybe that's what
it looks like. The ring puts the murder gunner both
in possession of an old friend of ours, Eddie Judson.
Eddie Judson is a harmless nut. Well, you forget it.
But don't you want to know what I said? Waste
of time? Okay, but I don't believe you got a
confession from Eddie. You want to see it? No, now
I want to see Eddie. How are they treating Eddie? Ah?
Not bad, sag and you know me, I get along
with everybody. Hey, yeah, when are they going to hold
my trial? Eddie? Did you kill that cam driver? Yeah?
Well sure tell me how? How well? I don't know.
What do you mean? You don't know? I don't remember,
and it's possible you didn't kill them. Hold on, that
ain't possible at all. I killed them, all right. If
you don't remember, how can you be so sure they
found a ring on me? Didn't they? Eddie? Would you
put your hand on the Bible and swear you killed
that cabby? Everybody says I killed them? I mean what
you fellas here? You've always been good to me. Could
someone be trying to frame you? Or you? Guys? Wouldn't
do that to me? I look on you as my friend.
Oh no, I didn't mean cops. I mean I mean
someone else OSAs and I got no enemies. Why would
anybody want to hang a frame on me? Okay, Eddie, Okay,
mister Hopkins, yes, turry in, turry in. I'm a police
detective here in my credentials, Sergeant Albert Gomez. But won't
you sit down, sergeant? Now? How may I help you?
I would like to speak with mister Arthur Drake, and
I'm sorry mister Drake is out of town. Oh well,
perhaps missus Drake could help me. May I ask why
I'm investigating a murder? Oh indeed that sounds grim. How
can missus Drake be of assistance? Suppose I discuss that
with Missus Drake. Certainly excuse me a moment. They are, yes,
thanks a police detective about the cab driver. I thought
you had arranged that rather neatly. They do have a
confession from the killer. I don't know what this man wants,
but what does he say?
Speaker 3: He wants?
Speaker 1: He wants to talk to you. All right, we shall
give him that opportunity. Please be very careful. I know
how to talk to.
Speaker 2: Police officers and exactly how to handle him.
Speaker 1: The web has been fun. It's purpose well, the spider
weaves it to catch the unwary fly. But at this
rather early point in our story, we have not yet
established who is the spider and who is the fly.
That is the general purpose of second acts, and I
shall bring you this one in just a few moments. Money.
Say what you like, but money is the great emancipator.
Money emancipates you from so many petty warriors, and a
great deal of money emancipates you from practice any kind
of care. Missus Arthur K. Drake Leonor was born to
great wealth and married into fantastic wealth. Wealth. It colors
your outlook on life and gives you a certain attitude
toward people. Would you like to know how Eleanor of
Aquitaine or Catherine de Medici spoke to their serfs and retainers?
The next few minutes should prove a revelation. You are
Sergeant Gomez of the police. Yes, Missus Drake, my husband
was instrumental in choosing your commissioner a tellers Falters mess Ah.
Well whatever, now, what is it you require of me?
Some information? What information could I possibly have for the police.
Several nights ago our cab driver was murdered. Oh well,
there are surly loss. As you well know, is bad
manners may have angered someone beyond all endurance. You, your husband,
and another gentleman, mister Frank Hopkins, rode in that man's
cab just before he was killed. That's impossible. Huh? Are
you saying you did not ride in a cab driven
by Joseph Paarson on the night. I don't ride in cabs.
I despise them. We always use our own motor cars.
I see, well, I should like to speak with mister Drake.
That would not be convenient at this time. I'm told
he's out of town. When is he expected back? I
was not aware that mister Drake is accountable to the police.
Are you finished here? Not quite? Good day? I know
my way out one moment. Leave. How much money do
you make? What's a matter of public record. You could
look it up. How would you like to leave the
police force? I never thought about that? And work for me?
In what capacity? A confidential, intimate capacity? How would mister
Drake like that? No, we needn't concern us. That was
about mister Drake. Why not. Whatever you're making now, I'll
double it. I don't think so. Isn't the offer attractive enough? Oh?
Oh it's it's very attractive. But now now I know
who you remind me of. Yes, Pharaoh's daughter really A
legend says that Pharaoh's daughter became enamored, an unusual word
for a police officer. Some of us are fairly well educated.
She she fell forward? Does that make you see it
more clearly? A Hebrew slave? She summoned him to her tent,
and after he left, he was immediately speared to death.
How exciting. Thank you for your most generous and exciting offer.
Will you notify us when mister Drake returns? Oh, certainly,
as I said, I know my way out. Nor Why
did you talk to him like that? He amused me.
Wouldn't have I thought you told me everything would go smoothly.
Why did you deny we were in that cab? It
seemed like a smart thing to do. Who could have
told him that the door man, the door man at
Luigi's restaurants? Think, but we have to kill him till
or we cannot depopulate the city. Yes, this is mister Hopkins.
Now I'll speak with mister Thompson. Yes, mister Thompson. Mister
Drake was called out of town on a sudden emergency,
but he authorized me to tell you to go ahead
with the merger. Thank you, goodbye. It worked. We can
keep doing this for how long? Indefinitely? Arthur always tried
to pose as a man of mystery. Well he's going
to become more and more mysterious as time goes on.
I just wish what do you wish? I wish you
hadn't irritated that detective. If he bothers you killing lenor
you just don't go around killing people. The daughter's a pharaoh, doo,
what are you talking about? You may have to he
may become very very bothersome, But why don't we wait
and see? I would do it now. He will pry
and probe, disturb the duff. But you have no way
of knowing that he intends to. I have a woman's
way of knowing. Frank, these things are best done early.
I'll just get Davis to move on this. I'll get
the evidence and just jump it into his fat lap. Hello. Hello,
is Jim there? Yes, yes, Jim. He was the doorman
at Luigi's restaurant. Yeah, yeah, Well I want to talk
to him. What do you mean in a fact? Well no, no, no, no, no,
never mind, thank you. Well, well, well what do you
know about that? I don't know why I should be impressed.
A doorman, lieutenant, a doorman at the Ouigi's. He said
to me that he remembered putting mister Drake, missus Drake,
and this mister Hopkins into a cab that night. Yeah,
so I got to see mister Drake. You went to
see Arthur Drake. Mister Drake is an ordinary citizen. Look,
a guy with a quarter of a billion, give a
take is not an ordinary citizen. I was under the
impression that this was a democracy. Well it isn't a
dezen anyhow, he wasn't in absolutly. I spoke to the wife.
So what did she say? She said she wanted me
to become her boyfriend. Don't go flaky on me. What
she said that I found interesting was that they hadn't
taken a care that night. All right, So she said that,
and it's true, But it can't be true. Why not
beacause that would contradict the testimony of the dorman, Jim Terry.
Jim told me he put them in a cab. Really
might have been wrong. So I called back there this afternoon,
and guess what he's gone. I'm in gone. He took
off to where I don't know. He told Luigi he
came into some money and could afford to quit. Sohy
couldn't that be the truth? I called his rooming house
and the landlady said he left like that and no
forwarding address. You want to tell me this is all coincidence?
Oh my boy, all this messing around where the Drakes
can only embarrass you. But I'm investigating a murder. What murder?
The murder of cab driver Joseph Pulse. The case is foose.
We already have the murderer. I don't believe it, Trajan,
what's gotten into you? Do you really and truly and
sincerely believe that poor Eddie Judson is the killer? Yeah?
Why why should missus Drake deny that she and her
husband and if other guy were in that cab when
Jim the doorman told me otherwise, there's all this man, Look,
I got an assignment for you, lieutenant. Lieutenant, give me
a little more time on this case. Why case? There
is no case? All right, all right, but be advised.
I'll work it on my spare time. Oh why don't
youill that well on the alone? No, no, mister Drake
does not approve of that acquisition. Well, not at this time.
Oh yes, he will certainly let you know. Goodbye. Who
else is on the line, Norton? Oh very well, put
him on. Yes, what did you say your name was? Oh? Yes, yes, No, No,
mister Drake has a policy about publicity, uns it completely.
None of no conditions would he agree to an interview. Oh, sir,
there's no law that compels him to, is there. Good day, Yeah, Frank,
you're doing very nicely. He did die at the right time,
didn't he, considering that he intended to divorce me and
fire you. He had no intention of firing me. He
would have found out about those bonds sooner or later.
Why talk about that now? Uh? Have you arranged for
my little matter? Leonora? Are you sure that is the
point in having power if you can't use it. Well,
power is to decide the fate of a company, an industry,
perhaps the economy of the nation. But what you want
is just some personal thrill.
Speaker 2: That's what power is to everybody, personal thrills. It all
depends on what thrills you. I want that detective killed,
and it's more than a whim.
Speaker 1: He's dangerous. Well, if I can't convince you, I'd like
to give him another chance. You would, Oh no, no, no,
You'll see.
Speaker 2: Pharaoh's daughpher has her slave killed after he leaves at end,
What are you doing? I'm calling Sergeant Albert Gomez to
give him another invitation.
Speaker 1: Hello? Is this Sergeant Gomez? Yes, this is Pharaoh's daughter. Well, Hi,
the job is still open. I thought we might even
triple y'all salary. I'm afraid I'll just have to refuse. Bye,
there's no future in it. On the contrary, the beautiful future,
it's not quite the one I had in mind. Well,
no harm in asking. By the way, is mister Drake
back in town?
Speaker 3: No, I'll keep trying.
Speaker 1: Goodbye, missus Drake. Why did you do that? It amused me?
Did it because you want to be in a position
where we have no choice but to kill him? That's puffle.
I can put off reporters, I can put off clients.
I can say mister Drake is indisposed, but I can't
keep stalling the police. Eventually I will have to produce
mister Drake, and I can't do that. Sergeant Albert Gomez
is your problem. He's the only curious policeman. Get rid
of him just like that. I'm sure you can devise
something plausible.
Speaker 3: I'll have to, Hi, Sage, tell Jerry Filler up.
Speaker 1: Huh how's he tacted versus Albert? It's like everything else?
Speaker 3: Oh well, oh.
Speaker 1: Oh, what's the manager? And cross the street. Them guys
with masks and Louise grocery storing to stick up, Kerry,
run inside of your office phone the priestinct. Quick officer
needs helped Armed robbery and progress. Yeah, yeah, I have
got you.
Speaker 3: Be careful out.
Speaker 1: I'm a polakoff car. Yo. I I seen them guys
were tenant two three, may be in loose grocery and
they was holding up to joint. What they look like
they're wearing masks, I said to call us.
Speaker 3: He steps out of the car.
Speaker 1: And well, all of a sudden, they start shooting at him,
as if it was a what I don't know, might
sound crazy, Just tell me, as if they were waiting
for him. Wait, go ahead, go ahead. Yeah, I like
they were waiting for him because well, you know, sooner
steps out of his car when it seems like they
shoot from all over. I mean from all over, he said,
the stick of guys we're in the grocery across the streets. Yeah. Yeah,
it might have been my imagination, but it seemed to
me the bullets was.
Speaker 3: Coming from every which way, you know.
Speaker 1: What I mean. No, like they were waiting for him.
Why would anybany be waiting Warren, I don't know it
work like Evan set up. Why would anybody want to
set up ay Al Gomez said, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I just say that's how it looks.
Speaker 1: You know what I say. I say, you've been watching
too many movies. But even as he says, it's a
tiny ache of doubt begins to know at Lieutenant Davis.
First there was a hold up and a killing of
a cab driver, which Sergeant Gomez insisted was not really
a hold up. Now a hold up of a grocery
store in which Sergeant Gomez is killed and might not
be a hold up either. The Lieutenant is a hard
man to convince. But once you get him in motion.
Well that's the concern of Act three, when I return
in just a moment, the habits of a lifetime, how
little we realize that they hold us in virtual servitude.
For an entire career. Detective Lieutenant Davis has been strictly
a book officer, go by the evidence, be guided by
what exists, not by what might. The ultimate conservative, he
would call him completely relaxed, comfortable, portly, But now something
bothers him. He's not sure what. Tenant dervis, Oh, now
want to see you one? Okay, okay, I'll go over there.
As if I don't have enough trouble oh, thanks, lil talent.
The nice of you to come buy. Now, what do
you want to see me about? Eddie? That's awful about
Sergeant Gomshh. Yeah, I heard on the radio. I keep
remembering what he told me about what she said to me, Eddie.
Would you swear on a bible that you really killed
that cab driver? Well? What about it? Well, you know,
Lieutenant Davis, when somebody, when a friend of yours is
killed or dies, you kind of feel very close to
the God. And and well I couldn't put my hand
on a bible and swear that I killed that cab driver. Eddie.
You mean you want to change your story. I don't
want to make it inconvenient for you. Lieutenant. There isn't
a person I admire more than you. Come on, get
to the point, Eddie. A friend of mine was in
the scene. Ooh, I'm not a pigeon, Lieutenant. That's something
I never done. And she says to me, Eddie, and
how could you have killed that cabby when you were
with me? You mean you're going an alibi? Well not exactly.
What do you mean? Not exactly? If she's got to
take the stand to clear me, the DA is going
to check her out, and you see she's on the lamb. Yeah,
but if she can put you in the clear, I
told her I got friends on the cops. We are friends,
ain't we, Lieutenant? Well sure, I mean there's nothing personal
in this. We we need each other. So I figure
you can get me clear as long as I'm never
sin pretty, yady, what am I going to do with you?
And so since I found out I didn't do it,
what I've been trying to think maybe maybe Sergeant Gomez
was right. Maybe I am being framed. Alright, ready, I'll
look into it.
Speaker 2: Lieutenant. We've already spoken to a police officer.
Speaker 1: Only unfortunately he's been killed. Missus Drake. Oh really yeah,
and I kind of prevent hold up. Oh how awful?
Oh flag, that nice undetective? What was his name again?
It had an ethnic ridden to it, Gomez. Oh yes,
I'll I'll have to make sure I have everything right now.
You say you didn't ride in Joe Paulson's cab. We
rode in no one's cab. That's a fact, Missus Drake.
Oh yes, and mister Drake could corroborate if he was here,
of course, but he's out of time. Yes, he is
expected back shortly. Well, one never knows of mister Drake.
But just for the sake of the record, these opposed
mister Drake could send us a deposition, a deposition to
what effect, not just a science statement, saying that he
either did or didn't ride as a passenger in Joe
Paulson's cab or any taxi cab on the night of
October twenty eighth. Oh, that's easily accomplished. Is there anything
else we can do for you? Nnic So missus Drake,
I have afraid the police have taken up too much
of your time as it is. That's sure nice to
you to get me out of chair for bred the
fresh air Lieutenant Ay here in business, Eddie, I want
you to think about what he right under this lamp
Poster's where Joe Paulson was killed. Do you remember being
here that night? I told you I got on one
of them highs. I don't remember a saying that it's
not good enough. You got to remember, please, Lieutenant, if
you killed him, you killed him here. And if you
want me to go out on a limb for you, you
will have to cooperate it. Otherwise it's the rest of
your life and jail. You're going to remember, Eddie everything
about that night a fry. Honest, I will I was
over to her apartment. That was that. I told you
she's on a lamb. I'm not a rat. Where's the apartment.
It's around here, But don't ask me exactly where I'll
stay in jail first, I'm on it. He come on,
she's one of them college kids. Were up in her
path turning on pretty good. I guess she goes for
all the guys in account of her. Old man. You
never even spent any time with her head. He tell
me what happened right here, right right here. I'm trying
to hold on to it, Lietenant, I'm trying to capture it. Yeah. Well,
we were sailing pretty high, she and I, and there
was a shot. We hear a shot, first shot, the shot,
you know, and she says, get out of here, ready,
don't get mixed up, and she pushes me out of
the pad. And Eddie, it's kind of hazy. Hey, I'd
had too much of you. I remember walking down the
street and it was this cab near the curb, and
he says to myself, oh, maybe I better take it
home in my condition, you know. And a guy says
a who. A guy says, excuse me, sir, did you
drop this way? Who was he? I don't remember it.
It's also mixed up. So for absolutely no reason, somebody
gives you a ring and then takes your home. Yeah,
I think that's how it happened. Why so they could
hang the frame on me. Somebody said, don't you worry
about a thing, mister, mister who like Simpkins? No hot Hopkins? Fuck? Yeah? Okay,
Eddie trying to go home?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Mean you're taking me back to jail for just a
little while, Eddie. I hope you're a dispatcher. Yeah, but
we don't need no driver police. This the garage Joe
Pawson drove out her. Yeah, it's funny. The coup will
come by a couple of days ago to talk to
me about poor Joe. Well, I read where he gets
killed in the stick up too, Joe Paulson, Well you
know about him. Oh, Joe's kind of a regular guy,
family man. The night he was killed by what can
I tell you? Only what I told He had a
cop According to his trip ticket, he picks up a
fair at Sheridan and madis Sheridan and madis He's hit
a cab blind are every night. That's for Luigi's restaurant,
you know, okay, okay, So he picks up his pairwad
does he go? Eighty seven Barclay eighties seven Barkley? I
was just there, swell you w yeah who yeah, never
mind sybody? He never got there. How do you know?
Because of what it said on his trip sheet? He
makes the pick up at ten thirty right, you're telling
it from Luigi's to eighty seven Barclays a good half
an hour, even late at night with no traffic. So
the cops, you guys, you say he was killed at
ten forty five or thereabouts, and he's found at four
ninety nine. Sheridan just not quite half way. You got
that trip sheets? You know, I got it. Law says
we got to keep at least a year all fall
away in this cabinet. I remember it by heart. On
account of what happened. That was his last fair. So
the thing had to happen while they were still in
the cab. It's funny, much funny a trip sheet it's gone.
How can it be gone? It ain't here? Yeah? Yeah, sure,
that figure what are you saying? Well, what does it figure?
Why would anybody want to steal a trip sheet? Because
that trip sheet is worth maybe a quarter of a
billion bucks. I have t Davis, Eddie, you want to
get the people who killed Sergeant Gomez. I'd do want
anything for Sergeant Gomez. O cab and threw it over
the commissioner and everybody. We have evidence, but it doesn't exist.
A witness who disappears, a taxi cab driver's trip sheet
that's missing, a deposition with a signature that might or
might not be a forgery. The experts can't agree them.
Guys never can. So all we have is you, Eddie,
and I want you to make a phone call. You're
gonna speak to him missus Arthur Drake. Who missus Arthur Drake?
Did the wife of that billion I have big shot? Yeah?
Why do you want me to talk to her? Because, Eddie,
you were framed to cover up the murder of Joe Paulson,
and he was killed to cover up. But I can
only figure out is another murderer. That's why nobody's seen him,
Arthur Drake. That's Judy so man, Eddie, Judy Drake, No way,
she's really a sweet kid will tend to look. Wait
a minute, my head is clear. It's coming back to me,
clear as a bell. Drake Drake. Oh man, that's the
broom that sweeps the cob webs clean. I Nellison. I
ran out of Judy's pad down the street. There's a cab.
A guy stops me. He says, hey, you dropped your ring.
You're sick. Let me take your home. He says, I'll
take that cab. He says, you can't. It's taken. And
he's right. I look inside. Two guys are asleep on
the back seat. One of them is mister Drake. Asleep
or dead? I don't know. I know they're on the
back seat. Are you sure one of them is mister Drake?
Speaker 3: Am positive?
Speaker 1: All because I've just seen his picture in Jody's place.
That gray hair, the white mustache, had no him anywhere.
And you have to work for us, now me work
for the cops. Yeah, here's what you have to do. Well,
mister Joson, you said on the telephone that you were
a witness to a certain event. Yeah, yeah, I was.
I please be seated, Oh thank you, and continue has
the gentleman arrife. Yes he's about to begin. Oh please now,
let me interrupt. Well, about ten to eleven in the
night of October twenty eighth, I turned the corner onto
Sheridan near Desmond, and I seen his cab with a
bunch of people around it. I so many at that
hour of the night. Ain't usual for the neighborhood. This
continued mister Judson. Well, I was supposed to be the
one who killed the guy that drove that cab. Haven't
you been in jail though I've been let go. The
DA says he don't have a case against me, but
the gun, the ring circumstantial evidence. But I seen the
cabb be dead on the back seat, and also mister Drake,
and you folks stand him around. Oh this is a
ridiculous accusation. Who would believe it? Okay, you got rid
of the cabby's trip sheet, you bought off the doorman
at Luigi's, but you can't take care of the whole restaurant.
People know you were there. How did you get home? Benjamin?
My regulars, you're fair go now. You bought him off too,
plus the hoods who knocked off Albert Gomez. But it's
no good. Do you wish to be bought up. Soon,
you'll be buying off the whole world and won't help.
You're gonna have to produce, so, mister Drake, and you
can't do it. How much do you want? Nothing? I
just think you better give yourselves up. He's mad, This
gentleman is very dangerous. Kill him. What a pharaoh's daughter
you would have made? Evidently he's seen through everything. There's
no other way.
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, there is no way.
Speaker 1: It's that police lieutenant Lieutenna Davis. That's right, And I
think we got it all down, you know it, iss Drat.
The other way would have been for you to laugh
at him, deny everything. But I guess it takes more
to being a real pharaoh's daughter than just being born rich.
They don't make them like they used to anymore. Even then, Bravado,
true Bravado, could have saved them, but the plot was
too far flung, too many people, too many conflicting interests,
And of course Leonora claimed she had fallen under Frank's
malignant influence, and he made exactly the same counterclaim. These,
as you know, must always fall out, but we shall
stick together always, and I shall return in just a
few moments. There are those who feel it's their privilege
to rule the earth and everyone on it. Ancient kings
and even modern dictators have held the absolute power of
life and death, but their success depends on how judiciously
and cleverly they do it. Our cast included Jack Grimes,
Ian Martin, Joan shay Nack Pollan and Jordan Charney. The
entire production was under the direction of Hyman Brown Radio.
Mystery Theater was sponsored in part by Listerine Lozenges. This
is E. G. Marshall inviting you to return to our
Mystery Theater for another adventure in the macabre. Until next time,
pleasant dreams.