1 00:00:15,199 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:25,239 This is your post Adam Brand. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:28,719 going to bring you this week's episode of Dragnet. But 4 00:00:28,879 --> 00:00:31,839 first I want to encourage you, if you're enjoying the podcast, 5 00:00:31,879 --> 00:00:36,079 to please follow us using your favorite podcast software. Also, 6 00:00:36,119 --> 00:00:39,200 today's program is brought you part by the financial support 7 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:41,960 of our listeners. You can support the show on a 8 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,560 one time basis support dot Great Detectives dot net, and 9 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,759 you can also become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters 10 00:00:48,759 --> 00:00:50,799 for as little ass two dollars per month. Go to 11 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,799 Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, this week we 12 00:00:55,840 --> 00:01:00,719 are actually doing something a little bit different. For fifty months, 13 00:01:00,759 --> 00:01:06,159 we haven't had any lost episodes on Dragnet, but unfortunately 14 00:01:06,359 --> 00:01:11,480 that streak comes to a close as two episodes The 15 00:01:11,519 --> 00:01:16,400 Big Love are missing. The Big Trunk is one of 16 00:01:16,439 --> 00:01:20,799 those episodes where the TV adaptation circulates and we can 17 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:26,159 go ahead and listen to the soundtrack of that TV episode. 18 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:31,040 As usual, this has been Alexander as Frank Smith, but 19 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,000 as otherwise, the same story that would have been heard 20 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:38,760 on radio. So here based on the radio script that 21 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:44,079 aired on March twenty second, nineteen fifty one. Is the 22 00:01:44,359 --> 00:01:50,959 soundtrack of the TV episode that aired January seventh, nineteen 23 00:01:51,079 --> 00:01:53,840 fifty four. It's the Big Trunk. 24 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:06,079 Speaker 2: Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, the story you were of out 25 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:07,280 to see is true. 26 00:02:07,799 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 3: The names have been changed to protect the innocent. This 27 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:35,240 is the city, Los Angeles, California. I work here, I'm 28 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:42,439 a cop. It was Wednesday, September second, was cloudy in 29 00:02:42,439 --> 00:02:44,240 Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out a 30 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:47,479 homicide division. My partners Frank Smith, the boss's captain. Woman, 31 00:02:48,199 --> 00:02:51,039 my name is Friday. A man had jumped from a 32 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:54,159 downtown ten story building. We checked what evidence we had, 33 00:02:54,199 --> 00:02:56,800 but we were still unable to get an identification. Before 34 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:58,800 we could proceed with the investigation, we had to know 35 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:16,400 who he was and why. You know, what's doing? Well, 36 00:03:16,439 --> 00:03:18,479 not much got you've seen Frank Ronnie was supposed meet 37 00:03:18,479 --> 00:03:20,639 me here, as passed him in the whole communications said 38 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:22,520 to be run back playing make you think it busy? 39 00:03:23,039 --> 00:03:25,199 All about the same, but I'll have to go around 40 00:03:25,199 --> 00:03:27,560 the house though it's right. Don't mentioned something about that. 41 00:03:27,599 --> 00:03:29,159 You're getting ready for a wedding right at your house, 42 00:03:29,159 --> 00:03:31,479 aren't you. Yeah, My daughter aroundis he's getting a nice 43 00:03:31,479 --> 00:03:35,000 fellow that's up. Yeah, ambitious boys smart is a part 44 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,319 time accountment, goes to law school at Nowtown in Loyola. 45 00:03:37,439 --> 00:03:40,639 Real nice fellow. That's good when they get made from Saturday. 46 00:03:41,159 --> 00:03:42,960 My wife finally got her way. It's going to be 47 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:45,439 a big church thing, so that it doesn't have enough. 48 00:03:45,719 --> 00:03:48,000 Why you should have had all boys gots you're gonna 49 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,639 give you got away? I suppose. Yeah, so that's announced me. 50 00:03:50,639 --> 00:03:51,840 You've got to be sure and send my suit of 51 00:03:51,879 --> 00:03:55,080 the cleaner's. You've got a good press job on it. 52 00:03:54,879 --> 00:03:57,479 It is funny, but it seems the wife's been afraid 53 00:03:57,479 --> 00:04:00,000 for years. We never get Alice married off. Now it's 54 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,520 finally the works the wife's doing. I'm happy. Oh how's that? 55 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:04,879 She goes moping around the house, dabbing a rise with 56 00:04:04,919 --> 00:04:07,319 a handkerchief, keeps muttering something about losing a little girl 57 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,759 or little girl's living. I don't know, how was your 58 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:14,800 daughter Alice? Pretty true? Well, I guess I better get 59 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,480 started on this. Hi, I think what's going? How'd you 60 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,560 do on that job? Is nothing? Don't make it on 61 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:22,639 the prince? Huh? A couple of long relax on his 62 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,519 clothes were checking him out? Ye, anything else doing? Well? Say, 63 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:29,480 they just posted the list inside the annual physical exams. Am, 64 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,360 I honor sure both of us were supposed to report 65 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:33,600 to Roll nineteen at the Academy Monday ten o'clock. Who's 66 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,040 doing the examinations? Doctor seven? Oh, what's the matter. 67 00:04:38,199 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 4: Well, he's the one that checked me over last year, 68 00:04:40,399 --> 00:04:41,600 told me to take off some weight. 69 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 3: I haven't lost an ounce, but I thought you were 70 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,160 on a diet, I am Joe. 71 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:47,279 Speaker 4: You even got one of those little calorie gizmos. 72 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:49,079 Speaker 3: You know it tells you how many calories and everything. Yeah, 73 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,639 I hurt him, doesn't do any John still gam well. 74 00:04:51,639 --> 00:04:53,279 It seems to me if you keep touch you should 75 00:04:53,319 --> 00:04:55,920 lose some weight, you know me. In addition, Joe, I 76 00:04:56,040 --> 00:05:04,079 WoT some lunch, hot shot, I got it y, there's 77 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:05,879 one to roll out. I'm rich. Fare one is a 78 00:05:05,879 --> 00:05:15,399 fair hotel, Room twelve. Yeah. The slug murder eleven fifty 79 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:18,639 five AM relocated the Stage Hotel on West Howard Street, 80 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:20,879 half a dozen blocks from the City Hall, was in 81 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:22,920 the heart of the skid Row district, a white stuccle 82 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:25,920 building three stories. Who identified ourselves to the manager of 83 00:05:25,959 --> 00:05:29,319 the hotel and missus Lorraine Washburn. She led the way 84 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:35,040 up a flight of stairs to the second floor. The 85 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,439 hallway was dingy. Down at the end on the left 86 00:05:37,519 --> 00:05:41,240 was Room twelve. We went in. The room was crowded 87 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,920 with furniture bric a brac, odds and ends. The walls 88 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:46,160 were covered with pictures of old time board bill stars, 89 00:05:46,199 --> 00:05:49,399 autographed programs, and theatrical posters. In the center of the 90 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:51,600 room was an open steamer trunk full of costumes and 91 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,519 bundles of news clippings. It looked like it had been ransacked, 92 00:06:03,519 --> 00:06:05,279 tied to a chair with the body of a woman. 93 00:06:05,639 --> 00:06:08,000 She looked to me about thirty years of age, red hair. 94 00:06:08,399 --> 00:06:17,000 She'd been badly beaten about the face and head. Near 95 00:06:17,079 --> 00:06:20,920 the body was an empty wine bottle, a pair of 96 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:25,560 broken glasses, and I liked the steel pipe about ten 97 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,959 inches long. There were bloodstains on her. Frank put on 98 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,839 a call of the office and then to the crime lamb. 99 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:42,199 The landlady identified the victim of Telma Porter. We asked 100 00:06:42,199 --> 00:06:44,439 the lamaity what time she discovered the body. 101 00:06:44,439 --> 00:06:47,199 Speaker 5: About eleven twenty this morning. That's where it is now. 102 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,639 Speaker 6: Sergeant Stuffy's can touched I haven't mentioned it to anyone 103 00:06:50,639 --> 00:06:51,240 in the hotel. 104 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:54,319 Speaker 4: Of course, how long have the victim been staying here 105 00:06:54,319 --> 00:06:55,279 at the hotel, Miss. 106 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 6: Washington or at least two years, maybe a little more 107 00:06:58,360 --> 00:06:58,639 than that. 108 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,759 Speaker 5: Easy at the tail, It just doesn't make sense. 109 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:04,360 Speaker 6: How do you mean, man, Thelma didn't have any moon? 110 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:06,519 Speaker 5: He was just like most of the people I have 111 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:07,879 his stage volks. 112 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 3: They're all older people. 113 00:07:09,639 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 7: Most of them don't work too often, live from hand 114 00:07:11,959 --> 00:07:13,160 them out most of the times. 115 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 3: I say, did former porter live in this room here alone? Yeah, 116 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:17,839 that's right, this is a thing. 117 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 5: Though farmer used to be married. Her husband died in 118 00:07:20,439 --> 00:07:23,160 east about ten years ago. I think name was Carl. 119 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:24,759 Speaker 7: Thelma and Kyle. 120 00:07:25,519 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 6: There used to be an old Roadville king, the two 121 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:29,279 of them laws and behind. 122 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 4: Did the porter woman have many friends here at the hotel? 123 00:07:32,199 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 8: Man? 124 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 5: Oh, yes, to everybody. All my people are friendly with 125 00:07:36,079 --> 00:07:39,240 each other. Most of them are pinions. They just will 126 00:07:39,279 --> 00:07:40,600 have to tell all of them about. 127 00:07:40,319 --> 00:07:42,759 Speaker 3: This, Yes, ma'am, I graid so I must wash them. 128 00:07:42,839 --> 00:07:44,399 Remember the last time you saw him as porter? I 129 00:07:44,439 --> 00:07:45,839 mean before this morning, of course. 130 00:07:45,839 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 6: Just after midnight last night. I was sitting down in 131 00:07:48,639 --> 00:07:50,439 the lobby of eating, just about to go to bed. 132 00:07:50,879 --> 00:07:53,199 Thelma came home with George Steele. Did the friend of 133 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:56,279 Falmas lives here in the hotel? Thelma said good night 134 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,920 and came upstairs here till the room. George and I 135 00:07:58,959 --> 00:08:02,160 sat a bed and talked maybe ten fifteen minutes. Then 136 00:08:02,199 --> 00:08:04,240 this money I was taking the fresh linen around to 137 00:08:04,319 --> 00:08:06,959 the rooms, knocked on Thloma's door, but she didn't answer. 138 00:08:07,399 --> 00:08:08,920 Finally opened up with the past key. 139 00:08:09,519 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 3: There it was, and this George Steele that missus Porter 140 00:08:12,199 --> 00:08:13,439 came in with. Had she'd been out on a date 141 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:13,720 with him? 142 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:14,079 Speaker 9: Wud you know? 143 00:08:14,439 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 5: No, not exactly. 144 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 7: You see Thomas Bark quite a bit of time at 145 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:20,000 the bar down the street, Jack Hamley's place. 146 00:08:20,279 --> 00:08:22,439 Speaker 5: She was bare five six nights every week. 147 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 10: I see George. 148 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:26,519 Speaker 7: Dropped in poor a bottle of beer, had one of Elma. 149 00:08:26,199 --> 00:08:26,759 Speaker 3: I guess. 150 00:08:26,959 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 7: Then the two of them came back to the hotel together. 151 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:31,519 Speaker 3: Did she have any visitors last night? You know, no, sir, 152 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,519 I don't. Does she have any enemies that you might 153 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:35,759 know of? Maybe somebody she didn't get along way? No, 154 00:08:35,759 --> 00:08:37,480 nobody I know her, And you can't think of a 155 00:08:37,519 --> 00:08:39,039 reason why anybody'd want to kill her. 156 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 7: I don't know. 157 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:44,919 Speaker 10: Maybe somebody thought she had money. She didn't, not even 158 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:45,759 enough to bury her. 159 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 5: I don't know what's going to happen. 160 00:08:49,799 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 3: Joe's Washington. The manager on the way over here over 161 00:09:04,039 --> 00:09:05,639 he would you need me anymore? 162 00:09:06,080 --> 00:09:06,679 Speaker 5: Can I go now? 163 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:06,879 Speaker 11: With? 164 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 3: Got a few more questions you'd like to ask you, ma'am, 165 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:09,279 if you don't mind. 166 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:11,759 Speaker 5: Well, it's quite a shock, you know, terrible thing. 167 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 10: To have happened. That, such a terrible thing, all mixed up. 168 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:18,919 I'm going to have to explain what's happening. Tell me 169 00:09:19,279 --> 00:09:21,879 she had three weeks behind in her rent. I carried 170 00:09:21,919 --> 00:09:23,879 her on the books. Do you all know the hotel's 171 00:09:23,919 --> 00:09:25,559 going to want the rent for me? Going to have 172 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:26,480 to come from someplace. 173 00:09:26,600 --> 00:09:28,559 Speaker 3: Well, how did missus porter live? Didn't she have anyone 174 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:29,039 come at all? 175 00:09:29,399 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 5: She worked occasionally odd jobs, and she'd have the unplumbed insurance. 176 00:09:33,879 --> 00:09:35,840 Speaker 7: Even after I'm out on her two or three weeks ago. 177 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,360 There's no reason in the world for its sergeant killing. 178 00:09:39,399 --> 00:09:42,960 Tell she wasn't too young or very pretty. 179 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 5: She wasn't worth anything. She didn't even have a decent 180 00:09:46,639 --> 00:09:50,679 coat to go outing. Yes, ma'am, that's trunk over there 181 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:56,080 full of papers. That's all she has. What sense does 182 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:56,519 that make? 183 00:09:57,399 --> 00:09:59,559 Speaker 3: I don't know, ma'am. I haven't started checking yet. He 184 00:10:00,519 --> 00:10:01,759 a couple of scrap books. 185 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,919 Speaker 5: Nobody'd kill her for that pile level? 186 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:14,440 Speaker 3: Amuse cooking? Oh no, it's been done for less. I 187 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:17,399 continued to interview the landlady, missus Washburn. She told me 188 00:10:17,399 --> 00:10:19,320 that the victim had quite a few male acquaintances that 189 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:21,720 she'd met at neighborhood bonds. She gave me the names 190 00:10:21,759 --> 00:10:24,720 of all those she knew of. Twelve forty five pm, 191 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:27,240 Sergeant Jay Allen and the crew from the crime lab arrived. 192 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,679 The body and the murder room were photographed from all angles. 193 00:10:33,919 --> 00:10:37,000 Dean Bergmann processed everything in the room for lat and fingerprints. 194 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,799 The place was gone over thoroughly for further physical evidence. 195 00:10:40,279 --> 00:10:41,799 The only thing that didn't seem to belong in the 196 00:10:41,879 --> 00:10:44,039 room was the apparent murder weapon, the ten inch length 197 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:49,639 of steel pipe bound beside the body. One o five pm, 198 00:10:49,759 --> 00:10:51,559 after we put in a call to the coroner's office, 199 00:10:51,559 --> 00:10:54,120 we started checking with the residence of the hotel. No 200 00:10:54,159 --> 00:10:56,120 one gave us any direct leads to the killing, but 201 00:10:56,159 --> 00:10:57,559 more than a half a dozen of them told us 202 00:10:57,559 --> 00:10:59,200 that Missus Porter had been in the habit of making 203 00:10:59,279 --> 00:11:01,480 vague remarks, but what she kept in that steamer trunk 204 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,000 in her room. She made a point of never opening 205 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:07,000 the trunk for anyone, and she hitted constantly, even in public, 206 00:11:07,039 --> 00:11:12,039 that she kept something of value inside. Four forty five pm, 207 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,480 we started checking out the list of the murdered woman's friends, 208 00:11:14,519 --> 00:11:16,919 which Missus Washburn and the tenants had given us. It 209 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,600 went slow. We got little or nothing from the first 210 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:23,639 dozen names on the list. Nine to fifty pm we 211 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,360 went back to the office. We all, we's had better days, 212 00:11:26,399 --> 00:11:27,039 that's for sure. 213 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,639 Speaker 4: A lousy start. Couldn't be going as slower. It must 214 00:11:29,639 --> 00:11:31,000 have logged forty miles of the leg. 215 00:11:30,879 --> 00:11:33,759 Speaker 3: Works not in the show for it all I got, 216 00:11:34,039 --> 00:11:36,240 all right, how'd you do? Not much? How about you? 217 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:37,879 In the creedy? We checked out ten names of her 218 00:11:37,919 --> 00:11:40,080 list the pot woman's friends. The only thing that could 219 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,559 tell us we already knew that business about the steamer 220 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:44,559 trunk was a porter hitting around. He had something valdyblo, 221 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:47,240 where's that leaves? We got a fair motive to go on. 222 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:49,159 The crime lab called just before they come in. Did 223 00:11:49,159 --> 00:11:51,639 they got anything? No leg in prints? I went over 224 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:53,480 that steamer trunk though found a hundred schairs of some 225 00:11:53,519 --> 00:11:55,279 kind of mining stock selling. The liner of the trunk 226 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:58,320 wasn't anything. Not the paper it's printed on never was 227 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,200 worth anything. According to the bogo checked it. I got 228 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:09,919 the blow ups. Yeah, thanks a wine bottle. It's a 229 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:14,039 wine drinker. It looks like he stepped in their glasses 230 00:12:14,039 --> 00:12:26,440 and brow the Sure brutal in the Sure brown the 231 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,159 trunks in me. It sets up the motor pretty well. 232 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,399 The porter woman spent plenty of time at bars. She 233 00:12:31,399 --> 00:12:33,279 had a lot of men friends. We know she did 234 00:12:33,279 --> 00:12:34,679 a lot of talking about the nest that she was 235 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:36,000 supposed to have locked up in that trunk. 236 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:37,960 Speaker 4: So one of her boyfriends believed everyone have to have 237 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:38,759 a look through the trunk. 238 00:12:38,919 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 3: Didn't know she was in the room. Had to kill her. 239 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:42,759 It's a good possibility. All we got the word from 240 00:12:42,759 --> 00:12:44,399 the corner's office. By the way, you know what they 241 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:46,960 had to say because of death is multiple skull factors. 242 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,679 They're sure their links of pipers and moto weapon was 243 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,519 a porter dot. About four am, they figure killer Sure 244 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:55,320 gave her a vicious beating. Looks like more legworks, which 245 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:57,320 it was an easier way. Every bar she drank and 246 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:59,120 everybody she talked to. We'll have to check them off. 247 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:01,840 You know, that's just one thing that's got me stuff show. Yeah, 248 00:13:01,919 --> 00:13:04,639 it's that Thelma Porter. Don't you think she had an 249 00:13:04,639 --> 00:13:06,600 idea that money stuck with with us? But I guess 250 00:13:06,639 --> 00:13:09,120 she did. Why she hung on with it? Why didn't 251 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,440 she even keep a stuck along? I don't know, Gotch well, 252 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,120 I thing she had left with the squab books, a 253 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,080 couple of theater posters she knew they'd never pay off. 254 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,039 Ten fifteen PM. Along with Gotcham McCready, we went back 255 00:13:29,039 --> 00:13:31,399 to the West Howard Street neighborhood and started checking down 256 00:13:31,399 --> 00:13:34,399 the list of people known to the dead woman. One 257 00:13:34,399 --> 00:13:36,519 of them was a Miss Bab Sheldon, a singer in 258 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:39,120 a small cabaret on the corner of West Howard and Pachico. 259 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:41,639 We went back to a small dressing room where we 260 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:44,279 questioned the Sheldon girl. She said she'd known the victim 261 00:13:44,279 --> 00:13:45,240 for about five years. 262 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:48,080 Speaker 12: I kept telling Tommy to get out of that hotel live. 263 00:13:48,039 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 5: Any of those husbands wasn't any good for us. 264 00:13:50,159 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 3: Do you know of any study boyfriends she might have 265 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:52,480 had recently? 266 00:13:52,519 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 12: Micheldon No Telma. She couldn't get interested in any man 267 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,720 after call Dodd, her husband. That's what she told me. Anyway, 268 00:14:00,399 --> 00:14:01,960 it needs to be a great blood vultein. You know, 269 00:14:02,279 --> 00:14:05,960 she and her husband Rose and benond that's the way 270 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,039 to a build. Do you ever hear of them find 271 00:14:08,039 --> 00:14:09,039 an acrobatic routine? 272 00:14:09,279 --> 00:14:11,879 Speaker 3: No, did Miss Poor ever mentioned anything knew about a 273 00:14:11,879 --> 00:14:13,759 steamer trunk that she kept in the room, anything about 274 00:14:13,799 --> 00:14:14,759 what she kept on that trunk. 275 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:17,279 Speaker 12: No, not to me, she didn't. It was a kind 276 00:14:17,279 --> 00:14:19,080 of a standing gag with people in New Filma. 277 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,799 Speaker 3: She's kind of funny about it in what way? 278 00:14:22,279 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 12: No, Delman was a great talker. 279 00:14:24,279 --> 00:14:28,240 Speaker 3: You know this Princess Donald Dalma. 280 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,759 Speaker 12: Told everybody about her business. 281 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:31,559 Speaker 3: Talk to Blue Street. Uh huh. 282 00:14:31,919 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 12: She talk about her life, her prisonal affairs, especially when 283 00:14:34,759 --> 00:14:37,080 she had a few drinks. But I don't think I 284 00:14:37,159 --> 00:14:39,000 ever heard her mention to anybody what she had in 285 00:14:39,039 --> 00:14:41,840 that trunk. She'd hand around about it. Call her a 286 00:14:41,879 --> 00:14:44,480 gold mine. She never wants to let anyone see what 287 00:14:44,559 --> 00:14:45,159 was in that trunk. 288 00:14:45,519 --> 00:14:48,759 Speaker 3: Not one only knew one of our cards, Miss Sheldon. 289 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:50,440 Do you happen to hear anything else that might help 290 00:14:50,519 --> 00:14:51,919 us with appreciate it if you give us a. 291 00:14:51,879 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 12: Call such a terribleness. I don't know why it had 292 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,240 to happen. Now roud knows what I look like at 293 00:14:57,279 --> 00:14:59,799 the funeral. Man, I haven't got a decent ball dress 294 00:14:59,799 --> 00:15:00,240 to my right. 295 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 3: One am we checked back into the office to a 296 00:15:09,399 --> 00:15:13,360 pre arranged meeting. Sat up with gotcha, McCready all right, gotcha? 297 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,360 I think pretty squall. How about you might have something 298 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,639 you can't tell? Where's MCCREDI down on the car pool. 299 00:15:21,919 --> 00:15:23,720 There's a bar down on main Street, the left hand 300 00:15:23,799 --> 00:15:26,320 side for total woman used to go there quite a bit, 301 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:29,159 according to the bartender. Most of the regular customers noah, 302 00:15:29,279 --> 00:15:32,159 uh huh. The bartender told us he overheard a conversation 303 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:33,799 in one of the booths four or five nights ago. 304 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:37,720 Three whinos got their names. What about them? Bartender says 305 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,000 they were talking about film of Porter. He says he 306 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:41,840 heard one of the men say, she keeps the trunk 307 00:15:41,879 --> 00:15:58,159 in her room. We can break it open. Thursday, September third, 308 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,759 eight am. We round it up and in the custody 309 00:16:00,759 --> 00:16:03,120 the three men who'd been overheard while apparently planning a 310 00:16:03,159 --> 00:16:06,480 burglary of the murder victims hotel room, together with Sergeant 311 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,279 Jack Dotts and Sergeant Jack McCready. Frank and I had 312 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:11,480 little trouble locating the three men and bringing them in 313 00:16:11,519 --> 00:16:14,399 for questioning. They were fairly well known along skid Row, 314 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:16,480 and they immediately took the attitude that they had nothing 315 00:16:16,519 --> 00:16:21,120 to hide. We went along with them. We questioned them 316 00:16:21,159 --> 00:16:25,240 individually and together. Meantime, their rooms were being searched no leaves. 317 00:16:25,759 --> 00:16:28,639 Two of the men were brothers John Parkson and Arnold Parkson. 318 00:16:28,879 --> 00:16:31,840 The third man was Harold Young. All three listed their 319 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:36,759 occupations as part time laborers, unemployed. All three had records vagrancy, 320 00:16:36,919 --> 00:16:44,120 disorderly conduct, petty theft. We questioned Harold Young first, then 321 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,679 Arnold Parkson. They both had alibis. Their stories made sense, 322 00:16:47,759 --> 00:16:52,639 no conflicting statements. We interrogated the other Parks and brother John, 323 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:53,759 same results. 324 00:16:53,879 --> 00:16:56,519 Speaker 2: Well, they could have been yeah, trunk. The Pelmos was 325 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,159 kind of a jag about Tom. You know, you act 326 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,240 about his lot every god it kidded about it. We 327 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,519 even used to read Felma, tell we're going to break 328 00:17:03,519 --> 00:17:05,480 in it some night. Find Old Lush had put away 329 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:06,440 just a gag. 330 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:08,880 Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you something. We told this to the 331 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:10,599 other two. We got an idea, what's more than a gag. 332 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:12,039 In the case of you three, we got evidence to 333 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:13,640 back that up. If you want to have anything more 334 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:15,000 to your story, now's the time to do it. Fella. 335 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 2: I don't think I'm getting a pitch rack sag. I 336 00:17:17,279 --> 00:17:19,839 told you everything. I don't know what kind of evidence 337 00:17:19,839 --> 00:17:22,359 you got, but I'm clean. I know that much. Maybe 338 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:24,359 I booze it up some, but I don't run with heavy. 339 00:17:24,559 --> 00:17:25,680 Murder's way out of my life. 340 00:17:25,839 --> 00:17:28,000 Speaker 3: That's your story. Huh what else can I tell you? 341 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 9: Yeah? 342 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:37,079 Speaker 11: Anyway say the other two is nothing. I got it 343 00:17:37,079 --> 00:17:41,359 all down pack, got a good idea. What do you think, Oh, 344 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:42,880 it's not a way around for a while, we might 345 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,119 get something. Just thinking if we could get a bug 346 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,160 in one of the offices something. It's a long way around. 347 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:51,559 Nothing much else we can do because it check it's small. 348 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 3: We checked with Captain Morman's office and we got permission 349 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,319 to have the office bug. We put in a call 350 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:02,240 at the crime I haven't asked them to install listening 351 00:18:02,319 --> 00:18:04,960 equipment in the Captain's office as soon as possible. They 352 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,559 told us that they'd have the sound crew go to 353 00:18:06,559 --> 00:18:11,640 work on it immediately. Under the pretext of further questioning, 354 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,160 the sergeant Jack, Dodge and Frank took the suspects down 355 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,119 the hall to the interrogation room, where they would be 356 00:18:16,119 --> 00:19:00,279 held until the Salmon could finish rigging up the equipment. Yeah, 357 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,000 the listening equipment was installed in such a way that 358 00:19:04,039 --> 00:19:05,920 we would be able to hear the conversation in any 359 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,079 part of the Captain's office. Recording equipment and two sets 360 00:19:09,079 --> 00:19:11,160 of airphones were set up in the locker section off 361 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,319 the squad room so that we could monitor the conversation 362 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:18,240 between the two suspects. First, we had the two parks 363 00:19:18,279 --> 00:19:20,200 and brothers John and Arnold placed a loan in the 364 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,119 Captain's office. We listened to them talk between themselves for 365 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,200 half an hour. They didn't say so directly, but we 366 00:19:25,279 --> 00:19:27,759 caught inferences, but each brother doubted the other's innocence of 367 00:19:27,759 --> 00:19:32,680 the film reporter killing. At one thirty that afternoon, we 368 00:19:32,759 --> 00:19:35,079 took Arnold Parkson from the Captain's office and had Herald 369 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:36,000 Young take his place. 370 00:19:40,079 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 8: Venus again, I think I'll tell them of when they 371 00:19:42,519 --> 00:19:42,960 come in here. 372 00:19:43,279 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 9: He was waiting like this. 373 00:19:45,039 --> 00:19:48,160 Speaker 8: Yeah, keep us waiting much longer than I will. 374 00:19:52,079 --> 00:19:57,799 Speaker 3: Will you stop using that call, nor lawyer, but get 375 00:19:57,799 --> 00:19:58,960 out of here and to hurry with the lawyer. 376 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 8: We don't need one. 377 00:20:02,039 --> 00:20:03,079 Speaker 3: Let's talk you sure about it? 378 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 8: Here? I want it. I'm mixed up. 379 00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:07,799 Speaker 9: At the killing. 380 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:10,319 Speaker 8: What do you mean? I'm I sure of it. 381 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,559 Speaker 9: I told him, just be sure. That's who I don't 382 00:20:13,559 --> 00:20:14,319 want any part of it. 383 00:20:15,799 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 8: Yeah, well you be sure to you and your brother. 384 00:20:18,759 --> 00:20:20,079 Speaker 9: You always look at me with something. 385 00:20:20,079 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 8: I don't go to say me and my brother, we've 386 00:20:22,279 --> 00:20:25,640 never been in any heavy stuff killings, no part of it. Listen, 387 00:20:25,759 --> 00:20:27,599 I'm gonna tell you something. We should be talking about 388 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:28,680 killings in here. Why not? 389 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,279 Speaker 9: Sometimes the cops wire in these rooms. Oh, you're your mind. 390 00:20:31,279 --> 00:20:32,279 Speaker 8: You've been reading too much fiction. 391 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:34,160 Speaker 9: Yes, they do. They can hear everything you say, and. 392 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:36,759 Speaker 8: Enough time to wire anything. I've been here all day. 393 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 9: I'm gonna looking around. 394 00:20:38,079 --> 00:20:39,599 Speaker 13: I'm taking no chance that I don't want to get 395 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:47,960 involved in anything. Yeah, sometimes I had the mic and files. 396 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:56,640 Speaker 8: Or any place you can't see it. Very crazy. I'm 397 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:57,519 not taking any chance. 398 00:20:57,599 --> 00:20:59,880 Speaker 9: Then I check everywhere, and sometimes. 399 00:20:59,599 --> 00:21:00,640 Speaker 13: They put on the chairs. 400 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,079 Speaker 8: What do they do broadcast? Where's the wire? 401 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 9: You had to mic on the edge. 402 00:21:06,039 --> 00:21:09,759 Speaker 3: Of the desk, cover in that too, Get in there? 403 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:17,440 What are you doing there? I could hear you cleaning 404 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,559 the other office, going through the files. I thought I 405 00:21:19,599 --> 00:21:21,640 told you to stay putting in that chair. Why aren't 406 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:21,880 you there? 407 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:22,279 Speaker 9: Sit down? 408 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:27,680 Speaker 3: If I wanted you to probably office, i'd have told 409 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:29,960 you I both have get stay put in those chairs. 410 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:30,440 You understand. 411 00:21:54,640 --> 00:22:02,519 Speaker 8: Yeah, you got any more peons? 412 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:06,039 Speaker 9: Now? You ate most of them? 413 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,039 Speaker 8: What do you want them? You get them hungry? 414 00:22:11,039 --> 00:22:12,519 Speaker 9: You know. I think I'll hit the road and get 415 00:22:12,559 --> 00:22:14,720 out of here. La is no good this time of year. 416 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:16,680 The valley's bet up around Presno. 417 00:22:16,759 --> 00:22:19,160 Speaker 13: You know, if you're alone, if you go Pristmas nothing, 418 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:22,599 I'm staying here. Nobody asks you to come. I don't 419 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:24,200 think I like this partner deal anyway. 420 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,599 Speaker 9: I like to travel alone. Just mean nobody else somebody. 421 00:22:26,599 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 8: I think you got a rod deal. We made out 422 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:29,440 of it, But here's sure we made out. 423 00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 9: I just want to go to the valley, that's all. 424 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 8: I don't like it. Maybe you think I do. They 425 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:36,119 talked me over more than did you. Yeah, well, I 426 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,160 don't care. I don't like it. I'm getting out of here. 427 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:45,480 What's the pitch here? 428 00:22:46,519 --> 00:22:48,960 Speaker 9: You got nothing to cover up for a you mean 429 00:22:49,039 --> 00:22:51,640 cover up, of course not. I want to count this town. 430 00:22:51,759 --> 00:22:53,400 I saw something wrong in it. 431 00:22:53,519 --> 00:22:55,400 Speaker 8: You started talking about it in the truck the other night. 432 00:22:55,839 --> 00:22:57,680 Speaker 9: Water Dames, dun you're crazy. 433 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:00,200 Speaker 13: Your brother Arnie did ocause you are remember that you 434 00:23:00,279 --> 00:23:02,160 sure about that killing, Harry, You weren't in it. 435 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:04,640 Speaker 8: Don't go talking to anything like that. 436 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:07,279 Speaker 9: I never started any talk about getting. 437 00:23:07,039 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 8: In the trunk. What are you getting mad about? 438 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:08,599 Speaker 12: Her? 439 00:23:08,839 --> 00:23:14,000 Speaker 8: I didn't say anything by trying to get smart, that's all, asking. 440 00:23:13,799 --> 00:23:14,559 Speaker 9: Me about the killing. 441 00:23:14,599 --> 00:23:15,160 Speaker 8: I was in bed. 442 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:18,759 Speaker 9: Don't try to getting smart with me, all. 443 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 8: Right, Just as sure, what are you getting mad for? 444 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,599 Speaker 9: I was sleeping in the bed, and you know. 445 00:23:22,599 --> 00:23:28,400 Speaker 8: It, Johnny smart, I am not so sure. 446 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,079 Speaker 9: It wasn't You could have been sure. 447 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:31,599 Speaker 8: It could have been all of us as we get 448 00:23:31,599 --> 00:23:33,880 it all right, all right, all right, I just want 449 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:41,240 to keep it straight, that's all. You gotta smoke. I 450 00:23:41,319 --> 00:23:44,279 haven't had anything this morning. Lastly, cops, I got to 451 00:23:44,319 --> 00:23:44,759 read them all. 452 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 9: Sure. 453 00:23:46,519 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 14: I think they asked something else keeping us cooped up 454 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,599 in here. I'm dave, it's knocked up. Why didn't have 455 00:23:53,599 --> 00:23:58,920 to check on us? 456 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:01,960 Speaker 12: No? 457 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 8: Tell her what we needs a lawyer? 458 00:24:05,519 --> 00:24:10,079 Speaker 13: All this trouble over the day the truck. All she 459 00:24:10,079 --> 00:24:12,359 could talk about what she had in the truck. Nothing 460 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:14,400 in it anyway, old papers? 461 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:16,640 Speaker 9: Oh pay, but you know what was in it? 462 00:24:16,839 --> 00:24:18,680 Speaker 8: You're crazy. I didn't say he said old papers. You 463 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,079 said it wasn't anything in the truck. You opened a room, 464 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:22,240 you saw it. You're crazy. 465 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,640 Speaker 9: He shut up. 466 00:24:30,319 --> 00:24:30,799 Speaker 1: That's enough. 467 00:24:31,279 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 3: Come on, you know, see I'm about the trunky killer. 468 00:24:34,799 --> 00:24:35,519 Speaker 8: He's lying line. 469 00:24:35,559 --> 00:24:38,640 Speaker 3: He's the See how he's lying. That's left you about 470 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:41,359 the truck. So he was sitting there, he said, old papers, 471 00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:42,960 old papers in the trunck. Youens to kill her. 472 00:24:43,079 --> 00:24:44,440 Speaker 2: He's lying, trying to cover up. 473 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,599 Speaker 3: That's what he's trying. There's the line. It's addictive. Phone 474 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,039 in the road. We heard you, No you didn't. It's recorded. 475 00:24:49,079 --> 00:24:51,319 We'll play it back for you. Yeah, that's right. 476 00:24:54,839 --> 00:24:57,359 Speaker 2: I didn't mean it. I didn't mean any of it. 477 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,640 She wasn't supposed to be in her room. It wouldn't 478 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,400 have happened if she wasn't there, All right, why'd you 479 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:06,640 do it? I don't know. I just wanted to see 480 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:11,079 what was in that trunk. She was going to scream, 481 00:25:11,319 --> 00:25:16,079 so I hit her with a pipe. She was suffering, 482 00:25:17,319 --> 00:25:20,119 so I killed her. I didn't want her to suffer. 483 00:25:21,799 --> 00:25:24,920 Just one thing on top of another. When I went there, 484 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,440 I didn't even think about killing it. I just wanted 485 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:31,119 to see what was on the truck. I just wanted 486 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:37,519 to look. I had to find out. I guess you'd know, papers, 487 00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:39,559 all pieces of newspapers. 488 00:25:39,599 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 15: That's On December seventh, trial was held in Department ninety two, 489 00:25:59,519 --> 00:26:01,839 Superior Court of the State of California in and for 490 00:26:02,039 --> 00:26:04,960 the County of Los Angeles. In a moment the results 491 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:13,160 of that trial, the suspect was tried and convicted of 492 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:27,759 murder in the first degree. Further investigation proved that Harold 493 00:26:27,799 --> 00:26:30,359 Young and Arnold Parkson were not implicated in the crime, 494 00:26:30,839 --> 00:27:44,119 and they were released from custody. 495 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,839 Speaker 1: Welcome Back. Like most of the TV episodes that were 496 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:57,880 adapted from radio episodes, this one rot does really adapt 497 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,480 well back the other way. There were a few too 498 00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:05,160 long for audio pauses, but otherwise fine. The only thing 499 00:28:05,279 --> 00:28:08,160 missing was the sense of the killer, which according to 500 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:13,720 the screen on the TV program, the killer was senced 501 00:28:13,759 --> 00:28:17,400 to death in the lethal gas chamber. You can also 502 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,279 tell this was adapted from radio. The main comedy relief 503 00:28:21,319 --> 00:28:24,240 bet came from the other police officer who came in 504 00:28:24,319 --> 00:28:28,279 before Frank, and honestly the punchline about the daughter being 505 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,799 thirty two and the mother's attitude was a good twist. 506 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,240 It was probably more funny than that weight loss banter 507 00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:39,400 between Joe and Frank. The idea of the down on 508 00:28:39,559 --> 00:28:42,200 their luck performer who ended up living in a rooming 509 00:28:42,279 --> 00:28:45,160 house is a common trope in the Golden Age of radio, 510 00:28:45,599 --> 00:28:49,519 and it even features in the nineteen sixty TV series 511 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,839 in the Bank Examiner Swindle. It's handled with a great 512 00:28:54,039 --> 00:28:58,279 degree of sympathy. The entertainment industry in this era was 513 00:28:58,519 --> 00:29:05,000 really a rough and changing landscape as you had this 514 00:29:05,359 --> 00:29:12,319 movement from various forms and media's vaudeville and burlesque to 515 00:29:12,759 --> 00:29:18,119 radio and films and later television. Not everyone was able 516 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:24,279 to make that sort of transition, and even those who could, 517 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,240 many aged out of the profession based on the type 518 00:29:28,279 --> 00:29:32,440 of roles and performances they did, or the type of 519 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,799 stuff that they did just became unprofitable, and certainly this 520 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:41,279 happened with many vaudeville performers. The bugging of the Captain's 521 00:29:41,319 --> 00:29:45,440 officing was very tense when that guy got suspicious that 522 00:29:45,519 --> 00:29:49,000 the office was bud and it was very quick thinking 523 00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:52,519 by Friday to come in there and stop them. It 524 00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:55,559 was also a risk because if they didn't fall for Zacht, 525 00:29:56,079 --> 00:30:00,640 they'd feel like the police were listening for sure, and 526 00:30:00,839 --> 00:30:03,920 then they wouldn't get anything. And I do like unlike 527 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:09,160 the more fictional detective programs, the slip about the trunk 528 00:30:09,279 --> 00:30:12,359 came with a fellow suspect and associate in the room 529 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,400 rather than the police, where people are going to be 530 00:30:15,559 --> 00:30:18,599 a lot more cautious if they're talking to a detective. 531 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,319 Listener comments and feedback now and we turn to our 532 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,759 listener survey and will over into our neighboring state of 533 00:30:27,039 --> 00:30:31,839 organ Rits. Great job, Adam. I've been listening to Dragonet 534 00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:35,160 radio shows every night for at least ten years. It's 535 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,519 done so well. Indeed it is, and I hope you 536 00:30:39,039 --> 00:30:41,039 enjoyed today's episode as well. 537 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:41,880 Speaker 8: Well. 538 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,039 Speaker 1: Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, 539 00:30:45,079 --> 00:30:47,079 and I want to thank Mitch. Mitch has been one 540 00:30:47,119 --> 00:30:51,119 of our Patreon supporters since October twenty twenty four, currently 541 00:30:51,119 --> 00:30:54,680 supporting the podcast at the shawmus level of four dollars 542 00:30:54,839 --> 00:30:57,519 more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Mitch, 543 00:30:57,839 --> 00:30:59,839 and that will do it for today. If you're in 544 00:31:00,079 --> 00:31:04,720 joining the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software, 545 00:31:05,039 --> 00:31:08,000 and if you're enjoying the show on YouTube, be sure 546 00:31:08,039 --> 00:31:11,039 to lock the video, subscribe to the channel, and mark 547 00:31:11,079 --> 00:31:15,119 the notification bell, all those great things that help YouTube 548 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:19,000 channels to grow. We will be back next Saturday with 549 00:31:19,079 --> 00:31:22,880 another episode of Dragnet, but join us back here on 550 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,799 Monday for the adventures of the Falcon Wear. 551 00:31:27,359 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 16: The wu You don't remember now, it's been a long time. 552 00:31:32,279 --> 00:31:36,319 My name is Wearing, Mike Wearing. Oh sure you're that 553 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,000 private dick they call a falcon. It comes back to 554 00:31:39,039 --> 00:31:42,119 you now. Yeah, but I don't remember inviting you when 555 00:31:42,559 --> 00:31:45,720 you just forgot your menas Yeah, what in the world 556 00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,440 of a possession to move into a dump like this? 557 00:31:48,319 --> 00:31:49,079 Speaker 9: I like the view? 558 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 3: Yeah? 559 00:31:49,799 --> 00:31:52,079 Speaker 16: Better on the clear day you can see eight million flies. 560 00:31:53,279 --> 00:31:55,400 Lucky it did much better for himself. I hear tell 561 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,319 he's got a villa in Italy that's out of this world. 562 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:02,680 How come you're two separated when you deported any your business? No, 563 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,079 but it's Uncle Sam's. I'm working for him these days. 564 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,480 What are you babbling upon a cigarette? I asked you 565 00:32:09,559 --> 00:32:14,759 something worry Well, it's come to Uncle's attention that narcotics 566 00:32:14,799 --> 00:32:16,799 are being smuggled into the States by way of Egypt. 567 00:32:17,359 --> 00:32:19,160 We've got to hunch the traffic is being directed by 568 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,799 Lucky from Italy. What's that got to do with me? Well, 569 00:32:21,839 --> 00:32:22,559 isn't it strange? 570 00:32:22,559 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 3: I find you in Cairo and. 571 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,480 Speaker 16: I'm studying to be a maswan? 572 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 3: Oh? 573 00:32:28,279 --> 00:32:32,759 Speaker 16: What's Carol Morgan's reason? Oh, Lucky's old girlfriend? 574 00:32:33,359 --> 00:32:38,000 Speaker 3: Is she here? You mean you didn't know? No, it's funny. 575 00:32:38,039 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 16: I tell the boy to our hotel yesterday looked exactly 576 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:43,319 like you and our luckwise guy, I can't blame you 577 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:46,039 for being suspicious, Vince, with you and Carol and Cairo 578 00:32:46,279 --> 00:32:48,079 looks like the gathering of the clan. I teed, I 579 00:32:48,119 --> 00:32:50,960 haven't seen her. Isn't that her diamond ring? 580 00:32:51,279 --> 00:32:51,839 Speaker 2: Huh? 581 00:32:52,039 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 16: You shouldn't leave it lying around, Vince. It's much too valuable. 582 00:32:55,279 --> 00:32:56,240 How comes she gave it to you? 583 00:32:57,599 --> 00:32:58,799 Speaker 3: She's crazy for me. 584 00:33:00,079 --> 00:33:02,400 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime. 585 00:33:02,559 --> 00:33:07,400 Send your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net, 586 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,839 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 587 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:16,759 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. 588 00:33:17,039 --> 00:33:19,960 This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.