Speaker 1: Unsolved mysteries.
Speaker 2: Some crimes of murderer mysteries because the murderer, having foreseen
Speaker 2: every difficulty of avoiding detection, has successfully overcome these difficulties and.
Speaker 3: Has therefore actually avoided detection.
Speaker 2: But there are crimes in which the mystery lies in
Speaker 2: the manner in which the crime was committed. Such is
Speaker 2: the case of the bridge whist expert, as the New
Speaker 2: York Police termed the slaying of J. V. Maxwell in
Speaker 2: his apartment six forty four West seventieth Street, New York City.
Speaker 2: Since some of the characters are still alive, names of
Speaker 2: characters and places have been changed, but the dramatic reenactment
Speaker 2: is authentic in every detail. The scene is the six
Speaker 2: hundred block West seventieth.
Speaker 3: Street, New York.
Speaker 2: The milman on his rounds waves to a milkman across
Speaker 2: the street. Police Officer brown saunters down the sidewalk, and
Speaker 2: at that moment a woman walks down the street, up
Speaker 2: the steps to number six forty four, takes out the
Speaker 2: latch key, opens the door, and walks into the apartment
Speaker 2: as the clock strikes eat.
Speaker 1: I'll watch it. Who hell word, come here? I have
Speaker 1: a lock. You hear me? You need to still the
Speaker 1: rest in the room.
Speaker 2: Well he's dead now they'll clean through the head. When
Speaker 2: I call headquarters, Hello, Hello.
Speaker 1: What comes out of order? I'll use the one next door. Hey,
Speaker 1: you doutman?
Speaker 2: Then just standing at the door gaping, Get on the
Speaker 2: tone and call headquarters.
Speaker 1: Oh, cal, I'll get a body work. I haven't touched
Speaker 1: the body. No, I should say not. Why are you anyways? Why? No,
Speaker 1: he wasn't married. I'm the house keeper. I came in
Speaker 1: with a few minutes the door.
Speaker 4: I was gonna tell him something.
Speaker 1: I came in. I'm in up there. You were right? Uh,
Speaker 1: he leaves the door open when you went out.
Speaker 4: No, I was just coming into the day.
Speaker 1: I'll leave it in the one home you found the
Speaker 1: door locked? Yes, I had to even my chee to
Speaker 1: get in. How many people have pleased the next win?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well the lock was changing me last week.
Speaker 1: Anybody got in through the back door.
Speaker 4: There is no back door. There's a basement door. You
Speaker 4: gown the unsidy he this to the next one must
Speaker 4: have killed himself.
Speaker 1: Nobody coulda got him, killed himself and then went out
Speaker 1: and hit the gun. I suppose, Oh, I didn't think
Speaker 1: about the gun. Anybody who went him last night, not
Speaker 1: before I left.
Speaker 2: Mm, Max will smoke over his cigarette, not that I know,
Speaker 2: or was this one here on the matter shelf when
Speaker 2: he left last night? Then left burning and charged the
Speaker 2: show wasn't hiven ILSs uh.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is probably the DA and he's investigated.
Speaker 4: There's something else I don't understand.
Speaker 1: There was a lot I don't understand.
Speaker 4: But mister next over all whig and and he had
Speaker 4: artificial teeth. He was very particular, but nobody ever.
Speaker 1: Stilling it out him. And yeah, yeah, yeah, he doesn't
Speaker 1: have on his wig and he doesn't have his teething.
Speaker 1: Well that's the DA.
Speaker 2: And here, mister what if you uh found out offic
Speaker 2: And he was shot through the head. House was locked,
Speaker 2: both boys knocked down the inside and the old gun. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he was reading his morning now when he was shot. Heyes, Kelly,
Speaker 2: we got to his married him.
Speaker 1: He must have got him too. Mm.
Speaker 2: It was dead when you came in, you know. He
Speaker 2: he was still breathing and he he could have let
Speaker 2: the murder in his not the murner couldn't get off
Speaker 2: the motment.
Speaker 1: I called you head chorus. I was in the street
Speaker 1: to love the note for twenty minutes and not a say,
Speaker 1: but the more more more man? You saw him? Sure?
Speaker 1: I want to him. How long before this woman, missus
Speaker 1: Lawson arrived, Oh, less than five minutes. I Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: let's get this straight.
Speaker 5: No one has come out of this house. And the
Speaker 5: mail man delivered the name. Yeah, and whoever killed Max
Speaker 5: Well was still in the house.
Speaker 1: Sorry, mister Kelly, but that one do.
Speaker 2: I searched the post while we were talking in here,
Speaker 2: and there's more of than.
Speaker 1: This flat to shy there. Yeah, wait a minute, wait
Speaker 1: a minute.
Speaker 3: Maybe you didn't see anyone come out of this.
Speaker 1: Flat, but someone did.
Speaker 3: That's that.
Speaker 2: Oh, mister Wilson. I was working my beat, and I
Speaker 2: would have seen anyone leave. And he was killed all
Speaker 2: the over and repaint. Oh kidn't he garry? He's got
Speaker 2: the mail in his hand.
Speaker 1: I realized that as soon as I spoke it. Something
Speaker 1: else to puzzle over. Look at the bullet hole smack
Speaker 1: with the settle the SPoD. Yeah, but look where the
Speaker 1: bullet hit the role? Can you beat that? Tell thee
Speaker 1: where would a man have to stand in order to
Speaker 1: fowle a shot on that angle? Okay, down here, sir,
Speaker 1: that's right, It's all right, except for.
Speaker 2: One phone, starting fifteen feet away from Maxwell, and the
Speaker 2: shot was fired within.
Speaker 5: Three feet The powder bones for the man would have
Speaker 5: to be lying down on the floor the fire the shot.
Speaker 1: Of pat who powdered bone, So it would shame. But
Speaker 1: what was Maxwell? The way waiting for the murders to
Speaker 1: take aim got me? Bee's got more than movies, Wilson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going out for a minute. Then they call the
Speaker 1: phone comedy. Yeah, yes, I've got an idea. I'll be
Speaker 1: back in a few minutes.
Speaker 2: Are the wether killed? Maxwell must have Well, it must
Speaker 2: have been well known to him. Well, we know that
Speaker 2: because he admitted the murder himself. But more than that,
Speaker 2: he was particular about his appearance, which, as Arson said
Speaker 2: to he wouldn't have admitted anybody, that is, anybody he
Speaker 2: didn't know very well for that first put him on
Speaker 2: his wagon, put him in his artificial teeth. So there
Speaker 2: was a murder was a man and not a woman,
Speaker 2: and he was a man from whom Maxwell had no secret.
Speaker 2: All the reasoning Browns, but it neither gives us a motive.
Speaker 2: Orders could explain how the murder got out without being won. Yeah, Butter, Wilson,
Speaker 2: it does have to explain how the murderer got close
Speaker 2: enough to Maxwell to kill him at three feet without
Speaker 2: arousing his suspicion. You're right, Brown, your deadlike wheready at
Speaker 2: least marrows the fee the frits down the next roy
Speaker 2: the media friends, Oh here's carry.
Speaker 1: What if I know?
Speaker 2: You say, Brown that this phone is out of heard
Speaker 2: of this morning, Jessel, I try to use it, and
Speaker 2: missus Allison said, for several days. Well listen to this
Speaker 2: the phone company's records or call an incoming call the previous.
Speaker 5: Morning, and that's well called rockaway one eight poor one
Speaker 5: and at six y nine they called hi numbering Garden's idiot.
Speaker 5: But you, missus Lawston, say that the phone has been
Speaker 5: out of order for days.
Speaker 1: You know because the other day the shot that drove
Speaker 1: over there for the phone, because well it's beyond me.
Speaker 2: The fellows shot through the head apparently makes nowhere for
Speaker 2: the pipe must have been shot by someone lying on
Speaker 2: the floor.
Speaker 1: Door both up and bolded, the house under observation for
Speaker 1: at least twenty minutes.
Speaker 2: And the man doesn't work that long with the bullet
Speaker 2: to his brain. I tell you what, yeah, what the
Speaker 2: eight This play shows me jibbery. Let's go around a headquarters,
Speaker 2: send out the fingerprint boys and talk it over down
Speaker 2: in my office where things like this.
Speaker 3: The fingerprint boys went out to the Maxwell flat.
Speaker 2: They found nothing, No fingerprints but those of the legitimate
Speaker 2: occupants of the house.
Speaker 3: Cigarette on the mantel shelf. The Lotus cigarette meant nothing.
Speaker 2: The investigator has never knew before that the Lotus brand
Speaker 2: of cigarette was so popular. They's remarks about talking it
Speaker 2: over in the office became a joke to the department
Speaker 2: because every day Kerrie Brown, the police, surgeon Wilson, and
Speaker 2: the fingerprint boys collected there to discuss the murder of
Speaker 2: the bridge whist expert.
Speaker 1: I tell you, chief, it.
Speaker 3: Was all rubbish.
Speaker 2: The man had five hundred dollars in bills in his
Speaker 2: pant parket, five thousand dollars worth of jewelry, lying loans
Speaker 2: on his bureaus. And if it were robbery, how come
Speaker 2: the thief gets within three feet of him before pubs it.
Speaker 2: And I don't care if it's robbery, mayhem or anything else.
Speaker 2: That doesn't explain how the murderer got into a locked house.
Speaker 2: Wind was bolded killed a man with a forty five
Speaker 2: A fly on the floor of dick walks out with
Speaker 2: the milkman watching. A milkman who swears, but no one
Speaker 2: left the hole, backed up by the policeman on the beat.
Speaker 1: There's for the woman. The housekeeper says that the murdered
Speaker 1: man was breathing and chaired the room.
Speaker 2: Everybody in the neighborhood seems to have been watching the
Speaker 2: house and no one, not a sal sings.
Speaker 1: The murderer leave and not a soul. Here's the shot?
Speaker 1: What's that you said?
Speaker 2: Not a soul heard the shot? A gosh, here's the solution,
Speaker 2: if only we knew how to apply it.
Speaker 1: What terriblein is eight o'clock. He's dead, stock to the brain?
Speaker 1: How they burn? So the shot was fired? Everything three
Speaker 1: beat doors, not.
Speaker 2: He's outside, No man outside, postman brings mail, so we
Speaker 2: know he was killed after that day, person, that's a
Speaker 2: second puzzling remark. You passed in five minutes. Not a
Speaker 2: soul heard the shot?
Speaker 1: And do we.
Speaker 3: The chance remarks of a policeman on the beat.
Speaker 2: But they were the answers to the riddle which has
Speaker 2: haunted New York's police department for fifteen years. But we
Speaker 2: believe that we have an answer. Ladies, and gentlemen, the
Speaker 2: solution for what you have been waiting. The scene is
Speaker 2: the six hundred block West seventieth Street. A few minutes
Speaker 2: before eight, a figure the mail man walks down the
Speaker 2: street and up the steps to number six forty four
Speaker 2: rings the bell.
Speaker 3: Oh, forgot some mail to you. I just came to
Speaker 3: the doll a moment ago and got the mail.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not the mail man.
Speaker 3: Do oh on earth is the idea of the the sky.
Speaker 6: Don't take me standing here?
Speaker 1: You got my letter?
Speaker 3: Yes, I got it? Come in, come in here? You uh,
Speaker 3: don't mind if I continue to read my mail.
Speaker 6: I'm only interested in one letter in your mail?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Will you give it to me?
Speaker 3: Well I won't.
Speaker 1: You know what I said to you yesterday over the
Speaker 1: prone quite well.
Speaker 3: And I haven't came over my papers and run up
Speaker 3: a book.
Speaker 6: Mist jab, there's a mother.
Speaker 1: I will go down in my moon.
Speaker 3: To you, set up off your knees and forget another drammer.
Speaker 1: Look here, JB, my handbagging little pool.
Speaker 3: Don't touch that gun.
Speaker 1: Listen, JB.
Speaker 6: I'm going to kill you, idiot. You can't get away
Speaker 6: with this, Oh I can, I planned it, don't you.
Speaker 6: I'm promising you you've all kill you. He asked about
Speaker 6: my disguise.
Speaker 1: Now is it clear?
Speaker 6: No one notices a male man and this gun?
Speaker 3: JB.
Speaker 6: You recognize it, my husband. It has a silence, but you,
Speaker 6: you JB, won't even hear it.
Speaker 1: Click. How a letter? Where is it? I'm a chair,
Speaker 1: I willed it. Oh he's not so heavy.
Speaker 3: The kneeling woman, the mood chair.
Speaker 2: These were the two things which confused the police when
Speaker 2: they investigated the acute angle the bullet had made. The
Speaker 2: male man's disguise suggested itself to the woman because it
Speaker 2: was a letter she wished to recover from Maxwell. The
Speaker 2: mail man's disguise was what confused the witnesses as to
Speaker 2: the time element. Some of them saw the real male man,
Speaker 2: others the murderer in disguise. So the murderer, partly by
Speaker 2: luck and partly by planning, had left the New York
Speaker 2: Police another unsolved mystery.
Speaker 1: Unsolved mysteries.
Speaker 2: Down the ages, Man has been seeking the answer to
Speaker 2: the riddle what happens in the unseen realm beyond? With
Speaker 2: all our science, we're as far from answering that question
Speaker 2: as man was in the beginning. But with the accumulated
Speaker 2: records of the past. The conviction is borne strongly upon
Speaker 2: some that there is a link joining us mortals with
Speaker 2: those who have fast this way before.
Speaker 1: The day of the birds. Not everybody has not.
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