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Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. Now. From November seventeenth,
nineteen fifty, here is the Joan Fuller murder case.
Speaker 2: Broadways might Be from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest,
lonesomest mile in the world. Broadways May Beat with Larry
as Detective Danny Clover at one o'clock in the morning,
night begins to slip out of Broadways, and Broadway stands bewildered,
staring at its empty hands. Solitude whispers its invitation. The
derelicts of night run from it. Beat on a door,
plead for a refuge from the offered emptiness, but no
door opens to them. At headquarters, you consider it through
a grime stained window, turn away from it. Find on
your desk a slip of paper that hadn't been there before. Homicide.
It says, Central Park, Lake and Broadway has finally opened
a door. The password the violent Debt's the lake in
the facade of the city embracing it. There's a shadow
covering a dead girl with its coat the puny affet
to thaw the veil of frost on the girl's heart.
Then the shadow riser shakes its head and it's muggaming.
Speaker 3: I don't know, Danny.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's you know, Danny.
Speaker 4: I got a nephew three years old. He comes here
during the daytime to play, to feed the ducks.
Speaker 2: Who is she? We didn't know.
Speaker 4: They're dragging the lake now for any identification she might
have had on her So far nothing. Come here, I'll
show you see a knife wound. Where it is? It
probably killed her instantly. Then they threw in the lake,
a guy and this girl. They were, you know, smooching.
They looked up on the body floating in the water.
They reported the precinct.
Speaker 2: Near the house. Anything. We questioned them, Why didn't they
report it right away? They had an argument about it.
Speaker 4: They said, didn't want to get into a mess, they said,
and the girl said she told her boyfriend we.
Speaker 3: Better report it, so they did.
Speaker 4: Who were they smooch? There's nothing else, Danny, We're positive.
Made no comment, Danny on what the way this girl
is dressed, The expensive evening gown, the expensive mink for
a coat. I know it's real mink because my wife
talks in a sleep about mink like that.
Speaker 2: So so a lot, Danny.
Speaker 4: The girl as expensive, as beautiful as this one, somebody
will come asking for her.
Speaker 2: It's at least they could do, huh, Danny. There wasn't
anything to say after that. And from far away, across
the stillness, the brief wild sob of a boat whistle,
and the sudden flurry of wind through naked branches, the quick,
small sounds in places where there's no sun. This was
the autumn's night pastor with death in it. I turned
up my collar and walked away from it. The next morning,
it was back to headquarters receive the report that so
far nothing had been found on the bottom of the
lake to identify the dead girl. Go downstairs to the
place where it's never daytime, the mark, the three people
waiting there, the quiet audience, sensing the etiquette of stillness,
the presence of the tent. All right, you the lady
over there, Belcolm, Uh huh. We want you to be sure, man,
I'm sure.
Speaker 5: Well, no, it's not my sister that way out.
Speaker 2: Man, Now, the gentleman, my wife was blonde. Is this
your wife? I take it easy. I haven't seen Aggie
in three years.
Speaker 4: It's girl's five six weight one twenty four, approximately twenty
two years of age.
Speaker 6: Aggie's gonna turn up here one of these days.
Speaker 2: I'll make book on it. She ain't done it yet, lives.
Speaker 6: Ain't Aggie through that door over there?
Speaker 2: Please, you're next, lady. Hey, your missus huntersla hey haslo Yeah.
Speaker 7: What do you want?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: That's her?
Speaker 3: Get her out of her way, Come on, missus hurt.
Speaker 8: We know.
Speaker 4: Ever so often this happens with missus Hunter Danny really
identifying a daughter here about five years ago, keeps coming back.
I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's all of them are money lovely young girl dressed beautifully.
Someone must want to know what's happened to her, where
she is, someone must know who she is. Okay, Maugavin,
We'll try it another way. Another way was to check
with a man in technical Maybe they had something. They had.
The dress the girl had warned to die in was
an exclusive made exclusively for one woman in an exclusive
shop just off Park Avenue. The colt too. The girl
had good taste, they told me, and the money to
indulge it, and the beauty to grace it. Beyond that,
all they had was a shrug. So I packed it,
shrug and all in a cardboard suitcase, and the top
of it the portrait of the girl taken in death
and closed the cover snapped the lock. At Roderick's Incorporated,
just off Park Avenue, a man tried to stop me
from opening the suitcase. Maybe I should have been proud
it was Roderick Incorporated him a good fellow.
Speaker 9: The hours for salesmen are between nine and ten of
the morning. They are and on Tuesdays and thursdays of
a week. Now that you've been briefed. You may scurry
off and take that that thing with you. This could
interest you, Roderick, Why because I'm a policeman. Don't turn pale, Roderick.
It don't match the color scheme that way. Whatever would
a policeman want with Rodrick? This picture, Roderick, look at it.
Stunning girl, but so so dead, you know, No, no, no, oh,
but wait that dress she's wearing, it's mine, that is
it's a Roderick original, Rodriker inspiration?
Speaker 2: Is it this dress?
Speaker 9: But of course and the co too. Who else could
have molded those lines? You molded them for this girl?
Oh no, no, never, never, Obviously you're dead. Girl is
a thief. I created these things for Gladys Hampton, the
advertising executive. Surely you've seen her in these things in
Harper Where else can I see her? She has place
on fifth, a tired mansion. Kiss her for me? When
you say her, William, tell her you do it for Rodrique.
Speaker 10: If you don't mind, mister Clover, Let's get this over
as quickly as possible.
Speaker 8: Are we.
Speaker 2: All you have to do is cooperate, Miss Hampton.
Speaker 11: Cooperate.
Speaker 10: I've just come home from Vermont just this morning. I've
got work to do. Cooperating with please is not on
the agenda.
Speaker 2: I'll show you something. These clothes, this cult, this dress.
Speaker 11: Here'd you get them?
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen them before?
Speaker 10: I'll tell you why. I have a paid a lot
of money for them. Their mine?
Speaker 11: What are you doing with them?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 2: Look at this? Go ahead, take a look at this picture.
Speaker 11: It's Joan. What's it all about?
Speaker 2: Who is John?
Speaker 11: Joan? Is Joan? Joan Fullham? I made What's happened?
Speaker 2: Didn't you mess her when you came home today?
Speaker 11: No, she didn't know when I was coming back. What's
happened to her?
Speaker 2: We found her in Central Park Lake, murdered.
Speaker 11: I'm not going to like the publicity about this.
Speaker 2: That's how sorry you are.
Speaker 11: I don't know myself those kind of luxuries. I'm too busy.
Speaker 2: Tell me about John Well.
Speaker 10: She's worked for me for two years. She came from Munsey, Indiana.
She was efficient, she lived here. I paid her well.
I couldn't tell you more than that.
Speaker 2: How is it she was wearing your clothes.
Speaker 11: Before I left for the weekend? She said. A young
man she knew from Muncie was in town. She wanted
to dress well for him. Would I lend us some clothes?
I would and did?
Speaker 2: What young man from Muncie?
Speaker 11: How do I know what? Young man from Muncie.
Speaker 10: I suppose Monsey has its share of young men, else
eventually there'd be no Muncy.
Speaker 2: Do you got a look at him?
Speaker 11: He was coming in while I was going out. He
was nice looking.
Speaker 10: I'd probably remember him if I saw him again, but
I couldn't describe him.
Speaker 11: You see, I'm being of no help to you. Besides,
I'm busy.
Speaker 10: Please close both doors to the vestibule as you go out,
mister Croober.
Speaker 2: I did, and walked out into the street, holding the
crumbs she'd given me. The identity of the dead girl,
a girl who had boor at her employer's calls to impress.
A young man from Munseie, A girl whose final embrace
was holding close the bitter waters of a lake at headquarters.
The routine that is a requiem for the violent dead.
A telegram to Munseie asking for information on John Fullard.
They ordered the muggavun to ripple through hotel registers for
a visitor from Munseie, a young man good looking. The sifting,
the questioning, the break for a cup of Lukewan coffee,
and then another call from muggoven Loo.
Speaker 4: Tell Adam's Danny and Johnny Barrett registered with his wife
from Muncie.
Speaker 2: I looked at him, Danny, he looks lightly. The tired room,
complete with stained drug stained washstand, the young man with
the dresser manicuring his fingernails.
Speaker 3: You were here to present me with the keys to
the city. I'd like that because I'm fond of your city.
Speaker 2: To ask you questions, mister Barrett.
Speaker 3: Now, what would a boy from the country know that
would interest a big city man like you.
Speaker 2: You might have known a girl named Joan Fuller.
Speaker 3: She might have known a lot of girls, not one
named Joan. No, that's when he's missed.
Speaker 2: How big is monthsy, mister Barrett.
Speaker 3: Big enough that I could walk at streets, put nickels
in slot machines, order a beer, go alone to movies,
and never meet a girl named Joan. It teases me,
though I'd like to meet her.
Speaker 2: She's dead, she was murdered.
Speaker 3: That makes me sad. I cry when girls die. It's
the thing with me.
Speaker 2: Let's go, mister Barrett.
Speaker 3: I haven't finished my pinky. You want to show me
the sights.
Speaker 2: I want to show you to a woman who says
a young man came on, Joan Fuller, a young man
from Munson.
Speaker 3: That could be a sight.
Speaker 2: Get your cult, mister Barton. Let's go.
Speaker 3: Can't wait, Oh, honey, honey, dal come on in enjoy
looking at the shop windows. Who is a policeman, Honey?
He wants to go show me to a lady. This
is my wife, mister Clover.
Speaker 2: This is Barren.
Speaker 3: It's hard to believe she's my wife. How mister Clover,
me being young and honey Doll here being But we
love each other to pieces, don't we, honey doll?
Speaker 5: Mm hmm, Jenny, I don't understand what the policeman doing
with you.
Speaker 3: Don't worry, baby, I told you he wants a lady
to look at me so she can identify me as
the murderer, as some pretty girl named Joan. She was pretty, Hi,
mister Clover. Jimmy, go window shopping again, honey doll. H
The policeman and I have got a date.
Speaker 2: Let's go, Timmy, Sure, let's go this house.
Speaker 3: Nice house.
Speaker 2: I've been here before.
Speaker 3: No, I bet you wish I had though nice chimes?
Speaker 2: Pretty nice, honey. Vesta bill doors open a bit, It's
Hampton like the door has closed.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't peek? Would yeah?
Speaker 2: I would stuck. It'll only open.
Speaker 3: Hey, Look.
Speaker 2: What there was to look at as a vestibule floor,
a tile mosaic and a simple block pattern, clean gleaming.
Even the blood that spread across it had a new
quality to it, Miss Hampton's blood, Miss Hampton lying there.
I knelt the signer, Miss Hampton with a knife in
her heart, Miss Hampton dead. You are listening to Broadways
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starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Are you ready
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When it's November and the winter is a coming, in
Broadway is a place of regret. The dreams are dying,
and it's a long time before April will come again.
The orange juice stands put glass doors between themselves and
the pavement. Serve hot coffee as a buffer against the
wind and loneliness. Somebody leaves a newspaper on the stool
besides you, not very neat, folded badly. There's a small
bit of BlackBerry pie on the item that tells about
a girl who floated face downward in the lake. You
flip back a page and consider the minor headline concerning
a woman named Gladys Hampton, also murdered. Then flip another
one and see how they ran it highlyer. You take
your time outside it's pavements, and outside it's cold. I
didn't have it so good. I got my coffee out
of a paper cup, and sergeant to take put too
much cream in it? Or has he put.
Speaker 8: It too much cream? Huh?
Speaker 2: Not enough sugar?
Speaker 8: You always get them mixed up, Danny. Why is this?
We all have our bad days, only I seem to
have the more frequent than most.
Speaker 2: Have you noticed, Let's get on with it. You got
anything for me?
Speaker 12: Yeah, Danny, Yeah. In a matter of Jimmy Barrett, the
young man from Monsie, it has been established by the
coroner that he could not have killed Gladys Hampton since
at the moment of her demise, Jimmy was with you.
Speaker 2: What about an alibi for last night when Joan Fuller
was killed.
Speaker 12: He claims that he was doing the town up with
his wife and cannot tell us what time he was
where what he cannot tell us what time he was
were Denny?
Speaker 2: How does he like our Pokeachin?
Speaker 7: Know?
Speaker 8: Not very much. He's screaming for his wife.
Speaker 12: Also, he wrote the little verse on the while to
tell us how much he didn't like it.
Speaker 2: It starts so telling later Gin know, I'm going on
where Denny see a man's wife?
Speaker 5: Oh it's you. Where's my husband? What have you done
with him?
Speaker 2: It's downtown, miss Baird. We're holding him on suspicion of murder.
Speaker 5: We don't stand there in the hall making a show
of me before the world.
Speaker 2: Come in here, come here, sure, miss.
Speaker 5: I was just washing out some of my things in
the basin. You live in a dirty city, mister Clover,
The dirt eats into everything. What right have you to
do a thing like that to Jimmy? What right?
Speaker 2: Because we think he murdered a girl named Joan Fuller.
Speaker 5: The girl I read about girl from Mumsie. Jimmy never
knew her. He never knew anything like her, not like her.
Speaker 2: You know that much about your husband, Missus Bird.
Speaker 5: I'm a middle aged woman, mister Clover. I know things
about my husband that no girl ever knew.
Speaker 2: Why did you and Jimmy come to New York, miss Baird?
Speaker 5: You won't say any of the things people say when
I tell them Jimmy and I are on our honeymoon.
Speaker 2: Missus Barrett. He loves me.
Speaker 5: You saw how much he loves me, the sweet names he.
Speaker 2: Calls me, I saw, Missus Barrett.
Speaker 5: Took me a long time to bring Jimmy around to me,
mister Clover, to the things I wanted. I'm not going
to lose him to you.
Speaker 2: You'll help us, Maybe we can give him back.
Speaker 11: This is a trick.
Speaker 5: You're trying to trick me. You want me to say
something about him that'll make him dead, something that can
save him. What can I tell you that we'll do that.
Speaker 2: Did he ever leave you alone on your honeymoon, go
somewhere alone? Never?
Speaker 5: Jimmy waits on me hand and foot. That's what first
attracted me to him. Back home. How polite he was,
how considerate when he could have had any girl here?
Speaker 2: Missus Barrett. Has he left you alone here? I told
you now he was alone when I found him.
Speaker 5: That was different, Huh. I went window shop. I like
to do that alone. I like to come back and
tell him the things I saw, all the useless, expensive,
frilly things that are no use to anyone, just to
look at. Sometimes you've done that. Other times go back
home in monthsy not here.
Speaker 2: One more question, miss Barren. Did you know Joan Fuller?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: I didn't know her. My husband didn't know her. I
haven't told you anything that'll save him, have I?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: But I will. You'll see.
Speaker 11: I hired a lawyer.
Speaker 5: He's getting a writ he'll bring Jimmy back to me,
you'll see. Wait till I tell Jimmy how you treated me.
Speaker 2: Just to wait, I'll wait. Don't take Jimmy back home
with you, Missus Barrett. We'll want you both here.
Speaker 12: Come on in, okay, Just a word to let you
know that people question around the home of Gladys Hampton
had never seen Jimmy Barrett.
Speaker 8: Also that Jimmy is released on a writ.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was threatened for it.
Speaker 12: And to tell you that outside is a gentleman from Muncie, Indiana.
Speaker 2: Another one.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Danny, you know this.
Speaker 12: Is the first week in my life I have met
two people from Uncie, Indiana, one on top of the other.
Speaker 2: Shure man Gino.
Speaker 8: This way in to see Danny Clover.
Speaker 2: Mister Fuller, sit down, mister Fuller, thank you. I'm Jones's father.
Mister Clover, I see I'm very sorry about well, thank you,
But of course you're not sorry if we mean the
same thing by that word. Your policeman on homicide, and
your job's got to do with the dead people. People
get used to death almost as easy as they do
to cigarettes. The sorrow of Jones's death belongs to me,
not to you. Forgive me.
Speaker 13: I made a speech. How did you know your daughter
was dead? You notified the Muncie police, They notified me.
I've come to take her home with me if I can.
I'm the person who killed her. For trying, mister Fuller,
I've never been vengeful I've always felt sorry for people
eaten by hate. Now it's happened to be I can understand.
Tell me, mister Foller, do you know a man named
Jimmy Barrett for Monthly?
Speaker 2: Of course Joan knew him too. Pardon me a second, Roger, Danny,
there is a man telling Jimmy Barrett. Isn't he get
in touch with them? Find out where Jimmy is, Roger Oliver,
we were talking about Jimmy Barrett, mister Fuller, tell me
about him.
Speaker 13: Well, Jimmy married a woman somewhat older than he, rather
wealthy woman. Why do you ask.
Speaker 2: He's honeymooning in New York? How well did your daughter
know him?
Speaker 13: Valentine's letters on flowered stationary, holding hands and dancers that much?
Speaker 2: No more? Mate, You see what did John tell you
she was doing in New York? Working in advertising? She
said everyone back in months? He thought that I didn't
know she was a maid. Know how you feel?
Speaker 13: Forgive me again? You can't possibly know. Did you have
a daughter? Did you tell us stories? Did she cry
against your cheek? Did you watch her grow up? Was
she found in the lake? Was she murdered? We don't
know each other, mister, Clover, we're not friends. Your sympathy
doesn't mean anything to me. Just find my daughter's killer.
Speaker 2: Danny, what is it today?
Speaker 12: The man we had tailoring, Jimmy Barrett, just phoned him.
Jimmy just bought himself a new car five minutes ago.
Prano Hudson Where Hop and Fifth Street. Thanks Gino, you're
primed to buy a new car. Mister, you're just tantalizing
yourself with this new model.
Speaker 2: I want to wor sure you want to.
Speaker 3: Everybody wants to this.
Speaker 4: No feeling like the feeling or running your hand over
this new old leather repolstery.
Speaker 2: Say it, I'm from the police.
Speaker 7: That makes you different, that gives your desires different from
other people's desires.
Speaker 2: A man named James Barrett is just.
Speaker 3: Oh never forg got him.
Speaker 4: He bought a new car off and me not a
half hour go, paid me cash, drove away on a dream.
Speaker 2: Cash twenty five hundred dollars. He just took twenty five
hundred dollars out of his pocket and gave it to you, well,
not exactly.
Speaker 7: Let me give you a vivid description of it. I
found it very thrilling.
Speaker 2: You throw me too.
Speaker 3: He looked at the car.
Speaker 7: Asked me how much it was, as has stood there,
and I told him.
Speaker 4: Then he runs across the street to the bank, runs
back with twenty five hundred dollars clutched in his wet fist.
Speaker 7: So you see why it wasn't exactly he pulled it
out of his pocket.
Speaker 3: He was clutching it in his wet fist.
Speaker 2: Bank across the street.
Speaker 7: Huh, yeah, Hey, what's the matter? He got it from
the bank. It can't be conific, Kenneth, don't give me heart.
Speaker 3: Failed like that hit me in a place with him.
Speaker 6: Don't you find it rather interesting, mister Clover, that I
Stephen Chase and working for the Corn Exchange Bank. We
Chases have a bank of our own, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I know. And the other Chaser gave Barrett twenty
five hundred.
Speaker 6: Dollars precisely that Chase. Does Barrett have an account here
as of this morning, a rather plump one.
Speaker 2: He opened an account this morning and withdrew that much
money this afternoon.
Speaker 6: I see you don't understand banks.
Speaker 2: Explain them to me, missus.
Speaker 6: Barrett had a letter of credit from a bank in Munsee, Indiana,
which she chose to deposit here with us at cornon
go on, please. Therefore, this account was in Missus Barrett's name. However,
this morning mister Barrett appeared, mister Barrett the bearer of
a letter from his wife to the effect that her
account should now be a joint account.
Speaker 2: Is that all? Please?
Speaker 6: I called Missus Barrett to find out whether the letter
was valid. Missus Barrett told me to give her husband
as much money as he wanted.
Speaker 2: All this happened this morning, precisely, this morning, precisely. Mister Chase, Oh.
Speaker 3: Hi, Danny, just going out? You want to go out
with us? No?
Speaker 2: Coming in almost burn So you got all your things packed?
Going back to Montsos.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, you said we couldn't go back to
Munsey until this thing was all cleared up. We're going
to find a nicer place to live.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Me and the honey Doll are going to branch
out nothing but a ball from now on. We're really
gonna live nightly, honey Doll.
Speaker 5: Whatever you want, Jimmy, tell me what you want, Jimmy.
Speaker 3: Would I want get out of this crummy hole? New
clothes for honey Doll and for me? Drapes double breasted.
Speaker 2: I understand you got a new car.
Speaker 3: It's got New York talking.
Speaker 2: Huh, we're talking about it down at headquarters.
Speaker 5: Jimmy, the man said he chose the penthouse at nine o'clock.
It's almost that now.
Speaker 3: You heard what honey Doll said, Danny, I guess I'm hintpacked.
That's all.
Speaker 2: Tell me when all this happened, Jimmy, the last time
I saw you, you were happy right here.
Speaker 5: How much are you allowed to meddle in our lives?
What concern is it of yours where we live?
Speaker 3: Oh, honey Doll, don't talk like that to Danny wants
to come up for a drink sometime. He wants to
know our address.
Speaker 5: Get him out of here.
Speaker 2: Didn't answer my question, Jimmy, why did you make up
your mind about all this new car pentholes?
Speaker 3: I'll tell you. Honey Doll and me had a small talk.
We decided we were tired of living like folks, like
other people. Honey Doll wants to support me in the
manner I'm minching for, and she can afford it. Kill me,
Honey Doll.
Speaker 5: Jimmy, Jimmy out of here.
Speaker 3: This is Jimmy. Jimmy with his arms around jim.
Speaker 2: Jack.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're supposed to give me anything I want.
Speaker 2: Remember, you're a little blackmail. Jimmy hum had a talk
with John's father. He said, you used to hold hands
with his daughter. If you did that, you lied to me.
You didn't know John. You did light to him?
Speaker 3: Damn he so I lied to you. I was nervous.
Speaker 5: It's getting late, Jimmy.
Speaker 2: Do you lie to him? As Burr? Did you know
John back in Monsoon? But you knew? Jimmy knew were
you knew? Jimmy was saying while you were here, while
you were on your honeymoon. That's bear.
Speaker 3: Oh why not? Danny? Guy likes to look couple old friends,
especially an old friend who's made good in the big city.
Speaker 2: I got news for you. Johan was a housemaid. Those
clothes she was wearing belonged to her employer.
Speaker 3: I knew that, and I understand why she did it
to impress me. It make me hate myself because I
married another woman.
Speaker 2: Jemmy, realize what you're lying can cost you?
Speaker 3: Sure, Danny, Now I'm your number one murder suspect.
Speaker 2: That's right, Danny. Uh huh?
Speaker 3: What's the penalty for murder in this state?
Speaker 2: Premeditat him? Premeditated life chair depends on the jury.
Speaker 3: And how about for obstructing.
Speaker 2: Justice depends one to ten maybe, but.
Speaker 3: For murder it can be the chair. Huh.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: Did you hear that, honey doll? You're going to get
the chair.
Speaker 2: Jenny, else you could keep your husband in you missus Barrett, Jimmy.
Speaker 5: I'm begging you. Get him out of here.
Speaker 2: You're afraid Jimmy would get blamed for it because Miss
Hampton or employer could recognize him. Do you have to
kill miss Hampton too? Didn't you? That's what you held
over your wife, Jimmy. You knew all this. She had
to give you everything you wanted. I thought you'd get
as soon as you were married, but didn't.
Speaker 3: One to ten. Huh, that's the way it was, Denny.
Speaker 5: Well, don't go.
Speaker 3: Don't take it so hard, honey doll. You've lived almost
most of your life. They had a week of.
Speaker 10: It with me.
Speaker 2: Let's go, both of you, honey doll.
Speaker 3: I promise you this. When I get out, I'd spend
your money. I'll be happy, just the way you wanted
me to.
Speaker 2: Broadway looks good now. It's wearing the funny mask, the
funny nose, the big smile, painted in scarlet, the scarlet
you've known in other places at other times. Don't rip
off the mask, kid, because you couldn't stand what you'd see.
It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile
in the world. Broadway, My Beat, Broadways, My Beat stars
Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover with Charles Calivert as Tartaglia.
The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with
musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. Included in
tonight's cast where Irene Tedrow, Dick Crenner, Bob Bruce, Peggy Weber,
Stand Waxman, and Jack Krushan. This Saturday evening on CBS,
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Speaker 14: System Welcome Back the Plane of September Song at the
start of the episode was.
Speaker 1: A clue, and it was repeated at the end. To
anyone up on the music of the era, you recognize
it because it was one of the popular standards of
the day. Its origin was in the Broadway play Nickerbocker Holiday,
and it was written for the limited range of actor
Walter Houston, who played the Dutch governor who sang of
his desire for love after wasting far too much of
his life, and in this case, he was hoping to
marry a much younger woman. So this immediately made me
suspect that this story would involve a relationship with an
age misman, though it turned out out to be the
opposite of the play. I will have There have been
a lot of versions of September Song that have been performed,
and it's got a very beautiful, wistful feel to it.
My favorite version was sung by Jimmy Duranty. By no
means was he a great singer, but he still had
the heart to make the song come alive and have
meaning for the listener, and one fun piece of trivia
in that play, Nickoboker Holiday the hero was actually played
by none other than Richard Colmer, who old time radio
fans better know as Boston Blackie. I thought the scene
with the father confronting Danny was very well done. Danny
didn't do anything wrong by saying he was sorry for
the father's loss, and I think it's a fair social
custom to say that, but there are times when and
it can come across as robotic and not be particularly
meaningful to people who are grieving. And I don't know
why Danny would go ahead after that whole speech and
pull out. I understand how you fail, because that's one
that you really should never ever use with someone who's grieving.
Now we turn to listener comments and fadeback and mechanics
sixty six right in on Spotify regarding the Laura Burton
murder case. A lawyer who advises his client to talk
to police is committing malpractice. And then now we have
a comment from Nourse Jeweler, Johnny Dollar or Donny Dowler.
Adam Graham is transported into the radio world. You become
the assistant to one of the detectives. What detective would
you serve? Remember when they get shot at, you get
shot at? Where they go you go? So you become
Ben Romero or Day from Chameleon or Dan from Mystery
of My Hobby, of all the radio world? What assistant
are you? Well, one that doesn't get shot at?
Speaker 9: A whole lot.
Speaker 1: The idea that I would like be quantum leaping, I
guess into an existing character makes it a bit challenging,
Like I would love to be the paralegal to Jonathan
Kig of A Life in Your Hands. Yeah, I took
parallegal training, got a certificate, never was able to find
a job in the field, but he didn't actually have
a legal assistant at stint or paralegal, so that wouldn't work.
And then there are just some people you couldn't imagine
living your life ass like if I could imagine myself
as a COB reporter working with Anne Rogers on hot Copy,
I think that would be interesting. Again, going back to background,
since I.
Speaker 14: Worked as a reporter for.
Speaker 1: A short while, but I couldn't imagine myself becoming sprightly
pooled for obvious reasons. So if I had to pick
had to pick. I think I would choose jud Barnes,
who helped Martha Ellis Bryant solve mysteries. He was a reporter,
wasn't an idiot, and they didn't get shot at too often,
So I think that's kind of a winning combination for
insertion into a story. And then we have a comment
on YouTube from a listener in the UK regarding the
Harold Clark case. Listen to August thirtieth, twenty twenty five
at ten ten listen and enjoyed great story. Thank you well,
thank you so much, appreciate you listening. And now it
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Speaker 15: Right there on the floor, That's where I found it
when I woke up, right there by the bed.
Speaker 3: Where have they.
Speaker 2: Taken downtown, mister turn into the county mord?
Speaker 16: They'll let me share, won't they?
Speaker 2: Yes? Or they will? Do you feel up to answering
a few questions for us? Now?
Speaker 15: All right, I'll tell you everything I know about it.
I don't see how it's gonna help anything.
Speaker 2: We'll try to make it as brief as possible, sir. Now,
your wife's full name is Gertrude Agnes Turner? Is that right?
Speaker 16: Yes, that's right?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 16: But see Gertrude sixty three. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 15: I'm four years older than her at Childways, tell.
Speaker 2: Was your wife in good health, mister Turner, under a
doctor's care or anything like that?
Speaker 16: No, nothing wrong with her. I knew of heart trouble
anything like that.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 15: Sure she used to have headaches, shivering now on them,
doctor friend of ours?
Speaker 3: Back home?
Speaker 16: You send pills for her to take.
Speaker 8: That's about all.
Speaker 2: How was your wife feeling last night? Was she all right? Then?
Speaker 15: Just fine? When I woke up, I put my arm
over on her pillow.
Speaker 8: She wasn't there.
Speaker 16: Then I got up and sorrow laying on the floor
right by the bed Gertrude. She was ice cooled.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.