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Great Detectives dot now. From July twentieth, nineteen four and nine,
Here is the poison Pin murders.
Speaker 2: A Big Story.
Speaker 1: You're still here?
Speaker 3: I finished it.
Speaker 2: I just finished it.
Speaker 4: Sit down heavy. This gets armistice, Dave. What are you
doing in this store? You aren't working a massive Listen.
Speaker 5: Listen, mister Adam Demopolis, doctor Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
Speaker 2: No Herman, not another letter.
Speaker 5: In your so called orchestra is a so called violin player,
same taba. If there is a verse violin player in
the world, I do not know him, not enough that
he is our musician, the human being.
Speaker 2: Yes, God, Herman. Some day you write one too many.
Speaker 6: Of these letters.
Speaker 2: Some day you'll be sitting here like now alone after
and the door.
Speaker 4: Open and sermon, the door is opening with the customer
snell herman, it's not a customer.
Speaker 7: It's Cincinnati, Ohio. The story of a man who was
hated and of a reporter who proved that death and
hate are often partners. Now the story has it actually
happened Tom Mercer's story as he lived it, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Speaker 4: You're a big man, Tom Mercer, two hundred pounds bake
sixt f one inch big. And because you're big and
easy going, you're a target an easy mind. A couple
of years ago, as a young reporter, you made a mistake.
Speaker 2: You took an ordinary.
Speaker 6: Death and called it murder.
Speaker 2: You went and solved that murder.
Speaker 4: In print, and then it came out it wasn't murder
at all, and the laugh was heard all over Cincinnati.
Speaker 6: It's still hurt.
Speaker 4: Wherever you go, they say of you, Ah, that goes.
Mercer is a great flute. Not to make another name
for himself. And so when this story broke a killing
in the standard laundry at sixty two sixteen Central Parkway,
all the boys in the press room at the Lice
headquarters said, wow, we don't have to cover it, not
with Mercer on the job. If it's murder, Mercer will
solve it. You took the laugh and went down to
the scene of the crime, the standard laundry, but.
Speaker 6: The laugh followed him.
Speaker 4: When you are from the door of the laundry, Detective
Lieutenant Teddy Vinson greeted you were.
Speaker 2: All right, man?
Speaker 4: All you cot sergeant? Can all go home to Mercer's
there we got nothing to worry I have, Lieutenant Vincent.
Man you want to see your real Sherlock go to
works taking the scene a laundry the day I'm not
a working day. The man there on the floor herming
with the owner is dead. Bullets here them as you
see a friend, Henry long aulco shot but not dead,
conscious but not dead. The gun see the gun Mercer
done on the floor between Also want the four sixty
one dollar bill on the table, a half consumed bottle
of wine. Give us your verdict, Charlot cut it out
for you, Lieutenant Vincent. Haven't you salved dead Mercer slipping?
What happened? I just told you what? The owner is dead,
Long so called friend badly wounded. The money, the bottle
of line has all this do it? Can you figure
it out?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: I can't. What's your idea? Well, great merceress stumped? What
do you know? I say?
Speaker 3: Lets you on a secret. That man with.
Speaker 4: Kill? How how?
Speaker 2: He says?
Speaker 8: How?
Speaker 4: Why are your gun? That's out?
Speaker 1: All? Please?
Speaker 4: Okay? Where there's no joke it? Well there it is
opening chut. The two of them were friends, I called friends.
They got in, look right, there's too much to drink,
got around of money, and so which got long? Long? Hut?
We did as we say on the forest? Sup. Can
I look around? Look around with of course, mister mercer,
look around my army, mean no doubt we overlook some
special clue which proves the murder. With a left handed
Irish say, I think you're wrong, lieutenant. Ah wow, where's
the other gun? What other gun? He said? Long shot with?
And which shot? Long? What did they do use? One
gun between them? Where's the other gun? Maybe maybe he
tossed it somewhere?
Speaker 6: Ah?
Speaker 4: You said they were drunk at the fighting. Look at
that bottle. So that's sweet wine, more than two thirds
of the bottle. Still what they didn't have enough to
even warm them up. They weren't drunk, you don't know
what you're talking about. Have you taken the bullet out
of Long yet, you say he's still unconscious? Of course not.
When you do, I'm pretty sure you'll find it didn't
come from which gun, which didn't shoot long? And I
don't think long shot.
Speaker 3: With what a bet?
Speaker 4: I don't bet, Lieutenant, I'm on murder. Okay, okay, hey,
sage and get ballistic. Get ballistics here, fast up that
ambulance for Long mercy, great fruit. Okay, just what. The
lieutenant is a good guy, you know that, Just a
guy who with everybody else like for kids you Tom Merson, allright,
you can take it, and you don't gloat.
Speaker 6: You don't gloat when later the.
Speaker 4: Listic gets through examining the bullets removed from wis body
and from the chest of Henry Long, still unconscious at
the general hospital. You don't gloat when the lieutenant says,
both bullets and one, and with the one and long,
we're five for forty five and the gun on the
floor of the laundry was at thirty eight. That's right.
Then maybe it was the left handed irishman. Lieutenant all right,
mesays some other time I got work to do, so
have you, tom Merson, you are work to do too.
A murder has been permitted and a Long dies, maybe
a double murder.
Speaker 6: You want to am the laughter.
Speaker 4: Just being right on the bullet doesn't do that. You
want to solve this murder.
Speaker 6: Oh you wait.
Speaker 4: You wait at General Hospital. And the only man who
can possibly tell what happened in the laundry that Armistice day,
Henry Long, is still unconscious. You wait in the cart
outside his room for ten hours for the moment when
he'll regain consciousness, if he ever does. And when the
nurse says.
Speaker 9: He's conscious, he's talking.
Speaker 4: You quietly entered the room along. Can you tell me
what happened?
Speaker 3: I told him write a poison all the time. He
wrote from He hated him, Faber, He wrote it. He
wrote it. I said, some day the door will open
and someone will walk in. And it opened. The door
open when wants this?
Speaker 4: Maybe the man was a customer, he said, where's my laundry?
Speaker 2: Said I'm close today. He said, where's my laundry?
Speaker 4: And did you see him?
Speaker 8: And it happened.
Speaker 2: Hermann came back. He opened the desk, money fell out.
Speaker 4: He took out his gun. He tried to fire a shot,
but the man fired first. Herman's gun went off and
he fell and I screamed.
Speaker 10: His man shot me up the moon. I dragged myself
to the phone. I called the police. Everybody hated him,
everybody along.
Speaker 4: Can't you hear me? Did you see it?
Speaker 2: When the man said, where's my laundry? Hermann said what's
the name?
Speaker 3: And his dress?
Speaker 8: I couldn't hear.
Speaker 3: The and only herman said, huh, write it down?
Speaker 4: Did he write it down?
Speaker 2: All then with black hair of connasman in the pel
I saw it, and he hated herman. He hated him
in his eyes.
Speaker 5: She could see it.
Speaker 4: I told him, don't write five and ten letters enough
people thank you already?
Speaker 3: Don't Well he did now he then.
Speaker 4: Along Mercer, he's unconscious again. That tried.
Speaker 11: I was mister Whit's secretary. Payne's my name, Gloria Tyane.
Speaker 4: He wasn't very well liked, was he.
Speaker 11: How many friends does the skunk have?
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 11: I'm not saying anybody kill him, but mister long who
was a friend. That is, he cheated a long out
of two thousand dollars a year ago. Anybody in the
shop will tell you worked out like slaves. He never
had a good word for anybody ever.
Speaker 4: Hear of a man named taber uh No, Sure, I
don't lie.
Speaker 2: He lied.
Speaker 11: He lied all the time. He lied to everybody and
about everybody. I'm not sorry.
Speaker 4: He's dead, and there are a lot more who feel
the same way.
Speaker 6: Everybody who knew.
Speaker 4: Him hate with the clue who hated him enough to
killer He began digging two weeks ago, you'd find he
fired a man who'd been with him twelve years, a
man named Emmon, a bookkeeper. Sure I hated him twelve years.
I gave him, worked late, sweated for him. What did
he give me my walking papers? But mister Emmons, you
didn't hate him enough to shoot him. I wouldn't waste
a bullet on him. You know something, mister. Fifteen years
ago he played the fiddle, played with some orchestra, the
Cincinnati Symphony. I think they got tired.
Speaker 12: He never forgot it.
Speaker 4: He kept writing letters, poison pen letters, every week saying
this fiddle was no good, that one was no good.
That's the kind of a man he was. Take what
he did to Tapa Faber, that's right, first file in
and the symphony. You always said, Tapa stole his job,
used to call him up the middle of the night
two o'clock and scared Taper's wife. She had to go
into a sanitarium. He was nuts, mister, that's what he
was five years ago, which I never met him. What
happened to day his wife? His wife, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I think she died in the sanitarium.
Speaker 4: They were still with the symphony. Sure, why, oh, nothing,
nothing at all, just an idea, tables and I'll be frank.
Speaker 2: No news of the past ten years pleased me as
much as the death of Ferman Waters about what's the thinking.
Speaker 4: I'm paul and thin and have dark hair and occasionally
wear a condissan. At the time of the murder, four
forty five PM, an armister's day, you see. I read
all the details. I enjoyed the story.
Speaker 2: I was playing a concert in Indianapolis.
Speaker 4: I was playing the solo part at that precise moment
of the Beethos and Violin concerto.
Speaker 6: A dead end, Hate comes to a dead end.
Speaker 3: What now?
Speaker 4: Back at the laundry, still proving, still asking questions of
w Secretary sudon me.
Speaker 11: She says, that's just funny. What slip this laundry slip.
I make out all the laundry ships, but in my handwriting.
Speaker 4: Let me see it. Twenty two thirty one by in
the street, you have a customer there, No, I checked it.
Speaker 11: That's what's funny.
Speaker 4: Is this his writing?
Speaker 2: Oh, mister Witz, Hey, that's.
Speaker 6: Right it is.
Speaker 4: Where do you find it?
Speaker 11: Crumpled up?
Speaker 4: Give it me quick? Yeah? Can I help you, ma'am?
I'm looking for a man, tall, thin, dark haired. Sometimes
where's a carnation in his button? Man?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 9: Dear, no is this is a boarding house for business women.
Speaker 2: No gentleman out here, none whatsoever.
Speaker 4: Oh you are sure.
Speaker 9: I'm quite sure, young man. Quite only the most respectable women.
And I require two references. And you can belease me
that I know my tennis. I never cry, but I
know my lady.
Speaker 4: Murder and twenty two thirty one, fine street, don't nix
you walk down the steps of dejection written on your face,
and on the sidewalk you meet you would with your lock,
Detective Lieutenant Vinton. Well, I'm sure you got it all
wrapped up. Yeah. See, secretary told me twenty two thirty
one five that one would ask him. The murderer gave
his right address. O. K. Lieutenant, I was wrong, wrong him,
boss of Uh.
Speaker 8: Listen, I'll give you a tip.
Speaker 6: That carnation in the button I will remember well.
Speaker 4: I checked, and guess what, there's only several hundred bars
in towns selling carnations. Why don't you check? The mercer?
Speaker 8: Why not go ahead?
Speaker 4: For years now you've been the butt of bad jokes,
Tom Mercer. They call you a walkshaw and Sherlock Mercer
the sloth. And in the present case, it looks like
you're going to make a fool of yourself again. For you,
Tom Mercer, reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, has cracked down
every lead in the slaying of Herman Wit Laundryona, and
every lead has led to the same place.
Speaker 6: No way.
Speaker 4: First you went after people who hated with an employee,
the first violinist in the symphony orchestra. Each time you
drew nothing, and the address and the laundry slip nothing.
Speaker 7: Less than nothing.
Speaker 4: An absurd since the running a boarding house a business
leader right as well as an invincent of homicide.
Speaker 6: Put it back down.
Speaker 4: All the story the South carnation, why not crazy as
a town?
Speaker 6: It might be something?
Speaker 4: Say that again, I said, can you recall selling carnations regularly,
mind you to a man, tall, thin, with dark hair,
well dressed. I imagine fellow bought carnations all the time
and be well dressed.
Speaker 2: And that's what I thought.
Speaker 4: You said, What are you a detective? Well, not exactly,
I'm that wood killing Huh, yeah, that's right. Well I've
heard of some pretty stupid things in my time. But
if that's the way you Fellas work, it's no wonder.
There's so many unsolved crimes in this city. Why do
you say that? Why I sell maybe one hundred carnations
a day to one hundred.
Speaker 6: Different people, me and a couple of hundred other flowersts.
Speaker 2: Do you honestly expect me to give you a clue?
Speaker 6: Why?
Speaker 4: The man asks, is right? Of course, he's right. We're
grasping a straw and hoping you come up with the answer.
Carnation ideas crazy, They give it up, And then on
your desk at the paper a day later is a
message call Missulily Rinker sety seven one one three. The
address is twenty two thirty one fine, twenty two thirty
one fine. Eulaly Rinker, the lady who runs the boarding
house of business woman. You don't call you race over now.
Speaker 9: Mind you. I don't pry into the affairs and my kenna.
Speaker 4: I understand Miss Rings.
Speaker 9: And I'm very strict in my requirements. Two references are
is sent you told me well, happy you're here?
Speaker 6: Mind you.
Speaker 9: I don't pry, but I did do a little less inquiring.
And after all, it wasn't murder, now, wasn't it murder?
The lady on the third flower, Rea Misstands a very
sweet old lady. She's really secretly married and estranged from
her husband.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine that all you found?
Speaker 9: Fight the contrary, that was only the beginning. And missus
Kirch on second flower front she dread. I found can
you six bottles in her.
Speaker 4: Zero drawer, the bottom drawer, Look, miss Rinker.
Speaker 8: I haven't told you all.
Speaker 9: Then there's miss bascom a prest straw here, very quiet,
a sweet person. Really, I've got to get see's the
confidential secretary.
Speaker 4: I never hired her. Do you know what she keeps?
Live mice? Not at all?
Speaker 9: But she has a forty five automatic in her desk drawer.
I had my handyman in and he told me it
was a forty five caliber?
Speaker 4: Is that the word? Caliber?
Speaker 9: A forty five caliber automatic revolver in her desk.
Speaker 4: Drawer, Miss Bascombe, that's correct. You mind coming down with
me to police headquarters?
Speaker 11: Did I wouldn't mind a great deal.
Speaker 4: All I want to do is have them examine your gun,
Miss Bascom.
Speaker 11: I have no gun.
Speaker 4: Now you haven't. I have it, that is Miss Rinker,
and I have it.
Speaker 11: I have a permit for the gun.
Speaker 4: But you know the gun was fired. I guess within
the past week. Did you know that that it was
fired twice?
Speaker 11: It could have been you tell me, Miss Pasch, I
don't want to go to the police, please, I don't.
If I you will be enough, It depends on what
you tell me. Well, I lend it to a man,
a casual acquaintance. He said he wanted to buy a gun.
I wanted to sell it, so I lent it to
him to try it out. So, sitting later, we brought
it back.
Speaker 4: And said, when was this about a week ago? Mister Day?
Speaker 11: I think it was, yeah, I miss this day. Yeah,
I wasn't working that day.
Speaker 4: What time did you lend it to him to a cross?
When did he bring it back thirty?
Speaker 11: I think yeah, he just said he wanted to try
it out.
Speaker 2: Why what happened?
Speaker 4: He tried it out in Miss Bascom about four or
forty five. He tried it out on too many. He
killed one of them. No, yes, what was his name?
This casual friend of yours?
Speaker 5: John.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry about your not wanting to go to the police,
Miss Bascom, because I'm afraid my friend, Lieutenant Vincent would
never forgive me if I didn't take you down with me.
Shall we go? That's a Spectrums Bascom lietenant. There's no
question this is the man. If you don't mind, Marcella
left me? Do he ask you? Uh, there's no question
this is the Mansen no question. It was just a
friend of yours as Turner.
Speaker 11: Oh no, not a friend. I just met him once.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, you can go, but be on tap of anager.
And I hope you have a primate for that gun.
Oh yes I do if you want to see it
all right, All right, never mind, use that door. Well,
why the record? Our friend Turner has barsony breaking and entering,
narcotics charge, wanted in Kansas auto theft and figure it.
Figure why the whole thing's crazy. A guy writes poisoned
pan letters his employees hate him, everybody hates him, and
this turns out nuts. Can I say something? I said?
Can I say something? But the long arm of coincidence
is a funny thing. Don't give me police theories, hawk
hawk show. I've heard it before, and I don't worry.
I'm not sensitive. Will you let me talk for just
a minute? Oh ahead? What stopped this? All of us?
Speaker 2: You me?
Speaker 4: Everybody was a hated man. When a hated man gets killed, hate,
we figure must be the motive. So we suspected Taber
or Eminent. I even thought for a while it was long,
But it wasn't any of these people. It was an accident,
a pure and simple accident. The motive was robbery, pure
and simple robbery. Turn is a pro, his record shows it,
a professional gunman. He figures he'll knock over this laundry.
He takes armist to stay because no one will be
around if the banks have closed, so they'll be cash there.
He goes in. He puts on the front by asking
for his laundry. When Wick gets suspicious and pulls out
a gun, he kills him. He shoots Long escapes. Since
when does a pro give his right address? It wasn't
his right address. The first address that came to his mind.
He hadn't planned it all the way. When he asked
Whitch for his laundry, wit asked for his address. That's
surprised him, so he said, just like that, twenty two
thirty one. Fine, even pros make mistakes. You know something,
what I think you're right? No, yep, Arkshaw, I think
this time you're right. Well, thanks, ad. It never minds
a thanks. Now we've got to find Turner. That won't
be easy. Well, Lieutenant, I thought i'd leave something for
the police to do this. The laughter connected with your name,
Tom Murder goes out of people's voices. When you write
your story on who the killer is I it was
found out, the cracks begin to fade away. The wise
guy looks, and then the dragnet goes down. John Turner,
all thin, dark haired, in carnation in the button hole,
wanted in Kansas, wanted for breaking and entering, wanted for murder.
Speaker 6: You keep the story alive during the months.
Speaker 4: Of the search forum. You keep the people aware that
he's around what he looks like, so that one evening,
the laughter around your name goes away for all time.
Because this happened in a fruit store on the outskirts
of town. That was enough, mister, that's the right. But
if you want a dose and orange, if you maybe
some approus, I get them for you.
Speaker 2: No hitt of the oranges, mister, or the apple in
the cash register?
Speaker 3: What you do?
Speaker 4: No get my money up?
Speaker 2: Stay there, I call the police.
Speaker 5: M M.
Speaker 4: Somebody. I know you're the man.
Speaker 2: That's right, You the man I read about them the paper.
Speaker 4: The man killed the man who owned the laundry. That's right,
all right, give me the police. That's right.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 7: We read you that telegram from Tom Mercer of the
Cincinnati Inquirer.
Speaker 4: Killer and Tonight's Big Story. Was arrested and brought to
trial for the murder of the laundry owner. During the trial,
I visited him in jail and asked why he had
been foolish enough to give a traceable address at the
time of the hold up. He replied, I was a
little rattled then. What the chief trouble of my life
has been that I can't help telling the truth? Inherently,
I am an honest man. He was convicted and subsequently
died in the electric chair. In order to protect the
names of persons actually involved in Tonight's authentic Big Story.
The names of all characters and the dramatization were changed,
with the exception of the newspaper reporters. The Big Story
was previously released by NBC, the National Broadcasting Company for
listeners in the United States and rebroadcast for our servicemen
and women overseas. This is the United States Armed Forces
Radio Service, the Voice of Information and Education.
Speaker 1: Shhh, welcome back. Well, he didn't have a cast less. However,
if you've listened to a lot of New York radio,
you know who the star of the show was. Jackson Beck,
supporting mister Beck or Barbara Townsend, Alice Reinhart, Ted Osborne,
Santos Ortega, Gil Mack, and Milton Herman. Now, the somewhat
amusing thing about this episode in Jackson Beck's role is
that at the time, one of Jackson's big radio gigs,
along with still being the announcer on the Adventures of Superman,
was that he was playing Filo Vance for ZIV in
that radio series, and in that series, the District Attorney
Markham practically worships the ground that Vance walks upon. So
it's interesting to hear Back playing a character who is
the Buttom the and whose every opinion is doubted, and
it's kind of like you're wrong until you're proven right.
But he in the end was proven right. And it's
through a process of being willing to think and rethink
a case, to do trial and error, and then just
coming up with this idea that they were looking at
the wrong motive and it's a satisfying result overall. Now,
in terms of the true story, again, it's pretty it's
pretty close to accurate. The events actually occurred in November
nineteen thirty three, and there was a reward placed out
in March thirty four for the robber slash killer. In
this case, the killer, who was an ex convict named
Richard Keller, really did pick the wrong victim. It was
an Italian immigrant. The additional backstory was that that immigrant
was a World War One veteran who knew jiu jitsu,
and doctor Joseph Webb quotes the story in the Minneapolis Star.
Keller asked for a dozen oranges, and as Nordi Lodovico
Nardi is the name of the grosser turned to get them,
he felt a revolver thrust against his back. Without turning
the war veterans seized the gun in one hand and
caught the intruder around the neck with the other. Now,
doctor Webb does note that there's no information regarding mister
Mercer's career that could be located, so we don't know
about that false alarm story and the elements behind that.
Well say that I do find it amusing when the
narrator goes for something that the characters contradict, such as
Mercer's assertion that he was not sensitive about the joking
he got because of his inaccurate deductions. Either he was
lying or the narrator was all right, listener comments and
feedback Now, and we have some comments regarding the Respected
Chemist Dead episode. Jeff Wrights, thanks for the nineteen twenty
nine depression context to this episode, because murder suicide seemed
very improbable to me at first. Do you know if
the Tolstoy play was actually part of the true story
or something included for radio purposes. Well, Jeff, that's a
good question. I can't say one hundred percent for certain,
but I and of the mind that if you actually
had read that play, you wouldn't get one person, let
alone two people committing to it or they You know what,
I read this and this is a good idea, because
that was clearly not the point of the play. Now
do people occasionally miss the point and go off and
do something weird?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sure, I mean one episode we did on the Great
Adventures Old Time Radio was Toby Tyler or ten Weeks
with the Circus, and it was an unromantic look of
what happened, and the protagonist went through all sorts of trouble.
It in no way romanticized circus life. Nevertheless, it has
served as the inspiration for many a young boy who
read it to go off enjoined the circus. Now, admittedly,
in that case, though that book was written in kind
of the bad boy genre, and people who read it
and go off and join the circus are kids Tolstoy
nor that story are particularly subtle. So I don't know
for sure there's no real information, but I do think
it makes more sense as a radio writer's inspiration and
connection rather than something that where someone read it in
real life and decided, yeah, let's do that. Mechanics sixty
six wrote, I and this one we're going to spotify.
I don't get the usage of the word fled. Couldn't
they just leave under their own names, and the real
story be interesting if the insurance paid the widow and
then the widower for the girlfriend sued the estate for
alienation of affection. Well, he could have said, but I
don't think there's a jury in the world that would
rule in his favor in that case and be socially
looked down upon. In terms of why they use the
word flat, well, they were not wanting to be found.
And certainly the chemist, at least at the time he began,
and perhaps I don't know through the whole journey, may
have believed that he was thought to be dead and
wanted to ensure that his family would collect the life insurance.
He goes around under his own name. That's not going
to work. So yeah, they would not flee under their
own name. They are wanting to disappear, They're not wanting
to be found by their spouses. Down was a bit
incredulous writing this is a big story. I respected guy
turns out to be a scumball in a midlife crisis.
I understand the point on but one thing that does
make news news is the sort of unusual angle of it.
And that's the case with so many crimes and stories
that become scandals, either the person involved is somehow different,
or there are details about it that make it really
fascinating and draw readers. In. One somewhat innocuous example is
where I live, it is not going to make the
news if a convenience store gets robbed, or it's just
going to be like a little footnote in the paper. However,
there is one particular story I remember reading in the newspaper,
and it was about someone robbing a convenience store in
a ninja outfit. Now, robbing the convenience store not really interesting.
Doing it dressed as a ninja. That's worth a little
bit more print. And it's the same thing here. If
our man had just had a midlife crisis and ran
off with his secretary, that's not really news. It's a scandal,
would be a personal scandal for the family in that era,
but that's not going to go in the newspaper. What
makes this news is that he did an elaborate attempt
to fake his own death. In addition to that, you
had the whole issue with the insurance company whether they
would pay off or not, and the financial fate of
his family tied up in that. So there's emotional stakes
and there are little details that make this far more
interesting to the reading public than your typical story. Then,
staying on Spotify of a comment from Harrison regarding our
twice Hold tale, Harrison wrote, overall, the not beat story
felt more fleshed out, despite some of the inconsistencies with
the not built not beat style of storytelling. However, this
did make me want to hear more of the Silent Men.
I enjoyed the recycled music from Cloak and Dagger and
Dangerous Assignment to be honest, and the idea of very
protagonists from various agencies. Thanks for playing them great selection. Well,
thanks so much, And that is one of those things
that I do hope whenever we feature an older series,
either for like a twice lit tale or when we're
doing our encores, it don't make people curious to go
and check out the back catalog, and of course we
do have those all wherever you get your podcasts from. Well,
now we turn to YouTube and Jeffrey comments regarding the
Jigsaw crime. Oh, were the police allowed to detain someone
a few hours back then with no accusation and to
hold them? That is something that police will do even
in more modern times of course you have to release
the subspect on if a rent is filed, which I
think would have been the situation back at the time
of the episode. Then we have a question from Mark
who writes, why are pall Mall cigarettes called pell Mell?
Parliament Mall London has nothing to do with pell mell
frantic activity. Well, in this case, the brand pronunciation is
a bit of a story. The cigarette was named was
named after a city street in the city of Westminster
in London. That street, in turn was named after a game,
a long game that actually because it developed in the
sixteenth and seventeenth century and various locations actually had a
variety of spellings and pronunciations to describe the same lawn game.
And that includes both the pronunciations they seem to be
thinking of. So much appreciate the question. Now it's time
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Speaker 12: Once of such beauty, such beauty that would put all
these my Grecian delicacies to shame. That torso, for instance,
it would blush to its tippy toes at the beauty
that once was Nola's. But no more, and she's going
to die because there will be violence of one or
another death. It is almost too much to hope for,
is it not? Though Nola deserves it, how that old
girl deserves it. She's done something.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm, yes, mmmmm.
Speaker 12: She convinced the boy to come here all the way
from Europe, not Dannas of a boy Kurt could turn
on the old girl. Young gods turn on old beauty,
sometimes destroy it because it offends their sense of the esthetic.
Kurt Kurt Bama a young thing with a pair of skis.
I fear Nola is playing with her own demise in
that boy, and she's not aware of it, no more
than she's aware that at that my daughter Connie by
a former less colorful marriage also has no love for Nola.
You must talk to Connie at her place on something,
ask her why she loves Nola so helplessly. It'll amuse
you and you, mister Hanson, what about you? Why I too,
am a creature of violence? Delicious, isn't it. I don't
know one day to the next how I'll react when
something's taken away from me. I fear for Nola, mister Globb,
such an exquisite here.
Speaker 4: That's why you called us.
Speaker 12: But exactly, Nola's a lovely old girl. I'd fret if
there was so much as a scratch on her. You'll
prevent that, you people, won't you if you can. If
you can, I.
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