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Now from June ninth, nineteen fifty one, 14 00:01:19,439 --> 00:01:21,599 here is the Earl Lawson. 15 00:01:21,359 --> 00:01:39,480 Speaker 2: Murder Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle. 16 00:01:39,799 --> 00:01:43,799 The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world, 17 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,719 Broadways My Beat with Larry Thorr as Detective Danny Clover. 18 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,599 When the rumor gets around that summer has begun, Broadway 19 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,000 is beside itself with glee. Somebody notices the sunlight and 20 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:17,199 tells somebody else, and the word gets around. It drifts 21 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,719 cross town, and a man reaches into his closet for 22 00:02:19,759 --> 00:02:22,400 a hand organ, puts the funny hat on his monkey 23 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,159 and takes a walk up to Broadway just to grind 24 00:02:25,159 --> 00:02:28,800 out background music for the big grin. It's the time 25 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:30,919 for the docs onund and the silken ankle and the 26 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,879 flowered print dress. The orange juice is sweeter, the kinnish 27 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,280 is lighter. The guy runs down the street screaming, I'm 28 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:48,759 in love. It's June, and it was June under the 29 00:02:48,759 --> 00:02:52,159 translux too, a rare day, and the Times Square crowd 30 00:02:52,159 --> 00:02:54,439 had gathered there to consider it and take the story 31 00:02:54,479 --> 00:02:56,719 of at Home to the little woman, Dad and Mom. 32 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,159 There was a man lying in the circle of their feet. 33 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:03,879 Speaker 3: He was offensively dressed. He's dead, Danny, What happened, Muggvin? 34 00:03:04,199 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 4: Come on, come on you people, break it up, come on, 35 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:07,240 get going. 36 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 5: What is it with them? 37 00:03:09,599 --> 00:03:09,759 Speaker 1: Dan? 38 00:03:09,879 --> 00:03:10,439 Speaker 3: What happened? 39 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 6: How can you tell? 40 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:14,039 Speaker 7: What happened? People milling around cross the streets, going to lunch, 41 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,199 looking at the want ads over there in the Times Building. 42 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,800 Suddenly a guy's face down on the pavement. Somebody laughs drunk, 43 00:03:20,319 --> 00:03:23,120 and somebody sees blood. So we got him on the 44 00:03:23,159 --> 00:03:26,479 pavement and then watching h stabbed. 45 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 5: Yeah know who he is? 46 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 7: Uh huh here loads of identification. 47 00:03:32,199 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, earl laws and park, haven't you earl luss. 48 00:03:36,439 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 7: Earl lass and stocks and buns. He's got a name. 49 00:03:39,599 --> 00:03:41,800 Wizard is something makes money by the buckets? 50 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:42,879 Speaker 3: Anybody see it happen? 51 00:03:43,159 --> 00:03:46,599 Speaker 7: A million people on Times Square high knowing nobody saw anything. 52 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:47,319 Speaker 1: Nobody. 53 00:03:47,919 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 8: Now look you people, why at you move along? 54 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 5: Go home, get out of here. 55 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 2: The safest place in the world to kill somebody. Mugg 56 00:03:53,639 --> 00:03:55,599 ving and a crowd walk up to him and stab 57 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,319 him in the back. Keep walking. Well, I started off 58 00:03:59,319 --> 00:04:06,319 to be a pretty eh yeah, real sunny. Just across 59 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,560 the street. The file of crowd waiting for the movie 60 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,000 that was Better than Life, held on close to its 61 00:04:11,039 --> 00:04:14,560 place in line, held on close against the insinuating whisper 62 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:16,959 of the violent dead. It was a trick, kid, a 63 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:19,199 trick to make you lose your place, to cheat you 64 00:04:19,199 --> 00:04:21,279 out of a front row seat where love and beauty 65 00:04:21,319 --> 00:04:23,360 and other high class things are handed you on an 66 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,360 air conditioned platter. But a few were sold by the 67 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,759 whisper and were drawn by it. Enjoined the cluster attending 68 00:04:29,759 --> 00:04:32,720 the dead man. A woman pushed her way close and 69 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:36,639 turned away. She opened her purse, smeared a lipstick nervously 70 00:04:36,639 --> 00:04:39,519 across her lips, studied their reflection in a window, and 71 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:44,680 then carefully, carefully retraced them with the perfumed scarlet. And 72 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:53,000 death had raised its banner on Broadway. The home of 73 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,240 the Murdered Man was a place whose sounds had been 74 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:58,759 geared down to the soft purr of wealth, the swish 75 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:01,360 of the ankle deep carpet, the flute like trills of 76 00:05:01,399 --> 00:05:05,480 the parakeets taking the noonday sun in exclusive cages. The 77 00:05:05,519 --> 00:05:08,120 butler the murmurs you went to the library and asks 78 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,120 you to wait quietly. You don't dare open a book 79 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,240 because turning a page would release a clap of thunder. Finally, 80 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,199 when you'll wait no longer, the soft voice at your shoulder, 81 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,519 I'm glad you made yourself at home, mister Clover. This 82 00:05:21,720 --> 00:05:23,959 is a difficult house to do that in it's quiet. 83 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:28,000 You can say that for you're Harlen Lawson, doctor Hart 84 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:28,439 and Lowson. 85 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 3: Oh, then the book's on the shelf. 86 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,439 Speaker 9: My one literary effort, all twenty copies, twenty copies of 87 00:05:34,439 --> 00:05:39,279 the same drivel, new freedom, Pennsylvania, the utopia that failed. 88 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:41,959 Nice binding, though, wouldn't you say? 89 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:43,639 Speaker 3: Quiet expensive? 90 00:05:43,759 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 9: That's my brother. He's everything you say. He gave me 91 00:05:47,639 --> 00:05:50,120 those when I got my pH d. Made a grand 92 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,240 gesture of binding my doctor's thesis and burying it twenty 93 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:57,240 times over on the shelf. Every time he fingers the 94 00:05:57,519 --> 00:06:00,759 gold lettering, I tell him how grateful I am. 95 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:02,720 Speaker 3: You don't get along, you and your brother. 96 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,079 Speaker 9: We suffer each other. Let's put it that way. 97 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,199 Speaker 3: He has his world, I have mine, and your world 98 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:11,800 would be. 99 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 9: The back alleys of poverty. You see, I'm in the 100 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:19,040 nature of a failure, mister Clover. I'm a social worker, 101 00:06:19,759 --> 00:06:24,240 doesn't pay very much, but I take in tears and 102 00:06:24,319 --> 00:06:28,120 give in exchange baskets of fruit, my brother's castaway clothing, 103 00:06:28,959 --> 00:06:32,319 and the gestures of sympathy they taught me in postgrad humanities. 104 00:06:32,519 --> 00:06:34,319 Speaker 3: Let you keep on living here with your brother, with 105 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:35,439 Earl Lawson. 106 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 9: I exist here. Is this why you came, mister Clover, 107 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:43,920 to run your hands over my brother's library? 108 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,839 Speaker 10: Proben to me or is it? No? 109 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 9: No, don't say to me Earl has somehow run a 110 00:06:52,639 --> 00:06:55,120 foul of the law. Don't say it, because I wouldn't. 111 00:06:54,759 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 10: Believe it, Earle. 112 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:57,199 Speaker 3: He's dead. He was murdered. 113 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:04,319 Speaker 9: Your manner of saying it you leave me nothing but 114 00:07:04,399 --> 00:07:05,040 to believe you. 115 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,680 Speaker 3: He was stamped, left lying on the street in Times Square. 116 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:11,399 Speaker 9: He must have shuddered that it found him in a 117 00:07:11,439 --> 00:07:15,759 place like that. I'd swear he shuddered. 118 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 3: Your brother dies, and that's how it hits you. 119 00:07:19,279 --> 00:07:23,759 Speaker 9: To each his own way, Mister Clover, you're implying that 120 00:07:23,879 --> 00:07:25,439 it was I who killed him. 121 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:27,079 Speaker 3: Let's play it that way for a while. 122 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:32,519 Speaker 9: I've dreamed the wish sometimes, but I couldn't have killed her. 123 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:36,680 I slept the morning through. Earl's butler will testify to 124 00:07:36,759 --> 00:07:38,879 that he was serving me brunch when you came in 125 00:07:39,959 --> 00:07:42,839 expensive brunch with wine. 126 00:07:43,079 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 3: Who else would want your brother dead beside me? 127 00:07:47,519 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 9: That would be your thesis, wouldn't miss Clover? I suggest 128 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:51,639 the scholar's approach. 129 00:07:51,759 --> 00:07:54,079 Speaker 3: Now, thanks, I'll try. 130 00:07:54,600 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 2: A Then back to head quarters, into the desk, get 131 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,360 on the phone, make inquiry. Send out to the newspapers 132 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,879 for files. Read them, didjest them? Extract them? Start a 133 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:12,199 file of your own. Label it Earl Lawson homicide. Fill 134 00:08:12,199 --> 00:08:16,519 out the form date of birth, hour of death, murder 135 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,839 by sharp instrument to be filled out in detail by 136 00:08:18,839 --> 00:08:21,079 the coroner. And on the lines on the bottom of 137 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:25,240 the page the incidental information. Jump down the phrases a 138 00:08:25,319 --> 00:08:30,199 self made man, shrewd financial mind, known enemies, probably many 139 00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:34,480 due to financial manipulations. Send out for coffee in the 140 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,159 sandwich because it's suddenly nighttime, and. 141 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,679 Speaker 3: Read some more. Then your door opens, and sergeant to 142 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:44,120 Taglia is all business. What does she want? 143 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 8: She knows who killed her laws? What she says, bring 144 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,039 her in this way to thank you. 145 00:08:53,279 --> 00:08:54,639 Speaker 11: My name is Peggy Drake. 146 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 3: Lieutenant, please sit down, close the door to Tagler. All right, laright, 147 00:08:59,799 --> 00:09:04,279 can mis Drake? The sergeant said, you know, not exactly, Danny. 148 00:09:04,519 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 8: She told me she knew all about it. 149 00:09:06,159 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 3: She said, what's on your mind, Mistrake? 150 00:09:08,159 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 11: I have the murderer's picture here here it is. 151 00:09:13,639 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, how'd you happen to take this picture? 152 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 11: Well, I'm here on vacation. This afternoon is a good 153 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:21,039 day to take pictures. And I was at Times Square. 154 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,799 I took a lot of pictures, and well, this is 155 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:25,759 one of them. You can see for yourself. 156 00:09:25,879 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 3: Yeah. 157 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,639 Speaker 11: I found a store with six hour developing service and 158 00:09:29,679 --> 00:09:32,200 I got them developed. I was looking through them and 159 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:34,279 I saw this one. That's why. 160 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, come here to Tagliam. Look at this Ray Brewer. 161 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:41,840 That's right, Ray Brewer is ticking a knife into our 162 00:09:41,919 --> 00:09:44,919 lawson on Times Square, Paul records. Do you don't get 163 00:09:44,919 --> 00:09:47,279 the last known address on Ray Brewer and anything else 164 00:09:47,279 --> 00:09:48,039 they've got? Interesting? 165 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:49,639 Speaker 11: I guess I did help with that. 166 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:54,799 Speaker 3: Know how much this man here with a knife. 167 00:09:54,639 --> 00:09:56,639 Speaker 11: His name is Ray brow no on hudlum. 168 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:58,879 Speaker 3: A record of every misdemeanor on the books. 169 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,279 Speaker 11: So wait on my society back home here is about this. 170 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,759 I belong to the literary society. We have opened flows. 171 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:08,159 I suppose this would be in. 172 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 3: The papers on the front page. 173 00:10:09,759 --> 00:10:12,799 Speaker 8: What else is? What else? Yeah? What's happened to him lately? 174 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,240 Uh huh uh huh? 175 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:18,279 Speaker 3: How are you making out? 176 00:10:18,279 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 12: Gin know in a minute, Danny? 177 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 8: Uh huh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got all that. We 178 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,639 appreciate it and thank you. Very interesting. If I may 179 00:10:29,679 --> 00:10:31,879 comment on the material gathered from records? 180 00:10:31,919 --> 00:10:32,519 Speaker 3: What's interesting? 181 00:10:32,879 --> 00:10:35,159 Speaker 8: Up until a week ago, Ray brew was confined to 182 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:36,720 the County Hospital for incurables. 183 00:10:36,759 --> 00:10:39,639 Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember, he was a pretty sick man, incurable. 184 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 8: It's hot. Docs gave him a month to live, but 185 00:10:42,639 --> 00:10:45,120 last week he was discharged from the hospital. How come 186 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,600 to die in the bosom of his family? As the 187 00:10:47,639 --> 00:10:48,960 records guy phrased. 188 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 3: It, Where is this family? 189 00:10:50,279 --> 00:10:53,240 Speaker 8: Twelve twelfth West sixteenth? The man says, where you're going? 190 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:55,919 Speaker 2: See the mistake gets homes. You know I'm going to 191 00:10:55,919 --> 00:11:19,200 pick up a killer. Open up, Brewer, or I come 192 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:24,240 in anyway? 193 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 3: Bro? Where are you? 194 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:30,360 Speaker 1: Bro? 195 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:34,639 Speaker 3: Huh? 196 00:11:34,879 --> 00:11:35,320 Speaker 13: Out here? 197 00:11:35,399 --> 00:11:38,679 Speaker 4: Danny taking my ease on the fire escape, watching you, 198 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:42,720 watching you, spilot you strength. 199 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:44,559 Speaker 2: Throw away the gun ray. They tell me you've got 200 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,320 a month. If you throw the gun away, maybe you 201 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:50,799 can live a part of it, out all of it. 202 00:11:50,799 --> 00:11:51,519 Speaker 10: It's arranged. 203 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,039 Speaker 5: I live all of it thirty days. 204 00:11:54,039 --> 00:11:54,799 Speaker 10: Hats ray, Brewer. 205 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:59,320 Speaker 2: If I come out after your ray, it'll cut your 206 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:00,600 time down to a half minute. 207 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 10: Make me shake with fright. 208 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 4: Stay where you are, Denny. 209 00:12:04,639 --> 00:12:11,080 Speaker 3: I'll bring it to you, the gun ray. 210 00:12:11,399 --> 00:12:17,679 Speaker 4: Don't you know you'll get it? Funny When you rang 211 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:19,559 the doorbell, I thought it was a boy of Mildred's, 212 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:23,679 but no, it was you. How come you find me 213 00:12:23,799 --> 00:12:24,519 so lightning quick? 214 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 9: Danny? 215 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 3: Girl a visitor. I got your picture sticking a knife 216 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:27,639 in a lass. 217 00:12:30,639 --> 00:12:33,639 Speaker 4: I never could learn to be camera shy boke a 218 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:35,559 camera in my nose and smiled for Hale. 219 00:12:35,639 --> 00:12:36,039 Speaker 10: Berdies. 220 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 9: Turn your back to me. 221 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 4: Danny, I feel a new smile coming out to me. 222 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,679 You don't turn your back, You bleed in the face. 223 00:12:43,159 --> 00:12:50,120 Turn you did that? You brought sunshine into my short life. 224 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:51,639 Speaker 6: One for the road. 225 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 3: It splintered through me, puncturing, ripping into the dark cells 226 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:04,200 where Payne lay waiting for him being released. Scurry darted 227 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:08,960 through me, opening endless doors on endless hurdy. These new 228 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:15,120 ones took over finally gave up because they'd overdone it. 229 00:13:15,519 --> 00:13:16,679 I couldn't feel it anymore. 230 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,720 Speaker 2: And then the hall went cold, on the sweat that 231 00:13:27,759 --> 00:13:32,320 had drenched me, and looking for Brewer, knowing he wasn't there, 232 00:13:33,039 --> 00:13:34,919 and calling to headquarters and tell him to put out 233 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,480 an all points bullet and on Henry Brewer, and then 234 00:13:38,519 --> 00:13:42,320 the park avenue to ask a question why had Brewer 235 00:13:42,399 --> 00:13:45,200 wanted laws and dead? What had Lawson been to a 236 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:46,120 hoodlum like Brewer? 237 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:51,320 Speaker 14: I helped me in my back, gets in my back, 238 00:13:52,159 --> 00:14:02,000 hold back, You didn't, you didn't. 239 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,799 Speaker 3: Down the long haul, I could see the parakeets preening, 240 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:14,679 pecking into their clipped wings, the new stillness of the 241 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,960 man lying there with a knife in his back. Doctor 242 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:20,320 Hylan lawsoner dead. 243 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:23,519 Speaker 2: The nap of the thick rug furrowed where his hands 244 00:14:23,519 --> 00:14:26,399 had tried to tear life out of it, and suddenly 245 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,360 the flute song of the parakeets started again, and there 246 00:14:30,399 --> 00:14:31,399 wasn't still anymore. 247 00:14:48,039 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 13: You're listening to Broadways My Beat, written by Morton Fine 248 00:14:52,039 --> 00:14:55,919 and David Freakin, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. 249 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:00,440 The sensational young tenor Mario Lanza will take the place 250 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,399 of Charty McCarthy and Edgar Bergen on CBS while the 251 00:15:03,399 --> 00:15:07,039 famous pair are on summer vacation. Mario Lanza starts his 252 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,879 new series tomorrow, and you'll be heard each Sunday this 253 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,159 summer on most of these same stations. And while Jack 254 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,919 Benny is off for Korea, Guy Lombardo and his orchestra 255 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,799 will be on hand to entertain you. In CBS familiar 256 00:15:19,159 --> 00:15:20,000 Jack Benny. 257 00:15:19,799 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 2: Time, last year's bride mannekins are dusted off, brought out 258 00:15:34,279 --> 00:15:37,320 of Broadway's basements, propped up on a rod and arranged 259 00:15:37,399 --> 00:15:40,679 tenderly at the site of last year's groom Mennekins and 260 00:15:40,799 --> 00:15:44,559 Broadway nose June is passing through it presses its nose 261 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,799 against the shop window size of the cascade of white 262 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:51,399 satin flowing slowly over the wax. Figure sheds a tear 263 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,879 at the coronet of cloth lilies of the Valley, and 264 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:54,799 blows its nose. 265 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 3: For the sweetness of it all, It's. 266 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,080 Speaker 2: The time of youth, the two week romp in the Catskill, 267 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,399 the burial and the sand at Far Rockaway, the breathless 268 00:16:03,399 --> 00:16:05,879 ecstasy on the heights of the roller coaster at Conny, 269 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:09,240 And for the stay at homes, other sweets, other delights, 270 00:16:09,279 --> 00:16:11,840 the subway ball games, the band concerts and the mall, 271 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,000 the moon burned girls in the dark grass, and the 272 00:16:15,799 --> 00:16:18,639 my hand in your hand talk about two brothers dead 273 00:16:18,679 --> 00:16:27,399 of knife wounds. Summertime talk at headquarters the next morning. 274 00:16:27,399 --> 00:16:30,519 It was difficult to talk about anything because Sergeant Tartaglia 275 00:16:30,559 --> 00:16:33,559 had his mouthful of tacks and his fist full of hammer. 276 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 3: Building something gino. 277 00:16:36,799 --> 00:16:39,639 Speaker 8: Oh it's you, Danny. Yeah, you might say, I'm building. 278 00:16:40,039 --> 00:16:41,919 I'm building a site for sore eyes. 279 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:43,679 Speaker 3: Uh mind if I look. 280 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 8: Oh, my pleasure, pardon me for aftructing your hulk. 281 00:16:48,440 --> 00:16:50,240 Speaker 3: Nice I hate show. 282 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 8: Also a pinup picture of missus t hammered at the 283 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,679 door of my closet. This I consider a worthy hobby. 284 00:16:56,799 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 3: Missus T. 285 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,399 Speaker 8: I call Missus Tartaglia that winever I'm in a hurry. 286 00:17:01,759 --> 00:17:06,279 Consider her Danny in her Catalina swimsuit, Jones beach underneath her, 287 00:17:06,519 --> 00:17:10,000 that Tartaglia progeny forming a garland of angels at her feet. 288 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:13,359 Speaker 3: Nice family pictures, you know? Do you mind taking the 289 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:14,519 tax out of your mouth now? 290 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:16,599 Speaker 8: Shows I can tell you about Ray Brewer? 291 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:17,359 Speaker 3: Huh and sos? 292 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 1: You can do that unnaturally? 293 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:24,440 Speaker 8: Permit me to close the closet door on Missus T. First, 294 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:31,200 I don't want every calm, dick and well nothing on Brewer. Danny, 295 00:17:31,559 --> 00:17:34,319 the hoodlum killer is still at large. All points bulletins 296 00:17:34,319 --> 00:17:38,079 have been settling bread and butter. There is something I forgot. 297 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:40,680 The Milford's of which the Hood spoke to you is 298 00:17:40,799 --> 00:17:44,559 Milford's habitash Rey on Madison Avenue. But Roman Cursio traced 299 00:17:44,599 --> 00:17:48,960 it down after thousands other Milfords. It seems, well, don't 300 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:50,559 go away, Danny, I got something. 301 00:17:50,279 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 3: Else another pinup. 302 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,039 Speaker 8: You might say that, remember that Peggy Drake came in 303 00:17:55,079 --> 00:17:57,519 here with the snapshot of Brewer killing Lawson. What about 304 00:17:57,559 --> 00:18:00,200 her Precinct twelve picked her up last night, running down 305 00:18:00,279 --> 00:18:05,000 East sixty Street in her you shall excuse the expression negligee. 306 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:06,799 Speaker 3: With someone running after her. 307 00:18:06,839 --> 00:18:09,680 Speaker 8: The priesting boys asked her the same question. She said no, 308 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:12,039 she said, she did us after do it. Then she 309 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:14,839 took the day. So the boys decided on a small 310 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:15,720 fine and let her go. 311 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,160 Speaker 3: Lonely girl in the big city. Sometimes it hits them 312 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,160 that way. All right. If I leave now, you always 313 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:21,599 leave me. 314 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 6: Danny. I'm used to it, gold Danny, good bully, Sir, 315 00:18:40,599 --> 00:18:41,640 is someone helping you? 316 00:18:41,799 --> 00:18:43,279 Speaker 3: I'm looking for mister Milford. 317 00:18:43,839 --> 00:18:47,039 Speaker 10: Mister Milford is dead. What twelve years ago? 318 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 1: Like that? 319 00:18:49,279 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 10: He was assessing plans with a buyer? 320 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,799 Speaker 3: And I know zut who are you, mister Milford Junior? 321 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:56,599 Speaker 10: May I be of some service? 322 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 3: I'm from the police. I want some information? 323 00:18:59,079 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 10: Oh what is it you want? 324 00:19:01,279 --> 00:19:03,599 Speaker 2: The police department called you a while ago. You said 325 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,119 you had some dealing with a man named Ray Brewer. 326 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:07,559 Speaker 10: Oh yes I did. 327 00:19:07,599 --> 00:19:08,039 Speaker 12: I did. 328 00:19:08,079 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 3: Indeed, you want to tell me about it. I don't 329 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,400 see why not, Then tell me surely. 330 00:19:14,119 --> 00:19:16,759 Speaker 10: Last week mister Brewer entered Milford's and was fitted for 331 00:19:16,799 --> 00:19:20,480 a complete outfit from Linen's to war Rochers orchis a 332 00:19:20,759 --> 00:19:25,240 butterilla Mexico. Mister Brewer was going to Mexico. The note 333 00:19:25,279 --> 00:19:26,920 that I said was note. 334 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:28,839 Speaker 3: Then mister Brewer changed his minder. 335 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,559 Speaker 10: Well, that's a man's right. Mister Brewer decided to stay 336 00:19:32,599 --> 00:19:36,079 round the city. Thus he canceled the Mexican clothes and 337 00:19:36,640 --> 00:19:39,519 ordered town where a gabardine. 338 00:19:39,079 --> 00:19:39,759 Speaker 3: And he paid you. 339 00:19:40,279 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 2: I only ask because it's been bandied about that mister 340 00:19:42,759 --> 00:19:43,920 Brewer is not a wealthy man. 341 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,599 Speaker 10: His a friend paid me, the friend who was with 342 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:48,240 him when first he ordered. 343 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:52,400 Speaker 3: This friend here, this man's picture in the newspaper. 344 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:58,880 Speaker 10: The very one dreadful clothes not ours? Is he from 345 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,160 here in town? What's his name? 346 00:20:01,279 --> 00:20:05,480 Speaker 3: Says right here, Harlan Lawson m p HD. 347 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:08,599 Speaker 10: It says this chap was murdered. 348 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 3: That's right. You have any idea why mister Brewer changed 349 00:20:11,759 --> 00:20:13,000 his mind about going to Mexico. 350 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,759 Speaker 10: No, you so delighted too. The first time he was 351 00:20:16,799 --> 00:20:19,720 in here, showed me a travel brochure put out by 352 00:20:19,759 --> 00:20:24,440 the airplane people Central American Lines. I think I've been 353 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,200 to Mexico, you know, written on a donkey who. 354 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:28,839 Speaker 3: Thanks thanks a lot. 355 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 5: May I be off Sorristool, Sam, I. 356 00:20:44,039 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 3: Think so, I'm from the police, Danny Clover, Oh my privilege. 357 00:20:47,839 --> 00:20:50,720 Speaker 4: You wish to tour Central America to observe our police methods. 358 00:20:50,839 --> 00:20:52,799 It can be easily arranged. I will speak to the 359 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:53,720 Latin cancer light. 360 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 3: I just want to know about Ray Brewer. 361 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:01,440 Speaker 4: About Brewer, and the name has a familiarity. See see 362 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,799 Senor Brewer, the man who wished to live out his 363 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,240 days in Meiko, the land of tradition and romance. 364 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 3: He's a murderer. You think you'll make it. 365 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,640 Speaker 4: What a dying man sets his heart to do is 366 00:21:11,799 --> 00:21:15,519 difficult to restrain him from Senor. This from my father Alder. 367 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,519 But Senor Brewer will not make Mexico by way of 368 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:23,079 Central American line. Senor of this I ansert tell me why, 369 00:21:23,279 --> 00:21:26,240 because only yesterday he canceled the ticket. It took me 370 00:21:26,279 --> 00:21:29,319 so long to prepare cancel the tour I had mapped 371 00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,160 for him. A kapulcos abbattaker the floating Garden. 372 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,319 Speaker 3: When Brewer came in here to arrange his trip, was 373 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:35,640 he alone with. 374 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 4: Another gentleman who subsidized the excursion. 375 00:21:38,599 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 3: This one in the newspaper picture. 376 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 4: See see this one doctor Lawson a gentleman of refinement, 377 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:47,200 now dead. 378 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 3: I perceive Berar didn't give you an address by any chance. 379 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:53,599 Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, he simply took the cancelation money. 380 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,279 Told me he preferred your city as who would not? 381 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:00,160 Speaker 3: You paddle tickets to romantic places, and you like get 382 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:01,920 better here? Who would not? 383 00:22:02,839 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 4: Why pay extra fare? 384 00:22:04,039 --> 00:22:04,359 Speaker 12: Senor? 385 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 4: Romance is where you're finding, Danny. 386 00:22:18,559 --> 00:22:24,519 Speaker 3: I'll come in, Mouggvin. So got anything? Nothing? 387 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,799 Speaker 7: Brewer's hiding someplace where I can't even begin to guess. 388 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:31,880 Nobody knows anything. Stool pigeons, old friends and brewers. 389 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,160 Speaker 3: Not a thing he gets out of the city. It's 390 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:38,119 going to be tough. How you figure it, Danny? Figure 391 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:39,519 what this the case? 392 00:22:39,559 --> 00:22:40,799 Speaker 7: The killing of the losson brothers? 393 00:22:40,839 --> 00:22:41,359 Speaker 3: You know what I mean? 394 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 2: You piece it all together, it comes out easy, show me. 395 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,799 Sure Harlan Lawson wanted to get rid of his brother. 396 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,000 The money, maybe, but more than that, I think Earl 397 00:22:52,079 --> 00:22:54,640 Lawson was a man who beat up the world. Harlan 398 00:22:54,799 --> 00:22:56,440 just stood there and cried for it. 399 00:22:56,839 --> 00:22:58,599 Speaker 5: Harland was a social worker, Danny. 400 00:22:58,599 --> 00:22:59,559 Speaker 9: He probably did a lot. 401 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 3: Of good words. Cherry didn't. But I met Harlan, so 402 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:06,880 why he impressed me? Muggumn. He felt sorry for himself. 403 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,279 Speaker 7: So he finds a little hood like Brewer hires him 404 00:23:10,319 --> 00:23:10,880 to kill Earl. 405 00:23:11,039 --> 00:23:14,119 Speaker 2: Like you said, Harlan is a social worker. Brewer was 406 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,920 in a charity hospital. That's where he met Harlan. 407 00:23:17,039 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 3: Found out Brewer only had a month to live, promised 408 00:23:19,559 --> 00:23:23,079 him a fling that month in Mexico for killing brother Earl. 409 00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 7: Well, then why did Brewer turn around and kill the 410 00:23:25,039 --> 00:23:26,880 hand that fed him? If we go on the assumption 411 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:28,039 that he killed Harlan too. 412 00:23:28,079 --> 00:23:31,079 Speaker 3: Brewer killed twice, all right, The knife in Harlan matches 413 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:33,480 the stab wound in Earl. He killed both brothers. 414 00:23:33,839 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 7: But why. 415 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:37,599 Speaker 3: I don't know why he killed Harlan. Another thing I 416 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,079 don't know is why Brewer changed his mind about going 417 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:41,319 to Mexico. If he found that. 418 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 8: Outjec, then all I can say is thank goodness. 419 00:23:44,519 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 3: Won't say it and sit down in the corner. Muggavann 420 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:46,960 and I were discussing. 421 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,079 Speaker 8: It's about Peggy Drake. 422 00:23:48,279 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 3: Peggy Drake, say, isn't she the girl, the girl who 423 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:51,400 took the snapshot? 424 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,519 Speaker 8: She should have taken a snapshot and left the city 425 00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,480 just a few minutes ago at five hundred midnight to 426 00:23:56,559 --> 00:23:58,759 be specific. She had a to do with a cab 427 00:23:58,839 --> 00:24:00,920 driver tried to force him to a wardrobe trunk in 428 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,640 his back seat, broke a window while so, forcing quite 429 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:08,119 a scene. The police suggested a moving company and what 430 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:13,839 give me a breathing spell? Danny and officer patyu Nik 431 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,480 suggested his father in law and stood god over the 432 00:24:16,519 --> 00:24:19,359 trunk until his father in law, the Murphy movers hauled 433 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,519 it away. Thank jeeps, This girl leaf for her hometown 434 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,880 of New Freedom, PA in the morning, where New Freedom, Danny, 435 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,680 the trunk has already left by Murphy Trucking Company, and 436 00:24:28,799 --> 00:24:31,799 the girl, Peggy Drake, leaves tomorrow, for which leaving the 437 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,519 police only again waved a finger under her nose. 438 00:24:34,559 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 2: Highway Patrol magn pick up that van escorted back to 439 00:24:37,279 --> 00:24:38,119 Peggy Drake's place. 440 00:24:38,759 --> 00:24:39,279 Speaker 3: What do you know? 441 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 2: So that's why Brewer changed his mind about going to Mexico. 442 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,519 Then I waited. There's a little less than an hour 443 00:24:50,599 --> 00:24:52,880 on the phone call came. The Highway patrol had picked 444 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:54,920 up the van at the entrance to the Delaware Bridge. 445 00:24:55,599 --> 00:24:58,400 There was plenty of time plan to grab a bullet 446 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,160 chili and walk over the sixth into the rooming house 447 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,079 where Peggy Drake was staying inside. The banisters of the 448 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:08,559 staircase had been worn smooth by a thousand respectable hands, 449 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,680 and the color had just begun to drain from the 450 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:14,079 flowers in the wallpaper. On the third floor landing was 451 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,640 a trunk beside a detective Muggah. 452 00:25:16,799 --> 00:25:18,640 Speaker 3: She's in there, Danny, you know we're here. 453 00:25:19,039 --> 00:25:19,839 Speaker 5: We talked loud. 454 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 3: She stay with the trunk, Mugger. 455 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 5: Okay, Oh it's you, mister Clover. 456 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:38,920 Speaker 11: Glad you're here. Come in, Please come in. What goes 457 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,119 on in your town? I don't understand you people? 458 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 3: Something wrong, Peggy. 459 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:44,559 Speaker 11: It was all that noise A little while ago. I 460 00:25:44,599 --> 00:25:47,640 opened my door a bit. I saw my trunk. Explain 461 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:48,599 it to me, mister Clover. 462 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 3: You were sending it back to New Freedom. 463 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,839 Speaker 11: Of course, where I live, where I came from. 464 00:25:53,319 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 3: That's where you met Harlan, wasn't it. 465 00:25:55,519 --> 00:25:59,279 Speaker 11: What's he got to do? I need some sleep, mister Clover. 466 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:00,640 My bus leaves early tomorrow. 467 00:26:00,759 --> 00:26:03,400 Speaker 2: You're not leaving. You want to bring your trunk back 468 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:08,200 in here and unpack, not leaving. Wait a minute, Margaovan, 469 00:26:08,319 --> 00:26:09,160 bring that trunk in here. 470 00:26:09,319 --> 00:26:11,440 Speaker 11: What are you doing? I don't have to unpack. 471 00:26:12,799 --> 00:26:15,519 Speaker 3: Okay, I'll give you a hand. 472 00:26:15,759 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 10: Yeah, better grab the handle on the other side. 473 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 3: Okay, Daddy, wait outside. 474 00:26:30,759 --> 00:26:32,400 Speaker 11: I wish you'd tell me what this is all about. 475 00:26:32,839 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 2: How long did you plan to stay in New York, Peggy, 476 00:26:35,599 --> 00:26:38,200 four days? You needed a trunk that big for a 477 00:26:38,319 --> 00:26:42,079 four day trip. That's a brand new trunk, Peggy. 478 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,039 Speaker 11: Yes, I just bought it. It's for things. I want 479 00:26:44,079 --> 00:26:45,799 to take home, books land books. 480 00:26:46,319 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 3: I like books. Let's see what you bought. Why not, Peggy, 481 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:52,119 leave me alone? 482 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:53,160 Speaker 14: Once a girl have to do. 483 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 11: I come here for a good time. 484 00:26:55,519 --> 00:26:55,799 Speaker 1: I say. 485 00:26:55,799 --> 00:26:58,400 Speaker 2: You had quite a busy trip, running down the street 486 00:26:58,440 --> 00:26:59,799 at night in a neglige. 487 00:27:00,279 --> 00:27:01,119 Speaker 11: Had something to drink. 488 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,039 Speaker 3: I didn't know what I was doing, and creating a 489 00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:04,680 stir with this trunk with a cab driver. 490 00:27:04,839 --> 00:27:07,519 Speaker 11: It wasn't my fault. People here aren't helpful, Peggy. 491 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,559 Speaker 3: We're looking for a man, Ray Brewer. We want him 492 00:27:10,599 --> 00:27:11,319 for two murders. 493 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:12,160 Speaker 11: Brewer. 494 00:27:12,279 --> 00:27:14,279 Speaker 3: You know him, Peggy. You took his picture, brought it 495 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:14,559 to me. 496 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:17,599 Speaker 11: That's right, I remember his name. 497 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 3: I'm sure you do. That's opened the trunk, Peggy. 498 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,200 Speaker 11: Don't get it out of her ticket away later. 499 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 2: You took the picture, Peggy, because you knew the murder 500 00:27:26,839 --> 00:27:29,279 was going to be committed, the murder you planned so 501 00:27:29,519 --> 00:27:32,839 well with Hard gave us a picture of the murderer. 502 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:35,000 You figured by the time we found who he was, 503 00:27:35,279 --> 00:27:37,599 traced him, he'd be roaming around Mexico. By the time 504 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,200 we got to me'd be dead because Ray Brewer only 505 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:41,000 had a month to live. 506 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:41,839 Speaker 12: I didn't do it. 507 00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:44,359 Speaker 10: I didn't kill anybody. 508 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:45,079 Speaker 9: It was hard. 509 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 3: One thing was bothering me. Peggy. Why Brewer changed his 510 00:27:48,319 --> 00:27:49,119 mind about going to. 511 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:51,279 Speaker 10: Mexico taking his picture. 512 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,319 Speaker 11: We didn't tell her we're going to do that. 513 00:27:53,839 --> 00:27:56,799 Speaker 3: You double crossed him. That's why he killed Harlan. That's 514 00:27:56,799 --> 00:27:57,759 why he was going to kill you. 515 00:27:58,039 --> 00:28:00,640 Speaker 5: I ran from him like a nightmare. 516 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 14: Somebody grabbed him by the shoulders and choked me, and 517 00:28:05,799 --> 00:28:08,720 I was in the middle of the street, dressed. 518 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,759 Speaker 2: You finally got back here. Right, Brower was dead. He 519 00:28:12,839 --> 00:28:17,119 didn't live his month. His heart gave out. That's opened 520 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:26,799 the trunk. There he is, right Brower. 521 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,440 Speaker 11: I don't look. I'm not gonna look at him again. 522 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:38,279 All the while I was putting him in there staring 523 00:28:38,359 --> 00:28:44,279 at me, staring, and I couldn't get the trunk closed 524 00:28:45,599 --> 00:28:53,440 his hand. I was alone all alone, his face. 525 00:28:54,279 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 15: Staring at me. 526 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,079 Speaker 2: Dawn touches Broadway. Now the remnants of the night are 527 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,759 driven back into the earth. You walk the streets, and 528 00:29:23,839 --> 00:29:26,839 from behind the doorway you hear the old sound, the 529 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,359 sound of weeping. You know the night time will never leave. 530 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:38,039 It's found its refuge. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, 531 00:29:39,519 --> 00:29:45,880 the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway, My Beat. 532 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,839 Speaker 13: Broadway Is My Beat, stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, 533 00:30:05,079 --> 00:30:09,279 with Charles calverdas Totaglia and Jack Kruscian as Muggavin. The 534 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,559 program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with musical 535 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,319 score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story, 536 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,839 Peggy Weber was heard as Peggy Drake, Ted Osburn as 537 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,400 Hard and Lawson, Anthony Barretts Ray Brewer, and Don Diamond 538 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:28,160 as Milford. For a full hour of outstanding musical entertainment 539 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,079 plus one of radio's biggest cash awards, play Sing It Again. 540 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:34,240 Every week over most of these same CBS stations, Laugh 541 00:30:34,319 --> 00:30:36,680 Along went along with Jan Murray as he picks up 542 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,160 his coast to coast telephone and invite you to Sing 543 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,200 It Again and land a big batch of loot. It's exciting, 544 00:30:42,359 --> 00:30:46,400 its outstanding radio entertainment. Stay tuned now for Sing It Again, 545 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,920 which follows immediately over most of these same CBS stations. 546 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,119 Bill Anders speaking, This is CBS for you. Meet Adventure 547 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,559 with Charlie Wild Sunday is on the Columbia Broadcast System. 548 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,799 Speaker 1: Welcome Back. An interesting episode, and I like Danny's key deduction, 549 00:31:21,119 --> 00:31:25,960 mainly realizing the impracticality of her bringing a trunk, although 550 00:31:26,079 --> 00:31:29,519 she really worked to cover that up and to prevent 551 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,599 him from checking, you know, all the sort of pleading. 552 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,640 I also thought they did a nice bit of misdirection 553 00:31:35,839 --> 00:31:39,960 in this episode of having tartagually bring up her seemingly 554 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:44,480 unrelated little exploits in the city at various times, almost 555 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,920 making them seem like comic relief that it was actually 556 00:31:48,079 --> 00:31:50,200 the key to the main plot, though I think some 557 00:31:50,359 --> 00:31:54,440 astute listeners probably caught on. This is another case of 558 00:31:55,279 --> 00:31:59,359 Killers being too clever by half betting the police would 559 00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:03,720 only catch up to their hired gun after he died 560 00:32:03,799 --> 00:32:09,119 in Mexico was a huge gamble with limited payoff. The 561 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,319 police could have caught up to him before he got 562 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,440 to Mexico or in Mexico before he died, and then 563 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,759 you would be in a very difficult situation. If they 564 00:32:20,839 --> 00:32:24,440 had just let him leave and there had been no 565 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:29,640 witness and no one to tie the brother in, then 566 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,079 they would have gotten away with it. And of course 567 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,599 they didn't realize. The even bigger risk is that your 568 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:41,920 hired killer would realize he'd been double crossed and seek revenge. 569 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,240 I also thought it was a bit cruel. They got 570 00:32:45,319 --> 00:32:48,519 this terminally ill guy to commit murder with a promise 571 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:53,720 of a life of ease in paradise, but then set 572 00:32:53,839 --> 00:32:57,559 him up to be hunted down like a dog. And 573 00:32:58,039 --> 00:33:03,519 if anything, it exposes the true nature of the supposedly 574 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:08,319 selfless social worker rather than the initial killing for hire. 575 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,319 All right, listener comments and feedback now, and we start 576 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:17,279 out with Nikolaus, who's sent along a nice note with 577 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,640 his donation, keep up the great work. Truly appreciate the show, 578 00:33:21,079 --> 00:33:23,839 Thank you so much, and again I really do appreciate 579 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:27,160 the donation. And then we also have a comment on 580 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:31,960 Spotify from Mechanics sixty six regarding the Eleanor Corbett murder case, 581 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,440 and it says, good one, well, thanks so much, appreciate 582 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,559 you taking the time to leave that comment. Now it's 583 00:33:38,759 --> 00:33:41,160 time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and 584 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,720 I want to go ahead and think Judy, Patreon supporter 585 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:48,039 since July twenty twenty four, currentless supporting the podcast at 586 00:33:48,079 --> 00:33:51,160 the Shawmas level of four dollars more per month. Thanks 587 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,960 so much for your support, Judy. That will actually do 588 00:33:54,079 --> 00:33:57,359 it for today. 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He's resting a lot better, Doctor 600 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,599 gave him a sedative Old fellow sure had a rough time. 601 00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:36,719 Speaker 12: Well, how about since I've been gone to tell you 602 00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:37,199 anything else? 603 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,719 Speaker 15: No, just kept repeating the same thing. Two guys for 604 00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,280 us the way into his house, beat his wife tortured him, 605 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:43,199 took all the jewelry. 606 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:43,800 Speaker 12: It's about it. 607 00:34:44,119 --> 00:34:45,760 Speaker 16: Yeah, well, I put in a call of the office. 608 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,800 I got a broadcast out of the information that we have. 609 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:48,719 There's not much to go on. 610 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,480 Speaker 15: We should be able to pick up a little something 611 00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,119 more tomorrow. Doc said, it's been a long time since 612 00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:55,320 he's seen anything like this where they worked on man 613 00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,639 over what they do to the fella's hands anyway, The 614 00:34:57,679 --> 00:34:59,880 doctor able to tell he thinks they used to happen 615 00:35:00,039 --> 00:35:02,920 know him, something like that. It's sharp and thin, at 616 00:35:03,039 --> 00:35:05,840 least a dozen wounds in both hands. He's pretty badly burned. 617 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:10,559 Too hard to imagine somebody that cold blooding seventy one 618 00:35:10,639 --> 00:35:13,039 year old man sols of his feet a massive burns. 619 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,400 Wonder his heart stood up through the beating I gave him. 620 00:35:15,519 --> 00:35:16,239 Speaker 12: Was he got a weak heart? 621 00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,440 Speaker 15: He's had a little trouble. Yeah, terrific shock going through 622 00:35:19,519 --> 00:35:20,039 something like this. 623 00:35:20,199 --> 00:35:20,440 Speaker 11: It is. 624 00:35:20,519 --> 00:35:23,079 Speaker 16: Ah, maybe we better check back at their house. Huh, 625 00:35:23,119 --> 00:35:24,679 see how the old fella's wife is doing that? 626 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 12: Yeah, right, how's it shape up for you? Well, there's 627 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,400 not an awful lot to go on yet. It wasn't 628 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:33,159 a shot in the dark. 629 00:35:33,159 --> 00:35:34,960 Speaker 16: I think we can count on that whoever the thieves were, 630 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,440 they had some kind of an inside tip. 631 00:35:37,159 --> 00:35:39,440 Speaker 12: The old man and his wife, Only they don't put 632 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:40,320 up much of an appearance. 633 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:42,039 Speaker 16: You wouldn't be have to figure that they had three 634 00:35:42,119 --> 00:35:43,760 or four thousand and jewelry put away. 635 00:35:43,559 --> 00:35:44,079 Speaker 12: At home with you. 636 00:35:44,159 --> 00:35:49,519 Speaker 15: Maybe his wife might have some ideas. Joey's a lousy shame. Yeah, yeah, 637 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,039 you might have to understand it. They just held him up. 638 00:35:52,079 --> 00:35:53,800 But working them over the way they did, there was 639 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:55,840 no sense to it at all. And to show off 640 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,039 what a couple of rough bums they are. Maybe that's 641 00:35:58,079 --> 00:35:58,480 it one. 642 00:35:58,559 --> 00:36:00,679 Speaker 12: Let's do them a favorite and what it costs. 643 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,119 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, 644 00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:08,320 send your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net, 645 00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,360 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 646 00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:17,480 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from 647 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,199 vose Adaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. 648 00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:22,079 Speaker 3: Sign it off.