Speaker 1: Mh The Blue Beetle.
Speaker 2: Weeping down upon the underworld is Mash Gangling comes.
Speaker 3: A mysterious all powerful character who is a problem to
the police, but a crud sailer full off in reality.
Speaker 4: Damn Garrett, a rookie MC code, love.
Speaker 5: By everyone, but suspected by none of being.
Speaker 1: The Blue Beetle. As the Blue Beetle.
Speaker 3: He hides behind the screen of mass and a suit
of impenetrable blue chain armor, flexible aster but stroll a Bensteel.
Speaker 6: Today's episode of the Fox feature The.
Speaker 2: Blue Beetle has entitled Vanette in Diamonds, the wealthy and
beautiful wife of Benjamin Banister.
Speaker 6: The oil Magnet claims to have.
Speaker 3: Been robbed of the famous Banister diamond necklace, along.
Speaker 6: With other jewelry of lesser value.
Speaker 2: A peculiar fact of the case is that there appears
to have been two robberies, the first as she was
leaving the Starlight Club, a famous dance rendezvous, and another.
Speaker 6: At some unknown time.
Speaker 2: Apprehension of Thrugs, who stripped the diamond necklace from her
throat just outside the Starlight Club, disclose the fact that
the necklace they stole with a fake, but the real.
Speaker 6: Necklace is still missing. As our story opens for Troman,
Dan Garrett, who is really the Blue Beetle.
Speaker 2: Is discussing the case with his friend and competence doctor
Franz the Kemint Jenny.
Speaker 3: Is this Banister jewel robberies of Benny? Interesting case?
Speaker 4: Yes, there is dark from what you've.
Speaker 3: Read of it in the papers. Do you believe Missus
Banister's social secretary is guilty?
Speaker 5: Well, the evidence so far is rather convincing. One of
the jewelry was found in the girl's room.
Speaker 3: But couldn't that have been planted there by the crooks?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's possible.
Speaker 3: Missus Banister doesn't directly accuse her social secretary, Lucy Ridgeway,
according to this newspaper, but the real.
Speaker 4: Necklace is still missing.
Speaker 3: Yes, Missus Banister claims Lucy Ridgeway brought the necklace to
her from the safe and fastened it about her neck
just before she left for the Starlight clap. That must
have been the flake necklace years, But that still doesn't.
Speaker 5: Prove anything against Lucy Ridgway.
Speaker 3: According to Missus Banister, she and the Ridgeway girl are
the only ones who know the combination of the wall
safe except mister Banister, who was out west somewhere on business.
Speaker 5: The diamond necklace was insured for half a million.
Speaker 4: Wasn't it?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Are you are you going to work on this case, Danny?
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't think so.
Speaker 7: Dark Rockney Insurance Company has its own investigators, the best
in the country. And besides, I thought of the Blue
Beetle's line, no one fortunate individuals are involved.
Speaker 4: Uh, there's the phone, that's excuse.
Speaker 5: Me, Denny.
Speaker 4: Hello, Oh hello, Charlie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yes, he's here. Eh, that's a moment he
eats for you, Denny. Uh, Charlie Storm said Stark.
Speaker 5: Hello, Charlie, I went on your mind.
Speaker 3: What really your girl's sister.
Speaker 5: I didn't know that. What Yeah, sure, sure you bet
I will, Charlie. Sure.
Speaker 3: God sounds like the Blue Beetle will be shopping his
nippers soon.
Speaker 7: Yes, Charlie Storm just told me Lucy Ridgeway is his
girl's sister, and he wants me to see what I
can do to help her out of this jam?
Speaker 3: Or what are you going to do?
Speaker 5: Have a talk with a Ridgeway girl.
Speaker 7: Then get man again and drive down to the Banister
place and interview missus Banister.
Speaker 4: The commissioner will assign me to the case.
Speaker 3: Mm you think you do that alright?
Speaker 7: If he doesn't, I'll have to operate entirely as a
blue beetle by I'm not ready to do that.
Speaker 5: Until I can get certain information.
Speaker 3: With good luck to you, Danny Nice, Doc, I'll be
back later. I'll have your blue beetle chain, armor and
mask and equipment ready when you meet them.
Speaker 4: That's fine.
Speaker 7: Well along, it looked as if I were going to
be up to my neck in diamonds, but they won't
be around my neck. Here's a rich way girl, Dan Nice.
I'm a Van Garrett, Miss Ridgeway, a friend of Charlie Storm.
Speaker 8: Oh.
Speaker 7: Yes, Charlie asked me to do what I can to
help you in this unfortunate case.
Speaker 5: I suppose you tell me what you know about this jewel.
Speaker 8: Robbery, But all I know is that the night missus
Banister was held up and robbed what proved to be
a just diamond necklace, I was awakened by missus Denister
and some police officers and questioned about the disappearance of
a diamond necklet.
Speaker 7: Were you were aware of the fact that there were
two almost id sand necklaces?
Speaker 8: Yes, missus Banister, told me some time ago her husband
had urged her to have a duplicate necklace made of
imitation diamonds, to where when she went out in public
she had such a necklace maid, and when the necklaces
would delivered by the jeweler, I put both boxes in
the space.
Speaker 7: You and Missus Banister were the only ones who knew
the combination of that safe.
Speaker 8: Mister Banister also jus uh, e's a way.
Speaker 3: I believe that's right.
Speaker 5: Well, now, what can you tell me about Missus Banister's.
Speaker 3: Private life that might be helpful in solving this mystery?
Speaker 4: What has she done recently?
Speaker 3: And and with whom has she been associated?
Speaker 8: Bo why I'm afraid I couldn't devolve things like that.
Speaker 7: I assure you, Miss Ridgway, the information will only be
used to right any wrong.
Speaker 4: That has been done.
Speaker 8: Well, Missus Banister has been losing heavily at Fridge recently.
She she's been rather more than attentive to Don Ricardo,
the orchestra leader at the Starlight Clubs, since mister Banister
has been away, and and last week she had a
long interview with mister McCaffrey, a private detective.
Speaker 3: From the ACTME Insurance before the robbery.
Speaker 4: Yes, have you any idea of what the interview was about?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 8: But but I noticed she seemed quite thoughtful after that's
and a bit more cheerful if if something had relieved
her mind.
Speaker 5: Hmm, that's very interesting.
Speaker 8: Please, when can I get out of this horrible place,
the disgrace of it being put into jail like a
common sea.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, don't worry in this ridgeway.
Speaker 7: I'm on your side and I'll do what I can
for you. But I think that for the present, you're
safer in and out of jail.
Speaker 9: Well, Lonnie, I got the commissioner to assign us to
this Barrister case like you asked me to.
Speaker 4: Now where do we go from here?
Speaker 5: We separate up the next corner? Watch that?
Speaker 4: So what's hart of the game is this?
Speaker 7: Sorry, Mike, but we've got to work fast in this case,
and we can get results.
Speaker 3: Quicker if we each work on separate lead. That way,
we'll still be solving the case together.
Speaker 5: Okay, where what do we do?
Speaker 4: You run over to the.
Speaker 7: Banister's townhouse and interview missus Banister?
Speaker 4: What do I ask her? Ask her?
Speaker 5: What her interview with McCaffrey or the act the insurance.
Speaker 7: Company with about and also ask her if it's true
that she's lost heavily at Bridge recently, and maybe she
refused to answer the question.
Speaker 5: That doesn't matter. The important thing is to study her
reactions to the questions. Okay, there, what are you want
to do. I'm going to make some important phone calls.
Speaker 4: I'll see you later at headquarters.
Speaker 3: Okay, but if missus Bannister throws me out of my ears,
I'd take.
Speaker 4: You across me me and paddle your plan.
Speaker 3: If you can be thrown out of you on your
ear by a woman, you're.
Speaker 4: Two weaks to paddle my pat.
Speaker 10: Hear.
Speaker 3: Everything's ready for you, Danny, Thanks Douc.
Speaker 7: I'll only take the magic ray and the Blue Beetle
flashlight with me tonight.
Speaker 5: I've got a lot of ground to cover and I
want to travel light.
Speaker 3: Where's the blue Beetle heading for tonight?
Speaker 7: The Strathaven Arms apartments.
Speaker 4: Who's your host? Don Ricardo, the orchestra leader.
Speaker 7: According to the information I got over the phone from
Charlie Storm.
Speaker 3: Is Ricardo in on this robbery? I don't know, but
I'm going to find out. What about this McCaffrey, the
insurance Company's investigator.
Speaker 4: There's something fishing about him. I called the office today,
but he wasn't in.
Speaker 3: Did Mannigan get any valuable information out of missus banisters?
Speaker 7: The Park Avenue manor and the threat of legal action
against the city if they sent me more? Policemen ask
impudent question of poor Mannigan that his face was red. Yes, well,
I gotta be going dock. Ricardo was just about playing
his closing number.
Speaker 4: At the Starlight Club.
Speaker 7: Belong, Doc, diamonds are Trump's and the blue beetle is
playing to win.
Speaker 8: A R.
Speaker 9: Let's quit playing card and have another look at that necklace.
Speaker 5: Oh there there is?
Speaker 9: Oh boy, they sure pretty messy, sparklest.
Speaker 3: Yes, we should realize quite be some of money on
the 'em, you see, Not so mich about a hundred grand?
He's downr sure the necklace has to be broken up,
the diamonds so separately.
Speaker 4: Oh I see, Well.
Speaker 9: Then there's a part of the insurance your company pays
over there's a betaster Dame.
Speaker 5: Hey, mag I'm trying.
Speaker 3: We'll get twenty percent of that.
Speaker 9: That's another hundred grand we might share.
Speaker 3: I can go home to South America and Maddy might
sweet ten your rita, say.
Speaker 9: Where's the fence you said he was covered over the night.
And make us a bid on these sparklests and he'll be.
Speaker 3: Hearing him and that's probably him.
Speaker 5: Now open the door card of right the blue beater?
Speaker 4: Who is Slow Beetle?
Speaker 5: Al, I do snow?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Hey, I maskarad Ronald's down criminals.
Speaker 5: I'm a fraids.
Speaker 4: You're on the wrong truck, Blue Beetle.
Speaker 3: There are no criminals here.
Speaker 4: Where What is it you want? I'd like to talk
with you alone, Ricardo?
Speaker 3: Oh but quite about as you see who you.
Speaker 6: Are playing cards?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 5: Why not deal me in.
Speaker 4: I'll make the fourfeit bridge.
Speaker 3: We're expecting the other player any minute.
Speaker 6: And these the.
Speaker 9: Steaks here, this string of glass beads, macky course them
diet trigger.
Speaker 4: Your friend seems to resent.
Speaker 3: My calling these things beads for drop that necklace, Blue Beetle,
or a trigger? I said, uh, you must pardon my friend,
Blue Beetle. He's laboring under the impression that those glass
beads in that necklace are real diamonds.
Speaker 4: So I gathered.
Speaker 7: I must say this necklace is a very good imitation
of the famous Banister necklace.
Speaker 5: Ah, that must be your fourth bridge, so I'll be going.
Speaker 4: I'll talk with you some of the time.
Speaker 5: Ricardo.
Speaker 7: By the way, gentlemen, if your visitor is by any
chance of fence to whom you hope to sell the necklace,
I'm sure he'll verify the.
Speaker 5: Word of the Blue Beetle.
Speaker 4: Those diamonds are pates.
Speaker 3: Were the diamonds in the possession of Ricardo mac and
trigger fakes? And if they were fakes, who has the.
Speaker 6: Real diamond necklace?
Speaker 3: Can the Blue Beetle pick up another clue and locate
the missing gems?
Speaker 2: Or is Lucy Ridgeway an access rate of the real thief.
These questions will be answered in the next episode of
The Blue Beetle. The Blue Beetle is a copyrighted box
feature appearing in Mystery Men Comics Magazine and The Blue
Beetle Magazine.
Speaker 1: The Blue Beetle is on the air twice a week
on this same station.
Speaker 2: Consulf the broadcast schedule in your local newspapers, and don't
forget to listenabing drool.
Speaker 10: A Blue to be Gold, A Blue be Gold.
Speaker 2: Leaning down upon the unknoworld, the smash gangling from.
Speaker 7: The mysterious all powerful character who is a problem to
the police or.
Speaker 4: A good paderful law.
Speaker 3: He a sprain of mass and the suit of intelligible
blue chain armor, flexible absute strong off.
Speaker 2: And today's episode of the Fox feature The Blue Beagles
is part through the story.
Speaker 6: Entitled The Nest in Diamonds.
Speaker 2: The famous Banister's diamond necklace, valued at five hundred thousand
dollars is Missy Bloody.
Speaker 3: Ridgeway, Missus Bannister's social secretary, is in jail the cues
of being implicated. In the set.
Speaker 2: So far, two necklaces, both take but resembling the real necklace,
have been discovered, one which was stripped from Missus Bannister's
neck by Doug as she was leaving the Starlight Club,
and another by the Blue Beagle, which he found in
the possession of Don Ricardo, leader of the Starlight Orchestra, and.
Speaker 6: A man called Max, whom the Blue Beatles suspects.
Speaker 2: Of being McCaffrey, an investigator for the Acting Insurance Company.
As our story opens, Patrolman Dan Garrett, who is secretly
the Blue Beatle, is discussing the case with his friend
and confidence, doctor Franz the Chemist.
Speaker 7: You could have knocked me over with a fellow when
I picked up that necklace at Ricardo's apartment, discovered it
with a fake.
Speaker 3: He's a second will Anette and that makes two faiths.
Speaker 9: Yes.
Speaker 3: Uh, what about McCaffrey, Don Ricardo and Trigger as you
say he was called, I.
Speaker 7: Imagine now running them again shortly? Could you arrest them
only on suspicion? Remember I caught them with a first
necklace as a blue Beatle, the blue Beetle can't testify
in courtney, and that's right that it seems a shame.
According to this morning's paper, Ricardo was saving for South
America tonight. What are you sure, as I remember he said,
done Ricardo's popular Starlight sub office to do this, He's
saving tonight on the Cristobo for South America.
Speaker 5: Oh, I've got to stop him somehow. Yeah, but how
the ship sails at midnight, doesn't it?
Speaker 3: I believe?
Speaker 5: So I've got it.
Speaker 3: We'll pick him up just as he's sailing and hold
him into material witness. In this case, at least, it'll
give us a little more time to run down.
Speaker 4: The real thief.
Speaker 3: Both Ricardo's arrest scare off the others. I'll wait until
the last moment before sailing in the meantime, I've got
a busy time.
Speaker 5: Ahead of me.
Speaker 3: Can I help you, Danny Ah?
Speaker 7: Yes, dorc you might have your recording equipment hooked up
to your telephone, so if I should call you at
any time on my portable wireless telephone, you could record
anything i'd pick up.
Speaker 3: All right, Anny, Uh, where are you going now to get.
Speaker 7: The combination of a banister's safe from Lucy Ridgeway. I'll
be back shortly and pick up the camera and photo
electric equipment.
Speaker 4: I may catch a thief with a camera.
Speaker 3: If you think you can double across me, missus Vanister
and get away with it, You're mistaken.
Speaker 8: But do you your senses of the plan for hiding
the necklace so I could collect insurance and pay.
Speaker 3: Off my gambling day? Yes, but the necklace you left
in the safe was a fake?
Speaker 8: A fake?
Speaker 3: But what do you mean just that? I took that
necklace from the safe myself. The first examined the necklace
and declared it a fake. What's the thing a man
who disposes of stolen goods which you said nothing about
disposing of the jewel.
Speaker 8: You said they were to be hidden for a while
until I could raise the money to refund the burglary
insurance payment later when the jewels were found.
Speaker 3: Don't fair fool, missus banister, where could you ever hope
to raise money to pay back the insurance?
Speaker 4: My husband?
Speaker 3: You would he would divorce you if he knew the
facts in the case.
Speaker 4: Okay, good, pardon madam. But there's a police officer outside
the patrolman.
Speaker 1: Get it, who wishes to speak to you, which is
to speak to me.
Speaker 5: But well, what shall I do?
Speaker 4: You must have been waiting some time, med him.
Speaker 3: I didn't see him coming.
Speaker 8: Uh what do you think, mister McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: Oh, say him, It won't do any harm. Oh there
he well, Uh you may sure him in William very good.
Speaker 10: Dget m You don't think he overheard anything usual, No,
he's only a copper h the true and he didn't
get it.
Speaker 5: But avering, missus banister, Oh I I see you are
not alone. Uh this is mister McCaffrey of the Esthme
Insurance Company. Oh right, he's as much interested in mind,
mister Nicholas, as I am. I can well imagine. I
uh just wanted to ask you to identify this photograph
I have here.
Speaker 8: Well, that's my husband and he's standing hedn spunt it
all wall safe.
Speaker 3: Uh what's that he has in his hands?
Speaker 10: It's my necklace?
Speaker 7: Well was a photograph taken off the waits herfternoon by
a SECOD device that your country is safe.
Speaker 8: And he had the real necklace all the time, and
it's just.
Speaker 3: Putting it back in the safe.
Speaker 2: Perhaps.
Speaker 5: Well, mister McCaffrey, I suppose this will clear up your
part in this case. A law will interview mister banister later.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, a perl course. Well, i'd better be going.
I have a lot of details to tent to. Uh
good bye, missus banister go by officer Uh Garrett, I'll
be saying.
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm sure of it, mister McCaffrey. If you record
the banister McCaffrey conversation early.
Speaker 3: This evening back, Yes, Jenny, it wasn't very loud, but
it's intelligible. Good. I had the mouthpiece of the portable wireless.
Speaker 5: Phone against the wall while they were talking. In the
next room.
Speaker 4: A butler almost caught me.
Speaker 3: Way, you've got enough to make it hot for McCaffrey.
Speaker 5: Yes, and I'm going to make it hotter yet for
him if my hunch is right.
Speaker 4: But what are you going to do well.
Speaker 5: As they say in Bridge, a Blue Beetle is going
to finesse in diamonds.
Speaker 3: Now. Trigger, you can keep watch outside while I go
in and life for the safe. I've still got the combination.
This has banister gave me.
Speaker 5: Okay, Meg, if you hear.
Speaker 3: Anybody coming, give me the whot I will.
Speaker 5: Call sure, Mac, I got you.
Speaker 3: I will pick up the real necklace this time and
we'll join Ricardo and beat it for real on the
Christopo tonight.
Speaker 5: I've always wanted to go to Chide Americay.
Speaker 3: Well, you're practically on your way now. I'll keep your
eyes and your ears though. This is the library, there's
the wall safe. Uh, this is gonna be easy. What's that.
Speaker 1: Mean?
Speaker 3: These old houses are certainly spooky out Now for the safe.
Right to twelve, left twice to six.
Speaker 5: And right to ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's got it.
Speaker 1: That's somebody coming.
Speaker 3: That's Trigger's call.
Speaker 5: Oh, here's the real necklace.
Speaker 3: Said now to make our getaway.
Speaker 4: The Blue Yes, the Blue Beatles.
Speaker 5: Your jam is up, mccaffridge.
Speaker 7: You double causing insurance investigator, so you know, yeah, the
Blue Beetle knows everything.
Speaker 4: Hand over that necklace, try and get it that's just
what I intend to do. Wi her call your gun man.
Speaker 5: I'll take him on too.
Speaker 4: That's for justice, and that's for Lucy rich Ways, and.
Speaker 3: That's all law and order, and that's for the blue field. H.
Speaker 4: He's out cold, he back, Come on, let's cray.
Speaker 10: H hey, come on, get up the cots of me
here anymo h? Help me up?
Speaker 3: Okay, you got the necklace? And then towards the floor.
Where's the blue.
Speaker 4: Beetle over there on the floor, I comed him?
Speaker 3: Yeah, good work, give me the necklace. Let's go. We've
just got time and left to make the boat. So long,
blue beetle. I'll tell Riccardo you couldn't join us for
a hand of bridge and a balas are speaking, Well,
the blue beetle. What butccafrey has the real necklace? There,
steamship Chris Popo, heere forty six. Well I'll be right
down what.
Speaker 5: Well, all right, I won't call the police.
Speaker 4: I'll come along goodbye.
Speaker 3: Well one minute ago and we'll be on our way
to South America.
Speaker 1: One minute.
Speaker 6: That's a very wrong time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't worry, boys. Look those men down there are
ready to take in the gang plank.
Speaker 5: And they hope they make it snappy, mean noise.
Speaker 1: It's all of a twitter.
Speaker 3: Help close your nerve. Now, trigger, we're in the clare.
Speaker 6: Good look the gangplank.
Speaker 1: She's going away.
Speaker 3: Uh when I wait away over the half a minute
I was with the jewels in their buggets.
Speaker 6: Sure we go below and making him to your garden there.
Speaker 1: It's a great idea, good for.
Speaker 3: Relaxing the nerves. How about a trigger swell.
Speaker 4: If we only had a force, we could play bridge right?
Speaker 3: Yes, the blue people, your horse a bridge and diamonds.
Speaker 4: Are trump stigure out back.
Speaker 5: When I rub him out, haul at trigger.
Speaker 3: That's the use he's got us.
Speaker 6: We can't get off the ship.
Speaker 1: A wise decision.
Speaker 4: Now, let's go up and visit the captain.
Speaker 5: Just a minute, laze.
Speaker 6: Are these the men blue beetle? Yes, you're mister banister?
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 4: These are young men.
Speaker 7: And here's a photograph I took earlier this evening with
my photo electric camera of McCaffrey.
Speaker 4: Here at your wall safe.
Speaker 3: Oh that was the click I heard.
Speaker 7: That's right, enough evidence to convict you. I'll hand over
the necklace to mister banister.
Speaker 1: Here it is.
Speaker 4: Are these the real diamonds?
Speaker 5: Mister banister.
Speaker 3: Yes, these are genuine. I put them in the safe
myself when I got back from the West. I had
them in the secret hiding place.
Speaker 5: I had a duplicate maid and the party missus Banister
had one made off. And we'll turn these men over
to the captain, who will send them ashore with us and.
Speaker 4: The guard and the pilot boat.
Speaker 5: You can prosecute.
Speaker 3: I don't wish to prosecute. I have the real necklace.
My wife is confessed and by a forgivener. I wish
to avoid scandal and forget this case as quickly as possible.
You see, the Blue Sea Ridgeway is released from jail
and her name cleared. It should be done immediately, and
I'll see to it that she will lose nothing by
her unfortunate experience.
Speaker 7: That's great. Well, the Blue Beetles job is done. You
crooks are getting off easy. Take the Blue Beetles advice
and stay away from York City.
Speaker 3: And so the Blue Beetle ended another racket, save the
foolish woman from the consequences of her first misstep, and
restore the good name of an innocent young girl.
Speaker 6: The mall of the story is.
Speaker 2: One falsehood lead to many, and one misstep may lead
one father and father along the path of crime. Further
adventures of the Blue Beetle will be presented in the
next episode of The Blue Beatle.
Speaker 3: The Blue Beatle is a.
Speaker 6: Copyrighted Fox feature appearing.
Speaker 3: In Mystery Men, comics magazines, and The Blue Beatle magazine.
Speaker 6: The Blue Beetle is on the air twice a week
on this same station.
Speaker 2: Consult the broadcast schedule in your local newspapers, and don't
forget to listening to
Speaker 1: The Blue Beagle.