Speaker 1: The Avenger wrote the crime and then attract that crime
does not pay The Avengers for an enemy of evil
is actually Jim Brannon, a famous bio kennist. Through his
numeorous scientific experiments, Brandon has suffected several inventions to aid
him and his crusade against time as the Avenger. Most
remarkable of these inventions is the highly secret diffusion capitals,
which quote him in the black light of Invisibilities. Brandon's assistant,
the beautiful Fern Tardier, is the only one who shares
his secrets and knows that he is a man the
underworld's tears as the Avenger and now the Avenger and
the subway ghosts. Jim and Inspector White are standing on
the subway platform waiting for an express as the train
pulls into the station. I'm on, Jim, rest and hop
aboard this front car ride, Infector. Now we'll let the
trains full out before we go into the motorman's boot. Yeah.
I want this little visit to coming to surprise. Okay,
come on all over from the door and you can
take care of the introductions by Clarry. That's me. Never
on you out of this boot, nor Pat Clarry free
time Inspector White and missus Jim Brannon, we're riding with
you on this trip.
Speaker 2: I get it, get after the.
Speaker 1: Goat and tried it. Did you ever see the ghost clearingk.
Speaker 2: No, I never did, just say a little stuck at
putting the story in the televis car three mornament on.
Speaker 1: This line where they start, and the story checked on
the plate where it appeared.
Speaker 2: I didn't know it's appeared in the same place all
the time.
Speaker 1: Well it did approximately anyway, this particut around is five
minutes between stop. Each of those men claimed he was
two and a half minutes out when he saw the goat. Hey,
it's right around the spot where that track walker was
still too llay, ha's that red light just ahead there.
That's a track inspector most likely, yeah, swinging his las
and that's the signal they used to show the lots attacks.
It's almost time, inspector keep their eye peeled for the ghost.
Speaker 2: You know, I always thinkured I was a superstitious as
the next man, But this subway ghost business is a
little two sticks.
Speaker 1: When he's a swallow very as ann in the middle
of the track, stop.
Speaker 3: Put down, you hit him? Come on, what's up for
the toad trail.
Speaker 1: He walk off us right along here, light, I'll take
this turd. There you go with Jim Bokay.
Speaker 3: Out of the train. Go So where's all the way back?
Speaker 1: Got to be here someplace?
Speaker 4: No time of mother try to text you?
Speaker 3: What does that happen to that man?
Speaker 1: One thing is certainly is not here, but the.
Speaker 2: Same man over them We saw that without old eyes.
Speaker 1: No use holding the train up any longer. What do
you make of it, Jim? Well, in Sector, my guess
is that we've had our first encounter with a subway ghost.
Whatever it was, it certainly disappeared in the dinner. Okay, Larry,
close the door and let it join. I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I'll see if the bark.
Speaker 1: I swear it wouldn't test me all.
Speaker 2: Eyes, if I've been buying the test.
Speaker 1: We're up against something here, Jim. I don't happen to
believe in ghost. I don't either, in Sector, but this
one promises to be rather difficult to explain that ghats
couldn't have been anything with the mention because there was
no place for it to hide and no time for
it to run away. Well, what are we going to do?
We'll get off the next stop. Now that we've seen
the goats, we'll have to figure out some way to
trap them. This is a fine mess, Jim. While you
and I spend the afternoon in the sub chasing after
our goats, the biggest bank in town is robbed. It's
a fluck, Inspector, but the cob missioner runs alf assign
you to investigate that subway up there a ghost or
an au ghost. I'm not wasting any more time in
the subway. I'm going to work on this bank job.
Oh believing me? Flat No, No, I want you to
help me out on this bank robbery. Jim. There's a slick,
professional job. We've got to get those two men who
voted well. I think I'll leave that to you, Inspector.
I'm gonna stick with a ghost for a while atlea.
All that can wait, Jim. But this robbery, those bank
robbers will be duckto for you. Inspect your regular routine stuff.
You won't need me.
Speaker 2: On that, But you would walk out on me just
to satisfy your curiosity, some silly crik.
Speaker 3: If somebody's playing the subway.
Speaker 1: Our inspector, there's no reason to lose your temper. We
just have different opinions about the impertor. Don't borrow me
anymore about that ghost. I've got more important things to
think about. All right, offend in my report. When I
close the case, go your brandon, you prove your friend
of mine? How go out it here and let me work.
Speaker 3: So you inspector parted companies here.
Speaker 1: Only temporarily friends. You know how hot head of the inspector.
Speaker 3: Is, well, what about this ghost him? What's to be
the motive? Person like that?
Speaker 1: That's the thing that fascinates me. Friends, there isn't any
obvious motive in disrupting a city controlled subway, Nothing in
a material way could be gained from it.
Speaker 3: You don't think it could be scummon's idea of a crowd?
Speaker 1: No, well, where do we begin the first time? I'm
going to fig up them. Thanks, that might lead to
a motive. I think I'll call Hi less the season.
He's the controller in charge of that subway line. Maybe
he can get me a few leads. Yeah, mister Brandon.
Also that ghosts appeared four times, and I don't mind
telling you. Ex playing havoc with our scheduled as well
as my nervous system. It's about time the police department
got some action on this. You can depend on that,
mister Seasons, if your office will cooperate with us, or
we'll do everything we can. Look here, Brandon, I'm gonna
be frank with you. Here in this drawer is something
we've managed to speak from the newspapers so far. Take
a look at that stack of papers. H well, oh
what I lawsuit, twenty of them, ranging from fifty dollars
to three thousand people claiming they were injured by the
sudden stops of the train due to the appearance of
a ghost. Oh amazing. I'm just possibly a motive Nah,
I don't think so, Brandon. You've got our investigators working
on this, and they've discovered that more than half of
these claims will put in by professional insurance collector Ky. However,
I wish to keep me posted in all damage craims
to receive. He just might run into an angle there
and I'll do that now. A the other handles may
be an inside job, motive unknown. I'm certainly we can
discountact and that sort of thing carries a heavy pennel.
We're ever going to get to the bottom of this
subway goes We can't afford to discount anything. Now, mister Stephens,
we could test on possibility in short order, if you'll
arrange to change the trains get every day. And mister Brandon,
you're estling impossible. I have no authority to do a
thing like that. Then I'll have to ask the mayor
to give you the authority. Mister Stephens, this city can't
afford to pay off a lawsuits because of a ghost.
Speaker 5: Well, it looks as if you're three day war with
his spectors over because what did he want for help?
Speaker 3: I sudden crime wave has completely jump.
Speaker 1: According to the newspapers and radio, there's been a major
robbery every day this week.
Speaker 3: You've been so engross in your ghosts. I wondered if
you realize that.
Speaker 1: Oh that's ghosts appeared nine times now the various motorman.
Speaker 3: Jim, Well, I really think you should be damps the
ghost of the tribe, and we'll give these robberies a
little consideration.
Speaker 1: You're right, friends, Oh, I've saved.
Speaker 3: All the newspapers for you. They'll bring you up to
date under the tail. So what's been happening?
Speaker 1: Good girl? Now, before all I call the inspector back,
we'll just run through those tapers.
Speaker 3: Very jewel hold up next to you, fifty thousand dollars
worth of gin, you men, justice will say so. It's
thematic robbery.
Speaker 1: And armored truck robbed, and midtowns and armored truck trying
to pay envelops for three.
Speaker 3: Times thirty five thousand dollars taken in second bank robberies.
You men believe to be the same thing to robber
the party SEP.
Speaker 1: Civil authorities appeal for more police, unable to cope with
the rising siding in the now, Jim, I hope you
didn't get me up here just to show me a
bunch of city maps in churn. I'll take it easy, inspector,
and let me explain. Okay, between these two points I
have marked in blue pencil on the map here the
subway ghost has appeared nine times. Oh listen here, Jim,
how many times I have to tell you I don't
give a hang about that ghost. You're going to keep
harping on map insteads trying to help me with these robberies.
That's what I'm trying to do, Inspector. There's a definite
connection between the ghosts and the robbery. There's a connection
between them the ghost has always appeared to motive and
going north in this particular spot. Now take a good
look at the map. Here I marked the places where
robberies occurred and read. Notice that all the robberies we're
in the immediate vicinity of the ghost. Ah, jimy, you're
trying to tell me the ghost, sbmitted, Not quite. The
ghost has appeared nine times, and there have been four robberies.
Now here's a time schedule of the robbery and one
of the appearances of the ghosts. He showed some rather
interesting coincidences, don't you think. Yeah, a ghost appeared in
the subway almost immediately after each robbery. But the jim
what about those other appearances? What were they for just
to cover up? If the ghosts that appeared only at
the times when the robbery happened, the connection between them
might have been suspected earlier. Now your theory is as
the sieve used the subway to make their get away. Exactly.
Now we're getting some place that could have count for
a fantastic disappearance of the robberies. But how did they
get down there? The battle? And tell a little more
field Worth inspector. But there's another piece of information here
that you've over looked. Although every motiment on that line
saw the ghosts at one time or another, one particular
motiment was always on due when a robbery was pulled.
Ye are all right, Jim, It was Mike Cleary that
now is down our field. Inspectors. Sure, all we have
to do is tay Leary every minute and we can
solve this key, the modern stector. It's time for us
to take another subway ride. According to this schedule, Mike
Leary begins his run in five minutes. Oh, Larry, a
right per, Inspector brand and I are going to take
a ride of you for a while here. You keenan
goes quite a few times lately, Larry said mister Brandon.
And I don't mind telling you. I'm getting set up
with that ghost over a lot of other people.
Speaker 2: And I told mister Stevens this morning, if I shood again,
I'm gonna quit.
Speaker 1: I can't say that I blame you. Hey, there's that
track infector again. He's waving his land to you.
Speaker 2: Larry, You're I get told you the last time.
Speaker 1: The trank walker's all the signals that lamer. Do you
know who this particular man is? No, I sho thinks
this is a pacing pector. Okay, Larry sabretry, I can't
do that time, and I said, fully daughter, all that,
but I won't be the possible. We're getting out of
there this time. We're going to investigate that goes before
it appears. Come on YouTube, Larry and Telen on the
place where the ghost walk is just their head there, inspecker.
Come on, let's see we can find anything. We got
five minutes before the next expressions do on this track?
Huh say did you just feel something so you hit
the tak inspector? H what was a fight to a
light above? Its? Uh? It's only cod with Jim hanging
out that big murder. That's money things Cobwe listening here
and I can't hold this pain up any er. Please
don't know, Please take up the stick.
Speaker 3: How many shock learry?
Speaker 1: There goes the man Jim. He's crossing the track. That's pain.
Then I'll go ask him.
Speaker 2: Take you on, aspector, careful Jim and locals coming on
our little sprack.
Speaker 3: Her term.
Speaker 1: Jim did the game? Oh, let's taken a long chance.
And how's the ford? That local? I lost him completely?
Speaker 4: How's there find the their s emergency phone, Jim Leary dead.
Speaker 1: Now back to the Avenger and the subway ghost. They've
agreed to hold up the trains on this line for
ten minutes. Inspector, we'll have to work starlas. Sooner we
tell the mystery of this ghost, Jim, we'll know where
we stand with those robbers. Or here's the take where
they coblet. It is gonna take a few short whiskers
to clean to the girder. But of course the first
que had hit that cobweb screen swept away practically all
evidence of it. Oh, let's talk about cobwebs. Isn't helping
us find the ghost gym, but it is infector those
cobweb serves as a screen on which the moving picture
of a man was projected. There's a projector machine hidden
around here, somewhere when we find that we have our ghosts,
tactual like that. Oh, I hope you know what you're
talking about, Jim, I don't say anything. There's probably hidden
the man nicked girder, or maybe along the wall, only
the tip will be showing. Oh, there it is in
the girder. Give me a light here in cetera and
I'll get it off. Oh, Jim, we run into some
pretty crazy schemes, but this wouldn't be tall. Yes, this
projector has a long wire attached to this order. I
mean the ghost was turned off and on by someone
at a disc That track walker who killed Learry. He
was the only one who could operated this machine. I
think he's on a man all right. Everqut about those cobwebs, gym,
How did he manage that such a thing as a
small portable machine of manufactures cobwebs to order in sector?
Our criminal manufactured a screen of cobwebs the exact size
of the front of the train. They let it hang
from that girder. When the motorman saw the ghost, he
was too here the screen to stop before running through it,
and that was why all evidence of the screen was
destroyed right after the appearance of each ghost. I'll bring
that projector, Jim. A commissioner is sure to want a
demonstration of this subway ghost at that time. You shut
up pretty, you get to explain him to do there.
I'm sure glad to see you here. Let's I wasn't
sure you didn't turn to get away. No, thanks to
you that we did come into the bedroom. I want
to know what went wrong down there? Next tablay and
it's better to be good. There is Larry Sick.
Speaker 6: He double crassics, stop the train ahead of time, turned
two coppers loose on me cause I was ready to
turn on the ghost.
Speaker 1: It was learly your plug and us. Yeah, what was
I supposed to do? Let him really turn us as sure?
Them guys with 'em with copies, I say.
Speaker 6: And Brandon and White, I've had plenty of runnings with
bought 'em.
Speaker 1: They say, recognized this game.
Speaker 6: She got down there they and get a look at
my stage?
Speaker 1: How did you shake 'em?
Speaker 6: Hop between the cars and a passion local And I
dodged around town for a couple of hours just to make.
Speaker 1: Sure they want would tail me ft from here. Yeah,
it's Cherry rounding up the game. We're meeting here at
nine o'clock tonight for the tale that thet show you
put on him. A submarine cooked our goose in this town.
We're gonna pull up stakes tonight. Yes, Cherry's turning man. Eh,
Jerry's mad. You mess up the best little record he's
having twenty years. We just missed running head on him
with them copies to susamon.
Speaker 6: I figured that shop would warn you to turn back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we turned back, all right. At that twenty five
grand and hot money we had with us make us
kind of risky to travel around the streets. And brought
a blown back to his man surely and me, you'll
answer or you'll quit, and said, yes, that was the
information I needed. Seven uh huh uh, thank you very much. Oh,
I don't think you'll be troubled with any more ghosts. Goodbye?
Speaker 3: Who railed him?
Speaker 1: It's just that we thought for him. But man who
killed Larry wasn't connected with the subway in anyway. No
workman was scheduled in that area.
Speaker 3: He was a member of the game.
Speaker 1: Then, yes, and thanks. He's the only known link between
Learry and the gang. And what's puzzling me is how.
Speaker 3: We're ever going to pick up his crail Jim, are
you certain Larry was working lives the.
Speaker 1: Gang liarly was in this up to his neck. Friend.
Not only was he on not run every time the
appearance of the ghosts coincided with a robbery, but that
pony trainman, he gave him the signal that everything was set.
No trainman ever showed to those other motimenter saw the ghosts.
Speaker 3: Well, no tracks wo to tie up? But w did death?
Criminals have killed Larry?
Speaker 1: He thought Learry had double crossed the gang when he
stopped the train too soon.
Speaker 3: Oh I see, well, money going to do, Jim.
Speaker 1: The only chance we have to pick up the trail
of each criminals is through their dead Leary. I'll call
the inspector. We'll go right to work on that angle.
If Larry left a single clue behind him, we've got
to find it. Uh hihim. This room of Larry's hasn't
told us a thing. He was careful alright, there's nothing
here to speak against him. Let me see those factuling
men collected. Ah, they don't give us any leave. Let
me see, uh huh. There's a bachelor forty five said
he worked, I didn't drink, smoked occasionally, aided me with
the family downstairs. He certainly didn't live beyond his means.
Jim looks as though where up against the stone wall?
Not quite, Inspector, there is a flue here. It was
very slim one, but worth investigating. Oh what's that that
book of matches there on a bureau They're from a
tavern on Delroy Street. That's more than a mile away
from here, in a very tough section of towns. It's
really did grain. Why should he have gone to a
place like That's no clue, Jimmy probably stopped in there
to buy some smokes. Tell you what, Inspector, I'm going
to have a look at that tavern in the meantime.
I think it might be a smart move for you
to assign an extra squad of men to the Midtown district.
That we don't round up his gang to night. They'll
slip right through our fingers him.
Speaker 3: How long do we have to stay here in this tavern?
Speaker 1: We may be here until closing time, friends.
Speaker 3: Closing time? What about dinner?
Speaker 1: I'm afraid you'll have to go and a diet for
a few hours, friend, But I'll make it up you later.
In the meantime, we'll have to pretend we're having a
good time here.
Speaker 3: That won't be easy.
Speaker 1: What do you such design to you, jim This could
be the height out of our criminal's friends. All things
are beginning to look up. A very dapper looking fellow
just came in and made straight for that private room
in the bank.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm resigned to long even of waiting. You know, Jim,
I'm really beginning to believe in that motto of yours.
Speaker 1: Oh what's that? Friend?
Speaker 3: Patience is the deadliest weapon of the law and the
best detective in the world. Is that total loss without it?
H Jim? Do you think those two men we just
went into the back room are members of the gang too?
Speaker 1: Turn? One of them was carrying two valises. I'd be
willing to bet that's the loose of the payoff. Turn.
Keep your eye on that man who's just seen in
the door. I'll see my hair turned away.
Speaker 3: He's taking to the back room too, Jim. Okay, he's
going inside. He didn't see you. Who was it here?
Speaker 1: That's pretty borrow. He's been mixed up in small time
pick up several times. He seems to be traveling in
faster company. Now, Friend, I've got it. Freddy Bollow is
that sony trainman who killed Learry. He wore work clothes
and a work cap, but that didn't disguise his size
and build. That was pretty all right, Jim.
Speaker 5: If he's a local crook, he probably sing it all
those round reach for some strange jay exactly.
Speaker 1: Turn, there's a drug stow next door. M going there
and call Inspector White, tell him there's a job over
here for that hand picked squaw that's patrolling midtown. Meantime,
the Avenger will fit in at the private meeting in
that back room less than pretty. That's the cut we
agreed on him, and that's all you're getting. Take it
or leave it. What about Learry's share and we all
get a cut of that. That has nothing to do
with tape. Cliet snicks. Somebody just open that door? What
was that knowing? But that's gun away, Freddy, I'll take
care of it. You are way. He's nobody here. The
door just flew open. The bright.
Speaker 6: Uh give me up that door.
Speaker 1: Let's get out of here. No use to bother doing that.
The police are outside woods in his way. That's no.
He's something. Somebody makes you hide me in their counts.
Not sick him over there.
Speaker 4: Clost Door snicks.
Speaker 1: You food. There's nobody here, no shops have the police
do listen too, Trick. I don't carry somebody in here.
I'm gonna find him here. I am Preddy. But you
can't see the Avenger Aveng and the police at the door. Okay,
run the door out the door Yim.
Speaker 3: I understand how the gros was produced and that the
purpose of it was to stop the train between the
stations so that the criminals could hop aboard and make
a quick getaway. But well, how did the criminals get
down there in the subway to board the train.
Speaker 1: There's a subway emergency exit and Annaley just off Main
Square and lit Town where all those robberies occurred Burned.
The criminals answered the subway through that, but.
Speaker 3: Those emergency exits are always locked down the inside.
Speaker 1: That's where Preddi Barber came in. Larry dropped Preddy off
the subway near that exit, well in advance of the lobbery.
Preddy prepared everything for the appearance of the ghosts, except
the cobweb screens, which had to be put up at
the last minute. Then he went up and unlockside emergency exit,
came back and was ready to fix the cobwebs and
signaled Larry that everything was set.
Speaker 3: But well, I could hear bothered about the ghost room.
Speaker 1: Larry was on that run just in case anyone was
riding with Leary. He had to have an excuse to
stop the train.
Speaker 3: Oh, so all the robbers had to do was hop
aboard the end of the train and make they get
away underground while the fleets were coming the.
Speaker 1: Streets for us exactly, and they took the added precaution
of dressing like workmen so they wouldn't be spotted when
they entered through the exit or hopped on the train.
Speaker 3: Well, now that Gas can rest in peace in the
archives of the Commissioner.
Speaker 1: Round he is, and I can take you to that
dinner I cheated you out of last night.
Speaker 3: Yes, I was wrong about it was gonna get invited
to break that diet.
Speaker 1: All characters named places and plots using the Avenger program
or practicious any similarity the person's living or dead, is
purely to win the battels.
Speaker 6: This is a thought, a thought, a thought.
Speaker 1: Remember listen for another adventure of the Avenger