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Now from November sixteenth, nineteen fifty here is the Big Parrot.
Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true, only
the names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're
a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. A man
and his wife are found dead in a rooming house.
A dead parrot lies on the floor beside them. The
killers set fire to the room to cover his tracks.
Your job get.
Speaker 3: Him Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. While
the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
side of the law through an actual case. Transcribed from
official police silence, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
Dragnet is the story of your police force and action.
Speaker 4: It was Wednesday, April second, was windy in Los Angeles.
We were working early morning watch on a homicide. My
partner's Ben Romero. The Boss'stad Brown, Chief Detectives. My name
is Friday. I was on the way back from communications.
That was five twenty five am when I got to
Room forty two homicide.
Speaker 2: Hello is this Miss Jones?
Speaker 5: Is Joe Friday. I'm sorry to buy him. Miss Jones?
Speaker 2: Is Lee there? Oh yes, Joe, just a minute, I'll
wake him.
Speaker 6: Lee Lee, Honey, it's Joe Friday.
Speaker 4: He wants to talk to him. Yeah, Joe, I'm sorry
to wake you. Can you come down right away? Got
a call from fire headquarters a couple of minutes ago.
They had a fire in a rooming house over on
Seventh Street. They found two dead bodies, in one of
the rooms. Well, the battalion chief doesn't think so. They
found both bodies on the bed. There was evidence of
arson in the room.
Speaker 7: What kind of proof of that?
Speaker 4: The victims, that's why we called you. Fire department thinks
they were dead before the fire started. Five thirty am,
Romero and I drove out to the rooming house on
Seventh Street, was a two story building in the middle
of the block between South Grand and Toledo Avenue. On
one side of it was a small transient hotel, and
the other a building which housed a book binding firm
and studios for an acrobatic dancing school. When we got there,
the salvage crew was still working. We were directed to
the second floor, where we met with a man in
charge from the fire department, battatty In Chief Sullivan.
Speaker 2: It's right down the hall here. Watch your step there.
Speaker 5: You have the names of the victims.
Speaker 2: Chief.
Speaker 8: We think it's Guthrie, mister and missus Charles Guthrie old
Coels who lived here for some time. I understand, Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2: We figure that's where it started, right under the bed
over there. Heap must have been terrific. Under the walls.
Speaker 5: This is where most of the damage was done.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 8: No rooms on both sides got it too. Not as
bad as this though. Guthries had two rooms, this and
the one adjoining through the door that when the fire
starts got on the idea about a quarter to five,
I'd say a landlady smelled the smoke about ten to five,
put in the alarm.
Speaker 2: Fire was out three minutes after five.
Speaker 4: Any other casualties besides the Guthries, I mean, no, just
a too Okay, go.
Speaker 2: Run the bed here, m yeah, well the worst I've seen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty bad.
Speaker 4: Well, Ben, you can see from the position of the
two bodies doesn't look to me like the suffol kidd mm.
No evidence that they tried to get out of the room,
both relaxed.
Speaker 5: Looks like somebody did them in then tried to cover
with arsen n chief.
Speaker 8: Yeah on the floor there, Oh yeah, parrot, somebody rung
its neck, looks like to me and then throw it
there on the floor.
Speaker 4: There's the empty cage there in the corner and doors
of 'em set.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Wine subs still talking to the landlady.
Speaker 8: He hasn't come back. Clyde likely to meet Friday and Rabello. Sorry,
Friday and Ramera homicide detail. This is Clyde wine from
the Arsen squint. You want to show him that set
up Clyde, how it was touched off.
Speaker 4: I'm glad to you can take a look under the
bed there tells most of the story.
Speaker 2: You see directly underneath that h what is that wine?
Speaker 4: Pretty charred rags and papers had a good soaking and
kerosene before they were touched off, strung out all under
the bed here.
Speaker 2: Couldn't miss her through. Guy whoever set it up. Most
of the carpeting in the room was douts with kerosene too.
Speaker 8: As much you can kind of. And the man who
touched it off. And there's something about timing devices. You
want to show him that rig clide.
Speaker 2: Right here, Yeah, ordinary electric heater. This automatic timer was
connected to it then plugged in. Heater was placed under
the bed right next to the rags and papers. Timer
was set probably for about four forty five am. Timer
let go on schedule. Eater warmed up, rags and papers
caught fire, then the mattress.
Speaker 5: You can see the rest for yourself.
Speaker 2: That time a pretty intricate way man who put it together.
There was no amateur, as the chief said, must have
known something about clockwork. Yeah, Mac, excuse me, I'll be
back in a minute.
Speaker 5: Too bad. That's very lest.
Speaker 4: You find anything else it might die in g not
in this room. No, did parrot there door the cage
of the Probably a pet might have been out of
the cage at the time of the fire. It's possible
the parrot could have suffocated, chief not from what I
can see. No, as I say, it looks to me
like somebody wrung the bird's neck. A few green feathers
on the floor there. That's the joining room in Moore.
Speaker 8: Okay, I figure that Guthries used it as a sitting room. Yeah,
you see the fire didn't wipe out everything.
Speaker 5: Joe, Come on, mate, Right.
Speaker 4: This carpet here with the door, dark stains.
Speaker 2: What do you think could be blood? Heavy stains?
Speaker 4: Sure enough of them, looks like more of 'em by
the desk there, some on the wall.
Speaker 2: Too, desk drawers open here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I see that.
Speaker 8: It's about it, you know as much as we do
so far. Yeah, we know how the fire was touched off.
Were satisfied didn't kill those two people in there? The
boys Marsian squad talking to the other rumors in the
building right now, you can check with them. Okay, Well,
thank you very much, Chiane.
Speaker 2: I certainly appreciate not at all usual brakes, isn't it?
How's that?
Speaker 4: This is fire Prevention Week five fifty three am. Lieutenant
Lee Jones and the crew from the Crime I have arrived.
Davis the photogh for Dean Bergmann from Layton Prince. Pictures
were taken of both rooms which made up mister and
Missus Guthrie's living quarters.
Speaker 5: Photographs of the bodies were taken.
Speaker 4: Bergmann processed for fingerprints while Lee Jones continued his investigation.
Ben and I went down the hall to the landlady's apartment,
where we met with Ray Schubert, one of the men
from the Arson Squad.
Speaker 9: These met her from Homicide Division, Sergeant Friday from marro
missus dead min That.
Speaker 6: Right, yes, Claras Diadman. How do you do I managed
the house here? Would either of you care for a
cup of tea?
Speaker 2: No thing?
Speaker 5: I wouldn't care for him. When did you last see
mister and missus Guthrie?
Speaker 6: Man, Well, now let me see missus Guthrie. I saw
her just before dinner last night, a little before six.
I went into barroneag and a cup of flour. She
was all right?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 2: Was there anyone with her?
Speaker 5: No, Firshi was alone. What about mister Guthrie? When'd you
last see him?
Speaker 2: At seven thirty?
Speaker 6: I looked out my window and I saw him closing
up the parking lot.
Speaker 5: Did the Guthries have any visitors at all yesterday? Do
you remember that?
Speaker 6: Oh? Just what I know of Jack Marshman. He's working
for mister Guthrie about a year.
Speaker 5: And now when did Marshman visit the Guthries?
Speaker 2: Do you know?
Speaker 6: Round four yesterday afternoon? Yes, I was there too, Visus
Guthrie and Jack and I had a cup of tea together,
and then Jack left to go back to work, and
then I left.
Speaker 9: You didn't notice anyone else in or near the Guthrie
rooms after that?
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 6: I had my dinner and listened to a radio play,
and then I went off to bed.
Speaker 5: Oh, I know you're upset, Missus Stedman.
Speaker 4: But can you think of anybody who might have wanted
to do away with the Guthries, anybody who had a
reason to do them hard?
Speaker 6: As far as I know, Sergeant, they didn't have an
enemy in the world. I guess I was wrong. It's terrible, terrible.
Speaker 2: To nice, ma'am. We leave our card here.
Speaker 4: Wait all right if you want to contact, just don't
hesitate to call anytime. All right, thank you, thank you,
Miss Stedman. Goodbye, ma'am, good gry. What time you got
six fifteen? It's pretty early.
Speaker 5: They ought to be.
Speaker 4: Able to post the bodies for us this morning, say Friday.
Oh yes, gee, Jones, your crime lab man's looking for you.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Ben you called the corner.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's on his way over.
Speaker 7: Lee, all right, I'm looking for you. Got a few things. Yeah,
what's that this hammer punted over in the corner under
some of the rubble. He stains on the metal handle
here on the head, gave it the Benzdine test his
blood and figures to murder weapon.
Speaker 2: I have no more.
Speaker 7: When to get the corner's report, Berkman looked a lot
of nice prints, a lot of them all over everything. Yeah,
on the handle of this hammer, on that timing contraption
over there, the one that touched off the fire. Even
left some in the next room on that metal box
and draw the dead. That good Prince rometri and they match.
Go on the next room. Something right, Yeah, those stains
on the coppet by the door, the stains on the
coppet by the desk, those on the wall, blood stains,
all of them. You can see here, sail of stains,
all leading through the door into the murder room.
Speaker 4: You figure they were murdered in here, and then the
killer took the bodies in the next room and put
him on their bed, and.
Speaker 2: Then he said fire to cover up. That's my guess.
Speaker 7: How about the prints on the box in the desk,
and might have been money in the box?
Speaker 5: Possible burger.
Speaker 2: That's an angle.
Speaker 7: I'll take scrapings from these stains on a biological precipitate
when I get back to the lab.
Speaker 2: I'll let you know how it times out. I'd just
stop finishing.
Speaker 4: Up rightly, Thanks very much. Well, that looks like we're
in fair of shape. A hammer, a couple of fingerprints, right, yes, Hubert,
My father.
Speaker 9: Worked from mister Guthrie in the parking lot. Jack Marshman
just got here.
Speaker 5: Did you talk to him?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 9: And I having one of the empty rooms down the hall?
Speaker 5: Thanks? Which way down here?
Speaker 4: It seems pretty well broken up he talked to anyone
besides using to get here?
Speaker 9: No, I told him the guts we're dead, that's all.
He's taking it pretty hard. Which one I hear?
Speaker 2: As friends I had Charlie Water. I knew I should
have stayed with him. I knew I should have. These
men are from homicide, mister Marshman, Sergeant Friday, Sergeant Romerow.
Speaker 5: You know, mister Marsham, how are you?
Speaker 2: I don't know what I can tell you. I can't
understand or Charlie what.
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 2: What can I do to help? Would like to have
you answer a few questions if you don't mind, you
certainly certain anything to help out it? Please? You gotta
find out whoever did it. You got to find out
who killed.
Speaker 4: We're gonna try, mister Marsham. Now would you tell us
the last time you saw that Guffy's alive?
Speaker 2: Sure, Bud. Missus Guthrie about oh four point fifteen yesterday,
have to know him. Me and missus Studman. She's a landlady.
We had tea with her and I went back to
help mister Guthrie at the parking lot. When's the last
time you saw him? Oh, it's about six thirty. So
when I get off duty at the lder, I said
goodbye to Charlie I never dawned on him. It was
the last time I'd see him alive. I just can't understand.
Speaker 4: It's such a vicious thing, Charlie Martin, very terrible.
Speaker 5: Yes, sir, you won't just sit down there, mister Marshall.
Speaker 2: Oh, thanks you much? Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Are you sure you're the only one who talked
to Marshman? Since that's right, I met him at the
door downstairs. Well, the only thing you told him was
that the Guthries were dead. That's all he got from us.
Any chance he could have been in the room since
the fire, not a chance. And how do you know
somebody killed him?
Speaker 10: You are listening to dragnett authentic stories of your police
force and action.
Speaker 4: Wednesday, April second, six forty five, Am Lee Jones and
his men completed their investigation and took their findings back
to the crime lab for further examination.
Speaker 5: The Deputy Coroner arrived and removed the.
Speaker 4: Bodies of mister and Missus Guthrie to the County Morgue,
together with Clyde Wyant and Ray Shubert of the Arson squad.
Ben and I continued questioning the Guthrie's friend and employee,
Jack Marshman, his answers got more confused, and he kept
contradicting himself. In some ways, he seemed childlike, in others
a good deal more complex. We strung along. In order
to keep up the pretense that he was not a suspect.
We asked him to come along with us while we
checked his living quarters, a two room basement apartment near
Olympic in South Flower. Who explained it as a routine check,
Marshman was calm and self assured.
Speaker 2: Wow here it is save yourself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, nice comfortable play. I like been here for about
three years. All this room is where I do my living.
Pulled down bed. It's a little gas plate over there.
It's handy compact.
Speaker 5: H I see. What do you use this next room for?
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 2: Jam, it's my shop I like to put around You
care to see it? Yeah, okay, mm hmm. It's very nice.
What's your hobby? Watchmaking? Here? Used to be a watchmaker.
I've worked at it later on. Job is pretty hard
to find.
Speaker 5: Yeah, these parts here on the bench you making something?
Speaker 4: Jack, just fooling around all alarm clock Down'm fixing it
up for friends.
Speaker 5: All these wires and things, they all go into the works.
Speaker 2: Something more or less year. Just something that's falling around.
It gives me busy, you know, I like a hobby.
There say it's good.
Speaker 5: For you, that's what they say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where does this dog? Marshom?
Speaker 4: It's my closet, just some clothes and stuff and they're
just junk. But it's only a closet. They're just clothes
and junk. Is that in the sea?
Speaker 5: Say Jack? Do you usually keep this stuff around?
Speaker 4: Huh? Oh it's uh it's kerosene and it's pretty dangerous
a store like this.
Speaker 5: There's no cap on it.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you reminded me. I got to get a
cap for that. I used to wash up.
Speaker 2: Dirty working around the bench. This shirt is trisy, Jack.
Speaker 4: I wish you wouldn't drive get stuff. I would of
gets my stuff all mixed up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're mine, and I figured it's dangerous. Quite a
few of them. Uh, some kind of pain I was using.
I'm pretty sloppy with pain.
Speaker 4: It's no pain, is a jack. It's looked like blood
to me. What difference does it make it working clothes?
I think for your reason was in a day? Why
don't you lay off? Who cares what kind of stain
it is? You're coming here, snooping around, looking all around.
Speaker 2: I invited.
Speaker 4: You know, I didn't give you the place. This is
my apartment, this is my shop. You can get out, Yeah,
I mean you, both of you can get out.
Speaker 5: It's a matter of jack.
Speaker 2: I said, you can get out.
Speaker 5: All right. You want to tell us before we go,
I'll tell you what why you killed the Guthries.
Speaker 2: What do you mean Why.
Speaker 5: Did you kill mister MSUs Guthrie?
Speaker 2: No reason, I just did.
Speaker 5: Nine am.
Speaker 4: We put the stain clothing in the materials from the
workbench in the car, together with the suspect. We headed
back for the office. On the way, Marshman was quiet.
He asked for some breakfast. We stopped and bought him
some ham and eggs. We tried to get him to talk,
he refused. After breakfast, we dropped the stain clothing and
the other things of the crime lab, and then we
drove to the City Hall. We parked the car in
front of the Spring Street entrance and started up the stairs.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, we'll draw. I've been thinking, yeah, it's
all a mistake. What is I didn't know what I
was talking about. I didn't kill him.
Speaker 4: Ninety seven am then and I took the suspect into
the interrogation room.
Speaker 5: We checked him through R and I. He had a
record of two petty thefts the year before. We went
back to the interrogation room and got on the phone.
We called Layton. Fingerprints.
Speaker 2: We made him Joe the prints on the hammer, the
timing device in the middle box in the desk.
Speaker 5: They long to Marshman. Ten oh three am. I call
the County Morgue.
Speaker 9: What is identified as mister and missus Charles Guthrie. Cause
of death Missus Guthrie, multiple depressed fractures of the skull,
subarachnoid hemorrhage, blunt instrument. Cause of death, Mister Guthrie about
the same compressions of the brain in the occipital area
around the brain stem.
Speaker 5: Ten twenty five am. I put in a call to
the Lee Jones at the crime lab.
Speaker 2: The material from the work bench are the same that
went into that automatic time at Joe used together the
cut ends of some of the wires. They match.
Speaker 4: How about the stains on his clothes human blood? Ten
forty five am. We laid it out for the suspect,
step by step.
Speaker 2: Let me rest her well off, feel better, Let me think.
Speaker 5: We stayed with him. We waited. Eleven twenty am the
suspect opened his eyes.
Speaker 4: Sorry, yeah, I want to talk about it. Eleven twenty
five am. Schubert and Wyant from the Arsonal squad joined
us were called in one of the stenographers to take
Marshman's statement Eleanor Eastlade.
Speaker 5: She automatically took down the time, the place, and those present.
Speaker 4: This is me, So she's like, she's gonna record your
statements so there'll be no misunderstanding as to what you
say at this time.
Speaker 2: How are you doing now? Yoh, you want to handle
the question all right?
Speaker 4: Jack, We've got a few preliminaries here for you. Okay,
John Everett Marshaman that's your true name.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Where do you live?
Speaker 2: One two and a half Morgan Place, parvm B.
Speaker 5: What's your age? Very center, occupation?
Speaker 2: Watchmaker? When I'm working well on, Jack.
Speaker 4: You've vindicated to us in the previous conversation that you're
willing to make a statement setting forth the true facts
surrounding the death of mister MSUs Chiles Guthrie.
Speaker 2: That's right. I'll tell you.
Speaker 4: Were you in there home Tuesday April first, that's yesterday, Yeah,
that's right. I was What time did you get there
first time? About five minutes to four in the afternoon.
Missus Guthrie was there, and so was the landlady, Missus Stedman.
He had some tea. Was anybody else present while they
were there?
Speaker 2: No? This is the three of us.
Speaker 5: How long did you stay there?
Speaker 2: M I left about four fifteen, I guess guess as
are about twenty minutes.
Speaker 5: Where'd you go when you left?
Speaker 4: Went back to the parking lot as usually, Charlie Guthrie
left and went home to dinner.
Speaker 2: He got back about six fifteen. I left six thirty,
quitting two.
Speaker 4: Where'd you go after you left the parking lot? Went
around the block and then back to the Guthrie's place.
Why'd you go back there to get money?
Speaker 2: Charlie never paid me enough, picked me up, expected me
to work for nothing.
Speaker 4: All right, now, in your own words, when you tell
us just what happened starting when you went at the
Guthrie's apartment.
Speaker 2: The second time, Missus Guthrie opened the door and I
went in. Shoot, gave me a cup of tea, and
I told her I wanted some money. She wouldn't give
me any. I don't know why but I was mad.
I was second tired of both of them. They never
gave me enough money.
Speaker 5: Ella, I'd even it, Serge, all right, go ahead please.
Speaker 4: Missus Cauthrey went in the next rome and I went
over the desk and got the money from the box that.
Speaker 2: They keep it in. I don't know how much. I
grabbed all of it, and the parrot started squawking. Missus
Guthrie came running in. She saw me with the money,
and she says, Jack picked up something and hit her.
Was the hammer pitting it? Can you remember how many
times you ate him? Moistmen?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: I don't know. She fell down. Parrot was still squawking,
jumping around the cage, and I went over, opened the
door of the cage and pulled a parrot out and
stopped moving. Finally went in the bedroom and threw it
on the floor, and I dragged Missus Guffree in the
bedroom and put her on the bed and I left.
Speaker 5: Where'd you go?
Speaker 2: No, I don't know. I walked around, tried to think
of something. It's cold. I got a bottle of wine.
I drank it and I got to thinking about what
Charlie do when he got home. I knew he'd be
sure I did it. He always blamed me for everything.
So I finally went back to the Guthrie's place and
found the hammer that I used.
Speaker 5: On hr What you intend doing with the hammer killed Charlie?
Speaker 2: She had it coming, so did he.
Speaker 4: You can't blame me if they forced me into what
anybody would have done the same. What'd you do after
you found the hammer again? I picked it up and
waited for Charlie to come home. Remember that wine made
me feel pretty good. I stood there in the dark
holding the hammer, watched out the window for Charlie.
Speaker 2: It was cold out. I remember that it's radio on
down the hall, and I held on in the hammer
and waited for Charlie. Neon light across the street that
came through the windows. Old lady was on the bed
and there I could see the parrot on the floor.
It was quiet, I had a smoke. Traffic kept going
by outside. I could hear that. Held on in the hammer.
It's windy y. I kept thinking missus Gully was looking
at me from the bed, but she wasn't. Charlie came
home at the usual time, the left of seven point thirty,
and I stood by the door came in and closed
the door after him. When he reached for the lights,
I hit him, me fell down. I hit him some more.
You couldn't blame anybody would have done the same. Anybody
would have the way he kicked me around? How many
times did you? I don't know? Was it twice? Three times?
Hit him really quick moving?
Speaker 4: So I took hi, dragged him into the bedroom, put
him on the bed with his wife. I put him over,
wiped the stains off of me and lift offs the
only thing I could do. Where'd you go?
Speaker 2: Then? My place? I knew that timer. I had to
do the trick. I put it in a shopping bag
with some stuff, and I went back to the Guthries.
They were still there on the bed. The parrot was
on the floor. Would you repeat that last part in
the tomashment? Oh? I said. They were still on the
bed the Guthries, and the parrot was on the floor
next to the bed. Put the carristion on the cap
and the rags and paper uner the bed and raked
up the electric heater and the automatic time and he
set it off a little slower.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we'll just speak up Jack, and then slowed down
just a little bit.
Speaker 4: Oh sorry, how did you read the time? When he
set off the heating down?
Speaker 2: I ought to take all morning to tell you you
got the timer. I'll take it apart and explain it
if you want. What was your purpose and setting fire
in the room? You knew both mister and missus Gustin were.
Speaker 5: Dead, didn't you?
Speaker 2: Well? Sure surely were. They forced me into it. I
set the fire and make it look like an accent,
like they'd burned it day.
Speaker 5: What would you do after you set the timer?
Speaker 2: All left, went down the street and a couple of
bottles of wine, talked to the guy man, and I
walked around a while. It was too cold, so I
went on, when'd you get home? Two thirty? Maybe? I
don't remember too well.
Speaker 5: Did you go right to bed?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You go to sleep?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 10: No?
Speaker 2: I laid there and read a movie magazine, drank the wine,
finally finished up the two bottles, and those what times
you get up a little before six? This morning? I
went down to the guthriest to know was Arona. So
I met you guys. Well you know all the rest
because I've been with you ever since.
Speaker 5: All right, Jack, anything else you'd like to add?
Speaker 2: Noah? I told you everything all right.
Speaker 4: In the statement was given free and voluntarily, and there's
been no promise of immunity or reward extended to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: There was any force, violence, or drest used. Did intduce
you to make the statement?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: These questions and answers have been recorded by the secretary
here after they've been transcribed.
Speaker 5: Will you be willing to sign? And it is a
true statement? You sure, sure, sir? All right? Only you
get that out soon as possible. Thank you, You're welcome.
Speaker 2: All that's it. Huh, all of it.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 2: That's good. Good. I'm tired. It's been a long night,
a long one. Get used to it.
Speaker 5: Huh, they're going to get longer.
Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true, only the
names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 10: On July twenty ninth, trial was held in Superior Court,
Department eighty sixth, City and County of Los Angeles, State
of California. In a moment the results of that trial,
John Everett Marshman was tried and convicted of murder in
the first degree two counts, and darson one count He
is now serving a life term in the state penitentiary
without possibility of parole. You have just heard Dragnett, a
series of authentic cases from official files. Technical advice comes
from the Office of Chief of Police W. H. Parker,
Los Angeles Police Department.
Speaker 2: Coming up with the People Them Screen Director's Playhouse on NBC.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. A good setup that ends in a pretty
simple solution. It's a reminder that the working detective doesn't
have an assurance that an interesting setup will lead to
some long drawn out case with a clever mastermind at
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Speaker 4: Sorry, baby, you might as well learn the facts of
life now.
Speaker 5: Information.
Speaker 2: I'd like the phone number of Al Romero. Oh Angel,
you don't know what. I'll go away. Oh, for Pete's sake,
Wait a minute, where's my robe? I said, Wait a minute,
what are you wearing? It all depends.
Speaker 10: It depends on the time of day before seven.
Speaker 2: I'm not myself.
Speaker 11: I know it's late, but I've got to see you.
Speaker 2: I'll come back in the morning.
Speaker 11: It's no good time, is of the essence. I don't
know what I'll do it.
Speaker 9: I won't.
Speaker 11: I'll take it easy, but you don't understand.
Speaker 2: Well, I never will at this rate.
Speaker 5: I sit down, Thank you.
Speaker 11: I suppose I should introduce myself.
Speaker 5: I suppose you shouldn't.
Speaker 11: My name is Joan Andrews.
Speaker 2: Joan Andrews.
Speaker 11: If you say so, don't you believe me?
Speaker 2: I never questioned the ladies word at four o'clock in
the morning, but I wouldn't advise you to come back
at five with that story. Why look at Joan Andrews.
How come your initials on your purse?
Speaker 5: A jay?
Speaker 11: Oh this belongs to a friend.
Speaker 2: All right, Angel, have it you away?
Speaker 11: I tell you it's the truth.
Speaker 2: Well let's hear the rest.
Speaker 11: Well, I'm engaged to a man named Vince Calvin.
Speaker 5: Vince Calvin?
Speaker 11: You do you know him?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So I won't offer my congratulations.
Speaker 11: Well, Vince has been threatened.
Speaker 5: How do you know?
Speaker 11: He told me?
Speaker 5: Go on?
Speaker 11: That's all there is to it. I want you to
see nothing happens to her.
Speaker 2: No, Angel, enough is enough.
Speaker 10: You can't expect me to buy that.
Speaker 11: I swear it's true.
Speaker 2: Is Calvinoia here? No?
Speaker 11: And he mustn't find out. He thinks he can take
care of himself.
Speaker 5: From what I know of that gent, he can.
Speaker 11: I can't afford to gamble. You've got to protect him.
Why don't you go to the cops because I don't
want any publicity. Vince would kill me.
Speaker 2: If there was. And this is the man you're engaged too.
Speaker 11: I didn't mean it that way.
Speaker 10: How did you mean it?
Speaker 11: Look, mister Waring? It all comes down to this, Either
you want the case or you don't.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime,
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This is your host, Adam Graham, sogn and off.