1 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:35,200 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:39,200 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we 3 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:42,759 are going to bring you this week's episode of Broadways 4 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,759 My beat. But first I do want to encourage you. 5 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,719 If you are enjoying the podcast, please follow us using 6 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:54,679 your favorite podcast software. You can also support the program 7 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:59,000 with the Zell app to box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot 8 00:00:59,119 --> 00:01:02,960 net and become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for 9 00:01:03,079 --> 00:01:05,519 his little last two dollars per month by going to 10 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:11,000 Patreon Do Great Detectives dot net Now. From June second, 11 00:01:11,239 --> 00:01:16,120 nineteen fifty one, here is the Francesca Brown murder case. 12 00:01:29,879 --> 00:01:34,599 Speaker 2: Broadways might be from Banksber, Columbus circles, the gaudiest, the 13 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:46,040 most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadways might 14 00:01:46,079 --> 00:02:02,120 be with Larry Thor as Detective Danny cloverg in the 15 00:02:02,159 --> 00:02:05,799 soft night of June, Broadway's heart beats fast. The girl's 16 00:02:05,799 --> 00:02:08,439 clothed in summer wear, the glow of neon in their hair, 17 00:02:08,599 --> 00:02:11,560 on their lips, and the glitter of the spectacular winds 18 00:02:11,599 --> 00:02:14,919 their throats with the quick jewels of night. Their perfumed walk, 19 00:02:15,039 --> 00:02:19,319 which mixes well with Broadway's own exotic odors, the seared electricity, 20 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:24,080 the air cool washed ascented by installment plant air conditioning system, 21 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:27,719 the mist of steam rising from manhole covers, and Broadway 22 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,560 follows close on the heels of the soft night, because 23 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,919 somewhere the knight turns a corner and vanishes. And in 24 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:43,439 your hands are its gifts of emptiness and shock. To me, 25 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:45,280 they were given on the fourth floor landing of a 26 00:02:45,319 --> 00:02:48,919 tenement near the river. The emptiness, the silence after terror, 27 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:52,680 a shriek, the shock, the girl with her beauty strangled 28 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:54,840 out of her the blood from her knife wounds, finding 29 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:57,120 the cracks in the wooden floor glinting in the sallow 30 00:02:57,199 --> 00:02:59,439 light of the ten walk bulb, and the man lets 31 00:02:59,479 --> 00:03:02,039 you take it all, touches her arm and brings her back. 32 00:03:02,479 --> 00:03:06,840 Francesca Brown, Danny, waitress at Harper's Grill, strangled knife for 33 00:03:07,039 --> 00:03:11,240 this gold pen knife, fancy the cork screw bottle, open 34 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,719 her nail file and no princes wipe clean. 35 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:14,560 Speaker 3: Field trays that I'm not going. 36 00:03:14,719 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 2: Oh, I got the description here, you take it. Her 37 00:03:17,719 --> 00:03:20,439 husband's inside Danny in their room. I think maybe you 38 00:03:20,479 --> 00:03:28,879 ought to talk to them all right, you're a different one, 39 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,120 don't you uh mind? If I turn on the light, 40 00:03:31,599 --> 00:03:35,159 go ahead, turn it off before because it's all the same. 41 00:03:36,479 --> 00:03:37,680 One good thing that I would say, it's on the 42 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:38,319 electric goal. 43 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:43,199 Speaker 3: You're that's right. Blind. 44 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:46,919 Speaker 2: Stare at blind, Jimmy. All you want, mister, and you 45 00:03:46,919 --> 00:03:48,439 don't get hurt anymore. 46 00:03:48,639 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 3: The girl out there your wife. I have to tell 47 00:03:50,599 --> 00:03:51,639 you about her. 48 00:03:52,479 --> 00:03:56,439 Speaker 2: I have started about Francesca married me in Italy and 49 00:03:56,599 --> 00:04:00,199 Naples came to the army hospital with a priest, said 50 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:04,199 she wanted me even like this. Francescat led me around 51 00:04:04,319 --> 00:04:07,599 sunny Naples, showing it to me, letting me touch it. 52 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 3: And I brought her home for this. You feel like 53 00:04:10,879 --> 00:04:13,039 telling me? Now? We could wait? Why would I need 54 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:13,360 to wait? 55 00:04:15,439 --> 00:04:18,040 Speaker 2: She worked late tonight overtime in Harper's Girl, and waited 56 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:22,759 up for her. I can't sleep, and she I waited 57 00:04:22,879 --> 00:04:25,800 up for her. Her steps with a man. They stopped 58 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:27,680 in front of my door, and she was gonna scream, 59 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,759 how did you know that? You kidding? I'm blind? That way, 60 00:04:31,759 --> 00:04:33,399 I knew all I was to know about Francesca. 61 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 3: She taught me. She well, how did you do? Then 62 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,279 I went to help her me? 63 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 2: Oh my God was the feel of a guy standing 64 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,920 with Francisca dead in his hands. Nothing else, yeah, something else. 65 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:49,879 He threw her at me, said, she's all yours, blind boy. 66 00:04:50,439 --> 00:04:53,120 He laughed when he said. I was still laughing when 67 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:53,639 he went away. 68 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:55,959 Speaker 3: We'll do what we can. Jimmy will show you. Well. 69 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 2: You'll let me hear Francesca steps on the stairs again. 70 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:08,279 We'll do what we can. Snuggling you talk to him, Danny, Yeah, 71 00:05:08,639 --> 00:05:12,839 take care of him. I do whatever's got to be done. 72 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,120 And then I happened to look down the stairwell, four 73 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:19,800 flights down, and on each landing, the people looking. 74 00:05:19,519 --> 00:05:22,639 Speaker 3: Up for it at death. Death was on the fourth. 75 00:05:22,319 --> 00:05:24,639 Speaker 2: Floor, and that was a blessing For the first second, 76 00:05:24,639 --> 00:05:27,279 and third and then one landing down, a kid in 77 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:30,480 a paper hat released a paper airplane. For an instant. 78 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,839 It held in the air, then darted downward. A little later, 79 00:05:33,879 --> 00:05:35,879 when I got to the ground floor, it was crushed 80 00:05:35,879 --> 00:05:42,000 and stained with tobacco juice. I walked out into the street. 81 00:05:46,079 --> 00:05:49,360 Harper's Grill was within walking distance. A second rate addition 82 00:05:49,439 --> 00:05:52,519 to a second rate hotel, a place catering to loneliness 83 00:05:52,519 --> 00:05:55,079 and a not too finicky appetite. Twenty four hours a day. 84 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:57,680 I went in and sat down at the table. A 85 00:05:57,759 --> 00:05:59,160 girl in a blue uniform came over. 86 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,040 Speaker 3: Put a water class that's in front of me for it? 87 00:06:03,759 --> 00:06:05,639 Do you want to look at the menu? Thanks? Not now? 88 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:10,439 I want to talk to you police. But four? What 89 00:06:10,519 --> 00:06:12,519 did I do? There's nothing to be frightened up? Sit 90 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:12,959 on us. 91 00:06:13,439 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 4: Why don't you tell me what's the matter. My name's 92 00:06:19,439 --> 00:06:20,680 Rose Rose Ketter. 93 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 3: I'm Danny Clover. How long have you been working here tonight? 94 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:26,720 Speaker 4: Came on at seven last night? I'm up at seven this. 95 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 3: Morning, forty long hours? 96 00:06:29,519 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 4: Want to counter convention at the hotel Cana nail club? 97 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:34,079 Something like that? 98 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 3: Boys? 99 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:37,439 Speaker 4: Had the cans been coming in here? Like size and try? 100 00:06:37,439 --> 00:06:38,240 I'm working overtime. 101 00:06:38,319 --> 00:06:40,399 Speaker 3: Did you know a waitress named Francesca Brown? 102 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 5: Lucky her? 103 00:06:41,319 --> 00:06:43,519 Speaker 4: She got off a little over an hour ago, refused 104 00:06:43,519 --> 00:06:45,079 to work overtime. I should have done it. 105 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:51,639 Speaker 3: If she's dead? What dead? Strangled? Knife? Hey? 106 00:06:51,639 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 4: Now wait a minute, I got some time. 107 00:06:53,079 --> 00:06:55,959 Speaker 2: Take it easy, you mean it? 108 00:06:57,319 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 4: She's dead? 109 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 3: Bird? What do you mean? Simmy? What about him? 110 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:05,959 Speaker 4: He said she was strangled? 111 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:07,079 Speaker 3: Didn't you. 112 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:09,639 Speaker 4: Guy hung around her? 113 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 3: Asked her? 114 00:07:10,079 --> 00:07:13,759 Speaker 4: Dates got nasty? You know winks with the blue place. 115 00:07:14,279 --> 00:07:15,000 He wasn't kidding. 116 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:15,759 Speaker 3: Was he here tonight? 117 00:07:15,879 --> 00:07:18,519 Speaker 4: Sure he was. He waited for Francesca when she got off. 118 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:21,800 He's a caner too, Canner. I call him Kaner. The 119 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,199 boys in the Canaan and the air Club this week 120 00:07:24,199 --> 00:07:26,000 they got a penalty if they don't carry a cane. 121 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,360 This week they come from all over with canes grown. 122 00:07:28,399 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 3: Then where do I find Bird? 123 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 4: I don't know. He lives close, That's all I know. 124 00:07:32,519 --> 00:07:34,519 Speaker 3: Thanks Rose, Thanks a lot. 125 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 6: Wait a minute, she's really dead, damp, strangled, and leave 126 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,120 the girl trying to wipe off the terror I had 127 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,680 spilled on her table, and go home and try to 128 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,519 sleep against the image of a sightless boy sitting. 129 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 2: In a darkened room, remembering and counting the touch of 130 00:07:58,079 --> 00:08:00,839 the woman, and lay in death on his threshold, and 131 00:08:00,959 --> 00:08:02,759 wait for the morning so you can go back to 132 00:08:02,839 --> 00:08:06,519 headquarters and blot it out in routine and not making it, 133 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:08,839 not even when the uniformed officer comes up with Burt 134 00:08:08,839 --> 00:08:12,279 Finley's address, Not even Burt Finley who offers to clear 135 00:08:12,319 --> 00:08:14,079 out the kitchen table and make you a cup of 136 00:08:14,079 --> 00:08:16,600 instant coffee. My wife had Nona. I was going to 137 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,240 have a visitor, she'd have left the whole pot of coffee. 138 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,279 It's all right, mister Tinley, I don't want any Maybe 139 00:08:21,279 --> 00:08:23,199 it's a good thing she's not here, though, Why have 140 00:08:23,279 --> 00:08:25,600 a heck of a time explaining to her what I'm 141 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,319 doing with a policeman in our flat? The missus is 142 00:08:28,439 --> 00:08:31,360 very choicy about the friends I keep about out, girls 143 00:08:31,439 --> 00:08:34,480 like Francesca Brown, for instance, Franny a waitress in a 144 00:08:34,519 --> 00:08:38,559 grease pan, a hash slinger. What's the matter he's getting 145 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,679 high and mighty? I passed a few typical remarks, like 146 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:44,360 past the hash slingers. 147 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 3: She's dead, murdered dead that way? What do you come 148 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:49,840 to be for? 149 00:08:50,919 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 2: Doesn't it always happen to girls like her? The looks 150 00:08:54,039 --> 00:08:56,919 they give you, the way they bend over the table, close, 151 00:08:57,519 --> 00:08:58,919 the way they walk away from you. 152 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,039 Speaker 3: You ask me, I'll tell you doesn't always happen that 153 00:09:01,159 --> 00:09:04,080 were not the women like Francesca? What makes her so special? 154 00:09:04,159 --> 00:09:05,559 You thought she was? He just told me. 155 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 2: That doesn't make me want to kill her. That makes 156 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,720 it quite the opposite. That makes you saw Francesca last night, 157 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:15,000 waited until she got off, you took her home, Burt. 158 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:17,399 Speaker 3: That's a lie. Who told you a dirty lie like that. 159 00:09:17,519 --> 00:09:19,080 You take her Homebird, You listen to me. 160 00:09:19,919 --> 00:09:23,919 Speaker 2: I'm a good guy, respected my wife, my classmates, class 161 00:09:23,919 --> 00:09:26,759 of thirty six last year. They even made me prexy 162 00:09:26,799 --> 00:09:30,799 of the cana Nailes society. You take Francesca Homebert, I 163 00:09:30,919 --> 00:09:31,960 tried to su or. 164 00:09:32,159 --> 00:09:32,799 Speaker 3: I tried. 165 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 2: I was showing off to my friend Canaan nailed buddy, 166 00:09:36,879 --> 00:09:39,360 tried to impress him. How I was like that, but 167 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:43,120 Franny and I didn't make it. He laughed, helped me 168 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:44,440 into a cab, send me home. 169 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 3: Helped you. I needed it. I'd had more a than Caine. 170 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:49,279 Your laughing friend. 171 00:09:49,399 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 2: Who is Harry Bruno staying at the Acme hotel. You'll 172 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:55,039 go ask, You'll tell you how I came right home asking. 173 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:56,679 Speaker 3: I will for sure. 174 00:09:56,759 --> 00:09:58,919 Speaker 2: Pen knife, Bert, how'd you get it? It's the one 175 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:04,639 that stabbed Francesca, and you'd think you're crazy. I lost 176 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:06,799 it this morning. The missus asked me for it, to 177 00:10:06,799 --> 00:10:08,200 open the cannon I looked for. 178 00:10:08,799 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 3: I lost it. 179 00:10:09,799 --> 00:10:11,919 Speaker 2: Well, that's the night that Canaan Alas gave me in 180 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,240 gratitude for my term of office. Pixy, I told you, 181 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:17,840 I'm not sure you're respected. You told me, grab your 182 00:10:17,879 --> 00:10:42,000 cane bird and headquarters. We too respect men with knes. Look, 183 00:10:42,039 --> 00:10:44,759 can you come back, lady, fellow police Stanny Clover. 184 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 3: Can't come back? 185 00:10:46,279 --> 00:10:48,759 Speaker 2: Come on in in the middle of a shave here, fellow, 186 00:10:48,919 --> 00:10:52,080 go right ahead. Oh it's so important, I think, so 187 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,000 go right ahead, mister Bruno shaved? 188 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 3: Do I turn your mind? Fell You know? Bert? Friendly? 189 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,600 Speaker 2: Dear kidding Bert, my classmate the university. 190 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 3: You're a university man, three years of it. 191 00:11:07,519 --> 00:11:10,519 Speaker 2: Broke my shoulder one summer so they wouldn't renew my scholarship. 192 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 3: Waste the time anyhow? Who needs college? Color wars? You 193 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:18,399 belong to the cane and Ale, Tom, don't you? Yeah? 194 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:20,879 I belong. What do you think I'm here for? What 195 00:11:21,039 --> 00:11:23,240 do you think I came all away from Kansas City 196 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,679 for the carrier cane drink ale Huh huh. 197 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,840 Speaker 2: Create shading creek rise, Gonna get me some back in 198 00:11:29,879 --> 00:11:31,159 Kansas City? 199 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 3: What I didn't say anything. I'm waiting for you a 200 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:41,759 hold at the second, have this face, perfum? What about Britain? 201 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,399 He said he had you look at a waitress last night? 202 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,960 Speaker 2: Oh, well, acquaint me with the laws in New York City, Fellow, 203 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,440 not looking at waitresses okay, I won't look. 204 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 3: Hand me to talk. 205 00:11:52,399 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 2: I'm part of look a good fun waitress named Francesca. 206 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:59,879 Francesca brown meat, shake and carry my tray and heat. 207 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:03,159 She was stabbed last night with this pocket knife? Did 208 00:12:03,159 --> 00:12:03,720 you see her? 209 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 3: What is Burt going do that for? What about the knife? Berts? 210 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 2: We gave it to him a couple of days ago 211 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,120 outgoing practice of the class of thirty six. Canaan Ale 212 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,960 stabbed it, He says, he didn't, I believe. Did you 213 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,360 see Francesca after she left work last night? 214 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:21,120 Speaker 3: Oh? 215 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:23,279 Speaker 2: Wait, so I didn't say you followed her? Did you 216 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:27,320 make a date for her and this fella? Oh, I admitted, Fella. 217 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,799 I reached down for her hand, got my fingers with from. 218 00:12:30,639 --> 00:12:33,840 Speaker 3: The chicken noodle soup. She knew. The defense is at Girth. 219 00:12:33,879 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 2: Where did you go after you left Finley? Up to Harlem? 220 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,919 You know sidseeing? Yeah, yeah, let's go down the headquarters, 221 00:12:41,919 --> 00:12:44,519 mister Bruno, I want you to meet Somemer. Sure whatever 222 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:46,240 you say, Fella, hand me my shirt? 223 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:46,679 Speaker 3: Will you. 224 00:12:57,799 --> 00:12:59,519 Speaker 2: How long we're gonna wait in this office? 225 00:12:59,519 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 3: Fella, I tell you you can go. Fellow. 226 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:04,240 Speaker 2: Look, mister Clover, Harry's got no family here I have 227 00:13:04,559 --> 00:13:05,840 the Missa is going to worry. 228 00:13:06,159 --> 00:13:09,879 Speaker 3: What's with those canes you boys are carrying? What's with them? Danny? 229 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:13,519 Speaker 2: Explain it to tr tagle mag and I'll be right back. Okay, Danny, 230 00:13:13,799 --> 00:13:15,200 what's with the canes of the cannon? 231 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 6: Now? 232 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,519 Speaker 7: So Society June. 233 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 2: Ready for you, Jimmy, you don't have to take my arm. 234 00:13:21,759 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 3: Mister program. Listen, Dorothy, you're all right. Nudge here. You 235 00:13:31,759 --> 00:13:32,240 said up. 236 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,279 Speaker 2: Last night when your wife was killed, Jimmy, the man 237 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:40,240 who did it said to you, she's all yours. 238 00:13:39,919 --> 00:13:42,879 Speaker 3: Blunt, he said, she's all yours, plain boy. 239 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:45,919 Speaker 2: There are four men in this room besides this Jimmy. 240 00:13:46,679 --> 00:13:48,720 They're each going to say that sentence. I want you 241 00:13:48,799 --> 00:13:52,000 to listen, consider and tell me if you recognize his voice. 242 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:59,919 Speaker 3: You you say it, She's she's off. She say it's 243 00:14:00,039 --> 00:14:03,759 a yours blind boy. Are you? 244 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:05,720 Speaker 5: She's all yours, blind boy? 245 00:14:08,240 --> 00:14:15,000 Speaker 2: You, she's all yours, blind boy. You, she's all yours 246 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:15,559 blind boy. 247 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:21,279 Speaker 3: Well, Jimmy, the third one, let me hear him again. 248 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:30,879 Speaker 2: She's all yours blind boy. Again, Jimmy, Well, none of them, 249 00:14:30,919 --> 00:14:32,200 none of these men kill my wife. 250 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:36,639 Speaker 3: You're positive positive, Keep after it, mister Fuller. 251 00:14:40,720 --> 00:15:05,159 Speaker 2: H you're listening to. Broadway is My Beat, written by 252 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:17,720 Morton Fine and David Reekin with Larry Thres Detective Danny Klover. 253 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:23,360 There's a stir on Broadway when summer starts coming in. 254 00:15:23,799 --> 00:15:27,240 The visitors arrive and Broadway is festooned with latest styles 255 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:30,519 from Peoria, the bumper crop of girlies from Iowa, the 256 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:32,879 kid who got tossed off the box cart Scranton, and 257 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,679 hitchhike the rest of the way. This is the time, 258 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,120 this is the promise, this is the dream, and it's 259 00:15:39,159 --> 00:15:41,720 precisely the instant when the citizens of Broadway put in 260 00:15:41,799 --> 00:15:45,200 for their vacation to Scranton, Peoria and Iowa, and it 261 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:48,039 takes the bus tickets and the two whole weeks holiday 262 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,039 to find out. You rode to an empty corner of 263 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:51,440 a far away world. 264 00:15:58,559 --> 00:16:01,639 Speaker 3: With me. It was still routine murderers never says no. 265 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:03,039 The girl had been. 266 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 2: Knife and throw them back at her husband and find 267 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,200 out why and who and what circumstances conspire to. 268 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,679 Speaker 3: Wonder that my job, and. 269 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 2: At police headquarters at Knight's the man his name was 270 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:17,080 Sergeant Gino to Attaglia. Many people bought him a friendly type. 271 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:19,559 Speaker 3: What do you think of me, Danny, what's the matter? 272 00:16:19,639 --> 00:16:19,879 Speaker 6: You know? 273 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 5: Go ahead, Danny, let me have it both barrows. I 274 00:16:22,919 --> 00:16:26,000 stand arms and kim bow and wait for it between. 275 00:16:25,679 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 3: The eyes, Danny. What happened? What brings this on this morning? 276 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:31,799 Speaker 5: Danny? On my way to work, I stopped into Zimmerman's 277 00:16:31,799 --> 00:16:34,600 de Baker, as is my wont to purchase my daily 278 00:16:34,679 --> 00:16:38,799 Zimmermon bums. And mister Zimmerman walked over and said stop 279 00:16:38,879 --> 00:16:41,960 pinching to Zimmermon bums, and proceeded to tell me what 280 00:16:42,039 --> 00:16:44,879 he shought. Then he heaved the Zimmermon bumb at me. 281 00:16:45,559 --> 00:16:47,600 That's why my uniforms cost it all over. 282 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:49,480 Speaker 3: I'm not a bad. 283 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:50,039 Speaker 2: Chat, am I not? 284 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 3: Then? 285 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:53,799 Speaker 2: Geno, you're kind, trustworthy, loyal, obedient. 286 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,039 Speaker 3: Would you give me a note to zimmerment to that affect? Danny. 287 00:16:56,159 --> 00:16:58,600 Soon after we attended the business, it happened. 288 00:16:58,519 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 5: Her business is bad, Danny. There's not much to hand, 289 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:04,559 only the fact that the members five hundred strong of 290 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:07,160 the can and Ale Club are raising hob among the 291 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:11,599 populace with their antics with canaan Ale such goings on. 292 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 3: That's Sliver speaking. 293 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:13,680 Speaker 7: Get your hat, Danny. 294 00:17:13,759 --> 00:17:14,319 Speaker 3: What's the problem. 295 00:17:14,359 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 2: Mugamn that waitress and Harpers Gal Rose Keeler, what happened 296 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:17,440 to her? 297 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:39,799 Speaker 7: Beaten knife? Emergency hospital? Danny squad Guys downstairs, m. 298 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:40,920 Speaker 2: H m. 299 00:17:43,319 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 4: Rose, Rose, Oh, I didn't ask nobody to get up 300 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:48,359 in your row. 301 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,559 Speaker 3: I talked to you before, Rose, Danny Clober. Remember I'm 302 00:17:51,599 --> 00:17:52,079 a good. 303 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:53,880 Speaker 4: Patient and ask for nobody when I don't need him. 304 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,319 I don't need you. I need you A person nite 305 00:17:57,319 --> 00:17:57,960 pleasure for you. 306 00:17:58,039 --> 00:17:59,480 Speaker 3: He want us to find the man who hurts you, 307 00:17:59,519 --> 00:17:59,960 don't you row? 308 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:01,079 Speaker 4: I don't want to talk about it. 309 00:18:01,279 --> 00:18:03,119 Speaker 2: I know how you feel, but you've got to try. 310 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:04,599 You've got to help us. 311 00:18:05,519 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 3: You don't have to get up, I. 312 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 4: Know, I don't. I watch your face. I want to 313 00:18:12,279 --> 00:18:14,039 see how a man looks, and he gets a good 314 00:18:14,079 --> 00:18:20,599 look at what another man did to me? See see 315 00:18:21,039 --> 00:18:27,039 he had a knife? Wasn't his fingernails? You finished looking at. 316 00:18:29,079 --> 00:18:29,880 Speaker 3: You finished who? 317 00:18:30,759 --> 00:18:31,559 Speaker 4: So you can compare? 318 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:37,200 Speaker 3: Note who was? He can't help him? 319 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:39,400 Speaker 4: But in the dark alley I heard it came tapping, 320 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,920 and a voice asked a question and whispered for an answer. 321 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,680 I tried to scream the funny note scream came out. 322 00:18:46,759 --> 00:18:47,640 Speaker 3: What were you doing there? 323 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:50,519 Speaker 4: The short cut on the way to work. I don't 324 00:18:50,559 --> 00:18:52,119 ever hardly take it except I'm late. 325 00:18:52,359 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 3: You live near Harper's Girl, Yeah, maybe too near? Why 326 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:57,480 do you say that? 327 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,640 Speaker 4: Guys find out I live near what I will be home? 328 00:19:01,519 --> 00:19:06,559 Too cheap for camps here like who? Bert Francisca came 329 00:19:06,599 --> 00:19:09,519 to word Keenan Naylor's. They all been asking. 330 00:19:11,039 --> 00:19:14,400 Speaker 3: Bert suggested, do you think it was Findley? 331 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 4: I don't think, mister, Was it Finley? I don't know. 332 00:19:18,039 --> 00:19:19,519 Speaker 6: I just hurt. 333 00:19:21,559 --> 00:19:29,359 Speaker 4: Ring the night was a mister, Now I need somebody. 334 00:19:29,759 --> 00:19:33,200 Speaker 2: A few moments a door opened noiselessly. The sister, in 335 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:35,599 a white nun's habit, leaned over the girl in the band, 336 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,680 put her hand against the girl's part. Then the sister 337 00:19:38,759 --> 00:19:41,519 turned to me and smiled thinkly. She told me Rose 338 00:19:41,599 --> 00:19:42,119 was sleeping. 339 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 3: That was good. 340 00:19:44,559 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 2: I left, and another scrap of information. Bert Finley had 341 00:19:54,480 --> 00:19:57,519 also made a play for Rose Keeler. Bert Finley, ex 342 00:19:57,599 --> 00:20:00,359 prexy of the canaan Ale Boys, was quite a boy 343 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,119 going out of the home of the ex prexy and 344 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,279 ask him what else he was? 345 00:20:13,039 --> 00:20:13,759 Speaker 3: The door was. 346 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:17,240 Speaker 2: Open, Oh, I thought it was my husband. 347 00:20:17,279 --> 00:20:18,559 Speaker 3: I'm from the police. 348 00:20:19,119 --> 00:20:21,519 Speaker 4: Bert hasn't been up to any mischief, has he? 349 00:20:21,799 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 3: America inn. What is it you wish? Where's your husband? 350 00:20:25,839 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 4: But he'll be home soon. He'll be home at twelve. 351 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,920 Speaker 3: It's just about half past that now. 352 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 4: Oh, it certainly is not. Bert is always home by midnight. 353 00:20:33,759 --> 00:20:35,920 Speaker 3: Always not tonight. Missus Finley, where is it? 354 00:20:36,759 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 4: Well, he's former prexy. 355 00:20:38,279 --> 00:20:39,759 Speaker 2: You know of the Cane and Ale club. 356 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:41,440 Speaker 8: They're in town, thirty three lunches. 357 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,680 Speaker 3: Why is the home? I said, twelve o'clock. 358 00:20:45,279 --> 00:20:48,119 Speaker 4: Nobody gets into mischief if they're in bed at midnight. 359 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,559 Speaker 3: It's important that we find your husband. Missus Finling. Do 360 00:20:50,599 --> 00:20:52,079 you have any idea where he might be? 361 00:20:52,519 --> 00:20:54,680 Speaker 5: I know exactly where he is. What do you think 362 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:54,880 of that? 363 00:20:55,279 --> 00:20:56,480 Speaker 3: I think that's very nice. 364 00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 4: You think I have a gat about for a husband? 365 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:00,799 Speaker 3: University? 366 00:21:00,839 --> 00:21:03,200 Speaker 6: You know last year's president of his society. 367 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:04,759 Speaker 3: It was the boys. Now is that right? 368 00:21:04,759 --> 00:21:06,839 Speaker 6: Missus Finley had a banquet his life, so one of 369 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:07,839 the class of thirty six. 370 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:08,720 Speaker 3: Where's the banquet? 371 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 6: Well? 372 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,079 Speaker 5: I I don't. 373 00:21:12,839 --> 00:21:15,440 Speaker 4: Know, no work never tond. 374 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:17,799 Speaker 7: Quick, Danny. 375 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,000 Speaker 3: Get him. What's the trouble? 376 00:21:22,319 --> 00:21:24,559 Speaker 2: Burt Finley's staff all he back of Harper's grill. 377 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:25,759 Speaker 3: Let's go Mackavan. 378 00:21:50,079 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 2: Get out of here yet, me get out there he is, mister, 379 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,319 the same place he was at when I found him. 380 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:01,200 Speaker 3: He did. Don't get around. How come you're found of 381 00:22:01,279 --> 00:22:01,880 mister Harper. 382 00:22:02,319 --> 00:22:05,319 Speaker 2: I'll tell you about that. I was closing up the grill. 383 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,519 I understand lots of things to do. When you close up. 384 00:22:08,559 --> 00:22:11,680 You got to check the shortages on your waitresses. You 385 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,240 you'd be surprised how they try to cut you sometime. 386 00:22:14,319 --> 00:22:14,960 Speaker 3: I understand. 387 00:22:15,279 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 2: All the turner wants to know is how come you 388 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,039 found him? I was coming to that, mister. You want 389 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,960 to force me closing the grill tonight? Was someone that 390 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:27,920 chore them? Keenan Alias had a banquet, good old boys 391 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,039 arranged my favorite customer, and the cat and Alis kept 392 00:22:32,079 --> 00:22:34,519 walking in and out through the kitchen into the alley. 393 00:22:34,839 --> 00:22:38,400 I don't serve lick, I understand, then back through again. 394 00:22:38,839 --> 00:22:41,119 Messed up the third friendly One of those who came 395 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:42,160 through must. 396 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 3: Have because how come he bleeding here all over my alley? 397 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 2: He didn't come back, so you weren't looking for him? 398 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,759 You the type that keeps pressing, aren't your self? No, 399 00:22:51,319 --> 00:22:53,319 I didn't go looking for the boyd. I happened to 400 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:55,519 notice him here while I was empty in the Dean's God. 401 00:22:56,759 --> 00:22:59,839 First time I thought it was one of my alley clients, 402 00:23:00,079 --> 00:23:03,559 all in a sleep waiting for a charity. Then I 403 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,039 saw it was It was good old boy, didn't a 404 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:08,839 do it? Take care of it, Michael. When I'm going 405 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,799 back into the girl, you'll come to Harber and I 406 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,359 understand you. You want me along while you go clue hunting. 407 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:20,200 Ain't no time a man's loos. And then when he's 408 00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,519 out hunting, the lord come. 409 00:23:22,319 --> 00:23:29,119 Speaker 3: On and he said, I'll be your friend. This is 410 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:29,759 m kitchen. 411 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 2: I want to nose around it a while, make your 412 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:36,240 hot sandwich if you want meantime banquet table? 413 00:23:36,279 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 3: Which one was it that'd be out in the mess? 414 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,680 Hall red all it says, never mind, I'll fool you. 415 00:23:43,079 --> 00:23:43,960 He ain't had a good. 416 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 2: Chance to clean it all off yet I do that myself. 417 00:23:47,559 --> 00:23:49,799 I don't like overtime on my hands. If I can 418 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:54,720 help you understand, you got your lose in the wing. Boy, 419 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:56,400 what you smid? 420 00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 3: I came leaning against the wall the table near the door. 421 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:03,079 Speaker 2: Don't survise me now, one of them kinan Alis forgot 422 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:03,599 his king. 423 00:24:03,839 --> 00:24:06,200 Speaker 3: They forgot that man as they forget he. 424 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,519 Speaker 2: That king is why that's a blind man's king who 425 00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:12,240 don't knit back home had when. 426 00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 3: Judge Lack, you remember a blind man in your. 427 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,039 Speaker 2: Girl son, I was back in the kitchen going crazy. 428 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,839 I didn't look for no blind. 429 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,279 Speaker 3: I'll come. A blind man forgets his king. 430 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,200 Speaker 2: That's like your respects, Happer. But take an old berth away. 431 00:24:51,839 --> 00:24:57,160 Speaker 1: Cring it up. I kill it, God, kill it. 432 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,599 Speaker 3: On your feet, Jimmy, now stay there, get him out 433 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,759 of here. He's crazy. He's not only blind. If it's 434 00:25:07,799 --> 00:25:11,160 gone to his head. He killed my wife. Kill I know, 435 00:25:11,319 --> 00:25:13,519 I know. Take it easy, Jimmy. I don't care about 436 00:25:13,519 --> 00:25:15,119 the many killing the alley, but he kill franchise. 437 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 2: See what did I tell you? 438 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:28,880 Speaker 3: Crazy? To me, Jimmy, your wife is dead. I'm sorry 439 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:29,000 for that. 440 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,880 Speaker 2: You're blind, I'm sorry for that too, But you cost 441 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:37,160 a man his life. That man finally, what said to 442 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:41,000 me said take it easy, Jimmy, that's better. 443 00:25:43,079 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 3: God killer Bruno. 444 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 2: Huh, you've gone crazy too. I'm going to get out 445 00:25:47,759 --> 00:25:48,039 of here. 446 00:25:48,319 --> 00:25:52,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, do that. I want you to try. Go ahead, try. 447 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,160 You won't let me kill him? You kill him, shoot him, 448 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:56,759 kill him. 449 00:25:56,839 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 2: We had Bruno headquarters earlier. We gave him to you, 450 00:25:59,079 --> 00:26:00,319 but you wouldn't identify. 451 00:26:00,079 --> 00:26:03,559 Speaker 3: His voice why. I wanted him for myself, So you 452 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:04,880 let him go and he kills again. 453 00:26:05,039 --> 00:26:07,519 Speaker 2: What you got on me the word of a blind 454 00:26:07,559 --> 00:26:10,680 that's right, the word of a beaten girl, A girl 455 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,759 who heard a cane tapping before she was mugged. 456 00:26:12,759 --> 00:26:15,759 Speaker 3: I got five hundred buddies with cane. Nobody like Burt Finley, 457 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,920 a man who knew you stole his knife final he 458 00:26:18,039 --> 00:26:19,759 was drunk while you put him in a cab. I 459 00:26:19,839 --> 00:26:21,440 stood out in the alley and listened to him. Killed 460 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,160 Bert Finley. Bert screamed, Francesca didn't. 461 00:26:24,279 --> 00:26:27,039 Speaker 2: Bert showed your franchise, so you followed her home. Brun 462 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:29,759 tried to talk nice to her, then strangled her knifeter 463 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:31,680 Bert showed your rose. 464 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,920 Speaker 3: You did the same thing. Listen to me, I did it. 465 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:36,480 I heard his voice again at the police headquarters. 466 00:26:36,519 --> 00:26:38,400 Speaker 2: Found out about the banquet at Harper's, and I went there. 467 00:26:39,519 --> 00:26:42,079 Speaker 3: Spitted his voice again. I followed his voice, followed him 468 00:26:42,079 --> 00:26:43,599 out in the alley when he finished with Finley, I 469 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:45,079 followed him here. Nobody followed me. 470 00:26:45,599 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 2: You're blind that I heard your cane. They didn't have 471 00:26:47,759 --> 00:26:50,799 a cane. I left it at Harper's. You did, You're 472 00:26:50,799 --> 00:26:51,519 a kane and Naylor. 473 00:26:51,599 --> 00:26:58,880 Speaker 3: You had a cane. Jimmy followed your cane smart blind 474 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,640 bush smut set. 475 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,319 Speaker 2: What made you bleak with your wife? Blind boy face? 476 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,559 That fella, she felt sorry for you. She thinks she 477 00:27:07,599 --> 00:27:11,480 could love a guy like you without eyes listen to him. 478 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,799 Speaker 3: How long was it since you got a good look 479 00:27:13,839 --> 00:27:16,279 at your wife? Saw what she was? What she could 480 00:27:16,319 --> 00:27:19,240 lead to a man? What was she a you? 481 00:27:19,799 --> 00:27:21,559 Speaker 2: Somebody that'll lead you around so you wouldn't be hit 482 00:27:21,599 --> 00:27:23,759 by a cab. I'm the kind of a guy who 483 00:27:23,799 --> 00:27:26,799 could have let her. You can't see, fella, You can't 484 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:31,960 see like us. They allow witnesses, mister Klover. I want 485 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:55,599 to be there when he dies. The people race against 486 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,839 the nighttime on wrong way, each in his own way. 487 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:04,519 Make time stands still. That's the trick, But dawn comes. 488 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:08,519 Mcgutter's a choked of wasted minutes, the infinite man hours, 489 00:28:08,599 --> 00:28:11,039 of loneliness, and the tears. 490 00:28:13,279 --> 00:28:20,559 Speaker 3: It's Broadway Recaudiist, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in 491 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:21,079 the world. 492 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 2: Broadway, My Beat, Broadways My Beat stars Larry Thor as 493 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:50,279 Detective Danny Clover, with Charles Calibert as Tartaglia and Jack 494 00:28:50,359 --> 00:28:53,880 Krushian as Muggavan. The program was produced and directed by 495 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,680 Elliott Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. 496 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:02,640 In Tonight's story, Lamont Johnston was heard as Jimmy Brown. 497 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,480 Speaker 3: Blue Merrill as Harry Bruno. 498 00:29:04,519 --> 00:29:08,000 Speaker 2: Kathy Lewis as Rose Killer, Herb Butterfield as Burt Finley, 499 00:29:08,119 --> 00:29:10,319 and b Benaderret as Missus Finley. 500 00:29:50,519 --> 00:29:53,279 Speaker 9: Broadway is My Beat has come to you through the 501 00:29:53,319 --> 00:29:57,759 worldwide facilities of the United States Armedforces Radio and Television Service. 502 00:30:09,359 --> 00:30:12,079 Tonight on FPN presents You've been listening to some of 503 00:30:12,119 --> 00:30:15,599 the best in radio drama with Bibber McGhee and Molly 504 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,200 and Broadway as My Beats. Join us again Monday. 505 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,319 Speaker 2: Evening at the same time, nine Old Fox, when FPN 506 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,519 presents Dragnets and Escape. 507 00:30:59,559 --> 00:31:03,240 Speaker 1: Welcome Back. A very intense conclusion and one of the 508 00:31:03,359 --> 00:31:06,680 worst killers we've heard on this show. What the episode 509 00:31:06,839 --> 00:31:11,440 makes clear is that he killed because he felt entitled 510 00:31:11,519 --> 00:31:15,799 to her and she refused to go along, and that 511 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,680 refusal was made worse to him by the fact that 512 00:31:18,799 --> 00:31:21,000 she had a blind husband who she was loyal to. 513 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,960 Since her husband couldn't see her, he couldn't appreciate her 514 00:31:25,079 --> 00:31:28,119 because in the killer's mind, she was just a thing 515 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:34,680 to be possessed and enjoyed for her beauty, and Jimmy 516 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,079 unable to do that, wasn't fit and was lesser than him. 517 00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,880 It is so ugly, but also sadly quite real. On 518 00:31:43,079 --> 00:31:45,960 a much lighter note, I hope Gino is able to 519 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,400 get things squared with mister Zimmerman, because it would be 520 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,200 a shame if he can't enjoy his Zimmerman buns. The 521 00:31:53,319 --> 00:31:57,160 one real curious thing that I realized about the series 522 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,920 when I was listening to this episode is that there 523 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,640 there is continuity in broadways my beat. However, all of 524 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,720 it comes through Sergeant Tartaglia and is totally irrelevant to 525 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:12,160 whatever happens at the story. Listener comments and feedback, and 526 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:15,440 we have a comment on Facebook regarding the Harry Foster 527 00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:19,559 murder case. Elizabeth writes, aside from the great stories, I 528 00:32:19,799 --> 00:32:24,039 love the unique Keatons in the dialogue. I appreciate that 529 00:32:24,279 --> 00:32:27,559 as well. And then we have a couple of comments 530 00:32:27,839 --> 00:32:34,359 from Spotify on the Charlie Crandall murder Mechanic sixty six 531 00:32:34,559 --> 00:32:38,839 rights good one, great cast. Yeah, if you get Peggy 532 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:43,319 Weber and Jeanette Nolan on the theme product. That's a 533 00:32:43,519 --> 00:32:48,799 really strong cast, particularly taken with our regulars. Matt writs, 534 00:32:49,319 --> 00:32:54,720 poor Taglia just wanted Danny to spend time with him. Well, 535 00:32:55,200 --> 00:33:00,079 I think that Tartaglia is reaching out to Nanny a 536 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:06,000 similar way to the way that Friday's partners try to 537 00:33:06,799 --> 00:33:11,680 reach out to him and get him socially involved and 538 00:33:11,839 --> 00:33:16,680 connected with them. Had as much to do with a 539 00:33:16,799 --> 00:33:22,160 desire to take care of and to make sure that 540 00:33:23,319 --> 00:33:26,599 he's doing all right. It really is a parent that 541 00:33:27,279 --> 00:33:31,359 Danny feels the full weight of every case that he's 542 00:33:31,519 --> 00:33:36,480 on and is often quite emotionally affected as he is 543 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,480 working on the case. And I think Tartaglia has this 544 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:46,079 sense that Danny needs moments of lightness. He needs to 545 00:33:46,759 --> 00:33:50,039 get away from the office, he needs to do things 546 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,680 that are enjoyable, he needs to sit down and have 547 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:57,960 good food, and he wants to take care of Danny 548 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:01,160 in that way because he He's just one of those 549 00:34:01,319 --> 00:34:04,759 types of people. All right. Well, now it is time 550 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,440 to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I 551 00:34:07,519 --> 00:34:11,360 want to thank Charlie, Patreon supporter since October twenty nineteen, 552 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,519 currently supporting the podcast at the Shawmus level of four 553 00:34:15,599 --> 00:34:19,519 dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Charlie, 554 00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,719 and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying 555 00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:27,760 the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. 556 00:34:28,599 --> 00:34:31,760 And if you're enjoying the podcast on YouTube, be sure 557 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,679 to like the video, subscribe to the channel, and mark 558 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:39,119 the notification bell. We'll be back next Wednesday with another 559 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:42,519 episode of Broadways My Beat, but join us back here 560 00:34:42,639 --> 00:34:45,360 tomorrow for drag Netwere. 561 00:34:46,119 --> 00:34:48,239 Speaker 3: The buddies just as you found it? Missus Wilford. You 562 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:49,280 didn't disturb anything. 563 00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:52,119 Speaker 8: No, I just came back from my friends and looked 564 00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:54,920 and I saw him and he was dead. Somebody cute 565 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:55,280 jose it. 566 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,239 Speaker 4: And you're pretty sure that your husband wasn't having any 567 00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:58,599 trouble with anybody knowing them. 568 00:34:59,039 --> 00:35:01,199 Speaker 8: No, he didn't have any and amised not to do this. 569 00:35:01,559 --> 00:35:03,639 Speaker 3: Yes, ma'amma, you lived upstairs in the back of the 570 00:35:03,679 --> 00:35:05,400 store with mister Wilfrid. Is that right now? 571 00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:06,599 Speaker 4: For a long time. 572 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,360 Speaker 8: Yes, we lived upstairs in the rooms. It was nice 573 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:10,960 save money for rent. 574 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:12,800 Speaker 2: Or do you have any idea at all while your 575 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,760 husband's dead why somebody would want to kill them? 576 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,840 Speaker 8: There was money in the store they'd kill for that. 577 00:35:18,559 --> 00:35:21,800 Your policemen people kill for money, You know that. 578 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,280 Speaker 3: But do you know where mister Wilfrid kept his money? 579 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,920 Speaker 8: Now, there was a wooden drawer on the table in 580 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,239 the back ROOMY would keep the money there. But I 581 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,400 looked when I came in first, it was empty. 582 00:35:33,079 --> 00:35:34,599 Speaker 3: Was there any money in that drawer tonight? 583 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:35,039 Speaker 6: You know that? 584 00:35:35,559 --> 00:35:35,719 Speaker 3: Oh? 585 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:39,440 Speaker 8: Yes, three four hundred dollars. Anyway, Joseph always kept it 586 00:35:39,519 --> 00:35:43,840 in there, terrible place, up above the music. 587 00:35:43,639 --> 00:35:44,840 Speaker 3: All the time, the noise. 588 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,440 Speaker 8: You should make them be quiet. The dance also have 589 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,159 been up there for a year tonight, anyway, it should 590 00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:51,800 be quiet. 591 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,199 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime. 592 00:35:54,559 --> 00:36:01,079 Sends your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives, follow 593 00:36:01,199 --> 00:36:04,760 us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us out 594 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:11,360 on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. 595 00:36:11,679 --> 00:36:14,320 This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.