1 00:00:28,359 --> 00:00:35,079 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:35,439 --> 00:00:38,479 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,439 going to bring you this week's episode of Broadways My Bait. 4 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:44,920 But first, I do want to encourage you, if you're 5 00:00:45,039 --> 00:00:48,920 enjoying the podcast, to please follow us using your favorite 6 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:53,119 podcast software. Today's program is brought you in part by 7 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:56,039 the financial support of our listeners, who can support the 8 00:00:56,079 --> 00:00:58,840 show on a one time basis by sending a donation 9 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:02,799 via the Zella app up to box thirteen at Great 10 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:06,000 Detectives dot net. You can also become one of our 11 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:10,120 ongoing Patreon supporters for as little ass two dollars per 12 00:01:10,159 --> 00:01:14,560 month by going to Patreon dot Great Detectives dot net. 13 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,439 Well now, from April fourteenth, nineteen fifty one, here is 14 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:22,159 the Thomas Hart murder Case. 15 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:40,519 Speaker 2: Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circus. The gaudiest, 16 00:01:40,599 --> 00:01:44,000 the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. 17 00:01:50,799 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 3: Broadways My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Plover. 18 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,319 Speaker 2: The Day Without Color is only six hours old, and 19 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,639 the restlessness begins to eat at Broadway. The waiting, the 20 00:02:15,719 --> 00:02:18,599 longing for the night time begins to gnaw like hunger, 21 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:23,680 like thirst, because Broadway's night is a banquet loaded with delicacies, 22 00:02:24,080 --> 00:02:26,879 the scarlet wine of neon, the forbidden fruit of a 23 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,560 trumpet scream, the lukewarm stew offered on a tin plate 24 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:35,840 through an alley doorway. But Broadway's day, that's the drab time, kid, 25 00:02:35,879 --> 00:02:39,840 the empty time, the time of leaning against sunwarm stone 26 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,039 and waiting. And you wait with the rest of Broadway, 27 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:54,039 because it'll come, something will come. And it does You 28 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,080 know that because Broadway nudges you with an elbow. Winks, says, 29 00:02:57,599 --> 00:03:00,280 follow me, kid, the day is turned bright. It's not 30 00:03:00,319 --> 00:03:03,319 far away. Where the day is bright On thirty ninth Street, 31 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:06,599 just off Seventh Avenue, in the garment center. The crowd 32 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,000 is already there, ahead of you, tooth picking its last 33 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,560 bite of lunch, digesting the spectacle of a man sprawled 34 00:03:12,599 --> 00:03:15,719 on the pavement. The dress rack he'd been pushing lay 35 00:03:15,759 --> 00:03:19,000 beneath him. There was the scissors in his back, his 36 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,319 blood sketched a new pattern on the bright flowered silk prints. 37 00:03:22,759 --> 00:03:25,039 And the man, heavy in the shoulders, pushing his face 38 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:26,759 into the crowd so you can be close to it, 39 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:30,159 so he can fill you in on it. You got 40 00:03:30,199 --> 00:03:32,080 half fast, Danny. I was shown the way. 41 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:33,000 Speaker 4: Who is he? 42 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 5: Muggelvin's well, it says he's Thomas Hayde, Social Security card, 43 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,000 YMCA membership at all says he was Thomas Hide. These 44 00:03:40,039 --> 00:03:43,280 people know him. Me call him by name. You don't 45 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,719 answer for twenty minutes. Now, I'd say, any of them 46 00:03:45,759 --> 00:03:46,439 see it happen? 47 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:46,719 Speaker 6: No? 48 00:03:46,879 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 2: I asked around. 49 00:03:47,599 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 5: They were all busy with shop talk with wife and 50 00:03:50,039 --> 00:03:52,960 kid talk, with union talk. First thing he noticed was 51 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,000 sink glass. Chaocrat's new sample spring line was spilling the gutter. 52 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 2: They kept the calves and trucks running over the dressers. 53 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,719 Speaker 5: Sinclair, what sick glass style craft see on a dress label? 54 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,039 Speaker 2: Huh? A dress manufacturing place up the street. He worked there. 55 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:09,240 They all told me that, and I didn't even ask 56 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,120 a keeping back, mogavan. They're waiting for us to act something. 57 00:04:12,159 --> 00:04:17,680 I just keeping back. After a while, one of the 58 00:04:17,680 --> 00:04:21,680 onlookers glanced at his watch, hurried away. Lunch hower was 59 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,079 over and he'd be the big man around the water 60 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:27,079 cooler this afternoon. Something big just happened to him. He'd 61 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,800 seen a man with the scissors in his back, and 62 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:32,160 the girl looked up from the pavement, smiled across the 63 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,199 crowd to a boy in a sports shirt, and walked 64 00:04:34,199 --> 00:04:37,680 away slowly. The woman in a youthful hat took her place. 65 00:04:38,399 --> 00:04:40,480 In a few minutes, it was all over. Two men 66 00:04:40,519 --> 00:04:42,839 threw a blanket over the face of Thomas Hart and 67 00:04:42,959 --> 00:04:52,360 carried him away. Then work to do. Thomas Hart worked 68 00:04:52,399 --> 00:04:56,319 for Sinclair's Stylecraft Ladies and Missus Dresses. Down the street. 69 00:04:56,959 --> 00:05:00,680 Go there, four flights up on a freight elevator. Nod 70 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:02,639 to the gray haired man holding the wheel. In the 71 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:07,120 comic book, you get no answer. Through the rows of 72 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,920 sewing machines, where one hundred women spend eight hours a 73 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,759 day with a dress pattern and a bumpet. Then finally 74 00:05:13,879 --> 00:05:16,040 ushered into the office of the Man of Destiny for 75 00:05:16,079 --> 00:05:21,360 the fourth floor. Mister justin Sinclair, Sit down, mister Clover, 76 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,720 Danny Clover, police about what happened downstairs? That's right? Do 77 00:05:25,879 --> 00:05:28,879 you want to go tell me about Thomas Hart here 78 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,519 out there? Eh, you don't mind that I'm smoking to you? 79 00:05:33,319 --> 00:05:38,439 Speaker 7: Oh, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, what's that supposed to tell me? Look, 80 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,560 I've been in business for a long time. A man 81 00:05:40,639 --> 00:05:43,759 gets hard driving for a dollar. It takes a time 82 00:05:43,879 --> 00:05:45,360 like this to make me know what kind of a 83 00:05:45,399 --> 00:05:46,199 man I've gotten to be. 84 00:05:46,319 --> 00:05:48,199 Speaker 2: I'm asking you to weep for the boy, mister sint 85 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:48,560 Laura and. 86 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 7: I could weep. That's just what I mean. I've forgotten 87 00:05:51,399 --> 00:05:55,040 how Tommy was a bright youngster. So whatever he was 88 00:05:55,079 --> 00:05:58,639 pushing dress racks around, I did at once. Tommy was interested. 89 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:02,879 Tommy asked questions about the I'm sad, mister Clover. Don't 90 00:06:02,959 --> 00:06:05,240 laugh at me. I'm more than sad. I'm horrified. 91 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 8: Mister Sinclair. 92 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,040 Speaker 7: Oh, come in, come in stella missus Craft. Mister Clover, 93 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:12,040 mister Clover is from the police. 94 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 8: Yes, they told me in the shop, a policeman was here. 95 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:16,879 Speaker 7: That's why I'm glad you did. He wants to know 96 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:17,759 all about Tommy. 97 00:06:18,439 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 8: What do you want to know, mister Clover. 98 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,759 Speaker 2: As much as you can tell me, mostly why somebody 99 00:06:22,839 --> 00:06:23,399 murdered him. 100 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 9: Tommy was an errand boy and pushed dress racks. I'm 101 00:06:26,879 --> 00:06:29,079 sorry he's dead, but frankly he annoyed me. 102 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:34,439 Speaker 7: How Oh, mister Clover, come now look at miss Craft. 103 00:06:34,439 --> 00:06:38,319 Speaker 2: Will you just look at her now? I'm looking? Does 104 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:39,399 it annoy you? Miss Kraft? 105 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:40,319 Speaker 8: Not yet? 106 00:06:40,759 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 9: If you came into my office and stared at me 107 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,079 sitting at my drawing board. Then if you grinned, then 108 00:06:46,079 --> 00:06:47,319 if you winked. 109 00:06:46,959 --> 00:06:50,639 Speaker 7: You really couldn't blame Tommy, Miss Croft, natural normal. 110 00:06:50,519 --> 00:06:52,600 Speaker 8: Don't you do it? Mister Sinclair? 111 00:06:54,199 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 2: Quite a girl? 112 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:55,480 Speaker 10: Huh? 113 00:06:55,600 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 2: Quite a young lady? What else about Tommy? Nothing either? 114 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:03,639 All right? Where does he live? 115 00:07:03,959 --> 00:07:06,319 Speaker 8: I can tell you that. Follow me out. I'll get 116 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,120 the address for you from our personnel man. 117 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 7: Yes, you'll find sinclass stylecraft, cooperative, mitter, clover or anything, 118 00:07:12,079 --> 00:07:12,759 anything at all. 119 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 11: Next time, knock soft, mister, you want something from Jonesy, 120 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,040 the keeper of the garbage pails to collect the wrench? 121 00:07:37,079 --> 00:07:38,000 Shall knock soft? 122 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,759 Speaker 2: They told me Thomas Hart left here. Show me his. 123 00:07:40,759 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 11: Room, Tommy, Tommy's dead. It's been the topic of the 124 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:48,319 day for the tenants, how Tommy's dead. You don't need 125 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:50,680 nobody in his room now he's dead. 126 00:07:51,199 --> 00:07:51,759 Speaker 12: Can't use it. 127 00:07:51,839 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 2: Look close to Jonesy. This is how a policeman looks. 128 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:55,360 Who wants something. 129 00:07:56,079 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 6: I don't care what your sickness is. Next time, knock soft. 130 00:07:59,399 --> 00:08:04,759 Speaker 2: Come on, you knew Tommy? Sure I know him. 131 00:08:05,439 --> 00:08:08,079 Speaker 11: He never wrapped his leavings in the newspaper, not even 132 00:08:08,279 --> 00:08:11,680 a greasy brown paper bag. What else do you need 133 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:12,360 to know about him? 134 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:12,519 Speaker 13: Man? 135 00:08:12,639 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 2: Sometimes you'd open your door and peep at his collars. 136 00:08:15,079 --> 00:08:17,800 Sure I peep. You don't peep when you get the 137 00:08:17,879 --> 00:08:21,800 jet back off? Johneson? Who'd you see who? 138 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 11: Once? It was a guy with a dirty white apron 139 00:08:25,160 --> 00:08:29,040 and a sack of beer cans up these stairs he 140 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,439 went whistling. Give me a minute, I'll tell you what 141 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:32,080 he was whistling. 142 00:08:32,639 --> 00:08:33,440 Speaker 2: No one else? 143 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 11: Sure, Sure, someone else with silk stockings and high strapped shoes. 144 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:42,120 But living as I live in the basement apartment, that 145 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:44,639 got away from me before I could see the face 146 00:08:45,639 --> 00:08:47,919 that never took a moment's happiness away from me. Not 147 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,440 seeing that face, what do I do? 148 00:08:52,879 --> 00:08:53,080 Speaker 6: Yeah? 149 00:08:54,039 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 11: Tommy's room, phew crumby tenant? Wasn't he crumbs? Bring exterminators? 150 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:04,240 Exterminators caused the management money? Take your hands off hommy suitcase? 151 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:12,320 Speaker 2: Something in this shirt pocket? What those issues? Tommy was 152 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:15,799 always with nose isssues. I forgot to tell you money 153 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,720 twenty it's tens five hundred dollars. 154 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:30,399 Speaker 11: As in there is a wash basin. That calendar you're 155 00:09:30,399 --> 00:09:33,440 looking at, I got piled downstairs. You can take your 156 00:09:33,519 --> 00:09:35,159 choice don't rob a dead man's dream. 157 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,639 Speaker 2: It's an address scribble under the pictures. 158 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 11: Let me see, let me see out of the way. 159 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:43,480 That's address. 160 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:43,960 Speaker 2: All right? 161 00:09:45,039 --> 00:09:45,679 Speaker 4: You think. 162 00:09:47,519 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 2: Knock soft, Jonesy, you want something knock soft? 163 00:10:07,639 --> 00:10:07,879 Speaker 12: Yes? 164 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:09,879 Speaker 2: The name played on the door says this is the 165 00:10:09,919 --> 00:10:12,639 residence of Justin and Elizabeth Sinclair. Is that right? 166 00:10:12,759 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 6: No, I'm missus Sinclair. What is it you want? 167 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,960 Speaker 10: My name is Danny Clover. I'm from the police. You're 168 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:22,240 from the police. Will come in please. My husband phoned 169 00:10:22,279 --> 00:10:26,120 and said a policeman might be around. Oh my girls, 170 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:31,799 girls were raided. I was just fooling. Now, mister Clover 171 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,000 didn't come here to break up our Canasta game, did you, 172 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:34,720 mister Clover? 173 00:10:35,279 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 6: We're only playing for a. 174 00:10:36,279 --> 00:10:39,799 Speaker 10: Twentieth This is Missus Westfall, Missus Meston and Miss Natalie. 175 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,919 Speaker 6: And Miss Natalie does our hair. After the game she wins. 176 00:10:42,759 --> 00:10:44,480 Speaker 2: And we talk someplace. Missus Sinclair. 177 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:48,039 Speaker 10: Of course we can deal me out. Girls in here. 178 00:10:48,759 --> 00:10:52,200 We'll close the door so we won't be disturbed. Now, 179 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:54,279 now tell me all about. 180 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 2: It, all right. I came from Tommy Heart's room a 181 00:10:57,279 --> 00:11:00,120 little while ago. He had some directions penciled on the 182 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,240 calendar the directions brought me here. 183 00:11:02,519 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 6: Well, but I don't understand Tommy's dead. 184 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,919 Speaker 2: Maybe Tommy scribbled those directions before he was murdered. 185 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,759 Speaker 6: Huh oh, of course, surely. 186 00:11:10,519 --> 00:11:13,559 Speaker 2: Then Tommy must have been here on some occasion or another. 187 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 6: Well, of course he was. 188 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 2: What was the occasion? 189 00:11:15,879 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 6: Dinner? 190 00:11:17,039 --> 00:11:19,200 Speaker 10: You'd think I'd get someone in to cook dinner, wouldn't you. 191 00:11:19,399 --> 00:11:21,840 But I didn't. I never do now. I still cook, 192 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,559 mister Clover, like I did before all this happened, all this, 193 00:11:25,799 --> 00:11:28,639 you know, left French provincial furniture in the set of books, 194 00:11:28,679 --> 00:11:30,360 and sending my son to private school. 195 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 2: When was the last time Tommy was here? 196 00:11:32,799 --> 00:11:33,879 Speaker 6: Didn't my husband tell you? 197 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 2: Why? 198 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:35,399 Speaker 6: It was last night? 199 00:11:36,639 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 10: Just last night Tommy was sitting in that chair you're 200 00:11:39,279 --> 00:11:42,759 sitting in now. Well, that girl raped over him, lighting 201 00:11:42,799 --> 00:11:45,039 his cigars and waiting on him hand and foot. 202 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:45,960 Speaker 2: What girl did that? 203 00:11:46,399 --> 00:11:48,799 Speaker 10: Well, the girl Tommy brought with him to dinner, that 204 00:11:48,919 --> 00:11:51,919 bleach blonde from the shipping department in my house. 205 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 6: Imagine why my husband tolerate What was the girl's name, Jenny, 206 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:57,080 Jenny Morrow. 207 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 2: I think she works for your husband. 208 00:11:59,039 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 10: I told you she did in the shipping department. And 209 00:12:01,639 --> 00:12:02,399 check her or something. 210 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:02,799 Speaker 6: I don't know. 211 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 10: He invited Tommy over because Tommy's bright and maybe someday 212 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:08,279 he could learn the business. 213 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:09,919 Speaker 6: But Pi, the girl, I don't know. 214 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,679 Speaker 2: What else can you tell me about Tommy? 215 00:12:12,279 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 6: He ate everything that was put on the plate in 216 00:12:14,279 --> 00:12:14,840 front of him. 217 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:15,759 Speaker 2: What else? 218 00:12:16,399 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 6: What else? Mister Clover, I'm a married woman. I've got 219 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:21,399 a son taller than me, and. 220 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:26,879 Speaker 2: She took me by the hand to prove it. Back 221 00:12:26,879 --> 00:12:29,799 to the canasta table, the sun was doing fine, wasn't he? Girls? 222 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,960 Wasn't he? And her life with mister Sinclair was all 223 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:34,320 a girl could ask for, wasn't it? 224 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:34,679 Speaker 4: Girls? 225 00:12:35,279 --> 00:12:38,000 Speaker 2: What right had a policeman to come nosing around, spoiling 226 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:42,240 everything the card game, the hairdos, making the canopies grow cold, 227 00:12:42,639 --> 00:12:45,480 letting the ginger ale turn flat, just because someone stuck 228 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:49,159 a pair of scissors in her husband's errand boy. So 229 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:52,279 I explained the rights of the dead, and the girls cried, 230 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,840 scooped up the cards, shuffled, redealt and I got out. 231 00:13:03,039 --> 00:13:06,799 At Sinclair's stylecraft ladies and missus dresses. A woman finished 232 00:13:06,799 --> 00:13:09,080 to see him, took the rimless glasses off her nose, 233 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:12,679 rubbed her eyes, told me, Jenny Morrow shipping was on 234 00:13:12,759 --> 00:13:14,399 the loading platform having a smoke. 235 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:21,720 Speaker 12: You can keep looking at me, mister. The views for 236 00:13:21,799 --> 00:13:26,840 free Teeth courtesy Doctor West Miracle, Tough toothbrush, hair courtesy 237 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:31,919 Peroxide ten percent eyes Cheeks figure courtesy Careful Planning. 238 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 2: You're Jenny Morrow for Eugenia. 239 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:36,960 Speaker 12: Mom called me Eugenia found the name in a book. 240 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,320 Someone threw in the trash can dramatic. 241 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 2: An some questions. I want to ask you, Jenny, questions 242 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:41,759 about it. 243 00:13:41,799 --> 00:13:42,879 Speaker 12: You're a policeman, ain't you? 244 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:47,200 Speaker 2: Yeah? Tell me about Tommy Hart, my. 245 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,080 Speaker 12: Hostess of last night, blabbed to you. Huh oh kid? 246 00:13:50,159 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 2: How long did you know Tommy? 247 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 12: Long enough to slap him a couple of times? Slap 248 00:13:53,879 --> 00:13:55,960 his mouth? Then he says he'll make up to me. 249 00:13:56,039 --> 00:13:57,799 You'll take me to the boss's house for dinner. 250 00:13:57,879 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 6: Big deal. 251 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:00,559 Speaker 2: You didn't enjoy it here. 252 00:14:00,399 --> 00:14:02,679 Speaker 12: I am practically spilling my life's blood on you. And 253 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:03,840 I don't even know your name. 254 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,799 Speaker 2: Danny Clover, It sits you. 255 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:10,960 Speaker 12: No, No, I didn't enjoy this, uper Danny. I got 256 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:15,679 the feeling I'm crazy. I'm making it up out of 257 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,919 my own home. You ever had it the feeling that 258 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,639 you've been taking someplace, just so as you could insult 259 00:14:22,639 --> 00:14:25,279 people with your presence just by being in a place 260 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:28,879 you don't belong. It's an insult just by being what 261 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:29,279 you are. 262 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:31,679 Speaker 2: Uh, mister and missus. Saint Clair invited you. 263 00:14:31,679 --> 00:14:34,879 Speaker 12: Jenny, Tommy twisted an arm. That's how come I'm invited. 264 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:35,639 Speaker 6: Big deal. 265 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:37,879 Speaker 2: Tommy did that to you. And he's your steady boyfriend. 266 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 12: Oh steady, what steady? That days? 267 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:40,519 Speaker 4: You go? 268 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,799 Speaker 12: Pin on? Stella the designer me I was the last 269 00:14:43,879 --> 00:14:47,919 name on the list. Stella Croft Stella the designer of designs. 270 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:51,320 Where is she by the Pantagious Theater on forty second 271 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,600 Street and the third row on the aisle. An arrangement 272 00:14:53,639 --> 00:14:55,840 we got with the management so Stella can steal the 273 00:14:55,919 --> 00:15:01,840 latest Paris creations from the Parisian actors. Hmm, Stella has 274 00:15:01,879 --> 00:15:06,440 a life. Maybe it'll come to me someday. I'll work 275 00:15:06,519 --> 00:15:10,320 on it. 276 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:12,440 Speaker 2: It was a five minute walk to forty second Street. 277 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:16,279 In the Pantagious Theater, on the stage, a man in 278 00:15:16,279 --> 00:15:18,720 a plaid dinner jacket was having a little trouble hoisting 279 00:15:18,759 --> 00:15:21,240 a girl to his shoulders, but when he did, they 280 00:15:21,279 --> 00:15:25,000 were fine together, circling faultlessly to the music. By the 281 00:15:25,039 --> 00:15:27,320 time I got down front, the man was holding his 282 00:15:27,399 --> 00:15:32,960 piper over his head, spinning, smiling and turning. Red Stella 283 00:15:33,039 --> 00:15:36,679 crop is there all right? Path and pencil poised staring 284 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:45,279 at the act. The dancers bowed, everybody applauded, everybody was happy. 285 00:15:46,679 --> 00:15:50,440 Not Stella Stella with a scissor stuck in her side, 286 00:15:50,960 --> 00:16:10,000 lifeless Stella, dead Stella. You are listening to Broadways My Beat, 287 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,600 written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry 288 00:16:13,639 --> 00:16:18,320 Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Every Sunday evening, CBS brings 289 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,759 you two of its top comedy stars, Jack Benny and 290 00:16:20,799 --> 00:16:23,360 Eve Arden. It makes no difference where you live, whom 291 00:16:23,399 --> 00:16:26,399 you know, what your job is. Everyone immediately feels at 292 00:16:26,399 --> 00:16:29,440 home with Eve Arden's romantic Harris school teacher and with 293 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:34,559 Jack's careful, spending perennially youthful portrait of himself. ZBS cordially 294 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,000 invites you to join them this Sunday again, when Eve 295 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:39,759 Arden plays ar Miss Brooks on most of these same stations, 296 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:42,360 and Jack Benny and his gang are heard on them all. 297 00:16:43,159 --> 00:16:46,519 Now the second act of Elliot Lewis's production of Broadways 298 00:16:46,759 --> 00:16:59,480 My Beat of an evening in springtime. Broadways stands on 299 00:16:59,519 --> 00:17:02,440 a street corner, SIPs its penny plane and counts its 300 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:06,079 blessings the Yanks, the Giants, and the bums. Only a 301 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:10,000 ten cent Subway rides distance unusually worth it. There's bottled 302 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:13,039 orange juice from sun kissed California to be tasted for 303 00:17:13,079 --> 00:17:15,759 a nickel, and the rides are getting painted at Conny. 304 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,920 And the moon that rocks down over Manhattan in April 305 00:17:19,039 --> 00:17:22,119 is a special kind of moon. And the music that 306 00:17:22,279 --> 00:17:26,000 lilts from doorways is a special music. And the girls 307 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,599 are golden. There's more too. It blinks around the translux 308 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:32,920 and demands your attention for ten seconds. Girl stabbed at 309 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,839 the Pantagious Theater. Police seek early arrest, especially me. 310 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,880 Speaker 6: Oh it's you. I was expecting the Mestons. 311 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:45,640 Speaker 2: More canast to missus Sinkler. 312 00:17:46,119 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 10: More people did. The Mestons were coming to Consolos. They're 313 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,400 good at it, make it enjoyable. I don't suppose that's 314 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,160 why you came. No, but you want to come into 315 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,599 my house and ask your ugly questions? Uh huh, just 316 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,920 stay and write where you are? Justin's that cop I 317 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,359 told you about the one who does he have a 318 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:07,759 right to come in, of. 319 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 2: Course, Elizabeth. Of course, the man has all the rights 320 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:10,960 of the world. 321 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:14,319 Speaker 6: Yes, dear Justin says, you may come in. 322 00:18:15,839 --> 00:18:18,319 Speaker 7: Sit down, mister Clover, take the world off your back. 323 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,599 Sit down and talk to Elizabeth and me. Cigars there 324 00:18:21,599 --> 00:18:24,920 at your fingertipp anything you need, ask Elizabeth Park. 325 00:18:24,759 --> 00:18:27,279 Speaker 2: Maybe Missus Sinclair would like to make you some coffee 326 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:28,799 or sandwicher. 327 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 7: Anything that'll take care out of here. Mister Clover, don't 328 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:33,880 be embarrassed. You can talk in front of Elizabeth. She 329 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,079 knows more about the man Sinclair than I know, correct, 330 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:37,640 baby doll. 331 00:18:38,079 --> 00:18:40,599 Speaker 10: You want to know about Justin's friendship with Stella. Is 332 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:43,359 that it, mister Clover before the scissors episode? 333 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,599 Speaker 2: I mean, that's it. I didn't think we'd get around 334 00:18:45,599 --> 00:18:46,759 to it so easy, but that's it. 335 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 6: You won't mind if I tell him, Justin not a bit. 336 00:18:50,079 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 2: Of it, baby Doll. Just hand me a cigar fast. 337 00:18:53,519 --> 00:18:58,880 Thank you? All right? 338 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:01,400 Speaker 7: Thank you? Ready will. 339 00:19:03,039 --> 00:19:05,400 Speaker 2: Any time, any time, Missus Sinkler. 340 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,079 Speaker 6: This friendship, as you called it, it was. 341 00:19:08,079 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 2: You, Missus Sinkler. I remember because it surprised me the 342 00:19:11,079 --> 00:19:12,039 name you gave him. 343 00:19:12,079 --> 00:19:16,039 Speaker 10: You thought it there was nothing between Stella Croft and 344 00:19:16,079 --> 00:19:19,400 my husband Justin, except the normal relationship of an employer 345 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:19,720 to his. 346 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:24,559 Speaker 2: Employee, consultation over addressed designs during working hours, approval, disapproval, 347 00:19:25,319 --> 00:19:28,279 putting into production, the counter signing of the weekly paycheck. 348 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,119 Nothing more, mister Sinkland. There was more. She'll tell you. 349 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 10: There were the times my husband, Justin took her to 350 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:38,640 fashion shows, to dinners for the buyers at expensive places. 351 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:42,759 There was the time of a manufacture's convention in Atlantic City. 352 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:47,759 Justin called me every morning, every night. Stella was pretty, 353 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:53,559 some people thought lovely. She brought us customers, made us richer. 354 00:19:54,759 --> 00:19:57,079 That was what was between Stella and my husband. 355 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:58,279 Speaker 6: Nothing more. 356 00:19:58,519 --> 00:20:02,319 Speaker 2: You don't know why she's dead. We don't know, but 357 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:03,960 it saddens us. Mister Klover. 358 00:20:05,079 --> 00:20:08,079 Speaker 10: Send him home, Justina, I'm tired. I want to sleep. 359 00:20:09,279 --> 00:20:13,799 If the Mestons come, tell him I'm sick, they'll understand. 360 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,599 Speaker 2: More. Legwork now, the pinching up of the bits and 361 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,720 scraps that people leave behind. Get as many as you 362 00:20:23,799 --> 00:20:28,680 can and arrange them chronologically by emotion, by habit, by appetite. 363 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,039 Draw a line one from the other, and peep at 364 00:20:32,039 --> 00:20:35,599 a life now newly dead, for instance, gone out of 365 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:39,279 the apartment of Stella Croft. Walk the corridor that once 366 00:20:39,319 --> 00:20:48,839 brought Stella home, turn the knob of her door. The 367 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,799 girl in the room was wearing slacks. She watched me 368 00:20:51,839 --> 00:20:55,000 close the door and blew a smoke ring from her cigarette. 369 00:20:55,559 --> 00:20:59,480 Watched it die. Then she smiled at me. Hi, Danny, 370 00:21:00,079 --> 00:21:00,839 what are you doing here? 371 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,519 Speaker 12: Jenny taking the tour seeing how a girl lives when 372 00:21:04,519 --> 00:21:08,559 she works in the front office of Sinclair stylecraft gosh, 373 00:21:09,160 --> 00:21:10,720 quilted blue satin. 374 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Speaker 2: How did you get in here? 375 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:13,920 Speaker 12: You see the superintendent downstairs? 376 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:15,200 Speaker 2: Yeah? 377 00:21:15,319 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 12: Did his eyes light up when he saw you? 378 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,079 Speaker 2: Uh? Uh huh, Jenny, how well did you know Stella Croft? 379 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:23,599 Speaker 12: Who gets to know a dame like that? If you're 380 00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:27,240 another dame? Look, Danny, I'm not the type to be 381 00:21:27,279 --> 00:21:31,200 a Pollyanna. My mother told me, Jenny, never be a Pollyanna. 382 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,279 Stand on your own two feet. You don't like somebody, 383 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,079 don't like him. And that's how I felt about Stella 384 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:37,880 to a tee. 385 00:21:37,759 --> 00:21:39,799 Speaker 2: Because she had all this because she was going out 386 00:21:39,799 --> 00:21:40,960 with mister Sinclair. 387 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 6: So I was jealous. 388 00:21:43,119 --> 00:21:45,799 Speaker 12: But this apartment is something to get jealous about. 389 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:48,039 Speaker 2: You're going to try her luckless Sinclair. 390 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 12: He's already noticed Danny. The day that I wore that 391 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,160 black velvet team with the peasant blouse. He spent practically 392 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,240 the whole morning in the shipping department giving me a 393 00:21:57,279 --> 00:22:01,640 personal supervis You want me for anything more, Janny. 394 00:22:01,599 --> 00:22:04,519 Speaker 2: No, just be around where I can find you, Jenny. 395 00:22:04,519 --> 00:22:10,559 Speaker 12: Oh, sure, Danny, I really would, Danny. I dropped all 396 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:11,559 my appointments. 397 00:22:16,799 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 2: The apartment looked like Jenny hadn't touched anything. Place was impeccable, 398 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,720 slick like Stella. Croft had been lacquered, furniture highly waxed 399 00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:28,640 in full length mirrors. I walked back into her bedroom 400 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:33,640 around it, fingering this and that, the small intimate souvenirs 401 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:37,559 a girl like Stella collects. Then over to a pullman closet, 402 00:22:37,799 --> 00:22:41,960 opened it. Wondered for an instant why a woman needed 403 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:49,359 so many shoes, wondered, wondered why it hurt so much, 404 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,839 the brightness of it, the pain, the sharpness slipping so 405 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:59,400 easily into my back. Then gave it up because I 406 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:19,359 couldn't hold on to it. Hm hmm. Now they're finishing, 407 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:23,519 touch Danny. They claimed the fame of doctor Sinsky. In 408 00:23:23,599 --> 00:23:26,519 medical school, it was always commented upon how doctor Sinsky 409 00:23:26,519 --> 00:23:30,279 finished off his handyweights the bedside manner. I don't need it. 410 00:23:30,839 --> 00:23:33,279 That's right, you don't need it, Danny. I'll hold on 411 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:34,519 to something, Danny, it'll hurt. 412 00:23:34,799 --> 00:23:37,480 Speaker 14: Yeah, you hold on to something, Danny, to me, it's 413 00:23:37,519 --> 00:23:42,160 gonna hurt. He hold on to something to me and 414 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,480 he still hurt him. What is it with you, doctor Sinsky? 415 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:47,160 Maybe you need a refresher course in adult medical education. 416 00:23:47,799 --> 00:23:54,039 Speaker 2: Unruffle your feathers, mother, I'm all right. Listen to him. Doctor. 417 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,079 Speaker 14: Last night he got a hole in his back from 418 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,559 one sharp and scissors, and this morning he tells me 419 00:23:58,599 --> 00:23:59,240 he's all right. 420 00:24:00,079 --> 00:24:02,319 Speaker 2: If I go back to my office, doctor Sinsky, you'll 421 00:24:02,319 --> 00:24:05,200 need rest, Danny. I'll bear it in mind. Check me 422 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:08,640 in the morning. You hear, Danny, you hear? Yeah? That 423 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,519 piles up the doctor. 424 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:11,279 Speaker 4: What dead? 425 00:24:11,599 --> 00:24:13,920 Speaker 2: What are you talking about. I'll count out the times 426 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:15,920 you've eased the pain. I'll let you know. 427 00:24:16,799 --> 00:24:19,319 Speaker 14: Get him out of here, Gino, Yeah, yeah, come on, 428 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,519 let's go, Danny. I'll go get permission from the captain 429 00:24:22,559 --> 00:24:25,119 to give a sick leave, and then I'll connure up 430 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,440 a squad car and we'll surprise the missus. 431 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:27,799 Speaker 6: Sergeant. 432 00:24:27,799 --> 00:24:30,279 Speaker 14: I'll tgle you in the middle of Mazarella and then 433 00:24:30,759 --> 00:24:33,839 we'll saw our wound together and. 434 00:24:33,799 --> 00:24:36,599 Speaker 2: Then made two people die like that, you know, Tommy 435 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:37,440 Hart Stella. 436 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:42,279 Speaker 14: Crafted, Danny, Danny disappoint me. You are thinking on your 437 00:24:42,279 --> 00:24:42,759 sick leave? 438 00:24:43,079 --> 00:24:44,119 Speaker 2: What ties it together? 439 00:24:44,279 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 4: Gee? 440 00:24:45,799 --> 00:24:46,119 Speaker 6: Danny? 441 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 14: If I tell you promise to let me manage your sickness. 442 00:24:49,799 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 2: Huh? 443 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,319 Speaker 14: What ties it is? Tommy Hart and the Stella Craft 444 00:24:53,319 --> 00:24:55,279 were once married in that place in Maryland, you know, 445 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:59,480 on that quick marriage plan. I ain't making it up, Danny, 446 00:24:59,599 --> 00:25:00,960 mugg nugget out of the records. 447 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,640 Speaker 2: It was a secret between you two, Oh, Danny, don't 448 00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:05,279 mean nothing. 449 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,559 Speaker 14: They got on a note the next day that unquies it. Danny, 450 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:11,200 you're jeopardizing your good home. 451 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,279 Speaker 2: Good morning, Yes, sir? 452 00:25:20,319 --> 00:25:21,960 Speaker 12: Can I help you? 453 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:22,519 Speaker 2: Hi? 454 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,400 Speaker 12: Danny? Hey, look at me? 455 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, look at you? Since when they move you out 456 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,319 of the shipping department into the reception desk. 457 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 12: Since this am I told you I got supervised into it. 458 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,039 Speaker 2: Tell mister Sinclair, I want to see him. 459 00:25:36,079 --> 00:25:38,359 Speaker 6: Sure, Danny, watch me think. 460 00:25:39,839 --> 00:25:40,279 Speaker 12: What is it? 461 00:25:40,319 --> 00:25:40,880 Speaker 2: Miss Morrow? 462 00:25:41,279 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 12: There's out here at this moment the gentlemen of the 463 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:47,680 police department and mister Danny Clover very good to that. 464 00:25:47,839 --> 00:25:48,440 Do it Danny. 465 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:51,799 Speaker 2: Thanks almost, Sinklair. 466 00:25:51,839 --> 00:25:53,759 Speaker 7: I'm a busy man, mister Clothe, but I always have 467 00:25:53,839 --> 00:25:54,519 time to talk to you. 468 00:25:54,559 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 2: Mister Saint Clair. How much of your affairs can you 469 00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:59,240 get an order in the next fifteen minutes? My business, 470 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,039 we never talk in riddles. It's how much? 471 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:01,359 Speaker 11: Why? 472 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 2: When things? A man can answer what's on your mind? You, 473 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,680 Tommy Hart Stella. They work for me, mister Clover, and 474 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:08,240 they died. 475 00:26:08,519 --> 00:26:10,480 Speaker 7: I'm going to pay for their funerals, and I'm going 476 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:12,559 to find out if they had families. They'll be taken 477 00:26:12,599 --> 00:26:12,920 care of. 478 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:14,920 Speaker 2: We have a fun toward that tell the people at 479 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,480 headquarters that might make an impression. Honestly, Honestly, now, I 480 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:20,799 don't know what you're talking about. Let's stop kidding each 481 00:26:20,799 --> 00:26:24,079 other's Sinkler. You're a man with tastes and the lines 482 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,599 of women's dresses to a Lacquert apartment, to a little 483 00:26:26,599 --> 00:26:30,440 employee who's now your receptionist, from Stella Craft to Jenny Morrow. 484 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,400 Better find out if Ginny had a husband. I still 485 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,920 don't follow it, but I'll tell you it's called the 486 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,160 badger game. Listen to me, misteric you listen to me. 487 00:26:38,559 --> 00:26:42,720 Tommy and Stella weren't married. Did you know that? You 488 00:26:42,799 --> 00:26:45,440 didn't know that? It's hot. 489 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:50,039 Speaker 7: I sought a certificate of marriage, the justice of the peace, 490 00:26:50,039 --> 00:26:51,480 were married to my I. 491 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,359 Speaker 2: Thought marriage, and all the next morning badger game. Stella 492 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,079 invited you to make a play for you. Bit Tommy 493 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,920 walks in waives a certificate of marriage, You pay money, 494 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,880 invitations to your home. He gets greedier and greedier. So 495 00:27:05,079 --> 00:27:07,720 you kill him. I didn't have to. 496 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 7: You don't know what it was, Clover, that boy grinning 497 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,559 into my face, taking over my house, making. 498 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:17,880 Speaker 2: Me cont What is it? 499 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 15: Justin? 500 00:27:18,799 --> 00:27:20,079 Speaker 6: Does the matter what happened? 501 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,799 Speaker 2: Make him understand, Make him understand. This is Saint Clair. 502 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,799 Your husband just confessed to killing Tommy Hart. 503 00:27:25,839 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 6: Wouldn't you? Wouldn't you kill him? It's all right, Justin. 504 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:30,519 I'm here now, it's all right. 505 00:27:30,599 --> 00:27:32,359 Speaker 2: You got Tommy out of the way. Saint Clair. Why 506 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:33,960 did you kill Stella? 507 00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:35,599 Speaker 6: I said it was all right, Justin. 508 00:27:35,759 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 2: I'll tell you why Stella knew you killed Tommy. It 509 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,720 didn't worry her very much. He just up the blackmail andie, 510 00:27:40,839 --> 00:27:42,680 Saint Clair, that's why you killed Stella. 511 00:27:42,799 --> 00:27:46,559 Speaker 10: He didn't, he didn't, he didn't you did for what 512 00:27:46,599 --> 00:27:48,799 she was doing doing to my home, to my husband, 513 00:27:48,839 --> 00:27:51,599 to my boy, to my boy's name. Yes, and I 514 00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:53,599 stabbed you two for what you were doing to us. 515 00:27:54,039 --> 00:27:55,680 I killed, I'd kill again. 516 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 2: What'll we do about the boy? 517 00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:59,519 Speaker 6: You didn't think, did you? 518 00:27:59,720 --> 00:27:59,920 Speaker 4: Justin? 519 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,039 Speaker 10: You just didn't think when you started it, when you 520 00:28:04,079 --> 00:28:06,599 saw that stella, You didn't think. 521 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 2: Please please. 522 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:11,000 Speaker 6: The boy will be all right. 523 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,279 Speaker 10: We have money more than you had when you started. 524 00:28:16,279 --> 00:28:20,039 He'll be all right. Justin, It's going to be all right. 525 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,279 Speaker 2: In the April night, Broadway echoes with sounds heard only 526 00:28:45,359 --> 00:28:50,000 in darkness, the whispers that speckled places where there's no sun. 527 00:28:51,039 --> 00:28:55,559 There's a touch on your coat. You turn, there's no one, nothing, 528 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:01,160 only the trail of dust on your shoulder. It's Broadway, 529 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:07,240 the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world, 530 00:29:08,279 --> 00:29:10,799 Broadway My Beat. 531 00:29:26,119 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 3: Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, 532 00:29:30,119 --> 00:29:33,720 with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Krushian as Muggovin. 533 00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:36,839 The program was produced and directed by Eliet Lewis, with 534 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,519 musical score composed and conducted by Alexander courage In. Tonight's cast, 535 00:29:41,559 --> 00:29:45,319 Irene Tedrow was heard as Elizabeth Sinclair, Herb Butterfield is 536 00:29:45,519 --> 00:29:49,640 justin Sinclair, Sylvia Sims as Ginny Morrow, Mary Ship as 537 00:29:49,680 --> 00:30:04,160 Stella Croft, and Sidney Miller as Jones. If you're in 538 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,920 the mood for mysteries, you can try CBS almost any 539 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,880 old evening and there's a top notch thriller on hand 540 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,640 for you. Tomorrow and every Sunday it's Charlie Wild Monday 541 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,759 Night's the top Hollywood stars appear in original thrillers on 542 00:30:16,799 --> 00:30:20,599 the Hollywood Star Playhouse. Thursdays, there's a swell night for 543 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:24,839 mystery and thrills on CBS. Suspense Mister Keene and the 544 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,200 FBI in Peace and War are heard on most of 545 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:31,200 these same stations. Stay tuned now or sing it Again, 546 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,880 which follows immediately on most of these same CDs stations. 547 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,440 Speaker 2: Joe Walters speaking. 548 00:30:46,119 --> 00:30:48,519 Speaker 3: This is CBS where you laugh at Jack Benny every 549 00:30:48,559 --> 00:30:51,400 Sunday night the Columbia Broadcasting. 550 00:30:50,799 --> 00:31:05,839 Speaker 4: System Welcome back. 551 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 1: There's nothing quite like getting the vital clue to get 552 00:31:09,559 --> 00:31:13,079 Danny back into perfect health. And that whole stabbing in 553 00:31:13,119 --> 00:31:15,680 the back thing is no bother at all, as he 554 00:31:15,799 --> 00:31:19,599 rushes about, though I'm not sure which is more improbable 555 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,720 Danny's surviving and having that quick recovery, or the killer 556 00:31:23,759 --> 00:31:26,200 getting in position to stab him in the first place. 557 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:30,079 I mean, how did she even work that? Did she 558 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:32,880 have a key to the apartment? Though we might not 559 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:37,240 be expected to think about it that much. However, other 560 00:31:37,319 --> 00:31:40,759 than that, this was a really solid episode of Broadways 561 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,039 My Bait. The show had been off the air for 562 00:31:44,079 --> 00:31:48,200 four months, but didn't really miss a beat. Listener comments 563 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:52,440 and feedback. Now, and we have some comments regarding the 564 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:59,039 Kenneth Mitchell case. We start with a listener Moore, Gerald 565 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,240 Less Trema. Don't know if Danny meant to but at 566 00:32:03,279 --> 00:32:06,279 twenty fIF six point fifteen he said what time is it? 567 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:12,039 Mugavan and Tartaglia answered mistake. Also, this is the only 568 00:32:12,119 --> 00:32:16,440 old time radio program that every character sounds crazy enough 569 00:32:16,519 --> 00:32:22,559 to have done it, even the police, well not Sergeant Tartaglia, 570 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:27,319 but everybody else. Yes, I would say that I don't 571 00:32:27,319 --> 00:32:30,559 have access to the script, but I would assume it 572 00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:34,440 is a mistake, just one of those little things that 573 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:38,759 got left in Mechanics sixty six rits. Not having an 574 00:32:38,799 --> 00:32:43,119 alibi and having motive is not usually enough to get 575 00:32:43,119 --> 00:32:46,440 a conviction fair enough but I think this is one 576 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,559 of those cases where I'm not even sure to what 577 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:55,000 degree he would continue to offer resistance once his wife died. 578 00:32:55,319 --> 00:32:58,920 And there often is a case when you are looking 579 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:02,599 and I think you hear examples of this on Dragnet, 580 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,000 where you start to look in a specific direction to 581 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,519 have a hypothesis of the case, and then you realize, Okay, 582 00:33:10,279 --> 00:33:14,160 if he committed the murder, then this and this must 583 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,480 have happened. So in a realistic way, there may be 584 00:33:17,519 --> 00:33:21,319 a lot more evidence that would be gathered before there 585 00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:26,519 would be an indictment. But this isn't indictment or even Dragnet. 586 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,720 This is, you know, broadways my bait, and so I 587 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:34,359 think dramatically, I'm satisfied with the way it ends. Then 588 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,279 we had a couple of emails, specifically about the clock. 589 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:45,359 Richard writes, just entering the smiling frowning clock face debate, 590 00:33:45,559 --> 00:33:49,359 it's always ten past ten or ten to two here 591 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,759 in the UK. I've never seen a clock adverts set 592 00:33:52,799 --> 00:33:56,519 at twenty past eight. That seems a very strange idea 593 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,400 for the exactly the reasons you said, keep up the 594 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,559 good work. Well, thanks so much, Richard. And then we 595 00:34:03,599 --> 00:34:09,320 have an email here from Nancy. Nancy writes, Danny Clover 596 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:12,920 taught me something about watch shop clocks. I've never heard 597 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,599 of the fact of the permanent time setting as a 598 00:34:15,679 --> 00:34:19,679 Chicago girl. I'm more used to the Marshall Field's Arly 599 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:23,239 clock where you could always check the time. Well, thanks 600 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:28,280 so much, Nancy, appreciate the comment. And then over on YouTube, 601 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:32,000 we have a comment regarding the Shorty Done murder case. 602 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:37,360 Ron wrote, I heard Barton Yarborough in this and indeed 603 00:34:37,519 --> 00:34:41,159 Yarborough was in that episode as the guy at the 604 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:45,159 rescue mission, a bit more grounded than many of the 605 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,639 characters he played, but showing a bit of his range 606 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,800 in that role. Well, now it is time to thank 607 00:34:53,039 --> 00:34:55,800 our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to 608 00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:00,519 thank Wendy, Patreon supporter since May of twenty nineteen, currently 609 00:35:00,519 --> 00:35:04,280 supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of seven 610 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,239 dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. Thanks so 611 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,400 much for your support, Wendy, and that will do it 612 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:13,480 for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us 613 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:18,039 using your favorite podcast software and be sure to rate 614 00:35:18,079 --> 00:35:21,840 and review the podcast wherever you download it from. We'll 615 00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:26,039 be back next Wednesday with another episode of Broadways My Beat, 616 00:35:26,519 --> 00:35:30,519 But join us back here tomorrow for drag NetWare. 617 00:35:30,199 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 2: Tomorrow something else, Missus Richmond. 618 00:35:32,119 --> 00:35:33,800 Speaker 15: Make it clear to him that you won't have any 619 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,719 direct hand in the transaction paying the ransom. Tell them 620 00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:38,599 you're too sick, you to upset, and that your brother 621 00:35:38,639 --> 00:35:39,679 will take care of everything. 622 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,119 Speaker 8: You mean, one of your officers. 623 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:43,719 Speaker 15: Yes, ma'am, Sorrge and Friday here can take care of that. 624 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 2: In will they believe me? 625 00:35:45,039 --> 00:35:46,400 Speaker 8: Do you think they'll get suspicious? 626 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 13: Well maybe, but you have to remember, ma'am, suspicious or not, 627 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,559 they're only interested in getting the money and then getting away. 628 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,559 Our first problem is to get your husband home safe. Well, 629 00:35:55,599 --> 00:35:58,000 we've got that done. We can worry about the abductors. 630 00:35:58,559 --> 00:36:03,800 Speaker 8: I see, all right, Officer Older, all I can here, Fine. 631 00:36:03,599 --> 00:36:05,599 Speaker 15: Missus Richmond, I think you'll find it's the best way. 632 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:07,960 Speaker 2: Joe, you and Romero be on duty here for the night. 633 00:36:08,119 --> 00:36:08,280 Speaker 13: Right. 634 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,360 Speaker 15: You'll monitor all the incoming calls. We'll try and get 635 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:12,800 a trace around him. If you can keep the guy 636 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,440 talking on the line long enough, I'll make arrangements for 637 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,000 another phone line in here, in the use of the 638 00:36:17,039 --> 00:36:18,159 neighbors phone next door. 639 00:36:18,199 --> 00:36:19,039 Speaker 4: Okay, fine. 640 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,119 Speaker 13: You know if the people next door are home now soon? 641 00:36:21,199 --> 00:36:23,119 Speaker 11: Yes, sir, I think the name's Thompson. 642 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:24,559 Speaker 2: Almost posited their home. 643 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:24,960 Speaker 13: Can't fine? 644 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,719 Speaker 15: All right, Missus Richmond, you want to take that, don't 645 00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:29,039 pick it up till I tell you. Joe over here 646 00:36:29,079 --> 00:36:31,280 at this extension right, Well, if you pick up your 647 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,280 receivers at the same time, you ready, Joe, right? 648 00:36:33,519 --> 00:36:34,320 Speaker 2: This is Richmond. 649 00:36:35,079 --> 00:36:35,280 Speaker 1: Now? 650 00:36:36,559 --> 00:36:36,880 Speaker 16: Hello? 651 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:38,280 Speaker 12: Is this missus Richmond? 652 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:39,559 Speaker 15: Yes, that's a she. 653 00:36:40,519 --> 00:36:43,360 Speaker 16: This calls about your husband, Missus Richmond. Here's your instructions 654 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,639 about the money. Do you want your husband back alive? 655 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,480 Speaker 8: Following I want to tell you something. 656 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:49,239 Speaker 2: I can't handle this. 657 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,000 Speaker 5: Alone, my lady. 658 00:36:51,079 --> 00:36:51,599 Speaker 4: Just listen. 659 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,840 Speaker 16: Hear the instructions. I'm only going to say him once. 660 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:57,599 Twenty thousands of small bills by tomorrow, five tens and twenties. 661 00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,360 Bring the cops in on this, and we'll kill your 662 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,880 husband tonight. Now remember it. Get the rest of the 663 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:02,840 instructions tomorrow. 664 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 7: Please listen. 665 00:37:03,559 --> 00:37:04,440 Speaker 15: Tell my brother help. 666 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:09,159 Speaker 13: Hello fast one wouldn't even give her a chance to talk. 667 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,840 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 668 00:37:12,039 --> 00:37:16,960 send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. 669 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,760 Follow us on Twitter, Radio Detectives and check us out 670 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:27,599 on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great detectives from Boise, Idaho. 671 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:30,760 This is your host, Adam Graham. Sign and off.