1 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:35,399 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Orlando, Florida. 2 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:39,159 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:42,679 going to bring you this week's episode of Broadways My Beat. 4 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,719 But first I want to encourage you. If you're enjoying 5 00:00:45,719 --> 00:00:50,359 the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. 6 00:00:50,759 --> 00:00:53,679 Today's program is brought you in part by the financial 7 00:00:53,679 --> 00:00:57,000 support of our listeners. You can support the show on 8 00:00:57,039 --> 00:01:00,479 a one time basis using the Zell app to boxteen 9 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:04,519 at Great Detectives dotyet and become one of our ongoing 10 00:01:04,519 --> 00:01:07,760 Patreon supporters for as little as two dollars per month 11 00:01:07,879 --> 00:01:12,959 at Patreon, Great Detectives dot net. Now from August fifth, 12 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,879 nineteen fifty one, here is the Howard Crawford murder case. 13 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 2: This is Bob broadcasting from Tapeka, Kansas, Hope and thanking 14 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,159 the sponsor of your irregularly scheduled program for this two 15 00:01:26,159 --> 00:01:29,840 minute interruption, Ladies and gentlemen. In the last ten years, 16 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,000 I've visited many dramatic spots in this world. But just 17 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:35,159 a few minutes ago I returned from a tour of 18 00:01:35,159 --> 00:01:39,040 what was once North Topeka, Kansas. I've just seen block 19 00:01:39,079 --> 00:01:43,359 after block of total destruction, streets, caved in buildings, undermined 20 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,079 and flattened, entire new housing developments of shambles, with the 21 00:01:47,079 --> 00:01:50,879 houses jammed together like battered boxes. As we toured this 22 00:01:50,959 --> 00:01:53,799 sickening area, I thought of the heroics that must have 23 00:01:53,799 --> 00:01:57,519 becompanied this disaster as had happened, the emergency operations of 24 00:01:57,519 --> 00:02:02,359 the Red Cross, Salvation Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, veterans organizations, 25 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,079 and the thousands of civilian volunteers, all striving to hold 26 00:02:06,079 --> 00:02:09,479 this hungry caw river within its banks. Then the complete 27 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:12,960 frustration when it crashed into the streets. But the excitement 28 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,280 of that time has passed. Today it's a dismal task 29 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:20,039 of dirty drudgery. Imagine the heartbreaker returning to what was 30 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,039 once your home and finding three feet of dried mud 31 00:02:23,039 --> 00:02:26,360 in the front porch. After scraping and digging for hours, 32 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,599 you finally get the door open, only to find dried, 33 00:02:28,719 --> 00:02:31,879 drifted mud bank throughout the house, with everything in it 34 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:36,680 destroyed beyond repair. Countless of the heartbreaking stories of human despair. 35 00:02:36,759 --> 00:02:39,120 There's a Great Flood of nineteen fifty one is written. 36 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:42,599 But you and I, neighbors of these call valley folks 37 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:46,319 of Kansas can help, and I mean help with dimes 38 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,560 and dollars. The Red Cross and other agencies have done 39 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,360 a magnificent job taking emergency care of ten to fifteen 40 00:02:53,439 --> 00:02:56,520 thousand refugees, and they're still doing great work in helping 41 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,960 the needy with rehabilitation. But that's a far cry from 42 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,199 the tremendous job that lies ahead. And to Peak alone, 43 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:05,879 the loss is one hundred million. That amounts to one 44 00:03:05,879 --> 00:03:08,240 thousand dollars for each and every person in this city. 45 00:03:09,319 --> 00:03:11,680 I'm appealing to that great heart that has made America. 46 00:03:12,319 --> 00:03:16,039 It's never failed before. Won't you send your contribution, large 47 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,639 or small to Flood to Peak at Kansas. That's all 48 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,599 the address you need. Flood to Peak at Kansas and 49 00:03:22,759 --> 00:03:26,120 join me, Bob Hope and bringing new hope to thousands 50 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:27,719 of unfortunate American folks. 51 00:03:28,280 --> 00:03:28,599 Speaker 3: Thank you. 52 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:33,080 Speaker 4: William Rigley Company has donated the time for this message 53 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:34,039 from Bob Hope. 54 00:03:34,599 --> 00:03:37,639 Speaker 3: Now, after a short pause, we switched to Hollywood for 55 00:03:37,719 --> 00:03:40,599 your regular program. Broadway is My Beat. 56 00:03:47,199 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 5: Wrigley Spearman Chewing Gum, the refreshing, delicious treat that gives 57 00:03:50,599 --> 00:03:54,039 you chewing enjoyment. Resents for your listening enjoyment. 58 00:04:04,319 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 3: Broadways My Beat from Time Spurt to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, 59 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:19,519 the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadways 60 00:04:19,639 --> 00:04:22,839 My Beat, the exciting drama of mystery and murder and 61 00:04:22,879 --> 00:04:25,319 the people who walk the Great White Way with Larry 62 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:35,680 Thor as Detective Danny Clover. Or refreshment while you work, 63 00:04:35,879 --> 00:04:39,399 or enjoyment anytime chew a stick of Wrigley Spearmint gum. 64 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,000 The delicious, long lasting, real mint flavor of Wrigley spearmint 65 00:04:43,199 --> 00:04:45,240 cools your mouth and freshens your taste. 66 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,600 Speaker 5: The good smooth chewing helps keep your feeling fresh and alert, 67 00:04:48,959 --> 00:04:52,879 adds enjoyment to whatever you're doing. So indoors, outdoors at 68 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:58,920 worker play, enjoy chewing Wrigley Spearmint gum. Wrigley's spearmint refreshing, 69 00:04:59,399 --> 00:05:09,399 delicious on the ground. 70 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 3: When the summer becomes August, Broadway pauses for a while, 71 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,480 considers what happened to the springtime dreams to be fulfilled 72 00:05:18,519 --> 00:05:20,600 in the middle of July at the very latest, and 73 00:05:20,639 --> 00:05:23,079 what at the blonde on last month's snapshots, the one 74 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,399 with sunny legs, the one you tried with poetry and 75 00:05:25,439 --> 00:05:28,240 she touched her cheek, the fawn of camp never cared 76 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:30,920 a jewel of the catskills. She's back in the Bronx 77 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:32,959 shoe store, kid, And the last time you walked by, 78 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,519 she didn't look so good. And walk the streets furious 79 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:39,399 with people and heat, and feel your throat tightened when 80 00:05:39,439 --> 00:05:43,519 it suddenly comes to you. Another summer's rushing away. Maybe 81 00:05:43,519 --> 00:05:54,240 next year, kid, maybe. And uptown east of Broadway, where 82 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:56,639 I was in the outdoor swimming pool catering also of 83 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,600 the seekers after something or other. The crowd was divided 84 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,839 into non swimmers, saandsitters, ukulele players, miscellaneous, and the man 85 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,399 in the swimming trunks lying on the concrete walk. The 86 00:06:08,439 --> 00:06:11,639 man who had drowned and the police emergency crew working 87 00:06:11,639 --> 00:06:14,240 over him with a respirator, and the man from headquarters 88 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:15,319 who had gotten there before me. 89 00:06:15,639 --> 00:06:17,079 Speaker 6: They've been working on him for quite a while. 90 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,079 Speaker 3: Danny, why'd you call me to come down? Muggulm? 91 00:06:19,399 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 6: I asked the same question of Patrolman Kenny. It's like this, Danny. 92 00:06:23,519 --> 00:06:25,480 Kenny was flagged off his feet when this man was 93 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,959 dragged out of the pool, took off the man's locker 94 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:30,839 check went to the locker, you know, for identification. The 95 00:06:30,879 --> 00:06:34,319 locker was empty. Forced Uh huh, all those locks answered, 96 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,279 what dimsta? Skeleton key robbery gets a dozen calls a 97 00:06:37,319 --> 00:06:37,879 day from these. 98 00:06:37,759 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 3: Pools, So you figure that man's drowning and his lockers 99 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:41,279 being robbed had something and. 100 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 6: Maybe a coincidence, Danny, maybe something else. 101 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 2: I don't know. 102 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:48,000 Speaker 6: I wanted you to be here. Okay, let's take a look. 103 00:06:52,759 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 3: One of you men called the Morgan. 104 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 6: A lifeguard pulled him out as that one. Danny, you 105 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:57,279 want to. 106 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 3: Talk to I'm from the police, Danny Clover uh Russ 107 00:07:03,079 --> 00:07:06,959 gavey what happened here? Alice on my stand? Hem? He 108 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:08,879 started the yell. I went in after him. 109 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 6: How'd you get those scratches on your shoulder? 110 00:07:10,959 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 3: You fought me. 111 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 4: I had to take him money to break his hold. 112 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,199 When he stopped struggling, I got him off. By that time, 113 00:07:16,199 --> 00:07:18,759 he needed that official respiration. I gave it to him. 114 00:07:18,839 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 3: I said, your man king, all right, did detective Muggaman 115 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,480 here tell you this man's clothes are gone and it's 116 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,439 going to be pretty difficult to identify him now? Yeah, 117 00:07:26,439 --> 00:07:30,040 he told me any ideas about it? Nope, fucking us 118 00:07:36,439 --> 00:07:38,720 back to the office at headquarters and sit with it. 119 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,519 A man had been drowned in a public pool, from 120 00:07:41,519 --> 00:07:43,759 a policeman's point of view, worth only a quarter page 121 00:07:43,759 --> 00:07:46,959 form and triplicate. However, the fact of his lockers being 122 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:51,839 robbed maybe something else. Again, probably not more forms than 123 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:53,920 a couple of hours later, when the office gathers up 124 00:07:53,959 --> 00:07:56,519 its private shadows, a door opens, a man walks in. 125 00:07:57,560 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 7: Busy. 126 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,519 Speaker 3: Come in, doctor Sinskitch, Sit down, thank you. 127 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 6: I just came from the autopsy room, Danny. And has 128 00:08:06,279 --> 00:08:09,079 that man brought in from the swimming pool to drowned them? 129 00:08:09,199 --> 00:08:10,600 Has he been identified? Danny? 130 00:08:10,839 --> 00:08:12,839 Speaker 3: Not you? What's on your mind? 131 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:18,519 Speaker 6: He was murdered, murdered, how whoever administered artificial respiration? That 132 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:20,399 that man killed him as surely as if he had 133 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,800 driven a knife into his heart, Doctor sens Danny gently, 134 00:08:23,839 --> 00:08:27,879 I'll explain. Inside of the chest, Danny, is a delicate 135 00:08:27,959 --> 00:08:32,840 system of balances, balances which cannot be upset else a man's. 136 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:34,639 Speaker 3: Heart will be affected in this lung. What's that gut 137 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:35,399 to do with murder? 138 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,559 Speaker 6: Simply that the autopsy I just performed and the drowned 139 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:42,519 man revealed small internal hemorrhages, bruises of the muscles and 140 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:44,759 bones of the chest from too active a manipulation. 141 00:08:44,919 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 3: You mean that lifeguard didn't. 142 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,679 Speaker 6: I mean he did a very bad job of artificial respiration. 143 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:54,279 Speaker 3: That's why you call it murderer, not premeditated. Of coast. 144 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:58,399 Speaker 6: Doctor, This is not the question in your mind you 145 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,440 wanted to ask if it was a tad, didn't you. 146 00:09:01,519 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 3: Dare and let the question take over the room. Add 147 00:09:07,879 --> 00:09:10,120 the weight of its violence to the oppressive night heat, 148 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,360 the stifling remembrance of other such questions posed in the 149 00:09:13,399 --> 00:09:17,759 same room. Quietly, fearfully, because a policeman too reacts to 150 00:09:17,799 --> 00:09:21,159 the touch of death. It fills the room, and against 151 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,720 its pressure, you lift the phone, make the call to 152 00:09:23,759 --> 00:09:26,799 the Department of Public Works, have them check personnel files, 153 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:30,559 come up with an address for Russ gave lifeguard. Go 154 00:09:30,639 --> 00:09:32,679 there to the whole bedroom, furnished in the style of 155 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:36,639 Brownstone East twenties, find it empty of Russ. Gavy be 156 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:38,519 told in the way out by the woman spread wide 157 00:09:38,519 --> 00:09:40,320 on the stoop. You should have asked before Russ was 158 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:42,919 across the street in the park, on that bench, fighting 159 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:46,240 for his share of the night air. Walk up to Russ, 160 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:48,240 let him chew the last fiber of a match. 161 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 4: Stick, and taking my well earned rest you want to 162 00:09:54,399 --> 00:09:55,200 help mister clovery. 163 00:09:55,279 --> 00:09:58,919 Speaker 3: Sure mind a vi sit down, Rous, Yes, so the 164 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,320 you are almost a hero to day, Russ, you're kidding. 165 00:10:04,399 --> 00:10:07,320 That's how I make my daily summer bread fifty bucks 166 00:10:07,399 --> 00:10:10,480 a week. Agile a girl, save a leg. Longer been 167 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:11,440 a lifeguard, Russ? 168 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 4: Oh, six maybe seven summers? Time out for a frolic 169 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:18,039 on Anzio peach. Then you've had a lot of experience 170 00:10:18,039 --> 00:10:19,279 saving people from drowning? 171 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 3: Am I allotted? Share? The medical examiner down at headquarters 172 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,159 says that man. You try to say, I remember, Our 173 00:10:25,279 --> 00:10:29,960 medical examiner says he was murdered. Well, I'll come. Our 174 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:33,879 man says it was murdered because artificial respiration wasn't applied properly. 175 00:10:34,759 --> 00:10:35,799 Well you, A man is a. 176 00:10:35,759 --> 00:10:39,159 Speaker 4: Smart man, but a four bit of weak lifeguard does 177 00:10:39,159 --> 00:10:41,480 the best he can. He studies in classes, he follows 178 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,240 a first aid manual. You call him a murderer because 179 00:10:44,279 --> 00:10:45,799 he didn't make out with one poor slap. 180 00:10:45,919 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 3: You tell me, Russ, you murder the man are. 181 00:10:49,399 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 4: Considering the percentage of lives that are saved and not 182 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:54,559 saved by such as we That's a question you may 183 00:10:54,639 --> 00:10:55,720 never be able to answer. 184 00:10:56,639 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 3: I'll cut, I'll keep trying, Russ. You won't mind that, Danny. 185 00:11:16,759 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 8: Why don't you never turn on a light? You sit 186 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:23,320 like this in the dark by yourself. It's I got 187 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:25,720 one of the Tartaglia kids to home, does the same thing. 188 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:27,559 You both make me feel the same way. 189 00:11:27,639 --> 00:11:28,639 Speaker 3: And you've got your problems. 190 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:31,279 Speaker 8: Yeah, I could do without them. 191 00:11:32,559 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 3: You in the mood, Danny, sure whatever? 192 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:40,159 Speaker 8: Nothing no progress and identification of the drowned man. No 193 00:11:40,279 --> 00:11:43,000 progress and a connection between him and that lifeguard. Russ 194 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:44,799 Gavy reports. 195 00:11:44,399 --> 00:11:45,159 Speaker 3: On Gavy State. 196 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,399 Speaker 8: He is looked up to at the pool by girls 197 00:11:47,399 --> 00:11:50,720 and ladies size swimmers. Occasionally he buys for one or 198 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:54,120 the other a beer at the concession stand, occasionally escorts 199 00:11:54,159 --> 00:11:56,320 one or the other type to her home, deposits it, 200 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,399 goes to the news stand by super type magazines, goes 201 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:02,320 to us room healthy, normal, muscle boy. 202 00:12:02,279 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 3: Maybe a murderer's you know. 203 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:07,159 Speaker 8: Pardon me, Danny, but I must take gods, Sergeant I 204 00:12:07,279 --> 00:12:12,960 Taglia speaking, Yes, yeah, I got it. Hansen's porn shop. 205 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:17,639 He's thirty four. I told you I got it. They 206 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:20,240 bother us with such such what you know, a man 207 00:12:20,279 --> 00:12:22,279 with a porn shop got the nudges in the midst 208 00:12:22,279 --> 00:12:25,120 of a nice conversation, because somebody who works in a 209 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:29,279 pool hawk the sud of clothes valuables look to this, 210 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:33,039 mister hansome like stolen goods and four. Yeah, do I 211 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:34,679 bother yourself with it, Denny. 212 00:12:34,399 --> 00:12:36,639 Speaker 3: Because maybe it'll give me the name of a murdered man. 213 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 9: You might ask me why I called the police, mister Clover, 214 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,519 after so many months of abstemiously staying away from your fellows. 215 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:58,799 All right, mister Hanson, why because there was something fishy 216 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:03,240 about it? This time, this suit, this watch ring, money 217 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,200 clip was brought me by a boy who's in attendant 218 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,320 at a public pool all on Upper Broadway. Inevitably that 219 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:13,320 pool where that unidentified man was drowned, his things stolen. 220 00:13:13,399 --> 00:13:14,679 You read about it, of course? 221 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 3: Who brought this to you? 222 00:13:16,039 --> 00:13:20,000 Speaker 9: A boy know him well, I've had dealings with him intermittently. 223 00:13:20,039 --> 00:13:23,000 Who's the boy Bobby Kent. He's got a room in 224 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,159 one of those crates on East thirty seventh er er 225 00:13:26,799 --> 00:13:30,879 sixteen fifty four East thirty seventh. Just ask for Bobby. 226 00:13:30,919 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 3: We all know him, and you think these things belonged 227 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:33,960 to the drowned man. 228 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 9: The man was robbed where Bobby works, died where Bobby 229 00:13:37,519 --> 00:13:40,879 works Bobby Pond's things that obviously don't belong to him. 230 00:13:41,759 --> 00:13:43,720 What is there left for a decent man to think, 231 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:47,240 mister Clover. 232 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,360 Speaker 3: Then the three walk to the languid summer night, the 233 00:13:52,399 --> 00:13:55,240 city Bond and the dream Bond people and the Sandstone Steps, 234 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,360 who find their delights in a pop bottle or by 235 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,879 taking possession of a star in the sky, or by 236 00:14:00,039 --> 00:14:03,360 cooling themselves with a fan courtesy of Swanson's Chicken Freckracy. 237 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,440 Past them and mind the kiddies at their nighttime play 238 00:14:06,799 --> 00:14:09,879 the patter of little feet up on alley and arrive 239 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,840 at the address on thirty seventh Street, and over one 240 00:14:12,879 --> 00:14:18,000 of the bells, see a name, Bobby Kent, Apartment three. 241 00:14:19,679 --> 00:14:21,879 And the sound you hear is the far off thunder 242 00:14:21,919 --> 00:14:25,039 made of heat and air currents and stratosphere. And the 243 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,039 lightning through the window at the end of the corridor 244 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:41,639 lights up the number three on a door briefly. Then again, Bobby, 245 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:47,000 Bobby Kent, This is the police, Bobby, open up, I'm 246 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:57,440 coming in. Bobby Bobby was in his shirt was ripped, 247 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,919 his face, bloody, hands tied behind his back, belt ru 248 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 on his neck, and the belt was strung over a 249 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:11,080 pipe near the ceiling. When I brought over a chair 250 00:15:11,159 --> 00:15:13,480 to stand on, there was lightning again, and the whole 251 00:15:13,519 --> 00:15:16,559 room was stark white for an instant. It took a 252 00:15:16,559 --> 00:15:19,840 while to get Bobby down, but it didn't matter. Bobby 253 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:23,279 had been dead when I got there. Bobby had been murdered. 254 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,039 Speaker 5: Or refreshment while you work, for enjoyment, anytime chew a 255 00:15:43,039 --> 00:15:46,320 stick of Wriggley's Spearmint gum when your mouth feels dry, 256 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:49,840 when you're warm or tired. Wriggly's spearmint is really refreshing. 257 00:15:50,399 --> 00:15:53,519 The lively, full bodied real mint flavor cools your mouth, 258 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:57,360 moistens your throat, freshens your taste, and the chewing itself 259 00:15:57,399 --> 00:15:59,799 gives you a little lift. Helps you feel your best, 260 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:04,080 do your best. So for chewing enjoyment plus pleasant refreshment, 261 00:16:04,519 --> 00:16:10,039 chew delicious Wrigley spearm It Gum. We now continue with 262 00:16:10,159 --> 00:16:13,679 Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin 263 00:16:13,799 --> 00:16:16,600 and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. 264 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 3: Broadway leans against a doorway, flips a coin, and makes 265 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:34,559 odds on the thirty one days of August. This month's kid, 266 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,360 It'll come in the Philly, and the third the dream boat, 267 00:16:37,559 --> 00:16:39,440 the oil on that little piece of property at least 268 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,600 in the Texas bad Lands. Gotta come in otherwise what 269 00:16:42,679 --> 00:16:45,559 have you been building? Kid? Gotta come in so you 270 00:16:45,559 --> 00:16:48,240 can indulge the whim of the hour, enjoy it, own 271 00:16:48,279 --> 00:16:52,080 it all that neon. Yours to turn on or off 272 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:54,679 that music of the dance calling to you from basement 273 00:16:54,759 --> 00:16:58,039 dance lands. Yours to play soft or loud or cut 274 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:00,919 off like that dance in dark and in stillness. If 275 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,839 you want the traffic signals pushing back the people, yours 276 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,119 to make say stop go. You're a king man with 277 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:12,440 headlines at your feet. Boy murdered hung by belt in 278 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,880 tenement room, unknown man drowned in public pool. All yours, kid, 279 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,319 clean shuffle a minute of luck, and it's all yours. 280 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:29,880 And the next morning at headquarters consider your share of 281 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:32,920 it yours And Detective Muggulmins, you still stick. 282 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 6: With that, Danny, that the man in the pool was murdered. 283 00:17:35,039 --> 00:17:37,799 Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't like it. Oh, it's not that, danny. 284 00:17:37,839 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 6: It's only so many people drowned, so many can't be saved. 285 00:17:41,519 --> 00:17:43,480 You're going to go back and call everyone that wasn't 286 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:44,119 the murder victim. 287 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 3: Rus gave he as a trained lifeguard. He told me 288 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,640 the man fought him had to be pushed under happens 289 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:50,799 that way sometimes, Danny could have been the other way around. 290 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:53,000 Could have been Russ wanted the man dead. It could 291 00:17:53,039 --> 00:17:55,359 have been he fought the man, drowned him, finished him 292 00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:58,279 with his own brand of artificial respiration. Could have been. 293 00:17:58,720 --> 00:17:59,519 Speaker 6: But where's a string? 294 00:17:59,559 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 3: That not Danny? What connection the kid that was hung? 295 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,400 Bobby can't the attendant at the pool. That could be 296 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:05,319 a connection. 297 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,640 Speaker 6: Because he stole a man's clothes out of a crummy locker. 298 00:18:08,039 --> 00:18:10,160 We're not even sure they belonged to the drowned man. 299 00:18:10,759 --> 00:18:11,880 Speaker 3: What do we know about them? 300 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:15,039 Speaker 6: Muggamn Well from the cleaner's marks, they belonged to a 301 00:18:15,039 --> 00:18:18,960 man named Howard Crawford married. I checked his wife should 302 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:20,839 be at the morgue to identify in a half hour 303 00:18:21,319 --> 00:18:22,200 would have come sooner. 304 00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,839 Speaker 3: Wanted to go out and buy a dress. First on 305 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,559 a meter, you get whatever you can on. Bobby can't 306 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,680 friends people he stole from whoever wanted it. I'm working 307 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,519 on it. Put a tail on Gavy every breath he breathes. 308 00:18:33,559 --> 00:18:34,680 I on a report, got it? 309 00:18:35,039 --> 00:18:35,519 Speaker 6: Anything else? 310 00:18:35,599 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 3: Danny. Yeah, why does a woman need a new dress 311 00:18:39,039 --> 00:18:40,119 to look at a dead man? 312 00:18:41,599 --> 00:18:42,079 Speaker 9: I don't know. 313 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:46,359 Speaker 6: Ask her when you see her. 314 00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 3: Are you ready, missus? Coffin waiting for you? All right? 315 00:19:00,319 --> 00:19:02,599 Just look at this man and tell me if he's. 316 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:09,519 Speaker 10: Okay, okay, put him back, he's mine. Can we get 317 00:19:09,519 --> 00:19:10,079 out of his place? 318 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:15,519 Speaker 3: Now? Of course? I throw that storm. I want to 319 00:19:15,559 --> 00:19:17,960 sit down on this bench for a minute or else. 320 00:19:18,039 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 10: Huh, sure, I'll sit. What do you think of my husband, 321 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,960 mister Clover? Can you imagine it? Howard getting himself a 322 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,720 piece of marble and a police morg. 323 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:29,279 Speaker 3: When did you see him last? 324 00:19:29,799 --> 00:19:31,920 Speaker 10: I got out of a warm bed yesterday morning and 325 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,799 a kind of the phone ringing was for Howard. He 326 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:37,680 pinched my cheeks, said goodbye, honey, I'm going out of town. 327 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 3: This happened often, is going out of town in his 328 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,839 line salesman. And you didn't see him after that? 329 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:45,279 Speaker 10: Look, boyfriend, I was in the middle of a beauty 330 00:19:45,319 --> 00:19:49,279 exercise Bendover's for the figure. I was grabbing my ankle, 331 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,720 so I looked back there he was going out of 332 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:52,039 the house. 333 00:19:52,119 --> 00:19:54,319 Speaker 3: Doesn't it seemed strange to you that he didn't go 334 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:55,599 out of town that he was fine. 335 00:19:55,640 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 10: Strange to me, he's dead, but I'm going to get 336 00:19:59,319 --> 00:19:59,839 used to it. 337 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 3: Who do you know had a reason for murdering him? 338 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:03,599 Speaker 11: Murdered? 339 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:05,200 Speaker 10: Thought you said he drowned? 340 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:07,480 Speaker 3: Do you like to swim? Missus Coffin? 341 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 10: You see this sunburn? You think I got it standing 342 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:10,799 under a hot iron? 343 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:11,920 Speaker 3: Look at it? 344 00:20:12,039 --> 00:20:13,279 Speaker 10: See how you like it? 345 00:20:13,319 --> 00:20:15,880 Speaker 3: Did you get out of that swimming pool uptown Coney? 346 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,400 Speaker 10: I know a part of Coney where they carry a 347 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,440 pretty good crowd. That's where this burn came from. 348 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:21,519 Speaker 3: There's a lifeguard at that pool. I go to. 349 00:20:21,559 --> 00:20:24,519 Speaker 10: Coney where they carry a million on a weekend. I 350 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,920 don't confine me to public pools uptown. 351 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,519 Speaker 3: Did you have anything to do with your husband's death, 352 00:20:29,599 --> 00:20:30,319 missus Crawford. 353 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 10: Now, I'm a girl who's going to tell you the truth. Boyfriend, 354 00:20:35,759 --> 00:20:38,440 every time I've thought of it, I've wished Howard dead 355 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,319 every hour on the hour, and I wished him dead 356 00:20:41,319 --> 00:20:43,119 on a half hour too. But that's when the race 357 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:48,519 results come over the radio. Howard things have come true. 358 00:20:48,599 --> 00:20:49,720 I've wished for him. 359 00:20:49,839 --> 00:20:52,759 Speaker 3: That's all. Missus Coffin. You can get out of here 360 00:20:52,799 --> 00:20:58,920 now and watch her reapply the lipstick and readjust her 361 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,359 clothes and walk away from her dead to a summer 362 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,039 rhythm that no longer held any part of him. A 363 00:21:04,079 --> 00:21:06,880 woman starting the new day fresh the memory she had 364 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:10,240 submitted to, now happily dead on a marble slab and 365 00:21:10,319 --> 00:21:12,559 at the end of the corridor, the street, sunlight touching 366 00:21:12,559 --> 00:21:15,240 her face for an instant darting away, leaving only pallor 367 00:21:15,759 --> 00:21:27,359 and the smear of scarlet on her lips. Back in 368 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:30,400 the office, order a shadow for missus Crawford, then a 369 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:32,880 telephone report for Mugovan. He'd found a girl who was 370 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,400 the girlfriend of Bobby Kent, a box office girl and 371 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,279 an all day, all night movie on Easte hundred and 372 00:21:37,279 --> 00:21:40,119 twenty fifth. Lucilla Lang on duty for the rest of 373 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:46,799 the day and night. Police ms Lang, take back your bed. 374 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:47,839 Speaker 7: You don't buy enough. 375 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:49,839 Speaker 3: You're a friend of Bobby Kent's. 376 00:21:50,319 --> 00:21:52,079 Speaker 7: Look you you want to lose me my job? 377 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:53,680 Speaker 3: All we want, miss Lang, All you. 378 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 7: Want is to mark me lousy with the management. Sweaty 379 00:21:57,079 --> 00:21:59,920 cops snooping around where I live. I know my girlfriend. 380 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:02,799 Tell me he had his nose in my affairs, asked 381 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,759 questions she had to tell him I was cozy. 382 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 3: With Bobby All we want is something that will give 383 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:08,279 us Bobby's killer. 384 00:22:08,519 --> 00:22:11,200 Speaker 7: Search me up and down, you won't find Bobby's killer. 385 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,640 Speaker 3: And maybe someone who wanted him dead. 386 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,359 Speaker 7: All the kid ever did was steal a buck here 387 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,680 and there so we could make an impression on me 388 00:22:18,079 --> 00:22:21,440 and my girlfriend. Boy has to die for that. 389 00:22:22,079 --> 00:22:22,799 Speaker 3: He was a thief. 390 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:27,279 Speaker 7: Ain't everybody, kiddo, one way or another, to sweep out 391 00:22:27,319 --> 00:22:29,680 the locker room in a public pool, to empty the 392 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,359 footpast grub him out. You think that's the end of 393 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:33,519 the rainbow for a kid. 394 00:22:33,559 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 3: Did you know about the clothes he stole from the 395 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:37,400 pool to watch the ring money clip? 396 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 10: Sure? 397 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 7: I know he told me. I even know about the 398 00:22:41,079 --> 00:22:42,640 five hundred bucks that was in the suit. 399 00:22:42,799 --> 00:22:44,359 Speaker 3: Five hundred We were. 400 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:47,839 Speaker 7: Going to take it and go off to far away places. 401 00:22:48,599 --> 00:22:52,799 Do you know something, kiddo? What Bobby's dead from hanging 402 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:57,160 and I'm cooped up in a cage, so I ain't 403 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:58,079 gonna make it, am I? 404 00:23:10,279 --> 00:23:10,799 Speaker 6: Danny? 405 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,599 Speaker 3: Come on in muggling, What do you want an opinion about? 406 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 6: What about how soon we should pick up Russ Gavey 407 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:20,119 for the murder of Crawford and that pool lieutendant. 408 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:21,519 Speaker 3: If we pick him up, how long do you think 409 00:23:21,519 --> 00:23:22,759 we can hold him killer? 410 00:23:22,839 --> 00:23:23,160 Speaker 6: Danny? 411 00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:26,880 Speaker 3: Are you going to prove premeditated murder by artificial respiration? Now? 412 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 6: Maybe we shouldn't start from there, Danny, Maybe we should 413 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,359 start from the attendant. Now, he killed Bobby Kent because 414 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,079 Bobby stole the clothes, because Bobby would learn that the 415 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,839 clothes belonged to Howard Crawford. Bobby was a sneak thief 416 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,319 from there to blackmail him. One easy lesson. 417 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 3: So we get back to Howard Crawford. You know what 418 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,319 we need, Michel, Yeah, motive. 419 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,599 Speaker 9: We gotta find out why. 420 00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 3: We got something. 421 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 6: You know. 422 00:23:49,839 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 8: Officer Rotchet just called from a gas station on Queen's Highway. 423 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:56,119 Missus Crawford just arrest registered at the rich Lodge Motel 424 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:57,519 about ten miles out of the city. 425 00:23:57,599 --> 00:24:00,920 Speaker 3: Thanks Gino muggling. Yeah, Danny, Shadow, you got on rus 426 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:02,440 gave you get him off. I don't want to followed, 427 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,880 all right? Were you going to find out why a 428 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:35,799 widow wanders far from home? It's open? Why are you 429 00:24:35,799 --> 00:24:36,480 stop a drink? 430 00:24:36,519 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 10: I'll be right in. I had my hair down. 431 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:39,559 Speaker 3: Where do you see? 432 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:48,279 Speaker 10: What's the new clothes? You like him? You'll like him 433 00:24:48,319 --> 00:24:50,359 to love her? You like him. 434 00:24:50,559 --> 00:24:52,519 Speaker 3: That's your going away dress, Missus Crawford. 435 00:24:52,839 --> 00:24:54,119 Speaker 10: It could be for that too. 436 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 3: You've got a home in Manhattan, Missus Crawford. What are 437 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,319 you doing here? Where is your home? 438 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 10: Boyfriend? And what are you doing here? 439 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:01,160 Speaker 3: I wanted to talk to you. 440 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:04,519 Speaker 10: Me and my sunburn made an impression. Huh? So you 441 00:25:04,599 --> 00:25:07,160 got a flunky to follow me? You could have done 442 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,960 it yourself, No uproar would have happened. Well, here we are. 443 00:25:12,079 --> 00:25:14,160 Speaker 3: You still haven't answered my question? What are you doing here? 444 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,319 Speaker 10: Girl likes to get away sometimes. You'd be surprised how 445 00:25:18,319 --> 00:25:21,079 many phone calls I've gotten since Howard drank all that water. 446 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:26,759 Here's a dime, throw it in the radio. No, and 447 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:33,240 I'll throw it a dime. That phone calls all day long. 448 00:25:35,079 --> 00:25:36,440 Now it's your. 449 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,599 Speaker 3: Turn just to talk to kill some time? 450 00:25:40,559 --> 00:25:43,160 Speaker 10: Ah that Kenton? 451 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:44,839 Speaker 6: Yeah? 452 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:45,759 Speaker 10: Oh what'd you say? Love it? 453 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,079 Speaker 3: Nothing? I didn't saying that. Look be a doll. 454 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 10: Will you go away? 455 00:25:49,039 --> 00:25:50,960 Speaker 3: Come back another day? I'll be here. 456 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:55,519 Speaker 10: Let's pick a tuesday. Make a dad. Why don't you 457 00:25:55,559 --> 00:25:56,480 go right now. 458 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 3: Out the back way through a window. Let's get up. 459 00:26:00,079 --> 00:26:02,160 Speaker 10: Us got a little trouble, I. 460 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 3: Mean, Russ closed the door. I'll bet the lady told 461 00:26:08,039 --> 00:26:09,799 you to get out of here. Mister Clover. Uh huh. 462 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:12,119 You two know each other pretty well, don't you. 463 00:26:12,559 --> 00:26:16,400 Speaker 10: Yeah, swimming pool romance. I saw him in those California 464 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,480 feet flippers, and it twisted my heart. 465 00:26:19,519 --> 00:26:22,480 Speaker 3: You took planning on going away together. I only asked 466 00:26:22,519 --> 00:26:25,160 because the back of Russ's car is loaded a suitcases. 467 00:26:25,279 --> 00:26:28,400 We've got to get married in Maryland, is yes, there is. 468 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,160 There's a whole section in the penal coat about murder. 469 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,640 Back to that. I could have picked you up before, Russ, 470 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:35,240 but I needed a motive. I had to find out 471 00:26:35,279 --> 00:26:39,319 why you murdered Howard Crawford. There she is? How did 472 00:26:39,319 --> 00:26:41,480 I kill him? By drowning him? You made sure the 473 00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:44,279 resuscitator squad wouldn't revive him. You crushed out whatever life 474 00:26:44,279 --> 00:26:46,680 there was in him. Listen to him made yeah, listen, 475 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,720 you killed Bobby Kent. He was a petty thief. He 476 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,160 took the clothes you had stolen from Crawford. Sooner or 477 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,160 later he put two and two together, probably would have 478 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,880 blackmailed you. You couldn't afford to let that happen. You 479 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:57,559 ready eat it? 480 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,759 Speaker 10: I'm ready only one thing, Russ. I'm a happy girl, Russ. 481 00:27:02,799 --> 00:27:06,000 I like to live happy. From just now on, you're 482 00:27:06,039 --> 00:27:08,519 going to be a brooden as long as lover here 483 00:27:08,519 --> 00:27:09,720 has got you. I don't want you. 484 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,720 Speaker 3: Both of you. You're an accessory, Missus Crawford. 485 00:27:13,559 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 10: Oh that changes things right away, Russ. 486 00:27:16,519 --> 00:27:21,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, there'll be a fool ka your way, Russ. Be 487 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:56,440 the same. You're ready to go back to town, Missus Crawford. 488 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,039 It's the time on Broadway when the crowd gives up 489 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:24,640 goes home. Then it's the street of the dim moonlight 490 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,799 and the dark whispers, the wind of the night, the 491 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:34,599 wind that scatters everything, yesterday's headlines, yesterday's dreams, yesterday's people. 492 00:28:35,759 --> 00:28:42,000 It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile 493 00:28:42,039 --> 00:28:46,079 in the world. 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The makers 504 00:29:43,599 --> 00:29:46,559 of Wriggley's Spearmint Chewing Gum hope you enjoyed tonight's story 505 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,880 and that you're enjoying Wrigley Spearmint Gum every day. 506 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:51,440 Speaker 3: We invite you to join. 507 00:29:51,359 --> 00:29:53,759 Speaker 5: Us next week at the same time when Detective Danny 508 00:29:53,759 --> 00:29:58,759 Clover returns again with Broadways My Beat. Broadway's My Beat, 509 00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:01,319 brought to you by Wriggley's Beer Miccum, is produced and 510 00:30:01,359 --> 00:30:04,680 directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed and conducted by 511 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,720 Alexander Courage. Program is written by Martin Fine and David Friedkin, 512 00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:12,960 and stars Larry Thorr as Detective Danny Plover, with Charles Calvert, 513 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,440 ast Tartaglia and Jack Brush and his Muggeman. In tonight's cast, 514 00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:20,039 Mary Jane Croft was heard as Edith Crawford, hi Averbacus Russ, 515 00:30:20,079 --> 00:30:23,559 Gaby Stan Waxman is Mister Hanson, and Michael Ann Brett 516 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:24,759 as Lucille Lang. 517 00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 3: Bob Stevenson speaking. 518 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 5: This is the CBS Radio. 519 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:50,960 Speaker 1: Network, Welcome back. There's a few points here. First of all, 520 00:30:51,359 --> 00:30:53,559 it's been a couple of years, but I think we 521 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:58,279 played a Dangerous Simon episode that talked about this, but 522 00:30:58,359 --> 00:31:02,799 it's worth talking about again. The event that Bob Hope 523 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,240 was referencing at the top of the episode was the 524 00:31:05,279 --> 00:31:10,480 Great Flood of nineteen fifty one. There was extraordinary rainfall 525 00:31:10,559 --> 00:31:13,960 on the Kansas River and many of its tributaries overflowed 526 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:18,880 their banks. July thirteenth, nineteen fifty one, was labeled as 527 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:24,920 Black Friday by the locals, with local flooding reaching a 528 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,319 level that hadn't been seen since the Great Flood of 529 00:31:28,359 --> 00:31:32,039 eighteen forty four. There were more than twenty five thousand 530 00:31:32,039 --> 00:31:38,039 people displaced and homes, neighborhoods and businesses dealing with ruins 531 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:42,680 and debrize. And so that's what motivated the appeal. And 532 00:31:42,799 --> 00:31:47,559 the damage extended not just to Kansas but also to Missouri, 533 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:53,640 with damage of around a billion dollars in nineteen fifty 534 00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:58,319 one dollars obviously much higher today, and that was the 535 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,279 reason for the appeal. Of course, it speaks to Bob 536 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:09,079 Hope's role in national profile in the nineteen fifties. Now 537 00:32:09,119 --> 00:32:15,160 he is rightfully associated with his work with the USO, 538 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,839 where he was such a key leader from World War 539 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,799 Two to the Persian Gulf War. And I'm not laughing 540 00:32:23,279 --> 00:32:26,400 because of any disrespect from mister Hope's work. I'm just 541 00:32:26,519 --> 00:32:30,000 laughing because my note said OSS, which would be an 542 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,680 entire alternate history. But I digress. Bob Hope did not 543 00:32:33,799 --> 00:32:36,559 work with the OSS, but he did work with the USO. 544 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,400 But if you listen to his radio programs from the 545 00:32:40,519 --> 00:32:46,240 late nineteen forties through the fifties, it really does express 546 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:51,119 a broader amount of charitable concerns. It seems like every 547 00:32:51,319 --> 00:32:55,519 second or third episode Hope was raising funds for a 548 00:32:55,559 --> 00:32:59,079 different cause or raising awareness of a different issue, whether 549 00:32:59,119 --> 00:33:04,000 it was some disaster relief or some international problem, or 550 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:09,240 just the typical red feather campaign. He was utilized by 551 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:13,400 a lot of humanitarian causes, which I think reflected broader 552 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:18,039 concern It also reflected his popularity during that period as 553 00:33:18,119 --> 00:33:21,400 one of the biggest screen stars in addition to being 554 00:33:21,519 --> 00:33:27,599 one of radio's highest rated comedians. Now, I have to 555 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:32,160 say that the episode itself has one of the most 556 00:33:32,279 --> 00:33:36,359 far fetched beginnings. First of all, Danny gets called into 557 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,559 a drowning with the thought it's suspicious that the guy's 558 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,559 locker was robbed. Now, keep in mind, Danny is a 559 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:48,200 lieutenant of homicide and Mugvian is calling him based on 560 00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:50,920 that really should have kept the whole case to himself 561 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:54,759 for a while. And then you have doctor Sinsky's conclusion 562 00:33:54,759 --> 00:34:03,079 of homicide. Let's be clear, good injuries result from resuscitation attempts, absolutely, 563 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,400 particularly since the methods that were used in the forties 564 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:12,159 and fifties tended to be a little more crude and rough. 565 00:34:12,559 --> 00:34:16,360 But the thing is that the injuries that doctor Sinsky 566 00:34:16,679 --> 00:34:23,480 described are absolutely normal for even proper resuscitation attempts, and 567 00:34:23,559 --> 00:34:28,800 drowning itself could cause internal lung bleeding and chests strain 568 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:35,119 the delicate system of balances in the chest. Sounds really poetic, 569 00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:39,559 but that's just how modern medicine would have viewed things 570 00:34:39,599 --> 00:34:43,320 in the nineteen fifties, and certainly not to the extent 571 00:34:43,599 --> 00:34:47,519 of saying confidently that it was murder. Now, we also 572 00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:52,960 have this great, fantastic line. Every time I've thought about it, 573 00:34:53,039 --> 00:34:56,440 I wished Howard dead every hour on the hour, and 574 00:34:56,519 --> 00:35:00,559 I wished him dead on the half hour two, that's 575 00:35:00,599 --> 00:35:04,400 when the race results came over the radio. I mean, 576 00:35:04,639 --> 00:35:08,079 that line just cracks me up. That's probably the one 577 00:35:08,159 --> 00:35:12,960 line from Broadways My Bait which could have been something 578 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,440 that was being reused from Pat Novak. Finally, on a 579 00:35:16,519 --> 00:35:20,079 really positive note, I love the final fight scene with 580 00:35:20,119 --> 00:35:24,880 the music. Now, if you watch TV shows in the 581 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,480 late fifties and early sixties, they often have these terrific 582 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:35,599 fight scenes with this jazzy music playing, oftentimes with the 583 00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:39,760 music edited in, though occasionally it'll be something live or 584 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,440 a record. It's rarely tried over radio, and I think 585 00:35:43,519 --> 00:35:47,599 part of the reason for that is that it risked 586 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,320 distracting from the audio of the fight that you're trying 587 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,800 to present. But I think they did a really good 588 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,159 job mixing it so that it actually complimented the fight 589 00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:01,000 scene so nastily. Down on that, all right, listener comments 590 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,360 and feedback now, and we have some comments regarding the 591 00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:10,079 Broadways My Beat episode Buddy Malpaw and the Jeweled Scimitar. 592 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:15,880 Betsy riots really great episode, very funny and sweet, and 593 00:36:16,039 --> 00:36:19,480 Elizabeth says thank you from Mexico. Well, thank you so much. 594 00:36:19,559 --> 00:36:22,519 Appreciate you taking the time to leave those comments. Now 595 00:36:22,639 --> 00:36:26,039 it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day. 596 00:36:26,199 --> 00:36:29,840 Thank you to Margie, Patreon supporter since June twenty sixteen, 597 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,599 currently supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of 598 00:36:33,639 --> 00:36:36,280 seven dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. Thanks 599 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,880 so much for your support, and that will do it 600 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,679 for today. We will be back next Wednesday with another 601 00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:46,199 episode of Broadways My Beat, but join us back here 602 00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,800 tomorrow for drag Net where I don't know. 603 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,880 Speaker 12: He didn't seem to have any friends, see, and his 604 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:53,679 wife had only been in the city a year before 605 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:54,119 she died. 606 00:36:54,119 --> 00:36:56,239 Speaker 11: He was retired, you know, Yes, man, we talked to 607 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:57,840 some of the neighbors out there. They couldn't tell us 608 00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:58,360 much money. 609 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:00,880 Speaker 12: Maybe some of the people he did business with might 610 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,400 know something. If you tried the neighborhood bank out there. 611 00:37:03,519 --> 00:37:05,320 I know that's where mister Dillan had his account. 612 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:06,480 Speaker 11: No, man, we haven't yet. 613 00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:08,599 Speaker 12: Well, I can give you the bank's address. It's about 614 00:37:08,599 --> 00:37:09,039 all though. 615 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:10,519 Speaker 11: That's the only contact, you. 616 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,239 Speaker 12: Know, I'm afraid so, yes, I didn't know much about 617 00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:16,159 mister Dillan's private affairs. Whenever I talked to him, it 618 00:37:16,199 --> 00:37:17,800 seemed the only thing he had on his mind was 619 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,840 his wife's death. It couldn't seem to get over it. 620 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,400 It seemed like he didn't want to get over it. 621 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,039 Speaker 11: You mentioned that when you leased his home, mister Dylan 622 00:37:25,119 --> 00:37:25,840 took an apartment. 623 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:27,559 Speaker 2: Do you happen to have that address with Spanner? 624 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:29,679 Speaker 12: Well, I don't have it with me now, but I 625 00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:31,360 have it at home. Mightn't call in and give it 626 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:31,519 to you. 627 00:37:31,519 --> 00:37:33,880 Speaker 11: If you like? If you wouldn't, please, certainly? Oh, thank 628 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:35,960 you very much, miss Banner. You have our card. When 629 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,119 you hear anything at all from mister Dillan, we'd appreciates 630 00:37:38,159 --> 00:37:38,679 if you'd call. 631 00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,159 Speaker 12: And surely I'll call you right away. Do you think 632 00:37:41,159 --> 00:37:43,239 something could have happened to him? Well, as possible, we 633 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:43,639 don't know. 634 00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,280 Speaker 3: All we have is a letter from his sister. 635 00:37:45,519 --> 00:37:49,159 Speaker 12: That seem kind of strange, doesn't it. It wasn't feeling too well. 636 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,679 I wondered why he hadn't contacted me about sending the 637 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,280 rent money to him. He was such a nice man, 638 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,480 mister Dylan. I certainly hope nothing's happened to him. 639 00:37:56,519 --> 00:37:59,400 Speaker 11: Well, you say it was very depressed about his wife's death, ma'am, 640 00:37:59,679 --> 00:38:01,159 Would you say that it was getting to be a 641 00:38:01,199 --> 00:38:02,280 little abnormal with him. 642 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,679 Speaker 12: Well, I wouldn't know about that, sergeant, but I didn't know. 643 00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:07,440 He brooded about it all the time, he thought that 644 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:10,360 he'd lost everything, didn't seem to want to go on. 645 00:38:10,599 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 3: Uh huh. 646 00:38:11,199 --> 00:38:13,280 Speaker 11: He ever give an indication that maybe he might take 647 00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,760 his own life. I mean, all this rooting of his wife. 648 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:21,039 Speaker 12: Well, no, nothing definite, just depressed and moody all the time. Oh, 649 00:38:21,119 --> 00:38:22,800 now that I remember the last time I saw him, 650 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,519 he did say something kind of funny that. It was 651 00:38:25,519 --> 00:38:27,639 the day before he left. We were talking about the 652 00:38:27,679 --> 00:38:29,320 rent money and I asked him if I couldn't send 653 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,280 it to him. He got kind of a strange look 654 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,719 on his face. Yeah, he said, where I'm going, I 655 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:34,599 won't need the money. 656 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,000 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 657 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:41,800 send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 658 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,840 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 659 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:52,079 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. 660 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:54,960 This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.