Speaker 1: Stay tomb, famis to a theater.
Speaker 2: Come in.
Speaker 1: Welcome. I'm g. Marshall.
Speaker 2: Something that men have been pondering since the dim beginnings
of time has been the.
Speaker 1: Question of poverty and riches.
Speaker 2: Why are some men destined to be wealthy while others seem.
Speaker 1: Fated to be poor?
Speaker 2: Since it is easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle than it is for a
rich man to enter the kingdom, we may safely assume
that the poor shall find greater favor in heaven. However,
to make up for it, obviously the rich have things
much better here on earth. Our mystery drama, The Paradise
of the Devil, was written especially for the Mystery Theater
by Sam Dan and stars Larry Haynes. It is sponsored
in part by Anheuser Bush Incorporated, bulls of Budweiser, and
Uncle Ben's Long Grain and Wild Lights. I'll be back
shortly with Act one. There are those people who will
always make money, whether times are good or times are bad.
Whatever they touch always seems to turn to gold. On
the other hand, we have those people whose timing is
always disastrous. Nothing works, whatever they touch shrinks and shrivels.
Declines and dwindles. However, there are always exceptions, which is
why we have stories. Let us begin ours in a warehouse,
a large public warehouse where many types of merchandise or storage,
everything from food to textiles, to appliances to building materials.
We are in a remote corner of this huge, cavernous compound,
and we hear steps approaching.
Speaker 1: Who is it?
Speaker 2: Why the night watchman? Of course, his name is but
Ler Doux is a very pleasant man in his sixties,
but we shall not get to know him well.
Speaker 1: He is about to be killed. Waiting for him.
Speaker 2: And hiding behind a huge stack of cement bags are
three men.
Speaker 1: Here he comes. Now, let him turn the corner and
give it to us. Ready, lewis now.
Speaker 3: Very good, very good, Louis you pop them right between
the eyes.
Speaker 1: You get better every tie. Let's get out of here.
Speaker 4: Yes, miss, you don't remember me? Sergeant?
Speaker 1: Well? Uh, let's see? Uh? Should I I.
Speaker 4: Suppose this tells me everything I need to know?
Speaker 1: Love? Miss?
Speaker 5: Can we help you?
Speaker 4: I'm mister Leedu's daughter, Louise Ldu. You don't even remember
his name and it's only been a week.
Speaker 1: Oh I remember Bert? Let' do you.
Speaker 4: Said to come back in a few days.
Speaker 1: You might have news for me, Louise.
Speaker 5: Let me talk to you off the record about what
the facts of life, Thank you, sergeant, But I know them.
Speaker 1: Oh no you don't.
Speaker 5: But I'm going to tell you could cost me my.
Speaker 4: Job, and why risk it?
Speaker 5: Because you're old enough to be my own daughter. Your
dad was killed exactly ten days ago. Do you know
how many people have been murdered since? No, and I'm
not into five and that's about average, a killing every
other day.
Speaker 4: And my father's killing is rapidly becoming ancient history.
Speaker 1: Your father was shot by burglars in the warehouse. We
have no leaves.
Speaker 4: What have you done?
Speaker 5: We call him the neighborhood. No one saw, no one
heard anything unusual.
Speaker 4: But surely there must be something.
Speaker 5: Believe me, I wish with all my heart it was
the kind of thing you see in the movies. A
clue is left that leads us directly to the killer,
and we capture him in one big blazing shootout.
Speaker 4: Sergeant, Oh, this is besides the point.
Speaker 1: It is the point. What have we got?
Speaker 5: All we know is your father was killed by a
thirty eight caliber bullet. We have absolutely nothing else, which.
Speaker 4: Means you're doing nothing.
Speaker 5: Oh no, we're doing two things. Each time we capture
an armed criminal, we check the weapon, and we keep
tapping our usual sources of information in the underworld of
stool pigeons.
Speaker 1: You'd call him and that's all. What else would you suggest?
Speaker 4: What would I suggest? Am I a professional police officer?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Louise.
Speaker 4: Sergeant, Just tell me this. If my father had been
somebody wealthy and powerful, would things be different.
Speaker 5: Let me answer it this way, Louise, it's always better
to be rich than it is to be poor.
Speaker 4: Well, what would you be doing right now if you'd
been rich.
Speaker 5: It's not so much what we'd be doing, it's what
you'd be doing.
Speaker 4: And what would I be doing?
Speaker 1: Looks like everything else.
Speaker 5: If you don't care for the service of the city
supplies free of charge, you go out and buy your own.
Speaker 4: You mean I'd hire a private investigator.
Speaker 1: Oh, an army of them.
Speaker 4: What tell me the name of a good private investigator.
Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to.
Speaker 4: Then, Why did you bring it up?
Speaker 5: But a private detective will give you no guarantee.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't even know how to go about it. Tell
me the name of someone who wouldn't just waste.
Speaker 5: My money, but it's against regulations.
Speaker 4: You were in my place, who would you go to?
I promise you, Sergeant, no one will ever know.
Speaker 5: Well, if the police haven't been able to get me
where I, missle to do, it makes you think I
can do any better? Well, because because you think I'm smarter,
I'm not.
Speaker 4: The police have the whole city to worry about.
Speaker 1: Well. I have other cases too, miss le dou.
Speaker 4: Oh, but at least you would, I I would why
uh uh take a personal interest in the.
Speaker 5: Case, Oh, miss LaDou. There are hundreds of killings just
like your father's random killings, killings where there's no leeds
at all, where the killers have vanished without a trace.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: You telling me that I must accept the fact that
my father's murderer may never be caught.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's exactly what I'm telling you.
Speaker 5: If the killer is ever caught, it'll be because he
was betrayed by a pile or a woman, or arrested
for another crime. We can't make those things happen. We
have to wait for them for how long, well, sometimes forever?
Speaker 4: In In other words, you won't accept the case.
Speaker 5: And uh, then we have the question of money. Now,
your father worked as a night watchman. He wasn't a
rich man. And uh, what do you do?
Speaker 4: I'm a secretary.
Speaker 1: Ah, do you have any money?
Speaker 4: Oh, A few hundred dollars in the bank.
Speaker 5: Well, I get ninety five dollars a day in expenses.
How much of my time can you afford? H?
Speaker 4: How much do I need?
Speaker 1: Weeks? Maybe months? How can I answer, mister Kobe?
Speaker 4: Are you familiar with the details of my father's murder?
Speaker 5: Well, I remember reading in the paper that a night
watchman was killed.
Speaker 1: But that's all I know.
Speaker 4: Will you do something for me? H, go down to
the warehouse. Why w do whatever you you have to
do to to acclinch yourself with what happened. Why a
A Are you allowed to talk to the police?
Speaker 1: Of course?
Speaker 4: Well find out everything there is to know. And after
you do that, if you're convinced there's nothing more to
be done, well that's the way it'll have to be.
But that if you feel there's something there, anything at all,
I'll raise the money to pay your fee. How I
said I would raise it?
Speaker 1: Who George Colby? Oh yeah, yeah, sentiment? Hey Georgie, Hi,
saj I was private practice, sage.
Speaker 5: I didn't know when I was well off getting paid
every week?
Speaker 1: Did you send me that little Louise la duo?
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I know you're an honest guy, and I
figured you discourage her.
Speaker 1: You will, won't you? Well? I should?
Speaker 5: You mean you won't. Well, there's a little angle on
this case that bothers me. Huh, Yeah. I don't believe
the old man was shot by hoods who were knocking
off the warehouse.
Speaker 1: Why not because of where it happened. Such, he was
killed in the wrong part of the warehouse. Why do
you say the wrong part? Is there a right part
for a watch?
Speaker 4: When I get killed?
Speaker 5: Kind is in this one? Where should he have been killed?
Way over on the other side? Such where they got
the stuff to crooks, the raft a, TV sets, tape
recorder's cameras, high fives, liquor, gun cigarettes.
Speaker 1: But where's ladoo killed.
Speaker 5: In an area where there's nothing but a hundred pounds.
Speaker 1: Bags of cement?
Speaker 5: Oh, you may have wanted them out of the way outside.
This is a clean, professional job. No crook is going
to run the risk of murder if he doesn't have to.
They were waiting for him, no.
Speaker 1: Sign of a fight.
Speaker 5: They could have tapped him on their head and put
him to sleep. But no, oh, no, no, they were
out to kill him. Why would anyone want to kill
a night watch Well, maybe he was more than a
night watchman.
Speaker 1: We checked the daughter.
Speaker 5: She said he had absolutely no enemies that she knows.
Speaker 4: Uh, but why why would anyone deliberately kill my father?
He was the nicest sweetie.
Speaker 1: I know, I know.
Speaker 5: To you, he was the nicest, sweetest guy in all
the world. Other people may have held a different opinion.
Speaker 4: I talked to his friends, doctor, anyone who knew him.
Speaker 1: Tell me, uh, had he seemed worried or unhappy?
Speaker 4: But not at all? Actually it was the other way round.
He was quite happy, as a matter of fact, now
that you mention it, unusually happy, he kept saying, sing
to me, my dear daughter. There is a law of retribution.
Many a villain has been hoist on his own titide.
Speaker 1: Son. But say your father was an educated man.
Speaker 4: Yes, he'd been in business, but he lost everything. The
watchman's job was the only thing he could get. But
he was glad, he said. It gave him time to think.
Speaker 1: Uh huh. And you say he was unusually happy just
before he died, Yes, and that's what.
Speaker 4: Makes it so hard for me to understand why he
was deliberately murdered.
Speaker 5: Well, I'm not saying he was deliberately murdered, miss Ludo.
I'm saying I have strong reasons to suspect it.
Speaker 4: Well, what do you suggest is the next move?
Speaker 5: Well, you asked me to look into your father's murder,
and I did. I don't think it's what it appears
to be on the surface. On the other hand, you're
not a wealthy girl. Your money could be down the drain.
Speaker 4: Well, shi suppose I could raise ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Well, I still couldn't guarantee results.
Speaker 4: I couldn't pay immediately. I would have to wait for
my father's estate to be settled.
Speaker 1: This day. I thought he didn't have any money.
Speaker 4: Well, this is a piece of property, the only thing
he left. I've already received an offer for it.
Speaker 5: Muh, Well, I might go through every nickel and we'd
be no wiser than we are now.
Speaker 4: I could be wrong, mister Colby. I'm sure you're an
extremely ethical person. But isn't it possible for you to
talk positively?
Speaker 5: Miss le dou I don't talk positively, and I don't
talk negatively. I try to talk truthfully.
Speaker 1: Huh, miss Lju please come in have a seat.
Speaker 4: Thank you, mister Hawkins.
Speaker 1: I've read about your father's death. Please accept my deepest sympathy.
Speaker 4: You're very kind.
Speaker 1: Now, miss le dou, How may I be of service?
Speaker 4: Well, you called on me some months ago.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, yes, I have the mistaken impression it was
your father's address. The land title is in the name
of l Ledieux.
Speaker 4: That was my father's name, libert Rigeu.
Speaker 1: And yours is Louise, and each of you is listed
in the phone books l Ldeux.
Speaker 4: I would have been willing to sell you the land,
but of course it wasn't mine. I thought Dad would
be happy to get rid of it.
Speaker 2: But yes, you would think so. Ten thousand dollars is
a very generous offer.
Speaker 4: Does that offer still stand, mister Hawkins?
Speaker 1: Well, yes, of course.
Speaker 4: There are some legal matters to be cleared. The will
has to be probated, but I would like to be sure.
You see, I need that money.
Speaker 2: I know, I know there are so many expenses involved
in these unfortunate matters. I'm willing to draw up an
agreement to buy the land for ten thousand dollars, contingent
upon your receiving title. Thank you, sir, and if you're
pressed for cash, I'd be happy to advance it.
Speaker 4: Oh, thank you, you're extremely but he said he could wait.
Speaker 2: Uh do you mean you, oh, someone ten thousand dollars?
You're that deeply in debt?
Speaker 4: No, but I could be. I've hired a private detective
to find my father's murderer. I can think of no
better way to spend the money.
Speaker 1: I see. Well, I hope he's successful.
Speaker 4: I'm sure he will be. I have a great deal
of confidence in this man. Well, thank you for your time,
mister Hockey.
Speaker 1: It's been my pleasure.
Speaker 4: And goodbye, and you'll hear from me soon.
Speaker 1: Good day.
Speaker 6: Ah, Oh, Ritchie, you promised me a clean job on
Berkeley Joe, And no you didn't.
Speaker 1: You must have left the few spots somewhere. You may
have to clean it up again.
Speaker 2: They say cleanliness is next to godliness, but obviously some
of the Devil's disciples are in favor of it. Also,
at any rate, as our friends in the sports world
would put it, we have given you the matchups. It's
Louise LaDue and George Colby against mister Hawkins and Richie.
Richie and Hawkins have already scored, but this game has
only begun. There is more action when I return with
Act two. Why would anyone want to kill a night watchman?
The obvious answer to rob the building. The man has
been hired to watch All too often the usual answer
is usually the correct answer. But libert la Doux, who
evidently was not your usual night watchman. For one thing,
he has a most unusual daughter. She is willing to
spend her entire inheritance if that's what it takes to
find her father's killer.
Speaker 4: But why do you have to look through all these papers?
Speaker 1: This will do?
Speaker 5: If the police theory is correct and your father was
killed by hoodlums who were out to rob the warehouse,
and I have no.
Speaker 1: Business in this case. But if there was another motives,
I have to look for it somewhere.
Speaker 4: Do you realize how much there is to go through?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Are there are contains of old letters and documents and receipts,
and even poetry and short stories. He used to write
those in his spare time.
Speaker 1: Oh, so sol it is?
Speaker 4: Oh? Do you realize it can take you a week
to look through everything in this room?
Speaker 1: Probably?
Speaker 4: Oh, a week? At ninety five dollars a day.
Speaker 1: This all there is?
Speaker 4: Uh? Yes? Is this all you're going to do? Just
look through this junk?
Speaker 5: Or where else can I look? I have to work
with what i've got.
Speaker 4: But what are you looking for?
Speaker 1: I really don't know.
Speaker 4: Well, then, how miss le do?
Speaker 1: This is not an exact science.
Speaker 5: And if you think I'm wasting your money, I didn't
say that. In addition, I want a list of all
his friends.
Speaker 4: But he had hundreds of friends.
Speaker 1: Oh, nobody has hundreds of friends.
Speaker 4: M he knew a lot of people.
Speaker 1: How we'll begin with those who were closest. Who's his
best friend?
Speaker 4: Well, I guess you'd have to say it was Sid
wh Sidney Grossman?
Speaker 1: Grossman? Where can I find him?
Speaker 4: You can't? Sid's dead?
Speaker 1: Well? And why did you mention his name?
Speaker 4: He was only killed three weeks ago?
Speaker 1: Killed? Why?
Speaker 4: How does it matter?
Speaker 1: Ay? Tell me about Sid Grossman?
Speaker 4: He and dad had a club. They called it the
Underachievers Association. Why well, because they were both college educated
men and neither of them ever lived up to his potential.
Mister Grossman had a civil engineering degree. He was a geologist,
but he could never hold a job.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 4: He thought the object of life was to have fun.
So in my dad, work interfered with pleasure. Pleasure was
the opera, ball games, fishing. So both of them took
jobs which made no demands on them and left them free.
Speaker 1: I see, And mister Grossman was killed. Huh how did
it happen?
Speaker 4: Well, I suppose he was mugged. It was very late
at night. But they caught the mugger.
Speaker 1: Oh they did. Huh.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's why Dad was talking about retribution.
Speaker 1: Ah luck, sage.
Speaker 5: Two friends each dies violently within a three week period.
Speaker 1: Coincidence.
Speaker 5: We got the one who killed Grossman just a funk.
We've got a record for assault and robbery. There is
such a thing as coincidence.
Speaker 1: Guy, Now, how do you know you got the right guy?
Speaker 5: He took Grossman's watch ring and wallet. He brought him
to a small timer named Legs Barry. The Legs tries
to be a fenced but Legs need a little favor
from us. And you know how these things go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know.
Speaker 5: I also know these punks had framed their own mothers
that they had to accept. Legs had the merchandise for us,
a Grossman's watch, wallet, ring. He says he brought him
from his hood, this Pete Lucas.
Speaker 1: Do you think Legs is telling the truth or why
I would rely?
Speaker 4: I'm being prayed?
Speaker 5: Oh sure, sure, you're a fine, upright example of red
blooded American manhood.
Speaker 1: And the police are trying the railroad.
Speaker 2: You wanna tell them corny jokes going to show business.
Speaker 1: I'm a bum. I never was nothing else. I can't
even remember how many people I robbed. And maybe you
don't remember robbing Grossman.
Speaker 2: That one I remember because that one I didn't do.
Speaker 4: And you can believe.
Speaker 1: It, stupid budge.
Speaker 2: They don't get me for all the ones I knocked offer,
but a.
Speaker 1: What Yeah, yeah, life is funny that way, Peter, tell me.
Speaker 5: If it wasn't you, how come you fenced off his watch,
ring and wallet?
Speaker 2: I didn't fence him, this stooley, this rat Legs Barry,
he says I fenced him.
Speaker 1: Why would he lie? Well, they got his girl in
a drug charge. He's making a trade. How come he's
got the dead man's possessions.
Speaker 2: Because the mug who'd done it fenced the stuff with him.
Speaker 1: But why not turn that guy in? Because because how
would I know whoever did it?
Speaker 5: Could only have been some punk? Now why would legs
risk of perjury wrap?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: Ask me what's going on. I don't solve crimes. I
only commit him.
Speaker 5: All right, don't be flipped with me, Pete. If you
didn't do it, is the finger on you.
Speaker 2: Look, I never killed nobody in all my life.
Speaker 1: Eth you're not answering me.
Speaker 5: I want to know if you were fingered why why?
Speaker 1: Okay, maybe the guy wasn't mug Maybe it was something.
Speaker 2: Else like what Maybe they wanted to look.
Speaker 1: Like he was mugged.
Speaker 2: So that's why I come in.
Speaker 1: If you want to.
Speaker 2: Have everybody think it was robbery, that I'm the one
who can make everybody happy.
Speaker 1: After all, don't I have the rep Huh?
Speaker 2: What the jerry takes one.
Speaker 1: Look at me and I'm up the river. You talk
about they? Who were they? I don't know. I don't know. Eh.
Never hear of a man named Bert LaDou? Now is
there anything buzzing in your circles about la doo and gross?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: Look, don't be stuck with that underworld code nonsense?
Speaker 1: What cold?
Speaker 2: If I knew something, I'd sing like a cage full
of canaries.
Speaker 1: I didn't do it.
Speaker 4: The last words I said to Sid The last words
I said to him, in this world, you're crazy those
two words, you're crazy.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry, Missus Grosewith, but.
Speaker 4: It's true he was crazy. Only a crazy person would
go out two o'clock in the morning, and he had
just come back.
Speaker 1: You're back from where, Missus Groswith, No I know?
Speaker 4: Did I ever know?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Him and that crazy berth Ward, they were a pair.
Speaker 1: Y Where had he come back from? Missus Grossman.
Speaker 4: Only the week before they came to me, these two heroes.
They came to me and said they needed two hundred
and fifty dollars for Sid to take a trip out west.
Speaker 1: Where are west?
Speaker 4: I don't know, Arizona and Nevada, Colorado? Wherever the west is?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 4: They said that for my sake. They were willing to
become rich and Sid had to investigate something, Oh what,
I don't know. One morning he leaves, one midnight, he
comes back. He says, I da, iida, we are rich.
Speaker 1: Well, why how tell me?
Speaker 4: I said to him? And he says, you must not
be bothered with details. Your only job will be to
spend the money. With that, he puts on his coat.
Speaker 1: Where are you going?
Speaker 4: I ask? I got something to tell Bert?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 4: Right now. He says, it cannot wait. You're crazy. I
says to him, you're crazy. But he was out the doors.
Speaker 1: But what was it? He had a Telbert?
Speaker 4: I don't know. All I know is the last words
I said to him. I said, you're crazy.
Speaker 1: Did he uh bring anything home with him from the trip?
Speaker 4: He brought me about the candy and a flower. He
always did that, but this time he was a little
bit crazier than usual. In his suitcase he had some rocks.
Speaker 1: What cut of rocks? Ucks?
Speaker 4: Some of them are just as big as I even
know baseball to play every day? Come and ordinary rocks?
Speaker 1: Could I see one?
Speaker 4: Sure, they're on the table. I keep them there next
to his picture.
Speaker 1: Don't ask me why uh could I borrow one of these? Why?
Speaker 4: What could it mean to? It's just the rock?
Speaker 1: Well, doc, what's the verdict?
Speaker 2: Well, if this rock belongs to you, and you've got
a lot more like it, you are now eligible for
membership in the Millionaire's.
Speaker 1: Club, that's all. If it's yours, you are fabulously wealthy.
Wouldn't you know a rock it isn't mine?
Speaker 2: Well, when you brought it down here to the office yesterday,
I could tell just by looking that there was a
vein of pitch blend running through it. This grayish black
area pitch place the most important source of uranium.
Speaker 1: Uranium.
Speaker 2: We've never encountered a higher grade of ore. If it's valuable,
if there's enough of it, and from this sample there
has to be. It's about as good financially as striking oil,
and in this case perhaps better better. Where you have
this kind of quality, you're also not too far from
other minerals gold, silver, copper. I don't know where you
found this, Georgie, but I wish I owned the piece
of it.
Speaker 1: So do I die? Well? Thanks? Lend me the bell.
Speaker 2: Oh, if you're headed downtown, i'd appreciate a lift. I'm
about ready to close and I don't have my car, Sure, George,
I always wondered what makes a guy I want to become.
Speaker 1: A private detective? Ah? What makes a guy wanna become
a geologist? What are you looking at? You keep glancing
into that rear view mirror. Somebody's coming up behind us. Well,
I'm not sure that I think I noticed that car before.
He was parked just down the street from your office
stock and he's been following us invisis we laugh. Uh,
aren't you going a little too fast? This is a
pretty steep hill. It's something about that car. Well, he
wants to pass us. Look what the let's fun to
come a row?
Speaker 4: Oh my god?
Speaker 1: Do these things occur in series of trees?
Speaker 2: Mister Grossman, mister Dux, and now mister George Colby and
his companion. First it's something designed to appear as a mugging,
then an incident to be considered a hold up, and
now an automobile accident. These things do happen, but we
know better. I shall return in just a few moments
with that tree.
Speaker 1: They were just two carefree elderly men.
Speaker 2: They owned little more than the clothes on their backs,
or did they. In less than a month, both were dead,
seemingly victims of random violence, and as private investigator George
Kobe has learned, it is obviously dangerous to probe into
their affairs. A mugging, a robbery, and now an auto accident.
Speaker 7: George gonna run as off the road home pike.
Speaker 1: Doctor. I think I'm I think I'm okay. I take
a breath, Try to hold.
Speaker 5: Your obs and legs anything it hurts.
Speaker 4: I think I'm okay.
Speaker 1: You're bleeding. No, I don't think it's bad. Can can
you move your yeah? Okay out of the car? Queer?
Why because because we have to burger? Hello, h Mr
Hawking's it's your buddy, Richie.
Speaker 4: Ain't you just seen an awful accident?
Speaker 3: A car went off the road and into the side
of a cricker's hill.
Speaker 2: You know that's steep walk.
Speaker 1: Are you sure of him? Well?
Speaker 4: I seen the car?
Speaker 3: Is it pulling up pointing all over the place?
Speaker 1: Well, that's good. He ain't gonna bud nobody. It's a
clean chop.
Speaker 7: Oh, George, what's all this hell out?
Speaker 1: Dodge? U should be and my husband?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Now, uh, it's not as bad as the luck. Oh?
Why do't you have the highway cop call me? Why not?
An amun?
Speaker 5: I left the side. The crystal thing was no money.
The l Duke killing was no hold up, and it's
this was no accident.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? We were forced off the road.
Could you see my home down? Happened too fast? I
look sage. Can you give it out that we were killed?
Speaker 5: I can't?
Speaker 1: Why not? Well, because my look sagi.
Speaker 5: Two men have already been murdered. Whoever was after them
was after me let them think they're.
Speaker 1: In the clear. Have you got a line on who
the killer could be? I'll not yet, but I know
who to ask.
Speaker 4: But but but you're supposed to be dead.
Speaker 1: Well you can see for yourself it w It was
on the news.
Speaker 4: Private investigator killed an accident along with noted geologists.
Speaker 1: H huh? And what did you think when you heard that? Nose? Luise?
Speaker 4: What did I think? Well? I didn't know what to think.
I I thought about you, and and and and I
felt terrible.
Speaker 1: Did you stop to think that three people connected somehow
with your father were now dead?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 1: No, Well you have a great deal to explain to me.
Speaker 4: Explain what well?
Speaker 5: Number one, why didn't you tell me that mister Grossman
was killed because he was on his way to see
your father late that night?
Speaker 4: Because I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Second, why didn't you tell me your father and Sid
Grossman had planned for mister Grossman to take.
Speaker 4: A trip Because I didn't know that either.
Speaker 1: And why was I being set up?
Speaker 4: I don't understand what you're saying.
Speaker 5: Because you wanted me killed, I want you hired me
to make it look good, and then when I started
to come close.
Speaker 4: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: But who else but you knew I was working on
this case. Think about that.
Speaker 5: Only two people knew, Sergeant Weller and you. I vouch
for Weller. Now let's talk about you. How are you
gonna pay me for my work?
Speaker 4: I told you I'm waiting for my father. It will
to be probated.
Speaker 1: You were growling. Let's talk about your father's will?
Speaker 4: What does that have to do with?
Speaker 5: Everything is tied to everything else. You set your own property,
that's only you all. Would it be out west?
Speaker 4: Yes? But it's Worselin. You sure that course, I'm sure?
Speaker 5: How could you count on selling it to pay my fee?
And where did you get the figure of ten thousand dollars?
Speaker 4: Because that's what I was all my home?
Speaker 1: But somebody, you're never smell a rat, do you?
Speaker 4: Will? You please tell me what you're getting at.
Speaker 1: You say the property is worthless?
Speaker 5: Why should anybody be willing to buy it?
Speaker 1: It's ten thousand dollars, that's nothing. Ten thousand dollars is nothing.
Speaker 4: It's only ten dollars an acre.
Speaker 1: Your father owned a thousand acres of what sand? What?
Speaker 4: Hundreds of miles from.
Speaker 1: No more thousand acres of uh let's see. Do you
know how much money that land is worth? Which it desert.
It's got what could be the richest load of uranium
in the world. That could also be gold, soba copper.
It's a pleasure child.
Speaker 4: Wow, So that's why the man wanted to buy it?
Speaker 1: Which man?
Speaker 4: Oh, let me think for a minute. Let me think,
mister Koby, I I know now who kills my father?
Speaker 1: Who who's the killer?
Speaker 4: I am you?
Speaker 1: You went into that warehouse and fired the shots.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't go there, I didn't hold the gun,
I didn't pull the trigger. But it happened all because
of me, of course. And now I know why they
tried to kill you too, mister Colby. I am not
the only one who, in addition to Sergeant Well, I
knew you were on the case. There is another person
who the man who wants to buy the land from me.
Speaker 1: What's his name?
Speaker 4: Hawkins? Gerald F. Hawkins.
Speaker 1: How come he knew?
Speaker 4: Well because I told him? It slipped out. I mentioned
that I needed money to pay a private investigator to
help find my father's killer. He's the only other person
you knew. Alright, alright, now, why do you say you
killed your father? I said, I was responsible. A couple
of months ago, a man called on me, are you
Ella Jewey asked? I told him I was. He said,
I was the owner of record of a piece of
property in Nevada. I said he must mean my father,
and he said, of course, libert Ledeu. Your father must
still be alive. He said, I sold him the property
thirty years ago, and now I want to buy it back.
Speaker 1: Did he say why, Well.
Speaker 4: Because it was worthless and and he didn't know it
at the time, and he had come into some money
and was trying to w well to clear his name
by making it up to people. He struck me as
a very kindly gentleman at the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So this, uh, mister Hawkins went to your father.
Speaker 4: Well, dad must have turned him down. And mister Hawkins
came back to me and he said, do you suppose
I might be able to convince your father to sell.
He'll never get another chance, and this way he'll get
ten times his money back.
Speaker 1: And what did you say to mister Hawkins?
Speaker 4: I see now I signed my father's death war. Oh,
come on, I told mister Hawkins. Once my dad decided,
that's the end of it. If the lad were mine,
I'd be I had to get rid of it. Don't
you understand He took that to me that if.
Speaker 5: Dad were out of the world, it'da killed your father anyway,
taking his chances with you.
Speaker 1: Now about this land, I'll show you here.
Speaker 4: I I have had the papers in my pocket book.
Speaker 1: Why didn't you show these to me before?
Speaker 4: Read the pamphlet? He goes back over thirty years.
Speaker 1: Paradise of the Devil, the name of the developed. Yeah,
I understand. Tell me why didn't you want me to
see this before?
Speaker 4: Well? Because uh, I didn't want you to know my
father could have been so.
Speaker 1: So uh naive?
Speaker 4: Yes, uh I was ashamed.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 5: Paradise of the Devil at first side of desert inferno.
But there's magic in this land. He underneath run the
waters of life, helped full invigorating waters of youth, and
I s the Devil can become a spa to rival
at great ordering places of Europe.
Speaker 1: Stake your claim.
Speaker 5: To unbelievable wealth only one dollar per acre. Act now
before it's all gone.
Speaker 4: And my father believed it. My father bought it.
Speaker 1: You know, in a way, the guy who hustled this
was right. There's unbelievable wealth.
Speaker 5: Under that ground, and the swindler swindled himself out of it.
Speaker 1: Now he wants it back.
Speaker 4: He can't get it back now that I know what
he gonna do. Wh what evidence do we have that
Hawkins killed my father?
Speaker 1: I don't believe Hawkins actually killed him.
Speaker 5: Hawkins probably bought the murder. I still don't think we
have any hard evidence at all.
Speaker 4: And there's the possibility that Hawkins can go free.
Speaker 1: Well, it's always that possibility.
Speaker 4: I hired you to find my father's killer, and I
did to my satisfaction.
Speaker 1: What about the law? Oh, well, for that we have
to dig very well.
Speaker 4: You dig right now. I I can afford to have
you dig forever.
Speaker 1: What do you want now, snoop for more information? Pitch.
You know you could spend the rest.
Speaker 5: Of your life in jail unless, yeah, unless you help
me get you out of here.
Speaker 1: Why should you care about me? Oh? I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't, Pete, and the world would be much better
off if you remained in the clink. But you're a
part of something else. No, do you know a guy
named Hawkin?
Speaker 1: No? Well, you ever heard of a guy named Hawkins?
That's different? Yeah? Yeah, I heard of a guy named
Hawkins and what connection.
Speaker 2: Ah, he would need a strong arm from time to time.
Speaker 1: He ever hire you me? Nah? Why not? I'm too
nice for him. He uses a tiller of the hun,
A tiller of the hun.
Speaker 2: His real name is Richie.
Speaker 1: What can I find Richie? I don't know. Try a
couple of joints along the strip.
Speaker 2: Ah, mister lud, if you come in, sit down. Glorious
day must be a sign.
Speaker 4: That God's in his heaven and all's well with the world.
Speaker 2: Yes, quite now, as I have promised you, I have
this agreement drawn up, and if you sign it, you
will receive the ten thousand dollars for the property as
soon as your father's.
Speaker 1: Will has been probraded. I read it over. You'll see
it's in order.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I'm sure it is. I would like a
few minor changes, well.
Speaker 1: Certainly first or other many. I may need a fresheet
of paper.
Speaker 4: That would be wise.
Speaker 1: Go right ahead, I Gerald F.
Speaker 4: Hawkins admit complicity in the murder of Libert Ledieux and
Sidney Grossman.
Speaker 1: Do what are you saying?
Speaker 4: I think you heard me. This was so I could
swindle mister DU's daughter out of some uranium.
Speaker 1: Rich I really don't understand.
Speaker 4: I hope you see this gun I'm holding in my hand.
Speaker 1: I'll mislet you. Don't be foolish. You can't prove.
Speaker 4: Anything right as I tell you, I'll kill you to prison.
Speaker 7: Oh then it's my father's death something around the rod.
Speaker 1: Richie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Richie.
Speaker 3: I come by for my pay and I hear this
little show going on.
Speaker 1: Conscious to drop it.
Speaker 4: That's nice.
Speaker 1: We have to get rid of her, she knows.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'll get rid of her.
Speaker 1: I'll make it clean. First, we get rid of you power.
Speaker 3: I just found out what's going on.
Speaker 4: All the uranium in the world.
Speaker 1: I understand. It's like gold oil.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: Now it's mine your Why not do I have to.
Speaker 3: Be a bum all my life? I knock you off.
Speaker 1: With her, biscol.
Speaker 3: She did it because you're responsible for old in instead.
Speaker 1: No, Richie, you are Wrencher.
Speaker 4: You hired me.
Speaker 1: I took care of pot of it for you. But
do and Crisman, that's chewing it. Yes, but I paid you.
I'll pay you more now. I knock you off.
Speaker 3: Then I make her sign up a sail plan in
the land over to me.
Speaker 1: I'll never say that, sister.
Speaker 3: Once I started to convince you. You'll beg me to
let you sign, then fill with remorse. As it says
in the books, you're playing the gun on yourself.
Speaker 1: Richie, you're crazy. You're dead. I told you he was crazy.
You can see him alive, George. Everybody standstill, especially you, Richie.
Your guys got it all down on the table, he
corter side, We got it. I don't understand that it's
a sol a mistake, it's a frame up.
Speaker 5: Maybe it is, maybe they Let's wait for the jury
to decide that, Sager, why.
Speaker 1: Did you take him? Then that let's get moving.
Speaker 4: Oh, I did something stupid, I know it.
Speaker 5: What would you have done if I wasn't able to
get a line on Richie?
Speaker 1: You know you'd have been dead.
Speaker 4: But you did get a line on him, and I'm alive.
Speaker 1: You just don't think.
Speaker 4: I never did, and I won't start now decide. I
don't have to think. Why should I?
Speaker 1: Why should you?
Speaker 4: Why should I? When when you can do all my
thinking for me.
Speaker 2: She was always quiet, a hard girl for her co
workers to figure out, so they thought she was a
little bit off. That's because she was poor and single.
Now that she's rich and married, She's merely a delightful eccentric.
Speaker 1: I never told you the world was fair.
Speaker 2: All I ever wanted you to believe at this stage
of the program is.
Speaker 1: That I will be right back.
Speaker 2: It's true, if you cast your bread upon the waters,
you will find it again increased, but it will still
be bread. On the other hand, there are some people
who cast bread and recover cake.
Speaker 1: Who is to say that good.
Speaker 2: Natured, gullible, trusting Bert LaDou, who was cheated by everyone,
wouldn't have had the last laugh?
Speaker 1: After all?
Speaker 2: Who can say he didn't make a really smart investment
thirty years ago? And actually it's not that he wasn't smart,
he just didn't.
Speaker 1: Have enough luck.
Speaker 2: Our cast included Larry Haynes, Bob Caliban, Katherine Byers, Peter
Collins and Gil Mack. The entire production was under the
direction of Hyman Brown Radio. Mystery Theater was sponsored in
part by Billick Motor Division.
Speaker 1: This is E. G.
Speaker 2: Marshall inviting you to return to our Mystery Theater for
another adventure in the macabre. Until next time, Pleasant Dream.
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