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But now, from July twenty first, 12 00:01:18,159 --> 00:01:30,480 nineteen forty eight, here is The Big Story episode the Lottery. 13 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:32,760 Speaker 2: The Big Story. 14 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,599 Speaker 3: You're sure everything is all right, Tonny? 15 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 4: Sure and sure. 16 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:41,799 Speaker 5: We phoned that reporter and told him there was a 17 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:43,120 story waiting for him here. 18 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,439 Speaker 6: So hey, what is it? There? 19 00:01:46,439 --> 00:01:46,760 Speaker 7: He is? 20 00:01:46,799 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 4: Now, that's the reporter. 21 00:01:49,079 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 8: Waiting until he comes closer. Wait until he turns into 22 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:56,000 the walk. You don't want to miss him, miss him. 23 00:01:57,359 --> 00:02:00,159 Speaker 5: When I get through unloading this ride, that report is 24 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:11,360 gonna look like a Swiss cheese. 25 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:17,159 Speaker 2: The Big Story here is America. It's sound and its fury, 26 00:02:17,319 --> 00:02:20,560 its joy, and its sorrow, as faithfully reported by the 27 00:02:20,599 --> 00:02:27,120 men and women of the great American newspapers. Atlanta, Georgia, 28 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,520 from the pages of the Atlantic Constitution. The authentic story 29 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:33,520 of a reporter who set out to clean up a 30 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:38,599 lottery by gambling with his life Tonight to Queler McCartney 31 00:02:38,599 --> 00:02:42,039 of the Atlanta Constitution, goes the Pellmell Award for the 32 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:54,759 big story and now the story as it actually happened. 33 00:02:55,319 --> 00:03:03,280 Keuyler McCartney, story as he lived it, Atlanta, Georgia. 34 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:16,319 Speaker 9: You are Keela McCartney, police reporter for the Atlanta Constitution. 35 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 6: You're young, conscientious, and hot. 36 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,919 Speaker 9: You stand in your city editor's office, listening to his 37 00:03:24,159 --> 00:03:27,960 dry voice briefing you on new assignment. You wish you 38 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,680 could dive head first into a glass of beer. When 39 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,520 the voice stops, you melt out of the office to 40 00:03:34,599 --> 00:03:38,080 your own desk, your half hearted notes clinging damply to 41 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:39,159 your fingers. 42 00:03:41,159 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 10: Hi, you mac hot enough for you. 43 00:03:44,199 --> 00:03:46,639 Speaker 11: If one more guy asked if it's hot enough for me, 44 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:47,639 I'm gonna pop him one. 45 00:03:48,199 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 12: Yeah, it's hot enough for me. It's hot enough for 46 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:51,759 a TOMUALI. Hey, what's the matter with you? 47 00:03:51,879 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 3: Editor? 48 00:03:52,159 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 11: Tasha a lousy assignment. Mac, He says, get this, Mac, 49 00:03:58,039 --> 00:03:59,560 I want you to see what you can do about 50 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:01,240 cleaning up the lottery racket in town. 51 00:04:02,159 --> 00:04:03,360 Speaker 12: Eighteen million dollars a year. 52 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 11: Those racketers are making enough to buy plenty of Tommy 53 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,240 guns to bump off any reporter who's dope enough to 54 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,360 stick his nose into that set up? How do they 55 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,759 operate the thing? I lay a bet on the third, fourth, 56 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,319 and fifth digits of the daily bond total in the paper. 57 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:19,160 Pays off four hundred and fifty to one, but the 58 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,240 odds are a thousand to one against you. How do 59 00:04:22,279 --> 00:04:25,519 you find out about a lottery anyhow? Place a bet 60 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,839 fella down the street from me. Joe Sampson, He gambles 61 00:04:28,879 --> 00:04:31,959 a lot of it. Ask him he should be able 62 00:04:31,959 --> 00:04:32,800 to make contact for you. 63 00:04:33,519 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 10: Okay, what can I lose? 64 00:04:34,759 --> 00:04:35,519 Speaker 11: Nothing but a buck? 65 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:36,199 Speaker 13: Well? 66 00:04:36,319 --> 00:04:37,879 Speaker 12: Who knows you might even make a killing? 67 00:04:54,879 --> 00:04:55,079 Speaker 1: Hey? 68 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 7: Is anybody home? 69 00:04:56,240 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 12: Oh? 70 00:04:56,759 --> 00:04:57,519 Speaker 4: I'm not ti? 71 00:04:58,560 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 10: Oh didn't see it? 72 00:05:02,199 --> 00:05:03,079 Speaker 11: You're missus Samson. 73 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 14: That's right. 74 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,399 Speaker 10: You picked a pretty rugged day for waiting, didn't you. 75 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:08,759 Speaker 7: I sure did had enough for you. 76 00:05:10,079 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 12: Yeah it is. 77 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:16,079 Speaker 11: I'm looking for mister Sampson's end. Well, No, I wanted 78 00:05:16,079 --> 00:05:17,360 to ask him about placing a lottery. 79 00:05:17,399 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 7: Better get out of here. 80 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:21,319 Speaker 10: Wait a minute, you don't understand. 81 00:05:21,399 --> 00:05:24,639 Speaker 7: I understand enough. You're a rider, aren't you. 82 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:26,240 Speaker 10: Well sure, I'm a reporter. 83 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 7: A reporter. Yeah, Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were 84 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,160 one of those lottery writers that comes to see Joe 85 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:34,879 all the time. 86 00:05:35,639 --> 00:05:37,279 Speaker 10: What have you got against them? 87 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:39,079 Speaker 7: I wish they were all dead. 88 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 10: Wait a minute, the lotteries against the law. 89 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 12: Sure, but what harm can I do? 90 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:45,839 Speaker 7: You really want to know that? 91 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 10: For sure? 92 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,920 Speaker 7: Come on up on the porch where it's cool. You 93 00:05:50,959 --> 00:05:54,040 were glass a buttermilk, providing your head off anyhow, And 94 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:56,040 after that, I'd like to tell you a story. 95 00:05:56,879 --> 00:05:59,439 Speaker 10: All right, all right, it's a deal. 96 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,160 Speaker 7: Maybe it's not much of a story, mister McCartney. It's 97 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:15,040 the kind of thing that probably happens to a lot 98 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,639 of people. The thing is, this time had happened to 99 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,800 Joe and me. We were married about a year then. 100 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,839 Speaker 11: When missus Samson, I got a hand it to you. 101 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:25,920 I married the best looking gal in the state and 102 00:06:25,959 --> 00:06:29,800 the best cook in the world. Now that I am 103 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,439 good after sour as a banker's disposition, Oh. 104 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 7: Say that reminds me. I put some money in our 105 00:06:35,839 --> 00:06:39,319 bank today, our bank, the blue teapot on the kitchen counter. 106 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:40,839 I call it our bank. 107 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:42,439 Speaker 6: Oh, the first National Samson. 108 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 7: I put in another three dollars, Joe. 109 00:06:45,199 --> 00:06:46,879 Speaker 6: Saving so you can be independently wealthy. 110 00:06:47,639 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 7: Sure you haven't forgotten, forgotten what the house out on 111 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:53,959 fifth Street, the white one with the blue shutters and 112 00:06:53,959 --> 00:06:54,720 the peach tree in. 113 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:55,720 Speaker 10: The yard, or what about it? 114 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 7: Oh, it's gonna be ours someday, that's what about it. 115 00:06:58,759 --> 00:07:01,079 Just as soon as we can fill teapot with enough 116 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:02,360 three dollars to buy it. 117 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:05,319 Speaker 6: You're sure thinking slow motion, Genny. 118 00:07:05,879 --> 00:07:07,199 Speaker 11: I'll figure out a way to make a pile of 119 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:09,399 dough fast, and we'll move into that house next year. 120 00:07:09,519 --> 00:07:12,199 Speaker 7: Oh no, Joe, No, If we just save a little 121 00:07:12,199 --> 00:07:15,519 bit each week, we'll have it soon enough. Oh it's 122 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:16,959 better that way, Joe, honest. 123 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,920 Speaker 11: Okay, honey, have it your way. You go ahead and 124 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:21,920 save the pennies and the teapot. But I'm going to 125 00:07:21,959 --> 00:07:24,040 see if I can throw in the dollars. Hey, how 126 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:30,360 about another piece of that apple pie. 127 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 7: Joe's always like that, mister McCartney. Fast. He can't wait 128 00:07:41,399 --> 00:07:45,160 for things. Well, I like planting those flowers in the yard. 129 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,399 Joe was swell about digging up the dirt for me, 130 00:07:48,439 --> 00:07:50,879 but he doesn't like the waiting for the flowers to 131 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,560 come up. Anyhow, Joe brought me the three dollars I 132 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,920 asked for from his checker, be paiday, and I'd go 133 00:07:56,959 --> 00:07:59,639 put it in the blue teapot he got so as 134 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:02,839 I'd wait for him on the porch steps every Friday. Hi, Baby, 135 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,360 give it to me. Give to the three dollars for 136 00:08:05,439 --> 00:08:05,959 the teapot. 137 00:08:06,759 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 6: Look, honey, I haven't got. 138 00:08:07,879 --> 00:08:10,800 Speaker 7: It, You haven't got it. 139 00:08:11,079 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 12: But listen, Jeanie, did you ever hear the bug the lottery? 140 00:08:14,439 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 10: You know? 141 00:08:14,639 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 11: You bet on the numbers in the barn total each 142 00:08:16,199 --> 00:08:17,680 day and if you win, they pay you four hundred 143 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:19,319 and fifty to one. While all we need is to 144 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,439 hit it right, just once, and we've got a down payment. 145 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 7: On the house. 146 00:08:21,839 --> 00:08:22,199 Speaker 10: June. 147 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 7: No, no, don't gamble. Give me the money and let 148 00:08:26,959 --> 00:08:28,199 me put it away in the teapot. 149 00:08:28,319 --> 00:08:30,879 Speaker 11: Oh, come on, baby, be a sport. Just a few bucks, 150 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:31,360 that's all. 151 00:08:32,159 --> 00:08:33,039 Speaker 6: What harm can it do? 152 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:41,559 Speaker 10: Jeannie? 153 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 6: What are you doing in here? 154 00:08:42,879 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 7: What are you doing? 155 00:08:43,639 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 10: Joe? 156 00:08:44,919 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 7: What do you want with that typot? 157 00:08:46,279 --> 00:08:48,399 Speaker 6: Look, honey, I got a specially lucky feeling you. 158 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,279 Speaker 11: They see, I just want to borrow a couple of 159 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,720 bucks from the teapot for the bug. I'll put it 160 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:54,759 back tomorrow. 161 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:01,799 Speaker 6: Look, Jeannie, how about sparing me a few bucks? 162 00:09:01,879 --> 00:09:03,799 Speaker 7: Huh the key pot, damn, Jill. 163 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,320 Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I mean from the housekeeping money. Oh, Jill, 164 00:09:06,399 --> 00:09:08,080 I got a hunch today on number four one nine. 165 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:09,159 I figure all I have to do. 166 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 6: Is lay ten bucks on. 167 00:09:09,879 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 11: That and I can clean up and get back all 168 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:12,320 my losings in one hit. 169 00:09:18,919 --> 00:09:21,039 Speaker 7: Jill, You've got to bring you a check home next week. 170 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,080 I can't pay the bills. You've got to stop gambling. 171 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:24,879 Speaker 6: How can I stop? 172 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 11: I got to make up my losses, don't I? But 173 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:29,159 but there ain't no butts. I tell you, I got 174 00:09:29,159 --> 00:09:31,039 to make no fast and there ain no faster wait. 175 00:09:30,919 --> 00:09:36,200 Speaker 6: Than the bug. Oh look, Jeanie, don't be mad at me. 176 00:09:36,279 --> 00:09:39,399 I got a feeling, Honey. I'm gonna be lucky tomorrow. 177 00:09:46,399 --> 00:09:49,039 Speaker 7: I heard of people that couldn't stop drinking, mister McCartney, 178 00:09:50,039 --> 00:09:54,120 men who kept on drinking even when it made them sick. Well, 179 00:09:54,159 --> 00:09:57,960 that's how gambling is this, Jill. Now, something rotten, something 180 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,000 it can't get away from, even though it's like poison 181 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,960 any sick with it? Last night I sat across the 182 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:08,159 table in looking at it, watching him kind of sit 183 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,720 there and fall away in the little pieces, just looking 184 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:12,120 at him. 185 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,320 Speaker 6: What's the devil you're looking at you? Well, quit it? 186 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:18,639 Speaker 14: Sorry? 187 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 6: Sorry, you always have to be sorry. 188 00:10:22,799 --> 00:10:24,080 Speaker 7: Why don't you give it up? Joe? 189 00:10:24,399 --> 00:10:25,200 Speaker 6: What are you talking about? 190 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:26,639 Speaker 7: The lottery? Give it up, Joe? 191 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 6: Why don't you give up picking on it? 192 00:10:28,519 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 7: I'm not kicking, Yes you are. 193 00:10:30,919 --> 00:10:32,200 Speaker 6: I don't bet because I want to. 194 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 11: I bet because I'd be a dope to stop now. 195 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,000 I've lost too much to quit now. When my numbers 196 00:10:36,039 --> 00:10:36,480 going to come up? 197 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 7: You know it won't. 198 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:38,799 Speaker 6: It's got to come up someday, doesn't it. 199 00:10:38,879 --> 00:10:39,759 Speaker 12: When it does, we'll be rich. 200 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,399 Speaker 7: Rich. What do we want to be rich for? We 201 00:10:41,519 --> 00:10:43,320 just want to save enough to put in our bank. 202 00:10:43,759 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 11: Sure, lousy nickels and pennies to put in the banks 203 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:46,480 that we can buy a house. 204 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 12: WIMMORREADI that's not true. 205 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,080 Speaker 7: You know it is. And we had lots of money 206 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:52,759 in the bank before before. 207 00:10:52,519 --> 00:10:55,799 Speaker 11: What go ahead, say it before I robbed the bank 208 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:57,519 to gamble. That's what you were going to say, right, No, 209 00:10:57,720 --> 00:10:59,279 before Joe rapped the bank before. 210 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,519 Speaker 6: Joe swiped them money. I'm just think I robbed your 211 00:11:01,519 --> 00:11:02,039 lousy bank. 212 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:03,799 Speaker 12: That's all right, all right, I did. 213 00:11:03,799 --> 00:11:06,200 Speaker 11: I robbed the lousy, a little broken down teapot. I 214 00:11:06,279 --> 00:11:08,639 swiped the money and I left it empty, lousy little 215 00:11:08,639 --> 00:11:10,879 teapot with a lousy little broken handled all empty. 216 00:11:10,879 --> 00:11:13,039 Speaker 7: Look at it, all empty. And I don't care you hear. 217 00:11:12,879 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 12: Me, Genie, I don't care. 218 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:21,039 Speaker 6: I don't care who about your lousy little teapot? Uh 219 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:22,960 huh m hm. 220 00:11:27,039 --> 00:11:27,240 Speaker 10: Hm. 221 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:35,879 Speaker 15: Can't stop, Genie. It's like being drunk crazy every week 222 00:11:35,879 --> 00:11:37,559 and I get my check. I say, this time, I'll 223 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:39,559 bring it home the genie. This time, I'll give it 224 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:42,840 all the genie. And that guy comes along with his lottery, 225 00:11:42,879 --> 00:11:44,440 and I can't stop. 226 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:45,879 Speaker 7: What are we gonna do? Honey? 227 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,639 Speaker 16: I don't know, but Joe, I wish they were all dead, 228 00:11:52,639 --> 00:12:02,559 so do I. 229 00:12:02,639 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 9: You? Keela McCartney, feel a slow burning anger starts deepen 230 00:12:08,519 --> 00:12:11,000 your guts and rips its way after the lump in 231 00:12:11,039 --> 00:12:14,720 your throat, just suddenly ashamed because you can still hear 232 00:12:14,799 --> 00:12:18,639 yourself saying carelessly, lottery, what har I'm gonna do? 233 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 7: And now you know, can't anybody do anything to stop? 234 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:23,360 At mister McCartney. 235 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:23,960 Speaker 9: I don't know. 236 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,080 Speaker 11: I sure don't know what one guy with a typewriter 237 00:12:27,159 --> 00:12:29,440 can do against thousands of guys with lottery sheets and 238 00:12:29,519 --> 00:12:30,159 Tommy guns. 239 00:12:30,159 --> 00:12:34,879 Speaker 12: But well I'm gonna try. 240 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:54,440 Speaker 2: We'll be back in just a moment with tonight's big story. 241 00:12:55,679 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 17: This is Sy Harris returning you to your narrator and 242 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,000 the big story of Keeler McCartney as he lived it 243 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:03,279 and wrote it. 244 00:13:05,519 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 10: You, Keela McCartney. 245 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 9: I'm mad hot and mad hot because the late summer 246 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,360 Georgia's son has made a furnace of Atlanta's streets mad 247 00:13:16,519 --> 00:13:19,759 because a lottery called the Bug is wrecking the lives 248 00:13:19,759 --> 00:13:20,759 of Atlanta's people. 249 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:22,000 Speaker 10: The Bug. 250 00:13:22,639 --> 00:13:25,639 Speaker 9: You've written stories about it, and you know it's an ugly, 251 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,840 crawling thing that takes the dimes and the dollars of 252 00:13:28,879 --> 00:13:33,960 Atlanta's poor. So you take your temper and your thirst 253 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:36,399 into a bar well, you know, the workers for the 254 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,279 Bug congregate. You walk out of the burning sun into 255 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:44,879 the dimness and the coolness, and you say one beer, 256 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:49,519 and then you wait. You wait while the eyes along 257 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,559 the bar study you, and the eyes from the table 258 00:13:53,759 --> 00:13:58,480 study you. You wait, and you drink your beer and 259 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:05,120 you feel the eyes on you and then Hi, Hello, 260 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:07,240 hot enough for you? 261 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 10: You bet. 262 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 4: You know I ain't seen you before. 263 00:14:14,759 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 10: I'm no. 264 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 4: None of the boys they ain't seen you before. 265 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 10: Well, I'm no. 266 00:14:21,799 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 5: Right m h worked with Cloyd? Uh huh south side, 267 00:14:28,279 --> 00:14:33,240 that's right. Cloyde don't operate on the south side. 268 00:14:33,919 --> 00:14:34,399 Speaker 10: He does. 269 00:14:34,559 --> 00:14:38,919 Speaker 5: Now, what do you mean he started this morning? You 270 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:43,200 mean he's gonna muscle in on Daniels. Figure it out yourself. Wow, 271 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:47,000 that's good news. Glad to hear it. They called me tinny. 272 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:48,200 Haven't been sure. 273 00:14:48,919 --> 00:14:50,600 Speaker 10: I'm read plays to meet you? 274 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 4: Then two beers? 275 00:14:52,039 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 6: Ready? 276 00:14:53,799 --> 00:14:55,799 Speaker 5: The reason I cased your first off? 277 00:14:56,279 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 4: I gotta be careful. 278 00:14:57,519 --> 00:15:03,039 Speaker 5: Sure the newspapers are getting hap Sure this gume I 279 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:04,799 got me in a constitution? 280 00:15:05,919 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 10: There is one prize, louse. 281 00:15:09,759 --> 00:15:16,639 Speaker 5: Sure it's gonna wake up someone and then find themselves dead. 282 00:15:18,759 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 10: Have another beer? 283 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:20,879 Speaker 4: Tiny, sure, pals? 284 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:23,799 Speaker 12: Sure I jamake God this week corected. 285 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 5: Two thousand and seven and eighty four hours. 286 00:15:27,159 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 4: You know something found? People are awful. 287 00:15:30,559 --> 00:15:41,399 Speaker 11: Sunders, congratulations mac Tho. Stories are yours on the bug 288 00:15:41,399 --> 00:15:44,120 are beginning to pay off. The cops picked up three 289 00:15:44,159 --> 00:15:45,399 lottery bosses again yesterday. 290 00:15:45,399 --> 00:15:46,399 Speaker 6: They're only the little guys. 291 00:15:46,440 --> 00:15:46,679 Speaker 10: Pete. 292 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 12: We have to get the big ones, the biggest one. 293 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 10: Well go to it. 294 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:52,519 Speaker 12: Sure, proble is, I don't know who is. 295 00:15:58,159 --> 00:15:58,879 Speaker 14: Work Pound? 296 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:00,679 Speaker 6: Suppose I do get take that one. 297 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:03,519 Speaker 5: I'm at this lawyer the boy signed and get a 298 00:16:03,679 --> 00:16:10,919 charge buried for years. Great guy, the voice I. 299 00:16:09,279 --> 00:16:13,799 Speaker 10: I never met a great guy never comes around here? 300 00:16:13,919 --> 00:16:14,399 Does he? 301 00:16:14,559 --> 00:16:15,279 Speaker 4: The boss? 302 00:16:15,679 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 5: And a crumb joint like this, he'll be plenty, saying 303 00:16:19,159 --> 00:16:20,279 Herbert as a gentleman. 304 00:16:26,159 --> 00:16:27,960 Speaker 6: The word is to take it slow. 305 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 3: Pound. 306 00:16:28,519 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 5: What's up this lousy reporter, this McCartney and the Constitution? 307 00:16:33,639 --> 00:16:36,960 He's found out? Dan, Herbert's the boss. Dan says, we 308 00:16:37,039 --> 00:16:40,840 got watch it down. What my cop just come into 309 00:16:40,919 --> 00:16:41,720 the bar ahead. 310 00:16:41,519 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 10: In this way, Amen, A. 311 00:16:44,759 --> 00:16:46,879 Speaker 12: Just happened to catch tighter use of the window break 312 00:16:46,919 --> 00:16:49,559 for me. Look, drop off this accident. Report for me 313 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:50,519 at the station, will. 314 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:53,159 Speaker 10: You mac GATORI wife Smith, you know what it is. 315 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:55,559 Speaker 12: And I'm like too, thanks a lot, mac. 316 00:16:58,440 --> 00:16:58,639 Speaker 4: Man. 317 00:17:01,679 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 5: I mean that. 318 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,839 Speaker 10: I cos. 319 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 5: His keel and mcctney over at the Constitution they call 320 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:24,240 him back too. That's it, he knows. They all know. 321 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:29,319 Speaker 9: A sudden, ugly silence falls over the bar, and all 322 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:33,559 those eyes turned towards you again, all those ugly chig 323 00:17:33,799 --> 00:17:38,799 like eyes. You stand up, You put a hand into 324 00:17:38,839 --> 00:17:45,960 your hip pocket, your back towards the door, slowly, slowly, 325 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:54,960 keeping a steady watch on Tiny in his pals. And 326 00:17:55,079 --> 00:17:58,559 then you push open the bar door and. 327 00:17:58,559 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 4: You're outside in the street. 328 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,920 Speaker 9: You start to run, take your hand out of your 329 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:06,079 hip pocket because you didn't have a gun anyway, you 330 00:18:06,319 --> 00:18:15,440 just run. 331 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 3: Just how much do you think this McCartney person knows 332 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:20,039 about us, Tony? 333 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,119 Speaker 5: Well, you know it is, mister Herbert. Some of the 334 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,440 boys ain't careful like me. Some of the boys get 335 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:26,160 a little liquored up, and they talk too much. 336 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,720 Speaker 3: In other words, Tiny, it might be advisable to liquidate 337 00:18:29,839 --> 00:18:30,720 this reporter. 338 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:33,319 Speaker 5: Like you say, mister Helbert, liquidit. 339 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,799 Speaker 3: We could figure out some way to entice them to 340 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,680 the Yellow House. Do you think we could entice McCartney 341 00:18:38,759 --> 00:18:39,599 to the Yellow House? 342 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,799 Speaker 5: Sure, I'll have Blaine call him with a phony story. 343 00:18:43,319 --> 00:18:45,200 Just tell me when you want to, mister Helbert, Just 344 00:18:45,279 --> 00:19:00,680 tell me when allo Samson leave me alone? Tiny, how 345 00:19:00,759 --> 00:19:03,000 much you want to place on the back tonight, Joe. 346 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:04,759 Speaker 11: Cut it out, Tiny, please cut it out. I'm taking 347 00:19:04,759 --> 00:19:05,279 my check. 348 00:19:05,079 --> 00:19:08,079 Speaker 4: Home tonight, Jemmy. Sure, And how about that little house 349 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:09,240 you and the wife was planning. 350 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 11: I thought you guys were going to be stopped. That 351 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,039 guy on the paper, that killer McCartney. He'll get you, 352 00:19:13,039 --> 00:19:14,000 guys a whole bunch. 353 00:19:13,759 --> 00:19:15,359 Speaker 10: Of hats at his secret show. 354 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:17,240 Speaker 4: McCartney's through. 355 00:19:17,759 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 5: The boys at the Yellow House are going to take 356 00:19:19,759 --> 00:19:22,920 care of him. Now, what'd you say? Fifteen bucks, Joe? 357 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:23,559 Speaker 6: All right? 358 00:19:23,559 --> 00:19:23,920 Speaker 10: All right? 359 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 11: Fifteen bucks a number four, one night, and I hope 360 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:27,400 I never see you again as long as I. 361 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:38,599 Speaker 5: Lit show Samson fifteen dollars and number four one minute. 362 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,000 Sure everything is all right, Tenney, Sure, I'm sure, mister 363 00:19:46,279 --> 00:19:49,079 A glance telephone. McCartney told him there was some kind 364 00:19:49,119 --> 00:19:52,200 of a story here, right, Hey, what is it? Just 365 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:54,119 turning the corner there, that's McCartney. 366 00:19:54,519 --> 00:19:56,759 Speaker 10: Wait until he turns into the wall. You don't want 367 00:19:56,799 --> 00:19:57,079 them to. 368 00:19:57,039 --> 00:20:00,519 Speaker 4: Miss, yes, and I get through unloading it. Ride. 369 00:20:00,599 --> 00:20:02,079 Speaker 5: That reporter is gonna look like a. 370 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:06,839 Speaker 8: Swiss cheese, I hope. So I'll wait, Dunny, wait until 371 00:20:06,839 --> 00:20:10,559 he turns into the walk, just to look. A few steps, tiny, 372 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:11,559 just a couple of. 373 00:20:11,519 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 7: More steps, carny, mister McCartney, Jeane, what are you doing here? 374 00:20:19,079 --> 00:20:20,759 I just called your office and they told me where 375 00:20:20,759 --> 00:20:23,160 you're going. And Joe just just told me what the 376 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,599 writer said to him. What writer the one called tiny? 377 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:27,400 Speaker 10: Tiny? What do he saying? 378 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,480 Speaker 7: He said, the boys in the yellow house will take 379 00:20:30,519 --> 00:20:32,519 care of you in the yellow hose. 380 00:20:32,599 --> 00:20:32,799 Speaker 12: Yeah? 381 00:20:32,839 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 7: Do you know what he meant? 382 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:37,519 Speaker 10: Yellow house? Oh brings no bells? 383 00:20:37,759 --> 00:20:38,680 Speaker 7: Oh? 384 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 11: Well, thanks anyway, Gane, I'll go in here now and 385 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,359 cover this story, and maybe i'll check on the yellow 386 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:44,119 house business later. 387 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,839 Speaker 7: All right, Oh, but take care of yourself. 388 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 12: Don't worry. I'll be. 389 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 10: Jean. 390 00:20:49,839 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 7: Yeah. 391 00:20:51,279 --> 00:20:52,839 Speaker 10: Do you see the number on this house right here? 392 00:20:53,319 --> 00:20:53,519 Speaker 8: Oh? 393 00:20:53,839 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 7: Says two twenty four? 394 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,160 Speaker 11: In this dude, I just got an anonymous phone call 395 00:20:59,200 --> 00:20:59,640 to cover a. 396 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,079 Speaker 10: Story at number two two four? 397 00:21:01,599 --> 00:21:03,279 Speaker 7: What they could do? 398 00:21:03,319 --> 00:21:07,880 Speaker 12: You see what I mean? Number two two four? He's 399 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:08,640 a yellow house. 400 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 4: How can you sign that he beat it? 401 00:21:17,839 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 12: Well, turney, that's the second time. 402 00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:21,160 Speaker 2: You failed me. 403 00:21:21,599 --> 00:21:22,519 Speaker 4: I mean, mister Hulbert. 404 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 16: You. 405 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,039 Speaker 10: I found out it was you who talked too much 406 00:21:26,039 --> 00:21:27,039 and started. 407 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,680 Speaker 3: All this difficulty, and now you've bungled an opportunity to 408 00:21:29,759 --> 00:21:34,119 rectify your mistake. Tiny, much as I regret the necessity, 409 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,000 you are true. 410 00:21:42,759 --> 00:21:46,759 Speaker 9: You Keila McCartney know who's behind this plot to erase you, 411 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:49,759 Dan Herbert, and you know that he'll get you too 412 00:21:50,279 --> 00:21:51,720 unless you get him first. 413 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:53,799 Speaker 10: But how that's the question. 414 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:56,279 Speaker 11: How how can you put a guy down if nobody 415 00:21:56,279 --> 00:21:59,160 will squeal on him? Pete, what's with this Dan Hilbert character? 416 00:21:59,759 --> 00:22:02,480 He made a solid gold just about. He treats his 417 00:22:02,559 --> 00:22:04,759 writer as well, gives them big percentages of the take, 418 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,000 protect them when they get in trouble. All more trouble 419 00:22:08,799 --> 00:22:11,680 if it's another anonymous tip. Hang up, Mac, it's too 420 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:12,119 hot to. 421 00:22:12,079 --> 00:22:12,839 Speaker 3: Go to a funeral. 422 00:22:13,599 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 10: McCartney speaking. 423 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 14: This the McCartney that's been writing them stories on the lottery. 424 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,680 Speaker 10: Yeah, who's this nobody? 425 00:22:21,279 --> 00:22:24,640 Speaker 14: Look I used to be in the lottery business myself. 426 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 12: See what business you're now giving tips to reporters. Oh, 427 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,279 I don't want to hear this, McCartney. 428 00:22:32,279 --> 00:22:34,640 Speaker 5: A guy by the name of Dan her But has 429 00:22:34,759 --> 00:22:37,960 seventy cases of whiskey stood in the garage over on 430 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,880 Melrose Avenue to see and he ain't got no permit for. 431 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:42,559 Speaker 14: Him to see. 432 00:22:43,799 --> 00:22:46,240 Speaker 10: Yeah, I see guys. 433 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,119 Speaker 14: With no permits for starr and whiskey can get arrested. 434 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,359 I suppose you take it from Namack. 435 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:55,480 Speaker 11: Hey wait a minute, now, I get your voice tiny Hello, Hello, 436 00:22:55,559 --> 00:23:02,480 tiny Hello tip Nope, hung up another chip from tiny 437 00:23:02,559 --> 00:23:05,039 the writer I got mixed up with. Just recognize the voice. 438 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,359 You must have had a falling out with Herbert. You 439 00:23:07,599 --> 00:23:12,039 just squeal on him. Some hot Herbert's got seventy cases 440 00:23:12,079 --> 00:23:14,000 of whiskey and a garage on Melrose. 441 00:23:15,039 --> 00:23:18,400 Speaker 10: The coin of phrase. Is that hot enough for you? 442 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 9: It's hot enough for anyone, including the police. Dan Herbert 443 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:34,359 is arrested for storing whiskey without a permit. Then the 444 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:38,000 police begin their relentless questioning and finally secure the three 445 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,039 page confession, which wipes up what's left of the lottery 446 00:23:41,079 --> 00:23:45,440 racket in Atlanta. And then one afternoon, you take a 447 00:23:45,519 --> 00:23:48,200 stroll out to see your old friend the Sampsons. 448 00:23:48,599 --> 00:23:49,920 Speaker 12: Hi, Jeanie, he's still at the weeding. 449 00:23:50,039 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 7: Yeah place is a miss? Why somebody milk? 450 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 10: I could be persuaded. Joe home? 451 00:23:54,839 --> 00:23:57,079 Speaker 7: Oh not yet. He stopped by to get his paycheck. 452 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,680 I bought a new teapot today. 453 00:23:59,759 --> 00:24:01,640 Speaker 12: Well here's its chief depositor. 454 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,640 Speaker 11: Now, Hi, Joe, I am not goodness see, oh baby 455 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:06,200 about to give it to me? 456 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:08,279 Speaker 7: Three dollars for the bank. 457 00:24:08,559 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 10: Is that over? 458 00:24:09,079 --> 00:24:09,279 Speaker 6: Two? 459 00:24:09,559 --> 00:24:10,319 Speaker 7: Joe Samson? 460 00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:13,359 Speaker 11: I'll take it easy honey, I saw these flowers downtown 461 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,359 and I thought they'd well kind of brighten up the 462 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,440 place where those ones you planted take their own sweet 463 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:18,079 time blooming. 464 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,839 Speaker 6: Oh Joe, you bigg And then well, I had. 465 00:24:20,759 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 11: To stop and get mac here a couple of cigars 466 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:23,720 to say thanks, didn't I? 467 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:39,400 Speaker 2: In just a moment, we'll read you a telegram from 468 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,440 Keeler McCartney or the Atlanta Constitution with a final outcome 469 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:50,920 of Tonight's big story. Now we read you that telegram 470 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,079 from Keeler McCartney or the Atlanta Constitution. 471 00:24:53,599 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 11: Previously unable to get any evidence against lottery boss and 472 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,440 Tonight's Big Story, arresting him on a liquor charge was 473 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,640 the only way legally hold him. Once in custody, he 474 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:05,559 was persuaded to confess that he employed twelve hundred people 475 00:25:05,599 --> 00:25:09,240 in Atlanta's seven million dollar lottery ring. A fifteen count 476 00:25:09,279 --> 00:25:10,759 indictment was secured against him. 477 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:12,279 Speaker 10: He was sentenced to six. 478 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,039 Speaker 11: Years on the chain gang at Tatnall State Prison in Readsville. 479 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 10: My sincere appreciation for Tonight's Pellmell Award. 480 00:25:18,279 --> 00:25:21,759 Speaker 2: Thank you, mister McCartney. The makers of Pallmell famous cigarettes 481 00:25:21,799 --> 00:25:23,400 are proud to have named you the winner of the 482 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,319 Pall Mall five hundred dollars Award for notable service in 483 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:27,359 the field of Journalism. 484 00:25:27,599 --> 00:25:31,319 Speaker 17: Listen again next week, same time, same station, when pell 485 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,759 Mell Famous Cigarettes will present another Big Story, A big 486 00:25:35,799 --> 00:25:38,279 story from the front pages of the Los Angeles Herald 487 00:25:38,279 --> 00:25:43,240 Express by line Pat Foley, A big story about a 488 00:25:43,279 --> 00:25:47,079 meek little man with a mania for marriage and murder. 489 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,880 Speaker 2: The Big Story is produced by Bernard J. Popter, with 490 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,319 music by Vladi miss Lensky. The night's program was written 491 00:26:07,319 --> 00:26:11,240 by Gail Ingram. Your narrator was Bob Sloan and George 492 00:26:11,279 --> 00:26:14,519 Petrie played the part of Keila McCartney. In order to 493 00:26:14,559 --> 00:26:18,319 protect the names of people actually involved in tonight's authentic 494 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,599 big Story, the names of all characters and the dramatization 495 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,000 were changed, with the exception of the reporter, mister McCartney. 496 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,359 This is Ernest Chappell speaking for the makers of Palnel 497 00:26:37,559 --> 00:26:38,559 Famous Cigarettes. 498 00:26:42,319 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 12: This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. 499 00:26:53,799 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well stored along with mister Petree in this 500 00:26:58,759 --> 00:27:05,440 week's episode was James van Dock, Ted Decortia, James Monks, 501 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:12,000 Mercedes McCambridge and John Sylvester and actually, the majority of 502 00:27:12,039 --> 00:27:16,799 the cast has started in at least one great detective series. 503 00:27:17,039 --> 00:27:22,079 George Petrie, of course as Commissioner Bill Mason on Call 504 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:27,559 the Police, as John J. Malone in The Amazing Mister Malone, 505 00:27:27,759 --> 00:27:34,759 Ted Decortia as Mike Hammer, Mercedes McCambridge as Martha Ellis 506 00:27:34,759 --> 00:27:39,839 Bryant in Defense Attorney, and James Monks as both Mister 507 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:45,039 I Amoto and the Avenger. The Stories behind the Big 508 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:52,200 Story website essentially confirms the truth of the basic story 509 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,599 by mister McCartney, and I went ahead and took a 510 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:58,839 look through newspapers dot com at some of the original 511 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:04,319 stories in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and according to one 512 00:28:04,319 --> 00:28:11,119 of McCartney's later stories, he did an article in nineteen 513 00:28:11,279 --> 00:28:15,359 forty five which was kind of a victory lap article 514 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:21,519 in nineteen forty five pointing out that the racket had 515 00:28:21,799 --> 00:28:25,759 dried up with the conviction of the leaders and a 516 00:28:25,799 --> 00:28:32,559 lot of small fries. According to McCartney, the Bugget lottery 517 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:39,039 had involved up to in like its peak years, fifty 518 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:45,640 million dollars, which for a single metropolitan area. And keep 519 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,480 in mind that the racket had been in operation for 520 00:28:49,519 --> 00:28:53,839 about twenty years, so it's hard to say, you know, 521 00:28:54,039 --> 00:28:57,079 what would the fifty million dollars have been in today's 522 00:28:57,119 --> 00:29:01,440 money without knowing the precise year, it was fifty million dollars, 523 00:29:01,799 --> 00:29:06,200 but Fulton County during this period had somewhere between two 524 00:29:06,279 --> 00:29:11,160 hundred and fifty thousand and four hundred thousand people, and 525 00:29:11,319 --> 00:29:15,319 that would be in the hundreds of millions of dollars 526 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:20,200 in today's money. So this was a major racket that 527 00:29:20,319 --> 00:29:25,440 the newspapers were really able to build towards, an effort 528 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,480 that ultimately dismantled them. Now, The Stories behind the Big 529 00:29:29,519 --> 00:29:35,359 Story website notes that McCartney continued to work at the 530 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:40,240 paper until the nineteen seventies and passed away in nineteen 531 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:45,200 ninety four. And there is a box of his correspondence 532 00:29:45,359 --> 00:29:50,559 at Emory University. And if anyone is curious whether there's 533 00:29:50,599 --> 00:29:54,279 any correspondence about the Big Story, who can go to 534 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,759 Emory University. You have to give about a two day 535 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:03,480 advance notice and fall all their policies to view the collection. 536 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,640 The other thing that website notes is that the script 537 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:12,440 was written by Gail Ingram. She and her husband were 538 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:17,599 both radio writers, and her husband took this script and 539 00:30:18,119 --> 00:30:22,599 rewrote it. In the casey crime photographer universe as the 540 00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:26,519 story unlucky numbers in terms of plot. I had a 541 00:30:26,519 --> 00:30:29,079 couple of thoughts on the episode. First of all, this 542 00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:32,720 is the top of story that could not happen in 543 00:30:32,759 --> 00:30:36,799 the information age, because if a criminal organization was mad 544 00:30:36,839 --> 00:30:41,440 at a reporter, then most people of importance would know 545 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,519 exactly what he looked like. Though on this topic, I 546 00:30:45,559 --> 00:30:50,119 think the most obviously fictionalized part of this is tiny. 547 00:30:50,559 --> 00:30:53,519 Events in this story were much more recent than many 548 00:30:53,559 --> 00:30:59,480 other episodes we've heard, and if you lightly fictionalized aspects 549 00:30:59,519 --> 00:31:02,599 of how he got his information, it would probably have 550 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,839 put his informants at risk. So we just have one 551 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:11,480 guy who couldn't shut up and had just to tell 552 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,440 everybody about everything. Let me go ahead and tell this 553 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:21,240 one random gambler about our planned murder. Though I guess 554 00:31:21,359 --> 00:31:25,319 in terms of having a big mouth, that one policeman 555 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:31,920 who ran in and blew McCartney's cover he deserves an entry, 556 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,519 although I think Tony's guess was a bit of a leap. 557 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:42,440 I mean, Mac was a very popular nickname for Scottish people, 558 00:31:42,839 --> 00:31:45,880 and do you know how many people of Scottish heritage 559 00:31:46,359 --> 00:31:49,480 are in the state of Georgia. But the association with 560 00:31:49,559 --> 00:31:53,240 the police. Maybe the yellow house scene was one of 561 00:31:53,279 --> 00:31:57,519 those things that they tried to make dramatic for radio, 562 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:01,160 but to me it just didn't work. Martney gets the 563 00:32:01,279 --> 00:32:05,640 tip from Genie and then he sees the house and 564 00:32:05,759 --> 00:32:09,880 McCartney says, Jean, do you see the number on this 565 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:13,640 house right here? She says it says to twenty four 566 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:18,200 on the stoop and he says, I just got an 567 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,799 anonymous phone call to cover a story at number two 568 00:32:21,839 --> 00:32:25,759 two four, And then Jeane says, but what has that? Oh, 569 00:32:26,359 --> 00:32:30,079 and with a guess, see what I mean? Two twenty 570 00:32:30,119 --> 00:32:34,119 four is a yellow house. Now, in theory, this is 571 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,640 supposed to reveal to the audience that he stumbled on 572 00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:41,440 to the yellow house and almost went into it. It's 573 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:46,000 a yellow house. But the problem is that we already 574 00:32:46,079 --> 00:32:51,680 knew that that was already established where Dan Holbert and 575 00:32:51,799 --> 00:32:55,960 Tony were talking. And if I heard that somebody was 576 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,799 going to be taken care of at a yellow house, 577 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,400 and I saw the walking towards a yellow house, I 578 00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,319 would understand the implication of that. So that one part 579 00:33:07,359 --> 00:33:10,960 was a bit awkward. Well, listener comments and feedback now, 580 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,000 and we have a couple of comments. We start with 581 00:33:14,319 --> 00:33:22,319 Harrison over on Spotify writing regarding the episode Pillars of Society. 582 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,839 I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought the 583 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,880 hoops he had to jump through was a bit extreme. 584 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,960 Thanks Harrison. And it should be said that a lot 585 00:33:34,039 --> 00:33:39,359 of people were quite dissatisfied in real life with the 586 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:45,079 pace at which the case was addressed. I read through 587 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:49,160 letters to the editor where people were wondering, Okay, so 588 00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:55,480 it's been since April of thirty seven that the governor's 589 00:33:55,559 --> 00:34:00,559 chief advisor has recommended a pardon. Why is this taking 590 00:34:00,599 --> 00:34:05,559 so long? And Governor Davy was an incumbentate administration had 591 00:34:05,599 --> 00:34:09,360 a lot of problems. He got ousted in the primary 592 00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:14,280 by a reform candidate. I don't think that the parting 593 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:18,239 issue was at the forefront, but there was a great 594 00:34:18,519 --> 00:34:25,719 sense of idea that Governor's integrity was in question and 595 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,440 it would be a risk to his Democratic Party if 596 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:34,599 he were to be nominated. Although the reform candidate who 597 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:39,840 defeated Governor Davy also lost in the fall. Mechanics sixty 598 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:44,039 six rights seems like a young thief would start with 599 00:34:44,119 --> 00:34:47,559 a candy store and progress to grand theft auto when 600 00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:51,199 older not the other way around. Well, some people have 601 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,519 to be contrary. And then over on YouTube, regarding the 602 00:34:55,559 --> 00:35:00,599 episode Manhunt in Manhattan, Betsy writes, good episode. Thank you. 603 00:35:00,679 --> 00:35:03,599 The algorithm is making it harder to find you, but 604 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:04,840 I persevere. 605 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:06,199 Speaker 10: Well. 606 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 1: I appreciate it, Betsy, and honestly, YouTube has been doing 607 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:15,559 some things. When I look at the stats, the click 608 00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:21,239 through rates on my episodes posted on YouTube are about 609 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,960 the same as they were before. The problem is that 610 00:35:25,039 --> 00:35:29,119 YouTube isn't serving them up to as many listeners, and 611 00:35:29,159 --> 00:35:35,239 the algorithm often does strange things for inexplicable reasons, which 612 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,119 is why I always encourage people listening on YouTube to 613 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:43,599 like the video, subscribe to the channel, mark the notification bell, 614 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,719 because those are the sort of things that help our 615 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,760 content to be seen more on YouTube, and in the 616 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:56,239 case of marking the notification bell, it also ensures you 617 00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:01,039 get notified when we drop a new episode. Now it's 618 00:36:01,159 --> 00:36:04,760 time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and 619 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:10,079 I want to thank Splanator, Patreon supporter since September twenty twenty, 620 00:36:10,639 --> 00:36:16,079 currently supporting the podcast at the Shawmus level of four 621 00:36:16,159 --> 00:36:19,559 dollars or more per month. Thanks so much for your support. 622 00:36:19,599 --> 00:36:22,800 Splanator and that will do it for today. If you're 623 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:28,639 enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software, 624 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,599 and be sure to rate and review the podcast wherever 625 00:36:31,639 --> 00:36:35,440 you download it from. We'll be back next Tuesday with 626 00:36:35,519 --> 00:36:38,679 another episode of the Big Story, but join us back 627 00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:40,880 here tomorrow for Broadways my beat. 628 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,239 Speaker 10: Where this lady dan is? She wanders in off the street. 629 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,800 Say she's looking for help, she's the police. 630 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,039 Speaker 7: Please, I want to go home. 631 00:36:49,679 --> 00:36:52,159 Speaker 4: Take me home, someone, don't be frightened? 632 00:36:52,159 --> 00:36:55,800 Speaker 7: Will I hate it? Dougly and dirty? My love for 633 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:56,199 a woman? 634 00:36:56,239 --> 00:37:00,119 Speaker 13: When she all I wanted was to make friends. I 635 00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:05,400 bought new things, paid their way. Why I shouldn't have 636 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,760 to pay the things back? Homeless? 637 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:08,599 Speaker 4: Where is your home? 638 00:37:08,679 --> 00:37:14,159 Speaker 13: Miss They say that missus Pryce, go Elizabeth. She's a 639 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,679 deep one, more than meets the eye. You could light 640 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:18,920 marsh Hires with. 641 00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:21,119 Speaker 10: Where do they say that? Missus? Price? 642 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,079 Speaker 12: In Vermont, in the village. 643 00:37:24,079 --> 00:37:27,760 Speaker 13: When I walk down main Street to shop for in provisions, 644 00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:30,760 I hear their whispers so loud. 645 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,239 Speaker 10: You'll be all right, lady. 646 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,719 Speaker 5: You are now with Danny Clover's hands and for an 647 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,360 out of town a loss unhappy? 648 00:37:37,519 --> 00:37:37,840 Speaker 10: Please? 649 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:47,960 Speaker 11: Please? That's tom Phill That my fir quickly, yours price? 650 00:37:48,039 --> 00:37:55,000 Speaker 4: Give me hold on so tight? That's please? 651 00:37:55,719 --> 00:38:00,159 Speaker 7: Yes, thank you? 652 00:38:00,159 --> 00:38:01,239 Speaker 4: What if she or anything? 653 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:02,960 Speaker 10: Give it to a g? Oh sure? 654 00:38:03,079 --> 00:38:04,000 Speaker 12: Shall we missus price? 655 00:38:04,079 --> 00:38:09,760 Speaker 10: Kif cool? 656 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,079 Speaker 6: Good books? 657 00:38:14,119 --> 00:38:14,480 Speaker 16: Appair? 658 00:38:16,159 --> 00:38:16,920 Speaker 4: Don't look like that. 659 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:19,079 Speaker 12: There's nothing to be afraid of. 660 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:21,920 Speaker 7: They have nofer these attacks. 661 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:29,880 Speaker 11: They come, oh, missus price. Then she sends it, Shall 662 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:31,000 I go out with doctor Sisky? 663 00:38:31,199 --> 00:38:33,800 Speaker 12: Shall I? Well? Why what can I do? 664 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:34,280 Speaker 7: Danny? 665 00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:35,079 Speaker 11: Tell me what? 666 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:36,360 Speaker 10: Nothing? 667 00:38:36,519 --> 00:38:38,280 Speaker 4: You know nothing? 668 00:38:38,519 --> 00:38:40,880 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, 669 00:38:41,119 --> 00:38:45,639 send your comments to Box thirteen at Greatdetectives dot net, 670 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,960 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 671 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:57,199 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. 672 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,880 This is your host, Adam Grant, Shine and Off.