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take a lesson. From June eleventh, nineteen fifty, here is
the Sinister Sneeze.
Speaker 2: The Adventures of the Saint, starring Vincent Price. The Saint
based on character is created by Leslie Trotteris and known
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and talented actor Vincent Price.
Speaker 3: As the Saint them.
Speaker 4: I don't think though Courcy really belongs to the Butt Company.
Does anybody mind when Daddy claud comes for Christmas? I
make you very pretty? It pleased to ask, Oh, thanks,
But I sneez. Go ahead, you're a girl of your word.
Speaker 5: I always knee, especially on bushes.
Speaker 4: Why I don't know.
Speaker 5: I've been a hundreds of doctors.
Speaker 6: They don't know. Ea.
Speaker 5: I even went to a psychoanalyst.
Speaker 4: That sounds as if it might have been a good idea.
Speaker 5: It wasn't. Why not After a while he began to
sneeze too, Thank you, you're you.
Speaker 4: I rarely sneeze, though It's all right, I sneeze enough
for two. The question is, can do sneeze as cheaply
as one? I've been worrying about that, So you can
stop right now.
Speaker 5: I know, because my boyfriend doesn't sneeze.
Speaker 4: Much either, Well perhaps if he practiced.
Speaker 5: His name is Breckinridge.
Speaker 4: Isn't that silly, especially since he doesn't sneeze. My name
is Patty, not at all silly, Simon. And the name
of the bus is Genevieve. And the name of the
city we're in me or the city it's Diamond Templar.
Speaker 5: Oh, you're the stage.
Speaker 4: There's a totally unfounded rumor to that effect, But.
Speaker 5: From what I've heard, you're not saying it all. I'm scared.
Speaker 4: We're on a buck I'm still scared. What can happen
on a bus except for us? Is that I.
Speaker 5: Didn't mean I was scared of you. Please get off
the bus with me so that we can go see Breckenridge.
Why he's scared.
Speaker 4: Too, Peggy, Please take my word for it. He's got
nothing to be scared about.
Speaker 5: Oh, I didn't mean scared of you. I meant well,
Breckenridge is a price fider. Man is Simon, and he's scared.
Why it's prize fighter is called Benny the Battler.
Speaker 4: Oh, and Breckenridge is afraid of Benny's the battler.
Speaker 5: No, nobody's afraid of Benny, not even other prize fighters.
Oh we get off here, nan Nan, please let it out. Lady,
thank you very much.
Speaker 4: And now, Peggy, what is Breckenridge afraid of?
Speaker 6: Mother?
Speaker 5: Reckon Ridge was in a very nice fielding, don't you
think did you notice all the poems in the lobby?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Breakinridge must love nature.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, mister Breckinridge has just left town for the
Upper Amazon.
Speaker 5: Breckenridge. What you're saying?
Speaker 7: Well, I thought maybe it was a built collector.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, Oh this is the bregon Ridge.
Speaker 7: I don't need one today.
Speaker 4: Goodbye, bragon Ridge.
Speaker 5: Are coming in. Oh, Breckonridge has a very fine, tanted humor.
Speaker 7: Simon, I noticed that you want to make something out
of us.
Speaker 5: Breckenridge, behave yourself. Simon's going to help us. Yeah, yeah,
Now if you want to help speak we are polite
to him.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't mind telling you, mister rhyme on a spot.
Speaker 4: Why don't you stop that. I can't help you.
Speaker 7: Anyway, Saint. I got a boy, Benny the Butler. I
see Bennita Butler, one of the lousiest middle weights that
ever fouled up a prize ring.
Speaker 4: I think I may have seen him fight once and
knew it. If I remember correctly, he lost.
Speaker 6: That was Benny.
Speaker 4: Is he the spot?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 7: In a kind of a way, if you'll see my
boy in a ring, then you'll know why I'm disturbed.
Speaker 4: You're worrying about his health.
Speaker 7: Nice, he's healthier than a horse. But there's something else,
Saint all the big gamblers and kind of putting all
that dough on Benny. But the night's fight at the stadium.
Speaker 4: They think he's going to win.
Speaker 7: This is the lad Not even a moron could think that.
Speaker 5: I don't know. I thought that he might win, So
you ain't.
Speaker 7: Even a moron sink my boy is tangling with soldier Jones,
a very fine box fighter. It would be an act
of condescension on a soldier's part even to let Benny
tie his gloves from let alone fight him. So why
is all a heavy dough riding on Benny?
Speaker 4: It does seem odd.
Speaker 7: Matter of fact, I'm betting on a soldier myself. Is
that it's practical, Otherwise me and Benny wouldn't eat.
Speaker 5: They are two fellas who like to eat quiet Peggy.
Speaker 7: Anyways, that worried me. These gamblers all betting on my boy.
Speaker 4: Also, the guy who was the boss of.
Speaker 7: His gambling outfit I have mainly gotten mine is a
guy named mister Sweeney.
Speaker 4: Mister Sweeney.
Speaker 7: Mister Sweeney is a nice, quiet guy who don't look
like an harmor fly, so he wouldn't harm no fly.
But when it comes to guys who he is under
the impression they have handled him a bad deal, then
he is murdered. I supposing Benny the Butler don't win tonight, but.
Speaker 4: Sween, he could hardly blame you if then he lost
the fight legitimately.
Speaker 7: Mister Sweeney ea't the type guy who was interested in
what is legitimate. He likes to win bets. So I
am on a spot.
Speaker 4: I can see that.
Speaker 7: Anybody who ain't blank and see that. But what can
you do about it?
Speaker 5: Well, this is my idea, Breckenridge. I mean asking Simon
to come here, because if Farmer show you was kind
of interested in your health, Reckon Ridge, then maybe missus
Sweeney would be afraid to do anything to you, even
if that he loses tonight.
Speaker 4: You say, someone, Well, I don't know what good money
in Breckenridge's health would do him. I'm not a doctor.
Speaker 5: I'mon if mister Sweeney gets really mad at breckonviaging Benny,
they wouldn't need any glasses. They'd be patronizing the same
undertaking fight.
Speaker 4: You're pung but you think that Sweeney might hesitate about
doing anything drastic meally because I knew about it.
Speaker 5: I don't know, but it's possible.
Speaker 7: And why do we get to lose my life?
Speaker 5: Don't be so salviish? Think of Benny too?
Speaker 7: All right, mayan Benny's life.
Speaker 4: And I'll do what I can, which amounts to what Breckonridge.
Speaker 5: Give Simon some tickets to the fight?
Speaker 4: Can okay? Oh, thank you, but but I'm not sure
I'll be any protection.
Speaker 5: Don't worry that I'll do it to worrying, and maybe
he won't do any good. But even if it doesn't,
I want you to know that even if Breckonvidge does
get murdered.
Speaker 6: Don't say things like that.
Speaker 5: We'll still appreciate it. Simon too, his giant g.
Speaker 4: Hexy a taxi. For a moment, I thought you were
going right past.
Speaker 6: For a moment, I felt like going right fast.
Speaker 8: Lou don't mind getting friendly, just get in. Thank you,
Ben as Dnald, I beg your pardon, well known traders
of history, benatic Donald you.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 6: This afternoon around three o'clock. What were you doing three? Why?
Speaker 4: I was riding on a Uh?
Speaker 6: Don't stop there. You was riding on a what?
Speaker 4: Uh? Buh?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: What's the matter if.
Speaker 9: Somebody suddenly dropped that left you stock in a bus company?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 6: And what's the idea riding a bus?
Speaker 10: That?
Speaker 6: A hell in the cab?
Speaker 4: Well, if I had taken a cab, I wouldn't have
met Peggy.
Speaker 9: Fine reason she was following.
Speaker 6: Me, Louis.
Speaker 4: I made it easier for her by getting on a bus.
There's so much roomier than cabs.
Speaker 7: All right, I forgive thank you Louis perfectly all right?
Speaker 4: Where do you want to go at the stadium?
Speaker 6: Go on a place to take a gyles?
Speaker 4: I'm not taking a girl there. I'm going to see
the right, which reminds me, Louis, I've got an extra ticket.
Would you like to join me?
Speaker 6: Who's fighting?
Speaker 4: Well, the main event is sojer Jones versus Benny, the battler.
Speaker 9: That you call a fight.
Speaker 6: Benny's gonna get miner.
Speaker 4: Not Benny Breckenridge. Huh, it might be, friend, Louie, come
on with me.
Speaker 9: Oh that's been a fight like that you could smell
from New Joys.
Speaker 4: But all right, thanks, Louis.
Speaker 9: I'll mention this and in the future stay off of buses.
Speaker 4: Yes, mother, Benny's dressing room must be up ahead.
Speaker 10: What are we going to do?
Speaker 9: Sympathize with him before he goes.
Speaker 4: No ring gets slaughter. I just wished him luck, mister
templar Hill need it? That's Peggy. Huh. Wait a minute, Louis,
the doors.
Speaker 7: Open, Benny, dope, dope, We got all our doe riding
on Soldier Jones Breckinridge.
Speaker 10: I've been thinking with what what's gonna happen to my career?
If I keep on getting laid in the rising all
the time.
Speaker 7: You can always go back to your truck.
Speaker 10: Besides, the soldier has been making derogatory remarks you see
good your night for credit.
Speaker 7: Derogatory remarks about you personally.
Speaker 10: Or professional derogatory remarks about I think so when I
get in that ring tonight, I am going to bat
his ears off.
Speaker 7: Benny, listen to me first, if you hit him, he
is liable to get mad at you and maybe kill you.
Speaker 4: Eh.
Speaker 7: Second, if they should happen to pass a miracle and
you should lay him away, we all lose that though, Benny,
we gotta.
Speaker 6: Die for him. I don't die for that bump.
Speaker 7: Benny, don't answer me too quick.
Speaker 11: Clink.
Speaker 7: You know what's happening to the price of fresh meat?
Come on, it sounds like the Prelimit is over.
Speaker 4: Let's go, Loui, no candidates it now.
Speaker 10: We better get to our season unless I see you
Ben at the Battle of a half year old street.
Speaker 4: He's in quite a spot, though, Unless Soldier Jones kills
him inside the ring, Sweeny is likely to kill him outside. Well,
here it goes.
Speaker 9: We got nice seat. Yeah, anybody bleeds in the ring,
we got dry, Queen.
Speaker 6: He set off.
Speaker 4: You're thinking of a horse ring.
Speaker 9: Looking at Tenny the battler. How long am i he
runs night?
Speaker 4: Yes, he does seem to have gone on a bineicycle,
But how long.
Speaker 10: Can he stay on a bicycle with not falling off
on his ears?
Speaker 4: He go farth long and then he's still on that bicycle.
The crowd doesn't like it much.
Speaker 9: You must be under the impression the best way to
box fight.
Speaker 10: Is to run away, and for him it's probably the
safest way.
Speaker 4: The soldiers catching up with him. Then he's winded, failing all.
Speaker 9: The soldier just throwing it in a very pretty left.
Speaker 6: The Benny's bread.
Speaker 4: Last Yeah, oh and a right, oh and another right.
Speaker 10: Well, Tanny the backlamits the temperars clack cloud on his
flat sea. The bell sure saved him that time, didn't
save him merely postpone the execution. That's brown and I
got an idea, Benny, are gonna be around for the sixth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Benny seems to be looking for the nearest policeman.
He's sort of wandering around.
Speaker 9: The soldier is.
Speaker 10: Like, hey, I'm going to Benny just threw a punch
of the soldier hit him.
Speaker 4: So yeah, but hey, the soldier is just falling down.
Speaker 9: Oh this is m punch, Benny leader putting the crack of.
Speaker 6: Defect of that show.
Speaker 4: Benny and I say this in some blankness of mine,
has just one, Yeah, with the.
Speaker 9: Best invisible punch I ever seen.
Speaker 4: Must have been quite a punch. The soldier hasn't moved yet.
They're working over him in the ring. Come on, I
think we'd better visit where we're going into the ring.
Up we go.
Speaker 6: Okay, thanks? Did you see what I've just seen?
Speaker 4: I beg your pardon breaking my.
Speaker 7: Boy knocking out the soldier.
Speaker 6: I've seen it myself, but I don't believe it yet.
Speaker 9: Hey, hey, yeah, I knocked him out. Maybe I could
watch my peril had With.
Speaker 6: One punch, I ate him right on the canvis.
Speaker 4: He ain't even got up yet. I think I want
to take a look at him. His handlers still working
over him. He's very horizontal, yes, douing. Furthermore, I suspect
he needs a doctor.
Speaker 10: A doctor, you got a yen for medical attention to
something correction.
Speaker 4: What he needs right now is a death certificate.
Speaker 10: He pretty mob seen back there on that rings, Ultra
Jones dead, a doctor working on him, cops all around.
Speaker 4: Yeah. The only thing I don't get it, I'm afraid
I did the odor when I've bent over the soldier.
Speaker 5: Oh, come on, in Fellows, I'm simon, everything wonderful. Well,
maybe it isn't that wonderful the way you work soldiers dead?
Speaker 10: You mean on the kelve I knocked him out.
Speaker 4: No, he didn't die as a result of a blow, Benny,
What did he die of?
Speaker 7: Old?
Speaker 4: H wear Benny's gloves, the ones he wore in the
ring over hell? Here we put him?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Thank what's up?
Speaker 6: What's the matter of saints? Some smells funny? See?
Speaker 4: Come here, take a sniff of those gloves. Not too
deep a sniff. Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 7: I don't smell nothing.
Speaker 4: Maybe like a hospital. Like a hospital is very good.
And what you're smelling is ether ether. Hey, wait a minute,
do you mean there was ether on Benny's gloves. The
blow which apparently knocked the soldier out with a feeble
one barely grazed the soldier's mouth and nose. Therefore, what
knocked him down wasn't the blow but the ether he inhaled.
Speaker 9: Hey, are you trying to say I put etho on
my gloves so i'd not to sold out.
Speaker 4: I'm not, for the moment saying anything about how the
ether got there, Benny. What I am saying is that
Sojia Jones got a strong dose of ether into him.
Add that to the fact that he was strenuously exerting himself,
that his heart was under his train, and you're totally simple.
He died of ether. There's ether and your gloves. Benny.
Speaker 7: Hey, mister b Benny, how you keep your mouth shut
here even to the police.
Speaker 6: Well, Benny, he looks so sad.
Speaker 8: When the cops put the arm on it, if they
can make their case stick, you'll look bad as still.
Speaker 6: Recolicks did a little shy happy either.
Speaker 4: It's not hard to understand one way or another.
Speaker 9: Is that Peggy She was sneezing like a locomotive with
a hiccup.
Speaker 4: And saved her from answering questions?
Speaker 9: Yeah, all of which doesn't add up to the strange
fact that you have instructed me.
Speaker 6: To drive you for the Happy Hours night club.
Speaker 4: It happens to belong to a man named mister Sweeney Loi,
the head of the gambling syndicate which bet on Benny
in tonight's right.
Speaker 9: Oh, mister Sweeney ought to be a very happy man.
Speaker 4: We're not going to watch him rejoice.
Speaker 6: What are we going to watch him do?
Speaker 4: Pay off?
Speaker 6: Perhaps I have been in.
Speaker 10: Classia dumps without even leaving my house.
Speaker 4: The club here is a front for Queeney's real business,
I imagine. Let's see, the man at the door of
Tots's office was behind the bandstand. Oh, Breckenridge. Oh hi sight,
Well well Breckonridge, counting money in large and luscious quantities
and in Sweeney's office. Uh, well this is here.
Speaker 7: You mean it's nothing.
Speaker 4: It's a lot of nothing. I thought you were afraid
of Sweeney.
Speaker 7: Well why should I be afraid of him?
Speaker 4: Betty won, then they may have won a non stop
trip to the chair. Queen, he give you that money.
That is a private affair, say, and the police have
no respect for privacy on occasion. Breckonridge, if you had
bet on Soljier Jones as you claimed you did, you'd
have lost. You wouldn't have acquired any money or suspicion
of murder.
Speaker 7: He don't tried.
Speaker 4: I suppose you didn't really bet on Jones to win.
That would make you quite a likely candidate for a
wired chair, or you won't send you out at all.
I'm saying it as bluntly as I can. You could
have smeared that ether over Benny's gloves if any say that, No,
it possibly didn't realize it either. I ain't a chill
he put the ether on Benny's gloves. Wasn't necessarily intending
to kill him? Ether is no was fatal, but the
circumstances made it so. There's a little too much ether
for one thing for another. Somebody failed to allow for
the effect of strenuous action on the soldier's heart.
Speaker 7: Look sank, You're you're just raising a breeze.
Speaker 4: I'm in the clear. Yeah. Would you like to try
saying that again and making it sound convincing?
Speaker 9: This I don't have to take anything from you want
to stay.
Speaker 4: I'd have to shout either. You're trying to hide guilt fear.
I'm getting a.
Speaker 10: Can I be of any help?
Speaker 4: Hello, mister Sweeney, we've already met used him a temper.
Speaker 12: I'm Louis letting to meet you both.
Speaker 7: You were saying, and I was saying, I'm getting out
of here and quick, terribly frightened whatever else.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't know you were out of the fight tonight,
So I was it were one of the soldiers handled? True?
Speaker 12: I find an amusing to act in that capacity from
time to time.
Speaker 4: Did you get any laughs tonight?
Speaker 12: I'm afraid not for a soldier.
Speaker 4: Also, it's lucky he didn't bet on him, isn't it?
Speaker 12: What makes you think I didn't? A little bird told me.
Speaker 4: Little birds are so delicate.
Speaker 12: They really should be more careful.
Speaker 4: And I'll be sure to tell them that the next
time we meet. How does it happen that you bet
on Denny? Let's call it whimsday, Shelly, Benny didn't belong
in the same ring with your man. But may the
odds interesting with the auto put Breckinridge on the spotect
Benny had lost.
Speaker 12: Benny didn't lose.
Speaker 4: Breckinridge therefore delivered.
Speaker 12: Let us say off the recon mind you that Breckinridge
is delivered.
Speaker 4: M yeah, come on?
Speaker 12: Must you rush away?
Speaker 4: I don't care for the atmosphere around him? It's the Sweeney.
Speaker 12: What's the matter with it?
Speaker 4: Like the ether on Denny's gloves, Mister Sweeney, it's overpowering.
It's a template.
Speaker 10: I know you're making like a detective, but is visiting
Peggy really necessary?
Speaker 4: I just assume that answer to that bashful it's a
small house.
Speaker 6: Hey, she must live alone.
Speaker 4: Get the snark out of your voice. Looing either I'm
not sure you want and you vote for me? Huh,
but you see, Louis, Peggy may know Semple for sure.
Only what about we better change the subject or ring
the doorbell again? It's no answer, come on disappointed. Oh,
I don't know. We may still find it tonight where
breckon Ridge's apartment, possibly helping him count his money.
Speaker 10: Breckinridge and answering door about tonight neither?
Speaker 4: Oh, come now that I give the lad a chance
to hide the money, Yes, unless.
Speaker 6: She took it on the lamp.
Speaker 4: Did you pick up that expression the radio? I didn't
think the work. We'll try another apartment. Get into the
building anyway, thank you. Somebody the apartment is down the corridor. Yeah,
that's convenience. I hate climbing stairs making forced conversations.
Speaker 6: I've been shot.
Speaker 9: I've been shot.
Speaker 4: Inside the apartment. The door open, it's a templement behind
that does care reckon Mitch not very pretty at.
Speaker 6: The moment that bullet did a job.
Speaker 4: Shot in the temple revolver in his right hand. So
that's what it's supposed to be. His hands loose on
the gun.
Speaker 9: I ain't that the way it always is?
Speaker 4: After all, the guy is dead. Yeah, but nine times
out of ten there's a sparismatic reaction. At the moment
of death. The hand grips the gun more tightly instead
of loosening, which means there must be a back door
to this apartment off the kitchen problem. Yep, there it is,
which explained that.
Speaker 10: The guy's got and gripping the gun tight, So there
has to be a back door of the architects ought
to hear about it.
Speaker 4: The murderer had to get out before we got in,
and the murderer was here a moment ago. I don't
get fired.
Speaker 9: Why does the bottom making it look like a sewerside nook?
Speaker 4: Clearly we were supposed to think Breckenridge had been responsible
for the soldier's death. Became conscience stricken because he hadn't
intend to kill the soldier and shot himself, but his
hand was loose on the gun.
Speaker 10: It's just logic, all right, So logic and you went
to school together.
Speaker 4: Breckenridge was a crook. Also, I suspect that black man
of it.
Speaker 10: It almost saves him right, like I always say, tign
about his hoist with his own petad.
Speaker 6: Hey, what is a petad?
Speaker 12: Derek?
Speaker 4: You've got the proverb all wrong. But you though the
king well for a dopa into it, I have yeah, yeah,
you said turn oh, I read that in my comic book,
and that tells us who murdered Sojah Jones and Breckinridge.
Speaker 10: Oh, speak for yourself, John, Maybe it tells you, but
come on you, But if I know my mysteries.
Speaker 9: Gonna tell me, not for another five minutes. I know
the five minutes staying up yet, mister Templer.
Speaker 10: But maybe you could sneak in a little explanation now,
maybe save some time later.
Speaker 4: Well, louis the problem all along is then who put
the ether on Denny's glove? Denny, Breckenridge, Peggy. But then
you said turn about, and I knew who had really
put the eather there.
Speaker 6: Well, never mind a dramatic pau, just just keep going.
Speaker 4: The person who put the ether on Denny's glove is
a court.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I shouldn't known for a minute.
Speaker 10: Back then, I thought maybe I was gonna find out something.
But I didn't have to worry at the Hours night club.
Speaker 6: But why are we here?
Speaker 4: They don't keep corps probably not.
Speaker 6: Besides, who can arrest the court? Oh?
Speaker 4: But you see the court wasn't guilty.
Speaker 10: I'm going home and beat my kids.
Speaker 4: Maybe that way I'll stop feeling inferiors. Look at the
Joyce is deserted.
Speaker 10: All the little tables covered up with their little white shrouds.
Speaker 4: Why didn't I shut up? Look at the light showing
Sweeney's office. Yeah, I wonder should be not. So'll we go,
We'll knock, come in, come in. He sounds quite friendly.
Speaker 12: Wow, well, mister Templer, good evening. It's just been having
a friendly game of cards with my alibi, my friends.
Speaker 4: I'd like to see you alone, mister Tweeney. Very well.
Speaker 12: The game had begun to blow me anyway, boys, get going.
Speaker 4: He's been playing cards all evening with him.
Speaker 12: I hope perhaps you considered it a waste of time.
Speaker 4: I don't they testified here having been here all evening.
Speaker 12: Uh, if called upon, they could do nothing less. But
why should they be called upon.
Speaker 4: To furnish you with an alibi? But what Breckenridge's murder?
Speaker 12: Nonsense? He committed suicide. How did you know a little
bird told me, the same one who told you about
my betting on Bennick.
Speaker 4: I'm afraid not Breckinridge was the little bird who told
me about that. He forgot to tell me about the murder.
Speaker 12: Though Breckinridge committed suicide.
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about Breckenridge's death. I'm talking about Soljier Jones.
Speaker 12: Oh, mister templar. I will readily admit I earned a
considerable sum by his unfortunate demise.
Speaker 4: But the ether was on Benny's gloves if you remember,
and I was never near those gloves. True, well, then, nevertheless,
you are going to die for Jones's death.
Speaker 12: You know you're becoming unpleasant. However, you've just admitted I
couldn't have tampered with Benny's gloves.
Speaker 4: I have, But may I mention one word to you?
Turn about all if you've mentioned it, and you should
be more interested, because it led me to realize something.
Sojier Jones died because there was ethers neared all over
his mouth and nose. We've all been assuming that the
ether got there from Benny's glove.
Speaker 6: How true?
Speaker 4: Remember the word turn about? Mister Sweeney. Suppose to ether
got under Benny's gloves from Soldier Jones's face.
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 12: I think the hour is late, very late for you,
because the ether was on the soldier's face first.
Speaker 4: When Benny hit the soldier, he got the ether on
his gloves, but it was the soldier's face. It's neared
ether on Benny's gloves, not vice versa.
Speaker 12: But how would the soldier get ether on his face.
Speaker 4: First from a towel used by his handler on him,
and you were his handle in mister swinging. Just as
he started into the ring, you wiped his face and
deposited the ether on his nose. His momentum carried him
into the center of the ring. Then he took a
poke at him and that was that. It was Yeah,
Breckinridge realized what you've done. That's why you paid him
off after the fight. But you knew that he's blackmaned
you for the rest of your unpleasant life, so you
murdered him.
Speaker 12: That's your guests, and you can't prove I got soldier Jones,
I've got the towel you're lying eye burned it.
Speaker 4: Louis will make a nice witness. Let's go chat to
policeman about all this. No, he waitness. You're pointing, which
isn't polite with a gun, which is insane.
Speaker 12: Yeah, very little to lose and a lot to gain
by killing both of Randell.
Speaker 9: Let's post this over like a life.
Speaker 12: Jake, I'm sorry, I can't oblige.
Speaker 4: Therefore you shouldn't have fringed your head. You better get
his gun of certainly a pleasure, and I had better
take a look at the closet there. Hello, Peggy, who's sneezing?
Speaker 6: Time?
Speaker 10: Save two?
Speaker 4: Anyway? What are you doing in that closet?
Speaker 6: I was?
Speaker 13: I was, and so Peggy, so I had in a
closet so maybe I could overhear a clue.
Speaker 4: I was very brave of you, Peggy.
Speaker 5: Well, I thought I kind of owed it to Breckon Midge.
Speaker 4: Did you love him very much?
Speaker 5: No, but he was a very friendly fellow. You look
friendly too, Simon, also cute, and you did catch missus
Sweeney sometimes ready to kiss you.
Speaker 4: Louis is peaky hoo ki, Peggy, you haven't sneezed you? Sir?
Speaker 5: Who wants to see?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 6: You are.
Speaker 4: Snee didn't I? However, as Louis mentioned earlier, I am
hoist by your bazards.
Speaker 2: You have been listening to another adventure of the Saints,
the robin Hood of Modern Crime, And now here is
our star, Vincent Price.
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, our cast tonight included Sandra Gould, Larry Dobkin,
hal March, Peter Leeds and Barney Phillips. This is Vincent
Price inviting you to join us again next week at
the same time for another exciting adventure of the Saint.
Speaker 6: Good Night the Night.
Speaker 2: Script of the Saint was written by Louis Vittes. The
music was composed and conducted by Van Dexter. The Saint,
based on characters created by Leslie Charteris, is a James L.
Safier production and is directed by Helen May. Vincent Price
is soon to be seen in the Universal International Picture Curtain.
Call a Cactus Creek. All you Saints fans will be
glad to know. The Saint comic books are on sale
at all news stands. You're announcer Doug Gorlay, next Sam Spade,
then Summer Symphony on MVC.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. A good episode with Vincent Price entertaining as always,
but one big change, and I think it adds to
the charm of the series, and that's the introduction of Louis.
Rather than having Simon encounter a random Cabby every week
or so, the NBC series has him with a regular sidekick,
a character that the audience can connect with and who
has an established personality. It's a great move for the show. Now,
of course, it's technically possible that the character had begun
on mutual and came over, but we can't say for sure,
and his presence really does define this NBC run. Now
we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we start
on Spotify, where Dino has a comment regarding the case
of the Unhappy homicide. This episode often messes with my head.
Who would draw a to oneself by jumping in the
car holding the keys of a complete stranger and then
deflating the tires of said stranger. You're my number one
or number two suspect the very moment you impede my
investigation so overtly. This might be dumber than the crooks
who couldn't resist being filmed in a bank robbery. With
that being said, there are volumes of stories published of
real criminal missteps. Thankstina. Well, to take your last point first,
there was actually a program I watched in my teens,
America's Dumbest Criminals, hosted by Daniel Butler, that covers such
criminal missteps, and if that sort of thing interests you,
you can find that on to Baby Pluto. It is
also free to watch on YouTube with ads. Also, understand
that in real life, you're right, what she did really
did highlight her as a suspect in the world of
mystery though it doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot, because
if you read mystery stories, there are reasons why women
impede investigations. Now, one might be that they're guilty. The
other is that they are trying to protect the guilty person,
or they are trying to protect a person who they
think is guilty but is actually innocent. And occasionally they
will throw this little twist in she is actually an
undercover police officer or agent, and our detective is getting
in the way of her investigation, so she sabotages him
so that she can ply her own hand. So realistically,
what happens screams guilty. In a more genre specific way,
there are quite a few possibilities on YouTube. Jeffrey Wrights,
I so much love these older radio shows. Vincent Price
has a perfect tone of voice. His dollog is so
misstuffed to fill in for playfully cultured and devious and
I hope I pronounced that word correctly. But thanks for
the comment, Jeffrey. And then, as Sharon writs, I like
your show, well, thanks so much, Sharon. Now it's time
to thank our Patreon supporter of the day. Thank you
to April Patreon supporter since February twenty seventeen, currently supporting
the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars
and fourteen cents or more per month. Thank you so
much for your support, April, and we will be back
next Monday with another episode of The Saint. But join
us back here tomorrow for the Big Story where.
Speaker 11: Let's scrip with your has apparently been on a crusade
against me. I suppose it makes a good copy for
your readers. We're merely asking that someone answered the question
we're asking.
Speaker 2: You mean about the lack of powder burn.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 12: I wish I knew the answer.
Speaker 11: There are a couple of other questions that have been
bothering us. I'd be very glad to answer any questions
at all. You're a close friend of Madge Carey, aren't you?
Speaker 12: Who told you that?
Speaker 11: What difference does it make? I know her slightly? That's
all seems strange that you should buy a new automobile
if you know a slightly. That was just a business
to you. You also applied for collection on your wife's
insurance two days after a fatal accent. My business manager,
he probably took care of that. I had no idea
that he made applications so soon. You also collected one
hundred dollar burial fund three days after a death. It's
hard for some of the people in my office to
consider that an act of deep mourning. Mister Griffith, I
don't care what your paper thinks.
Speaker 6: If necessary, I'll put a stop to these ugly stories.
And I can do it too.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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