1 00:00:28,399 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:39,280 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:44,320 going to bring you this week's episode of The Big Story. 4 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,479 But first I do want to encourage you. If you 5 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:52,280 are enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite 6 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,119 podcast software. I also want to encourage you to check 7 00:00:56,159 --> 00:01:00,759 out our other podcast and today I'm highlighting the Amazing 8 00:01:00,759 --> 00:01:05,040 World of Radio and Amazing Dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, 9 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:11,120 this episode is mostly non holiday related. 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All right, well, now, from 18 00:01:44,519 --> 00:01:49,840 December seventeenth, nineteen forty seven, here is the case of 19 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:51,359 the ambitious Hobo. 20 00:01:54,400 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 2: ELML Famous Cigarettes presents a Big Story. 21 00:02:05,959 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 3: The Idaho Yeah Kid, my back feels broken right on 22 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:11,479 the floor this empty box car. 23 00:02:12,879 --> 00:02:15,199 Speaker 4: You'll get used to a kid, You'll get used. 24 00:02:15,039 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 5: To Oh no, not me. Maybe you're gonna go on 25 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:19,360 being a hobo all your life. 26 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 3: But not me. I got big ideas and kind of 27 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:23,680 big ideas. 28 00:02:23,879 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 5: I'm gonna be a big shot someday. 29 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:27,319 Speaker 4: Idaho, big shot. 30 00:02:27,439 --> 00:02:29,199 Speaker 5: Yeah, what I do. 31 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:45,800 Speaker 6: I'm gonna ride the cushions in a Pullman car first class. 32 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,439 Speaker 2: A Big Story another in a thrilling series based on 33 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:54,120 true experiences of newspaper reporters. Tonight, Russ Wilson of the 34 00:02:54,159 --> 00:03:04,400 Des Moines Tribune goes the Ellmel Award for the Big Story. 35 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:09,280 Now the exciting and authentic story of the case of 36 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:10,400 the ambitious Wholeboy. 37 00:03:18,759 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 7: You are Russ Wilson, and right now you hang your 38 00:03:22,439 --> 00:03:25,680 hat in the city room of a California newspaper, But 39 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,479 actually you're from out where the tall corn grows in Iowa. 40 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:31,039 Speaker 5: The years you. 41 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,719 Speaker 7: Worked for the Des Moines Tribune as a crime reporter, 42 00:03:34,319 --> 00:03:37,360 and it was with the Tribune that you finally nailed 43 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:41,759 down your big story. It really began some two hundred 44 00:03:41,759 --> 00:03:44,840 and fifty miles south of Des Moines, in a little 45 00:03:44,879 --> 00:03:47,520 home in Kansas City, Ready. 46 00:03:47,319 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 4: You listen to me. 47 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 5: Don't leave home again. 48 00:03:49,479 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 8: Stay here. 49 00:03:50,319 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 6: Sorry, Mom, but I'm through hanging around the house being 50 00:03:53,479 --> 00:03:54,280 a burden to you. 51 00:03:54,479 --> 00:03:57,039 Speaker 5: The last time you left home, you were gone two years. 52 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,439 I never even knew where you were or what you did. 53 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 8: I worry about your done. 54 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 5: You're a meal boy. That's the trouble. That's what everybody thinks. 55 00:04:05,159 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 6: Everyone around here still calls me baby face, baby face 56 00:04:09,199 --> 00:04:09,879 Freddy Bell. 57 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 5: But I'm no Kidney Morsey. Even if I look at it, 58 00:04:13,879 --> 00:04:16,040 I'm twenty one. 59 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:19,279 Speaker 6: I can't just sit around here and watch you work 60 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:20,639 to support a little son. 61 00:04:20,759 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 8: If you stay home, there are plenty of jobs. 62 00:04:23,079 --> 00:04:24,480 Speaker 5: Look my kind of jobs. 63 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 6: I want to be rich, famous. I want to own 64 00:04:27,399 --> 00:04:30,839 a big car, a big house, have ten suits of clothes. 65 00:04:32,399 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 5: I want to make sure you never. 66 00:04:34,199 --> 00:04:35,199 Speaker 8: Have to work again. 67 00:04:35,319 --> 00:04:36,399 Speaker 4: Mom. 68 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:38,759 Speaker 6: I want people to turn around and look at me 69 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:40,959 when I walk down the street and hear I'm saying, 70 00:04:41,319 --> 00:04:42,560 there goes Freddy Bell. 71 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 5: It's a big shot. I wish your father was alive. 72 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,000 I wish he was here to advise you. 73 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:49,399 Speaker 8: I don't know what to do. 74 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:51,879 Speaker 5: I can only say I think you were making a 75 00:04:52,079 --> 00:04:54,120 terrible mistake. Oh no, I'm not. 76 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 6: It's like in those stories you used to read me 77 00:04:57,399 --> 00:05:00,399 when I was a kid. I've got the go out 78 00:05:00,439 --> 00:05:01,959 and seek my fortune. 79 00:05:03,319 --> 00:05:05,079 Speaker 5: You wouldn't stand in my way, would you? 80 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:05,439 Speaker 4: Mow? 81 00:05:06,959 --> 00:05:10,399 Speaker 8: No? No, son, If that's what you want, I won't 82 00:05:10,439 --> 00:05:10,759 try to. 83 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 5: Now you're talking, Mom. 84 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 6: I hate to ask you this, but I'm gonna need 85 00:05:18,079 --> 00:05:19,920 some money to get started on my trip. 86 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 5: How about that twenty dollars you got saved up for 87 00:05:23,199 --> 00:05:26,439 that washing machine you were going to buy. Oh, I 88 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:28,519 know it's all you have, and I feel like I 89 00:05:28,639 --> 00:05:30,680 he'll asking you for it, honestly. 90 00:05:30,399 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 8: But you don't have to ask me for it. It's yours. 91 00:06:01,319 --> 00:06:04,759 Speaker 5: It'll be daylight in an hour. Idaho, what is this here? 92 00:06:04,879 --> 00:06:05,439 Freight trank? 93 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:06,319 Speaker 6: Get to des Moines. 94 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 3: This is a high ball freight kid. She's been hitting 95 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,000 the high iron ever since you jumped the board of 96 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,120 Kansas City. You're in the outskirts to Des Moines. 97 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 7: Now we've played in luck Why Idaho. 98 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,480 Speaker 3: Brakeman hasn't been around to bothers the whole trip. Once 99 00:06:23,519 --> 00:06:27,759 we hit the yard, she'll slow down, drop off this box. 100 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:28,720 Speaker 2: Car and after that. 101 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,639 Speaker 3: After then I'll take you to the hobo jungle, introduce 102 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,879 you to some of the other bulls riding this tritooing. 103 00:06:35,439 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 5: Well, I can't come too soon for me. My back's 104 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:39,879 broken riding on this box car floor. 105 00:06:41,079 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 6: Someday when I get rich, Idaho, I'm gonna ride the 106 00:06:43,959 --> 00:06:46,720 cushions on the pullman car first class. 107 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,959 Speaker 4: You don't think you're gonna be a big shot, that kid. 108 00:06:50,199 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 5: I got my mind set on it. 109 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:54,839 Speaker 4: Yeah, stay away from the road. 110 00:06:55,759 --> 00:06:59,879 Speaker 3: Don't go getting cinders in your blood. Train whistles ring 111 00:07:00,199 --> 00:07:03,959 in your ears like I didn't. It ain't a life 112 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,240 for a kid like you. 113 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 5: You expect to be a bomb all your life? 114 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:08,399 Speaker 7: Idaho? 115 00:07:09,759 --> 00:07:11,920 Speaker 3: Bumb kid a hobo? 116 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:12,959 Speaker 4: What's the difference? 117 00:07:13,199 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 3: Plenty bumbs? A tramp won't work, you'll steal. Hobo's different. 118 00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:21,399 Speaker 4: You'll work. 119 00:07:21,879 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 3: You esther and he's got respect for the lord. 120 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:31,199 Speaker 4: Hey kid, Yeah, trouble coming up. Breakman's coming? Should the 121 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,920 cat walk? Two cars a hit, Get away from the door, kid, 122 00:07:34,639 --> 00:07:36,079 break them will be on the roof in this box 123 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:36,639 car a minute. 124 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:37,399 Speaker 1: Oh what of it? 125 00:07:37,519 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 4: If he sees he'll throw us off this train? 126 00:07:39,199 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 7: Oh no, he won't, Idaho. Won't you've heard me? 127 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 4: You mean kid? 128 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 5: I mean this, Idaho? 129 00:07:47,519 --> 00:07:49,439 Speaker 4: What'd you get that knife? 130 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 5: Okase a bowie knife. 131 00:07:52,519 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 6: That call it? If that breaking sticks his head through 132 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,680 this car door, cut it off, boy, Get. 133 00:07:59,639 --> 00:08:01,879 Speaker 7: Of a minute, come over here, put that knife away. 134 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 5: Shut up by the Oh, I'll take care of this. 135 00:08:03,639 --> 00:08:06,199 Speaker 4: You shut up. He's on the roof of this carnal. 136 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:07,800 He looks in. 137 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 6: I'll shove this knife right through him. 138 00:08:14,879 --> 00:08:18,199 Speaker 8: Oh he's gone. 139 00:08:19,199 --> 00:08:24,439 Speaker 4: Yeah, he's gone. Kid, Now you're gone. 140 00:08:25,199 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 5: Heyadaho, what's the idea? What do you think you're doing 141 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:28,519 with that iron bar? 142 00:08:28,759 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 4: Get off this train, kid? 143 00:08:30,839 --> 00:08:33,759 Speaker 7: I don't ad me fool with that baby. 144 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:36,879 Speaker 3: Face of yours. I know what kind of a big 145 00:08:36,919 --> 00:08:38,879 shot you want to be. You want to be a 146 00:08:38,879 --> 00:08:42,600 big shot like dylaner her legs Diamond, A killer kid. 147 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,679 I don't want to be traveling around with a killer 148 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:51,799 We put company here and now get off this freight. 149 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,039 Speaker 5: Kid, Why I like to have this knife? 150 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,159 Speaker 3: Cry anything? Kid? You'll get this iron bar right across 151 00:08:58,200 --> 00:08:58,720 your face. 152 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:07,399 Speaker 9: Go on, jump, Okay, I know I'll jump, but I'll 153 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:14,080 be seeing you. 154 00:09:26,639 --> 00:09:28,759 Speaker 5: Hey, mister, give me a lift. 155 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 7: Maybe let me get a good look at you. Person. 156 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,080 Don't like to pick up strangers when it's dark like this, 157 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:38,360 unless why you're only a kid? Okay, I've been gee. 158 00:09:38,399 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 6: Thanks, What are you doing outside of the morning at 159 00:09:41,399 --> 00:09:42,200 five in the morning? 160 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 5: Oh, just get hiking around? 161 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 7: Got the show? I had it too before I got married. 162 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:51,600 My name is Carl Andrew. 163 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 5: I'm Freddy Belle. 164 00:09:52,919 --> 00:09:53,639 Speaker 3: I'm glad to know. 165 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 7: You, Freddy. 166 00:09:54,879 --> 00:09:57,279 Speaker 5: I'm sure there's a beautiful car. 167 00:09:57,519 --> 00:10:00,279 Speaker 7: Yeah, brand new and it's got every gadget in the 168 00:10:00,039 --> 00:10:01,440 A custom made too. 169 00:10:01,679 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 5: Is it your car? 170 00:10:02,759 --> 00:10:04,639 Speaker 7: Mine? No? 171 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:07,120 Speaker 5: What would I be doing on a car like this. 172 00:10:07,919 --> 00:10:10,000 I work for a garage, just delivering the car to 173 00:10:10,039 --> 00:10:10,799 the guy who owns it. 174 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:12,559 Speaker 7: He's a bank president. 175 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:14,879 Speaker 5: Of the mine, so it belongs to a big shot. 176 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:15,799 Speaker 7: Huh, I drive. 177 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 5: This is the kind of car I'm gonna drive. 178 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:19,919 Speaker 3: Well. 179 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,279 Speaker 7: I wish you luck, kid, I hope you do someday. 180 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:24,679 Speaker 6: I'm not talking about someday. 181 00:10:24,279 --> 00:10:26,399 Speaker 5: Paler, I mean now, huh. 182 00:10:26,519 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 6: I'm gonna start riding in being a big shot. 183 00:10:29,279 --> 00:10:33,799 Speaker 5: Now what are you talking about this? Well, put the 184 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,080 knife away, kid, pull over to the side of the road, 185 00:10:36,159 --> 00:10:37,240 pal I'm taking over. 186 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 7: Have you gone crazy? 187 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 3: Stopped the car and pull over to the tide. 188 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:44,639 Speaker 5: What do I have to cot you up? You wouldn't 189 00:10:44,639 --> 00:10:45,480 hear you that knife? 190 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,919 Speaker 6: Not a kid like you or wouldn't I prow wouldn't I. 191 00:10:48,919 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 5: I've been waiting for a kid like this. 192 00:10:51,159 --> 00:10:54,360 Speaker 7: You're bluffing kid wants the state police barricks down the highway. 193 00:10:54,039 --> 00:10:57,039 Speaker 5: And no, no, kid, no, you're wet. 194 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 6: Up wheel. 195 00:11:01,519 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 7: Ye, Hugh Russ Wilson of the Des Moines Tribune get 196 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:20,240 the murder flash shortly after dawn. You Hi Taylor to 197 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,480 the scene, and when you get there you find the 198 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:28,960 usual crowd, radio patrolman, detectives, Deputy Kanner just playing citizens, 199 00:11:29,639 --> 00:11:33,399 and Officer James Hodge of the Iowa State Bureau of Investigation. 200 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:36,600 You take a long look at the body. Then you 201 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:40,159 manage to get Officer Hodge over the one side the 202 00:11:40,159 --> 00:11:44,399 identification on the dead man. Yet, Hodge, it's a garage 203 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:48,639 mechanic named Carl Andrews. Anything else? What do you mean 204 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:52,600 any more information I can use for a story? Look, Wilson, 205 00:11:52,639 --> 00:11:56,639 according to everything I read, newspaper reporters and private detectors 206 00:11:56,639 --> 00:12:00,919 are real bright guys. They always capture the quib single handed. 207 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,360 Professional coptires to dope would know clue he saw one, 208 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:08,000 So why don't you get your own information? Frankly, I 209 00:12:08,039 --> 00:12:10,679 wouldn't know how. I've never captured a criminal in my life. 210 00:12:10,879 --> 00:12:13,200 And you probably think you could. I know very well 211 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:16,519 I couldn't. It's a matter of Hodge got a big 212 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:19,360 hate on reporters. One of us spell your name wrong 213 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,399 or something right. So I got out of bed on 214 00:12:22,399 --> 00:12:25,039 the wrong side this morning. What do you want to know? 215 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:29,120 Just the regular stuff. I'm motive for this murder, for instance, robbery. 216 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:32,480 I suppose you suppose wrong. Andrews had fifty bucks on him. 217 00:12:32,519 --> 00:12:36,039 Killer didn't even touch it. That's funny. The killer wasn't 218 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:39,039 interested in money. What did he want? You figure that out, reporter. 219 00:12:39,159 --> 00:12:39,639 Let me know. 220 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 5: How about revenge? 221 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:43,440 Speaker 7: Maybe Andrews was writing with somebody new, a personal enemy. 222 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:46,919 Unlikely check for the people in Andrews' garage, said, didn't 223 00:12:46,919 --> 00:12:49,120 have an enemy in the world. And you haven't got 224 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,799 an awful lot to go on? Have you enough to 225 00:12:51,840 --> 00:13:00,480 catch the killer? I fingerprints, finger Prince, Yeah, just like 226 00:13:00,519 --> 00:13:05,039 indetective stories, only sometimes killers really do leave fingerprints. This 227 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:07,639 one did. It's smart enough to wipe them off for 228 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:09,960 steering wheel, but it's hurry to make a getaway forgot 229 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,720 to wipe him off the door handle. We'll probably know 230 00:13:12,759 --> 00:13:23,480 who he is within a few hours. Did he'd ask 231 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,879 Russ Wilson. I'm calling from headquarters. Those fingerprints belong to 232 00:13:26,919 --> 00:13:28,960 a kid named Freddy Bell. He served a term in 233 00:13:29,039 --> 00:13:31,399 jail out West for armed robbery. Police expect to pick 234 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:40,159 him up in an hour. An hour, but the police 235 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:45,799 don't pick him up. A day passes two three, A 236 00:13:45,879 --> 00:13:50,000 man hunts high gear because out of the state nationwide, 237 00:13:50,639 --> 00:13:54,879 you follow it close right, story after story, the Tribune 238 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:59,159 is flooded with tipsy You track them down, behind them worthless. 239 00:13:59,639 --> 00:14:02,519 And then days later, when the authorities are just about 240 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:10,120 ready to concede a clean getaway, you get a phone call. Oh, 241 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:11,799 this Russ Wilson. 242 00:14:13,039 --> 00:14:15,759 Speaker 3: I've been reading those stories he wrote out of Carl 243 00:14:15,799 --> 00:14:19,559 Andrews murder case, and I got a tip on the killer. 244 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:21,240 Who's this? 245 00:14:21,679 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 4: Never mind? 246 00:14:22,879 --> 00:14:25,279 Speaker 3: You want that tip on the killer, don't you? 247 00:14:25,399 --> 00:14:26,399 Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, I do. 248 00:14:26,639 --> 00:14:30,519 Speaker 3: Okay, meet me at the Hobo's Jungle near the Freak 249 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:37,159 Yards Midnight tonight Jungle. That's right, and Wilson, just a 250 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:42,919 word of warning, don't talk to the cops and come along. 251 00:14:57,960 --> 00:14:59,799 Speaker 2: We'll be back in just a moment with the night's 252 00:14:59,799 --> 00:15:09,960 big story. I'll back to our narrator, Bob Sloanan and 253 00:15:10,039 --> 00:15:11,320 Tonight's big story. 254 00:15:12,440 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 7: You, Russ Wilson of a des Moine Tribune, have a 255 00:15:16,039 --> 00:15:20,879 date with a mysterious voice on the telephone. Your rendezvous 256 00:15:20,919 --> 00:15:24,840 a hobo jungle near the freight yard at midnight, your 257 00:15:24,919 --> 00:15:29,639 mission to find a killer. When you cross the tracks 258 00:15:29,679 --> 00:15:32,519 in the darkness and head for the clearing they call 259 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:38,879 the hoboes jungle, You're scared plenty. Somewhere in the distance, 260 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,080 you hear a train, and right now you wish you 261 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:44,960 were on that train. You wish you were anywhere but 262 00:15:45,039 --> 00:15:50,320 where you are. But you keep on walking, and finally 263 00:15:51,159 --> 00:15:54,759 you hit the jungle itself where the hoboes camp. 264 00:15:55,519 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 4: You see the ashes of the cooking fires, bits of. 265 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:04,519 Speaker 7: Cast off and ten Cairn's lettered about, and you keep 266 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:15,240 on walking. Wilson, Oh, he hello, Oh, it's so doc here. 267 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:16,679 Speaker 4: You're right on time. 268 00:16:18,879 --> 00:16:24,279 Speaker 3: And names Jones, Idaho Jones, I'm a hobo. Uh. 269 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,080 Speaker 7: Why did you want me to meet you out here? 270 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 3: I figured it was safer for me if I met 271 00:16:29,159 --> 00:16:31,120 you in town. It'd be too easy for you to 272 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:32,879 turn me over to the cops. 273 00:16:32,519 --> 00:16:34,039 Speaker 4: If you didn't believe my story. 274 00:16:34,279 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 7: I see you set over the phone that you had 275 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:38,720 a tip on the call Andrew his murder. 276 00:16:39,759 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 5: What's the tip? 277 00:16:40,799 --> 00:16:44,519 Speaker 3: I've seen the killer about seven o'cocks this season. It's 278 00:16:44,519 --> 00:16:49,240 af Freddy Bello, baby face and all where right? Yeah, 279 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,039 when you're standing maybe. 280 00:16:50,879 --> 00:16:54,559 Speaker 5: He's right here. In the morning, it was I just bought. 281 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,879 Speaker 3: Him and long about doc. Tonight, me and another boat 282 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,120 started to burn some kindling, cook up some coffee and slum. 283 00:17:03,039 --> 00:17:06,279 Speaker 4: I remember it had started to rain, and my friend. 284 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:09,319 Speaker 5: Was telling about other hobo jungles. 285 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:12,319 Speaker 7: You're a lot of hole. 286 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,519 Speaker 6: The best one I ever seen was off the d 287 00:17:14,759 --> 00:17:16,279 L and W and air scramp me. 288 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:18,880 Speaker 5: It was spelled against the clay bank to keep. 289 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:19,279 Speaker 4: Out the wind. 290 00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:21,799 Speaker 7: And they're waiting, hold it, what's the matter. 291 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:23,240 Speaker 4: Somebody's coming? 292 00:17:24,279 --> 00:17:28,960 Speaker 6: Yeah, I wonder if you two guys could deal me 293 00:17:29,039 --> 00:17:33,279 in little stew I oh to you. 294 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 4: Wider hole, Yeah, it's me Freddy. 295 00:17:37,839 --> 00:17:38,240 Speaker 10: Who's this? 296 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:39,519 Speaker 7: Baby face? Had a hole? 297 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,039 Speaker 3: Freddy bell knife to guy to death near here a 298 00:17:44,079 --> 00:17:44,960 couple of weeks ago. 299 00:17:45,079 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 5: Look, Idaho, I didn't do any of. 300 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,079 Speaker 3: What the des Moines papers say, Kid. 301 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,240 Speaker 5: The lion, I tell you, I didn't don't lie to me. 302 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:52,880 Speaker 4: Kid, I know you did it. 303 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,920 Speaker 5: How do you know what makes you think I did it. 304 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,759 Speaker 3: Garland Jews is murdered at half past four like this 305 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:03,480 port to Wilson, and the Tribune says, and at four 306 00:18:03,519 --> 00:18:06,599 o'clock you jumped the freight. We was traveling right about 307 00:18:06,599 --> 00:18:07,480 the place where. 308 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 4: Andrews was killed. You were carrying a knife, and you 309 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:12,200 were in a killing move. 310 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,599 Speaker 6: Well, okay, okay, so I knifed him. 311 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 5: So I'm on the lamb. Look, guys, I'm taking the 312 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:22,440 next freight. 313 00:18:22,319 --> 00:18:23,519 Speaker 3: Down for Kansas City. 314 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 6: All I want is a little stew eat it, kid, 315 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:27,839 But I am a hobo like the two of you. 316 00:18:27,839 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 3: You know you're not kid, You're a killer. 317 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:31,799 Speaker 4: I'll beat it. 318 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:34,400 Speaker 3: And if you're going to k C, don't try to 319 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:35,160 go by freight. 320 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:37,519 Speaker 6: What do you mean He means not to ride the 321 00:18:37,599 --> 00:18:42,160 rods or box cars. That's hubble law, jungle law. If 322 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,759 you're going to Kansas City, you'll have to hit the highway. 323 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,000 It rides by car way on then at Wise, guys, 324 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,680 you can't tell me how to travel. We kid, If 325 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:53,039 any hobo catches you on a freight, he'll throw you 326 00:18:53,079 --> 00:18:53,680 off the train. 327 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:56,759 Speaker 7: That's the law. You don't want any killers riding the 328 00:18:56,839 --> 00:18:59,279 rails brings the cops down too quick. 329 00:18:59,319 --> 00:19:01,640 Speaker 3: Highways about a mile easter here. 330 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 4: And I'll beat a kid get going. 331 00:19:09,039 --> 00:19:12,559 Speaker 3: That's the story, mister Wilson. It's the last I saw 332 00:19:12,599 --> 00:19:13,799 a babyface Bell. 333 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 4: But it looked to. 334 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,799 Speaker 3: Me like he was still carrying a knife and still 335 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:20,359 figuring on using it. 336 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:21,799 Speaker 7: Did you call me right after he left? 337 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:23,200 Speaker 4: Yeah? 338 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 7: Yeah, it means he got about a five hours start. 339 00:19:26,759 --> 00:19:30,079 You think he's heading for Kansas City, right? Why did 340 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:32,240 you tip me off to this Sideaho? 341 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 3: When the cops find out Freddy Bell's a hobo, that 342 00:19:35,799 --> 00:19:39,279 they raided this jungle, close it up. I figured if 343 00:19:39,279 --> 00:19:40,960 I tipped them off through. 344 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:45,079 Speaker 4: You, they might let us hoboes alone. Maybe you see 345 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:47,880 what I mean? Wilson, Sure, Idaho, Sure, I see what 346 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:48,240 you mean. 347 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 7: Come on, I want you to tell his story to 348 00:19:51,000 --> 00:20:07,759 a friend of mine. All set of those pictures, Hodge. Yeah, 349 00:20:08,079 --> 00:20:11,200 got seven different photographs, hareman desk, everyone of them out 350 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:14,039 of the robes gallery for the names blanked out, and 351 00:20:14,079 --> 00:20:17,000 Freddy Bell's picture is one of them. Right, this hobo 352 00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:19,400 picks it, we'll know he's not talking through his hat. 353 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,319 Speaker 4: We know that he's seen the right man. 354 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:25,240 Speaker 7: Much as I hate to admit it, this is a 355 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:26,480 good idea of yours a reporter. 356 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 5: I'll let him in now, why not home? 357 00:20:34,079 --> 00:20:35,440 Speaker 3: What's the sort about us? 358 00:20:35,599 --> 00:20:37,519 Speaker 7: Make it easy, take it easy. We just want to 359 00:20:37,519 --> 00:20:40,000 see whether you can pick Freddy Bell from these pictures. 360 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,400 Speaker 3: Go ahead, I know, pick it on which one of these. 361 00:20:43,279 --> 00:20:47,200 Speaker 7: Pictures is Freddy Bell? 362 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:47,799 Speaker 3: This year? 363 00:20:47,839 --> 00:20:49,799 Speaker 5: One? Is this picture deserved from the left? 364 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:50,880 Speaker 4: That's Freddy Bell. 365 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:52,039 Speaker 3: I'd know him anywhere. 366 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:57,839 Speaker 7: Well, Jim, he's the right reporter. It doesn't gourd. What now? First, 367 00:20:57,880 --> 00:20:59,960 ti'mem going to send out a general alarm, notify all 368 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:02,519 rode the closing police between here and Kansas City. Fine, 369 00:21:02,559 --> 00:21:04,039 that'll give me a chance to phoning in the lead. 370 00:21:04,119 --> 00:21:06,599 I can just make my addition after that. Where do 371 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:23,119 we go from here? Right along the highway to Kansas City? 372 00:21:24,279 --> 00:21:28,640 Speaker 6: Yes, excuse me, ma'am, I'm on my way to Kansas City, hitchhiking. 373 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:32,799 Speaker 5: I'm hungry. I wonder if you could spare me a meal. 374 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:35,559 Why it's a shame nice looking boy like you going hungry? 375 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,799 Speaker 6: Come in, Come in, gee, thanks, ma'm you're swell. You 376 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:40,960 remind me of my mother. 377 00:21:49,319 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 7: Did you not to file the police immediately after you 378 00:21:51,279 --> 00:21:54,240 heard that Freddie Bell was in this area? Missus Henshaw yes. 379 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:56,839 Speaker 6: Mister Hodge, but I don't believe that this boy who 380 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:58,759 had a meal right here in my house. 381 00:21:58,759 --> 00:21:59,759 Speaker 5: Was the killer at all. 382 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,079 Speaker 7: Why don't you believe it, missus Henshaw? 383 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 4: Why he seems like. 384 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 5: A nice boy and he had such a kind thing 385 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,119 house chats on a white and your truck driver, I 386 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:19,559 don't know. 387 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 7: I'm not supposed to take any riders where. 388 00:22:21,839 --> 00:22:23,079 Speaker 5: You're going, Yester City. 389 00:22:23,559 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 7: Well you look like a nice kid, and you're a 390 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:26,480 long way from home. 391 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:28,160 Speaker 4: Come ahead, hop in. 392 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,160 Speaker 7: Where did you pick up this kid in your truck? Driver? 393 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 4: And right outside of Saint Joe, mister Hodge. 394 00:22:40,839 --> 00:22:43,119 Speaker 7: But when the state troopers put up that roadblock and 395 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,599 looked into my truck, the kid was gone. Well that's that. 396 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:47,799 Speaker 4: Let's go on. 397 00:22:48,039 --> 00:22:50,319 Speaker 7: If you ask me, mister Wilson, you two are bucking 398 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,599 up the wrong tree way. Why why that kid was 399 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,640 clean cut, a regular fellaw. He didn't look anything like 400 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:57,359 a killer to me. 401 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 5: Let me in, mom, lend me in ready. 402 00:23:10,559 --> 00:23:11,839 Speaker 3: The police were here. 403 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:13,319 Speaker 2: They told me about what your dog got. 404 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,359 Speaker 6: They haven't got much time off. Cook up something for me, 405 00:23:15,799 --> 00:23:16,680 something to take along. 406 00:23:17,079 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 5: Sandwich is anything? 407 00:23:18,559 --> 00:23:20,400 Speaker 6: I gotta get some clothes and get out of here. 408 00:23:20,279 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 5: In a hurry, Why did you do it? Why did 409 00:23:22,759 --> 00:23:25,799 you wet Gavin and get busy? I'm on the lamp seat. 410 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 6: Ready, you're asked me, breathing on my nerves. 411 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 3: Pready. 412 00:23:28,279 --> 00:23:30,400 Speaker 5: Where are you going? Where can you go when they 413 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,359 give me a job? 414 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,559 Speaker 6: Somewhere at someplace where they won't look for me with 415 00:23:33,759 --> 00:23:35,000 the railroad, may be working on. 416 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,640 Speaker 5: A section again. Don't do it, son, give yourself up 417 00:23:38,279 --> 00:23:39,119 if you've gone nough. 418 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:40,880 Speaker 6: But you've got to give yourself up. 419 00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 3: You kill the man. 420 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 5: You're not a murderer. Yeah, hey, that's something. 421 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:48,559 Speaker 6: You're the mother of a big shot now a big 422 00:23:48,599 --> 00:23:50,400 shop like Blake's Diamond Dylan to. 423 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 4: The rest of them. I got my picture in the papers. 424 00:23:53,319 --> 00:23:57,039 Speaker 6: Report is writing stories about me, a real public Get 425 00:23:57,039 --> 00:23:57,240 of me. 426 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,680 Speaker 5: Okay, now, mom, give me that grub. I gotta beat it. 427 00:24:07,079 --> 00:24:09,799 Speaker 7: Still following the trail, ew and Hodge checked with the 428 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,839 railroads and find that they're hiring section gangs at Liberty, Missouri, 429 00:24:14,160 --> 00:24:16,319 about twenty miles out of Kansas City. 430 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 4: I'm a chance. 431 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,039 Speaker 7: You show up at the employment shack, and sure enough, 432 00:24:21,079 --> 00:24:23,440 the timekeeper tells you he's hired a new man. 433 00:24:24,559 --> 00:24:25,559 Speaker 4: Just as you walk out in. 434 00:24:25,519 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 7: The freight yard, you see, baby face, Freddy Bill, there's 435 00:24:31,279 --> 00:24:34,079 a hut shot freight thing from me through southbound, And 436 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,599 Jim Hodge draws his gun and yells, hey. 437 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,119 Speaker 5: You filed. I remember your hat up? Oh yeah, try 438 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:40,759 get me. 439 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 7: Oh she's making a run for it. 440 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:43,200 Speaker 5: He's gonna try to catch that freight. 441 00:24:43,279 --> 00:24:51,319 Speaker 7: He's not gonna make it. Okay, Bill, by these rests 442 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:55,039 on precise could have made it. I made it seek 443 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,480 Why didn't your baby face fraid he might have got 444 00:24:57,519 --> 00:25:01,119 you with a second shot? Different when you're on the 445 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:05,359 receiving end, isn't it kidding? All right, let's go Wilson night. 446 00:25:05,519 --> 00:25:06,920 Let'll get the fire back at demordwit. 447 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:07,880 Speaker 3: All right, good fire? 448 00:25:09,519 --> 00:25:10,920 Speaker 2: Is that a pullman? 449 00:25:11,079 --> 00:25:12,079 Speaker 7: That's right, babyface? 450 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:17,799 Speaker 5: Why that's funny, that's real funny. 451 00:25:19,279 --> 00:25:20,279 Speaker 7: What's so funny? 452 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,920 Speaker 6: When I was riding the box car, I swore that 453 00:25:24,039 --> 00:25:26,640 some day I'll be a big shot, ride. 454 00:25:26,519 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 5: The pullman first class. 455 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 6: Here I am a big shot with my picture in 456 00:25:32,279 --> 00:25:37,000 all the papers, in writing a pullman car first class, 457 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:38,319 just as I said I would. 458 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:58,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, in just a moment, we'll read you a telegram 459 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:06,119 from Russ Wilson with a final op of tonight's big story. 460 00:26:07,759 --> 00:26:10,000 Now we read you that tagram from Russ Wilson of 461 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,160 the Des Moines Tribune. 462 00:26:11,519 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 7: Youthful killer in Tonight's Big Story was brought to trial, 463 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,640 convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in the 464 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:21,599 Iowa State Penitentiary. Ten years later, he made a daring 465 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,880 escape from prison, but after several weeks at liberty, he 466 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,519 voluntarily returned to jail and is now serving out his sentence. 467 00:26:29,319 --> 00:26:31,359 Many thanks for tonight's Pellmell awar Thank. 468 00:26:31,279 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 2: You, mister Wilson. The makers of pell Mell Famous Cigarettes 469 00:26:34,039 --> 00:26:35,599 are proud to have named you the winner of the 470 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,839 pell Mell five hundred dollars Award for notable service in 471 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,960 the field of journalism. Listen again next week, same time, 472 00:26:42,079 --> 00:26:46,480 same station, when Pellmell Famous Cigarettes will present another Big Story. 473 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,480 A Big Story from the pages of the Nashville Banner 474 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,920 by Lyon Marshall Morgan, A big story about two penniless 475 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,240 parents and a reporter who sought to it that two 476 00:26:57,359 --> 00:27:19,279 children got what they wanted Christmas. The Big Story is 477 00:27:19,319 --> 00:27:22,240 produced by Bernard J. Procter and directed by Harry Ingram, 478 00:27:22,279 --> 00:27:25,400 with music by Vlada miss Lensky. The night's program was 479 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,759 written by Max Serlick. Your narrator was Bob Sloan, and 480 00:27:28,799 --> 00:27:32,359 George Petrie played the part of Russ Wilson. All names 481 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,279 in the Night's story except that of mister Wilson were fictitious, 482 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,599 but the dramatization was based on a true and authentic case. 483 00:27:44,759 --> 00:27:47,720 This is Ernest Chappell speaking for the makers of Palm Alts. 484 00:27:54,400 --> 00:28:00,119 This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company. 485 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 1: Welcome back, all right. I did want to go ahead 486 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,720 and briefly list out the full cast. In addition to 487 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:18,599 George Petre as Russ Wilson, we have Larry Robinson, Hester 488 00:28:18,759 --> 00:28:25,160 Sounderguard Humphrey Davis, William Keene, Ralph Bell, who probably everybody recognized, 489 00:28:25,279 --> 00:28:31,359 and Bob Sloan. Idaho's explanation of the difference between a 490 00:28:31,519 --> 00:28:36,039 hobo and a bomb is a really important one, and 491 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:40,920 it's a key distinctive that's missed if you aren't familiar 492 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,720 with how that subculture worked, or if you've seen a 493 00:28:46,039 --> 00:28:50,079 limited amount of media, you can get those mixed up, 494 00:28:50,319 --> 00:28:55,160 but they are very different, even though a hobo and 495 00:28:55,240 --> 00:29:00,559 a bamb might superficially look similar. And this is probably 496 00:29:00,839 --> 00:29:03,960 one of those episodes that plays into the sort of 497 00:29:04,039 --> 00:29:07,680 melodrama that you associate with, or a lot of people 498 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,960 associate with New York radio producers of the era, like 499 00:29:11,079 --> 00:29:14,839 the Hummers. I don't know if it was just a 500 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,839 script or rather Larry Robinson's performances the kid had not 501 00:29:20,039 --> 00:29:24,440 coming off as believably menacing, but this one just did 502 00:29:24,799 --> 00:29:28,480 seem a bit more over the top. According to the 503 00:29:28,559 --> 00:29:31,880 website The Story Behind the Story, this was based on 504 00:29:32,079 --> 00:29:36,400 the murder of mechanic John Mclair in nineteen forty nine, 505 00:29:37,079 --> 00:29:41,079 and Donald Lammy was the name of the murderer. Lammy 506 00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:45,240 was brought in as a result of a tip and 507 00:29:45,359 --> 00:29:50,160 later testimony of a hobo who was a Cornett player 508 00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,960 who did part time barbering as well as working other 509 00:29:54,079 --> 00:29:57,839 odd jobs. Lack a hard working hobo should, but he 510 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:02,160 had the goal of getting dental work so that he 511 00:30:02,359 --> 00:30:05,759 could play the coronet as it was meant to be played. 512 00:30:05,799 --> 00:30:10,599 He also wanted a new suit and a steak dinner. 513 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:13,079 I don't know if you could really enjoy the State 514 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:16,359 dinner without the dental work. The folks who write the 515 00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:19,880 Story behind the Big Story website note that pictures show 516 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,079 him in the new suit. They assume hopefully that he 517 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:25,960 got the dental work and the steak dinner. Things were 518 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,440 not quite so happy for mister Lemmy, who, as the 519 00:30:29,519 --> 00:30:33,480 episode attested, was a problem prisoner in fact by the 520 00:30:33,519 --> 00:30:37,839 time of this episode, having made to escape attempts. Subsequent 521 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:42,680 to this episode, Donald Lammy broke out of prison again 522 00:30:43,079 --> 00:30:47,359 and escaped to Arizona in nineteen forty eight, and he 523 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:53,160 was killed by Arizona police there in nineteen fifty All right, well, 524 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,079 now we want to go ahead and thank our Patreon 525 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,160 supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead 526 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:03,400 and thank philp Areon supporter since March twenty eighteen, currently 527 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,720 supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of seven 528 00:31:06,759 --> 00:31:09,519 dollars and fourteen cents or more per month. Thank you 529 00:31:09,559 --> 00:31:12,039 so much for your support, Phil, and that will do 530 00:31:12,119 --> 00:31:15,559 it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow 531 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,680 us using your favorite podcast software. Be sure to rate 532 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,240 and review the podcast wherever you download it from. We'll 533 00:31:23,279 --> 00:31:26,759 be back in three weeks with another episode of The 534 00:31:26,799 --> 00:31:31,519 Big Story. We will have encore presentations on Tuesday the 535 00:31:31,599 --> 00:31:35,200 next couple of weeks, but join us back here. 536 00:31:35,279 --> 00:31:37,400 Speaker 5: Tomorrow for our final. 537 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,920 Speaker 1: Christmas special off Broadways My Beat, where. 538 00:31:41,039 --> 00:31:54,039 Speaker 10: Oh sagean Gino Catagonia speaking yes, yes, yeah, right away. Anny, Hey, Danny, 539 00:31:54,359 --> 00:31:54,839 it's the matter. 540 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,400 Speaker 5: Do you know I haven't gotten my coffee yet. 541 00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,359 Speaker 10: Coffee at a time like this, buddy Mouthpie and they're 542 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,400 doing one million? What about him? He has been slugged. 543 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 1: Let's go, Gino? 544 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,799 Speaker 5: Did you say, of course on a case like this, 545 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:07,920 I'll need you, Gino, come on. 546 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, 547 00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:15,759 send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 548 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,160 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 549 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:25,839 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. 550 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,160 This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.