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Speaker 1: The original air date is July the thirteenth, nineteen fifty one,
Speaker 1: and this one is Anton's return.
Speaker 2: Nights eight.
Speaker 3: Hi.
Speaker 4: This is Randy Stone. I cover the night Beat for
Speaker 4: the Chicago Star. Stories start in many different ways. This
Speaker 4: one began on an elevated train and ended in eternity.
Speaker 5: Night Beat, starring Fik love Joy as Ramby Stone.
Speaker 6: The night is just about washed up.
Speaker 4: The sky is getting that tattletale gray around the edges.
Speaker 4: Another hour or so, three million alarm clocks will start
Speaker 4: yacking against the air drums of Chicago's.
Speaker 6: Dear hearts and gentle people.
Speaker 4: A goodly number have said, dear hearts and gentle people
Speaker 4: will stumbled at the front door for they copy of
Speaker 4: the Morning Star. I'm wondering what they'll say when they
Speaker 4: read the opening sentence of night Beat story for Today,
Speaker 4: the line that goes, this is a love story with
Speaker 4: the happiest ending.
Speaker 6: I've ever heard.
Speaker 4: I guess they'll think his spring has got me in
Speaker 4: its perfume clutches, And more than likely I'll wind up
Speaker 4: around the.
Speaker 6: Blogonney Sandwich and that'll be that.
Speaker 4: Only if they just keep reading, maybe they'll be in
Speaker 4: for a strange kind of surprise. It started a little
Speaker 4: after ten o'clock last night. I just boarded an elevated
Speaker 4: train and was on my way to the loop.
Speaker 6: The train was pretty crowded, but I.
Speaker 4: Saw on it the seed up front, and I hurried
Speaker 4: for it. I started sitting down without.
Speaker 6: Looking at Tom. Where have you been? I beg your pardon.
Speaker 7: Oh, I've waited for long and Tom the girls sitting
Speaker 7: next to me.
Speaker 6: I noticed her for the first time.
Speaker 4: About twenty maybe, and so beautiful, so delicately beautiful.
Speaker 6: It was like your eyes. It hit the jackpot, and.
Speaker 4: Somehow the grinding elevator train suddenly sounded like a gypsy violin.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't have gone away.
Speaker 4: Look, I hate to tell you this, but I think
Speaker 4: you've got me mixed up.
Speaker 3: It's so good to hear you, to be near you,
Speaker 3: and Ton so good.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's good to be near you too. Kid. Won't
Speaker 6: ever go away again, will you. I'd like to stay
Speaker 6: here forever, coms me.
Speaker 3: You'll never go away.
Speaker 4: Beautiful as she was, and started giving me the crease.
Speaker 4: If i'd been Anton, i've enjoyed it immensely, But being
Speaker 4: as how I was two other guys, I didn't see it. Also,
Speaker 4: there was something about her eyes a disturbing brightness. I
Speaker 4: didn't know what to do about it, and before I
Speaker 4: could decided, I reached my transfer station.
Speaker 6: I started getting up. Lady, look, it's my station. I
Speaker 6: take it easy. I talk me, what's wrong with you?
Speaker 6: This is my stake.
Speaker 8: I'll you'll just have to kid, and I'll like, go
Speaker 8: my son.
Speaker 4: She folded up like a little rag doll, and there
Speaker 4: were dead faint. I bent over a picked up her arm.
Speaker 4: The massage your wrist was like touching a hot stove.
Speaker 4: She was burning up with fever. Passengers in the car
Speaker 4: were crowding around. The conductor still hadn't given the signal
Speaker 4: for the train to leave the station. I picked the
Speaker 4: girl up in my arms, who was like lifting a
Speaker 4: ten year old kid. She must have weighed a fast
Speaker 4: ninety pounds. I carried her out of the train under
Speaker 4: the platform. Someone called for an ambulance. She was still
Speaker 4: unconscious when the ambulance came. She looked so small and
Speaker 4: so lost, and so.
Speaker 6: Alone and well.
Speaker 4: According to her, I was Anton, so the least Anton
Speaker 4: could do would be to sit beside her on the
Speaker 4: long ride to the hospital.
Speaker 6: She was still out cold.
Speaker 4: When we reached County Hospital, they found her name and
Speaker 4: address inside her purse.
Speaker 6: This is Mauritia Noek.
Speaker 4: Six one two Larabee Street. I waited around to see
Speaker 4: what was wrong with it. After almost an hour, they
Speaker 4: said I could go upstairs.
Speaker 6: And talk to the doctor.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, doctor, I want to see about that girl.
Speaker 4: I brought in Marisha, and I like, yes, relative of yours?
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, I just met her.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 8: I'm afraid we've got the contact somewherelative right away.
Speaker 6: Nothing you can do for her?
Speaker 8: Do for her for a kid's been sick for years,
Speaker 8: and wait till she's dying before she comes to a hospital.
Speaker 6: It takes money to go to the hospital down not here.
Speaker 8: Why didn't she come here? It's wrong with these people?
Speaker 8: Are they proud of stupid?
Speaker 6: Three years ago, maybe we could have done something for her.
Speaker 6: But now, Oh yeah, I don't know, mister s Tone,
Speaker 6: I don't know. It's it's completely frustrating. You study medicine,
Speaker 6: What good does it do? Sometimes life doesn't seem to
Speaker 6: make any sense. Since one is it supposed to make sense?
Speaker 6: I sound like this is my first patient.
Speaker 8: Not very professional, I'm afraid, but don't worry about it.
Speaker 6: It's human. Now. This girl keeps talking about her husband Anton. Well,
Speaker 6: she was talking that way when I met her. He
Speaker 6: is he's supposed to take her away some place to Mexico.
Speaker 8: She says, well, it's warm and she'll get well what
Speaker 8: they expect miracles?
Speaker 6: No sure miracles. Maybe Mexico is going to be her miracle.
Speaker 8: Do you have any idea how to contact her husband?
Speaker 6: Doesn't a girl know where he is?
Speaker 8: Doesn't seem to even when she's not delirious. Got an address?
Speaker 8: Workers a place over on Larabee Street, north of Chicago Avenue.
Speaker 6: Yes, I know that neighborhood.
Speaker 8: Furnished rooms with kitchen privileges, bring your own mass trans lovely,
Speaker 8: no phone listing. I was thinking of calling the police. Yeah,
Speaker 8: trouble is there so little time? How much time I
Speaker 8: don't know? Could happen five minutes from now?
Speaker 6: Five hours? Well, i'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: I'll drop by her address and see what I can
Speaker 4: find out.
Speaker 6: All right, nurse, care to see your mister storm? Yeah?
Speaker 4: The doc turned and walked into the room, and I, well,
Speaker 4: I follow him. That's a nice promising beginning for a
Speaker 4: love story with a happy ending. Only when we got
Speaker 4: inside Mauritia and no X room, the joke was on me.
Speaker 6: There was no hearts and flowers.
Speaker 4: She was even more beautiful than before, her black hair
Speaker 4: spread out on a white pillow, her delicate face, and
Speaker 4: the lovely eyes following us as we came into the room.
Speaker 4: No fear in those eyes, none at all, just a
Speaker 4: sort of questioning. Doctor found him yet not yet, Mauritia
Speaker 4: was still trying. This is mister Stone. He's trying to
Speaker 4: help us locate your husband.
Speaker 3: Oh, I hope you find him, poor Anton. You feel
Speaker 3: so bad if you don't find.
Speaker 8: Him in time, of course, he well, that's why the
Speaker 8: doctor would like you to tell me anything you can,
Speaker 8: and I'd help us find him.
Speaker 3: But I told the doctor he went to find work
Speaker 3: my Anton, so he could take me away where I
Speaker 3: could get well, could be a wife to him.
Speaker 6: There's a bother you to talk as it, Tirant.
Speaker 3: No, no, I like talking about him. And there's so
Speaker 3: little time.
Speaker 6: Doctor said, you were planning on going to Mexico.
Speaker 3: To Las Flories, little town of flowers and very cruise.
Speaker 3: My ring is from Mexico. See silver and turquoise.
Speaker 6: Nice.
Speaker 3: We were married with two rings exactly a life silver
Speaker 3: and turquoise.
Speaker 6: You think Anton could have gone there to Mexico.
Speaker 3: No, no, we'd never have gone there without me, the
Speaker 3: little town of the flowers, like we planned on our honeymoon,
Speaker 3: just like it said in the travel folder, thousands of
Speaker 3: blossoms on the water for a fuming years. But we
Speaker 3: went to a real hotel here in Chicago and our honeymoon.
Speaker 3: Anton insisted on it, even though we couldn't afford it.
Speaker 3: It was in the winter, and it was cold in
Speaker 3: Chicago like now. Icicles hung from the trees, breaking the branches.
Speaker 3: But in the room it was war and we had
Speaker 3: each other.
Speaker 6: Look out the window.
Speaker 9: Mauritia, you know, I've never seen the lake from up
Speaker 9: high in the beautiful and I'm so.
Speaker 3: Happy, And toon, wasn't it extravagant coming here to a hotel.
Speaker 3: I'd have been just as satisfied going straight to our.
Speaker 6: Room on Laravie Street. No, Mauritia, not on our honeymoon.
Speaker 6: We left time enough for that.
Speaker 9: How could you possibly imagine anything beautiful from a furnished
Speaker 9: room on Laravie.
Speaker 6: Street, Darling. But here this is different.
Speaker 9: It's more than a hotel room in Chicago overlooking the lake.
Speaker 9: This is what we've dreamed of. Imagine, It's less Florish. Yeah,
Speaker 9: the little town of the flowers. Look out there, Mauritia.
Speaker 9: That isn't snow, it's thick tropical foliage. And those aren't
Speaker 9: icicles hanging from the trees, the blossoms, and the wind
Speaker 9: is warm and soft outside.
Speaker 6: Oh, you'll get well, Mauritia.
Speaker 3: And we don't need money.
Speaker 6: We can live for practically nothing.
Speaker 3: Fresh fruit growing on trees all we can eat. We
Speaker 3: will go there, Anton, we will, and I'll get well there.
Speaker 3: I'll be a wife to you Anton.
Speaker 6: Just you wait and see.
Speaker 3: But we didn't go to Mexico.
Speaker 6: And then Anton went away, and you haven't heard from
Speaker 6: him since.
Speaker 3: No, but I don't blame him. Why should a man
Speaker 3: stay with a wife who's sick.
Speaker 8: Oh no, no, no, you said yourself. You went away
Speaker 8: to warn money for your truth.
Speaker 3: Yes, if that's it. But now if I could only
Speaker 3: see him once more, just once to tell him not
Speaker 3: to feel badly, to be happy for what we had,
Speaker 3: if I could only tell him not to feel sorry,
Speaker 3: because it was the same as if we really had
Speaker 3: been us. Floris.
Speaker 6: Well, you better rest now, I'll I'll try.
Speaker 10: To find him.
Speaker 6: It's tough when they know they're going to die.
Speaker 4: It's not that they're scared, but suddenly there's something they
Speaker 4: feel that got to do when time is running out.
Speaker 6: That's how it was with Mauritia Noick. She had to
Speaker 6: find her Anton to.
Speaker 4: Tell him it was okay about a little town of
Speaker 4: Mexico that either one of them have ever seen or
Speaker 4: of a wood.
Speaker 8: See, how do you find a guy like that? And
Speaker 8: what was I doing looking for him? I took her
Speaker 8: cab back to the loop, I picked up my car
Speaker 8: and drove over to the Larryby Street address.
Speaker 4: It was a rooming house, all right, and the poorest
Speaker 4: looking one on the block.
Speaker 6: I rang the bell and I waited. Middle aged woman
Speaker 6: came to the door.
Speaker 3: What is it.
Speaker 6: Are you the manager?
Speaker 11: You're looking for a room?
Speaker 6: I got no vacant.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, I don't want a room. You have
Speaker 4: someone living here by the name of Noick.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but she ain't home, which ain't been here all day.
Speaker 6: I know that she's in the hospital.
Speaker 11: The hospital all the poor thing. I was worried about her.
Speaker 11: She's never been out late.
Speaker 6: Like this is her husband here? Anton Noick?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 11: I know he ain't been here for a long time,
Speaker 11: working someplace out of the city.
Speaker 4: I think whether you have any idea where I've got
Speaker 4: to find him. Missus Noak is well, they don't expect
Speaker 4: her to live. He's got to be notified.
Speaker 6: Oh, that poor little girl.
Speaker 11: For such a long time, she's been sick. Come on in, please,
Speaker 11: maybe there's something in here written down, or maybe mister
Speaker 11: Noak's brother would know.
Speaker 6: Brother. Where does he live?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 6: No, I don't know exactly.
Speaker 11: He's the one that's been sending missus Noak money to
Speaker 11: live on while her husband's been away.
Speaker 4: That was the beginning. We found an envelope and the
Speaker 4: brother in the girl's room.
Speaker 6: Paul Noik. He lived on Clark Street in the Lincoln
Speaker 6: Park neighborhood. I drove over. There was a man coming
Speaker 6: down the steps.
Speaker 4: As they got out of my car. I stopped him.
Speaker 4: When he got to the side, I beg your pardon. Yes,
Speaker 4: I saw you coming out of that building. You wouldn't
Speaker 4: be Paul Noak, would you whether you were. I'm from
Speaker 4: the Chicago Star. I'm trying to locate Anton Noick.
Speaker 8: Oh, I can't help you. I don't know anything about him.
Speaker 8: I'm like to work, mister Nowick. You are his brother,
Speaker 8: aren't you?
Speaker 6: Yes? But well, what's the matter? With you. I don't
Speaker 6: know anything about him. He's he's gone away someplace to work.
Speaker 4: Look, fellow, I got to find that Mauritia is very sick. Mauritia,
Speaker 4: she's in the hospital. I got to find your brother
Speaker 4: right away. I told you I don't know where he is.
Speaker 4: My brother and I, well, we don't see each other.
Speaker 4: I haven't seen him since he left, but he's written
Speaker 4: to you. He must have you been sending money to
Speaker 4: his wife.
Speaker 6: All right, it's none of your business, but I'll tell you.
Speaker 6: I had one letter from him. He asked me to
Speaker 6: do what I could for Maurita until he could send
Speaker 6: fora Where was a letter from, say where he was
Speaker 6: working someplace in Montreal.
Speaker 8: He didn't give any address, some for company like Chicago,
Speaker 8: Montreal Firs.
Speaker 4: Well, it doesn't sound like you're telling me the truth,
Speaker 4: mister Noye. But I can't say why you'd want a
Speaker 4: thing like that any conscience.
Speaker 6: I'm telling you the truth. Well, okay, but don't take
Speaker 6: it so hard. Oh my wish, My poor kid. I'll
Speaker 6: see you the first thing tomorrow. You better make it tonight.
Speaker 6: I can't. I just can't. Well, right in the middle
Speaker 6: of our tax work.
Speaker 8: Ah, Yes, yeah, well, I see your point. Only thing
Speaker 8: is that tomorrow shall be dead.
Speaker 6: It's not true. Doctors are notorious for saying things like that.
Speaker 6: I I don't believe it. Brow would you believe it
Speaker 6: if you weren't the middle of your tax work. You
Speaker 6: had no right to talk to me like that, No
Speaker 6: right at all. I'll see you tomorrow, I tell you,
Speaker 6: I'll see you tomorrow. Get out of my way.
Speaker 5: Get out of my way and and stay out of
Speaker 5: my life.
Speaker 6: Stay out of my life, or you'll recredit mister Stone.
Speaker 6: Now what was that for?
Speaker 5: NBC is presenting night Beat, starring Frank Lovejoy as Randy Stone, a.
Speaker 4: Love story with a happy ending. Yes, that's what the
Speaker 4: man said. I mean, right at the moment, if there
Speaker 4: was any happiness.
Speaker 6: In the world. Who was staying out of my sight?
Speaker 6: Almost midnight?
Speaker 4: The Mauritia and Noaka at the hospital, hanging on to
Speaker 4: life by her fingernails until I could find her husband Anton.
Speaker 4: Nothing to go on but the name Anton's brother had
Speaker 4: thrown at me, the Chicago Montreal for a company.
Speaker 6: I looked it up in the phone book. It was there,
Speaker 6: all right. I started dialing the numbers.
Speaker 4: I didn't imagine anybody being around this time of the night,
Speaker 4: But it was the only lead I had at the moment.
Speaker 4: There weren't too many moments left. All I could think
Speaker 4: about was what the doctor had said. Maybe she's got five.
Speaker 8: Hours, five hours, No, nobody's gonna last.
Speaker 11: Hello.
Speaker 4: Hello, this is a report on the Chicago Star. Look,
Speaker 4: I'm trying to locate a man who's working for your company.
Speaker 3: Nobody, I'm cleaning woman tomorrow.
Speaker 4: No no, no, no, wait, please listen. I don't have any time.
Speaker 4: This is very important. Can you tell me how I
Speaker 4: can locate the manager of your company?
Speaker 11: Gone home at five o'clock?
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I understand that, But can you please tell
Speaker 4: me the manager's number.
Speaker 6: I've got to telephone him now, just a minute.
Speaker 4: I waited seemed like forever while she went for the number. Ella, Yeah,
Speaker 4: well you were able to find it.
Speaker 8: George Sphonson you four two.
Speaker 4: Three one one view four two three one one. Thank you,
Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: I didn't give out the number only because yes.
Speaker 4: All right, I'll tell him, thank you goodbye, La for
Speaker 4: two three one one.
Speaker 6: Allow, mister Swanson.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry to trouble you, mister Swanson, but it's very important.
Speaker 4: My name is Stone, I'm a reporter on the Star.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to locate a man who works for your
Speaker 4: company and Anton.
Speaker 8: Noak, Oh, we have nowhere by that name working.
Speaker 6: What was that name? And toon Noak never.
Speaker 8: Have had in Taiping with the company, of course, we're
Speaker 8: an all firm.
Speaker 12: May have been away back.
Speaker 6: Oh no, no, no, this would have been in the
Speaker 6: last year or so.
Speaker 8: Oh.
Speaker 4: Sorry, would you have any way of knowing if he
Speaker 4: worked at your Montreal branch?
Speaker 6: We have no Montreal branch.
Speaker 4: Isn't your company the Chicago Montreal per company?
Speaker 13: Now that's right, but we haven't had a branch in
Speaker 13: Montreal for years.
Speaker 11: It used to be our headquarters.
Speaker 12: When the company first started.
Speaker 8: But we'rest tricky Chicago firm now.
Speaker 6: Oh I see, well, thank you very much. I'm sorry
Speaker 6: to trouble you.
Speaker 2: Oh not at all.
Speaker 13: Oh, if it's gonna be put in the papers, don't forget.
Speaker 11: To mention our name.
Speaker 6: No no, I want to buy mister Swanson.
Speaker 4: Something was the smell and it wasn't just the west
Speaker 4: window of the stockyards. I checked the vital statistics on
Speaker 4: deaths no Anton Noak since forty four.
Speaker 6: Check the police records ra amnesia.
Speaker 4: Cases in the Central Bonding Company files, Paul Noak was
Speaker 4: listed as a night auditor with a Great Lakes Bank
Speaker 4: reserve over on State Street. I drove around the State
Speaker 4: Street and rang the night bell of the Great Lakes Reserve.
Speaker 4: The watchman wouldn't let me in, but in a couple
Speaker 4: of minutes no Ik came out of the building alone.
Speaker 6: His face was quite as he came toward me. Why
Speaker 6: did you come here?
Speaker 4: Well, your brother doesn't work for the Chicago Montreal for Company.
Speaker 4: I thought you'd want to know.
Speaker 6: No, I don't want to know. I don't want to
Speaker 6: know anything about it. Your own brother had no right
Speaker 6: to come here, no right to you here.
Speaker 4: This is my work, for sure, But I didn't think
Speaker 4: you'd mind. After all, you've got nothing to hide.
Speaker 6: Of course I had nothing to hide.
Speaker 5: They know me here.
Speaker 6: I'm respected, I have a position of trust.
Speaker 8: You had no right to come here and make trouble
Speaker 8: for me.
Speaker 6: It's taken me years to get where I am.
Speaker 4: All right, not just take it easy. Nobody's interested in
Speaker 4: making trouble for you. But I am interested in finding
Speaker 4: Anton Noak, and whether you like it or not, that's
Speaker 4: I intend to do.
Speaker 13: And find them, find them or they stay away from me,
Speaker 13: stay away from my work.
Speaker 6: I can't help you.
Speaker 5: I oppose you that I'll stay away from me.
Speaker 6: I didn't have time to twist his arm.
Speaker 4: As the last resort, I headed across town the police headquarters,
Speaker 4: Bureau of Missing Persons and my old friend, Sergeant Adams.
Speaker 13: No, Randy know he's never been listed as a missing person.
Speaker 13: Somebody would have had to report him, his wife or
Speaker 13: a brother, or for us to have a record on him.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, Adams, I know that, But the guy is missing.
Speaker 4: You say you check the death records, how about hospital records?
Speaker 4: There was nothing to go on and not enough time, Adams,
Speaker 4: I tell you, I got to find the fellow the
Speaker 4: night tomorrow the last Yeah.
Speaker 13: They disappearance May tenth, nineteen forty eight. Did you check
Speaker 13: the arrest records.
Speaker 2: For that date?
Speaker 6: Nothing under knowing?
Speaker 8: How about John does?
Speaker 6: John does?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: I never thought of that.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well, come on, I won't take much time, never
Speaker 13: can tell them.
Speaker 6: Just might be something.
Speaker 13: Usually you find something on these John doees after you
Speaker 13: had them a while, if the eye, friends, pictures or else,
Speaker 13: they just break down. Tell us where they are, of course,
Speaker 13: if they're just John Doe drunks just a matter of
Speaker 13: so bring them up right in here, Randy.
Speaker 6: I'm mac oh Adams arrest records forty eight May tenth. Okay,
Speaker 6: you better make it my eleventh to you. The guy
Speaker 6: that phoned ear there, Yes, iphoned none of those names, yeah, Mack. Yeah.
Speaker 8: We want to have a look for John doe'es yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: Ny tenth as BC's d Day Dolton, then Dell Doe dough,
Speaker 8: John Doe drunk, John Doe drunk, John Doe drunk. Here's
Speaker 8: one John Doe armed robbery. Let me see the file
Speaker 8: on this one, Mac one nine two seven on one.
Speaker 6: Do you think there'd be any information in the file.
Speaker 13: I never can tell, Randy. Personal property slip sometimes has
Speaker 13: the information.
Speaker 6: You can use. Yeah.
Speaker 7: One John age twenty three, hair, dark eyes, brown, high
Speaker 7: five ten three quarters, no identifying scars.
Speaker 6: Well that you know that that that age is right?
Speaker 6: It could be no. Eck, what do you do? Hold up?
Speaker 6: Captured by the victim must have been known at the game.
Speaker 6: Let's look at what else you got here.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I've a look at the personal property list. Stuff
Speaker 13: he had on him and he was booked. Brown suit,
Speaker 13: white shirt, blue striped tie, no hat, white handkerchief.
Speaker 6: What is this under jewelry? One only hand ring, Indian
Speaker 6: silver and turquoise? What else? Cash? Eight sense identification? Now
Speaker 6: that's about all it all.
Speaker 8: He is a note I thus he was trying to
Speaker 8: get away one only travel full round Mexico.
Speaker 6: I'd found him.
Speaker 4: Anton Noak was John Doe, arrested for robbery May tenth,
Speaker 4: nineteen forty eight, Convicted and sentenced to joliet for two
Speaker 4: to five years, still under the name of John Doe.
Speaker 4: It was beginning to fit together.
Speaker 6: Sure.
Speaker 4: He didn't want her to know. That's why he hadn't written.
Speaker 4: That was the reason for the lie about the job
Speaker 4: in Montreal. He was afraid it would hurt her the
Speaker 4: prison record. That's why his brother wouldn't tell where. He
Speaker 4: was afraid that somehow Anton's crime would reflect on his
Speaker 4: own bank job. I jumped into my car and headed
Speaker 4: out out Dannaven' tosched Joliette over thirty miles away with
Speaker 4: the middle of the night. I had no idea what
Speaker 4: I could do when I got there. All I knew
Speaker 4: was I had to get there fast. Maybe you'd been released.
Speaker 4: Maybe I could talk to the warden and do letting
Speaker 4: him out with me. Onder guard, maybe I could put
Speaker 4: a call through to the hospital. He could at least
Speaker 4: talk to her on the phone. I didn't know. When
Speaker 4: I got to Joliet, the place was lit up like
Speaker 4: soldier's field. The guard took me inside of the ward
Speaker 4: and he was dressed. He seemed to have been expecting me.
Speaker 6: Your little lights shone.
Speaker 4: Doesn't anybody who bet around here and the rest of
Speaker 4: the boys who've been and gone? Rest of what boys?
Speaker 4: The other papers?
Speaker 6: You mean they got here ahead of me? Now?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 6: Of course? The break happened a couple of hours ago,
Speaker 6: a break.
Speaker 4: I thought there was something funny about all those lights
Speaker 4: and everybody being up at this.
Speaker 6: Time of the night. Isn't that why you're here?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: No, I came up to see a fellow. What happened?
Speaker 12: One of the men suddenly decided he wanted out, grabbed
Speaker 12: a gun away from a garden, started blasting away.
Speaker 6: Had to shoot him to stop him. Not unorganized break.
Speaker 7: No, he was alone.
Speaker 6: I can't understand it.
Speaker 12: Model prisoner coming up for parole a month and the
Speaker 12: night he just blows up for a pill.
Speaker 4: Uh, his name wouldn't be John Doe with it one
Speaker 4: of many how did you know he might be the
Speaker 4: fellow was coming up to see Chicago number one nine
Speaker 4: seven one.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's a shame. He's in a hospital. Sell
Speaker 6: down the hall. I see, it's pretty bad. I'd like
Speaker 6: to see him if you don't mind on come on.
Speaker 6: Thank you. Funny about these John does did you know him? No? No,
Speaker 6: I don't. I think I know his wife.
Speaker 12: Usually something pretty decent about them, trying to protect their families.
Speaker 12: Mostly can't hardly blame them either. Oh, doctor, this is
Speaker 12: mister Stone, one of the Chicago papers. All right, if
Speaker 12: we go in talk to him for a minute, I'm
Speaker 12: afraid it won't make much difference.
Speaker 6: Warden Grehadstone, Thank you. Hello, Fellah.
Speaker 4: I don't want to bother you, but I came up
Speaker 4: here tonight looking for a fellow named Anton Noik.
Speaker 6: My name's John Doe. Yeah. This uh, this Anton Noak.
Speaker 6: I never met him, but from what I hear is
Speaker 6: quite a guy. I wouldn't know.
Speaker 4: I had it from a girl named Marisa, his wife.
Speaker 4: I believe she loved him quite a lot. By the way,
Speaker 4: that ring you were worrying, where'd you get that?
Speaker 6: I stole it? Really? Why would anyone steal a cheap
Speaker 6: little bit of silver and took hers. I hadn't like
Speaker 6: Uh huh.
Speaker 4: I saw one like that on a girl once. It
Speaker 4: was a wedding ring. The girl liked the too. This
Speaker 4: fellow Noak gave it to her. But then he got
Speaker 4: into some sort of a jam. He had to go
Speaker 4: away for a while. Didn't tell her anything about what happened.
Speaker 4: He was afraid it might have heard her would kilty
Speaker 4: no would have made her unhappy. Maybe she would have
Speaker 4: understood awful lot. She would have been glad he was
Speaker 4: squaring things up. She she loved him an awful lot.
Speaker 3: What do you want, mister, Like.
Speaker 4: I said, I was just looking for a fella, just
Speaker 4: one question for the paper. I'm sorry I have to
Speaker 4: ask you. But how did you happen to pick tonight
Speaker 4: to break out? Why didn't you wait for your release?
Speaker 6: I don't know. Something made me, something telling me she
Speaker 6: needed me doctor quick. Oh shit, flowers of the water,
Speaker 6: how beautiful in the sunlight. She's gone.
Speaker 4: Instinctively, I looked down at my watch. Two thirty five
Speaker 4: in the morning. A nice, lonely time to make your
Speaker 4: curtain call, two thirty five.
Speaker 7: I am fine.
Speaker 4: Little light had been having a really fell low. I
Speaker 4: telephoned the story into the paper and went back to
Speaker 4: the hospital. I wasn't going to be much help to Mauritia,
Speaker 4: no act, but I promised i'd come back. The doctor
Speaker 4: was in the hall working over some reports at the
Speaker 4: night desk. He looked up when I stepped out of
Speaker 4: the elevator.
Speaker 6: Hell, almost I found our ant one, right, h A
Speaker 6: little too late, though dead.
Speaker 8: Really wouldn't have any difference. She yeah, I'm making out
Speaker 8: the report now right.
Speaker 6: I wasn't so bad. Stone wasn't bad at all. She
Speaker 6: was happy. I've never seen anyone so happy. But did
Speaker 6: she have to be happy about them? Who knows.
Speaker 8: But right at the last, this wonderful smile came across
Speaker 8: her face. I guess it was delirium. She kept saying
Speaker 8: something like flowers on the water, how beautiful in the sunlight.
Speaker 6: That's what she said.
Speaker 4: That report that you're making O tell me was the
Speaker 4: time of death? Tell me, DoD please?
Speaker 6: Oh it's two thirty five am. Why two thirty five am?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 4: So here I sit, watching the dawn creeping up on Chicago,
Speaker 4: tapping out thirty My story for the night, A love story,
Speaker 4: you know, less, A very pessimistic Fellow once wrote, when
Speaker 4: two people really love each other, there can never be
Speaker 4: a happy ending.
Speaker 6: Well that could be.
Speaker 4: But then again, maybe that pessimistic Fellow used one word
Speaker 4: too many. Maybe when two people really love each other
Speaker 4: there can never be an ending. Who knows you pays
Speaker 4: your money and it takes your choice copy Boy.
Speaker 5: Nightbeat, a new dramatic series, stars Frank love Joy as
Speaker 5: Randy Stone. Nightbeat is edited by Larry Marcus and directed
Speaker 5: by Warren Lewis.
Speaker 6: Music is by Frank Worth.
Speaker 5: Others in tonight's cast were Joyce McCluskey, Vic Perrin, Jack Edwards,
Speaker 5: Jerry Hassner, Rena Craig, Larry.
Speaker 6: Dobkin, and Charles Seal.
Speaker 5: Frank love Joy will next be seen in Milton Spurling's
Speaker 5: production Rock Bottom, released by Warner Brothers. Listen next week
Speaker 5: at the same time and every week as Randy Stone
Speaker 5: searches through the city for the strange stories waiting for
Speaker 5: him in the darkness, the stories that come out of
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, it's a good episode, but may sound
Speaker 1: familiar to long term listeners because it's essentially the same
Speaker 1: thing ass Flowers on the Water. My reason for playing
Speaker 1: it is that most radio lists this episode, and I
Speaker 1: even found this plot summary. Now, there are numerous things
Speaker 1: that kind of make me a dubious about it. It
Speaker 1: aired during the summer, but it referenced tax time, which
Speaker 1: would be in March and spring, and there's also a
Speaker 1: reference to spring at the start of it. This also
Speaker 1: could be a straight out and out replay of that episode.
Speaker 1: It wasn't totally unheard of it by nineteen fifty one
Speaker 1: with all of these episodes being transcribed, so again we
Speaker 1: went with the best sources available. But whether this is
Speaker 1: correct or not, who knows. They do label this episode
Speaker 1: generally Antonio's return, which is odd as there's no one
Speaker 1: named Antonio in the plot. It's anton Regardless, the story's
Speaker 1: got a definite sense of tragic, somewhat beautiful romance while
Speaker 1: still showing Brandy's will to take on the tough task
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night when there's no one
Speaker 1: else really available to do it. All right, well, that
Speaker 1: will do it for today. Join us back here tomorrow
Speaker 1: for pursuit, and then next Monday it's another episode of
Speaker 1: Not Buyed. In the meantime, send your comments to Box
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