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Now this special is going to be one of our
twice Toole Tale episodes. Now, for those of you who
haven't listened to these in the past, what we do
is we will play two episodes, both written by the
same writer but recycled from one series to another. And
this sort of recycling of scripts we refer to it
from time to time, but it was a fairly common
practice by many writers who took advantage of the fact
that their programs aired only once, So it wasn't that
hard to wait a few months or a year or
so and essentially take the same script, make a few changes,
and you have another program from the same basic story. Today,
we are going to feature a story that was done
on two very different series. First of all, there was
The Silent Men, a series starring Douglas Fairbank Junior, where
each week he would play a different protagonist who represented
one of the obscure federal agencies whose bottle work often
went unnoticed and little known by their fellow Americans. And
then we have Not Beat, which was a series starring
Frank Lovejoy as a reporter who walks around in the
evening searching for stories for his newspaper call called not In.
This series features many human mysteries. So now from February third,
nineteen fifty two is the episode of The Silent Men,
The Big.
Speaker 2: Kill Douglas Fairbanks Junior and The Silent Men. The National
Broadcasting Company probably presents Douglas Fairbanks production of The Silent Man.
Franscribed stories of the undercover operation of the special agents
of every branch of our federal government and their relentless
fight against crime.
Speaker 3: Now Here is Douglas Fairbanks.
Speaker 4: Many people assume that the special agents of our federal
government are concerned only with feign intrigue as or international problems.
Speaker 5: But this is not the case.
Speaker 4: For every citizen of this country, regardless of age or nationality,
is under the constant protection and surveillance of the silent Men.
Speaker 5: And the same skill and persistence.
Speaker 4: That is used in guarding the security of our nation
is also used in dealing with some of the trials
and disturbances of mister and missus average American. This is
such a story, a case involving simply people. In it,
I played the part of Special Agent Alec Brown, from
whose departmental chief in Washington I obtained the fact the
file case entitled the Big Kill, in which only the names.
Speaker 5: And places are fictional.
Speaker 4: I'd been transferred from CIA headquarters in Washington to the
District office in New York.
Speaker 5: A new office meant a new rou team.
Speaker 4: And I was familiarizing myself with it by working evenings.
An office is a lonely place at night, and when
the phone at my side shattered the stillness with a
sharp cry, I was startled out of my wits.
Speaker 5: Hello, Yes, what do you want to stay to.
Speaker 6: Quick please hurry.
Speaker 7: What is it?
Speaker 5: Maybe I can help you?
Speaker 6: Bomb in the plane Chicago?
Speaker 8: Is there anyone there me?
Speaker 6: I'll tell you the Chicago bombs.
Speaker 5: Play one minute. Please give me your name? Please?
Speaker 6: What did my name? You have no time?
Speaker 5: I must have your name. I got what plight to Chicago?
Speaker 4: I couldn't, lady, it's five after eight now you phone
just ten minutes too late.
Speaker 5: In my line of work, I get a.
Speaker 4: Lot of crank telephone calls, but I couldn't take chances
on this one. I called the control tower at the airport. Immediate,
car Brown at CIA, you have seven fifty five flight
to Chicago. Yes, contact the filers immediately. Have you made
an emergency landing at once? Unload the passengers and let
no one in or near the plane till I get there.
Speaker 5: I'll stand by. I've been trying to tell.
Speaker 4: You, sir, the Chicago plane hasn't taken off.
Speaker 5: Oh the Fox settled suddenly on the airfield, and we're
waiting till it lives. Where is she now? The far
end of the strip. Believe her there.
Speaker 4: One all personnel to keep clear. I'll be there as
soon as I can.
Speaker 5: But why don't do as I tell you? My from
the police headquarters by radio.
Speaker 4: They contacted Lieutenant Pearson and a driver in my neighborhood,
and in less than five minutes, I was in the
backseat of a car racing.
Speaker 5: To the airport. What time you got, thesentants?
Speaker 4: Eight twenty step on a driver, he's doing eighty. Now
there's the lights of the field. If there's anything, I
can't stand as bond.
Speaker 5: Even thinking about them.
Speaker 4: Gives me the goose flesh and me off twoty twenty
minutes ago.
Speaker 5: Yes she is.
Speaker 4: You can stop here. You stay here, Lieutenant. I'll call
you if everything's okay. That makes me plenty happy.
Speaker 9: I don't lie.
Speaker 5: There's been a bomb, all right, and a big one.
Speaker 4: When the earth stopped tossing me around, I looked up
at the burning DC.
Speaker 5: Four people were pouring.
Speaker 4: Out of the main building, and I saw a truck
with a fire crew headed for the plane.
Speaker 5: I picked myself up to my feet. Come on, you heard, Alex.
You hit bad. That's shaken up, okay. I didn't get
any closer. Oh good you he died when I heard it.
I'm afraid of nothing in this big, wide role like
a bomb blast. And I thought she was another crank.
Speaker 4: Glad to step back, Lieutenant, I don't want anyone here.
Speaker 5: Put the fireman near this plane. You hurt the man,
all right?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 10: Step back, fin back on.
Speaker 5: Fire boys did their best, but it wasn't good enough.
If Chad goes to the airline, I lay there on
the ground.
Speaker 4: If you had taken off on time, thirty human bodies.
Speaker 5: Would have been added to the awful site. Being in
miss brand to.
Speaker 4: The service for seven years taught me where to look
for evidence.
Speaker 5: Lieutenant Pierson helped me. What are we looking for?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: Anything? Bomb fragments? Maybe see these bent FIBs here, that's
the spot that got it first.
Speaker 4: You will in a miss of this luggage? Yeah, what
there is left of it? What's that you got in
your hand? A piece of sharp metal I picked.
Speaker 5: Up here, put it in his handkerchief.
Speaker 4: It's a bomb fragment, you see anymore? I don't handle it, Prince.
If I didn't mean of us from the bomb, I
wouldn't have touched you with a ten foot pole. Here's
a real fine piece of leather with a fragment embedded
in it.
Speaker 5: Could just be it? What a suitcase? The bomb came in?
Passengers still waiting Yeah, they're celebrating the miracle that let
them go on living. I'm afraid one of them is
going to stop celebrating. Let's go. I want to have
a talk with him.
Speaker 4: You think, well, the bombers a rule of the passenger
suit forces. I'm sure now don't make sense. Why would
a guy for the bomb in his own luggae if
we knew it was gonna blow the kingdom? Come, I
don't know made the insurance, Just ship his luggage and
when the plane goes he's registered is dead.
Speaker 5: Stranger things have happened. Never follow that angle.
Speaker 7: Who's in charge of this investigation?
Speaker 5: Both of us whine?
Speaker 7: My name is Stephen Bradley.
Speaker 4: So I want to go back to my hotel.
Speaker 7: I'm badly shaken up. You have no right to hold
us here.
Speaker 4: I have a lot of right to find out who
tried to murder thirty people.
Speaker 7: Then it was murder, I knew it.
Speaker 4: You have a copy of the passenger list, Lieutenant, you're
having all right?
Speaker 5: Folks, We'll call you up.
Speaker 4: One by one see if you can identify this piece
of yellow pigskin leather.
Speaker 5: If you think it was your luggage.
Speaker 7: Please say so.
Speaker 4: We'll begin with you mister Bradley. Okay, this is your luggage.
Speaker 5: Look anything like it?
Speaker 7: That wasn't mine?
Speaker 5: All right? Next one, please come on, folks, we ain't
get on my kid moving. Come on.
Speaker 4: Thirty people lined up to look at the piece of
yellow leather. Not one of them claimed it. We tend
to check their addresses and gave them a routine speel
about being available for questioning, and then.
Speaker 5: Let them go home.
Speaker 9: Woo.
Speaker 4: That's that, Just a little much more we can do tonight.
My time system past nine.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 4: Less than an hour ago, thirty people would have died
up there somewhere.
Speaker 5: It's not me for a loop. Why didn't you phone
your report in and take off?
Speaker 9: Ooh?
Speaker 5: What about you? Oh?
Speaker 4: I have a little more routine checking to do in
a baggage department.
Speaker 5: Everything turns up, I can call you.
Speaker 4: The baggage man was reading a ten cent comic book,
and he put it down reluctantly as I approached.
Speaker 5: What can I do for you?
Speaker 3: You'll handle all the luggage six to one o'clock.
Speaker 4: Why would you remember if you handled a piece of
luggage made.
Speaker 5: Out of yellow pigskin?
Speaker 11: Hey, you must be the fellow looking at that bombing
you know, I got my own ideas how it happened.
Speaker 5: It's them calming. We'll get to the international situation in
a while. Right now, See if you can remember handling
a yellow bag.
Speaker 11: Handle, maybe four or five hundred bags a night, not
being paid enough of that. Now I gotta start memorizing.
Speaker 4: This coarse green on the letter makes me think it
was a Gladstone.
Speaker 11: Golly, now you come to say it. Hey, I do
remember seeing one. Yeah, a yellow ones yep, right here
on this rack tonight.
Speaker 3: And what's more, I know I all got there.
Speaker 11: A messenger brought it sure positive.
Speaker 5: Oh wait, now I'll find it a slip.
Speaker 4: Yeah, here it is the nerve messenger that hey delivered
to airport Terminal one pigskin Gladstone bag. Look here delivered
the baggage room for Stephen Bradley Flight thirty six, Stephen
brad Bradley.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's the guy. You better go get him, mister.
Speaker 4: I phoned badly at his hotel.
Speaker 5: He hadn't checked in yet. Then I called Lieutenant Pearson.
There was no real welcome in his voice.
Speaker 7: Glad you called Alec?
Speaker 5: What's up? I found out who owns that suitcase? Take
him up? Not so fast. It's Stephen Bradley, and he's
not in his hotel. I'll get him, all right. So
that's who did it? The way he strutted around there?
You think he owned the airport.
Speaker 4: Well, let's not convict him yet. Find him first and
prove it. That's the way it's done. You know, save
them book rules for somebody else.
Speaker 12: Where'd you be?
Speaker 4: I'm going to visit a twenty four hour messenger service
the Minerva Company.
Speaker 5: Ever heard of it? You will?
Speaker 4: Three or four souped up motorcycles rested on the wall
of the Minerva Messenger Service, and.
Speaker 5: Inside the enthusiasts who drive them.
Speaker 4: We're playing cards. He goes to a card game. What
did you missed him?
Speaker 5: I'm looking for a messenger who delivered a yellow.
Speaker 4: Pigskin suitcase to the airport early this evening.
Speaker 5: About it? That's Marty ship. That a guy who took it?
Y'all pick skin?
Speaker 4: Bledstone bag builder, Stephen Bradley.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure I was a Namia. Where'd you pick
it up? I always had screwy dealer. Given Bush finds
an envelope in a.
Speaker 13: Mail's card, got two bucks in it and a Kia
locker at the Islington Bust people instructions to pick up a.
Speaker 5: Suitcase about six thirty and take at the airport Arlington
bus deeoplet. Look, if you'll excuse me, I was kind
of having a lucky streak when you came in. Oh
here's the half a buck. I kept her from winning.
Thanks guys, all right.
Speaker 4: The fact that Bradley hadn't brought the suitcase to the
airport himself.
Speaker 5: Led to some interesting speculation.
Speaker 4: And I'd learned long ago in this business that the
o'bdoers there's something you've.
Speaker 5: Got to regard with suspicious. It was about a quarter
to ten when I got to the bus depot.
Speaker 4: The usual weary looking travelers sat around nodding their heads.
Speaker 5: The lady who'd started this evening off for me had.
Speaker 4: Gone from here out of that, especially after I learned
that the yellow bag had been picked up at the
same depot.
Speaker 5: No role of unbooth telephones.
Speaker 4: There was a magazine and candy stands. I waited till
the girl behind the counter got rid of some of
her customers.
Speaker 6: Yes, there's something to you.
Speaker 5: Any other payphones in these over here?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 5: And you make change for most of them, do Yeah?
Speaker 6: Drives me nuts.
Speaker 15: I've got a little sales to make change, and I
look on commission.
Speaker 4: Will I tell you, first man, your job gets to
be pretty observant, don't you.
Speaker 15: You're telling me say my boss don't like me talking
to fellows here in working alley.
Speaker 4: Well, maybe you'll forgive you in this case, I'm a
special agent federal government.
Speaker 6: Go on, you could and don't look like that.
Speaker 4: No, square cut shaws, steely gray eyes. Look, miss this
is serious, very serious.
Speaker 5: I get you.
Speaker 4: A little after eight o'clock tonight, a girl phoned me
from this bus depot.
Speaker 5: She'd been crying. I thought maybe you'd notice that.
Speaker 6: I don't know, I'm trying to think no'es.
Speaker 5: She look like no.
Speaker 4: I'd say she was between thirty and thirty five, kind
of a sexy voice. She said she'd had to hang
up a bus was leaving. That would have been about
five minutes past eight.
Speaker 15: That's a Jersey social and I think I got the
girl for you.
Speaker 6: But she came in about seven point thirty.
Speaker 15: I noticed how nervous she was, and then she came
up to me and asked if anyone had left the
message with him. So, missus Cohen of a Koran anyway
some name like that. Her eyes were red like she's
been crying.
Speaker 4: So I watched it.
Speaker 10: You saw I make the canes right at the first phone,
did you No?
Speaker 15: I couldn't hear what she said, but her shoulders were
choking like she was brawling.
Speaker 5: Missus Koran or Karen? What does she look like?
Speaker 16: Well like I wish I look dark hair, about five
feet poor beautiful?
Speaker 6: Did you are you writing that down?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 16: Yeah, some minute?
Speaker 6: Why am I done?
Speaker 15: Before she left, she gave me a note to get
to anyone who might ask for it, said hell?
Speaker 6: Hell, yeah she didn't. Naila did nothing, So I I.
Speaker 5: Know, I know, And this hal came and got the note.
Speaker 16: No, I still got it.
Speaker 5: Here it is hell, please come home?
Speaker 16: What do you make of it?
Speaker 5: Jersey bus leaves at eight o five stall go through
the Jersey Gate. O.
Speaker 6: Thanks thanks to you.
Speaker 5: Yeah a lot? You know what?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 5: If you ever need a job, there's one waiting for
you in Washington. The girl had left the trailer easy
enough for a tenderfoot boy. Scout the phone.
Speaker 4: The phone book told me there was a hal for
im living on ninety sixth Street in Jersey City. Caution,
you should have warned me that it was a little
too bad, too easy way things looked. At this point,
I'd have a case four or against Bradley by morning.
In less than two and a half hours after the
woman had called to tell me.
Speaker 5: About the bomb, I was.
Speaker 4: Standing in front of the door to her apartment. First
I thought there was no one home. Then I heard
the movement behind the door.
Speaker 5: Is that you?
Speaker 11: Hell?
Speaker 4: No, please open the door? The man you called on
the phone early this evening, I don't know you.
Speaker 5: I know you, missus Kran.
Speaker 4: You're a voice. It's very distinctive. I've heard it only
once before, but i'd know it ten years from now.
Speaker 5: You read my voice.
Speaker 16: I think you're mistaken.
Speaker 5: You spoke to me on the telephone at my office
this evening.
Speaker 4: Think you better go, missus Kran. You phoned me this
evening from the Arlington bus depot to warned me that
a bomb would explode in a Chicago bound plane.
Speaker 9: No.
Speaker 4: I made a recording of the conversation. As I said,
Missus Koran, you have a very distinctive voice.
Speaker 5: You're mistaken. I see you didn't leave the apartment.
Speaker 4: No, I have a note here for your husband. How
oh that is your husband's name. Yes, you gave it
to a girl in a bustypot. This your writing. Maybe
you can see now how useless it is true.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I gave.
Speaker 4: It to her, and you phoned me at the Civil
Aeronautics Riverarity.
Speaker 16: Let's try to stop it.
Speaker 8: I don't how about to do it?
Speaker 4: Which was like a crazy not better, give me a
description of him. You've got to pick him up.
Speaker 5: Why not.
Speaker 6: Chake his old lines?
Speaker 4: I got his description and phoned it into police headquarters.
From them, I learned that Bradley had not yet been located.
All the while I've been on the phone, Missus Koran
sat there crying so.
Speaker 5: And sageant. If you get anything, you can phone me
at what's the number here, missus Koran?
Speaker 6: Exeter one O seven fool.
Speaker 5: Exeter one O seven to four. Okay, thanks, he's dead
and it's not.
Speaker 16: It was a qual started off like any other quarrel.
Husband and wife's agree.
Speaker 5: Would you like to tell me about it?
Speaker 16: I suppose I'll have to say it or later. My
husband and Stephen Bradley started the room and machine shops together.
They were equal partners to begin with.
Speaker 5: It did extely well, I understand oh, not true then.
Speaker 16: And how did something he was some of the company's
funds gambled with it? When Grader found out who one
of the money put back at once as he would prosecute. Well,
Hal couldn't learn that much. Bradley took over house half
of the business in print, and then he lost all
of his initiatives. He became a laborer in the business
he created.
Speaker 6: Brandy used him for early.
Speaker 15: Could we quarreled about it?
Speaker 5: You always referred to him in the past ten he
d it?
Speaker 8: I true.
Speaker 16: Then we learned that Bradley had throwed out to an
Eastern combine for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Bradley
hasn't said anything that the deal was completed.
Speaker 6: And that night, how home work? I've never seen?
Speaker 8: Oh just a minute off with the signs the two Hi, honey,
how come you brought on your thing home from the office.
Speaker 5: I can not talk about it now I'm dead.
Speaker 6: Oh something's wrong?
Speaker 5: Oh not now? You ain't actually separate?
Speaker 6: Please, it's always not now when you isn't it? Come on?
Tell me how all right?
Speaker 5: All right? I lost my job, a lot of work
and lost your job. I'll get another one.
Speaker 6: Why did Bradley follow you?
Speaker 5: And Bradley new people took over this morning?
Speaker 11: Oh what new people?
Speaker 6: Why did you never start at the beginning?
Speaker 5: New people? Bradley sold their business. He he didn't want me.
Speaker 6: So I'm through That business is half you. You help
build it up.
Speaker 5: Oh luckily we've been through this.
Speaker 16: You met things like this happen do without a fight?
What kind of a man are you?
Speaker 12: Was I supposed to do it Bradley over the head?
Speaker 11: Oh no, that takes nerves rocking double ding.
Speaker 6: And he didn't say anything to you.
Speaker 13: Well, came up to me after it was all over
and said goodbye. He's going to the coach to live
tomorrow night.
Speaker 16: And you just stood there and said good luck.
Speaker 6: Steeve. Oh hell, this is the last call.
Speaker 16: I can't go on living with a man.
Speaker 17: And we'll fight back a finless incompetent.
Speaker 3: That am I supposed to do till him?
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe that's what you want me to do? Kill him?
Speaker 16: We jellyfish gome on. Then he step.
Speaker 13: Howardb All right, all right, I'll show you that's the
last time you're going to call me that.
Speaker 16: What are you going to do if you want.
Speaker 13: Kill him?
Speaker 5: Bradley, who about chill.
Speaker 6: Just go up to him and the man, what's coming
to you? Half of that money is.
Speaker 5: Your Ah, you know though that's gonna go.
Speaker 6: Oh, hell, please talk.
Speaker 13: I'm talking it for the first time in my life.
Speaker 1: Hell, come back?
Speaker 6: What at all?
Speaker 5: This morning? The bomb?
Speaker 16: I put it in a suitcase and made me go
with him and put it in a locker, and he
told me to the messenger place and I dropped the
envelope there with the key in it. He had a
gun with him and said.
Speaker 11: He was killed.
Speaker 5: But why a bomb? Why jeopardize the lives of thirty passengers?
I don't know.
Speaker 8: He was like a man who has lost his mom.
Speaker 6: He was, and then he.
Speaker 16: Waded the basleeper till I picked the suitcase up, and
he came up.
Speaker 6: To me and said goodbye.
Speaker 16: He said he would kill himself after he was sure
the bomb would go home.
Speaker 11: Hello, Yes, definite.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Find Bradley or Koran.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think so. Concentrate on Koran. He's got
a gun and when he finds out Bradley wasn't killed,
he'll go after him.
Speaker 5: He's the man we want.
Speaker 6: Now, We'll Pody wasn't killed, but the bomb.
Speaker 4: Lame was grounded on account of fog. None of the
passengers were.
Speaker 16: Aboard fog and nobody was killed.
Speaker 5: Oh what is it that fog saved the lives?
Speaker 4: But now he killed himself for nothing?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: Poor hell.
Speaker 16: Even this one final gesture couldn't come off right for him.
Speaker 4: I'm not so sure he's dead, missus Koran. He may
have been at the airport when the bomb went off.
He may be looking for Bradley now with the gun.
Speaker 15: No, he's dead, I tell you I killed.
Speaker 5: Poor woman was in a state of semi hysteria, and I.
Speaker 4: Was only too glad to bring us an in sedative
pill she kept in her medic He says she took
two of them and fell back, exhausted on the couch.
Speaker 5: I phoned headquarters. Still no news of either Bradley or Koran.
Speaker 4: It was him midnight, and I was getting a little
drowsy myself, but I heard someone turning the doorknob. He
stood in the doorway a moment. Old old man in
his shoulders sagged and there was a look of utter
dejection about him. He blinked stupidly at me. Then he
walked over to the woman on the couch. It's better,
was her Claire, are you hal Koran.
Speaker 5: Let's talk to her. Clerk, Claire, wake up?
Speaker 14: What do you want me?
Speaker 5: Hell? I hope you're right. Hell, I couldn't do it.
I couldn't go through him.
Speaker 16: Hey, he couldn't do it.
Speaker 6: They didn't have to know.
Speaker 5: It's the matter with her. I told her a letter
of bee. She's upset, hysterical. Poor kid. It's all my doing.
Speaker 3: That's Claire baby.
Speaker 5: Let me come, tusch me. I hate you.
Speaker 6: You've never done anything right, have you never?
Speaker 4: I'm arresting you, mister Karan me of that's pretty obvious,
isn't it.
Speaker 5: What are you talking about?
Speaker 6: She doesn't know about the bomb.
Speaker 5: The bomb you'll put in Bradley's suitcase.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's what I've been trying to tell her.
Speaker 13: I couldn't go through with it. You're thinking about all
those people and women, some kids, and it's no fault
of viewers that are alive. At this moment.
Speaker 4: The plane hadn't been held up on account of fog.
Speaker 13: I don't know what you're talking about. I just couldn't
go through it. And understand I was going through. But
like Claire, it says I got no guts.
Speaker 5: I'll have to take you in.
Speaker 4: You're under arrest. You yeah, and listen to me. Look
this is the way it was. I took the suitcase
to people.
Speaker 5: I left it in the locker. I came back later
and I took the bomb out. And look, I'm telling
you the crew, I won't do you any good.
Speaker 6: How don't you even got the saint or Look?
Speaker 5: I brought it home. See, I just connected the fuse.
I put it in this.
Speaker 3: This drawer over here.
Speaker 5: Come on, I'll show you right in here. Well, no,
I was here.
Speaker 6: Is funny.
Speaker 4: I'm going to phone the police to come for you.
Mister Karan.
Speaker 3: Put the phone down.
Speaker 5: Give me that gun.
Speaker 13: I mean that I took the bomb out of the
suitcase and somebody put.
Speaker 5: It back there.
Speaker 3: All right, when you're listen, somebody put that bomb back there.
Speaker 5: How long do you think you will last?
Speaker 10: Long enough?
Speaker 3: Don't you try to follow me.
Speaker 5: I phoned the police and asked them to stake up
the neighborhood.
Speaker 4: Then I went out after him. I figured he'd be
hiding someplace close by. I tell uneasy about leaving missus
Koran alone in the apartment. So after about fifteen minutes
I went back. I heard some movement behind her door.
I was sure Karan had come back, and I wanted
to get in quietly so I could get him from
behind him. Someone was standing close to missus Koran. But
it wasn't her husband. It was Bradley, Stephen, Bradley, Bradley.
Speaker 12: That's a several man who's looking for hell oh, find
him in no where.
Speaker 5: Have you been, Bradley? Police have been looking for you.
Speaker 16: How to put that bombin sus case, didn't you seez Oh?
Speaker 12: Yes, I wanted to square it my own way.
Speaker 6: He's gone out of his mind. They've got to find him.
Speaker 12: I've got no pity for him, no feeling any man
who could do a thing like that.
Speaker 5: I try to stop it.
Speaker 10: I tried, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Would we do? Open the door? All right? Mine up
against all all of you. Give me that gun, Koran,
Yet you get back to I'll shoot you a minute
and step back with the others. You're pulling with a
federal government, Oh my gun.
Speaker 13: Don't know the difference wedding, Oh gun, mister federal. How
about you Bradley, sir? Oh yeah, Bradley's got one. Can
we give it to me?
Speaker 5: Thank you? Oh?
Speaker 12: Hell on enough, we'll put it down look, maybe we
can talk this whole thing over.
Speaker 4: We're making things worse for yourself, Koran.
Speaker 13: Honey, I love your en me all of a sudden,
a lot of little things that meant nothing until I
started putting them together.
Speaker 5: Today I get the total. Add it up. You can
see this government. I did take their bomb out, but
somebody put it back.
Speaker 6: You never came back to the house all day.
Speaker 13: I asked myself who put it back? And the answer
was so support to laugh, Yes, clean put it by.
Speaker 4: We can have this whole thing out in the proper place, Koran,
right now, now went today there?
Speaker 5: Please? And boy tried to stop me. Now get killed.
Believe me.
Speaker 7: Why bring Claire into this house?
Speaker 3: Wy, don't you be man enough?
Speaker 5: Just what I asked myself. Why I would Claire?
Speaker 6: Nobody going to stop it? How what are you doing
to hit me?
Speaker 5: See? Claire had been working me up on Bradley, not
because he was running out on me, but on her.
Speaker 7: He's crazy office.
Speaker 5: I'm remembering crazy little things like little crips Bradley has
sent me on that didn't make sense, things like that.
And when I told.
Speaker 13: Her Bradley was leaving tonight, she went wild.
Speaker 4: The police will be here soon. It will go better
for you if I tell him you submitted of your
own free will.
Speaker 5: Because Bradley was running out on her. She was the
one who wanted them dead.
Speaker 13: And when I took the bomb out, she put it back.
But I didn't know it. See, I just knew that
I had no reason to go on living. So I
said goodbye to her and told her I kill myself.
Speaker 3: Government.
Speaker 5: If you can prove that in court, Hell, you'll be
in good shape. Give me that. Gune.
Speaker 13: No, I can't wait for the court to settle my time.
It's got total tonight. I got to pay off.
Speaker 7: She could kill you crime. Look, you're not yourself. But
what do you want money?
Speaker 5: I'll give you lots of money.
Speaker 6: How about you'll make it right with you?
Speaker 5: He will, And I got the purchase.
Speaker 13: See Bradley, Claire and Hell Claire Bradley, How hell always.
Speaker 7: Lasts not true?
Speaker 3: I figured it's no use running through the streets.
Speaker 13: When I left here, I knew they'd Finally I got
to the fire escape on the next building, open up
on the now which room I could see from that
fire escape?
Speaker 5: Claire? This one I here?
Speaker 6: Hell, yeah, you saw all honest, Holly didn't mean.
Speaker 5: Yes, but he's got his corner.
Speaker 3: Don't take any chance.
Speaker 5: He shut up there, Bradley, come in. I saw you
rush up through me.
Speaker 13: I saw that look on your face, the same look
I used to see when we were worth to marry him.
Speaker 5: Haller.
Speaker 13: Okay, wait, you're taking it away from me, and you'd
given it to made it a clean sweep for him.
Speaker 3: My business, my job, my wife.
Speaker 7: Hell, hell, I'll make it rude. Give me a chance.
Speaker 3: You don't owe me anything.
Speaker 10: It's Claire.
Speaker 3: He's taken from me.
Speaker 5: There's only one way to square me.
Speaker 10: Else.
Speaker 6: You love me, Help, don't you?
Speaker 4: I love you, Claire, Clare Claire. This is Douglas Fairbanks again.
This closes another chapter in the distinguished chronicle of our
Silent Men, the special agents of all branches of our
federal government who daily risked their lives to protect the
lives of all of us. Next week we will tell
you a story involving a missing boatload of plasma in
the file case entitled Blood Money, another venture undertaken for
our protection by the Silent Men.
Speaker 3: The Silent Men is produced and directed by Warren Lewis.
Speaker 2: The Knight's Case was written by Lewis and Russoff and
transcribed in Hollywood only.
Speaker 3: The names and places were fictional.
Speaker 5: Featured in the Knight's.
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Speaker 5: Beddy Moran, and Jack Carroll. Your announcer is Don Stanley.
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Another Man's Poisons.
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Speaker 2: The other exciting cases involving the law enforcement adventures of
the special agents of our federal government, well they are
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, an interesting case and a story that
really does begin with the bang. The more melodramatic moments
are a bit out of place on The Silent Man,
but other than that, I thought it was a decent episode.
So now let's see how not Beat handled it. Seven
months later, here from September fourth, nineteen fifty two is Ellen.
Speaker 18: Night.
Speaker 10: Hi, this is Randy Stone. I cover the night beat
of the Chicago Star in a newspaper office. The night
scenes especially reserved for all sorts of Sculley crank calls,
and if every wild tailor came in over the telephone
was cracked down, there wouldn't be enough reporters left around
and make up a game of solidaire. Miss Yarn started
with one of those calls. But it ended differently, and
how differently it ended. It was eight o'clock in the evening,
the heavy rain was falling, and I found an excuse
to sit it out by polishing my next day's monumental
trivia with a column. I was looking for the capital
A on my type.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 10: H'm on the phone, riding Stone talking, mister Stone. Please listen.
I'm listening.
Speaker 6: A bomb in the plane to Denver? A what in
the Denver bomb plane?
Speaker 2: Tonight?
Speaker 6: A bomb?
Speaker 5: Don't you understand?
Speaker 10: What's your name? You have no time, but the passengers
you're on the level. You give me your name.
Speaker 6: Oh, my husband, I've got to go.
Speaker 10: You're in a bus deep for which one, mister Stone.
Speaker 6: You're wasting time. It's true, I tell you the Denver plane.
Speaker 10: Well, what time does a flight lead?
Speaker 4: Eight thirty?
Speaker 6: I couldn't call you.
Speaker 10: Say eight thirty, yes, hope please, Well, lady, your phone
exactly ten minutes too late, twenty minutes to nine right now?
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, I repeat.
Speaker 10: Some nights are good for a dozen crank calls, but
I couldn't take chances with this one. I called the
control tower at the airport. This is Randy Stone, Chicago Star.
You had an eight thirty flight to Denver. Oh well,
you've better contact that pilot immediately and tell him to
make an emergency landing wherever he is having load the
passengers and let no one near the plane till the
police get there. The Denver point hasn't taken off, buck
came and has been grounded to Where is she now?
Oh good, We'll keep it there and warn all personnel
to keep clay and I'll be out there as soon
as I can. So you do as I say. I
called police headquarters and they sent a radio car to
pick me up. In five minutes. I was sitting in
the back seat with sergeants Kowski while the driver ripped
up the streets at seventy miles an hours.
Speaker 5: If there's anything I can staying Randy gets bombs?
Speaker 10: How what time he got? Sergeant fifty five and.
Speaker 5: Me off duty twenty minutes ago. I was getting a
ride home when the call came through.
Speaker 10: Oh there she is. You can stop here. Oh yeah,
come on.
Speaker 5: And I'm gonna tell me, Randy, I'm scared, tell me too.
I hope that call was a phony.
Speaker 10: It was a bomb, all right, and the big one.
The explosion threw me to the ground. When the other
stopped tossing me around, I looked at the burning DC
four and people were pouring tords her out of the
main building. I saw a jeep with a fire crew
race for the plane, and I fought my way back
to my feet.
Speaker 5: You heard, Randy, I'm shaking up.
Speaker 10: That's all. We better get over there, costing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, all right, all right, folks, step back,
step back, I let square the field.
Speaker 5: Now back inside the waiting with all of you.
Speaker 10: The fire boys already have it like.
Speaker 5: It looks like a ghost sign there.
Speaker 10: Well, what do we do now, Sergeant, look around a bit.
Speaker 4: It's safe now. You need to make a report on this.
CEE A B boys will take over in the morning.
But I gotta make a report anyways.
Speaker 10: Well, exactly what are you looking for?
Speaker 5: Bomb fragments?
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe Uncle will continue the bomb was in who knows, Oh,
there's some list. What's this let's see, it could be
a bomb fragment you see anymore? Don't handle them, Prince?
Speaker 10: You mean Prince would stay on after an explosion like that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Crazy, This is the same for a minute, the fragment
just like the other, and this one is embedded in
a piece of leather.
Speaker 10: Yellow pigskin leather. Think of the bombers in this bag?
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe not, but it's something to go on. Now,
let's go talk to the passengers.
Speaker 10: Why would a passenger put a bomb in his own
luggage if you know he's going to be blown the kingdom?
Speaker 5: Come a nice guy? Whoever did?
Speaker 4: All right, folks, all right, settled down, you've got a
little talking to though.
Speaker 5: Everybody here.
Speaker 4: There was to be a passenger in twae sixty three.
Speaker 9: Uh O.
Speaker 19: My name is Stephen Bradley. So we're badly shaking up.
Some of us need medical care. You have no right
to hold us here.
Speaker 10: Only the right to find out who tried to murder
forty people.
Speaker 5: All right, Brandy, I'll handle this well.
Speaker 7: Then it was murdered. I knew it.
Speaker 4: Nah nah, Take it easy, folks, and you'll all be
out of here in a few minutes.
Speaker 5: I said, quiet.
Speaker 4: Everyone, Now we will call you up one by one.
All you have to do is tell us if this
piece of yellow leather pigskin.
Speaker 5: Was part of your luggage. Enough, but he had to identify. Okay, Bradley,
you and Harry, we'll stay that was you.
Speaker 10: Thirty six potential corpses lined up and filed past the
piece of yellow leather, none of them clinger. Then Sergeant
Cosky checked their addresses and gave them the routine spiel
about being available for further questioning, and he let them go.
Speaker 4: There's not much more I can do. Tomorrow the earn
Ardix Dura takeover. I'll phone my report in my watch. Right,
it's just quarter to ten, Yeah, it's right, coming back
to town with me.
Speaker 5: Well, if it's okay with.
Speaker 10: You, stick around here to do a little checking on
my own, okay, And then I tell you what, if
anything hot comes, I'll call me at home.
Speaker 5: Don't phone it into headquarters. I don't want them to think.
Speaker 10: Perish the thought. Cosky gave me his home phone number
and left a little protting. And the baggage man remembered
seeing the yellow pigskin suitcase. And then came the first
big right, the baggage man found a delivery slipped from
the Minerva Messenger Service, testifying to the fact that they
delivered in good order one pigskin leather suitcase to be
checked on the ticket of one of the passengers, mister
Stephen Bradley. I found Bradley at his hotel. He hadn't
checked in yet. Then I called Sergeant Kolski. There was
no real welcome in his voice.
Speaker 5: So glad you called Brandy got the single up top.
Speaker 10: No, no, but I found out who owned that yellow bag.
Stephen Bradley, one of the passengers.
Speaker 5: I remember him pick up.
Speaker 10: I was not going to be that easy. He's not
going at the address he gave us.
Speaker 5: I'll get him, all right, So that's who it him
by midnight.
Speaker 10: Now it's twenty five to eleven at the Minerva Messenger
Company twenty four hour service. You will, mister.
Speaker 5: The Brakes were with us.
Speaker 10: The Minerva Messenger Company had a complete of the pickup
on the suitcase. They found an envelope in the mail
slot that evening with two dollar bills and a key
in it, and the tight written unsigned noted instructed them
to pick up a suitcase in the locker at the
Arlington Bus Depot and take it to the airport to
be checked on Stephen Bradley's ticket. It was nearly eleven
o'clock when I got to the bus station, and near
a row of long, unbooted telephones, there was a candy
and cigar stand.
Speaker 6: Yes, sir, something for you.
Speaker 10: Uh, those are the only payphones here.
Speaker 14: Huh huh, no closed boots when it's quiet.
Speaker 6: You should know some of the conversations I listened to.
Speaker 10: I guess you make change for a lot of them.
Speaker 14: Though, Yeah, drive me nuts. My boss don't like me
talking to men during working hours.
Speaker 10: Well, I'm disqualified. I'm a reporter.
Speaker 6: Reporter, no kidding, no kidding.
Speaker 10: I'm trying to locate a woman who phoned me from here.
She's about grow about twenty nine. Were you working then, yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, what she looked like.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 10: I don't know. She'd been crying. I'd say she was
in her thirties. Uh, kind of a sexy voice.
Speaker 6: Twenty to nine. You say she was crying.
Speaker 10: Well, toward the end of the conversation she started crying.
Speaker 6: I think I know who you mean.
Speaker 14: I talked to her for She came in about fifteen
minutes after eight, maybe twenty after she looked scared, like
she'd run away from somebody, so I watched her.
Speaker 5: That's my slow time you said you'd.
Speaker 10: Talk to her.
Speaker 14: She asked me if anyone had left to note for
Missus Kuran or Koran, some name like that. Oh, Missus
how Koran, that's what it was.
Speaker 10: You think she was Missus Koran?
Speaker 6: I know it, she.
Speaker 14: Said if anybody asked for her, but she'd be back
a few minutes later she made the call.
Speaker 6: It must have been to you. She burst out, crying
and hung up.
Speaker 10: What did she look like like?
Speaker 14: I wished I looked, dark hair, five to three or four,
beautiful figure when you're looking for her. She was alone,
nobody with her that I know of, and she got
on the bust all alone.
Speaker 10: You wouldn't happen to know what bus?
Speaker 14: Sure of the lake Forest bus? She asked me what
time it left in I told her day.
Speaker 6: That should make it a cinch. Her name is missus
hal Koran and she lives in Lake Forest.
Speaker 10: That's almost too easy. It looks like she loaded you
with information knowing that I'd be around in a way.
Speaker 6: Maybe I don't blame it. What's your name, Marian?
Speaker 10: Why one of the story breaks, I'll share my byline
with him.
Speaker 6: I don't know exactly what you mean, but I'll.
Speaker 5: Move for it.
Speaker 10: I was looking for a missus hal Kuran. The girl
would call me from the bus station to so accurately
prophesy the bomb explosion on the Denver bomb plane. And
she left the trail easy enough for a tender foot
boy scout to follow. In less than an hour, I
was pounding on her door. Open the door, please, who
is it? Let me in? What do you want? I
want to talk to you.
Speaker 6: What do you want?
Speaker 10: I'm Randy Stone, missus Koran.
Speaker 5: I don't know you.
Speaker 6: Please get off.
Speaker 7: So you called me earlier.
Speaker 10: This evening at the Chicago Star. Remember you're a mistaken
missus Karan. You warned me that the bomb would explode
in a Denver bound plane.
Speaker 5: Well it did?
Speaker 10: What plane?
Speaker 6: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 10: Well, let's face it, you're not very good at this
sort of thing, missus Koran. You gave yourself away half
a dozen times. First, you made your phone call from
a bus depot. I found out which one was by
tracing the baggage back to the Arlington. That's what you're
called for. You're crazy.
Speaker 6: I wasn't out of the apartment all day.
Speaker 10: And you walked up to a bright young girl with
the candy counter and asked her if there was any
messages for a missus hal Koran. I talked to that girl.
She described you to a t once a more.
Speaker 6: You have no right to talk to me like this.
Speaker 10: I'm just trying to refresh your memory. You took the
Lake Forest bus correct. No, it could have made it
easier if you wanted me to find you, and I
think you did.
Speaker 6: I never thought of stupid. Stupid.
Speaker 10: You wanted me to stop that plane and get to
the personal responsible, didn't you.
Speaker 6: I tried to stop him, a big hell not to
do it, but he was like a crazy man.
Speaker 10: Your husband. He engineered this little thing.
Speaker 6: Poor hell, poor mixed up hell.
Speaker 10: Well, give me a description of him. We gotta him
picked up.
Speaker 6: No, it's too late, I tell you. He said he
was going to take his own life after the bomb
went off.
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and Randy Stone.
Speaker 10: I got his description and phoned it into police headquarters.
I asked him the sergeant Kowski had brought in Bradley,
and they told me you hadn't. All a while I've
been on the phone. Missus Kuran sat there crying. Sergeant,
if you locate Kowski, tell him I met. What's the
number here, missus Kuran, Evergreen three one O seven four.
It's Evergreen three one O seven four.
Speaker 6: Did it's my faulty? It's just like I did it.
Speaker 10: There's no point in blaming yourself, missus Kuran.
Speaker 6: It was the quarrel.
Speaker 16: And Bradley started the business together. They were equal partners.
Speaker 10: Missus Kran, I'm a reporter. Maybe you'd better not say anything.
Speaker 6: No, just like I killed him.
Speaker 20: I've got to talk to someone.
Speaker 10: He may not be dead.
Speaker 17: About about six years ago, Hal gambled with company fund.
Bradley found out and said he prosecuted.
Speaker 10: The money wasn't returned.
Speaker 17: Where could Hal raise six thousand dollars?
Speaker 10: Oh, it's quite a mile of greenbacks?
Speaker 6: Like they made a deal.
Speaker 17: Bradley was to get Hal's interest and agreed to keep
Hell on as one of the shops foremen. After that,
he lost all his initiative. He stayed a laborer in
a business he created. I begged him to break away,
but he wouldn't be quarreled about it often.
Speaker 6: I didn't know what would lead to this.
Speaker 10: Maybe you better try and have a rest.
Speaker 17: Last night Hal came home from work. I've never seen
him work so old and beaten.
Speaker 5: Ellen.
Speaker 3: Just a minute, h.
Speaker 6: How come you brought all your things home from the office.
Speaker 5: Let's not talk about it now?
Speaker 10: And did how something's wrong? Now?
Speaker 5: After supper?
Speaker 6: It's always not now with you is to tell me how?
Speaker 10: All right? I lost my job? How to work?
Speaker 5: Hand? Lost your jump? Hell, I'll get another one.
Speaker 6: Bradley fired you?
Speaker 5: Why it wasn't Bradley with new people?
Speaker 10: What new people? So?
Speaker 5: Why is it.
Speaker 6: You never start from the beginning, what new people?
Speaker 10: Bradley sold him the business They didn't want me, so.
Speaker 6: On through Bradley sold out that business is half yours.
Speaker 5: Hell, we've been over that before.
Speaker 6: Without a fight. You let him sell out without opening
your mouth. What kind of a.
Speaker 1: Man are you?
Speaker 5: Are I supposed to do? Hit him over the hand?
Speaker 6: That takes nerves? It was a dirty rotten and he
didn't say anything to you that it was all over.
Speaker 10: Huh.
Speaker 4: Came up this morning and said goodbye, it's going to
the coast to live tomorrow night, to.
Speaker 6: The coast with your money. And you just stood there
and said good luck.
Speaker 5: Bradley.
Speaker 6: Oh, how this is the last? So I can't go
on living with a man who won't fight back. Finally
and competent.
Speaker 5: Shall I kill him? Is that what you want? You?
Speaker 9: Kill?
Speaker 11: You, you coward.
Speaker 5: I'm no coward, Ellenor and I'll prove it to you.
Speaker 10: I'm going on now he'll come back.
Speaker 6: What are you going to do?
Speaker 5: What you want?
Speaker 7: Kill Bradley?
Speaker 5: Kill Steve?
Speaker 17: People who said anything about killing just go up to
him and demand what's coming to you?
Speaker 5: That's not what you really want, is it? Oh?
Speaker 6: Try talking?
Speaker 7: Since how I'm.
Speaker 5: Talking it for the first time in my life.
Speaker 8: How come back?
Speaker 9: How?
Speaker 10: And this was last night?
Speaker 17: I didn't know it, meant it this morning, brought it home.
He had a gun too. He said he'd kill me
if I tried to interfere.
Speaker 6: He was crazy.
Speaker 10: What did he do with the bomb?
Speaker 6: Put it in the suitcase and made me.
Speaker 17: Go with him to the bus depot, put the suitcase
in the locker. Later he had a messenger pick up
the key, checked the bag through.
Speaker 5: To the plane.
Speaker 10: But why a bomb? Why why take the lives of
forty people to murder?
Speaker 6: One man told you he lost his mind. He wouldn't
talk to me all day. He just watched me every minute.
Speaker 10: And after the messenger came he said.
Speaker 5: Goodbye to me.
Speaker 6: He said, as soon as Bradley was dead, he'd kill himself.
Speaker 10: Oh, we've got to find him. When he finds out
Bradley wasn't killed, he'll go gunning for him.
Speaker 6: But Bradley isn't it. But the bomb you said it
went off.
Speaker 10: Well it did, but the plane was still on the ground.
Your call was in time.
Speaker 5: After all, nobody was killed or no matter.
Speaker 10: Don't you understand nobody was killed?
Speaker 5: Nobody else?
Speaker 6: He killed himself and nothing for help. Even this last
thing couldn't come off right for him.
Speaker 10: Well, I'm not so sure he's dead, missus Kuran. He
may have been at the airport when the barmb went off.
He may be looking for Bradley now and with a gun.
Speaker 6: He's dead, I tell you, he's killed himself.
Speaker 10: The outburst capered down, and Missus Koran fell back, exhausted
on the couch. I called the police again. Still no news.
Neither Bradley nor Karan had been located. Missus Clan had
fallen asleep, and I sat opposer in and waited. I
heard someone opening the door and I turned around. He
stood there in the doorway, an old, old man in
his early thirties. His shoulders sagged, and there was a
look about, a dejection about him. And he blinked stupidly
at me, and then he walked slowly over to the woman.
Speaker 5: On the couch.
Speaker 10: What's the matter with her?
Speaker 5: Ellen?
Speaker 10: No, let her alone, Let her alone, she's exhausted.
Speaker 5: You're hell Kuran. I got to talk to her, Hellen,
wake up, what do you want?
Speaker 10: It's me?
Speaker 5: Hell? You You didn't I couldn't do it.
Speaker 10: I couldn't go through with it.
Speaker 6: H he couldn't do it. He couldn't do it.
Speaker 10: She's hysterical. That's what's the matter with her?
Speaker 6: Away from me?
Speaker 20: You touch me.
Speaker 6: I hate you.
Speaker 10: I'm arresting you, mister Karana, citizens arrest me?
Speaker 5: What for?
Speaker 10: Well, just to remind you of the bomb in Bradley's
suitcase at that plane had n't been granted and your
wife hadn't called me?
Speaker 5: What are you talking about her?
Speaker 4: I couldn't go through with it. Do you understand I
was going to but, like Ellen says, I got no
cuts when.
Speaker 5: It comes to a pinch, I got.
Speaker 6: No p How lying to you any good? Haven't you
even got this straight to admit what you've done.
Speaker 10: I took it out of the locker and brought it
home early this afternoon. You were out all and I
disconnected the fuse and I put it in this drawer.
And that's the truth.
Speaker 5: Right in here.
Speaker 10: Come here, myster, I'll show you well it was here.
I put it here myself.
Speaker 6: Oh it's funny. Oh if it's funny, the mess he
makes the things.
Speaker 10: I'm following the police to come and gets you. Corng
put that phone down. I'll give me that gun, correct
I mean, I put the bomb in that drawer, somebody
took it out of gun Please, Hell, what's the youth?
Speaker 5: Tell them somebody took the bomb out of the drawer
and they put up I'm leaving.
Speaker 10: How long do you think you'll last?
Speaker 5: Long enough, don't.
Speaker 10: I found the cops again and brought them up to date,
and then I went looking for him. I thingured he
might be hiding close by, and a few minutes the
neighborhood were swarming with police. So I went back to
stay with Missus Koran. I heard some movement behind her door.
I was sure it was Koran. I wanted to get
in quietly so that I could grab him from behind.
A man was standing there Missus Koran when I got inside,
but it wasn't her husband.
Speaker 6: Bradly, what mister Stone, Oh didn't.
Speaker 10: No, No, we haven't got him yet. It won't be
long though.
Speaker 7: This is the newspaper man you told me about Ellen.
Speaker 10: Yes, well you've been keeping yourself, Bradley. A lot of
uniformed men have been looking for you. Oh.
Speaker 6: He knew at the airport that Hall had put the
bomb there, didn't you.
Speaker 19: Steve, Yes, I recognized the letter I had given that
back to him for a birthday present.
Speaker 10: Why didn't you tell the sergeant?
Speaker 7: I wanted to square it my own way.
Speaker 6: I tried to stop it. I tried all I could.
Speaker 5: All right, Hell, I locked the door line up against
the wall. Hor of me.
Speaker 10: Give me that gun, Karan, get back. I'll shoot you.
I mean it while the cops will be here in
a Minnit.
Speaker 6: That's all I need, Darling, put the gun down.
Speaker 7: We can settle this without guns. Cram.
Speaker 20: It came to me all of a sudden, a few
minutes ago, I got the turtle.
Speaker 5: I did take that bomb, Howl.
Speaker 10: He's lying.
Speaker 6: He never came home all day?
Speaker 10: Why?
Speaker 5: Yes, myself?
Speaker 4: Who put it back in the suitcase and had it delivered?
The answer was so simple I had to laugh. Ellen,
she took it back.
Speaker 10: Karan, you're not on trial here. Save your defense for
the right place. I'd suggest that you don't move. But
he tries to stop me. Now gets killed. Why bring
Ellen into this?
Speaker 5: Why don't you be man enough to take Yes? Told
that too.
Speaker 6: Why would anybody got to stop it?
Speaker 5: And it hit me.
Speaker 4: Helldn'd been working me up on Bradley, not because he
was running out on me, but on her.
Speaker 5: Get it.
Speaker 4: When I told her Bradley was leaving. I couldn't understand
why she went wild like that, And I started remembering
little things like useless trips Bradley would send me on,
stuff like walking into a room and seeing him laughing
about something. You know, that special kind of laugh and ridiculous.
Speaker 9: Hell.
Speaker 4: And he sued he was going to run out on us.
She she wanted him dead. And she took the bomb
out of the drawer, rigged it up again, and sent
it to the airport.
Speaker 5: You see the way they added our flies.
Speaker 6: Every one of it lies.
Speaker 7: You prove all.
Speaker 10: I can court here in good shape. Hell, I can't
wait for the court to straighten my accounts. I just
got the total to night, and I got to pay
it off. Steve.
Speaker 6: He's going to kill you.
Speaker 7: You're not yourself. What do you want money? I'll give
you some.
Speaker 6: Look, you will make it right with your help, he
will tonight tonight.
Speaker 5: I got the picture Gravely Ellen and how.
Speaker 4: Ellen Bradley and how how All was like, no, that's
not through.
Speaker 5: You know when it all came to me after I left.
Speaker 20: You a little while ago, Ellen, I didn't go running
through the streets looking for a place to hide.
Speaker 10: I went to the apartment house next door. I sat
down on the fire escape.
Speaker 5: Open and keep quiet.
Speaker 10: All of you know what room I could see from
the fire escape this one, Ellen, I saw Grady come in. Hi.
Speaker 6: It didn't mean anything.
Speaker 10: You ran up to him, and I saw a look
on your face, the same look I used to see
when we were first married. Oh, Cosky's got a gun.
Speaker 5: Un You took that look away from me and gave
it to Bradley.
Speaker 4: That made it a clean sweep for him. My business,
my job, my wife fell I'll make it right.
Speaker 5: Just give me a chance, you, Bradley.
Speaker 20: You don't owe me anything. It's Ellen, but she's taken
from me. There's only one way to square me.
Speaker 6: How you gotta kill me.
Speaker 10: I believe the court will too.
Speaker 6: You love me? Hell, don't you love me?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 5: Ellen, I love you.
Speaker 10: You wouldn't Karen? Good Bye?
Speaker 5: He did it? He killed it?
Speaker 10: Yeah, Yes, I was in the middle of that one.
Now I've got to write it up for tomorrow Morning's
I O dun now whose point of view will I
handle it? From? Hell's You couldn't do that. He's a murderer.
You wouldn't want to sympathize with him. Bradley's What's he
done that a million other men hadn't? And Ellen that
reminds me of a song. Please don't talk about me
when I'm gone. Now we better leave Ellen Oordo is too,
how about a nice bit of the green exhibit at
the museum.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I have to admit when I heard this
episode of Night Beat, I was taken aback a bit,
just because it seems so different from the other episodes.
It wasn't till later that I heard the Silent Men episode,
which makes a lot more sense of it. As a story.
It tries to take something that.
Speaker 5: Was told for a federal.
Speaker 1: Law enforcement officer and tell it for a reporter, and
I think they're able to cover most things pretty well,
there are some things though that just are awkward. Randy
Stone making a citizen's arrest that has never happened in
any other episode to not be Now, to understand why
this episode ended up on Not Beat, you have to
understand what was going on with that series. It had
been sponsored by perhaps Blue Ribbon Beer throughout the summer
of nineteen fifty two, but in September that sponsorship was
over and it was essentially at this point a sustained
network program that would leave the air before October. So
there's a sense in which these four episodes in September
were effectively playing out the string for the series. So
if you're Warren Lewis and you've already got the script
you wrote for The Silent Men, it's like, let's turn
this into a not Beat episode. And it worked to
get the job done, but it doesn't come off as
very consistent with this series, as evidenced by the somewhat
rambling into the episode, which was trying to get that
not Beat ending. When Randy would philosophically sum up something
about the case, often with keen insights, here it just
felt like he was rambling on a bet. The one
thing I will say for this episode is that the
domestic plot works a lot better, even though that's still
not typical for not Beat the way it played out.
It was also interesting that we had another case where
an actor, in this case, Paul Freese, played essentially the
identical character in both episodes. Now it's time to thank
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Speaker 5: Send for me.
Speaker 7: Commissioner.
Speaker 22: Yes, I'm still waiting for your report on that espionage
business out at the airplane factory.
Speaker 23: And my men are doing their best and you better.
Speaker 22: Get some medical do better. And I promise the FBI
months ago we cracked this case, but you're laying down
on the job for Nick and when action I want it,
fest Yes, sir.
Speaker 5: And another thing, why.
Speaker 22: Haven't you rounded up this man, Simon Templar Fellow they
call the saint.
Speaker 23: Well, you can't arrest a man without evidence, Commissioner, and
get some.
Speaker 22: Everybody knows the man's a crook, one of the most
notorious crooks in the country.
Speaker 23: We've never been able to prove it, Commissioner.
Speaker 22: In a minute, you'll be telling me you've fallen for
this stuff about him being the modern Robin Hood.
Speaker 23: Well, the things he does generally seem to turn out
all right. He's even helped me a lot of time.
Speaker 22: Oh, Fernack, you must be getting soft in the head.
What's the matter with you? Are you sick or something?
Speaker 23: But as a matter of facts, here I am. I'm
suffering from indigestion.
Speaker 22: Indigestion. Oh, why don't you get something for it? Why
don't you get some miracle tea?
Speaker 23: Is that the stuff they advertise in the radio?
Speaker 7: Yes?
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