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much for your support. Well now from September twenty second,
nineteen fifty one, here is the Tom Keeler murder.
Speaker 2: Case Broadways My Beat Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest,
the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Speaker 3: Broadways My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny.
Speaker 2: Clover in autumn sunlight. The September Day trots out its
promises for Broadways considering, displays them in doorways, in push carts,
in gutters, decorates them with place tags, invites you to browse,
don't touch, buy, don't squeeze, and it cut rates of
the second handy lights. The tears slash down to any
man's purse. The bolt ends with dreams the vendor's simper.
The hawkers wink. Buy, kid, that's a winter sun on
your shoulder, and the day is short, so buy. And
that's what you do, kid, because on Broadway there's no
other choice. And at Place Headquarters, the September's Day has
arranged its wares of violence. On your desk, stacked is
to category degree grade. Because the day is still fresh.
You put off the reaching for them, the touching of them,
but it screams close to your ear.
Speaker 4: And the morgue.
Speaker 5: Danny, come down, I got something of interest to you.
Speaker 2: And walk the corridor to the Room of the Dead,
through the swinging doors, into a place without season, where
all nights, all days are of equal length, where temperature
is constant, where the wind is conditioned before it's let
flow over death. Walk up to the man who waits
for you.
Speaker 6: A nervous twitch, Danny, to juggle things in my right hand.
Speaker 7: Maybe I'll be remembered for it.
Speaker 2: What have we got, doctor Sinsky?
Speaker 8: The man lying there?
Speaker 6: They found him in his bed last night murdered.
Speaker 8: These that murdered him.
Speaker 5: Two bullets, look.
Speaker 2: Twenty two and a thirty two. Wouldn't you say so, doctor,
that I wouldn't know.
Speaker 6: What I know is only one of these was needed
to kill him, either one. The man was wanted dead twice, Danny,
he was killed twice, two bullets, different.
Speaker 5: Size, twice dead.
Speaker 2: You know who he was.
Speaker 8: When they brought him to me last night.
Speaker 6: There was a tag on him, a name, Tom Keeler,
an address the Nixon Hotel, nothing else, no other word.
Speaker 8: To the living about why such things?
Speaker 2: You're I'm sure, doctor, you're sure that each.
Speaker 6: Wound was a mortal wound, Danny, Each wound could yeah, yeah,
I'm sure you want these.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah.
Speaker 5: Taken.
Speaker 2: And that's the way my day began. And the ingredients
of it were a medical examiner, a murdered man, and
two bullets in a room of no value, except to
the dead, except to those whose business is with death.
Consider that briefly, then push it away, leave, go, get
out and hurry, And in the corridor find what you're
looking for, the breath of air not controlled by a thermostat.
Then the walk down the hall, turn over the two
bullets to technical, then outside in the squad car, and
the ride to West twenty fifth Street into the Nixon Hotel,
to the five story brownstone that seemed to list from
pressure of the insurance housing project neck door to it.
Go in, ring a bell, wait, be greeted by the
man in Grace's spenders and no shirt. Morning, Good morning,
I'm Danny Clover, Police.
Speaker 8: Randy Quantrill.
Speaker 2: You had a little trouble here last night, and oh
just a mess of it. Did you know the man
who was killed?
Speaker 8: You mean Tom?
Speaker 2: That's right, Tom Keeler me know him, talk to him,
have a beer with him, said, hire it to him.
Speaker 8: That's about the extent of my to do with him.
Speaker 2: How about visitors? Did did he have any.
Speaker 9: Look at the sign over my shoulder? Mister Kloe, mister Klover,
I know some Clover is down in sell, Alabama. You
and he can clover. No look the sign over.
Speaker 8: My shoulder and no visitors, no visitors.
Speaker 2: And you think just because the sign is there, Tom
Keeler didn't have any visitors.
Speaker 8: Oh no, I don't, mister.
Speaker 9: We got a sign in each and every room says
no smoking in bed. In the last year we had
three mattress fires. So what I'm saying is I never
saw anybody sneak past his desk that I said to myself,
there's a Tom Keeler visitor.
Speaker 2: What else about Keeler?
Speaker 8: Oh he got mail this morning. Maybe I ought to
tell you that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you should.
Speaker 8: I'm going to fresh mail that come this morning. Here.
Speaker 9: Letty well, thanks from the Great Northern National Bank, I see.
Please come in and talk to us with regards to
your commercial account at your earliest convenience.
Speaker 2: You read upside down, mister Quantrell, I've lived in Baltimore.
Oh thank you, mister count thanks a lot. And for that,
Randy Quantrille winked at me, laughed noiselessly at me, leaned
against the mail rack, scratched his back with it. It
wasn't the moment to intrude any longer on such private pleasures,
So I left him at the Great Northern National bank
of guard uniformed in tattletale gray, took my name, my business,
walked down a marble aisle with them, and I aligned
with identical desks, identical faces behind them, hounorringly, the guard
chose one the right one. This was a shrewd guard.
He muted his voice to the extracurricular business I had
brought to the Great Northern, offered it to the man.
The man considered it, digested it, and when he had
it all in order, motioned me to the chair the
guard had placed discreetly close to him. I'm told we
can help you, miss Clover. Man named Tom Keeler had
a checking account here.
Speaker 8: They're aware of it.
Speaker 2: Therefore, then you know that he was murdered last night,
and the cheap.
Speaker 10: Hotel aware of many things.
Speaker 2: Mister Clover, I'm sorry, I can't hear you what you say.
Speaker 10: I say that our research department makes a point of
informing each of us here on many diverse matters that
as they could even most remotely concerned.
Speaker 2: Thank you, I said, thank you, because you'll let me
hear what you have to say.
Speaker 5: Hmm.
Speaker 10: I was appointed, mister Clover. Should any questions arise about
the late Thomas Keeler should any questions arise, I was
to answer the question your interrogation is what mister Clover.
Speaker 2: We down at headquarters think it strange Tom Keeler slept
in a flophouse when he had a.
Speaker 10: Checking account with as uh huh philosophical question.
Speaker 2: Mister Clover, that's a lot lout of a product in
pardon me what.
Speaker 8: I say that?
Speaker 10: Oh, we know if Thomas Keeler is that we were
asked to transfer fifty dollars a week to do as account,
which we have.
Speaker 2: Done religiously into Who asked you to do that?
Speaker 10: Counselor's law Kennedy, George Webbert. If you want his address,
we shall give it to you.
Speaker 2: Thanks. You're saying you did this until until what.
Speaker 8: Until two weeks ago?
Speaker 10: Possibly two weeks in the fraction of a day, and
mister Webber asked us to discontinue his generosity. Why I
suggest it is a personal matter concerning miss Webber.
Speaker 2: Mind troubling you with it? Why I'm sorry? I said
that never mind probably wasn't important, and go to the
Park Avenue apartments at George Weber be told by the
person at the desk that mister Webber is not at home,
perhaps at his office, the person suggested, and behinded a
slip of paper with the office address in a handwriting
with the eyes dotted with small Sir, les Weber and Marley.
Slip said Attorneys Finance Building, Sweet twelve. Go there, Go
through a door and pass the beam of an electric eye.
Wade through a carpet to a desk and an olive
skinned girl with tight black hair. Offer your name, show
your prudentials, and be told mister Weber is out. Would
you see his partners to Paul Marley? You would you?
Knodded past another door and another beam, and to a
slender young man who is waiting for you in front
of a wall lined with every law book ever written,
be chaperone by him. Through yet another door. There he
was Paul Marley, partner to George Weber, impeccable in morning coat,
striped pants and an army discharge button in his lapel.
Speaker 11: That'll be all Robinson.
Speaker 8: Now sit down please.
Speaker 2: Mister Clover, Clover, thank you.
Speaker 11: The information you gave out this as you're a policeman,
that's right. And this is about what, sir, what can
I do for you?
Speaker 2: It's about a man named Tom Keeler. Keeler Keeler man
found murdered last night, Yeah, shot twice with different caliber bullets,
either one fatal.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he is all this a matter of legal advice
for the police department. You want to know if a
man was shot by two people and each that's.
Speaker 2: Not it at all, Tom Keeler. It seems was supported
by your partner, by mister Webber.
Speaker 5: That's right.
Speaker 2: Each week fifty dollars was drawn on mister Webber's account
and deposited in favor of Tom Keeler. Surely at all mistake,
that's the way it was. But I know mister Webber
so well his affairs everything. Where is he on Fire
Island since the day before yesterday? He has a place there.
I'm pretty sure he went there. A lot of season
for Fire Island, isn't it. Oh, I don't think the
end of September.
Speaker 11: Mister Webber goes there all year round, whenever, whenever, what,
whenever he's disturbed. He has the idea, the sea, the
strand the loneliness of it.
Speaker 2: Personally, mister Webber disturbed about He has a sister, Peggy.
Speaker 11: She's just twenty, so you can imagine, no, I can't
beautiful girl of twenty rich and you can't imagine. Look,
mister Marley, my partner was constantly arguing with her. We're
a conservative firm, mister Clover. Individually, both mister Webber and
my got to do with Peggy. Peggy Webber is headstrong.
How I take my partner's word for it that she's headstrong. Therefore,
they argued Peggy and her brother, what about I have
no idea? And he went to Fire Island to recuperate.
One way of saying anything else, mister Clover, no, then
please these documents here if you don't mind, and.
Speaker 2: Get in touch with the authorities at Fire Island, check
on the whereabouts of mister George Weber and wait. An
hour later a phone call. Mister Webber is not on
Fire Island. Mister Webber's placed there deserted and the looks
of it hasn't been inhabited for over a month. So
come up with a conclusion mister George Webber was missing.
Put out an all points bulletin on him and go
back to his Park Avenue apartment. Make a request of
the management.
Speaker 8: We're always glad to accommodate the police.
Speaker 2: Then let's go show.
Speaker 5: Me, of course, mister Webber's apartment right this way down
the hall. Yes, although I'd like to know why we
should intrude.
Speaker 2: Don't worry about it.
Speaker 6: Yes, eh, open the door, of course, and here we are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are right.
Speaker 7: What did you say?
Speaker 8: What did you say, mister Clover riding?
Speaker 2: Oh it stopped both of us, the management myself. It
was a site that needed only one glance, and the
details were there forever, the free shaped coffee tape and
the grotesquery of the man spread beside it, The tracery
of blood that stopped.
Speaker 5: Abruptly, mister Webber.
Speaker 8: That's mister Webber.
Speaker 2: The penknife, bone handled and cheap in his heart to
be remembered. Details in the Death of George Webber.
Speaker 3: You're listening to Broadways My Beat, written by Morton Fine
and David Freakin and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
There will be a slight pause while we think of
an adjective to describe Mario Lanzo. Sorry, guess there just
isn't one adjective to describe a guy who sings just
as well in the popular range as in the classics.
But here's the suggestion on CBS Radio Tomorrow night over
most of these same stations. Don't miss Mario Lanza's all
Request Job and more of the same by Lovely Juseelle
McKenzie and Raised Sinatra's music.
Speaker 2: When the night slips out of Broadway's fingers and the
false dawn blurs the shadows, Broadway stands bewildered. The carnival
is run down. Only the stragglers walk it with their
step without pattern, like their dreams, and the color of
their loneliness is the darkened neon, the last sparks of
a cigarette button, and pavement gray, and they walk it.
They never know. Broadways closed for the night, And somehow
or another, whether it deserves it or not, the world
gets to be nine o'clock in the morning. Then there's
a place for everybody. It's staytime, breakfast time, work time,
make a dollar time, or as Sergeant Gino to Taglia said,
it lend me a dollar. Danny, Oh, sure, Geno here.
Speaker 12: Thank you the reason for this transaction, Danny Oh, you
don't have to explain it.
Speaker 8: Want to?
Speaker 5: I want to go right ahead.
Speaker 12: Thank you, missus Tartaglia forgot to tuck my dollar into
my lunch box today. As his whole won't for the
little things a man needs during the day. She just
found me and confessed her delection of duty in this match.
She said, ask Danny for it, and tomorrow she will
talk in two dollars, so that you will not go hungry.
Speaker 2: Tell missus t not to worry it.
Speaker 12: Roger will come, and now Danny to the chores of
the day. Knife which did George Webber inn was of
the variety which can be purchased at our leading hotware
stores for the nominal sum of one ninety eight practically untraceable.
Prince white Clean, go on, well, that's about the summon
substance of the intelligence was has been shunted from the
downstairs to the here Danny as of now, however, Yeah,
a young lady is in the ante room and wants
to see you. Who is she Miss Peggy Webber, sister
of the most latterly deceased.
Speaker 2: Get her.
Speaker 12: This way to see Danny Clover.
Speaker 2: I sit down, Miss Webber. That'll be all Jane. I'm
glad you came, Miss Webber. Your name's right here on
my calendar to see today.
Speaker 13: I knew you'd want to question me about George.
Speaker 2: How did you hear about his death.
Speaker 13: I was home the late news on the radio. You see,
I didn't live with my brother. We didn't get along. Oh,
going to be a lot simpler now with him gone.
I wear a black dress like this one for a
month and call it a decent interval of mourning.
Speaker 2: It's not any concern of mine, miss Webber.
Speaker 14: It's entirely your concern, mister Clover. Your position demands that
to locate people who would have motives for murdering my brother.
Speaker 2: I would did you kill him?
Speaker 14: A few of my friends and I got together some
time ago for kicks. We were going to try things together,
you know, was for kicks, black magic. Well, I spent
the first ten days of my membership sticking pins into
my brother's picture, and all what happens is that he.
Speaker 13: Got a stye on his eye. Outside of that, I
never harmed a hair on his head.
Speaker 2: Why all this hate, Miss Webber, simply this.
Speaker 13: I love a boy I told George about him.
Speaker 14: George got red, then blue red again, and then a
lovely color I never saw.
Speaker 13: Before he found out who the boy was, ruined him.
Speaker 2: Who is the boy?
Speaker 13: Ralph Clay now runs a bowling alley on.
Speaker 2: Third one more thing. Do you know a man named
Tom Keeler?
Speaker 13: Not offhand?
Speaker 2: Why oh, never mind, but leave your address a sergeant
at Taigle, Miss Webber, and thank you very much.
Speaker 15: Yeah you Ralph Clay huh oh hello, he asked me,
my dang day you walk in on an empty hall,
mister he real sorry, but oh don't be.
Speaker 2: That's why we can have a long talk.
Speaker 5: Shall we don't let her get away? Miss miss Dye.
I want to take care of this thinking or up
King Penn's seventh pin challenge. What do you think? Go ahead?
Watch me? Yeah, never say go ahead to me in
that tone? Miss That not a nut shot my court
each day I live for it.
Speaker 2: Something Peggy Webber said it and sent me to you.
Speaker 5: Peggy a girl of class. She tell you I kill
her brother.
Speaker 2: I got the impression she was in love with you.
Speaker 5: Pity the girl. She lives in ancient history and a
time where she loved and I love back, but ancient history.
Under the bridge.
Speaker 2: Peggy did something to you.
Speaker 5: She had a brother, Now did I read it? Stopped
me for breath on the way to the sports page.
Speaker 2: George Weber did something to you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And I'm a man who likes to talk
about my daily nourishment, share it with me. Georgie put
you Webber didn't like how his sister used to put
her hand in mind, so he Mark and Lucy how
standing before you miss the police is a boy who
once thought he was a lawyer. Cap in hand. He
went to Georgie, assumed to be brother in law, asked
for a job keeping in the family. Georgie smiled, shook
his head no, and with words and music, he told
me he spoiled from me any job I took him.
Speaker 2: Anyone he knew because you loved his sister.
Speaker 5: I was second in my class in law school. Do
you want to invent other.
Speaker 2: Reasons why I hate Peggy for it?
Speaker 5: Things like that running the blood. I'm going to stick
around till it comes out in Peggy and slaps me
in the head.
Speaker 2: Then that gives you a motive for having killed Webber.
You had a lucky Tom Keeler. What did you have
for him?
Speaker 5: Keyler?
Speaker 2: A man who got killed in a fleabag a man
Weber supported him toil.
Speaker 5: Typical typical mis supporting him on me. Good old uncle
Tom was an old friend of Georgie's and Peggy's father.
After the father died, Uncle Tom still ung around.
Speaker 2: Why is he called uncle?
Speaker 5: Peggy calls him uncle because he was her confessor, a hero.
Everything that ate Peggy she brought to good old Uncle Tom,
not to her brother. Who goes to a man like
that except to kill him? Give you some the panda,
mister police, Yeah you did. I'm glad. Makes me want
to live through another day.
Speaker 2: Watch the bitter boy make his strike. Yeah, and consider
the lie he'd flip to you, the girl's lie that
she didn't know Tom Keeler, and wonder over it jotted
down in memory as a future conversation piece with Peggy Webber.
And then remember a man who said he knew all
about George Webber, everything, everything, but the mention of Keeler's Sharon,
his partner's life. Go to him, Wait for him to
finish his the taste to the full the decorations bestowed
upon men of Nohow.
Speaker 11: Got this little time machine for being on my toes,
mister Clover, handsome tidbit, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is seventeen Joels Hamilton.
Speaker 11: All because I proved in court and Chap's wife had
been unfriendly to said chaff Look what the grateful devil
had engraved on the gold to Chum, Paul Molly was
setting me free?
Speaker 2: To Chum, what was there about Tom Keeler that shut
your mouth about him?
Speaker 8: Why?
Speaker 11: Hey, my compliments, mister Clover, brilliant strategy attack while the
enemy celebrates minor victories in tactics class.
Speaker 8: That fought me.
Speaker 2: You told me about Weber, personal things about him, his sister.
Why not about Tom Keeler?
Speaker 5: It pained me for George's sake, my deceased partner's sake.
It pained me.
Speaker 2: You'll show me where it hurts.
Speaker 11: You think you'll be able to understand. Don't answer, It
doesn't matter. Hilo was a derelict, a bum, a hungry
shadow in George's closet. That's why George opened that account
for him, to keep him from coming here to beg
George and I had a large investment here the presence
of Kilo.
Speaker 2: Webber cut off the account at my insistence.
Speaker 8: My counsel.
Speaker 11: It made quite a row the other day between Tom
and George. I had to shoot people deck to their deaths.
Speaker 2: You kill George Weber attack. I admire your method as
to Clover or the investment of plush carpets, the perfumed secretaries,
the junior partners, all yours. Now you kill Webber for that.
Speaker 11: The death of my partner was a great loss to me,
mister Clover, a personal loss. Were it in my humble
power to hunt out his assassins, I would dedicate my
knowledge my life.
Speaker 4: By yes, Daddy, something I can do for.
Speaker 2: You, Doctor Siske, I have an idea about something. I
want you to check it for me. Gladly, get out
the medical examiner's report on Tom Keeler.
Speaker 7: Gladly here, what do you want it for?
Speaker 2: I want to put it side by side of this
one I've got on George Weber.
Speaker 8: So here. Look.
Speaker 6: It says Weber died day before yesterday, at approximately six pm.
Speaker 2: And it says on this report that Keeler died about
midnight on the same day. You know what that means? Doctor, No, what,
there's a pencil in your desk. Figure it out.
Speaker 13: Well, mister Clover, you used my address after all.
Speaker 2: Mind if I come in miss Webber.
Speaker 13: This evening, you can go as far as calling me Peggy.
But you can't come in.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid I'll have to.
Speaker 13: You'll have to force your way in and I could
relish that Peggy.
Speaker 14: Got a friend's visiting with me, Ralph Clay, you said
the password. You know that you might as welcome in, Ralph,
Come out, come out wherever you are.
Speaker 13: Say hello to mister Clover. Ralph.
Speaker 5: That's only a big five, didn't I, mister clob Well, no, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I didn't know whether you had broken off with
Peggy or not. It doesn't matter anymore.
Speaker 5: You want to ask Peggy questions, you too, goody goody.
Speaker 2: You lied to me too, Peggy, because I'm a liar.
Speaker 13: Give her up a lot of trouble that way, don't I, Ralph.
Speaker 5: Let's just listen to what the man is to say.
Speaker 2: You're a liar about killer Peggy. You said you didn't
know who he was.
Speaker 13: I explained it to you. I'm a liar.
Speaker 2: I found out who killed your brother, Peggy. I said it.
Speaker 7: We heard you.
Speaker 2: There were a lot of motive floating around Peggy yours.
Speaker 5: Leave her alone. She didn't kill a brother.
Speaker 2: I did cut it out, Peggy.
Speaker 13: Ralph had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 8: I did it.
Speaker 5: That's the matter with you. Peggy. You're crazy.
Speaker 6: You're a liar.
Speaker 9: You lie.
Speaker 5: That's why you're saying you kill your brother, Ralph.
Speaker 2: Neither one of you killed him. You thought Ralph did?
Peggy and Ralph, what are you trying to do it
to Uskloba?
Speaker 5: What are you doing? Place methods? Trying to get us
to play against each other?
Speaker 2: Take it easy, ral go on, take it easy, Ralph,
take it easy. Rout.
Speaker 5: What are you trying to say?
Speaker 2: Talk talk from Kayler killed Peggy's brother, Globa, will help
me out. Listen to me, both of you.
Speaker 13: Club, I didn't talk Ralph.
Speaker 2: Keayler killed him because his source of income was cut off.
A man like Keayler could kill him. Desperate man, a
man without livelihood, a tramp who made a habit of
living off someone else's generosity.
Speaker 13: Raight, Oh, it's my fault.
Speaker 2: You found your brother dad, didn't you?
Speaker 8: Peg?
Speaker 2: Is you thought Ralph did it?
Speaker 5: Yes, it's gonna be all right.
Speaker 2: Peggy went to her uncle Tom, like Shehlways did when
she was in trouble, told him Ralph had killed her brother.
What did Tom Keeler say to you, Peggy?
Speaker 8: He said, is it not to worry? Just not to worry?
Speaker 2: And he got in touch with you.
Speaker 5: Hi, Ralph?
Speaker 2: He did you.
Speaker 5: Know what he told me? I think so it's only
Peggy killer brother, and he was the killer all the time.
And I'm supposed to be a bright boy.
Speaker 2: So he had each of you believing the other had
killed George Weber. How much money did he want from
each of you to protect the other. Oh, what difference
does it make you? It doesn't matter. Blackmail. That's why
Tom Keeler's dad too murdered.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he slapped the cuffs on me for that one.
Speaker 2: Close.
Speaker 13: No, Ralph, No, you don't have to anymore, mister Clover.
My uncle said he wanted everything I had to keep
quiet about Ralph. So I went up to his hotel
room while he was sleeping and he shot him.
Speaker 5: No, no, Peggy, that's what I do.
Speaker 2: That's what you boas did to protect the other. You
both shot Tom.
Speaker 5: Kean Peg.
Speaker 8: Summer summer.
Speaker 2: There's a time on Broadway when the crowd gives up,
goes home, The lights buzz fitfully die. Then it's a
street of dim moonlight and dark whispers and the wind
of the autumn night, the wind that scatters everything. Yesterday's headlight,
yesterday's dreams, yesterday's people. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent,
the lonesomest mile in the world Broadway My Beat.
Speaker 3: Broadways My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,
with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Pruschan as Muggavan.
The program was produced and directed by Elliott Lewis, with
musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In Tonight's story,
Lillian Baieff was heard as Peggy Weber, Anthony Barrett as
Ralph Clay, Paul Freeze as Randy Quantrille, Bob Bruce as
Mister Chase, and Edgar Barrier as Paul Marley. Here are
two Sunday features that have captured America's fancy year in
and year out. On Sunday afternoon, the distinguished music of
the Symphonette, directed by Michelle Piastro. On Sunday evening, the
outstanding vocals of the Corollaiers. Listen for both these musical
treats every Sunday on most of these same CBS radio stations,
this Infinette in the afternoon. In the evening, the Corollaries
Stay Tunes Now for Songs for Sale, which follows immediately
over most of these same stations, Bill Anders speaking and
remember this Monday night, Lux Radio Theater features thirteen Hollywood
stars in the Gala Salute on the CBS Radio.
Speaker 1: Network, Welcome Back. Danny does not have to prosecute these cases,
and I couldn't think of a time where a policeman
would be more than happy just to hand this off
to the district attorney, because boy, this would be a challenge. Now,
the prosecutor wouldn't necessarily have to prove one fatal bullet
if they could really get the jury to conclude that
the man was alive when he received both shots and
both contributed to the killing. On the other hand, if
he was dead when one of the shots was received
and they couldn't prove quite which one was the kill shot,
this would be a very difficult case. Sometimes, the narration
you got to think about it. No, wait, what like
when Danny was saying, so you buy kid because Broadway
doesn't give you any other choice, Well, you could technically
not buy I mean that is a choice. All right. Well,
listener comments and feedback now, and we start with this
from Peter who rites did Morton fine and datevid free
can write for any other old time radio program, loads
of different programs Radio gooldindex dot com, which is probably
the most complete listing of radio credits based on programs
listened to, has more than three hundred episodes listed, and
I don't think that even includes every episode of Broadways
My Beat because they don't all include writer credits. But
they wrote together on a lot of programs. There are
plenty of crime shows, like the lineup wrote for Bold Venture,
They wrote the pilot episode for Gunsmoke, which was quite
a bit different than what listeners would get in nineteen
fifty three, they wrote for Escape and Suspent, and even
outside of the crime genre, they did the Hallmark Playhouse
several episodes of that, as well as Elliott Lewis's dramatic
anthology program on Stage. And they would even work together
on television, although they had careers that kind of diverged
and each did some of their own things, but there
were some TV scripts they wrote together. One that stands
out is they wrote several episodes of I Spy and
the second one they wrote together called A Cup of Kindness,
and it was one of David Freakin's only three acting credits.
So they worked together, and of course their most famous
production is three four Adventure. The story of Roundhouse, Rosie
and the Siamese app which is a joke for those
few listeners who actually remember that amazing World of Radio
episode we did back in twenty twenty. Then we have
a comment over on YouTube where Dwayne Rights. Not Beat,
starring Frank love Joy, is a radio show similar to this.
Although both of these shows are the same genre, I
lot Not Beat better, mainly due to Frank Lovejoy's narration style.
There is a certain nexus in terms of I think
some of the poetic language used, and one thing I
resolved was that I should not play Not Beat and
Broadways My Beat at the same time, as they could
be a little bit heavy in the same lineup, because
there could be some really dark and sad things that
happens and Not Beat. Although I do think there are
some major differences in the stories. As a rule, I
tend to think that not Beat goes a bit deeper
into the full emotional portrait of these characters, which often
means that when you have something sad or tragic happens,
it really hits harder than in Broadways My Beat. But
Not Beat also has its hero when a lot It's justice,
he brings about a positive change for the people he
meets on the street, which I think contrasts quite a
bit with Danny, who I don't really feel like the
world weariness ever eases up for him. It does kind
of depend on what you're looking for in a radio
program as to which is better. Uh, Broadways, my Beat
gives you kind of a more predictable mix, and you're
always gonna get a murder mystery except maybe a couple
times at Christmas, and there's a real strong rhythm to it.
With not Mate, there's more of a variety to the
plotlines that can be done and the ways that the
story come, which, in a way is a big difference
between having a series with a policeman versus a reporter protagonist.
Though I do tend to agree with you, I tend
to enjoy not Beat a bit more. All Right, Well,
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Speaker 16: Yes, Doris had been here about six months. By that time,
I was beginning to see the real side of the girl.
No character, sergeant, no character at all. It shows up
every time.
Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am, what if you'd go on please?
Speaker 16: Well, as I was saying, it was after about six
months when this man brought Doris home late one night,
about a quarter till midnight, I'd say, upset the whole house?
Speaker 2: How was that man?
Speaker 16: The two of them, this man and Doris, they stood
right out there in the hall, had a terrible quarrel. Language.
It was dreadful the top of their lungs too. My
husband went out to quiet them down, but the man
left before he had a chance to call him down.
Upset the whole house.
Speaker 11: Now, this man, the Fraser woman was arguing with you
sure that would her husband?
Speaker 16: Well, as sure as I can be. That's what Doris
told me. Anyway, the day after I called her in
and told her I just couldn't tolerate behavior like that.
It upset her quite a bit. I remember she cried
so it wouldn't happen again. That's when she told me
she was trying to get a divorce.
Speaker 2: Is that what the big argument was about?
Speaker 5: Would you know that?
Speaker 16: Yes, she said she wanted a divorce. Her husband didn't.
He wanted her back with him. Certainly, is sad the
way some people mix up their.
Speaker 2: Lives, yes, ma'am. By any chance that you get a
good look at this man husband nummy.
Speaker 16: Well, he was tall and had dark hair. That's about
all I remember. He was well dressed too.
Speaker 2: I see when Doris Fraser left here, Misses Watton, did
she leave her forward and addressed with you?
Speaker 5: No, she didn't.
Speaker 16: I haven't any idea where she moved.
Speaker 5: What kind of work was she doing while she was
living here?
Speaker 8: Do you have any idea where she was employed?
Speaker 16: Yes, that was one of the references she gave me.
Furniture company down on Venice Boulevard. If I remember correctly,
I have the address my record book. Certainly is unfortunate
the whole thing, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 16: Even tried to talk to her before she left, sat
her down and talked for a whole afternoon. I guess
it was just a waste of time. What's that man
in trouble with her husband? Terrible thing. He seemed to
treat her so badly to have been fighting all the time.
I believe she was actually afraid of him. She told
me it was very jealous. He drank ran around. That's
why I couldn't understand it.
Speaker 5: You couldn't understand what, ma'am Doris.
Speaker 16: When she moved away from here, Yes, ma'am, she said
she was going back with her husband.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.
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