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- 0:28Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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- 1:22now it's time for today's episode of The Saint and we had eight lost
- 1:26episodes between last week's show and this week's. The title of this week's show
- 1:32is The Cakes That Killed. The original air date is January the eighth of
- 1:37nineteen fifty. The Adventures of the Sea Starting then Some Price based on KELLYCS
- 2:07created by Leslie Chalker, a loan familion from Brooks Magazine and Motion picture.
- 2:13The robin Hood of Modern Crime now comes to radio Darling Hollywood's brilliant and talented
- 2:17actor Vincent Fight as the Faint Good Evening, Sir, and welcome to the
- 2:42bachelors friend. I beg your pardon, I said, welcome to the backless
- 2:46friend. Oh, but I'm sure you'd make a very nice bachelor's friend.
- 2:50But all I had in mind was the loaf of bread. The name of
- 2:53his bakery is a bachelor's friend. It was mister Vanderpoys. I was a
- 2:58name like that I use. He was stated to be whimsical. However,
- 3:00what is it if I said time and temper? Is anything wrong? No?
- 3:05No, that kind had just stopped outside. Oh what's that your cake?
- 3:10My cake? But I wanted a loaf of bread? Will you love
- 3:14that ticket? Just that the kind your mother used to be. My mother
- 3:15used to make terrible cakes. Battleships used them. Pank Hello, mister Greg.
- 3:22We'll say hello to Peggy. Sure, mister Greg, Hello Peggy.
- 3:25Hello, you're customers leaving Peggy. Oh yes, yes, of course he
- 3:30is. No I might like it here, customers leaving Martin. Like you
- 3:35say, mister Gregg, He's done his way right now, but I feel
- 3:38terribly self conscious being talked about like it's a revolver Morton, a revolver loaded
- 3:45loaded. You're quite convinced I'm leaving. You heard what mister Gregg said.
- 3:49I should hate to make a liar, mister Greg, you won't and keep
- 3:52on living, and I won't. I like living. Good Night everyone,
- 3:54Morton. Hey am, it's the Greg. He seems like a knife chat.
- 3:59He does one of the finest. I think perhaps to owe him a
- 4:01ride, you needn't bother. I get cards, say if he takes a
- 4:04cat mark and give the driver his instructions. Had him take our friend here
- 4:08for a long drive to the ocean. Hey, yeah, mister Gregg,
- 4:11it's a beautiful night. He'll enjoy his dry Come on, Mrs Cumming,
- 4:15Ah, don't forget your kids, my kid, Oh yes, thank you,
- 4:17take you good night. Good night, sir, eh Mixes. Yes,
- 4:27I wouldn't toy with no boy scout ideas about doing a good deed.
- 4:30If I would, you Nature Lovers of America with my outfit, just forget
- 4:34all about that blind back in the store. Well, I'll try, but
- 4:38I can't promise you was so or you know what I mean More than yeah,
- 4:44and then you're a cat. Hey, thank dee. Don't how convenience
- 4:53get in? Thank you? Hey? Cowboy Me, yeah, you happens
- 5:00to be Benny, not cowboys. So it's Benny. The gent in the
- 5:02back seat is going for a long drive to the ocean. He likes face.
- 5:06Oh shit, a long drive, see him? Yeah? Him,
- 5:12But he's gone for a long drive. It's all right. Well you better
- 5:14be sure he don't change his mind and come right back here otherwise, otherwise
- 5:18there'll be one dead gent and also one dead jitney jockey. Me. Yeah,
- 5:24you now, get out of head and fast. I've been gone at
- 5:27all. Benny, No, no, no, no, I don't know
- 5:31if I should talk to you. Well, don't talk to me. Listen.
- 5:34We're not going for that drive what the fellow with the canon said,
- 5:38But it's more important. I hate what he said. We're going for a
- 5:41drive to the ocean. But thank you. The girl back at the baker
- 5:44she's in danger. We've got to help her. I don't like goyl losses.
- 5:46I like better. How would you like to broken arm right a let
- 5:51bro? I wouldn't, but that log has got a gun. I'm closer
- 5:56to you than here. Okay, we're going back. That's that sort.
- 6:12Friend and me and married man. Hey the joints darp. Yes, and
- 6:17we've been gone only a few minutes. You better come with me. Sure,
- 6:21What have I got to lose? Whoop? My life? And the
- 6:26stir is dark all right and the door is locked. Now you see,
- 6:30everybody went home where you ought to go home, to your home. My
- 6:34wife don't like it. There's something wrong. I can't see you. Maybe
- 6:39that was Peggy. He's got a nice voice, but I think she was
- 6:41off. See there maybe another answer. Back firing. That's all backfiring.
- 6:45The bread is backfiring. That there are people inside. We've got to get
- 6:47in me. I think a nice long drive to the ocean would be nice.
- 6:53Hey, hey, hey, what are you dragging the handkerchief out for?
- 6:55You're gonna sneeze now, I'm gonna wrap it around my fist and mash
- 6:59the glass. And if I want to be a law against that, and
- 7:01I just repealed it now to reach in and yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 7:09a little dark. Yeah the back room. Perhaps you know there's a light
- 7:13shining along the floor over there. Yeah, I said, then they well
- 7:15look waiting, wait a minute, look before you open that door. You
- 7:18you didn't bulletproof plate? Now, Uh, joints empty. He's a small
- 7:27room window probably overlooks an alley. Yeah, the alley's empty too. You
- 7:32see, like I told you, everybody went by by and it's it's what
- 7:39he's fair and I behind this dance. Look for yourself, John, My
- 7:45name is Benny, and like I shot, oh, one of the little
- 7:49playmates the love. He got tired and laid down, and you haven't looked
- 7:54closely enough, Benny. He's lying down alright, but not because he's tired.
- 7:58He's dance. Okay. So I followed the cops like you said,
- 8:16they'll be very glad to drop in right away. Good find out anything.
- 8:20Morton's dead. Yeah, there's much have ducked out the back window and there's
- 8:24nothing more to be discovered here. Therefore, wait a minute, where do
- 8:26you leave him? I'm afraid I am if the cops are not gonna be
- 8:30happy about them, well, they don't like me anyway. My wife don't
- 8:33like me. I don't mean I can walk out on that. Yes,
- 8:35but you see you married your wife. I didn't marry the police. You've
- 8:37got something there. It's good night, and give the police. You're not
- 8:41sure, I'll give it. Wait a minute. Long from home? You
- 9:01did, mister Price, well cause it may be an optical allure time,
- 9:07All optics should have such illusions, Yellow Peggy, I am, I'm here
- 9:13and I know this. Should you be here in my apartment? Why not?
- 9:18The explanation could lead to trouble out And then he wants for January?
- 9:22Isn't it? Did you very wrong for January? What brings you here?
- 9:24What's a very nice apartment? No? Etching all the dead catcher o,
- 9:30Peggy? How did you get in here? Janet? To let me in?
- 9:31He did? Why? No? I told him I was your sister.
- 9:35I have already told him I an nominally child. Then he's probably into
- 9:39some No, he's nearly having low thoughts matter the fact that nicely having low
- 9:43thoughts too, very nice, but that that I'm the high mind the type.
- 9:48Uh what of'em? To your little friend m Miter, Greg and Morton?
- 9:50I don't know. They got into a terrible ig. Did you the
- 9:52test argument? Uh? Huh? So I went out the back end,
- 9:56jam right. You shouldn't have you missed something I did? Definitely? What
- 9:58did I At the end of the argument, Morton law, Oh this isn't
- 10:01the hard lady was shot not by me? You think he was shot dead?
- 10:07Oh I'm sorry, Boudja. Why did you shoot it? Of course
- 10:11not? But you see, mister Gregg and Morton were fighting over me where
- 10:15they and you found it. If you don't believe me, may you become
- 10:18wits fighting me? O? I do? Then why are you buying my
- 10:24ways? We mustn't forget that we're brother and sisters. Joy And besides,
- 10:28if I ain't not to say, well, but they deaf me. If
- 10:33greg and Morton were fighting over you, then obviously bothered and believed you were
- 10:35worth fighting over. And at the moment Morton is dead, that frightened.
- 10:41You're terrified? Man? Oh you a man? Or are you a man?
- 10:43Well? I like Geeve and then supposed to get the whole thing.
- 10:46I just made a mistake about you, which reminds me I made another mischieve,
- 10:50which one that cake I gave you which didn't belong to you. I
- 10:54didn't I for you, I know, but I was a little contusion.
- 10:58I want the kids to please the case. Oh yeah, that's the cake,
- 11:01Simon, Are you darling? No, No, I'm trying to remember
- 11:05what happened to her? Simon? You don't have a cake with you,
- 11:07so you can search me. But I want you to think, Simon,
- 11:09what happened to that cake? I must have forgotten it in the cab.
- 11:13In the cab, Simon, what kind of a cab was it? The
- 11:15kind was a meeter? Oh you, I'm going to just dropped badly.
- 11:20Goodbye, Tgky. I hope that Danne can tell your wife about your sister,
- 11:22and I hope your wife Jos you don't have a sister. I don't
- 11:26have a wife. I oh, I hate you. Mister Greg. You're
- 11:31not leaving? Well I'm not. Come on and get back inside. All
- 11:35right, it's Greg, you know, gentlemen, I take a pop.
- 11:39You're appointed. There's the hor Yes I am. That's the one with which
- 11:43she shot Morton. As it happens, I didn't WoT Peggy doing. You're
- 11:46a papa. Nothing important, you see. She's my sister real and her
- 11:50brother Peggy. His name's Simon Temple, Temple, not really. It's only
- 11:58that my etchings are at the it's long, thank you, but it's if
- 12:03you ink the couch because all right, but you don't mind if I removed
- 12:09the cushion. I fat cushions, therefore, have one I need. Sorry,
- 12:13the cushion hits you in the pace. Perhaps I can do even better
- 12:16with this. Ooh ooh, my hand hurt. Simon, what a beautiful
- 12:24right to the jaw. Thank you. I don't like to do it very
- 12:28often. It's so hard on the hands. But uh, i'd better get
- 12:31his gun. I had this lamballtick out. Get him with Simon, thanks
- 12:35for bending over. Oh oh, I'm dead, alright, alright, oh
- 12:58Simon, the two headed boy, he's begin see John Hopkins have a swinging,
- 13:05swinging canto. Already got a ringing in my head, both my head.
- 13:09So he come in because ring nobody was answering, and nobody was answering.
- 13:16No, no, my heads were answering. That's true. But why
- 13:18did you come here in the first that I am the other? I wondered
- 13:22how long it would be for you identify your mister temper. You know me,
- 13:26I'm not in my present condition. You're no one is telling me how
- 13:30you're an only child, and you goded wondering about my sister. Yeah,
- 13:33I beg your pardon. Yeah, well I suppose that's true too, But
- 13:37she's drawn to my just never mind, pay, it's so, it's so,
- 13:45it's too bad, it's not so bad. Maybe perhaps you'd better run
- 13:48along, And the next time she shows up, I'll introduced that. It's
- 13:50not why I am coming here. Pardon my diggression, but why are you
- 13:54coming here? Why are you making say things from diapastang thang? I mean
- 14:00like people are shooting real, lots of people waiting, lots of other people
- 14:03on the john on the head And don't you are holding in your head?
- 14:07Oh yes, yes, I just got around and noticing it a revolver,
- 14:11the revolver me. It's bang bang true, Oh fad, we'd better get
- 14:15into the living room. And oh that's that twenty carricter Peggy way to don
- 14:22me. Hey, I'm spending it's something end Yeah, gun powder meaning someone's
- 14:26recently fired a gun here and oh good blown. Yeah, it's Greig on
- 14:33the road. He is try he here bank bah true, two bullets in
- 14:39his chair. Hm, he's dead. You shoot him? Oh thanks for
- 14:43the question mark at the end of that. No, I I didn't.
- 14:45I was knocked out, Greg was shot, and then the revolver was put
- 14:48in my hand. Eventually I spose the police were suppsed to arrive, find
- 14:52Greg dead, the murder weapon, calling with my fingerprints and it's best.
- 14:56Yeah it's not good, y'all. The but you do now? I don't
- 15:01know, of course. Think he wanted to know who the cab driver was,
- 15:05what cast the one who cook the cake? Mister templey a saut the
- 15:11police. I had better not bother them. What you're going to do.
- 15:15Find a murderer for them before they decide they've found one in me? Man,
- 15:31Hey ya, Red Devil Cats Company. That's what you wanted, That's
- 15:33what I wanted here. You are don't buy any yards? Why should I
- 15:39already got one? Yeah? What can I do for you? Are you
- 15:48in charge here of the garage and cam flee? You could say that?
- 15:52Is that what you're looking for? Well, actually I'm looking for Benny,
- 15:54one of your cab drivers. Benny what just Benny? Oh him, get
- 15:58out of here. And I'm not joking. The license plate number of the
- 16:02cab he was driving with X forty three seventy six No gag, no gags.
- 16:06Hold on a second check Oh thank you X se fast to see Yeah,
- 16:11yeah, Denny Scott. Is he in the garage now? No?
- 16:12No, he's out of his cat he'd you into. Yeah, tour is
- 16:17over then, then he's over to you far. You can't say that he
- 16:19might have got a fair out of the suburbs or something in some place.
- 16:22Would you mind if I waited for him? Hey, what's he done?
- 16:25It's not what he's done, it's important what may be done to him.
- 16:37I've been here for more than an hour. Yeah, then he isn't usually
- 16:41this late for boy, excuse you that Devil Cab company Golden speaking. But
- 16:45one of our cabs is parked in front of your driveway. Well, lady,
- 16:48you just tell the drivers it's no drive in us. Lady, that's
- 16:52impossible, all right. So you live in Oceans Drive Avenue. I know
- 16:56it's a very nice neighborhood, so maybe number five it's the unusual nice But
- 17:00lady, our drivers don't leave their cabs in front of the driveway. It's
- 17:03a company rule. Good nise. How do you like that? Hey,
- 17:08Benny, Benny, I've already thought of that five three six Ocean Drive Avenue.
- 17:14Man, I'll go right out there, But oh Gogan, could you
- 17:17tell me where I might be able to get a cab? Five hundred blocks
- 17:29and yes, uh stop now, Uh, Denny's cab is here. He's
- 17:33look sensed it a driver hang around for a while. Okay, thanks,
- 17:41Yeah, there's no one in the back of the cab. Hey, Benny,
- 17:48go lie one is I didn't touch a drop. Furthermore, I never
- 17:51drink can beside you? You ain't my wife? No? Then, who
- 17:56hit me in my head? A friend of yours? Oh no, my
- 17:59friends. Don't go on it in my head. You know it's too soft.
- 18:00It's wait a minute, where's the blonde? Well? I don't have
- 18:06her on me. I'm beginning to remember now. She hailed a cab,
- 18:08got in, and then she started asking me about some cake. Dear Peggy
- 18:12told me to pull over to the cookee. She kept talking about cake,
- 18:15and then she hit me on my head. And I don't need to like
- 18:18cake the temple, I don't get it. No, but Peggy didn't.
- 18:32Huh, I meant the cake. What's with the cake? Me? I'm
- 18:33strictly the right red type. And Peggy remembering her figure. Oh, let
- 18:37us remember this for a while, thickly a rye kick type. Therefore your
- 18:41own man. She didn't want the cake to eat? Why not? Because
- 18:47you can't have your cake and eat it? Is that supposed to mean something?
- 18:51Not to you? Here, Benny, and don't buy its I already
- 18:55got a yacht. How did you know what I was going? I listened
- 18:57to the radio. What do you think it's a temple? Oh, well,
- 19:10you spend much of your time working in vestibule loads. I'm crazy about
- 19:12residue, and that's nights. I'll lead you to this one just a moment.
- 19:15That's not my elbow in your ribs, and I don't tell me.
- 19:18Let me guess that you're to be a maxim. It's a revolver. It
- 19:21makes a loud noise, and its tires bullets. Oh, you wouldn't be
- 19:23happy if I shot you? Neither would I? Well, why not take
- 19:26the gun out of my ribs and make us both delirious with joy? I
- 19:30shall as soon as I have my cake your case. I am Hector Vanderpoort,
- 19:33Hector b Oh, the owner of the Bachelor's Friend Bakery. How cunning
- 19:38of you to remember, well I don't have your case. You might be
- 19:41hitting I never did. It's not quit. Neither is murder. But I
- 19:45shall murder you unless in your apartment, if you please of course he's just
- 19:52fier and the living room. Now see there's no one here. Where are
- 19:56The two were being very naive, aren't we? The diamonds, my friend,
- 20:02the diamond the lovely white diamonds, dear Peggy gave you. Peggy must
- 20:06have forgot how No, she gave you the cake, so she did the
- 20:10diamonds. I'm pretending you don't know we're in that cake. But why do
- 20:14diamonds make a cake taste better? Where are they? You're rapidly losing your
- 20:18windsor you know? Why is the interested? I arrange their thefts, my
- 20:22good man, a great inconvenience to myself, and with considerable effort. I
- 20:25don't contend to give them up. Well, how did they get into that
- 20:27cake? Peggy? It would appear she decided to double cross me. Therefore
- 20:32she hid the diamonds in the cake and slipped the cake to you, right
- 20:33under Gregg's and Morton's nose. They each had a note to themselves. I
- 20:37find I'm tiring of wit. I'm beginning not to be amused nor amusing.
- 20:44Therefore, you will either hand over the diamond at once all or else die.
- 20:48But I get over to the side temper near the windows. Well I've
- 20:51already seen that. Well you instead, and it gets you out of the
- 20:53way. And now then you're heading from my bedroom. Now only the door.
- 20:57Oh dear Peggy, watch your fleet join up. Well I was only
- 21:02she was only being assisted to me when I came back to go to Hanna.
- 21:06I'm afraid of them. You're here because you're obviously working with Templar for
- 21:08that night's work, if I can get it. But Reagan Morton are both
- 21:11said I shall miss them. Well I have nothing to do. I shall
- 21:15miss them, but I won't miss you. Where are the diamonds? I
- 21:19don't know. I'll have perhaps a few seconds left of life. Oh I,
- 21:23I'll give them to you. They're here in my bag. The don't
- 21:26hand out of that bag, but the diamonds. Opportunity not to go in
- 21:32the proverb, But what it takes care of? Hegy you shot me s
- 21:41H. I think I'm going to talk m living room's cluttered with bodies,
- 21:48I must say, Peggy's naser, but a freshman. I think everybody's going
- 21:55to live for a while. The revolve. Yes, Since then a helping
- 22:00hand and you're on your feet again. You I probably am and I certainly
- 22:06did. However, I have the gun. You you're going to show me
- 22:08answers? Why should I? Because then you and Peggy can keep the dam
- 22:12You forget the costs, don't you? Mister Greg and Morton? The police
- 22:15are going to want a murderer for that well if Peggy kills them, So
- 22:19if you forget, I'm being a brother to hey. Look look, will
- 22:22you please please get it over with now? Don't rush me? You Greg
- 22:26and Morton were jewel peeve If the bakery perd is the front, the diamonds
- 22:30and the cake were supposed to be Greg and Morton's share, right, Yes,
- 22:33yes, but the Greg and Marton are both dead. If you had
- 22:34the jewels, baby, all be yours now, wouldn't they? Yes?
- 22:38If I had the jewels and he wasn't supposed to know anything about them,
- 22:41that's why you baked them into that case. We both know all that.
- 22:45No, up until this moment, I didn't know that the jews has been
- 22:48baked in the case. Therefore I that's we're not kidding what is because you
- 22:52see the police are going to take care of that, all right. Well,
- 23:11there go to the police and mister vanderpoor but Simon. I just know,
- 23:15Peggy, you're adorable. You're a liar and I don't mind explaining.
- 23:19M Vanderpoort killed greg and Morton. How did I know? Now you're supposed
- 23:26to say yes, Simon, How did you know? Yes? Simon?
- 23:27How did you know? And I'm glad you asked me. I knew because
- 23:30Vanderpoor showed up at this apartment. How did he know about it? Greg
- 23:34and Morton had followed you from the bakery. You knew about it because I
- 23:38told you my dad. Ye. But Vandercour had no way of knowing,
- 23:41and that secretly he was at the bakery at the time of Morton's death and
- 23:45here when Gregor was killed. Oh, and his motive work to keep all
- 23:49the jewels to himself. True. You know, I'm hungry. Would you
- 23:52mind getting that cake? Now? Where'd you have it? In the bread
- 23:56box the kitchen? Yes? Thank you, my love. You know you
- 23:59may be under the impression that you're a crook that you did that. Huh.
- 24:03Van Derbourne knew if you remember that the jewels weren't in your bag before
- 24:07you opened it. Huh? How simple he knew you didn't have the jewels?
- 24:12How did he know? That simple. Again, he hadn't put the
- 24:15jewels in the cake at all. His double cross had started before your attempt
- 24:18at hijacket. So there are no jewels in the apartment's baggers. I guess
- 24:26I'm not a good crook act. Okay, I'll get the cake and you
- 24:30can eat it. Mm. The important question now being is the cake any
- 24:34good? Well, all, here was our star of empty price, ladies
- 24:57and gentlemen. Our friend Peggy might have done better had she chosen her friends
- 25:02more carefully. As a matter of fact, she might have chosen her cake
- 25:06more carefully too, had she heeded the words of Margaret E. Sangster,
- 25:10who said, Oh, cakes and friends, we should choose with care.
- 25:14Not always the finest cake that there is, the best to eat, and
- 25:18the plainest friend is sometimes the finest one. In the end, it is
- 25:22Vincent Price inviting you to join us again next week at the same time for
- 25:26another exciting adventure of the Saint good Night like Strips of the Plaints was written
- 25:48by Lewis CDs arc Assens, with the Betty lou Gerson, Peter Leeds,
- 25:52Zannel Hurlahee, Larry Dobkul and Ed Bonells. A music was composed and conducted
- 25:56by Harry Zimmerman. Well Saints based on created by Lestlie talking of it that
- 26:02the James Out Sappier production, and it was directed by Tomma Dame activity Winston
- 26:07Price destined to be seen in Robert Lickart's production of The Ban of Arizona.
- 26:11All your Saint fans will be glad to know that the Saint's coming book are
- 26:14unsabled. All you attend you're an on their mail, right, this is
- 26:18a mutual broadcount things a film welcome back. Well, since she wasn't behind
- 26:41the case, I guess she could say in the end that she got her
- 26:44just deserves. Okay, I know all around the world people groaning as that
- 26:48overall this is just This was a fun episode. Was a lot of suspects.
- 26:52The only thing that felt rushed was the killer revealing that he was a
- 26:59jewel thing when it seems like he could have avoided that, but he did
- 27:03believe Templar knew anyway. Well, that will actually do it for today.
- 27:07We will be back tomorrow with Crime in Peter Chambers and next Monday another episode
- 27:14of The Saint. In the meantime, I do want to remind you you
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