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Broadway Is My Beat - "The Anna Compton Murder Case" (1951) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Anna Compton is found shot in an automobile registered to
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Edward Bishop. That discovery sends Detective Danny Clover from Broadway
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: to an auction house and a skid row mission in
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: Broadway is My Beat, The Anna Compton Murder Case. CBS
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: broadcast this seventy eighth episode on September fifteenth, nineteen fifty one,
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: opening the series third season. Larry Thor stars as Clover,
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: and the script is by Morton Fine and David Friedkin,
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: with Elliot Lewis directing. And now the original broadcast.
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: Broadway's My Beat from Times Squirt to Columbus Circle, The Gaudius,
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: the Most Violent, the Lonesomest mile in the World.
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: Broadway is My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: When it's September and the summer sighs away, Broadway is
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: festooned with the colors of fall, the pastels of the
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: cotton dresses mixed sadly with the brown and gray of
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: the flannel, and here and there Broadway shape leaf foliage
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: turns to plant. It's the time of the quickened step
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: and the crumpled travel folder and Coney died Beaver and
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: the September song is a deep throated sound, the mob voice,
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: the hay fever, and the oysters being torn from the
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: half shell. Another season, Kid, one more, three months, band,
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: get where You're going? And the autumn days have their
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: six o'clock in the morning time, the just beginning another daytime.
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: It was a street where Broadway turns, the corner into
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: the forties, where I was a detective mugaban and a woman.
• 2:05
  Speaker 4: She's in here, Danny in his car, but there on
• 2:11
  Speaker 4: the floor in front.
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  Speaker 5: Who is she?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know, no identification, no handbag, just this.
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  Speaker 5: Car registered to Edward Bishop.
• 2:22
  Speaker 4: And sixtieth U slippers in the glove compartment.
• 2:24
  Speaker 5: Who found her?
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  Speaker 6: Officer Captain tag it late last night for traffic violation
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  Speaker 6: parking five o'clock when he was going off duty.
• 2:31
  Speaker 4: He noticed the car still wasn't moved, opened it looked
• 2:35
  Speaker 4: found under that blanket. Let's say she was about twenty seven.
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  Speaker 5: Shot once in the back from up close.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, death probably instantaneous. Here they are Danny in the
• 2:51
  Speaker 4: front of the car.
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  Speaker 2: Doc.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, you're a new doc, aren't you.
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  Speaker 5: Don't move her? Doctor, wait for the photographers.
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  Speaker 7: But don't you stand there? Doc? You got him?
• 3:03
  Speaker 5: You get used to it kid. This kind of thing
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  Speaker 5: happens a lot.
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: And the cluster of the walkers to work. The people
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  Speaker 2: of the subway glad for the delay of the dead woman.
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  Speaker 2: The dead woman, who lies at the beginning of another day,
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  Speaker 2: stops it for a time, holds it.
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  Speaker 5: The desolate pause.
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  Speaker 2: The time for turning back, But the hungry day will
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: not wait. Subways are empty and must be filled. The
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: clever machines in the offices long for the fluttering caress
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: of quick fingers. Can't stop for the dead kid. A
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: buck has to be made. Give someone else your place
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  Speaker 2: in line and in the corridor of the address on
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  Speaker 2: the registration slip. A woman in a raveled coat sweater
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  Speaker 2: sweeps away the night litter and autumn mists, gathers them
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  Speaker 2: on a dust pan, throws them into the street. You
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: ask for Edward Bishop, and she shrugs you to a
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: scarred door at the end of the hall, watches you
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  Speaker 2: as your knock, waits with you for the.
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  Speaker 5: Door to ok.
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  Speaker 8: You're an early bird, misty police. Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Woman drops her broom, scurries away to tell her friends
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  Speaker 2: and neighbors.
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  Speaker 8: Early bird out to catch a worm. Huh, mister, not me,
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  Speaker 8: not for something I've done. I never do anything.
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  Speaker 5: Bad you, Edward Bishop, Oh not me.
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  Speaker 8: Mister Bishop's my roomy, he gone and done something naughty.
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  Speaker 8: Come in, mister and tell me all about it. Where
• 4:20
  Speaker 8: is he wh out trying his nightly kettle of fish?
• 4:22
  Speaker 8: I presume his bedding con slepted. No, huh, oh, by
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  Speaker 8: that hollow you see in the bedclothes where I tried it.
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  Speaker 8: I'm an experimenter. Long as he wasn't in it, I
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  Speaker 8: thought my roomy's bed might be better than my own.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't.
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  Speaker 8: Mister Bishop's gone and done something naughty.
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  Speaker 5: Huh Do you know where he is?
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  Speaker 8: I want to tell you something about mister Bishop, my roomy.
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  Speaker 8: He's a tight lip man, rock face I call him
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  Speaker 8: when he ain't looking. That's because he never whispers a
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  Speaker 8: secret to me or shares a coke When I off
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  Speaker 8: from part of mine. He just lets me dab his
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  Speaker 8: hanky with cologne sometimes when he's going out for a
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  Speaker 8: heavy evening.
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  Speaker 5: He had a lot of them evenings like that.
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  Speaker 8: Well, for a man who has to shave twice a day,
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  Speaker 8: he has more than his sh share.
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  Speaker 5: You wouldn't know with whom I might.
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  Speaker 8: But first you tell me what my roomy did to you.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you'd find it cozier down at headquarters. Maybe that
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  Speaker 2: Japanese cimona aware makes it work getting rough.
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  Speaker 8: Hello there, mister, I'll tell you what I know, Then
• 5:15
  Speaker 8: you tell me what you know. Huh, my room he's
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  Speaker 8: been squiring a lady by the name of Anna Compton.
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  Speaker 8: You know her, or just talk to on the phone.
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  Speaker 8: The lovely voice haunts you.
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  Speaker 5: Once you talked to her last, oh, two.
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  Speaker 8: Or three days ago, I'll tell you just how it was.
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  Speaker 8: She kept calling here evenings, asking my roomy to call
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  Speaker 8: her back. Just leave her name, Anna Compton, my roomy
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  Speaker 8: squiring a married lady.
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  Speaker 5: Bishop never shared anything with you, and still I'll.
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  Speaker 8: Tell you about that too. Her haunting voice made me nervous,
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  Speaker 8: I told JOm an experimenter. So one day I sat
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  Speaker 8: down with the phone book and called every Compton there is.
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  Speaker 8: Then a man answered and said his wife Anna wasn't home.
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  Speaker 8: Who was calling? Of course I hung up. Then you
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  Speaker 8: know her address in the Neurrochelle phone book for everyone's
• 6:01
  Speaker 8: eyes to see. Now it's you uttering. What did mister
• 6:06
  Speaker 8: Bishop do?
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  Speaker 5: A woman was found murdered in his car.
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  Speaker 8: My own mind that's as naughty as you can get it,
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  Speaker 8: ain't it?
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  Speaker 5: Mister Blackburn said that.
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  Speaker 2: Then mister Blackburn reached over to my lapel pinched off
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  Speaker 2: a piece hanging from the buttonhole and dangled it accusingly
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  Speaker 2: under my nose. This is the way I left, mister Blackburn.
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: Then back to headquarters. Issue an all points bulletin for
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  Speaker 2: Edward Bishop. Then down one flight of the photo lap
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  Speaker 2: behanded a picture tucket in the black notebook where you've
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: jotted the name of Leo Compton and his address in Rochelle.
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  Speaker 2: Then the ride there to the community where the houses
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  Speaker 2: have the built in attitude that violent death never visits here.
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  Speaker 2: In the next street, maybe it happens or to a
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  Speaker 2: friend of a friend, but it never happens here.
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  Speaker 9: Anna, is that you, macha? Key?
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  Speaker 4: Anna?
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  Speaker 7: Where have you been?
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  Speaker 5: Your name Compton?
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  Speaker 2: Leo Compton. I'm from the police. My name is Danny Clover.
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, mind if I come in, I guess.
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  Speaker 10: So, oh wait a minute, wait a minute there, yeah, police,
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  Speaker 10: mister Compton.
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  Speaker 2: It's about Anna. It's about Anna, isn't it.
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  Speaker 5: What's happened to listen to?
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  Speaker 2: All right? All right, I'm listening.
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  Speaker 5: Is Anna your wife?
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  Speaker 11: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, this woman, this picture I have here.
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  Speaker 12: Yes, that's yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How did you get there? How'd you get Anna's picture?
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  Speaker 5: I wish I knew some way to say this. Anna's dead.
• 7:44
  Speaker 5: We found her this morning. She'd been shot.
• 7:47
  Speaker 2: Oh she's her body's at the morgue. And I've got
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  Speaker 2: to ask you. No, I know she didn't come home
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  Speaker 2: last night, mister Compton.
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  Speaker 10: No, no, you're wrong. She came home and I came
• 8:01
  Speaker 10: home to me. It was my fault. Really, I sent
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  Speaker 10: her away. I told her I didn't care.
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  Speaker 2: And the things I sent to her, the names suppose
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  Speaker 2: the last words you ever said to your wife, names
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 5: What happened last night, mister Compton.
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  Speaker 2: She came home. It was about seven yesterday evening, and
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  Speaker 2: she had the bracelet on.
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  Speaker 5: She was wearing a bracelet when he found her.
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  Speaker 2: She had the bracelet on, and I asked her where
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  Speaker 2: she got such an expensive bracelet to wear, and she
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  Speaker 2: said she got a bargain.
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  Speaker 5: A bargain What do you mean from her boyfriend?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? She told me.
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  Speaker 10: And I told me, all right, and listen, listen you
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  Speaker 10: know what I did. I called him up. I'm not
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  Speaker 10: narrow minded. Things can happen just because it's your wife
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  Speaker 10: doesn't mean it can't happen. I called her boyfriend up
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  Speaker 10: and I told him to come over. I'd pay him
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  Speaker 10: for the bracelet.
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  Speaker 5: Did he come home?
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  Speaker 10: Oh he can't over. Anna was stuned all right. And
• 9:02
  Speaker 10: I wrote a check for the bracelet, two hundred dollars.
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  Speaker 10: Don't you think Anna wasn't stunning, mister Cott, You know
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  Speaker 10: what she did? She left with him anyhow, bracelet check.
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  Speaker 2: She and him. And that's when I.
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  Speaker 10: Saw a man's name, Bishop, Edward Bishop. He's an auctioneer
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  Speaker 10: for the Hunter Galleries. Oh there's something else. Yes, I'll
• 9:27
  Speaker 10: call Randa. I'll take her out of that place where
• 9:31
  Speaker 10: she is.
• 9:48
  Speaker 13: Come in off the avenue of the America's mister, behind
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  Speaker 13: his dirty shop windows.
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  Speaker 2: There are boggains. Edward Bishop worked here, he did till
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: he killed himself.
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  Speaker 12: A woman ran up.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: A parking ticket.
• 10:01
  Speaker 5: You know all that for sure?
• 10:03
  Speaker 12: I know Eddie.
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  Speaker 5: He works for me.
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  Speaker 13: The pitchment had or pitchment, the spiel that kills, that's
• 10:10
  Speaker 13: Eddie Bishop. He talking to buying something you don't like.
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  Speaker 5: Mister you said he killed her? Why you're a cop?
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  Speaker 11: Aren't you.
• 10:21
  Speaker 13: Come inside?
• 10:21
  Speaker 5: I brew you something warm.
• 10:23
  Speaker 13: It gets cold for everybody on the avenue. No, I'll
• 10:27
  Speaker 13: leave the door open. A look h might want to
• 10:29
  Speaker 13: come in the brows. That's how it is in the world. Lookers, browsers,
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  Speaker 13: handlers then walk out, just like my Eddie. You want
• 10:46
  Speaker 13: to sip of the warm blue.
• 10:47
  Speaker 5: Why did you say he killed her?
• 10:52
  Speaker 13: It's in Eddie to do a thing like that. It's
• 10:54
  Speaker 13: what's about him that fascinates a girl that in the
• 10:58
  Speaker 13: clever way he handles an auction's hammer. I could show
• 11:03
  Speaker 13: you a three time bruise three times in your soul.
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  Speaker 12: And a man like Eddie.
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: You read in the papers a woman has found dead
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  Speaker 2: in Bishop's car, and that makes you know he's a murderer.
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  Speaker 13: Fact and the way he spoke my name sometimes have
• 11:15
  Speaker 13: to be closed up the shop. Zoe he saved me,
• 11:20
  Speaker 13: Zoe killed the long day for me. You don't argue
• 11:24
  Speaker 13: with a man like Eddie when he talks like that.
• 11:27
  Speaker 5: You knew missus Compton.
• 11:29
  Speaker 13: When the summer began to fade, Eddie started talking to
• 11:32
  Speaker 13: me about her how she looked when she walked in
• 11:35
  Speaker 13: one day to bit on an object of art, Then
• 11:38
  Speaker 13: how she looked over a cocktail, a corner bar, and
• 11:41
  Speaker 13: then how it was with the lights of Coney on
• 11:44
  Speaker 13: her face and in Eddie's car on the long way
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  Speaker 13: to New Rochelle. All this, my auctioneer told me. That's
• 11:52
  Speaker 13: how I know the dead missus Compton. I'm glad for her.
• 11:57
  Speaker 5: You never saw her with him.
• 12:00
  Speaker 13: It was last night. I watched from behind the crowd.
• 12:04
  Speaker 13: I saw her shove her wristed Eddie. Eddie put a
• 12:07
  Speaker 13: bracelet on it when he bought from stock. I thought
• 12:10
  Speaker 13: it was for me, right, he did it.
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: It was like that for them. Why would he kill her?
• 12:16
  Speaker 13: Who knows? Maybe she rubbed him the wrong way, Maybe
• 12:20
  Speaker 13: she asked him for it. Eddie was a man to
• 12:23
  Speaker 13: oblige a lady.
• 12:25
  Speaker 5: All right, thank you.
• 12:27
  Speaker 13: Uh do something for me, mister, what you find Eddie Bishop,
• 12:31
  Speaker 13: give him my message, Tell him I want an invite
• 12:35
  Speaker 13: to his execution. It's been a dull season.
• 12:42
  Speaker 6: Danny, all the hair and a squad cut. You got something, Muggavi,
• 12:48
  Speaker 6: Well maybe maybe not. Guy was found dead in the
• 12:50
  Speaker 6: building excavation over on third. Nobody wants to touch him.
• 12:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, let's go drive down the ramp, Muggavin.
• 13:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah, this sidewalk.
• 13:11
  Speaker 4: Superintendent's really got something to stare right now?
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and what happened mister?
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: Imn a scoop plap?
• 13:25
  Speaker 12: How far ago?
• 13:26
  Speaker 9: I decide of scratches ground first, scope full of shovel,
• 13:28
  Speaker 9: come up with what's him?
• 13:30
  Speaker 5: Let's get it down?
• 13:31
  Speaker 14: Huh okay, yeah, real good.
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: I'll take a look one.
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  Speaker 5: Shot, Danny. Now here's a waller. Look at this check
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  Speaker 5: for two hundred dollars signed by Leo Compton.
• 13:57
  Speaker 6: Uh, head to the order of it with Bishop, ed
• 14:01
  Speaker 6: with Bishop. He's a man we figured murdered Anna Compton.
• 14:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the man we figured murdered Anna Compton.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: What well?
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: What'd you say, Danny? Not please? I didn't say anything
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  Speaker 5: at all.
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: You were listening to Broadway is My Beat, written by
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: Morton Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: Detective Danny Clover. Singers Alan Dale and Sarah Vaughan will
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: be Steve Allen's guests on Songs for Sale Just a
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: little Later tonight. Once again, Steve will be playing host
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: to four amateur songwriters and their unpublished songs, one of
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: which will be chosen for nationwide hearing for merriment and melody.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: Here's Songs for Sale later tonight on most of these
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: same CBS radio stations.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: September morn dips a dainty toe into a Broadway billboard,
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: and unshivering, gazes down upon a street that only yesterday
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: was choked with summer. But the refuse is there, where
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: summer has passed and left pieces of itself in the
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: scratch and warp of summertime. Blue still screeching out of
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: the loud speakers, the sunny Mannikins wax slightly melted, waiting
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: in shop windows to be replaced by the fall and
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: winter models, the faint odors of the sun worm perfume,
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: the souvenir of the golden girl who walked right pasture,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: turned a corner, vanished into a place where summer never dies,
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: A place not open to you, kid, only autumns ahead
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: of you. Kid, start using it. It's already given you
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: two murders. A woman in the front seat of a car,
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: a man scooped out of the earth on the teeth
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: of a steam shoveled. What more can you ask? September
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: showering her gifts on you. Kid, Take them. They're all yours,
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: and at headquarters, Sargeant at Tagley, it brings you your
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: share of them, holds them from you with a smile
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: that shows he slept well last night.
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: He accumulated Adams and the murders Danny in these papers,
• 16:16
  Speaker 9: I teased before you, have a good night, Geno, no
• 16:19
  Speaker 9: complaints come to mind, Danny. The evening was a fulsome one.
• 16:22
  Speaker 9: Father McCleary came to call. A pleasant time was had
• 16:25
  Speaker 9: by all, as is our usual procedure.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: Father McClary is a fine man.
• 16:29
  Speaker 9: Salt of the earth. I asked missus Tea to break
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: open a bottle of Mogan dove with wine.
• 16:33
  Speaker 8: We don't even blink an eye.
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: SIPs with your talks with you brings presents for the
• 16:38
  Speaker 9: Tartaglia brood. This is a man who also brings you
• 16:41
  Speaker 9: the gift of RESTful sleep.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: Remember me to him, Gino.
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: Roger will call now to the papers I am about
• 16:47
  Speaker 9: to be stole upon you. In them you will find
• 16:49
  Speaker 9: a report from Technical to it. The bullets that killed
• 16:52
  Speaker 9: missus Compton and mister Bishop. Technical states came from the
• 16:55
  Speaker 9: same gun. Barkings are identical. The run down on the
• 16:58
  Speaker 9: past histories of miss Compton and mister Bishop is contained
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: in reports from interested neighbors and relatives gathered by it.
• 17:06
  Speaker 12: You don't spare me a moments.
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: Look, you standard operating procedure is to knock when one
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: desires a moment of Dannyman.
• 17:12
  Speaker 10: Mister Compton, I've come to denoun and I intend to
• 17:18
  Speaker 10: not leaving here until you give it to me.
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: What would that be?
• 17:20
  Speaker 12: Anna's bracelet, the one that everyone's dead.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: It belongs to me because you gave Bishop a two
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars check for it.
• 17:28
  Speaker 10: I stopped paying on my check after all that that
• 17:31
  Speaker 10: mister Bishop did give it to Anna.
• 17:34
  Speaker 12: I needn't have made that stupid gesture.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: And now she's dead and he's dead.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Yes, your wife is dead. You loved her.
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: You told me the bracelet's mine. You want to quipple
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: about it, have me spend money on lawyers.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: You're right, mister Compton. It's yours. Take it. We have
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: no more use for it. We have photographs. You understand.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: It's not the money.
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: It's only that if it once belonged to her, it
• 18:00
  Speaker 10: now belongs to me. It's a kind of remembrance of
• 18:03
  Speaker 10: the dead. Well, I'm not going to think about it.
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: I have enough trouble living in an empty house with
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: no one to scrint and save all my life.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: Share it with.
• 18:12
  Speaker 10: Missus Compton and the cost of things, mister Clover, it's outrageous. Food, furniture,
• 18:16
  Speaker 10: clothes and transportation. You know what cab fair costs me
• 18:19
  Speaker 10: from you, Rochelle five sixty, it's outrageous.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: He could have come in another way.
• 18:24
  Speaker 10: Oh yes, me mock Dad pointed to as the husband
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: of a murdered woman. They put my picture in the paper,
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: you know, and that makes me a curiosity, a freak.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: You didn't tell me when I last saw you, mister Compton,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: what did you do after your wife left you with Bishop?
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I said, what did you do? Go anywhere?
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: Talk to him?
• 18:41
  Speaker 12: Of course I talked to someone. A man's wife walks
• 18:44
  Speaker 12: out in him when he's given her all. This Mervin Maygo.
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: He's an old friend from boyhood. I go to him
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: whenever I'm in trouble. He's a professional helper. He's in
• 18:53
  Speaker 10: that business.
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: He makes money by helping people.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: He runs a mission on East fortieth.
• 18:58
  Speaker 12: You like him, I think, well, thank.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: You, mister Clok.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: You were easier to deal with than I thought.
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: Danny.
• 19:09
  Speaker 12: A man's wife is murdered and comes back for Danny.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: You think it's something to think about, Uh, Jim, it
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: was something to think about. Consider a man whose wife
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: had been murdered. Consider, in space of twenty four hours,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: his tears had dried, The shock of death had dwindled
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: into something much more negotiable, a two hundred dollars bracelet,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: for example, the grief tempered by the high cost of
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: taxi cab fares. Leo Compton had motive enough to commit
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: two murders his wife because she had run out on
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: am Edward Bishop, because he had run with her. Motive
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: certainly so check on his story. It him he was
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: a man who needed companionship at the time of stress.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Specifically liked to talk to a man who ran a mission.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Go to the man who ran a mission and ask questions.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Glad you came to see me, mister Clover, So am I,
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: mister mego Now.
• 20:02
  Speaker 11: He doesn't check the boards and a few back issue magazines.
• 20:04
  Speaker 11: You'll admit that I do the best I can. Then
• 20:06
  Speaker 11: there's always the coffee and donuts. The boys expect them
• 20:09
  Speaker 11: standing fair for places like this.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: Sure. Now, at once I got a bright.
• 20:14
  Speaker 11: Idea put in a ping pong table, built it myself,
• 20:17
  Speaker 11: you know, ping pong for the boys, a little physical exercise.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: What happened.
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: The boys didn't understand about ping pong, took down the net,
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: made a backstop out of the old magazines. Well, I
• 20:27
  Speaker 11: confiscated the dice loaded. How often does Leo Compton come
• 20:32
  Speaker 11: down here?
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: Sometimes?
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: Often, sometimes not for months at a time whenever Leo
• 20:38
  Speaker 11: feels the need, need of what someone to talk to.
• 20:41
  Speaker 11: But why do you because he doesn't have to explain
• 20:44
  Speaker 11: himself to me. The embarrassment of bearing himself to someone
• 20:47
  Speaker 11: doesn't have to be done. I know him, mister Clover,
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: I know him. Well, that's what I want you to
• 20:53
  Speaker 11: tell me about, mister Mego. I guess it was twenty
• 20:56
  Speaker 11: years ago I met Leo. We went to the same
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: summer camp and the Catskills, a charity camp. I was
• 21:02
  Speaker 11: his big brother, assigned with the counselor, you know, the
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: older camper. I showed him how to put a French
• 21:08
  Speaker 11: tuck in a bed. He's swimming, buddy, you know.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Uh huh.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: And since then, when whenever he got into himselfa with
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: the world, he came to me, I like to think
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I'm necessary to Leo. I can understand Leo is a product,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: mister Clover, the making of a living. The back ground
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: of poverty. Even now, now that he's fairly well to do,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: it's still easy. What does Even at camp, the pattern
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: was there.
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: He would organize little card games after lights out, wouldn't
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: play himself, but took a cut from every part that
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: sort of thing all his life.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: I see.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Tell me something else? Well of his wife ran out
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: on him. He came down here to talk to you.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: What did he say? Not a whole lot? He told
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: me the story. I listened.
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: It's just about all he wanted down here, he told you,
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: And then he went home. Is that it not? Right away?
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: He told me.
• 21:57
  Speaker 12: And then the boys started to straggle in for their
• 21:59
  Speaker 12: coffee and don't nuts.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: He joined them. He always guys, He ate four of
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: those donuts.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: Mister Clover, are you for a minute, Danny?
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Oh sure, Maugavin, what is it whatt you talk to him?
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: Many? Go ahead, mister Scott. This is mister Scott.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Danny, mister Scott, Lieutenant Clover.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Well, sit down, mister Scott. Sure right there, I'll be fine.
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: Go ahead, mister Scott. Get the lieutenant to bracelet.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 22:35
  Speaker 15: I thought it was the right thing to do, Lieutenant Cloven.
• 22:38
  Speaker 15: I saw the man's picture in the paper mixed up
• 22:40
  Speaker 15: in a murder, and then that he should all of
• 22:42
  Speaker 15: a sudden out of the side of his mouth.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: Off of this. When did you get this bracelet, mister Scott?
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I told you didn't.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: I oh, I'm sorry. Would you mind telling me again?
• 22:54
  Speaker 12: Go ahead, mister Scott, please do well.
• 22:56
  Speaker 15: Here I was walking toward the subway entrance on fifty
• 22:59
  Speaker 15: nine and he come up to me. Who didn't the
• 23:02
  Speaker 15: man whose picture was in the paper about his wife's
• 23:04
  Speaker 15: being slain at Zoo.
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: Means Leo Compton.
• 23:06
  Speaker 15: I mean Leo Compton. He plucked my sleeve. He offered
• 23:10
  Speaker 15: a sum he is bracelet. He said he was making
• 23:12
  Speaker 15: deliveries for jewelry concern and the bracelet was left over,
• 23:15
  Speaker 15: and nobody seemed to know where to come from.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Uh huh. How much did you pay for it, mister Scott?
• 23:20
  Speaker 15: Ridiculous price? He has five dollars and sixty cents for it,
• 23:24
  Speaker 15: and that's what.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: I give him.
• 23:25
  Speaker 15: You might as well know to it. And he kept
• 23:27
  Speaker 15: turning his face for me, but I certainly recognized him.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: That's why I've come here. Oh, mug and right, mister Scott.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: A voucher for five sixty and thank you very much,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: mister Scott.
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: You call me in, Danny, and you asked me to
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: step over into a department that's not strictly mine.
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: And why don't you wait for the reports of technically?
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: All I want is an opinion, doctor Sinsk, who's tolls
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: would just step on if you give me that gordon
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: of technical?
• 24:01
  Speaker 12: All right toast smashing once in a while. What do
• 24:05
  Speaker 12: you want of me, Danny?
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: You examined Missus Compton, the bullet wound, the type of
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: wound where it was in her back? Is it one
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: that would bleed freely? Yes?
• 24:13
  Speaker 12: Danny, you know these things as well as I.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Why I just got these photographs?
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Look at them the inside of the car where Missus
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Compton was found. Mm, well, doctor Sinsky, you know as
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: well as I tell me.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Anyway, I want to be sure.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: It is obvious that the loss of blood in the
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: car was like which makes it, to me apparent that
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: the woman was not shot in the car, but somewhere
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: else and.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: Then put into the car. And I'm a doctor, Danny.
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: I didn't mean it to sound like that.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks for the opinion, doctor Sisky.
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: It's all around to the back, yah, go through the gate.
• 25:14
  Speaker 10: Well, I hope you appreciate me creating all this stuff
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: for you, weren't you, mister clot moving day, mister Compton,
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: eh oh no, no, no, my wife's things.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: It's hard to deliver it. I see giving them away, huh, well,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: not exactly selling them.
• 25:28
  Speaker 10: I saw an add in the paper where they buy merchandisely, oh, yes, yes,
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: I'm selling Anna's clothes.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: How much you're getting for them? I'm curious five point
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: sixty for a bracelet worth two hundred A man like
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: you to do that strange. How do you know about
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: the bracelet?
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: The man you saw that you get scared?
• 25:46
  Speaker 12: The bracelet was mine sell Why should he get scared?
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: That's not the point, mister Compton. The point is why
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: you should sell such a valuable bracelet for so little.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: You could have gotten more.
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: I got what I wanted, Yeah, I guess you did.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: You broke even. Bishop gave your wife the bracelets, so
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: legally it's yours, but you'd paid him. I told you
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: that you gave him the check so we'd find it
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: on him, so your story of what happened the night
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: of your wife's death would hold up. But with Bishop dead,
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: the bracelet legally yours anyhow, Why should you be liable
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: for the check his A state would have the check cash. Well,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: that's right, I did.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: I gave him a check for stop payment on it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 26:20
  Speaker 12: Why should I spend money? I don't have to. Sure
• 26:23
  Speaker 12: you see what I mean?
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Don't you?
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: Sure? You know?
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: You're a funny man, mister count I guess people say
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: that about me.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: I don't care.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: You're so careful with money, and you're an honest man.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: But you couldn't stand having that bracelet around. It was
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: a symbol of what your wife did to you, so
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: you sold it for the cost of your cab fare
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: even all round.
• 26:45
  Speaker 12: That's how much you knew. I lost plenty. I lost
• 26:49
  Speaker 12: my wife.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: You're a funny man.
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: I told you my wife had a boyfriend, and I
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: was ready to forgive her.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: She walked out of me, and ahow oh, she would
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: have come back. Don't you worry?
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: It already killed her when you called bishop, I can't.
• 27:03
  Speaker 12: I told you. I told you how it was.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: I said that when Bishop arrived, you killed him too.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Wrote out a check and stuck it in his pocket. Put
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: your wife and bishop and Bishop's cars. If she left
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: with him, she did.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: I told her.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Oh you didn't listen at all. I could call technical,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: they'd find blood in your house no matter how hard
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: you scrubbed. You don't understand anything. I worked hard. Oh
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: my life. I put my own price on things.
• 27:30
  Speaker 12: My wife belonged to me, She was mine, and nobody
• 27:34
  Speaker 12: gets it.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Not for a two hundred dollars bracelet.
• 27:36
  Speaker 11: They don't.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: What do you think I am anyhow?
• 27:39
  Speaker 12: Let's go the bracelet? What good is that? What did
• 27:42
  Speaker 12: you need that for?
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: As if it were something. I'm a hard worker.
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: Things I own didn't come easy. What's going to happen
• 27:54
  Speaker 10: to them now? Mister Glover, you better get in touch
• 27:58
  Speaker 10: with mister Mago to advise me. Well, he's just like
• 28:02
  Speaker 10: a big brother to me.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: It's the journey to the end of all the other
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: streets in the world, This Broadway. You turn a corner
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: and you're there. Walk it slowly, lean your heart against it,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: shop for the kicks, the bargains, the heartbreak, until it all.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: Explodes in your face.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: It's Broadway, the gaudiest, most violent, the lonesomest mile in
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: the world.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: Broadway My Beat.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: with Charles Calvernastar Taglia and Jack Krusian as Muggavin. The
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: program was produced and directed by Elliott Lewis, with musical
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story,
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Howard mcneer was heard as Leo Compton. Featured in the
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: cast were Billy Hallop, Lou Kougman, Joe Forte, and Francis Cheney.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: Two styles of.
• 29:35
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• 29:38
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• 29:41
  Speaker 12: Got Lombardo's sweetest music.
• 29:42
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• 29:55
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• 29:58
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• 30:02
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• 30:05
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• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Broadway is My beat has closed with the Anna Compton
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: murder case. Good evening and thank you for joining us
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