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Boston Blackie - "Aggie Rogers Murder" (1947) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: A neighbor hears moaning from a junk-filled mansion, and Boston
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Blackie and Inspector Faraday are called to the home shared
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: by Aggie and Martha Rogers. The sisters live in separate
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  Speaker 1: quarters under one roof, with Aggie controlling the household money
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: and Martha bringing in the provisions. Before long, long-standing resentment
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: and an unexpected inheritance draw Blackie into a murder mystery.
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  Speaker 1: Richard Colmar stars as Boston Blackie with Maurice Tarplin as
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  Speaker 1: Inspector Faraday in Aggie Rogers Murder, episode 117, originally broadcast
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: April 8th, 1947. We now take you back to the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: The End.
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  Speaker 3: Aggie, here's your food. Sister, can you hear me? Open
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  Speaker 3: the slot in your door. Go away, Martha.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want any food.
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  Speaker 3: But you have to eat. Open the slot. All right,
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  Speaker 3: it's open.
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  Speaker 4: I hope you've still left room between the boxes in
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  Speaker 4: there for me to push the food through.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead and push it through. There's room for the
• 2:02
  Speaker 5: food to get through. But you can't get in here.
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  Speaker 3: I won't come into your part of the house. Have
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  Speaker 3: I ever tried? If you do try, I'll kill you.
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  Speaker 3: This is my house.
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  Speaker 5: The money's mine, too.
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  Speaker 3: You love that money more than.
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  Speaker 6: Anything, don't you?
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  Speaker 3: I gave up marrying to get the money.
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  Speaker 5: Father willed it to me. If I'd never marry, then
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  Speaker 5: you haven't married either because you want the money when
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  Speaker 5: I die, don't you? But my money is going to
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  Speaker 5: someone else.
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  Speaker 3: And you ought to know who.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I know all about that. Aggie, I'll need a
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  Speaker 4: few dollars again. You won't go out of the house,
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  Speaker 4: and I have to bring you things to eat. If
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  Speaker 4: you weren't afraid of what would happen to you, you'd
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  Speaker 4: leave me here to starve, wouldn't you? Aggie, we've lived
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  Speaker 4: in this house together for 25 years, and I've never
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  Speaker 4: failed to bring you your food.
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  Speaker 3: You want my money, that's why. You want this house. Well,
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  Speaker 3: it's mine.
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  Speaker 2: You hear me?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Aggie, won't we ever leave here? Must we live
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  Speaker 3: with this filth all our lives? Are we going to
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  Speaker 3: die among the boxes and barrels and rags and papers?
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  Speaker 3: I like the house the way it is. It's safe.
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  Speaker 3: It's dirty and.
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  Speaker 5: Musty and damp and it smells.
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  Speaker 3: But I like it.
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  Speaker 5: I like it.
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  Speaker 3: And I hate you.
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  Speaker 6: Now go away.
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  Speaker 4: Go away!
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  Speaker 5: And don't ever talk to me.
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  Speaker 3: Go away!
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  Speaker 4: I'll bring you some food again day after tomorrow. Keep well,
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  Speaker 4: dear sister.
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  Speaker 7: And now on to Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy
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  Speaker 7: to those who make him an enemy. Friend to those
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  Speaker 7: who have no friend.
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  Speaker 8: I realize I'm a complete stranger to you, Blackie, but
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure you're familiar with the house I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 9: I certainly am. What did you say your name was? Oh, yes, Crane. Well, Mrs. Crane,
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  Speaker 9: I think the Rogers mansion is one of the most
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  Speaker 9: famous eyesores in the city. You say you heard one
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  Speaker 9: of the sisters moaning this afternoon?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Blackie.
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  Speaker 8: I was coming home from the grocery store. Oh, it
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  Speaker 8: was loud moaning, too, because, you know, the windows are
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  Speaker 8: boarded up, but I could still hear it.
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  Speaker 3: It was eerie.
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  Speaker 9: Well, you shouldn't have come to me, Mrs. Crane. You
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  Speaker 9: should have contacted the police.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: I want nothing to do with the police. Nothing to
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  Speaker 3: do with them.
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  Speaker 8: But I was sure if I came to you, you
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  Speaker 8: might investigate.
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  Speaker 3: You could creep into the house at midnight.
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  Speaker 9: I have no right to break into the Rogers' home
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  Speaker 9: just because you heard one of the sisters moaning, Mrs. Crane.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 9: But I'll do what you should have done. Call the police.
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  Speaker 9: At what time did you hear this moaning?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, about an hour ago. And it was so mysterious.
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  Speaker 9: Well, if one of the sisters is in trouble, I
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  Speaker 9: don't suppose it's too late to help, huh?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, isn't this exciting, Blackie?
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  Speaker 9: Not very. I suppose you don't want me to mention
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  Speaker 9: your name to the police.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I'd rather you didn't. It's more mysterious this way.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, fine.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Faraday speaking.
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  Speaker 9: Hello, Inspector, this is Blackie. Goodbye. Now, wait a minute, Faraday.
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  Speaker 9: This isn't for your department, but I thought you might
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  Speaker 9: want to contact the right one.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 9: There may be trouble in the Rogers mansion.
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  Speaker 6: There may be. There's been trouble in that house for
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  Speaker 6: 25 years. There's been nothing but trouble in there since
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  Speaker 6: those two sisters locked themselves in.
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  Speaker 9: Well, one of them might be in trouble, Faraday. I
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  Speaker 9: happen to know someone heard moaning in the building a
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  Speaker 9: couple of hours ago.
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  Speaker 2: Moaning, huh? Say, maybe one of the old girls is dying.
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  Speaker 9: That's what I think, too. You better contact the emergency
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  Speaker 9: squad and maybe get out there yourself.
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  Speaker 6: Don't tell me what to do.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, I wouldn't think of it. But pick me up
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  Speaker 9: on your way out, will you?
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  Speaker 2: No use, boys. No one's going to answer the door.
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  Speaker 10: I guess we'd better bust the door down, eh, Dugan?
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  Speaker 2: Sure. Bust it down and get sued by the Rogers sisters? No, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: I got a wife and kids at home. I need
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  Speaker 2: my job on the police force.
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  Speaker 10: Well, here comes Faraday from Homicide. Maybe he's got an idea.
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  Speaker 10: How are you, Inspector?
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  Speaker 9: Good.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Dugan.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, who's the lad with you, Inspector? A rookie cop.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Governor.
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  Speaker 9: I'll see you later.
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  Speaker 10: No offense meant, Blackie. You know that.
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  Speaker 2: Say, Blackie, how about you open the door for us?
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  Speaker 2: You're pretty good with locks.
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter? Nobody answering your knock?
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  Speaker 10: No, there doesn't seem to be anybody home, Inspector.
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  Speaker 9: Have you heard any moaning?
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  Speaker 2: No, Blackie, not a sound.
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  Speaker 3: Huh.
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  Speaker 9: Faraday, maybe we'd better force our way in.
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  Speaker 6: Without a warrant?
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  Speaker 9: Well, if I open the door, you can always go
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  Speaker 9: in to investigate. After all, there was moaning in the
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  Speaker 9: house a little while ago.
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  Speaker 6: I know, but.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe if we look the other way, Inspector.
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  Speaker 6: I guess we'd better. All right, boys.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: And look, what's that across the street?
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  Speaker 10: I don't see anything. How can you be so dumb, Dugan?
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  Speaker 9: Maybe it's catching, Faraday.
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  Speaker 6: Shut up, both of you.
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  Speaker 2: Hurry up, Blackie.
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  Speaker 9: Door's open, boys. I trust no one looked because how
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  Speaker 9: I open locks is my secret.
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  Speaker 2: No one looked, Blackie.
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  Speaker 9: It was.
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  Speaker 2: Holy mackerel.
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  Speaker 6: What do you know?
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  Speaker 2: Look at the junk piled up there inside that door.
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  Speaker 6: What is this place? A home or a warehouse?
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  Speaker 10: We can't get through that pile of junk.
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  Speaker 9: I think we can if we crawl. Here's a sort
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  Speaker 9: of a tunnel under the junk. Follow me.
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  Speaker 6: I'll go right behind Blackie, boys. You better leave one
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  Speaker 6: of your men here, Dugan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay. Frank, you stay on guard. You come with me, Carpenter.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, what was that?
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  Speaker 11: I tripped over a wire in here and loosened those boxes.
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  Speaker 9: Must have been a booby trap. Blackie, you heard? Do
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  Speaker 9: I sound it?
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  Speaker 10: No, but it's so dark in here.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Blackie, what did you run into that time?
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  Speaker 10: Sounded like he knocked over a pile of junk.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Blackie! Blackie! Inspector Faraday!
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Inspector!
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  Speaker 10: Holy mackerel, Copter.
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  Speaker 2: Go for hell. Blackie and Inspector sound like they've run
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  Speaker 2: into trouble.
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  Speaker 9: Hey! Can you get out this way, Faraday?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so, Blackie. Brother, what fell on us?
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  Speaker 2: The whole house?
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  Speaker 9: No, but a room full of junk did. Guess I
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  Speaker 9: was knocked out for a while.
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  Speaker 6: I know I was. Where are we now?
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  Speaker 9: Well, out on the other side of the pile of
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  Speaker 9: junk we first crawled under.
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  Speaker 6: Hello?
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, that's Dugan's voice.
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  Speaker 9: Hello? Faraday?
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  Speaker 10: Yes?
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  Speaker 9: You all right?
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  Speaker 3: Blackie, will you?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, we're both all right.
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  Speaker 9: Where are you?
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  Speaker 2: The other side of the house.
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  Speaker 3: We couldn't get through that way after everything fell down.
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  Speaker 6: You find anything where you are?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing but more junk.
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  Speaker 6: Well, keep looking over there. Blackie and I will see
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  Speaker 6: what we can find over here. Meet you later.
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  Speaker 9: Okay. Here's the door, Faraday. Should we try this direction?
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  Speaker 6: Might as well. There's nothing but barrels and boxes on
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  Speaker 6: either side of it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 9: Locked. Turn away, Faraday.
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  Speaker 6: Okay. Brother, you sure made that fast.
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  Speaker 9: It was just a simple door lock. Well, another door.
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  Speaker 9: And lock.
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  Speaker 6: And more junk.
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  Speaker 9: Well, keep looking at the junk.
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  Speaker 6: Look, it's so dark in here, I can hardly see
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  Speaker 6: anything anyway.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, at least we're coming to where it's lighter.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but the junk is getting heavier.
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  Speaker 9: There's another door.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 9: Looks bad, eh? There's a sliding panel in it.
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  Speaker 6: Slide from this side?
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  Speaker 9: No, from the other.
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  Speaker 6: All right, go ahead. I'm not looking.
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  Speaker 9: Well, we've come all the way to one end of
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  Speaker 9: the house, Faraday. There's a window and... Uh-oh. I see
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  Speaker 9: it too, Blackie. She looks dead. She is too, Faraday.
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  Speaker 9: From the blow on the head. There was moaning in here,
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  Speaker 9: that's all.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 6: The woman probably didn't die right away.
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  Speaker 9: I guess that's the boys.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Dugan and Carpenter must be coming this way and
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  Speaker 6: having trouble, too. I wonder which one of the sisters
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  Speaker 6: this is.
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  Speaker 9: This was Aggie, the older one, according to the pictures,
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  Speaker 9: I remember. This is the one who owned all the
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  Speaker 9: property and had all the money.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, the one who never came out of the house. Well,
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  Speaker 6: when we find the other one, what's her name, we'll, uh...
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  Speaker 6: I think her name is Martha, isn't it?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, here comes Dugan. Maybe he's bringing Martha with him.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if he is, our case is closed. This woman
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  Speaker 6: was murdered. Her sister is the only one who could
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  Speaker 6: have killed her.
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  Speaker 3: Holy mackerel.
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  Speaker 12: I've never seen so much junk in one house in
• 10:55
  Speaker 12: all my.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, is that woman dead?
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  Speaker 9: Yes. Did you find the other sister in your part
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  Speaker 9: of the house?
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  Speaker 2: No, but we've been through an awful lot of junk
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  Speaker 2: trying to get here.
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  Speaker 6: The other sister isn't in the house?
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  Speaker 12: Not unless she's about a foot square and hiding in
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  Speaker 12: one of these boxes.
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  Speaker 6: I know why, too. Blackie, coming up here, you said
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  Speaker 6: a woman told you she heard moaning in this house.
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  Speaker 6: Why didn't you bring that woman with you?
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  Speaker 9: Because while I was talking to you on the phone,
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  Speaker 9: she skipped out.
• 11:18
  Speaker 6: Oh, no, she didn't. You didn't bring her with you because.
• 11:21
  Speaker 9: I know what you're thinking. She called herself Vivian Crane,
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  Speaker 9: but I think if we find her, we'll find not
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  Speaker 9: only the missing sister, but this mystery's missing link.
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: Paper, mister?
• 11:39
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that one over here. Okay, paper.
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  Speaker 2: Paper, lady?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, please. All right.
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  Speaker 12: Here they are.
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  Speaker 3: They're all late.
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  Speaker 6: Paper. Hello, son.
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  Speaker 10: Paper, mister?
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  Speaker 6: No. You know what this badge means? Yeah, you're a cop, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 6: Faraday's the name. Are you Robert Perkins?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's me.
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  Speaker 6: I want to talk to you, son.
• 12:00
  Speaker 9: But I haven't done anything.
• 12:01
  Speaker 6: Someone else has. You're just about to benefit from it.
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  Speaker 6: Close up this stand, son.
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  Speaker 10: I can't do that.
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  Speaker 6: One of the Rogers sisters was killed this afternoon. She
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  Speaker 6: left her entire fortune to you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, who is it?
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  Speaker 9: Telegram for Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Perkins.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I thought you were one of those reporters.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sick and tired of talking to newspaper men.
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  Speaker 9: Mrs. Lawrence Perkins?
• 12:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, where's my telegram?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, there isn't one, Mrs. Perkins, but there's my foot
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  Speaker 9: inside the door.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, another report.
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  Speaker 9: No, I'm Boston Blackie.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, get out of here!
• 12:39
  Speaker 9: What? Is it just this minute getting here?
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to answer any questions.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's been asking me questions today, ever since the police
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  Speaker 4: discovered Agatha Rogers' will.
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: You want to know why that Rogers woman left everything
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  Speaker 3: to my son?
• 12:50
  Speaker 9: That's it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, she was in love with my late husband before
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  Speaker 4: I married him. Now will you get out?
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  Speaker 9: If you'll just answer one.
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, now the police.
• 12:59
  Speaker 9: Well, Mr. Faraday.
• 13:01
  Speaker 6: Blackie, do you have to beat me to everything?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I don't have to. I just do. Who's the boy?
• 13:06
  Speaker 10: Mother, this policeman says I've inherited a lot of money.
• 13:09
  Speaker 9: That answers my question.
• 13:10
  Speaker 4: Yes, you have, Roberts. But we're not going to accept it.
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  Speaker 4: I won't let you take money from that crazy old woman.
• 13:15
  Speaker 6: But, Mother, I don't... Now, look, Mrs. Bergens. Martha Rogers
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  Speaker 6: is missing. Do you have any idea where she might
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  Speaker 6: be hiding?
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  Speaker 4: Listen, I'll have you understand we're not in any way
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  Speaker 4: connected with the crazy Rogers women. Never saw either of them.
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: Now, get out of here.
• 13:28
  Speaker 9: That means you, Faraday.
• 13:29
  Speaker 6: And you, too.
• 13:29
  Speaker 9: I see what you mean.
• 13:31
  Speaker 6: Well, we've got no search warrant. Let's go, Blackie.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: Mother, why are you so obvious?
• 13:35
  Speaker 9: Come on, Faraday, let's go.
• 13:36
  Speaker 6: I'm way ahead of you.
• 13:37
  Speaker 9: Goodbye, Mrs. Perkins.
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  Speaker 3: Goodbye, and don't ever come back. Mother, I wish you would.
• 13:42
  Speaker 9: Well, Faraday, I suppose you know what to do next.
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  Speaker 6: Of course, sure I do.
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  Speaker 9: What?
• 14:00
  Speaker 7: And now, back to Boston Blackie. Aggie and Martha Rogers
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  Speaker 7: are two recluse sisters who have lived alone in a
• 14:13
  Speaker 7: junk-filled house for 25 years. A woman who calls herself
• 14:18
  Speaker 7: Vivian Crane goes to Boston Blackie and claims she heard
• 14:21
  Speaker 7: moans in the house one day. Blackie and the police
• 14:25
  Speaker 7: break into the house to find Aggie Rogers dead.
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  Speaker 9: Killed by a blow on the head. But Martha Rogers
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  Speaker 9: is missing.
• 14:34
  Speaker 7: In her will, Aggie Rogers left the entire family fortune
• 14:37
  Speaker 7: to Robert Perkins, a newsboy. But Robert's widowed mother says
• 14:41
  Speaker 7: she wants no part of the money. As we return
• 14:45
  Speaker 7: to our story, two detectives are on the Sea Island
• 14:47
  Speaker 7: Ferry looking for the missing Martha.
• 14:55
  Speaker 12: Yeah, they're going to search the Rogers' home we busted
• 14:57
  Speaker 12: into yesterday, Carpenter. You think they'll find the missing sister?
• 15:00
  Speaker 13: I wish they would, Dugan, or I'm going to get
• 15:02
  Speaker 13: picked up for staring at middle-aged women. We've been riding
• 15:06
  Speaker 13: this ferry for hours, and I've been eyeing them all day.
• 15:09
  Speaker 10: Fine job for a couple of cops.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 15:12
  Speaker 12: Yeah, we would have to be looking for a dame
• 15:13
  Speaker 12: in her 50s, wouldn't we? Holy mackerel, why couldn't.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: Martha Rogers be 19?
• 15:18
  Speaker 10: I know what you mean.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Holy mackerel, Copner, look. There's a dame starting to jump
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: off the ferry.
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: Let's get her.
• 15:25
  Speaker 10: Hey, I know it's her looking down at the water.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then up at us.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's grab her, quick.
• 15:29
  Speaker 6: Oh, no, lady. Oh, no, you don't. Come on.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: Holy mackerel, Carpenter. We're going to be too late.
• 15:34
  Speaker 10: Oh, no, we're not.
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: Get up.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: I've got you, lady.
• 15:37
  Speaker 6: Go on.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: I'll give you a hand, Carpenter.
• 15:40
  Speaker 9: It's okay.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: I got it.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Let me jump.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: You know right. Holy mackerel, Carpenter. You know who this is?
• 15:46
  Speaker 10: I got an idea. She's Martha Rogers. Now will you
• 15:49
  Speaker 10: stop struggling if I let you.
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: Go, lady?
• 15:51
  Speaker 9: Oh, yes.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Yes, I might as well now.
• 15:56
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: What makes you say you might as well, lady?
• 15:59
  Speaker 8: Oh, because you know who I am and the police
• 16:02
  Speaker 8: are looking for me. I called myself Vivian Crane, but
• 16:06
  Speaker 8: I'm really Martha Rogers.
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: You killed your sister, didn't you, Miss Rogers?
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: No, no, I didn't, I tell you, I didn't. She
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: was dead when I got home.
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's your story. Dugan, any sign of Blackie yet?
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: No, but I'm watching for him.
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: I want him in my office as soon as he
• 16:31
  Speaker 6: gets here.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: He said he'd be right down when I call him. Good.
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: Now, look, Miss Rogers. Why did you go to Boston
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: Blackie with a story about hearing moans as you passed
• 16:39
  Speaker 6: that house?
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: Oh, because I didn't want to go to the police.
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: I was afraid the police would say.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: I killed her.
• 16:45
  Speaker 6: Well, you did kill her, didn't you?
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: No, I told you.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: I found her dead.
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: Now, what had you been doing before you came home
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: and found her?
• 16:52
  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: I'd been at the grocery. Ask them there. They'll tell
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: you I was there.
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: I don't have to ask them. I checked and I
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: already know you were there. And I know at what time, too.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: I was there at noon. I didn't get home till, well, 1.30
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: or 2.
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: I bought a great many things.
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: Oh, so many.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: And the store was crowded.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Very crowded. Here comes Blackie, Inspector Faraday.
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: Oh, thanks, Dugan. Come on in, Blackie.
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: You found the missing Miss Rogers, I hear.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and I want you to have a look at her.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: Is this the woman who came to you and told
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: you she heard moans in the Rogers' house?
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: That's right, but she called herself Vivian Crane.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, I had to, Blackie. I didn't want to get
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: mixed up with the police.
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so you told me.
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: Blackie, she's got an alibi for the time Maggie Rogers
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: was killed.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Of course I have.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: I've done nothing wrong. It was foolish to.
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: Try and run away, but now I'm rich. You'll have
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: to let me go free. I get all of Aggie's
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: money now.
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: You don't read newspapers, apparently, so you wouldn't know about
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: your sister's will, huh? Faraday, don't release the news that
• 17:54
  Speaker 9: you found, Miss Rogers. And as for you, Miss Rogers,
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: I'm afraid you're due for disappointment and the rest of
• 18:01
  Speaker 9: us are due for a surprise.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: Robert. Yes, sir?
• 18:14
  Speaker 9: This is the room where Aggie Rogers was murdered. You
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: say you've never seen this room before?
• 18:19
  Speaker 11: I've never been in this house before, Blackie. Never even
• 18:22
  Speaker 11: in this neighborhood.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Have I, Martha.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, of course not.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: I don't know why Blackie insisted on bringing you here.
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: Right now, I don't know either, Mrs. Briggins.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Blackie, my son didn't kill that Agatha Rogers.
• 18:33
  Speaker 9: He had a good reason to want her dead. In fact,
• 18:36
  Speaker 9: he had thousands of reasons, all dollars.
• 18:38
  Speaker 11: Blackie, I didn't kill that woman. I never saw her
• 18:40
  Speaker 11: in my life and never even knew about her. And
• 18:43
  Speaker 11: I certainly didn't know she was going to leave me
• 18:44
  Speaker 11: any money.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Blackie, I never told him Aggie was in love with
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: the man I married.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: I didn't want him to know about the Rogers girls
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: or about any of this or anything.
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: Well, he knows all about it now. Let's go into
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: the next room. Be careful where you step, Robert.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 18:59
  Speaker 9: Well, one false step and a barrel of junk falls
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: down on you. This way. from this passageway between these barrels. Careful.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: Don't wander away, Mrs.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: Perkins.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Well, I won't be far. Let's get this over with
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: and go home.
• 19:13
  Speaker 10: And to think people lived in filth like this.
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: Oh, gosh, I did it. Robert, I told you to
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: be careful. Are you all right, Mrs. Perkins?
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, certainly. You can see I'm all right. Oh, Robert,
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: now really, you're so clumsy.
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry. It wasn't his fault, Mrs.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: Perkins.
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: This whole place is booby-trapped. But let's keep moving.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Ridiculous women they must have been to have a house
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: littered with junk like this. Blackie, let's get.
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: Out of here.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: We'll get out, Mother, but I can't get through this.
• 19:48
  Speaker 9: Stuff, too. Oh! Just another booby trap. I stepped on
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: that one.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Oh, my, Mother.
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: Well, we're almost out. It's getting dark. We'd better call
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: this off till tomorrow.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Oh, now must you drag my son through this horrible
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: place again?
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: What were you looking for, Blackie?
• 20:08
  Speaker 9: All I'll tell you, Mrs. Perkins, is that I've found it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 11: Blackie, if Mother and I aren't being held for anything,
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: why have we had to sit in Inspector Faraday's office
• 20:26
  Speaker 11: for so long?
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: Sorry to inconvenience you, Robert. We're waiting for Faraday to
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: bring in a certain woman. Oh, here they are now.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: Come on in, Miss Rogers. Maybe this time you'll talk.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: But I told you everything.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Everything.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: This is Miss Rogers, the missing sister, Blackie?
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: Yes, Mrs. Perkins. But the police withheld the news at
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: my suggestion.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: All right, Blackie. Here's Miss Rogers. Now, what makes you
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: think facing Mrs. Perkins and her son will make a talk?
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: I'm sure what's about to happen will make Miss Rogers talk, Faraday.
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: But I'll have to talk first.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: Well, go ahead, Blabbermouth.
• 20:58
  Speaker 9: Miss Rogers, have you ever seen these people before?
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: No, I haven't.
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: Should I have? Well, this is Mrs. Lawrence Perkins, the
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: woman who married the man your sister Aggie was in
• 21:08
  Speaker 9: love with.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: And this is her son. By the terms of your
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: sister Aggie's will, the entire Rogers' fortune went to Lawrence
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: Perkins at his death through his heir. The boy here
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: is his heir, Robert Perkins.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: You mean my sister left all her money to this boy?
• 21:26
  Speaker 9: All her money and all the Rogers' property. You didn't
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: know that, did you?
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: No, I didn't. I.
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: I didn't.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I thought.
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: You thought that everything would come to you. That's why
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: you killed your sister, didn't you?
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: No, no, I didn't kill her. I mean it.
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: Miss Rogers, there's no question about it. Aggie Rogers was
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: murdered for her money. If you thought the money was
• 21:43
  Speaker 9: coming to you, you had a motive for killing her.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, Blackie, I.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: Let me.
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: Finish and maybe make you feel better, at least for
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: a moment. Robert here says he didn't know the money
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: was coming to him. But he may be lying. Robert.
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir?
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: You had a motive for killing Aggie Rogers, too, you know.
• 22:04
  Speaker 11: But I didn't kill her, Blackie. I'd never been in
• 22:07
  Speaker 11: that house until this afternoon. And I didn't know the
• 22:10
  Speaker 11: money was coming to me.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: He might be telling the truth, Blackie.
• 22:13
  Speaker 9: I think he is, Faraday. And I think Miss Rogers
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: is telling the truth, too. Well, partly, anyhow.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: What? Just whose side are you on?
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: The right side, Faraday. And with Robert and Miss Rogers
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: eliminated as suspects, only Mrs. Perkins is left.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: What? Oh, well, now you're being utterly ridiculous.
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: I'm being utterly logical, Mrs. Perkins. First of all, as
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: Lawrence Perkins' mother, you might have known that he was
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: going to inherit from Aggie Rogers. I.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Well, how could I have known that? Those two women
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: were crazy living in that filthy, cluttered home.
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: Maybe they were crazy, Mrs. Perkins, but one of them
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: was very clever. Clever enough to kill the other and
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: almost get away with it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Well, then don't look at me. Look at that woman there.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: She's Martha Rogers. Oh, I only said that. I'm not
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Martha Rogers.
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: I quite agree with you, Mrs. Crane. You aren't Miss Rogers.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Look, what's going on here? If this woman isn't Miss Rogers,
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: who is?
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: Mrs. Perkins is Martha Rogers, Faraday.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Mrs.
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: Perkins is Miss Rogers, sister of Aggie Rogers, and she's
• 23:17
  Speaker 9: the killer of Aggie Rogers.
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, you have no reason to believe I'm Martha Rogers.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: This is only guesswork.
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: It's awful good guesswork, though. But there's another thing that
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: convinces me that you're Martha Rogers.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: Oh, there is?
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: When I took you and your son through the Rogers' home,
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: who touched off booby traps? I did. Robert did.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: So?
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: So. I knew Robert here hadn't been in the house before.
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: He touched off several booby traps. So did I. But you,
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: Miss Rogers, because you are Miss Rogers, failed to set
• 23:50
  Speaker 9: off a single trap.
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: It is impossible to move around that house without setting
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: off a trap, unless you know your way around. Blackie,
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: I hate to admit it, but I think I've been
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: holding the wrong woman.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you that I'm Mrs. Perkins, widow of Lawrence
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Perkins and this boy's mother.
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: Yes, you are, Mrs. Perkins. But you're also Martha Rogers.
• 24:10
  Speaker 9: But don't worry. Even if you have led a double life,
• 24:14
  Speaker 9: you can be punished only once. Hey, Dugan. Yeah?
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: Remember last night when we were on this same ferry?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Holy mackerel, do I. I'll say I do, Carpenter.
• 24:32
  Speaker 12: That woman tried to jump overboard and then tried to
• 24:34
  Speaker 12: tell us she was Martha Rogers.
• 24:36
  Speaker 10: Smart dame.
• 24:37
  Speaker 13: When she heard Martha Rogers was missing, she got the
• 24:40
  Speaker 13: bright idea that she'd be Martha Rogers and collect her
• 24:43
  Speaker 13: sister's dough.
• 24:43
  Speaker 12: And if you ask me, the smart dame was that
• 24:46
  Speaker 12: real Martha Rogers.
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: Because she killed her sister? Ah, what's smart about that?
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, holy mackerel, it was almost genius. For 25 years,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: she's been known as Mrs. Lawrence Perkins.
• 24:57
  Speaker 12: Nobody knew she was Martha Rogers, too. She never lived
• 24:59
  Speaker 12: in the house with Aggie. Just came three times a
• 25:01
  Speaker 12: week to bring food.
• 25:02
  Speaker 13: Huh?
• 25:04
  Speaker 12: She knew she wasn't getting any dough as Martha Rogers,
• 25:06
  Speaker 12: but as Mrs. Lawrence Perkins, she was getting all the
• 25:08
  Speaker 12: dough through her son. She tried to throw us off
• 25:11
  Speaker 12: by pretending she didn't want the money.
• 25:13
  Speaker 13: Listen, if you ask me, Dugan, the only smart person
• 25:16
  Speaker 13: is Robert Perkins. He didn't do anything but tell the truth,
• 25:19
  Speaker 13: and he got Aggie's dough.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Holy mackerel, that's right.
• 25:23
  Speaker 12: But while we're handing out bouquets, let's toss one to
• 25:25
  Speaker 12: Boston Blackie.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Brother, did he trap that murdering sister?
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: THE END.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: THE END.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: That was Boston Blackie with Aggie Rogers Murder. This is
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Victor Sterling. Until next time, good night.