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The Whistler - "Murder in Haste" (Old Time Radio, 1946) · The Whistler | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: After a violent quarrel with his wealthy wife, Albert Taylor
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  Speaker 1: leaves Florida on a northbound train for New York with
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: a detective watching his every move. His flight grows still
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: more dangerous when he sees an opportunity to exchange identities
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  Speaker 1: with a well-known mystery writer. From CBS Pacific Network and
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  Speaker 1: Signal Oil, this is The Whistler, Murder in Haste, episode 196.
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  Speaker 1: First heard February 25th, 1946. Joseph Kearns, Gerald Moore, and
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  Speaker 1: Elliot Lewis are featured in a script by Eleanor Beeson.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, The Whistler. And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: The Signal Oil program, The Whistler.
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  Speaker 3: That whistle is your signal for the signal oil program,
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  Speaker 3: the whistler.
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  Speaker 4: Whistling I am the whistler. And I know many things,
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  Speaker 4: for I walk by night.
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  Speaker 5: I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of
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  Speaker 5: men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, friends, it's time for The Whistler, rated by Independent Research,
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  Speaker 2: And remember.
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  Speaker 3: big yellow and black circle sign that identifies those popular
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  Speaker 3: signal service stations in seven western states from Canada to Mexico.
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  Speaker 3: And now, the Whistler's strange story, Murder in Haste. Albert
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  Speaker 3: Taylor was two people.
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  Speaker 5: To the Cafe Society crowd in Miami, he was the
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  Speaker 5: charming young husband of a silver fortune from Denver, aged 45,
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  Speaker 5: amply mature, and a little crotchety.
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  Speaker 4: To his wife, Helen, the silver fortune, he was something
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  Speaker 4: else again.
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  Speaker 5: An unpleasant little boy whose unpleasantness had to be bought
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  Speaker 5: off with $ 100 bills instead of chewing gum.
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  Speaker 4: This made for friction, of course.
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  Speaker 5: After three years of marriage, Helen was heartily sick of
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  Speaker 5: both Elberts and more careful with the $ 100 bills. And Elbert, too,
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  Speaker 5: had reached the saturation point. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 5: the unpleasant little boy was on the verge of a tantrum.
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  Speaker 2: Albert, is that you?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Albert, I'm awfully upset. Oh, what now?
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  Speaker 4: My bracelet, the diamond and emerald one. I put it
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  Speaker 4: in the drawer of my vanity last night after the party.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what about it?
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  Speaker 4: It's gone.
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  Speaker 7: I've questioned the servants and.
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  Speaker 2: They don't... Did you call the police?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean? I told you I'd get money somewhere, Helen.
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  Speaker 2: You took it.
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  Speaker 4: Of course I took it. I see. And what did
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  Speaker 4: you do with it? I sold it, of course. What
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  Speaker 4: did you expect? Think I'm going to sit up and
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  Speaker 4: beg you for every time I need five dollars? Sure,
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  Speaker 4: that's what you want, isn't it? Come on, come all.
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  Speaker 4: Watch Elbert, the trained terrier. Eats, sleeps, walks, talks, thinks
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  Speaker 4: like a human being.
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  Speaker 7: That's enough, Elbert.
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  Speaker 4: You bet it's enough. I'm sick of it. I'm through
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  Speaker 4: being your favorite charity. You don't know how right you are. Well,
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  Speaker 4: what does that mean? It's very simple.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to call the police and tell them you've
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  Speaker 6: stolen my bracelet.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, wait a minute. Don't be ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, wait for me.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, give me that phone.
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  Speaker 2: Let go of my hand.
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  Speaker 4: Why, you nagging, Mr. Disagreeable. Elbert!
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  Speaker 5: Elbert!
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: You want to watch me jump, don't you? You want
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  Speaker 4: to crack the whip and watch me jump.
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  Speaker 6: Elbert, you're hurting me.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Let go, please. I'll hurt you all right. Elbert! I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to shake you until... I'd like to shake you until.
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  Speaker 4: Your teeth fall out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Albert, why don't you do something? Why don't you
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  Speaker 5: go over there to the hearth and help her up?
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  Speaker 5: Or perhaps you're not as dazed as you look standing there.
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  Speaker 4: In the middle of the room.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe even now you realize Helen isn't going to get
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  Speaker 5: up because she struck her temple on the andiron when
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  Speaker 5: you hurled her across the room. Yes, Albert, she's lying
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  Speaker 5: there so very still. Because she's... dead.
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  Speaker 3: With the prologue of tonight's story, Murder in Haste, the
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  Speaker 3: Signal Oil Company brings you another strange story by the Whistler.
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  Speaker 3: touch the starter. You'll notice signal's power again in the
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  Speaker 3: makes you proud. and you'll notice it in the knock-free
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  Speaker 3: breeze up in high. Yes, New Signal gasoline is packed
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  Speaker 3: feel young again. But while you're enjoying this performance, don't
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  Speaker 3: back to every lubrication point on your car and specifies
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  Speaker 3: each part should have for long, trouble-free service.
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  Speaker 2: But they don't even stop there, no sir.
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  Speaker 3: Just to make doubly sure they check each point again,
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  Speaker 3: which is why it's called signal double-check lubrication. That's the
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  Speaker 3: kind of service you want these days when your car
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  Speaker 3: has to last until.
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  Speaker 2: who knows when.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the kind of service you'll get from your
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  Speaker 3: friendly neighborhood signal gas.
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  Speaker 2: plain dealer. And now, back to the whistler.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Albert, for the first time since that awful night
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  Speaker 5: in Miami.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Al, you feel relaxed. It's over now, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: The hound of it. There'll be no more ugly squabbles
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  Speaker 4: over money.
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  Speaker 5: No more fear of the dagger hanging over your head.
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  Speaker 5: They're gone. More jumping through hoops for Helen. Because the
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  Speaker 5: last argument was now. You said final, wasn't it? So
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  Speaker 5: final that Helen lies dead in front of the heart.
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  Speaker 5: A minute later, down on a chair by the sergeant's desk,
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  Speaker 5: you've decided on the only course of action you can
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  Speaker 5: start to tell him the whole impossible.
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  Speaker 4: You leave her in her thing.
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  Speaker 2: And then I.
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  Speaker 5: wandered to the bedroom and locked the door. The servants
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  Speaker 5: in their separate quarters are used to you.
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  Speaker 4: Around the streets all night. Arguments and probably have paid no.
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  Speaker 2: I thought about running away again.
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  Speaker 4: No attention.
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  Speaker 2: And it all seems so, so useless.
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  Speaker 5: Hours and 20 minutes later, you're standing on the observation platform.
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  Speaker 2: So you came into the station and spilled it, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Of the limited express bound for Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you going over there? I've been there.
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  Speaker 4: Found her an hour at Villain Points North.
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  Speaker 2: You did it.
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  Speaker 4: I see.
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  Speaker 2: You made it. Nice night.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you well know that she's not my wife.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we know that, Mr. J. I didn't hear
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  Speaker 2: you come up.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: I said it was a nice night. Yeah, yeah. I
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  Speaker 2: saw you running for the train when we... She was
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  Speaker 2: your assistant in Buenos Aires. What? Pulling out. Just made it,
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  Speaker 2: didn't you? Yeah, it was kind of close, all right.
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  Speaker 2: You say she was shaking you down, huh? You been
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  Speaker 2: in Miami long? Uh, no. What's she have on you? My, my,
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  Speaker 2: my assistant.
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  Speaker 4: No, been fishing off the keys just a week or so.
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  Speaker 6: I see.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, my.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's right, your assistant. Have you, uh... Name's Ricketts.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to know you. I'm, uh, Brown, Richard... Had a
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  Speaker 2: lapse of memory or something, Jameson? the assistant. Brown.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: You going up to New York, Brown?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me, Jameson, what was she threatening to take to
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  Speaker 2: the police? That's right. Well, I, uh... Peace. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I guess I'll be getting in.
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  Speaker 2: But a three-year-old would have known it was a bluff. Sorry, Ricketts.
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  Speaker 2: Good idea. I'll go with you. That's the last thing
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  Speaker 2: in the world she would have done. No, you don't
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  Speaker 2: know her.
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  Speaker 4: She would have done anything.
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  Speaker 2: Not if it meant her... Heck, pal. Huh?
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  Speaker 4: You knew it the minute he opened his mouth.
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  Speaker 2: You have got a bum memory, Jameson. It was all
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  Speaker 2: over Bonazeri six months ago. She's wanted down there. For murder.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't you, Albert? Ricketts is a plainclothes cop.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 5: And there can be only one reason why he's so
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  Speaker 5: interested in you. He's right behind.
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  Speaker 5: As you walk back through the train to your seat.
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  Speaker 5: And you're wondering if he'll sit beside.
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  Speaker 5: When you stop there. Then when you're ten feet from it,
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  Speaker 5: it hits you. You realize why he's following you. Your
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  Speaker 5: luggage with your initial....
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  Speaker 7: E.T.
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  Speaker 5: On it is in the baggage rack over the seat,
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  Speaker 5: and Ricketts is just waiting. Next Monday at 9 o'clock,
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  Speaker 5: the Whistler will call you to stop there.
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  Speaker 4: You hold your.
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  Speaker 3: Breath and keep on. Whistler will bring you another strange tale.
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  Speaker 3: The Whistler is broadcast for going.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Brown? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't this your entertainment by the marketers of Signalgate? Why, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: I have a compartment up ahead. gasoline and motor oil,
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  Speaker 3: and fine quality automotive accessories.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I see. Well, good night, Brown.
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  Speaker 4: Good night.
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  Speaker 3: And by your neighborhood signal dealer. This program produced by
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  Speaker 3: George W. Allen with tonight's story by Eleanor Beeson, music
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  Speaker 5: There's only one place to go, the club car and
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  Speaker 5: the bar, where you can sit for a minute and think.
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  Speaker 4: Manhattan.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, is this your magazine.
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  Speaker 2: Here, sir? That whistle.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no. May I look at it? Sure. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You going to New York? Yes. Yellow and black circle signs.
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  Speaker 2: those popular signal oil stations. A lot of snow and
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  Speaker 2: all that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: In seven western states from Canada to Mexico. This is CBS,
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  Speaker 3: the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose so. You know, I'm as excited as a kid.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't seen snow... Oh, for an age. Matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't set foot in America for, well, five years. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's great to be back. I get a kick out
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  Speaker 2: of just talking to Americans again. Yeah, yeah. I was
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  Speaker 2: sitting in my compartment a few minutes ago. You have
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  Speaker 2: a compartment? Oh, yeah, yeah. A couple of cars ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, wow. My name's Brown, Mr... Jameson. Leslie Jameson.
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  Speaker 2: Jameson?
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute, you're not the mystery writer.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I am, yes. Here you are, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Drum and hand.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, here's to you, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter? Oh, nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Say, Jameson, why don't we go to your compartment?
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  Speaker 2: Be quieter there.
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  Speaker 4: We could have the drinks sent in.
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  Speaker 2: Why, of course, if you'd like.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Albert, the compartment would be quieter.
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  Speaker 5: And you'd feel a little more comfortable, particularly since you
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  Speaker 5: noticed your friend Mr. Ricketts stroll into the bar and
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  Speaker 5: sit down, still hunting for the occupant of your seat.
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  Speaker 4: No doubt. Mr. Jameson finds the compartment pleasanter, too.
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  Speaker 2: Well, a man can't stay forever in Buenos Aires and
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  Speaker 2: continue to write for the American public. Has to keep
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  Speaker 2: in touch, you know. Don't you think so?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, of course. So you say you left Buenos Aires, huh? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: planned to anyway, but made it a little earlier on
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  Speaker 2: account of that nasty business with my assistant. Ah, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I see. Oh, I'll probably go back in a year
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  Speaker 2: or so. Did you ever read anything of mine, Brown?
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  Speaker 4: I can't say I've done much reading in the detective storyline.
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  Speaker 4: You have a serial running in one of the magazines
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  Speaker 4: right now, haven't you?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Murder in Haste. I don't suppose you're reading it. No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: If I'd known I was going to meet the author,
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  Speaker 4: I'd have boned up on it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, don't apologize, Brown. Well... How about a nightcap before
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  Speaker 2: we turn in, eh? Oh, it's early yet, Jameson.
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  Speaker 4: Surely you're not going to give up the ship so soon.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've got to confess I'm a little bush. I've
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  Speaker 2: been rattling on like a magpie all evening. There. There
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: you are. Oh, thanks. Wow, that's beautiful brandy. None better. Well, Brown,
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  Speaker 2: what do we drink to? Oh, I have it to crime, Brown.
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  Speaker 2: Mighty profitable business, for me at least. Yeah, here's to crime.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's odd. Murder is my business, and yet
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  Speaker 2: I've never in my life seen a murdered man. A fact? No.
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  Speaker 2: Never been in a police court. Hardly ever known a policeman.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really sort of a phony when you get right
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  Speaker 2: down to it. Well, Brown, it's been great talking to you,
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  Speaker 2: but I... Tell me more about your agent. You were
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: saying you've never met him personally? Oh, Farrell. He's a
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: great agent. I've often wondered what he looks like. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: I think he must be a magician with a long beard,
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  Speaker 2: the way he pulls royalties out of a hat. Sold
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  Speaker 2: my leading character to a radio series.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: You've never even been to New York?
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  Speaker 2: Never. Probably the only man in the business who can
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  Speaker 2: say that. Well, Brown, it's close to midnight and I.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Jameson, what about this serial you're running? Maybe you
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  Speaker 4: could bring me up to date on it and I.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you about it tomorrow, Brown. Right now, I'm
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  Speaker 2: awfully tired. Oh, it's early yet. Now, see here, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be rude, but I'll have to ask
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  Speaker 2: you to... Good Lord, what's that? They're trying to stop us.
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  Speaker 2: Stop the train.
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  Speaker 9: Back up!
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  Speaker 5: An open switch, a signal down, and the southbound local
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  Speaker 5: is suddenly there on the same track without warning.
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  Speaker 4: It's over in a split second. And then you open
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  Speaker 4: your eyes, Albert.
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  Speaker 5: You're all right, miraculously safe in the tangled network of
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  Speaker 5: steel and splintered wood that used to be a Pullman car.
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  Speaker 4: And there's Leslie Jameson. He wasn't so lucky, Albert.
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  Speaker 5: There's nothing you can do for him now. The other
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  Speaker 5: end of the coach is in flames and they're moving
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  Speaker 5: toward you.
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  Speaker 2: Finally, you managed to get out. I've got to get out.
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  Speaker 4: Through this window. Watch this glass.
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  Speaker 2: Here, let me help you. Give me your hand.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thanks. You all right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a little dizzy. Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's you, Mr. Brown. Oh, rickets.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're lucky.
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  Speaker 2: This coach got it worst of all.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Look at that fire. Yeah, got out just in time. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: that fellow you were drinking with at the bar went
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  Speaker 4: to your compartment with you. He's still in there?
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  Speaker 5: My compartment?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty sure he's Albert E. Taylor. Murdered his wife in Miami.
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  Speaker 2: Is he still there? No.
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  Speaker 4: No, he left a few minutes before the crash.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you better get on ahead, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Brown.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to get my hand here. Can you make
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: it up to the crossing?
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  Speaker 4: There's a highway restaurant up there.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, sure. I'm okay.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Brown. Take it easy.
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  Speaker 4: Farewell.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Albert, you stand there dazed for a minute, watching
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  Speaker 5: the fire move closer.
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  Speaker 4: Then you decide to take a chance.
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  Speaker 5: Crawl back to Leslie Jameson's body, take his wallet, his
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  Speaker 5: ring and watch, exchange them for your ring and watch, engraved,
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  Speaker 5: to Albert with all my love, Helen.
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  Speaker 4: Then as the flames.
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  Speaker 5: Move close, you find his briefcase and bag and crawl
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  Speaker 5: out with him. Ten minutes later, you stagger into the
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  Speaker 5: highway restaurant at the grade crossing.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Say, uh, I wonder if you fellas can help me. Hurt, mister?
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: We got the doc in the back room. Come on.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: No, no, no. I'm all right. I just want to
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: get out of here. I thought I could hire a
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: car or get a bus to New York.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: You were in the wreck? Yeah.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Say, I'm the AP correspondent here.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Could you give me your name?
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: I'm Leslie Jameson. Leslie Jameson. Say.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Aren't you the fellow who writes those murder mysteries?
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: Well, if that ain't a coincidence, Frank. Only last night
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: you and me made that bet. Yeah, yeah, and now
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: we can settle it once and for all.
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we was betting which one would turn out to
• 19:03
  Speaker 8: be the murderer in that serial you're running in a post.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, that's very flattering. Now, I wonder if you
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: could help me about the bus.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Say, Mr.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Jameson, could you give us an advance tip on the murderer?
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, then we won't have to wait for the magazine
• 19:14
  Speaker 8: to come out tomorrow.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Who was it, Mr. Jameson?
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: Who?
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think that would be... Give me a
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: fast cup of coffee, will you?
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, Ricketts. Oh.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Pretty rough out there. Three cars gone. What are you
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: guys standing around here for? You been out there and
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: looked at it? Well, I gotta stand by the car.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: I'm a reporter, pal, and I'm getting a story. Or
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I was until you... How do you feel, Brown?
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: Brown?
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: That's Leslie Jamison, the writer. Huh?
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I thought your name was Brown. Well, of course I... Well,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: you know how it is.
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: Here's your coffee.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Thanks. No, Mr. Brown, I don't know how it is.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: How is it? Leslie Jamison.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: famous mystery story writer.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Traveling, incognito. Well, you see, Ricketts, I didn't want to... Oh,
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: We've been reading Mr. Jameson's serial in the post, Murder
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: in Haste. Had a little bet with Frank here on
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: who the murderer was. Oh, I can tell you that.
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: I read the last installment last night.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Sure. Got it at a newsstand in Miami. Well,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: we ain't got it here yet. Well, Mr. Jameson, whodunit.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't want to spoil the story for you.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: You ought to finish.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Afraid we won't buy another copy of the magazine? Yeah, yeah,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: come on, Jameson. Well, it's a matter of ethics.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: A writer.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: What do you mean, ethics?
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: I know how it ends. Sure, Jameson. I can tell
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: the boys I got it straight from the author's mouth.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Come on, now, what goes? Well, I don't want to...
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I got you a car, Lieutenant. Oh, good.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: I'll be right with you. Hey, you guys know anyone
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: who wants to go to New York? I got a
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: car and I want someone to.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Share the driving.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Well, Jameson.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Sure, you said you were going.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: To New York, didn't you, Jameson?
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Well, as a matter of fact... Well, you can come
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: with me, huh? Give me a hand with the driving.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, but first, give him a break. Tell him who
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: the murderer was. Oh, no, I'm sorry. It's against my principles.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Well, it's your business. Come on.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Hey, it was the old lady did it. You got
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: hotel space in New York, Jameson? No, not yet. I
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: thought I'd arrange that when I arrived. You haven't been
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: around much lately, I see. Probably isn't a room to
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: be had.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: That bad? Worse. Well, I think I might be able
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: to fix you up at the Midtown. I know the
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: manager there.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, I couldn't possibly.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, forget it, Jameson. Glad to help you out. Can
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: you fix him up, Walter? Oh, I think so. Just
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: sign the register, Mr... Jameson. Leslie Jameson, the writer. Well,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: why didn't you say so?
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Look, I don't want to put you out.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, nonsense.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: We're honored, Mr. Jameson. I'm a mystery fan myself.
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: I want to tell you that murder and haste has
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: me fooled right up to the last page.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, Peters. Yes, sir?
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: This is Mr. Leslie Jameson.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Now, get the boys over. I want to take a
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: few pictures. Pictures? No, no, no. Wait a minute. I
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: don't want any pictures. Oh, nothing to it, Mr.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: Jameson.
• 22:09
  Speaker 8: Just a couple of the boys from the Star Express.
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: I know you're tired, but it won't take long.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: And, Peters.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: Have some flowers sent up to Mr. Jameson's room. We'll
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: have the pictures taken there. Peters is our press agent, Mr.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Jameson. He'll take care of you.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Oh, certainly will, Mr.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Jameson. Right this way.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Look here, Peters. You look like a reasonable man. I
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: never have my picture taken, and I don't intend to
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: stand for it now. You just don't know New York
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: newspaper photographers, Mr.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Jameson.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: It's much easier if you give in.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: What'll happen if I refuse?
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: You'll find out. And you did find out, didn't you, Albert?
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: You were helpless. There was nothing you could do. They came,
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: they saw, they took pictures.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: and all you could do was rage and try to
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: keep your face covered. And that only made a better
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: story for them.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: They were delighted, Elbert.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: The next day, there are pictures of you in the tabloids...
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: hiding your face under the caption... Leslie Jameson, mystery author...
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: stages publicity scene in room at Midtown Hotel. And to
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: complete the success of your change of identity... The second
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: page of the same paper carries the news that you,
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Albert Taylor, wanted for the murder of his wife in Miami,
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: perished in the train wreck.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: You're all mixed up now, aren't you, Albert?
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: But you almost wish Helen was with you again to
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: make the decisions for you like she used to.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: And then suddenly there's nothing for you to do. The
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: decision is all made.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Yes? Mr. Jameson? Yes?
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Mrs.
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: Jameson is on her way up.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: What? Your wife.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I assumed it would be all right to tell her that.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: Never mind. Hello, Leslie.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, what are you.
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: Maybe I'd better come in.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Well? Well, what? All right, what are you going to
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: do about it?
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: You're an awfully simple sort, aren't you, Mr... Whatever your
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: name is.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: All right, I suppose I am.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: How did you expect to get away with it after
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: all the publicity?
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: All right, where is he? What have you done to him?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Now, wait a minute, Mrs. Jamison.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I can explain.
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: Maybe you'd better.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Your husband was killed in that train wreck in Florida.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: I had reasons for wanting to disappear, so I took
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: his identity.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I never meant to keep it up.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Now, if you'll just... Just what? Now, look, there's nothing
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: we can do for your husband. Now he was killed.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: You believe that, don't you? I don't... Well, I'm going
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: to leave town. All I ask is that you forget
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: you ever saw me.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: I see. What are you going to do?
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: I could go to the police, of course.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute. I can make it worth your while to.
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: Oh, stop simpering. Does anyone know you here in New York? No.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: That's very fortunate. You see, Leslie and I, we didn't
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: get along. As a matter of fact, we'd been separated
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: for some time. He said he was cutting me out
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: of his will. So, with Leslie dead, I don't get
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: anything at all. But with Leslie alive.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Wait a minute.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: You wouldn't... Why not?
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: He could retire right now and live off his royalties
• 25:31
  Speaker 7: without doing another lick.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: You want me to keep this up? Of course. Don't
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: be ridiculous.
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: There are a dozen reasons why I can't. They'll discover it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: In a week.
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: You have his baggage.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: And I know his signature. I can imitate it perfectly.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: I know his background like a book. You may as
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: well get.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: Used to it. Mr. Jameson.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: I tell you, I won't do it. It's the most
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: fantastic thing I ever heard of.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: There's a Lieutenant Ricketts down in the lobby. You know,
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: he seemed quite interested in our relationship. Of course, if
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: you like, I'll bring him.
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: Up to date.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: All right, Mrs. Jameson. Oh, darling.
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: Just call me Ruth.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, there's a dear.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Ruth.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Ruth. Yes, what is it?
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: I tell you, this can't go on. You're spending money
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: like a child. $ 28, 000 in three months, besides the deposits
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: I made to your account. Why, we're behind in the rent.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: The maid hasn't been paid. Just look at these bills.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Look at them.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: I haven't got a penny.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: Are you all through? You know, there's your quarterly royalty
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: check due tomorrow.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: That'll only pay part of the bills.
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: It's not paying any of them, darling. It's going into
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: my account.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, I see. Maybe you've got a fast way of
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: getting out from under these bills.
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: That's your worry, dear, not mine.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Five, seven, fourteen, thirty-two.
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: Having trouble?
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: Oh, nothing at all, sweetheart. It's just that my account's
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: overdrawn by $ 500. Of course, you could finish your book, dear.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Finish the book. Write a Leslie Jameson mystery novel.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: Well, then I suppose you'll just have to think of
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: something else.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Ruth, be honest with me.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Actually, how long do you intend to carry on with this?
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: Indefinitely, dear. You know, I know when I have a
• 27:28
  Speaker 7: good thing.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: You mean, then, there's no end?
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: Oh, there is if you want one. There are always
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: the police, of course.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: Will you quit throwing that up to me? You could
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: be decent about it, you know. There could have been
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: plenty without you bleeding.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Me to death.
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: I think I've been pretty fair with you.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Six months now.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: No sleep.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Hounded day and night.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: I can't eat.
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: This isn't getting us anywhere.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to dodge my shadow. I'm getting nowhere. Afraid
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: all the time. This dagger hanging over my head.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: Albert, what's happened to you? Albert, get a hold of yourself.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: No way out, is there?
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: I'm trapped.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: I run into a corner.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: There's no way to turn. Albert, stay away from me.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: There's no way to turn, is there?
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: What are you doing?
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: There's no way to turn.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Albert!
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir? You're... You're the desk sergeant? That's right. What
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: can I do for you? Well, you can take this down. I, uh...
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: What's the matter, pal?
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: I just killed my wife.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: The Whistler will return in just a moment with the
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: strange ending of tonight's story. Meantime, a word about that
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: extra something you get when you have your car serviced
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: at independently operated Signal gasoline stations. I'm talking about that
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: feeling of confidence and well-being you have as you drive out,
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: knowing that your car has been thoroughly and conscientiously taken
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: care of. You see, Signal dealers, being in business for themselves,
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: do go out of their way to give you the
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: kind of job they're proud to stand back up. When
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: they lubricate your car, for instance, here's what signal dealers
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: do to make sure.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Not a single point is overlooked.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Instead of relying on memory, they check each point against
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Signal's lubrication chart, which shows every lubrication point on your
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: car and specifies which of Signal's nine specialized oils and
• 29:37
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• 29:42
  Speaker 2: But they don't even stop there, no sir.
• 29:45
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• 29:48
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• 29:52
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• 29:55
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• 29:59
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• 30:02
  Speaker 3: gasoline dealer.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: And now, back to the whistler.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: Well, Albert, for the first time since that awful night
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: in Miami, you feel relaxed. It's over now, isn't it?
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: The hounding, the fear, the dagger hanging over your head.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: They're gone now. You sit down in a chair by
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: the sergeant's desk and start to tell him the whole thing.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: And then I wandered around the streets all night. I
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: thought about running away again. And then it all seemed
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: so useless.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: So you came into the station and spilled it, huh? Yeah.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Aren't you going over there? I've been there. Found her
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: an hour after you did it. You may as well
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: know that she's not my wife. Yeah, yeah, we know that, Mr. Jameson.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: She was your assistant in Buenos Aires. What? You say
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: she was shaking you down, huh? What'd she have on you?
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: My assistant. Oh, that's right, your assistant. Have you had
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: a lapse of memory or something, Jameson? My assistant? Yes,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I have. Tell me, Jameson, what was she threatening to
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: take to the police? Okay, but a three-year-old would have
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: known it was a bluff. That's the last thing in
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: the world she would have done. No, you don't know her.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: She would have done anything.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Not if it meant her neck, pal. Huh? You have
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: got a bum memory, Jameson. It was all over Bonazeri
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: six months ago. She's wanted down there for murder.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Next Monday at 9 o'clock, The Whistler will bring you
• 32:14
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• 32:27
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• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Our visit with the Whistler's murder in haste is complete.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Good night, and thank you for joining us.