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Broadway Is My Beat - "The Ted Forstek and Ruth Ballard Murder Case" (1950) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Ruth Ballard is murdered and Ted Forcedeck is critically wounded
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: in a shooting inside a parked car. From there, Lieutenant
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Danny Clover and his fellow detectives follow the early clues
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: toward a cleaner and the cleaner's girlfriend. On June ninth,
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty, CBS presented episode thirty eight of Broadway Is
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: My Beat, the Ted Forcedeck and Ruth Ballard murder case.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Larry Thor stars as Clover, with Charles Calvert, Jack Crushan
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  Speaker 1: Babe Bernatrette, Jerry Hausner, Lou Merrill, Lillian Bayef, and Anthony Barrett.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Elliot Lewis produced and directed with music by Alexander Courage.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the original broadcast Broadway My Beat from Times
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  Speaker 1: Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: lonesomest mile in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Broadways My Beats with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
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  Speaker 1: The sound that eddies upward from Broadway is the sound
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: of shock, the thing composed of laughter, trumpet, the clack
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  Speaker 1: of heels, a cry from the lonely bed. You stand
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: at the window at the police headquarters, waiting for some
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: part of it to touch.
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  Speaker 3: You, and in one way or another it does.
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  Speaker 1: The frightened voice through a phone, the impersonal alarm of
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  Speaker 1: a teletype, or a tired officer walks into your office,
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  Speaker 1: tugs at your sleeve, gives you a message. Shooting on
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  Speaker 1: the Manhattan side of the George Washington Bridge. It says,
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  Speaker 1: take the last side road on your right. Before you
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: get there, Officer Murray will meet the siren on your
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: squad car spills into the empty pockets of the night,
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  Speaker 1: builds them with its own brand of shock.
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  Speaker 3: You're there, an officer of Murray meets you this way, Denny,
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  Speaker 3: that car parked over there. What happened?
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  Speaker 4: Boy and a girl?
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  Speaker 3: You'll see him? How bad? I'm not duck, Danny ambulance
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  Speaker 3: on its way, lost a lot of blood when I
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: found him. The car was opened, the boy's position like
• 2:25
  Speaker 3: he was trying to get out of the car. What
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  Speaker 3: about the girl? Four shots from up pretty close looks
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  Speaker 3: like dead motive. Like I said, I'm not a duck,
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  Speaker 3: but it wasn't robbery. Here wallets from both with just
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  Speaker 3: the amount of money. You'd expect neatly dressed kids like
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  Speaker 3: that to have identification too.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see the boy's name Ted forstek girls Ruth Ballard.
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  Speaker 1: Both kids off just touching twenty.
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  Speaker 3: There's something else, Danny, other side of the road. Come
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  Speaker 3: on imbody picked a nice secluded place for killing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this road's blocked off, dammy, but kids slip around wooden roadblocks.
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  Speaker 3: It makes it a lover's lane, makes it more thrilling.
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  Speaker 1: Here look see huh it looks like somebody made a
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  Speaker 1: U turn in an awful hurry.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, now tear rereads. I guess model a smack the
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  Speaker 3: trees and paint scraped of Oh comes the ambulance, Thenny.
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  Speaker 1: Then to the whispered, muffled sounds of the knight in
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  Speaker 1: the river is added the furied lament of the siren
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  Speaker 1: and the attendants of the dead and the dying. And
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  Speaker 1: there they lift the boy gently carry him to the
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  Speaker 1: waiting ambulance, then the girl.
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  Speaker 3: There's less need to be gentle.
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  Speaker 1: They close the doors, and the boy and girl belong
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  Speaker 1: to them, to the attendance of death, And for a
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  Speaker 1: fragment of an instant there's silence. Then the night returns
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  Speaker 1: to fury. At headquarters, you make your initial report. You
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  Speaker 1: leave orders to trace a car that left tire marks
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  Speaker 1: and paint scrapings across the road from the scene of death.
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  Speaker 1: You look for duties that will delay you, and there
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  Speaker 1: are none. And you know you must go to an
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  Speaker 1: address and tell whoever is there, that a girl has
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  Speaker 1: been murdered.
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  Speaker 3: A man is there?
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  Speaker 1: A man who has been watching the fights on television,
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  Speaker 1: drinking a glass of bears.
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  Speaker 3: Just a woe, mister Clover. I'll turn the sound down, eh,
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  Speaker 3: and we could still see the picture. We won't be interrupted.
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  Speaker 5: You enjoyed the fights, missus Clover.
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  Speaker 3: Ruth Ballard? Is she Ruth? Ruth is my daughter, mister Clover.
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  Speaker 5: Why are you here because of Ruth?
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  Speaker 3: Ruth's mother, mister Bellar, maybe she should be here too.
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  Speaker 3: Ruth's mother is dead.
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  Speaker 6: She died three years ago. What about Ruth, mister Clover.
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  Speaker 6: Something wrong? She'd been in an accident. Please, mister Clover,
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  Speaker 6: don't just stand there.
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  Speaker 3: What is it?
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  Speaker 6: Why you're here, mister Ballad, It's something's happening Ruth, hasn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Tell me I have a right to know Ruth is dead,
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  Speaker 1: mister bell I don't know other way to say it.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Ballant, there's.
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  Speaker 5: Nope, It's all right, mister Clover. It's all right. You
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  Speaker 5: have to do things. I understand.
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  Speaker 1: How Ruth how we found her in a car, shot murdered,
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  Speaker 1: mister Bellot in Ted's car, Ted forsta. Yes, the boy
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  Speaker 1: give me a shot too, But he's alive, unconscious, but alive.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad for Ted. He's a good boy.
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  Speaker 3: You knew him, mister Ballan.
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  Speaker 6: Only when it came to take Ruth out, we talk
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  Speaker 6: a little about the fights.
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  Speaker 5: Had off from a beer, and then Ruth to be
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  Speaker 5: all dressed, they go out.
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  Speaker 6: I'd wait up for Ruth because I don't get much
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  Speaker 6: chance to talk to her.
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  Speaker 5: I work all day, so I wait up for her.
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  Speaker 5: I was doing that tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Her other friends, mister Ballot, who were they?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I know very little of how Ruth lived when I
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  Speaker 6: was away from her. It's hard, mister Clover, to be
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  Speaker 6: a father, take.
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  Speaker 5: Care of a girl properly, to buy her clothes, food,
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  Speaker 5: naked so she couldn't hold her head up among her friends.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't do so good, did I, mister Clover.
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  Speaker 3: No good, mister Ballad.
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  Speaker 6: You know something, mister Clover. Ruth wasn't really my daughter.
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  Speaker 6: She was a stepdaughter. I adopted her because I loved
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  Speaker 6: her mother. Then I loved Ruth like she was my
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  Speaker 6: own flesh blood. Now it's my fault. I should have
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  Speaker 6: taken her away where a child can live decently.
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  Speaker 3: It's all my fault, mister Ballad. If I can help
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  Speaker 3: me somewhere, thank you. Just go away, mister, just go.
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  Speaker 1: You leave quietly, because the words are never there to
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  Speaker 1: touch a bow down heart. It's almost midnight, but you
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  Speaker 1: have another called. The address is on Amsterdam Avenue, the
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  Speaker 1: address and the wounded boys. Woman in front of it
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  Speaker 1: is a store stationary candy and cigarettes. A feeling guilt says,
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  Speaker 1: walk in and face the lady and the man, who
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: are not ready to close for the knight.
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  Speaker 7: Phony is right over there in back of candy counter.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps the mister wants to buy something, and perhaps he
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  Speaker 3: doesn't this time.
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  Speaker 7: Of night, you know, Michael, this time of night is
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  Speaker 7: always too useful.
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  Speaker 3: No, I need to buy something. Anna from the police.
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  Speaker 7: Yesterday we had sent money for license to sell cigarettes.
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  Speaker 7: Check check is good one please Anna.
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  Speaker 3: The mister said nothing the check Pollice, Danny Clover. You're
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  Speaker 3: mister missus Porstak, So maybe what do you want of us?
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  Speaker 3: Your son? Your son ten?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, and police find he has hit the man,
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  Speaker 7: rob the man.
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  Speaker 3: He's been shot, rob the man and was shot. No,
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  Speaker 3: not like the bad or bad for bad, mister forstac
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  Speaker 3: And he's unconscious.
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  Speaker 1: He's in the hospital Saint Agnes. He's being taken care of.
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  Speaker 7: What happened to Ted.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know exactly. He was parked in a car
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  Speaker 1: with a girl with Ruth Ballard. She was shot to death.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know exactly what happened. Maybe you can help.
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  Speaker 7: A boy of mine his friends hoodlums from God. This
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  Speaker 7: is help I give you.
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  Speaker 3: What about his friends? He belongs to a club as
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  Speaker 3: a young man should for social for context, the Adonis
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  Speaker 3: club is called.
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  Speaker 7: Our Baby living his life all right.
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  Speaker 3: And the girl Ruth Ballan he mentioned her name, I think,
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  Speaker 3: but it was not frequent name.
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  Speaker 7: I am sorry for her, Oh goody name, Oh customer
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  Speaker 7: and not customer Evelyn.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Then I invite him to where I brought a cake
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  Speaker 1: from the party, a whole cake with white frost, and
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  Speaker 1: nobody touched the drop.
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  Speaker 3: Neighbor. This woman, mister revel and sherman. She shows all
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  Speaker 3: her puppets to parties. Sometimes she brings something to us
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  Speaker 3: from party. I'm from the bully sherman. What's the matter
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  Speaker 3: with Ti. He's been shot, liar, show me from the police.
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  Speaker 8: Show me.
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  Speaker 1: But he's a baby.
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  Speaker 3: Ted's a little baby. I watched him grow up.
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  Speaker 7: Shot.
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  Speaker 3: You better come with me, all of you, I'll take
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  Speaker 3: you to the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: At the hospital and none told us softly that we
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  Speaker 1: couldn't see the boy. He was still unconscious. Doctor Senski
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  Speaker 1: was with him, had left orders. No one was to
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  Speaker 1: be permitted to disturb him, not even a mister Clover.
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  Speaker 1: We'd have to wait until doctor Sinsky said it was
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  Speaker 1: all right.
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  Speaker 3: So we waited.
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  Speaker 1: Then a nun walked through the dark corridor and ushered
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  Speaker 1: the shadows of night away, and it was daylight.
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  Speaker 3: The city yawned and began its day long scream. We waited,
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  Speaker 3: and then a voice whispered to me that there was
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  Speaker 3: a phone.
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  Speaker 1: Call for Lieutenant Clover in the office this way.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Sister Danny Clover speaking.
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  Speaker 9: Danny, This is Sergeant g You know how's the boy?
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  Speaker 3: He's not out of it, Jen, What do you want
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  Speaker 3: to take men?
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  Speaker 9: We traced the car, Danny. That card left the springerprints
• 10:10
  Speaker 9: at the scene of the crime. We tracked it down, Danny,
• 10:12
  Speaker 9: where is it? It is a delivery fuck in the
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  Speaker 9: alley back of Kelbert's Cleaning and Dying Establishment, eighteen forty
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  Speaker 9: five West one and twenty fifth Street, registered to George Kelbert.
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  Speaker 1: On the ball, Danny, Yeah, you can paste a gold
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  Speaker 1: star in your notebook a little gino.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, waiting in a minute, Powell. Oh, he's played at skirts.
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  Speaker 10: They take the life out of them.
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  Speaker 3: Man, he's played at skirts. Make you old before your time?
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  Speaker 3: You are, Calburt, George Kelbert. Yeah, I told you I'd
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  Speaker 3: be waiting in a minute.
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  Speaker 10: Pal Eh, this dollar loved me for the way I
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  Speaker 10: press this skirt.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, big with the ladies, aunt, George. Well, let's put
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  Speaker 3: it this way.
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  Speaker 10: Not one of them has said in her resignation as yet,
• 11:06
  Speaker 10: where were you last night?
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  Speaker 3: George?
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  Speaker 10: You must have a reason to ask me, something personal,
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  Speaker 10: like that you were wounded, husband or something just the policeman, George,
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  Speaker 10: h don't show me your badge. I can tell by
• 11:16
  Speaker 10: your sloppy suit.
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: Where were you last night? George? I don't think you.
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  Speaker 10: Got a right to ask me without you show me
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  Speaker 10: I committed a sin or something.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: I'll do that, George. Where you were where your car
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: was a murder was committed?
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  Speaker 8: You mean up the end of the George Washington Bridge,
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  Speaker 8: a girl was murdered.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't say a girl.
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  Speaker 10: And I wait a minute, I wait a minute. Don't
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  Speaker 10: pin me to the wall. I said a girl. Because
• 11:35
  Speaker 10: up there and that lover's laying. It's known that girls
• 11:38
  Speaker 10: are sometimes killed.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: There were guys who go around doing They were there, Aunt,
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  Speaker 1: George alone, you've.
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  Speaker 10: Got nothing, says I was there. You're trying, policeman. That's
• 11:46
  Speaker 10: all you're doing.
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: Trying.
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  Speaker 1: It was a tire mark off your delivery truck. Your
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: offender scraped on a tree, left paint was the matter
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  Speaker 1: of George. Were you in a hurry to get away?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 10: I wasn't in a hurry. She just wanted another kiss.
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  Speaker 10: She likes to cuddle up and kiss me while I'm driving.
• 12:01
  Speaker 10: This is bound to make me lose a little control, eh, Oh, George,
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  Speaker 10: So once a weeker we date once a week.
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: June Leonard lives in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 8: Some place. You go.
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  Speaker 3: Ask her.
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  Speaker 8: She was with me all the time.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know anything about a murder.
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  Speaker 3: Ask her and fix her so she don't lie. J Leonard.
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  Speaker 3: We'll ask her. While you were up there, George with
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: June Leonard. Did you hear shots? A series of shots?
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  Speaker 10: We heard nothing, nothing at all except each other. That's
• 12:24
  Speaker 10: how it is when you're in love.
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  Speaker 3: You should know, George, Let's go.
• 12:29
  Speaker 10: Go go where What are you talking about?
• 12:31
  Speaker 3: Bucking you for a suspicion of murder?
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  Speaker 8: Are you crazy? You're crazy? You stick a rotten cop.
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: You walk into my place of business and take me away.
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  Speaker 1: You were scared and protesting, and I took him with
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: me at headquarters. I had a thing to do. I
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: called the hospital and told doctor Sinsk I was on
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  Speaker 1: my way down, and doctor Sinsky said, room three h two.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: He'd wait for me by the elevator door. It took
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: ten minutes to get there. Doctor Sinsky was whiting Danny,
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: Doctor Sinsk, how's the boy?
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: Why is it the door? Conversation must always open on
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: the side? Can I see him this way?
• 13:11
  Speaker 8: Danny in here?
• 13:21
  Speaker 6: You know these people, Danny, mister and missus farrestk Miss Sherman.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, doctor at local seemed like my son is
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: lips were moving just as you left the room.
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: Yes, m hm, Danny, what quietly please? They stethoscope on
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: the table.
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  Speaker 3: Huh here.
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  Speaker 5: My son, my son my son, my son, he's dead.
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  Speaker 2: Danny, you are listening to Broadways might be written by
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: Morton Fine and David Freakin and starring Larry Thor as
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: Detective Danny Plover.
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  Speaker 3: In the late summer afternoon.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: Broadway stands on a corner, SIPs its penny plane, and
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  Speaker 1: sums up the day. Some days are better than others.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Some days you break even the horse don't come in,
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: but you don't get fired that day either. You got
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: a plan and you don't get hurt. But take the day. Now,
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: here's a day, demand Joe miracles with bases loaded, the
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: rain makers worked up a due and a boy A
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  Speaker 1: lover died of bullet wounds inflicted by a person a
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: person's unknown, thus holding in final embrace the girl he loved,
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  Speaker 1: the GIRLI was also shot to death.
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  Speaker 3: In lover's lane.
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  Speaker 1: Here's maybe a tragic day, but here is a day
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: or a Sergeantina Tataglia presented it to.
• 15:13
  Speaker 11: Me, Danny, I give you the end of a perfect day.
• 15:16
  Speaker 11: When you come to the.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: En the perfect you're singing again.
• 15:22
  Speaker 11: Oh Danny, Danny, you are like my wife, Like Missus Tataglia,
• 15:26
  Speaker 11: You deny me and yourself the Pleasures of life.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, at poem.
• 15:30
  Speaker 11: Every time I start singing, missus Tataglia turns onto hoover.
• 15:33
  Speaker 11: She says it's the vacuum clean the Tataglia rug. But
• 15:36
  Speaker 11: all the time I think it's because she's jealous in
• 15:39
  Speaker 11: my vocal cords. Well, Danny, what progress have we made?
• 15:44
  Speaker 9: No?
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: You tell me you remember? Oh?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, item the boy Ted Forrest Deck, like a
• 15:51
  Speaker 11: million other kids in our city, too tough, too smart,
• 15:54
  Speaker 11: from a poor family, consorted with others of his type
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  Speaker 11: in a club called the Adonna's Club.
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  Speaker 3: I know the girl.
• 16:00
  Speaker 11: No connection with the Adonnas Club, No close connection with
• 16:03
  Speaker 11: anybody except the stepfather and the boy. From what we
• 16:06
  Speaker 11: can find out, nobody wanted her dead. From what we
• 16:08
  Speaker 11: can find.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: Out, anything else.
• 16:10
  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, we have picked up June Leonard, that dry
• 16:13
  Speaker 11: cleaning man's girlfriend.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Why didn't you tell me? Where is she?
• 16:16
  Speaker 11: Right outside? Danny?
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: We should I bring her in, Miss Leonard, Miss Lenny,
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: come in?
• 16:28
  Speaker 7: Why was I arrested? Why had I brought here?
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: I never done nothing? Where were you?
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I was home.
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: I was sitting at home listening to the ring, Miss Leonard.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: George Calbert says, you were with him, promised me.
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: All right, So I was with George? Is that wrong
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: to be with a fellow?
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: You risk girls for that? We do. And there's been
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: a murder to murder?
• 16:48
  Speaker 7: You talking about murder? I don't know nothing about a murder.
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: I know? Is I work?
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: I have a little fun on a sudden murder feller?
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Did you know her too?
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  Speaker 2: No?
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: I know he grew up by that name. Please let
• 16:59
  Speaker 7: me go with us.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: I followed Fromia. They find out I got mixed up
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: in that forest. Did you know him?
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: No?
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: I never heard of him. George Colbert? Did he know them?
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: Oh? I know who George knows?
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: I know he thinks.
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: He shows me good time sometimes and ask him no
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: personal question.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Ruth Ballad and Ted Forrestak were shot to death near
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: the George Washington Bridge last night.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: You were there, Joe were? George said you were? How
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: long were you there?
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: An hour? Maybe two hours?
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Did you hear shots while you were up there with George?
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Pistol shot shots from a revolver?
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: No, I didn't hear anything like that.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Can hear anything?
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: Said George, whispering to me.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: George says he heard shots? Why that girl?
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: All right? I heard him. I heard a lot of shots.
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: I got scared. I made George drive us away from
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: the real path because I was scared.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: George is with you all the time.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: Leave me alone.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: Can't you please leave me?
• 17:55
  Speaker 11: Alther Yeah, Danny, Yeah, come with me.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: Miss Levin, come along.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Sergeant to tag me was gentle when he took her away.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Then I made a phone call to the Adonnas club.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: No one was there.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Boys told me try later when everybody would be there
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: at the dance. Daddio, the voice said, starts at ten.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Come one, Come all, daddy all Daddyo got there at
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: ten thirty to the basement clubhouse on Third Avenue. Got
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: pointed out the chief Adonnas. A youth who leaned against
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: the barn was having fun looking at the dancers through
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: a beer bottle held by like a telescope.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: I ruined it for him. You're in the way, Buster,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I want to talk to you. Huh Hi, what's your
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: big need? Buster from the police?
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: Huh Or make me think so you're hiding you buzzer
• 18:51
  Speaker 8: under the Lapellomi.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Look see, I'm Dali Nasi you Danny clover all right,
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: we got no back room here. That's what about Ted
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Forrest tag he was a member here a cob and apprentice.
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: Who are breaking him in?
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: You're celebrating his memory with us dance.
• 19:08
  Speaker 8: No, no life goes on.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: The book says the dance was scheduled before Ted's dying.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Was for Ted. Who killed them? Dolly? Who'll kill them?
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Mister Cloe?
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: Look, Dolly, what do you want me to say? Mister Klove, I.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Don't know who killed him? I know Forrest that's up
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: like God's with him, hoisted a glass with him, exchange
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: phone numbers with him. That's the thick and thin I
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: went through with him. So now I'll ever talk to him.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: So nothing else. So it was a fortunate boy, mister Clove.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: He's dead, but when he wasn't that way. He was fortunate,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: So let's not pop a tier fortunate girls. He was
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: a boy girls were happy with then. Happy girls are
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: generous girls. One of them was real happy. One of
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: them was real generous. Get a nice things shirts to wear,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: wallet stripped from alligators, money stripped from who knows.
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: Where, expensive watches to make his wrist look pretty?
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: What girl did that?
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: They never said, that's the number.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: We never exchanged.
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: But really expensive stuff mister Klobe, you'd never believe.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Not an idea. Who If I did, I'd take over.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: None of my girls could afford that stuff. I go,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: look at that lord, mister clob, it's still around. I
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: guess you'll see what I mean, mister Forstact, Mister Forstac,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: I was not asleep or chew. Mister Clover, the messenger
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: of death who died today, mister Clover, mister Forster. Look
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: at my little store, mister Clover, Look at how it's
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: covered with dust. I don't take care anymore. All my
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: life I built something, keep it clean, gets covered with dust.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: My boy too, mister Fstact. I came to grief with us,
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: with me, with my wife, Anner. It's hard to understand
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Anna sometimes, mister Clover. Her mouth says to you, she
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: hates our boy. But now he is dead. And Ana
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: lies on our bed and does not speak, does not weep.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Not in the night. She cries out our boy's name.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Thank you, mister Clover. Goodbye your boy's room. Mister Farstak.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: There may be something in it that will help us
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: find Tad's murderer. It will not bring our boy back,
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: will not make him answer his mother's I.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Have to get into that room, mister forstac If not me,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: someone else, But we'll get into it.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: You will be quiet, You will be very quiet. You
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: will not say a word to one.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Where is it in the back? What is left of
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: our life hides in the back famous club, mister. I
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: told you one is not to know you're here. This
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: is Ted's room where they keep his things. What things
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: all over the room and things that belong to my
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: boy and personal things, jewelry, wallet, things like that. Oh
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: here in the reservoir. Here they are, mister Klore, expensive things.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Just watch this walllet of valigator money. Prey get them.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: I do not know. I thought here robbed them. What
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: do you think, mister Fosta?
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: They are rich.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: I never knew things like this. I could not get
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: them for Ted, that could not for himself. What do
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: you think again, mister Foster, I told you I do
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: not know.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: I asked Ed.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I beat him to tell me. I beat him. He
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: could have broken me. He said, it's none of your business,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: old man. I want to take these with me, but
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: you will return the clover before and they are gone,
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: you will return, please, mister Tanks, can I see you
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: for a minute, sure, doctor Senski any time said thank you?
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: What's on your mind? Doctor?
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Nothing except I dropped in here to confirm with standard
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: operating procedure or topsy reports.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: Is you in the mood to listen?
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I think you should? All right? Go ahead, Ruth.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Ballad shot four times.
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: Supplementary reports from ballistics showed the bullets from the same
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: gun that killed the boy four times, Danny, any one
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: of the shots would have killed her instantaneously.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: What else about the girl? Nothing else? And she was
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: killed only because someone wanted her dead.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: Someone wanted her dead, doctor, I know four shots, person
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: and animal fury would have done that from what I
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: can tell, I'd say she was sitting in the car,
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: a person came up to a shutter four times.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: Nothing more than that. Eh. Do you know who did that?
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: Then?
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: A person who was jealous of her, A person who
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: loved Ted Forrester, the person who gave Ted expensive presents.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Do you know who? Don't make me repeat myself, doctor,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: then who stick around? I'll show the person to you.
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: Yes, Oh it's mister Clover.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Isn't it.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: May I come in, michemon Well, I was just practicing.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: My puppets for a party tomorrow, kitty party.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: May I come in?
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: All right?
• 24:45
  Speaker 11: Come in?
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: What do you want miss Clover?
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: About Ted?
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: Abouty's murderer?
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Maybe?
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: And why are you here?
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Michem, practice your puppets. I'll just look around.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: But I don't see why it would be Go ahead, Sairman, Hey, Sherman.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: What is it?
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: That's a photograph of ten? He gave it to ribbon
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: from a tract me tucked in the frame. He won,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: and he gave it to me. Why should he give
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: them to you? I asked him something, and he gave
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: them to me. These two? Put them down man's gloves,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: tads put them down.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Ed's gloves.
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: If you're through, you can get out.
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: Yet.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: I want to show you something.
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: You've got nothing to show me.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Get out the wallat a wristwatch. You gave them to Tad,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Look at the map.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: Give them to me.
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: You've got no right to trest to.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Ted from you.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Give them to me because you love the boy, really
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: loved him like a woman loves a man.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: All right, Yes, I loved him because he was someone
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: a woman could love and be jealous of.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, but he didn't love you. You're lying. He didn't.
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: That's why he was with Ruth was nothing to him.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: He always came back to me for the rich presence.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: He didn't love me. You're a liar, so you killed
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: the girl, shot.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Her four times in your fury, and ted Why didn't
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: you shoot him because he tried to stop you, because
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: you knew he didn't love you, He didn't love you,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: He didn't have.
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: It is me, I didn't you got the word.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: She stood there in the body, swaying, her fingertips pressed
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: into her cheeks. Then a thing happened. She looked suddenly old.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: The youth she at fled, smmer all at once. She
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: accepted it. Now there was nothing left. She made no protest,
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: and I took her arm and led her through the doors.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Is Broadway, where the people of the Swarm race against
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the fugitive night, each in his own way make time
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: stand still.
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: That's the frank.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: But dawn comes and the gutters are choked with the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: wasted minutes, the infinite man.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Hours of loneliness.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest, milen
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: the world, Broadway.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: My Feet, Broadways, My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Danny Kover with Carls Calvert as Scartaglias. The program
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: was produced and directed by Eliot Lewis. The musical score
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: was composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. Included in tonight's
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: cast were Lelly and Bias, Phe bennaderas Gerry Hausner, Lou Merrill,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Jack Kruschan, and Anthony Barrett. This is the United States
• 29:01
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• 30:28
  Speaker 1: That was Broadway as my Beat, The Ted Forcetek and
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Ruth Ballard Murder Case.
• 30:33
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• 30:34
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