WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:22.520 Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the 00:22.520 --> 00:35.520 lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. 00:35.520 --> 00:50.080 At one o'clock in the morning, night begins to slip out of Broadway's. Broadway stands 00:50.080 --> 00:55.120 bewildered, staring at its empty hands. Solitude whispers its invitation. The derelicts of 00:55.120 --> 00:59.560 night run from it, beat on a door, plead for a refuge from the offered emptiness. But no 00:59.560 --> 01:10.440 door opens to them. At headquarters, you consider it through a grime-stained window. Turn away 01:10.440 --> 01:15.280 from it. Find on your desk a slip of paper that had been there before. Homicide, it says, 01:15.280 --> 01:30.200 Central Park Lake. And Broadway has finally opened a door. The password, the violent dead. 01:30.200 --> 01:34.200 There's the lake and the facade of the city embracing it. There's a shadow covering a 01:34.200 --> 01:39.760 dead girl with its coat, the puny effort to thaw the veil of frost on the girl's path. 01:39.760 --> 01:42.880 Then the shadow riser shakes its head and its mug of it. 01:42.880 --> 01:49.040 I don't know, Danny. Sometimes it's, uh... You know, Danny, I got a nephew, three years 01:49.040 --> 01:52.760 old. He comes here during the daytime to play, to feed the ducks. 01:52.760 --> 01:54.240 Yeah. Who is she? 01:54.240 --> 01:58.160 We don't know. They're dragging the lake now for any identification she might have had 01:58.160 --> 01:59.160 on her. So far, nothing. 01:59.160 --> 02:00.160 Drowned? 02:00.160 --> 02:08.280 Uh-uh. Come here, I'll show you. See? A knife wound. Where it is, it probably killed her 02:08.280 --> 02:10.000 instantly. Then they threw her in the lake. 02:10.000 --> 02:11.000 Who reported it? 02:11.000 --> 02:15.600 A guy and his girl. They were, you know, smooching. They looked up, saw the body floating in the 02:15.600 --> 02:18.040 water. They reported it at the precinct near their house. 02:18.040 --> 02:19.040 Anything? 02:19.040 --> 02:21.920 We questioned them. Why didn't they report it right away? They had an argument about it, 02:21.920 --> 02:25.080 they said. Didn't want to get into a mess, they said. Then the girl said she told her 02:25.080 --> 02:26.920 boyfriend we better report it, so they did. 02:26.920 --> 02:27.920 Who were they? 02:27.920 --> 02:31.960 Smoochers. Nothing else, Danny. We're positive. You made no comment, Danny. 02:31.960 --> 02:32.960 On what? 02:32.960 --> 02:37.600 The way this girl is dressed. The expensive evening gown, the expensive mink fur coat. 02:37.600 --> 02:41.520 I know it's real mink because my wife talks in her sleep about mink like that. 02:41.520 --> 02:42.520 So? 02:42.520 --> 02:49.280 So a lot, Danny. A girl as expensive, as beautiful as this one. Somebody will come asking for 02:49.280 --> 02:53.240 her. It's the least they could do, huh, Danny? 02:53.240 --> 02:59.880 There wasn't anything to say after that. And from far away, across the stillness, the brief 02:59.880 --> 03:05.000 wild sob of a boat whistled. The sudden flurry of wind through naked branches, the quick 03:05.000 --> 03:11.520 small sounds in places where there's no sun. This was the autumn's night pastoral with 03:11.520 --> 03:21.080 death in it. I turned up my caller and walked away from it. 03:21.080 --> 03:25.240 The next morning it was back to headquarters. Received the report that so far nothing had 03:25.240 --> 03:30.080 been found on the bottom of the lake to identify the dead girl. Go downstairs to the place 03:30.080 --> 03:35.120 where it's never daytime, the morgue, the three people waiting there, the quiet audience 03:35.120 --> 03:39.800 sensing the etiquette of stillness, the presence of the dead. 03:39.800 --> 03:44.880 All right, you, the lady over there. Muggerman? 03:44.880 --> 03:45.880 Uh-huh. 03:45.880 --> 03:49.880 We want you to be sure, ma'am. 03:49.880 --> 03:50.880 I'm sure. 03:50.880 --> 03:51.880 Well? 03:51.880 --> 03:53.880 No, it's not my sister. 03:53.880 --> 03:56.400 That way out, ma'am. 03:56.400 --> 03:57.400 Now the gentleman. 03:57.400 --> 03:59.400 My wife was blonde. 03:59.400 --> 04:00.400 Is this your wife? 04:00.400 --> 04:03.400 Take it easy. I haven't seen Aggie in three years. 04:03.400 --> 04:07.480 This girl is five-six, weight 124, approximately 22 years of age. 04:07.480 --> 04:12.480 Aggie's gonna turn up here one of these days. I'll make book on it. She ain't done it yet. 04:12.480 --> 04:13.480 This ain't Aggie. 04:13.480 --> 04:15.600 Through that door over there, please. 04:15.600 --> 04:16.600 You're next, lady. 04:16.600 --> 04:17.600 Rose! Rose! 04:17.600 --> 04:18.600 Hey. 04:18.600 --> 04:19.600 You're Mrs. Hunter. 04:19.600 --> 04:20.600 What have they done to you? 04:20.600 --> 04:21.600 Paslow! 04:21.600 --> 04:22.600 I'm here. 04:22.600 --> 04:23.600 I'm here. 04:23.600 --> 04:24.600 I'm here. 04:24.600 --> 04:25.600 I'm here. 04:25.600 --> 04:26.600 I'm here. 04:26.600 --> 04:27.600 I'm here. 04:27.600 --> 04:28.600 I'm here. 04:28.600 --> 04:29.600 I'm here. 04:29.600 --> 04:30.600 Paslow! 04:30.600 --> 04:31.600 Hey, Paslow! 04:31.600 --> 04:32.600 Yeah? 04:32.600 --> 04:33.600 What do you want? 04:33.600 --> 04:34.600 Why didn't you come home? 04:34.600 --> 04:35.600 Oh, it's her. 04:35.600 --> 04:37.160 Get her out of here, will you? 04:37.160 --> 04:38.160 Yeah, come on, Mrs. Hunter. 04:38.160 --> 04:43.760 If it's so often this happens with Mrs. Hunter, Danny, really identified a daughter here 04:43.760 --> 04:46.680 about five years ago, keeps coming back. 04:46.680 --> 04:48.640 I don't know. 04:48.640 --> 04:50.840 That's all of them, huh? 04:50.840 --> 04:54.040 Lovely young girl, dressed beautifully. 04:54.040 --> 04:57.360 Someone must want to know what's happened to her, where she is. 04:57.360 --> 04:59.320 Someone must know who she is. 04:59.320 --> 05:10.160 Okay, Muggerman, we'll try it another way. 05:10.160 --> 05:12.520 Another way was to check with the men in technical. 05:12.520 --> 05:14.200 Maybe they had something. 05:14.200 --> 05:15.200 They had. 05:15.200 --> 05:19.240 The dress the girl had worn to die in was an exclusive, made exclusively for one woman 05:19.240 --> 05:22.040 in an exclusive shop just off Park Avenue. 05:22.040 --> 05:23.420 The coat, too. 05:23.420 --> 05:27.600 The girl had good taste, they told me, and the money to indulge it and the beauty to 05:27.600 --> 05:28.600 grace it. 05:28.600 --> 05:30.640 Beyond that, all they had was a shrug. 05:30.640 --> 05:33.480 So I packed it, shrug and all, in a cardboard suitcase. 05:33.480 --> 05:38.000 And at the top of it, the portrait of the girl taken in death and closed the cover, 05:38.000 --> 05:47.400 snapped the lock. 05:47.400 --> 05:52.600 At Roderick's Incorporated just off Park Avenue, a man tried to stop me from opening the suitcase. 05:52.600 --> 05:53.920 Maybe I should have been proud. 05:53.920 --> 05:55.560 It was Roderick Incorporated himself. 05:55.560 --> 05:59.360 My good fellow, the hours for salesmen are between nine and 10 in the morning. 05:59.360 --> 06:00.360 They are? 06:00.360 --> 06:01.840 And on Tuesdays and Thursdays of a week. 06:01.840 --> 06:04.040 Now that you've been briefed, you may scurry off. 06:04.040 --> 06:05.900 And take that thing with you. 06:05.900 --> 06:07.440 This could interest you, Roderick. 06:07.440 --> 06:08.440 Why? 06:08.440 --> 06:09.440 Because I'm a policeman. 06:09.440 --> 06:10.440 Don't turn pale, Roderick. 06:10.440 --> 06:12.800 You don't match the color scheme that way. 06:12.800 --> 06:15.000 Whatever would a policeman want with Roderick? 06:15.000 --> 06:16.840 This picture, Roderick. 06:16.840 --> 06:19.440 Look at it. 06:19.440 --> 06:22.880 Stunning girl, but so, so dead. 06:22.880 --> 06:23.880 You know her? 06:23.880 --> 06:24.880 No, no, no. 06:24.880 --> 06:27.560 Oh, but wait, that dress she's wearing, it's mine. 06:27.560 --> 06:29.120 That is, it's a Roderick original. 06:29.120 --> 06:30.680 A Roderick inspiration. 06:30.680 --> 06:32.360 Is it this dress? 06:32.360 --> 06:33.720 Oh, but of course. 06:33.720 --> 06:35.760 And the coat too. 06:35.760 --> 06:37.800 Who else could have molded those lines? 06:37.800 --> 06:38.960 You molded them for this girl? 06:38.960 --> 06:40.960 Oh, no, no, never, never. 06:40.960 --> 06:43.200 Obviously, your dead girl is a thief. 06:43.200 --> 06:46.480 I created these things for Gladys Hampton, the advertising executive. 06:46.480 --> 06:48.960 Surely you've seen her in these things in Harper's. 06:48.960 --> 06:50.240 Where else can I see her? 06:50.240 --> 06:53.520 She has a place on Fifth, a tired mansion. 06:53.520 --> 06:55.360 Kiss her for me when you see her, will you? 06:55.360 --> 07:00.760 Tell her you'd do it for Roderick, eh? 07:00.760 --> 07:13.480 If you don't mind, Mr. Clover, let's get this over as quickly as possible, shall we? 07:13.480 --> 07:15.280 All you have to do is cooperate, Miss Hampton. 07:15.280 --> 07:16.280 Cooperate? 07:16.280 --> 07:17.540 I've just come home from Vermont. 07:17.540 --> 07:19.480 Just this morning, I've got work to do. 07:19.480 --> 07:20.800 Cooperating with police is not on the agenda. 07:20.800 --> 07:23.160 Let me show you something. 07:23.160 --> 07:25.160 These clothes, this coat, this dress. 07:25.160 --> 07:26.160 Where'd you get them? 07:26.160 --> 07:27.160 Have you ever seen them before? 07:27.160 --> 07:28.160 I'll tell you why I have. 07:28.160 --> 07:29.440 I paid a lot of money for them. 07:29.440 --> 07:30.440 They're mine. 07:30.440 --> 07:31.440 What are you doing with them? 07:31.440 --> 07:32.440 Well, look at this. 07:32.440 --> 07:33.440 Go ahead. 07:33.440 --> 07:34.440 Take a look at this picture. 07:34.440 --> 07:35.440 That's Joan. 07:35.440 --> 07:36.440 What's this all about? 07:36.440 --> 07:37.440 Who's Joan? 07:37.440 --> 07:38.440 Joan is Joan. 07:38.440 --> 07:39.440 Joan Fulham, my maid. 07:39.440 --> 07:40.440 What's happened? 07:40.440 --> 07:42.120 Didn't you miss her when you came home today? 07:42.120 --> 07:43.680 No, she didn't know when I was coming back. 07:43.680 --> 07:44.680 What's happened to her? 07:44.680 --> 07:47.080 We found her in Central Park Lake, murdered. 07:47.080 --> 07:50.320 I'm not going to like the publicity about this. 07:50.320 --> 07:52.120 That's how sorry you are. 07:52.120 --> 07:53.840 I don't allow myself those kind of luxuries. 07:53.840 --> 07:54.840 I'm too busy. 07:54.840 --> 07:56.080 Tell me about Joan. 07:56.080 --> 07:59.420 Well, she's worked for me for two years. 07:59.420 --> 08:00.840 She came from Muncie, Indiana. 08:00.840 --> 08:01.840 She was efficient. 08:01.840 --> 08:02.840 She lived here. 08:02.840 --> 08:03.840 I paid her well. 08:03.840 --> 08:04.840 I couldn't tell you more than that. 08:04.840 --> 08:07.040 How is it she was wearing your clothes? 08:07.040 --> 08:10.540 Before I left for the weekend, she said a young man she knew from Muncie was in town. 08:10.540 --> 08:11.800 She wanted to dress well for him. 08:11.800 --> 08:12.800 Would I lend her some clothes? 08:12.800 --> 08:13.800 I would and did. 08:13.800 --> 08:14.800 What young man from Muncie? 08:14.800 --> 08:17.200 How do I know what young man from Muncie? 08:17.200 --> 08:20.600 I suppose Muncie has its share of young men, else eventually there'd be no Muncie. 08:20.600 --> 08:21.840 Did you get a look at him? 08:21.840 --> 08:23.560 Well, he was coming in while I was going out. 08:23.560 --> 08:24.560 He was nice looking. 08:24.560 --> 08:27.720 I'd probably remember him if I saw him again, but I couldn't describe him. 08:27.720 --> 08:29.200 You see, I'm being of no help to you. 08:29.200 --> 08:30.200 Besides, I'm busy. 08:30.200 --> 08:36.280 Please, close both doors to the vestibule as you go out, Mr. Clover. 08:36.280 --> 08:37.280 I did. 08:37.280 --> 08:39.720 I walked out into the street holding the crumbs she'd given me. 08:39.720 --> 08:41.120 The identity of the dead girl. 08:41.120 --> 08:45.840 A girl who had borrowed her employer's clothes to impress a young man from Muncie. 08:45.840 --> 08:58.280 A girl whose final embrace was holding close the bitter waters of a lake. 08:58.280 --> 09:01.680 At headquarters, the routine that is a requiem for the violent dead. 09:01.680 --> 09:05.320 A telegram to Muncie asking for information on Joan Fuller. 09:05.320 --> 09:09.000 The ordered a mug of them to riffle through hotel registers for a visitor from Muncie. 09:09.000 --> 09:11.100 A young man, good looking. 09:11.100 --> 09:15.000 The sifting, the questioning, the break for a cup of lukewarm coffee. 09:15.000 --> 09:17.240 And then another call from mug of him. 09:17.240 --> 09:18.240 Hotel Adams, Danny. 09:18.240 --> 09:19.240 A Johnny Barrett. 09:19.240 --> 09:21.240 Registered with his wife from Muncie. 09:21.240 --> 09:23.040 I looked at him, Danny. 09:23.040 --> 09:24.040 He looks likely. 09:24.040 --> 09:28.640 In the tired room, complete with stained drugs, stained washstand. 09:28.640 --> 09:33.520 The young man at the dresser, manicuring his fingernails. 09:33.520 --> 09:36.720 You are here to present me with the keys to the city? 09:36.720 --> 09:39.720 I'd like that because I'm fond of your city. 09:39.720 --> 09:41.760 To ask you questions, Mr. Barrett. 09:41.760 --> 09:46.240 Now, what would a boy from the country know that would interest a big city man like you? 09:46.240 --> 09:48.840 He might have known a girl named Joan Fuller. 09:48.840 --> 09:51.260 He might have known a lot of girls. 09:51.260 --> 09:53.200 Not one named Joan, though. 09:53.200 --> 09:54.200 That's one he's missed. 09:54.200 --> 09:56.880 How big is Muncie, Mr. Barrett? 09:56.880 --> 10:03.280 Big enough that I could walk its streets, put nickels in slot machines, order a beer, 10:03.280 --> 10:08.920 go alone to movies, and never meet a girl named Joan. 10:08.920 --> 10:10.680 It teases me, though. 10:10.680 --> 10:11.680 I'd like to meet her. 10:11.680 --> 10:12.680 She's dead. 10:12.680 --> 10:14.540 She was murdered. 10:14.540 --> 10:16.360 That makes me sad. 10:16.360 --> 10:18.320 I cry when girls die. 10:18.320 --> 10:19.600 It's a thing with me. 10:19.600 --> 10:20.600 Let's go, Mr. Barrett. 10:20.600 --> 10:24.160 I haven't finished my pinky. 10:24.160 --> 10:25.360 You want to show me the sights? 10:25.360 --> 10:30.320 I want to show you to a woman who says a young man came calling on Joan Fuller, a young man 10:30.320 --> 10:31.320 from Muncie. 10:31.320 --> 10:33.000 That could be a sight. 10:33.000 --> 10:34.000 Get your coat, Mr. Barrett. 10:34.000 --> 10:35.000 Let's go. 10:35.000 --> 10:36.000 Can't wait. 10:36.000 --> 10:37.000 Oh, honey. 10:37.000 --> 10:38.000 Honey, honey. 10:38.000 --> 10:41.720 Honey, honey, doll, come on in. 10:41.720 --> 10:43.120 Enjoy looking at the shop windows? 10:43.120 --> 10:44.120 Jimmy, who is... 10:44.120 --> 10:45.840 A policeman, honey. 10:45.840 --> 10:49.120 He wants to go show me to a lady. 10:49.120 --> 10:51.960 This is my wife, Mr. Clover. 10:51.960 --> 10:53.520 Mrs. Barrett? 10:53.520 --> 10:56.800 It's hard to believe she's my wife, huh, Mr. Clover? 10:56.800 --> 11:02.400 Me being young and, well, honey doll here being... 11:02.400 --> 11:07.680 But we love each other to pieces, don't we, honey doll? 11:07.680 --> 11:12.320 Jimmy, I don't understand. 11:12.320 --> 11:14.240 What's a policeman doing with you? 11:14.240 --> 11:15.240 Don't worry, baby. 11:15.240 --> 11:16.360 I told you. 11:16.360 --> 11:22.160 He wants a lady to look at me so she can identify me as the murderer of some pretty girl named 11:22.160 --> 11:23.580 Joan. 11:23.580 --> 11:25.280 She was pretty, huh, Mr. Clover? 11:25.280 --> 11:26.280 Jimmy... 11:26.280 --> 11:28.920 Go window shopping again, honey doll. 11:28.920 --> 11:44.080 The policeman and I have got a date. 11:44.080 --> 11:45.080 Let's go, Jimmy. 11:45.080 --> 11:46.080 Sure, let's go. 11:46.080 --> 11:47.080 This house. 11:47.080 --> 11:48.080 Nice house. 11:48.080 --> 11:49.080 Have I been here before? 11:49.080 --> 11:50.080 No. 11:50.080 --> 11:57.080 I bet you wish I had, though. 11:57.080 --> 12:00.720 Nice chimes. 12:00.720 --> 12:03.600 Pretty. 12:03.600 --> 12:05.440 Nice. 12:05.440 --> 12:07.880 Funny. 12:07.880 --> 12:10.000 Vestibule doors open a bit. 12:10.000 --> 12:11.440 Miss Hampton liked her doors closed. 12:11.440 --> 12:13.360 Oh, you wouldn't peek, would you? 12:13.360 --> 12:15.360 Yeah, I would. 12:15.360 --> 12:16.360 Stuck. 12:16.360 --> 12:18.120 It'll only open half... 12:18.120 --> 12:19.120 Hey. 12:19.120 --> 12:20.120 Hey, look. 12:20.120 --> 12:26.040 What there was to look at was a vestibule floor, a tile mosaic in a simple block pattern. 12:26.040 --> 12:28.240 Clean, gleaming. 12:28.240 --> 12:31.800 Even the blood that spread across it had a new quality to it. 12:31.800 --> 12:33.320 Miss Hampton's blood. 12:33.320 --> 12:34.920 Miss Hampton lying there. 12:34.920 --> 12:38.340 An elf beside her. 12:38.340 --> 12:41.080 Miss Hampton with a knife in her heart. 12:41.080 --> 12:54.420 Miss Hampton dead. 12:54.420 --> 12:58.520 You were listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin 12:58.520 --> 13:03.120 and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. 13:03.120 --> 13:05.760 Are you ready to sing it again this Saturday night? 13:05.760 --> 13:09.960 You'll find a whole hour full of the day's popular music by Alan Dale, Bob Howard, Judy 13:09.960 --> 13:11.600 Lynn and the Riddlers. 13:11.600 --> 13:15.160 You'll hear the tuneful riddle songs that lead to Sing It Again's Phantom Voice Treasure 13:15.160 --> 13:16.160 Trove. 13:16.160 --> 13:20.700 $5,000 in cash and 10,000 more in wonderful prizes. 13:20.700 --> 13:24.560 Be listening to Sing It Again this Saturday night when it comes your way on most of these 13:24.560 --> 13:26.480 same CBS stations. 13:26.480 --> 13:41.840 The Phantom's a puzzler, but some CBS listener will win that $5,000 in cash. 13:41.840 --> 13:46.600 When it's November and the winter is a-coming in, Broadway is a place of regret. 13:46.600 --> 13:51.440 The dreams are dying and it's a long time before April will come again. 13:51.440 --> 13:55.800 The orange juice stands put glass doors between themselves and the pavement, serve hot coffee 13:55.800 --> 13:59.200 as a buffer against the wind and loneliness. 13:59.200 --> 14:03.480 Somebody leaves a newspaper on the stool beside you, not very neat, folded badly. 14:03.480 --> 14:07.640 There's a small bit of blackberry pie on the item that tells about a girl who floated face 14:07.640 --> 14:09.600 downward in the lake. 14:09.600 --> 14:14.400 You flip back a page and consider the minor headline concerning a woman named Gladys Hampton, 14:14.400 --> 14:15.900 also murdered. 14:15.900 --> 14:18.760 You flip another one and see how they ran it highly. 14:18.760 --> 14:20.560 You take your time. 14:20.560 --> 14:23.720 Outside it's pavements and outside it's cold. 14:23.720 --> 14:24.920 I didn't have it so good. 14:24.920 --> 14:29.360 I got my coffee out of a paper cup and Sergeant Detaglia had put too much cream in it. 14:29.360 --> 14:30.840 Or as he put it... 14:30.840 --> 14:31.840 Too much cream, huh? 14:31.840 --> 14:32.840 And not enough sugar. 14:32.840 --> 14:35.600 Ah, you always get them mixed up, Danny. 14:35.600 --> 14:36.600 Why is this? 14:36.600 --> 14:38.200 We all have our bad days, Gino. 14:38.200 --> 14:41.800 Well, only I seem to have them more frequent than most. 14:41.800 --> 14:42.800 Have you noticed? 14:42.800 --> 14:43.800 Let's get on with it. 14:43.800 --> 14:44.800 You got anything for me? 14:44.800 --> 14:46.840 Uh, yeah, Danny, yeah. 14:46.840 --> 14:50.680 In the matter of Jimmy Barrett, the young man from Muncie, it has been established by the 14:50.680 --> 14:55.200 coroner that he could not have killed Gladys Hampton since at the moment of her demise, 14:55.200 --> 14:56.560 Jimmy was with you. 14:56.560 --> 14:59.500 What about an alibi for last night when Joan Fuller was killed? 14:59.500 --> 15:03.920 He claims that he was doing the town up with his wife and cannot tell us what time he was 15:03.920 --> 15:04.920 where. 15:04.920 --> 15:05.920 Uh-huh. 15:05.920 --> 15:07.520 Uh-huh, what? 15:07.520 --> 15:11.120 He cannot tell us what time he was where, Danny. 15:11.120 --> 15:13.120 How does he like our pokey, Gino? 15:13.120 --> 15:14.120 Not very much. 15:14.120 --> 15:15.880 He's screaming for his wife. 15:15.880 --> 15:20.560 Also, he wrote the little verse on the wild to tell us how much he didn't like it. 15:20.560 --> 15:21.560 It starts off... 15:21.560 --> 15:22.560 Tell me later, Gino. 15:22.560 --> 15:23.560 I'm going out. 15:23.560 --> 15:24.560 Where, Danny? 15:24.560 --> 15:27.560 To see a man's wife. 15:27.560 --> 15:33.600 Oh, it's you. 15:33.600 --> 15:45.200 Where's my husband? 15:45.200 --> 15:46.200 What have you done with him? 15:46.200 --> 15:47.200 He's downtown, Miss Barrett. 15:47.200 --> 15:48.520 We're holding him on suspicion of murder. 15:48.520 --> 15:51.080 Well, don't stand there in the hall making a show of me before the world. 15:51.080 --> 15:52.080 Come in here. 15:52.080 --> 15:53.080 Come in. 15:53.080 --> 15:54.080 Sure, Miss Barrett. 15:54.080 --> 15:57.560 I was just washing out some of my things in the basin. 15:57.560 --> 15:59.600 You live in a dirty city, Mr. Clover. 15:59.600 --> 16:01.080 The dirt eats into everything. 16:01.080 --> 16:04.040 What right have you to do a thing like that to Jimmy? 16:04.040 --> 16:05.040 What right? 16:05.040 --> 16:06.800 Because we think he murdered a girl named Joan Fuller. 16:06.800 --> 16:08.800 The girl I read about? 16:08.800 --> 16:10.840 The girl from Muncie? 16:10.840 --> 16:12.560 Jimmy never knew her. 16:12.560 --> 16:14.280 He never knew anything like her. 16:14.280 --> 16:15.280 Not like her. 16:15.280 --> 16:17.800 You know that much about your husband, Mrs. Barrett? 16:17.800 --> 16:20.440 I'm a middle-aged woman, Mr. Clover. 16:20.440 --> 16:24.040 I know things about my husband that no girl ever knew. 16:24.040 --> 16:27.520 Why did you and Jimmy come to New York, Miss Barrett? 16:27.520 --> 16:33.240 You won't say any of the things people say when I tell them. 16:33.240 --> 16:35.600 Jimmy and I are on our honeymoon. 16:35.600 --> 16:36.600 Mrs. Barrett. 16:36.600 --> 16:38.160 He loves me. 16:38.160 --> 16:40.160 You saw how much he loves me. 16:40.160 --> 16:41.720 The sweet names he calls me. 16:41.720 --> 16:43.560 I saw, Mrs. Barrett. 16:43.560 --> 16:49.040 Took me a long time to bring Jimmy around to me, Mr. Clover, to the things I wanted. 16:49.040 --> 16:50.680 I'm not going to lose him to you. 16:50.680 --> 16:51.680 You'll help us. 16:51.680 --> 16:52.680 Maybe we can give him back. 16:52.680 --> 16:53.680 This is a trick. 16:53.680 --> 16:57.480 If you're trying to trick me, you want me to say something about him that'll 16:57.480 --> 16:58.480 make him dead. 16:58.480 --> 16:59.480 Something that can save him. 16:59.480 --> 17:02.360 What can I tell you that will do that? 17:02.360 --> 17:04.440 Did he ever leave you alone on your honeymoon? 17:04.440 --> 17:06.440 Go off somewhere alone? 17:06.440 --> 17:07.440 Never. 17:07.440 --> 17:10.680 Why, Jimmy waits on me hand and foot. 17:10.680 --> 17:13.520 That's what first attracted me to him back home. 17:13.520 --> 17:15.040 How polite he was. 17:15.040 --> 17:16.760 How considerate. 17:16.760 --> 17:19.240 When he could have had any girl. 17:19.240 --> 17:21.240 Here, Mrs. Barrett, has he left you alone here? 17:21.240 --> 17:22.240 I told you no. 17:22.240 --> 17:23.720 He was alone when I found him. 17:23.720 --> 17:26.000 That was different. 17:26.000 --> 17:27.680 I went window shopping. 17:27.680 --> 17:29.760 I like to do that alone. 17:29.760 --> 17:33.480 I like to come back and tell him the things I saw. 17:33.480 --> 17:37.400 All the useless, expensive, frilly things that are no use to anyone. 17:37.400 --> 17:38.880 Just good to look at sometimes. 17:38.880 --> 17:40.480 You've done that other times? 17:40.480 --> 17:43.080 Back home in Muncie, not here. 17:43.080 --> 17:45.320 One more question, Mrs. Barrett. 17:45.320 --> 17:46.480 Did you know Joan Fuller? 17:46.480 --> 17:48.040 No, I didn't know her. 17:48.040 --> 17:50.280 My husband didn't know her. 17:50.280 --> 17:55.680 I haven't told you anything that'll save him, have I? 17:55.680 --> 17:57.400 But I will. 17:57.400 --> 17:58.400 You will see. 17:58.400 --> 18:00.320 I hired a lawyer. 18:00.320 --> 18:01.320 He's getting a writ. 18:01.320 --> 18:03.000 You'll bring Jimmy back to me. 18:03.000 --> 18:04.000 You'll see. 18:04.000 --> 18:05.720 Wait till I tell Jimmy how you treated me. 18:05.720 --> 18:06.720 Just you wait. 18:06.720 --> 18:07.720 I'll wait. 18:07.720 --> 18:09.640 Don't take Jimmy back home with you, Mrs. Barrett. 18:09.640 --> 18:12.520 We'll want you both here. 18:12.520 --> 18:13.960 Danny? 18:13.960 --> 18:21.840 Come on in, Gino. 18:21.840 --> 18:23.840 Okay. 18:23.840 --> 18:30.640 Just a word to let you know that people questioning around the home of Gladys Hampton had never 18:30.640 --> 18:32.080 seen Jimmy Barrett. 18:32.080 --> 18:34.440 Also, that Jimmy is released on a writ. 18:34.440 --> 18:36.000 Yeah, I was threatened with it. 18:36.000 --> 18:39.400 And to tell you that outside is a gentleman from Muncie, Indiana. 18:39.400 --> 18:40.400 Another one? 18:40.400 --> 18:41.400 Yeah, Danny. 18:41.400 --> 18:45.880 You know, this is the first week in my life I have met two people from Muncie, Indiana, 18:45.880 --> 18:46.880 one on top of the other. 18:46.880 --> 18:48.800 Show them in, Gino. 18:48.800 --> 18:53.560 They're this way in to see Danny Clover, Mr. Fuller. 18:53.560 --> 18:55.880 Sit down, Mr. Fuller. 18:55.880 --> 18:57.800 Thank you. 18:57.800 --> 18:59.760 I'm Jones' father, Mr. Clover. 18:59.760 --> 19:00.760 I see. 19:00.760 --> 19:02.560 I'm very sorry about what... 19:02.560 --> 19:07.360 Thank you, but of course you're not sorry if we mean the same thing by that word. 19:07.360 --> 19:11.120 You're a policeman on homicide and your job's got to do with the dead people. 19:11.120 --> 19:15.160 People get used to death almost as easy as they do to cigarettes. 19:15.160 --> 19:19.160 The sorrow of Jones' death belongs to me, not to you. 19:19.160 --> 19:20.480 Forgive me, I made a speech. 19:20.480 --> 19:22.360 How did you know your daughter was dead? 19:22.360 --> 19:25.800 You notified the Muncie police, they notified me. 19:25.800 --> 19:28.160 I've come to take her home with me. 19:28.160 --> 19:29.160 If I can help... 19:29.160 --> 19:30.160 Find the person who killed her. 19:30.160 --> 19:31.160 We're trying, Mr. Fuller. 19:31.160 --> 19:32.960 I've never been vengeful. 19:32.960 --> 19:36.040 I've always felt sorry for people, even by hate. 19:36.040 --> 19:37.040 Now it's happened to me. 19:37.040 --> 19:38.960 I can understand. 19:38.960 --> 19:42.560 Tell me, Mr. Fuller, do you know a man named Jimmy Barrett from Muncie? 19:42.560 --> 19:44.320 Of course. 19:44.320 --> 19:45.320 Jones knew him too. 19:45.320 --> 19:46.320 Pardon me a second. 19:46.320 --> 19:47.320 Pataglia. 19:47.320 --> 19:48.320 Roger, Danny. 19:48.320 --> 19:50.720 There's a man tailing Jimmy Barrett, isn't there? 19:50.720 --> 19:51.720 Yeah, Danny. 19:51.720 --> 19:52.720 Go and search for him. 19:52.720 --> 19:53.720 Find out where Jimmy is. 19:53.720 --> 19:54.720 Roger. 19:54.720 --> 19:55.720 Over. 19:55.720 --> 19:57.720 We were talking about Jimmy Barrett, Mr. Fuller. 19:57.720 --> 19:59.720 Tell me about him. 19:59.720 --> 20:04.400 Well, Jimmy married a woman somewhat older than he, a rather wealthy woman. 20:04.400 --> 20:05.400 Why do you ask? 20:05.400 --> 20:07.760 He's honeymooning in New York. 20:07.760 --> 20:10.120 How well did your daughter know him? 20:10.120 --> 20:14.840 Valentine's, letters on flowered stationery, holding hands and dances, that much no more 20:14.840 --> 20:15.840 than that. 20:15.840 --> 20:16.840 You see? 20:16.840 --> 20:19.480 What did Joan tell you she was doing in New York? 20:19.480 --> 20:21.920 Hanging in advertising, she said. 20:21.920 --> 20:24.000 Everyone back in Muncie thought that. 20:24.000 --> 20:25.840 I didn't know she was a maid. 20:25.840 --> 20:27.040 I know how you feel. 20:27.040 --> 20:29.240 Forgive me again, you can't possibly know. 20:29.240 --> 20:30.600 Did you have a daughter? 20:30.600 --> 20:32.120 Did you tell her stories? 20:32.120 --> 20:33.920 Did she cry against your cheek? 20:33.920 --> 20:34.920 Did you watch her grow up? 20:34.920 --> 20:36.200 Was she found in a lake? 20:36.200 --> 20:37.200 Was she murdered? 20:37.200 --> 20:38.200 Mr. Fuller, I... 20:38.200 --> 20:39.200 We don't know each other, Mr. Clover. 20:39.200 --> 20:40.560 We're not friends. 20:40.560 --> 20:42.360 Your sympathy doesn't mean anything to me. 20:42.360 --> 20:44.080 Just find my daughter's killer. 20:44.080 --> 20:45.080 Danny? 20:45.080 --> 20:46.080 What is it, Tataglia? 20:46.080 --> 20:49.920 The man we had tailing, Jimmy Barrett, just phoned in. 20:49.920 --> 20:53.320 Jimmy just bought himself a new car five minutes ago, Prango Hudson. 20:53.320 --> 20:54.320 Where? 20:54.320 --> 20:55.320 Tobin's, on 105th Street. 20:55.320 --> 20:56.320 Thanks, Gino. 20:56.320 --> 21:07.640 You're primed to buy a new car, mister. 21:07.640 --> 21:09.600 You're just tantalizing yourself with this new model. 21:09.600 --> 21:10.600 I want to... 21:10.600 --> 21:11.600 Sure you want to. 21:11.600 --> 21:12.600 Everybody wants to. 21:12.600 --> 21:17.520 There's no feeling like the feeling of running your hand over this new old leather upholstery. 21:17.520 --> 21:18.520 Save it. 21:18.520 --> 21:19.520 I'm from the police. 21:19.520 --> 21:20.520 That makes you different? 21:20.520 --> 21:22.400 That gives you desires different from other people's desires? 21:22.400 --> 21:24.800 Look, a man named James Barrett is just... 21:24.800 --> 21:26.440 Oh, I'll never forget him. 21:26.440 --> 21:31.640 He bought a new car off of me not a half hour ago, paid me cash, drove away on a dream. 21:31.640 --> 21:32.640 Cash? 21:32.640 --> 21:33.640 $2,500. 21:33.640 --> 21:36.880 He just took $2,500 out of his pocket and gave it to you? 21:36.880 --> 21:37.880 Well, not exactly. 21:37.880 --> 21:39.760 Let me give you a vivid description of it. 21:39.760 --> 21:40.760 I found it very thrilling. 21:40.760 --> 21:42.240 You thrilled me, too. 21:42.240 --> 21:46.320 He looked at the car, asked me how much it was as I stood there, and I told him. 21:46.320 --> 21:50.720 Then he runs across the street to the bank, runs back with $2,500 clutched in his wet 21:50.720 --> 21:51.720 fist. 21:51.720 --> 21:52.720 So you see why it wasn't exactly. 21:52.720 --> 21:53.720 He pulled it out of his pocket. 21:53.720 --> 21:55.320 He was clutching it in his wet fist. 21:55.320 --> 21:56.880 Bank across the street, huh? 21:56.880 --> 21:57.880 Yeah. 21:57.880 --> 21:58.880 Hey, what's the matter? 21:58.880 --> 21:59.880 He got it from the bank. 21:59.880 --> 22:00.880 It can't be counterfeit, can it? 22:00.880 --> 22:01.880 Don't give me heart failure like that. 22:01.880 --> 22:02.880 Hit me in the face with it. 22:02.880 --> 22:03.880 It's not counterfeit, is it? 22:03.880 --> 22:04.880 Don't you find it funny? 22:04.880 --> 22:15.360 Don't you find it rather interesting, Mr. Clover, that I, Stephen Chase, am working 22:15.360 --> 22:17.040 for the Corn Exchange Bank? 22:17.040 --> 22:18.680 We chasers have a bank of our own, you know. 22:18.680 --> 22:19.680 I know. 22:19.680 --> 22:22.080 And you're the chaser who gave Barrett $2,500. 22:22.080 --> 22:23.440 Precisely that chase. 22:23.440 --> 22:24.880 Does Barrett have an account here? 22:24.880 --> 22:26.880 As of this morning, a rather plump one. 22:26.880 --> 22:30.360 He opened an account this morning and withdrew that much money this afternoon? 22:30.360 --> 22:32.520 I see you don't understand banks. 22:32.520 --> 22:33.840 Oh, explain them to me. 22:33.840 --> 22:37.720 Mrs. Barrett had a letter of credit from a bank in Muncie, Indiana, which she chose to 22:37.720 --> 22:39.240 deposit here with us at Corn. 22:39.240 --> 22:40.240 Go on. 22:40.240 --> 22:41.240 Please. 22:41.240 --> 22:43.520 Therefore, this account was in Mrs. Barrett's name. 22:43.520 --> 22:46.320 However, this morning, Mr. Barrett appeared. 22:46.320 --> 22:50.440 Mr. Barrett, the bearer of a letter from his wife to the effect that her account should 22:50.440 --> 22:51.760 now be a joint account. 22:51.760 --> 22:52.760 Was that all? 22:52.760 --> 22:53.760 Please. 22:53.760 --> 22:56.800 I called Mrs. Barrett to find out whether the letter was valid. 22:56.800 --> 23:00.240 Mrs. Barrett told me to give her husband as much money as he wanted. 23:00.240 --> 23:01.680 All this happened this morning? 23:01.680 --> 23:03.400 Precisely this morning. 23:03.400 --> 23:05.840 Precisely, Mr. Chase. 23:05.840 --> 23:22.960 Oh, hiya, Danny. 23:22.960 --> 23:23.960 Just going out. 23:23.960 --> 23:24.960 Want to go out with us? 23:24.960 --> 23:25.960 No, I'm coming in. 23:25.960 --> 23:30.400 Well, Mrs. Barrett, I see you got all your things packed. 23:30.400 --> 23:31.400 Going back to Muncie? 23:31.400 --> 23:32.400 Oh, no. 23:32.400 --> 23:35.040 We couldn't go back to Muncie until this thing was all cleared up. 23:35.040 --> 23:37.240 We're going to find a nicer place to live. 23:37.240 --> 23:40.520 Yeah, me and the Honeydoll are going to branch out. 23:40.520 --> 23:43.200 Nothing but a ball from now on. 23:43.200 --> 23:45.840 We're really going to live, aren't we, Honeydoll? 23:45.840 --> 23:47.880 You know, whatever you want, Jimmy. 23:47.880 --> 23:49.760 Tell me what you want, Jimmy. 23:49.760 --> 23:51.180 What I want? 23:51.180 --> 23:53.080 Get out of this crummy hole. 23:53.080 --> 23:56.160 New clothes for Honeydoll and for me. 23:56.160 --> 23:57.760 Drapes, double-breasted. 23:57.760 --> 24:00.560 I understand you got a new car. 24:00.560 --> 24:02.240 It's got New York talking, huh? 24:02.240 --> 24:03.840 New York talking about it down at headquarters. 24:03.840 --> 24:06.520 Jimmy, the man said he'd show us the penthouse at 9 o'clock. 24:06.520 --> 24:07.920 It's almost that now. 24:07.920 --> 24:10.360 You heard what Honeydoll said, Danny. 24:10.360 --> 24:12.000 I guess I'm hand-packed, that's all. 24:12.000 --> 24:13.320 Tell me when all this happened, Jimmy. 24:13.320 --> 24:15.760 The last time I saw you, you were happy, right here. 24:15.760 --> 24:18.180 How much are you allowed to meddle in our lives? 24:18.180 --> 24:20.280 What concern is it of yours where we live? 24:20.280 --> 24:23.520 Oh, Honeydoll, don't talk like that to Danny. 24:23.520 --> 24:26.340 He wants to come up for a drink sometime. 24:26.340 --> 24:27.340 He wants to know our address. 24:27.340 --> 24:28.340 Get him out of here. 24:28.340 --> 24:30.360 You didn't answer my question, Jimmy. 24:30.360 --> 24:32.360 When did you make up your mind about all this? 24:32.360 --> 24:33.680 New car, penthouse. 24:33.680 --> 24:35.480 I'll tell you. 24:35.480 --> 24:38.360 Honeydoll and me had a small talk. 24:38.360 --> 24:43.280 We decided we were tired of living like folks, like other people. 24:43.280 --> 24:47.640 Honeydoll wants to support me in the manner I'm itching for. 24:47.640 --> 24:50.320 She can afford it. 24:50.320 --> 24:51.320 Come here, Honeydoll. 24:51.320 --> 24:52.320 Jimmy. 24:52.320 --> 24:54.320 Jimmy, get him out of here. 24:54.320 --> 24:56.480 No, baby, this is Jimmy. 24:56.480 --> 24:58.600 Jimmy with his arms around you. 24:58.600 --> 24:59.600 Stop it! 24:59.600 --> 25:00.600 Okay, okay. 25:00.600 --> 25:04.920 You're supposed to give me anything I want, remember? 25:04.920 --> 25:07.000 You're a little blackmailed, Jimmy. 25:07.000 --> 25:08.000 Huh? 25:08.000 --> 25:11.160 I had a talk with Joan's father. 25:11.160 --> 25:12.960 He said you used to hold hands with his daughter. 25:12.960 --> 25:15.640 If you did that, you lied to me. 25:15.640 --> 25:17.880 You did know, John, you did lie to me. 25:17.880 --> 25:20.480 Danny, so I lied to you. 25:20.480 --> 25:21.480 I was nervous. 25:21.480 --> 25:22.480 It's getting late, Jimmy. 25:22.480 --> 25:24.080 Did you lie to him, Miss Barrett? 25:24.080 --> 25:25.360 Did you know Joan back in Muncie? 25:25.360 --> 25:26.360 No. 25:26.360 --> 25:27.360 But you knew Jimmy knew her. 25:27.360 --> 25:30.400 Jimmy was seeing her while you were here, while you were on your honeymoon, Miss Barrett. 25:30.400 --> 25:32.400 Why not, Danny? 25:32.400 --> 25:37.280 A guy likes to look up old friends, especially an old friend who's made good in the big city. 25:37.280 --> 25:38.280 I got news for you. 25:38.280 --> 25:39.440 Joan was a housemaid. 25:39.440 --> 25:41.320 Those clothes she was wearing belonged to her employer. 25:41.320 --> 25:45.040 I knew that, and I understand why she did it. 25:45.040 --> 25:46.400 To impress me. 25:46.400 --> 25:49.960 To make me hate myself because I married another woman. 25:49.960 --> 25:53.120 Jimmy, you realize what your lying can cost you. 25:53.120 --> 25:54.120 Sure, Danny. 25:54.120 --> 25:56.920 Now, I'm your number one murder suspect. 25:56.920 --> 25:57.920 That's right. 25:57.920 --> 25:58.920 Danny. 25:58.920 --> 25:59.920 Uh-huh. 25:59.920 --> 26:02.880 What's the penalty for murder in this state? 26:02.880 --> 26:03.880 Premeditated. 26:03.880 --> 26:04.880 Premeditated. 26:04.880 --> 26:08.600 Life, the chair, depends on the jury. 26:08.600 --> 26:10.680 And how about for obstructing justice? 26:10.680 --> 26:13.520 Depends, one to ten, maybe. 26:13.520 --> 26:15.920 But for murder, it can be the chair, huh? 26:15.920 --> 26:17.600 That's right. 26:17.600 --> 26:20.000 Did you hear that, honey doll? 26:20.000 --> 26:22.000 You're gonna get the chair. 26:22.000 --> 26:23.000 Jimmy. 26:23.000 --> 26:27.280 You killed so you could keep your husband in you, Mrs. Barrett. 26:27.280 --> 26:28.280 Jimmy. 26:28.280 --> 26:29.280 I'm begging you. 26:29.280 --> 26:32.280 Get him out of here. 26:32.280 --> 26:35.840 You were afraid Jimmy would get blamed for it because Miss Hampton, her employer, could 26:35.840 --> 26:36.840 recognize him. 26:36.840 --> 26:39.040 You had to kill Miss Hampton, too, didn't you? 26:39.040 --> 26:40.040 Jimmy. 26:40.040 --> 26:42.080 That's what you held over your wife, Jimmy. 26:42.080 --> 26:43.080 You knew all this. 26:43.080 --> 26:44.640 She had to give you everything you wanted. 26:44.640 --> 26:47.880 Thought you'd get as soon as you were married, but didn't. 26:47.880 --> 26:50.000 One to ten, huh? 26:50.000 --> 26:52.000 That's the way it was, Danny. 26:52.000 --> 26:53.000 You! 26:53.000 --> 26:54.000 You felt! 26:54.000 --> 26:55.000 I killed my girl! 26:55.000 --> 26:56.000 Killed my girl! 26:56.000 --> 26:57.000 And your felt! 26:57.000 --> 27:08.240 Don't take it so hard, honey doll. 27:08.240 --> 27:10.840 You've lived almost most of your life. 27:10.840 --> 27:12.760 They had a week of it with me. 27:12.760 --> 27:13.760 Let's go. 27:13.760 --> 27:14.760 Both of you. 27:14.760 --> 27:17.800 Honey doll, I promise you this. 27:17.800 --> 27:20.440 When I get out, not spend your money. 27:20.440 --> 27:22.640 I'll be happy. 27:22.640 --> 27:46.080 Just the way you wanted me to. 27:46.080 --> 27:47.920 Broadway looks good now. 27:47.920 --> 27:51.720 It's wearing the funny mask or the funny nose. 27:51.720 --> 27:54.320 The big smile painted in scarlet. 27:54.320 --> 27:58.840 The scarlet you've known in other places and other times. 27:58.840 --> 28:04.720 Don't rip off the mask, kid, because you couldn't stand what you'd see. 28:04.720 --> 28:10.040 It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent. 28:10.040 --> 28:12.680 The lonesomest mile in the world. 28:12.680 --> 28:14.640 Broadway. 28:14.640 --> 28:30.080 My Beat. 28:30.080 --> 28:35.320 Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia. 28:35.320 --> 28:39.480 The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with musical score composed and conducted 28:39.480 --> 28:41.520 by Alexander Courage. 28:41.520 --> 28:45.840 Covered in tonight's cast were Irene Tedrow, Dick Krenna, Bob Bruce, Peggy Webber, Stan 28:45.840 --> 28:48.800 Waxman and Jack Krushen. 28:48.800 --> 28:52.920 This Saturday evening on CBS, Hopalong Cassidy comes riding to the rescue of an old friend 28:52.920 --> 28:55.160 who's suspected of a serious crime. 28:55.160 --> 28:59.280 It's a long tough job Hoppy takes on, literally risking his own neck. 28:59.280 --> 29:02.880 With one of the greatest surprise endings you've ever heard, Hoppy comes through. 29:02.880 --> 29:06.320 Be listening this Saturday and every Saturday evening when the one and only Hopalong Cassidy 29:06.320 --> 29:10.960 starring William Boyd is heard on most of these same CBS stations. 29:10.960 --> 29:15.240 And coverly speaking, this is CBS where yours truly Johnny Dollar brings adventure Saturday 29:15.240 --> 29:42.240 nights on the Columbia Broadcasting System.