WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:16.000 Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the 00:16.000 --> 00:22.440 lonesomest mile in the world. 00:22.440 --> 00:39.400 Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. 00:39.400 --> 00:44.240 March and the young winds of spring begin their reconnaissance of Broadway, the probing 00:44.240 --> 00:48.920 action for places to set up shop, a push cart of the flower vendor, for instance, whose 00:48.920 --> 00:54.000 numbed fingers wrapped clusters of frost-burned buds in yesterday's newspaper, February's 00:54.000 --> 01:00.960 newspaper, and in stray of silken hair, side across a child's winter-worn face, and rippled 01:00.960 --> 01:06.960 through fur held close to a woman's throat and her tentative gesture of unclasping it. 01:06.960 --> 01:11.960 And somewhere in city, a small monkey dances, strains at a leash, hands a battered hat 01:11.960 --> 01:13.960 to an organ grinder, grins. 01:13.960 --> 01:23.440 So get with it, the spring dance is just around the corner. 01:23.440 --> 01:28.440 Early afternoon of March, from corridor of a rooming house where winter holds, into a 01:28.440 --> 01:34.480 room, the man staring into wall, hand clenched quite on a rocking chair, man in year-long 01:34.480 --> 01:40.200 winter room, rocking, staring, silent, and the detective who speaks for him. 01:40.200 --> 01:45.040 Just like that, Danny, man hasn't stopped, I've been here 20 minutes now and he hasn't 01:45.040 --> 01:46.040 stopped. 01:46.040 --> 01:49.640 I try to get through to him, nothing, he just rocks. 01:49.640 --> 01:52.200 I've been told it's all night now and this morning. 01:52.200 --> 01:53.200 Who told you that? 01:53.200 --> 01:56.640 A landlady, driving her out of her mind the way he is. 01:56.640 --> 01:58.640 The creek, the rocker makes through her sleep. 01:58.640 --> 02:01.760 She called in, said get him out of here, I'm going out of my mind, she said. 02:01.760 --> 02:02.760 Who is he? 02:02.760 --> 02:07.040 She said he was Harry Carson, rented this room for years, never had trouble before with 02:07.040 --> 02:08.040 him, she said. 02:08.040 --> 02:14.840 A sick man, a lost man, that's big trouble, huh Danny? 02:14.840 --> 02:18.600 Mr. Carson, what is it, what's wrong? 02:18.600 --> 02:20.600 Mr. Carson. 02:20.600 --> 02:23.880 Me too, I try the magic words. 02:23.880 --> 02:27.320 Mr. Carson don't care, Mr. Carson don't talk. 02:27.320 --> 02:32.840 This he had though, this 38 caliber revolver that was shoved in his belt. 02:32.840 --> 02:35.360 He didn't bat an eye when I reached over and took it away from him. 02:35.360 --> 02:37.880 Here, take a look, have a smell. 02:37.880 --> 02:39.640 It's been fired. 02:39.640 --> 02:41.400 It's been fired. 02:41.400 --> 02:46.000 Found a couple other things while me and Mr. Carson tried to chat, didn't have what else 02:46.000 --> 02:47.000 to do. 02:47.000 --> 02:48.000 You found what? 02:48.000 --> 02:49.000 Not much, a couple of snapshots. 02:49.000 --> 02:55.840 This one of Mr. Carson with a kid, a boy, western type scenery in the background, the 02:55.840 --> 02:59.760 fence they're leaning against, like from a ranch. 02:59.760 --> 03:02.640 Carson looks younger, happier, huh Danny? 03:02.640 --> 03:03.640 The other one you got? 03:03.640 --> 03:06.360 Another pose of Carson, older. 03:06.360 --> 03:08.640 First time with his arm around a young fellow. 03:08.640 --> 03:10.840 Happens I know this young fellow, Danny. 03:10.840 --> 03:11.840 You get around. 03:11.840 --> 03:12.840 Yeah, I do. 03:12.840 --> 03:17.640 About a year ago, ran into this young fellow in the courts a couple of times, eager lawyer 03:17.640 --> 03:18.640 type. 03:18.640 --> 03:23.760 Robert, call me Bob fellow, Carson, eager bright boy. 03:23.760 --> 03:26.040 Caught the eyes of corporation fellows I hear. 03:26.040 --> 03:31.960 Boy on his way up, and this man, Harry Carson. 03:31.960 --> 03:39.160 Mr. Carson, you want to tell us what, about the gun, about the boy? 03:39.160 --> 03:42.560 Say that again, bit doctor. 03:42.560 --> 03:46.680 Yeah, it'll be something I can do for him. 03:46.680 --> 03:53.440 And for a street noise from outside and two stories below, intrudes into the room and 03:53.440 --> 03:56.400 finds a place in the scatter and clutter of small despairs. 03:56.400 --> 04:02.120 And the focus of it, the man in the rocker, the man with the secret, hugged close, old 04:02.120 --> 04:07.920 man, strong face and sorrows, strong hands and knowledge locked away. 04:07.920 --> 04:12.760 And shuffling steps and Denison helps him to his feet and takes him away. 04:12.760 --> 04:19.520 Old man of secret and shock. 04:19.520 --> 04:24.960 Work to do, consult a phone book, address of lawyer, Robert, in parenthesis Bob, Carson. 04:24.960 --> 04:27.920 Car ride through afternoon city to park. 04:27.920 --> 04:32.560 And this, nod from livery doorman as he opens a polished brass door with a fist wrapped 04:32.560 --> 04:34.560 in a green gauntlet. 04:34.560 --> 04:37.920 Pencil directions to Mr. Carson's apartment on floor 12. 04:37.920 --> 04:42.360 Elevator ride surrounded by just audible and oiled silences. 04:42.360 --> 04:55.880 And carved carpet walk through expensively shallowed corridors. 04:55.880 --> 04:56.880 Yes? 04:56.880 --> 04:57.880 Mr. Carson? 04:57.880 --> 04:58.880 Yes. 04:58.880 --> 05:01.120 The desk phoned and said that Mr. Clover, a police officer, was on his way up. 05:01.120 --> 05:02.120 You're a... 05:02.120 --> 05:03.120 That's right. 05:03.120 --> 05:04.120 Please come in. 05:04.120 --> 05:05.120 I'll take you, coach. 05:05.120 --> 05:06.120 Oh, it's all right. 05:06.120 --> 05:07.120 Just be a minute. 05:07.120 --> 05:09.880 If my wife were here, she'd fix us up something. 05:09.880 --> 05:10.880 She's kind of a wizard. 05:10.880 --> 05:13.280 How about Harry Carson? 05:13.280 --> 05:14.280 About my father? 05:14.280 --> 05:15.280 We found him in his room, Mr. Carson. 05:15.280 --> 05:17.200 He'd been sitting for a day or so. 05:17.200 --> 05:18.200 My father? 05:18.200 --> 05:19.600 He had a gun tucked in his belt. 05:19.600 --> 05:20.600 It had been fired. 05:20.600 --> 05:22.600 He refuses to talk about it. 05:22.600 --> 05:24.160 What's the matter with him? 05:24.160 --> 05:25.440 He gone crazy or something? 05:25.440 --> 05:26.440 Senile or something? 05:26.440 --> 05:27.940 Let me ask you a question, Mr. Carson. 05:27.940 --> 05:28.940 Where is he now? 05:28.940 --> 05:29.940 Send a medical care. 05:29.940 --> 05:30.940 Police physician? 05:30.940 --> 05:32.480 Listen, I'll get him all the care... 05:32.480 --> 05:34.640 That has to do with the question. 05:34.640 --> 05:38.080 How come your father lives in such a squalid room and you... 05:38.080 --> 05:41.160 And I'm a real terrible son, huh? 05:41.160 --> 05:45.440 Big man on his way up and don't appreciate, dear old dad, forgot all about the sacrifices 05:45.440 --> 05:47.400 of the parents, that drivel. 05:47.400 --> 05:48.760 That's the answer? 05:48.760 --> 05:51.800 I take care of my father, Mr. Clover. 05:51.800 --> 05:54.720 I send him $150 a week each week of the year. 05:54.720 --> 05:56.920 He does with it what he likes. 05:56.920 --> 06:01.520 The fact that he doesn't live here with us is testimony to my wife's good judgment. 06:01.520 --> 06:02.520 The in-law problem. 06:02.520 --> 06:05.280 Don't let it start and it won't happen. 06:05.280 --> 06:07.400 A gun stuck in his belt, what for? 06:07.400 --> 06:08.400 Do you know? 06:08.400 --> 06:10.720 I figure an old man, how do I know? 06:10.720 --> 06:12.160 You at police hospital? 06:12.160 --> 06:13.160 That's right. 06:13.160 --> 06:14.800 You going back that way? 06:14.800 --> 06:15.800 I'll leave my wife a note. 06:15.800 --> 06:16.800 You can give me a lift. 06:16.800 --> 06:33.160 Why don't you turn on the light, Danny? 06:33.160 --> 06:34.480 Night's beginning to happen outside. 06:34.480 --> 06:36.560 Do you mind if I do it? 06:36.560 --> 06:37.560 No, I don't mind. 06:37.560 --> 06:42.280 I think I got some things for you. 06:42.280 --> 06:45.600 Yeah, I made a rundown on the bank. 06:45.600 --> 06:47.560 No account credit to Harry Carson. 06:47.560 --> 06:49.560 How is he, Danny? 06:49.560 --> 06:52.200 Dr. Sinsky called in a little while ago. 06:52.200 --> 06:53.200 Carson just stares. 06:53.200 --> 06:54.200 He hasn't changed. 06:54.200 --> 06:55.200 Go on. 06:55.200 --> 07:00.400 $100.50 a week from his son, call me Bob, and living in a room that's maybe eight bucks 07:00.400 --> 07:04.120 a week and all the rocking chair you can handle and all the nothing. 07:04.120 --> 07:08.040 $100.50 a week free, no strings, and to live like that. 07:08.040 --> 07:10.000 Where does it go, all that money, I ask myself. 07:10.000 --> 07:11.000 So? 07:11.000 --> 07:12.000 All right, so. 07:12.000 --> 07:13.000 I walked Carson's neighborhood. 07:13.000 --> 07:15.280 I came up with an answer and a reason maybe. 07:15.280 --> 07:16.280 You want to meet him? 07:16.280 --> 07:17.280 What are you talking about? 07:17.280 --> 07:18.280 He's waiting outside in the hall. 07:18.280 --> 07:19.280 I'll get him. 07:19.280 --> 07:20.280 Litchfield? 07:20.280 --> 07:21.280 Yeah, you. 07:21.280 --> 07:22.280 Come on in. 07:22.280 --> 07:23.280 Mr. Litchfield, Danny. 07:23.280 --> 07:32.360 Runs a small grocery down the street from where Carson lives. 07:32.360 --> 07:33.360 Danny Clover, Mr. Litchfield. 07:33.360 --> 07:37.760 Look, fellas, this is the best time in my store. 07:37.760 --> 07:40.040 This time of day, I shouldn't have come with you. 07:40.040 --> 07:41.240 I should be there, not here. 07:41.240 --> 07:43.160 Yeah, we understand, Mr. Litchfield. 07:43.160 --> 07:46.240 Just tell the lieutenant what you know about Harry Carson, and then you can go back. 07:46.240 --> 07:47.480 Well, what's with Harry? 07:47.480 --> 07:48.480 He done something? 07:48.480 --> 07:49.480 He steal? 07:49.480 --> 07:50.480 He rob? 07:50.480 --> 07:53.280 This man here comes into my place, asks questions, says Harry Carson. 07:53.280 --> 07:55.640 What do you know about him, Mr. Litchfield? 07:55.640 --> 07:57.960 What do I need to know about a man who trades in my place? 07:57.960 --> 07:59.360 I already told this man here. 07:59.360 --> 08:01.360 Now, tell the lieutenant too, Mr. Litchfield. 08:01.360 --> 08:07.440 Now, like I told this man here, once a week, Monday noon on the dot, Carson comes into 08:07.440 --> 08:08.440 my place. 08:08.440 --> 08:11.280 He hands me a check for $150 from his boy. 08:11.280 --> 08:12.400 I cash it for him. 08:12.400 --> 08:15.600 Keep 25 out, give him back the 100 and a quarter and change. 08:15.600 --> 08:18.600 Well, 25 you keep, and for what, Mr. Litchfield? 08:18.600 --> 08:22.600 For groceries, staples, canned goods, beer, fruit. 08:22.600 --> 08:25.960 Things to keep a lonely old man alive for a week. 08:25.960 --> 08:28.400 For Harry Carson, it comes to 25 a week on the dot. 08:28.400 --> 08:30.960 In advance, never runs over, never is less. 08:30.960 --> 08:35.960 It's the arrangement we made, Mr. Carson, on me a long time ago, and also on the dot, 08:35.960 --> 08:37.360 the other thing I told this man here. 08:37.360 --> 08:39.600 I'd like to know too, Mr. Litchfield. 08:39.600 --> 08:40.960 Like this. 08:40.960 --> 08:44.120 I get the 25 from Mr. Carson, give him back his change. 08:44.120 --> 08:46.000 125 to the dot. 08:46.000 --> 08:50.120 He walks out of my place to the corner, hands over the change to a fellow waiting there. 08:50.120 --> 08:51.120 What fellow? 08:51.120 --> 08:53.020 Who knows, a fellow. 08:53.020 --> 08:55.560 Every week I notice this. 08:55.560 --> 08:58.560 First time by accident I see it, then I make a point to see it. 08:58.560 --> 09:03.360 And every week, Mr. Carson, the walk to the corner, the handing over of all that money 09:03.360 --> 09:04.360 to a fellow. 09:04.360 --> 09:05.360 Yes? 09:05.360 --> 09:06.360 I can't hear you, Danny. 09:06.360 --> 09:07.360 And a good evening to you. 09:07.360 --> 09:08.360 Also, a man just brought in to downstairs. 09:08.360 --> 09:09.360 I'm busy, Gino. 09:09.360 --> 09:10.360 A man shot with a.38 caliber revolver, Danny, dead on arrival. 09:10.360 --> 09:11.360 In a vacant lot, a block away from the rooming house of Harry Carson, behind a billboard. 09:11.360 --> 09:12.360 John Dole now in the morgue, Danny. 09:12.360 --> 09:13.360 I thought you'd... 09:13.360 --> 09:14.360 Thanks, Gino. 09:14.360 --> 09:15.360 Denison. 09:15.360 --> 09:16.360 Yeah. 09:16.360 --> 09:17.360 Get Carson. 09:17.360 --> 09:18.360 I'm sorry, Danny. 09:18.360 --> 09:19.360 I'm sorry. 09:19.360 --> 09:20.360 I'm sorry. 09:20.360 --> 09:21.360 I'm sorry. 09:21.360 --> 09:22.360 I'm sorry. 09:22.360 --> 09:23.360 I'm sorry. 09:23.360 --> 09:24.360 I'm sorry. 09:24.360 --> 09:25.360 I'm sorry. 09:25.360 --> 09:26.360 I'm sorry. 09:26.360 --> 09:27.360 I'm sorry. 09:27.360 --> 09:28.360 I'm sorry. 09:28.360 --> 09:29.360 Get Carson. 09:29.360 --> 09:30.360 Bring him downstairs. 09:30.360 --> 09:31.360 Mr. Litchfield... 09:31.360 --> 09:32.360 Listen, fellas. 09:32.360 --> 09:34.080 I gave you all this time. 09:34.080 --> 09:35.080 We'll need a little more. 09:35.080 --> 09:42.080 Let's go, Mr. Litchfield. 09:42.080 --> 09:45.760 Downstairs now to the realm of the Echo, a corridor that sweats tears. 09:45.760 --> 09:49.360 Follow blue arrow painted on floor, turn right, avenue to the morgue. 09:49.360 --> 09:53.440 And the man beside you, a grocer suddenly turned chain smoker. 09:53.440 --> 09:55.520 Wake with him briefly. 09:55.520 --> 10:00.200 For the other footsteps, the other men, Detective Denison, the man he leads. 10:00.200 --> 10:03.200 This way, Mr. Carson. 10:03.200 --> 10:04.200 Okay, Danny. 10:04.200 --> 10:05.200 Hello, Mr. Carson. 10:05.200 --> 10:08.200 Has he said anything to anybody yet? 10:08.200 --> 10:09.200 Nope. 10:09.200 --> 10:10.200 Not a word. 10:10.200 --> 10:13.200 Not even to his son. 10:13.200 --> 10:14.200 Let's go in. 10:14.200 --> 10:15.200 Mr. Litchfield... 10:15.200 --> 10:16.200 I'm okay. 10:16.200 --> 10:25.200 I just want you to look at this man and tell me... 10:25.200 --> 10:28.200 Let's get it over, huh? 10:28.200 --> 10:29.200 Yeah. 10:29.200 --> 10:31.840 Yeah, that's him. 10:31.840 --> 10:34.440 That's the man who stands on the corner waiting for... 10:34.440 --> 10:35.440 George? 10:35.440 --> 10:36.440 What about... 10:36.440 --> 10:37.440 George? 10:37.440 --> 10:38.440 Danny? 10:38.440 --> 10:39.440 George? 10:39.440 --> 10:44.440 Death is very becoming to you, George. 10:44.440 --> 10:45.440 Yes. 10:45.440 --> 11:04.040 You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, 11:04.040 --> 11:08.060 and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. 11:08.060 --> 11:13.440 If you go for Western Adventure, you'll go for the Gene Autry show and for Gunsmoke, both 11:13.440 --> 11:16.640 later this evening on most of these same stations. 11:16.640 --> 11:21.760 Gene Autry brings you melodies as well as adventure in his colorful Western manner. 11:21.760 --> 11:26.300 Gunsmoke tells hard-hitting stories of a United States Marshal in frontier days, fighting 11:26.300 --> 11:31.840 for justice, battling the outlaws, helping move the nation's frontiers westward. 11:31.840 --> 11:39.840 CBS Radio presents them both later this evening. 11:39.840 --> 11:50.680 When the enormous night finds Broadway and takes it over, the sound is a thing compounded 11:50.680 --> 11:57.480 in machine and hiss and the gaudy laugh, and in between the clack of footsteps, dark whispers 11:57.480 --> 11:59.640 and the silent screams a heart makes. 11:59.640 --> 12:05.440 And when the month is March and the rains of beginning spring fall softly, night is 12:05.440 --> 12:06.440 partitioned. 12:06.440 --> 12:12.680 The crowd huddle tightly behind this facade or that, in this doorway, behind that window. 12:12.680 --> 12:16.080 So make a phone call, find a friend. 12:16.080 --> 12:21.800 The crowd is lonely. 12:21.800 --> 12:27.200 And above it, opposite headquarters, night through tracery of rain on windowpane, night 12:27.200 --> 12:31.720 caught in droplets of color that slip over glass and coalesce. 12:31.720 --> 12:32.720 Watch it. 12:32.720 --> 12:33.960 Be lulled by it. 12:33.960 --> 12:37.920 And the explosion is named Sergeant Gino Tartaglia. 12:37.920 --> 12:41.360 I warn you, Danny, never marry a Rigolini. 12:41.360 --> 12:42.360 What? 12:42.360 --> 12:46.480 Mrs. Tartaglia, a Rigolini by birth, and ask me about that. 12:46.480 --> 12:47.480 What's the matter, Gino? 12:47.480 --> 12:48.640 An argument with Mrs. T? 12:48.640 --> 12:51.200 Children of the soil, that's all they are? 12:51.200 --> 12:52.720 The whole family. 12:52.720 --> 12:54.040 Comes March and rain. 12:54.040 --> 12:56.840 Go buy seeds for the flower box. 12:56.840 --> 12:59.960 This hour I got to stop and find a place that sells seeds. 12:59.960 --> 13:00.960 Gino. 13:00.960 --> 13:05.640 Every year she plants with hand hole and prowl, nothing ever grows. 13:05.640 --> 13:10.840 Each year in June, I got to sneak marigolds into the flower box to make her think she's 13:10.840 --> 13:13.160 a green thumb like the rest of the Rigolini. 13:13.160 --> 13:15.000 You got something for me, Gino? 13:15.000 --> 13:16.000 Yeah. 13:16.000 --> 13:17.000 Don't marry a- 13:17.000 --> 13:18.000 Besides that. 13:18.000 --> 13:19.000 Oh. 13:19.000 --> 13:23.840 Medical report on the deceased identified as George Harvey. 13:23.840 --> 13:26.080 Dead on arrival approximately 36 hours. 13:26.080 --> 13:27.080 Go on. 13:27.080 --> 13:32.520 He lived in a nicely furnished apartment on West 38, but he is from Allen Springs originally. 13:32.520 --> 13:33.520 Where? 13:33.520 --> 13:35.200 This is a surmise we must make- 13:35.200 --> 13:36.280 Allen Springs? 13:36.280 --> 13:40.240 The one in Churchill County, Nevada, not the Allen Springs near Allentown. 13:40.240 --> 13:41.960 Go on, Gino. 13:41.960 --> 13:44.880 Newspapers in his room, the local Gazette. 13:44.880 --> 13:48.960 A bill of sale from a piece of property there, sold last year. 13:48.960 --> 13:53.200 Also various knickknacks as befit the room of those west of the Great Divine. 13:53.200 --> 13:54.840 Okay, okay. 13:54.840 --> 14:00.160 Also, initial questioning of his apartment manager revealed that his checking-in card 14:00.160 --> 14:01.640 said Allen Springs. 14:01.640 --> 14:06.040 Also, that he has lived at this address for the last year. 14:06.040 --> 14:07.040 Willy nilly. 14:07.040 --> 14:08.040 Willy nilly? 14:08.040 --> 14:09.040 Comes and goes. 14:09.040 --> 14:10.040 No set schedule. 14:10.040 --> 14:14.880 No visible means of support, and that's all I got for you, Danny. 14:14.880 --> 14:15.880 Thank you, Gino. 14:15.880 --> 14:18.880 Go buy seeds. 14:18.880 --> 14:27.360 The next morning, legwork against squalls of March wind crested with rain, and on brownstone 14:27.360 --> 14:32.420 and pavement the great stains where the chill wet has sunk deep, and a small boy lifting 14:32.420 --> 14:36.480 his head to it, taking the slap of it across his face. 14:36.480 --> 14:41.440 Legwork now in a street whispering winter's death, in the furled kites making stick shadows 14:41.440 --> 14:46.080 in the novelty shop display, in the face of a girl pressed against an upstairs window, 14:46.080 --> 14:51.080 and withdrawing behind fall of lace pattern when she sees you looking at her. 14:51.080 --> 14:54.840 Neighborhood street for the piecing together of attitudes and emotions and reflections 14:54.840 --> 14:58.920 on the life of a man who had lived in this street, and who was found dead in the winter 14:58.920 --> 15:01.880 weeds of a vacant lot not far away. 15:01.880 --> 15:07.600 Try his apartment house, and a neighbor, young woman, pale, drawn. 15:07.600 --> 15:10.200 Can't give you much time as she is sickly in the morning. 15:10.200 --> 15:12.720 George Harvey, dead, like I feel. 15:12.720 --> 15:17.560 What was to know about him, except my husband said to me, don't bother to talk to him, Celia. 15:17.560 --> 15:20.680 Don't give that George Harvey the time of day, and don't accept nothing you hear. 15:20.680 --> 15:23.440 I'm telling you for your own good, Celia. 15:23.440 --> 15:28.280 And other neighbors, just because they happen to live in the same place as the man now dead, 15:28.280 --> 15:33.320 just put in your little book, no comment, mister, no comment, period. 15:33.320 --> 15:36.200 Back into the street, try a shop. 15:36.200 --> 15:38.280 George Harvey, yes, he traded here. 15:38.280 --> 15:40.520 Good customer, paid off bills like clockwork. 15:40.520 --> 15:46.520 Not much to talk to, but a good payer, week to week, like clockwork. 15:46.520 --> 15:49.520 And another shop. 15:49.520 --> 15:52.520 Hello. 15:52.520 --> 16:09.080 Hello, is Mr. Carson in? 16:09.080 --> 16:10.080 He's in court today. 16:10.080 --> 16:11.080 Sorry. 16:11.080 --> 16:12.080 Just a minute. 16:12.080 --> 16:13.080 You'd like to see Mr. Carson? 16:13.080 --> 16:14.520 I'm from the police, Danny Clover. 16:14.520 --> 16:17.360 The gentleman who was here talking to Bob yesterday. 16:17.360 --> 16:18.360 That's right. 16:18.360 --> 16:22.520 Bob wouldn't want me to send you away, and I wouldn't. 16:22.520 --> 16:23.520 Come in. 16:23.520 --> 16:24.520 Thanks. 16:24.520 --> 16:27.520 I can phone Bob, try to, anyhow. 16:27.520 --> 16:30.960 If he's finished at court, he'll be having a cocktail. 16:30.960 --> 16:31.960 I'll call the bar. 16:31.960 --> 16:32.960 Maybe you'd better not bother. 16:32.960 --> 16:33.960 Well, I don't mind. 16:33.960 --> 16:36.960 It would be something to do. 16:36.960 --> 16:37.960 Oh. 16:37.960 --> 16:40.160 Well, make up your mind. 16:40.160 --> 16:41.160 A couple of questions. 16:41.160 --> 16:42.160 Sit down. 16:42.160 --> 16:43.160 Thanks. 16:43.160 --> 16:44.160 It's about the... 16:44.160 --> 16:46.560 Don't say something exciting, will you? 16:46.560 --> 16:50.560 Remark about me and let me giggle girlishly and wag a finger. 16:50.560 --> 16:52.760 Better see if you can get your husband on the phone, Mrs. Carson. 16:52.760 --> 16:53.760 Just anything. 16:53.760 --> 16:56.920 Throw an ashtray through a window and make some noise. 16:56.920 --> 17:01.000 Real tough just sitting here, huh? 17:01.000 --> 17:05.160 I thought you were the man from the drugs with the double solitaire deck. 17:05.160 --> 17:08.160 My neighbor next door comes in later for double solitaire. 17:08.160 --> 17:09.160 Go ahead. 17:09.160 --> 17:10.160 Go ahead. 17:10.160 --> 17:14.960 Your father-in-law, Harry Carson, he's in jail under suspicion of murder. 17:14.960 --> 17:15.960 You know that, don't you? 17:15.960 --> 17:17.840 Yes, she answered. 17:17.840 --> 17:22.240 On suspicion of murdering George Harvey, do you know why your father-in-law would murder 17:22.240 --> 17:23.240 George Harvey? 17:23.240 --> 17:24.240 No, she answered. 17:24.240 --> 17:27.760 Do you know whether your husband knew George Harvey? 17:27.760 --> 17:28.760 No, she answered. 17:28.760 --> 17:29.760 I'll come back. 17:29.760 --> 17:30.760 Wait, please wait. 17:30.760 --> 17:31.760 I'm sorry. 17:31.760 --> 17:32.760 Listen. 17:32.760 --> 17:35.880 Yes? 17:35.880 --> 17:37.760 I'm sorry about what's happening. 17:37.760 --> 17:38.760 I don't understand it. 17:38.760 --> 17:43.920 I'm apart from it, like everything else in my husband's life. 17:43.920 --> 17:45.160 And I'm rude and I... 17:45.160 --> 17:47.240 What about your father-in-law? 17:47.240 --> 17:49.880 I met him at the marriage four years ago. 17:49.880 --> 17:51.800 I haven't seen him since. 17:51.800 --> 17:53.600 My husband relied on him too much. 17:53.600 --> 17:54.600 Not good. 17:54.600 --> 17:55.600 I see. 17:55.600 --> 17:57.800 Stipulation of marriage. 17:57.800 --> 18:01.200 On your own two feet if you want me, Bob, she said. 18:01.200 --> 18:04.120 See and whatever my contacts can do for your career. 18:04.120 --> 18:06.400 Neither one of us mentioned my bank account. 18:06.400 --> 18:11.480 We just look at each other and smile and understand. 18:11.480 --> 18:15.960 I'm not what you call a beaut, am I? 18:15.960 --> 18:16.960 What else can you tell me? 18:16.960 --> 18:17.960 No. 18:17.960 --> 18:18.960 Of course I am. 18:18.960 --> 18:22.000 But the smart young lawyer married me. 18:22.000 --> 18:23.000 And look what happened. 18:23.000 --> 18:24.000 What? 18:24.000 --> 18:27.880 Two months ago, just call me Bob, big corporation lawyer. 18:27.880 --> 18:28.880 My contacts. 18:28.880 --> 18:29.880 His brains. 18:29.880 --> 18:34.560 Oh, that's the neighbor, the double solitaire. 18:34.560 --> 18:40.920 Her name's Mrs. Jackson and if you nod to her on your way out and smile, you'll be doing 18:40.920 --> 18:43.920 a very nice thing. 18:43.920 --> 18:49.360 Now, come on in, Danny. 18:49.360 --> 19:00.640 Sure offers. 19:00.640 --> 19:03.440 Share it with me. 19:03.440 --> 19:04.440 Thanks. 19:04.440 --> 19:05.440 You mind? 19:05.440 --> 19:06.440 Oh, not a bit. 19:06.440 --> 19:07.440 Here, sit down. 19:07.440 --> 19:14.840 Tell it to that came in about half hour ago from Nevada State Police. 19:14.840 --> 19:17.360 The fingerprint code we put on the wires yesterday. 19:17.360 --> 19:20.280 Harry Carson, the man with shocks. 19:20.280 --> 19:23.120 They got us that Nevada that matches Carson's to the world. 19:23.120 --> 19:24.120 Carson got a record? 19:24.120 --> 19:25.120 I'd call it a record. 19:25.120 --> 19:26.120 Look, uh... 19:26.120 --> 19:27.120 Easy, boy. 19:27.120 --> 19:28.120 Easy, Danny. 19:28.120 --> 19:31.120 It's a long, hard life. 19:31.120 --> 19:33.280 Yeah, court records. 19:33.280 --> 19:36.120 Nevada briefed it for us in the teleprompter. 19:36.120 --> 19:41.440 1932, 21 years ago, a man, Harry Carson, was acquitted of the sudden death of his wife, 19:41.440 --> 19:42.440 Lola Carson. 19:42.440 --> 19:43.440 Go on. 19:43.440 --> 19:45.080 Seems he was cleaning a pistol. 19:45.080 --> 19:47.080 Out West they do that a lot. 19:47.080 --> 19:51.120 Harry Carson was cleaning this pistol and his wife walked in and it went off and she 19:51.120 --> 19:52.120 dropped down dead. 19:52.120 --> 19:55.440 Their kid, Robert, was there, saw it all. 19:55.440 --> 19:59.240 And the peers of Allen Springs, Nevada pronounced Harry not guilty. 19:59.240 --> 20:01.520 21 years ago, way out West. 20:01.520 --> 20:02.520 Allen Springs? 20:02.520 --> 20:03.520 Uh-huh. 20:03.520 --> 20:07.960 Same place George Harvey found dead in a vacant lot, got hometown gazettes from. 20:07.960 --> 20:13.560 Same man as George Harvey who got a payoff of 125 smackers a week just for standing on 20:13.560 --> 20:15.880 the street corner every Monday around noon. 20:15.880 --> 20:17.280 Denison, get him. 20:17.280 --> 20:18.280 Yeah, I'll get him. 20:18.280 --> 20:25.920 Meet you in the interrogation room in about an hour. 20:25.920 --> 20:35.120 Are you comfortable, Mr. Carson? 20:35.120 --> 20:36.120 Cigarette? 20:36.120 --> 20:42.880 Your son will be here in a few minutes, Mr. Carson. 20:42.880 --> 20:46.560 I want you to read something, Mr. Carson. 20:46.560 --> 20:47.560 Go ahead, read it. 20:47.560 --> 20:51.000 All right, I'll read it to you. 20:51.000 --> 20:55.360 It's a report from our medical examiner. 20:55.360 --> 20:59.480 Patient exhibits no discernible organic disturbances. 20:59.480 --> 21:05.600 The fact of his having recognized a man in the morgue and having talked there plus certain 21:05.600 --> 21:10.640 reaction tests lead to the conclusion that the apparent state of shock is assumed. 21:10.640 --> 21:13.880 You know what that means, Mr. Carson? 21:13.880 --> 21:16.080 It means you're bluffing. 21:16.080 --> 21:18.240 Right in here, Bob. 21:18.240 --> 21:19.240 Hi, Denny. 21:19.240 --> 21:20.240 Fine. 21:20.240 --> 21:23.160 How are you feeling, Bob? 21:23.160 --> 21:24.800 I'll have you out of here tomorrow. 21:24.800 --> 21:27.600 I was just reading Dr. Sinsky's report to your father. 21:27.600 --> 21:29.200 There's nothing wrong with it. 21:29.200 --> 21:31.000 Look, what do you fellas want me to do? 21:31.000 --> 21:32.440 I've got a wife waiting for me. 21:32.440 --> 21:35.040 She tell you to bring back a couple of decks of cards? 21:35.040 --> 21:36.040 Hey, now. 21:36.040 --> 21:38.640 That pose was in the Sunday supplement, Bob. 21:38.640 --> 21:39.640 Very good. 21:39.640 --> 21:40.640 Listen, I'm a busy man. 21:40.640 --> 21:41.640 I'm a man who... 21:41.640 --> 21:42.640 Yeah, big corporation lawyer. 21:42.640 --> 21:43.640 We know, we know. 21:43.640 --> 21:44.640 Real proud of you, son, aren't you, Mr. Carson? 21:44.640 --> 21:45.640 Let's take a word like motive and play with it for a while, huh? 21:45.640 --> 21:46.640 Motive for what? 21:46.640 --> 21:47.640 The murder of George Harvey. 21:47.640 --> 21:48.640 George Harvey. 21:48.640 --> 21:49.640 Now, who is George... 21:49.640 --> 21:50.640 Your dad's buddy. 21:50.640 --> 21:51.640 He used to give him 125 bucks a week. 21:51.640 --> 21:52.640 That's the basis of friendship if I ever heard one. 21:52.640 --> 21:53.640 You remember George Harvey, don't you, Bob? 21:53.640 --> 21:54.640 Sure he does, Denny. 21:54.640 --> 21:55.640 After all, how big is Allen Springs, Nevada? 21:55.640 --> 21:56.640 Everybody knows. 21:56.640 --> 21:57.640 Everybody. 21:57.640 --> 21:58.640 Roping, steering, driving, driving. 21:58.640 --> 21:59.640 Everybody knows. 21:59.640 --> 22:00.640 Everybody knows. 22:00.640 --> 22:01.640 Everybody knows. 22:01.640 --> 22:02.640 Everybody knows. 22:02.640 --> 22:03.640 Everybody knows. 22:03.640 --> 22:04.640 Everybody knows. 22:04.640 --> 22:05.640 Everybody knows. 22:05.640 --> 22:09.640 Allen Springs, Nevada, everybody knows. 22:09.640 --> 22:10.640 Everybody. 22:10.640 --> 22:11.640 Roping, steering, chivalries. 22:11.640 --> 22:13.120 Those people are folk out there. 22:13.120 --> 22:14.120 Everybody knows everybody. 22:14.120 --> 22:17.120 Oh, look, Denny, his eyes just lit up. 22:17.120 --> 22:19.520 He just said to himself, oh, that George Harvey. 22:19.520 --> 22:22.040 You boys got a formal charge to bring against my father. 22:22.040 --> 22:24.640 Now, you just try that and I'll take it from... 22:24.640 --> 22:27.640 Hello there, Mr. Carson. 22:27.640 --> 22:29.640 Glad you're having fun. 22:29.640 --> 22:30.640 Bob. 22:30.640 --> 22:33.640 Bob, shut up. 22:33.640 --> 22:35.640 Now we can clear it all up, Mr. Carson. 22:35.640 --> 22:38.640 We can do what your son said, bring formal charges against you. 22:38.640 --> 22:40.640 How you been, son? 22:40.640 --> 22:41.640 Just don't say anything, Bob. 22:41.640 --> 22:43.640 I asked you, how you been? 22:43.640 --> 22:44.640 Now, don't be stupid. 22:44.640 --> 22:45.640 You're doing fine. 22:45.640 --> 22:46.640 You going to fix it, son? 22:46.640 --> 22:50.640 As long as you two men are talking, one of you can tell me who killed George Harvey. 22:50.640 --> 22:51.640 Don't be coy. 22:51.640 --> 22:52.640 Just one of you raise your hand. 22:52.640 --> 22:55.640 Son, I want to tell you something. 22:55.640 --> 22:56.640 Son. 22:56.640 --> 22:57.640 What? 22:57.640 --> 22:58.640 I'm tired. 22:58.640 --> 23:02.640 He said he's tired, Bob. 23:02.640 --> 23:05.640 Let's see what he could be tired about. 23:05.640 --> 23:07.640 Paying blackmail to George Harvey? 23:07.640 --> 23:09.640 No reason to be tired about that anymore. 23:09.640 --> 23:10.640 Harvey's dead. 23:10.640 --> 23:13.640 Just about the time when you could afford to pay more blackmail, Bob. 23:13.640 --> 23:15.640 Just about the time you got where you wanted to get. 23:15.640 --> 23:16.640 Where your wife wanted you to get. 23:16.640 --> 23:18.640 Where your father wanted you to get. 23:18.640 --> 23:19.640 Up, Pop. 23:19.640 --> 23:20.640 Big man. 23:20.640 --> 23:22.640 Son, you're my pride and joy, only I'm tired. 23:22.640 --> 23:23.640 Listen, Pop. 23:23.640 --> 23:24.640 Another scheme? 23:24.640 --> 23:26.640 Tired of those tools. 23:26.640 --> 23:27.640 Blackmail. 23:27.640 --> 23:29.640 Mr. Carson paying it to a man who knew a secret. 23:29.640 --> 23:30.640 The blackmail and he went up. 23:30.640 --> 23:32.640 The man who knew a secret is dead. 23:32.640 --> 23:35.640 Son, you ought to have a good answer for that. 23:35.640 --> 23:37.640 You've got a good education. 23:37.640 --> 23:39.640 I sure saw you got one. 23:39.640 --> 23:41.640 These guys have got nothing, Pop. 23:41.640 --> 23:45.640 My educated son says you fellas have got nothing. 23:45.640 --> 23:47.640 Well, let me just fumble around for a moment, huh? 23:47.640 --> 23:49.640 About the secret. 23:49.640 --> 23:52.640 About your wife, Mr. Carson. 23:52.640 --> 23:53.640 Tell you man something. 23:53.640 --> 23:54.640 Go ahead. 23:54.640 --> 23:56.640 Silence is a wonderful thing. 23:56.640 --> 23:58.640 All this time I've been keeping quiet. 23:58.640 --> 24:00.640 All this time I've been faking. 24:00.640 --> 24:02.640 Did a lot of good. 24:02.640 --> 24:04.640 Most of the time I was left alone. 24:04.640 --> 24:06.640 Most of the time I've been thinking. 24:06.640 --> 24:08.640 About your wife, Mr. Carson. 24:08.640 --> 24:10.640 How she died. 24:10.640 --> 24:12.640 How she was killed. 24:12.640 --> 24:14.640 All sorts of things a man thinks about. 24:14.640 --> 24:16.640 Especially at my age. 24:16.640 --> 24:18.640 A man takes time to think. 24:18.640 --> 24:20.640 He can arrange things orderly. 24:20.640 --> 24:22.640 Which one of you killed George Harvey? 24:22.640 --> 24:26.640 How's it going to sound coming out legal talk, son? 24:26.640 --> 24:27.640 You don't know what you're doing. 24:27.640 --> 24:29.640 No, I wouldn't say that. 24:29.640 --> 24:32.640 All these years I guess I knew what I was doing too. 24:32.640 --> 24:34.640 Seeing you got along covering for you. 24:34.640 --> 24:37.640 Like I figured a dad should do for a son. 24:37.640 --> 24:40.640 Especially if he's a bright kid like you. 24:40.640 --> 24:45.640 Tell him son, for the love of heaven, be a man for once. 24:45.640 --> 24:47.640 Tell him you killed George Harvey. 24:47.640 --> 24:48.640 Crazy. 24:48.640 --> 24:50.640 How you got me to cover again. 24:50.640 --> 24:52.640 Convinced me you'd work it all out. 24:52.640 --> 24:53.640 Crazy old man. 24:53.640 --> 24:55.640 Maybe, maybe I am. 24:55.640 --> 24:58.640 The man's got a 12 year old boy who shoots his mother. 24:58.640 --> 25:01.640 He think it's just a boy in a terrible accident. 25:01.640 --> 25:04.640 He tells himself that and he believes it and he tries to cover. 25:04.640 --> 25:06.640 It's out of his mind you can see that. 25:06.640 --> 25:07.640 Then George comes along. 25:07.640 --> 25:09.640 A fellow who knew what happened 21 years ago. 25:09.640 --> 25:14.640 Found a way to get some money on account of my son was getting important. 25:14.640 --> 25:16.640 Well, I'm tired. 25:16.640 --> 25:17.640 Get us to Nargapur, Denison. 25:17.640 --> 25:20.640 Yeah. 25:20.640 --> 25:22.640 We'll want to get this all in writing, Mr. Carson. 25:22.640 --> 25:24.640 Sure. 25:24.640 --> 25:28.640 You wrecked it, didn't you, Papa? 25:28.640 --> 25:31.640 I didn't mean to do it on his papa. 25:31.640 --> 25:33.640 Here, you take the gun. 25:33.640 --> 25:36.640 You make it all right. 25:36.640 --> 25:41.640 21 years ago and again the other day. 25:41.640 --> 26:06.640 And 21 years ago I didn't even whip you. 26:06.640 --> 26:11.640 Broadway's almost empty now except for those who never quit. 26:11.640 --> 26:17.640 Those who wear peepholes for eyes, the dream walkers, the people who want to laugh. 26:17.640 --> 26:22.640 They search behind doorways, in alleys, through shuttered windows. 26:22.640 --> 26:28.640 They never go home because they can't. 26:28.640 --> 26:35.640 It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, 26:35.640 --> 26:39.640 the loneliest mile in the world. 26:39.640 --> 26:42.640 Broadway. 26:42.640 --> 27:00.640 My Beat. 27:00.640 --> 27:09.640 Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Crouchen as Muggerman. 27:09.640 --> 27:16.640 The program is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Curry. 27:16.640 --> 27:22.640 In tonight's story, Herb Butterfield was heard as Harry and Whitfield Connor as Robert Carson. 27:22.640 --> 27:27.640 Featured in the cast were James McCallion, Larene Tuttle, Jerry Hausner, and Eddie Fields. 27:27.640 --> 27:31.640 Bill Anders speaking. 27:31.640 --> 27:37.640 CBS Radio's new Sunday evening theater of stars finds Robert Taylor in the spotlight tomorrow evening. 27:37.640 --> 27:43.640 Mr. Taylor will play a westerner who sends for a mail order bride and when she arrives, brother. 27:43.640 --> 27:47.640 Somehow or other a whale of a rancher's spute develops. 27:47.640 --> 27:55.640 Be listening for Robert Taylor and his mail order bride on most of these same stations tomorrow evening presented by CBS Radio. 27:55.640 --> 28:02.640 Stay tuned now for CBS Radio Farm News which follows immediately over most of these same stations. 28:02.640 --> 28:26.640 And remember for thrilling dramas of escape, listen Sunday nights to the CBS Radio Network. 29:02.640 --> 29:04.640 Thank you.