WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:17.560 Crime and Peter Chambers. 00:17.560 --> 00:23.120 Created by Henry Kane, transcribed and starring Dane Clark. 00:23.120 --> 00:40.000 A private investigator, duly licensed and duly sworn, Peter Chambers. 00:40.000 --> 00:41.920 You're a private eye. 00:41.920 --> 00:43.960 That's your business. 00:43.960 --> 00:46.760 Anything else, that's for laughs. 00:46.760 --> 00:52.560 In a lot of laughs tonight, you were pub crawling during the visiting firemen bit at the taverns 00:52.560 --> 00:54.520 and the beast roads. 00:54.520 --> 00:59.840 You're on your way home now and you're going to stop off at Krauss' new stand for the papers. 00:59.840 --> 01:04.160 Old man Krauss, he's been there as long as you can remember. 01:04.160 --> 01:06.080 And then you see the commotion. 01:06.080 --> 01:09.200 Somebody's working the old man over, beating him to the ground. 01:09.200 --> 01:11.240 You get there as fast as you can. 01:11.240 --> 01:16.320 Oh, oh, oh, oh, it's you, Mr. Chambers. 01:16.320 --> 01:17.320 Thank the Lord. 01:17.320 --> 01:18.760 Easy, easy, does it, Mr. Krauss. 01:18.760 --> 01:19.760 Come here, come here. 01:19.760 --> 01:20.760 Come on, let me help you up. 01:20.760 --> 01:21.760 Up. 01:21.760 --> 01:22.760 There you are. 01:22.760 --> 01:24.960 Did you see him, Mr. Chambers? 01:24.960 --> 01:25.960 Did you see who it was? 01:25.960 --> 01:28.000 No, he ran off as he saw me coming. 01:28.000 --> 01:29.640 Did you get a look at him, Mr. Krauss? 01:29.640 --> 01:30.640 No, I was just closing. 01:30.640 --> 01:32.800 He hit me from behind and then he jumped me. 01:32.800 --> 01:34.640 But why you? 01:34.640 --> 01:37.000 Where does a man like you fit in with a beating? 01:37.000 --> 01:39.520 It was more than that, Mr. Chambers, more than a beating. 01:39.520 --> 01:40.520 What are you talking about? 01:40.520 --> 01:42.720 Whoever it was wanted to kill me. 01:42.720 --> 01:48.160 Why, you're a peaceful man, Mr. Krauss, a thoughtful, peaceful, philosophical man. 01:48.160 --> 01:49.160 Everybody loves you. 01:49.160 --> 01:51.160 It seems not everybody. 01:51.160 --> 01:54.560 Well, look, I'm going home with you. 01:54.560 --> 01:56.200 No, no, no, no, I'm taking you home. 01:56.200 --> 01:57.720 You need not bother, Mr. Chambers. 01:57.720 --> 01:58.720 I am not afraid. 01:58.720 --> 02:00.560 Come along, come along now, Mr. Krauss. 02:00.560 --> 02:02.320 Thank you, thank you. 02:02.320 --> 02:11.360 You are very kind. 02:11.360 --> 02:14.560 He doesn't live far and he's none the worse for his experience. 02:14.560 --> 02:18.720 You get him home and he's fumbling with the key and the old fashioned lock. 02:18.720 --> 02:22.760 So these old eyes are not what they used to be. 02:22.760 --> 02:25.680 There, please follow me, Mr. Chambers. 02:25.680 --> 02:28.320 I will put the light on. 02:28.320 --> 02:30.040 But he doesn't have a chance to put the light on. 02:30.040 --> 02:36.400 Neither of you have a chance to do a thing. 02:36.400 --> 02:39.760 Guy who was inside waiting for Krauss, he was in a dark room, but he was facing the 02:39.760 --> 02:40.760 light of the hallway. 02:40.760 --> 02:42.120 And that was all to the good. 02:42.120 --> 02:46.440 He couldn't see much of you or of Krauss, just your silhouettes, but you could see him. 02:46.440 --> 02:49.520 And better than that, you recognized him. 02:49.520 --> 02:52.600 Maybe Krauss didn't know who his assailant was, but you did. 02:52.600 --> 02:57.800 Well, he's gotten clean away, so there's nothing to do now but find the light switch 02:57.800 --> 02:59.160 and look to Mr. Krauss. 02:59.160 --> 03:01.280 Come on, Mr. Krauss. 03:01.280 --> 03:02.280 Mr. Krauss. 03:02.280 --> 03:03.280 You all right? 03:03.280 --> 03:04.280 Yeah. 03:04.280 --> 03:08.240 Now look, I'll get a towel and some water. 03:08.240 --> 03:09.240 Just there we are. 03:09.240 --> 03:10.240 Sure. 03:10.240 --> 03:11.240 Right there on the floor. 03:11.240 --> 03:12.240 Sure. 03:12.240 --> 03:14.240 I don't think you're hurt very badly. 03:14.240 --> 03:15.240 There. 03:15.240 --> 03:16.720 It's nothing. 03:16.720 --> 03:20.080 It's nothing at all. 03:20.080 --> 03:22.280 It's a scratch, a bullet crease. 03:22.280 --> 03:26.160 Ah, you're as good as new. 03:26.160 --> 03:27.600 Once more, let me help you up. 03:27.600 --> 03:28.600 Be my guest. 03:28.600 --> 03:29.600 Yes. 03:29.600 --> 03:32.080 Lucky, pretty lucky. 03:32.080 --> 03:35.760 Twice in one night, and I'm still around to talk about it. 03:35.760 --> 03:37.000 I will sit here. 03:37.000 --> 03:38.000 Good. 03:38.000 --> 03:41.120 Why, somebody should want to kill me. 03:41.120 --> 03:42.800 Maybe a month ago, but not now. 03:42.800 --> 03:43.800 What's that? 03:43.800 --> 03:45.600 A month ago what? 03:45.600 --> 03:47.360 You ever hear of Big Benny Larson? 03:47.360 --> 03:48.360 Who hasn't? 03:48.360 --> 03:49.360 Big Benny, big goon. 03:49.360 --> 03:52.440 Well, there was a fight one night in front of my newsstand. 03:52.440 --> 03:55.920 Big Benny knifed a man, Mr. Snufnose Ancelino. 03:55.920 --> 03:56.920 I saw it all. 03:56.920 --> 03:57.920 Oh. 03:57.920 --> 04:01.520 While Mr. Snufnose was in the hospital and they were wondering whether he would live, 04:01.520 --> 04:06.560 the police assigned protection to me because I was the only witness. 04:06.560 --> 04:11.520 Then Mr. Snufnose pulled through and he didn't press charges and Big Benny was released and 04:11.520 --> 04:14.120 the protection of police was taken away. 04:14.120 --> 04:19.520 There's no reason anymore for Big Benny to harm me. 04:19.520 --> 04:20.600 Then who else? 04:20.600 --> 04:23.520 I have no idea, Mr. Chambers. 04:23.520 --> 04:27.520 Look, you ever hear of the dancer? 04:27.520 --> 04:29.120 The dancer? 04:29.120 --> 04:30.120 Slick Hood from Chicago. 04:30.120 --> 04:32.920 His name is Dancic or something, but they call him the dancer. 04:32.920 --> 04:34.760 I have never been to Chicago, Mr. Snufnose. 04:34.760 --> 04:37.600 One of those tall, slender, handsome guys. 04:37.600 --> 04:40.960 Beautiful, but deadly is the front end of a loaded gun. 04:40.960 --> 04:43.080 Oh, murder that one for the ladies. 04:43.080 --> 04:45.520 But what does this have to do with... 04:45.520 --> 04:46.760 Nothing, nothing, nothing. 04:46.760 --> 04:48.360 Just started a train of thought. 04:48.360 --> 04:51.480 Now look, Mr. Krauss, you're going to the police with him. 04:51.480 --> 04:52.480 No, no, no. 04:52.480 --> 04:53.480 I've had enough of police. 04:53.480 --> 04:55.520 I have a gun and a license for it. 04:55.520 --> 04:56.520 Now listen, I... 04:56.520 --> 04:57.840 I am not afraid. 04:57.840 --> 05:00.720 It is only that I do not understand it. 05:00.720 --> 05:02.300 Do you have a family, Mr. Krauss? 05:02.300 --> 05:04.640 Just a daughter, an adopted daughter, Irene. 05:04.640 --> 05:06.440 She is married now to a lawyer, Frank Buckley. 05:06.440 --> 05:08.240 Well, you're going to tell her about this? 05:08.240 --> 05:09.240 No. 05:09.240 --> 05:10.240 Why not? 05:10.240 --> 05:13.280 Well, we are not really friends anymore. 05:13.280 --> 05:15.160 She has gone away from me. 05:15.160 --> 05:17.760 I hardly see her anymore. 05:17.760 --> 05:19.760 Well, you mind if I talk with her? 05:19.760 --> 05:21.440 Well, I cannot stop you. 05:21.440 --> 05:23.880 Well, that sort of wraps it up, I suppose. 05:23.880 --> 05:29.280 Look, I'm getting out of here, Mr. Krauss, but you bolt that door after me and use that 05:29.280 --> 05:30.280 gun if you have to. 05:30.280 --> 05:31.280 Thank you. 05:31.280 --> 05:33.200 Thank you very much, Mr. Chambers. 05:33.200 --> 05:43.080 And please do not worry about me. 05:43.080 --> 05:45.080 But you do worry. 05:45.080 --> 05:50.800 You go home and you try to sleep, but it tampers with your dreams. 05:50.800 --> 05:52.700 Where is the connection? 05:52.700 --> 05:59.120 Why should a dull boy like the dancer be looking to eradicate a peaceful citizen? 05:59.120 --> 06:04.320 The old man said he never heard of him, and you believe Krauss. 06:04.320 --> 06:09.800 You sleep finally, but it's like sleeping under a winking neon light. 06:09.800 --> 06:12.960 And in the morning, you're looking up an address in the phone book. 06:12.960 --> 06:13.960 Frank Buckley. 06:13.960 --> 06:18.240 It's on 57th Street, and it turns out to be a combination of home and office. 06:18.240 --> 06:20.120 A lawyer that's plugging at his business. 06:20.120 --> 06:21.120 Nothing more. 06:21.120 --> 06:22.120 No rich, big estate guy. 06:22.120 --> 06:23.880 Yes, Mr. Chambers, please sit down. 06:23.880 --> 06:26.240 Make yourself comfortable. 06:26.240 --> 06:33.160 Mr. Buckley, bald, thin, angular, 50ish, a lot of loose skin hanging under his jowls. 06:33.160 --> 06:34.880 Would you like a cigarette, Mr. Chambers? 06:34.880 --> 06:36.120 No, no, thank you. 06:36.120 --> 06:37.120 Not now. 06:37.120 --> 06:40.680 Mr. Buckley, it's really your wife I want to talk to. 06:40.680 --> 06:41.680 So? 06:41.680 --> 06:42.680 Why? 06:42.680 --> 06:43.680 Well, sir, I'm a private detective. 06:43.680 --> 06:44.680 Private detective? 06:44.680 --> 06:45.680 This is not in the line of business. 06:45.680 --> 06:48.240 I'm a friend of an elderly gentleman, a Mr. Krauss. 06:48.240 --> 06:49.680 Oh, yes, yes. 06:49.680 --> 06:50.680 My wife's father. 06:50.680 --> 06:53.120 Well, an attempt was made on his life last night. 06:53.120 --> 06:55.960 He won't go to the police with it, and I thought perhaps if I talk with Krauss' 06:55.960 --> 06:56.960 daughter, your wife... 06:56.960 --> 06:59.240 My wife and I have been separated for the past six months. 06:59.240 --> 07:00.240 Oh. 07:00.240 --> 07:01.440 She's already instituted a divorce proceeding. 07:01.440 --> 07:02.760 I'm sorry to hear that. 07:02.760 --> 07:09.240 But in a matter like this, she's now living at Eastburn Apartments on 74th. 07:09.240 --> 07:10.240 Thank you, sir. 07:10.240 --> 07:12.480 How is the old man? 07:12.480 --> 07:13.480 Working as always. 07:13.480 --> 07:14.760 Well, he won't have to work long. 07:14.760 --> 07:17.760 He'll be quite independent in a short... 07:17.760 --> 07:19.720 Old man Krauss, independent? 07:19.720 --> 07:20.720 You mean rich or something? 07:20.720 --> 07:21.720 How come? 07:21.720 --> 07:23.640 I'm sorry, slip of the tongue, sir, a matter of my profession. 07:23.640 --> 07:24.640 Attorney and client. 07:24.640 --> 07:25.640 Privilege, communication. 07:25.640 --> 07:26.640 Okay, okay, with me. 07:26.640 --> 07:29.920 All I want her to know is where I could reach Irene, Mrs. Buckley. 07:29.920 --> 07:30.920 Yes, of course. 07:30.920 --> 07:33.760 And if there's anything I can do for the old gentleman, please don't hesitate. 07:33.760 --> 07:34.760 All right, then. 07:34.760 --> 07:36.440 Good morning, Mr. Buckley. 07:36.440 --> 07:41.880 And a very good morning to you, sir. 07:41.880 --> 07:44.680 Next stop, Eastburn Apartments. 07:44.680 --> 07:49.120 Not too swanky, not too slummy, about in the middle. 07:49.120 --> 07:53.100 But the occupant of apartment 7G. 07:53.100 --> 07:55.240 Nothing in the middle about that one. 07:55.240 --> 07:57.560 The word is gorgeous. 07:57.560 --> 08:02.160 Not soft gorgeous or mushy gorgeous, but hard like granite. 08:02.160 --> 08:05.520 Glittering gorgeous, like a diamond. 08:05.520 --> 08:06.520 But gorgeous nonetheless. 08:06.520 --> 08:11.920 Well, ain't you the handsome one? 08:11.920 --> 08:12.920 Mrs. Buckley? 08:12.920 --> 08:16.200 I'm using my maiden name, Irene Cordone. 08:16.200 --> 08:17.200 I thought it was Krauss. 08:17.200 --> 08:19.200 Should have been, but it ain't. 08:19.200 --> 08:21.780 I was in show business before I got married. 08:21.780 --> 08:23.360 How would you like this? 08:23.360 --> 08:29.640 And now, ladies and gentlemen, Miss Irene Krauss. 08:29.640 --> 08:32.360 Black hair, black eyes, and a loose red mouth. 08:32.360 --> 08:34.680 Young and quite a figure. 08:34.680 --> 08:40.120 She's wearing high heel lounging shoes, white shorts, and a white bandana. 08:40.120 --> 08:43.160 And that's about it. 08:43.160 --> 08:45.360 Like a drink, Mr. Mr. 08:45.360 --> 08:47.880 Chambers, Peter Chambers. 08:47.880 --> 08:49.840 Do you like it? 08:49.840 --> 08:50.840 Little drinky, handsome? 08:50.840 --> 08:53.280 Well, it's a little too early in the morning for me. 08:53.280 --> 08:54.280 Oh? 08:54.280 --> 08:57.040 Look, Miss Cordone. 08:57.040 --> 08:59.640 I wish you'd talk to your father, Father. 08:59.640 --> 09:00.640 Oh. 09:00.640 --> 09:01.640 What's with him? 09:01.640 --> 09:04.400 A couple of attempts were made on his life last night. 09:04.400 --> 09:05.880 The old man? 09:05.880 --> 09:10.020 Somebody, somebody near to him ought to tell him one of two things. 09:10.020 --> 09:11.020 Like what? 09:11.020 --> 09:15.280 Either he goes to the police, or he kind of stays holed up. 09:15.280 --> 09:17.400 At least until this thing clears. 09:17.400 --> 09:18.400 What's your interest? 09:18.400 --> 09:19.400 I'm a friend. 09:19.400 --> 09:22.360 Well, if you're such a good friend, why don't you tell him? 09:22.360 --> 09:24.320 I've told him, but he's stubborn. 09:24.320 --> 09:26.400 Stubborn with you, stubborn with me. 09:26.400 --> 09:29.120 Furthermore, the old man and I. 09:29.120 --> 09:33.080 Well, we kind of don't see eye to eye anymore. 09:33.080 --> 09:36.400 When did you see him last? 09:36.400 --> 09:39.920 I haven't seen him since I broke up with my husband. 09:39.920 --> 09:40.920 Maybe six months. 09:40.920 --> 09:43.520 Been in Chicago, maybe five months of that. 09:43.520 --> 09:45.080 Only got back a few weeks ago. 09:45.080 --> 09:47.520 I still think you ought to talk to him. 09:47.520 --> 09:49.520 Quite a busybody, aren't you? 09:49.520 --> 09:52.080 Well, some say yes, some say no. 09:52.080 --> 09:54.840 But you're cute, I'll say that. 09:54.840 --> 09:58.360 You know, I'm a sucker for a good looking man. 09:58.360 --> 10:03.080 Are you sure you won't join me in a drink? 10:03.080 --> 10:04.080 Some other time, sister. 10:04.080 --> 10:07.080 Oh, make it soon, brother. 10:07.080 --> 10:09.680 Sure, sure. 10:09.680 --> 10:20.560 I'll be expecting you. 10:20.560 --> 10:26.000 A man eater, that Irene Cordoney Buckley Krause. 10:26.000 --> 10:30.680 You take your leave, slightly reluctant, but you take your leave. 10:30.680 --> 10:34.640 You figure you've done your bit and you've got your own work to attend to. 10:34.640 --> 10:40.460 Like pulling open the office window and letting the air in and looking over the mail. 10:40.460 --> 10:44.240 But you detour to pick up the papers at Krause's. 10:44.240 --> 10:47.060 But Krause's new stand is closed. 10:47.060 --> 10:51.200 So you're on your white horse again, making for Krause's apartment. 10:51.200 --> 10:52.880 Come in, Mr. Chambers. 10:52.880 --> 10:53.880 Just got back myself. 10:53.880 --> 10:56.240 Where have you been, Mr. Krause? 10:56.240 --> 10:57.240 A funeral. 10:57.240 --> 10:58.240 Funeral? 10:58.240 --> 11:00.680 The old lady, Regina Kent. 11:00.680 --> 11:02.160 You must have known the old lady. 11:02.160 --> 11:04.360 Regina Kent, her funeral? 11:04.360 --> 11:05.360 Yeah. 11:05.360 --> 11:08.440 Well, look, you can't take that so hard. 11:08.440 --> 11:11.600 She must have been past 90 years of age. 11:11.600 --> 11:14.080 Death must come, Mr. Krause, sooner or later. 11:14.080 --> 11:16.720 Sure, but not by murder. 11:16.720 --> 11:18.480 The old lady? 11:18.480 --> 11:20.280 Look, you're not making sense, Mr. Krause. 11:20.280 --> 11:21.800 It is sense. 11:21.800 --> 11:22.800 I wish it wasn't. 11:22.800 --> 11:24.160 When did it happen? 11:24.160 --> 11:25.680 Couple of days ago. 11:25.680 --> 11:27.360 She was coming from the movies. 11:27.360 --> 11:28.360 Bang! 11:28.360 --> 11:29.360 Shots in the head. 11:29.360 --> 11:31.120 You mean a mugger, a thief, one of those things? 11:31.120 --> 11:32.160 Nothing was stolen. 11:32.160 --> 11:33.160 She was killed. 11:33.160 --> 11:38.160 The kind old lady killed, meaningless, for no reason. 11:38.160 --> 11:40.400 She was a good friend of yours, wasn't she, Mr. Krause? 11:40.400 --> 11:41.400 Yes, yes. 11:41.400 --> 11:43.440 Twenty years she is a customer. 11:43.440 --> 11:46.760 And many evenings we talk and talk for hours. 11:46.760 --> 11:49.080 A fine, wonderful old lady. 11:49.080 --> 11:50.400 And rich, too. 11:50.400 --> 11:52.720 Reputed to be worth, oh, maybe half a million. 11:52.720 --> 11:55.200 Richest, my boy, is in the heart. 11:55.200 --> 11:58.560 Well, it doesn't hurt in a pocketbook, either. 11:58.560 --> 11:59.560 That is true, too. 11:59.560 --> 12:00.560 Hey, wait a minute. 12:00.560 --> 12:02.120 You're not quite as impractical as you sound. 12:02.120 --> 12:05.320 Didn't you once tell me that you recommended a lawyer to her? 12:05.320 --> 12:08.360 If she didn't think you had a practical size, she wouldn't have asked your advice for a 12:08.360 --> 12:09.360 lawyer. 12:09.360 --> 12:10.360 Yes, yes. 12:10.360 --> 12:11.600 It's a long time ago. 12:11.600 --> 12:17.000 And my son-in-law, Frank Buckley, and she was very satisfied, remained his client all 12:17.000 --> 12:21.080 the way till now. 12:21.080 --> 12:23.000 And what about your problem, Mr. Krause? 12:23.000 --> 12:24.000 Problems? 12:24.000 --> 12:25.000 Me? 12:25.000 --> 12:26.000 Well, last night. 12:26.000 --> 12:27.800 Ah, crazy people, crackpots. 12:27.800 --> 12:29.360 Somebody must be making a mistake. 12:29.360 --> 12:31.800 Now, look, you're not going back to work, are you? 12:31.800 --> 12:34.760 Sure, I'm not afraid, Mr. Chambers, not at all. 12:34.760 --> 12:37.800 And do not worry, you see. 12:37.800 --> 12:42.080 I carry, how do you call it, the neutralizer. 12:42.080 --> 12:44.120 I have it from the first war yet. 12:44.120 --> 12:46.160 And you're not going to talk to the cops about it? 12:46.160 --> 12:47.160 No, no. 12:47.160 --> 12:49.320 Do not worry about old Krause. 12:49.320 --> 13:01.120 Ah, you are a good, kind man, Mr. Chambers. 13:01.120 --> 13:05.200 So the good, kind man starts minding his own business. 13:05.200 --> 13:12.640 You go to the office and pull up the window, let the air in, and read your mail. 13:12.640 --> 13:15.480 Then you listen to the ballgame. 13:15.480 --> 13:19.120 Then you call downtown to headquarters to detect Lieutenant Parker, but they tell you 13:19.120 --> 13:23.720 he's out of town and will be back until 10 in the evening. 13:23.720 --> 13:28.280 Client falls in and you're busy for the rest of the day, and pretty soon it's nighttime, 13:28.280 --> 13:29.280 after 10. 13:29.280 --> 13:33.520 And you're at headquarters because that Krause thing is buzzing around in your head like 13:33.520 --> 13:35.400 it's a beehive. 13:35.400 --> 13:37.880 Well, always a pleasure, Mr. Private Eye. 13:37.880 --> 13:43.560 You bring the breath of springtime into this dank old office, or is that the breath of 13:43.560 --> 13:44.560 scotch? 13:44.560 --> 13:47.240 Detective Lieutenant Louis Parker, aces all the way. 13:47.240 --> 13:49.880 Good friend, good cop, good companion. 13:49.880 --> 13:52.840 Well, seriously, Pete, you look a little worried. 13:52.840 --> 13:54.360 Something I can do for you? 13:54.360 --> 13:55.360 Maybe... 13:55.360 --> 14:00.080 Just tell Papa Parker anything to get the creases out of your fart. 14:00.080 --> 14:01.080 Old man Krause. 14:01.080 --> 14:03.440 The guy who owns the new stand-up, Joey? 14:03.440 --> 14:05.240 Yeah, has he got anything to fret about? 14:05.240 --> 14:06.240 Like what? 14:06.240 --> 14:08.040 Big Benny Larson or his goons? 14:08.040 --> 14:10.000 No, not a thing. 14:10.000 --> 14:13.480 Snuff-nose Angelino is a rabbit, afraid to sign a complaint. 14:13.480 --> 14:17.280 Puts Big Benny in the clear and Benny's not looking to make trouble for the old man. 14:17.280 --> 14:19.880 Benny makes trouble only when he has to. 14:19.880 --> 14:21.280 That's one worry off my mind. 14:21.280 --> 14:23.280 Oh, you got more? 14:23.280 --> 14:24.720 Got a little curiosity. 14:24.720 --> 14:26.840 Fire away, friend. 14:26.840 --> 14:27.840 Regina Kent. 14:27.840 --> 14:34.440 Little old tame, 90 years of age, gets knocked off with a bullet in her brain and strictly 14:34.440 --> 14:36.480 a professional job. 14:36.480 --> 14:37.480 Real peculiar deal. 14:37.480 --> 14:38.920 Has it got any angles? 14:38.920 --> 14:40.320 No, not yet it ain't. 14:40.320 --> 14:42.040 Unless you call bafflement an angle. 14:42.040 --> 14:43.880 You got an idea about the torpedo? 14:43.880 --> 14:45.200 We got better than that. 14:45.200 --> 14:46.800 Got a full and perfect description. 14:46.800 --> 14:47.800 Now what's holding you back? 14:47.800 --> 14:51.960 I haven't got anybody that fits the full and perfect description. 14:51.960 --> 14:53.320 This is confidential, Pete. 14:53.320 --> 14:54.320 Of course, Louis. 14:54.320 --> 14:57.460 We got a witness to that Regina Kent killing that nobody knows about. 14:57.460 --> 14:58.460 Not even the newspapers. 14:58.460 --> 15:00.160 A lady by the name of Benson. 15:00.160 --> 15:01.160 Benson? 15:01.160 --> 15:02.680 She was sitting in her bedroom. 15:02.680 --> 15:03.680 It was dark. 15:03.680 --> 15:04.680 She couldn't sleep. 15:04.680 --> 15:06.840 Happens to have the next apartment to this Regina Kent. 15:06.840 --> 15:08.120 She saw our torpedo? 15:08.120 --> 15:10.480 Saw him clear and saw him long. 15:10.480 --> 15:13.640 He was hanging around for quite a time waiting for the old lady. 15:13.640 --> 15:15.480 Mrs. Benson kept watching him. 15:15.480 --> 15:18.800 Then when Regina Kent appeared, she saw the actual shooting. 15:18.800 --> 15:21.000 Saw him jump into a car and drive off. 15:21.000 --> 15:22.800 And she looked over your rogue's gallery. 15:22.800 --> 15:24.080 Looked over everything. 15:24.080 --> 15:25.080 Most cooperative. 15:25.080 --> 15:29.720 Burnished us a full description, ready to identify the guy whenever we pick him up. 15:29.720 --> 15:31.320 Let's hear that description, Louis. 15:31.320 --> 15:40.320 Well, he's a good looking boy about six feet tall. 15:40.320 --> 15:44.880 Parker talks and your heart starts rapping at your chest like a fist on a door. 15:44.880 --> 15:49.800 Because what you're listening to is a perfect description of the dancer. 15:49.800 --> 15:52.000 I wonder if they can't find a guy to fit the description. 15:52.000 --> 15:56.720 This is a Chicago guy, a guy who was never arrested, never printed, never mugged. 15:56.720 --> 15:58.440 What are you getting excited about, Petey? 15:58.440 --> 15:59.440 Stick around, pal. 15:59.440 --> 16:00.440 Why? 16:00.440 --> 16:01.440 I may be of some help. 16:01.440 --> 16:02.440 So why should I stick around? 16:02.440 --> 16:03.440 Why shouldn't I go with you? 16:03.440 --> 16:04.880 Because that's the way I want it, this trip. 16:04.880 --> 16:07.840 Oh, the private eye and his various moods. 16:07.840 --> 16:09.840 Okay, detective, I stick around. 16:09.840 --> 16:11.240 What do I stick around for? 16:11.240 --> 16:12.240 Phone call. 16:12.240 --> 16:13.240 From me. 16:13.240 --> 16:15.000 I'd like a little more dope. 16:15.000 --> 16:16.700 I'd love a little more dope. 16:16.700 --> 16:18.960 Your friend Krauss, he's gonna be rich. 16:18.960 --> 16:20.760 Ah, it's the second time I've heard that. 16:20.760 --> 16:22.160 This time it's authentic. 16:22.160 --> 16:23.500 Regina Kent made a will. 16:23.500 --> 16:27.200 She leaves all her dough to charity except $200,000. 16:27.200 --> 16:28.440 I guess who gets that? 16:28.440 --> 16:29.440 I give up. 16:29.440 --> 16:31.440 Oh, man, Krauss, yeah. 16:31.440 --> 16:33.360 200,000 solid smackers. 16:33.360 --> 16:35.000 But remember, it's still confidential. 16:35.000 --> 16:37.240 The will ain't been probated yet. 16:37.240 --> 16:39.400 We got to see it on police business. 16:39.400 --> 16:42.240 See, there's gotta be a lawyer. 16:42.240 --> 16:43.240 Huh? 16:43.240 --> 16:44.240 Who made that will for her? 16:44.240 --> 16:45.240 Who was the lawyer? 16:45.240 --> 16:46.240 A guy by the name of Frank Buckley. 16:46.240 --> 16:47.240 That's it. 16:47.240 --> 16:48.240 Goodbye, Louis. 16:48.240 --> 16:49.240 Hey, what's your hurry? 16:49.240 --> 16:50.240 Where are you going? 16:50.240 --> 16:51.240 I- 16:51.240 --> 16:59.600 So, back to 57th Street. 16:59.600 --> 17:03.160 You rouse Frank Buckley out of his dreams and you set him up on the facts. 17:03.160 --> 17:06.080 He tries to make with the legal palaver, but you shake him out of it. 17:06.080 --> 17:10.080 And finally you throw him the jackpot question. 17:10.080 --> 17:12.620 Did your wife know about Regina Kent's will? 17:12.620 --> 17:13.620 Well, I- 17:13.620 --> 17:14.840 Unanswer me, Mr. Buckley. 17:14.840 --> 17:15.840 Yes, yes. 17:15.840 --> 17:17.960 I told her when the old lady originally made the will. 17:17.960 --> 17:20.960 I thought it'd please her to know that someday her foster father... 17:20.960 --> 17:24.960 After all, she was my wife then. We were living together, husband and wife. 17:29.960 --> 17:33.960 Next stop, Eastburn Apartments. 17:33.960 --> 17:36.960 And the lady herself answers. 17:36.960 --> 17:41.960 She's wearing tight silk slacks and a tight silk blouse in her hands. 17:41.960 --> 17:45.960 You shove in before she got a chance to shove you out. 17:45.960 --> 17:49.960 You asked me to come back, remember? You said you'd be expecting me. 17:49.960 --> 17:54.960 Well, you're a little premature, sweetie. Right now I'm expecting my future husband. 17:54.960 --> 17:56.960 The dancer, huh? Well, he sent me with a message. 17:56.960 --> 17:59.960 Messages, messages. He's due here any minute and he sends me... 17:59.960 --> 18:05.960 Hey, how do you know about the dancer? What are you doing here anyway? 18:05.960 --> 18:07.960 Patching up with a little hunk of murder. 18:07.960 --> 18:08.960 Get out, get out! 18:08.960 --> 18:09.960 Relax, lady. 18:09.960 --> 18:10.960 You get out before I fling this glass at you! 18:10.960 --> 18:11.960 You'll fling what? 18:11.960 --> 18:19.960 She misses, but it gives you the excuse to do what you were going to do anyway. 18:19.960 --> 18:22.960 You clip her under the chin, not too hard, just enough. 18:22.960 --> 18:25.960 And she sighs and slides to the floor. 18:25.960 --> 18:28.960 Then you go into action with the adhesive bit. 18:28.960 --> 18:32.960 The underworld teaches the upper world a lot of little tricks. 18:32.960 --> 18:35.960 You find the tape in the medicine cabinet and you wrap her wrist behind it. 18:35.960 --> 18:37.960 Tie her ankles tight and put a gag across her mouth. 18:37.960 --> 18:39.960 You carry her to the bedroom and lock the door... 18:39.960 --> 18:44.960 and then you're back in the living room and you're waiting for a murderer. 18:47.960 --> 18:50.960 You open the door for the dancer and you hit him first. 18:50.960 --> 18:54.960 And you pull him in afterwards. 18:54.960 --> 18:59.960 Then you take his gun away from him and you slap him back to consciousness. 18:59.960 --> 19:00.960 What? 19:00.960 --> 19:01.960 Come on, Eric. 19:01.960 --> 19:02.960 What's going on, Eric? 19:02.960 --> 19:05.960 Nothing, nothing except a little chit-chat before you get hauled off. 19:05.960 --> 19:06.960 Hulled off where? 19:06.960 --> 19:08.960 First, police headquarters. 19:08.960 --> 19:10.960 And after that there's a hot little chair up at Sing Sing. 19:10.960 --> 19:11.960 Why, you... 19:11.960 --> 19:12.960 Careful, fella, careful. 19:12.960 --> 19:14.960 You're looking at your own gun. 19:14.960 --> 19:15.960 And I take it, it's loaded. 19:15.960 --> 19:16.960 Who the devil are you? 19:16.960 --> 19:18.960 I'm a busybody by the name of Chambers. 19:18.960 --> 19:20.960 Nemesis to you. 19:20.960 --> 19:21.960 So what's it all about? 19:21.960 --> 19:24.960 One, the murder of an old lady, Regina Kent. 19:24.960 --> 19:27.960 Two, the attempted murder of old man Krauss. 19:27.960 --> 19:28.960 You're nuts. 19:28.960 --> 19:30.960 I got a witness by the name of Benson who says I ain't... 19:30.960 --> 19:32.960 Why should I want to bump an old woman? 19:32.960 --> 19:33.960 All right, let me tell you. 19:33.960 --> 19:37.960 A doll by the name of Irene Cordoni shows up in Chicago a few months ago. 19:37.960 --> 19:40.960 She goes for good-looking guys and you're a good-looking guy. 19:40.960 --> 19:42.960 You're also a hard guy and she makes you a proposition. 19:42.960 --> 19:43.960 Like what? 19:43.960 --> 19:44.960 Like this. 19:44.960 --> 19:47.960 She knows from her former husband that an old lady made a will 19:47.960 --> 19:50.960 leaving 200,000 clamps to old man Krauss. 19:50.960 --> 19:53.960 Krauss happens to be this doll's foster father. 19:53.960 --> 19:55.960 He's got no other family but hers. 19:55.960 --> 19:58.960 So if the old dame Regina Kent, if she dies, 19:58.960 --> 20:00.960 old man Krauss gets 200,000. 20:00.960 --> 20:03.960 But if after that he dies, 20:03.960 --> 20:06.960 dear old Irene Cordoni Krauss, 20:06.960 --> 20:08.960 she inherits from him. 20:08.960 --> 20:10.960 So the doll propositions the dancer, 20:10.960 --> 20:11.960 knock the two of them off in that order, 20:11.960 --> 20:13.960 first the old dame, then the old man, 20:13.960 --> 20:15.960 then the doll and the dancer get married. 20:15.960 --> 20:16.960 And they live pretty good. 20:16.960 --> 20:19.960 And they can pay their rent for quite a while with 200,000 dollars. 20:19.960 --> 20:21.960 Yeah, good story, but go prove it. 20:21.960 --> 20:24.960 Don't start bullying me about no Benson who's a witness. 20:24.960 --> 20:25.960 I'm bullying you, kiddo. 20:25.960 --> 20:27.960 Sure I'm bullying you. 20:27.960 --> 20:29.960 Let me show you how I'm bullying you. 20:29.960 --> 20:31.960 See? 20:31.960 --> 20:34.960 First you pull the phone over like so. 20:34.960 --> 20:38.960 Then you dial O for operator like so. 20:38.960 --> 20:41.960 Then you say like so into the phone. 20:41.960 --> 20:43.960 Police, quickly! 20:54.960 --> 20:56.960 And so a few days later, 20:56.960 --> 20:59.960 you're back at Krauss's newsstand. 20:59.960 --> 21:03.960 You see, Mr. Chambers, I do not wear the gun anymore. 21:03.960 --> 21:05.960 Well, there's no need. 21:05.960 --> 21:09.960 And I see by your papers that the grand jury's already indicted those two. 21:09.960 --> 21:11.960 First degree murder. 21:11.960 --> 21:15.960 Ah, people are so crazy. 21:15.960 --> 21:18.960 You, uh, gone to retire on that 200,000? 21:18.960 --> 21:20.960 Me, retire? 21:20.960 --> 21:21.960 I die. 21:21.960 --> 21:25.960 No, maybe a few vacations perhaps. 21:25.960 --> 21:29.960 But Krauss works, Krauss loves to work. 21:29.960 --> 21:31.960 By the way, Mr. Chambers, 21:31.960 --> 21:33.960 there would be a fee for you. 21:33.960 --> 21:35.960 Certainly you did fine work. 21:35.960 --> 21:37.960 You will send a bill, huh? 21:37.960 --> 21:38.960 Send a large. 21:38.960 --> 21:40.960 No, no, no, no, no bill, Mr. Krauss. 21:40.960 --> 21:42.960 This one was on the house. 21:42.960 --> 21:46.960 Oh, I'm tired. 21:46.960 --> 21:50.960 I think I'll take the news and mirror and so to bed. 21:50.960 --> 22:06.960 With the news and mirror? 22:06.960 --> 22:16.960 And there you've had crime and Peter Chambers. 22:16.960 --> 22:20.960 Dane Clark was starred as Peter Chambers. 22:20.960 --> 22:25.960 Crime and Peter Chambers Transcribed was created and written by Henry Kane. 22:25.960 --> 22:28.960 Others in the cast were Bill Zuckert, heard as Lieutenant Parker, 22:28.960 --> 22:31.960 Guy Rep as Krauss, and Rita Lynn as Irene. 22:31.960 --> 22:34.960 It was directed by Fred Way. 22:34.960 --> 22:38.960 And this is Fred Collins inviting you to tune in next week, same time, same station, 22:38.960 --> 22:42.960 for Dane Clark in Crime and Peter Chambers. 22:42.960 --> 22:47.960 Thank you. 23:12.960 --> 23:17.960 Thank you. 23:42.960 --> 24:04.960 Crime and Peter Chambers has come to you through the worldwide facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 24:04.960 --> 24:29.960 The United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 24:29.960 --> 24:44.960 The United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 24:44.960 --> 24:59.960 The United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 24:59.960 --> 25:21.960 The United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.