WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.000 Broadway's My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle, 00:03.000 --> 00:07.000 the guardiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. 00:07.000 --> 00:12.000 Broadway's My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. 00:12.000 --> 00:34.000 The winds of January begin their unraveling, and Broadway shivers in doorways, 00:34.000 --> 00:39.000 submits to the lingering cold touch of their passing without regret, 00:39.000 --> 00:42.000 huddling against it, turning it back to it. 00:42.000 --> 00:46.000 But the wilderness of steel and stone, draped with glitter, whispers on the darkness. 00:46.000 --> 00:52.000 And Broadway tries again, ventures out, digs down, finds the currency of nighttime, 00:52.000 --> 00:55.000 once more lays its bets against the dealers of night. 00:55.000 --> 00:59.000 Neon is the red and black is the shadows and the numbers of rooms. 00:59.000 --> 01:04.000 Three flights up into the hall where a smile waits, for a tear. 01:04.000 --> 01:09.000 It's spinning, kid, make your play. This could be it. 01:09.000 --> 01:18.000 And the dealers pay off in another way, with the man who wipes his hands in a bar apron, offers you one. 01:18.000 --> 01:22.000 You'd ever been here before, you wouldn't say this was the same place, mister. 01:22.000 --> 01:28.000 This time of night, other nights, my little place of business is alive, teeming with frolic. 01:28.000 --> 01:29.000 What changed it tonight? 01:29.000 --> 01:31.000 The frolicers was driven away. 01:31.000 --> 01:32.000 Yeah, I can see that. 01:32.000 --> 01:38.000 Come on, wait what I got for you in the back room. Just wait, the thing to see. 01:40.000 --> 01:45.000 My back room, my cribbage room. Ain't it a shambles, mister? 01:46.000 --> 01:47.000 Who is this man? 01:47.000 --> 01:50.000 Worst shambles of all, ain't he? 01:50.000 --> 01:56.000 Russ Warner, citizen of Chicago. Two years ago, when he dropped by for a visit, he looked in better health. 01:56.000 --> 01:58.000 He dead, mister? 01:58.000 --> 02:00.000 No, a shoulder wound. The bullet almost tore it apart. 02:00.000 --> 02:03.000 He's lost a lot of blood. Why didn't you call an ambulance? 02:03.000 --> 02:07.000 I did, I did. I was laying myself odds who would get here first. You won. 02:07.000 --> 02:09.000 All right, tell me what happened. 02:09.000 --> 02:16.000 Yeah, Russ walks into my place of business. Don't even pass her how to do, just ask for the cribbage room. 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 I give it to him because no one else was in here. 02:18.000 --> 02:23.000 And maybe an hour later, another man walks in, asks for the cribbage room, I give it to him. 02:23.000 --> 02:28.000 All of a sudden, bing bang, boom, I got a bleeding man and four bullet holes in my plaster. 02:28.000 --> 02:34.000 Look, look, you see, conum as one and another. This one had a water pipe. 02:34.000 --> 02:35.000 Who was the other man? 02:35.000 --> 02:43.000 An utterly complete stranger. Tell me, mister, with personal damages like this, should I go on living? 02:46.000 --> 02:54.000 And a few minutes after that, the men salaried by the city to measure violence, photograph it, calibrated the men from technical, 02:54.000 --> 02:59.000 also the white-coated boys with stretcher and the remarks tailored to fit the occasion. 02:59.000 --> 03:05.000 Havoc and Russ Warner were being handled professionally. So leave there, go home. 03:09.000 --> 03:14.000 And the next morning, back to headquarters, down the hall, into the office. Two men are waiting for you. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 Morning, Danny. 03:15.000 --> 03:16.000 Markman. 03:16.000 --> 03:18.000 This is Lieutenant Clover, Russ. 03:18.000 --> 03:23.000 Hi, Ed. I apologize for shaking with the left hand. Sling on the right, courtesy of your medical department. 03:23.000 --> 03:24.000 How are you feeling, Russ? 03:24.000 --> 03:27.000 Fit, fit. Shoulder aches a little, that's all. 03:27.000 --> 03:30.000 Russ says he hardly knows what happened last night, Danny. 03:30.000 --> 03:31.000 All? 03:31.000 --> 03:36.000 Emotions. Like I told Detective Muggerman here, since I was a lad, a bundle of nerves. 03:36.000 --> 03:44.000 You know what a doc once told me I did? I reject. Every time something large happens to me, I reject. My mind refuses to remember. 03:44.000 --> 03:46.000 Imagine. Isn't that interesting, Danny? 03:46.000 --> 03:49.000 However did I get here in this condition, that's what I'd like to know. 03:49.000 --> 03:52.000 I want you to think about it, Russ. I want you to think hard, try to remember. 03:52.000 --> 03:53.000 I re- 03:53.000 --> 03:55.000 Don't talk, Russ. Just think. 03:55.000 --> 03:57.000 Who could have done it? What happened? 03:57.000 --> 03:58.000 Maybe I can help you, Russ. 03:58.000 --> 03:59.000 Gee, I need it. 03:59.000 --> 04:02.000 We can book you on about eight counts, the way I figure. 04:02.000 --> 04:07.000 Because I was shot? Oh, how do you like this memory of mine? It's suddenly like a- 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 What happened last night, Russ? 04:09.000 --> 04:14.000 As clear as anything. I can tell you to the detail. I walked into this back room, saw a gun on the table. 04:14.000 --> 04:18.000 I picked it up, and being cleanly by nature, I started to clean it. It went off. 04:18.000 --> 04:21.000 Fired four shots into the wall before it got to you? 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 I couldn't control it. It was alive in my hand. 04:23.000 --> 04:26.000 There wasn't any gun in that room, Russ. 04:26.000 --> 04:28.000 Wonder where it is. Wonder what we can- 04:28.000 --> 04:29.000 Danny? 04:29.000 --> 04:30.000 What do you want, Sergeant? 04:30.000 --> 04:34.000 On searching our records, I have come up some news about this Russ Warner. 04:34.000 --> 04:37.000 Good morning, Mr. Warner. I have some news about you. 04:37.000 --> 04:40.000 Last week, you were in a fight with one Joe Hayden, a street brawl. 04:40.000 --> 04:41.000 What about it, Russ? 04:41.000 --> 04:44.000 Joe's a friend of mine. We were just seeing who was stronger. 04:44.000 --> 04:45.000 You got this Joe Hayden's address, Gino? 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 Indeed I do. Here. 04:47.000 --> 04:49.000 Thanks. Lock this man up, Gino. 04:49.000 --> 04:52.000 Come along, Mr. Warner, unless you can afford not to do so. 04:52.000 --> 04:53.000 What do you mean, Sergeant? 04:53.000 --> 04:55.000 There has been set for you pending hearing. 04:55.000 --> 04:58.000 Nice round figure, too. $5,000. 04:58.000 --> 05:01.000 Material with this to whatever France spied last evening. 05:01.000 --> 05:03.000 Reach into my pocket, will you, please, Sergeant? 05:03.000 --> 05:05.000 I think you'll find the dough in my wallet. 05:05.000 --> 05:07.000 I carry such sums for emergencies. 05:07.000 --> 05:10.000 And I'm really sorry I caused all of you so much trouble. 05:10.000 --> 05:20.000 Honestly. So long. 05:20.000 --> 05:32.000 Only certain kinds of people knock like that. 05:32.000 --> 05:34.000 And you ain't fat enough to be a bill collector. 05:34.000 --> 05:35.000 This makes you what? 05:35.000 --> 05:36.000 Police. 05:36.000 --> 05:39.000 Bingo. I know it. They got an ear for talent. 05:39.000 --> 05:41.000 Let's kick it around inside, huh, Mr. Hayden? 05:41.000 --> 05:43.000 And a missus is taking her afternoon beauty sleep. 05:43.000 --> 05:45.000 Usually she comes out of it like a cat. 05:45.000 --> 05:47.000 All claws and teeth. 05:47.000 --> 05:48.000 Want to take a chance? 05:48.000 --> 05:49.000 We'll try it, huh? 05:49.000 --> 05:52.000 Brave man, brave, brave man. 05:52.000 --> 05:55.000 Brightens the day when I meet men like you. 05:55.000 --> 06:01.000 Come on in. 06:01.000 --> 06:03.000 Look at her. 06:03.000 --> 06:05.000 She makes us so for a dreamboat. 06:05.000 --> 06:07.000 Waker. 06:07.000 --> 06:11.000 Would never miss us for the world. 06:11.000 --> 06:13.000 Honey. Honey, baby. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 Come on, Laurie, wake up. 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 Come on, hit the deck, honey. 06:17.000 --> 06:19.000 We got a police. 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 Police? 06:21.000 --> 06:23.000 The magic word. Like a kiss. 06:23.000 --> 06:25.000 Yeah, Laurie, police. Come on. 06:25.000 --> 06:27.000 Well, find him a piece of fruit and send him away. 06:27.000 --> 06:30.000 Mm-hmm. Can't do that, honey. 06:30.000 --> 06:33.000 I got a feeling police want something else. 06:33.000 --> 06:34.000 What? 06:34.000 --> 06:37.000 My Laurie asked it for me. 06:37.000 --> 06:39.000 My baby Laurie. 06:39.000 --> 06:40.000 What do you want? 06:40.000 --> 06:42.000 You know Russ Warner? 06:42.000 --> 06:43.000 A chap named Warner? 06:43.000 --> 06:44.000 Let me freshen it up for you. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 You were in a fight with him last week. 06:46.000 --> 06:48.000 Oh, that Russ. 06:48.000 --> 06:50.000 What did he say, Laurie? 06:50.000 --> 06:51.000 What was the fight about? 06:51.000 --> 06:55.000 Tell him, Laurie. 06:55.000 --> 06:57.000 Yeah, sure, honey. 06:57.000 --> 07:00.000 Well, it's this way, man, from the police. 07:00.000 --> 07:03.000 Two old Chicago friends like Joe and Russ. 07:03.000 --> 07:06.000 Two old friends like that meet after two years being apart from each other. 07:06.000 --> 07:10.000 What do they do? Beat each other up. 07:10.000 --> 07:12.000 It's calm and courtesy. 07:12.000 --> 07:15.000 And Russ with a bullet hole in his shoulder, what's that called? 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 This good thing happened to Russ, nobody tells till now. 07:18.000 --> 07:21.000 Happened last night, Henry's Bar, 3rd Avenue and 12th. 07:21.000 --> 07:24.000 Oh, what do you know? 07:24.000 --> 07:27.000 Where was I last night? I need to miss a thing like that. 07:27.000 --> 07:29.000 Don't you remember, Joe? 07:29.000 --> 07:33.000 With me? You're Laurie all day. 07:33.000 --> 07:36.000 Never left my side. 07:36.000 --> 07:39.000 Sure, sure. 07:39.000 --> 07:42.000 How could I forget a thing like that? 07:42.000 --> 07:45.000 Oh, Laurie, baby. 07:45.000 --> 07:47.000 Laurie's your alibi, huh? 07:47.000 --> 07:49.000 Was there ever a prettier one? 07:49.000 --> 07:52.000 You sound real happy Russ was hurt. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 You don't see it eye to eye, you hate him? 07:54.000 --> 07:57.000 I'm full awake now, so I'll tell you. 07:57.000 --> 08:00.000 Russ and my Joe were hoods together once in Chicago, 08:00.000 --> 08:02.000 closest two years ago. 08:02.000 --> 08:05.000 Joe met me, gave it up, because I was better. 08:05.000 --> 08:07.000 I tell them, honey. 08:07.000 --> 08:08.000 Yeah, wait, Joe. 08:08.000 --> 08:11.000 A week ago Russ was standing against a lamppost, 08:11.000 --> 08:15.000 waved Joe over to him, and followed him back into the old days. 08:15.000 --> 08:18.000 They messed with it a while. Joe wanted no part of it. 08:18.000 --> 08:22.000 Joe was the one who walked away. Strong Joe. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 Because he had you? 08:24.000 --> 08:27.000 Because he had me. 08:27.000 --> 08:29.000 You know what I did to keep it that way? 08:29.000 --> 08:30.000 No, tell me. 08:30.000 --> 08:33.000 I long-distance the call to chums in Chicago, 08:33.000 --> 08:36.000 thought they'd care to know Russ Warner was loose here. 08:36.000 --> 08:38.000 Looks like they brought along a bullet. 08:38.000 --> 08:40.000 Found Russ. 08:40.000 --> 08:42.000 Huh? 08:42.000 --> 08:44.000 Gotta be, Laurie. 08:44.000 --> 08:46.000 Go back to sleep, baby. 08:46.000 --> 08:59.000 The police is leaving. 08:59.000 --> 09:01.000 You mind letting me have one of those cigarettes with you? 09:01.000 --> 09:03.000 Not at all. 09:03.000 --> 09:04.000 Light? 09:04.000 --> 09:06.000 Mm-hmm. 09:06.000 --> 09:07.000 Thanks. 09:07.000 --> 09:10.000 Why do you think that stuff would be coming over the town type in Chicago? 09:10.000 --> 09:13.000 Oh, that's standby now. 09:13.000 --> 09:15.000 Here it comes. 09:15.000 --> 09:20.000 Uh, Russ Warner arrested for assault, 1935. 09:20.000 --> 09:24.000 Assault with deadly weapon, 1937. 09:24.000 --> 09:28.000 Assault with deadly weapon, 1940. 09:28.000 --> 09:32.000 Released all three counts for lack of evidence. 09:32.000 --> 09:35.000 Known associated with Martin... 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 What's the trouble? 09:37.000 --> 09:39.000 I don't know what the trouble is, Lieutenant. They just stopped sending. 09:39.000 --> 09:41.000 The fellas play games with each other like this? 09:41.000 --> 09:43.000 That's probably Officer Westfall in Chicago. 09:43.000 --> 09:47.000 He gets the fun of a teletype machine, tries to make a drama out of it. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 Oh, here it goes. 09:49.000 --> 09:54.000 Known associated with Martin Cato suspected policy rackets. 09:54.000 --> 09:57.000 Oh, man. That isn't a whole lot. 09:57.000 --> 09:58.000 Oh, wait a minute. 09:58.000 --> 10:03.000 No arrests listed for Joe Hayden of Chicago. 10:03.000 --> 10:09.000 You know, Martin Cato left Chicago four days ago. 10:09.000 --> 10:15.000 New York City by a 1952 red convertible. 10:15.000 --> 10:19.000 Illinois license number Y1647. 10:19.000 --> 10:23.000 Suggest you check whatabouts in your city. 10:23.000 --> 10:25.000 That's Westfall, all right. 10:25.000 --> 10:27.000 He suggests we check. 10:27.000 --> 10:31.000 Someday when you have time, Lieutenant, I'll show you some of the things he said over the teletype. 10:31.000 --> 10:34.000 Thanks, Officer. I don't have the time. 10:34.000 --> 10:40.000 So another name had intruded itself, Martin Cato. 10:40.000 --> 10:45.000 A name with a familiar sound, a name bandied about at crime investigations on reform platforms 10:45.000 --> 10:50.000 and smilingly on the lips of citizens who like to bet a buck against destiny. 10:50.000 --> 10:52.000 Martin Cato was in New York. 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 Find him. Find out why. 10:54.000 --> 11:00.000 Find out why he was suddenly no longer in Chicago, but in the rough vicinity of a shooting the night before. 11:00.000 --> 11:08.000 He was easy to find, a red convertible, a big grinning man whose face had been in the newspapers often enough to be recognized anywhere. 11:08.000 --> 11:12.000 And a policeman spots him going into the Heath Hotel in Madison. 11:12.000 --> 11:19.000 Go there. Be told Mr. Cato has taken a suite on the ninth floor, so ride nine flights up for a visit. 11:25.000 --> 11:27.000 The door's open, boy. Come on in. 11:27.000 --> 11:31.000 Put the drink right over... Who are you? 11:31.000 --> 11:33.000 My name's Danny Clover. I'm from the police. 11:33.000 --> 11:34.000 Why? 11:34.000 --> 11:38.000 What are you doing in New York, Cato? You come to shoot up a man named Russ Warner? 11:38.000 --> 11:43.000 I come here because I like New York, mister. Don't you try to erase or do things you like, mister? 11:43.000 --> 11:45.000 You're just here on a visit, huh? 11:45.000 --> 11:49.000 Yeah, that's right, a visit. It's been three years I haven't ice skated in Rockefeller Center. 11:49.000 --> 11:53.000 I'm going shopping for blades today. Where's a nice place to shop, huh? 11:53.000 --> 11:57.000 Russ, Russ, don't be crazy. 11:57.000 --> 11:59.000 Cato, Cato. 12:03.000 --> 12:05.000 Russ, Russ, can you hear me? 12:05.000 --> 12:07.000 What's he got under his coat? A gun? It looked like he was... 12:07.000 --> 12:26.000 Not a gun, Cato. For hurt, Russ Warner's dead. Murdered. 12:26.000 --> 12:35.000 You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, and starring Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover. 12:35.000 --> 12:43.000 Like Old Man River, the comedy jazz keeps rolling along every Sunday night when CBS Radio presents Amos and Andy. 12:43.000 --> 12:49.000 Tomorrow night over most of these same stations, the kingfish is sure to be up to his usual monkey business. 12:49.000 --> 12:52.000 And it's sure to make a monkey out of gullible Andy Brown. 12:52.000 --> 12:56.000 Listen for yourself. Don't let one minute of the fun get away. 12:56.000 --> 13:02.000 Tomorrow and every Sunday night at CBS Radio's two and only Amos and Andy. 13:02.000 --> 13:17.000 When it's winter and the chill wind pops down from the river, Broadway is a place of regret. 13:17.000 --> 13:21.000 The new dreams made for the new year show their first fraying. 13:21.000 --> 13:25.000 The golden girls are wrapped in fur coats somebody else could afford. 13:25.000 --> 13:30.000 It's the time of the galosh, the noisy radiator, and the cold linoleum on the bare feet. 13:30.000 --> 13:36.000 The mornings are filled with the numbing hours and dead cigarettes in the bottom of paper cups. 13:36.000 --> 13:48.000 It's January, snow time, roll muffler time, the time to be on speaking terms with relatives in Miami Beach. 13:48.000 --> 13:53.000 And it was a winter's room where I was, chilled by the touch of a man newly dead, a man named Russ Warner. 13:53.000 --> 14:03.000 And standing over him, another resident of Chicago, newly arrived, the big man in the handsome clothes, the hoodlum, called Cato, called Martin Cato. 14:03.000 --> 14:08.000 One thing you have to be sure of, Mr. Twisted, any way you like, I didn't kill Russ. 14:08.000 --> 14:09.000 Oh? 14:09.000 --> 14:12.000 You were right here when he walked in. You'll know as much about it as I do. 14:12.000 --> 14:14.000 Ah, no I don't. What have you been doing all day, Cato? 14:14.000 --> 14:15.000 Sleeping. 14:15.000 --> 14:16.000 All day, huh? 14:16.000 --> 14:17.000 I'm noted for it. 14:17.000 --> 14:22.000 I'm going to tell you something. Unless you show me how I'm wrong, I'm booking you for suspicion of murder. 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 You think you can make it stick? 14:24.000 --> 14:26.000 I didn't say that. I said I'm going to book you for suspicion. 14:26.000 --> 14:28.000 And I'm going to tell you what I suspect. 14:28.000 --> 14:33.000 That you shot Russ a little while ago and left him for dead, only he didn't die. He came up here to get you, Cato. 14:33.000 --> 14:35.000 Is he wearing a gun? 14:35.000 --> 14:37.000 I'll see. 14:39.000 --> 14:41.000 Yeah, yeah he is. 14:41.000 --> 14:43.000 That makes it pretty tough for me, huh? 14:43.000 --> 14:48.000 I don't know how tough it makes it, Cato. Look, I don't want to repeat myself. It's that thing about suspicion of murder all over again. 14:48.000 --> 14:51.000 Yeah. You want to hear a story? 14:51.000 --> 14:53.000 That's up to you. 14:53.000 --> 14:56.000 Russ worked for me in Chicago. Ran errands for me. 14:56.000 --> 14:58.000 That's a pretty thrilling story. That's a- 14:58.000 --> 15:00.000 Wait a minute, will you? Let me tell you about it. 15:00.000 --> 15:01.000 Hurry up. 15:01.000 --> 15:04.000 I sent Russ on an errand for me to buy something worth a hundred thousand dollars. 15:04.000 --> 15:05.000 To buy what? 15:05.000 --> 15:10.000 A yacht, maybe. I don't remember. He had a hundred grand of mine, and he ran. 15:10.000 --> 15:11.000 And you chased him, caught up with him, and- 15:11.000 --> 15:15.000 I caught him in the back room with that bomb, Mr. Ern teased him. 15:15.000 --> 15:22.000 All right, I put a slug on his shoulder just to tell him the reason I came to New York. To let him know I want my dough. 15:22.000 --> 15:24.000 I didn't kill him. 15:24.000 --> 15:26.000 I'm glad you told me all that, Cato. 15:26.000 --> 15:28.000 You can't book me on suspicion of murder, mister. 15:28.000 --> 15:45.000 Assault with a deadly weapon. Let's try that one, huh? You won't argue that one, will you? Thanks, Cato. 15:45.000 --> 15:53.000 Shrimp boats is a-coming, they're coming tonight. Shrimp boats is a-coming, they're coming tonight. Oh, won't you hurry, hurry, hurry home? 15:53.000 --> 15:54.000 Happy, Gino? 15:54.000 --> 16:01.000 The question, hurry, hurry, hurry home, hurry, hurry home, isabah, isabah. 16:01.000 --> 16:03.000 What makes you so happy? 16:03.000 --> 16:06.000 Questions, questions, questions. Danny, I'm surprised at you. 16:06.000 --> 16:08.000 All right, but I still don't know what makes you so happy. 16:08.000 --> 16:19.000 Well, doesn't it stick out all over me, Danny? Doesn't it stick out I'm happy because one of the nation's major hoodwumas, Martin Cato by name, is now beating his head against the walls of our local pokey. True or false? 16:19.000 --> 16:20.000 True. 16:20.000 --> 16:26.000 Correct. And is it not also true Communications has been flipping its lid with the song of the teletype from our Chicago way? 16:26.000 --> 16:35.000 There's such a tigaro to wit that from the years 1945 through 48, the lonely deceased Roswanna was married to one Laurie Croft, also of shy. 16:35.000 --> 16:36.000 Laurie? 16:36.000 --> 16:48.000 The same Laurie who in the summer of 48 divorced said Roswanna and in the winter promised to love, honor, obey and alibi for one Joe Hayden. The same Joe Hayden who last week beat up Roswanna. 16:48.000 --> 16:51.000 Tell Muggerman, Geno, tell him to meet me downstairs at the squad car. 16:51.000 --> 16:54.000 Of course without saying, Danny. 16:54.000 --> 17:21.000 The effects of Roswanna were gathered, sorted and microscopeed, Danny. No hundred grand was found. Muggerman, Sergeant Tartaglia, get a squad car, meet Lieutenant Clover downstairs. That is all. 17:21.000 --> 17:22.000 Right here, Muggerman. 17:22.000 --> 17:23.000 Okay, are you sure you don't... 17:23.000 --> 17:46.000 Don't worry about it. If I need you, I'll be the first to let you know. 17:46.000 --> 17:50.000 Oh, don't I remember you from out of some deep sleep? 17:50.000 --> 17:53.000 Sure you do. I want Joe, Mrs. Hayden. 17:53.000 --> 17:54.000 Doesn't everybody? 17:54.000 --> 17:55.000 Is he in there? 17:55.000 --> 18:01.000 If he was, I'd go to a head-shrinker and have my head bumps examined for recurrent dreams about a man who is in there. 18:01.000 --> 18:02.000 I'll take a look. 18:02.000 --> 18:09.000 I'll let you do that even if you don't tickle my nose with a warrant. I'll make myself thin so you can pass through the door without us touching. 18:09.000 --> 18:10.000 Thanks. 18:10.000 --> 18:19.000 Oh, you did. Am I surprised? Two rooms. Make it two and a half. Help yourself. 18:19.000 --> 18:35.000 Where is he? 18:35.000 --> 18:44.000 What he told me while running his hand through my hair, pulling it back to my face, was he was all of a sudden called out of town. 18:44.000 --> 18:47.000 You think I should believe a man when he tells me like that? 18:47.000 --> 18:49.000 Tell you before he was going? 18:49.000 --> 18:54.000 Uh-uh. He had me enchanted. So when he says pack me a bag, I pack it for him. 18:54.000 --> 18:55.000 Oh. 18:55.000 --> 19:01.000 Yeah, oh. I take out the cardboard suitcase, toss in his shirts, a few outer garments, a few under. 19:01.000 --> 19:07.000 Dr. West's medium so his teeth will shine bright and pretty at whoever he went to smile at, wherever they are. 19:07.000 --> 19:12.000 Back then, you packed his bag, kissed him goodbye, never asked where a husband was going. 19:12.000 --> 19:13.000 Because I love him so. 19:13.000 --> 19:15.000 Maybe there was another reason. 19:15.000 --> 19:16.000 The girl has to have another reason? 19:16.000 --> 19:19.000 A hundred thousand dollars could be another one. 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 A hundred thousand? 19:21.000 --> 19:24.000 That's a sweet sound. Tell Arkham I never heard it before. 19:24.000 --> 19:27.000 A hundred thousand Joe killed Russ Warner for. 19:27.000 --> 19:30.000 Russ? That tired boy Russ had money like that? 19:30.000 --> 19:36.000 Took it away from Martin Cato, carried it around New York, lost it to Joe Hayden, abandoned his life. 19:36.000 --> 19:41.000 You think? Oh, no. Oh, you think? 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 What? 19:43.000 --> 19:47.000 Joe made me pack some bundles wrapped in old newspapers under the shoes. 19:47.000 --> 19:50.000 When I asked him what they were, he kissed my mouth shut. 19:50.000 --> 19:53.000 Said, don't worry about it, baby. 19:53.000 --> 19:56.000 You think my lover boy Joe did that to me? 19:56.000 --> 20:00.000 You know where he is, Laurie? Tell me. It'll be easier for you. 20:00.000 --> 20:03.000 The boy rented a car from the U Drive down the street. 20:03.000 --> 20:07.000 That's all I know, all he told me. 20:07.000 --> 20:09.000 Sick him, police. 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 Chain him to a wall. 20:11.000 --> 20:16.000 I'll walk back and forth in front of him just to tease. 20:16.000 --> 20:21.000 Sick him, police. 20:21.000 --> 20:24.000 So go down to the corner and question the man who runs the U Drive at Garage. 20:24.000 --> 20:28.000 Sure, you're told. The man you're looking for rented a car a few hours ago. 20:28.000 --> 20:31.000 Here's the make car and license number. 20:31.000 --> 20:33.000 So thank him and leave. 20:33.000 --> 20:39.000 Be all points bulletin, find Joe Hayden, and wait and get lucky. 20:39.000 --> 20:41.000 I picked him up at the airport, Danny. 20:41.000 --> 20:44.000 An off-duty officer was waiting to meet a friend on an incoming plane. 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 I spotted him. He's being held there. 20:46.000 --> 20:49.000 So get a squad car and ride across the face of a city. 20:49.000 --> 20:53.000 The sound you make is like broken glass slashing against its heart. 20:53.000 --> 20:58.000 You see the terror silent and quick in the blur of crowd making way for you. 20:58.000 --> 21:01.000 And finally you get there, the airport. 21:01.000 --> 21:04.000 There they are, Danny. Over there. 21:04.000 --> 21:05.000 Officer Candles is with them. 21:05.000 --> 21:08.000 Yeah, I see them. 21:08.000 --> 21:11.000 Okay, officer, we'll take it from here. 21:11.000 --> 21:12.000 You almost made it, Joe. 21:12.000 --> 21:15.000 Yeah, almost. It's the story of my life. 21:15.000 --> 21:16.000 Put them on, Muggerman. 21:16.000 --> 21:21.000 Right. Come on, come on. Don't be bashful, Hayden. Just slip these on your wrist. 21:21.000 --> 21:22.000 What happened to your car, Joe? 21:22.000 --> 21:23.000 Ditched it. 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 You almost threw us off at that, kid. 21:25.000 --> 21:27.000 You see, almost again. 21:27.000 --> 21:29.000 Okay, Muggerman, open his bag. 21:29.000 --> 21:32.000 Sure. 21:32.000 --> 21:33.000 Now what, Danny? 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 Just make sure the money's in it, then we can get out of here. 21:35.000 --> 21:38.000 Oh, bother messing up the shirts. The door was there, a rat newspaper. 21:38.000 --> 21:40.000 Yeah, you'll find it, Danny. 21:40.000 --> 21:41.000 What? 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 Nothing in here but shirts, socks, and underwear. 21:43.000 --> 21:45.000 You're crazy. The door, the 100,000, it's gotta be there. 21:45.000 --> 21:50.000 Turn that suitcase upside down, Muggerman. Empty it. 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 Shirts, socks, and underwear. 21:52.000 --> 21:54.000 That door. I don't know what goes on here, but... 21:54.000 --> 21:57.000 You know what goes on here, Joe. Now you do. 21:57.000 --> 22:10.000 Come on, let's go. 22:10.000 --> 22:13.000 Home sweet home. 22:13.000 --> 22:15.000 Let's make a big surprise. A case in my coat pocket. 22:15.000 --> 22:22.000 I'll get it. 22:22.000 --> 22:24.000 Call your wife, Joe. 22:24.000 --> 22:34.000 Laurie. Laurie Honeybun. Laurie Sweet. 22:34.000 --> 22:36.000 Hi, Laurie. 22:36.000 --> 22:37.000 Joe? 22:37.000 --> 22:39.000 Great to detect this, too. 22:39.000 --> 22:42.000 You know Lieutenant Clover's friend here is Detective Muggerman. 22:42.000 --> 22:44.000 Were you disturbing you, Mrs. Hayden? 22:44.000 --> 22:47.000 I was getting used to being without Joe. What'd you louse it for? 22:47.000 --> 22:50.000 Muggerman, that room Mrs. Hayden came on us in the bedroom. 22:50.000 --> 22:51.000 Take a look. 22:51.000 --> 22:52.000 Right. 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 They put cuffs on me, Laurie. 22:54.000 --> 22:57.000 That's real tough. 22:57.000 --> 22:59.000 Is that all you got to say? 22:59.000 --> 23:03.000 Oh, my poor Joe. How sorry I am for you. 23:03.000 --> 23:07.000 Look what's become of you. Poor Joe. 23:07.000 --> 23:09.000 Is that what you want me to say? 23:09.000 --> 23:11.000 You're forgetting something, Laurie. 23:11.000 --> 23:12.000 How's it coming, Muggerman? 23:12.000 --> 23:14.000 Give me a chance, Danny. 23:14.000 --> 23:18.000 Detective Muggerman's looking for $100,000, Mrs. Hayden. 23:18.000 --> 23:20.000 Did you hear me, Mrs. Hayden? 23:20.000 --> 23:22.000 Look, all of you, get out of here. 23:22.000 --> 23:24.000 They can't do that, Laurie. You know they can't do that. 23:24.000 --> 23:26.000 That's right. We can't. It's got murder in it. 23:26.000 --> 23:28.000 You got your boy. What more do you want? 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 Take it easy, Joe. 23:30.000 --> 23:32.000 That's better. 23:32.000 --> 23:35.000 The man said it's got murder in it, Laurie. 23:35.000 --> 23:36.000 What do I care what the man said? 23:36.000 --> 23:37.000 Danny? 23:37.000 --> 23:38.000 Yeah? 23:38.000 --> 23:40.000 Here it is. A sample. $100 bill. 23:40.000 --> 23:42.000 The rest of it's in there. A suitcase. 23:42.000 --> 23:46.000 How are you, Laurie? Dear wife, Laurie. 23:46.000 --> 23:48.000 Loving wife, Laurie. 23:48.000 --> 23:51.000 First time I was here, this place was drenched with love. 23:51.000 --> 23:53.000 What's happened to it? 23:53.000 --> 23:56.000 What's happened to it is what you said, murder. 23:56.000 --> 23:57.000 And now another thing. 23:57.000 --> 23:58.000 Greed? 23:58.000 --> 24:01.000 Yeah. Yeah, that's my Laurie. 24:01.000 --> 24:04.000 My Laurie. Oh, my. 24:04.000 --> 24:06.000 Want to tell us how you got this money, Mrs. Hayden? 24:06.000 --> 24:08.000 Yeah, I'll tell. 24:08.000 --> 24:10.000 An old friend came back to me. 24:10.000 --> 24:12.000 Russ Warner, huh? The man you were once married to. 24:12.000 --> 24:15.000 Yeah. Seems he never forgot the happiness. 24:15.000 --> 24:18.000 He remembered how he missed a few allowances when we were man and wife, 24:18.000 --> 24:20.000 and he thought he'd make it up. 24:20.000 --> 24:22.000 The consideration of the man. 24:22.000 --> 24:24.000 So you knew we weren't about the $100,000. 24:24.000 --> 24:27.000 The last time I was here, you were surprised when I mentioned it. 24:27.000 --> 24:29.000 All that money makes me coy with strangers. 24:29.000 --> 24:30.000 Cut it out, Laurie. 24:30.000 --> 24:31.000 Listen to him. 24:31.000 --> 24:33.000 They know what happened. They figured what happened. 24:33.000 --> 24:35.000 All the way here, they've been telling me. 24:35.000 --> 24:36.000 Who do you want to lie for? 24:36.000 --> 24:38.000 It's not going to do you any good. 24:38.000 --> 24:42.000 What did you tell him, Joe? 24:42.000 --> 24:43.000 What did you tell him, Joe? 24:43.000 --> 24:46.000 He didn't tell us anything. He didn't have to tell us anything. 24:46.000 --> 24:48.000 They know, Laurie. They know. 24:48.000 --> 24:51.000 How Russ showed you the money. He stole it from Cato. 24:51.000 --> 24:54.000 How he wanted you to run away with him. How you... 24:54.000 --> 24:55.000 Laurie. 24:55.000 --> 24:57.000 How you shot Russ, Mrs. Hayden. 24:57.000 --> 24:59.000 That's what your husband's trying to say. 24:59.000 --> 25:01.000 You showed the money to your husband, Mrs. Hayden. 25:01.000 --> 25:03.000 Told him to take the money and go away. You'd meet him later. 25:03.000 --> 25:08.000 You packed his suitcase for him, but somehow it slipped your mind to put the money in it. 25:08.000 --> 25:10.000 Russ knew where the money was. 25:10.000 --> 25:13.000 That's why he went to Cato, to tell him. 25:13.000 --> 25:15.000 Laurie. 25:15.000 --> 25:18.000 You just wanted me to go away, didn't you? 25:18.000 --> 25:22.000 Then you would go someplace with the money without me. 25:22.000 --> 25:26.000 Laurie, why? 25:26.000 --> 25:29.000 Laurie, if you'd have trusted me with the money, I'd have done anything for you. 25:29.000 --> 25:31.000 I would have said I'd kill Russ. 25:31.000 --> 25:34.000 Anything you wanted, I gave it to you. I tried to do it. 25:34.000 --> 25:35.000 Like Russ? 25:35.000 --> 25:37.000 What happened to us, Laurie? What did I do? 25:37.000 --> 25:39.000 Tell me what I was wrong. 25:39.000 --> 25:42.000 Listen to him crying. 25:42.000 --> 25:45.000 Just like Russ, he cried too. 25:45.000 --> 25:48.000 Before I shot him, big tears in his eyes. 25:48.000 --> 25:50.000 That big. 25:50.000 --> 25:52.000 I cried, baby. 25:52.000 --> 26:14.000 Did you ever have a woman have two husbands like that? 26:14.000 --> 26:17.000 It's a street of sounds, this Broadway. 26:17.000 --> 26:20.000 The hissing of the neon through the winter wind. 26:20.000 --> 26:23.000 The faraway echo of a girl's laughter. 26:23.000 --> 26:26.000 The rasping of life deep inside the earth. 26:26.000 --> 26:32.000 The other sounds, the sighs, the whispered pleas that no one hears. 26:32.000 --> 26:41.000 It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. 26:41.000 --> 26:58.000 Broadway, My Beat. 26:58.000 --> 27:03.000 Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, 27:03.000 --> 27:07.000 with Charles Calvert as Tertaglia, and Jack Crouchon as Morgevin. 27:07.000 --> 27:14.000 The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. 27:14.000 --> 27:20.000 In tonight's story, Mary Jane Croft was heard as Laurie Hayden, and Anthony Barrett as Joe Hayden. 27:20.000 --> 27:33.000 Featured in the cast were Jack Noyles, Hal March, and Herb Butterfield. 27:33.000 --> 27:40.000 Every Sunday night on most of these same stations, Broadway Playhouse brings you exciting, dramatic entertainment. 27:40.000 --> 27:48.000 This is the program on which an established star with national fame lends a hand to a newcomer on his or her way up the ladder towards stardom. 27:48.000 --> 27:57.000 Don't miss Broadway Playhouse Sunday nights on CBS Radio for a great story and for a personal success story as well. 27:57.000 --> 28:06.000 Bill Andrews speaking. 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