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The strange doctor weird.
Good evening. Come in.
There was the matter surely are not nervous perhaps it will help calm you if I tell you
a story I heard just the other day about a fortune that can be yours for the taking.
All you have to do is go and get it I call the story the house where death lived.
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My story the house where death lived in with two men crouching in the bushes staring at
a great lonely old mansion on top of a wind swept here.
And there it is spooky old joining here I like this job and that's couldn't ask for anything
easier but somehow that place gives me a creep what do you mean you're a detective remember
a private dick here to protect the old boy all right well OK let's get on inside and
tell you all guy the detectives Murphy and Smith are here now wait a minute in town they
said old man Crawford has a handyman who stays with him until after dark and then goes home
we're going to wait I'd rather see the old man alone you get me.
And so the two men waited in the gathering darkness outside until Frank the handyman
left for the night two moments later they banged the old bronze knocker on the front
door of the.
They must be allowed to speak or a court.
Yeah yeah we are.
Are coming great you'll find me upstairs in my bedroom.
A minute later or Joshua Crawford sitting up in bed to visit us so you're my
detectives but if you're at Murphy and which of your Smith I'm Sam Murphy and this is my
partner Bill Smith I'm glad you're here very glad I have work for you to do in a vault
in the cellar at your worth a quarter of a million dollars and those jewels must be
carefully guarded because they're bait for a trap I'm setting a trap to catch seven
murderers trapped to catch seven murders ten years ago I was a wealthy man I had a
home in Long Island and I had a daughter whom I love I had a son-in-law who's like
a son to me then one night when I was away on business a gang of thieves seven of them
invaded my house they were after the jewels I kept in a vault there a vault to which
only I knew the combination you know me to shut up. Go on Mr Crawford those seven men
would not believe I was the only one who could open that vault in the end they killed
my daughter and her husband I see so you are that Crawford yes I spent my entire
fortune trying to trace the criminals in the end I succeeded you did yes I learned
their names they were called Big Jim Donovan and Trigger Thompson Nicky Lavender Tony
Morton Freddie Lake Johnny Frisco and Lefty Williams a tough bunch of monkeys how do you
know that I know I spent a million dollars to find out and all my money was gone over
the jewels for which my children were murdered those I kept they came here with them to bait
a trap for murder you mean that mission I know where five of those seven men are all
except Johnny Frisco and Lefty Williams now I say I know those men are guilty even though
I couldn't prove it in court would you agree that they should be punished absolutely Mr
Crawford and if I can learn them here would you help me execute them yes help me to punish
these men I've named and the jewels in the vault are yours. What do you say where your
men those rats deserve executing and Mr Crawford if you can get them inside this house we'll
be the executioner. In just a moment we'll return to our story and learn what happens
to the murder trap set by old Joshua Crawford meantime I believe Dr Weir would welcome a
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I see Dr. Weird is ready for the rest of tonight's play doctor now to continue my little story
of the house where death lived old Joshua Crawford promising to tell the detective more
about his strange plan for vengeance in the morning as the Smith and fallen asleep and
Smith and Murphy are talking. The idea him trying to punish seven tough killers and there's
something about this setup I don't like I forget it just lucky sent for us our good
luck say some day we'll run across Big Jim Donovan and one of the others and tell them
about it when I get a laugh and I come to think of it where is Big Jim and trigger and
Nicky these days he's our years open we've heard a word of him for months and they're
smart and lying low that's all now can it with you we got something to do tonight we
got to prove we're good detectives by finding that ball those jewels are in come on let's
get going. For
a now the two men silently proud of the big how I know Joshua Crawford Smith then in a
park on the other side of the. Door is a dummy see but here's the door of
a ball right behind it yeah yeah but look at it it's like a bank book we never get it
open but what are we going to do wait
a little more and see if we can get the old man to tell us the combination now we'll get
that combination from him tonight. How about that combination Mr Crawford or shall I tell
Sam to use that cigarette again. Right. Right.
And left and you know seven right. And left and.
Now try it. That does it you're telling the truth and a lot of good it'll do him come
on let's see what's inside. Great gosh whole room in here I'll say it is
a wall of solid stone to look at the little table the cash box on open they got to do
with it. I'll say it has look at them I am through
being and those a quarter of a million bucks. Yeah what's so funny oh what a laugh that
crazy old coot saying he was going to use this I for a paper seven murderers now we
got the bank I don't like it down here come on let's put the ice in our pockets and get
out of here OK I'm ready. But I'm not all door it's just not can't be what it is
there's no way to open from this side but it's got to be what you can.
We're locked in how could it be. When you left it the cash box electric mechanism
locked the vault door when the rat took the bait that's his voice yes I mean that
a loud speaker the whole house is wired without speakers and microphones you see I
heard every word you want to listen to the crowd but you've got to run we want to
really going to hurt you. To be sure. I don't know directly behind the cash box
yeah I think I'm going to go ahead yeah I think I'm going to go back here to go
help me push even though I was so. I find it
a much larger room in there I come on bill must be way out of all the clothes on
the right. You won't be lonely about you.
Find many old friends to keep you company but you don't know how you're out.
Seven coffins seven coffins in a row on the floor.
Find your friends dry air is preserved them very well. They can't down on this one
and here is the constant.
For you and I wish to confess and I don't like what you mean to do but you are
joining first going lefty with the last two of the seven murderers I've been
thinking but. You were clever for being
a cook to keep and Endism became private. Confession can.
Come. But you think of a look. At the又 promotes an electric chair.
OK is the prophet went red I had done
a crystal though it was like a we've been. Found a out family to hear it if you've
a. I can't come down to let you out you can't get
a little bit. Right in the morning.
A. I. Hope you. Know. Unfortunately
for all Mr Crawford was unable to release his two victims from the track he took
for them in the morning we found tied up and laughing unable to speak a single
intelligent word he's in an asylum now still out the first go and let me and
there still down in that secret room near pocket stop with you but by now of
course they're probably quite dead so if you want to do it you only have to go
there and open the wrong thing you have to go now. Too bad. But perhaps you can
drop in on me again so I'm always home. Just look for the house on the other side
of the cemetery the house of Dr Weir.
That man will be back here again in a moment with a word about next week's
gout thing like meantime it's not very far from the gout of fact and having
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