# The Chase: Elliott Preston Is Framed for Murder (EP1250s)

An episode of [Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696519927), 24 May 2026, 46 min.

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Release Date: May 04, 2014 A man is accused of murdering his girlfriend’s uncle who stands in the way of her marrying him. Original Air Date: May 18, 1952 Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Support the show on a one-time basis at https://support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Give us a call at 208-991-4783 Take the listener survey at https://survey.greatdetectives.net Check out our social media at https://www.greatdetectives.net

## Transcript

[0:28] Welcome to the one thousand, two hundred and fiftieth episode of the Great Detectives
[0:35] of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam
[0:40] Graham. If you have a comment, send it to me Box thirteen at
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[0:58] go to support dot Great Attactives dot net. Well, we've got a
[1:03] couple of programs We're going to bring you first about a nine minute clip and
[1:08] then we'll get into our as they would say on a DVD, a feature
[1:14] presentation, the big thirty minute show, and we'll have details on that series
[1:19] in just a few minutes. But first I'd like to talk to you about
[1:23] team ups. When I was growing up, there was I was a huge
[1:29] fan of the Nancy Drew Files, the new Nancy Drew books being put out
[1:34] in the late eighties and into the nineties. The one thing I like more
[1:38] than the Nancy Drew Files was the Hardy Boys Case Files. And the one
[1:45] thing I like more than the Hardy Boys, Case Files was The Hardy Boys
[1:49] and Nancy drew super Mysteries to see for favorite characters from different stories coming together.
[1:57] It's a very unique thrill, particularly when it's done right, so it's
[2:00] not happening like every week or every book, and it's become more common as
[2:07] time's gone on. Certainly in superheroes, crossovers pretty regular thing. Detectives are
[2:14] not so much, just because they tend to be individual performers. This did
[2:17] not happen a whole lot during the Golden Age of radio or in most other
[2:23] genres. However, today I'm very pleased to bring you a little comedy sketch
[2:30] and again remember it's a comedy sketch featuring the actors who played the thin Man,
[2:36] Casey crime Photographer, and Sam Spad along with Colon Oyle Crime Doctor Detective
[2:44] series. It's a little bit subpar in my opinion, the host of Inner
[2:49] Sanctum and doctor Christian who's wasn't a detective at all, but they kind of
[2:53] needed to squeeze them in. This is from Stars in the Afternoon, which
[2:59] was an ninety minute program I stumbled across in my search for radio programming.
[3:07] Radio program Excuse Me, featuring the Great Jimmy Duranty. This was a program
[3:14] in which CBS showcased all the talent it would be offering in the course of
[3:20] its fall lineup. And they actually had two separate one and a half hour
[3:23] programs they did, and they gave a lot of these comedy and music acts
[3:30] a lot of play. The big problem you run into in a situation like
[3:34] that is wanting to showcase detective stories and other type of programs that don't lend
[3:43] themselves to a three to six minute skit. So they came up with something
[3:50] clever. Well. Certainly the way the characters are written are not exactly true
[3:54] to their radio presentation, it's still a trait to see. So many actors
[4:00] who played great attractives featured sort of in character. So here is a non
[4:05] minute clip from Stars in the Afternoon, original air date September twenty second of
[4:12] nineteen forty six, Only All Stars Calling All Stars, Rhyme Doctor, the
[4:18] host of inter Sanctum, Sam Spade, Kasey, crime Photographer, the thin
[4:24] Man, Wake up and going once to the home of Edward Disbube. Stay
[4:28] home, wealthy sportsman whose life has been threatened. Hurry on over if you
[4:31] don't hurry, it'll be all over over. Yes, yes, who is
[4:41] it, doctor Roadway crime? Doctor let me in? Oh, doctor Roadway,
[4:46] I'm glad you're here. Read this this stode I got note. Yes,
[4:51] yes, they're gonna kill me. There has to be save me,
[4:54] help me, doctor Roadway, Thank god, this and may Oh my god.
[4:58] Maybe nothing you can do is save you. You will be killed tonight
[5:02] at midnight. And it's twenty three minutes to twelve. Now don't let them
[5:08] save me. I'm too young to the hobby, old, are you?
[5:12] Mister Mayha eighty six? Eighty six is going on eighty seven? I hope.
[5:17] Well let's go too. No, they should be that eight of us
[5:20] off. First, you must answer for your questions. Oh, anything,
[5:23] anything, but with the scurry, it's nineteen minutes to twelve, it must
[5:26] be anything. Well, first, who sent this note? Who said it?
[5:30] Yes, it's not signed, very untidy way of doing business, Just
[5:32] a note that someone's going to kill you and nothing more, no signature,
[5:36] no date, no cos I come, mister day Off, I must say
[5:40] you're not being ready to co operative. Well I'm sorry, doctor odd Way.
[5:43] I know there should have been more clues, but I only got to
[5:46] note a half an hour ago. I didn't know what I was doing.
[5:47] My life was at stake. Climsy excuse well, I didn't know which way
[5:51] to turn. I called every detective I could think of. Why aren't they
[5:55] here? Oh there's somebody now? Seventeen minutes then yes, yes, was
[6:00] it? How are you doing, miss may Off? I'm Nick Charleston man.
[6:03] That's my wife, Nora is may Off. How do you do?
[6:09] Miss may Excuse me, I'm so sleepy. I beg your pardon, madam.
[6:15] This is mister Mayhoff. I'm doctor Roadway, but not the crime doctor.
[6:17] To say, Laura Darling is Doctor Rodway, the crime doctor we listen
[6:20] to every Sunday night, do we, of course? Baby, Doctor Ordway
[6:26] is the man who helps to please solve all those difficult crimes by William Deductions.
[6:30] Oh yeah, but is it strange you've never been able to catch Johnny
[6:33] breaking into those thousands of store windows. He's always coming out of. Oh
[6:41] so nice to see you, doctor. Mind if I lie down, I'm
[6:45] so sleepy, not at all. I hardly knew you with your eyes open.
[6:50] Please, it's fifteen minutes to trolle. My life is a step This
[6:55] no knife, got note, the note flitting my life? Doctor Way has
[7:00] it? Yeah, they have it. Look, how do you make of
[7:01] it? I think can help? Do you die at mid night? Who
[7:05] sent this? Who sent it? I don't know, don't know who sent
[7:11] us? No, no date, no signature. Come come, mister Mayo.
[7:14] Exactly what I told him. Naked people must get threatening letters. At
[7:16] least they can do if apply us to some clue or other. Yes,
[7:19] she's all right, back good way, always making it as difficult as the
[7:25] case. We had a year ago. Last sponsor. I wasn't a sponsor
[7:27] before that, nor Darling. What sponsor was there? Oh? Please?
[7:30] Oh yes, it's the sponsors nineteen forty four. It was a late autumn
[7:33] night. The options were just beginning to fall. We had a client like
[7:38] this, hapless man here thirty, well lucky he was going to be killed
[7:42] at nine o'clock? Fight? Is it twelve? With this specific coast time
[7:46] for the repeat broadcast? By the way, do you ever repeat badcast Broadway?
[7:48] Oh? Yes, yeah, keeps me up fright forty late. I'm
[7:50] a naked does oh yeah, Sadie. Well anyway, but this man told
[7:56] me about the notes. We took every report we folded the doors, barricaded
[7:59] the wind. Oh. We had police on every foot of ground around the
[8:01] apartment, on police doors, electric eyes, burgler alarms. Every precaution known
[8:05] of criminology was taken to see that this man would not be killed. At
[8:09] nine o'clock, Christmoster journals what happened to the man? He was killed?
[8:13] About until ten o'clock we had all gone home. He were dead, tired.
[8:16] He was dead, and he was tired. Nick Darling, please twelve
[8:22] minutes the twelve. Won't somebody do something? Mister may if I'm Casey crime
[8:26] photographer, hold it, thank you, look for it the Morning Express priest,
[8:31] mister Casey, would you please do something? I got this note.
[8:33] They're going to kill me midnight, midnight, ant wait till midnight. We
[8:37] got a price at once play that I'll take one more, but I don't
[8:39] want to lie down on the floor. I'll take this count Hello, shoot
[8:45] book, I'll take one of you too. Excuse me flash, I'm Nick
[8:48] Child and then man, this is my wife Nora. Oh hello, okay,
[8:52] I listened to you every Friday night. I should have known that was
[8:56] you ly man as a child, and I'm dot Broadway. The clime,
[9:00] not bad. I hadn't know you, doctor. I listened to you on
[9:01] Sunday nights. Thank you. Won't anybody say they listen to me on Thursday
[9:07] nights. Won't anybody listen to me tonight? I'm going to be killed at
[9:13] midnight. I'll have it more a minute, well and fight. They're gathering
[9:16] with the client crat the friend clad by the gathering. All we need now
[9:22] is Sam Spade. I am Sam Spade. Where's the body? Oh,
[9:26] mister Spain, I'm so glad you came, but there's no body here,
[9:31] nobody here. What are these people doing here? Oh? Miss the State.
[9:35] My name is doctor Roadway. This is Nick Charles and his wife.
[9:37] Noah, it's a case of the client photographer. We've all been called in
[9:39] on the case. Get going, you guys. I work alone, but
[9:43] mister Spain, in nine minutes, I'm going to be killed nine minutes.
[9:46] Okay, I'll be back. I have a check ready. Oh, I'll
[9:50] give you anything, Sad, I'll give you any anything, anything, only
[9:52] save me. You'll read it's no, no, no, I want cash
[10:00] people have I'm going to be killed at twelve o'clock. Well, let's get
[10:03] it over with I got my own broadcast to make tonight. Oh it,
[10:07] thank you, mister Day. Let's put it in the morning Express imagine of
[10:09] the case we got sponsored before last. Remember, Laura Naky, it's late.
[10:13] I'm getting sleepier by the minute. Yes, think it's three minutes to
[10:16] twelve. I'm sleepy. I need do something for me to do something a
[10:20] statement? Yes, who is this coming? Good evening? Friend? Oh
[10:37] it's the host for me to thank him? What No, b they're just
[10:43] in time, just in time for murder. Oh, don't rush me.
[10:48] I've still got two minutes and once the Inner Sanctum host doing is He's no
[10:52] detective. He doesn't even know enough to oil the hinges on his door.
[10:56] It's mister Charles, the sinastus sleuth. How are you doing, mister host
[11:05] Dracula the detectives call off of the killers like vampire, the vacuum tube,
[11:11] A little bit to the batteries and tomboy of television. Become flatterer? How
[11:16] business down at your quick joint these Monday nights, mister holl oh, gory
[11:20] be we're killing him. Love to have you down some Monday night. Would
[11:26] you like me for dinner? I tooes please, please, please, please,
[11:33] fellows, it's just a few more seconds. Can't any of you do
[11:35] anything safe? Please? Thank Gottshall, thank you. Look for it in
[11:43] the money you spread. Oh lovedy Well, we won't beat me here anymore
[11:54] anything you said, anything against you? Just a minute talk old way we
[11:58] know he said, get him don Let's make sure the corpus is the lec
[12:01] time. Somebody looking for a doctor. I'm doctor Christian. Oh, come
[12:07] on, doctor Christian? Are you every Wednesday night? I'll dody. She's
[12:11] fine, thank you, and I was missus. Charles's eeving any better?
[12:13] How's he doing? Fine? Thanks, that's good. That'll be five dollars
[12:18] five dollars. Oh, that's my five dollars. Yeah, that's my waylar
[12:24] fee for coding on the safe. What's your regular faith? For calling him?
[12:28] I'm dead? I'm sorry. I don't understand. We think your face
[12:33] is dead so fast I just got here. We think he was dead before
[12:37] we called you. My fee is still five dollars all of the chance he
[12:41] may not be dead. And if I find he's nut, he okay,
[12:46] you're the five dollars here. He is very will no pose, no heart
[12:54] beat, no blood, He's dead. Isn't he done? Not necessarily?
[13:00] What do you mean if a man has no post, no heartbeat, no
[13:03] bloody, is dead. That has been disproven or disproven Rank Sinnatra, welcome
[13:18] back. Probably the most out of character portrayal was Doctor Christian, who was
[13:24] exactly the opposite about money. But they were just having some fun and I
[13:28] hope you enjoyed it. If you do have the app or the premium sit
[13:33] we will go ahead and post the whole version of Stars in the Afternoon for
[13:39] those of you who are curious to hear all of the music and comedy that
[13:43] was pumped into that ninety minute show, which was really quite impressive. Well,
[13:48] now we turn to our main feature, and that is The Chase.
[13:52] The Chase was an NBC dramatic anthology series. In many ways, I compare
[14:01] it to escape, maybe a little bit like suspense, and it introduced this
[14:09] theme of chasing or being chased, and the result was often mystery, intrigue,
[14:16] and excitement. And today's episode one of the earlier entries in the series.
[14:24] The fourth episode, in fact, is a great example of a good
[14:28] episode of the Chase. The Chase did not have the big name stars of
[14:33] a lot of the earlier Golden Age Anthology shows, but I think they quit
[14:37] themselves quite well here, and I hope you will enjoy today's episode. The
[14:41] original air date was May the eighteenth of nineteen fifty two. The title is
[14:50] Elliott Preston is Framed for murder. The National Broadcasting Company invites you, by
[15:05] transcription to join the chase. In the animal world, there is the hunter
[15:30] and the hunter, hound and fox, hawk and sparrows, chicken and worm.
[15:35] We in the topmost species have also joined the hunt. But who is
[15:39] to judge precisely which of us are hounds or foxes? As we enter the
[15:43] chase. It was all very simple, really, and yet so complex,
[16:07] a nightmare with partial overtones. The love dear Chap was on me, I
[16:11] must confess I failed to find it amusing. I remember meeting Noreen in a
[16:19] Soho pub. Our reunions were brief at that time and clandestine, who were
[16:25] very much like two frightened mice, snatching moments of comfort together while the tomcats
[16:29] slept and scurrying to cover when the beast would stir. It's degrading, unwholesome,
[16:34] and I had made up my mind to put an end to it.
[16:38] Uncle Alfred'll never agree, Elliot. Oh why shouldn't he agree? I don't
[16:42] understand it. What is he have against me, Noreen, I don't know.
[16:47] He'll never really give me a decent explanation. I suppose he's a snub.
[16:52] He'd like me to marry someone prominently listed in Burke's peerage. I imagine
[16:56] some doddering old Fooley could boast about it and play chess with You're much too
[17:00] young and attractive for my guardian, Darling. Besides, you don't like chess.
[17:06] Do you love me? No? Ring? Would you prefer an earl
[17:10] or a duke? I wouldn't exchange the House of Lords to your little finger?
[17:14] Well, then that settles it. That settles what. I'm going to
[17:17] have it out with Sir Alfred today. You'll either grant permission for our marriage
[17:21] or I'll know the reason why. No, Elliott, I'm afraid you're afraid.
[17:26] I'm afraid of what. Uncle Alfred's such a beastly temper. You can
[17:32] be rather touchy yourself at times. Don't want any unpleasantness, Darling, particularly
[17:37] for you. Unpleasantness. I'll simply put it to him, just like that,
[17:42] A good reason for standing between us or stop meddling in our affairs for
[17:45] Elliott and I don't argue Darling. My mind's made up. Is he at
[17:51] home now? Yes? He should be well. Then I'm off to be
[17:53] at the Lion whish me like. The Ainslie House was near Grosvenor Square,
[18:11] rather large forbidding place that had been fashionable in the Edwardian era. I never
[18:15] liked it to begin with, and it took on an even stronger order of
[18:19] seediness and disrepair. As I stood before the door, on the verge of
[18:22] what would be a sordid and uncomfortable scene at best as Noreen's legal guardian,
[18:32] there was no answer to my ring, which I repeated several times. I
[18:37] was rather disappointed. Now that I had made my resolution, I wanted to
[18:41] have done with it. It soon became apparent that the house was empty,
[18:45] and I reluctantly started to turn away, because at that point I first noticed
[18:51] the blood on the outer door. I realized then that the door was ajar,
[18:57] and as I pushed it open and stepped inside the narrow hall, I
[19:00] had a premonition and a sudden, almost overpowering impulse to flee. At that
[19:04] moment, I reached Sir Alfred Ainsley's drawing room, and so I'm sprawled out
[19:08] on the floor near the telephone with a twelve inch carving knife protruding from his
[19:12] chest. Yes, yes, no, Reen, I was worried about you
[19:23] and Uncle Elphick. Where are you calling from? Is anyone with you?
[19:32] Come over to you uncle's house immediately and say nothing to anyone something frightful?
[19:40] How are you no ring? My first thought, of course, was to
[19:44] notify the police. Some instinct made me hesitate. Instead, I decided to
[19:49] make a thorough check of the body and the room, and what I subsequently
[19:53] discovered was enough for me to thank my lucky stars that I hadn't called the
[19:57] authorities. Uncle Alfred, It's horrible I found him lying here like that just
[20:06] before you've phoned. Well, well, what do you believe me? Believe
[20:14] you? Darling? Darling? Do you think for one moment that I even
[20:18] imagined you could do a thing like this? Perhaps you'll change your mind,
[20:21] Noreen, After you see what I'm going to show you what you're saying,
[20:23] Elliott, stand looking at him any closer? Try come over here. There
[20:32] is outstretched hand. Can you make out what is clutching in his fingers.
[20:37] Morena looks like a piece of silk, part of a necktie ripped from the
[20:44] bottom a necktie. Mine, what there's a particular pattern, very unusual.
[20:53] I'm here to this desk for a moment. I want to show you something
[20:56] else. What is it, Elliot? There's a letter here, evidently written
[21:02] by your uncle before his death, and plain enough view, isn't it wow?
[21:06] The letter warns me and no uncertain terms, to keep away from you.
[21:08] The first to me is a hot headed scoundrel and suggests that I'll be
[21:12] turned over to the police if I cause any further trouble. Furthermore, the
[21:15] knife now embedded in Sir Alfred's chest came from my kitchenery. I can recognize
[21:19] it by the nick and the handle. I only bought it a little over
[21:22] a week ago. On top of that, I found a second note,
[21:25] presumably from my own pen, threatening your uncle with violence. I shouldn't be
[21:30] surprised if I even found my own fingerprints on the walls the furniture, on
[21:33] the weapon itself me means that I'm being made the goat in a diabolical plot.
[21:37] Someone has deliberately and brilliantly planted enough evidence against me in this room to
[21:41] send me to the hangman. The necktie was torn from my flat. I
[21:45] missed it several days ago. The kitchen knife was also stolen. Your uncle
[21:48] wrote his no doubt about that mine was cleverly forged. Frankly, I couldn't
[21:53] tell the difference myself. If I hadn't known, I didn't write it.
[21:57] Some genius has gone and do great pains to arrange a tight little frame around
[22:02] my neck, noring a hangman's noose who I don't know. I'd better find
[22:11] him before the police find me. We could destroy the evidence that would help.
[22:18] So it was planned too clever, in probably just the beginning. It
[22:21] must be more of it around the house I've hidden in my rooms or sent
[22:25] to the police. So I was seen coming in here just now, Sir
[22:30] Alfred's name, but he was leaving his house as I rang his bell.
[22:33] He had a good look at me. What should we do, Elliott?
[22:37] Fight of all the evidence and everything, you you still believe I'm innocent,
[22:42] Darling, I love you. Isn't that enough? I'm sorry that Sir Alfred
[22:52] that doesn't matter now, Elliott. I was fond of him. It's height
[22:57] of his composity. I really thought he did everything that for me. Please
[23:04] dead, Elliot, and you're alive and in great danger? Where can I
[23:07] start and even begin to look for this villainous cutthroat? Well? Why should
[23:12] I have been made the escape? Good? Who is he? Where is
[23:17] he? Elliott? Shall I answers? Wait? Let me are you there?
[23:32] Yes? Please? Who's calling? H I'm a secretary. This is
[23:40] Thomas Travel Agency. So Elford wished to book two seats on the Bow Train
[23:44] to Paris and Cape and the Orient Express to Zurish. Two seats. Yes,
[23:48] we booked him and he can pick them up at Victoria's station. I'll
[23:53] tell him thank you. Were you supposed to go to Switzerland with the Uncle
[23:59] Mareen? I know? Did you mention the prospect of a trip to you?
[24:03] No, he has booked two seats. Who would his companion be.
[24:08] Can't imagine it unless unless what there's been something mysterious going on concerning Uncle Alfred
[24:18] and another man don't know his name. Uncle Alfred's being very busy for the
[24:23] past few weeks. Quite unusual, I mean, well with what I took
[24:29] to be business matters. Sir Alfred retired two years ago. Yes, I
[24:33] know, it in spite of that, he's been conferring with some one regularly.
[24:37] I asked him about it once, and he seemed to be taken aback.
[24:41] I remember he was short with me and told me to mind my own
[24:42] affairs. One chance, one in a million chance of what, But this
[24:51] business acquaintance may turn out to be the man we want. If he is,
[24:56] he may make use of one of those tickets to get away, possibly
[25:02] grasping for a straw, I know, but nothing else to cling to it.
[25:06] In any case, if you use one of those tickets, you can
[25:08] leave the country. I thought of that too. I'm picked up now.
[25:12] I won't have a chance. Pleast this will give me a breathing space and
[25:17] something may turn up. I think you can evade the police, Elliot,
[25:22] even for a while. Follow me, There's no question about it. Well,
[25:26] I'll be chasing someone else, the man who killed your uncle. Then
[25:32] there's a question of who catches up with whom first. Eliot at the service
[25:38] door in the rear, quickly, what about you? Never mind about me.
[25:42] They can't hold me for anything. Don't argue, Eliot. Maybe the
[25:45] police, run Darling, call the hotel alp and and Sura can ask for
[25:48] Noel Darnley. Perhaps you can join me later, Darling, wish me luck.
[26:03] The seats were reserved in the first class compartment numbers one and three,
[26:07] facing each other, and I'd left ticket number three at the station for my
[26:11] companion. When I entered the train, the compartment was empty. Just before
[26:15] departure time, my fellow passengers arrived. The first to enter was a woman,
[26:22] an American, evidently judging by her clothes, and the second as an
[26:26] elderly gentleman who supported himself with a cane. I watched this chap from the
[26:30] corner of my eye, wondering if he was my quarry. Just as the
[26:34] train started to move, a burly fellow over the pipe in his mouth.
[26:37] Walking to the compartment. He settled himself in seat number three. I beg
[26:48] your pardon. I do you have a match? Matt? I think so?
[26:53] Now what I hear? They be by Gumman. The accent was Yorkshire.
[27:03] My hands were large, eyes were bulging, and the jowls hung loose.
[27:07] The thing I noticed that made my heart taken extra beat was the small
[27:11] automatic revolver attacked inside a shoulder holster, revealed for a fraction of a second
[27:15] as his coat bulged open when he leaned over to offer me a light.
[27:22] Terrible, sir, is here a crime wave in the news? By gum,
[27:27] it's terrible now the chap was done in last night? Bugeted like a
[27:30] bloody goose. You mean the murder I they caught rually killer, though turned
[27:37] out to be poor man's business partner. What'ses country coming to? I wonder?
[27:42] I wonder too well. I'll be away from it all in a day
[27:45] or to rest in myself in a little chalet where a man can find some
[27:49] peace and quiet. You're you're on a holiday. I first won in two
[27:53] years in Switzerland, I take it. How do you know that you mentioned?
[27:59] Ah? So I did, but it's more likely it'll be a small
[28:03] hotel. I don't think I can afford to rent house of me own.
[28:08] Well, Uh, where are you found for in Switzerland? Zori? And
[28:14] then j Larkin? I've always wanted to see the ruddy young Frow. My
[28:19] name is spy by the way, her, but spy man's Dunley. No
[28:25] dundee ye Darnley. Oh something wrong, mister spare wrong? My name?
[28:36] Nothing wrong with it? Chappy, As far as I can see, you
[28:38] want to already do not business. Yeah, maybe we're running into each other,
[28:48] I hope so, mister Spain. Yeah it's funny. I could almost
[28:53] swear I've seen you somewhere before. No, I don't think you live in
[28:59] London. Yeah, yeah, my home is in Yorkshire. That I've been
[29:03] living in London now for some time. I see here, here, here,
[29:08] here. What's that on your code? Oh yeah, on the bottom
[29:14] looks like a speck of blood. That's paint. And yeah, I was
[29:21] touching a piece of pottery in my flat. I must have rushed against the
[29:26] paint pot Oh. Oh, excuse me leaving. I want to get a
[29:33] drink of water. I'll go along with you. I can stand and drop
[29:37] me soud man, I'll just push So here we are after you, mister
[29:45] Sky. This train's gotta rock to it like a roady board. The water
[29:49] crops at the end of the car. Wow, look at this. The
[29:57] train doors open. Some fool who forgot to shut it. A man could
[30:02] kill himself by falling through that all. Yes, it's it's it's dangerous.
[30:07] Reminds me of that poor frenchman. What french more you must have read about
[30:11] him? He was traveling on a Paris Express when he was pushed through an
[30:15] open train doors. Right, it was murdered, no question about it.
[30:19] Who pushed him? Nobody knows, they say, They say he learned too
[30:23] much about what? Oh a little affair that took place in Montmarch. Girl
[30:30] was killed and he knew something about it. They followed the poor lad and
[30:33] shoved him out, just as the trainman into tunnel. How horrible? Wasn't
[30:37] much left of him when they picked him up? Yes, yes, I
[30:41] can't imagine. If you lean over a bit, you can close that door.
[30:45] No, no, thank you? What's trouble. It makes me a
[30:51] little ill to look out this way? Yeah, let me laddie. Yeah,
[30:57] that's better much. Well, here's our drink. Thank you? Oh,
[31:04] by god more, it taste like he's been run through coal mine.
[31:10] Shall we go back to the compartment? Go along? Hey we are?
[31:19] Is this right? Numboot? Yes? Of course? Odd? Now what
[31:25] did I do with my ticket? Oh? Sorry, ma'am. No,
[31:30] let's have a look at that ticket of mine. Seems to me. Yes,
[31:37] something in the matter, mister spair. What was your name again,
[31:41] Chappy Dundee? No Dundee, so you said before he looked suspicious. For
[31:56] a moment, I wondered if he could actually read my mind. Then I
[32:00] saw him glance up above my head to my suitcase on the luggage track,
[32:05] where the initials plain enough to see were E keep darny eh. From that
[32:14] point on he buried himself in his paper while I fixed my eyes on the
[32:17] darkness rushing by my window. But I overplayed my hand so early in the
[32:22] game, and after an interval, the train roared into a tunnel as black
[32:27] as the darkest pit. And when we emerged into the gathering twilight, mister
[32:30] Herbert spy newspaper, pipe and baggage. It's gone. Are you there?
[32:45] Is this London? Where are you going? From Ny Paris? I'm just
[32:51] about aboard the Orient Express? Well, I think I found my Mannora.
[32:54] I lost him on the boat train and I picked him up again on the
[32:57] platform when the train reached Paris. I'm stay clear to him now, although
[33:00] he doesn't know it. I can see him from here waiting at the gate
[33:04] for the train to Zurich. I'm going to join you, darling in Switzerland.
[33:07] How are things getting on? Awful? It's been spread all over the
[33:12] papers. I've been questioned twice, and I didn't know exactly where you were.
[33:16] They released me. Will you stay zor again? No, I'm going
[33:21] on to Interlakin. I'll find you there. Are you sure you want to
[33:24] come? If I'm caught and you're with me, you don't care. I
[33:29] can't stay here alone any longer. I want to share the danger with you,
[33:31] Darling. I love you. So the train gates opened, i'd better
[33:37] go. Be careful you're not followed when you leave. Good Bye, Darling,
[33:42] goodbye, and wish me luck. I was careful not to let him
[33:52] see me on the way to Zurich, and when we changed trains for inter
[33:54] Larkin, I rode once again in a different car. I was right behind
[33:58] him a few hours later, as he entered the door or to the hotel,
[34:00] Yoch perched like a bird house on a hill with a mighty young crow
[34:02] as a background. An erman of terror against the sky couldn't happen? Good
[34:10] enough? Do you speak English? Resciancy English? Yeah? A little?
[34:16] You wish a room? Please? We have something here which is very nice.
[34:22] The view is excellent. Mayor have your registers. The name above mine
[34:31] was Herbert Spies and they've given him room number twelve, I asked for ten
[34:36] across the hall, then wondered what my next move was going to be.
[34:40] I found that decision wasn't mine to make. Some twenty minutes later, as
[34:44] I finished unpacking my bag, come in, spy, I believe I,
[35:01] mister spy, this is a coincidence. Is that? Well? I mean
[35:06] running into each other this way? You've been following me. Oh no,
[35:10] it's not quite true. Don't lie by gum. I let you trot along
[35:15] behind me, just to see how far you go. Now watch your game,
[35:19] chappy, what's yours mine? I'm on holiday, so I yeah.
[35:23] Why are you sticking to me like a roady plaster? Chappy? Now?
[35:25] Why are you trying to run away? Run away me? You left your
[35:30] compartment seat in the boat train to Paris to pause. If the seat wasn't
[35:32] mine, I'd made a really mistake. That's what my reservation was put to
[35:37] the car. And I'm sorry, mister spy. Sorry for what? For
[35:44] making a nuisance of myself? I mistok you for someone else, someone I've
[35:47] been searching for. Are you sure you? I want to know you again?
[35:52] You just make certain that happy. That's all I've got to say.
[36:05] I was more convinced than ever now that spy was my man. My time
[36:08] was growing short. I had to locate my evidence before Scotland Yard located me.
[36:14] There's a room, perhaps there might be something. He didn't leave it
[36:17] for the next twelve hours, and by the time Noreen arrived I was getting
[36:21] a bit nervy. You're quite sure no one followed you, Noreen. Positive
[36:25] and the London papers, what do they say? You've been marked? Elliot?
[36:31] It doesn't seem to be any question in their minds that I'm set for
[36:35] the news. Darling. We've got to do something. So what I intend
[36:38] to spy is our man. I'm sure of it. Here is a gun,
[36:42] he does in this room's luggage. There may be evidence, but stating
[36:45] so close to it, I can't break in. I'll get him out,
[36:49] Darling. You oh, a woman can manage those things one way or another.
[36:55] I don't want you getting mixed up with spy, Noreen. It's too
[36:58] dangerous, yes, but no, Rain, I suppose you'd say I was
[37:09] a can letting the girl. I love risk and safety for me. I
[37:14] had no choice. Besides, I was nearby in the room across the hall.
[37:17] If she needed him. He's gone, Elliot, the room's empty.
[37:22] I was not to force the issue before this. It's not too late.
[37:25] I know where he's gone, you fare There's a hotel near the summit.
[37:30] One of the porters told me. I met him in the hall. Will
[37:37] wait here. My dad going to follow him up the mountain. No choice,
[37:43] say his life now or a mine. I'm going to see this through
[37:45] clear to the finish. Whish me lucky. It's eleven thousand feet straight up
[38:05] to the Young Frayer. You're carted to the top by the highest rack railway
[38:09] in the world. The scenery is magnificent if you're enjoying it as a tourist,
[38:14] but one has little time for landscapes when one's very life depends upon the
[38:17] trip. It was four hours to the summit when I arrived. I had
[38:28] a bit of luck. As I was signing the register at the only hotel,
[38:31] I saw a spy walk into the restaurant for his dinner. I knew
[38:35] this was my chance to search his room. A pound note to the concierge
[38:39] that jured me a passkey, and a few minutes later I was going through
[38:43] his luggage forere the fine to his goney there's no need for that revolver.
[38:57] No, we can discuss this thing. How would you like to talk it
[39:01] over the constable? Don't try to fluff me, spy. Ah, you
[39:06] wouldn't turn me over to a constable and you know it. Why not?
[39:09] Because you murdered Sir Alfred Ainsley. I what, you killed him and arranged
[39:14] things so they'd told me for the crime. You must be young, Elliott
[39:16] Preston. Why why did you choose me? You never even met before.
[39:24] How in the name of heaven were able to steal those things from my flatten
[39:29] word your note in my name? Preston, You're a fool. Amma should
[39:31] have run away. No, what would you have preferred me to do?
[39:35] Take your place on the scaffold and you eat German? Oh what's that got
[39:37] to do with it? You might have read the evening paper with the latest
[39:40] London news. I saw it while I was having my dinner. What news?
[39:45] You've been cleared? The good thing for you. I took my holiday
[39:51] before Sir Alfred's murder was printed in papers. Otherwise my friend would have put
[39:55] you in handcuffs before that train left the London RAI lyards, I mean you're
[40:02] an Officer Scotland Yard and Chappie, I am on a holiday, a boatman's
[40:08] holiday, that appears to me now, she said, I was cleared.
[40:14] Oh what why? Simple enough they managed to find the real killer. They
[40:19] haven't made an arrest yet, but they're getting close. Whom are they looking
[40:22] for? Why, mister spy? The ball of shots came from behind me,
[40:36] and as he crumbled like a sack of flower right before my eyes,
[40:37] I wheeled to face the open door. She stepped into the room. The
[40:42] gun is still smoking in her hand. Noreen, Yes, Di, I'm
[40:46] so sorry. It was you, yes, who killed your uncle and then
[40:55] arranged it so they'd look for me. Too bad. It was wasted,
[41:00] had spent so much time. You have no idea how long it took me
[41:04] to pourge that letter in your hand, Elliott was absolutely nerve wracking. But
[41:08] they found you out. Yes, evidently I heerd in one way or another.
[41:15] Now it's my name, it's in the new day, and poor mister
[41:17] Spy just paid with his life for finding that out. Wow, why did
[41:25] you killself? He was opinionated that I was insane. Those two seats to
[41:32] Switzerland, Darling. He was bringing me here to consult as the charatrist.
[41:37] Then that was why all the time you were mad ridiculous, wasn't it.
[41:52] Don't be silly. Don't come near me, Elliott, give me the gun
[42:00] one step further and now shoot Narien. There was a large French window right
[42:14] behind her, and she tried to step backward out of my reach. She
[42:16] lost her footing and stumbled through the glass. It was eleven thousand feet straight
[42:22] down, and I hit my eyes with my fingers as she hurtled back like
[42:24] a stone into the void. But she disappeared from view. I almost thought
[42:30] I heard her voice as it reverberated like a frightful echo between the alpine piece.
[42:35] Na your turn, Donnie, wish me luck. In the animal world,
[42:57] there is the hunter and the hunted fox, hawk and sparrow, chicken
[43:02] and worm. We in the topmost species have also joined the hunt. But
[43:08] who is to judge precisely which of us are hounds or foxes as we enter
[43:14] the chase. The chase was created and written for the National Broadcasting Company by
[43:32] Lawrence Clee. Featured in tonight's cast were Joyce Lindon and Lester Fletcher. Others
[43:40] in the cast were Horace Braham and Guy Repp. The Chase was directed and
[43:45] transcribed by Walter McGrath. Next week, you'll hear another suspenseful story of a
[44:06] reporter pursued by sudden death in South America when you follow The Chase next,
[44:19] it's First Night Her on NBC Welcome Back. I did not see the incoming
[44:29] they really when I first listened to it, because they really did a good
[44:32] job of pointing the direction every way except the girlfriend, though perhaps you know,
[44:42] as I was listening back through it, you might have seen it a
[44:45] bit more obvious. There again, no real big names in this show,
[44:49] but I think it was a very professional, well done job, and perhaps
[44:53] we'll end up playing another episode of The Chase one of these days. All
[44:58] right, well, we we will continue on Monday. Remember we will be
[45:02] beginning with a manhunt and then proceeding through the rest of our new lineup.
[45:08] And also be sure and listen on Wednesday as we begin the adventures of Philip
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