# Broadway's My Beat: The John Mooney Murder Case (EP5023)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 22 Jul 2026, 38 min.

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Today's Mystery: When a man unknowingly passes a stolen thousand-dollar bill from a long-unsolved payroll robbery, Detective Danny Clover follows a trail that leads from Broadway's underworld to a string of murders. As more bodies fall, Danny races to uncover who has been hiding the stolen money for the past five years. Original Radio Broadcast: March 22, 1952 Originating in Hollywood Starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.Also featuring Charles Calvert, Jack Kruschen, Charlotte Lawrence, Anthony Barrett, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, and Leo Cleary. Written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin. Produced and directed by Elliott Lewis. Music composed by Alexander Courage and conducted by Marlon Skiles. Support the show monthly at patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day: Ron, Patreon supporter since January 2026. Support the show on a one-time basis at support.greatdetectives.net Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener survey at survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call 208-991-4783 Become one of our friends on Facebook at facebook.com/radiodetectives Follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/greatdetectives Follow us on Twitter/X at twitter.com/radiodetectives Join us again tomorrow for another detective drama from the Golden Age of Radio.

## Transcript

[0:28] Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
[0:36] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
[0:40] Speaker 1: going to bring you this week's episode of Broadways My Beat.
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[1:36] Speaker 1: From March twenty second, nineteen fifty two, here is the
[1:41] Speaker 1: John Mooney murder case.
[1:56] Speaker 2: Broadways might beat sometimes Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest,
[2:01] Speaker 2: the most violent, the lonesomest, mile.
[2:04] Speaker 3: In the world.
[2:10] Speaker 4: Broadways might be with Larry Thor as Detective Daddy Klober.
[2:26] Speaker 2: Springtime begins to search through Broadway and its gentle winds,
[2:30] Speaker 2: feel out the places to set up shop, the pushcots
[2:33] Speaker 2: of the flower vendors, where the promises are wrapped in
[2:35] Speaker 2: tight by the faint color, a child's ribbon, silken hair
[2:39] Speaker 2: side across the winter pinched face, a woman's shoulders too
[2:43] Speaker 2: soon eager to shed, the raiment of winter's night. In
[2:47] Speaker 2: the spring songs choked out of loudspeakers, in the inviting
[2:50] Speaker 2: sidelong glance, in the barefoot padding through sunwarm corridors. Here
[2:55] Speaker 2: is spring for Broadway. Innocent nostalgic is the music of
[3:00] Speaker 2: organ grinder, to which monkeys stands, to which Broadway size
[3:05] Speaker 2: remembers prize again. And at the edge of the march
[3:13] Speaker 2: evening against the shimmering of dusk, the anger of a man,
[3:16] Speaker 2: the near hysteria, the economy sized fury of innocence malign.
[3:20] Speaker 5: It's an outrage, a shame of filthy shame, the way
[3:25] Speaker 5: you please have nothing better than do and drag off
[3:27] Speaker 5: a man off the street and push him and beat him,
[3:29] Speaker 5: and people standing around and sniffs the same thing.
[3:33] Speaker 6: You might as well have. What am I doing here?
[3:36] Speaker 6: What am I doing?
[3:36] Speaker 7: In a messy room with a detective and a girl
[3:40] Speaker 7: with a sketch pad me? A man with two kids,
[3:43] Speaker 7: an overworked wife nags at me when I'm late for supper,
[3:46] Speaker 7: late for anything?
[3:48] Speaker 8: Everything I ever got?
[3:49] Speaker 6: I sweat for you, hear.
[3:50] Speaker 8: Me, Make it easy, mister Grey, I miss, I'm in.
[3:53] Speaker 5: The thieves door, see on buying for my lawns, my
[3:56] Speaker 5: rose which siege you know?
[3:58] Speaker 8: Bigger and a rape?
[3:59] Speaker 6: And walk out and a man grabs messed me drop
[4:02] Speaker 6: things in the street. He brings me here. Why tell
[4:04] Speaker 6: me what crime I've come in?
[4:05] Speaker 9: And you can tell me.
[4:07] Speaker 2: You passed a bill in a bank early this afternoon,
[4:09] Speaker 2: mister Grace, A thousand dollars bill?
[4:11] Speaker 8: Where'd you get it?
[4:11] Speaker 4: I got it?
[4:12] Speaker 6: The bank said it was good, didn't they? Then? Who
[4:15] Speaker 6: are you have to stick your nosey? And I got it.
[4:17] Speaker 2: We're a man who sweats for everything he gets. How
[4:19] Speaker 2: much sweat for that thousand, mister Grace? A bill the
[4:23] Speaker 2: bank recognized from serial numbers as one from a five
[4:25] Speaker 2: year old payroll robbery where a pay messenger was murdered.
[4:28] Speaker 2: How much sweat for it, mister Gray, you know when.
[4:30] Speaker 6: You're talking about I bought it.
[4:32] Speaker 7: I bought it from a man on forty fifteen Broadway.
[4:35] Speaker 7: He said I could have it for two hundred and
[4:36] Speaker 7: fifty dollars.
[4:37] Speaker 6: I laughed in his face.
[4:38] Speaker 8: But you bought it and sold well.
[4:40] Speaker 7: I laughed in his face at first, but when he
[4:42] Speaker 7: said he'd go to the bank with me and proved
[4:44] Speaker 7: to me it was good.
[4:45] Speaker 8: This man was he Less Chaining.
[4:47] Speaker 9: I don't know who he was.
[4:48] Speaker 6: I never saw him before.
[4:50] Speaker 2: Maybe I can freshen it for you, mister Grace. Cheney
[4:52] Speaker 2: was a man we believed responsible for the robbery and murder.
[4:55] Speaker 2: We couldn't prove it though. We never found the money,
[4:58] Speaker 2: but he was set up for a possession of narcotic
[5:00] Speaker 2: He's out now. Less Cheney tell you that, I don't
[5:04] Speaker 2: know maybe it was him. I told you I never
[5:07] Speaker 2: saw the man before.
[5:09] Speaker 7: A thousand dollars almost nothing. Wouldn't you about it? Let's
[5:14] Speaker 7: pretend we're friends. Yew it about it, Miss Holland. Here's
[5:18] Speaker 7: an artist, mister Grace. She'll sketch a drawing while they
[5:21] Speaker 7: described the man A sold you the bill.
[5:23] Speaker 8: Go ahead, mister, but.
[5:24] Speaker 6: I thought she was doing a drawing of me, I
[5:25] Speaker 6: thought described him well.
[5:28] Speaker 8: Described well.
[5:29] Speaker 7: They had kind of a thin, smirky faces, pinched nose,
[5:34] Speaker 7: kind of washed out eyes.
[5:35] Speaker 9: It was blue.
[5:36] Speaker 6: I think they bulged out a little bit.
[5:38] Speaker 9: And you getting.
[5:40] Speaker 2: Don't worry about her, mister Gray. She'll get if you're
[5:42] Speaker 2: just go on.
[5:42] Speaker 7: Ye. Well, his hat was kind of slouched down on
[5:45] Speaker 7: his floor, and he distinguishing marks like a scar and anything.
[5:49] Speaker 6: No, no, there was no scar. I noticed he needed
[5:51] Speaker 6: a shape.
[5:52] Speaker 7: But then I guess they old you that type kind
[5:55] Speaker 7: of a loose mouth, something like a bird dog.
[5:58] Speaker 6: Yeah, that's it.
[5:58] Speaker 8: The sad eyes and they sniffing around. But that's all
[6:01] Speaker 8: I remember. Now, what else do you want? Not to
[6:03] Speaker 8: go on this? Hoellen goodness?
[6:06] Speaker 2: Call your wife, mister Grace, tell her you'll be real late.
[6:08] Speaker 2: We're holding you on suspicion.
[6:10] Speaker 6: You do that, You do that after the way I cooperated?
[6:14] Speaker 9: Oh you shut me in?
[6:15] Speaker 6: And then you do who were you?
[6:17] Speaker 10: Caned?
[6:18] Speaker 9: Who cared?
[6:26] Speaker 2: And watch the protest dian his throw, the shoulders, slump,
[6:30] Speaker 2: his face fall apart, and reassemble in the shock. Myron
[6:33] Speaker 2: Dray citizen, family man, provider of wife and children and
[6:36] Speaker 2: a lawn and rose bushes. Suddenly a new identification, a
[6:40] Speaker 2: name on a police blotter beheld for further questioning and
[6:44] Speaker 2: connection with the murder. So turn him over to the
[6:46] Speaker 2: sergeant and the artist and leave.
[6:56] Speaker 8: Routine. Now another reading of.
[6:58] Speaker 2: The records which concerned a year old crime records still
[7:02] Speaker 2: on the active file, and the name which dominates them
[7:04] Speaker 2: is the name of Less Chaney.
[7:06] Speaker 8: More records.
[7:07] Speaker 2: Less Cheney have been released a month ago from prison,
[7:09] Speaker 2: having served five years of a seven year sentence, Less
[7:12] Speaker 2: Changing out on parole.
[7:15] Speaker 8: So legwork. Now, get the.
[7:17] Speaker 2: Completed sketch and find an address and call on less Changing.
[7:26] Speaker 8: Yeah, mister cheneyan who are you? Danny Klobran from the police.
[7:30] Speaker 3: Let him alone, will you?
[7:32] Speaker 9: Less?
[7:32] Speaker 11: He's out now, he's behaving, he's trying to get him
[7:34] Speaker 11: a job.
[7:34] Speaker 3: To let him alone.
[7:36] Speaker 8: Mind if I come in, I'm.
[7:37] Speaker 11: Not going to say no to a cop. Come in
[7:39] Speaker 11: if you want drop dead on the still, if you want,
[7:45] Speaker 11: I see you made it.
[7:47] Speaker 9: You want to go back?
[7:47] Speaker 11: Where's I told you? My husband's out? Job? Honey, that's right.
[7:55] Speaker 11: Stip around the place, pull down the wall, bed, look
[7:57] Speaker 11: in the closet. You're a cop.
[7:59] Speaker 8: Work at it makes you so better. Missus Jenny.
[8:01] Speaker 11: Guys like you, cops like you, to five years out
[8:04] Speaker 11: of my husband's life. I got a thing about being married.
[8:08] Speaker 11: I like to take care of my husband. I hum
[8:10] Speaker 11: when I scramble an egg, and no less it's gonna
[8:11] Speaker 11: eat it now. I'm a woman who likes when the
[8:13] Speaker 11: day is over. And I got a husband near me.
[8:15] Speaker 11: I missed it for five years.
[8:16] Speaker 2: Your husband was in possession of narcotics when he was
[8:19] Speaker 2: picked up.
[8:19] Speaker 11: You're lying through your teeth. Guys like you, cops like
[8:22] Speaker 11: you planted that stuff on lest it? Ain't you how
[8:24] Speaker 11: you couldn't pin a murder on him?
[8:26] Speaker 9: So you fixed him?
[8:26] Speaker 8: Good to me, I want you to look at something.
[8:29] Speaker 11: Listen to me. Whatever your name is, I want you
[8:31] Speaker 11: to hear it. I've been practicing it for five years.
[8:34] Speaker 11: Worth a knight, hands behind the head, the position of
[8:38] Speaker 11: the lonely people.
[8:40] Speaker 3: This is what I want to say to you.
[8:43] Speaker 11: Die ron, don't walk and tell your friends to do likewise.
[8:47] Speaker 3: Tell them are you here?
[8:49] Speaker 2: Take a look at this picture, A sketch of a
[8:52] Speaker 2: man who passed a thousand dollars bill. Have you ever
[8:54] Speaker 2: seen this man?
[8:55] Speaker 11: I never saw. I'm going to save you a trip
[8:56] Speaker 11: back Less never saw less.
[8:58] Speaker 8: The police were around, an they'll be back.
[9:01] Speaker 11: The cops on the bat too. Whatever your name is,
[9:03] Speaker 11: don't forget to tell them to get out.
[9:24] Speaker 12: It's just what your mom hopes. You'll send it from
[9:26] Speaker 12: the big city. Sold you little pillow, a nice poet.
[9:28] Speaker 12: You want to soldier, Emma's for the always for the
[9:31] Speaker 12: peg for the h get last soldier.
[9:36] Speaker 9: This man's head?
[9:36] Speaker 8: Are you right? Son?
[9:37] Speaker 2: You a better take off. I'm a policeman, Benny, and
[9:39] Speaker 2: I have a little business.
[9:40] Speaker 8: Take care of hi, Benny down proud of me?
[9:47] Speaker 12: Huh jitimatetlant of trade selling sentimental pools for homesick soldiers.
[9:51] Speaker 8: I'm I'm doing my part, Donny been Benny mm and
[9:56] Speaker 8: use anything can help me out?
[9:58] Speaker 12: Gee, I wish I could, Benny, But I sure off
[10:01] Speaker 12: in a store.
[10:01] Speaker 6: Pigeon, Denny, I don't hold to me.
[10:03] Speaker 12: Mom just last week and told her how nice I'm doing,
[10:05] Speaker 12: pus and tolder that I'm not going.
[10:07] Speaker 8: Yeah, look at this sketch, Benny. Did you ever see
[10:11] Speaker 8: this man before?
[10:12] Speaker 6: I haven't got my glasses.
[10:16] Speaker 8: Then hold it up close, m you ever see him? Never?
[10:20] Speaker 6: Sure?
[10:20] Speaker 3: Help me?
[10:22] Speaker 6: Don't look like that, Danny. I don't lie to you.
[10:24] Speaker 2: Man's been passing hop money uh huh from a messenger
[10:28] Speaker 2: hold up and shooting murder this time. Never see him.
[10:32] Speaker 3: I just told you, Denny.
[10:34] Speaker 8: I just said to you. You know I don't tell
[10:36] Speaker 8: them gents.
[10:38] Speaker 12: I'll come closing time class, not a closing time.
[10:40] Speaker 6: Good night it is.
[10:41] Speaker 8: I'm sick of customer.
[10:43] Speaker 11: I'm a customer.
[10:44] Speaker 8: Yeah, to pay your check and lead, I'm going home.
[10:47] Speaker 8: Come on, come on, come on, don't starve.
[10:49] Speaker 2: The only reason they've served you in the first place
[10:51] Speaker 2: was your flash to twenty you four dollars and sixty
[10:54] Speaker 2: cents I brought.
[10:54] Speaker 8: To the chairs.
[10:56] Speaker 2: Yeah, where'd you get a twenty dollar bill?
[10:58] Speaker 8: Benny?
[10:59] Speaker 12: Oh, Danny, Danny, Look, it's nine o'clock. In it today
[11:04] Speaker 12: at nine o'clock Tenny fan is turning over. No, leave
[11:07] Speaker 12: clear my conscience and leave the old Benny Fame behind
[11:10] Speaker 12: stores together.
[11:12] Speaker 3: I'm glad for the opportunity.
[11:13] Speaker 8: To tell you, Danny, I read about a.
[11:15] Speaker 9: Guy he was shelling.
[11:17] Speaker 12: The old Benny Faint got his address and bought a
[11:19] Speaker 12: twenty dollar bill for Finn. The old Benny Feint thought
[11:22] Speaker 12: it was a counterfeit, not murdered, though.
[11:24] Speaker 8: Where'd you buy the twenty dollar bill Benny.
[11:29] Speaker 12: On the fourteenth Street, sixth oh cheven, first floor, all
[11:32] Speaker 12: the way back, well tonight all.
[12:00] Speaker 10: If you're looking for Sylvia, mister, she's not here and
[12:03] Speaker 10: I've searched everywhere, under the bed, under the liquor bottle.
[12:06] Speaker 10: Or are you just a lonely redhead looking for an
[12:09] Speaker 10: old girlfriend? I lost somewhere in a bar one dim
[12:13] Speaker 10: day long ago.
[12:14] Speaker 11: In far words.
[12:16] Speaker 10: All of a sudden, lonely me remembered Sylvia.
[12:19] Speaker 9: Remember she told me she lives here.
[12:21] Speaker 8: Let's go inside.
[12:22] Speaker 9: Huh, I tell you the girl's not here.
[12:25] Speaker 10: I guess you can come on in. Sylvia won't mind?
[12:30] Speaker 10: Well you're in, do something, Say the kind word.
[12:35] Speaker 8: I'm from the police. Who are you?
[12:37] Speaker 9: John Carson?
[12:39] Speaker 10: Will make a faithful and obedient servants have references.
[12:43] Speaker 9: Say the kind word.
[12:44] Speaker 2: No, Sylvia lives here, Miss Carson. This room belongs to
[12:47] Speaker 2: a man of selling hot money. You heard about it
[12:49] Speaker 2: and came to buy from him. You're greedy for easy money,
[12:51] Speaker 2: miss Carson.
[12:52] Speaker 10: It's a proverb for the red head's money comes easy,
[12:55] Speaker 10: goes easy.
[12:56] Speaker 9: Who needs to.
[12:57] Speaker 10: Walk the length of a grimy hall for it? Wait
[13:00] Speaker 10: in an empty room for it?
[13:01] Speaker 8: No one was here? Who let you?
[13:03] Speaker 9: In a graceful movement of my staff, dainty hand I
[13:07] Speaker 9: not no anty? I thenaw the turn the ovill wasn't here.
[13:11] Speaker 8: I thought to wait, how long you've been waiting?
[13:14] Speaker 10: A half minute, a whole minute? Maybe before you knock?
[13:18] Speaker 10: As the teenage boys in the front siol they all
[13:21] Speaker 10: noticed my entry commented too, when.
[13:23] Speaker 9: The time is best.
[13:24] Speaker 8: You don't know anything about the man who lives here?
[13:27] Speaker 10: Do I want to look?
[13:29] Speaker 9: Could that be him? That walking down in the doorway?
[13:32] Speaker 9: Could that be him?
[13:38] Speaker 2: He fell before I could get to him, fell in
[13:40] Speaker 2: a limp, loose way of men who were already dead.
[13:43] Speaker 2: His hands were wet with the flow of his blood
[13:45] Speaker 2: where it held the bullet wound.
[13:47] Speaker 8: His mouth shaped a word.
[13:49] Speaker 2: Then it two was gone, the death wound, the silence.
[13:54] Speaker 2: This was what was left of a man whose picture
[13:56] Speaker 2: I carried, who sold blood, money to rose fancy years,
[14:00] Speaker 2: to pillow salesmen, who died for it, been murdered for it.
[14:16] Speaker 4: You are listening to Broadways My Beat, written by Morton
[14:19] Speaker 4: Fine and David Freakin and starring Larry Thor as Detective
[14:23] Speaker 4: Danny Klober. Every day of the year, the Red Cross
[14:27] Speaker 4: is helping humanity somewhere. Servicemen rely on it. Disaster victims
[14:31] Speaker 4: owe their lives to its prompt health community is everywhere, No,
[14:35] Speaker 4: it's day by day services. All these countless ministries are
[14:39] Speaker 4: financed by your contributions. Won't you enter the call to
[14:43] Speaker 4: make this year's contribution larger than ever?
[14:57] Speaker 2: When the trade winds blow into the Hudson in springtime
[15:00] Speaker 2: comes to Broadway, it's a season of rare enchantment. March
[15:04] Speaker 2: is on its way out, and a few more exes
[15:05] Speaker 2: in the calendar, and it's April. It's a time, kid
[15:09] Speaker 2: for weather talk, for baseball scores from sunny Florida, and
[15:13] Speaker 2: bite your lip against the knowledge of Joda Madge. Won't
[15:15] Speaker 2: see out there in center field anymore, But it's the
[15:18] Speaker 2: good time. The man of the orange juice stand whistles
[15:21] Speaker 2: while he puts the yearly coat of shellac and the coconut.
[15:24] Speaker 2: The fella next to you the coffee counter gives you
[15:27] Speaker 2: half his newspaper. The blonde you met last night calls
[15:30] Speaker 2: you at the office and tells you not to be angry.
[15:33] Speaker 8: To have a smile, kid. It's that time of the year.
[15:41] Speaker 2: But it wasn't smile time where I was it's the
[15:44] Speaker 2: sodden room to be found at the end of all
[15:46] Speaker 2: the sodden corridors in the world, the sand colored walls
[15:50] Speaker 2: enclosing the death of a man, and standing beside him
[15:53] Speaker 2: a girl, and beside him another man. Detective Muggavan names
[15:56] Speaker 2: John Mooney Danny. Let me have it to look around right,
[16:02] Speaker 2: all right, young lady, you said your name is John Carson.
[16:05] Speaker 2: You came here looking for a long lost friend.
[16:07] Speaker 10: Just don't make any difference. A man comes home to
[16:10] Speaker 10: die and.
[16:10] Speaker 9: I happen to be here where he lived. I came
[16:12] Speaker 9: here looking for a friend. What difference does it make?
[16:15] Speaker 9: What's Sylvia?
[16:17] Speaker 10: I don't even remember last night? Know how you forget
[16:21] Speaker 10: some time? You passed by and you say, I think
[16:23] Speaker 10: Sylvia used to live here. Why don't I go in
[16:25] Speaker 10: and find out how she is?
[16:27] Speaker 8: You know, sure a friend of yours used to live here.
[16:30] Speaker 9: No, I'm not sure she looks something like this.
[16:35] Speaker 11: Huh ask if.
[16:36] Speaker 8: She's sure Sylvia lived in New York. Don't worry about it, Mugglement.
[16:40] Speaker 8: Just take a look. How much was taken in that robbery?
[16:46] Speaker 8: Denny fifty thousand? Let me accnscious to see how much
[16:49] Speaker 8: is missing?
[16:49] Speaker 2: No, miss Carson, come here matter, take a look at
[16:55] Speaker 2: the money. Detective Muglin found this drawer. Specify found dollars.
[17:02] Speaker 2: You can go on his cousin nuggle uh huh, follow her,
[17:12] Speaker 2: then walk away from them, walk the tired night streets
[17:15] Speaker 2: of early spring. Here and there a window opened to it,
[17:18] Speaker 2: the soiled curtain floating and floating in.
[17:20] Speaker 8: The darkness, swaying to the dance.
[17:21] Speaker 2: The night disc jockey calls in the unlighted room, brush
[17:25] Speaker 2: shoulders with a straggler who was angered because for an
[17:27] Speaker 2: instant you made him lose his hurried way to know where,
[17:30] Speaker 2: then smiles his forgiveness, because there at the end of
[17:33] Speaker 2: the corner where the street lamp dims, he sees it.
[17:35] Speaker 2: He'll find it again. And then the quiet street where
[17:40] Speaker 2: your room is, where if your lucky Sleep waits to
[17:42] Speaker 2: welcome you. When the first you must rid yourself of
[17:45] Speaker 2: the image of a murdered man who sold money, engraved
[17:48] Speaker 2: with death, of a girl with redhair, who walked or
[17:51] Speaker 2: slapped or laughed, and the shadow that mocked her was
[17:54] Speaker 2: not her own, and sleep is diluted to these things.
[17:59] Speaker 8: Finally Sleep runs.
[18:00] Speaker 2: Out, and at headquarters the next day make a phone
[18:09] Speaker 2: call to less Chainey for routine questioning. He told by
[18:12] Speaker 2: his wife that he'd gone out to an interview for
[18:14] Speaker 2: a job. Tell her that when he came back to
[18:16] Speaker 2: stay home. You might be stopping by later on. Then
[18:19] Speaker 2: it's noon. Your lunch hour is short because Danny Clover speaking,
[18:25] Speaker 2: And Danny.
[18:25] Speaker 13: Get down here that Charles Hotel West twelve.
[18:27] Speaker 8: You got some.
[18:28] Speaker 13: Yeah dead ready a dead jone cars real dead.
[18:44] Speaker 8: Let me through here, me through please, I'm from the police.
[18:47] Speaker 8: But hey, Danny, medical examiners. Take what happened?
[18:55] Speaker 2: Maga And I thought I told you to follow her?
[18:56] Speaker 2: I thought, like, why do you think I'm here? Danny,
[18:58] Speaker 2: tell me what happened. Followed the girl home. That's where
[19:01] Speaker 2: she went when she left that flea bag last night.
[19:04] Speaker 2: She went to her apartment, right to her apartment.
[19:06] Speaker 13: If she hadn't gone straight to her apartment, this wouldn't
[19:08] Speaker 13: be the story. I'm telling you whatld it?
[19:10] Speaker 8: Go on straight to her apartment at two in the morning.
[19:15] Speaker 8: I got Florio to relieve me. I went home straight home.
[19:18] Speaker 13: At nine this morning, just as the girl was leaving.
[19:20] Speaker 8: Her apartment, I relieved Florio.
[19:22] Speaker 13: She went out to breakfast shop, made no phone calls
[19:25] Speaker 13: and came back here about an hour ago for lunch.
[19:28] Speaker 13: She came down here to the lady's lounge. I waited
[19:30] Speaker 13: outside the door. About ten minutes later there was a scream.
[19:33] Speaker 13: The attendant found the girl at a dressing table with
[19:35] Speaker 13: a knife in her back. That's it, people coming in
[19:38] Speaker 13: and going out, you know. Okay, Oh, it's just this, Danny.
[19:42] Speaker 13: This key found it in her bag six oh seven.
[19:47] Speaker 13: It's John Mooney's room, isn't it, Danny?
[19:48] Speaker 8: Yeah, let me have her see around, Detective my girl.
[20:08] Speaker 7: I hope I have chosen the correct moment, Danny.
[20:11] Speaker 8: Huh, what are you talking about? You know, the moment of.
[20:14] Speaker 7: Please disturb or the moment of please do not disturb.
[20:17] Speaker 7: I took a flyer and chose the former. I hope
[20:20] Speaker 7: I have not overstepped the bounds of a twelve year
[20:22] Speaker 7: old Sergeancy, So as you're a better dage, you know
[20:25] Speaker 7: a lot of a sergeant, Danny. All propaganda to the contrary,
[20:28] Speaker 7: notwithstanding a lot of said sergeant. After twelve years, a
[20:31] Speaker 7: faithful and obedient service is not a merry one. Twelve
[20:35] Speaker 7: years is a long way to go to the delicatessent
[20:37] Speaker 7: for sandwiches for the boys twelve years is sticking the
[20:40] Speaker 7: nose in the dusty files, and you'll get your promotions,
[20:43] Speaker 7: you know, ha promotion hack hack, this same stale crumb.
[20:49] Speaker 9: Are you off?
[20:49] Speaker 7: Tossed to the patient stranger at the breaking point, missus Tartaglia,
[20:53] Speaker 7: it is her comment, I just quoted promotion.
[20:57] Speaker 8: It'll go through one of these days, you know.
[21:00] Speaker 6: Must not to flip the lid while waiting.
[21:04] Speaker 7: To work on any if you wish my burden my refuge,
[21:09] Speaker 7: I yeah, And that less Chaney wants suspect the chief
[21:13] Speaker 7: and murder in that payroll robbery of some years former.
[21:17] Speaker 7: He has still not come home. He is still at large,
[21:19] Speaker 7: violating his parole. No doubt you think he's mixed up
[21:22] Speaker 7: in this.
[21:22] Speaker 8: You know, it.
[21:23] Speaker 7: Matters to anyone what a twelve year old sergeant thinks.
[21:26] Speaker 6: Let's proceed, shall we?
[21:28] Speaker 8: Whatever you want?
[21:29] Speaker 9: You know?
[21:30] Speaker 6: And then John Mooney deceized by murder.
[21:32] Speaker 7: That he was a pickpocket whose name was inscribed as
[21:34] Speaker 7: such in our archives practically from the moment of the
[21:37] Speaker 7: laying of the cornerstone.
[21:38] Speaker 8: The key to his room is in Johan Carson's purse.
[21:40] Speaker 8: Were mugg and found?
[21:42] Speaker 6: What?
[21:43] Speaker 8: Oh, just tell me what you got? On John Carson.
[21:45] Speaker 7: I was coming to her, Dernie. Sorry, it's one of
[21:49] Speaker 7: the wounds that leave no apparent scars. How you hire
[21:53] Speaker 7: ups never I said.
[21:54] Speaker 8: I was sorry, you know, accepted, and then.
[21:58] Speaker 7: Joan Carson Murder of Mooney, a girl also with a
[22:02] Speaker 7: record of possession of narcotics in the month of October
[22:06] Speaker 7: the year nineteen forty three, picked up in her apartment
[22:09] Speaker 7: together with one less Cheney by the narcotics Boys. Sentence
[22:12] Speaker 7: third the year on the island with less Cheney, the
[22:14] Speaker 7: same chair, very same. I am the Smiss Lieutenant Geno.
[22:20] Speaker 7: I hope I have been of some service. Good day, Lieutenant,
[22:24] Speaker 7: and good.
[22:24] Speaker 8: Hunting, Danny. I didn't need it, not you. It's the
[22:32] Speaker 8: other You did good, Gina, real good. This is start.
[22:35] Speaker 8: Tagli will be proud of you. Go home. Tell her,
[23:00] Speaker 8: Oh he's Danny Clover. Hun's not right. Let's channing. I've
[23:04] Speaker 8: been waiting for you almost all day. Come I here
[23:10] Speaker 8: he is, Ruthie.
[23:11] Speaker 11: I told us to wait for you, so get it
[23:13] Speaker 11: over with quick. Ruth doesn't mean bless your parole.
[23:17] Speaker 3: Papers say you have to be polite to cops.
[23:19] Speaker 11: Jell me where it says about the hat and the
[23:21] Speaker 11: hands and the bowing, Ruthie, I waited five years for
[23:23] Speaker 11: a man to come back.
[23:24] Speaker 3: Look what came back. What's the matter with you? Less?
[23:27] Speaker 11: You know who he is? One of the brave boys
[23:30] Speaker 11: who planted an envelope.
[23:31] Speaker 3: Of narcotics on you, Ruthie.
[23:32] Speaker 8: They didn't do that. I told you they didn't do it.
[23:35] Speaker 8: I violated a law and I was caught.
[23:38] Speaker 11: You had to memorize that, Speechless, you always had a
[23:40] Speaker 11: poor memory.
[23:41] Speaker 3: What made it stick? Brass knuckles?
[23:45] Speaker 8: Don't mind how, mister Clover? What can I do for you?
[23:48] Speaker 2: You read the papers to see how we finally found
[23:51] Speaker 2: that money that was stolen, that hold up you were
[23:53] Speaker 2: involved in five years ago.
[23:55] Speaker 14: I can't go along with you on that, misteric Clove.
[23:57] Speaker 14: I was never involved in a hold on my error.
[24:01] Speaker 8: The one we picked you up for, the one you
[24:02] Speaker 8: couldn't make stick. Sure.
[24:05] Speaker 14: I admitted my car was used as a getaway care
[24:07] Speaker 14: but it had been stolen.
[24:09] Speaker 11: From him and you couldn't prove otherwise, so you planted
[24:11] Speaker 11: the narcotics on him.
[24:13] Speaker 3: Why are you talking to him last?
[24:14] Speaker 8: Because I have to ut.
[24:18] Speaker 2: That's right. Let's get back to that money Less. I
[24:21] Speaker 2: don't understand why we have to get back down in
[24:23] Speaker 2: the humor. Me huh, yes, I have to do that
[24:27] Speaker 2: to it.
[24:28] Speaker 8: We found it in the man's room. The man's name
[24:30] Speaker 8: was John Mooney, and he had a record as being
[24:32] Speaker 8: a pickpocket. And I were discussing while ago.
[24:36] Speaker 11: Let's read it to me out of the paper, and
[24:37] Speaker 11: I clucked.
[24:39] Speaker 8: I was wondering how he got that money. Less, I
[24:42] Speaker 8: wouldn't know.
[24:42] Speaker 2: I'll tell you how I figure he got the money.
[24:44] Speaker 2: He was a pickpocket, so he picked somebody's pocket.
[24:47] Speaker 8: All that done. He had a day, not really, he.
[24:51] Speaker 11: Got killed for it, so we didn't have a good day.
[24:53] Speaker 3: Go argue with a cop.
[24:54] Speaker 2: We know who killed John Mooney, I said, r Oh,
[25:00] Speaker 2: girl named Joan Carson. She killed him someplace near his hotel.
[25:04] Speaker 2: So because Key went to the room to look for
[25:06] Speaker 2: the money, I found her there.
[25:08] Speaker 14: Clover, Ruthie has missed me for five years and I
[25:11] Speaker 14: only been out of money.
[25:13] Speaker 8: Like we were married all over again. Let me spend
[25:17] Speaker 8: my evenings, said Ruthie. Let's lonely take a little while.
[25:21] Speaker 2: The thing that bothered us less was who Joan Carson
[25:24] Speaker 2: was and how she knew where to find the money.
[25:27] Speaker 9: You know who she was?
[25:28] Speaker 8: You tell me missus Jenney.
[25:30] Speaker 3: You tell him, lest tell him.
[25:34] Speaker 8: Sure.
[25:35] Speaker 14: I once know him, mister Clover a long time ago.
[25:38] Speaker 14: I know a lot of addicts a long time.
[25:41] Speaker 2: It still bothers us less. How she knew where the
[25:43] Speaker 2: money was?
[25:43] Speaker 8: We couldn't find it for five years? How do I
[25:45] Speaker 8: know what she knew?
[25:46] Speaker 2: You're in jail for five years. We never saw a
[25:48] Speaker 2: dollar of that fifty thousand were stolen. You get out
[25:50] Speaker 2: and starts circulating.
[25:52] Speaker 3: We still want to pin it on him.
[25:53] Speaker 9: Huh.
[25:53] Speaker 2: Let me tell both of you how it all ties together.
[25:55] Speaker 2: You did commit that robbery and murder. Less some where
[25:58] Speaker 2: the money was hidden. You get out, get the money,
[26:00] Speaker 2: take it someplace to get rid of it at a discount.
[26:03] Speaker 2: Wise boy like you got his pocket pick. Then the
[26:07] Speaker 2: money starts showing. I don't think you're going to prove
[26:10] Speaker 2: it this time either, glue. That's what held me up
[26:13] Speaker 2: so long. Less a bright boy like you gets his
[26:16] Speaker 2: pocket pick. I couldn't believe it, but I had to
[26:18] Speaker 2: come back to it.
[26:20] Speaker 8: Like I said, you still need proof.
[26:22] Speaker 2: Maybe all right, We've still got another problem problem. How
[26:26] Speaker 2: are we going to get your wife to admit she
[26:28] Speaker 2: killed Joan Carson?
[26:30] Speaker 8: How are we going to do that later, you kidding?
[26:34] Speaker 3: Get him out of your life.
[26:35] Speaker 14: Wait a minute, Clover, how do you figure Ruthie kills you?
[26:40] Speaker 8: Ou'd you figure it less? You figured Ruth? Do you
[26:45] Speaker 8: need help less? Yeah? Yeah, help me.
[26:49] Speaker 2: Your wife kept that fifty thousand for you while you
[26:51] Speaker 2: were in jail. Didn't she hit it someplace?
[26:53] Speaker 8: Tay, get in there. See what happened?
[26:54] Speaker 3: You crazy?
[26:55] Speaker 8: Shut up? Well Glover take it from there.
[26:58] Speaker 2: You got out, You gave your wife that money, then
[27:00] Speaker 2: you lost it. What did you tell your wife when
[27:04] Speaker 2: you lost it?
[27:05] Speaker 3: I told her I lost it, lost it, lost it
[27:08] Speaker 3: to that redhead children, didn't you? Didn't you listen to
[27:15] Speaker 3: me later?
[27:16] Speaker 8: To me what I told you? That money was stolen.
[27:19] Speaker 14: The pickpocket recognized me, call me and try to sell
[27:21] Speaker 14: us back to me.
[27:22] Speaker 8: I didn't have any money to buy it.
[27:24] Speaker 11: And you sent that redhead for it.
[27:25] Speaker 9: Why didn't she send me?
[27:26] Speaker 11: Because I'm not beautiful anymore after waiting for you, because
[27:29] Speaker 11: I don't dip my head in, Hannah, because I don't
[27:32] Speaker 11: on a slip, that's not fraid.
[27:34] Speaker 9: Look what she did to you.
[27:35] Speaker 11: She crossed your killed and was going to keep that
[27:37] Speaker 11: money for her.
[27:37] Speaker 3: Step was going to come back to her. Oh no, oh.
[27:40] Speaker 11: No, that's not her, not Miss Joan carp I took
[27:44] Speaker 11: care of that, sure, killed her, less followed her and
[27:49] Speaker 11: killed her for you for the past five years, for
[27:55] Speaker 11: the years you were going to make up to me,
[27:57] Speaker 11: For the years I lie there with my hands behind
[27:59] Speaker 11: my head, just to me laugh and no one else.
[28:06] Speaker 3: It's the Clover. Yeah, take us away together.
[28:30] Speaker 2: Twilight lies against Broadway like gray speckled gauze, ripples off
[28:35] Speaker 2: into another world. The street of the hurry up steps,
[28:39] Speaker 2: the fast questions, dances, the seekers after the special smile
[28:46] Speaker 2: and you walk it because once Broadway touched you, you.
[28:50] Speaker 8: Can't rub it off.
[28:52] Speaker 2: It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lone almost
[29:00] Speaker 2: mile in the world.
[29:02] Speaker 8: Broadway My Beat.
[29:21] Speaker 4: Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,
[29:25] Speaker 4: with Charles Calvert Astataglia and Jack Krushian as Mugavan. The
[29:29] Speaker 4: program was produced and directed by Elliott Lewis. Musical score
[29:33] Speaker 4: was composed by Alexander Courage and conducted by Modern Skyles.
[29:37] Speaker 4: In Tonight's story, Jannett Lawrence was Hurt as Ruth and
[29:40] Speaker 4: Anthony Barrett as Less. Featured in the cast were Georgia, Ellis,
[29:44] Speaker 4: Howard mcneer and Leo Cleary. Yes, so's you old man, Yes,
[29:59] Speaker 4: so's your old man, and most everyone else in his
[30:01] Speaker 4: generation that Amos and Andy fan.
[30:03] Speaker 8: And the beauty of their comedy is.
[30:05] Speaker 2: That it's just as funny, just as fabulous, just as
[30:08] Speaker 2: fresh as when Amos and Andy first stole America's heart twenty
[30:12] Speaker 2: three years ago. Tomorrow night, on most of these same
[30:15] Speaker 2: CBS radio stations, listen and laugh with Amos Sinnami by
[30:26] Speaker 2: Lander's speaking, and.
[30:27] Speaker 4: Remember Robert QS Waxworks brings you the top records and
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[31:30] Speaker 1: Welcome back. Honestly, this is one of those cases where
[31:34] Speaker 1: I feel like there might be some sort of Mandela
[31:37] Speaker 1: effect going on, because I remember a lot of old
[31:42] Speaker 1: time references to Sylvia, and I could swear that there
[31:46] Speaker 1: was some sort of ad campaign around where Sylvia or
[31:52] Speaker 1: Sylvia specifically, but I couldn't find any during this era.
[31:56] Speaker 1: There is actually a famous gong by Shakespeare called who
[32:03] Speaker 1: is Sylvia that was in the play To Gentlemen of Verona,
[32:08] Speaker 1: and I guess that's probably where the old time radio
[32:12] Speaker 1: Sylvia references come from. But if anyone is aware of
[32:17] Speaker 1: another explanation for the Sylvia references, I would love to
[32:21] Speaker 1: hear it, as it was, it did end up part
[32:25] Speaker 1: of Joan Carson's story. Speaking of Joan, this is one
[32:29] Speaker 1: of those cases where Danny follows the tact that if
[32:34] Speaker 1: you can't prove anything, see if you can bluff. Going
[32:38] Speaker 1: into the final confrontation UH with the Cheneys, Danny had nothing.
[32:45] Speaker 1: Less had been the prime suspect, and Joan corson unless
[32:50] Speaker 1: got arrested together an unrelated narcotics wrap. That was the
[32:55] Speaker 1: whole thing, and somehow Danny walks out of that with
[32:59] Speaker 1: Rue under arrest for the murder of Joan and Less
[33:05] Speaker 1: under arrest for the original payroll robbery plus the murder.
[33:09] Speaker 1: This is one of those cases where it only worked
[33:12] Speaker 1: out because they were willing to talk. Less required to
[33:17] Speaker 1: by the terms of his parole, and Danny questioned them together.
[33:21] Speaker 1: And we also have to note the appearance of our
[33:25] Speaker 1: favorite sergeant who was feeling a bit down. And it's
[33:30] Speaker 1: a good humanizing thing because even though he's cheerful, not
[33:34] Speaker 1: everybody feels cheerful all the time unless they're being performative.
[33:39] Speaker 1: And Gino is a real one and he's got a
[33:43] Speaker 1: real problem with career frustration and his wife kind of
[33:47] Speaker 1: heckling him about. And while Danny can sometimes be a
[33:51] Speaker 1: bit surely and maybe insensitive, it's a bit of a
[33:55] Speaker 1: reversal here, as he's encouraging and reflects the nature of
[34:00] Speaker 1: their relationship. Tortaglia feels free talking about this to Danny,
[34:08] Speaker 1: and that Danny doesn't take it in any way as
[34:13] Speaker 1: an offense against him. Yeah, he can't fix the system,
[34:17] Speaker 1: but he does have faith in Geno as an officer
[34:21] Speaker 1: and that he'll eventually have things work out. But I
[34:26] Speaker 1: don't think it happens while Broadways My Beat is on
[34:29] Speaker 1: the air now listener comments and feedback, and we start
[34:33] Speaker 1: with this comment on Instagram from Brain's Benton who rites,
[34:37] Speaker 1: regarding the Raymond Grant murder case. I really liked the
[34:42] Speaker 1: longer version of the theme song at the end. It
[34:46] Speaker 1: really is a great piece of music to listen to.
[34:49] Speaker 1: Alexander Courage definitely knew his stuff, and I wouldn't say
[34:54] Speaker 1: that all old time radio themes are like this. For example,
[34:59] Speaker 1: the first theme to Yours Truly Johnny Dollar during the
[35:04] Speaker 1: Charles Russell era is not bad. It's a nice little
[35:08] Speaker 1: relaxing tune, but I could take it or leave it.
[35:13] Speaker 1: This one really captures just there's something about New York
[35:19] Speaker 1: City and this show in particular that that tune just
[35:24] Speaker 1: compliments perfectly. Well, now it's time to thank our Patreon
[35:28] Speaker 1: supporter of the day. Thank you to Ron, Patreon supporter
[35:33] Speaker 1: since January of twenty twenty six, currently supporting the podcast
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[35:55] Speaker 1: We'll be back next Wednesday with another episode of Broadways
[35:59] Speaker 1: My Beat, But join us back here tomorrow for right
[36:03] Speaker 1: now where.
[36:04] Speaker 15: Russell Preston, that was the last name he used.
[36:06] Speaker 8: I see. He usually starts by putting a want add
[36:09] Speaker 8: in the papers that.
[36:10] Speaker 15: Well, he rents himself an office first, usually pretty expensive
[36:12] Speaker 15: when well furnished. Then he hires a good looking secretary,
[36:15] Speaker 15: has her put a want ad in the daily paper's form.
[36:17] Speaker 8: And he's in business. How do the ads?
[36:18] Speaker 15: He's the usual, yeah, typical thing you see in the
[36:20] Speaker 15: daily paper. Business opportunity for people with vision, good investment,
[36:24] Speaker 15: high profits applying now, you know, and then he gives
[36:26] Speaker 15: his address and phone numbers. There's nothing clever about it,
[36:28] Speaker 15: but people still go for it.
[36:30] Speaker 8: He give Memny replies, you know, well, we.
[36:32] Speaker 15: Figured he got between twenty and thirty on that last
[36:34] Speaker 15: daily pulled. Seems all he has to do is land
[36:36] Speaker 15: one victim out of the bunch with enough money, and
[36:38] Speaker 15: he's got it made. Took his first victim here for
[36:40] Speaker 15: five thousand, second one for thirty two hundred. Both elderly
[36:42] Speaker 15: women took him for their last dollar.
[36:45] Speaker 2: About the way he sets up the deal with these
[36:46] Speaker 2: different businessmen, Joe, I don't think I got it quite straight.
[36:49] Speaker 8: You know what I mean?
[36:50] Speaker 2: Well, I'll say the owner that manufacturing plant, this Russell
[36:52] Speaker 2: Preston lined up, you know. You say Preston went to
[36:55] Speaker 2: the plant, introduced himself as a business advisor, told the
[36:58] Speaker 2: owner of the plant he had some people with money
[37:00] Speaker 2: to invest. He convinced the owner who's legitimate. The other
[37:03] Speaker 2: time and Preston had his two victims shown through the
[37:05] Speaker 2: plant and convinced him they out to invest their money
[37:07] Speaker 2: in the business.
[37:07] Speaker 8: You know that's it?
[37:08] Speaker 2: Do you mean to say, the plant owners were acting
[37:10] Speaker 2: in good faith.
[37:11] Speaker 15: Well, we're all checked out. Bill everything about them. They
[37:14] Speaker 15: all have good business reputation. They didn't know any more
[37:16] Speaker 15: about the deal and the victims. They needed more capital
[37:19] Speaker 15: for their business and they figured this was in.
[37:21] Speaker 8: Miss Preston or whatever his name is. Sure must have
[37:23] Speaker 8: a line, I won't stop.
[37:24] Speaker 15: It's got everything that goes with it. Nice clothes, well mannered,
[37:27] Speaker 15: good looking. He doesn't try to high pressure anybody tells
[37:30] Speaker 15: them if they have confidence in him, he'll be glad
[37:32] Speaker 15: to invest their money.
[37:33] Speaker 8: If they hedge it all he shows them right through
[37:34] Speaker 8: the office pretty good pitch. Once they're sold on him,
[37:37] Speaker 8: he's got to move.
[37:38] Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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