# The Big Story: The Bitterest Man on Earth (EP4927)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 10 Mar 2026, 33 min.

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Today's Mystery: A reporter tries to get justice for a man who claims to have been mistaken for someone else. Original Radio Broadcast: June 8, 1949 Originating in New York Starring John Sylvester as Julian Housman, Canada Lee, Jim Boles, Eric Dressler, Bill Smith, Georgia Burke, and Scott Tennyson Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day:Dianne, Patreon supporter since July 2023 Support the show on a one-time basis at http://support.greatdetectives.net. Mail a donation to: Adam Graham, PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715 Take the listener survey…http://survey.greatdetectives.net Give us a call 208-991-4783Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectives Become one of ourfriends on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter@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.
[0:35] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
[0:38] Speaker 1: going to bring you this week's episode of The Big Story.
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[1:00] Speaker 1: Dot impo or wherever you get your podcast from. But now,
[1:06] Speaker 1: from June eighth, nineteen forty nine, here is the bitterest
[1:10] Speaker 1: man on Earth.
[1:14] Speaker 2: Hell now present The Big Story.
[1:31] Speaker 3: Good he did?
[1:35] Speaker 4: Sweet baby?
[1:37] Speaker 3: Oh man? Yeah, hey baby, you ain't got your mind
[1:42] Speaker 3: on it. Come on, we dance know what.
[1:46] Speaker 4: Oh listen to?
[1:47] Speaker 3: Don't that send you?
[1:49] Speaker 4: No, that just get you.
[1:50] Speaker 5: That's him right there, sitting there.
[1:52] Speaker 4: See he's getting up.
[1:54] Speaker 6: Now stop that man, stop him.
[1:56] Speaker 5: Get killed my best friend. That man wanted for murder.
[1:59] Speaker 5: That's him.
[2:06] Speaker 2: The Big Story here is America. It's sound and its fury,
[2:11] Speaker 2: its joy and its sorrow, as faithfully reported by the
[2:15] Speaker 2: men and women of the Great American newspapers, Richmond, Virginia.
[2:22] Speaker 2: The story of a murder and of a man convicted
[2:25] Speaker 2: for that murder, who became the bitterest man on earth,
[2:29] Speaker 2: for his contribution not only in writing a great story,
[2:33] Speaker 2: but in reaffirming a great truth, that every person on
[2:36] Speaker 2: earth is a human being and has a right to
[2:38] Speaker 2: human dignity to report a Julian C. Housman of the Richmond,
[2:42] Speaker 2: Virginia Newsleader, for his big story goes the Pellmell Award.
[2:56] Speaker 2: Now the story as it actually happened. Reporter Julian Husband's
[3:01] Speaker 2: story as he lived it, Richmond, Virginia.
[3:14] Speaker 7: It began with a letter from a woman in Harlem
[3:17] Speaker 7: at twenty five eighty one, Saint Nicholas Avenue, New York
[3:21] Speaker 7: to the postmaster at Brodnack's in Mecklenburg County, Virginia.
[3:27] Speaker 8: Dear mister Dawson, Sir, I got to make myself known
[3:30] Speaker 8: to you, and maybe you remember me Daniel Greene's daughter,
[3:34] Speaker 8: Mamie now name of Goodwin. Since I'm married, I hope
[3:38] Speaker 8: you'll not think me beIN forward to write, sir, mister Dawson.
[3:42] Speaker 8: But my son Jamie got himself in trouble. He's in Richmond,
[3:46] Speaker 8: in the Henricot County Jail accused of murder and sent
[3:50] Speaker 8: us to forty year hard labor. Now the man who
[3:53] Speaker 8: did that crime is name Author Tenney, and some swear
[3:56] Speaker 8: as my Jamie is at Author Tenney, which he is
[3:59] Speaker 8: not here is my son and never might have know one. Now,
[4:04] Speaker 8: mister Dawson, you know my family when I wait for
[4:07] Speaker 8: your wife twenty years ago and then moved from broad
[4:10] Speaker 8: Axe to New York and Jamie come with me. He
[4:13] Speaker 8: never killed no one, But I can't come and prove it.
[4:17] Speaker 9: So would you please I.
[4:18] Speaker 8: Get in touch with the sheriff, mister Rae and tell
[4:21] Speaker 8: them that Jamie ain't this Author Tenney and help him
[4:25] Speaker 8: get off. I'd be so grateful, mister Dawson, sir, and
[4:28] Speaker 8: thank you in advance your humble servants.
[4:31] Speaker 9: Maymick Grain goodn.
[4:42] Speaker 4: It began for you.
[4:44] Speaker 7: Julian Housmann, reporter for the Richmond knows lad when Postmaster
[4:49] Speaker 7: Dawson of Broadnax happened to have some business in Richmond,
[4:54] Speaker 7: happened to have a spare half hour, and happened by
[4:58] Speaker 7: accident to walk into the newspaper office.
[5:01] Speaker 10: Mister Housman, Yeah, that's right. Her name's Dawson, Postmash and
[5:06] Speaker 10: broad Knights. I got something here might be of interest.
[5:09] Speaker 10: The girl outside it says that you handle this kind
[5:12] Speaker 10: of thing.
[5:13] Speaker 9: What is the crime story? I don't know.
[5:15] Speaker 10: Is it any kind of story? Just the letter I
[5:17] Speaker 10: got old woman he used to know twenty odd years
[5:20] Speaker 10: ago up Mecklenburg County where Broaden Axes I used to
[5:24] Speaker 10: do washing for my wife.
[5:25] Speaker 9: Well, I'm on a story right now, mister Dorston.
[5:28] Speaker 10: That's all right, It won't take your time. Just why
[5:30] Speaker 10: don't I leave the letter? You think it's anything where,
[5:33] Speaker 10: go ahead and do what you like. If not, it
[5:36] Speaker 10: gets the wastebaskets, go to place as any place.
[5:39] Speaker 7: Three hours later, after you've finished work, you read the letter.
[5:46] Speaker 7: It moves you strongly. The woman's plight, her dependence on Dawson,
[5:51] Speaker 7: the helplessness, and every line. Could it be as she
[5:55] Speaker 7: had written? You call Sheriff Jeff Ray a good friend
[6:00] Speaker 7: out at Henrico Cardy prison.
[6:02] Speaker 11: Then there's nothing in it Jeff about his being Goodwin
[6:04] Speaker 11: and not Tenny, No nothing.
[6:06] Speaker 12: I had that boy in jail one day six years ago,
[6:08] Speaker 12: right after killed his wife.
[6:10] Speaker 9: He escaped that first day, but I remember him couldn't
[6:12] Speaker 9: you compare his prince?
[6:15] Speaker 12: Now, I tell you a little secret, Julian, I never
[6:17] Speaker 12: did get a chance to take his prince. I was
[6:20] Speaker 12: going to do that second morning. But if he didn't
[6:22] Speaker 12: escape that night, we got him. Now, had a fair trial,
[6:26] Speaker 12: got convicted. And that's that. Ah, Julian, he ain't pulling
[6:30] Speaker 12: the wool over your eyes now, is he with that
[6:32] Speaker 12: story of being someone else?
[6:34] Speaker 4: Oh, Julian, you hear me.
[6:37] Speaker 9: Yeah, I hear you. Jeff No, he isn't. That's so long.
[6:41] Speaker 3: Oh that's right, mister houseman. My name is Jamie Goodwin.
[7:00] Speaker 3: But what's the difference. Ain't nobody gonna believe me? Ain't
[7:03] Speaker 3: nobody care? But what proof do you have proof? What's
[7:07] Speaker 3: that proof? I say, who I am? I got papers
[7:11] Speaker 3: from the Merchant Marine. Duriy say, that's off a tenny,
[7:14] Speaker 3: forty years hard labor.
[7:16] Speaker 9: That's your proof. And you're not off a tenny. You're
[7:18] Speaker 9: Jamie Goodwin.
[7:19] Speaker 3: Mister he's gone away. Who cares if a backwards boy
[7:23] Speaker 3: like me live or die?
[7:25] Speaker 4: Going away and leave me be.
[7:36] Speaker 7: For a moment, do you think, oh, what's the difference?
[7:40] Speaker 7: And then you stop? He's a man, his name, a
[7:44] Speaker 7: human being, with the same hopes and desires and fears
[7:47] Speaker 7: as you or anyone else. Do you think suppose I
[7:52] Speaker 7: spend a little time on this find out. He starts
[7:56] Speaker 7: with Bertha Javis, the girl who identified him.
[7:59] Speaker 9: I was up there New York visiting friends.
[8:02] Speaker 6: We went dan Soon That's where I saw him.
[8:04] Speaker 9: Tenny, You're sure it was Tenny?
[8:06] Speaker 6: Sure, I'm sure.
[8:07] Speaker 9: How do you know?
[8:08] Speaker 13: His wife was my girlfriend?
[8:10] Speaker 6: I grew up with her, my best friend. He promised
[8:13] Speaker 6: to love honor and Cherisher Steady killed her. She was
[8:17] Speaker 6: a good girl, Marie, and he's bad.
[8:20] Speaker 4: How I know? Well, Marie's dead.
[8:23] Speaker 6: That's how I know.
[8:31] Speaker 9: You are Marie's mother.
[8:32] Speaker 4: Who are you?
[8:33] Speaker 9: I'm a reporter. Nny was your son in law?
[8:36] Speaker 8: Right, I've got nothing to say about him except they
[8:39] Speaker 8: should electrocuted him.
[8:40] Speaker 9: Not to give him forty years. You identified him at
[8:43] Speaker 9: the trial, sure, saying his.
[8:44] Speaker 14: Name is Goodwin.
[8:46] Speaker 13: I ain't Kenny.
[8:47] Speaker 4: I Goodwin?
[8:48] Speaker 9: Liar? Know what a liar that boy was? Come in?
[8:51] Speaker 8: Look what's that bible? Look her here rode on the inside.
[8:56] Speaker 8: Turned my darling sweetheart, Marie. Give it it's Tuo same
[9:00] Speaker 8: day killed her. That's how bad he was.
[9:03] Speaker 9: Sure there couldn't be any mistake.
[9:04] Speaker 8: I swore in the courtroom, and I'll putting my hand
[9:06] Speaker 8: on this book.
[9:07] Speaker 9: Now, God's my witness.
[9:08] Speaker 8: That boy in jail kill my daughter.
[9:10] Speaker 14: God's my witness.
[9:18] Speaker 7: You wonder about him, now, Jamie Goodwin or off At Tenny,
[9:24] Speaker 7: You wonder that to go on? Other witnesses say the same.
[9:29] Speaker 7: And then after searching a week, you find the Tenny family.
[9:33] Speaker 7: A woman second bed who can't talk, and a bent
[9:37] Speaker 7: old man who listens to your mission and shakes his head.
[9:41] Speaker 15: He's my son. But don't talk about him.
[9:44] Speaker 11: But you weren't at the trial, Well you, mister Tenny,
[9:46] Speaker 11: you didn't see him what I wanna see.
[9:49] Speaker 15: Boy disgrace his family, mister, since he'd done that six
[9:53] Speaker 15: years ago, his mama and me ain't been out of
[9:56] Speaker 15: this house living disgrace, that's all. Don't want to talk
[10:00] Speaker 15: about him.
[10:01] Speaker 9: But this man may not be your son. Killed his wife,
[10:05] Speaker 9: that's all I know. Maybe he didn't do it.
[10:07] Speaker 11: I don't say your son didn't kill his wife. I
[10:09] Speaker 11: say maybe this man isn't your son.
[10:12] Speaker 9: What you want me to do, come down to the
[10:14] Speaker 9: jail see him.
[10:15] Speaker 11: You may be able to set an innocent man free.
[10:18] Speaker 11: You wouldn't want an innocent man to pay for your
[10:20] Speaker 11: son's crime, would you.
[10:21] Speaker 15: Well enough trouble in the world at out some poor
[10:25] Speaker 15: boy pend for something my son done. I'll go.
[10:40] Speaker 11: You know this man Jamie, No, sir, never seen him
[10:44] Speaker 11: before in my life. Well, mister Tanney, mister Tenney, this
[10:47] Speaker 11: is Arthur Tenny's father.
[10:48] Speaker 15: Well it looked like him, talk like him, even stand
[10:54] Speaker 15: like Arthur. Look enough to be him. Eltis twin. He
[11:00] Speaker 15: ain't my son, He's somebody else.
[11:13] Speaker 7: Read all about it men sentencing and Rico County Jail
[11:16] Speaker 7: for murderers.
[11:16] Speaker 14: Arthur Tenny says, that's not his name.
[11:18] Speaker 7: Read all about it is shut down the facts as
[11:21] Speaker 7: you've got them, the assertions and other niles. And the
[11:25] Speaker 7: next morning you get a call the Commonwealth's Attorney, George Dallas,
[11:31] Speaker 7: the man who tried the case, tells you to come in,
[11:35] Speaker 7: tells you you'd better come in.
[11:37] Speaker 13: That's a great story, you wrote, great public service.
[11:40] Speaker 14: What's the matter, mister Ballas you think I try cases
[11:43] Speaker 14: and send men to prison for forty years for the
[11:45] Speaker 14: fun of it, I don't, But I wrote that. I
[11:47] Speaker 14: suppose you listen, houseman and I talk eight witnesses and
[11:52] Speaker 14: the sheriff of this county identified this man as Tenny.
[11:55] Speaker 14: One witness, the man's father, and of course the man
[11:57] Speaker 14: himself say he's not Tenny. Now, I ask yourself this,
[12:01] Speaker 14: Does the Tenny family stand again by lying? Does Tenny
[12:04] Speaker 14: stand again by sticking to his story that he's Goodwin?
[12:07] Speaker 14: Of course?
[12:08] Speaker 9: But I saw them together, Tenny's father, and.
[12:10] Speaker 14: I saw Bertha Jarvis and the murdered girl's mother and
[12:13] Speaker 14: all the rest. I suppose you were accused of being
[12:16] Speaker 14: someone you're not. Could you prove who you were? Would
[12:19] Speaker 14: it be so difficult?
[12:20] Speaker 9: And what about the papers from the Merchant Marine.
[12:22] Speaker 14: Look I walk into a shipping office in New York
[12:25] Speaker 14: and say my name is Goodwin. Do they ask for proof? No,
[12:29] Speaker 14: they issue papers in the name of Goodwin. Does that
[12:32] Speaker 14: make me Goodwin?
[12:33] Speaker 9: No? No? I see all that. But there are no butts.
[12:36] Speaker 14: No, if Sir Anne's are butts. That boy raised the
[12:40] Speaker 14: noise that he was Goodwin.
[12:41] Speaker 9: In court we proved who he was.
[12:45] Speaker 14: Now, if he hadn't raised that doubt that he was
[12:46] Speaker 14: someone else, he'd have been sentenced to death, not forty years,
[12:50] Speaker 14: instead of an innocent man being unjustly jailed. I tell
[12:53] Speaker 14: you a guilty man has gotten off easy.
[12:55] Speaker 9: You think that I know it?
[12:57] Speaker 14: Now, Why don't you go back to your paper and
[12:59] Speaker 14: write the second part of that story that Tenny is
[13:02] Speaker 14: Kenny No ifs and buts.
[13:05] Speaker 9: No.
[13:06] Speaker 11: I can't do that, mister Bout. I can't because after
[13:10] Speaker 11: all you've said, and all the other witnesses have said, I.
[13:12] Speaker 9: Think I'm right. I think I can prove that Jamie
[13:15] Speaker 9: Goodwin is not the murderer.
[13:40] Speaker 16: This is Si Harris returning you to your narrator and
[13:43] Speaker 16: the big story of Julian Houseman as he lived it
[13:47] Speaker 16: and brought it.
[13:49] Speaker 7: The fact seem all against you, Julian Housman, reporter for
[13:53] Speaker 7: the Richmond Newsleader. Witnesses swear that the man who says
[13:57] Speaker 7: he's Jamie Goodwin is really off Tenny murderer. The sheriff
[14:03] Speaker 7: says so, Commonwealth's attorney Ballast insists so. And all you
[14:08] Speaker 7: have to go on is the word of the man himself,
[14:12] Speaker 7: the murderer's father, and your own stubborn belief. You go
[14:17] Speaker 7: back to Henrik Cardie jail, to the innocent man or
[14:21] Speaker 7: the murderer.
[14:22] Speaker 9: And talk Jamie. I need to know more. I've got
[14:25] Speaker 9: to know more about you now, you've got to talk
[14:27] Speaker 9: to me. What for, mister horsman, don't sit there like
[14:29] Speaker 9: that so we can free you. Don't you want to
[14:31] Speaker 9: get out of prison?
[14:32] Speaker 3: Don't I want to get out? Don't I want to Breathe? Look, mister,
[14:37] Speaker 3: you've been good, real good, taking time, but nobody cares.
[14:40] Speaker 3: What happens to me? That old man say I wasn't
[14:43] Speaker 3: his son? Anybody listen to him? The sheriff listen, mister Ballace,
[14:47] Speaker 3: he listened.
[14:48] Speaker 11: No, Oh, what's a good I tell you, if we
[14:51] Speaker 11: can get profe, you can be free.
[14:54] Speaker 3: They put me away. They treat me good in here,
[14:56] Speaker 3: and I ain't complaining. Food's good and all like it.
[15:00] Speaker 3: But they put me away and they ain't gonna bother
[15:01] Speaker 3: take me out.
[15:02] Speaker 9: I tell you you're wrong. Ballas is an honest man.
[15:05] Speaker 3: I ain't say he's not honest.
[15:06] Speaker 17: I oh, mister, look, I want to get out, getting
[15:12] Speaker 17: the sun, get on a ship, maybe see a girl,
[15:15] Speaker 17: get married, have kids.
[15:17] Speaker 4: Sure, sure I.
[15:18] Speaker 3: Want that, But I ain't gonna let you come in
[15:21] Speaker 3: here and stuff my hopes and made me get me
[15:22] Speaker 3: to think that that's what I'm gonna have. I ain't
[15:25] Speaker 3: gonna let you do that. I'm gonna run in here.
[15:27] Speaker 3: It ain't nothing you know, nobody in the whole world can
[15:30] Speaker 3: do to help me. That's why I say leave me alone. Please,
[15:33] Speaker 3: I'm begging you. Leave me alone, mess me up, and
[15:38] Speaker 3: then dash me down more hard than before.
[15:42] Speaker 9: You're wrong, Jenny, You're wrong? How can I make you
[15:45] Speaker 9: believe you're wrong? Jamie?
[15:48] Speaker 11: I'm gonna write a story about what you just told me.
[15:50] Speaker 11: Maybe somebody will read it and come forward and say
[15:52] Speaker 11: who you really are? What else should I say in
[15:55] Speaker 11: that story?
[15:55] Speaker 4: I told you all?
[15:56] Speaker 3: I'm gonna say you.
[15:57] Speaker 9: Asked who cares?
[15:58] Speaker 11: I care, Jamie, and I think others will care when
[16:00] Speaker 11: they hear your story.
[16:03] Speaker 9: The truth, honest, the true Jamie.
[16:08] Speaker 3: All right, say this, Jamie Goodwin's got a bad name,
[16:14] Speaker 3: Jamie Goodwin Robert Carr and stole money for food. But
[16:18] Speaker 3: he didn't kill no woman.
[16:19] Speaker 4: He didn't kill no wife. He never was married. Say that.
[16:23] Speaker 3: Say if he got married, he treated this woman right.
[16:26] Speaker 3: You ain't gonna help maybe, but.
[16:28] Speaker 4: That's the truth.
[16:29] Speaker 9: Anything else, Yeah, yeah, you know, mister Haan.
[16:34] Speaker 3: Say that. Say Jamie Goodman worked lots of places Broad
[16:37] Speaker 3: n Next, Detroit, Baltimore, Boston. There must be some folks
[16:42] Speaker 3: knowing must be one man somewhere stop what he do
[16:45] Speaker 3: and take a day out and come down here to
[16:46] Speaker 3: prove I ain't no murderer. Prove I just claimed, Jamie Goodwin.
[17:00] Speaker 14: Reg your story. Mister tim thought. Maybe I knew that
[17:03] Speaker 14: man you wrote about two years ago. Let him seventy
[17:05] Speaker 14: five dollars he paid me back to here's the newdy sign. Heee,
[17:10] Speaker 14: Jamie Goodwin, maybe you can use it.
[17:19] Speaker 15: I just come from the jail, mister haslan Well. I
[17:21] Speaker 15: saw that man. The man they says author Tenny Funny.
[17:25] Speaker 15: I remember when I talked to Tenny, knew him years ago.
[17:29] Speaker 15: He used to have to look up to that man tall.
[17:32] Speaker 15: This one I didn't have to look up to. Now
[17:34] Speaker 15: he must have got shorter, because I ain't got no
[17:37] Speaker 15: taller less, of course, like I think, he ain't author Tenny,
[17:42] Speaker 15: but someone else.
[17:50] Speaker 9: You're a houseman, that's right.
[17:53] Speaker 4: My name C. B. Sega. I'm a planter broad next way.
[17:56] Speaker 4: You had not in the paper. I read it.
[17:58] Speaker 12: I spoke the postmaster in our town about this good Win.
[18:01] Speaker 12: Tenny Feller says, come see you say here I am.
[18:04] Speaker 9: What do you think about it?
[18:06] Speaker 12: Thinking something? I don't go in for much here is.
[18:09] Speaker 12: I'll tell you what I believe in. I believe in facts.
[18:12] Speaker 12: I live in broad Next all my life. Know everyone
[18:15] Speaker 12: man worked for me. Name a Goodwin years back. Maybe
[18:18] Speaker 12: that's the boy you've got in jail here. If it is,
[18:21] Speaker 12: i'll prove it. I'll ask that boy six questions about Broadnecks.
[18:25] Speaker 12: He answers him he's a Goodwin. He don't let him
[18:28] Speaker 12: stay in jail. I ain't got all day.
[18:30] Speaker 4: Let's go.
[18:46] Speaker 9: I stand still, you man, what's this?
[18:48] Speaker 4: What you got all these men here for?
[18:50] Speaker 9: Can you pick out one you ever saw before? Mister
[18:53] Speaker 9: Sega testing me?
[18:54] Speaker 4: Eh? Well, I'll be sure there he is. You're Goodwin? Right, yes?
[19:03] Speaker 4: Chasing me? All right?
[19:04] Speaker 11: The rest of you, man can go, Jamie, this man
[19:09] Speaker 11: is Let me do the talking, son, Okay, I look
[19:12] Speaker 11: at me, Jamie.
[19:13] Speaker 4: Where am i?
[19:15] Speaker 3: I remember? You say you mister sake?
[19:19] Speaker 4: That's right now? Where am I from? By broad Next?
[19:22] Speaker 4: When did you last see me?
[19:24] Speaker 9: Let me see seven years ago?
[19:27] Speaker 4: So last July?
[19:28] Speaker 14: Why did you say July when.
[19:32] Speaker 3: You fired me July the first and then you hired
[19:35] Speaker 3: me back July to fourth?
[19:36] Speaker 4: He says he was being patriotic about how I never mind?
[19:39] Speaker 4: What's my brother in law's name.
[19:43] Speaker 9: What is the doctor, doctor Payne?
[19:46] Speaker 4: What did he tell you last time he saw you?
[19:49] Speaker 4: He said, I think it was the last time.
[19:51] Speaker 3: He says, don't you go walking on no more rules,
[19:54] Speaker 3: because next time you fall off, you and I might
[19:56] Speaker 3: not be lucky and.
[19:57] Speaker 4: Just break one lead.
[19:58] Speaker 12: That's him, that's him, that's Jamie with no furious facts.
[20:01] Speaker 12: I swear for heck, I don't need to swear now, Jamie.
[20:06] Speaker 12: When he let you out, you come on back to
[20:09] Speaker 12: broad next. I got a good job with him.
[20:20] Speaker 7: But it's not so simple. There are eight witnesses and
[20:24] Speaker 7: a sheriff to shake. There's a decision of a judge
[20:27] Speaker 7: and a jury the reverse, and there's an attorney Ballast,
[20:31] Speaker 7: the commonwealth attorney. You bring the new information to him.
[20:36] Speaker 7: He looks it over lessons, then says, I take back
[20:40] Speaker 7: some of what I said. Housman, your story was not irresponsible.
[20:44] Speaker 9: Thank you.
[20:45] Speaker 14: I take back some of what I said. There's still
[20:48] Speaker 14: the testimony of eight enough. But you think, nevertheless, that
[20:52] Speaker 14: this information warrants a new trial.
[20:54] Speaker 9: Yes, mister Ballas I do. What do you think, husband?
[20:58] Speaker 9: I want you to know I'll fight you.
[21:00] Speaker 14: I mean you and Tenny or a Goodwin and his attorney.
[21:03] Speaker 14: I'll fight you with all I've got. You know I'm
[21:06] Speaker 14: a funny duck. I'm one of those throwbacks to another
[21:08] Speaker 14: period when people had a sense of duty and a
[21:10] Speaker 14: sense of honesty. If you win this case, you'll know
[21:14] Speaker 14: you've been in a fight.
[21:16] Speaker 13: You'll get a new trial, as the lord's my witness.
[21:28] Speaker 4: Jedge.
[21:28] Speaker 6: That man sitting right over there was married to my
[21:31] Speaker 6: girlfriend Marie.
[21:33] Speaker 13: That man is author Tenny. I swear he killed my daughter.
[21:46] Speaker 9: That Tenny, I swear he don't decide to live.
[21:56] Speaker 15: Yes, So mister lawyer us respects what that foreman said
[22:00] Speaker 15: about Marie, and I ain't forgetting Marie was my daughter
[22:04] Speaker 15: in law. But that man sitting down ain't my son.
[22:08] Speaker 15: He looked like him, all right, but he ain't my boy.
[22:18] Speaker 12: My name is Sega, I say, any man answer my
[22:20] Speaker 12: six questions? Way that boy done? I know he's who
[22:23] Speaker 12: I say is? He's Jamie Goodwin.
[22:37] Speaker 8: I'm the boy's mother, Sir, Yes, sir, No matter what
[22:41] Speaker 8: I say, I know few people ain't gonna think I
[22:43] Speaker 8: ain't sticking up for my son.
[22:46] Speaker 4: I am. But I said this.
[22:48] Speaker 8: How come that poor woman understand whose daughter got killed?
[22:51] Speaker 4: N't know me.
[22:52] Speaker 8: How come the man who say he's author to his
[22:54] Speaker 8: father never seen me before? If I'm the mother of
[22:57] Speaker 8: this man, then there's my kinfold. And how come my
[23:01] Speaker 8: kinfolks don't know me? Reason Neils, he's Jamie Goodman.
[23:05] Speaker 9: That's why I am a handwriting expert.
[23:20] Speaker 10: I've testified in many trials in professional capacity, including the
[23:23] Speaker 10: Lindbergh case. I have also examined a sheet of paper
[23:26] Speaker 10: torn from a Bible on which Arthur Tenny wrote a
[23:28] Speaker 10: few words. I have also examined a note admittedly signed
[23:32] Speaker 10: by Jamie Goodwin. In my honest and positive opinion, the
[23:36] Speaker 10: possibility of Tenny writing like Goodwin or Goodwin writing like
[23:40] Speaker 10: Tenny is so highly unlikely that it becomes almost a
[23:43] Speaker 10: practical certainty that they are very different people. In short,
[23:47] Speaker 10: that's Goodwin your honor, not Tenny.
[24:01] Speaker 4: Jamie Goodwin.
[24:03] Speaker 9: Yes, so your honor.
[24:04] Speaker 15: He's dismissed.
[24:06] Speaker 9: Sir, You're a free Jamie.
[24:07] Speaker 7: You're afraid, Please, mister Housman, a little respect for the
[24:11] Speaker 7: dignity of this court.
[24:13] Speaker 16: Jamie Goodwin, you are free.
[24:36] Speaker 9: I don't know what the same as to help you
[24:38] Speaker 9: don't have to say anything.
[24:39] Speaker 4: I got it somehow. I gotta thank you. You see,
[24:43] Speaker 4: I learned that people don't care.
[24:47] Speaker 3: People like you and the postmaster from broad MAXI mister Sega,
[24:51] Speaker 3: here's mister Ballast too.
[24:52] Speaker 9: Then folks on the other side they care too. What's true,
[24:57] Speaker 9: countful folks don't. That's right.
[24:59] Speaker 18: It seem the something something else too, I mean something.
[25:04] Speaker 18: If you believe in something, you don't put your head
[25:07] Speaker 18: down and say no, they can't be you. Put your
[25:10] Speaker 18: face up and fight for what you believe. If you
[25:14] Speaker 18: do that, people cared because they see that you kids.
[25:17] Speaker 18: And that's what this show, now it was.
[25:20] Speaker 9: That's what it shows, Jamie. That's just what it shows.
[25:40] Speaker 2: In just a moment, we'll read you a telegram from
[25:42] Speaker 2: Julian Sea Houseman of the Richmond, Virginia Newsleader, with a
[25:45] Speaker 2: final outcome of tonight's big story. Now we read you
[25:54] Speaker 2: that telegram from Julian Cea Housman of the Richmond Virginia Newsleader.
[25:59] Speaker 11: Day after try Goodwin visited the paper and said, I
[26:02] Speaker 11: just wanted to come to the people who got me
[26:03] Speaker 11: out of this. Jam I needed assistant sentence to the
[26:06] Speaker 11: Newsleader that I owe my freedom. Authorities are still searching
[26:09] Speaker 11: for the actual murderer in Tonight's Big Story. Thanks a
[26:13] Speaker 11: lot for Tonight's Pellmell Award.
[26:14] Speaker 4: Thank you, mister Hosman.
[26:16] Speaker 2: The makers of pell Mell Famous Cigarettes are proud to
[26:18] Speaker 2: present you the pell Mell five hundred dollars Award for
[26:21] Speaker 2: notable service in the field of Journalism.
[26:23] Speaker 16: Listen again next week, same time, same station, when pell
[26:27] Speaker 16: Mell Famous Cigarettes will present another Big Story. A big
[26:32] Speaker 16: story from the front pages of the Columbus, Ohio Dispatch
[26:35] Speaker 16: Byeline bill Foley, A big story about a phantom killer
[26:41] Speaker 16: and a reporter who didn't believe in ghosts.
[26:57] Speaker 2: The Big Story is produced by Bernard Parcter with music
[27:00] Speaker 2: by Vladimtslinski. Tonight's program was written by Arnold Pearl. Your
[27:05] Speaker 2: narrator was Bob Sloan. John Sylvester played the part of
[27:08] Speaker 2: Julian C. Hausman, and Canada Lee played Jamie. In order
[27:13] Speaker 2: to protect the names of people actually involved in Tonight's
[27:16] Speaker 2: authentic Big Story, the names of all characters in the
[27:19] Speaker 2: dramatization were changed, with exception of the report of mister Housman.
[27:29] Speaker 2: This is Ernest Chappel speaking for the makers of pell Mell.
[27:39] Speaker 9: This is NBC the Nation, a broadcasting company.
[27:49] Speaker 1: Welcome Back. In addition to mister Sylvester and mister lay in,
[27:55] Speaker 1: tonight's cast were Pauline Myers, Georgia Bury, John Marriott, Jim Bules,
[28:03] Speaker 1: Eric Dressler, Bill Smith, Scott Tennyson, and as usual, a
[28:09] Speaker 1: lot of doubles, including Canada Lee. Now on the Big Story.
[28:14] Speaker 1: It is a bit unusual for any co stars to
[28:18] Speaker 1: make it into the closing credits, but Canada ly had
[28:22] Speaker 1: a very significant profile that merited it. Lee kind of
[28:28] Speaker 1: stumbled into acting, I mean literally was looking for a
[28:32] Speaker 1: job as a laborer and ended up in an audition
[28:37] Speaker 1: for the Federal Theater, which was one of those sort
[28:41] Speaker 1: of new deal projects that kept people in work by
[28:45] Speaker 1: having them performed. According to Lee, the way he looked
[28:50] Speaker 1: at acting was this is interesting, and it's better than
[28:53] Speaker 1: going hungry. Then he got into a production of McBeth,
[29:00] Speaker 1: which we termine all black production, and Wells had them
[29:06] Speaker 1: rehearsed for six months and this just became a runaway hit.
[29:12] Speaker 1: And it really is a case where Wells's passion for
[29:18] Speaker 1: the theater and acting were caught by Lee, which I
[29:22] Speaker 1: think is one of the more incredible things that I've
[29:26] Speaker 1: ever read about mister Wells. Lee went on to do
[29:30] Speaker 1: a lot of stage work and in Hollywood he was
[29:34] Speaker 1: asked in Lifeboat, and he'd also served as an narrator
[29:40] Speaker 1: of the really interesting World War two era program New
[29:45] Speaker 1: World A Coming, So he brought some real star power
[29:49] Speaker 1: that you don't really hear a whole lot in the
[29:52] Speaker 1: big story. In terms of the episode itself, I think
[29:55] Speaker 1: it was well set out, and according to doctor Joe Webb,
[30:01] Speaker 1: it's pretty close to the truth. The murder in question
[30:07] Speaker 1: happened in nineteen thirty two, with the new trial occurring
[30:12] Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty eight. I do think that, as was
[30:17] Speaker 1: the case with other episodes in this sort of mold,
[30:22] Speaker 1: that there may be a little bit too much credit
[30:26] Speaker 1: being given to the prosecutors, who and I think in
[30:31] Speaker 1: real life, continued through a lot of evidence coming forward,
[30:36] Speaker 1: a lot of people saying this wasn't the same guy
[30:39] Speaker 1: until they were really Finally, I think by the way
[30:44] Speaker 1: of public relations and potential, he forced to go ahead
[30:49] Speaker 1: and have a new trial. Now that is not to
[30:53] Speaker 1: say in anyway that prosecutors or most prosecutors aren't concerned
[31:00] Speaker 1: enough with justice to try to do the right thing.
[31:03] Speaker 1: It's just kind of hard to see that this was
[31:06] Speaker 1: the case here all right. Listener comments and feedback now
[31:10] Speaker 1: and overall on Spotify Mechanics sixty six rights regarding the
[31:14] Speaker 1: episode's sixteen year old misfit kills out of Fear good one.
[31:19] Speaker 3: Well, thanks so much.
[31:20] Speaker 1: Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day,
[31:24] Speaker 1: and I wanted to go ahead and thank Die and
[31:27] Speaker 1: Patreon supporter since July of twenty twenty three, currently supporting
[31:33] Speaker 1: the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars
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[31:40] Speaker 1: for your support, Diane, and that will do it for today.
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[31:54] Speaker 1: next Tuesday with another episode of the Big Story, but
[31:58] Speaker 1: join us back here tomorrow for Broadways My Beat, where.
[32:01] Speaker 19: The shock was a thing composed of crowd and a
[32:04] Speaker 19: nighttime sky lit by flame, the elements later to be
[32:07] Speaker 19: noted in police and fire department records. Fire at Russell's
[32:10] Speaker 19: Chemical Company time four fifteen am.
[32:13] Speaker 4: You're bringing somebody out now down.
[32:15] Speaker 19: Strange What what'd you say? Said a strange mug of
[32:18] Speaker 19: m after four in the morning. Why should anybody be come,
[32:21] Speaker 19: Let's see put the stretches down here.
[32:25] Speaker 9: Somebody better are they?
[32:27] Speaker 13: Oh?
[32:27] Speaker 3: Hello, Danny, he's too. I think that's always in there.
[32:30] Speaker 3: I just started to say, somebody better get a preach.
[32:32] Speaker 4: They both said, this one is the other one.
[32:34] Speaker 9: Anny, look at him, Ed Custer, do something for him.
[32:39] Speaker 19: Don't knock Doc overhead, Ed Custer, hurry up, Doc, you
[32:43] Speaker 19: know I'm Danny.
[32:44] Speaker 9: Yeah, he's a policeman.
[32:45] Speaker 4: Policeman, what was he doing in there?
[32:47] Speaker 9: Got do something for him.
[32:49] Speaker 1: Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, said
[32:52] Speaker 1: your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot man,
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[33:07] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. Sign and off.

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