# Broadway's My Beat: The Lois Conrad Murder Case (EP5033)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 5 Aug 2026, 37 min.

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Today's Mystery: Detective Danny Clover investigates the murder of a young secretarial school student whose glamorous lifestyle concealed a complicated personal life. As conflicting stories emerge from those closest to her, an unexpected confession seems to close the case—until Clover discovers the truth is far more complicated. Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 12, 1952 Originated in HollywoodCast: • Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover • Charles Calvert as Sgt. Gino Tartaglia • Jack Kruschen as Detective Muggavan • Paula Winslow as Sylvia Hewitt • Ted Osborne as Carl Hewitt • Lou Merrill as Mr. Conrad • Featured: Truda Marson and Shep Mencken • Written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin • Produced and directed by Elliott Lewis • Musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day:Jeff, Patreon supporter since May 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 208-991-4783 Follow us on Instagram at http://instagram.com/greatdetectives Become one of our friends 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.
[0:36] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
[0:39] Speaker 1: going to bring you this week's episode of Broadways My Beat.
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[1:19] Speaker 1: dot n now. From April twelfth, nineteen fifty two, here
[1:24] Speaker 1: is the lowest Conrad murder case.
[1:30] Speaker 2: Broadways might be from Time Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest,
[1:45] Speaker 2: the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
[1:53] Speaker 3: Broadways might Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Kloverer.
[2:05] Speaker 2: In the time of April Broadway walks, the street dappled
[2:08] Speaker 2: with sunlight, the time of the breeze sying in from
[2:11] Speaker 2: the river, touching your cheek and making a smile. It's
[2:14] Speaker 2: a time to wake up to and keep on dreaming
[2:17] Speaker 2: of far places and silver bells and a slow curve
[2:20] Speaker 2: of ocean, the months of being young again and search again.
[2:24] Speaker 2: The thing to do is to give up to it,
[2:26] Speaker 2: except about the job, the rent to pay, buy the beer,
[2:30] Speaker 2: leave the tip, meet the installment. It's April, but you've
[2:34] Speaker 2: got to make a living. Maybe next year. Kid through
[2:43] Speaker 2: the Venetian blinds, the morning sunlight patterned itself.
[2:46] Speaker 3: On the floor across the ratan.
[2:48] Speaker 2: Furniture in the place where I was four stories up,
[2:51] Speaker 2: recreation room, Globe, Secretarial School, where the girl's sprawled body was,
[2:56] Speaker 2: and the two bewildered people.
[2:59] Speaker 4: You can ask me all the questions you want. All
[3:01] Speaker 4: I can tell you is this girl's name Lois Conrad,
[3:04] Speaker 4: and she's.
[3:04] Speaker 3: A student here at the school.
[3:05] Speaker 4: Missus good, Yes, I registered her myself about three months ago.
[3:09] Speaker 5: Praap, I can tell you a little something, mister Clover,
[3:12] Speaker 5: All right, mister Heus was Miss Conrad is a student
[3:15] Speaker 5: in my typing class, her first class this morning at
[3:17] Speaker 5: nine thirty.
[3:18] Speaker 3: She didn't show up. Who reported this girl's slab, Misterhart,
[3:21] Speaker 3: missus Lindsay did. She's my best pupil.
[3:24] Speaker 6: That's one of the finest we've ever had here at Globe.
[3:26] Speaker 3: Tell me how missus Lindsey founder.
[3:28] Speaker 5: Well, I suppose she finished the typing test early, came
[3:31] Speaker 5: up here to direct room to relax.
[3:33] Speaker 3: Then she came running down to the office.
[3:35] Speaker 6: She came running to me, mister Clover. It was I
[3:38] Speaker 6: who called the police.
[3:38] Speaker 2: I was a little before ten thirty this morning, wasn't
[3:41] Speaker 2: it about a half hour ago?
[3:42] Speaker 6: Yes, that's right, I told you that three times.
[3:44] Speaker 3: Now.
[3:45] Speaker 6: I can show you where I've.
[3:46] Speaker 4: Got the time I called jotted down on my desk calendar.
[3:48] Speaker 4: You actress registrar here, Dean, I also teach shorthands in bookkeeping.
[3:53] Speaker 3: Just your husband and yourself run this school.
[3:55] Speaker 6: Would you like to see our license please, Sylvia. Isn't
[3:58] Speaker 6: it bad enough for the news of this court girl?
[4:00] Speaker 6: Death's going to do to it?
[4:01] Speaker 3: Help?
[4:01] Speaker 6: He has his job, yes, Carl, all right, Carl. It
[4:08] Speaker 6: just seems to me that this poor.
[4:10] Speaker 3: Girl lying one more thing.
[4:12] Speaker 2: Anyone could come up to this recreation room, because I
[4:15] Speaker 2: mean an outsider, he could just walk in here.
[4:17] Speaker 7: Is that so?
[4:17] Speaker 3: Oh? Yes?
[4:18] Speaker 5: Yes, we always have open house to public. Anyone can
[4:20] Speaker 5: walk in here anytime and observe.
[4:22] Speaker 6: Our met that poor girl lying there. She should be covered.
[4:31] Speaker 2: And the woman moves quickly through the sunless hall, darts
[4:33] Speaker 2: into a room, comes back, covers with a shawl the
[4:36] Speaker 2: intrusion of death. But for an instant lets her hand
[4:39] Speaker 2: tremble on the texture of the girl's face, youth stilled,
[4:43] Speaker 2: beauty already drained away. Then the trembling moves from her hand,
[4:47] Speaker 2: seizes her body, and her husband calls her name.
[4:50] Speaker 1: Stop it.
[4:51] Speaker 2: The command stills the flurry of shock in her. Then
[4:54] Speaker 2: follow them to their office. Consider the card taken from
[4:57] Speaker 2: a wooden file cabinet, Note the name of the new
[5:00] Speaker 2: arst relative, the dead girl's father, their address, and leave.
[5:05] Speaker 2: Leave the place where the newest registration is death. On
[5:15] Speaker 2: a side street in the West thirties, be told by
[5:17] Speaker 2: the dwellers of the stoop that mister Conrad was upstairs
[5:20] Speaker 2: third floor cleaning, mopping, dusting, making a show of earning
[5:24] Speaker 2: his keep. You've got a complaint, mister. It will fall
[5:27] Speaker 2: on cold ears.
[5:28] Speaker 3: Walk the stairs of a brown stone whose fire escape
[5:31] Speaker 3: doors are open to the gust of spring, Walk them
[5:34] Speaker 3: and find the man whose child lies dead. When I'm
[5:41] Speaker 3: move over a little, mister. I want to vacuum the
[5:42] Speaker 3: rug there were here in the way. Not sure here
[5:46] Speaker 3: it's done. Brought up the nap a little too. Huh,
[5:49] Speaker 3: what there is of it? I'm from the police. Danny
[5:51] Speaker 3: Clover's way. Will I shut off the hoover?
[5:53] Speaker 8: Huh eh?
[5:56] Speaker 3: Something I can do for you? Miss their room apartment? Now,
[6:00] Speaker 3: I from the management. You come to check up on me? Look,
[6:02] Speaker 3: mister how much getting your squeeze out of his souper?
[6:04] Speaker 3: I do the best I know how. I guess you
[6:06] Speaker 3: didn't hear me. I said I was from the police.
[6:08] Speaker 3: It's about your daughter, Louis, right, you got to come
[6:12] Speaker 3: snooping around here about Lowis. She's a good girl. My
[6:14] Speaker 3: loss is the best. I'll smash anybody who what about last?
[6:19] Speaker 3: No one called you, No one told me, Tell me what?
[6:21] Speaker 3: Tell me what about my kid? Tell me she's dead.
[6:26] Speaker 3: She was found murdered this morning at her school. I
[6:32] Speaker 3: got the whole hallway still to do, mister them upstairs
[6:35] Speaker 3: you want mind? Huh?
[6:40] Speaker 2: Tell me something about her, mister Conrad, something that will
[6:43] Speaker 2: give us a lead.
[6:44] Speaker 3: Normal Late last night went for a room. I almost
[6:46] Speaker 3: got out of bed to go say good night to her.
[6:48] Speaker 3: But I was tired, worn out with just worn out.
[6:51] Speaker 3: She was out late alone, alone loss, Why alone when
[6:56] Speaker 3: she could have anyone she wanted? She was out with Frankie.
[6:58] Speaker 3: Frankie Wilson d he works at the boat stand in
[7:01] Speaker 3: Central Park. I bet that's where they were sitting by
[7:03] Speaker 3: the lake or boating. This was a real nice night
[7:05] Speaker 3: last night for things like that. See here this morning,
[7:08] Speaker 3: talk to her. Oh this job. I get up, reretal early,
[7:11] Speaker 3: set the alarm for low so you won't be late
[7:13] Speaker 3: for school. It's never going to be let anymores. I'm sorry,
[7:19] Speaker 3: mister Connell, and leave.
[7:34] Speaker 2: And the ride out of Central Park and the roadside
[7:37] Speaker 2: rich with blossoms of spring babies and perambulators, delicate grass
[7:42] Speaker 2: and buds, the chattering of birds and nursemaids. The benches
[7:46] Speaker 2: are warm by the afternoon sun. A girl and a
[7:49] Speaker 2: boy sit together in a place speckled by branch shadows.
[7:55] Speaker 2: Park near the boating lake, and walk a little way
[7:57] Speaker 2: you have to go, and the boat shed gleams of
[7:59] Speaker 2: new paint. The smell of it mixed us well with
[8:01] Speaker 2: the scent of growing things. Your name, Frankie Wilson, Yeah,
[8:06] Speaker 2: frank I am Danny Clover Police.
[8:09] Speaker 3: You know a girl named orce Lord's Conrad your only
[8:13] Speaker 3: no more, she's dead. Come on, just because I know something.
[8:19] Speaker 3: A few million people in New York also, No, I don't
[8:21] Speaker 3: mean I killed her. I send the kid out for
[8:24] Speaker 3: chocolate in the newspaper for my lunch. That's how I know.
[8:26] Speaker 3: Your father told me I used to see quite a
[8:28] Speaker 3: lot of laws. Yeah, that's right. You want me to
[8:30] Speaker 3: tell you about her? Uh huh. She was a sinch
[8:33] Speaker 3: to wind up dead. You want me to tell you
[8:35] Speaker 3: why she picked a man like she picked me. Lean
[8:38] Speaker 3: her face up close and smile, woman, smile, you know
[8:42] Speaker 3: a few minutes later the smile turns into a laugh
[8:45] Speaker 3: ha haa type flap right in your face when this last
[8:48] Speaker 3: time is sorry, Frankie, last night I wrote it around
[8:51] Speaker 3: the lake, very romantic. It says drifty and dreamy. Then
[8:54] Speaker 3: we got out on the boat and sat down on
[8:56] Speaker 3: a bench. That one we sat down, and she smiled
[9:01] Speaker 3: that way, real close. Then she looked at her watch
[9:05] Speaker 3: and she says, golly day, Frankie, what do you know
[9:08] Speaker 3: it's midnight already. I got to go. You take her home. Nope,
[9:12] Speaker 3: last night was not my privilege. She got up, patted
[9:16] Speaker 3: my cheek, told me I was a nice boy, and left.
[9:19] Speaker 3: She says she was going home, didn't say, only this
[9:24] Speaker 3: sudden hurry she was in. I doubted her. Her father
[9:29] Speaker 3: don't keep tabs on her. Well, unless you're gonna arrest me,
[9:36] Speaker 3: I'll be right here.
[9:56] Speaker 7: It's Gina, Danny, May I come in?
[9:58] Speaker 3: Yes, come in? You know, kill me, Danny, ridicule me?
[10:03] Speaker 3: What today? My mood is faith?
[10:05] Speaker 7: This morning, Missus Tartaglia kissed me goodbye in a frolicky way,
[10:09] Speaker 7: pierced my lapel with a blushing blossom. Which is why
[10:13] Speaker 7: I wish to rid myself at the chores of the
[10:15] Speaker 7: day as quickly as possible, so I can get home,
[10:18] Speaker 7: maybe a little earlier, and take Missus Tartaglia for our
[10:21] Speaker 7: annual evening spring walk along the river, leaving the children
[10:24] Speaker 7: to their devices at home.
[10:26] Speaker 3: I'm with you and everything you said, you know.
[10:28] Speaker 7: I'm glad you see my side of it, Danny. Therefore,
[10:30] Speaker 7: to the affairs of the day post taste. Detective Muggerving
[10:34] Speaker 7: interrogated that miss Lindsey, who found the murdered girl Lois Conrad,
[10:38] Speaker 7: at great length in the interrogation room.
[10:40] Speaker 3: Did she come up with anything new?
[10:42] Speaker 7: Nothing, only that she correct the detective Muggerlin's proper usage
[10:46] Speaker 7: of the English language. The good detectives rebuttal to this.
[10:50] Speaker 3: I would have liked to have seen.
[10:55] Speaker 7: Other students and faculty also interrogated.
[10:58] Speaker 3: Nothing new, also anything I'll anything else?
[11:01] Speaker 7: Is this transcript of the shorthand notes found in the
[11:03] Speaker 7: notebook of the school locker of the deceased Lowess Conrad,
[11:07] Speaker 7: which I have edited and transcribed in the long hand.
[11:10] Speaker 7: Herewith her shorthand exercises f neatness. But among them this
[11:14] Speaker 7: petty quotation quote you can't keep from looking at me
[11:19] Speaker 7: is dying to be with me? Aha anytime I won't
[11:23] Speaker 7: close quote. Let's see that here, Nanny. You know never
[11:27] Speaker 7: in my personal years in business college, Danny, that I
[11:30] Speaker 7: have such shorthand exercises to.
[11:32] Speaker 3: Pot any clover speaking.
[11:33] Speaker 4: Missus Missus Hewett of the Globe Secretarial School, Will you
[11:37] Speaker 4: come here please my office right away.
[11:39] Speaker 6: I have something to tell you.
[11:41] Speaker 3: Well, can't you tell me over the phone? Missus?
[11:43] Speaker 6: I could?
[11:44] Speaker 4: It doesn't seem quite the proper way to name Lois's murderer.
[11:49] Speaker 4: I can expect you right away mister Clover. That's exactly
[12:05] Speaker 4: why I asked you to come down here to my
[12:06] Speaker 4: office with Clover while I'm alone, while my husband's teaching.
[12:10] Speaker 6: I want a name for you, Lois Conrad's murderer.
[12:13] Speaker 2: Just one thing before you tell me, missus s Hewart,
[12:15] Speaker 2: Are you just accusing somebody or they'll.
[12:17] Speaker 3: Know for sure? I know for sure, all right, who
[12:21] Speaker 3: killed Lois Conrad?
[12:23] Speaker 6: I did what you better? Arrest me? I killed Lois Conrad.
[12:30] Speaker 6: I stabbed her to death.
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[12:51] Speaker 3: Danny Clover. Every weekday, Arthur Godfree and his gang make merry. Then,
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[13:19] Speaker 2: When the sun comes to Broadway, the street is wide
[13:22] Speaker 2: enough for everybody, Blonds and convertibles, pekanese and taxis and
[13:26] Speaker 2: sailors against lamp posts. It's the place to come to
[13:30] Speaker 2: for one reason or another. Be a tourist to make
[13:32] Speaker 2: a pitch, buy a bargain, get cheated, insulted, or have
[13:37] Speaker 2: your picture taken. One nighttime comes walk beneath a special
[13:42] Speaker 2: moon that hangs high over Broadway, run with it, get
[13:46] Speaker 2: lost in the shadows of a cloud that scuds across
[13:48] Speaker 2: its face, and the night ends for the memory, depending upon.
[13:52] Speaker 3: What you've paid for it, what you wanted, what you got.
[14:01] Speaker 2: It's a room of a million memories where I was,
[14:04] Speaker 2: police interrogation room, where Detective Mugovin was, and a woman
[14:08] Speaker 2: who had confessed.
[14:09] Speaker 3: To a murder.
[14:10] Speaker 6: You've been very kind, both of you.
[14:12] Speaker 3: Thank you. Tell us about Lois Conrad.
[14:15] Speaker 6: I didn't like her. I stabbed her.
[14:17] Speaker 3: Lots of people don't like people, Missus Sutt, but they
[14:19] Speaker 3: don't go around stabbing. You must add some particular reason.
[14:23] Speaker 6: I didn't like her.
[14:24] Speaker 3: You hated her.
[14:24] Speaker 6: If you want to quibble, could I have a drink? Please?
[14:30] Speaker 1: No?
[14:30] Speaker 6: No, I don't want water. I want a.
[14:33] Speaker 2: Drink, sorry, Missus Shutt, Missus Heud, do you drink a lot?
[14:38] Speaker 6: What do you mean?
[14:39] Speaker 3: Why are you a drunkard? That's what mister Klover means.
[14:42] Speaker 6: Whatever gave you an idea like that?
[14:44] Speaker 4: Because I want to drink because I'm nervous.
[14:46] Speaker 6: I apologize, mist I'm not a drunkard.
[14:49] Speaker 2: We've only gotten one fact out of you, missus Suwartt.
[14:52] Speaker 2: You kill Lois Conrad because she didn't like her.
[14:54] Speaker 6: She was a pretty girl.
[14:56] Speaker 3: A lot of pretty girls at your school.
[14:58] Speaker 9: I talked to quite a few of them.
[14:59] Speaker 3: I asked them you too.
[15:01] Speaker 6: They liked me, didn't they?
[15:02] Speaker 3: Some did, some didn't, Some had no opinion. A lot
[15:05] Speaker 3: of them said you were a jealous woman.
[15:08] Speaker 6: Yes, that's right, I.
[15:09] Speaker 2: Am jealous of Lorst Conrad. Yes that's why you killed her.
[15:13] Speaker 6: Yes.
[15:14] Speaker 4: I walked past the recreation room and there she was
[15:18] Speaker 4: lying down.
[15:19] Speaker 6: I went in and stabbed her.
[15:20] Speaker 9: Where'd you get the knife?
[15:22] Speaker 3: Why?
[15:23] Speaker 6: It was right there on the table.
[15:26] Speaker 3: Pen knife on the table, that's equipment in your recreation room.
[15:30] Speaker 6: I bought it a few days ago at one of
[15:32] Speaker 6: the dime stores. I must have left it on the table,
[15:34] Speaker 6: which diame store, I don't remember.
[15:37] Speaker 9: He just picked it up and stabbed her with this?
[15:39] Speaker 3: Is that right? Yes? Yes? Then what did you do?
[15:42] Speaker 4: I went back down to my office and waited for
[15:46] Speaker 4: someone to discover the body.
[15:48] Speaker 7: You see see him in it out here?
[15:51] Speaker 3: Nanny sure what's up to you?
[15:55] Speaker 7: A few things, Nanny Number one, no prince raised on
[15:59] Speaker 7: that pen knife. And number two, the elevator boy at
[16:02] Speaker 7: the Hewett apartment discloses that on the night preceding the murder,
[16:06] Speaker 7: mister Hewett, at one o'clock in the morning did walk
[16:08] Speaker 7: his dog or cute cocker for an hour, which the
[16:11] Speaker 7: elevator boy remarked was a strange custom since the cocker
[16:15] Speaker 7: was usually walked between the hours of six and seven.
[16:17] Speaker 3: And that is my report for now.
[16:19] Speaker 2: Thanks, you know, buck her up, Margavin. I'll call her husband.
[16:23] Speaker 2: She can see him tomorrow.
[16:24] Speaker 9: This way, missus Hewett, Now the.
[16:51] Speaker 3: Residence of mister Carl Hewitt. This is Danny Clover.
[16:54] Speaker 2: Mister Hewitt, your wife is just confessed to the murder
[16:56] Speaker 2: of Lois Conrad.
[17:00] Speaker 3: What your wife just confessed to the murder of Lord? Yes,
[17:05] Speaker 3: when can I dear tomorrow? I'll call you.
[17:08] Speaker 9: Thank you.
[17:14] Speaker 2: Then walk over. Turn out the ceiling light for a while.
[17:18] Speaker 2: Stand in darkness because you're attire. Because the day had
[17:23] Speaker 2: begun in violence had drifted you across the city on
[17:26] Speaker 2: depth wind had ended here in this room with one
[17:30] Speaker 2: hundred and fifty watt bulb, but been bright on a
[17:32] Speaker 2: woman's hatred, a woman's confession of murder, and leave it.
[17:37] Speaker 3: Leave the darkness.
[17:43] Speaker 2: In the morning, Go back to a tenement in the
[17:45] Speaker 2: West thirties, find the man you wanted in a basement
[17:48] Speaker 2: room who shades are drawn against the street edge of
[17:50] Speaker 2: a sunla day.
[17:51] Speaker 3: Why do you come back, mister Clover? What do we
[17:54] Speaker 3: got to talk about your daughter? Mister Conran? What time
[17:57] Speaker 3: did you say Lois got home? And why do we
[17:59] Speaker 3: get to talk about you and me? You said you
[18:01] Speaker 3: heard her come in, You wanted to say good night
[18:03] Speaker 3: to her, but you were too tired. What time was then?
[18:06] Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what time she got home, late early
[18:09] Speaker 3: with the milkman, with the kids playing stickball in the street,
[18:11] Speaker 3: and the evening at your business. Her boyfriend Frankie told
[18:14] Speaker 3: me you never made it yours. Frankie said, he told
[18:17] Speaker 3: me another thing. He said he didn't think Lois was
[18:20] Speaker 3: going home once she left him that night. He's a liar,
[18:22] Speaker 3: Good old Frankie is a liar, a yard wide and
[18:25] Speaker 3: all strength. Maybe he wasn't lying. Maybe Lowis didn't get home.
[18:28] Speaker 3: You're in the way here, mister honest. I'd like to
[18:31] Speaker 3: get some shut out if you don't mind. I've been
[18:32] Speaker 3: trying to sleep and I die. He wasn't lying, not Frank.
[18:39] Speaker 3: Tell me, man, you got to understand something. You come
[18:42] Speaker 3: here and hit me with my kid is dead. I
[18:44] Speaker 3: don't feel the need to tell you Lois don't come
[18:46] Speaker 3: home night. You fell us get impressions when you hit
[18:48] Speaker 3: things like that. Didn't want you to have that for
[18:50] Speaker 3: Lois a good kid. My girl did she do that
[18:52] Speaker 3: off of mister Conrad? There were other times she stayed
[18:54] Speaker 3: out all night. There you go, giving into the impression.
[18:57] Speaker 3: It's just answered me. Yeah, she did often because I
[19:00] Speaker 3: led her, because she stayed with her girlfriend. I know
[19:03] Speaker 3: because I called once late at night and Pick said
[19:05] Speaker 3: my kid was sound asleep on the couch in the
[19:07] Speaker 3: living room. I checked that. Tell you, okay. Peg Lindsay
[19:10] Speaker 3: goes to school with those real nice girl decent, stays
[19:12] Speaker 3: in her own house nights. Peg Lindsay was the girl
[19:15] Speaker 3: who found your daughter? Did she?
[19:18] Speaker 9: Well?
[19:19] Speaker 3: What do you know about it?
[19:26] Speaker 2: So leave and out to the squad car prol headquarters
[19:29] Speaker 2: on the intercom and leave where the detective Margutment is
[19:32] Speaker 2: to meet at noon in front of.
[19:33] Speaker 3: The Globe Secretarial School.
[19:35] Speaker 2: Then walk now to a corner fruit you stand refreshment
[19:39] Speaker 2: and the glance at the morning paper, news from spring
[19:42] Speaker 2: training camps and spring manovers, conference tables and tennis courts
[19:46] Speaker 2: and horses dark and those left at the post. Back
[19:50] Speaker 2: to the squad car and the West forty ninth Street,
[19:53] Speaker 2: and Detective Margamhan is waiting, Miss.
[19:55] Speaker 9: Lindsay, Sure I can point her out. I talked to
[19:57] Speaker 9: him before.
[19:58] Speaker 3: Wait a few minutes until the young ladies and at
[20:00] Speaker 3: the school run down the steps and down the street
[20:03] Speaker 3: of their lunch, and.
[20:04] Speaker 10: That one Danny glasses and the poodle hair.
[20:06] Speaker 2: Thanks wait here, Miss Lindsey. Oh, my name is Danny
[20:13] Speaker 2: Clover and for police may buy your lunch.
[20:16] Speaker 11: Of course you may not what you want, maybe.
[20:18] Speaker 3: To arrest you, Miss Lindsey. I've made up my mind.
[20:21] Speaker 3: Please please what.
[20:24] Speaker 11: So many of my classmates they're looking saying, No, I
[20:28] Speaker 11: never talked to mem strangers.
[20:31] Speaker 6: What do you want? You can't arrest me? You know
[20:34] Speaker 6: you can't.
[20:34] Speaker 2: I can because I've got an idea. You've got more
[20:37] Speaker 2: to say than you said a detective muggin. Miss Lindsay,
[20:40] Speaker 2: you fall under the heading of coincidence.
[20:42] Speaker 6: Oh yep, please, what do you want?
[20:45] Speaker 2: You were the girl who found Lois Conrad. Dad, you're
[20:48] Speaker 2: also the girl Lois used to spend a lot of
[20:50] Speaker 2: time with. Her father told me Lois used to spend
[20:53] Speaker 2: nights at your house.
[20:54] Speaker 3: She did not.
[20:56] Speaker 11: Sometimes she'd come move and I'd do a homework for
[21:00] Speaker 11: and I used to ask for to stay because she
[21:02] Speaker 11: looks so tired.
[21:03] Speaker 6: She never would.
[21:04] Speaker 3: She told her father she stayed at your house. Now
[21:06] Speaker 3: you tell me she didn't, so you lied to her father.
[21:10] Speaker 3: Where did she stay?
[21:12] Speaker 6: She was crazy?
[21:14] Speaker 11: It's a hotel down the street from my house.
[21:16] Speaker 6: She used to leave me. She left me alone and
[21:20] Speaker 6: stayed there. Now, please go. Everybody's staring.
[21:36] Speaker 3: Night.
[21:37] Speaker 10: Claig's got to sleep, mister Clover. I don't care if
[21:39] Speaker 10: your police or not.
[21:40] Speaker 3: I lock.
[21:40] Speaker 10: Mister Drake, you had no right downstairs to desk to
[21:43] Speaker 10: send you up here and wake me up.
[21:45] Speaker 3: That's trouble.
[21:46] Speaker 10: The whole staff here at the region, they got no
[21:48] Speaker 10: consideration down home.
[21:49] Speaker 2: That's only going to take a minute, mister Drake, just
[21:51] Speaker 2: a couple of questions.
[21:53] Speaker 8: I'm going full right over where I stand.
[21:55] Speaker 6: I was so sleepy.
[21:56] Speaker 3: Girl named Lois Conrad registered here the night before last,
[21:59] Speaker 3: didn't she? Oh it's Conrad?
[22:01] Speaker 6: Yeah, sure, has she been here lots of times?
[22:04] Speaker 10: Told her blonde carried book snow Bagroom two twelve.
[22:09] Speaker 3: I'm going to fall ride over. What time did she register?
[22:13] Speaker 3: I think it was a little four one.
[22:15] Speaker 10: She's a strange one, Oh, very strange, very white Kyle,
[22:19] Speaker 10: mister Drake, Oh, she registered, and she placed the call
[22:22] Speaker 10: from the desk phone number she was calling. Then answer
[22:25] Speaker 10: for a long time, but she told me to keep trying.
[22:27] Speaker 3: Which I did, and you were successful, mister Drake. Oh, yes,
[22:31] Speaker 3: I was numb by answer.
[22:33] Speaker 10: I heard Miss Conrad tell her party where she was.
[22:36] Speaker 8: Then she hung up.
[22:37] Speaker 10: Then she left the call for eight thirty next morning,
[22:40] Speaker 10: said that nobody was to be permitted to disturb it
[22:42] Speaker 10: till then.
[22:43] Speaker 3: Did tell any one disturbing about how passed?
[22:46] Speaker 10: One er man come in with a little cock of
[22:48] Speaker 10: dog MyH. He was key, and he asked for Miss Conrad,
[22:52] Speaker 10: but as put her instructions.
[22:53] Speaker 3: I sent him away. And now, so will you please
[22:57] Speaker 3: say pleasant dreams to me and let me go back
[22:59] Speaker 3: to sleep, missus Hewitt. And there in the visitor's room,
[23:18] Speaker 3: you know, yeah, Danny, she is to call her husband
[23:20] Speaker 3: telling me to get down.
[23:21] Speaker 7: Here when he should be here any minute now.
[23:22] Speaker 3: When he comes, tell the guard to let him in. Okay, Hello,
[23:31] Speaker 3: Missus Stewart, how do you feel.
[23:36] Speaker 6: I was expecting, Karl, I want to talk to my husband.
[23:39] Speaker 3: You'll be here.
[23:39] Speaker 6: Did you tell him I'd confessed to killing Lois?
[23:42] Speaker 3: Yes? I did.
[23:43] Speaker 6: What did he say?
[23:44] Speaker 3: He sounded shocked?
[23:46] Speaker 6: Yes, yes, he would.
[23:48] Speaker 3: Missus Hewett. I've been checking on the background of lost Conrad.
[23:52] Speaker 3: I can understand you're a dislikener.
[23:54] Speaker 6: You don't blame me for killing her, do you say that?
[23:57] Speaker 3: I have found what kind of girl she was, and
[23:59] Speaker 3: I can understand why another woman would dislike her.
[24:02] Speaker 6: That's right. The world's better off without her, she would, Carl, Carl,
[24:12] Speaker 6: you came to me.
[24:14] Speaker 3: You know what happened, Sylvia.
[24:15] Speaker 5: When I got the call, when the police phone said
[24:17] Speaker 5: you'd killed that girl, I stood there.
[24:19] Speaker 3: I was shocked, dazed, And.
[24:21] Speaker 5: Then when it wasn't until this morning, I opened my
[24:24] Speaker 5: eyes and I was lying.
[24:26] Speaker 3: Down the floor. The tripist issue with your husband. Didn't
[24:28] Speaker 3: cry out or scream. He was very brave about it.
[24:31] Speaker 3: Can't we be alone? Displover right now? These aren't regular
[24:35] Speaker 3: visiting hours, and there's no regular garden. Carl, It'll be all.
[24:38] Speaker 5: Right, Sylvia. I'm going to take care of you. I'm
[24:41] Speaker 5: going to do everything I can to make it easier
[24:43] Speaker 5: for you.
[24:44] Speaker 6: You you don't understand, Carla, I confess that I kill
[24:49] Speaker 6: that girl.
[24:50] Speaker 8: I can.
[24:51] Speaker 3: I know the the police told me. I'll do everything
[24:53] Speaker 3: I can.
[24:56] Speaker 6: What what are you going to do?
[24:59] Speaker 3: I'll get and do all the things husband is supposed
[25:02] Speaker 3: to do.
[25:04] Speaker 6: You you don't understand it all, do you? I confess,
[25:10] Speaker 6: I know, dear.
[25:11] Speaker 3: She hasn't signed a confession yet, mister Hewitt, but that's
[25:13] Speaker 3: just a formality. In a case like this.
[25:15] Speaker 2: Your wife will throw herself on the mercy of the court.
[25:18] Speaker 2: What the sentence will be is that the discretion of
[25:21] Speaker 2: the court, and I can be sentenced.
[25:23] Speaker 6: For ten years or twenty Are the rest of my life?
[25:27] Speaker 6: Are the electric chair?
[25:28] Speaker 3: Poor Sylvia? Poor o Carl ober I don't see it's
[25:35] Speaker 3: good to be here with her. I guess i'd better
[25:37] Speaker 3: go now.
[25:38] Speaker 6: You'd let it happen to me, Karl.
[25:42] Speaker 3: You'd let me go to the electric chair if you
[25:44] Speaker 3: your wife didn't kill that girl, mister hewittt did you
[25:47] Speaker 3: hear what he said?
[25:48] Speaker 8: Carl?
[25:50] Speaker 3: Did you hear?
[25:51] Speaker 12: What are you doing to me?
[25:53] Speaker 3: What are you two doing?
[25:55] Speaker 4: I confess because I loved your Karl, because I wanted
[25:58] Speaker 4: to show you I loved you, show you what a
[26:01] Speaker 4: wife is to.
[26:01] Speaker 6: A man, not some skinny girl in your class.
[26:06] Speaker 4: A wife, Carl, someone who loves you.
[26:10] Speaker 6: Know what love is?
[26:11] Speaker 5: What I did for you?
[26:13] Speaker 3: Know what your wife is saying, mister Hewett, Yes I do.
[26:15] Speaker 3: She's descending her confession.
[26:18] Speaker 6: You don't love me. You haven't loved me for twenty years.
[26:24] Speaker 6: Twenty years.
[26:25] Speaker 4: I had to fight for you against those young slips
[26:28] Speaker 4: in your class.
[26:30] Speaker 6: I confess to a murder I didn't do for you.
[26:34] Speaker 11: Were you crazy?
[26:36] Speaker 3: Ah, she's not, mister Hewett. I doubt it all along.
[26:39] Speaker 2: She committed that murder. Her prince weren't on that knife.
[26:41] Speaker 2: Her answers were vague. Like I said, I had doubts,
[26:44] Speaker 2: So I spent the.
[26:45] Speaker 3: Day getting proof, proof of what what she's taking. That's right,
[26:49] Speaker 3: what she said. You killed Lois Conrad. She called you
[26:53] Speaker 3: from a hotel. You left your house with a dog,
[26:56] Speaker 3: but later you showed up at the hotel. Lois wouldn't
[26:59] Speaker 3: see you. How long have it been going on, mister Hewitt?
[27:04] Speaker 3: You don't know what that girl was, but you knew.
[27:08] Speaker 6: You found out and still you kept trying, and still
[27:13] Speaker 6: she kept laughing.
[27:14] Speaker 1: Did you want me to do? Did you want me to.
[27:19] Speaker 3: But it's too late.
[27:20] Speaker 6: Now this policeman knows you're a murderer. Don't you see, Carl.
[27:28] Speaker 4: Don't you see what I wanted? Your love, your protest
[27:33] Speaker 4: against my going to prison for something you'd done. You
[27:37] Speaker 4: should have come running and said, no, no, my wife
[27:40] Speaker 4: didn't kill I did.
[27:44] Speaker 3: Just that car.
[27:48] Speaker 6: Now you're rocked in jail. No one will greeze, not me.
[28:15] Speaker 2: It's a gathering place of all the sleepless nights, this
[28:18] Speaker 2: Broadway and all the unwept tears. The place to come
[28:22] Speaker 2: to erase what's happened. Start all over, make a memory.
[28:27] Speaker 2: The street is littered with odds and ends. Set them
[28:30] Speaker 2: together in any design you want. Only nothing slips into place.
[28:37] Speaker 2: It's Broadway, the gordiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile
[28:44] Speaker 2: in the world.
[28:46] Speaker 3: Broadway My Beat. Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as
[29:08] Speaker 3: Detective Danny Kloper, with Charles Calibert as Tartaglia and Jack
[29:12] Speaker 3: Krusian as Muggavan. The program was produced and directed by
[29:15] Speaker 3: Elliott Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage.
[29:20] Speaker 3: In tonight's story, Paula Winslow was heard at Sylvia, ted
[29:23] Speaker 3: Osborne as Carl and Lou Merrill as mister Conrad featured
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[31:25] Speaker 1: Welcome back. I will give credit to fine In Freakin
[31:32] Speaker 1: for surprising me because I was pretty sure that when
[31:36] Speaker 1: Danny showed up at the secretarial school, he'd find missus
[31:41] Speaker 1: Hewitt dead, as that is typically the big cleffhanger that
[31:49] Speaker 1: you get each week, but in a big dwist she
[31:54] Speaker 1: gave a false confession. Nevertheless, I think with as many
[31:59] Speaker 1: at times this has happened to Danny when somebody says
[32:03] Speaker 1: I really wanted to meet you, I can't tell you
[32:05] Speaker 1: over the phone, Well how about we just try telling
[32:08] Speaker 1: me over the phone. Because the last twenty people who
[32:13] Speaker 1: did this I found it, but in this case such
[32:16] Speaker 1: a warning was not warranted. Listener comments and feedback Now,
[32:21] Speaker 1: and we start with Jeff who writes on Patreon regarding
[32:26] Speaker 1: the John Mooney murder case. Howard mcneher is so good
[32:30] Speaker 1: for me that he is memorable in the smallest role
[32:34] Speaker 1: at the start of this episode, even without returning later.
[32:38] Speaker 1: I definitely agree that was a memorable role. And Elliott
[32:43] Speaker 1: Lewis and the best old time radio directors and show
[32:48] Speaker 1: runners of the time knew the type of role that
[32:52] Speaker 1: you could write and the type of role you could
[32:55] Speaker 1: give that Howard mcmure would just hit it out of
[32:58] Speaker 1: the park. And certainly, if I'm wanting to have a guy,
[33:04] Speaker 1: and since it was perfectly reasonable for him to buy
[33:09] Speaker 1: a one thousand dollar bill for two hundred and fifty
[33:12] Speaker 1: dollars with no clue about how ridiculous he sounds, I
[33:19] Speaker 1: think that's a great part for Howard mcneer. And while
[33:22] Speaker 1: that character didn't return, Paul had a comment, did Howard
[33:27] Speaker 1: mcneir play two parts in this episode, mister Grace and
[33:31] Speaker 1: the bartender at about eleven fifty? Yeah, I think that
[33:35] Speaker 1: was mcneir. That was a pretty brief part, the second one.
[33:40] Speaker 1: And as we've talked about that, they had no problem
[33:45] Speaker 1: doubling in old time radio and broadways. My beat does
[33:48] Speaker 1: it a lot, certainly, not as much as something like
[33:52] Speaker 1: The Big Story, where in most scripts everybody's playing two characters.
[33:58] Speaker 1: But if you have a Howard mcneir or Herb Butterfield
[34:02] Speaker 1: on somebody who can easily handle that, and you've got
[34:07] Speaker 1: a very small part, you know, you use them to
[34:10] Speaker 1: do doubles. Don't spend extra money hiring another actor. And
[34:15] Speaker 1: then we have a comment from our listener, Survey at
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[35:15] Speaker 1: That Where or.
[35:15] Speaker 8: Pick me up? I don't know what it's all about
[35:17] Speaker 8: and ask me anything you want.
[35:18] Speaker 3: Now, let's start it here.
[35:19] Speaker 13: Boy, what were you doing out there hanging around that
[35:21] Speaker 13: drug store quarter to five this morning?
[35:23] Speaker 8: It's the same thing, un total the other officers.
[35:24] Speaker 13: I was sick and wanted to get something from my
[35:26] Speaker 13: nerves jump as a cat, couldn't sleep, and then the drug.
[35:29] Speaker 3: Store was closed. That was pretty obvious, wasn't it.
[35:31] Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right, it was. I just drove up there,
[35:33] Speaker 8: tried the door, and I saw the joint was closed,
[35:35] Speaker 8: so I left. That's all there is to it. Just
[35:36] Speaker 8: why I totally other.
[35:37] Speaker 12: No, that's not true, boy, and you know it Isn't
[35:39] Speaker 12: you hung around the store for more than ten minutes.
[35:42] Speaker 12: You tried the front door, then you waited a couple
[35:44] Speaker 12: of minutes. You went around to the back and you
[35:45] Speaker 12: tried to get in back there. You couldn't make it
[35:47] Speaker 12: till you came around front again. You tried to jim
[35:48] Speaker 12: me the front door.
[35:49] Speaker 3: Didn't you.
[35:49] Speaker 8: Oh that's not it. You got it all wrong.
[35:52] Speaker 3: How about this boy? This your crow bar? Yeah?
[35:55] Speaker 8: Were about it?
[35:55] Speaker 13: Just a cartoon used to fix the flat tires. Carry
[35:58] Speaker 13: it around all the time in the car, carry it
[35:59] Speaker 13: on you. Oh not all the time. I just happened
[36:02] Speaker 13: to have it, that's all.
[36:02] Speaker 12: Now, look, boy, that's not going to get it.
[36:04] Speaker 8: The officers a pitch you up.
[36:05] Speaker 3: Saw you using this bar in the door of that
[36:06] Speaker 3: drug store.
[36:08] Speaker 13: I thought you were willing to get on the facts.
[36:09] Speaker 13: You were going to square with us, how about it? Sure, sure,
[36:11] Speaker 13: I'll square with you. I wanted to get over as
[36:13] Speaker 13: much as you do. Just tell me what you want
[36:15] Speaker 13: to know. All we want is the truth. It's a
[36:17] Speaker 13: dress in your idea, the one you gave us. Is
[36:19] Speaker 13: that your true address? You're living there?
[36:21] Speaker 11: Now?
[36:21] Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right, check it out if you want. I'm
[36:23] Speaker 8: not lying.
[36:23] Speaker 12: No reason to line we think there is this address
[36:26] Speaker 12: of yours is just about ten miles away from where
[36:28] Speaker 12: you were picked up. Now you tell us how much
[36:30] Speaker 12: sense it makes driving ten miles to a drug store
[36:32] Speaker 12: four thirty in the morning.
[36:33] Speaker 8: I had tory.
[36:34] Speaker 3: I was sick.
[36:34] Speaker 8: It was the only place over lying.
[36:36] Speaker 12: And you know it, mister, you had to pass at
[36:37] Speaker 12: least two all night drug stores on the way. Why
[36:39] Speaker 12: couldn't you stop at one of those?
[36:40] Speaker 8: I didn't see any stores open. I was sick. I
[36:42] Speaker 8: just kept driving till I spied a place I thought
[36:45] Speaker 8: was open.
[36:45] Speaker 13: Looked to me like it was open. A lot of
[36:46] Speaker 13: lights in the window inside the store too. I didn't
[36:49] Speaker 13: know it was close, so I tried the door.
[36:50] Speaker 3: Usually tried doors with a crowbar.
[36:52] Speaker 8: Boy, Look, look, what are you getting that? Do you
[36:54] Speaker 8: think I was trying to break in that place?
[36:55] Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what we think.
[36:56] Speaker 13: Well, what for what I want to break in there?
[36:58] Speaker 13: I wanted to get something from my nerves, that's all.
[37:00] Speaker 13: I want to find a drugs to them. Why should
[37:02] Speaker 13: I break the open a place and you just get
[37:04] Speaker 13: a bottle of medicine?
[37:05] Speaker 3: We don't think you were looking for a medicine void.
[37:08] Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,
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[37:25] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. Sign and off.

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