# Broadway's My Beat: The Ed Koster Murder Case (EP4928)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 11 Mar 2026, 36 min.

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Today's Mystery: A cop is found in a fire at a chemical plant. Original Radio Broadcast Date: October 13, 1951 Originated in Hollywood Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Tony Barrett, Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan, Tony Barrett, Michael Ann Barrett, Paula Winslowe, Herb Butterfield, Edwin Max Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.netPatreon Supporter of the Day:Tanya, Patreon supporter since August 2024. 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 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 Broadways My Beat.
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[1:32] Speaker 1: for your support. But now, from October thirteenth, nineteen fifty one,
[1:38] Speaker 1: here is the ed cost murder.
[1:40] Speaker 2: Case Broadways My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle.
[1:59] Speaker 2: The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest, mile in the world.
[2:08] Speaker 3: Broadway is my beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
[2:24] Speaker 2: When it's October and the night has slipped down over Broadway,
[2:27] Speaker 2: the street has spangled with autumn strollers. They come here,
[2:30] Speaker 2: the seekers after something or other. Pick a doorway with
[2:33] Speaker 2: promising neon, Pick a smile and run after it. Pick
[2:36] Speaker 2: a postcard right home about it. It's the place to be.
[2:40] Speaker 2: You've got to leave your mark. Buy a turtle and
[2:42] Speaker 2: have your name painted on its back. Buy a necktie,
[2:45] Speaker 2: buy a pillow and send it back to mom. Sometimes
[2:48] Speaker 2: you'll be lucky and get lipstick on your handkerchief. But
[2:51] Speaker 2: the odds say you'll buy a newspaper and go to bed.
[2:54] Speaker 2: But it's Broadway, kid, and you've had it. Where Broadway
[3:03] Speaker 2: epps off into the side streets downtown Where I was
[3:06] Speaker 2: close to, where I was close to where Eighteenth Street
[3:08] Speaker 2: touches the river. The shock was a thing composed of
[3:10] Speaker 2: crowd and a nighttime sky lit by flame, the elements
[3:14] Speaker 2: later to be noted in police and Fire Department records.
[3:16] Speaker 2: Fire at Russell's Chemical Company, time four fifteen am.
[3:20] Speaker 4: Bringing somebody out now down strange?
[3:23] Speaker 5: What what'd you say?
[3:24] Speaker 2: Said? It? Strange Mugavin after four in the morning. Why
[3:27] Speaker 2: should anybody be come? Let's see put the stretches down here,
[3:33] Speaker 2: somebody better, how are they?
[3:34] Speaker 6: Oh?
[3:34] Speaker 2: Hello, Denny, he's too. I think that's all it's in there.
[3:37] Speaker 7: I just started to say, somebody better get a priest.
[3:39] Speaker 2: They both said, this one is the other one.
[3:42] Speaker 8: Anny look at him, Ed Coster, do something for him,
[3:46] Speaker 8: don't dock. Doc overhead, ed Coster, hurry up, Doc, you
[3:51] Speaker 8: know what Danny, Yeah, he's a policeman.
[3:53] Speaker 2: Policeman. What was he doing in there? Doc?
[3:56] Speaker 4: Do something for him.
[4:01] Speaker 2: The flames beating against the night sky, burning and opening
[4:04] Speaker 2: for dawn in the street, the reflected glow darts across
[4:07] Speaker 2: the face of death, holds for an instant, and scurries
[4:09] Speaker 2: at the breath of the October wind. This is the
[4:12] Speaker 2: time of shadows, the brief time, the time for shrouding
[4:15] Speaker 2: of the charred body of a man, the time for
[4:18] Speaker 2: quick gentleness the other man still in anguish, and the
[4:23] Speaker 2: lifting of the men of the vehicle reserved for the
[4:24] Speaker 2: dead and the dying, the closing of a door upon them,
[4:28] Speaker 2: the hushed ride that puts an end. Tonight in the
[4:41] Speaker 2: morning at headquarters, watch the sergeant lift a foam, dial
[4:44] Speaker 2: the number and, after a silence, ask for news of
[4:47] Speaker 2: a man who was known to him, who was a friend.
[4:51] Speaker 9: It's me again, doctor Sinski. About read cost any change any.
[4:57] Speaker 10: No?
[4:59] Speaker 9: I thank you. I'll keep calling. You know, what do
[5:04] Speaker 9: you want?
[5:05] Speaker 2: How is he?
[5:06] Speaker 7: You heard?
[5:07] Speaker 9: No change?
[5:08] Speaker 2: Hits us all you know? Costs? That kind of man ed.
[5:11] Speaker 9: Spin to the house, dangled the Tartaglia child on his knee.
[5:17] Speaker 9: He don't make it, that'll make it. Sorry, Denny, I
[5:24] Speaker 9: keep thinking about it's wife, Vera. I keep thinking something
[5:27] Speaker 9: for me, you know, yeah, yeah, I got some. I'm sorry, Denny.
[5:34] Speaker 9: The man found with that the dead man. Technical check
[5:37] Speaker 9: up on him in ways, they got to check on
[5:39] Speaker 9: such things. Fingerprints made. We got a file on him
[5:43] Speaker 9: this long to my arm. Joe Gant professional arsonist, a
[5:47] Speaker 9: man who sets fires this way. He makes his daily
[5:51] Speaker 9: bread by.
[5:51] Speaker 2: Burning anything else.
[5:53] Speaker 9: It's on the record. Grant was friends the Frankie Crown.
[5:56] Speaker 2: Oh how were they friends?
[5:58] Speaker 9: Gant once a little playful, little bonfire in a machine shop.
[6:01] Speaker 9: Concerned Frankie Crown bailed him out, treated him to Frankie's lawyer.
[6:05] Speaker 9: Can't got off. Let's see Frankie get out of this one.
[6:09] Speaker 2: I hear Frankie's a big man, now, not that big.
[6:13] Speaker 2: I want to talk to him.
[6:15] Speaker 9: Yeah, but maybe you better listen to this other thing first, Anny,
[6:19] Speaker 9: what was called? In a few minutes ago? The automobile
[6:22] Speaker 9: of one George Russell exploded blew up in the face
[6:25] Speaker 9: of his daughter Patrice in the driveway with a booby trap.
[6:27] Speaker 9: Russell of the Russell Chemical Company where the fire was
[6:31] Speaker 9: home address Uptown, nineteen twenty three East one hundred and twelve.
[6:35] Speaker 2: Thanks, you know, doctor.
[6:41] Speaker 9: Sinski me again about that? Any change any No, I'll call.
[6:49] Speaker 11: Again in a little while.
[7:00] Speaker 2: M Yeah, mister Russell.
[7:11] Speaker 4: Yes, what is it?
[7:12] Speaker 2: My name's Clover, police all morning?
[7:15] Speaker 4: Long?
[7:16] Speaker 2: Mind? Have I come in?
[7:17] Speaker 4: I suppose you may in here? This is my daughter
[7:24] Speaker 4: Trees Clover another policeman.
[7:27] Speaker 12: Hi.
[7:27] Speaker 2: How do you feel, miss Russell?
[7:29] Speaker 6: Got my pinching hand in a cast?
[7:32] Speaker 4: Oh?
[7:32] Speaker 6: The disadvantage of it all.
[7:35] Speaker 11: Wait, Jimmy Seyes.
[7:36] Speaker 12: It it was your fault, daddy, wasn't it his fault?
[7:40] Speaker 6: Mister Clark?
[7:41] Speaker 2: I understand your car blew up this morning, not mine.
[7:45] Speaker 2: What happened.
[7:46] Speaker 4: Her car is in the garage being repaired. I loaned
[7:49] Speaker 4: him mine.
[7:49] Speaker 6: You see how it's his fault. Mister Clover, he spoils me.
[7:53] Speaker 6: I only wheedled him for the car this much, this much,
[7:57] Speaker 6: and he patted me and said.
[7:58] Speaker 2: Yes, my darling daughter stepped on the starter and it.
[8:01] Speaker 6: Blew the way things do, bang like that, bang.
[8:05] Speaker 4: She's a lucky girl.
[8:07] Speaker 6: Fortunately, hand in a sling goes on my cheek and
[8:11] Speaker 6: plaster dappled with it.
[8:14] Speaker 2: For Jimmy, your car booby trapped. Mister Russell, your plants
[8:17] Speaker 2: set fire to by an arsenist and aist. That's right.
[8:21] Speaker 2: The man who died had a record of arsenal.
[8:23] Speaker 4: What's happening? I don't understand?
[8:28] Speaker 11: Hey, Pop, how's business?
[8:30] Speaker 13: Pop?
[8:30] Speaker 4: Patrice? You'd better do what?
[8:32] Speaker 7: Pop?
[8:34] Speaker 4: My business is fine. Mister clothes, you've got any idea
[8:38] Speaker 4: I had?
[8:38] Speaker 6: My There is a lot of insurance.
[8:41] Speaker 4: Cut it out.
[8:42] Speaker 14: Look, mister cloth, what don't pay any attention to? I
[8:46] Speaker 14: know you police have to think along certain lines. If
[8:49] Speaker 14: it was arson, what happened to my plant? You got
[8:53] Speaker 14: to think maybe I was the cause of it.
[8:55] Speaker 4: Look for reasons?
[8:57] Speaker 14: Well, I netted seventy thousand last year and this year
[9:01] Speaker 14: it's better than ever.
[9:02] Speaker 6: To kind of praise.
[9:04] Speaker 4: What am I going to do with you, Patrice, I'm
[9:06] Speaker 4: a mess.
[9:07] Speaker 2: Mister Russell, or some connection between the arsonist who's found
[9:11] Speaker 2: and a hoodlum named Frankie Crown. Do you know Frankie?
[9:14] Speaker 4: Frankie Crown a hoodlum? Why should I look? Mister, I
[9:20] Speaker 4: didn't ask you into my house, so listen, just asked.
[9:23] Speaker 11: That's all he did.
[9:24] Speaker 4: Pap, I don't know him, never heard of him.
[9:28] Speaker 2: All right, it's.
[9:30] Speaker 6: Fun a mister Klovik hoodlum's arson booby traps the nice
[9:35] Speaker 6: things that can happen to a modern miss.
[9:39] Speaker 11: Brother, little Jimmy hears.
[9:40] Speaker 6: Tonight's the night he won't be able to shut me up.
[9:46] Speaker 2: And consider the girl for a moment, consider the delight
[9:49] Speaker 2: she had found in a touch of horror upon her,
[9:52] Speaker 2: Then the intrusion of her father's face, stricken with a
[9:54] Speaker 2: sudden fleeting understanding of the girl, then turning to you,
[9:58] Speaker 2: trying to smile, trying to erase the impression his child
[10:01] Speaker 2: is made.
[10:01] Speaker 4: She's suffering a shock. She doesn't understand, mister, she doesn't know.
[10:06] Speaker 2: And the girl looks up, laughs at them and leave
[10:10] Speaker 2: them like that. Then to the discrete office of Frankie
[10:18] Speaker 2: Crown in a discreete downtown building dedicated to the deep
[10:22] Speaker 2: understanding of stocks and bonds and the affairs of commerce.
[10:25] Speaker 2: The shiny new setting for Frankie Crown Hoodland Alley, boy
[10:30] Speaker 2: friend of dead Arsonists, and Frankie holds out a discreetly
[10:34] Speaker 2: manicured hand to have it shaken. Only it doesn't happen
[10:36] Speaker 2: to him.
[10:37] Speaker 7: Mm hmm.
[10:39] Speaker 5: It's your own way, Denny. I thought it would spark
[10:42] Speaker 5: something between us.
[10:43] Speaker 2: If you show you're a long way from home, Frankie blessed.
[10:47] Speaker 15: That's me, have been blessed. Wipe your hands of the
[10:50] Speaker 15: old life and a new world shivers on horizon waiting
[10:53] Speaker 15: just for you. I got a child then, been any
[10:57] Speaker 15: good fires lately, Frankie now busy busy. Frankie Crown has
[11:01] Speaker 15: been so busy you couldn't conceive. No fires, no street dancers,
[11:05] Speaker 15: no fun anywhere. The penalties are the new life.
[11:09] Speaker 2: Friend of yours was at a fire a loan.
[11:12] Speaker 15: I got crazy friends. They flip over the craziest things.
[11:15] Speaker 2: Joe Gan Darsonist, friend of yours. Frankie.
[11:18] Speaker 15: Somewhere in the back of my brain the name Gant
[11:21] Speaker 15: shivers help me.
[11:22] Speaker 2: Then the consensus is he set a fire early yesterday
[11:25] Speaker 2: morning at the Russell Chemical Company. He died in it.
[11:30] Speaker 2: You bailed them out once, favored them with your private lawyer,
[11:32] Speaker 2: got him off Joe again.
[11:36] Speaker 5: I did all that.
[11:37] Speaker 2: We got a memory course at headquarters. Frankie, you just
[11:39] Speaker 2: signed up.
[11:40] Speaker 15: I'll get it hard, Denny and such I always said
[11:44] Speaker 15: about my mother. Touch of your hand brought it back.
[11:50] Speaker 15: Can some ways got him mother. I know because she
[11:55] Speaker 15: came to me that time crying in my sleeve. Please
[11:58] Speaker 15: help Joe.
[11:59] Speaker 2: He's good.
[12:00] Speaker 5: Boys made my eyes water.
[12:03] Speaker 15: How with my dough and lawyer, Joe gand was going
[12:06] Speaker 15: to reform.
[12:06] Speaker 7: So I gave it.
[12:08] Speaker 2: I break up at her mother's tears. I be sure
[12:10] Speaker 2: to cry something for me.
[12:12] Speaker 15: You're gonna looking for I don't buy that, Danny. I
[12:15] Speaker 15: bought her a place in her old country. She impressed
[12:18] Speaker 15: me so much. As a typical money.
[12:21] Speaker 2: You close all the doors behind you, don't.
[12:23] Speaker 4: You, Frankie.
[12:24] Speaker 5: The mark of a polite man.
[12:25] Speaker 2: Because how about the one on George Russell.
[12:29] Speaker 15: It come over the tape. The Russell plant bourned to
[12:31] Speaker 15: the ground this morning. His car blew up in his
[12:34] Speaker 15: daughter's lap. Oh desert door, it's never been opened to me.
[12:37] Speaker 2: D in a Russell do.
[12:39] Speaker 15: I'm blessed, absolutely blessed.
[12:46] Speaker 2: You get out of there and back to headquarters. Sit
[12:48] Speaker 2: at your desk and shuffle your thoughts. The coincidence of
[12:51] Speaker 2: a booby trapped car and a fire, A link between
[12:54] Speaker 2: a hoodlum newly respectable and an arsonist newly dead, and
[12:59] Speaker 2: another man a busines this man who had a daughter.
[13:01] Speaker 2: Try to find a category for her. Try to find
[13:06] Speaker 2: Danny Clover, doctor. Since Kim calling from the hospital, how's
[13:09] Speaker 2: ed cost her?
[13:10] Speaker 4: Get down here, Danny right away.
[13:14] Speaker 2: You can go there and the only sound in the
[13:16] Speaker 2: corridor is your footsteps, the sound that hurries toward pain.
[13:21] Speaker 2: Open the door and find it. Doctor. He's dead. Danny there,
[13:37] Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
[13:39] Speaker 6: M h m hm.
[13:43] Speaker 10: Oh.
[14:00] Speaker 3: You are listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton
[14:03] Speaker 3: Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as Detective
[14:07] Speaker 3: Danny Clover. In Days of Old, when nights were bold,
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[14:14] Speaker 3: exactly repeating itself, but the best entertainment of Arthur Godfrey's
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[14:40] Speaker 2: The October wind shrills through broadways corridors, sets in motion,
[14:44] Speaker 2: the light bulbs dangling from twisted, frayed cords, rates the
[14:48] Speaker 2: new autumn soot against guarred window panes, and broadway walks
[14:52] Speaker 2: faster now, the wind that slept in the summer warmed
[14:54] Speaker 2: rivers awake now and sirens, the coming of the cold days,
[14:58] Speaker 2: the gray days, the day's sodden Autumn's mists. And the
[15:02] Speaker 2: corridor people. The doorway people try to hold back, clutch
[15:05] Speaker 2: once more at the sunlit visions that never happened, but
[15:09] Speaker 2: the October wind shrieks it out of their hands, pushes
[15:11] Speaker 2: it into a corner with the rest of the debris.
[15:14] Speaker 2: That's how autumn happens. To a Broadway kid, go fight it.
[15:25] Speaker 2: And Autumn has other sounds, the lingering overtones that float
[15:29] Speaker 2: in from a hospital corridor. The woman's called a dead husband, and.
[15:34] Speaker 13: And virah vira, let me give you something.
[15:41] Speaker 5: Let me get don't talk to me.
[15:45] Speaker 11: Just for a minute.
[15:46] Speaker 5: Don't talk to me, Vera.
[15:57] Speaker 11: It's all right now, Daddy, nothing, there's no more crying
[16:04] Speaker 11: left in me.
[16:05] Speaker 13: I'll get you something, vera, something it says in the
[16:08] Speaker 13: bottle that makes you feel better.
[16:10] Speaker 11: I told you, doctor, there's nothing I want, nothing I
[16:14] Speaker 11: need from anyone.
[16:17] Speaker 2: Ed was a fine man. Vera week.
[16:19] Speaker 11: You'll miss him, You, Danny, you, doctor Sinsk, all of you.
[16:26] Speaker 11: They say death comes. When they say bitterness won't help,
[16:32] Speaker 11: they're dead wrong. It helps.
[16:35] Speaker 2: I'll take you home via Then some other time we'll
[16:39] Speaker 2: talk about Ed.
[16:41] Speaker 11: Yes, what's wrong with now? Danny? You can talk to
[16:46] Speaker 11: me about Ed now. We never held secrets from each other.
[16:49] Speaker 2: I couldn't understand something.
[16:51] Speaker 11: What was there about Ed cost You couldn't understand.
[16:54] Speaker 2: Only how he happened to be at the scene of
[16:56] Speaker 2: the fire. How he must have been there even before
[16:59] Speaker 2: he was.
[17:00] Speaker 11: An anonymous call. It told him a fire was being
[17:04] Speaker 11: set at that chemical company. It even told him what time.
[17:07] Speaker 4: To get there.
[17:07] Speaker 2: Did he have the call traced?
[17:08] Speaker 11: It came from a public phone booth.
[17:10] Speaker 2: Ed was new on the burglary squad.
[17:12] Speaker 11: He was glad for the tip. He thought it would
[17:15] Speaker 11: make for a good start on the burglary detail.
[17:17] Speaker 2: He thought it a narcotic squad before that put in
[17:20] Speaker 2: for a transfer.
[17:22] Speaker 12: Do you know why because I asked him to, because
[17:26] Speaker 12: I didn't like the idea of his being in a
[17:28] Speaker 12: narcotic squad.
[17:31] Speaker 11: It didn't fit in. Ed was fine, a good man.
[17:38] Speaker 11: He gave me all his love. Oh it's.
[17:48] Speaker 2: And listen to her until the time comes when their
[17:50] Speaker 2: only answer is silence, And not silence quite because the
[17:54] Speaker 2: screaming questions intrude themselves. What is the word to give
[17:58] Speaker 2: to a woman whose husband is dead? How do you
[18:01] Speaker 2: fill in reports? How do you make a statistic out
[18:03] Speaker 2: of it and find it in a ledger? How do
[18:06] Speaker 2: you write heartbreak as a number? You don't know how?
[18:11] Speaker 2: See you turn your back on it, Leave and to
[18:21] Speaker 2: headquarters again. Call in Detective Mugglevan, Tell them to get
[18:23] Speaker 2: out the record of Ed Coster and wait. A while later,
[18:27] Speaker 2: the door opens and Detective Mugglevan walks in. I got it, Danny, Okay,
[18:31] Speaker 2: put it down. Aren't you going to look at it?
[18:36] Speaker 2: It does a matter, Muggovin, you're restless. I'll look at it.
[18:38] Speaker 4: I know you will, but I think you'll look at
[18:39] Speaker 4: it right away.
[18:40] Speaker 2: Look Muggovin, all right, then.
[18:41] Speaker 5: I'll show you.
[18:45] Speaker 4: Hey, sid there this arrest June twelfth.
[18:49] Speaker 2: This year Paterce Russell.
[18:50] Speaker 13: Uh huh had arrested her for the possession of narcotics.
[18:54] Speaker 13: Now you know why I wanted you to take it. Muggerman
[18:57] Speaker 13: Denny Clover's office. Muggelan speak what bad?
[19:03] Speaker 7: Oh?
[19:04] Speaker 2: Sure?
[19:04] Speaker 4: Sure right away, Danny.
[19:05] Speaker 2: Huh.
[19:06] Speaker 13: A bomb was thrown ato the home at George Russell
[19:08] Speaker 13: when a few minutes to go into the living room.
[19:10] Speaker 2: Let's go.
[19:28] Speaker 13: No one else in the house, Danny, I check with
[19:31] Speaker 13: the boys in the fire department.
[19:32] Speaker 2: You looked yourself, yeah, Danny, I did. There's no one
[19:36] Speaker 2: else in the house, just him. You and me. Ask
[19:41] Speaker 2: about his daughter.
[19:42] Speaker 13: Woman in the crowd outside told me she saw her
[19:44] Speaker 13: go out a couple of hours ago, described to wearing
[19:46] Speaker 13: a power.
[19:46] Speaker 4: Right up to her hat.
[19:48] Speaker 13: The woman in the crowd leans out our window and
[19:50] Speaker 13: notices things like that about her neighbor.
[19:52] Speaker 2: You make a note of what the girl was wearing.
[19:53] Speaker 2: It happens to me like a reflex. They tried to
[19:56] Speaker 2: kill Russell once before. This time they made it. It
[20:01] Speaker 2: can't be going to another room and talk Danny. The
[20:03] Speaker 2: way it hit him in a minute time. He must
[20:06] Speaker 2: have been sitting at this window. The force of the
[20:09] Speaker 2: explosion through him like that.
[20:14] Speaker 8: He sure wanted him dead, didn't They?
[20:21] Speaker 2: Then routine put it on the teletype for all the precincts.
[20:25] Speaker 2: Have men go to places where a girl like Patrise
[20:27] Speaker 2: Russell might be. Wait, Patrese Russell is at none of
[20:31] Speaker 2: these places. Then in all points, bullet and find Patrice
[20:35] Speaker 2: Russell and more. Routine out of your office. Down two
[20:39] Speaker 2: flights of steps, down a corridor, open a door, and
[20:41] Speaker 2: for all that effort, a man named Gordon breach.
[20:44] Speaker 7: You close the door, Lieutenant, Thank you very much. Lieutenant.
[20:49] Speaker 2: Don't you ever open a window in here, Gordon.
[20:52] Speaker 7: For fresh air? You need fresher air, lieutenant, or or
[20:55] Speaker 7: you down here in technical you're hermetically sealed. Take up
[21:00] Speaker 7: with flutin emetic about the fire at the Russell Chemical Company.
[21:06] Speaker 7: I've been sitting here for two hours, watching the door,
[21:08] Speaker 7: waiting for you to scrape in here. Lutenant. You need
[21:12] Speaker 7: Gordon again. Look, Gordon, I'm a civilian technician. I don't
[21:19] Speaker 7: have to bow my head and shuffle my feet when
[21:20] Speaker 7: you talk to me. Next time you walk in here,
[21:23] Speaker 7: say to yourself, don't raise your voice to Gordon.
[21:27] Speaker 2: What about the report nicely phrased.
[21:35] Speaker 7: Here?
[21:39] Speaker 13: M hmm.
[21:40] Speaker 7: In case the three syllable type words make you scratch
[21:44] Speaker 7: your head in utter dismay. I'd better tell you the
[21:48] Speaker 7: fire was not only set by an arsonist, but there
[21:50] Speaker 7: was an explosion explosive neatly placed to explode it a
[21:53] Speaker 7: comparatively low heat it was.
[21:56] Speaker 9: I got a morsel for you.
[21:57] Speaker 2: You close the door, is it yourself? Let's get out
[22:01] Speaker 2: of here, Jane, I said, come on, Gene, what have
[22:08] Speaker 2: you got the price? Russell?
[22:10] Speaker 9: Take the fullest spotted in the village. She climbed the
[22:12] Speaker 9: stair and went to a party of twelve twelve Bank Street,
[22:14] Speaker 9: where she is at this moment.
[22:16] Speaker 2: Thanks, you know where's Patrice Russell? Thanks?
[22:46] Speaker 12: Patrice cut In, Danny cut In, come dance with me,
[22:53] Speaker 12: Come to me, Danny.
[22:55] Speaker 2: Come on, we're getting out of here.
[22:57] Speaker 6: Patrice, Honey, where we go?
[23:00] Speaker 2: Just away from here. I've got to talk to you.
[23:02] Speaker 6: My car's outside. I know a lovely.
[23:04] Speaker 2: Place to talk outside in the halls, far enough holes
[23:08] Speaker 2: are draped. Come on, or you will bruise me.
[23:13] Speaker 11: Come on, let's go out in the.
[23:14] Speaker 5: Hall here here for what?
[23:23] Speaker 2: Your father's dead, Kitty?
[23:29] Speaker 6: No, you're not, are you?
[23:32] Speaker 2: How someone tossed a bomb in your living room? Who Daddy.
[23:39] Speaker 2: Who did it, Patrice?
[23:40] Speaker 6: Honest, I don't know, poor Daddy. I loved him, you know,
[23:47] Speaker 6: I really did.
[23:48] Speaker 2: He loved you.
[23:49] Speaker 5: I know, I know he did, Patrice.
[23:53] Speaker 12: I wasn't very nice to him, Daddy. You know something,
[23:57] Speaker 12: Every morning I'd wake up and say to myself, this
[24:01] Speaker 12: is a day that I'm not going to hurt Daddy.
[24:03] Speaker 6: And it never worked out.
[24:04] Speaker 2: I want to ask you something, Patria.
[24:07] Speaker 12: I never tried around breakfast time, I'd think it's something
[24:11] Speaker 12: to do, and during the day I'd find out a
[24:13] Speaker 12: way to do it.
[24:14] Speaker 2: What about the narcotics. The narcotics, Oh.
[24:18] Speaker 11: No more, Danny.
[24:19] Speaker 12: I promised him that, and I kept my promise. I
[24:22] Speaker 12: took the cure and it worked.
[24:23] Speaker 6: I haven't touched it since, not since that detective picked
[24:27] Speaker 6: me up for it.
[24:27] Speaker 2: His name is a Consta, Patrice. He died because of
[24:30] Speaker 2: that fire at your father's place.
[24:32] Speaker 11: I'm sorry.
[24:34] Speaker 12: Listen, Danny about the narcotics. I want you to know
[24:37] Speaker 12: it's all over. It lost me everything. I had a boy,
[24:41] Speaker 12: we were going to get married, and he's gone.
[24:45] Speaker 11: You know what I do now, I go to parties.
[24:50] Speaker 2: Like this, good by Danny, and leave her and leave
[25:02] Speaker 2: Greenwich Village right uptown to the one stop you had
[25:05] Speaker 2: to make the final stop in front of a canoped
[25:08] Speaker 2: entrance to a gray stone apartment house. Have your bad
[25:11] Speaker 2: sniff damp and be told the man you're looking for
[25:13] Speaker 2: as a penthouse dweller, find the elevator, press a button,
[25:17] Speaker 2: because the man you want is thirty floors away. Get there,
[25:20] Speaker 2: and the man you want is waiting for you. Just
[25:22] Speaker 2: step out.
[25:23] Speaker 5: Hey, come on in, Danny.
[25:25] Speaker 15: Thanks, Yeah, like Frankie's new house, Denny classic, Yeah, wait,
[25:31] Speaker 15: will I show you outside?
[25:32] Speaker 5: You got the city for an on? Come on shore?
[25:35] Speaker 5: All right, my Manhattan Tower, Denny.
[25:42] Speaker 2: I'm happy for you.
[25:43] Speaker 5: Do you begin rent in a place like this? That's
[25:46] Speaker 5: why you're come to look?
[25:47] Speaker 2: Uh uh you know what? I want to take your
[25:50] Speaker 2: away from all this, Frankie.
[25:53] Speaker 15: Too much sweat got me here, Danny. It isn't going
[25:56] Speaker 15: to be easy.
[25:57] Speaker 2: Not hard, just to walk to the l of ring
[26:00] Speaker 2: a ride down town.
[26:02] Speaker 5: There were times when that could happen to Frankie.
[26:05] Speaker 2: No more, it's going to happen. It's got murder in it.
[26:07] Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
[26:09] Speaker 2: George Russell? What about him? Dead? Had a bomb pitched
[26:12] Speaker 2: through his living room window, rumors said, You used to
[26:14] Speaker 2: do things like that, Frankie, rubber balls through tenement.
[26:19] Speaker 5: Windows when I was a kid. I give it up,
[26:20] Speaker 5: no future.
[26:21] Speaker 2: It all gets back to Joe Gant. Frankie.
[26:23] Speaker 15: Come mind, Danny, you're in a classy place, make classy conversation.
[26:27] Speaker 5: What about Joe game?
[26:28] Speaker 2: The connection between you and who?
[26:30] Speaker 5: Finish the visit?
[26:31] Speaker 7: Danny? I got a dame.
[26:32] Speaker 2: It'll wait.
[26:34] Speaker 5: Maybe I can still.
[26:35] Speaker 15: Catch it, Danny. Maybe she's got a friend. You want
[26:39] Speaker 15: me to try?
[26:40] Speaker 2: Don't bother well and finish the visit. Sure it started
[26:45] Speaker 2: way back in June.
[26:46] Speaker 5: What did Danny come on? Come onut?
[26:47] Speaker 2: When Trees Russell was picked up on a narcotic charge.
[26:50] Speaker 15: George Russell. But Trece Russell, what is it with all
[26:53] Speaker 15: these rustle.
[26:53] Speaker 2: George Russell must have pleaded her to the office and
[26:55] Speaker 2: not have to press charges against his daughter, Patrese. He
[26:58] Speaker 2: didn't make it the charge nearly his daughter.
[27:00] Speaker 15: All right, what's this guy to do with me?
[27:02] Speaker 2: The arresting officer's name was Ed Couster. Russell was going
[27:05] Speaker 2: to get back at him. He found a way to
[27:07] Speaker 2: do it somehow. He found out Coster was transferred from
[27:10] Speaker 2: narcotics to burglary. That was his chance.
[27:14] Speaker 5: That's my date, Danny.
[27:15] Speaker 15: I don't like to keep a lady waiting tough to
[27:19] Speaker 15: see she's impatient, tough.
[27:21] Speaker 2: I'm telling a story. Russell came to you. He said
[27:24] Speaker 2: he wanted a fire set in his place for whatever
[27:26] Speaker 2: reason he gave you. For whatever amount he gave you,
[27:29] Speaker 2: look'd better forget it. So you arranged it. Sent Joe Gant.
[27:34] Speaker 2: Joe set the fire, all right, but he was followed
[27:36] Speaker 2: by Officer Ed Coster because Ed got a phone call
[27:39] Speaker 2: telling him where a burglar would be at what time?
[27:41] Speaker 15: All right, so they both burned.
[27:43] Speaker 5: Why should that gave me from a day?
[27:44] Speaker 2: The phone call Ed came from Russell. Russell rigged the
[27:47] Speaker 2: place to blow up. When the fire started at Blue Wall, right,
[27:50] Speaker 2: Gant was killed.
[27:52] Speaker 5: Ed died and I wipe a tear with the back
[27:55] Speaker 5: of my hand.
[27:56] Speaker 2: You couldn't let Russell get away with that. One of
[27:58] Speaker 2: your boys was killed. Bad for your reputation. You evened it.
[28:02] Speaker 2: The bomb in the car didn't work, but the bomb
[28:03] Speaker 2: in the living room did.
[28:05] Speaker 15: Danny.
[28:05] Speaker 2: You can say, good fighterr on your way, Frankie.
[28:07] Speaker 15: I asked you, Danny, you didn't agree, chill you put
[28:11] Speaker 15: down that gun.
[28:12] Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not going to get to say Goodbier, Frankie.
[28:30] Speaker 2: She went away Broadways wearing its harlequin clothes. It winks
[28:53] Speaker 2: and eye and beckons, and in the press of crowd,
[28:57] Speaker 2: there the pale girl walks like a queen, because Broadway's
[29:02] Speaker 2: a dream street. And there that man with begging eyes,
[29:07] Speaker 2: hungry for a new dream. It's a laugh or a
[29:12] Speaker 2: cry with nothing in between. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the
[29:19] Speaker 2: most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway, My Beat.
[29:33] Speaker 3: Broadways, My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,
[29:48] Speaker 3: with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia and Jack Krushian as Muggovin.
[29:52] Speaker 3: The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with
[29:55] Speaker 3: musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story,
[30:00] Speaker 3: Anthony Barrett was heard as Frankie Crown. Featured in the
[30:03] Speaker 3: cast were Michael An Barrett, Paula Winslow, Herb Butterfield, and
[30:07] Speaker 3: Ed Max. My Friend Irma is everybody is Friend Irma.
[30:22] Speaker 3: There's something downright appealing in that gal's goofy mentality. And
[30:25] Speaker 3: every Sunday Evening Marie Wilson stars as the world's most
[30:29] Speaker 3: adorable dumbbell. My friend Irma Kathy Lewis is her level
[30:34] Speaker 3: headed roommate on most of these stations. Sunday nights, enjoy
[30:38] Speaker 3: CBS Radios, my friend Irma, Bill Anders speaking and remember
[30:42] Speaker 3: the Frankie Lane Show is your date for select syncopation
[30:45] Speaker 3: every Sunday afternoon on the CBS Radio Network.
[31:34] Speaker 1: Welcome Back. One thing I found fascinating about the end
[31:39] Speaker 1: is just the subtleties of Tony Barrett's performance, as you know,
[31:45] Speaker 1: he had, you know, right up until the end, his
[31:48] Speaker 1: character had been maintaining he was a legitimate businessman, and
[31:51] Speaker 1: then just the way the voice changed as it became
[31:56] Speaker 1: clear that he was full thog. And I like the
[32:01] Speaker 1: subtle movement there. Now, this episode is not the first
[32:05] Speaker 1: Broadways My Beat that dealt with the death of a
[32:09] Speaker 1: law enforcement officer, but this is the first one where
[32:14] Speaker 1: it's really kind of visited the meaning of that to characters,
[32:20] Speaker 1: particularly outside of Danny. And it's kind of an interesting
[32:24] Speaker 1: contrast between the way that Broadways My Beat handles the
[32:28] Speaker 1: sort of episode as opposed to Dragnet. You actually saw
[32:33] Speaker 1: people visibly by the death, You saw a mugg an
[32:39] Speaker 1: kind of struggling with his emotions a bit, and then
[32:43] Speaker 1: even Tartagia got irritable. Now this contrast with the dragnet
[32:49] Speaker 1: approach where they don't really stray far from that professional mode.
[32:55] Speaker 1: That's not to say that it's not there, but it's
[32:58] Speaker 1: more between the lines, and it's more something that's verbally
[33:03] Speaker 1: acknowledged than something that you're going to be able to
[33:07] Speaker 1: tell just by listening to them that something is wrong. Well,
[33:12] Speaker 1: listener comments and feedback, and we have a couple comments
[33:15] Speaker 1: from Mechanics sixty six regarding some recent episodes. Regarding the
[33:19] Speaker 1: Anna Compton murder case. He writes, I went to summer
[33:22] Speaker 1: camp in the Catskills, but not a charity camp. Good memories.
[33:26] Speaker 1: I thought Compton gave himself away the first time he
[33:29] Speaker 1: spoke with Danny when he said I'll take Anna away
[33:32] Speaker 1: from that place where she is. The way he said it,
[33:36] Speaker 1: it was as if he knew the place, and how
[33:38] Speaker 1: could he good point. And he also adds based released
[33:43] Speaker 1: on one's own recognissance, not cognisance as Danny said. Then
[33:48] Speaker 1: Harrison comments regarding our first listener support and Appreciation special.
[33:54] Speaker 1: I love It's a wonderful life, so it's really cool
[33:58] Speaker 1: to hear these actor prom for it before it's even released. Well,
[34:03] Speaker 1: thanks so much, Harrison, and I agree. I love to
[34:06] Speaker 1: hear those sort of promos for It's a Wonderful Life
[34:10] Speaker 1: and other films. You just kind of like, wow that
[34:14] Speaker 1: the people who heard that are in for a treat.
[34:17] Speaker 1: Although many people who saw It's a Wonderful Life at
[34:21] Speaker 1: a time did not appreciate it wouldn't really gain the
[34:25] Speaker 1: appreciation it deserved until it lapsed into the public domain,
[34:30] Speaker 1: but that's another story. Thanks so much, appreciate the comments.
[34:34] Speaker 1: Now it's time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day.
[34:38] Speaker 1: Thank you to Tanya, Patreon supporter since August twenty twenty four,
[34:42] Speaker 1: currently supporting the podcast at the shawmus level of four
[34:45] Speaker 1: dollars more per month. Thanks so much for your support, Tanya,
[34:49] Speaker 1: and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying
[34:51] Speaker 1: the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software
[34:56] Speaker 1: and be sure to rate and review the podcast wherever
[34:59] Speaker 1: you download it. We'll be back next Wednesday with another
[35:03] Speaker 1: episode of Broadways My Beat, but join us back here
[35:06] Speaker 1: tomorrow for dragnetwhere.
[35:09] Speaker 10: Four or fifteen am then and I went out back
[35:11] Speaker 10: to the garage where mister Sullivan's car was parked. We
[35:14] Speaker 10: jammed ourselves into the trunk compartment and Brian closed the
[35:17] Speaker 10: door on us. The latch was rigged so that we
[35:19] Speaker 10: could push open the door from the inside. A few
[35:22] Speaker 10: minutes later, mister Sullivan came out, got in the car,
[35:25] Speaker 10: and we drove off. At three minutes to five, we
[35:28] Speaker 10: pulled up at the designated meeting place up an allegian park.
[35:31] Speaker 2: We waited.
[35:32] Speaker 10: Nothing happened. Five minutes past five am, still nothing outside.
[35:37] Speaker 4: It started the thunder.
[35:41] Speaker 2: Rain starting.
[35:42] Speaker 1: Man, it's Wendy.
[35:46] Speaker 4: Yeah here, Yeah.
[35:49] Speaker 2: It's a car coming up the road toward us.
[35:50] Speaker 5: I was like, yeah, mal minute, coming over this way.
[36:00] Speaker 2: Yeah, signs that way. Doesn't be caring.
[36:01] Speaker 10: You're ready, right easy?
[36:06] Speaker 2: Coming back here watching now.
[36:08] Speaker 1: Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime. Send
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[36:25] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.

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