# Broadway's My Beat: The Lucille Baker Murder Case (EP4973)

An episode of [The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/335549005), 13 May 2026, 37 min.

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Today's Mystery: An ex-boxer is accused of murder. Original Radio Broadcast Date:December 29, 1951 Originated in Hollywood Stars: Larry Thor as Lieutenant Danny Clover, Charles Calvert as Sergeant Gino Tartaglia, Jack Kruschen as Sergeant Muggavan Support the show monthly at https://patreon.greatdetectives.net Patreon Supporter of the Day:Serge8Patreon supporter sice May 2020 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.
[0:36] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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[1:17] Speaker 1: But now, from December fifteenth, nineteen fifty one, here is
[1:22] Speaker 1: the Lucille Baker murder Case.
[1:38] Speaker 2: Broadways My Beach from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest,
[1:42] Speaker 2: the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
[1:50] Speaker 3: Broadways My Beach with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
[2:00] Speaker 2: From Somewhere Beyond the Threshold of Neon, the Happy Holidays,
[2:08] Speaker 2: Beckoned a Broadway and the Wilderness of Plastic and Chrome
[2:12] Speaker 2: dons its ribbons of tinsel, garlands of evergreen are hung
[2:15] Speaker 2: against the shriek of subways, and behind plate glass puppets
[2:19] Speaker 2: with shrewd mechanisms perform their frenetic dance. The metallic music
[2:23] Speaker 2: flows out of the horns of loudspeakers, the women walk
[2:27] Speaker 2: slow sway gently to its holiday rhythms, and everywhere the
[2:31] Speaker 2: image of gayety is reflected in spangles that whirl on
[2:34] Speaker 2: winter's wind. So paint the grin the crossia mouth, kid,
[2:38] Speaker 2: it's the merry time, And somewhere within it a phone call,
[2:47] Speaker 2: a drunken voice that pleads you into a desolate, wind
[2:50] Speaker 2: glittered street, into a tenement scarred with shadows, into a
[2:53] Speaker 2: room also desolate. A man sprawled on the floor in drunkenness,
[2:57] Speaker 2: his arm flung toward the woman who lies away from him,
[2:59] Speaker 2: his fingers reaching trying to touch her dead face. And
[3:03] Speaker 2: the other man, who clings to ear lapel, has waited
[3:05] Speaker 2: there only so he could tell you about it.
[3:06] Speaker 4: That proves I had nothing to do with it, doesn't it?
[3:08] Speaker 2: I called it in.
[3:09] Speaker 4: I waited here for you, me along with those two,
[3:12] Speaker 4: just so as I could tell you about it. Pruse,
[3:15] Speaker 4: Bob Robert Colker. I got a wife and a good name.
[3:18] Speaker 4: I don't want to get mixed up in this mister woman.
[3:20] Speaker 4: That's Missus Baker, Charlie's wife. Boys, that boy got a
[3:24] Speaker 4: hangover waiting for him when he comes to Imagine you
[3:27] Speaker 4: and Charlie, you enjoying yourself. You get invited in for
[3:30] Speaker 4: a little night cap. You walk in and there's Missus
[3:32] Speaker 4: Baker lying on the floor, head hold twisted like that. Yeah, yeah,
[3:36] Speaker 4: that's how I figured it too. When we walked in,
[3:38] Speaker 4: saw I said, look, Charlie boy, look at your missus,
[3:41] Speaker 4: and Charlie kind of yelped like a dog or something.
[3:44] Speaker 4: Tried to make it to her, but he passed out
[3:46] Speaker 4: on the way. I never touched the mister, honest, I didn't.
[3:48] Speaker 2: You and Baker were up together, then you came home.
[3:51] Speaker 4: Yeah, but now like you think we were to the
[3:54] Speaker 4: office party, Charle and me. We got a joining desks,
[3:57] Speaker 4: big deal office party, booze and paper cups, dance alone
[4:00] Speaker 4: with the stennel you've been wanting to touch all year,
[4:03] Speaker 4: and take child boy home and look, mister, okay, if
[4:07] Speaker 4: I go home now, I've done everything could be expected.
[4:10] Speaker 2: Oh yeah, why, mister Culker, tell her you won't be
[4:13] Speaker 2: home for a while and wait. Then watch the barrier
[4:20] Speaker 2: of faces form at the doorway, the same faces that
[4:22] Speaker 2: gather always when sudden death is done. Face is tempered
[4:26] Speaker 2: only by the quality of shirts, neckpies and hairdoes quality
[4:29] Speaker 2: this time tenement fraid And in a while the medical
[4:33] Speaker 2: examiner the nod toward the dead. The black santchell opened,
[4:37] Speaker 2: and the steath is sculpted. Hears no heartbeat, the official
[4:40] Speaker 2: pronouncement that a woman named Lucille Baker, age about thirty two,
[4:43] Speaker 2: marry no children, have been strangled to death, and the
[4:47] Speaker 2: other nod to the two men who had been found
[4:49] Speaker 2: with her. Take them along, get out, go and back
[4:59] Speaker 2: to the office, and give orders to interview everyone at
[5:02] Speaker 2: the party. Turn mister Baker over to the officer whose
[5:04] Speaker 2: extracurricular duty includes the sobering of suspects. Question mister Culker again.
[5:09] Speaker 2: His story sticks. Then a door opens and a very
[5:13] Speaker 2: sober man walks in.
[5:14] Speaker 5: I believe they just told me. I don't put it.
[5:18] Speaker 5: What are you doing, himp hop.
[5:20] Speaker 4: I just told him what happened.
[5:21] Speaker 6: I told him we came back to you here.
[5:22] Speaker 2: You wait outside, mister Coulker.
[5:24] Speaker 4: Sure, sure, whatever you say, just take it easy.
[5:27] Speaker 1: Chilie boy.
[5:28] Speaker 2: Sit on, mister Baker, your wife is dead. See, I
[5:37] Speaker 2: want you to try to tell me just what happened
[5:39] Speaker 2: to me.
[5:42] Speaker 5: The office party. I went there.
[5:44] Speaker 7: I was having a fine Yes, I was having a
[5:48] Speaker 7: wonderful time. Look, it was the end of the day.
[5:50] Speaker 7: And at first I wanted to go home, but they
[5:52] Speaker 7: wouldn't let me. They said, look at all this three booths,
[5:55] Speaker 7: lap it up and forget it, and now.
[6:01] Speaker 2: Go on.
[6:02] Speaker 7: But I tried to call lu seal three or foot times.
[6:04] Speaker 7: I don't know how many times till I was having
[6:06] Speaker 7: a good time not to wait up for me, But
[6:08] Speaker 7: Lyne was always busy.
[6:09] Speaker 2: What else do you remember?
[6:11] Speaker 7: Bob said, come on, let's go home when we got there.
[6:17] Speaker 7: The last thing I remember Lucille lying there. It's saying
[6:22] Speaker 7: to myself, just like this, I am drunk. You think
[6:25] Speaker 7: you see all sorts of things when you're drunk, and
[6:28] Speaker 7: this is one of them.
[6:30] Speaker 5: Listen, not Lucial, I'm.
[6:32] Speaker 8: Not even home now.
[6:34] Speaker 2: I wake up and the room shorn suddenly of everything
[6:43] Speaker 2: but a man sobbing. And this is only one in
[6:46] Speaker 2: the long array of grieving that has been displayed you
[6:48] Speaker 2: over the last years. The grief, the love dead, sometimes
[6:52] Speaker 2: with laughter of strange texture, the silence, sometimes anguished, bitter,
[6:56] Speaker 2: and sometimes this like this man's, and always the walking
[7:01] Speaker 2: away from it, and release him and his friend Bob
[7:09] Speaker 2: Colker go home, sleep, and next morning back to the
[7:13] Speaker 2: tenement where a woman had been strangled. Ask questions through
[7:16] Speaker 2: inch open doors, and the children of the tenement shrivel
[7:19] Speaker 2: away from you as if you were a cold wind.
[7:22] Speaker 2: The doors that are never opened to you, the furtive
[7:24] Speaker 2: whispers and scurrying behind them, the giggles, and finally, at
[7:28] Speaker 2: the mention of the dead Missus Baker's name, a woman
[7:30] Speaker 2: who begins a weeping suitable for police callers. Invite you in, Oh.
[7:34] Speaker 9: That poor poor creature taken from us, like that joke,
[7:40] Speaker 9: like that cast away. Please won't you come in? I'm
[7:45] Speaker 9: Ruthie Alexander. Let's just shut the door, shall we. My
[7:50] Speaker 9: neighbor's curious, nosy, so pathetically nosy. May I get you
[7:56] Speaker 9: something hot, chocolate tea, something with a bite too.
[8:00] Speaker 2: No, thank you? You knew, missus Baker.
[8:03] Speaker 9: I knew Lucille better. How awful to be a man
[8:09] Speaker 9: and have to suffer weeping women?
[8:11] Speaker 2: You were saying you knew, Missus Baker, well better.
[8:14] Speaker 9: Than she knew herself. The promises life offered that girl.
[8:19] Speaker 9: Although Lucille wasn't pretty, mind you, not in the real
[8:22] Speaker 9: sense of the word. But she had her qualities hidden
[8:26] Speaker 9: kind of sly. It intrigued you.
[8:29] Speaker 10: Men.
[8:30] Speaker 2: You're saying that she nothing of the sort.
[8:33] Speaker 9: Why Lucille, the poor, unimaginative creature, And I say, the
[8:37] Speaker 9: summer and I was a best friend, mind you, and
[8:39] Speaker 9: have the right. Lucille backed away from men. I honestly
[8:43] Speaker 9: think they frightened her.
[8:45] Speaker 2: She was married to a husband who loved them.
[8:47] Speaker 8: Of course he did.
[8:48] Speaker 9: Of course he did. Why shouldn't he. She could have
[8:53] Speaker 9: even had a man like Teddy Fletcher. Teddy was dying
[8:57] Speaker 9: for her. Lucille told me all about it. A fellow
[9:00] Speaker 9: who works at the Dorsey Company, where Lucille's husband worked.
[9:04] Speaker 9: I told her so many times. A man like that, Lucy,
[9:07] Speaker 9: they don't grow on bushes. They you know something at Lucille.
[9:14] Speaker 9: She was a deep one, sly like I said, I wonder,
[9:19] Speaker 9: I just wonder if she and Teddy? How wonerful of me?
[9:27] Speaker 9: But when you have a cigarette, at least I'll light
[9:29] Speaker 9: it for you, draw the first puff.
[9:34] Speaker 2: And refuse the kind offer king sized, cock tipped gratis,
[9:38] Speaker 2: and all give her back her solitude, leave her to
[9:41] Speaker 2: her tearless sweeping. Now she'd have something really to cry about.
[9:45] Speaker 2: She'd wasted a cigarette to the officers of the Dorsey
[9:53] Speaker 2: Novelty Company Incorporated Limited, be greeted'd be given a catalog
[9:57] Speaker 2: concerning current novelties, be found that because I didn't want it,
[10:01] Speaker 2: be listened to be ushered, pass the office force and
[10:03] Speaker 2: slogans about geniuses at work and courtesy and cleanliness and accuracy,
[10:08] Speaker 2: and be shown to a cubicle. Yeah, mister Fletcher, Yeah,
[10:13] Speaker 2: what is it. I'm Danny Clover from the police.
[10:16] Speaker 6: I'm expecting somebody from down there.
[10:19] Speaker 2: Sit down please, thanks. So I'm trying to get some information. No,
[10:23] Speaker 2: I know, all right, you know, tell me what you know?
[10:27] Speaker 6: Just one thing? You think I killed Lucile? Did you
[10:31] Speaker 6: I was in love with her? Did you kill her?
[10:34] Speaker 6: I just told you I was in love with her
[10:35] Speaker 6: for two years. Now. I built my plans around a
[10:37] Speaker 6: day to day plans. That adds up to be in
[10:39] Speaker 6: my life, doesn't it. You think I killed her to
[10:41] Speaker 6: be like kill her myself, wouldn't it?
[10:43] Speaker 2: All right? We'll go on the premise you didn't kill her,
[10:45] Speaker 2: mister Fletcher, tell me about last night. I was at
[10:49] Speaker 2: the party.
[10:49] Speaker 6: Everybody got loaded, not me.
[10:51] Speaker 2: You don't drink her and when.
[10:52] Speaker 6: It's better to say sober? Last night was such a time.
[10:56] Speaker 6: Oh why last night Charlie Baker was here, get tanked.
[11:01] Speaker 6: Last night Lucille Baker was home being lonely.
[11:03] Speaker 2: Then you left the party because her husband was here
[11:05] Speaker 2: and went over to see her. And is that it?
[11:07] Speaker 6: It's the way I planned. It didn't work.
[11:10] Speaker 2: Gonna tell me why.
[11:11] Speaker 6: Yeah, I called Lucille from here during the party a
[11:15] Speaker 6: lot of times. She said, I am a wife with
[11:17] Speaker 6: a husband. Stay where you are, admirable huh. A wife
[11:22] Speaker 6: of had killed her and it killed her.
[11:24] Speaker 2: Then you gave up and went home.
[11:26] Speaker 6: I needed solace. I found Isabelle by the water cooler. Isabelle,
[11:30] Speaker 6: Isabelle Mitchell, pal and buddy, sweater and skirt. We smiled
[11:34] Speaker 6: at each other over paper cups, linked dimes and went
[11:36] Speaker 6: to her place, drank and did childish things like pin
[11:40] Speaker 6: the tail of the donkey.
[11:41] Speaker 2: Drank, drank, drank your alibi. Huh. I want to talk
[11:46] Speaker 2: to her.
[11:47] Speaker 6: I guess she's still at home getting rid of last
[11:48] Speaker 6: night's head. She didn't show up today, nice kid?
[11:51] Speaker 2: Where does she live?
[11:52] Speaker 6: Two rooms on West thirty seventh, nine oh five, apartment too.
[11:56] Speaker 6: Let mister clover that Hamilton wall clock says noon and
[11:59] Speaker 6: it's never wrong. I'm going to join me for lunch.
[12:01] Speaker 9: Are you?
[12:02] Speaker 2: Thanks a lot? And the ride now to West thirty seventh,
[12:12] Speaker 2: to the block of the Brownstones and the low Rent
[12:14] Speaker 2: and the corner grocery store, and next to the tailor's
[12:17] Speaker 2: shop that advertised proudly how it had held the line
[12:20] Speaker 2: since nineteen fifty. Find the number nine oh five, Walk
[12:24] Speaker 2: past the door to apartment one, and a few steps
[12:27] Speaker 2: more to apartment two, apartment of Isabelle Mitchell. Knock and
[12:32] Speaker 2: get no answer, and open a door. Walk in the
[12:36] Speaker 2: living room decorated in Rowe house decor, dregs of last
[12:40] Speaker 2: night's drinks, Coolidge modern and empty, and the kitchen the
[12:47] Speaker 2: light still burning, the perpetual distance sound in the exposed
[12:50] Speaker 2: water pipes and strung from them, the girl, the girl
[12:56] Speaker 2: twisting this way and back slightly, the lifeless girl, the
[13:04] Speaker 2: murdered girl.
[13:17] Speaker 3: You are listening to Broadways My Beat, written by Morton
[13:21] Speaker 3: Fine and David Freakin and starring Larry thor as Detective
[13:24] Speaker 3: Danny Clover. Confidentially, Edgar Bergen has a split personality, and
[13:30] Speaker 3: it's hard to say whether he's funny or as the
[13:32] Speaker 3: Harris Bergan or as that saucy figment of his own
[13:35] Speaker 3: imagination who does the haressing, Chotty McCarthy. We leave it
[13:39] Speaker 3: to you to figure out between the laughs. Every Sunday
[13:42] Speaker 3: night on most of these same CBS radio stations, when
[13:44] Speaker 3: you hear Edgar Bergen and Chotty McCarthy in the days
[13:57] Speaker 3: before Christmas, Broadway puts on its flashy cloths and the
[14:00] Speaker 3: flashy smile. Everybody's on his way to con Santa Claus.
[14:05] Speaker 3: The blonde who walks with you, stops to adjust hernylons
[14:08] Speaker 3: in front of the jewelry store. The brunette who tells
[14:11] Speaker 3: you to pick her up for lunch in the langury department,
[14:14] Speaker 3: the redhead who behaved all year long. And while the
[14:17] Speaker 3: reindeer dash across the thunder of the spectaculars, the recruits
[14:21] Speaker 3: from the Bowery shake their little bells and not lovingly
[14:23] Speaker 3: at tiny tots. Get out the Christmas list, kid, that's
[14:27] Speaker 3: where your friends have been all year long, and at headquarters,
[14:35] Speaker 3: consider other things official musings the dying of Lucille Baker,
[14:39] Speaker 3: a woman strangled, Consider what chain of circumstance led from
[14:43] Speaker 3: her to the murder of another Isabell Mitchell. Consider and
[14:47] Speaker 3: be interrupted by a police sergeant named Gino Tartaglia, who
[14:50] Speaker 3: sometimes had things in his mind.
[14:51] Speaker 8: I got a headache, Danny.
[14:53] Speaker 2: I'm sorry to hear that. Why don't you take an ask?
[14:55] Speaker 8: Condolences are touching, Danny, and I thank you for them. However,
[14:59] Speaker 8: my symptoms psycho semitic, psychosomatic, a word Missus Tartaglia read
[15:04] Speaker 8: to me last night from a book. It's the type
[15:06] Speaker 8: headache which is prone to deep thinkers, so science explained
[15:09] Speaker 8: to Missus t and she to.
[15:10] Speaker 2: Me, you've been thinking deeply.
[15:12] Speaker 8: Indeed, he as concerns the current situation and the murder
[15:15] Speaker 8: of Lucille Baker and the subsequent same of miss isabel Mitchell.
[15:19] Speaker 8: Oh a theory to wit. Mister Ted Fletcher is a killer.
[15:23] Speaker 8: Murdered the woman whom he loved, Missus Baker, then murdered
[15:26] Speaker 8: the girl he flirted with, Isabell Mitchell.
[15:27] Speaker 2: But Isabelle was his alibi, Geno, why should he murder her?
[15:30] Speaker 8: I cut my headache, making it sound reasonable to me, Danny.
[15:33] Speaker 8: But I think I know why he killed miss Mitchell.
[15:36] Speaker 2: Yeah, I can think of a reason too.
[15:37] Speaker 8: You mean like that so soon?
[15:39] Speaker 2: Well it had figured.
[15:40] Speaker 8: Gino, you tell me yours, I'll tell you mine.
[15:43] Speaker 2: The way it stands now, Geno, Fletcher can't account for
[15:45] Speaker 2: his actions of last night. Nobody remembers when he left
[15:48] Speaker 2: the party. Let's just assume he left with miss Mitchell.
[15:51] Speaker 2: He took her home and left her.
[15:53] Speaker 8: You've been peeking into my brain, Danny.
[15:55] Speaker 2: He left her, went to see missus Baker, killed her,
[15:58] Speaker 2: came back to Miss Mitchell and asked her to be
[16:00] Speaker 2: his alibi. She refused.
[16:01] Speaker 8: Indeed, Danny, indeed.
[16:03] Speaker 2: So she was the only one who knew he was
[16:05] Speaker 2: a killer. She refused to help him. He killed her.
[16:08] Speaker 8: Theories make a lot of sense.
[16:10] Speaker 2: Don't they maybe have Fletcher picked ups? You know I'm
[16:13] Speaker 2: going on?
[16:14] Speaker 8: Okay, Danny, whey can I reach you if I need you?
[16:16] Speaker 2: At that novelty office. Maybe I can find out why
[16:19] Speaker 2: that happy party had so much murder in it.
[16:34] Speaker 11: You're the guy told the girl you're a detective.
[16:36] Speaker 2: That's right, show me, show me.
[16:39] Speaker 11: Girls get impressed with guys who show them shiny badges.
[16:41] Speaker 11: Don't bother to read the small print. All they care.
[16:45] Speaker 11: Is it a muscle man with a favored ask you
[16:48] Speaker 11: threw with him? Yeah, take back your badge. I produce
[16:51] Speaker 11: novelties like that by the cayload. Just that to be
[16:53] Speaker 11: sure you weren't giving.
[16:54] Speaker 2: The girl a fast shuffle some questions. I want to
[16:56] Speaker 2: ask you, mister Darley, my time.
[16:58] Speaker 11: You got around to me. Huh, It just so happens.
[17:00] Speaker 11: I'm the head man this little enterprise. Maybe the personnel
[17:02] Speaker 11: didn't get around to telling.
[17:03] Speaker 2: They didn't need to. I saw your publicity on the
[17:05] Speaker 2: wrapping paper.
[17:06] Speaker 11: Yeah, you had a little confab with Ted Fletcher.
[17:09] Speaker 2: The girls tell me sorry, it didn't occur to me.
[17:11] Speaker 2: I need your permission.
[17:12] Speaker 11: Oh it's not that, kid, It's just that I got
[17:14] Speaker 11: a happy enterprise here. You walk in talk murdered talk.
[17:16] Speaker 11: It spreads gloom. Everybody gets unhappy until I think of something.
[17:20] Speaker 2: The office party the other night, that was one of
[17:22] Speaker 2: your thoughts.
[17:22] Speaker 11: Yeah, it was happened to be my birthday. I let
[17:25] Speaker 11: it be known in a loud voice, and before long
[17:27] Speaker 11: the personnel is pitching dimes into a kiddie. A good
[17:30] Speaker 11: time was had by all. What did you think of
[17:33] Speaker 11: who ted Fletcher personally. I can't stand the guy. Good worker,
[17:36] Speaker 11: but I can't stand him. What do you think of?
[17:39] Speaker 2: Just keep talking Fletcher. Not much to look at.
[17:42] Speaker 11: But oh, you kid, what he does to the emotions
[17:44] Speaker 11: of the ever loving opposite sex. You know what I mean.
[17:47] Speaker 11: You got to agree because you got him tabbed for
[17:49] Speaker 11: killing Missus Baker.
[17:49] Speaker 2: I understand.
[17:50] Speaker 11: I tell you it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
[17:53] Speaker 2: Charles Baker works for you too. Give me your thoughts
[17:55] Speaker 2: on him.
[17:56] Speaker 11: Baker's a good boy and knows to the grindstone type.
[17:59] Speaker 11: I got a lot of planning for him, been to
[18:00] Speaker 11: his homemade his impressed the bust type of food. Met
[18:03] Speaker 11: his wife, the former Missus Baker.
[18:05] Speaker 2: Yeah, and you have an opinion.
[18:07] Speaker 11: Dull woman playing boring. You know Baker's better off without
[18:11] Speaker 11: her in my opinion, I tell you because yes.
[18:13] Speaker 2: And Isabelle Mitchell, who also worked for you, who was
[18:16] Speaker 2: also at your birthday party, who was strangled murdered.
[18:19] Speaker 11: Hmm, kind girl had a kind word for everybody, but everybody.
[18:24] Speaker 2: Prove it to me.
[18:25] Speaker 11: Fletcher meets your at the water cooler at my party.
[18:27] Speaker 11: Isabelle give him the kind word, Fletcher takes her home.
[18:29] Speaker 11: That was a busy, busy night for Fletcher, wasn't it game?
[18:32] Speaker 2: Anything else?
[18:33] Speaker 11: Mister Dawson Nett cuts it. As far as I'm concerned,
[18:37] Speaker 11: you too, huh. I bet you got loads of things
[18:40] Speaker 11: to do, just like me. So goodbye, h guy.
[18:54] Speaker 12: Mister Clover, Yes, is it all right if I just.
[18:57] Speaker 2: Walk in here and you, of course? Won't you sit down?
[19:03] Speaker 2: Thank you?
[19:04] Speaker 12: I'm Lois Nolan.
[19:06] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[19:07] Speaker 12: I work at the Dorsey Novelty Company. In the office,
[19:10] Speaker 12: I run an IBM machine time study cards. I don't
[19:14] Speaker 12: guess you noticed.
[19:15] Speaker 13: Me, did you?
[19:16] Speaker 2: Seems that I do. I guess you're wearing another dress.
[19:18] Speaker 12: No, I was wearing this dress. You just didn't notice,
[19:20] Speaker 12: that's all.
[19:22] Speaker 2: Why have you come here, miss Nolan?
[19:24] Speaker 12: I wasn't at the party last night, so your men
[19:26] Speaker 12: haven't questioned me.
[19:27] Speaker 2: I see, And you want to be questioned as that.
[19:29] Speaker 6: Well.
[19:30] Speaker 12: I was a friend of Isabelle's. You were, though we
[19:33] Speaker 12: had differences of opinion, as they say about friends boyfriends. Personally,
[19:38] Speaker 12: I like fellows from whom I can better myself. Isabelle
[19:43] Speaker 12: she was not the discriminate type. Life, she once said
[19:46] Speaker 12: was a laugh and a song. Look what it got
[19:49] Speaker 12: her some laugh.
[19:50] Speaker 2: Yes, well, now, if you'll pardon me some laugh.
[19:53] Speaker 12: You knew where I just came from, you wouldn't say
[19:55] Speaker 12: some laugh.
[19:56] Speaker 2: Where did you just come from, Miss Nolan?
[19:58] Speaker 12: From her uncle's house? In buckets? That's the way he
[20:02] Speaker 12: was crying. He didn't say a word. If you could
[20:05] Speaker 12: have seen his eyes those tears, then he said, Lois,
[20:10] Speaker 12: I cannot cry anymore. Isabel was a good girl, and
[20:14] Speaker 12: now she is gone.
[20:15] Speaker 2: I didn't know she had a family.
[20:16] Speaker 12: No one's claiming because that man is a nervous wreck.
[20:19] Speaker 12: After all Isabel did for him.
[20:21] Speaker 2: Where does her uncle live in Brooklyn?
[20:24] Speaker 12: Twenty twenty Stockton Street. I hope I have been of
[20:28] Speaker 12: some help. Since Isabel was a dear friend of mine,
[20:31] Speaker 12: I was always broad minded enough to forgive the thing.
[20:33] Speaker 2: You've been a great help, Miss Nolan. Thank you very much.
[20:41] Speaker 2: And the house in Brooklyn, like all the other houses
[20:44] Speaker 2: in the long file, appealing paint, the sagging porch, the
[20:47] Speaker 2: parlor curtains drawn aside to reveal a Christmas wreath, then
[20:50] Speaker 2: drawn further to permit a clearer view of the man
[20:52] Speaker 2: who walks their quiet street, and, having noted your passing,
[20:56] Speaker 2: open their windows crying to see at whose door you'll knock.
[21:00] Speaker 2: Then in far away voices an answer to friends, relatives,
[21:02] Speaker 2: and neighbors, the voices drained away. Then for a moment,
[21:06] Speaker 2: the stillness is almost complete, except for the wailing of
[21:09] Speaker 2: vessels in the harbor and cry of wind trapped against
[21:12] Speaker 2: street lamps. Then break it, and the man in the
[21:16] Speaker 2: woolen sweater wonders at you with pale eyes, washed away eyes.
[21:22] Speaker 14: Oh you must be from the mission, I phoned. I
[21:26] Speaker 14: have the magazines all tired and ready there.
[21:28] Speaker 2: I'm from the police.
[21:31] Speaker 14: But Isabel, yes, come in. You'll take your death of cord.
[21:37] Speaker 14: I haven't been to claim about it because I didn't
[21:40] Speaker 14: know if it was right. I'm just her uncle. And
[21:43] Speaker 14: Isabel moved away from me over a year ago, and
[21:46] Speaker 14: I thought maybe she'd got someone closer to her.
[21:49] Speaker 2: That's not why I came. No, then, why well, I
[21:53] Speaker 2: thought maybe you could help us, Maybe you could tell
[21:56] Speaker 2: us things about her, and it'll help us find her murderer.
[21:59] Speaker 14: Isabel here to live with us when her mother died.
[22:03] Speaker 14: Then my wife died and Isabelle stayed on. It was
[22:07] Speaker 14: nice when she was here, and then she went away.
[22:12] Speaker 2: Tell me about it, mister Clayton.
[22:13] Speaker 14: It was nice, gay, exciting young men called Anna, brought
[22:18] Speaker 14: her things, brought me cigars, sat and talked with me
[22:22] Speaker 14: while they waited for her to dress. She was pretty real,
[22:26] Speaker 14: pretty worth waiting for.
[22:29] Speaker 2: You remember the men who called on her.
[22:30] Speaker 14: No, no, just boy. He's nice, open fellow.
[22:33] Speaker 2: And you haven't seen Isabelle since she left?
[22:35] Speaker 14: Yes, I didn't say that. I saw her many times,
[22:37] Speaker 14: but only quickly. I'd call her and tell her to
[22:41] Speaker 14: come pick up little things I had for ah, things, presents.
[22:46] Speaker 14: They weren't really from me. They were from this nice
[22:49] Speaker 14: fellow that he must have liked Isabella a whole lot.
[22:54] Speaker 14: You know how I know?
[22:55] Speaker 10: Tell me well, he'd bring her these things and make
[22:59] Speaker 10: me promise not to tell Isabelle they were from him.
[23:02] Speaker 10: He said he'd tell her when the time came, when
[23:06] Speaker 10: he was ready to And I'd say, Charlie, ain't Charlie, Charlie.
[23:11] Speaker 14: Baker, nice fella. You know he made me tell Isabelle
[23:17] Speaker 14: I was giving her those things. Look at me, what
[23:22] Speaker 14: would I have to give a girl like Isabelle.
[23:38] Speaker 7: This is the first time I've been on a place
[23:40] Speaker 7: like this, mister Clover, I've passed the jail many times.
[23:43] Speaker 2: When these are just the detention sells, mister Baker.
[23:47] Speaker 5: Detention cells, you mean they're not permanent. You're not sure
[23:51] Speaker 5: about Fletcher.
[23:52] Speaker 2: Fletcher was picked up as a suspect, and that's still
[23:54] Speaker 2: all he is.
[23:56] Speaker 5: He's a killer.
[23:57] Speaker 2: We'll find out.
[24:00] Speaker 5: I still don't know why I am here.
[24:02] Speaker 2: I want to put your story together with his.
[24:04] Speaker 5: How then you'll know.
[24:05] Speaker 2: Uh, then we'll know. Flat you're sleeping, are.
[24:10] Speaker 5: The conscience like his?
[24:13] Speaker 6: Look at him?
[24:15] Speaker 2: All right?
[24:16] Speaker 5: Come on, Fletcher, wake up, wake up? Killer on your.
[24:20] Speaker 2: Feet, brought you a visitor. Fletcher, Hi, jolly, Hi.
[24:26] Speaker 5: Charlie, Hi Charlie. That's what you gotta say to me,
[24:30] Speaker 5: you my friend, killer?
[24:33] Speaker 2: Break it up? I said, break it up?
[24:36] Speaker 5: Yeah? What am I crazy? Dirty? My hands on him?
[24:41] Speaker 5: You know what they got for you? Killer? A chair
[24:43] Speaker 5: and you're gonna.
[24:44] Speaker 14: Sit in it.
[24:44] Speaker 2: Fletcher. I told Baker how it was between you and
[24:47] Speaker 2: his wife, Lucilla.
[24:48] Speaker 6: I'm glad you did. We were going to tell him
[24:51] Speaker 6: we didn't.
[24:51] Speaker 2: Get a chance.
[24:52] Speaker 5: Love a boy, kill a boy.
[24:54] Speaker 2: I didn't kill her.
[24:55] Speaker 5: Is that what he keeps telling you, mister Clover. That's
[24:58] Speaker 5: why you just keep him in the detent.
[25:00] Speaker 2: That's right.
[25:01] Speaker 6: Look Charlie.
[25:02] Speaker 5: All right, I'm looking.
[25:03] Speaker 6: You got to understand, Charlie, about Lucille and me. I
[25:07] Speaker 6: loved her, she loved me. If we could have worked
[25:10] Speaker 6: it out, I would have married.
[25:11] Speaker 5: Loved her, loved Lucille.
[25:14] Speaker 14: You.
[25:15] Speaker 6: She wasn't a beautiful woman, Charlie. You know that she
[25:17] Speaker 6: was a gentlewoman talking with a You weren't afraid of
[25:21] Speaker 6: the world anymore.
[25:22] Speaker 5: Well, Fletcher, if that's what she did to you, that's
[25:24] Speaker 5: what she did to you.
[25:25] Speaker 2: Didn't she do that to you? Baker? You were pretty
[25:28] Speaker 2: broken up when she died.
[25:29] Speaker 5: Did you ever have a wife who was murdered, mister Clover? No,
[25:33] Speaker 5: then don't tell me how that should feel. You and
[25:37] Speaker 5: my wife are fletch.
[25:38] Speaker 6: I didn't kill her. I swear I didn't kill her.
[25:40] Speaker 7: Childe Yeah, sure, sure, sure. What happened last night, Fletcher?
[25:43] Speaker 7: Lucille wave you goodbye and you let your emotions run
[25:45] Speaker 7: away with you. It was all over and you couldn't
[25:48] Speaker 7: remember a thing. So you say you didn't kill her?
[25:50] Speaker 2: Is that what happened, mister Fletcher?
[25:51] Speaker 6: I told you what happened. Get him out of here.
[25:53] Speaker 2: Just a few more things about a girl who worked
[25:55] Speaker 2: at your office. Also murdered Isabelle Mitchell.
[25:57] Speaker 5: You had your hands full last night, didn't you.
[26:00] Speaker 2: Killer?
[26:00] Speaker 6: I asked you get him out of here.
[26:01] Speaker 2: No, I want him to hear something. There's another way
[26:05] Speaker 2: this thing adds up. You could have killed your wife, Baker.
[26:10] Speaker 5: What are you talking about? Those is the party. Everybody
[26:13] Speaker 5: knows that, everybody will watch for me.
[26:14] Speaker 2: I don't know a party like that, people coming in
[26:16] Speaker 2: and out, nobody remembers much about anything.
[26:18] Speaker 5: You building something, mister Kloby.
[26:20] Speaker 2: You could have left the party long enough to kill
[26:23] Speaker 2: your wife, then go back to it. No one would
[26:25] Speaker 2: have known the difference. Then play drunk, have a friend,
[26:28] Speaker 2: take your home, find your wife dead.
[26:31] Speaker 6: Have a seat, Charlie, you might as well as cats.
[26:34] Speaker 6: Take a little while to get used to me.
[26:35] Speaker 4: Listen.
[26:36] Speaker 2: Then early the next morning, cry on my shoulder. Be released,
[26:39] Speaker 2: go around to Isabel's place and whispered, who were the
[26:41] Speaker 2: happy news about your wife's being dead?
[26:43] Speaker 5: You're crazy? Why would I go to her?
[26:45] Speaker 2: Because you were crazy about her? Crazy about her?
[26:49] Speaker 5: Isabelle?
[26:52] Speaker 6: Isabel?
[26:54] Speaker 5: What are you laughing at?
[26:55] Speaker 2: He's right, Fletcher, You shouldn't laugh. Mister Baker was crazy
[26:59] Speaker 2: about it. Isabel gave her present. What are you talking
[27:01] Speaker 2: about on the sly. Isabel didn't even know where they
[27:04] Speaker 2: came from. After you've gotten rid of your wife, you
[27:07] Speaker 2: could tell her how Baker, but she wouldn't have any
[27:09] Speaker 2: part of you. You killed her.
[27:15] Speaker 6: Love with Isabel her a girl like that, Oh Charlie,
[27:21] Speaker 6: you stupid man, A girl like that when you had
[27:25] Speaker 6: your own wife.
[27:25] Speaker 2: Shut up, shut up up.
[27:29] Speaker 5: Isabel was sweetened, she was wonderful. You know how. I
[27:32] Speaker 5: know she wouldn't look at me because I was married.
[27:35] Speaker 5: That's the kind of a girl she was. She was good.
[27:38] Speaker 5: I killed my wife for her, and she took pity
[27:39] Speaker 5: on me.
[27:39] Speaker 2: She was good, but she still wouldn't look at you.
[27:41] Speaker 2: So you killed her.
[27:42] Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, that's right. I had no more to live for.
[27:46] Speaker 7: Why should she go on living? Why should somebody else
[27:49] Speaker 7: have her? Who else would have done for her what
[27:51] Speaker 7: I did for nobody?
[27:52] Speaker 6: Trust me?
[27:55] Speaker 13: But she didn't want me. She had to die.
[28:20] Speaker 2: It's an enchanted island, this broadway, or a desert of dust.
[28:25] Speaker 2: Look at it, and it's a magician's pitch with golden
[28:28] Speaker 2: mirrors and fountains that plume with jewels. Then you blink,
[28:33] Speaker 2: it all dissolves. It's a crumbling wall. Corroded with pain.
[28:40] Speaker 2: It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile
[28:46] Speaker 2: in the world, Broadway My Beat.
[29:06] Speaker 3: Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover,
[29:11] Speaker 3: with Charles Calford as Tartaglia and Jack Krushan as Muggovin.
[29:15] Speaker 3: The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with
[29:18] Speaker 3: musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. Featured in
[29:23] Speaker 3: tonight's cast were William Conrad, Harry Bartel, Peggy Weber, Lou Merrill,
[29:27] Speaker 3: and Herb Butterfield. All the best fun making from Arthur
[29:36] Speaker 3: Godfrey's daytime shows on CBS Radio. That's what you hear
[29:40] Speaker 3: every Sunday afternoon on most of these stations when King
[29:42] Speaker 3: Arthur Godfrey and his Roundtable hold court. Here tomorrow afternoon.
[29:47] Speaker 3: And remember to enjoy King Arthur Godfrey and his Roundtable
[29:49] Speaker 3: every Sunday afternoon on CBS Radio. Bill Anders speaking, and
[29:56] Speaker 3: remember those lovable rascals Amos and Andy are here every
[29:59] Speaker 3: Sunday day on the CBS Radio network.
[30:53] Speaker 1: Welcome back, well Uh solo performance from William Conrand. I
[30:58] Speaker 1: think this might be our first time hearing Conrad on
[31:03] Speaker 1: Broadways My Beat. I don't think he's been on before,
[31:07] Speaker 1: particularly compared to others like Butterfield and Near who are
[31:11] Speaker 1: on frequently, but he always does well with this top
[31:14] Speaker 1: of character. One thing I was thinking as I was
[31:18] Speaker 1: listening to the episode is that it's interesting how they
[31:23] Speaker 1: try to make this really connect with the audience as
[31:28] Speaker 1: real or true in a way despite some of the
[31:33] Speaker 1: over the top situations. It is really through keeping the
[31:38] Speaker 1: show grounded in time, and this is somewhat unique a
[31:43] Speaker 1: degree to which Broadways My Beat pretty much follows the
[31:49] Speaker 1: calendar of the listeners very consistently week after week. Generally,
[31:56] Speaker 1: if in an old time radio program you're going to
[31:59] Speaker 1: reference Christmas preparations, but this isn't a Christmas episode, and
[32:04] Speaker 1: it's not your last episode before Christmas, you're just gonna
[32:08] Speaker 1: kind of nod to it, make a comment about Christmas
[32:12] Speaker 1: presents or something, and move on. But really, each week,
[32:17] Speaker 1: the narration does this job of establishing the atmosphere as
[32:22] Speaker 1: this is something that is happening right now this particular case,
[32:28] Speaker 1: to bring it home to the audience. It's very different
[32:31] Speaker 1: from Dragnet, where episodes can essentially happen at any time
[32:39] Speaker 1: of the year. Now, while Dragnet did a regular Christmas
[32:44] Speaker 1: episode each year, there are quite a few episodes that
[32:49] Speaker 1: were set at Christmas when a crime occurred, where it's
[32:53] Speaker 1: not in any sense of the word, a Christmas episode,
[32:56] Speaker 1: And when you get dates, they can essentially be any
[33:00] Speaker 1: time of the year. Now, I think that doesn't create
[33:04] Speaker 1: problems for dragging that for a couple of reasons. First,
[33:07] Speaker 1: it is telling a true case, It's not necessarily following
[33:12] Speaker 1: a calendar. Events can take several months. It's also helped
[33:17] Speaker 1: by the fact that I think, particularly to people outside
[33:22] Speaker 1: of Los Angeles, it seems like a place with less
[33:27] Speaker 1: changes in weather at least you know, seasonal changes, so
[33:33] Speaker 1: no matter what time of year it is, you're not
[33:36] Speaker 1: going to be dealing with snow for example. And other
[33:40] Speaker 1: programs are often somewhat silent when it comes to weather
[33:47] Speaker 1: or seasons unless it's relevant to the plot or perhaps
[33:51] Speaker 1: to establishing atmosphere in a particular episode. You could pretty
[33:57] Speaker 1: much put most of them at any time of the year,
[34:00] Speaker 1: unless you're imagining big amounts of snow on the ground.
[34:05] Speaker 1: And the case works with Broadways my beat, it seems
[34:11] Speaker 1: to be a decision that what they're going to try
[34:13] Speaker 1: to communicate to the audience is that this doesn't happen
[34:17] Speaker 1: in some nice sort of stage. The setting of Broadways
[34:22] Speaker 1: my Beat has a setting that's not some neat stage
[34:26] Speaker 1: for a mystery to play out. It is a real
[34:31] Speaker 1: living location with cycles and seasons and quirks that moves
[34:37] Speaker 1: just like the place you live. So it's a very
[34:40] Speaker 1: interesting approach and just to my mind, I can't think
[34:45] Speaker 1: of many other shows that quite do it this way.
[34:50] Speaker 1: All right, well, now it's time to think. Our Patreon
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[35:27] Speaker 1: My Beat. Join us back here tomorrow for dragnetwhere let.
[35:32] Speaker 2: Us check in you. Yeah, I'm back work.
[35:34] Speaker 9: I find this.
[35:35] Speaker 15: Would you please explain what this is about? Why you
[35:37] Speaker 15: brought me down here? We think you know what I don't.
[35:40] Speaker 15: I haven't any idea take me away from my store
[35:42] Speaker 15: on a busy day. You put a police guard on it,
[35:44] Speaker 15: you insist on bringing me down here. What's it all about?
[35:46] Speaker 2: Tell me know you tell us, mister Gravey, tell you
[35:48] Speaker 2: about what jewel robbery nine months ago? That hold up?
[35:51] Speaker 2: What hold up?
[35:52] Speaker 15: My store hasn't been talking about your friend Thomas Ashley?
[35:55] Speaker 2: Ashley, what about him? I think you remember it nine
[35:57] Speaker 2: months ago, parking lot back of the building down on
[35:59] Speaker 2: Poy Street.
[36:00] Speaker 15: Oh sure, some hold up man slugged him, stole his cases, samples.
[36:03] Speaker 15: I remember it now. Before Tom he've made a big haul,
[36:06] Speaker 15: didn't he on set diamonds twenty thousand dollars worth? I
[36:09] Speaker 15: remember it now. I don't think Tom's gotten over it yet.
[36:12] Speaker 15: It was a jewelry salesman for the same company at
[36:14] Speaker 15: the time, you know, same company Tom was working for him. Yeah,
[36:17] Speaker 15: some of the big bosses thought Tom had a hand
[36:19] Speaker 15: in it. I figured it was a put up job.
[36:21] Speaker 15: Nothing was further from the truth. So sure I know Tom.
[36:24] Speaker 15: He's a close friend of mine. He wouldn't be mixed
[36:26] Speaker 15: up in a deal like that. Tom and I worked
[36:28] Speaker 15: out of the same office for years, We've had him
[36:30] Speaker 15: over the house for dinner. We've even been on vacations together.
[36:33] Speaker 15: It's one of the most honest men I know. We're
[36:34] Speaker 15: sure of all the sun.
[36:36] Speaker 2: Of course, I'm sure that isn't why you called me
[36:38] Speaker 2: down here?
[36:39] Speaker 12: Is it?
[36:39] Speaker 2: You don't think Tom had anything to do with it robbery?
[36:41] Speaker 2: Did you? You don't think he was in on it?
[36:43] Speaker 2: He had nothing to do with it. I think you
[36:44] Speaker 2: know that as well as we do.
[36:45] Speaker 15: When why am I here? There's nothing I can tell
[36:47] Speaker 15: you about the hold up? Only what I heard from Tom,
[36:49] Speaker 15: what I read in the note. You can tell us
[36:50] Speaker 15: a lot more, Garvey. We didn't bring here just past
[36:53] Speaker 15: time a day Tom was slug and his sample cases
[36:55] Speaker 15: stones were taken. That's all I can kill a liar, mister.
[36:58] Speaker 2: What you engineered? The whole thing? We know it, and
[37:00] Speaker 2: so do you.
[37:00] Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime.
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[37:18] Speaker 1: This is your host, Adam Graham signing off

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