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Casey, Crime Photographer was a popular radio show that aired from 1943 to 1955 on CBS. The show was based on the character of Jack "Flashgun" Casey, a crime photographer for the fictional newspaper The Morning Express, created by novelist George Harmon Coxe.
The show followed Casey as he solved crimes alongside his reporter friend, Ann Williams, and his other friends at their favorite hangout, the Blue Note Cafe. The Blue Note was also a jazz club, and the show often featured musical performances from the Archie Bleyer Orchestra and the Teddy Wilson Trio.
Casey, Crime Photographer was a long-running and popular show, and it helped to popularize the character of Jack "Flashgun" Casey, who also appeared in pulp magazines, novels, comic books, films, and television.
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First on the scene, Crime Photographer. Got it.
Speaker:Look for it in the Morning Express CBS.
Speaker:Radio brings you Crime Photographer. Another adventure
Speaker:of Casey Ace Cameraman of the Morning Express who covers the
Speaker:crime news of a great city written for radio by Alonzo Dean
Speaker:Cole and played by Sts Cosworth. Tonight's adventure source of
Speaker:information.
Speaker:Early afternoon. The untidy photographer's room of the
Speaker:Morning Express it empty now except for Casey who stands at a
Speaker:window frowning at the threatening wintry sky. Then the
Speaker:door opens softly and an old man enters his face is unshaven, his
Speaker:clothing unkempt.
Speaker:Hi.
Speaker:Hi, Casey.
Speaker:Oh, hello Grove and Nasty day outside.
Speaker:Yeah, I'm glad you're alone here. Boy. Look Grove.
Speaker:I simply can't make any more loans. I've lost track of what
Speaker:you got me for now, but it's at least a couple of 100. 0, you
Speaker:got.
Speaker:Me wrong, Casey. I'm not here in search of financial assistance
Speaker:this morning this afternoon. No, no, no. This time.
Speaker:Unfortunately, my problems can't be solved by Money Casey. I've
Speaker:been robbed, robbed of my life's work. My magnum opus, the expose
Speaker:that could rock this town to its foundations. The Candid memoirs
Speaker:of my 40 years as a crime reporter.
Speaker:Oh, you've been talking about that big expose for a long time
Speaker:pop. Did you ever actually put any of it down on paper?
Speaker:It was almost completely finished. Casey. Well, good half
Speaker:of it was honest. Boy, I'd, I'd written a lot. That is when my
Speaker:typewriter was at a hug.
Speaker:Now, the scripts been stolen.
Speaker:I went out last evening around 10 o'clock for, you know, a
Speaker:couple of beers, ran into friends and, oh, nuts. No, he's
Speaker:trying to kid you. I got Blotto and passed out, woke up lying in
Speaker:a doorway somewhere and finally made my room about an hour ago,
Speaker:it had been ransacked and my manuscript was gone. Then I
Speaker:borrowed car fare and came straight to you.
Speaker:Why?
Speaker:To me where the cops wouldn't believe anything I told them,
Speaker:you know, they know I'm a R and I don't, you know, I, I was once
Speaker:a great newspaper man, one of the greats, you know, I could
Speaker:write an expose that had put a lot of this town's big shots
Speaker:behind bla Sure.
Speaker:But because you were a great newspaper guy, you'd never write
Speaker:the kind of stuff you've been threatening. It'd be ratting on
Speaker:a whole lot of people who gave you their confidence. You'd be
Speaker:divulging your sources of information and drunk or sober.
Speaker:No top banana in our racket ever does that he might, when he's
Speaker:piled up the grudges I have, I doubt it. You don't realize what
Speaker:it is to be in the gutter and see guys whom, you know, are
Speaker:stinking rats riding by in their Cadillacs sons even sold out
Speaker:their own fathers and mothers. I know.
Speaker:But you're a newspaper man. And you wouldn't betray your source
Speaker:of information.
Speaker:Casey, my manuscript was stolen because somebody thinks I would
Speaker:disclose a source of private information.
Speaker:You wouldn't even write it.
Speaker:You don't know how sore a guy who's down and out can get. Oh,
Speaker:you're right in one way. No, I, I wouldn't let the stuff be
Speaker:published. I, I wouldn't let anyone even look at it, but I
Speaker:did write it. Casey. I did write it. I had to, in order to get
Speaker:rid of some of the poison that's eating deep into my guts.
Speaker:Who do you think stole that stuff?
Speaker:If I told you that I would be disclosing a source of
Speaker:information. I prefer to retain your good opinion.
Speaker:Grove.
Speaker:Are you leveling with me?
Speaker:No, no, Casey. No, nothing was stolen from me. Nothing that
Speaker:matters. That is, I was just building up for a touch. I
Speaker:figured if you thought I'd lost my memoirs of my life's work,
Speaker:which I haven't written and never will. You might be
Speaker:sympathetic enough for well, five spot.
Speaker:Well, so long. Boy. No, wait, no, here's the five. I can't
Speaker:spare any more.
Speaker:Thanks. I don't care.
Speaker:I was talking to a guy last night. Who wants some
Speaker:ghostwriting done? It's the kind of thing that you can bat out in
Speaker:your sleep. It'll pay good dough. You go see him. Ok.
Speaker:I can't write anymore. You can.
Speaker:No one who's ever been as good as you were, who's ever finished
Speaker:until they're dead. I'm writing the guy's name and address on
Speaker:one of my cards and now you give it to him.
Speaker:Ok, thanks again.
Speaker:I forget it.
Speaker:It's a long boy. Yeah. Grover, you were lying to me about those
Speaker:memoirs being stolen.
Speaker:Yeah. Yeah. Nothing has been stolen from me. Nothing of any
Speaker:value can ever be stolen from me.
Speaker:So, so on pal, I wonder the nuts.
Speaker:You ain't got good sense. Casey. Well, I won't even let Grove
Speaker:Snyder come into this bar room. How you can let an old bum like
Speaker:him? Put the B on you again, just beat you.
Speaker:I didn't let him put the B on me. Ethelbert. I I merely
Speaker:mentioned that he dropped in to see me about half an hour ago.
Speaker:You go.
Speaker:How much did he take you for this time? Casey.
Speaker:He didn't take me for anything. Well, what if I, if I did pass
Speaker:him maybe four bits or what people like you and me, Annie.
Speaker:And you too, Ethelbert, you should be proud to know a guy
Speaker:like Grover Cleveland Snyder. You know his byline was once the
Speaker:most famous in this country.
Speaker:Sure. And then he drank it up for the past five years. At
Speaker:least he couldn't have held a job on the binge bugle.
Speaker:Ok. He's a bum and I'm a sap.
Speaker:I wonder if he's ever wrote any of them memoirs he's always
Speaker:talking about. They should be real hot stuff. Yeah.
Speaker:He certainly could tell all about some characters in this.
Speaker:Yeah, reporting and investigating crimes for 40
Speaker:years. As he's always saying, he must have got the low down on a
Speaker:lot of sea me people.
Speaker:And dangerous people too. Hey, let's change the subject? What
Speaker:are you worried about? Nothing. I'm not worried. You act like
Speaker:you was ok. Then I'm worried about the Dodgers. Listen. Do
Speaker:you think they'll stand a chance next season?
Speaker:Casey? That's a matter. I give a lot of talk to just a second.
Speaker:Oh, excuse me?
Speaker:No, not Cafe Ethelbert, the bartender speaking. Oh, hello?
Speaker:Yeah. Sure. Just a minute. It's for your case. You said he desk.
Speaker:No, Captain Logan Logan. That's what he said. And he was kind of
Speaker:snappy.
Speaker:Gimme Logan never calls he. Hello.
Speaker:Yes. Logan.
Speaker:Why? Just, just a little while ago? Around 1230. Yes.
Speaker:What, where I'll join you right away. What is it? Casey Old
Speaker:Grove has mooched his last time. What? He's dead.
Speaker:Old Grove.
Speaker:Dead shot three times through the stomach and once between the
Speaker:eyes. But why? Maybe because I didn't believe him at the right
Speaker:time and did believe him at the wrong time.
Speaker:He had a card of mine in his pocket. That's why Logan phoned
Speaker:me. Let's go.
Speaker:And Casey, you believe. Now that Grove was telling the truth when
Speaker:he said those memoirs were stolen from his room last night,
Speaker:that.
Speaker:Seems to be the answer. Logan, somebody who heard of Grove's
Speaker:threats to write and expose of all the inside stuff he knew
Speaker:didn't want something to become public and somebody didn't
Speaker:realize that the old guy wouldn't and couldn't make
Speaker:confidential stuff public anyhow. Oh, nuts. If I look,
Speaker:Casey.
Speaker:Quit blaming yourself. Well, I'd have reacted to Grove's story
Speaker:the same way you did.
Speaker:So, would I miss Williams? So, would anyone who knew the old
Speaker:moochers? We did pal, I suppose.
Speaker:So, from what you've told me, Logan, this looks like the job
Speaker:of a professional Rodman. Somebody hired him.
Speaker:The killer worked fast and effectively and then got lost in
Speaker:the crowd. Casey. You know where the old guy's room and house is?
Speaker:Yeah, it's a crummy joint up on 90Th Street. Now, let's go.
Speaker:I want to look at his rooms.
Speaker:So do I.
Speaker:See here, Captain, no crooked business has ever went on in
Speaker:this room and house of mine.
Speaker:And I, one of your rumors has been murdered and while my men
Speaker:are going over his room in there, it'll be best if you
Speaker:answer some civil questions without any further argument.
Speaker:No, I've never gotten a civil question from a cop. Where's the
Speaker:fire? You say when I'm driving, but you block the sidewalk. You
Speaker:say when I'm standing, will you keep back to say when I'm excuse
Speaker:me?
Speaker:Logan Mrs Brundage?
Speaker:That's an uncommon name, isn't it? Brundage.
Speaker:Late husband was an Englishman, born and bred in London.
Speaker:Brundage is an English name. Really?
Speaker:It's a name you don't hear every day.
Speaker:Ain't like Smith or Jones or Colin. My maiden name was
Speaker:Gallagher.
Speaker:What do you know my name's Casey. Is it now? My mother was
Speaker:a Shannon. Mine was a Flanagan. Well, well, well, do you mind if
Speaker:I shoot a picture of you?
Speaker:I certainly do. What's your game? Mr Casey?
Speaker:I'm a press photographer.
Speaker:I say you're a con man, Blarney boy and I'm not buying anything.
Speaker:You've got to sell Logan you and I speak the same honest
Speaker:language. What is it you want to know about poor Rose, Snyder?
Speaker:Mrs B.
Speaker:Sit down Blarney boy and way back. Ok.
Speaker:Ho will I ever hear the last of.
Speaker:This first Mrs Brage? Have you any idea when Snyder left his
Speaker:room last night?
Speaker:I heard his typewriter going until maybe 10. He, if he went
Speaker:out, it was after that and when did he return? I didn't see him
Speaker:till around half past 11 this morning.
Speaker:Did he say anything to you then?
Speaker:Yep. He said he'd been robbed and wanted to borrow 50 cents
Speaker:from me, which I'll never see again and went.
Speaker:Out and you didn't touch anything in his room.
Speaker:No, I just took a look at the mess inside and closed the door
Speaker:and locked it.
Speaker:You know anything about the book he was writing?
Speaker:Sure. He talked to everyone about it. He was going to turn
Speaker:this town inside out and make him a million dollars.
Speaker:He said, have you ever seen his manuscript?
Speaker:Mrs Brundage is what the accumulated pages he typed for
Speaker:his book.
Speaker:No, but sometimes he typed all day and most of the night and
Speaker:then he'd go on a bender and I wouldn't hear his machine for a
Speaker:couple of weeks or more often. It'd be in a pawn shop. That's
Speaker:all I can tell you about Gross Snyder except he was a pest, a
Speaker:moocher and a sorehead, but he was a real gentleman underneath
Speaker:him. I'm sorry.
Speaker:He's gone. Captain Morgan.
Speaker:Hey, sergeant, we finished with the room. Good. Hey, excuse me,
Speaker:Mr Brown. Certainly.
Speaker:Where'd you find a loose floorboard there? Underneath was
Speaker:a scrap of paper. The corner torn from the typewriting page.
Speaker:So the manuscript was hidden under the floorboard.
Speaker:That's my guess, Miss Williams. What's written on that torn off
Speaker:corner Logan?
Speaker:Nothing that makes sense. Just the end of a sentence. Ty case
Speaker:was broken.
Speaker:Ty case. Tulty is merely part of a word that's been torn. Casey.
Speaker:The entire word could have been Tumulty or faculty.
Speaker:There's a good four inches of blank paper under those 3.5
Speaker:words. So this was probably torn from the final or bottom page of
Speaker:the manuscript by whoever lifted it from that hole.
Speaker:Anything else, sergeant? Yes, sir. The boys and I picked up 22
Speaker:cigarette butts off this floor. Now, all of a brand, the
Speaker:landlady said, Grove Snyder never smoked.
Speaker:The thief must have been here an awful long time to smoke. 22.
Speaker:The thief and killer Annie, he came here to get that manuscript
Speaker:and bump off Grove Snyder. At the same time, the old man got
Speaker:too drunk to find his way home and the killer had to get out
Speaker:before people in the house woke up this morning. So he picked
Speaker:up, drove later tailed him and shot him.
Speaker:Yeah, I think that's how it was. Here's a little thing we found
Speaker:that don't look as though it belonged to Snyder soon. Dice.
Speaker:Only one will grow. Never shot craps. He didn't gamble at all.
Speaker:Nobody would be gambling.
Speaker:With that dice. Casey crooked as a country road captain. Look, it
Speaker:always comes up five. You get a six with it and you throw an 11
Speaker:or a two, gives.
Speaker:You seven and you can't throw snake eyes or double des or box
Speaker:guys. Hey, I couldn't.
Speaker:Put a raw cheater like that in a game when the school kids would
Speaker:get wise to it after a few passes. But a guy might carry it
Speaker:as a gag, a pocket piece or a trademark sergeant. You reminded
Speaker:of somebody so high a highly a Santa wanted on him in four
Speaker:stage Casey.
Speaker:He's a killer who worked for anyone who pays fee. You know,
Speaker:some crooks always wear polka dot neck ties and blue suits.
Speaker:Ial as Sam is never without a pair of loaded dice in his
Speaker:pocket, old fashioned hick cheaters like this. There is
Speaker:calling cards, his identification papers when he
Speaker:goes in a new territory.
Speaker:And he may be minus half a pair right now. That's the picture.
Speaker:I see. Sergeant get out a special alarm on Hialeah.
Speaker:I'm a side bureau captain Logan speaking.
Speaker:You got Hialeah Sam already.
Speaker:Oh, yeah.
Speaker:Shot in the back and tossed out of a car and half a pair of dice
Speaker:in his pocket that throws only twos.
Speaker:That's just dandy.
Speaker:We'll return to Crime Photographer in just a moment
Speaker:tomorrow night, Marlena Dietrich as Diane La Volta unmasks a fake
Speaker:diplomat on Time For Love. It's a drama of international
Speaker:intrigue involving our roving young adventures, Miss La Volta
Speaker:in a skiing episode that turns out to be deadly.
Speaker:Tomorrow night CBS radio's Time For Love will be loaded with
Speaker:thrills and it'll be yours over most of these same stations and
Speaker:now back to Casey Crime Photographer.
Speaker:Then the murder case of Gross Snyder is right back where it
Speaker:started.
Speaker:Casey, back behind where it started. Ethelbert, we had some
Speaker:leads but with this highly, as Sam bumped off, we got nothing.
Speaker:Even if the cops had found him alive, we'd have had nothing.
Speaker:Casey, hired killers of his type. Don't talk.
Speaker:I know.
Speaker:You know the way that gunman was bumped off as a lead and he, oh,
Speaker:yeah, it was just as unprofessional as the murder of
Speaker:Gros Snyder was professional or old Grove had four shots pumped
Speaker:into. We've all had vital spots high as Sam was shot only once.
Speaker:And the me figures that he was still alive when he was dumped
Speaker:haphazardly out of a car and slowly bled to death. Well,
Speaker:where's the.
Speaker:The lead to this one?
Speaker:I'm looking for it. You know, in my book, somebody hired Jah Sam
Speaker:to steal grows manuscript and to bump the old guy off, but he
Speaker:wasn't able to do both jobs at the same time. Circumstances,
Speaker:compelled a long wait, a wait longer than it takes a guy to
Speaker:smoke 22 cigarettes and to kill time, he probably read Grove's
Speaker:manuscripts.
Speaker:And learned a lot of dirt about the person who'd hired him.
Speaker:The employer couldn't take a chance. He killed highly. I
Speaker:think so, Ethel.
Speaker:Who do you suppose the employer was?
Speaker:Grove wrote about him, gave the low down on him in that expose.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But the manuscript's gone and Grove can't tell us what was in
Speaker:it.
Speaker:He can give us a big hint and the stuff that was published
Speaker:under his byline Casey Grove.
Speaker:Snyder was a crime reporter for 40 years.
Speaker:He told me his memoirs were half completed, Annie, that'd cover
Speaker:the 1st 20 years more or less. And he's been on the beach for
Speaker:around five years. We go through the files starting about 25
Speaker:years. We go through the files right now in the Morning
Speaker:Express. Morgue. Annie come. Ok. So you can't.
Speaker:Do this to me, ain't you even gonna say so long?
Speaker:Reading back numbers of newspapers from 1930 back.
Speaker:But then were the good old days. 1930 1929 what am I saying? Them
Speaker:were prohibition days.
Speaker:And I found something. Look, come here and read this.
Speaker:September 15th, 1929 today, former political power. Big John
Speaker:Keston and his chief, Lieutenant Fred Ziggy Friedlander entered
Speaker:Wools Stock prison to begin serving the life sentences
Speaker:imposed on them for instigating the New Year's Eve massacre of
Speaker:the four McNulty brothers. McNulty torn scrap of paper.
Speaker:Annie Ulti case is broken.
Speaker:Yeah. Yeah, I know the McNulty massacre is one of the great
Speaker:crime classes.
Speaker:That's right. And I remember the four McNulty brothers were big
Speaker:time bootleggers who controlled all the liquor business on the
Speaker:south side. And on New Year's Eve of 28 I think it was, they,
Speaker:they threw a big party at one of their joints and when everybody
Speaker:was plastered, half a dozen masked men crashed the gate and
Speaker:shot several guards and then lined the four McNulty up
Speaker:against a wall and cut loose on them with Tommy guns.
Speaker:And a rival gang was a first blame for the killing.
Speaker:That's right. That was a car mine mob as usual during
Speaker:prohibition days that John Laws talked a lot and did nothing.
Speaker:And over a year went by and then Grove Snyder got some
Speaker:information and broke the case wide open. It was one of his
Speaker:greatest scoops. Yeah.
Speaker:And he got a journalism prize for the job he did.
Speaker:That's right. I don't remember any of the details and get back
Speaker:to those files. Let's learn everything we can about the
Speaker:McNulty massacre.
Speaker:And what did you and Miss Williams get out of boning up on
Speaker:the McNulty Ancient History.
Speaker:Casey had that Grove Snyder through a source of private
Speaker:information that he of course refused to identify secured
Speaker:evidence that sent three guys to the chair and two others to
Speaker:Wools stark with life sentences and Grove had to have bodyguards
Speaker:during the trial.
Speaker:And for nearly a year after.
Speaker:Big John Keston, the political boss who engineered the entire
Speaker:dirty mess served his life sentence in six months. A heart
Speaker:attack finished him off. Ziggy Friedlander. His head, Stooge
Speaker:got out on parole about a year ago.
Speaker:You may have something Casey Ziggy was the kind who never
Speaker:forgot a grudge.
Speaker:Well, I've been checking on Ziggy Friedlander pal and he
Speaker:doesn't fit our picture. Now, he, he seems to have been a guy
Speaker:who played awful rough but in accordance with the rules, I
Speaker:mean, he'd, he'd have knocked off Grove or his own brother to
Speaker:save himself and his boss from those life sentences. But after
Speaker:the book was thrown at him he couldn't nurse a hate for a
Speaker:newspaper guy who played according to his set of rules.
Speaker:What's your idea?
Speaker:Big John Keston had a son, an only child. Yeah, I believe so.
Speaker:You don't know much about him? Nothing as a matter of fact.
Speaker:Well, I made it a point of learning something about him and
Speaker:I'm gonna learn more. Something old Grove said about sons who
Speaker:would sell out their own fathers.
Speaker:I made a date with John Keston Jr tonight at his home
Speaker:afterwards. Logan. I'll let you know how I made out. Hey, I
Speaker:don't get this. I'm playing a hunch pal and if it's right,
Speaker:you'll have the solution to the murders of Grove Snyder and Hia
Speaker:Sam.
Speaker:Have a chair. Mr Casey. Thanks Mr Keston. Beautiful apartment
Speaker:you have here? Oh, it's a little large for a Bachelor. But I, I
Speaker:never like crammed quarters.
Speaker:You're a newspaper man. You said when you phone? Yeah, Morning
Speaker:Express. We're, we're alone here. Yes. You, you, you, of
Speaker:course, want to interview me about the professional indoor
Speaker:tennis matches. I'm sponsoring next month. No, I'm here to talk
Speaker:to you about Grover Cleveland Snyder.
Speaker:Who, what is Grover Cleveland? Snyder? You don't know. I'm not
Speaker:sure that I do. He's the man who sent your father to prison. Oh,
Speaker:that's Snyder.
Speaker:And less than a week ago the papers reported his murder. I
Speaker:don't read crime news. Mr Casey. Since you're familiar with my
Speaker:father's tragedy, you can imagine why I don't, there's
Speaker:practically no limit to my imagination. Mr Keston, you, of
Speaker:course, didn't know that Grove Snyder was writing no, or that
Speaker:the type written manuscript of that book was stolen from his
Speaker:room the night before he was killed.
Speaker:My only knowledge of the man and his work dates back 25 years
Speaker:when I was a boy, he sent my father to prison on false
Speaker:evidence and my father died there. My mother died too as a
Speaker:result of our disgrace. I've tried to forget you, Mr Snyder.
Speaker:You weren't exactly a boy 25 years ago. I've been looking up
Speaker:the record. All right. I was 26 years old then. What about it?
Speaker:Nothing Snyder talked a lot about the book. He was writing
Speaker:Mr Keston and you must have heard about it. The book was
Speaker:going to be an expose of the rottenness and writings. Grove
Speaker:Snyder didn't count it as a crime reporter.
Speaker:Now, look here as there was one thing that nobody knew about
Speaker:that half finished book. But Grove and me that even the guy
Speaker:who had it stolen doesn't know. Now Well, I'll tell you the guy
Speaker:who stole the manuscript got only half of what his employer
Speaker:wanted. He found the original but not the carbon copy, carbon
Speaker:copy.
Speaker:Writers make carbon copies of what they write. I have the copy
Speaker:of Snyder's expose. What do you want, Casey? What am I offered
Speaker:before we go into that? Let's have some proof that you're
Speaker:telling the truth. All right. How's this? You inherited a
Speaker:couple of million dollars when your old man died of a heart
Speaker:attack in prison.
Speaker:He was a big strong looking guy, but the ducks told him to watch
Speaker:his step and avoid excitement because of his weak hearts. And
Speaker:you knew of a way to provide lots of excitement. So you got
Speaker:acquainted with a famous newspaper man named Grover
Speaker:Cleveland Snyder.
Speaker:You make me sound like a murderer. But your old man had a
Speaker:stronger ticker than you and his doctors thought. And it carried
Speaker:him through a long court trial and six months in jail. But it
Speaker:finally gave out.
Speaker:Didn't you find that story in your copy of the old Grove
Speaker:manuscript? Mr Keston? You were, you've come here to blackmail
Speaker:me? Have I not sure not going to get away with it but oh, is that
Speaker:the gun you used on highly as? Yes. And since you know about
Speaker:him, you know, I use it.
Speaker:Well, he read that lying manuscript too and thought he
Speaker:could hold it over me. I want your copy, Mr Casey. Where is
Speaker:it? In my apartment? We're going there right now and you're
Speaker:giving it to me with that gun in your hand. What can I do?
Speaker:Only what I tell you. That's what you think. What? Drop your
Speaker:rod?
Speaker:I have, I have, don't shoot.
Speaker:You. Junior should know. Or his 25 years instead changed me too
Speaker:much. Junior.
Speaker:Sig Ziggy Friedland.
Speaker:And it's nice to meet up with you again after all this time.
Speaker:You, you heard? Yeah, I called while you was out to dinner.
Speaker:Junior and as an old friend should I let myself in, I wanted
Speaker:to look over your swell. Big flat in private.
Speaker:You see, I've been reading in the papers about the killings of
Speaker:Grove Snyder and that ha as Sam in a prison, I've done an awful
Speaker:lot of sin. Everything added up Junior. But I wanted to be sure
Speaker:even very suspicious guys like me. Find it hard to believe that
Speaker:a son would sell out his father.
Speaker:What are you going to do?
Speaker:Ziggy? Go to a rat like you.
Speaker:No. No, don't hold Ziggy. Let the law have it.
Speaker:When did I able to put that law? It makes too many guys and too
Speaker:many mistakes for a guy like me. I don't make any Ziggy free
Speaker:letter. Keep back this day. This rad's got three more slugs in
Speaker:it.
Speaker:And there for me.
Speaker:No, I've done the job. I came to do and though you didn't mean
Speaker:to, you helped me. I've heard about you, Casey of the Morning
Speaker:Express. You're pretty well known up in Wools Dock. A lot of
Speaker:guys, they hate your guts, but they say you play according to
Speaker:the rules, you weren't pulling up blackmail on Junior. You had
Speaker:cops waiting downstairs for him, didn't you?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Well, your cops are still waiting and here's my.
Speaker:Rod to give them Ziggy.
Speaker:Yeah, I'm old. I'm tired. I just paid a debt that's been eating
Speaker:me. The only home I got is prison if they put me in a death
Speaker:cell this time. Well, that's according to the rules. Some
Speaker:guys learn how to really think in prison. Casey. I did.
Speaker:Come on, let's go.
Speaker:Quite a character that Ziggy Friedlander. Casey.
Speaker:Yeah. Yeah. Well, don't get sentimental about him. Meth. He
Speaker:'s a vicious wild animal that's only been partially tamed by old
Speaker:age and long imprisonment in the cage. And he shouldn't have been
Speaker:let out of that cage.
Speaker:I guess that's right. Miss Williams say Casey, I'd like to
Speaker:read the hot stuff. Grove Snyder must have wrote in his book. Do
Speaker:you think he might have really left a carbon copy of it?
Speaker:Of course, he didn't. Ethelbert Old Time newspaper guys, like
Speaker:Grove never made a copy of anything. He simply stuck a
Speaker:single sheet in a typewriter and banged away with a copy boy
Speaker:waiting beside him to grab each page and rush it to the desk. I
Speaker:figured Keston wouldn't know about that.
Speaker:And Grove Snyder speaking to you about rats who even sold out
Speaker:their own fathers and mothers gave you the idea. Well, it
Speaker:helped, but Ziggy Friedlander figured Keston too and without
Speaker:that lead, but it took him 25 years to do it.
Speaker:Well, your pal Casey is a very bright guy.
Speaker:Oh, sure. And you're a modest violet. You know what your
Speaker:bright pal Casey is called in certain quarters.
Speaker:Ethelbert, what Miss Williams Blarney boy, Blarney boy, I'll
Speaker:tell you about it.
Speaker:I knew that was gonna be brought up sometime.
Speaker:You've been listening to Prime photographer played by Sts
Speaker:Cosworth and written for radio by Alonso Dean Cole based on the
Speaker:original character created by George Harmon Cox with Jan Minor
Speaker:as Anne John Gibson is Ethelbert Bernard Lro is Captain Logan Lou
Speaker:White's original music and Teddy Wilson as the Blue Note pianist,
Speaker:Crime Photographer is produced and directed by John Deans.
Speaker:This is Bob Hat inviting you to join us again next week at the
Speaker:same time for another fast moving adventure of Casey Crime
Speaker:Photographer.
Speaker:Tomorrow night on CBS radio's Junior, Miss Judy, she's our
Speaker:Junior, Miss as you may know, gets into a dither but death as
Speaker:her girlfriend fluffy and she disagree on how to study for
Speaker:final exams. Another teapot tempest with loads of laughs in
Speaker:the brewing thereof. Tomorrow night on most of these stations,
Speaker:Junior Miss, don't miss it.
Speaker:Gangbusters go into action. Saturday nights on the CBS Radio
Speaker:Network.
