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I don't know what we'd have done without that building I only wish more of the men had your ability. Oh, thank you, mr. Winston. I appreciate your kindness Oh, not since my boy Charles. I'd like you to take over general manager ship of the plant effective next week That's when the jealousy reaches a sickening height When the man of whom you're jealous gets your job Tom Reddick had been the general manager of the plant But Tom Reddick hadn't been able to arrange the lease on the new building Hadn't been able to do anything, but his job the best way he could Slowly and often blunderingly and when he lost the job, that's when Tom Reddick knew he had to kill Charles Fremont Be careful Tom remember you're a slow blundering thinker, but this time you have a plan It's beautiful and it's simplicity You'll have a few drinks with Charles that evening Offer to drive him home from work and at the railroad crossing out on the highway You'll get rid of Charles Fremont. It will look accidental Charles will be out of the way and you'll get your job back So after work that evening you stop Charles in the washroom Hello Charlie, congratulations on the promotion. Oh, thanks Tom. I'm awfully sorry fellow replacing you this way It doesn't seem fair somehow. Don't be silly. I was never comfortable being general manager anyway. I'm more of a shop man Feel strange when I'm not around machines. I'm glad you're taking it this way old man You know if I thought it was going to bother you, I'd rather not have the job Really doesn't mean that much to me now cut that out. You're the man for the job and you take it And let me buy you a drink and we'll toast your promotion and my return to the shops Well, I should be getting home. Oh, come on a drink alone. He take a few minutes Well, okay, let's go This isn't going to be hard at all. Is it Tom he sympathizes with you and you've convinced him He deserved the job so there are no hard feelings are there Tom? That's it. Take him in for a drink Then suggest a ride home the train passes that crossing at 6 30 so don't dawdle over your drinks Here's looking at you Charlie Best of luck. Thanks Tom Could be a bad habit Let me buy you one. Oh, it's almost six. I really come on Don't make me hang around here alone waiting for that train. Tell you what I'll let you buy me a drink You let me drive you home. Oh, it's darn decent of you. You're getting the worst of the bargain though Not at all. It's a pleasure. Take your right to your door. It's only a few blocks out of the way So you have your drinks and get into the car with Charlie Drive out of the lot through town and out onto the highway if you time it right You'll arrive at the crossing just at 6 30 if the train is on time the signals will be going and you'll have to stop The car it'll be easy to tap Charlie over the head with a wrench You have in the side pocket then you can get out set the gears and run the car in front of the train It's the same train you take when you go home evenings without your car So you'll just climb aboard in the excitement and go on home when the story comes out You'll just say that Charlie wanted to borrow your car for the evening and you let him Seeing is how he was a good and close friend of yours Can't tell you how grateful I am old man. I've gotten to hate that train trip forget it Maybe we can fix it so you won't ever have to take the train. Oh, that'd be fine Oh Those drinks made me sleepy. We have another 30 minutes of driving to do Why don't you take a little nap? Yeah? Think I will if you don't mind not at all You just take a little nap This is even easier than you figured it isn't it Tom? He's sleepy from the drinks and he does his right off now You won't have to tap him with a wrench you drive at normal speed and soon The railroad crossing is just ahead of you No sign of the train yet. Maybe it was early tonight Tom. Maybe the train has already gone past the crossing No, there's the signal the train has passed the far curve. It's coming. Everything is in your favor now Charlie is sleeping soundly the road is empty of cars and the railroad was kind enough to put one of their new Automatic signals at the cross and here comes the train But maybe all the noise is awakened Charlie you get the wrench out of the side pocket just in case and Charlie Charlie he doesn't hear you The train is close enough now Get out of the car put it in gear Just forward you slam the door missle fans Don't look now But right near your home is one of the sponsors of this program Yes, I mean your signal gasoline dealer that friendly station wearing the black circle sign with the big yellow letter Spelling signal gasoline and he's a man You should know these days not only because he brings you the whistler But also because it stations wearing signals yellow and black circle sign You'll find the West's famous longer mileage gasoline signal go farther gasoline After all what's more important these days than getting the most miles you can from every gasoline stamp So make it a point before next week's whistler broadcast to get acquainted with your signal gasoline dealer Prove for yourself what more and more thousands of wise Western drivers are constantly discovering That you do go farther with signal gasoline and now Back to the whistler Well, you did it Tom reddick you kill Charlie Fremont He's lying in that flaming wreck that was your automobile And you hide there in the bushes until it's clear and you can sneak on the train No one will know no one saw you you did it perfectly But you keep rubbing your ankle Tom. Does it hurt? Maybe you twisted it jumping down into the bushes alongside the road, but it'll be all right Nothing can go wrong now the crime is done and done well Looks clear now that you decide to run for it to get on the train Hey Max you hear something what I said that you hear something did you hear somebody yell? Oh, no, come on Larry there must have been someone in that car a car don't run into a train all by itself Now we hit that car awful hard. He must have been thrown clear. I thought I heard a morning take them over there All right, you look over there. I'll keep looking around here and the guy might still be alive You know if he's got thrown clear. Oh, why don't you just stop talking so much and look a little bit hard You've got no sympathy guy is probably in great pain if he is still alive, but you don't care Hey Max Max. I did hear something right over here We're looking for the victim I just hate something Playing hide-and-seek in them bushes. He's over here. Hey, is he still alive? No, he's dead and no wonder take a look at him You're all right Tom. They didn't see you. You're still all right But that fellow they call Larry the fellow that hurt you moon when your ankle So you change all your plans you try to sneak away even with a bad Hey Max Max look there goes somebody running over that way where hey, you're right. Hey, hey you stop. Hey, come on Max Let's catch him. What's he doing around here running? We'll find out come after him. Hey, hey wait a minute. You and he's slipping Hey, maybe he was in the car, too. Why is he running away? I don't know. We'll ask him when we catch him Hey, hey wait a minute. Oh wait a minute What's the matter with you can't a guy run if he wants to do you have to go running after him? Maybe he knows something know something about what? You always make a big mystery about everything now. What would he know something about the guy that was dead They say God is doing all the running might have had something to do with it Oh, you sound like a regular detective stop with that stuff already the train's late. Let's go back and help wait a minute I think we ought to catch that running guy. Oh, he's gone He was probably running because he was late for his dinner now cut it out and let's go back to the wreck It's still all right Tom you got away, but that was awfully close You hadn't figured on the ankle or a snoopy person now. You've got to change all your plans You can't get back to where the train is and your ankle is swollen from the running you did But there's a bus stop down the road and the bus goes right by your house It's not far to the bus stop just walk slowly and you'll make it all right There's the bus waiting to leave you get in and take your seat evening, mr.. Reddy Haven't seen you in a long time It's all right Tom in a few minutes. You'll be home You forgot Tom you can't go right home The bus has to pass the railroad crossing to and the train is at the railroad crossing You'll have to wait until they get your car off the track Let's wait a few minutes folks. Sorry Hey, Max. Yeah, what happened? I ran into the train. He killed the guy driving it really Anybody heard I told you kill the guy. I mean on the train anybody hurt on the train No, hey, open the door. Will you do this got to go with you and tell the widow what happened? Yeah You then hey max come on Okay, I sure hate to have to tell our dame what happened Larry shouldn't the police or somebody do it No, it's better. We should it's bad enough what happened without the police going to the house. Well, okay, get in What do you want to go the name of the deceased was freemont Charles freemont ribs on North Brookside Avenue I passed a couple of blocks from there awful ain't it? Oh, well, you know how it is people don't pay no attention to signals at all Yeah, it's awful, but serves a guy right for not paying attention. Hey, here's a good seat Hey, buddy, that right what I was just telling the driver what a terrible thing it is Oh, yeah, terrible Hey, do I know you seems like I seen you somewhere. I don't remember. I don't think well on me a lot of people I guess no did you see the accident me. Yeah, I did. I seen a whole thing. Yeah, I was terrible My friend max here, and I were out taking a hike when we saw the accent was quite a joke a guy driving the car There's a guy. I feel sorry for he was a pretty young guy really. Yeah, maybe you're 35 Me and max here are gonna tell his wife I think it's better if we go than if the police would have go the least you can do you know. Yeah, it's the least you can do You know, it's a funny thing The guy wasn't driving his own car What's another guy's car? Yeah, can you imagine whether the guy your car to drive and then he gets killed in it and wrecks your car Especially now when it's so hot to get cars I'm ready calm ready What the guy that on the car his name was Tom let it yeah, we're gonna tell him to okay folks all clear here we go That's not good time things. They're piling up things you hadn't counted on This man saw you running away, and now he's going to tell Charles Fremont's wife That he's dead and then he's going to look for you to tell you your car has been wrecked Why do some people always have to put in making you change plans Got to get out of that bus and get away Get home before this Larry doesn't some way get hazel out of the house so that there'll be no one home When Larry gets you at beach with any good night, I'll get out here too. Oh, excuse me, mr. Ready I forgot you were here. That's all right. Excuse me. I'm late Job about mr. Freeman awful. Good night. Hey driver just a minute Hey, what'd you call it guy mr. Redick let it. Yeah. Hey, what's the space name? I don't know why that car was owned by a guy named Redick, that's why hey stop the bus. What difference does that make come on? I'm gonna talk to that guy named ready. Yeah, we got to tell our woman. You said Where are you going now guy that just got off was named ready. So his name is reddick. I don't follow you Why don't we just go home and forget all about this? It's none of our business anyway. Come on. Come on Don't you understand? I tell this guy all about the accident Who was driving the car and who owned the car and he never said anything about his name being reddick and the guy that owned That car his name was ready didn't say anything then he's just a guy named reddick who didn't own the car They once got into you. Oh, I never thought of that You mean he could be perhaps Harry reddick and he didn't even know this time ready could own the car Now you're getting smart. It's a fine time to get smart after we get off the bus now. We got to walk to the withers house Well while we're walking we can think of what to say to poor mrs. Freeman And it's a terrible thing to happen to a lady losing her hubby so suddenly Yeah, but I still don't think this is any of our business and besides my missus is gonna be awful sore at me coming home So late now look when you explain to her what you were doing She'll be very proud of you and every man has the heart to do what we're gonna do Yeah, you mean it's not every man who's such a bud in ski to do what we're going to do We could walk right back to the corner and get right on that bus and go right home. No, I gotta tell the widow what happened Hey, I know now what look at that street sign this here is Hillbrook Street. Oh, that's very nice I'm sure Hillbrook Street is where this reddick guy lives Tom but it Let's go tell him face what happened to his car, huh? Maybe he can help us tell him mrs. Freeman Must know her husband or dead husband must have been afraid to buy the car in fact, baby He'll go tell her and we can go home. Yeah, now. Let me see this house is number four seventy nine What number that guy say lives it? Oh, I don't remember. Why don't we just forget all about it? Larry, why do you want a buddy? I think it was number four fifty six. Let me see I wrote it down here Yeah, yeah, there it is number four fifty six. All right, which way do we I guess it's down here? Hey, look that guy up ahead of us has got a bad leg. Oh, you're driving me crazy now What difference is that it don't make no difference? What matter with you? Can't I remark to a friend that a guy up ahead has a bad leg? Oh, you're always remarking something sometimes. I wish you'd shut up max. That's not nice. Well, I do There's four sixty. Hey, look the guy with the bad leg. He's finally home. Hey, straighten it to the house down there Yeah, but he's not going in see he just stopped to look at the number Hey, that's that other reddit guy the one on the bus. Well, he's not going in that house and that's number four fifty six Yeah, it is Well, I hope they got insurance on their car That was close Tom. You saw them just in time So you just kept walking until they go in the house and then you come back and wait for them to leave They'll tell Hazel all about it and after they leave you can go in Tell her you loaned the car to Charles Fremont and came home on the streetcar and bus You're late because the bus got stopped at the crossing You had no idea that your car was the one wrecked by the train or that Charles Fremont was dead Now those men are coming out of your house heat back and they won't see you behind the hedge Of course, he was upset talking to people. I don't even know well, it's a good thing We did we might have gone right over to the widow's house Go all blonde to the left we better hurry The police station Why are they going to the police station? What did they talk to Hazel about? Who are those two men Tom, and why do they keep following you better hurry in the house Tom and see what was said Hazel Hazel I'm home And of course 30 ready start screaming again. I got stuck on the bus. There was an accident at the railroad crossing Who are those men I saw leaving the house? So you lent your car to Charlie Fremont you won't let me drive because you don't think I'm careful enough But you lent the car to Charlie Fremont. How'd you know? Who are those two men that accident you saw from the bus that was your car? Charlie Fremont had an accident in your car and got killed at that railroad crossing. I had no idea Well, he did What you wanted to him for I can understand you're driving him home if you want to but what you're on in the car for You were coming home, and he was coming home Why'd you come on together? He told me he was going over to the other side of town to see a customer How did I know he was gonna come right home? Let me smell your breath What you had a few drinks didn't you I thought you had you and that Charlie Fremont You stop and have a cocktail before dinner and keep the dinner waiting until it's not fit to eat Then come home and tell me some fantastic story about loaning the car to Charlie Fremont What are you talking about those men over here? They asked me if we had any relatives living around us I told them the only relative we had was my sister in California that it must have been you they talked with on that bus Maybe you can fool some people, but you can't fool me. I know you Tom Reddick You were in that car, and you got scared because you were both strong. I told you I lent Charlie the car How many times do I have to tell you I lent Charlie the car those two men told me about you They saw you there at the railroad crossing one of those men talked to you on the bus And you made believe you'd never seen him before made believe you didn't even know people named Charlie Fremont and Tom Reddick You're just a good for nothing broken. I wish I never married you Look look Hazel there's no sense in getting upset about this Sure, I was in the car. We had a couple of drinks in town before coming home Charlie insisted on it. I Got scared when we had the accident so I ran You're not gonna go and tell No, are you? I most certainly am I never did like Charlie Fremont and his wife that no good Calling me up in the middle of the afternoon to crow over me. This is Fremont called you up to crow over me Bragging about how her Charlie got your job away from you. He takes your job away from you So you go and have a drink with him to celebrate What's the matter with you? Aren't you ever happy? Don't you have any feeling toward me at all? What's that? I'm sure I don't know the doorbell answer it. I'm not home Don't you dare order me around you drunk? Don't you dare even talk to me shut up? Yes, good evening. We thought that It's the guy and maybe you were right. What do you want here? Who are you? Hey now look mr. Reddick, why didn't you tell us on the bus who you were we were just trying to help you It's none of your business who I am now get out of here and I'll take it easy mr. Reddick somebody has to do these unpleasant things and me and Max here thought we would the least you can do He wasn't that car. I told you he was he's a shut up. I will not shut up You were in that car. You told me you were You're so smart having a drink with a man who takes your job away from you mr. Reddick wants this job Oh gee, I'm sorry Mr. Freeman got his job so he had a drink with him to celebrate and then they were drunk and had that accident Wait a minute You mean you mean that mr. Freeman got mr. Reddick's job away from them And they had some drinks together and then they were both in the car when I hit the train Sure, they were only mr. Reddick ran away Maybe he ran away be good. Hey, wait a minute Max max. He's trying to what I get a max. He can't run far. He's got a bum ankle. Yeah, yeah, okay There he goes down the lawn following max Look I'm sorry mr. Reddick, but I think we better take you to the police station. I think you murdered mr. Fremont Whistler will return in just a moment with the strange ending to tonight's story Meantime, I'd like to make clear just what we mean by the more conscientious service your car gets from a signal gasoline dealer For example, take Larry duty signal gasoline station in Oakland, California While checking your water and oil Larry's also busy making sure that excessive grease and corrosion isn't clogging your cooling system Or that a loose or fraying fan belt isn't about to give you trouble or that acid corrosion isn't eating your battery cables And while he's testing your tires. He's on the alert for any little breaks in the rubber that could spread and ruin the tire What's more, there's a good reason why you'll find these plus many more unasked for extras Not only at Larry duty signal station in Oakland, but right at your own neighborhood signal dealer You see being in business for himself your signal dealer will go out of his way to keep you pleased so that you remain his regular customer You can prove this for yourself by looking up the station in your neighborhood wearing signals black and yellow circle sign And it never was a more important time to do this than now when your car needs signals more thorough service to help it last out the duration And now back to the whistler Well, Tom, you bungled your perfect plan, didn't you? But then you never were any good at planning. That's why Charlie got ahead of you And of course you let the little man who was always butting in make you so nervous that you gave yourself away When you got to the police station, you really thought fast for once you kept your mouth shut and let them believe what they wanted to Your wife's story helped you were drunk the accident happened. You weren't hurt, but you got scared and ran away Maybe they'll believe that and all you'll get will be a few years for manslaughter Maybe they'll believe it But even as you think it you know very well, they won't the motive is too apparent Charlie got your job So you killed him No Tom you won't get away with it And so as you sit in your cell and brood over the fate that awaits you you make up your mind and you start Resolutely into action a small barred window is high over your head And as you strain you think of that little man who was always butting in a little man Who caused all your troubles and you can almost hear his voice sure show me now? We'll only be a minute. We got something very important to tell him ready, sir. Oh, he's in 214 boy He'll really be glad to see us. Yeah, you bet. We just came to your top. He the counter's a top We got news for mr. Reddick. Yeah, what kind of news? Well, there was something fishy about the accident where mr. Fremont got killed they had an autopsy Yeah, and they found out something they don't really have anything on mr. Reddick. They're gonna let him go Let him go sure and we came right over to tell him when they had the autopsy they found mr. Fremont wasn't measured all He was dead when the train hit the car He wasn't supposed to drink and he died of a heart attack 20 minutes before the accident while it was still riding in the car No kidding. Well, he'll be glad to hear that. Here's his hey. Hey, mr. Reddick What do you know about that? Mr. Reddick went and hung himself Monday at nine o'clock the whistler will bring you another strange tale Curious story of a friendly case of blackmail The whistler is broadcast for your entertainment by the marketers of signal gasoline and motor oil Fine quality automotive accessories and by your neighborhood signal dealer This program directed by George W. 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