 Good evening. This is Ken Roberts inviting you to listen to another adventure of Casey crime photographer Ace cameraman who covers the crime news of a great city our adventure for tonight the upholsterer Night a gloomy street of small grimy-looking shops all of which are now closed in dark In front of one of them. This is the Peruzzi Is everything all right with you go the black is that to you business? And what is a small boy like you Joey doing out so late? Only that past ten Anyway, you know lady ain't home from work is Joey Maybe you should go find it for me a policeman. You want a cop? I think so before because Policeman is a come that's Carmine the big flat for officer comedy officer Come here. Come here quick, please I'm the wrong crew chief a couple of minutes ago of his comedy. I Hear what sounds like gunshots gunshots. Oh gee. Where'd you hear him? I was just to go in a bed behind my shop next door Suddenly from other side of my wall from goldblat's place. I boom boom Then I hear what sounds like something heavy falling to the floor Doors lock tight I call him. He don't answer. Hey, maybe the old guy shot himself comedy or maybe he's been moored They kick the glass out of the door comedy. I'm down kid Pruchy isn't there a window at the rear of a goldblat store in the room where he sleeps? See but he's got iron bars on it so nobody can get in you'll have to kick the glass out comedy I hate to disappoint your destruction loving little soul kid, but I'm not gonna do any expensive glass smash Well, there's a transom above the door here just big enough for a runt like you to climb through me Goldblat the keeps it that transom nailed the shot. They told me now. You see a boost you up, kid You try it. Okay, give me the lift right here you go I guess we'll have to do some glass smashing well, but it'll be cheaper to bust that transom than the door here Take my night stick kid. I can't reach it and you can for my shoulders I want you to climb through but knock out all the glass so you won't get hurt I want you to do is drop down and lock the door. Okay, hey Joey I see a big chair lying on its side just inside the door. Don't skin your legs on it when you drop You have to move that chair out of the way so you can get at the locks and the door still don't open You must have returned one of the two locks you'd already unlatched instead of getting the third one you missed Triple lock gold black is always afraid it's gonna be round The doors open it's about time now. I'll have a look behind that partition me too. I've got a black to work room It's back at that door At least this partition door wasn't locked. Ah, here's a light switch. Ah, we'll see see anything look wrong Neither do I and I didn't expect to you'll imagine those gunshots for Ruchi. Hey, it's a gold black Officer comedy This is that Guy has two bullet holes to his chest. He's dead. All right, it's been more Just like the guys in the movies Ruchi close up front door. The killer still in this shop He's not leaving lock that door. See I lock him. Maybe the killer shook to me now I want to keep my eyes open my gun ready Not many places here to hide Bring this closet either. Are you duck under that bed and stay there punk if there's any shooting? I ain't afraid do as I tell you Nobody back at this pile furniture Nobody hiding anywhere the killer ain't here. I Again, okay, bro. Gee. Let me have a look at this rear window Yeah closed and locked from inside and there's heavy bars I was just like you said nobody could get through by that door in the front There's no other way into this place or out of it and since nobody but us are here now It's plain the poor old gold plot give it a suicide. There's no cap is shot in comedy The gun probably fell under the sofa kid here. I'll push it out of the way No gun dare cop. I see no gun any place. Yeah, why must be under the body. I lifted up a little Still no cat. No No get I can sit in the first place this job is murder. Yes But if the killer got out that front door and locked it behind him before we busted in here How could he have wedged that big chair back of the door after he was outside and nobody could get out of that? Locked the window in the back. Hey, this is a mystery ain't it? Yes, and too deep a one for me Thank the Lord. I'm just a plain uniform cop. I'm using this phone to call the station house Let him turn the detectives lose on this one The homicide dicks weren't able to find any gun in that upholsterer's joint, huh Casey? No Albert They practically tore the place apart looking for one so when the medical examiner got there He said goblad couldn't have committed suicide anyway If the guy was murdered, how did the killer get out of the place? Captain Logan and his men are having a sweet time trying to figure that they're going nuts This Williams and I just came from headquarters where we talked with Logan and also the kid and the shoemaker and the cop Who found the body they all tell a straight story. Well, it sounded straight to me this has all the Ear marks of a very baffling mystery You and miss Williams ain't been to the scene of the crime yet, huh? No, we weren't working when it was reported last night, but we're assigned to it now Let's go to the goblad shop and have a look see Casey. Okay, Annie. Yeah, Logan said he'd be down there about now Maybe I can help the poor guy crack the case, huh? How you hate yourself? Why Annie how can anyone have anything but affection for a charming character like me? Scene of the impossible goblad murder we'll use size up the joint wise guy Three good solid blocks on this and the door was locked tight by at least one of these locks when the carp and that kid and Paroochie tried to get in but Skip the locks and answer this one After the killer shot the old man and was making his getaway How did he manage to leave a chair lying against the door inside? Which is the chair here this big old high back Someone had left it here for goblad to recover The kid and the cop and Paroochie all agreed his chair lay inside against the door which opens inwards Yeah, on its side. I think it was about in Now it had to be placed this way by somebody inside it couldn't have been so placed by anybody outside Well may have fallen in that position after the door was closed. Yes, Williams a big solid chair like this doesn't just fall It has to be wrestled around Besides the neighbors say goblad always put a heavy piece of furniture against this door when he closed up for the night The old guy had a constant fear of being robbed. Well, he was shot through the heart twice Goldblatt couldn't have put the chair there after the killer left. I know Dicks from the Precinct station got here before your guys did last night. I suppose they moved a lot of stuff in the joint Yeah, they make sure the killer wasn't hiding here Not the only thing they didn't shove around was this sewing machine because it was bolted to the floor Let me see what they found the body It was here in his work room behind that old sofa. Have you learned a possible motive for the murder captain? Oh Goldblatt had no enemies and anyone knows about but he was so afraid of being robbed a lot of people in this neighborhood Figured he had a lot of dough stuck away here So someone may have come here last night to get that dough only they didn't get it and apparently never even look for it Yeah, we were told the precinct dicks found over a hundred bucks in Goldblatt's pocket and about 4,000 hidden in his mattress. Those are the first places a thief would look for money sure Casey see if you can figure it out. Huh me. Oh I'm just a newspaper mug pal. You're the big chief of the homicide department I'll soon be back at pavement pounding if I get many more cases like this and that Casimer killing haven't gotten anywhere with that either. No, but I got a chance there Whoever bumped off Charles Casimer for the 80,000 bucks got some very hot money And 80 grand was in hundred dollar bills Casimer just gotten to the bank and the bank had made a list of the serial numbers Which we've circulated all over the country now when the murderer starts to pass that Oh, wait a minute though He'll lay low for quite a while before he does that he's even smart and he'll try to pass him eventually and we'll get him Wish I had a string like that on Goldblatt's killer say Casey you're a lucky guy and Sometimes you get hunches that don't turn out too badly Huh, and now that you got the lowdown on this thing. Yeah, you got any ideas? Well now What are you paying for ideas these days pal? You going commercial on me? Well, why not when you're in a tight spot like this a little first-class assistant from a qualified expert should be worth Well, I'll tell you what the next time a juicy murder is committed you could let Ann and me in for an exclusive story and pictures You know, I never show that kind of favoritism. Oh, okay. Well, maybe the little idea. I have isn't worth it anyway You've got an idea. No, it's just a small one. It's really not worthy of my genius. Well, I Nuts to you get out of here and let me think come on any see you later pal I'm afraid so hey Logan all the furniture in this work room is stuff that Goldblatt had here for repairs Naturally repairing in a post ring furniture with the guy's business. Ah, I guess this is a chair He was getting ready to recover. What else the old cover has been taken off taken off neatly to lying here on the floor Cut carefully around the seams. It wasn't hacked. So what? Now this Overstuffed chair next to it with a shabby old cover still on look at there's a couple of big cuts in the back They're away from the seams as though it had been slashed It's interesting I don't see why well skip it then Say Casey you still don't want to buy any ideas or hunches pal if you're serious I never give reporters or photographers of one paper preference over those of another paper. Okay tough guy Well, I can't give a cop preference over my paper so long you can go to So long miss William. I apologize for this mug captain Logan. Goodbye You have no right to rib him when he's in a spot like this and I know you haven't even the germ of an idea that That might break this case Annie. I not only have an idea now, but I've got a hunch Wait a minute. Let me write down something quick before I forget it Okay, come on now. Let's get in the car. We're going places Not very far any. Oh, will you please tell me okay? Okay. All right now. Here's the idea that Logan wouldn't buy Getting it to him for free the elements of bullheaded as it is we'll prove it ourselves before he gets Well, what is the idea? Goldblatt's neighbor Perucci? He says that after he heard shots last night. He heard something heavy fall in Goldblatt's shop And everybody including myself figured he heard Goldblatt fall and apparently that's what Logan still figures But Annie Goldblatt's body was found a good 20 feet away from Perucci's wall and Directly behind a big overstuffed sofa Now Perucci didn't hear a body drop He heard the crash of that heavy chair that fell behind that door as the killer ran out of the door and slammed behind Well, Logan said that the chair couldn't have fallen and I think he's right It couldn't have fallen if we were resting solidly on its four legs But suppose it was piled on top of another chair upside down There's much floor space in Goldblatt's joint. He must have had to pile stuff up So you have room to work. Hmm. And if that chair was piled on top of another it might have toppled easily The vibration of a door slam would dislodge it. That's right Precinct men had moved almost everything by the time and Logan arrived He didn't see furniture and piles and he doesn't always use his imagination either and The killer didn't waste precious time locking that door either the Perucci and the policeman couldn't open it because the chair fell Between the door and that sewing machine that's bolted to the floor It formed a solid wedge there until a kid moved it Then when he thought he was unlocking the door, he was really locking it Okay, I'll buy that idea right Now, where are we going to an address? I wrote down a minute ago. It's on a work tag attached to a chair in Goldblatt's work room Annie we're gonna find out why There were several big knife cuts in the back of that chair. There's the address any it's across the street there furnished room to Let's sign in the window. Yeah, roaming house And it'll be the landlady who sent that chair to Goldblatt for recovery now What's the full extent of your hunch about that chair Casey? It tells me to get acquainted with the Mrs. Potter whose name was on it And I hope that she'll give me some information. I look at it You wait right here in the car. I will not if there's information to get that may make news I'm going to be where it's got me look. I'm not going to wear as a newspaper guy I'm gonna let on I want to rent a room see and try to get her talking well both of us can be renting a room But together I've heard such things have been done We'll pose as husband and wife. Oh, well, that's something has been done yet by us. Well, it's being done now Very impersonal reasons. Come on Okay Hope I can act like your husband. Oh, you'll never learn any younger. Maybe you'll never learn period. Why nothing? You must have some sort of a plan so you do the talking and I'll just stand by yeah, that'll be best Okay, here goes the doorbell better begin to look wifely, huh? Don't worry about me Someone's coming. Remember. Let me do the talking. Yeah, okay Good afternoon. How do you do? We're looking for a room and saw your sign. Oh, won't you and your husband come in? Thank you. I have a very nice double room on this floor. That's just been vacated. Do you mind the lower floor? Why not at all? Well then come this way. Oh, what's your name? Mr. Casey and this is Casey. It's a pleasure to know you. I'm Mrs. Potter. Oh, it's nice to know you Mrs. Potter. Yeah Well now, uh, let's see the room one of my best Was I back parlor when my husband was alive? But since I had to take in paying gifts. Do you like it Casey? You called your husband by his last name Mrs. Casey. Well Why Habit she got into before we were married Little unusual. Yeah, I have a most unusual wife, Mrs. Potter One thing she lets me do all the talking while she just stands by Hmm. I can see she's just a shy little thing Shy shut up. Suppose you try it. Well, this is a comfortable looking armchair new Mrs. Potter or is it? Reupholstered or reupholstered and by that poor man who was murdered last night Murdered. Oh, there's a big piece about it in the morning paper a little old man named Goldblatt What we heard about that and yes, we did hear about it case a darling It's quite a mystery, but it's given me a personal worry I let him take one of my chairs to his shop only yesterday morning yesterday morning Yes, and now with policemen all over his place heaven only knows when I'll be able to get it back And in what condition well the cops take pretty good care of things like I believe they do I hope you made note of the condition the chair was in when the Goldblatt took it to a shop yesterday morning Well, I mean whether any tears or cuts in it. Oh, no, it was just terribly shabby and needed new covering But my my my sending that chair. I'll talk me something. I've never suspected. Oh, what was that, Mrs. Potter? Well, it's been in the room of one of my oldest lodgers a gentleman who lived upstairs in the second floor flood For over five years and I've always considered him one of the mildest men alive But he flew into the most awful temper when he came home from work last night and found out that I'd sent that chair to the Opposter oh he he did. Oh, but you're not interested in such gossip, of course, but do you like this room? I usually get 20 a week for it, but well by the month I might make it a little cheaper. Oh, it's $20. Well Have you any vacancies on the second floor Mrs. Potter? Yes, I have an empty across the hall from the gentleman. I just meant you have oh, but I doubt if you like it Well, could we see it? Of course this way much smaller room than the one I just showed. Oh, I won't mind that But maybe Mrs. Casey well. Oh, no, no, I'm easy to please Mind the stairs there. They're a little steep The gentleman who didn't want his chair recovered. Is he in his room now? No, he's never in this early He's at business every day till six o'clock. Oh, but my mind's nearly that now What businesses in oh, he's a bookkeeper. Oh in the offices of the Charles Casimer company Poor mr. Casimer was robbed and murdered only a short time ago Dear dear dear. There's so much crime these days. Hey, here's the room. Oh, it's fine. Well, we'll take it We have more than looked into it. Oh, we've seen enough. That's exactly what we want. What's the right? $15 a week. Okay Here we are is a week in advance. Oh, thank you. Oh, when you move in well, we're in now. You haven't any baggage Well, it's outside in our car. We'll bring it in later later Now I know you have a lot to do Mrs. Potter It's nearly dinnertime. So why don't you run along downstairs and don't bother about us one little bit? See you later, Mrs. Potter Oh, but I see you later, Mrs. Potter Well, this is a little irregular, but you look like such nice young people Goodbye You get it any of course I got it the man across the hall it's something hidden in that chair and when he learned it had been taken to An upholsterer who'd tear it apart went to goldblats He slashed the back of that chair took out what he'd hidden in it and killed goldblats So he couldn't tell what he'd seen and Mrs. Potter said that the man worked in Charles Casimer's office Maybe it was the stolen money that was hidden in that chair Yeah Come on the coast is clear. Yeah, we have much time. It's quarter six 15 minutes is plenty if we work fast Always door is locked naturally These bevel spring locks have never kept me out of a place. I wanted to get into When there's enough space between the door and the frame to put this little gadget I always carry Come on quick, so I can close the door again Now now what do we do listen Annie if this guy killed goldblatt last night in order to get back the money hidden in that chair He's had to hide it again. I tend to when he's hidden it in here a second time. Yeah, so we search the place, right? Look at Casey, maybe he's sewn it inside of something again. Yes, that's probable. Yeah, look here. There's a sewing kit on the dresser Huh, it's a needle stuck in the lid Spread it with a piece of dark blue. Well, that means you were sewing on something blue There's nothing blue in the room. Well, we haven't looked in the clothes closet. Maybe there's something in there And I'll open the door it's Don't scream young woman and the father of you moves. I shoot well Quite a surprise. It was very fortunate that I came home earlier than my usual time today We wouldn't call it fortunate back over to that wall. What do you think you're going to do? There's only one thing I can do to protect myself kill you I have a car parked outside and I can make my getaway and there's something I'm taking along My winter overcoat. Casey, it's dark blue. There are 80,000 dollars in bills sewn in its lining Charles Casimir Lute You are quite right And now goodbye. You're not going to shoot us No, you don't Knocked his arm up just in time. Yeah, you've knocked him out I'll see that he stays out so Annie run down and get my camera from the car Will you we get exclusive pictures and a story without any deal from our pal Logan So this guy was the killer of Charles Casimir as well as the murderer that poor little goldblatt fella, huh, Casey? That's right, Ethelburn My Casimir job was his first crime So he worked in Casimir's office and he learned about the 80,000 dollar withdrawal that his boss was making And he got a greedy impulse Never had a chance to spend the nickel of the dough. He did two murders for Like I always say to coin a phrase crime does not pay. That's right. Well and pays captain Logan He's been congratulated by the commissioner for solving the goldblatt and Casimir jobs And told that he's now right in line for an inspectorship How did Captain Logan get the credit? Oh, hey, he deserved it. Yeah, that guy's a swell cop It's because a pair of newspapers stiffs like miss williams. Now I run into a little luck Our mr. Casey whom I sometimes like Ethelburn call Logan in to make an exclusive arrest of the killer What are you and Casey get out of the deal an exclusive story Plus pictures Casey got a bullet hole through the sleeve of his best coat when the killer shot at well I never liked that coat and I I've got a blasted reputation with mrs. Potter. She's found out that I'm not really mrs. Casey This is the united states armed forces radio service the voice of information and education