 The anchor-hawking-glass cooperation brings you crime photographer. Wasn't that hypnotist over at the Oddfellas Hall really something? Yeah, he sure had some surprising stunts, didn't he? Yeah, like when he put those guys to sleep, then he wakes them up. And always the first words they say are exactly what the hypnotist that has told us they'd say. Yeah, but I've seen that done often. You know, Casey, I'd like to have that hypnotist try it on Tony Marvin. No, no. No dice, Ethelbert. No matter what, as soon as Tony woke up, he'd say... Anchor-Hawking, the most famous name in glass. Gentlemen, this is Tony Marvin. Every week at this time, the Anchor-Hawking-glass cooperation of Lancaster, Ohio, and its more than 10,000 employees bring you another adventure of Casey crime photographer. Ace Cameraman, who covers the crime news of a great city. Our adventure for tonight... The Fix. Good afternoon, the Blue Note Cafe. Ethelbert, the head bartender, is engaged in conversation with a rather weak-looking young man and a very good-looking young woman when the street door opens and... Oh, it's nice and warm in here, Casey. Boy, does that heat feel good, honey? Wow, look who's here. Hi, Ethelbert. Hi. Hello, Ethelbert. Casey. Huh? A dog gone. How are you, Archie? Fine, and you? I'll feel better when spring comes. Don't you remember me, Casey? Mildred. Hello. Oh, what do you now say? You look like a million in that big coat. Thank you. I gather you know these folks, Casey. I've known Archie ever since he was a punk at Grammar School, Ethelbert, and Miss Sel... All her acquaintance goes back only a few years. To the Warren affair. Yeah. Oh, excuse me, Miss Anne Williams, Miss Mildred Sel. Hello, Miss Sel. How do you do? And Archie Purcell. A pleasure, Miss Williams. Oh, thank you. You know, Archie's father, Annie, is one of our favorite cops. Not Lieutenant Purcell. He's my old man. Well, we have a great admiration for your father. Yeah, he's quite a guy. They don't come any better. Well, Miss Sel's and I must be running along. We have a date. Yes, it was nice meeting you, Miss Williams. See you again, Casey. That goes double. Miss, get together sometime. Yeah, we'll try to, Archie. I paid you, didn't I, Ethelbert? Yeah, we're all square. Well, see you all of you again. Yeah, so long. Bye. Bye. Come again. We will, Ethelbert. There goes one beautiful babe, Casey. Mm, yeah. She's dynamite, too. I mean that literally. You know, she's a stooge for old iron hat. Tim Lansing? The political leader? Yes, sir. The boss. The big crook under the old-fashioned derby who protects professional gambling in this midtown section. How does that swell-looking gal stooge for him? Dames are used in all the big rackets, pal. Mm, like the boss of the Philly steams hired that babe, Delilah, to soften up Sampson, huh? I've been catching up on your reading. Well, that's the classical case, yeah. Casey, Lieutenant Purcell has caused Lansing more trouble than anyone else in this town. He hits the gambling squad, and if that Mildred Sells is making a play for his son. I thought of that, Annie. The moment I recognized her. So you were talking to them when we came in, Ethelbert. How did he and Mildred act together? Well, they seemed pretty sweet on one another, Casey. She may be legitimate this time, and just like Archie. Say, Casey. Mm? She said you met her at the time of the Warren affair. What did she mean? A murder of Mike Warren. Yeah, he owned a clip joint where Mildred worked, and somebody put a bullet through his head one morning. She was questioned like all his employees. I remember the case. Oh, so do I vaguely. Warren's murder is still unsolved, isn't it? Yeah. So what did you hear Archie Purcell and that girl talk about while they were here, Ethelbert, huh? Oh, he introduced me to the gal. Mentioned he just bought ringside seats for the big fight on Saturday night right in the middle of the third row. The third row? Mm-hmm. He and the gal was going together, he said. And he bought them? Mm-hmm. From a scalper. These scalpers are getting 200 bucks a piece for duckets like that, and Archie's job can't pay much more than that a month. Well, Casey, do you suppose they... Say, it's peculiar. Yeah, pal. It's very peculiar. Can you answer that, Whitey? Okay, Brian. Hello. I'd like to speak to either Mr. Kelton or Mr. Watts. Kelton's speaking. This is Archie Purcell. I don't know you, friend. You may have heard of my father, police lieutenant Frank Purcell. I've heard of him. We thought you might like to talk over a little matter with me. I'm downstairs in the lobby of your hotel right now. We'll be right down. What is it, Whitey? The shakedown we expected. But not from the sauce we expected. What do you mean? Down in Florida, they told us the guy who fixed things in his town was Lansing. The guy to be careful of was Purcell. Purcell's son just gave me the cum hither. This don't sound right. We'll soon see how right it is. Put your coat on, Brent, and let's go. I imagine you gentlemen have convinced yourselves of my identity. You're Lieutenant Purcell's son, all right? What do you want? You two are professional gamblers from Florida. Don't you know this is a closed town? We're willing to play ball, but friends down in Florida told us we'd get a call from a gentleman named Lansing. My father is head of the gambling squad. I see. You mean there'll be no arrests if we play ball with you? Figure it out. You've identified this gentleman as Purcell's son, Whitey? Yeah. Okay. What do we kick in, Purcell? A thousand bucks a week. Hey, that's murder. Why not big time as we run small games? A thousand bucks a week in advance. No. Well, look, Whitey. Hey, the man. Okay, Brent. But remember, kid, this buys us complete protection. Thanks for the tip, Casey. And to you, Miss Williams. I didn't know my son was running around with this Mildred Sel's woman. We'll never talk without you. Now, we may be all wrong about her, Lieutenant Purcell. I hope we are, Frank. Excuse me. Gambling squad, Lieutenant Purcell speaking. I've got a red hot tip for you, Lieutenant. Who is this? Never mind that. You can pick up two card shops. They registered at the Hotel Fultonium. It's Brent Watson, George Kelton. There's a poker party going on in their suite right now. That's all. Goodbye. I couldn't help but hear that one, Frank. The old anonymous tipster. A lot of our information comes in that way, Casey. Most of it's on the level. I've got to leave you and Miss Williams. Go to work. A little surprise visit to the Hotel Fultonium? Right away. Let's tag along, Casey. Why not, Annie? Let's go. What do you want, sir? What is it? Hey, what's the idea you comps busting in here? All of you men are under arrest. You're making a big mistake, fella. Before you make a bigger one, I suggest you get in touch with your boss. Tell him you've busted in on Brent Watson, Whitey Kelton. Tell that to Lieutenant Frank Purcell. Yeah? I happen to be Lieutenant Purcell. You? Yes. Why did you want to get that little message to me? It has been a slipper, Brent. Yeah. I guess you haven't talked to your son since he saw us. My son? Uh-huh. Can I have a word with you alone? Anything you have to say can be said right here. Okay. If you want it that way, we fixed your son with a thousand bucks this afternoon for complete protection. What happened to them gamblers, Casey? Lieutenant Purcell got the full story about Archie from them, then took him to headquarters and put him in cells. Archie had traded on his father's reputation to extort dough, huh? Yeah. What does he say about it? Archie, I mean. Oh, he hasn't been found yet. And Milda denied that she knew anything about Archie's fix racket. Yeah, but the whole thing smells like old iron hat lancing. Only his lawyers sprung the two guys this morning. What does lancing get out of it, Casey? Well, he's thrown suspicion of bribery on Frank Purcell. Well, how? Purcell raided them gamblers and threw them into the cooler, which proves he wasn't protecting them like his son promised. Yeah, but a lot of people will think there was a slip-up, though, that Archie neglected to tell his father. I wouldn't, on the strength of just this one instance. Mm, I wouldn't either, Casey. And their accusation can't be blown up into a news story. Nothing novel about racketeers accusing cops of dirty work. Last night's affair won't even get into print. Well, not as a sans now, but... Oh, there's the bar phone. Excuse me. Go ahead, answer it. Blue Note Cafe, Ethelberg Spigen. Just a second. Your city desk, Casey. Your city desk. Hello. Yeah, she's here too, sir. Haskins Memorial Hospital. Archie Purcell. Archie Purcell. We'll get there on the jump. Goodbye. Casey, what's the matter? The story will get into print now, any big prints. Archie was taken to the hospital a few minutes ago after being found in an alley beaten almost to death. Perhaps once in a decade, a new material is perfected which changes our standards of value. Now, such a material is jadeite. It's called J-A-D-E-I-T-E, jadeite. It makes possible dinnerware unlike anything you've known. Jadeite is really beautiful. It has the lovely texture and color of rare Chinese porcelain. And jadeite is unbelievably strong. It stands up under rough handling without shipping or cracking, and is so heat-proof, you can safely put it in a hot oven. Yet jadeite actually costs less than the most ordinary dinnerware. For instance, a big jadeite platter costs only 25 cents an open stock. 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He says he doesn't know. Says it happened so suddenly he had no chance to see what the two guys looked like. Two guys, eh? Watson and Kelton were freed on bail this morning. They had plenty of motive to go after Archie, Miss Williams, and when my men find him, they'll have to prove they didn't do the job. Did you find anything at the scene of the beating? No, but the guys who worked on Archie didn't do it just for fun. They cleaned his pockets before they left him. Well, they took his dough. Took everything. Come in. Detective Griffo just brought in those two gamblers, Watson and Kelton, sir. That's fine. But they claimed to have an alibi for the time of the beating. Yeah? They said they were with the lawyer who sprang him this morning at John Ferris. Here's his home phone number, sir. I'll call him right now. Not that I'd take the unsupported word on a Lansing's trade mouthpieces. It's beginning to look as though an alibi's been carefully set up for him, Casey. Hello. I want to speak to Mr. Ferris, please. Oh, Ferris. This is Captain Logan. We've got two new clients here at headquarters, Watson and Kelton. I'm sure you can tell me where they were between 8 and 9 this evening. You haven't seen them since noon today. No alibi? Thanks. That's all. Goodbye. You hear that, Casey? Yeah. Here's the idea that those guys may be telling the truth and somebody's trying to frame them. Yeah. Ferris may have got them to his house tonight just so they couldn't establish a real alibi elsewhere. But why? I don't know, Miss Williams. Yet. Sergeant, bring in Watson and Kelton. We'll hear what they have to say. Well, Logan, they said they'd been framed. Yeah, for a solid hour, they said it, Casey. And it sounded on the level. Yeah, the setup's fairly plain, Logan. Iron Hat's a shrewd guy. An anonymous tip that made Frank Purcell raid that game was just the first part of his scheme. He knew the squawk they'd make about Archie would attract enough attention to discredit Lieutenant Purcell, so Iron Hat has a near-murder performed on Archie that's sure to hit the front pages. And he makes sure it'll stay on the front pages by framing Watson and Kelton as the near-murderers. Yeah, he's sure gonna make it look bad for an honest guy like Lieutenant Purcell. What can you do about it? As things stand now, nothing. I'm not so sure of that, Logan. Archie's pockets were empty when he was found. Yeah. I happen to know he had a pair of tickets for the big fight tomorrow night. It's a hundred to one that they were on in when he was frisked. I'm wondering if the guys who took him won't use it. Hey, if we could pick those guys up and make them talk... Archie can tell us the location of those seats. Yeah, not for a couple of days. The docks haven't filled with drugs and the fight's tomorrow night. Wait a minute. Ephelbert said they were in the third or fourth row senders? There's over 20 sections in that arena, Miss Williams, and unless we know once... Wait a minute, wait. Milrid Sells knows. She was going to the fight with Archie. She won't tell. Well, she might tell me a lot of things, pal. He's worried about Archie and she likes him. When I call on her, I have a hunch she may get confidential with a sympathetic friend. Just come from the hospital, Casey. Yes, Milrid. Well, how is Archie? I got some news, Milrid. It was not pleasant. Well, Archie... Archie isn't... No, no. He isn't dead. He's in pretty bad shape. Oh, no. The docks say he has a chance to pull through if he wants to. He realizes what he's done to his old man. He hasn't got much interest in living. I know. How do you suppose Archie got himself into this mess, huh? I don't know. Said he wanted the dough to spend on you. The cops told me that. What gave him the idea to get the dough that way? I don't know. Archie was going to take you to the fight tonight. Yeah. Get tickets for swell seats. Remember where they were? I couldn't forget. He was so proud of having gotten them. He told me over and over. Yeah. Where were they? Numbers 8 and 9 in the third row of section F. Why? Just curious. You know, Milrid, you're the only one who can save Archie's life. Casey, what do you mean? He's got to die unless it can be proven that he was just a fall guy in his fixed setup. And that he was pushed into it so his old man would be kicked out of the police department. He won't say that you had anything to do with it because he's in love with you. He's protecting you. But if you care anything about him, you'll tell me and you'll tell the cops that Iron Hat Lansing engineered this whole raw deal. If I do talk to you in the cops, Casey, I'll be arrested for murder. What? But I'm going to talk. Wait a minute. I don't get that. I went to work for Tim Lansing after Mike Warren was killed. I had to because Lansing had evidence that would convict me of the killing. I didn't shoot Warren. I don't know who did. But I'd written a crazy letter threatening to kill him. He and I had been friends. We'd gotten tired of him. Well, Lansing found that letter and held it over me. Yeah, that sounds like Iron Hat. About Archie. Lansing told me to make a play for him to get him to spend more money than he could afford to. Then to suggest that he could get easy money by shaking down gamblers in his father's name. I did it. And then I fell in love with him. But I didn't know he was going to be hurt like this. I didn't know. Come on down to headquarters, kid. We'll tell all this to Captain Logan. All right, I'll get my coat. Someone's at the door. I'll see who it is. Give him a quick brush up. Yes, I will. Hello, Mildred. Mr. Lansing. I happened to be near your apartment, so I thought I'd drop in. Well, Casey. Hello, Lansing. What are you doing here? Casey and I are old friends. I didn't know that. How's the fidget-taking business, son? Just about the same, Daddy. Like a derby you work. Yeah. Hard hats are the only sensible hats, boy. And since you've got your hat in your hand, guess you're a fixin' to leave. Don't let me stop you. I was going with Casey, Mr. Lansing. He said he'd drop me off at a store. I have some shopping to do. Pretty late for shopping, Mildred. Anyway, I want to have a little talk with you. A private talk. Nice to see you, Casey. So long. Wait downstairs, Casey. Okay. So long, Mildred. So long. See you later, Lansing. Goodbye, son. Don't ring for the elevator button. What? We'll take the stairs, you and me. That gun in your hand makes me agree to that. I figured it would. What's this all about? Me and a friend are taking you for a little ride. A nice drive out to the seashore. But how much longer are you guys gonna keep me in this beach house here? Like I told you before, bud, we're waiting for orders. Whose orders? That's something we ain't saying. Yeah, I hope we get them orders pretty soon. I want to see that fight. Fight? Yeah, me and my pal has ringside tickets to the big scrap tonight, bud. Yeah. Ringside tickets, huh? Right down in front. Seats like that are hard to get. We didn't have no trouble. It was easy. Hey, pass driving up. Give a look out the window. Butch. He'll be bringing our orders. He's also bringing the Celtic. The Celtic? I see. Open the door for Butch. Come, daughter. Here's more company for you guys. Get in, sister. Casey! Hello, Mildred. I didn't overhead you, too. They got me thanks to Iron Hat, I guess. Yes, he told me he had me watched. He came to my apartment because he got in a report that you were there and he was afraid I'd talk. Yeah. He had them grab me in case you had. Yeah. That's enough conversations we used to sit on, sister and cheddar. Hey, do we bump the two of them off, Butch? Yeah, but not yet. You guys will stand guard over until the boss comes out here after the fight tonight. He's going to the fight while we stay here? That's his orders. Look, hey, we want to see that fight. This'll do as you told. I'm heading back to town now. I'm going to the scrap myself. Hold on. Oh, Fault allows you to... It ain't fair, it ain't. Hey, uh, why don't you gentlemen go to the fight? We'd be glad to stay here until you come back. Wise guy, ain't you, Bud? Hey, we've got an idea, Dad. Are you nuts? No, we can tie these babies up, can't we? We'll get back here before the boss shows up. Well, I'm beginning to believe you got brains. Yeah, I got brains. Hey, what if the boss sees us at the fight? He won't, because his seats are on the other side of the ring. I saw his tickets. Yeah, come on, let's get to work. Hey, this was really your suggestion, fella. Yeah. Thanks. Why haven't I learned to keep my big mouth shut? I slipped the keg off my mouth. Thank you, Dad. Now listen, wait. I can see your hands. They weren't as careful with you as they were with me. I think you can get loose. But I've got to work, kid. Go to work. I'm pretty cutie. All right, get the wire off me. That won't take very long. I only have to untie it. It isn't tied in very tight. Oh, I feel bloody tight. Wait a minute. There, grab all your hands. All right, I can get it off my feet. Casey. What? It's a car driving up. What do you suppose that it is? Get to that window and see, will you? All right. Stop outside. Get that wire off your feet. I'm working on it right now. Casey, it's Lansing. Lansing? He's getting out of the car. He must have decided to skip the fight. Is anybody with him? No. No, he's alone. He's coming toward the door. Get that wire off, Casey. This is a tight knot. Well, untie it quick. Let me try. Open up that man. He'll tell it. See me drive up. Casey, quick, quick. I'm doing the best I can. Everyone asleep in there? He may have the key if he comes in here before you get that off. You see, he has a key. Okay, kid. I'm finally free. There he is. And here he goes. That's helpful. I don't like to hit old guys like you, iron hat, but you didn't give me much choice. The car isn't gone, Casey. Get it. I've got it. Come on, Lansing, get up. I'm going to drive you in your car to police headquarters. I had a feeling I should have come out here sooner than I planned, Casey. It seems I wasn't smart to come alone. Nobody in your racket is smart, Lansing. Come on. We're going to the nearest precinct station. As soon as I pick up my hat, you knocked it off. Come on, pick up your derby. You look naked without it. I'm attached to this old hat. Here's the ring. He had another gun in that hat. You take the next bullet. No, Lansing. You take it. I had your other gun. Casey, you got him. You're bleeding. He only got me through the shoulder. No, come on, sit down. Let me stop that blood. Let me see what I did to him first. Pick up that second gun he dropped. Your name's just rotten as mine, Casey. I got it on the shoulder, too. That's well. I don't like to kill even rats like you. Let's make sure you haven't got still another gun on you. It's a neat trick that rod in your derby. There's a frame inside that held it, Casey. I see it. You won't find another rod on me, boy. You've always been enough until now. I don't care, you young people. I've got lots to do. We can make a deal. Sure, we'll make a deal. A deal that'll put you out of circulation for attempted murder. Come on, let's get started. He'll join the crowd at the Blue Note in just a moment. You know, American children are the healthiest children in the world, largely because most American babies now get a good sound start in life. Much of the credit for this is due to our American food packers who produce convenient, scientifically-prepared baby foods. The young mother can now give her baby well-balanced, nourishing meals without spending endless extra hours in the kitchen. 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After he found a letter that would incriminate Mildred if suspicion were pointed his way. Well, what do you know? At least one other thing. The DA won't bear down too heavy on the extortion charges against Archie. He and Mildred are going to be married. The DA and Mildred? Oh, no, of course not. Right, boy. You know, this has turned out so nice and romantical, it makes me feel good. Almost like throwing a party on the house. Almost. With that big bandage on your shoulder, I've got the glass, Casey. Ain't it too bad? Well, I've got news for you. I've got one good arm. And I've got two good ones to help both of us with. Why don't I learn to keep my big mouth shut? Time photographer starring Stads Cotsworth as Casey is written by Alonzo Dean Cole. It is brought to you each Thursday by the Anchor Hawking Glass Corporation. Makers of Fire King Oven Glass. Anchor glass containers. Anchor caps and closures. All products of Anchor Hawking. The most famous name in glass. 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