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It's my husband's office. He's working late tonight and I'm all alone here in the house. My health is very poor and I've been feeling so nervous all day. Bringing Murray Hill 4098. Was Mr. Stevenson there? Hello? Yes, this is George B. Hello? Who's this? What number am I calling, please? He says the coast is clear for tonight. Oh, for a beer. That's right. 11 o'clock. Okay. And be sure that all the lights downstairs are out. There should be only one light visible from the street. Okay, okay. What's that? Oh, just a minute, George. It tells me that at 1115, a train crosses the bridge. It makes a noise in case a window is open and she should scream. Hello? What number is this, please? Okay, I understand. That's 1115, the train, huh? Yeah. Do you remember everything else, George? Yeah, yeah. I'll make it quick as little blood as possible because our client does not wish to make her suffer longer. That's right. You'll use a knife? Yes, a knife will be okay. Then afterwards I remove the rings and the bracelets and the jewelry in the bureau drawer because our client wishes it to look like a simple robbery. Don't worry. Everything's okay. I know. Operator, I've just been cut off. I'm sorry. What number were you calling? Why, it was supposed to be Murray Hill 40098, but it wasn't. Some wires must have got crossed. I was cut into a wrong number and I've just heard the most dreadful thing, something about a murder. And operator, you'll simply have to retrace that call at once. I beg your pardon? May I help you? Oh, I know it was a wrong number and I had no business listening, but these two men, they were cold-blooded fiends and they were going to murder somebody, some poor innocent woman who was all alone in a house near a bridge. And we've got to stop them. We just got to. What number are you calling? Well, that doesn't matter. This was a wrong number and you dialed it for me and we've got to find out what it was immediately. What number did you call? Oh, why are you so stupid? What time is it? You mean to tell me you can't find out what that number was just now? I'll connect you with the chief operator. Oh, I think it's perfectly shameful. Now, look, it was obviously a case of some little slip of the finger. I told you to try Murray Hill 40098 for me. You dialed it, but your finger must have slipped and I was connected with some other number and I could hear them, but they couldn't hear me. Now, I simply failed to see why you couldn't make that same mistake again on purpose. Why you couldn't try to dial Murray Hill 40098 in the same sort of careless way? Murray Hill 40098, I will try to get it for you. Thank you. I will call you... Operator! Operator! Your call, please. You didn't try to get that wrong number at all. I asked you explicitly and all you did was dial correctly. I am sorry. What number are you calling? Well, can't you for once forget what number I'm calling and do something for me? Now, I want to trace that call. It's my civic duty and it's your civic duty to trace that call and apprehend those dangerous killers and if you won't... I will connect you with the chief operator. Well, please! Is the chief operator here? Oh, chief operator. I want you to trace a call, a telephone call immediately. I don't know where it came from or who was making it, but it's absolutely necessary that it be tracked down because it was about a murder that someone's planning. A terrible cold-blooded murder of a poor innocent woman tonight at 11.15. I see. Can you trace it for me? Can you track down those men? Well, I'm not certain. It depends. Depends on what? It depends on whether the call is still going on. If it's a live call, we can trace it on the equipment. If it's been disconnected, we can. Disconnected? If the parties have stopped talking to each other. Oh, but of course they must have stopped talking to each other. By now, that was at least five minutes ago and they didn't sound like the type who would make a long call. Well, I can try tracing it. May I have your name, please? Mrs. Stevenson. Mrs. Albert Stevenson. And your telephone number, please. Plaza 32098. But if you go on wasting all this time... Why do you want this call traced, please? Why? Oh, no reason. I mean, I merely felt very strongly that something ought to be done about it. These men sounded like killers. They're dangerous. They're going to murder this woman at 11.15 tonight and I thought the police ought to know. Have you reported this to the police? No, not yet. You want this call checked purely as a private individual? Yes. Yes, but meanwhile... I'm sorry, Mrs. Stevenson, but I'm afraid we couldn't make this check for you and trace the call just on your say-so as a private individual. We'd have to have something more efficient. Oh, for heaven's sake. You mean to tell me I can't report that there's going to be a murder without getting tied up in all this red tape? Why, it's perfectly idiotic. Well, all right, all right, I'll call the police. Thank you. I'm sure that would be the best way to do all this. It's ridiculous. The police department. Get me the police department, please. Thank you. Ringing the police department. Can't you ring them direct? This station, precinct 43, Sergeant Martin speaking. The police department. This is Mrs. Stevenson. Mrs. Albert Smiles Stevenson of 53 North Sutton Place. I'm calling up to report a murder. I mean, the murder hasn't been committed yet, but I just overheard plans for it over the telephone over a wrong number that the operator gave me. I've been trying to trace down the call myself, but everybody is so stupid, and I guess in the end you're the only people who could do anything. Yes, ma'am. It was a perfectly definite murder. I heard their plans distinctly. They were talking, and they were going to murder some woman at 11.15 tonight. She lived in a house near a bridge. Are you listening to me? Oh, yes, yes. And there was a private patrolman on the street. He was going to go around for a beer on Second Avenue, and there was some third man, a client, who was paying to have this poor woman murdered. They were going to take her rings and bracelets and use a knife. Well, it's unnerving dreadfully, and I'm not well. Yes, I see. When was all this, ma'am? About eight minutes ago. Oh, then you can do something you do understand. What's your name, ma'am? Mrs. Stevenson. Mrs. Elbert Stevenson. And your address? 5353 North Sutton Place. That's near a bridge, the Queensborough Bridge, you know, and we have a private patrolman on War Street and Second Avenue, isn't it? And what was that number you were calling? Murray Hill 40098. But that wasn't the number I overheard. I mean Murray Hill 40098 is my husband's office. He's working late tonight, and I was trying to reach him to ask him to come home. I'm an in-village, you know, and it's the maid's night off, and I hate to be alone even though he says I'm perfectly safe as long as I have the telephone right beside my bed. Well, we'll look into it, Mrs. Stevenson, and see if we can check it with the telephone company. But the telephone company said they couldn't check the call of the parties and stopped talking. I've already taken care of that. Oh, you have. Yes, and personally, I feel you want to do something far more immediate and drastic than just check the call. What good is checking the call to if they stop talking? By the time you track it down, they'll already have committed the murder. Well, we'll take care of it, don't you worry. I'd say the whole thing calls for a search, a complete and thorough search of the whole city. I'm very near the bridge, and I'm not far from Second Avenue, and I know I'd feel a whole lot better if you sent around a radio car to this neighborhood at once. Well, what makes you think the murder is going to be committed in your neighborhood, ma'am? I don't know. Only, the coincidence is so horrible. Second Avenue or the patrolman, the bridge? Well, Second Avenue, you know, is a very long street, ma'am. And you know how many bridges there are in the city of New York alone. Not to mention Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Queens, and the Bronx. I know all that. How do you know there isn't some little house on Staten Island on some little Second Avenue you never heard about? How do you know they're even talking about New York at all? But I heard the call in the New York dialing system. Well, maybe it was a long distance call you over. You know, telephones are funny things. Now, uh, look, ladies, why don't you look at it this way? Supposing you hadn't broken in on that telling you got your husband the way you always do. You wouldn't be so upset, would you? Well, I... I suppose not. Only, it sounded so inhuman, so cold-blooded. Well, a lot of murders are plotted in this city every day, ma'am. We manage to prevent almost all of them, but a clue this kind is so vague there's much more used to us and no clue at all. But surely you can... Unless, of course, you have some reason for thinking this call was phony and that someone may be planning to murder you. Me? Oh, yeah. No. No, I hardly think so. I mean, why should anybody? I'm alone all day and night. I see nobody except my maid Eloise. She's a big 200-pounder. She's too lazy to bring up my breakfast tray and the only other person is my husband, Albert. He's crazy about me. He doors me, waits on me, hand and foot, and has scarcely left my side since I took sick 12 years ago. Yeah, well, then there's nothing for you to worry about. And now, if you'll just leave the rest of this to us, we'll take care of it. But what will you do? It's so late. It's nearly 11 now. We'll take care of it, lady. Well, will you broadcast it all over the city and send out squads and warn your radio cars to watch out, especially in suspicious neighborhoods like mine? Well, lady, I said we'd take care of it. Well, I've got a couple of other matters here on my desk that require immediate attention. So good night, ma'am, and thank you. Oh, you, you idiot! Better for heaven's sake, will you ring that Murray Hill 40098 number again? I can't think what's keeping him so long. I'm here, Rich. You don't have to tell me. I know it's busy. Oh. If I could only get out of his bed for a little while to breath a fresh air or just lean out of the window and see the street. Telephone at night, but it's positively driving me crazy. I've never seen such inefficient miserable service. Now, look. Look, I'm an invalid and I'm very nervous and I'm not supposed to be annoyed. But if this keeps on much longer... What seems to be the trouble? Well, everything's wrong. I haven't had one bit of satisfaction out of one call I've made this evening. The whole world could be murdered for all you people care. And now my phone keeps ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing every five seconds or so and when I pick it up, there's no one there. I want you to test it for me. I want you to put that call through whatever it is at once. I'm afraid I cannot do that. There is no way to check whether the call is coming to the person who is trying to reach you completely. I've got to sit here in my bed suffering every time that phone rings. Imagining everything. I will try to check the trouble for all you men. Check it, check it. That's all anybody... What's the use of talking to you? You're so stupid. Fix her. All the impudence. How dare she speak to me like that? How dare she speak to me like that? I don't know your name, but there are ways of finding you out and I'm going to report you to your superiors for the most unpardonable rudeness and insolence that has ever been my privilege. Give me the business office at once. You may dial that number direct. Dial it direct? I'll do no such thing. I don't even know the number. Cure it by dialing... Listen here. You decided something. Make sure I'm home. I've heard my voice answer them just now. That's why they've been re-a-me. Why no one has answered me. Is she? Where is she? Why doesn't she answer? Where were you just now? Why didn't you answer it once? Give me the police department. Possible. The police department can't be busy. There must be other lines available. I've deleted them now and maybe too late. I've got to someone to protect people by the police department. Suffered. I mean, I'm too nervous to look it up and I don't know how to use the book. Information. Perhaps she will be able to help you. No! Blarnges you. P2099. Mrs. Albert Stevenson. Is there anyone there to receive the message? Mrs. Stevenson. Mrs. Albert Stevenson. 53 North Sutton Place, New York, New York. Get you for last hour, but line busy. PM tonight on urgent business. Happy love signed Alpen. Pending's out two years ago. H-E-N-C-H-L. One more, please. Please, hurry. And please, what is the time? Nurses registry at once. I want to train nurse. I want to hire her immediately for the night. I see, madame. Nerves. I'm very nervous. I need soothing and companionship. You see, my husband is away and I'm... Have you been recommended to us by any doctor in particular, madame? No, but I really don't see why all this cataclysm is necessary. I want to train nurse. I was a patient in your hospital two years ago and after all I do expect to pay this person for attending me. Requested nurses are very scarce just now and our superintendent has asked us to send people out only on cases where the physician in charge feels it is absolutely necessary. Well, it is absolutely necessary. I'm a sick woman. I'm very upset and I'm an invalid and tonight I overheard a telephone conversation and upset me dreadfully. Extension telephone downstairs. Bound up. Dear, I... There's someone listening. Someone in this house. Someone who's going to murder me and you've got to get in touch with the extension phone. He's coming up the stairs. Give me the police department. Pardon me. Oh, I'm sorry. Must have got the wrong number. Don't worry. Everything's okay. And so closes. Sorry. Wrong number. Starring Agnes Moorhead. Tonight's tale of... Suspense. Before we tell you about next week's stars and story, Romawine, sponsor of these weekly suspense dramas, asks you to consider this. 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