 inner sanctum mysteries good evening friends of the creaking door this is your host to welcome you once again into the inner sanctum come in don't hesitate come right in once you get accustomed to our surroundings you'll never leave nobody ever does once you're in you're out this is the kind of place that grips you the kind of place where the bars hold and no holes ever wish you were somebody else somewhere else hang on to your wishbones we've got a horrible example of what we mean we're in the biggest little city in the world Reno a fellow with a growth of beard trousers that belong at the knees and a dragging walk that is a store whose sign reads the Rialto record shop make a record of your own voice recording of your voice yeah how much can I get on a record there's a special long playing record how long almost 20 minutes that's it where do I go this move this button starts the recording you speak into the microphone I got it scram to the chief of police greetings this is happy Dolan age 26 citizen at large USA occupation drifter I wrote into your merry little Berg on the wrong end of a locomotive that was yesterday I came here to change my luck and I did my luck was bad I changed it to terrible I almost got knocked off twice for nothing I got a complaint the weighing machine at the store drug store ought to be declared out of bounds because that's where crazy things began happening to me I put my last copper penny in the machine just to see what not eating did to the human figure besides my weight the machine stamped out a card for my penny one of those little white cards with your fortune on it the card read danger fortune and marriage awaits you danger fortune and marriage machine had me confused with somebody else the only thing that ever happened to me was being born I hit the sidewalks to mooch the price of a flop it's getting on to midnight and I had to pitch fast if I didn't want to camp outdoors I started my pitch at a little guy with a pull-down hat and his hands tucked in his pockets pardon me friend but I'm a stranger time I skip this spiel I know it backwards sure what are you bucking for a flop follow me what's over you said you wanted a flop coming look if you just bought me for a bit I know a place you're not going to get stubborn I said follow me do I have to is this answer your question God you look now you're getting in sully start walking on your flop right where you stand the town sure had to welcome that out little guy with a cannon was paraded me through the country fight back streets toward a river turn up that road I look friend turn up okay just found out rivers kind of deep at this end a swim now it's too bad maybe you should learn how turn around you're gonna shoot me I won't have to I just treat you to a bath and a flop why why do I rate it I'm kind of strangers here you go into the land I was going down for the third time when I heard an angel's voice I can't I'm too big all right I'll help you there go to the bank we sit bending forward you swallowed a lot of water Paul river on the bank me and my guardian angel so I came around you saved my life thanks you're welcome I'm happy to hold it you Jesse 20 time of night to be a rowing lucky for you sure if you just happen to the outlaw maybe what's funny I won you in a weighing machine did you say a weighing machine yes over at the store drugstore I got my weight in this card you want to hear my fortune or hadn't read it to me cast your troubles on the waters if you want to see your future you're my future happy Dolan a stumble bum who gets slugged and tossed into the river call me back in why don't you well you sound like you're fully recovered so long I'll be seeing you I wait Jesse wait she was gone I had something more to think about I hit back toward the lighted up sections of town ran into brain teaser number three number three commenced with a wallet a fat cushy wallet lying in the middle of the street begging for a taker I grabbed the wallet and started to leave fast but not fast enough to minimal add out of my way mister this might persuade you the gun for reclaim my property a wallet I was not down and robbed a few minutes ago not by me Mr. O'Toole Simon O'Toole I didn't see my ass sailing have any objection of being searched what poor establish your innocence turn your pockets inside out look mr. O'Toole I've got your wallet so but I found it on the street honest I did here I'll give it back where were you taking yourself in such a hurry places square meal first in a room in a bath and maybe to the casino to try your luck yeah I figured to see if a weighing machine had some of the answers I've been trying to find you say a weighing machine yeah don't tell me you got one of those little white cards at the store drugstore tool but I did card with a proxy of fortune have it right here I'll read it to you any investment you make will be wonderfully successful what are you lying me for any investment I make it say hardly enough investments are my business loans and investments of every kind any investment you were on your way to luck you said that was when I had a wallet I'll invest in you I'll stake you just like that no a half of your future in writing is it at the point of a gun or do I have a choice give me a town where things happen fast and less than an hour later I was at the growth casino club I had two grand in my pocket and a guy named O'Toole had a signed claim check on half my future when lose a drawer give me a town where you make the same doll every which way you turn there was Jesse dressed to kill lapping up the nightlife heading my way like a homing pigeon hello yourself you picked the wrong place the management here is awfully hard on panhandle you drift over just to needle me no I came over because because what because it seemed the most natural thing to do falling in beside you as if we go together huh do we go together sure sure we do you see this bankroll happy where'd you get it legitimately I sold 50% of me for two grand talking crazy baby what are you gonna do with the money well that little white card said danger fortune marriage I've had the danger now I'm here to let my dough right on fortune and if I click there and if you click there then marriage according to your card you found your future in the river baby I'm it I clicked in the casino for all the dough I could carry without staggering the rest I took a check for oh happy it's also incredible kid remind me to buy that weighing machine and have a gold plated I want it on our front lawn as a souvenir now what I cut you in on the half of me I control one yes yes happy great little town nothing ever closes nobody sleeps who doesn't want you you can rent a you drive a car in the spur of the moment any hour even the justice of the peace has his neon sign on until all hours to catch the marrying trade that won't wait until the sun comes up and you happy don't take this woman to be an awfully worried wife cut it short I do and I pronounce you man and wife never be $20 yeah let's go mrs. Dolan I got a room reserve stand for hotel what do you say we drive right to it the sack here's happy I'll drive like you saw yours hey we're like it in you're not getting in I'm not at what gives just stand exactly where you are wait a minute and the next one won't go over your head or you tell me what it's all about some other time for now suppose we say the bride changed her mind that's what I call hospitality to strangers ask a guy for four bits and he gives you a whole river you know Dolan's getting more action in less time than a census taker and a hornet's nest danger fortune marriage the night isn't how finish nor is Dolan let's cut the rest of that record with him shall we I hiked back to town to look for Jesse the bride who changed her mind I hid every joint it was still at all I checked hotel registers couldn't find a higher here and then on a back street winding toward the river happy to let you have a sleep I've got to watch my investments we're in partnership where I'm buying your head back right now you made a killing that I yeah this check endorsed over to you where it's up to an even half check seems an order keep it now give me back that paper I sign and let's say goodbye for keeps but you're forgetting something happy what I bought half of your future your whole future not just the proceeds of one night's good porch look go to either you're crazy or you're a fox what give what have you really got up your sleeve a mechanical object hey what's there about me that brings out the gun and people you take apart as advice happy you're not asking you telling you live town at once as a train out at 6 a.m. you'll go to Chicago to the address on this card 1275 Rutgers Drive what'll I do at 1275 Rutgers Drive Chicago you'll be out of danger there my investment then you will be secure why am I in danger here aren't you I wasn't going to Chicago just ducking the train was half mile out I went to the rear platform one pull on the emergency cord the train would make an unscheduled stop just for happy don't get away from that emergency cord don't know hello I didn't get your name last night Smith what do you keep telling me for exercise you're a hard man to kill why should give up you had to try is one more try you're going to kill me out here when the train goes to a tunnel why are you out to kill me I told you for the exercise free we are you make a move and I won't wait for a tunnel why should I feed what percentage what if I get it now or in two minutes okay that's how you want it that's how I was came to on the tracks six feet from an unconscious little guy who called himself Smith I couldn't feel my back or legs I was bleeding badly Smith looked twice as bad as I felt I watched his hand feel around blindly for the gun laying a foot away he was half dead but still concentrating on business I started crawling I got to the gun first I'm in charge now Smith you're not me up you don't answer some questions fast what question why have you been trying to kill me what's behind it it's a lot of questions I got two more who's I'm an old tool and why did a blonde named Jesse marry me and then take a powder you'll figure I've got the answers I know all three of you got the answers you clam up and you're a dead man Smith then I'm a dead man yours not gonna talk I stood over a lot of guys in my time like you're standing over me now not one of them opened up ever go ahead and shoot I've got to kill you Smith see the you or me you've got the gun yeah I've got the gun kill the killer I kept telling myself it was self-defense that I'd exterminated a rat that somebody should put a badge on me for doing it was an hour before I could bring myself to drag Smith into the woods I left him under a clump of blueberry bushes and headed back for town to find the hearts rob I'd married I found her in the last place I expected her to be right in my room at the standbrook curled up on a sofa like someone catnapping Jesse Jesse I could have saved my breath I'd be a widow or longer than I've been a bride room Jesse was stone dead I wish you'd been traveling in the wrong direction happy a tool how did you get in here I came to persuade the young lady to win all our marriage to you without buying you killed her no I might have if she'd remained stubborn someone reached her first Smith why did Smith killer doesn't death the usual fate of double crosses she recovered you from the river after he thrown you in there were pottons until the young lady foolishly decided to operate on her own what were they after with me I suppose the time has come to talk of things you're a missing heir I'm a missing heir me what did my old man leave me as worn out suspenders no but an uncle Jonas of 1275 Rutgers Drive Chicago left you quarter of a million dollar estate my uncle Jonas I hardly remember him you will when they read the will tomorrow you've been advertising everywhere publishing your picture for months before his death only I never saw an ad you don't read the papers you just sleep under them on park benches what was Smith's angle with his Michael Dolan a distant relative of yours and an aspiring heir wanted desperately to succeed you that is over your dead body the girls angle was obvious yeah marry me let Smith knock me off and be my legal widow yes and my angle explains itself you cut in for half and those weighing machine cards were just a way of getting me to play soccer yes the hotel management ringing happy they're curious about CD overnight guests who check in without baggage they'll be barging in shortly drawing conclusions about a drifter who murdered his new bride you threatening me with a wrap ask yourself how much credibility will you have with the authorities better get back to that railroad station as fast as you can but meet in Chicago you still see me as an investment I guilt edged one now now that I can be framed for murdering Jesse and charged with the actual murder of Michael Dolan alias Smith how could you know about that I saw Smith get on that train with you you can only be here alive over Smith's dead body get going while you can what about the corpse on the sofa leave the disposal of your bride to me I've had experience in similar matters I got going as far as this booth here in the realtor record shop it's all here on the record and thanks for a lovely time everybody you've a great little town here all right you completed your recording yeah would you do me a little favor yes wrap it up and mail it to the chief of police with my compliments wouldn't it be better sir if we delivered it personally we I should hate to be compelled to shoot a customer a gun this is where I came in you listened all the time I was making that record well I'm in the cooler now tools in the cell right next door to me I've been here a day and a half mr. Dolan big deal for you I'm catching a killer and it's good for the record business but you're not exactly a killer maybe you can prove to the DA that shooting that man Smith was justifiable homicide justifiable it's not gonna like that wherever he is nor is he going to like another thing wherever he is what other thing is he not gonna like his inability to claim your uncle Jonas's fortune you see the will was read this morning and you were left your uncle's library in a 1928 Nash automobile the rest of the estate went down tell me yes it went to your cousin the late mr. Smith and now with his death his share reverts to charity charity the late mr. Smith wherever he is is gonna tie all over again of enlargement of the heart looks like Smith with his own worst enemy he kept buzzing the wrong cousin they tell me that when happy Dolan turned loose in that 1928 Nash automobile uncle Jonas left him there's one certain town he's gonna cross right off his roadmap they're going to rugged there too much happens in record time well friends it's time once again to close that creaking door until next week at the same time when we'll be back with a little hunk of mara you'll be sure to listen on you until next week then good night pleasant dream in a sanctum has come to you through the worldwide facilities of the United States Armed Forces radio and television service