 Good evening friends, this is your host to welcome you through the creaking door into the inner sanctum Well, I put it myself over to a traveling freak show this afternoon You see how the competition was doing Ran into an old schoolmate fascinating fellow we once voted him most likely to succeed He did and how? He's a high man in the snake pit A frightful accident happened near the squirrel cage the peanut concessionaire went up in flames Yeah, some joke had given him a heart for it But before I left the the owner offered me a very lucrative job Pick any cage you like he said I Told him I'd think it over sometime When I got my mind back Tonight's inner sanctum mystery the corpse is lonely was written by John Robert and Stars Larry Haynes and the role of smithy with Barbara Weeks as Julie And now for tonight's anguish We're on the ground level of an old abandoned lighthouse on Jelico strip a Narrow isle at two miles off the North Atlantic mainland It's the exact instant a sputtering fuse his is close to a wooden box that reads danger dynamite Near the box lying days the two figures Julie a boy and a girl Julie The boy rises staggers unsteady to reach it out frantically toward the unconscious girl. Hey get up Julie will be blown the pets The hundred-year-old lighthouse lies toppled in a crazy pile of shattered stone One figure lies outside it Flung clear of the wreckage in a freakish whim of the fates one figure the boy Blood spurts from head wounds and mixes with the sand under him His eyes open slowly And he stares in a slow circle Away from the lighthouse as if trying to find it his eyes fix on nothing Julie Joey I can't see I can't see I'm blind All right, my story on the wind Yes The short happy story of Sneddy Lonegan it began with an old green bottle on the beach Only yesterday The not all day casting for seabass and an old rowboat rigged up with an outboard motor Well, I'd had enough I ran the boat up on the beach Except for the seagulls. I was alone. I thought It was a beach at the tip of nowhere a four-mile walk from town I just dropped my anchor when I saw the old green bottle lying on the edge of the beach like it had just been washed to sure There was something inside it rolled up And the metal stopper that took every ounce of strength I had trying to pull it free Let me give you a hand Who are you? Sharky You don't need to look so green. I ain't gonna bite you. Well But wait, where'd you come from just now? I didn't see I was watching you from up on the dunes. Hand me that bottle There just takes a little muscle now. Let's see what you found kid She'd have paper looks more like old parts. Yeah Coin with it Old green coin looks Portuguese to me. No, no It's American It's an old gold coin where what do you know? $50 gold piece at that Yeah, what does the paper say? Well, it's old script hard to make up. Don't give me that stall make it up Well, wait it for yourself. I don't I don't read. Oh, come on kid. Come on. No need to get your back up. I can Make out the words One third to the lady Jane One third to the croaker And one third to the sea One third to the lady Jane One third to the croaker One third to the sea What is that double-talk me? I don't know There's a signature on it Captain crow That's a that's all there is And I sticking out all over your face kid. Oh, what do you mean? There's more on the back of that paper. Give it to me Part of a map This is the third of the map that went into the bottle you fetched out of the sea The second piece went to some lady Jane and another third to the croaker You get the three-thirds together and you got a map leading to a lot more than gold Now look mr. Sharky. I found the bottle and you're horning it. Oh kid. I'm not horning in I'm taking over map gold piece Right in sharky's jeans Yeah, you don't like it. You're a cheap crook. I'm gonna hike to town. Tell the sheriff. You bet your life I am kid. I never yet saw a dead man walk to town any town Yeah You're gonna kill me Sharky no the map is all yours. That's why you're blabbering around town. It isn't Good, I'm shot Julie she shot me Yeah But I don't see anybody you show from over the dunes When it's Sharky Sharky was dead and Julie showed I Watched to come down over the dunes Holding a rifle aimed and ready a Girl gotten up like a beachcomber Wearing fisherman's pants let along the thigh With long hair flying wildly Sharky done for yes, yes, he's dead You saved my life. All I did was kill Sharky Get the stuff. He stole from me out of his pocket. Yeah, sure What's all this oh just just some old junk I found in an old bottle Sharky wasn't killing you because of some old junk. I don't like liars. Mr Sharky was a liar. All right It's an old gold coin There's a letter and part of a map part of a map that leads to more gold coins Was that the way Sharky figured it? Yes, and that's how I figure it We're partners. Mr. What's your name? Smitty We're partners Smitty Now help me dig a hole for Sharky partnership is out Julie. I'm on my own. This rifle says otherwise I Just traded in Sharky for you handsome I dig that hole and start chasing down the gold The gentler sex Whoever coined that phrase never met Julie Well, I went right to the one source that could tell me the most about Captain Crow the signer of the old letter I found My informant was a peg-legged old man called Uncle Cale the village record keeper Captain Crow, huh? Funny you should come inquiring about him. Well, uh, I'm writing a book on New England History there there was a Captain Crow It was until the county hung him 20 years ago about the time I lost this leg How come you say why? Well piracy was only one of the reasons Crow had put out the signal flare lit off an old Jelico lighthouse so that pass and ships had ran into the rocks and sink. Oh, I I guess Captain Crow's scheme Met at him quite a lot. I reckon it did Everything floating to shore with salvage and Crow knew just where to lay waiting for it What went down Crow went down after diving suit. Yep, and grappling irons. Oh, I suppose he came by a lot of gold that way Yeah, I can't say he didn't There was talk once about a gold shipment that never got past them rocks off in Jelico lighthouse. Uh-huh. I Uh, I ran into a couple of funny names connected with Captain Crow I wonder if they make any sense to you and fire away Lady Jane and the Croker Lady Jane and the Croker Now where did you come by them around they mean something? They're right here in my records in the last will and testament old Captain Crow made out before the hung him I Remember reading them names like it was only yesterday. Can I uh, can I see the will? Yeah, I guess you can you'll be in the book right there. I'll go scout it up I've got it right here And my old Captain Crow himself and I see what it says ships clock grappling irons a diver suit windlass a rocker a picture of Lady Jane And there's one of your questions answered son a picture of Lady Jane Yep, a hand-painted picture of a sailing boat went to his sister right here in the village the way he wanted it Hester Crow's got the picture now hanging over a mantle What about the Croker? The Croker is written down here as a stuffed parrot stuffed parrot Who did Captain Crow leave that to his brother Tom? Yeah, Tom's got that stuffed bird sitting on the table in his parlor right now. I've seen it there See you want to hear the rest of what crow divided around in his will no, no thanks. I I know all I want to know Thanks Hester Crow and Tom Crow The surviving brother and sister of old Captain Crow I had two stops to make To pick up a painting of a ship and a stuffed parrot Yeah Pick them up somehow Buy them if I could steal them if I had to Hester Crow's cottage faced the scene as a deserted corner of the village Picking my way up a short flower path to the weather beaten front door. I Knew I wouldn't have to buy or steal the Lady Jane picture Hester Crow was just about giving up claim Inside on the floor with a face splotched green and purple and twisted as if she'd just screamed at the devil was Hester Crow Stop staring stupid and get the painting down off the mantelpiece Julie Julie you killed Hester Crow It didn't have to be murder when you're chasing gold. It's kill or be killed How'd you know to go after Hester Crow was outside the window listening to you pump that record keeper? You just thanked him and walked away sucker You got a double track back there sometimes Smitty and murder Uncle Kale. I couldn't And I'll have to do it for you. I'll get that Lady Jane picture down rip off the back well Is it there or isn't it? It's there Another one third of a map that proves the letter in that bottle with the McCoy. Yeah Yeah, I guess it does We just need the last third of that mantel the stuffed bird sitting on Tom Crow's parlor table a Stuff parrot's gonna make us rich Hey, it's telling me like that for You're crazy maybe But you're gonna be crazy about me am I You'll see Now you go down to the beach and wait for me. I'll go get that stuff bird. You're gonna kill Tom Crow You forgot what I told you about chasing gold No No, I didn't forget You said kill Or be killed I Hiked four miles back to the beach as Julie had ordered me to And I waited for her to come back with the stuffed Paris Though I was in deep Playing patsy to a crazy murderous With no way out The hours went by and the dawn came up But Julie didn't show Julie didn't show But somebody else did Somebody else came scooting along the surf in a 20-foot motorboat a burly guy with a wind tank face in a yellow Panch on a rain hat With a sheriff's badge pinned on his chest And with them piloting the motorboat onto the beach Was a short olive skinned fish Hi Came it out here. Yeah. Yeah, is it okay? I guess tears Outside the town limits here Where you from inland away a fall river on the bum sort of I'm between jobs and thought I'd like to get a little fishing in before locating again fish biting some What line you in when you work? No line, especially soda jerking odd jobs Been into the village lately Yeah, I thought I'd look it over why there's no reason especially You got any objection to look at it over some more me showing you around Do I have to maybe you do Got no reason not to want to have yet. Oh, no, why'd you ask that? There's no reason especially Old Hester crow died mysteriously last night with that shot and bother you any Didn't even know the old lady. Did you know I didn't if you're ready now we'll go and if I'm not ready now Then I'll have to take you in Son, you're Julie I don't see nobody show show From over the dunes Julie showed I Watched to come down the dunes a Rifle aimed and ready Pointing at the olive skin little guy and piloted the motorboat for the sheriff Sheriff change his mind handsome. He's dead He came to arrest me for the murder of Hester crow. That's all your knees knocking from up there Good thing for us the sheriff came along good thing and how they got a real motorboat now in a pilot with it You there. What's your name? What do we need a motorboat and pilot for get to Jellico lighthouse and get that gold Jellico lighthouse? Yeah, here's the third of that map that was sold in the stuff parrot Put the three pieces together and read it for yourself. What happens to the owner of the stuff parroted crow You just gotta know, huh? Read the map According to the directions in arrows There's something buried in the foundation of the Jellico lighthouse and there's something gold To get at it We'd have to take the whole structure down that means wrecking equipment. It's too big a job for you sure quit easy What's wrong with dynamite in the lighthouse? How do we get the dynamite by getting it? Pedro come here. Yes, you know that you want to stay alive. Oh, yes, yes, you know that Then tell us where to layer our hands on a box of dynamite. What's in your head Pedro do not know Pedro had better know Pedro did know We watched Pedro steal a box of dynamite from the private here the county construction company. I Have stole the box of dynamite, so you have Let's get out here. It's straight for the Jellico lighthouse Pedro as fast as you can push this tongue The Jellico lighthouse is over there, Senora on that little island see I throw the light on it I see it the lighthouse is abandoned, isn't it? Oh, see Senora for a long time. There is nobody in it Stop the boat here here In the middle of the water right here Turn around Pedro for four do as I say surely Pedro's house is one of you's got to go handsome. I Can't keep an eye on both of you in the dark and on that island at the same time I'm only a helpless woman Which would be smithy you are Pedro Go ahead make it me You'll kill me anyway sooner or later. Maybe I won't Ready for a Pedro see Senora if I have to die. I am ready Thank you, Senor for trying to save page We planted the dynamite in the ground level of the Jellico lighthouse during the lashing day Pencil strips of moon shining on Julie's face look like Tigris stripes There was a crazy gloating burning in her eyes. Is it all right handsome? Yes, it's okay now late the fuse The whole lighthouse will blow sky high in a minute and shower us with gold Let's get out of here before we blow up. Let's not get out of here. Let's not But you only would know you will Move and I'll shoot you Go ahead shoot I'm coming Not good enough to me Not enough left to talk Kills he kills you said He sank in my hands Fall over unconscious. I couldn't bring her to a drag myself out in time I'm here now on the beach Blinded by the blast Writing my story on the wind Son you find that code yet Uncle Calo, how'd you know to come here? I was the one who sent you here You sent me oh Sure You gave me the lead on On what lady Jane and the croaker meant more than that I Was the one who drew up that letter and map and put it into that old rum bottle for some Scavenger to find on the beach. I don't get it old captain Crowe never had me gold It was me that made you think he had by forging them writings on an old paper I tore out of a book by hiding pieces of a map in the back of that picture and in the stuff parrot Why did you do all that payment for my leg? The leg I lost all sounds crazy I lost my leg in the service of the county, but not a cent come to me for the loss I was to get my pension from the county board Except for two votes going again it two votes That's the crow and Ed Crowe voted against you. They did may they squirm everlastingly in their graves Your scheme was to get them murdered by someone who was after the pieces were mapped you planted in their homes Yeah, and it worked Jim dandy What? Why did you come here now? To laugh at me for playing sucky No son You make my peace with you before you die I left the story behind me all written out and they'll be coming here after me I've had my revenge I allow I'm touched in the head some but I Wanted to make my peace with a good lad like you before you die He's scared Not of dying so much and then of what? Someone Waiting to meet me where I'm going she Swap chalky for me I got rid of her once but I'm afraid She's gonna get me this time What do you bet now that he's crossed the great divide smithy's troubles begin to multiply Julie won't take no for an answer especially now that you know smithy's a real gone guy Did somebody say uncle Kale gambled a $50 coin and hit the crack part But what do you say we close this merriment with a moral everybody When bottle washes out of the sea don't pull the stopper sucker You might blow your own top Be with us again next week at this same time for another inner sanctum mystery This program was heard in the United States over CBS the Columbia broadcasting system and has been Re-broadcast for service men and women overseas This is the United States armed forces radio service voice of information and education