 Broadway's my beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle the gaudiest the most violent the lonesomest mile in the world Broadway's my beat transcribed with Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover You Ross Locke. That's right. You police You got a reason to come around this time of night My wife and I were just going to sleep. You were in a place earlier tonight a bar on a hundred and thirty ninth off seven Lots of bars on that street. There's an alley behind this one where a man was beaten to death Nobody at all, honey. You just go back to sleep Said a man was beaten to death a man who invited you out into an alley shoe salesman named the Ted Eberle. Oh, yeah Honey Janie, I got to go out for a while, honey. I don't you wait up for me here All right, let's go Quietly we can everybody in the house sit over there, Ross This is Detective Martin. Hi Ross. Now. We all know each other. That's right. We're gonna get along too. Aren't we Ross? Sure Tell me you're a fighter Ross welter good one Muggevin here is quite a fight fan. I just mentioned your name to me. You all about sure every time you hit the garden That was me in the aisle seat third row You had class real class Danny yeah, how many times have I told you about this boy? How many times a week? I asked myself why a boy like Ross quits resigns from the field a champ with crowbars in his face Why ask yourself? Why not ask me? All right, Ross. I'm asked Fighting That's not the way not for me the other boys. I know all the reasons why they fight all the reasons But me What's for you, Ross? I make model model kids airplanes ships and bottles things like that from blueprints inventions Buildings machine all to scale Gives them a chance to see and touch what they were dreaming about on the drafting board Gives me a chance to use my hands real fine work This game I like that sounds interesting. I like it. Sure you do You killed a man tonight Ross. I didn't kill him Well, maybe you didn't mean to at first. Maybe you forgot a boy with fists like yours deadly weapons. We call a Fighter can kill a man easy with hands like yours. I told you I haven't rush You haven't told us a thing except you were in the bar. I was sitting there with my friend. Let's talk Guy came up this slumber drunk Try to pick a fight. They do that sometimes Gives them kicks because they remember I was a fighter once sure sure they do that But this one you took out in the alley beat him to death murdered it Yeah, I took him out in the alley My arm around him tried to talk to reason with it. I'm crazy. I do that sometimes I Walked him up the alley from the bar. He broke away Came after me passed out before he got to Poor miserable drunk and after that I didn't touch him Just walked away from him Turned around walked away down the other end of the alley Hello boys Guess what I got boy. We give up Webster. What have you got a rip that ever-loving rip? Habeas cops don't talk to them anymore. Ross boy. You don't have to I'm taking you away from all this No, I know boy. I know and I'm a friend of a friend of yours Fella you haven't been very nice to Jack cold boy or former manager, but he's sure nice to you cobble here He hired old Billy Webster counseling and you're gonna get up and walk out of here just because I say so Isn't he boy? Yeah, and you too Webster leave what? The next morning look up a man named Jack cobble come up with an address of a place as he's Jim on Amsterdam go there a Jim like a thousand others sweaty hot Training quarters for ladder day gladiators class variously according to poundage records expectations boxers punchers Bums Past the middle way who's being furious at a canvas bag a lightweight being nimble with a jumping rope Brushed against a man in an overcoat who had taken a biting stance and was sneering his broken face a full-length mirror Stop a boy with a bucket and ask for a Jack cobble and be told that's him over near the ring in the purple t-shirt Your name cobble yeah, so toss it already don't stand and wave it go ahead go ahead Okay, kid do something to heavy bag three rounds Okay, what I'm from the police. I want to know what made you hire a lawyer for Ross lock You think because Christmas is over. I'm strange because I'm friendly. I just asked I'm just telling you friend of the Ross lot What's the matter with you? Don't you have friends look mr. Cobo? I'm trying to find out all I can about Ross lock as I understand it you used to manage it He was a comer he left you didn't bother you look like I'm stone sure Bothered me fighter like him given up all that dough sure door for me, too Should bothers me, but you still his friend. So I am Especially what I saw last night You were at that bar last night you saw the fight What were you when I got there trying to find Ross just tell me what happened dame standing in the doorway with a bottle I couldn't get near Ross and that slumber ran outside and around the block and up the alley Slumber was banging on Ross the names. He was calling him I'm gonna court and testify self-defense for Royce like it was Ross said he didn't put a handle on that man Maybe that's a story Ross was planning these but that's not the way it happened Me testifying my lawyers self-defense plea possibly the dead man was holding a jackknife. It'll be simple I'm gonna take care of everything. I'm gonna find me Yeah, yeah, he's here. I'll take the message sure. I'll tell him It's for you. I just don't let people to use my phone germs in the mouthpiece What was the message for me message is about the Harlem River to end the Lennox said that's where you were wanted in a hurry You leave them. Goodbye Who found her some kid looked in the river there. She was yelled for the police Got her out just a little while ago. Why'd you call me mugglin? Couldn't you handle it? I didn't think you'd want me to why didn't they tell you over the phone come on come on I wish you don't take a blanket off See Carol Bennett, uh-huh the woman who screamed murder in the alley last night You'd better look close then Murder that's right Carol Bennett Danny strangled to death You are listening to Broadway's my beat written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover For each hour of each day of the year someone dies a man steps off curb without looking in both directions a woman J walks and a child turns a corner on his bicycle without looking first Nearly 9,000 pedestrians were killed in these and other motor accidents during 1951 The fault many times is yours the pedestrian Careless walking is as dangerous as careless driving Broadway makes happy holidays for the time of the year's dying those 12 long months with not enough laughter They're going now, and it's a time for dancing So hurry up and exchange the Christmas presents get out on the street buy a noisemaker and create a stir It's the thing to do join the mob kid Everybody's making the new dreams for the new year. Maybe even today. Maybe the golden girl will smile you from the crowd and beckon Once happened to a friend of yours Oh But in my office at police headquarters no crowd just me the sergeant with papers in his hand Danny Yeah, what is it, you know? I'm worried. What's the trouble next year is leap year and it worries you go ahead laugh Make funny jokes make mockery of daddy's cares and woes. I'm not making mockery of anything. Do you know what's the trouble? My eldest youngster Tina she's 17. She told me last night the next year being we'd be it She's gonna pop the cock the patrolman rear. She's going to offer her hand and marriage to it I think that's very nice. Tina's a lovely girl ridden's a fine officer Go ahead. I stand to help us before your heckle. You're on their side. She know after all the thinking thing We've been through show did you get what I asked for first. Let me finish shoulder to shoulder. Yeah, I did Tell me about it Carol Bennett is dead from strangle unknown forced into the Harlem River and found in 1123 a.m Tell me about Carol Bennett. What did you find? Mine the misdemeanors which caused the plague of 30-day sentences by our magistrates and many unheeded lectures by same The girl prone to petty thefts etc. Where'd she live a drifter mostly outside of harm Checked out a last address early this morning through 20 bucks at a landlady and said don't bug about the change who needs it Now give you a piece of advice I think she was strangled by that raw slack so that she could not testify against them You want an old points bulletin Danny? I'll let you know. I think I know where to find Back again to the tenement where the boy had first been picked up in his day now No nighttime to veil the scarred doorways no shadow to smother the sudden crying out that pierces the corridors No night sound of trumpet to wash away the stillness that follows on it Harlem tenement Huddled close in on itself against December trying to soak up the last sunlight of a dying year and never making it Walk through the silence that happened when your foot crossed its threshold Up the flight of stairs down a hall whose walls are closer against you than they were the night before Knock on the door. Oh I thought you were someone else miss Locke. That's right. What do you want Ross? The police you the man that was here last night. Yes You took Ross away. He hasn't come home. Why you won't try to stop me if I take a look around me. This is what why should I Come on. We want him. This is not crazy. I don't know you tell me why you took him away He beat up a man last night killed it You lie you stand there and you lied to my face this morning a girl was found in the Harlem River Girl had been strangled a girl who saw Ross kill the man And you're telling me me that my Ross did all that he left headquarters late last night. Did he come home? He's a fugitive I've heard all about them fugitives. I've seen pictures on streets back home If you know where he is it'd be better Come here, mister. I want to show you something See that That's a model a model of a noodle machine Ross was working on Look how tiny those parts That's the way Ross uses his hands You're gonna stand there and tell me Ross uses his hands to kill. I Don't want to talk to you anymore. Mr. Get out And lever And leave the scars gouged out by words and fingernails and pen knives and the exchange value of a dollar Get out into what sunshine is left And call sergeant a taglier tell him to get out an all-points bulletin on Ross lock and continue with your own checking Then have detected muggerman drive you to the man who as far as you knew was the last one to have seen Ross The lawyer who had brought a writ go to the office of lawyer Webster. Glad you came Danny. Glad you dropped in You're glad I'm glad Webster. I want you to be in a happy frame of mind. I got some questions. I want to ask you Ask away. Where'd you go when you left headquarters with Ross lock? I took him home with me gave me clean shirt rate a son of blade and some hot water I wanted them to look real nice for what my client Colba. He likes people to look real nice when they come call Then that's where you took him up. I didn't say that come on Webster. You get cagey with me You're a lawyer is gonna need a lawyer You're the one daddy good old you You're ready to go downtown. We'll use my car. Why don't you just listen sometimes instead of sneering? I never said I took Ross to Colba that's all where'd he go. How do I know where he went? He walked out He wouldn't go see Colba. You know why What do you think I do Danny tap people's brains? I said let's go see Colba kid. He pushed me against the wall You know playfully So I couldn't get up for five minutes. He pushed me and walked out Personally, I don't like the question playful boys like Ross and that's all you can tell me on a bright Danny after all though. I look like a boy who would Yeah, what is it my government over the car radio, but did Over there Danny they can lock between the tenements. All right you people I get back let us through police Let us through Okay, officer. We'll take it. Give me your flash Look at him Danny It was the first thing you saw in the cooking in darkness his hands The hands that had shaped delicate things minute things Crushed broken twisted into something without form without name and stained now with dull scarlet of a fury violence The boys eyes as he looked at you considered your reaction anguish Something else Something I made you turn away that Ambulance Danny Take you me and the patrolman to clear the crowd you handle Tell your boy you can quit now cobalt. I want to talk to you like a shower kid See you in the morning. Thank you to the gym select lover. I checked your house. They told me you were down here Now let me ask you the same question What keeps you here so late keep teasing myself that kid you just saw his guts up Everything but a left hand as good as Ross lock. I doubt it Ross gets socked with both hands No more Yeah, I know That it over the radio with the rest of the bad news Every slap one of these like bags global Good for the nerves. I Get a little tense stuff when I hear news like that Put it out cobalt Kidding So cut it out. What's your mission here global? to murders and assault How bad is he? He'd be all right Won't be able to build any more models. Oh, yeah Somebody hit him over the head and behind then went to work on his hands ruined imagine Think there's somebody doing that to a guy's hands. Yeah, I can figure somebody doing that. I'm sorry. I Got you Like it now Ross couldn't fight even if he wanted to for anybody He saw his hands you I don't know shame too good boy like him can't make models can't fight Probably as many job you'd be able to do with his hands up I'll send himself from time to time No girl named Carol Bennett Sure, I know her name with a bottle of dame who saw Ross kill that man the dame you fished out of the river Who does it know her now? Why she died? That's always a reason she was blackmailing the killer of a Camden shoe salesman Man who was found beating the death last night in an alley. Yeah crazy. How could she blackmail Ross? He didn't have that kind of toe you do so But putting away for any days that gives you a long no I was standing at the doorway of the alley. She saw what happened saw that Ross didn't touch that drunk Saw Ross walk away the way Ross said he did so you believe what the boy does. Yeah, I do The way someone fixed his hands makes me believe it boy gets himself a couple of broken hands that makes him stop being a murderer Huh, let me tell you a little bit more what Carol saw She saw you She saw you finish the job on the drunk that Ross didn't get to do blackmail Give a good deal of my time to that boy Even hide him a lawyer Know why would I go do what you said? Did I suddenly go crazy? You look you'll rock a little bit you're going to appear as an eyewitness to Ross's murder that man Told me so yourself That way when Ross was acquitted he'd owe you something fight for you again Anybody ever call you a deep thinker Danny and when he wouldn't come to you You found him wrecked him Let's go down Tom Colville Be a fool Colville put down that jackknife It Like this your way On your feet in a little while Broadway will knock itself to pieces Funny fellas with funny hats to lean out of the hotel windows and pour water on the celebrants of the tin horns They'll be laughter and crowd and swirl and the fine thing the words Happy new year and Broadway means it with all its heart It's Broadway the goddess Most violent the lonesome a smile in the world Broadway My beat Broadway is my beat stars Larry Thor as detective Danny Clover with Charles Calvin as to Taglia and Jack Krushan as Muggevin The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander courage in Tonight's story Clayton Post was heard as Colbo and Roy Glenn as Ross Locke Featured in the cast were Herb Butterfield Charlotte Lawrence Jenny Lagone and Jester Herston Tomorrow afternoon don't miss the third annual gathering of CVS radio's top foreign correspondents All making their year-end reports on the state of the world Ed Murrow is the host remember it's tomorrow afternoon on most of these same radio stations It's hard-hitting. 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