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Who knows but everyone knows what anchor Hawking is famous for anchor Hawking is the most famous name in glass Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is Tony Marvin every week at this time the anchor Hawking Glass Corporation of Lancaster, Ohio And it's more than 10,000 employees bring you another adventure of Casey crime photographer Ace cameraman who covers the crime news of a great city Written by Alonzo Dean Cole our adventure for tonight the gentle strangler April spring around nine o'clock in the evening a quiet neighborhood From one of these homes a dignified white-haired gentleman emerges and strolls leisurely down a tree-lined Avenue a man appears from the shadow of one of the trees and Can I beg the favor of a light? light I Wish to smoke. I have a cigarette and no math. No, certainly My lifetime Thank you You are judge Whitcomb. Are you not? Yes, I've seen your picture in the papers. Really? May I walk with you to the next corner? If you wish good evening judge, oh good evening dr. Crawford beautiful night lovely lovely Spring is finally here. Yes, that's spring the end of winter the beginning I Don't recognize you sir You live in this neighborhood. No, I Do not live anywhere I beg your pardon. I say I do not live I do not understand you will Because the dead do not live That dead. Yes judge Whitcomb this clump of evergreens here. They are the dense They cast deep shadows. Why are you choking me? You see judge? You do not live anymore You do not live Hold on a second guys will you want to get a shot of you putting that body in the dead wagon? Okay, Casey Okay, got it. Thank you Slime him in Jim. Let's go now Logan How did old judge Whitcomb get it? Oh the captain's just been telling me you strangled Casey by a person unknown Strangle like Assistant District Attorney Dunning got his last week and a you newspaper people gonna make things sweet for me Miss Williams if I don't crack both cases no hurry when big shot citizens like a judge and an assistant DA aren't safe within a Few minutes walk of their own front doors pal There's obviously something wrong someplace. I'm in no mood for kidding. Who said I was kidding nuts Okay, when was the judge strangled about nine o'clock? It started out for his usual evening walk shortly after he left his house a doctor Crawford who lives in the next block Saw him with a strange man Except that he was a big guy and the doc can't give any description of the stranger Well, nothing was stolen from the judge Casey Apparently the motive wasn't robbery any more than it wasn't the Dunning murder when a criminal court's judge and an assistant DA get killed within a week of Each other Logan and are killed the same way or it looks as though someone they sent to jail is pulling a pay off Dunning prosecuted an awful lot of crooks before judge Whitcomb hundreds miss Williams It won't be easy to figure the particular one who killed him both this thing tonight at least looks like a tire No other man last seen with the judge is described as big that's something I'm heading downtown to check all cases Dunning prosecuted in Whitcomb's court, then we'll see how much those some things are Joe will you take care of that lady over at the table? She wants a glass a half and half. That's a third ginger ale Such people come in here miss Williams ask for the darnedest things. I'll have another glass of water pal There you see what I mean. Mm-hmm your pretzels Ethelbert have given him a thirst That's the idea of having pretzels on the bar But a thirst for water don't pay our rent or our license. I'll tell you what I'll come in here someday by a beer Ethelbert That is when the price comes down. Have a pretzel Annie Mind if I do while you two are eating up the profits What's new on them strangling cases? Don't you read the papers? Sure? I do and I think it's a crying shame the way They're all picking on Captain Logan You and miss Williams told me he ain't got a single clue to work on outside of the idea that Dunning and Judge Whitcomb was killed by the same man Yeah, well that idea is beginning to pay off now Ethelbert Logan made an arrest this evening He did and looks as though he has the right man. Well, tell me about it. Well about each year's ago Lloyd Dunning prosecuted a crook named Rankin before Judge Whitcomb on a burglary charge got a conviction And the judge gave Rankin the limit Rankin claimed he'd had a raw deal made a lot of big threats He was released from prison just a week before Dunning was strangled He's a big man and he has no alibi for the times when the killings took place. Have another pretzel Little more water effort for both of us. You know that water's on a meter, don't you? This has become an outright swindle. Hey, you better fill the pretzel bowl up to we're touching bottom down here Okay, but oh, excuse me, that's the bar food his pretzels were saved by the bell, Annie Luno cafe Ethelbert speaking Yeah, he's right here your city editor Casey. Oh, all right. Give me it take it. Hello, Burke That's it. Oh, wait a minute Oh now work. Well, okay. All right. I got a pencil ready. Go ahead shoot All the way on Market Street just south of 12th. I got it Huh? What's happened there? What? We're on our way work right now. What is it Casey another strangling any another detective got it this time and Rankin didn't do the job He's locked up in jail that corpse was Barney Lennon Casey One of my homicide guys and one of the best he was a swell cop Logan swell guy, too You know this strangler must be an awfully strong guy Barney was no pushover Oh, this strength. They must have gotten them unaware. He must have you know Barney Lennon must have arrested the man whom Dunning Prosecuted and judge Whitcombe sentence. Oh, maybe these three strength things are wholly unrelated Maybe we're dealing with a maniac killer. Maybe a maniac Logan But it's stretching that long arm of coincidence too far to believe that these three jobs are unrelated Yes, three law enforcement officers in the same way and within three weeks Hmm a job a week Killer may give us proof of relationship Logan next week Mr. Candy don't never have I offered anyone such a bargain in my shop and almost new speed graphic camera With a double plasma plan. I need another camera like you need 12 tow and sell one of your old ones I'll make you a trade if I lose money, so If you lost money on a deal, so would it be a miracle I'm trading no cameras today Yeah, I'll say a man can only try you know send out that stuff I ordered first thing in the morning with him for you, Mr. Candy I'll have it delivered as soon as I open the shop and don't forget. I need those photo folders, especially you'll get them The new business is doing good. I can't complain When I think of you running a photographic studio that specializes in taking pictures of little children I Used to be a press photographer taking shots of fires and accidents and political convention It was those conventions that made me decide to leave the newspaper business. Good night. Well, I'll take you to the door Then I'm going to lock up and go home myself. There wouldn't be any more business tonight that big guy looking in your window Maybe a customer and don't be crazy. He's just a window shop. I can always tell Well, good night, Mr. Candy. Don't mind Jag and don't forget that early delivering first thing in the morning. You'll get it I got it all written down Nice camera that you have in your window the best up money can buy mister. I'd like to buy one You'd like to say well a man could be wrong. I beg your pardon I was just saying to my last customer that you was only a window shopper. I was going to close up Come on in Thank you You are the proprietor of this that's me now. What kind camera can I show you do you keep other things besides camera? Anything for taking pictures. I got it. Well This toy so small. I got a big stock room in front before I select a new camera. I had in mind a And enlarger well, I got that big stuff in back now What size do you want now bring it out to save you the trouble suppose I go with you and look Okay, okay this way and what a bargain I can give you like none you ever had before in your life If it's a four by five you want I got an open denser's and if it's a five seven I got an only simple projection that would make you only you I want Only you I want only you Oh This strengthening proves we're dealing with a madman Casey this Jake Bloomberg had nothing to do with the law He simply ran a little camera shop. Jake once had something to do with law enforcement Logan Yeah, he was the star witness Annie in a murder case. Hey, I remember now Yeah, I thought you would pal. It was his testimony that got that Ivan off girl a death sentence. Mm-hmm. 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Okay, Annie was before you came to work on the paper 1939 or 4039 war just started in Europe. Yeah, well a gal named Irene Ivan off was suspected of poisoning some guys She handed him a poison cocktail. Casey. What did you have to do with this case? Casey discovered that Irene Ivan off had bought the poison at Jake Bloomberg's camera shop in the form of a chemical used in developing Photographs now he got Jake to identify her and that convinced a jury assistant district attorney Dunning Barney Lennon and I were able to show that the Ivan off dame never even snapped a camera shutter in her life And had no legitimate use for photographic supplies before judge Whitcomb could sentence her she committed suicide Yep, got hold of a razor blade in jail and cut her wrists When her mother heard the news she had a fatal heart attack and they were buried together This Irene was an only child Casey. How does the strangler tie in with this? You say the Ivan off girl was an only child and that she and her mother are dead What about the father before the murder? He had gone back to Russia and the Soviet government with a war headed its way kept him over there And he heard what had happened to his wife and daughter miss Williams Poor fellow had to be put in a madhouse Well, you think he's been released in his back in this country. It's possible after what's happened. I'd say it's probable Well, then all you have to do is is to find it Yes, Williams, how do you find a man? You've never seen who has no criminal record? Now the only thing I can remember even being said about him Logan in a descriptive way I mean was that he was a big and a gentle guy I don't remember the gentle part But his bigness clicked with me as soon as you mentioned the Ivan off case Did anybody see a big guy come into this camera shop before Jake was killed? I don't know but the last sale he made before he was killed was for stuff to be delivered to a mr. P. Candido Candido. Yeah, here's his order book with the name and address Hey, that's Pat Candido Pat sure Pat Candido, you know him Logan He used to be an ex on the news and if Pat happened to see that big guy It's been his business to notice things. Come on. We're calling on Candido right away A medical examiner says that Jake was killed at about 7 30 Candido You say you left his shop at about that time. Yes, Jake said he was closing up his place and going home But I saw someone go in right after I left. What do you look like Pat? He was big Casey that's all I can tell you about all you got to tell us more than that fella That guy was Jake's murderer not think I've been thinking He was just a big guy I saw looking in a window and never expected to see again You were supposed to be a hot press photographer before you got soft and went into the baby picture racket You were supposed to have a nose for news. Who was my nose supposed to tell me who's gonna commit a murder? I'm sorry Pat. I'm sorry. I'll let you down Casey, but I just don't remember Wait a minute That big guy has eyes like a baby's like a bit What do you mean? I take pictures of young kids all day and well the babies the infants Their eyes are different. They seldom focus when they look at you They seem to look through you and all around you and not at you. Yeah, I know what you mean Pat But that isn't much help But the best you can do for us, huh? That's all I can do for you. Yeah, well, thanks pal It's at least more than we had before now that isn't enough to give Casey warning of a man who undoubtedly Intends to strangle him next week. Now. What are you going to do about that captain Logan? I would worry miss Williams. Casey won't be alone any moment of the day or night from now on What do you mean? I won't be alone. Well, I'm not particularly concerned about your skin And I want to catch a murderer and your bait wherever you go and whatever you do a cop will be right beside you You know, I I feel like a two-year-old kid that isn't allowed out without his nursemaid It's bad enough in the daytime But when I have to look at one of you cops in my own apartment at night I don't like it any better than you do Casey if you're a pleasant company It wouldn't be so bad, but you do nothing but great. Well, I I'm sorry mac Would you like a drink? I would yeah But if I touched the drop and the captain found it out, I'd be back to pavement pounding in a uniform When he gives orders to guard a guy he means you don't do it with liquor under your belt That's there's an even any sociability with you lug. Well, you ought to be glad we're on our toes You know Casey, it's just a week ago tonight since jake blumberg was knocked off And you're next I could handle that strangler by myself. I'm not anemic You don't know the guy Casey Wonder if Ivanoff has a russian accent. No, it isn't likely He was brought to this country as a kid and lived here most of his life. Yeah, that's right Well, it's almost midnight mac. Yeah start work tomorrow on the 8 a.m. Shift. Somebody's will hit the sack I'll be able to do a little sleep in myself tonight. Hope my relief shows up at 12 sharp Who is your relief tonight? Oh, some guy named Norris. I don't know him He's a uniform cop from the precinct house uniform cop Yeah, detective bureau has enough men to do all its work right now, Casey We homicide guys especially have more than we can do. I know that Of course a plain clothes guy like me will pick you up in the morning. That'll be something I look forward to Well, I hope patrolman Norris won't mind a little fancy snoring Well, I'm gonna change into my pajama All right, this is the place Norris Casey's apartment's 3b Thanks for giving me a lift here lieutenant Sorry, I was going this way. I remember your instructions lad. No sleeping on this job. Keep your eyes open and your ears working Anything happened to Casey while you're on duty. It'll be too bad for you And if you're lucky enough to nab the strangler, you can store away that uniform get yourself a detective shield I'll be on the job, sir All right, you find a drive at yourself elevator back of the lobby stairs. Good night Norris. Night lieutenant Good evening officer evening Going to mr. Casey's apartment Who wants to know I'm a friend of his just left him the detective with him said he was expecting his relief I see. Here's the elevator. I just got out of it pressed number three button there. Oh, thanks You went to sleep nice and quiet officer hardly a sound I'll take you to the roof and tie up You're big like me Your uniform will fit me fine That relief cop is over five minutes late already Casey. Well, you're actually off duty now mac. How about that night cab? No, no, thanks. Not the guy gets here. Hmm here. I'm already to hit the beauty rest and you keep me up because I Will give you a little hospitality for your shovel. Well, there's your relief. No, I'll get him Yep, keep away from that door. Casey. What do you mean? Just might be the bird. I'm gording you against the whole nuts Who's there off the norris 23rd briefing Okay, just a minute Cop with a lisp one of our best dicks on the safe and law squad stutters. Yeah, I know him All right, come in Norris. Thanks. I'm your relief. Yeah an elite relief. I'm sorry. It couldn't be helped Yeah, well, I'm sorry too. All right. Give me that night cap. Casey and I'll get out of here Okay, mac. How about you norris? No, thank you Yeah, I guess you know your orders. Yeah You know, I never run into you before in norris. My name is mackaboy. Nice to know you. I'm casey Nice to meet you Nice. Here's your poison mac. Oh, thanks, casey. Well, here's how Well, I'm heading for home now You lock the door when I go out norris and take care of this lug casey I'll take care of him. You'll find me pain in the neck, but you'll have to stand for that Sock him if he gripes too much and put him to sleep I may do that. Come on get out of here mac. Yeah, I'm on my way casey. Good night. All right. Good night Now I'll lock the door I'm going to bed norris I've got a lot of magazines on that table for you to read if you want some books and a case and this bottle Help yourself to all of them. Thanks very much You've got a long dreary night ahead of you All night long Well, I'd hate to have your job sitting up guarding a guy that snores. Maybe you won't snore tonight You're an optimist Yeah, good night. Good night Uh Say, uh, yes How did a guy like you ever decide to be a cop? It was a means to an end. What an Excuse me. I I'm getting kind of personal on such short acquaintance, but It seems such a gentle sort of fellow that I Gentle Why do you look at me like that mr. Casey? Just sizing you up How do you size me up? Okay You're okay I think I'll have a nightcap. I prescribe it Do you want to join me? No, thank you Detective McEvoy should be out of the building now. Well on his way home. Don't you think? Yeah I think so too And since we won't be disturbed. Oh, you don't my eyes the whiskey. Yeah, I've got a full glass right in them I even off I've got my hand on you now. You'll die like the other who killed my daughter It moves so quick, but you're not gonna strangle me again. I have a gun. Thank you won't use it though How was that precise now try this on your whiskers? You'd ever really gotten those big mitzvahs around my neck Hello headquarters. Give me captain Logan. Were you? He isn't in, huh Well when he comes in Tell him casey called And to send a wagon up to my joint for the strangler Yeah, yeah, he's sleeping right now in my apartment and I'm afraid I'll wake him up if I start to snore Yo, wait a minute give Logan another message for me Tell him my opinion of his idea about having me guarded is just fooling Breakfast time tomorrow morning is a long way off and that makes breakfast just about the most important meal of the day Now when I was a small boy breakfast was an exciting experience on my grandmother's table There was always a great plate of hot golden brown toast and at least a half dozen different jellies jams and preserves To add zest and sparkle to those good old-fashioned breakfasts Now that's one reason we're so glad tonight to salute the preserve industry council of america for its magnificent campaign To brighten up the breakfast toast with mouthwatering strawberry and apricot sweet tart orange marmalade in blackberry jam Fragment apple butter and currant jelly by how much more inviting they can make your breakfast table They wet young appetites provide quick energy to see you through the day Practically all preserves come to you today in crystal clear sanitary glass containers Anchor glass containers and modern anchor hocking sealing methods Not only protect these superb products of tree and bush and vine More perfectly than any methods known to our grandparents, but they also provide a stimulating colorful rainbow on the table Always serve a variety of jams jellies and preserves at breakfast Anchor glass containers and easy to remove anchor caps are both products of anchor hocking The most famous name in glass But uh, kasey, how did you get wise to that ivenoff guy in the cops uniform? His eyes were like a baby's apple bird. They didn't focus your eyes of mad people are often like that Yeah, when ivenoff is as crazy as they come poor devil He's going to spend the rest of his life in a nut house Of course those funny eyes pat candido notice Put me on guard. You see I Well, I filled that whiskey glass just in case I wasn't going to take any chances And ivenoff had the cops revolver apple bird and kasey couldn't take chances How'd you find the cop whose uniform ivenoff had taken he was on the roof tied up and gagged Otherwise, he was okay. ivenoff had been listening outside kasey's door He'd heard the name of the cop that was to relieve maccaboy and that maccaboy didn't know him personally So he just put for naras to sleep and took his place seems to me that for a crazy guy He went about his strangling business in a pretty smart way well Insane people often have a very sane side pal and vice versa Why look at me? I wasn't looking at you kasey I was looking at that pretzel bowl. Oh, well don't just look at it. It's empty again. Fill it up Yeah, and ethyl bird. I know two more glasses of water. 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