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The pavements soak it up in the darkness. And like ghosts, they walk it, the stragglers, the searchers for the open door, the pleaders for a light to be turned on, hungers at their heels, but Broadway's closed for the night. There was apartment house in the 60s, the silence had its own quality. Four o'clock in the morning, becoming later, between Psalms and the forgiving man. I'll not press charges, Mr. Clover. This woman's perfectly free to walk out of here and go home. As far as I'm concerned, he does that. As far as I'm concerned, he does that. Get her off of me! Get her off of me! Did you hear what he said? Did you hear what he had nerve enough to say? You know this woman's crazy, don't you? You know I never saw her before. You sit right down there, Miss Malwood. Go ahead, sit down. I'll stay there. I just came up here to this apartment. Just a second. Well, I want to tell you why I came up here. I said just a second. Is this your apartment, Miss Malwood? No. Where do you live? Across the hall. What about you, Mr. Garrett? Where do you live? East 86, 1212. I was... Yeah? Well... Yeah? A friend of mine lives here. You still... Can't you make her keep fighting? What do you mean, you still, Miss Malwood? Sure, Peg Miller used to live here before this man murdered her and chopped her up and put her in a trunk and shipped her to South America someplace where they'll never... What? You see what I mean? She's crazy. You want to listen to me or you want to listen to him? Make up your mind. Go ahead. Crazy. Now you shut up, Garrett. You just let me talk, you hear? I live across the hall. Peg Miller was my friend. This Garrett used to come here all the time. I don't even know this lady. Now how does she know all about me? You're gonna let me talk or you're gonna let me talk? You see what I mean? Go on, Miss Malwood. This Garrett used to come here all the time. And Peg told me that's how I know. Besides, I used to see him in the hall. And Peg just one day disappeared, that's all. And tonight I heard someone in the hall at almost four o'clock and there's only two apartments on this floor and I heard someone opening Peg's door. I peeked out and it wasn't Peg. I got my gun. Look, the gun wasn't loaded so what did I do? It was so terrible. Go on. So I got my gun which wasn't loaded and I barged in here and I stood him up against the wall. I asked him where Peg was and I threatened to blow his brains out of his head if he didn't tell me what he did with Peg and he started to scream like a woman. Why don't you tell the policeman what you did when I had the gun pointed at you? Screamed like you said, which brought the police. Therefore, it served its purpose. Hard to get in here, Mr. Garrett. Well, the last time I was out with Peg, she'd given me her key to open the door. I had neglected to return it to her. Here it comes, the live. Look, are you gonna book me? Will you sign a complaint against her, Mr. Garrett? No, of course not. You can go. Good night. Okay, what's your story? I'm going to be honest with you. I came up here to collect anything I might have left around, oddments, personal things. Just in case anything ever happened to Peg, I didn't want my name linked to hers. So you just broke in here. Listen, let me tell you who I am. You said you were Floyd Garrett, aren't you? Oh, of course I am and I have a pocket of identification and, well, listen, I write a little column, country newspapers mostly, syndicated. Corny stuff, the little newspapers. Well, look, I'm Mr. Merry-Doo. Merry-Doo? I write a daily column on public relations. You know, how to get along with your fellow man, good manners, friendly things to do, how to patch up quarrels. And if my name ever got linked with her... Yeah, Peg Miller, is that her name? That's right. She's been missing, is that right? Not missing, I wouldn't say that. Gone. Oh? Of course she's gone. She took everything I gave her, didn't she? Did she? She did, a white fox stole, and a watch, a $5,000 diamond watch, and a lavalier, and she even took the portable radio. It was a small radio, fine for traveling, and she... Listen. Yeah? Two weeks ago we had an argument. After I brought her home, she packed in front of me and she left. I wouldn't do anything wrong. Do I look like... Listen, I write a column on how to get along. What are you looking at? And for a moment, consider him. Mr. Garrett, who'd come to search in corners and closets and shelves for souvenirs of the life he had had up until two weeks ago. Mr. Meridu, clean up man, need as a pin, and get him out of there. Outside, quick ebb of night time, far away, white streak of dawn, and walk a stilling avenue that at a place uptown is intersected by another, and deeper silence. Street where room is, in July heat locked in, room of the paperback book, the pot of coffee, and sleep on page 137. And this room... Leave it. And at headquarters, Sergeant Geno Tertaglia has news for you. Good morning, Danny. Morning, Geno. Thank you. Well, Danny, our day has officially begun. So let's get to work, huh, Geno? Yeah, yeah. The Department of Records, Danny. What about it? Shock full of items concerning Miss Peg Miller about whose presence or absence from our scene that riot call of last night. Shock full. Oh. The season 52-53 picked up eight times, according to my count, on various charges. Like what? In May of 52, a bar room brawl with another lady concerning a gentleman who couldn't make up his mind which lady deserved the gin fizz. In September 52, charged with tearing her apartment of the time apart, in a fit of happiness, as Miss Miller explained to the desk sergeant. In November picked up again, also through of December, January, February, et cetera, et cetera. All right, Geno, that's the... Of course, Danny. What is interesting about the record of Miss Peg Miller, Danny, is in July of 53 of last year, it comes to a halt. For a whole year after, blank. Nothing on the plot of concerning Miss Peg Miller. Which leads to a conclusion. Oh? The conclusion that this Mr. Garrett of the riot call last night took Miss Miller in hand, changed her way, made of her. Anything else, Geno? Perhaps another item of interest concerning Miss Peg Miller. Tell me. That every time she was booked, there was a certain Sir Gala had to go her bail. Who? Petty Thief, Danny, small-time hoodlum, who has also made his mark on her blotches. Who? Johnny Palmer, last known address, 1823 was 19. Oh, thank you, Geno, you've been helpful. You're welcome, Danny. Get a squad car, Muggerman, pick me up outside. Sure. Why, Tommy, why, Danny? On the way downtown. Right away, huh, Muggerman? Ride then through street corridors and swarm to the address of Johnny Palmer. Thief, hoodlum, Balesman for Peg Miller. Missing woman, who by a friend was thought dead. Place of brownstone, place where questions are to be asked. Hold it a minute, huh, Danny? I'll check the mailboxes. Yeah. Johnny Palmer, 1C, first floor rear. Come on, Muggerman. Wait a second. We're police. I wonder what talk to you. You say, uh, police? Well, that's right. Come to lock up Johnny Palmer, huh? What makes you think that? Come to put him away for the rest of his life, huh? I asked you what makes you think that. Put him in the electric chair, maybe? Why would we want to do that? Because he's no good. Don't like him, huh? Hate him. I know I'm a man who gets along with everybody. Johnny just goes against your grain. He's a thief. He sneaks around. He's got no manners. Has a fishy eye. You take a chance just saying hello to him. Here he comes now. They've come for you, Johnny. Cups have come to take you. Hey, mind your hands. Come on, come on. You better stop, Johnny. You're going to have to catch me, Copper. 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And at headquarters, late morning, a Detective Muggevin and Johnny Palmer. It's beyond you, huh, fellas? You just don't understand why I offered resistance to two fine fellas like you. Yeah, why? I'm stupid. Sometimes I can be very stupid. The earrings we found on you? Want to talk to you about that? All right. If ever again you have to shake me down, use the gentle touch, the soft touch. I respond much better. Where'd you get the earrings, Johnny? You have to know. Where'd you get them? Found them. You mean heisted? Uh-uh, I mean found. You know a girl named Peg Miller? Why do you have to know? Where is she? That why you came looking for me because you wanted Peg? Yeah. I don't know where she is. Why you want her? Just looking for her. You're the logical man to ask where she is, Johnny. Why? Why out of a city of millions? Because out of this city of millions you're the only man who went bail for Peg when she needed bail. Yeah? Yeah, I bailed her out. Times I can't even remember. She's been reported missing, Johnny. What? Missing. You think she's dead? That why she's missing? What are you two fine fellas trying? We're just trying to find out where Peg Miller is, Johnny. That's all. Yeah, but the words you use. Dead. Peggy. Dead? If she's not dead, where is she, Johnny? I swear it. I'm leveling with you two fine fellas. I don't know where Peg is. A year ago she kissed me goodbye and she said, it's good. It's been good being a soft touch to you, Johnny, baby. After that, I haven't laid eyes on her, so help me. Dead. You think... Yeah? I'm ready in the show-up room, Danny. Thanks, you know. I think I'm down muggling. Hey, fellas. Come on, Johnny. Now, fellas, why me? What bit do you want me for in a show-up? What do I do? You find things, Johnny. We want to show you to some people been screaming they lost thing. Come on. And detail, then. Routine that weighs down the minute hand and moves it over the clock's face. The trick that takes hours to perform causes late morning to become noon, and then one o'clock causes the minor half-hour explosion known as lunch for the boys in the office. Causes it to become two o'clock. Interrogation room, Danny. I'm waiting for you. Walk the corridor of headquarters now. Green-painted hallway leading to this place and that. Bulletin board festooned with slogans concerning death. Logans concerning duty. Concerning neatness. Concerning courtesy. Suggestion box crammed full with suggestions. A notice of a third annual dance that one of Officer Adler's clubs is giving. Corridor, and the end of it. An interrogation room. With an ice-pick. With an ice-pick. I will wait for the bus. Hi, Danny. Just go on, Mrs. Stubman. Who's he? Don't bother about it. Just go on. I beg your pardon, but when I happen to be... Lieutenant Clover. How do you do, Lieutenant? I'm Terry Stubman. Hello. That man I saw in the... The show-up? Yeah, the show-up. That's the fellow, or my name ain't Terry Stubman. She means Johnny Parma, Danny. She picked him out, and Mrs. Mills picked him out. Mrs. Mills got so upset at the memory of it, she just passed out. Not me. Not her. Tell Lieutenant what happened. Yeah. I was waiting for the bus. It was quite late. I was all alone at midnight. When this man, this fellow approached me. He pointed an ice-pick right against my cheek. Here, Mr. C. See where I'm pointing? Then this fellow walked me into an alley and removed what jewelry I was wearing. You gave me a list, Danny. What jewelry I was wearing. Together with money. Had it not been for... Well, that is, had it not been for his peculiar sense of humor and leaving me busted, Danny. That's about it, Danny. He mugged Mrs. Stubman, arrived to say to Mrs. Mills, probably others. Well, thanks, Mrs. Stubman. Oh, it was quite an experience. People don't believe me to this day that I was... Thank you very much. I'll open the door for you. Thank you very much indeed. Okay, Geno, bring him in. Let's go. And remember what I told you, Mr. Palmer. Answer the lieutenant's questions truthfully. Thanks, Geno. Sit down, Johnny, right there. Mrs. Stubman said you held an ice-pick under her eye, Johnny. How many years goes with that, fellas? What about it, Johnny? No deal, huh? No. Another dame at the show? Mrs. Mills. Identified me too, huh? Positively. Not a doubt. Fellas. Yo. I'm sorry for my life of crime. I'd be very happy to write out a hot-belt message to kitties everywhere telling them that our ice-pick should be used only as far as ice is concerned. Hit, Danny. And the crime... Report from Adler. Went over, Johnny. He's only found nothing. He says, here, ice-pick. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, it says there, ice-pick. What'd you do with the stuff you stole, mugging? The knick-knacks I hawked for expenses. Mrs. Mills mentions a diamond brooch worth about 500. Safe deposit box. Look, fellas... Yeah, we don't know how sorry you are. It's not that I was underprivileged, but both of my parents were drunks. They were very wealthy. So they could buy all the booze they could bible. So I never saw them except in a drunken state. Where's the safe deposit box, Johnny? Rock's the national. Look, fellas. Cut it out. I think I should have a psychiatrist and not a jailer. I've been through a lot. Nothing, huh? Ah. Here you are, gentlemen. Safe deposit box. Thank you, Miss. Thank you very much. My, my. Look at that, Danny. Yeah. Johnny Palmer must have figured a year of rainy days. Just feel this stuff, Danny. A lot of them. It feels good. I better feel good on my wife, too. Now, this diamond brooch, for instance. Just like Mrs. Mills said, worth half a grand in any light you look at it. How much do you think this will be worth? Yeah, let me see. Oh, the Mrs. looked at a watch like that once on Park Avenue. I had to drag her away by the scruff of it. What do you figure it's worth? The price tag on Park Avenue said 5,000. That's because the Mrs. explained to me it's got baguette diamonds and square cut diamonds tastefully and beautifully arranged in a pattern. What's it say in the back, Danny? From over your shoulder, I can't see. From Floyd Garrett to Peggy Miller. The time of our love. It says that, huh? Uh-huh. How come a gutting Johnny Palmer's piggy bank? Floyd Garrett said Peg Miller took a wither win. Uh-huh. That's what Floyd said. Let's go, Margaret. Come and see me, Danny. This is my time of need. Wait here, Sergeant. Johnny? Uh-huh. Time of need is right, Johnny. Look, what if I plead I'm a practical joker going slightly off base? I doubt it, Johnny. How you going to explain away suspicion of murder? Now wait. How you going to explain it? Now wait! What murder? If Peg Miller turns up dead, her murder. Why should she turn up dead? She said if. Okay, start with the if and then show me how I killed her. You ever see this watch? Sure. How'd you get it? Peg gave it to me. Gave it to you? She wanted me to have it. Send a metal fool that I am. I took it. A lady's diamond watch. Suppose I'm hungry in a snowstorm someplace and there's a pawn shop and me holding this watch. I'd be in fair shape, huh? So it's a lady's watch. Floyd Garrett said she left with this watch and you turned up with it. Floyd Garrett, her boyfriend. Uh-huh. I'm going to tell you about the watch. All right. She gave me the watch to pawn in case I ever needed money. A gift. On the condition I had a rhinestone job made to replace it because Floyd Boy liked to see her wrist and what he thought was his watch. Johnny, is that the truth? I just don't want a murder raffle hand on me. What I told you, I swear, Danny. Look, I swear like this. It's the truth. The truth. What do you want from me? Detective Muggevin. Hi, Mr. Muggevin. Wanted to come in. Now that's an invitation if I ever heard one. Mr. Garrett. Yes? Is that true what the lieutenant told me? Well, if the lieutenant told you, I'm sure it was. But, uh, what was it? Well, that you're really Mr. Mary do. Yes, yes, I am. Well, uh... Tell me you read my column. Yeah, once I did. Once in the army a friend of mine got a sponge cake wrapped in a terra hote beacon. It was reading material for a month. Yeah, I've heard of that sort of thing happening time and time again. Oh, lieutenant. Uh-huh? I hope you don't mind. Mind what? I was impressed with you. The way you handled yourself last night. Well, thanks a lot. So, I've taken the liberty. Oh, what kind of liberty? Wait. Will you listen? All right. Last night I had occasion to watch one of New York's finest... What's that for? Publication. Mr. Mary doing his annual visit to Old Bagdead on the Hudson. I'm going to subscribe to that terra hote beacon. You're kidding me. Let's talk some more about Peg Miller, Mr. Garrett. I'd rather not. Well, that's anyhow. Have you heard from her? Peg? Peg. No. When do you think you'll be hearing from her? Look, I'm just a columnist. Not a clairvoyant. Like she's dead? How would I know? You know a man named Johnny Palmer? Johnny Palmer? Hoodlum. Right out of Old Bagdead on the Hudson. You know the type. Carries guns, makes up to other fellow's girls right under their noses. What do you want from me? You sure you don't know where she is? What do you want from me? Just answer the question. You know the kind of a girl she is just as well as I do. Why? You mean she's dead? She's not around anymore. The woman across the hall said... She's crazy. You'll know that. She said you killed Peg. She's crazy. You said you had an argument with her before she left. That's right. About what? You know the kind of girl she is. It's easy to have arguments with girls like that. What was the argument about? I don't remember. About money? Maybe. I don't remember. You treated her very nicely, didn't you, Mr. Garrett? Of course. Regular Mr. Murray do. Are you shut up? Gave her foxtails, a lavalier, radio. Gave her this, too. Huh? Take a look. Well then, you found her. You don't believe it. Turn the watch over. And plug Garrett. So you found her. Listen. Yeah. Listen. When I buried her with all that stuff, that jewelry... Yeah. You thought we figured you just took her nicest belongings in Blue Town? Yeah. You know what she was? Oh, sure. Sure. I drove her out to Long Island, out to the point. Montauk where you found her. I thought the scenic... Oh, what's the use of talking? Now go ahead and talk. All she wanted was money. All my money, all of it. Not me, not anything else. Just money, money, money, money, money. Listen, what I did, I wish I could have written about it. You tell us. I strangled her. I drove her all the way back to Manhattan. I came up to her apartment. Got the things you found. The fur and the watch and the radio. You drove all the way back to Montauk. And buried her in the dune. How could you possibly have found her? Mr. Gath, the watch you buried with Peg Miller was a copy. Not this watch. 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In tonight's story, Jack Edwards was heard as Floyd and Jerry Hausner as Johnny. Featured in the cast were Charlotte Lawrence, Martha Wentworth and Junius Matthews. Bill Anders speaking. This is the CBS Radio Network.