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This is Tony Marvin every week at this time the anchor-hawking glass cooperation 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 mysterious lodger About 10 o'clock in a private office at police headquarters a telephone rings a big man in civilian clothes reaches for its receiver and I'm a sad euro captain Logan speaking Is this a place to report a murder? It is lady. I think I got one for you. Who's this speaking? I'm Maggie Myers to be really proper I'm Mrs. John Robney Myers. I'm a widow. Now. What's the address 1139 Midland Street 1139 Midland That's right. It's my larger a lady who roams with me who's been killed I think oh what makes you think that well you get out here and look through the keyhole of the door Like I just did and you'll see now we'll be there right away. Mrs. Myers. I'll be waiting for you. Goodbye Sergeant Flanigan, yes captain tell the tech squad and a doc to follow us to 1139 Midland Street Are you go with me? Yes, what happened to 1139 Midland Street, huh Casey? What are you two doing here? Don't we usually drop in to acquire what's happening in the murder department? It seems we picked just the right time today. Okay, Miss Williams you and that lug with the camera follow my car come on Logan's car stopped in front of that little cottage. Hmm. I'll park right behind him. Hey, this is a crummy neighborhood, Annie Yeah, we're not gonna get any front-page stuff here. Oh, look The little old woman just came out of that door. Are you Mrs. Myers? That's me Maggie Myers. Mrs. John Robney Myers. Well, I'm Captain Logan. This is Sergeant Flanigan How to do please to meet you and come in remember we're in this party to Logan Who says followed with a picture park just a press photographer, Mrs. Myers pay no attention to him Oh, you're here to take pictures of me with your brownie young man my brat Definitely, Mrs. Myers. Oh come in young man and make yourself to home you and your lady friend both Oh, and be sure and wipe your feet on the mat. Oh, thank you Now where's this larger of yours whom you think in the front bedroom just off my parlor here there The door is locked. It's the only room I rent out the only room I got to rent matter of fact sergeant Take a squint through this keel See if you see what I'm seeing. It's only four rooms in this place Polly kitchen and front and back bedrooms. There's a dame lying on the floor in there captain and I'd say she'd been stabbed I used to have a nice big house when my husband was alive six rooms and bath. I will break in the door Pay for that. No, we can't think of that now lady together planning it One pushes all the door like that needs Hey, there's dame on the floor stone core. It's been dead brawer Look at this knife in her back captain pushed into the hill hold it everybody Thanks, thank you. You know you can't take pictures until I say so now all of you keep out of this room I don't want you stepping on possible evidence why captain none of us have come inside that room You know we know better than that when I'm watching you poor miss Patrick Is that the dead woman's name mrs. Myers? Yes Alice Patrick at least that's what she told me Such a nice quiet woman. She wasn't and she paid a rent so regular. I want to hear all you know about her very soon Now she's a big girl about 45 Only a husky guy could have driven that knife so deeply into her back that was done with one clean stroke Surge yeah took muscle to do that captain got any idea who was in this room with your larger last night mrs Myers no I haven't junkman miss Patrick come home alone about eight o'clock last night said good evening And then she went into a room and I heard her lock the door Oh, where did you find that she'd been killed? Well when it got near ten o'clock this morning and her door was still shut I've begun to get a little worried why cuz I did that's why Yeah Go on please well finally I called her and she didn't answer then I did what any woman would do it look through the keyhole After that I run out the corner store where there's a phone and called you This door wasn't only locked on the inside of the key lock and it was fastened with a bolt I told you not to come in here casey. I'm only poking my head around the door frame The killer never left this room by the door captain. That's pretty obvious miss Williams. He used that winner He couldn't have done that captain that wind is locked. This is Myers. It's open two inches from the bottom. I say it's locked I know my own house try it. Okay It is locked in this position locked from the inside by them spring bolts in the frame Miss Patrick always left it like that at night open enough to get fresh air But not open enough so even a cat could get in Somebody stabbed miss Patrick in a room they couldn't get out of but how it's very simple. Oh, it is Can I come into the room pal? I'll watch my step. No, come on. Thanks. Now look This is an old-fashioned type of window without counterweights To raise or lower the sash you pull out two spring catches on the side Well the round spring bolts in the sash snap into holes in the casing and lock When they hit those holes Which can be prevented? Probably to delay discovery of the body the killer wanted to leave the window as he found it open about two inches So he he ran a pair of thin strips or something Maybe maybe cardboard between the sash and the casement climbed outside lowered the window Pulled out his strips and let the spring locks shoot into place It could have been done that way easy captain. I couldn't see that myself now Casey You just roamed a nice mystery Who could have been strong enough to drive that dagger into this Patrick's bag and step back into your parlor Mrs. Myers I want you to tell me all you know about miss Patrick. Yes, sir There's urgent that sounds like the tech squad outside. Oh, listen to all the clacks and Let him in and have to give that room the words. Yes, sir. Oh, Mrs. Myers I how long have you known miss Patrick only two months since she rented my room. She was a very mysterious woman Mysterious serious captain mysterious Now there's some of what you've been saying Mrs. Myers this woman Alice Patrick answered an advertisement you put in the paper Yes, sir. It said refined lady has pleasant furnished room to rent an own That's beside the party. I decided to take a larger captain not so much because I needed the money Though I could use it of course as because I get kind of lonesome And I figured having another woman in the house gone over that the point Mrs. Myers is that this woman never told you anything about herself. That's why I say she was mysterious captain Most women do tell things women like to talk I see that another thing She never went out of the house without leaving her suitcase locked. How did you discover that? How do you suppose I discovered it? Sergeant Flanigan Sergeant yes, sir bring that suitcase here if the tech man or finish with it. Okay, captain I'm just coming out for you the doctor like to have you in there for a minute. All right. Excuse me, Mrs. Myers. I'll be right back Say, uh, Mrs. Myers whose picture is this on the wall? It's this beautiful woman Believe it or not. Mr. Casey. That was me 50 years ago. You know, I figured it was No, I'm all wrinkled and shrunk up Your face still has the nice lines of the girls in this picture. Are you just kidding? But it's nice of you to do it. Oh, really. I'm not kidding. My husband John used to say pretty things like that John's been dead now for 14 years Tell us about yourself and your husband Mrs. Myers. Well, I probably don't look like much to you now But John and me was once somebodies. Oh, you never heard of Maggie Garland Uh, well, no, no, I oh, of course you didn't Maggie Garland was my stage name back in your grandfather's day You were an actress dramatic Sue Brett. I Wasn't a very good one. I guess but I looked real good in tights My husband was a real soap. Nobody though. What'd he do John Rodney Myers was educated He wrote a book. Yeah about historical things. There's the book. He wrote on my table. May I look at it? Yes, but handle it careful. It's old and not very strong like me. I'll be careful Let me see Casey Hmm Arms and armor of the Middle Ages. Oh, he was an authority on such things Colleges and museums used to ask for his opinion He knew all about battle axes and swords and newspapers and magazines used to mention his name and mine too You might mention that when you write your piece. I will Mrs. Myers very interesting Oh He is that dreaded captain back here. Mrs. Myers Don't you know of any big or very strong people who were associated with Miss Patrick? Well, I don't know if you'd call my next-door neighbor associated with her, but I know he's been bothering her How was he bothering her? Well, Sam Mulvey will bother anything that wears skirts Especially when he's drunk the guy's a wolf, huh Sam Mulvey's what I call a masher It made Lena glasheimer mad is all get out when Sam took a shot in a miss Patrick What was a Lena glasheimer mad about she was jealous? She wants to marry Sam Mulvey. You're finally telling me something that may help my investigation Have you looked into a suitcase yet? No, but I've got it here also the key my man found it in the dead woman's purse Let's open it up. Yeah, I am Hmm Only a few papers in there. We'll see what they're Casey hey, I've seen papers like that one before it's a parolees discharge from Avon prison name of Alice Patrick I've Alice I say she's the game. Oh, I know the parole boy that around last fall after she'd serve 20 years of a life sentence You saying miss Patrick my larger was a murderous Bet you was she carved up a guy named Clems Shirley It was a big-time rum runner back in prohibition days, Mrs My and now she's been killed with a knife Oh Casey this is finally beginning to look like front page say it is we can resurrect the whole story of the Shirley murder Alice I have trial or 20 years in prison everything. I never would have dreamed Now I can imagine why she was afraid of that man Man what man the mysterious miss is my lady will you please talk straight She told me if this man ever came to the house. I was to say she didn't live here She described him to me and one day he did come I seen him watching the house And when I told it she liked to die at a fright now you tell me about this Well, you didn't ask me about the mysterious man before Course now I figure he was a detective who was watching her Mrs. Myers Let me figure hold it power. Wait a minute. Mrs. Myers. Will you describe the mysterious man to us course? I will boy. He was a big gray haired fellow with with a little black moustache Oh and a long scar on his left cheek a scar. She's described each early the brother of the rat that Alice Ives killed He's paid that day more for knifeing his brother. Casey. This will be a story and You'll be in it to Mrs. Myers as the star witness We're on your hat and coat Mrs. Myers We're going to headquarters where you can look at Pete Shirley's picture and if you identify him this case will be all washed up That's the picture of the man I saw captain the man miss Patrick was afraid of Sergeant Flanagan get out a pickup order on Scarface Pete Shirley have them brought in here and quick. Yes Boys have got Pete Shirley captain. Well, Sergeant. That's quick work Flanagan Bring him in here. I don't think you like him in your private office the way he is captain What do you mean? Pete is shut up pretty bad. He's dead. Yeah, he got killed trying to pull a hold up last night Captain, and he was pulling that hold up over in Woodsfield at the very time Alice Ives was being stabbed here. You You're sure the boys just brought him into the morgsa There goes my case against Pete Shirley and my beautifully corny story about her brother's revenge The death of mrs. 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Try me again sometime I always hate to turn them salesman down Casey, but as my sister Edna says quote Them as buys everything from everybody pretty soon ain't able to buy nothing from nobody Uncalled Yeah Besides my neck gets tired watching the darn thing now. What was we talking about before that guy come in? I wasn't talking about anything at the bird. I was sitting here quietly trying to dope out the fifth race Drinking pelicans button the fifth. Oh, oh, no, I remembered that old mrs. Myers the star witness in that Alice Patrick Ives murder she's quite a character according to the stories you've been writing miss Williams He is quite a character at the bird Poor little thing. She's been terribly lonely All this excitement or picture in the paper cops around the place neighbors dropping into here talk You know it's given her a new lease on life You know she's a cute old gal you talk your ear off. She gets the chance, but you can't help it like her It sounds like my sister, you know Casey. She talks all the time. She's the one that's not married. Yeah Say, uh, what's new on the murder of that Alice Patrick Ives day? Ethelbert you read the express don't you? I mean inside stuff. Oh, not a thing at the bird The only case Logan had blew up when it was proven that Pete Shirley couldn't have done the job Well, how about that neighbor the big guy who tried to make a play for the dead gal before she was dead? I mean Sam Mulvey. Yeah Logan still suspicious of him, but Mulvey didn't have sufficient motor for my dough He's notorious in the neighborhood for a nasty temper Casey, and he's a heavy drinker Also, he's more than strong enough to have driven a knife through that woman's body. Yeah Wonder why the handle of that knife was roughened at the end Ruffin yeah, like somebody had run a coarse file across it. Well, it wasn't a new knife Probably been kicked around in a workshop or somebody's kitchen. I guess so no luck in tracing the knife, huh? Yeah, a little bit the Ives Dame was in prison a long time Don't you figure she might have made an enemy there who bumped her off? Well, Logan's checking on that fairy-pal you know That window being locked two inches from the bottom that bothers me. Well now why oh why should the killer take the time to do that? Nobody was likely to notice whether that window was closed or open But after the killer made his getaway it didn't matter There was no darn reason for that window Hey, there's always a reason for everything Excuse me, Annie. I'll see you later. Where are you going? I'm gonna take a walk and think Casey, I'm delighted to see you. Thanks, Mrs. Myers and be sure and wipe your feet on the mat Yes, I remember coming the parlor and set if you don't mind must some of my neighbors was in and they Wanted to hear first-hand about poor miss Patrick. They just left and I ain't had time to clear up the tea things we used Oh, can I give you a cup of tea? Oh, no, thank you It won't take but a minute the tea just isn't my dish. I'll make you coffee. I can get along without coffee, too Young fella. I haven't got anything else. Mrs. Myers. I came here for a talk not a drink. Oh, that's fine I like to talk. Yeah, I'd like to have people want to talk to you. I guess everybody wants that Especially persons who are once somebody as you were. Oh, I was never much just an actress without much talent But my husband was really the somebody indeed. He was I stopped at the public library this afternoon and looked over his book Arms and armor of the Middle Ages. Oh, you did. Mm-hmm. I'm afraid it was a little over my head It was interesting. Don't you think? Yes, it gave me an idea. I Guess it gave you one, too What I Don't know what you mean You killed Alice Patrick Ives Of course you're joking. No No, Mrs. Myers young man. I Wage us 91 pounds in my heaviest coat and winter galoshes Are you saying I drove a knife completely through that big woman? Uh-huh, and you did it from outside of her locked window How could I do that with one of the medieval weapons your husband wrote about the kind? He says could throw an arrow or a spear at a knife with accuracy silence and great force The window was open two inches. The knife was shot through that opening You figured you were creating really a great mystery The woman stabbed in the back in a completely locked room that that appeal to the dramatic instinct an actress never loses You're pretty smart young man You know, I never figured that window could be shut and locked from the outside the way you said You kind of spoiled the mystery you admit you killed miss Patrick. Oh, of course. I don't I'm just talking It's nice to talk even on a crazy subject Why in your opinion did I kill that woman? Well, I guess in order to get attention The attention you've been without for years. Oh, I have been very lonesome. I've wanted folks to notice me again, but Do you think that's a good enough motive for what you say I've done? It wouldn't have been for you if you hadn't learned your mysterious lodge. It was a freed murderous After you found that out probably by getting into the locked suitcase and seeing her parole papers You considered her life of no value at all. She was a bad woman I went to the library and got old newspapers and read up about our case And that's how you found out about Scarface Pete Shirley the brother of the guy she killed I even come across some pictures of him. He never came here looking for miss Patrick as you said No, but that seemed a good story to tell the cops Yeah, well, I guess you're ready now to tell the true story to the cops Mrs. Myer there ain't been much in the papers about me during the last couple of days and next week There wouldn't be anything maybe and folks had stopped calling on me and I'd be alone again By me telling the cops I won't be forgotten so quick and you'll put more pictures of me in the paper, son Yes, indeed. We'll go down to headquarters right now Don good idea. You've given me young fella. I'll get my coat. Wait a minute What what do you mean that I've given you a good idea? Say look here wait a minute. Am I wrong about this? Did you kill that woman? No Say miss it Mrs. Myers if you're if you're not really guilty if you're going to confess to something you didn't do Wait a minute. You can't do that. I say you can't do that. I couldn't do What's that in your hands the thing that killed miss Patrick But you you're gonna point it at me. That's right. I'm gonna let you have it now There's nothing I can do to stop you. Of course there ain't here Take the darn things out of my hands. It's heavy. Oh, oh you You're letting me have it. It's the evidence you needed you didn't have none before Mrs. Myers Yeah, yeah, you sure did I could fool folks right away bet I get you guessing again before we're through Surveys show that housewives almost without exception Preferred to buy foods and other household products packed in glass containers. Their reasons are many and varied But chief among them are five important facts One glass containers have no effect on the taste of the food. 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It's not like the longbows used by Robin Hood and the American Indian Well, the principle is the same but it's different Annie See this gimmick is a short bow set across a hunk of wood that looks like a rifle stuck Was made to shoot short arrows or bolts as they were called The thing is an antique that Mrs. Myers husband picked up simply I see poor old lady So lonesome she committed murder to get attention What'll be done with her as she's in an institution of her Where she'll be perfectly happy because attention is something she's sure to get for the rest of her life Out of her mind, huh? Yeah, so the doc say in the legal definition poor old lady Think of the poor doctors and nurses. I wonder what you're pulling them Annie. I I wish I was sure What she's already pulled What do you mean? I'm never gonna be sure that she used that crossbow That she really is a murderous I'll never be sure that she Hasn't played me for a job to get what she wanted the death of the mysterious lodger is still a mystery, maybe Etelbert, I don't think so, but oh Nuts, let's see what's good in the fifth. 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