 My name's Jeff Regan. I get 10 a day and expenses from a detective bureau run by a guy named Anthony J. Lyon They call me the lion's eye Jack web is Jeff Regan investigators stand by for hard-boiled action and mystery and thrilling adventure in tonight's story of the lady with no name The next time you're out for a drive pick up olive Street along about the 700 block You can't miss it. It's a big building made out of white granite the cosmopolitan building The man who billed is doing a long run up at San Quentin for graph Anthony J. Lyon the guy I work for rents an office in that building International detective bureau sweet 308 a couple of rooms with a connecting waste basket The lion has the only desk in the office and a typewriter that Remington dropped from their catalog back in 1915 Well, I walked in last Tuesday at 10 a.m. The office was full of taboo It was a tall girl very pretty wearing slacks and a coat that must have set the mink population back 20 years But she still looked cold like she'd never get warm again The lion had one arm around her shoulders. He knew by this time that coat was the real article There wasn't any music, but he didn't seem to mind come in not much room today. We got trouble. She's your date This is one of my operators. Mr. Regan. How do you do now? Tell him exactly what you just told me May I sit down? Get this weekend. I don't know where I live Don't know my name. Yeah, I Want you to find out who I am you heard that Regan heard what it's a verbal contract You're just tired. Oh, you're out of your mind and you're a witness and takes anything comes up I'm perfectly willing to pay you You'll just find out who I am Well, look lady. There's a cop on every corner. I couldn't go to the you got here quit pushing her this is our case I was afraid I Found this in my first 32 gallon or Smith and Wesson Been fired. There's three gone. What are you doing with that miss? I Don't know just been used by you. I don't know Where'd you get it? Remind you of anything No You take it now look miss. I know you don't feel well, but there are certain questions. You'll have to answer I just want you to find out who I am Terrible It you always had a way with women help me bring her around so she can sign that contract. She hasn't got a name remember We'll give her a name Jane does good enough. I guess so What do you mean? She's dead The lion just stood there. He looked sad like a water buffalo caught in a drought Well when she rolled onto the floor her purse went with her it cracked open and the stuff inside spilled out on the rug There wasn't anything to tell us who she was no comb no makeup Nothing but a house key and a receipt for a cab ride dated that day There wasn't even a label in that mink coat nothing to go on. I might as well. I tried to walk to Catalina. I Told the lion to phone the coroner's office and I hopped over to the cab company They told me that the receipt came from meter 212 driven by a man named survey. He worked the call box at Hollywood and Western It was a little guy. I figured he got the job because they ran out of big uniforms They double-crossed him on that cap, but wasn't for his ears. He'd have been wearing a snood Sorry, but I got a fair. Where is he under the floorboards? I got a fair. Yeah, you said that where in there eating your flags up I'll pull it down Happy you Johnny survey. Who knows are you they told me I'd find survey in this hack Who told you that cab company? They don't know any more than you do now. Look never mind the jokes Just give me that straight lines Nick's we got out this company uniform. Well, they're gonna get it back if you don't open up Louise pulled out three weeks ago. She took all the furniture whether you can collect from her. I'm not the finance company No here Private people, huh? Who's getting caught? Do you carry a brunette and a mink coat sometime this morning? Maybe Would you drop her downtown six and grand? Where'd she live? That's good. I'm cruising in from the fair Would you pick her up and for a bank Hollywood way in Kensington fairs in Pomona? You took the long way I like to drive this company gas. Yeah, she was nice real life. You know what? I mean real class Okay, I'll wait a minute. We live yeah, we didn't go anywhere but times up That's five even fast meter Hey, you want me to tell you about the guy what guy? Call back head round sport called movie type corn he was chasing it when she caught my cab He looked like a man. Was it ask him That all she got in we drove away Here No tip like you said we didn't go anywhere Ever have somebody drop a key in your lap and say go find a door Well, I drove out to Burbank and I began looking around for a good lock near Hollywood way in Kensington I figured that key I'd found in Jane Doe's purse. It'd have to fit something. I made my letter on the tent house There was a for sale sign on it. I didn't see anybody around so I unlocked the door and went in Outside is something that smelled like tar and kerosene. The place was empty I was just about to turn around and leave when a brown sport coat slid into the room movie type When he walked over to me, I knew we drank the right kind of scotch use your GI loans Just looking gotta buy it to steal No, the lady won't like it your wife Girl in a mink coat. You make that kind of dog. She got it from somebody else you Hollywood games Would you get the key? Borrowed it. She won't need it What's your name? I didn't have a chance to ask her Well, you're kind of slow, aren't you? Sometimes you'll see how fast you can hit the door. No, I just got here. Yeah, now you're leaving cab driver says he knows you I'm friendly. I talked to everybody said you were doing a chase scene could be he was pretty they all look good in mink It's not the house. What do you want? We could start with a name. It's dameron not enough That's all you get wisepun now beat it You'll give more at homicide Look we can play games some other time a cab driver put the finger on you as the last man to see that girl in mink Like she's dead you call it A lot of fur coats in LA and a lot of guys chasing them you got nothing That's what they always say downtown, but you'll talk I don't figure on leaving but you're going on your way right now better open a window dameron You're sweating keep talking sunshine. It will make one in that far wall. You got help in the back room Quit scratching around. It doesn't mean anything to you It didn't before she pulled a fade in my office, but it does now Let you out, but it's bedtime. You've been talking about a dead girl. It doesn't even know her name now Go back and finish your dream. You got all the questions now. Let's fill in the answer I'm fresh out of box taps. There's a door use no not yet. I'm gonna get what I came for You're out of condition dameron you're in a great position to throw that line Oh, you got talent. I still rock. Come here Now come on get up. I'm not through That's where you're wrong It's a big Luger makes the same size hole. All right punk. You got a name a lot of them for you School isn't out yet. Just dance it. It's Regan. Okay, Regan. Let this sink in forget you ever saw any damon I mean code forget you ever saw me that won't be hard up junior. You just lost the round I remember what I told you have a memory lapses that clear. You made your point now blow You always use a Luger close work Leonard 32 doesn't fit what 32 the one that the girl was hearing you got it No, I gave it a homicide. Good. Good. It saves me a trip downtown You're not worried. No, I'm very happy. Huh? Today's my birthday. That's the reason you're walking out of here The whole thing with this phony as an undertaker in a white derby Well, I went back to the office The lion was sitting there with a bottle of beer and a sandwich that looked like a couple of end tables He stopped chewing when I came in What's her name? It's still Jane Doe. You've been going four hours movie. I don't open till noon. All right Where you been a vacant house in Burbank? I trailed it up from that cab receipt. What's your plan? Guy named dameron. What do you say? Nothing shy tough that way you got the egg on your chin Was nervous when you're gonna learn to be nice to people. He had a gun to tell me more It's all I like this got possibility. I take off your saddle a race is over and the corners boys showed up They told me why she dropped that's easy. She died poison Without an autopsy something about a color. It isn't official, but we can work on it suicide murder Why murder they feed themselves iodine and sleeping pills, but they don't take allocene What's that hot drug with a petrol base it burns Homicidal handlers sure homicidal handles only we got things to do we got a steak in this you made it a client We're gonna give her service dead or alive. What is when daddy? I don't pay when daddy we find out who she is like you try her picture shows up in the paper She drops dead in our office how to make us look they send in the first string when she died You'll clear this up before homicide does they'll lift your license. We won't need it What do you mean? I still got exhibit a misson-wesson 32 calipers You're withholding evidence. I forgot to give it to all right now give them a call and tell them that was five hours ago You'll make the call. I'll tell homicide. They'll give me a break. That's what Dylan just thought Give me the gun. They've got Jane ghost Prince on the wire They'll have the answer in 10 hours cut that in half Regan and we've won the championship You'll have to give the cup back be cheated When I left the lion he looked happy like a guy who just figured the mystery melody I Had the gun with three bullets gone that Jane Doe had been carrying in her purse the lion and back of me the police department in front That left me about as much chance as a blue peanut on a wedding cake I knew that if I walked in the homicide with that 32 they'd hold on to me like a seasoned past I Had to find out who was registered to so I gambled and I went down to the city hall I went in the temple street entrance room 11 personnel division If I pegged it right I could get the dope on that gun without getting involved Figured wrong. Can I help you you in charge here lunchtime? Yeah Whose name matches these numbers small arms. Yeah, what authority? I just bought it want to know if it's clean Yeah, caliber and make 32 Smith and Wesson Yeah, right here got the weapon with you. No, why no rule no gun. No vital. I got it Okay Purchased august 1929 factory reblued job 1931 owned by American Trust and Loan Permitted to Dale W. Curtis. Thanks. I'll have to ask you to wait. Why no rule got to run them all through ballistics Anything special maybe? On the guy floating around Silver Lake this morning full of 32 Who working on it? Have to ask you to wait I can't I haven't had lunch yet. Stick around we may invite you I don't like your food. Don't worry. You can have anything you want the last day You're listening to the story of the lady with no name tonight's adventure with Jeff Regan investigator Fewer a graduate registered nurse, please listen carefully to this important message 29,000 nurses are needed to join the new Army Nurse Corps officers reserved If you're a registered graduate nurse between the ages of 21 and 45 Drop a card for complete information to the adjutant general Washington, D.C. And Now back to the story of the lady with no name man Jeff Regan investigator No, there it was the clerk took Jane Doe's gun and closed the door mark ballistic I figured he couldn't be too sure about whether that 32 would match up But I didn't want to wait around to find out he left the vitals card on the car I spun it around and I got the address of Dale W. Curtis Turned out to be a one-story frame that stood in the way of the new freeway They're building the movers were just jacking it up and I caught the last carload of people leaving They told me that Curtis hadn't lived there for seven years They did give a number over on manzanita off fountain where I might be able to find him It was an apartment on the second floor From the looks of the place. It's big that the OPA had a fight on their hand. I rang the bell and waited I don't know whether it was a lighting effect in that dim hallway, but when she opened that door I expected to see those thousand ships slide down the ways again She was a wearing some kind of a filmy thing that made a spider's web look like burlap She had a voice that stole over you like a pint of Irish ale. I didn't expect you until tonight. I broke my watch Come on in. I'll see if I can fix I'm great with a twist Yeah, it shows My name is Marlo Curtis. I want to see your husband. He's not here You expect him? No Where is he up north? Business trip. Yeah He sold out. Oh, what kind of business asked the warden for the old creditors in the prison cemetery in their five years Sorry You deserve to you're gonna drown in those tears. I'm still buying the right color wrong occasion What How do you want? Well, you're mixing Now isn't that better? I don't know. This is my first drink You'll get another Well, it's changed Here you quick Let's have a good straight man Are you get top-billing? What's your name? Regan Maybe I'm due for a promotion. You'd make it better I had anything to do with Yeah, sure until you snagged your colonel you're nasty too that I pay for my drink get out Tell me about this nail file. You got that out of my purse. I had one hand free you two bitch shadow waters Now get out Hello Yes, he's here Yeah, you don't know I've been lucky so far. They should never have taken that gun you get around You're gonna run my life. Now. I told you what you shouldn't know is what you're gonna do Look buster, don't crowd me you're gonna forget all about the day a girl forgot a lot of things today And she dropped dead got the idea suppose I don't buy it I want a partner for that gun Dameron give you the nickel. He gave me a dime I got one more call to make the city hall. All right, suppose I lay off You're no petty girl hang it up and get out. You know Regan. Yeah, well, that's why I'm scared Well, you can see how things were I felt like a short girl with a new look No matter how I tried to break it down. I figured a cop the leading role a Jane Doe walks in her office and drops dead She has a gun that probably talked to a couple of people cab ride receipt takes me to build dameron a guy with a Targetive gun. I end up in Marlo Curtis apartment for a lot of punctuation marks. Everybody talks but the people Well, I knew I'd have to begin to move before homicide tagging so I hopped down to the times and I checked the morgue file I pulled the clips on Dale W. Curtis Marlo didn't lie. He was dead The old papers didn't mean anything but the banner headline on the night final put one piece of the jigsaw in position Told about a trashy department agent named Shields. I found him in Silver Lake He'd been shot three times with a 32 now. I knew where Marlo's nail file fit I started to leave when I caught the last paragraph It said unidentified man turns in the murder weapon police are seeking his whereabouts Yeah I just got home Was your idea I don't know why you got a badge you try Now listen big shot you're in this too Now send me some dough over here I need some money for cab fare Don't lie to me what about that money you got out of Jane Doe's purse She could have never got up there without cab money I haven't got time to play games now send it over Ten bucks won't break you I'll expect it in an hour. Goodbye Dammer always like your door. I wouldn't stop you crawl under my name fellas. It's drafty out there in the hall You got a parade permit Rodney say hello to Rick What about slim hi you're broken his name's Regan isn't it big mouth Sitting right next to Rodney when he made that quality it was perfectly clear to me. He wasn't clear to you big mouth Rodney told you to lay out, but you just had to get out of that newspaper. Didn't you big mouth Rodney I'm on the bed. All right, we go Once more they got a gun downtown. They got a dam and her prints are gonna fit it They got a stiff and that gun's gonna fit him. Okay, and I'll lay you off He said that before Regan, I know you understand me. I said all the right words. Maybe my punctuation is bad. Lay off Lay off He's on the floor. That's fine. Now. He won't have to change his bed. I'm like a relief map at Death Valley He was wearing a signet ring. He left out all the waterholes, but the mountain ranges were rising fast I figured I was safe now that guy in the personnel office had never recognized me Well, I was standing in the kitchen giving myself a cold water treatment when somebody knocked Figured that was a switch. So I opened the door. It was that hacky Johnny's survey. He had an envelope in his hand Yeah, hi remember me You give up cab work. I found this under your door here Football what do you want? Well, you asked me about a day, and I mean coat today now. I'm asking you I don't run a meter. Well, I figure all this might help all a what well I get to thinking about it. See, you know, then I think some more come on get to the point When you played a hand now, I'm playing a hand go on. Well, Dames mean trouble and me coats. They mean double Is it worth five if I remember another guy? Maybe well, he's all over the papers now. I seen him Shields again. They fished out of Silver Lake where he was out in Burbank this morning early But you were at Pomona. I was I was but well, I guess I wasn't exactly cruising I got a friend is out there Not of me when was this an hour before I pick her up this guy they find in Silver Lake is walking around that house I'm looking for a store for breakfast a few weeks Well, that's it after breakfast. I hop in my cab and that's when I pick up the name of me Why'd you bring me all this? Well, I figure we got some way this time How do I get my tip? I gave him his five bucks and he left and I opened the envelope He'd handed me Was the money that I'd asked the lion to send over to five dollar bill? Well, I looked at it put it back in the envelope stuck it in my pocket So far all I could see that I got out of this thing was a good beating from Damron the question still stood Who was Jane Doe? Well, I knew my next move I wanted to hop over to the Treasury Department and see if my two match their two or maybe between us We come up with four. I didn't have much to go on. It was just a hunch I took Marlowe's nail file with me and I walked in the front door of the federal building I showed my license to the chief agent That's right. One of our agents shields They have the murder weapon down at homicide. I know all we want is the man that pulled the trigger. I got an idea I'll listen What's wrong with these five dollar bills? Can't spend them. I figured that where'd you get them? How bad are they? Lousy paper rotten ink terrible engraving job. He could do better with a rubber stamp outfit Where'd you get them any of these been floated we picked up a few We're shields working on it as much as I can give you Where'd you get them? The girl faded out in our office this morning. She was carrying them. Yeah, what's your name? That's what I got to find out Jane Doe. That's what we called her. That is a paper Same girl That's her any identification not yet. They've been running a picture for hours. I'm short on time You're the guy wait a minute before you hit that button. Yeah, your addition is good But you haven't got all the figures don't make book on that. You're the number one boy with me You think I'd solo in here. You might I got an ace All right, so you keep your nails clean. Look at it. It's a nail file. They cut dumb dumps out of shields Who told you the second story apartment with a deep board. How did you know you're holding the file? It cut the grooves you use it. I can give you the guy who did Dum-dum makes a big hole as she'll move the tip of a 32 slug a little spread from here to Kansas I can do it with a nail file baby Where's that apartment? No, I'm too close to quit now. I can't let you go alone. I got a big car Before we go, mister No one belongs to that file You belong to the gun that case. I'll have a lot of time to do my nails I Was a long shot, but that's all I had The agent just sat there on the way over didn't say a word Well, I figured he didn't believe me, but it was a short drive to find out We hit man's Anita Street just after the dinnertime rush quiet and everybody was eating or they'd gone out for the evening We climbed the stairs to Marlo Curtis apartment. I told the agent I wanted to go in alone He didn't like the idea but I explained to him that I expected friends and somebody should cover me from the outside Well, she was even prettier than I remembered her one tear was just about ready to take that last plunge across her cheek What do you want? I brought you a paper. I've seen it. You know the girl. Yes What's her name? For you, maybe I got to know you wouldn't understand Try me. You're still looking for things. No, not this trip Didn't think I could cry. Did you know I learned Weeping over a nail file. I said you wouldn't understand. It's what a slug and a treasury agent I don't know. Well, I do says you filed the grooves shows you how many times you can be wrong Kind of cramped behind that screen dameron small apartment. Yeah Always wanted to get the girls a bigger one, but Marlo's getting tried. You're wrong dameron. Not anymore You've been around Reagan too long Marlo now. You got a mouth just like his big Just figured out what he's been trying to do you putting brains on the market, too Jane Doe you've been looking for with Evelyn your sister could have been a rich woman now with a kind of money you printed Playing this scene for I didn't count on my Evelyn forgot things. You killed it. It was no good. You couldn't tell the five I'm gonna identify You know where that leaves me sure I do and I'm going now you'll have to walk through this Luger That's the same gun he used on the treasury agent you were reagan hardly got acquainted didn't he tell you Your sister did that for me. You're lying. Ask Reagan. They'll that's right. Dumb dumbs. Have them want to be sure Rotten I'll get out of my way. Marlo. Don't try it. I'm going out that do not stand real photo finish Just as dameron pulled the trigger the agent kicked the door open and threw a couple of fast ones into him I'd call it a dead heat But you'd have to give the agent the edge his first slug cut dameron down like a blade of grass Figured the second was for shields Marlo wasn't in a hurry anymore Bacon I'll call a doctor was a good try. It's all used up Good yeah From here on it's a monologue. Thank you. It was like trying to throw a saddle on a porpoise I gave what I had to homicide and it unbuttoned something like this the girl who pulled a quick exit in the office Jane dough was Marlo's sister Evelyn She was frontman for dameron's bad money She helped him pass it the treasury agent shields got a little too close So Evelyn pumped a couple of dumb dumbs into him She did it for dameron and then he slipped to the poison. He figured this stuff at work fast But she lived long enough to take that taxi right to the office. Well, it didn't begin to make sense until I got down a personnel I didn't think to check it before but when I handed the clerk that gun. I noticed the tip of the slugs were grooved Then over at Marlo's I picked up that nail file. It was full of lead filing from there on it was a fast reel Dameron filled in the rest in the fight with Marlo Too bad about Marlo. We might have had something. That's what I don't like about this business We can't build friendship Jack Webb is featured as Jeff Regan with her Butterfield as Anthony J. Lyon It's CBS at the same time next week for more hard-boiled action and mystery with Jeff Regan Investigator written by E. Jack Newman produced by Sterling Tracy The role of Bill Dameron was played by Charles McGraw if on payt was Marlo Curtis Marvin Miller was the treasury agent David Ellis Stacey Harris Lou Krugman and Bernice Barrett supported Original music for this program is by Dick around Bob Stephenson speaking Jeff Regan investigator has heard every Saturday over CBS the Columbia broadcasting system