 The Anchor Hawking Glass Corporation brings you crime photographer What are you waiting for 1950 that's when they hold the next elections for the Hall of Fame Oh, you mean you think you'll get elected? Why not along with Washington and Jefferson and Franklin? Precisely. Yeah, but why what is your claim to fame Tony? It's irrefutable I work for Anchor Hawking the most famous name in glass 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 Bosses a bill to Ethelbert the bartender and starts out before he reaches the door I crossed the bridge occasionally on slumming trips to see how the other half lives a little press for time Casey So don't take any wooden nickel. Yeah, I'll try not to. So long. Nice to see you miss William. So long. So long This guy who just went out. Sure. Don't you know him? No, but I'd like him to come in often He just give me a buck for a 15 cent beer His face is awful familiar Casey, but I you've seen his pictures in the papers hundreds of times pal That's big Ben Flack big Ben. Yeah, the boss of Hook Ridge. He runs almost everything on the other side of the river Oh, sure. I get him now. What's he doing over here? I probably came over to get a breath of clean air Stanch of his political machine must get too high for even Ben wasn't well, so let me a pack of cigarettes Well, yeah, I hear flack ain't so active in his organization as he used to be They say a smart lawyer named Lockard gives most of the orders now Well, you can gamble that any orders Lockard gives are those that he gets from Ben The big guy has that hook rich section in his pocket. He's gonna keep it there until he dies or goes to jail There's not much chance of his going to jail. He can get away with murder and he's gotten away with it, too You said it I never met Lockard, but what I hear he's a kind of a slimy double-crossing rat Ben at least has guts. Here's some cigarettes. Thanks. You tore through for the day now, ain't you? We're working the early shift this week and I have some shopping to do before the store is closed Well, I've got to buy a birthday present for my little nephew And you know what boys like better than I do so you're going with me. Oh, okay. Where we go I'm going to Bromstein and Riley Annie not a big department store like that. We're eight million women are looking for bargains I'm looking for bargains. So that's where we'll go. No, Casey not bloom Stein and Riley. Yes Well, as my sister Edna says quote a woman's will is always stronger than a fella's won't Are they having a sale on costume jewelry? Maybe I can pick up a pin to go with my new green granny We came here to get something for your nephew and I think pins look like real bargains Casey And if I can find a good-looking one for only $2.98 all right. All right won't take a minute to look them over This isn't bad. Well, that's well by it. No, no, it isn't right That's perfect any just the thing won't do it all. Oh, here's a pretty one. That's terrible. You're right It is. Oh, I can't win. Hmm. Nothing. Oh, here's some that are priced a little higher. Maybe they're better looking See that little guy at the end of the counter. Yeah, I think he just slipped a bracelet of that big umbrella Chocolate can't be sure Look, he's moving away. Let's keep our eyes on okay, but he doesn't look like a thief the whole crooks looked like crooks We need a police department. Oh, I know that but this little man He has a nice face me so neatly dressed and only might be a college professor stop the perfume counter. Yeah Hey Look at that tough-looking ombre that big guy beside him. Yeah, wonder if he broke his arm accidentally or somebody else did it for him His arms in a sling This got a load of the red rose in his coat lapel. I guess he's not so tough Looks can be deceiving any the little guy just took something for the big guy's pocket. Yeah, I saw him too It went into the umbrella. I've got an ad that front and what you'll have to move fast because he is I'll get him And tell the big guy with his arm in a sling with these pockets just been picked and tell him to stand by okay I will take hey you with the umbrella. I want to talk to you wait a minute wait There's no use running fella. I got longer legs than you had let me go What's the meaning of this? You know what it is? I do not how dare you put your head Let's see what you got in the umbrella. No, don't touch it. No What's going on here come and see him on a hand. I was wondering when one of you store detectives that show up Well Casey, hey, what's wrong? Mr. Carrick, what you know this little runt on a hand well I am on the hand order this uncouth individual to remove his obnoxious hand for my person and to apologize for the Indignity he's caused say look here. Have you got no look look look take it easy Casey You ladies and gentlemen go on about your shopping, please. There's there's been a mistake here mistake Yeah, Casey mr. Carrick come on with me quick behind that petition to the stock rooms look here monohand I'll explain everything Casey when we get away from this cry you're better The man with his arm in the sling hurried away from me after I told him his pocket had been picked He didn't even thank me. I lost him in the crowd. Oh, that's great. All I needed was a little more mystery What goes on in this story all right through this door Casey back to the stock rooms, and I'll explain Explanations better be good simply tell this impersonate interloper who I am monohand Yeah, yes, I'll take care of everything mr. Carrick and to save you any more bother Will you make yourself comfortable in this room here while I tell this gentleman who you really are? Gentleman you call this ball it ball at what that I Will away doing this room on ahead, but don't keep me waiting long You're not gonna wait there with that umbrella full of things you've stolen come on give it to me This is all about I'm hanging on to the evidence of what I think it's about I come to send to whom you Take this person out of my sight monohand my friend monohand is gonna tell us right now any or else Come away from that room where I put him that he mustn't here. All right. Yeah, you step into this stock room Now then I'll close the door Yeah, I'll empty the umbrella. I took me a little towel Pulling from this store with a tag still on them Now come on tell me why you treated a lousy little shoplifter as though he was a tin god and made me look like a sap Look will you and miss Williams keep this out of your paper Casey if it gets in I'll lose my job Give us the lowdown for you ask any favors. Okay, Casey that little guy sister is mrs. Clayton Westfield The mrs. Clayton Westfield exactly brother Wilmer that you just met us a kleptomaniac with complications He thinks he's a reincarnation of a guy named Robin Hood Robin Hood. Yeah. Yeah, who stole from the rich to give the poor I know I've read the yeah Well, we store detectives have to protect him and the Clayton Westfield name protect him yet You see mrs. Westfield pays for everything he steals He's got what you might call a Shoplifting charge account mrs. Westfield pays for everything brother will miss she sends out monthly check now How does she know what he always shows her his loot when he goes home? And she makes a note of the price tags then he goes out and gives the stuff to people he thinks it needs it That's okay for the story he lifts from but he picks a guy's pocket. How does the guy get his stuff back? But Wilmer Carrick didn't pick pocket. Oh, yes, he does He made a snatch from a customer at your perfume. Carrick's never been known to do it. Here's the evidence The one thing that hasn't got your price tag on it, but the backup pouch here. Here it is Look at that isn't ours wasn't worth over two bucks when it was new So the guy didn't lose much lost the key to his hotel room up the key sure it's inside the pouch Ben Dixon hotel tag on the key. I'll send it right over there Well, man couldn't have wanted it very badly as I told you case he walked away when I was Can't figure why Carrie took dip all right. Let's ask him you're mother-in-law, will you he'll do anything for you if you Treat him like a big shot and well, you know as I said his sister is important Okay, man. I'll even call him your royal highness of the health unit. Well, here's the room. I left him in We've come back mr. Carrie Well, I see half his pockets have been turned inside out Casey somebody has frisked All right, I'll get you to a doctor in a minute sir, but First of all, will you tell us a man came in after you left me this the man with the rose in his lapel The guy with his arm in a sling. Yes, but his arm was out of the sling when he opened the door and then he hit me Why had you taken a tobacco pouch from that man's pocket mr. Carrie? I took it in order to To solve a mystery you took it in order to what monahead kind of an idea mr. Good Pre-possessing looking get it to a program at another guy gave arm in the sling that pouch Yes, the villain is looking curled with the red hair who quickly disappeared into the cloud of copper So you wanted to see what was in the tobacco pouch as defenders of the right Casey that hotel king The guy must have slugged and searched mr. Carrick in order to get it back see that pouch again monahead. Would you let's get it here, Casey? Only a key inside that's all the room 405 Bendix and hotel get it That man on the floor officer. He suddenly doubled up and fell at my feet Knife has been driven through his back case. Yes, and into his heart. He's finished. Did anyone see who knifed him? I only saw him fall. I didn't see anyone. Casey. That dead man. Mr. Casey. Yes, Mr. Carrick. He's the person who hit me. Yes, that's right Somebody's rubbed out and glass alone can bring you. Oh, we have a new kind of bottle the anchor glass one-way bottle The bottle you never have to take back to the store the bottle that cuts out the nonsense and nuisance of deposits the anchor glass one way No deposit bottle is so light so compact so inexpensive to produce that you never bother about empties You just dispose of them as you would any other food container and let's not forget that good word glass This no deposit container is made of glass clean glass Which never affects the taste or flavor of anything it contains no wonder the anchor glass one way No deposit bottle is sweeping America if you want perfect flavor Demand your beer in glass bottles if you want the extra convenience Demand your favorite brand in the new anchor glass one way no deposit bottle a product of anchor Hawking you get out of the Marlboro that dead man Exclusive story if we were to how I've got that tobacco pouch in the hotel key well I don't see how that was nothing the matter with that guy's arm But why did he wear that sling and a red rose in his lapel? As a means of identification sure to somebody who didn't know and the redheaded man slipped in the pouch and tainting only a key Which he tried to get back have to carry took it But what she wouldn't claim openly when you tipped him that it had been taken And he gets a knife in his back. Well, I'm gonna use that key to find out why how you use it one lock room forum Dixon hotel before word gets around that arm and a sling is dead Oh now wait a minute Casey you give that key to the cops and let them yeah Let them grab a possible exclusive, but we may walk in a serious trouble any you're not walking into anything I'm going alone. Oh, no. Oh, yes If anybody's waiting in that room they're gonna be expecting a guy who'll show up alone Well the dead man is about my size and coloring and I'll have my arm in a sling and a red rose in mine It's but you have sure come on. We'll buy him right here. Oh, no women. This sounds too dangerous. Casey I won't let you you'll go with me to the Ben Dixon and park yourself in the lobby If I'm not down with him half an hour, you call the cops though as a man who doesn't ask question You can figure that one spends most of his time at the Ben Flack community club and hook ridge across the river Here's $2,000 you'll get the additional 3,000 agreed upon when the job is done can leave by this door That's 48 leaving. Hey, close this door boys quick plate with your gun. This guy ain't slate What slate gun a knife in his back about 10 minutes after I passed in the key knife in his back. Yeah, I Don't know who did it when I heard about it I hot-footed up here to tip you off heard you talking to this phony behind the door When you open it, I'll let him have it who is this man. He wore a sling and the rose. I Never seen him before. He may know who I am He knows our plan. Yeah There's only one thing to do we can't kill him here Read my cars in the parking lot down the street bring to the rear entrance of this place Yeah, then what come up the back stairs and help me get this wise guy down to the car by the back stairs now Get going and fast promise not to call you police unless he stayed upstairs over half an hour Captain Logan And then I called men from the nearest precinct station before I formed you Room 405 in the connecting room were empty, but they were blood stains on the floor What state kill Casey had carried his body down the back stairs Well, it'd serve him right I warned the sappy button the police business once too often and I warned you I'm sorry miss Williams. I Often what a murder Casey, but nobody else is gonna do it I'll come right up to the bendix and and try to pick up the lunch trail There's no trail to pick up captain and no lead don't you think I'm going to kill you Casey. You try to make a fool of me. I don't forgive that When you drop those guns This place is surrounded by police cops lock it. We can't put up a fight against men. We can't see drop your gun red Okay, okay pick up those guns. Casey. That's the sweetest daughter. I'll show yourselves now. I've got the guns Huh, only me mr. Collick. Hey Who's that little runt that have kind trick like what's your tongue? Violet and keep your mitts in the air glad to see anybody in my life, but I don't understand Very simple you tried to steal my mystery Certainly, I got that key from the man who was killed then you made off with it for your own selfish purpose as Defender of the right and register of wrongs. I naturally followed your you followed to the bendix and hotel I proceeded up the back stairs to room 405 Entered by the door you had neglected the door to the connecting room. You heard what I said to Casey Yes, Barley. That's what a ball of this what you said to your red-headed henchman Now just when he left your car at the rear of the hotel to assist you with Casey I concealed myself in its fortuitously unlocked luggage compartment and wrote here with you Well my pal you're some guy look before we drive these two birds the nearest police station mr. Carrick they just might have an extra get on them I was about to suggest such a procedure and I am an expert at this Frisky, oh, yes, yes, I don't try anything while he's going over you locket. Are you ready? I'm not a gunman like you birds, but I'm a pretty good shot All right, if I clean mr. Carrick quite the contrary to be literal But we need have no fear now they'll produce a hidden gun. Okay, you too. We start for the cops look Casey Maybe we can make a deal. I got it locket. Don't be a fool. Every man has his price Mine's too high for you. Defenders of the right. Do not be purchased To the cars Casey wait outside locket you too red No, they're not who is price to see me locket you and red Casey feel anything at the back of your neck The gun on the hand of a friend of mine better drop the two gats in your hands. There is a man behind you, Casey Mr. Joe and I will rearrange the plan you two had been hard. How do I happen to be here locket? I've been keeping a steady on you eye on you and red for a long time. You haven't made a move I haven't known about Dirty double-crossing rats. You never put anything over done Ben Flack I knew about the red hot your Chicago pal shipped on here before he even got on the train And one of my guys put a shiv in his back before you ever saw him locket But I'm taking the pleasure of killing you and read I'm sorry you and the little guy here had to see what just happened I can guess what you mean, but this overgrown murderer is altogether obvious. Casey. We are dangerous That's it Joe. Yes, boss. I've always kind of like Casey and I'm soft-hearted with guys. I like You do it Don't have to work. I've got him under control get that gun you shot Ben Flack with From the red, huh? I found it concealed in his pocket when I searched him in the boat house. You didn't tell me I Retained my old Robin Hood technique Casey. I never tell anybody Everything huh? I hope my bullets didn't kill this murderer. I prefer to let the law take its course in such matters The only wing to ill live After a jury here's our eyewitness testimony Excellent. Well, I'll pile these two sleeping characters into the car get in the cops before anything else happens We've had an adventurous afternoon and evening Happened to a you said it Wilmer I've been conked on the head taken for a ride, but twice. I was gonna be bumped off and You know pal, I'm kind of all in Brother defenders of the right should not be too critical of each other Casey, but I'm afraid you have no staying power We'll never guess when you set out your new two-quart Sunburst crystal pitcher and someone will say Where did you get that beautiful pitcher? We'll ask them to guess. They'll mention jewelry stores high-class specialty shops in the light They'll never guess that you bought it new and bright for only 50 cents for this beautiful Two-quart Sunburst crystal pitcher has the same diamond-like sparkle you see in the most costly hand-cut crystal The kind of crystal that's handed down for generations as a family heirloom Yes, the Sunburst crystal pitcher is an amazing bargain a really great value And yet you'll find this Sunburst crystal pitcher and other equally great Sunburst crystal values at any retail store selling household Glass now the Sunburst crystal pitcher costs only 50 cents slightly more in distant cities So ask for it by name. You'll recognize the brilliant sparkling traditional Sunburst pattern immediately Sunburst crystal is a product of anchor Hawking The most famous name in glass Locker dead and flak got dead the rights for killing him and that redhead Casey It sure looks like you and that will McCarrick is busted up the flak political machine I'll be pretty hard to reorganize with the ringleaders out of the picture You don't seem very happy about having performed such a fine public service. Yeah, well you see I I just been talked to by miss Williams and captain Logan They are sure at you and how yeah, and you know to make the day absolutely perfect. I I lost my watch somewhere That's funny funny. Yeah, because a fella gave me a watch tonight I stepped outside a minute to catch a breath of air and a little fella comes up and says you look like a poor working man Who needs a watch then before I could say anything he stuck it in my hand and beat it Let's see that watch Mine you mean mr. 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