 Peter Chambers by Henry Kane transcribed and starring as Peter Chambers Dane Clark You're a private eye. That's your business anything else That's for laughs you find yourself in a university, but you're not a student Generally, you're allergic to classrooms, but the lady talking to you the teacher by name Elaine Janice Well, she's a sort of an antidote for the classroom allergy. I need your help, Mr. Chambers. I need your help desperately She has large brown eyes and a smooth white forehead and despite her obvious agitation She's a sweet young thing this Elaine Janice Starchy, but sweet. I need your help, Mr. Chambers not for myself for another help. That's my racket help Public helper. Although sometimes I'm known as Peter Chambers a private eye. Oh, well, there will be a fee of course Don't worry about the fee. I'm like a doctor. It depends on what the traffic will bear and sooner or later You'll get your bill. It's It's about Professor Stanley Sanders Sanders? Papers have been full of it Your steer Professor Stanley Sanders suspected of killing his wife and suspected is putting him mildly. Not Stanley Not Professor Sanders. He could no more harm any human being and not Stanley He's the sweetest kindest person in the whole world. Well, what do you want me to do, Miss Janice? I want you to try to find out who did kill Mrs. Sanders Well, does he a good professor know that you're retaining me? Oh, no, no, he doesn't and I don't want him to know I'll have to talk to him. Well, tell him tell him that you've been retained But that your client doesn't wish the name divulged Just one more little question. Yes. What's your interest in this? Mine. Yes yours. Well, I Have known Professor Sanders for a long time I think by his silence in his non cooperation with the police. I think he's been wrongfully suspected He's a fine person a good man a kind man Professor Stanley Sanders lives in a suburb at the edge of the Bronx You drive up there and you find a modest neat little house. Yes. Yes, Mr. Chambers Professor's a young man Sandy-haired and straight-eyed Yes, what is it, please, Mr. Chambers? Well, I'm not here as a student Professor Sanders No, what are you here as an investigator investigating? Are you from the police? No, no, no I'm a private investigator. I've been retained to Look into the well the death of your wife. I'm sorry, Mr. Chambers I don't know who retained you and I don't care But I've told the police what I know and that's that there's nothing further. I can add professor now if you please I'm a very busy man And that's how you read about it in the newspapers stubborn professor Stanley Sanders who disclaims any knowledge of the murder of his wife although he was home at the time Free children all of them up in camp So you go to the fountain head of information police headquarters and your very good friend detective lieutenant Louie Parker You're mixed up in a rough one this time Peter Milan Louie Louie what happened there exactly what happened Well, all we got is professor Stanley Sanders story. All right. What's the story? Well, it's about a week ago. It's a warm night three kids are off at camp Professor is alone with his wife at their home in the Bronx now. He's wearing slacks and a sweatshirt Louis I'm not interested in the sartorial of the interest. Why must I cause it's got a bearing on the case All right, okay. All right Well about ten minutes before the murder happens Professor Sanders is seen strolling outside in the slacks and the sweatshirt then he goes into the house Rest is his story. All right. What is his story? Hmm wife was in the kitchen. He went upstairs the bedroom to read So according to him he hears sounds of a scuffle. He runs downstairs and he gets hit a hard blow on the neck Knocks him out when he comes to his wife is on the kitchen floor Stabbed 15 times. She's dead Sweatshirt he was wearing it's gone missing So so that's the story period Guy himself the professor absolutely refuses to cooperate any further. What's he got to cooperate about? Oh, and I listen hard mr. Peep and try and think like a grown-up detective. I'm listening master. Look, I'm a harness bull I don't do the glamour routine like you guys. I was listening Louie. All right It's an isolated home on Staten Island wife stabbed to death Nobody home except him and the missus kitchen knife missing sweatshirt missing right off his body What are your ideas on that well only that this sweatshirt was bloodstained he got rid of it together with the knife We accuse him he refuses to talk except to deny the murder We want him to take a lie detector test Refuses absolutely and what would you think don't ask me Louie? I'm a glamour boy You're the harness bullets you're thinking it counts Well, I think the guy is guiltier than seven devils and Hades Why don't you lock them up because there's one thing missing in that motive my boy motive for murder That we ain't got Joe so far all we can do is accuse him and holler and papers make a big stink about it without motive We're hamstrung feet. Yeah Suppose you are What else you got Louie that the newspapers haven't got all now more come on Louie. It's confidential It's always confidential. I've been retained on this thing. I'm working. Whatever I dig up I turn into you so no bless a bleach tip for that. Come on All right, take a look Search of the house disclose these first note type written note. Let me see it. Yeah See Look out for yourself. You'll be sorry And it's signed by initials SS SS Stanley Sanders a couple of weeks ago. He was out of town So it figures that he wrote her this nice sweet little letter. We found it in her handbag and what's the rest of this stuff? Men use Men use from restaurants nightclubs looks like she was one of them collectors, you know menus. Can I see that help yourself detective? Thank you detective own mention it detective One of the menus a sort of tickles at you it tickles at you fit to bust It's from the casino Rouge a hot shot nightclub over on the east side So you take your leave of your beloved harness bow, but you're too early for the casino Rouge So you try professor Sanders again? There's absolutely nothing I can tell you mr. Chambers Nothing that I haven't already told the police what about that note professor that type written note that they attribute to you I didn't write that note and why don't you submit to a lie detector test because there's no reason to submit to it I'm not a criminal. I've lived an exemplary life all my life. I have three children whom I adore I'm not riffraff scum. Look, there's no reason to submit to a lie detector test I've told the police exactly what occurred exactly what happened that night Well, do you have any explanation for the disappearance of your sweatshirt right off your back? No What about the kitchen knife which in this case seems to be the murder weapon? I have no explanation for that, but it's not my province to find explanations. That's the business of the police Prof do you know a lady by name of Elaine Janice? Yes Yes, I know her she teaches at the university Look professor, how did you get along with your wife? Was there any chambers? I consider that an important question and one that will end this interview right now. Good day to you, sir And please don't trouble to come back So that evening you're an early night clubber Casino Rouge goes into action late, but you're early Sebastian Slocum owns a joint affectionately known as Sibbie to the Joe's in the note But you're not interested in Sibbie not now Now you're interested in a slick chick who goes by the name of Carmen La Rose She used to be nuts about her boss and maybe she still is but Anyway, you ask around for her. She's a singer at the joint. Have you been looking for me handsome? Carmen La Rose tall dark and electric Plenty of voltage Voltage like a third rail. I hear you've been asking around for me pity boy. Yeah I've been asking around tell you something kiddo I've been asking around for you like how I call your office a couple times when I got the chance Who's been stopping you nobody and what do you mean when you got the chance? Sibbie he's been close to me so close to me and you hate him for that Yes, I hate him. I hate him. I call you but you are not being I've been working on a case What's with you and Sibbie? I thought you were nuts about that mug. No more I hate him and I am scared pretty scared stiff I I don't know if he knows but I thought Don't know if you know you don't know if I know what my little boy Well, how you doing Sibbie my little boy, I don't like you in my place of business Snooper me Sibbie my little boy. I don't like no coppers in my place of business. I'm no copper Sibbie to me You're a copper My little boy'd Sibbie Sebastian Slocum six-feet tall Latin type lover type sleek slim and dapper With wild black eyes that look like they need four alarms to put out the blaze So kindly do me a very small faith for you Sibbie any time get out of my place of business Get out of here still a free country Sibbie country sure place of business that ain't free So get going Snooper get out of here. And if I don't my little boy then I help you Mike Jack Have you ever been bounced out of a nightclub Happens to the best of people makes you a member of a very select circle Anyway, you get up and you brushed your clothes and you have a small debate with yourself Do you go back and break up the joint? Or do you keep punching at your business? You have a tough tussle with your alter ego, but business wins out So once more you go where you aren't wanted to the home of professor Sanders But there you learn that he's been picked up Arrested for the murder of his wife So you high-tail it down to headquarters and you're ushered into park his office and there they are the good lieutenant the professor What do you know Elaine Janice? Okay, Pete. We got the whole story. We even know that Miss Janice retained you to help our professor here Well, you said you didn't have enough on him Louie until you had a motor which is what we got right now Plenty of motive like what like love love That's motor for murder. It is when you're in love with the wrong party. I had to tell them Mr. Chambers, I had to talk. I couldn't hold it any longer Holding it back was cool. It was like lying and they should know everything. They should know the truth truth What truth dear professor Sanders and dear teacher here are very much in love Professor asked his wife for divorce his wife refused Good enough detective. Do we have a motive? See he didn't do it I'm perfectly confident and I want you to know everything, but but he didn't kill her I want to talk professor. I've told you all I intend to tell you I'll add that I did ask my wife for a divorce and that she refused but I didn't kill her as to that I've given you all the facts now. You in love with Miss Janice. I am and I would like to marry her But I'm not a murderer I have three children and it's my intention to try to save them from any possible scandal. Is that why you wouldn't talk? I didn't kill her that's all I have to say except I should like to call my lawyer You don't need a lawyer to answer the simple question And so it goes deep into the night They put the grill on professor Sanders, but he clams tighter than a teenager's evening gown Finally when Parker throws his hands up and disgust you get out of there where to Casino Rouge You owe a debt there your dignity has been bruised among other things But you're late Carmen La Rose left with Sebastian Slocum You throw the bartender a couple of tens and you learn that Carmen lives up at Rye Beach a little shack up at Rye Beach It takes you a half hour to get there and then You mosey over to a window And you make with a gander There they are drinking it up the two of them The windows locked from the inside But you can hear Nothing, I don't know what you're talking about you can tell me honey. I don't care if you saw But I want to know I Don't want you holding out on Siby No Have a little belt Have a little belt on Siby. Ah, you wouldn't hurt me Siby. You wouldn't do me no harm, huh? Wouldn't hide a hair on your head my little boy. Come on Lucena Did you tell me that night? Yeah Yeah, I did. I was crazy jealous Siby on that phony society dame You were a toy to her a play thing and you were thinking she would divorce Guy for you shut up Okay, okay, I'm shutting don't ask me no more Siby no more I Don't want to talk no more. I didn't see nothing. I don't want to talk no more. Don't you worry my little boy You ain't gonna talk no more Never The guy pulls a knife that looked like it's a foot long Going to action you crash the window And you are But he's not tough enough and when you're finished He stretched out cruel and comfortable and nobody's going to hear from Sebastian Slocum until he gets dialed in Meanwhile, you've got Carmen LaRose on your hands and I mean on your hand. Hold me pity kiss me I'm afraid. Hold me. Please Easy does it Carmen girl Carmen my little boy. This isn't the time. It's not the place It is it is when I am frightened when when I am frightened. I am like little child. Please kiss me. Please please, please Okay And now um, yes Talk it up sister. Oh Yes, I will Once once I love him. I thought I love him no more. No more. He's like Tomcat women He does not care Anyway, this one came this one for once. He is entangled a society thing. This professor's wife. This is um, Mrs. Sandman She lead him on she lead him by the nose She is one to enjoy but she does not become entangled So Ben Siby talks to the wife and she laughed in his face She says she is happy protected as a married woman So so later on he types note to her from casino rouge office He thinks I do not see it but I see it I see a threatening note and she comes then to the club and again she laughed at him She laughed right in his face and then then last week he goes there I go after him. He does not know it, but I am telling him because I want to know I want to see The husband is upstairs. I am by the kitchen window. They fight they argue and He killed her Butchers her with kitchen knife. The husband comes down the stairs Siby wait behind the door slugs him. He falls near her There is blood on his shirt that Siby takes the shirt off and takes the knife and he goes Got any idea why he took the sweatshirt. I imagine to make something that cannot be Explained I imagine to put the suspicion on the husband. Yeah, I imagine that you imagine pretty good my little one So now please hold me. Please Kiss me. I am afraid And so once more you're at police headquarters Sebastian Slocum is confined to the Calibus Common La Rose is held as a material witness And professor sanders free as a lock is in park his office with Elaine Janice And you you're listening Professor, I don't get you. I simply don't understand. He is a good dear fine man But he almost got him so fried in the hot seat clamming up like he did Oh, there are all kinds of people lieutenant. Yeah, this certainly must be scandal lieutenant I shudder in it. I have three children. So you told me over and over and over Let me give you a little background lieutenant My father was a minister my mother a devout woman a social worker I was brought up very strictly. I am in essence an old-fashioned man. So You knew about Slocum. He came to you to ask for your okay for a divorce. Why didn't you tell us scandal again lieutenant? Bad enough. She was dead. I wasn't going to heave scandal upon scandal My children my community my students. Oh, what a guy. Yes. He's the dearest finest But not taking the lie to take the test holding out on your affection for miss janice here and holding out on that Sebastian slocum thing and that that note the type written note Weren't you worried man? Not for a moment lieutenant as I said, I am a devout man I knew that one way or another truth would out Yeah, truth would out thanks to the crazy operations of this crazy private. I thank you louis Well then lieutenant may we go and peace go with you professor. You're quite a guy by miss janice By now What a man. Yes, sir. There's a certain simplicity. You're setting integrity. You got a hand into him. I suppose you have to All right now, let's get to you. What's sent you off to that casino rouge? Well, you did louis me Yeah, you Well, like how how did I send you? Well, maybe I'm a little bit of a rounder more than you let's say But I knew that the casino rouge was owned by Sebastian slocum. So what's that got to do it? Well, that note you showed me here. Let me see it again. I'll show you sure Hey, yeah, see it's a type written note mind you a type written note. Now it reads Look out for yourself. You'll be sorry and assigned by initials ss. That's right ss stanley sanders Professor stanley sand also ss for sebastian slocum, which it turned out to be Well, how in heck did you know that psychology louis psychology? First ask any married man in a world if he drops his wife a note Would he type it the answer is no Plus and this is even more incontrovertible psychologically Incontrovert whenever my name that what husband in the world would sign a note to his wife by both his initials Yeah, yeah, you've got a point there husband was signed by his first name Perhaps even by his first initial but think No husband is that formal with his wife Both initials it just didn't figure psychologically and that plus the menu from casino rouge plus ss owns casino rouge. Yeah, and it sure tickled me louis in the right place Look pal, can I say something louis? You can say anything. Well for once I'd like to go on record with a statement You know people make jokes about routine hardest cups like myself and the glamour boys you guys private eyes So I'd like to go on record with a statement. I hit me easy louis. I'm gonna hit you at all p All I want to say for the record Honest fool private eye Well done young man Very well done indeed And there you've had crime and peter chambers Dane clock was starred as peter chambers Crime and peter chambers transcribed was created and written by henry cayne Others in the cast were bill zuckered heard as lieutenant parker Mary Patton as karman and bill lally as dr. Sheppman It was directed by fred way This is fred Collins inviting you to tune in next week same time same station For dane clock in crime And peter chambers be with us again next week at this same time For another adventure by peter chambers in crime and peter chambers This is the united states armed forces radio and television service