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I can see what you were leading up to you But you know he's been listening to our program and he says right away Glass-making right after bird it is glass making and one of the oldest institutions in the industry is anchor Hawking The world's largest makers of household glass I'm photographer brought to you by fire king oven glass anchor glass containers anchor caps and closures products of anchor Hawking a great name in glass Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is Tony Marvin every week at this time the anchor Hawking glass cooperation brings you another adventure of Casey crime Photographer ace camera man who covers the crime news of a great city written by Alonzo Dean Cole our adventure for tonight The Duke of Skid Row Midnight a dingy poverty-stricken street of gloomy tenements and cheap lodging houses Above the uninviting door of one of these latter places Swings a dimly-lighted sign that identifies the Davis hotel One dollar per night a taxi cab stops in front and a tall very thin man a light from it His clothes are shabby but clean and well-fitting in one eye as a monocle in his hand a jaunty walking stick I'm sure I owe you please the mate is says 270. It is five dollars. Give the change, huh? Say thanks. Good night. Hey, yes, you know cabs ain't easy to find in this part of town Do you want me to wait for you? No, I should not be going out again tonight Meaning you live in that flea bag. You may draw your own conclusion about my residence in the Davis Hotel Oh, no offense mister. Thanks again and good night Good night Good evening Davies I stand at the window and you got that cab. What's a big idea? I do not understand cab rides cost though You owe me over a week's rent. Oh That little matter The sum of my indebtedness to you is how much five bucks for last week and your two days into this one Here is $20. Hey Where'd you get that kind though? You may keep the change, huh? I'm leaving this place tomorrow morning waiting for good. Give me the key to my room, please. Oh sure Why are you going from here? My name is not Duke. It is smite. Mr. Smite. I Am going to live like a gentleman again Good night. Night. Mr. Davis. Yeah, I do not wish to be disturbed tonight Again, good night Huh 20 bucks he gives me come on. He asked me for the lens of a nickel. I can't figure that guy out Well, gents, what can I do for you? A man came into these place just now a Man who wore a monocle and carried the walking stick. Uh, what about it? We saw him go upstairs So he must be a guest of this Hotel who you guys we will ask the questions and give the answers Hey, what's the idea? We will not harm you if you do as you are told He will take us to the room of that man with the monocle. Okay. Okay, and be very quiet His room's on the next floor up downstairs. You first just ahead of us Sure What uh What you two gents want with the Duke the Duke is that what he calls himself? That's what we call him around here. It's just a jag. I don't know nothing about him gents He ain't no pal of mine. I don't know nothing about the dough. He had denied me though. What do you mean by that? That's what you hear about in it. The rest of the money he got someplace this man. You call Duke Had money tonight. I only saw 20 bucks, but he came in the idea Take us to his room and get him to open the door He must think you are alone if you wish to live my friend Do not let him know that anyone is with you. I hear I hear Uh, there's his door Knock who is there? It's uh, Davis Duke. What do you want? I uh, I got talk to you, man I told you I do not want to be disturbed. Um, it's bad personal matter. Don't go through the door We get them to bound no bespectacled you over there, please You are going with us. No, I think and you will go quietly. Don't don't You slugged him with that guy quiet and keeper It was necessary now for you in keeper. Here is $100 That's a note for me. Put it in your pocket. Oh, thanks It isn't payment for your services and for what we are now compelled to do. What do you mean by that? This Oh captain Logan that conch on the head was the last thing I knew till I come to And I got myself downstairs and phone you cop. You came to in here Davis. Yeah here in Duke's room They slugged him and me Duke and them two guys were going also the Duke suitcase and everything he had in this room Just like I told precincts cops would get here ahead of you captain They was what name was the Duke registered under here? Uh smith john smith Hmm Now tell me all you know about this Duke Davis Oh He checked in about two months ago. I figured him for one of them european refugees who run out of dough During the last couple weeks. He run completely out of it. He hung me up for his room and Getting his only move meals at the mission soup kitchen. You say he acted like a guy who once had plenty Yeah, not just plenty doll. He acted like a duke in the movies That's how we give him his name. He used big words and spoke a lot of languages What nationality do you think he was? No one could dope that he never said You're gonna be a big help to me And the two men who came here for him were foreigners to say well, I Give out in a foreign language a couple times that I didn't get out of here. I only partly good americans Well, come on down the headquarters with me. You may find their pictures in our file. Okay, you take charge here, sergeant. Yes captain Hey, what's that? Just getting a picture of you, mister. You too, Logan. So you're here, Casey Annie and I have been getting the yarn from the precinct cops who got here first We were just going to start upstairs for a get together with you learned anything new captain If you got the story from the precinct guys miss williams, you got all of it Oh, but what do you think about it? How can I know what to think yet? I haven't anything to work on I won't have until I can learn more about this duke and the guys who took him out of here Uh, their descriptions have already gone out naturally the precinct guys got that on the radio and teletype's first thing I'm taking davis to headquarters now to look at pictures Uh, wait captain. That's that's my fault. The sergeant will handle it davis Hello, miss williams and I'll follow your car to headquarters logan. Okay, Casey. Yeah, let's go captain wait What is it sergeant second precinct on the phone, sir? One of their men has found the duke found the duke The description fits all right and the guy is dead now talk to second precinct. Hello captain logan speaking. Where is the body found? Hey underneath the dock. Casey. This is getting interesting, Annie. Say that again He'd been tortured before he was hanged, huh? Very interesting Casey. I'll be right over. Goodbye Seems you've just learned more about the duke and the guys who snatched him logan. 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You sent davis down here to look at pictures davis Didn't find the kidnappers pictures are one of the duke either Of course your guys are trying to find the cab driver who dropped the duke at his hotel tonight Sure, they've been checking their hacks there since davis told his story But that'll probably take some time well that driver can tell you whether duke got into his cab Which may help you find out where he got his sudden wealth tonight that money must have been the motive for the murder come in We found that cab driver captain as the one who drove that duke guy to skid row tonight. Oh, that's fast word boys bring him in Yes, sir In here fella. Okay My name is prankers captain moat and prankers hack license one hundred two oh eight Sit down. Thank us. Thanks. Your cops have told me what you want to know so I won't waste your time of mine The skinny guy with the cane and the one window eyeglass I took that I joined on skid row I picked him up on a call a telephone call That's right a phone call which tells me to come to 300 summit road, which is mr. Matthew brinsley's residence What Matthew brinsley's yes, sir So I go to air rings the doorbell the butler says to wait a minute and then the skinny guy with the eyeglass comes out And gets into my hack he came out of the brinsley mansion Yeah, but he didn't look to me as if he had two dimes to rub together And when he told me the place where he wanted to go davis hotel That's the joint. Well when we get there to my surprise he hands me five bucks and says keep the change Oh What time did you drop him off at the hotel round midnight that fits davis's story Is your passenger? Have you made any stops between the brinsley house in the hotel? No, sir What did he talk to you during the ride tell you anything about himself? I didn't hear a word from the guy after he told me where to go until he got out Now when your fear got out of the davis hotel, did you see anyone on the street who might have been watching him waiting for him to show up? Yeah, I noticed two guys standing in the doorway across the street Yeah, but I didn't pay them no attention. The only thing on my mind was to get out of that lousy neighborhood where there was no business for cabs You drove away immediately, huh? Yep Okay, because you can go. Thanks captain. I want to get back on my job. So long so long How do you like the duke's connection with matthew brinsley lovin? That's a hot one, isn't it? Brinsley the multimillionaire. Yeah, now that cab driver says the duke had dough Enough to give big tips. You know Brinsley's been in several jams and his money's got him out of kasey. Yeah, I know the receiving stolen property Oh, kasey a man with his wife. He's no offense, sanny. He's a collector of historical antiques. He's a bug on the subject Yeah I'm gonna see what brinsley has to say about this business. Hmm when I let you go right now I probably couldn't get into his face at this on holy hour That's grab a few hours leave get out there first thing in the morning. Well, okay, lovin I'll be with you Oh Quite a joint this brinsley mansion kitchen. Yeah, I'll say I'll probably interrupt the old guy's breakfast, but here goes his doorbells. Hold it lovin someone's opening the door Hey, what is it? Good morning? We'd like to see mr. Brinsley I'm brinsley, but I can't talk to anybody now. I'm in my way to the bank. I'm a policeman, mr. Brinsley Here's my shield and identification. I'm captain logan of the homicide bureau homicide Very well, come inside All right, yes, sir Tell the chauffeur to wait. I'll be slightly delayed. Yes, mr. Brinsley. Uh, sit down captain and uh, my name is kasey What are you gentlemen here for? I haven't committed any homicide Mr. Brinsley, you had a visitor last night a tall thin Shabbily dressed man who wore a monocle What about him? I want you to tell me all you know about him. Why? He was murdered after he left your house Seen him mrs. Wheelprecker Huh? Oh, yeah, I get it Yes, sure mrs. Wheelprecker Oh, dear These women Here's your drinks kasey miss winims. Thanks ever bird. I was hoping you'd show up for you So it was just a heart attack to kill the old guy kasey. He wasn't murdered Uh brinsley's death was a perfectly natural one, apple bird Oh, not altogether kasey from what you told me the shock of hearing about the duke brought on the attack Yeah At first I figured that duke sold something to brinsley some antique he'd stolen maybe Yes, but logan hasn't been able to find anything that brinsley might have brought from the duke And as brinsley wasn't out of his house after the duke left it last night There was nothing in that leather bag brinsley took into his study No, nothing but some very legitimate bonds. That's what he was taken to the bank. Yeah, apparently The way that old guy hung on to his bag even after his heart began to kick up And he insisted on going into his study alone and he closed the door He was in there long enough to have taken something out of the bag and hidden it away logan search Just oh sure sure desk drawers and places like that He looked for a safe in the room and there wasn't any Okay, see if he should find something brinsley brought from the duke it still wouldn't solve the duke's murder Annie, I've got a hunch it would Well, now, I don't see how I think those two well-dressed foreigners who went to the hotel for the duke were looking for the thing He sold to brinsley And I think if they believe that they could still get their mitts on it, they just might Say any what Logan said he was going to the brinsley house again He ought to be there about now. Let's you and me go there and join him I got the same idea you got kc. So my men are given that study and they're a real going over right now That's swallowing. Well, what do you know about that? Does northman that you two have the same big ideas? Let's see Same time. Let's make a coincidental. I had a first-class basis for mine. Ms. Williams not one of kc's hunches What do you mean? Well, I've checked with brinsley's bank and they told me that two days ago He withdrew $30,000 in cash Now they record serial numbers when dough is passed out in chunks like that And the $20 bill the duke gave davis last night has one of those numbers Brinsley must have bought something from the duke. What could he have paid the duke $30,000 for a captain organ? Yes, sergeant. We passed up. Let's see. Come on in There captain Big redder chair. Well, I show you I'm used to trick hiding places, but this is one of the neatest I've run into Look when you press these three ornamental nails at the same time The seat rises a big cavity underneath What's that thing in it? It looks to me like one of those gimmicks the king of spades where it's on his head. It's a crown. It's a gold crown Yeah, it's not much of a crown. It's gold, but there's no jewels on it. I was just saying to myself captain Why hide that thing? It ain't worth more than a hundred bucks. It's probably worth a hundred thousand sarge Huh, it's old and antique. Can't you see that crown would have fitted nicely and brings his little bag He may have thought you knew the duke had sold it to him that you'd search for it So he took it out of the bag and put it in that trick chair before his heart gave up. I know all that casey But no, how will that thing lead us to the killer? Well, logan the good old power of the press can lead them to us What do you mean? Now look The only metal in this chair Are the nails and coil springs And when that crown gets back under the seat, it'll show up nicely in an x-ray picture x-ray picture Yeah That the morning express will be carrying in all its additions tomorrow With a nice story that you'll write that well, okay, but what do I write an invitation To the death house Two o'clock in the morning and we've been sitting here in the dark for almost six hours Well, they couldn't have a more comfortable place to sit in the dark Old man brinsley put nice chairs in his house You know casey, I don't think those men will come here. I don't either miss Williams Only chumps would fall for that stuff in the express this morning about murderous chumps. Your come on was too broad Casey that x-ray picture showing the crown in that leather chair and miss Williams's story. That was a darn good story, logan Thank you very much I gave a reasonable explanation for that picture I explained that the police and looking for clues had to take x-ray shots of almost everything in the house Because brinsley's executors wouldn't let the police tear things apart or remove anything from the house. You made it sound very logical, annie I played up the crown shown inside that chair as a big mystery to the cop Well, naturally, I didn't say that it was a trick chair that you've been able to open And I gave a reasonable explanation for everything else and I come on too For the house being empty of servants tonight and for a real come on outside of that picture was the truth She wrote about the duke's connection with brinsley If you can doubt it, they told his murderers about that connection under torture logan Man's story will clinch it. I hope you're right Quiet I'm moving towards the study I think someone's taken advantage of that real window we left open logan we'll soon see There he is With a flashlight He won't be able to see us behind the screen There's only one guy Hey logan he's making for that leather chair He's flashing the seat with a knife, isn't he? Logan he's got the crown. That's enough. Stick up your hands. What? We've been waiting for you, mister You're under arrest for murder. Murder? Yeah murder the duke known as john smith. Where's your pal who helped you kill the duke? I am here. Put up your handle My brother is an expert marksman He will do as he says Where is he? I'm in the dark where you cannot see me Drop your gun This is goddess logan Yeah Okay You are wise Now but how silly they were a minute ago my brother They thought I had walked into their trap alone. These americans are very simple people they do I see you have the crown Yes Now our labor is almost done Why did you guys want that bomb hunk of gold so badly on that he calls me? He do not know what it is. He called this bomb hunk of gold, huh? Or what is it? We have no time to answer your question or the inclination besides It is foolish to satisfy the curiosity of Soon to be dead people Soon to be I'm sorry If you leave you might cause great trouble for the good of my country and for my brother and me You must die. Show them now now. Yes, tito Now We got them all right captain logan. Uh, we were dependent on just her but thanks Thanks, just the thing and the next time logan tell your men to crash in just a few seconds earlier You had these police went hidden And we americans aren't so simple as you seem to think mister. Well, I suppose you're smart on americans Tell us why you killed the duke We say nothing. We say nothing at all. Yes, you will brothers Yes, you will get them to talk fast captain. We've got to get this story to press You get the story any i'm going to get a couple of shots of these crown chasers and get them to the office Okay, casey. 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Oh, I knew that all along. He was only a count huh He was an honest to garsh count tool adelbridge From one of those little european principalities that went out of business after the first world war Yeah, and the duke i mean the count was a relative of the king who'd lost his job And he was also custodian of the royal crown of him He scrammed the united states with all that dough that he could lay his mitts on And the sacred crown only the money gave out after a while and he had only the crown left So we finally sold the crown to brinsey Hmm, but the guys who killed him they were stubborn royalists effort fanatics about restoring their king Who had to have his traditional crown if and when he was restored They went after the duke and finally caught up with him They forced him to tell what he'd done with the crown And then they killed him see they consider the guy a traitor apple bird So they gave him the traditional punishment for traitors hanging They even tied a real hangman's knot About were illegal execution well in their screwy minds. 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