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It's just got to be famous Sure, like anchor Hawking the most famous name in glad Good evening ladies and gentlemen, 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 camera man who covers the crime news of a great city Written by Alonzo Dean Cole our adventure for tonight self-made hero Casey like most news cameraman has a radio in his automobile that he keeps tuned to police calls Tonight as he and reporter Anne Williams drive leisurely toward the express building after recovering a routine assignment Calling car 55 car 55 come in car 55 Sergeant Brandon Caller mine any I didn't know they had him on proud bar duty report of shooting there Hey, wait a minute, it'll be repeated listen clock and frisco report of shooting there no further details More Casey like we're only a few blocks from there. Maybe there's a story with pictures next up 12th Street between Clark and briscoe Usual crowds collected Casey and there comes a police car Annie. We're getting here a jump ahead of Brandon Get out come on Beside him must have had something to do with the shoot Here comes your sergeant he knows hello there Brandon. Oh hi, Casey. Hello miss Williams. Hello sergeant. What's the trouble Johnson? This young fella here sergeant. He says someone took a couple of pot shots at him back in that alleyway I didn't call for assistance officer until I done everything possible to help myself Well, let's get inside this cigar store then it can tell me what happened. Come on Casey. All right move back I'll let us through will you come on at one side Now then let's have your story, but what's your name the name is Wellington cliffside only one F in cliffside at Present applauded junior pharmacist at black ten-street drugstore. Yeah, I see you carry a camera. Mr. Casey Yeah, yeah, well anytime you say I believe in cooperating with the newspapers now wait a minute I'm only a cop, but I still want to know what this shooting was about. Oh certainly sergeant Well as I've already told officer Johnson during the past month I became suspicious of two men who've been making telephone calls from the drugstore Mm-hmm. I made it my business to overhear parts of their conversation. Now what I heard sergeant convinced me that they are Spies spies. Hmm foreign agents. Well, they must have become suspicious of my suspicions for tonight. They uh, they acted acted Yes, sir a few minutes ago. I was standing there at the corner waiting for a young lady of my acquaintance When these two men passed me they two men have been making the mysterious phone calls Yes, sir, I saw them go into the dark deserted alley back of us. I followed them now I know they meant to lure me to my death for when I entered the alley He says they grabbed him a sergeant let him tell the story Johnson while I seized me sergeant one of them slashed at me with a Knife. Oh look, you can see the tears. He made my overcoat there in the left sleeve Uh-huh, and here in the front the knife didn't get stuck into you yourself No, no, I broke away and they ran with me in hot pursuit Then they pulled guns and started shooting their bullets missed you I was lucky I Chased him to the end of the alley with them shooting Considered my duty sergeant then what happened then I found that they disappeared probably into one of the buildings on the street I knew I couldn't find them all by myself. So I yell. No, I Should say I shouted for a sip This policeman came up and Well, he can tell you the rest there ain't no rest Except I couldn't find no mysterious strangers around like this young fellow described Okay, Johnson did this guy show you where the shooting and stabbing took place in that alley. Yes, I did sergeant. I'll show you you stay here Roberts yes, sir you keep mr. Wellington rockside company while I have a look around out here Come on Johnson and it's Wellington cliffside sergeants. Okay. Thanks. Oh, welcome Well, mr. Casey, I suppose you want to take some pictures of me for your newspaper Yeah, yeah, I think you're worth a couple of pictures, huh? Now hold up that overcoat sleeve to show the tear in it while I back off and get you in focus All right, that's a terribly phony story that he told Casey Phonies can make good laugh copy any kids an amateur dick Tracy That'll be fine. Okay, well I can now hold it. Thank you Look at that girl. Okay. Thank you. Well, I can they told me how those awful minutes tried to kill you Well, you're not hurt. Oh, well, I got the best of them, aren't I but you can see what they did to my coat Well, isn't it lucky you had on your old one? Excuse me, mr. Cliffside is this the young lady you were waiting for? Oh, yes. Yes, mr. Casey and miss Williams. Mr. Casey This is a miss Marna Adams. Mr. Casey is on a newspaper Marna. He's just been taking pictures of me Oh, how nice. How do you do miss? I knew all about those spies wellington was after mr. Casey I was the only one he told about them. Oh wellington. You've been wonderful if they'd hurt you. I don't know what I do Oh, jeez Marna, it was sergeant Brandon's coming back Casey and there's a woman with him. Ah sergeant Uh, did you find any clues on the alley that might help us catch those spies funny young fella? Is uh, this the guy mrs. Libby? That's him thought that's long string bean of a kid. What this lady lives in the Flatbilling next to the alley she happened to be looking out of her window when you were cutting holes in your own coat with a pen knife All the windows were dark in the alley the alley was dark. I got the kind of eyes but see good at night And why should I burn electricity? But I'm only looking out my window. I mind my own business I wouldn't tell the cops that they hadn't come asking me if I saw something and she saw you fire those shots I didn't fire any shots. No, but you set off some homemade firecrackers that sounded like shots Here's pieces of them. I found back there sergeant. Look, I saw you like a match to those firecrackers young men firecrackers There weren't any spies. No one tried to kill you. This was all a bluff You cheater you cheap rug cutter. You you firecracker shooter you faker. You gotta listen to me. I never want to see you Don't go away marna. Don't yeah, you stay here mr What do I gotta explain to her you gotta let me explain sergeant, please She's gone. You've got some explaining to do to the judge after I run you in Hey, roberts make out your reporter on this guy and we'll take him to the station. Okay, sir. Come on. All right. All right Hey, hey, brannett. Yeah, what casing? Don't run that kid in and why not? Well, couldn't just see he was making a grandstand play for that bobby sark's gal and it flopped Oh, he's already taken one on the chin and hard now. Look kasey we cops have too much trouble with his kind of I know I know but do me a favor will you brannett? I'll do one for you sometimes. I don't make trades But I don't get any kick out of pinching goofy kids either Look kasey, you can have wellington brookside if you only take him away from here if you don't well That mob out there has heard what's happened and they'll they'll kid him right. I'll take him away Okay, thanks kasey. I'll tell him to get in your car. Hey, what's the idea kasey? I don't like to see a kid k.o. Twice in one night, annie Look, and when you get to the office kid, don't write this story for laughs or otherwise I'm forgetting the pictures I took. Oh, I get it. Okay. All right. Come on. I'm gonna drive a kid home and I'll drop you on the way Well, here you are annie. Okay, fellow on kasey. Goodbye wellington. Goodbye miss wings. See you in a little while annie. Okay Hey, uh Wellington name is that on the level my name is jack jack. It's my name. Okay jack I I don't want to bother you mr. Kasey. It's nobody look forget that mr. Stuff just plain kasey's all I rate Cigarette yeah, thanks I was too ashamed to open my mouth while miss williams was with us Now I want you to know I Well, I think it was swellier to talk the cops into letting me go Sergeant brandon was only looking for an excuse not to run you when he's a regular guy I deserve to be run in I must have been crazy to think I could get away with what I tried to do Well, all of us are a little nutty at times. I guess we get over it though. Here's some matches for that cigarette Oh, thanks Pretty kid miss adam's Yeah You like to uh, tell me about her often does a guy good to get things off his chest Yeah Mr. Kasey, I've got a bum back. You got bum back. I fell down a flat of stairs a couple of years ago and Now I've got to wear a steel corset to keep it in place. Oh Your bum back and the steel corset have anything to do with everything You see we're gonna Miss Adams admires guys who do things You know like clark gavel and gary cooper in the movies. Oh, I see Well, I told her about my bum back, but I said it got hurt while I was playing football I said I'd been the star half back in high school Then she found out I've never been a good enough athlete to even get on a girl softball team And that I just stumbled over my own feet going downstairs Since then she hasn't believed anything I've told her Except for maybe a minute tonight before the cops called my bluff She thinks I am Well, just what I am Big skinny clown who can't do anything regular guys can do That's out of my own imagination And maybe if somebody talked to uh, uh, myrna she might look at things a little differently Miss williams might do that. No, miss williams is another girl. She couldn't do any good Oh, you might though me Yeah, she respects old guys old Well, I don't mean you're so very old, but you must be all of 30 Yeah Pretty ancient, huh? And you're in the newspaper racket. You must know cops and murderers and Gee, I bet you've even talked to jeeman and movie stars Myrna will think you're almost as important a guy as is clark gavel or even Humphrey bow guy Oh, she'll listen to you kasey will you go to her and explain that i'm not Not just a heel. Listen jack. I please kasey Well, okay, fellow Oh jeeb Thanks Oh use mr. Casey I think it's very fine of you to try to defend mr. Cliff side, but I never want to hear his name again. I consider him A drip. Oh now don't be like that. Miss Adams. He's a nice kid. He's crazy about you. No mr. Casey He and I are I threw Forever I'm sorry Well, I there's nothing more I can say so i'll shovel. Oh, don't rush away You've talked so much about mr. Cliff side. I haven't heard a thing about you Me uh-huh you rescued people from burning buildings and captured burglar single-handed and You're a real hero. Whoever told you that was having a pipe drink. Oh, no, you're just being modest like I think all men should be I Say look, where did I put my hat miss adam? Oh, come on Please sit down mr. Casey and let's get Better acquainted There I've always wanted to meet a man Like you We'll continue in just a moment Good evening. Dorothy. Hello, tony. What's our subject tonight? Pie plates. Pie plates. Mm-hmm. Pie plates Not ordinary pie plates, but a new kind of pie plate the biggest bargain in years Pie it's made of glass. Well, this is the anchor hogging program and this new fire king oven glass pie plate is something special It fakes pie you can be proud of not once in a while But every time crusts are light fluffy and well brown and never scorched and it comes clean Almost instantly without scrubbing. Well, you've sold me tony Yes, this big nine inch fire king oven glass pie plate with a two-year guarantee against oven breakage Is being featured tomorrow and saturday at five or ten cent stores and all stores that sell household glass At a special bargain price of only 25 cents a slightly more in distant cities Look for the fire king label ask for it by name Not just an oven glass pie plate, but a fire king oven glass pie plate a product of anchor hogging The most famous name in glass Give me a cup of black coffee, apple birch. Okay, casey. You want one miss. Williams. No thanks apple birch Casey you look like you got trouble I'll say he has apple birch in a neat red-headed package Send with short skirts and a pair of bobby socks a hero worship complex and uh, a very Unbashful personality. It isn't funny. Anne. You're talking about a woman, huh? Oh, not a woman No, a goofy 17 year old kid that ought to be spanked. Wish I had the nerve to do it She's about to crush on casey phones in at the office several times a day and wait for him on the street so she can Gaze at him and Sorry, hey, she how did you get yourself into anything like that? You ain't no cradle snatcher Apple bird all I did was to call on her one afternoon last week in order to Well to try and square something for somebody else She isn't a girl that cliffside kid set off the firecrackers on account of that too But cliffside doesn't know yet that casey squared things so beautifully Will you get it walter? I put off telling him that she won't listen to anything that I say in his favor because Well, he's miserable enough as it is. You know, he phones me a couple of times a day too after first ask how I'm making out with I can't stall her much longer. Oh, I must have been nuts to get myself mixed up in something like this Tell her phone for you mr. Casey. All right, who is it? Uh, mr. Cliffside? I Thought I was about to for my nightly call from him. He's probably been trying to get me at the office Well, since you can't help him, you better stop stalling and tell him the truth casey. Oh, I can't I can't Annie I excuse me and no miss williams casey sure has a talent for getting himself in the situation I Hello Casey I I just learned the truth. Huh? About you and myrna. What do you mean? I met her on the street a while ago She told me nothing could ever be fixed up between her and me and that she was in love with you Now listen kid. I guess well stunned you pulled kid me into thinking you were my friend and then double crossing me Listen to me. I've listened to you long enough I called up not to let you know that what you've done is the last straw When I leave this phone. I'm going to the river the river I don't want to live any longer casey. I'm gonna end it off you young dope. Where are you never mind where I am jack? I've got to meet you. I've got to talk to you when no one else is ever going to talk to me again I won't be in your way after tonight chaser. You can have myrna. I don't want myrna jack. Good night. Hey jack. Hey kid. Hey Operator operator This is the operator. Look. What was the number that just called here? You've been disconnected, sir. I know that never mind Annie Annie that darn fool kid says he's going to throw himself in the river Well, you sounded I don't think he's bluffing. We got to stop him. You know where he is No, but there's only one place that kid had picked for a suicide the cliff at rocky point You mean the place they call lovers? Yes. Oh, but kasey that's where I know how far it is, annie But he wasn't calling from around there because there isn't a public telephone within a mile of the place You'll have to reach it by bus, but we've got a car. Look annie I may need you to convince him that i'm not trying to steal his myrna Come on If that crazy kid has picked another spot on the river to throw himself in here, I'm not afraid of that annie When i'm afraid of his we may not get there in time. If he does jump in i'll be responsible. Don't talk like that It's such a mess of it. Oh, you have not it was that little fool of a girl who did that No, I'd like to ring her neck. There's no use blaming her This is as far as we better go with the car. I'll run it off the road among the trees here and turn off the lights He saw it. He'd suspect I was after him. He'd maybe get away I think that he hasn't gotten here ahead of us and already stop thinking like that kasey Let me get out of the car and come on annie. I've got to the cliff through these trees It's pretty bright that we've seen on the road. Oh, this is a horrible desolate place. Yeah annie, we can see the edge of the cliff from here And there's no one on it. Well, that means he hasn't gotten here yet. They mean he has gotten here. Now we need to stop imagining things Hey, kasey one was coming through the trees on the other side of the road down there. Well, I see Someone tall and lanky. It's the kid. He's going toward the edge. Yeah, he sees you. He's running too for the edge Hey, wait, wait, kid, kid, wait. I gotta talk to you. No one's ever gonna talk to me again. Jack, you've got to let me talk to you Run, kasey! For the scare you've given us out of knock your teeth out. Why don't you stop me? What do you care what happened to me? We shouldn't care. Can't you realize that kasey's only interested in myrna because Well, he was trying to help you and let this thing came. If I weren't sure that he couldn't have any romantic notions about a child like your myrna I wouldn't be here with him I mean that I mean that your case is real girlfriend of william's life Well, use your own judgment if you have any I should have figured that out I'm sorry, kasey. Well, okay kid. Now we're taking her back to town. We'll cut through these woods to the car All right I can't stop you from taking me back, but I still don't want to live kasey Well, I was wrong about you. I wasn't wrong about having lost myrna She told me yourself tonight that She hated me. Jack, there are millions of girls in the world. Must you have just one particular one? I don't want anybody else ever Brother, you're a true monogamous Hey Cars turned into the road. Wait a minute I wonder if the driver knows it's a dead end at the edge of the cliff Yeah, I guess he's seen where he was heading. He stopped. Hey, wait, let's see who this is Hey kasey that man getting out Holding his hands above his head. Yeah, he's getting out behind him as a gun hand That guy with a gun is blacky oan the racketeer. Yes I'll give me a chance I'll be shot in case you be quiet both of you Keep back of these trees outside. Okay Blacky owns is a dead shot and none of us has a gun He knew we'd seen what we have seen our lives wouldn't be worth a nickel. He's getting back in the car He's driving away. Wait, don't move from here until he turns off his branch road. Now. Let's go and look at the body Annie blacky oans is one of the dirtiest gang leaders in this town the cops have never been able to nail him What we've just seen will send him to the chair and give us a front page exclusive jack I could kiss you. We wouldn't have been here if it hadn't been for you Kasey, how can you think of front pages when you've just seen a guy murdered get used to things like murder in the newspaper racket Hmm, well there he is Do you recognize him kasey? I certainly do that gives me a good reason not to be too unhappy about this shooting The guy who just had his last ride was twist yaku. Well, he was blacky oans cheap gunman. That's right, Annie Blacky gave it to him right between the eyes He's dead as a last year's daisy Never seen a dead guy before It's awful. Yeah Remember that the next time you think of bumping yourself off kid Now come on to the car. Let me get a camera and shoot some pictures of this Hello blacky stick up your hands all of you Okay, I wouldn't have come back if I hadn't seen your car parked off the road after I turned the bend It gave me the idea that there might have been witnesses to what occurred here a few months ago And I don't want witnesses. He's gonna kill us. Take it easy jack A young man unfortunately for all of his rights You see, I prepared a very good alibi for this evening if your testimony would kind of spoil I'll give you all your choice Where would you like it between the eyes like yaku through the heart of in the stomach You know I pride myself that I never miss If it's all the same to you blacky I'd prefer not to be shot Yeah, you should have known better than to stand so close to a guy you meant to plug you got his gun case. You got his gun Yes, I have now blacky We'll go to my car and get a camera and take some nice pictures of you. I'll be good Stick your hands in the air and get going Okay, but don't you want this? What are you picking up there? Huh, don't you see Fair of gloves The lady dropped her once she stuck up her hands a minute ago Are you sleeping them on the road? Yeah, miss. Oh, yeah, they are my gloves. Hey, Casey. He's grabbed her gold Drop that gun you took from me, Casey. If you try to shoot it, you'll have to shoot through this same first He's holding her in front of him. Let me go, let me go I always carry two gats and you gave me a chance to get the second one sapped Now drop that rod or I shoot this game Go on drop it You're wind blackie. Now get over there with your friend lady I want to see you all in line like clay pipes in the shooting gallery You're gonna be first, kid Me? Yeah And you get it in the belly Save you to the last, Casey. See you're next I'm gonna make this shed in the eye Blackie's fallen I got him. It's William. Jack you shot the bullet He shot at me hit the steel of the course that I wear for my back that glanced off But I pretended I was dead now. I fell close to the gun. He made you drop, Casey. I Oh, I've never shot anyone before boy. 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Well, she was you know, she was barely civil to me when I saw her today with jack I understand they're engaged too Well, as my sister edna says quote The only thing wrong with the younger generation is that it grows older I'm called What does that mean? 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