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Thomas Hyland (0:10)
This is Case Closed Crime stories from the golden age of radio. Welcome back to Case Closed. One hour of mystery from the golden age of radio. Every Wednesday@ Relicradio.com. first this week is Crime Classics. We'll hear Madeline, Maid or murderess from January 20, 1954. After that, it's Dragnet and the Big Betty from November 23, 1950. I had to trim some music off of the Dragnet episode in hopes that the machines at Spotify don't decide it needs to be pulled down. If it does disappear, you can always find it and everything else on the website. But first, here's Crime Classics. Good evening. This is Crime Classics. I am Thomas Hyland with another true story of crime. Listen. That's the way the doorbell sounded at number 14 Pembroke street in Glasgow, Scotland. That's the way it sounded. If a fellow was impatient, if he had just come home from Madeline Smith's house on a March Day in 1857 and really wanted in, his name was Pierre Emile L', Angelier, and the door was in his way. Why didn't someone answer? Anyway, here comes his landlady. She gasped, because Pierre was her favorite lodger and he looked terrible, awful standing there in the doorway, swaying before he fell on his face, dead. Tonight, my report to you on Madeline Smith, Maid or murderess. Which Crime Classics? A series of true crime stories from the records and newspapers of every land, from every time. Your Host each week, Mr. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence and teller of murders. Now once again, Mr. Thomas Hyland. Even in the middle 1800s, Kelvingrove park was a place to be reckoned with in Glasgow in the springtime, particularly a bonny place, a place of greens and merry shouts, where gamboled the be kilted young people or the more serious ones. They strolled hand in hand toward some magical and shady and secret glen. In a street which paralleled the park, Pembroke street, there was a red brick house. It was owned by Mary Perry, a woman of 50 who liked imaginative men, young men of elegance and foreign flavor, like her lodger, Pierre Emile l'. Angelier.
Pierre Emile L'Angelier (3:07)
In all my travels the world over, my dear Mademoiselle Perry, I have never seen such a girl. Once in Algiers, perhaps, but that is another story. Temps perdu tan perdu.
Madeleine Smith (3:22)
For the last week you've done nothing but talk about this young lady Prierre. Where did you see her today?
Pierre Emile L'Angelier (3:27)
Au PR de la ducks, where the pond for them is throwing to them little pieces of bread and some more brave than the rest. Would swim close to her and she would make small noises to them and feed them from her hand. And what else, mademoiselle, you will never guess.