21st Precinct 54-09-29 (064) The Walker

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Harold's Old Time Radio

Episode: 21st Precinct 54-09-29 (064) "The Walker"
Date: February 25, 2026
Host: Harold's Old Time Radio

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Episode Overview

This episode of "Harold's Old Time Radio" presents a dramatized police procedural from the "21st Precinct," a radio series set in the bustling New York City precinct during the 1950s. The episode titled "The Walker" centers on the daily operations inside the 21st Precinct station house, particularly following Captain Frank Kennelly and his team as they deal with routine matters, unexpected problems, and the tense pursuit of a narcotics suspect who, in an ironic twist, chooses to run into a police station while fleeing officers.

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Key Discussion Points & Storyline Breakdown

Station House Life and Routine (01:03–06:00)

• Captain Kennelly details his routine on arrival—reading daily reports, turning out the platoon, and catching up on precinct events.
• The episode quickly transitions to the bustle of the precinct, handling both administrative work and real-time community needs, illustrating the wide spectrum of police work.
• An incident demonstrates language barriers on the job, as officers help an elderly Spanish-speaking lady find her daughter's home.
  • Quote (05:10, Captain Kennelly): “We can't understand this lady, Captain. She can't find her daughter's house. Her other daughter wrote down the address. It's on the west side, senora.”

The Incident: A Fugitive Runs Into the Station House (07:08–11:30)

• Detective Ed Weiss and his partner spot Arthur (the suspect), a known narcotics offender. Arthur, realizing he is being pursued, makes the unusual move of entering the police station—a place he assumes will be the last place officers will look.
• As tension mounts, Captain Kennelly and his team begin a methodical search of the building, starting from the detectives’ squad room, then through old files and storage spaces.
  • Quote (07:34, Captain Kennelly): "It's the first time I ever heard of a cop chasing a suspect into the station house."
  • Quote (08:14, Detective Weiss): "I guess he couldn't figure in the place else to go."

The Search for Arthur (11:30–19:20)

• Officers systematically sweep through each floor, searching behind filing cabinets, in closets, and staff offices—highlighting the tense, almost claustrophobic, environment of a police hunt within their own headquarters.
• Dialogue reveals the officers’ methods and reasoning, as well as the cat-and-mouse psychology at play.
  • Quote (12:12, Captain Kennelly): "The station house is the biggest building in the block. He knew what he'd find in here. Didn't know what he'd run into in any of the stores... Might have thought that if you missed him and didn't see him come in here, you wouldn't figure it out."
• The search is labor-intensive and brings a certain dark humor and irony—searching for a criminal literally under their own roof.

Confrontation and Pursuit in the Locker Room (19:20–21:00)

• The tension culminates as Arthur is finally located hiding in the locker room area.
• Arthur tries to escape but is physically subdued by the officers amid scuffling and shouts.
  • Quote (19:20, Arthur): "Get out of my way. Watch him. There he goes. Get out of my way. Get him."
  • Quote (19:41, Captain Kennelly): "Sit up there, will you? Come on, Arthur. Alright, I'll hold him."
• Immediately, the questioning begins, with Arthur denying drug possession and attempting to obfuscate his story.

The Interrogation: Arthur’s Denial and Reluctant Confession (21:00–28:00)

• The officers search Arthur and, finding nothing, question him intensely about recent drug use and possible possession.
• Arthur denies involvement, offering weak stories (“penicillin shots,” confusion about his current address) before finally yielding to persistent questioning.
  • Quote (21:42, Arthur): “I don't use it. I don't push it. It's no good. It stinks. It all stinks.”
  • Quote (22:23, Captain Kennelly): “Let me see that arm again. Never heard of anybody getting penicillin shots in the vein.”
  • Quote (26:28, Arthur): “Of all the times I'm walking down the street loaded to the gills, and this time they make me... Here I am, loaded to the gills, every pocket.”
• Arthur eventually admits to discarding a considerable stash of narcotics by flushing it in the precinct's toilet, lamenting his bad luck and the wasted contraband.
  • Quote (28:02–28:09, Arthur): “I took it back there and I... I flushed it down the toilet. Every last nickel's worth of it.”
  • Quote (28:49, Arthur, exhausted): “It just ain't worthwhile. Nothing's worthwhile. Nothing. You break your neck to work, you make a buck and where do you wind up?... You wind up making heroes out of four cops. Big heroes.”

The Precinct Marches On (29:06–30:26)

• The denouement features Captain Kennelly returning to the ongoing, never-ending pulse of police work—another emergency call is coming in as the episode ends.
  • Quote (29:06, Captain Kennelly): “Arthur, if I had to depend upon you to be a hero, I'd quit tomorrow.”
• The narrator closes with a poetic reflection on the cyclical, unpredictable nature of life in a New York City precinct.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• On irony and criminal choices:
  • (08:14, Detective Weiss): “I guess it was the only place he could go. He knew if he went down to the end of the block... he knew what he'd find in here.”
• On the relentless routine of police work:
  • (29:06, Captain Kennelly): “Arthur, if I had to depend upon you to be a hero, I'd quit tomorrow.”
• Arthur's streetwise earnesty:
  • (28:09, Arthur): “Every last Nickel's worth of it... $180 in that stuff... Where'd it go? Down the drain.”

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Timestamps: Important Segments

• 01:03–06:00 – Introduction to the precinct's daily routines; community service incident with the Spanish-speaking lady.
• 07:08–08:15 – Arthur flees into the precinct; officers realize a suspect is loose inside.
• 11:30–14:40 – The search progresses through every nook and cranny of the station house.
• 19:20–21:00 – Officers finally locate and subdue Arthur in the locker room.
• 21:00–28:48 – Arthur is interrogated; initial denials, then slowly admits to drug use and finally confesses to destroying his stash.
• 29:06–30:26 – Routine resumes; reflective closing narration.

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Tone & Style

The episode is marked by realism—both in procedural detail and in human interaction. The officers are brisk, terse, at times wry or world-weary, but always persistent. Arthur, the suspect, is characterized with both evasion and pathos, especially as he capitulates to his inevitable capture and loss.

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Engaging Takeaways

• The episode encapsulates the unpredictability and routine inevitability of law enforcement work—just when things seem quiet, chaos can literally walk through the front door.
• “The Walker” demonstrates both the strategy and luck behind catching criminals, relying as much on patience and thoroughness as on instinct.
• The personal drama of Arthur highlights the ongoing societal struggle with addiction—his confession paints him as both perpetrator and victim, adding depth to the procedural focus.
• The episode’s structure—one part suspense, one part everyday grind—offers listeners a vivid glimpse into mid-century police life and the cyclical, never-ending workload of a big city precinct.

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For listeners and fans of classic radio drama, this episode is a tight, immersive window into vintage NYC crime and punishment—with a signature twist of irony, strong character work, and the authentic patter of big city cops.

Transcript

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[Captain Kennelly]

20 police preaching. Sergeant Waters? Well, who is this? Yeah. Oh, her daughter. Yeah, she was here. Yeah. No, we sent her on her way. What? Where is she supposed to go? Yeah, I see you are in the muster room at the 21st Precinct nerve center. A call is coming through. You will follow the action taken pursuant to that call from this minute until the final report is written in the 124 room at the 21st Precinct.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Okay.

[Captain Kennelly]

If you don't hear from us soon, let me know. No, don't worry about that. We'll take care of it. Yeah, okay, right away. 21st Precinct. It's just lines on a map of the city of New York. Most of the 173,000 people wedged into the 9/10 of a square mile between Fifth Avenue and the east river wouldn't know if you asked them that they lived or worked in the 21st. Whether they know it or not, the security of their homes, their persons and their property is the job of the men of the 21st Precinct. The 21st. 160 patrolmen, 11 sergeants and four lieutenants of the. Who? I'm the boss. My name is Kennelly. Frank Canelli. I'm captain in command of the 21st. I was working my day tour 8am to 6pm immediately upon my arrival at the Station House. At 7:35, I signed the blotter and went into my office where I changed a uniform. Then I sat down at my desk and read Reports and communications to bring myself up to date on the occurrences in the precinct during the previous 24 hours. While I was off duty at 8, I went out into the muster room and behind the desk to turn out the platoon for the day tour. Then I returned to my office to finish reading and signing the reports in time for the precinct messenger to take them to the 6th Division, which is located in the 17th Precinct station house at 163 East 51st Street. Sector car number two came by the house at 9:30 and I went out on patrol of the precinct. It was 10 minutes after 11 when the car pulled up in front of the station house to let me out again. I crossed the sidewalk, walked up the three stone steps into the muster room where Lieutenant Gorman was desk officer and Sergeant Waters was on telephone switchboard duty. I headed around behind the desk to sign the blotter. Hello, Captain. Hello, Red.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Captain.

[Captain Kennelly]

What's going, Red? It's a quiet tour, Captain. Good. A teletype order came over. They shifted borough commanders in Queens, in the Bronx. Just traded jobs between them. Yes, sir. Effective 8am tomorrow. Wonder if they like the new assignment. Well, there's no sense you worrying about it. Rent. No, sir. I guess there isn't. I'll be in my office. Yes, sir.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

How's your wife, Sergeant D. How much

[Captain Kennelly]

longer does the doctor say she'll have to stay in the hospital? Well, he had it awake, that's all. That's good. Wait a minute. Just a second, lady. I don't understand you, lady. Don't you talking. Got me, son? All right, wait a minute. No comprendo.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

No.

[Captain Kennelly]

No comprendo either, lady. No comprendo. Sergeant, ring it and ask the captain to step out here a minute, huh? Yes, sir. Can you step down to the desk for a minute? We got an old lady who speaks nothing but Spanish. Yes, sir, he says. Okay, I'll be right out. Good. What's the trouble, Lieutenant? We can't understand this lady, Captain. She can't find her daughter's house. Her other daughter wrote down the address. It's on the west side, senora.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Este sl east side esta en el west side al otro lado del parquet.

[Captain Kennelly]

Her other daughter gave her money to take a cab when she got out of the subway. Sergeant, get Fallon out here to put her in a cab. Yes. See that the cab driver gets the right address. Yes, he's got it written down. Okay. Hey, mister, how are you? Heading for, uh.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Who, me?

[Captain Kennelly]

Yeah. Where are you going?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

To the detective's. I'm going up to the detective, through

[Captain Kennelly]

the back room, up the stairs to the second floor. Okay.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Thanks a lot,

[Captain Kennelly]

Apologizing for bothering us. Oh, Lieutenant, did a guy in a brown sports jacket just come in here?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Who are you?

[Captain Kennelly]

I'm Detective Ed White, Narcotics Squad. My partner and I were cruising by and spotted this pusher.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

We know.

[Captain Kennelly]

I thought I saw him duck in with him. Oh, yeah, Call in a brown sports jacket. As for the detective. For the detective. I sent him upstairs. He's running for me and he runs right into the police station. I'm Captain Kennelli. Wise, you come upstairs with me. Oh, yes, sir. Sergeant, take care of her until Fallon comes out. Yes, sir. Come on. Wife. Yes. Oh, Lieutenant, if he comes back this way, don't let him get out. That's the only way out, isn't it, Captain? Past the desk? Yes, that's the only way. How do you happen to run in here? We were driving by on the corner, Captain. I bothered him. I told my partner to stop the car and he must have seen us at the same time. He started walking faster up the stairs.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Yes.

[Captain Kennelly]

I got out of the car and took after him on foot. It was a one way street going the wrong way, so my partner drove the car around the next lot in case I couldn't catch up with him. Why did he come in here? I don't know, Captain. I guess he couldn't figure in the place else to go. Why did he ask for the. Well, he had to ask for something to get by the desk. Vitale, did a fellow in a brown sports jacket just come in here? No, Captain. No one just came in here. Is Lt. King in his office? Yes, there. He's in there. Yes, Captain Kelly. Come in. Captain. Matt, this is Detective Ed Weiss of the narcotics squad. Lieutenant Matt King, 21st Squad Commander. Lieutenant, he's got a suspect loose in the building, Matt. A suspect? Yes, sir. Where in the building? He stopped at the desk a minute ago and asked for the detectives. Desk officer sent him upstairs. What did he want to come up here for? You got me. Lieutenant Weiss was after him on the street. His partner drove the car around the block to the other end of the street to stop him there in case he got through. He just came into the station house. He didn't come into the squadron, did he? No. Vitali and Howard are out there. They said he didn't. Did he come upstairs? Well, he went through the back room towards the stairs. Could have come up the stairs, or he could have headed out and back to the cells. Or down to the Locker rooms. It's the first time I ever heard of a cop chasing a suspect into the station house. Well, there's going to be a first time for everything, man. Well, there's no way out except the

[Arthur (Suspect)]

way he came in.

[Captain Kennelly]

Yes, that's the only way he can go. Let me talk to the desk officer in a minute. Go ahead, Captain. 21st briefing Sergeant Waters. This Captain Kennelly. You didn't see anything of that boy in the brown sports jacket, did you? No, it, sir, has to come back this way. Who's the attendant on the job this tour? Bailey. Captain, you better check Bailey in and see if he didn't head back toward the cells instead of coming upstairs. Yes, sir, I will. And grab him if he tries to get out that way, will you? Yes, sir, I'll grab him. Well, let's see if we can find him. He must have been carrying, or else he would have stopped back through there. The bed's for the detectives, but he'd have had to come into the squadron to get through there. You fellas stick around. I might need you. Yes, very good, Lieutenant. The only other thing we've got on this floor is old files from the Detective Squad. Go ahead. Yes. That door is always locked, though. Sit down that way. Hold it. It's not locked now. Sure isn't half open. How'd he get in there? I don't know. Wife, you go down and take the far side of the door. Right, sir. Captain, you take this side. Okay. Okay. I'll kick the door open the rest of the way. Why? How bad is this boy? He's got two felony convictions, Lieutenant. I don't think he'd be so happy about a third one. Is he a user as well as a pusher? Yes, sir, he's a user. I think he's armed. One of his convictions was on a gun charge. All right, let's get set. Okay.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Okay. There. Behind that. All right, raise up.

[Captain Kennelly]

Hey, wait a minute. Take it easy, will you? What are you doing in here? You asked me yesterday to get out the records in that beach case, Lieutenant. Oh, yeah. Look, what's the matter? What's going on here? Detective Weiss of the Narcotics squad. Detective Vitale. Oh, yeah. Hello, Vitale. Look, what's the trouble? Weiss chased a suspect into the station house. Into the station house? Yeah. What'd he come in here for? We don't know. He's got a record. As long as your arm might be the only place he feels at home. You are listening to 21st Precinct, a factual account of the way Police work in the world's largest city. Now back to 21st Precinct and Captain Kennelly. We began an immediate search of the precinct house for the fugitive narcotic suspect. First, we went to the top of the building, the fourth floor, where the old records of the precinct dating back to the 1880s were stored. We looked behind stacks of old blotters and arrest records, behind filing cabinets and cartons filled with reports made by long forgotten police officers about long forgotten crimes. When we were satisfied that the suspect was nowhere on the fourth floor, we came down the narrow, winding stairway to the third floor. Where the precinct youth patrolman, the hack inspector, the safety officer and the civil defense patrolman have their officers. Only one of these men, Patrolman Jaffee, that hack inspector, was in his office at the time. His attention had been attracted by no one coming onto the floor during the last few minutes. But he said he'd been on the telephone talking to the license bureau. And he may not have seen the suspect. We searched each of the offices thoroughly. We searched the washroom and all the storage closets you found in there. Captain, I crawled behind everything. I don't think he came up here. Going to be someplace, Vitali? Yes, sir. Come on, White. Yeah, Here, Lieutenant. Let's go. There was nothing in there but air raid warden helmets. Well, the guy isn't up here. Not unless he crawled up in the back of the plaster. You're sure there's no place he could have gone on the second floor, Lieutenant? The only two doors are to the detective squad and the detective's old file room. He didn't come in the squad. He would have been seen. And he didn't come into the record room. Well, then he didn't come upstairs at all when he walked into the back room. He went down instead of up. Let's go look for him. Eustace. Who was he kidding coming into the station house? Weiss. I guess it was the only place he could go. He knew if he went down to the end of the block. That my partner would be around there with a car waiting for him. The station house is the biggest building in the block. He knew what he'd find in here. Didn't know what he'd run into in any of the stores. He might have thought that if you missed him and didn't see him come in here, you wouldn't figure it out. Might have thought that. Yeah, he sure did a lot of thinking. Just a second. I'll tell him I'm going downstairs. I'll be downstairs. Okay. Let's down?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Yes, sir.

[Captain Kennelly]

Okay. You figure he was carrying when you saw him? Oh, yeah, he must have been. He didn't have anything on him. He'd have stopped and talked to us. He had nothing to worry about if he wasn't carrying any goods. These guys are full of conversation when they got no stuff on. But when they're loaded, they make for the nearest exits. Take a look in the locker room. What's the layout down there, Captain? Well, there's the lockers. Beyond that the room with the bed. There's the washroom with showers. Anybody have been down there?

[Narrator/Announcer]

We're lost. I'm gonna pull over and ask that man for directions.

[Captain Kennelly]

Hi there.

[Narrator/Announcer]

We're looking to get to the campground.

[T-Mobile Representative]

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[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Narrator/Announcer]

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[Captain Kennelly]

There shouldn't have been, not this time of day. Wait here a second. I want to go out and talk to the desk officer. Yes, sir. Eyes 111@112. You see him, Captain? No, he wasn't upstairs. We're going to try down in the lockers. Yeah, he might have gone down there. Captain. You keep your eyes open here. Yes, sir. No sign of him out there? No, they haven't seen him. Let's go downstairs. Sorry to put you fellas through all this trouble. This is a novel experience for me. Looking for a guy in a station house. Got the door of it, Tally? Yes, sir. Okay, let's go by the lockers first. There's a couple of empty ones there. All right, open them up. You might have dropped the stuff in there. No, nothing in here. Try the yellow one. Nothing. All right, I'LL tell you what. You two go look in the washroom. The captain and I'll go in where the beds are. Okay? Okay, Lieutenant. Come on, wife. That's this way. Okay, Captain. Yeah. All right. This fellow sure can crawl into the wallpaper, can he? Yep. Gotta be down here someplace. I don't know where else he could be. Where's the light? It's a wall switch on the left. Have to open the door. We better stand back and reach in. If he's going to do any shooting, he'll have a good shot at us. Standing in the door? Yep. Okay. Okay, I'll get the light. All right, let's try it, huh? Okay. Let me get down. Look under the bed. No. How about those two carpets? All right. This guy only got 10 years. Now, 20. 10 would be too good for him. What's in this car? Bedwin or nothing. And blankets? Nope. How about the other one? Cleaning equipment? Broom? Sm.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Get out of my way. Watch him. There he goes. Get out of my way. Get him. There he goes. The locker room. Grab him. Get out of my way, silly. Congregate.

[Captain Kennelly]

Oh,

[Arthur (Suspect)]

there you go.

[Captain Kennelly]

You okay with telling?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Let me go. Come on.

[Captain Kennelly]

Sit up there. Get on the fence. Sit up there.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Let me go.

[Captain Kennelly]

Let me out of here.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Sit up there, will you? Come on, Arthur. All right, I'll hold him.

[Captain Kennelly]

All right.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

All right, now, calm down, will you? I'm calm. I'm calm.

[Captain Kennelly]

Take it easy. Take it easy, boy.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Now, what do you want from me? I'm taking it easy.

[Captain Kennelly]

All right, now, get on your feet, huh? Why, the man is talking to you, Arthur. Get on your feet. All right. I'll lean against those lockers there. Go on.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

You know. What are you looking for? Never gonna find anything.

[Captain Kennelly]

What do you think he's looking for?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I'm not carrying. I got nothing. Hey, you see? You see? I got nothing. You can't find a thing.

[Captain Kennelly]

Sit down on the bench there, Ross.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Go on, sit down.

[Captain Kennelly]

Vitaly, go look in that broom closet there. See if he dumped anything in there.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

What? What would I dump? I wasn't carrying anything.

[Captain Kennelly]

Blind, Vitalli. Okay, Letelli. Now, listen. You know me.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I've been clean. I've been clean as a whistle. I don't mess around with that stuff anymore.

[Captain Kennelly]

Don't you?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I didn't want any more trouble. I don't mess around with that stuff. Cost me a good two and a half years last time. I don't want it anymore. I don't use it. I don't push it. It's no good. It stinks. It all stinks.

[Captain Kennelly]

Why did you run when we wanted to talk to you?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I wasn't running. I was walking.

[Captain Kennelly]

Well, you walk awful fast. It's a habit. I got a fast walk. What did you come into the station house and ask for the detectives for?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I thought I might like to talk to a detective.

[Captain Kennelly]

Now, look, Arthur, we've got no time to waste with you. We wasted enough already. Now, where'd you throw the stuff? You were carrying a load of it when you came in here. What'd you do with it?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I didn't have nothing I wasn't carrying. I told you, I don't want no part of that kind of deal anymore. I'm through with it.

[Captain Kennelly]

Roll up your sleeves. Why? Go on, roll it up.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Well, I got a right to know why.

[Captain Kennelly]

Look, are you going to roll it up, or do you want me to roll it up for you? I. Take it easy. I'll roll it up myself.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I don't know why you don't leave somebody alone. Just leave somebody be in peace.

[Captain Kennelly]

You chucked the habit, huh?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Didn't I tell you?

[Captain Kennelly]

What's that from?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Well, I've been going to a doctor. He's been giving me penicillin shots.

[Captain Kennelly]

I. I got a bad throat. What doctor?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Some doctor.

[Captain Kennelly]

What's his name?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I don't know his name. It's a. It's a clinic, like, I go to a clinic. A different doctor every time.

[Captain Kennelly]

Where's the clinic?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Near my house, there.

[Captain Kennelly]

Where near your house?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

What's a clinic? Some hospital. I don't know. It's just around the corner from my house.

[Captain Kennelly]

What street is it on?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I don't know. It's just near my house.

[Captain Kennelly]

Penicillin you've been taking, huh?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Yeah, yeah, penicillin, something like that.

[Captain Kennelly]

Let me see that arm again. Never heard of anybody getting penicillin shots in the vein.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

All right, maybe it wasn't penicillin. Maybe it was something else. I don't know. I don't know what they shoot into me. You go to a doctor, you don't ask questions, or you want us to

[Captain Kennelly]

get well, nothing in a closet, Lieutenant. What'd you do with it, Arthur?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

What'd I do with what?

[Captain Kennelly]

The stuff you were carrying.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I wasn't carrying anything.

[Captain Kennelly]

Now, look, Arthur, you just made a buy, right before we saw you, we stopped the car. I got out and you took off. If you weren't carrying anything, you wouldn't

[Arthur (Suspect)]

have been in such a hurry.

[Captain Kennelly]

What did you do with it, Arthur?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I wasn't carrying anything.

[Captain Kennelly]

Why did you take off?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Because I wasn't in any mood for conversation.

[Captain Kennelly]

Where are you living now, Arthur?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Well, I still live in the same place. Up there on 113th Street. You know where I live.

[Captain Kennelly]

No, you don't live in the same place. I was by there last week. I stopped in to see you. Cooper told me you'd move.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

He did?

[Captain Kennelly]

He did. Where do you live now? August.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Super was lying. He knows I lived there. He was lying.

[Captain Kennelly]

Why would he want to lie?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

He likes to lie. He gets a kick out of it. He likes to get people in trouble with his lies.

[Captain Kennelly]

Where do you live now, Arthur? Where?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

All right. Up in the Bronx. I moved to the Bronx.

[Captain Kennelly]

Where in the Bronx?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

2142 Vernon Avenue.

[Captain Kennelly]

Are you sure of that?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Well, I'm sure.

[Captain Kennelly]

I wouldn't tell you if I wasn't sure. Between what streets?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Between Metzger and Naomi.

[Captain Kennelly]

Which house is it?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

It's on the corner there. Right on the corner of Naomi.

[Captain Kennelly]

What kind of building is it?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

What do you mean? What kind of building is it? It's a house.

[Captain Kennelly]

How many stories?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Four. Four floors.

[Captain Kennelly]

What floor do you live on? The second.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

The second?

[Captain Kennelly]

In the rear. You live there by yourself?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Yeah, all by myself.

[Captain Kennelly]

I got the room all by myself. Just a furnished room.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

It's two rooms. It's a living room and a small bedroom.

[Captain Kennelly]

You know the building, Captain? Yeah, I know it well. I. I got the key for the place.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I got the key in my pocket.

[Captain Kennelly]

You. You.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

You saw the key when you searched

[Captain Kennelly]

me there, didn't you? Yeah, I saw the key.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Well, that's.

[Captain Kennelly]

That's the key. Key to that place. What are we going to find there, Art? What do you mean?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

What are you going to find there?

[Captain Kennelly]

I mean, have you got any goods up there?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I told you I was out of that business.

[Captain Kennelly]

And that. That's from penicillin, huh?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

All right, it's not from penicillin.

[Captain Kennelly]

It's not from penicillin. And you're not out of the business?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Yeah, I'm out of the business,

[Captain Kennelly]

all. Look, I'm only using, see?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I'm.

[Captain Kennelly]

I'm not. I'm.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I'm not pushing. Not anymore.

[Captain Kennelly]

Are you working, Arthur?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Yeah.

[Captain Kennelly]

Where?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Well, here and there.

[Captain Kennelly]

Odd jobs, for instance?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Oh, I pick up a day's work here and there. How do you expect me to know specifics, Arthur?

[Captain Kennelly]

What did you do with the stuff?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I didn't do nothing with it because I didn't have any.

[Captain Kennelly]

You came into this station house loaded with a char, and now where is it, Arthur?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

What do you want from me?

[Captain Kennelly]

I didn't what we want from you is what you did with it. Where'd you throw it?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I didn't have any.

[Captain Kennelly]

Now, look, we're searching this place from top to bottom, Arthur. We've been crawling around in dust behind old filing cabinets and under beds looking for you for half an hour. Now, if you make us crawl around some more, you're going to owe me a new suit.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I'll crawl around if you want. What do I care?

[Captain Kennelly]

What are we going to find up in that flat, Arthur?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I don't know. Dirty laundry?

[Captain Kennelly]

You've got the works up there, haven't you? You've got enough stuff to take care of yourself, haven't you? That's good enough for a conviction. Now, what did you do with what you had in your pocket?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Yeah. Yeah. You guys are gonna keep pestering me until you get an answer, aren't you?

[Captain Kennelly]

You wanna know the truth? Yeah. All right. All right, I'll give you an answer.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Of all the times I'm walking down the street loaded to the gills, and this time they make me. A car pulls up, I make them and they make me. I see this here guy get out and he takes out after me. What am I gonna do? Here I am, loaded to the gills, every pocket.

[Captain Kennelly]

Why did you come into the police station?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Wait, wait. I saw one of them come after me and I saw the other one stop in the car. I knew what he was gonna do.

[Captain Kennelly]

He was gonna go around the block

[Arthur (Suspect)]

and come meet me the other way. So I didn't know any of those stores. The only thing in the block was, heaven forbid, a police station. So I figured I'd take my chance. I'd go inside. Where else could I go? I figured the guy that was walking behind me might figure that was the last place in the world I would go. He might figure the last place. He might just pass it up and go on down the block, so I came inside. The police station? Yeah. You were standing in there when I came in, huh?

[Captain Kennelly]

Yes, I was right there talking to some Spanish lady. Yeah, that's right.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

So I asked where the detectives were. That was the first thing that came into my mind. And you said upstairs, so I figured. You said upstairs, so I'd go downstairs. I came down here and there wasn't anybody in the locker room.

[Captain Kennelly]

So.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

So this is where I came.

[Captain Kennelly]

What did you do with the stuff you had in your pocket?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

That was a shame what I did with it. A plain shame.

[Captain Kennelly]

What?

[Arthur (Suspect)]

I took it back there and I. I flushed it down the toilet.

[Captain Kennelly]

Thank you.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

Every last Nickel's worth of it. Know how much I had? I had $180 in that stuff. I just made the buy this morning. $180. Good, cold, hard United States cash. Where'd it go? Down the drain. Down the drain? Every last nickel's worth. Oh, boy, the luck. I got the biggest buy I ever made. Five minutes later, I get hooked. I'm on my way. Just when I was getting set up good in business.

[Captain Kennelly]

Oh, I don't know.

[Arthur (Suspect)]

It just ain't worthwhile. Nothing's worthwhile. Nothing. You break your neck to work, you make a buck and where do you wind up? You wind up making heroes out of four cops. Big heroes.

[Captain Kennelly]

Arthur, if I had to depend upon you to be a hero, I'd quit. Tomorrow. 20 place preaching, Sergeant Waters. Wait a minute. What's the address? Yeah. All right. Now, what's the trouble? There as gas leaking. And so it goes. Around the clock through the week, every day, every year, a police precinct in the city of New York is a flesh and blood merry go round. Anyone can catch the brass ring or the brass ring can catch anyone. 21st briefing. A factual account of the way the police work in the world's largest city is presented with the official cooperation of the Patrolman's Benevolent association, an organization of more than 20,000 members of the Police Department, City of New York. Everett Sloane on the role of Captain Kennelly. Ken lynch is Lieutenant King. Featured in tonight's cast were Brian O. Rayburn, Billy Redfield, Harold Stone, Santos Ortega, John Larkin and Frank Moth. Written and directed by Stanley Nist. Produced for CBS Radio by John Ives. Art. Hannah speaking.

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