Broadway's My Beat: Tom and Alice Corey Murder Case (EP4767)

Summary

Podcast Summary: Broadway's My Beat - Tom and Alice Corey Murder Case (EP4767)

Introduction

In this gripping episode of Broadway's My Beat, Detective Danny Clover, portrayed by Larry Thor, delves into the mysterious murder-suicide case of Tom and Alice Corey. Set against the vibrant yet perilous backdrop of Broadway, the narrative weaves through suspense, deception, and unexpected twists as Detective Clover unravels the truth behind the Coreys' demise.

The Initial Call and Investigation Begins

The episode kicks off with Alice Corey reaching out for help, claiming her husband is forcing her into a suicide pact:

Alice Corey (00:00): "Sam."

Shortly after, Detective Danny Clover receives a distressing call from Alice, expressing fear that her husband is compelling her to commit suicide (02:57). Despite multiple attempts to trace the call, Detective Clover and his partner, Gino Tartaglia, are initially unsuccessful in locating Alice.

Discovering the Crime Scene

Determined to find the Coreys, Detective Clover and Tartaglia sift through phone directories, uncovering multiple individuals with the last name Corey. Their search leads them to the Coreys' apartment, where they encounter Alice, who vehemently denies any wrongdoing:

Alice Corey (04:19): "Nobody dead here, mister. Everybody much, much alive."

As they probe further, Tom Corey emerges as a suspect, portraying himself as a devoted husband despite the circumstantial evidence pointing towards foul play.

Unveiling Suspicious Behavior

Detective Clover's investigation reveals inconsistencies in Tom Corey's account. Tom admits to calling the police about killing his wife and himself but exhibits erratic behavior that raises red flags (05:30). Claudia's involvement becomes apparent when Tom references a business partner, Henry Fairchild, hinting at deeper underlying issues.

Intertwined Mysteries and New Leads

The plot thickens as the detectives explore Fire Island, the Coreys' secondary residence. Here, they discover more clues, including blood trails that contradict Tom's suicide claim (14:46). Concurrently, a separate incident unfolds involving a woman named Zella Stanley, who has also been violently attacked, suggesting a possible connection to Tom Corey (20:17).

Confrontation and Revelation

As Detective Clover pieces together the puzzle, he confronts Tom Corey with the mounting evidence. A tense showdown ensues where Tom vehemently denies involvement in any murders, accusing others of deceit:

Tom Corey (27:18): "Don't believe him, Mr. Clover. Don't believe anything Corey says."

Despite Tom's attempts to manipulate the situation, Detective Clover remains steadfast, ultimately revealing the truth behind the murders through meticulous investigation and deduction.

Conclusion

The episode culminates in the unraveling of Tom Corey's attempts to masquerade his murderous intentions as a suicide pact. Detective Clover's unwavering pursuit of the truth exposes the dark motives and intricate web of lies spun by Tom, ultimately bringing justice for Alice Corey and unraveling the mystery surrounding Zella Stanley's tragic fate.

Key Quotes and Insights

• Detective Danny Clover (03:39): "It began that way. With a desperate protest against private agonies."

  Insight: Highlights the psychological turmoil leading to the Coreys' tragic actions.

• Alice Corey (10:08): "I've been calling Alice all morning. There's been no answer at her apartment."

  Insight: Suggests potential premeditation and disconnect between Alice and public perception.

• Detective Danny Clover (22:33): "Tom Cory was headed uptown. Tom Cory was crazed with pain."

  Insight: Indicates Tom's unstable mental state and movement patterns critical to solving the case.

• Tom Corey (27:46): "Don't believe him, Mr. Clover. Don't believe anything Corey says."

  Insight: Demonstrates Tom's manipulative nature and attempts to deflect suspicion.

Final Thoughts

This episode of Broadway's My Beat masterfully blends classic radio drama elements with intricate detective work, keeping listeners engaged through suspenseful storytelling and compelling character interactions. Detective Clover's relentless pursuit of truth amidst deceitful narratives serves as a testament to the enduring allure of mystery dramas from the Golden Age of Radio.

Transcript

[Alice Corey]

Sam.

[Adam Graham]

Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of Broadway's My Beat. But first, I do want to encourage you, if you are enjoying the program, to please follow us using your favorite podcast software. Also, today's program is brought to you in part by the financial support of our listeners. You can support the show at support.greatdetactives.net thank you to RA for supporting the program. That way you can also become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little as $2 per month. Just go to patreon.greatdetectives.net now, from August 21, 1950, here is the Tom and Alice Corey murder case.

[Arthur Godfrey]

Arthur Godfrey, who usually comes around with his talent scouts at this time on Monday, has just about finished his summer holiday. Godfrey will be back with us one week from tonight on August 28th.

[Danny Clover]

Broadway's My Beat. From Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

[Arthur Godfrey]

Broadway's My Beat. With Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

[Danny Clover]

Broadway. It's the place you drift to because the other promises you made to yourself never happened. You leave your life behind and stand on a street corner beating down the scream in your throat. It's the best of the thousand one nights. You dreamed of the one place in the world where something happens to you outside of the movies. It always happens. Something starts it. The tap on the shoulder. The laughter that floats down to your end of the bar. The smile. The special delivery. The phone call.

[Gino Tartaglia]

Your phone's ringing, Danny.

[Danny Clover]

Thanks, Gino. Danny Clover speaking.

[Alice Corey]

You gotta help. You gotta come here. You gotta come to my home.

[Danny Clover]

Who is this?

[Alice Corey]

Mrs. Corey, please. Please, my husband.

[Danny Clover]

What is it, Ms. Corey?

[Alice Corey]

A suicide pact? He's trying to make me. He's trying to force me to kill myself. I want to die. He's gonna make me.

[Danny Clover]

Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Who is this?

[Tom Corey]

What happened, Mr. Corey? I've just killed my wife. Now it's the time for my dying.

[Danny Clover]

Listen, don't be a fool. Hello? Hello, Tartaglia?

[Gino Tartaglia]

Wait a minute, Danny. What'd you say, operator? Oh, uh. Huh. Oh, yeah. Party hung up too soon. Couldn't trace it, Danny.

[Danny Clover]

It began that way. With a desperate protest against. Against private agonies. The protest that can't face the loneliness of death and must kill the loved one so that the path into darkness will not be walked alone. The man Corey murdered his wife and then himself in A glittering blood spangled shriek for attention. Final identity set into motion. Only an old familiar routine. The official collecting of the dead. But first we had to find them. Detective Mugaman brought in the phone book. We sat over it, found there were 25 Corys. We divided them, went our way. The treasure hunt for the dead. The first Cory was very much alive. She told me so.

[Alice Corey]

Nobody dead here, mister. Everybody much, much alive. Come on in and I'll prove it to you.

[Danny Clover]

You live here alone?

[Tom Corey]

Uh huh.

[Danny Clover]

I'll take a look.

[Alice Corey]

Love it. Come on in.

[Danny Clover]

See?

[Alice Corey]

Alone. Just you and me. Touch me. I ain't dead.

[Tom Corey]

Yeah, sure. My name's Corey. Why do you have to know?

[Danny Clover]

Man named Corey killed his wife. Said he was going to kill himself.

[Tom Corey]

Killed his wife, huh? Guts.

[Gino Tartaglia]

That takes guts.

[Danny Clover]

Where's your wife, Mr. Corey?

[Gino Tartaglia]

She's in the kitchen, washing all my.

[Tom Corey]

Work pants so I can go out and look for work.

[Gino Tartaglia]

Come on, I'll show it to you.

[Tom Corey]

Look, mister, even if you're a policeman, it doesn't give you a right to ask me a thing like that. I love my wife. We never say a harsh word.

[Danny Clover]

Where is she?

[Tom Corey]

She's asleep.

[Danny Clover]

This late?

[Tom Corey]

She sleeps this late every morning. I was just preparing her breakfast.

[Danny Clover]

Call her.

[Tom Corey]

Look, mister, you don't know what you're asking.

[Danny Clover]

Call her.

[Tom Corey]

Fanny. Fanny, wake up for a minute. It's a policeman. He wants to know did we have a suicide pact? Fanny. Fanny.

[Alice Corey]

Suicide pact? Tell him no, but thank him for the suggestion.

[Tom Corey]

You finish your list, Danny? Yeah.

[Danny Clover]

Mugaban.

[Tom Corey]

Find him?

[Danny Clover]

No. You?

[Tom Corey]

No. Maybe it was a joke, huh, Danny? A practical joke?

[Danny Clover]

I don't think so. Did you finish your list?

[Tom Corey]

No, I. I got two more to go.

[Danny Clover]

I'll take them.

[Tom Corey]

The reason I didn't finish, Danny, I. I had to come back to headquarters to. I just got tired.

[Danny Clover]

Forget it. Give them to me.

[Tom Corey]

Yeah. Here, Danny, two more.

[Danny Clover]

Maybe Mugavin was right. Maybe it had been a joke. Someone's grisly idea of a joke to play on the gullible police. There are people like that. There are people who make a pact to die. The first Corey on Mugavan's remaining list of two was an invalid. A bedridden woman tended by her middle aged bachelor son. He asked me to stay and chat with her. It was such an interesting thing to have happen to them at the last place. The manager of a plush apartment house just off the park told me. Indeed, yes, indeed. He had a Mr. And Mrs. Corey.

[Henry Fairchild]

Oh, yes indeed. They've been with us, let me see. Five years, I should say.

[Danny Clover]

What apartment are they in?

[Henry Fairchild]

3A. You understand, of course, that solicitors and peddlers are not allowed on the premises?

[Danny Clover]

No, I'm from the police, see. Police?

[Tom Corey]

Hmm.

[Danny Clover]

Police.

[Henry Fairchild]

What is your interest in Mr. And Mrs. Corey?

[Danny Clover]

You're perfectly right. Which way is 3A?

[Henry Fairchild]

Down this center hall. But we'll announce ourselves first, shall we?

[Tom Corey]

Hmm?

[Henry Fairchild]

No answer. Well, they're either not at home or they've overslept. With Mr. And Mrs. Corey. I should say they're not at home.

[Danny Clover]

Let's go find out. And bring the key.

[Henry Fairchild]

Oh, but that's.

[Danny Clover]

Bring the key.

[Henry Fairchild]

Very well. Here it is. After me, please. Mr. Corey. Mr. Corey. I'm sorry, but there's someone from the police. Mr. Corey. Mrs. Corey.

[Danny Clover]

Open it. But I. Open it.

[Arthur Godfrey]

See?

[Henry Fairchild]

There's no one at home. They've gone out.

[Danny Clover]

Where's the bedroom?

[Henry Fairchild]

Through here. But I don't believe you have the right to intrude like this. As you can see, everything is in apple pie order. What are you looking for? Why do you pry so?

[Danny Clover]

They're dead, that's why. Oh.

[Henry Fairchild]

Oh, well, in that case, you might be interested in something. I.

[Danny Clover]

In what?

[Henry Fairchild]

A woman called me just a while ago. Said she'd been trying to reach Mr. And Mrs. Corey all morning on their private phone. There was no answer, so she left the message with me.

[Danny Clover]

What message?

[Henry Fairchild]

Her name? Her phone number. They interest you?

[Danny Clover]

Get them for me. Now. Get them. This time it was easier. The message was from one zealous Stanley with a phone number to match. As easy as investing in the. In the nearest phone booth and telling Zella Stanley you were the police, asking her if she had been calling the Coreys and would she be home and I wanted to talk with her. Ms. Stanley was in turn, non committal, puzzled, cooperative. Please come up, Mr. Clover. The address is 1520 West 46, apartment 2AMr.

[Tom Corey]

Clover?

[Danny Clover]

Yes.

[Alice Corey]

Please come in. Will you sit down? Let me get these things out of here. I. I was so tired when I came home last night. I undressed walking into the bedroom. Now, won't you sit down?

[Danny Clover]

Thank you. About Mr. And Ms. Corey.

[Alice Corey]

Now, don't put me on the defensive, Mr. Clover. I want to help you with whatever it is, so just let me tell you.

[Danny Clover]

Good. Go ahead.

[Alice Corey]

I've been calling Alice all morning.

[Danny Clover]

That's Alice Corey?

[Alice Corey]

That's right. There's been no answer at her apartment.

[Danny Clover]

Is that something unusual?

[Alice Corey]

Not in itself. I've called people before, and I suppose you have called them and no one answers.

[Danny Clover]

Was it important that you get in touch with Mrs. Corey?

[Alice Corey]

Not in itself. I. I just wanted to talk to her.

[Danny Clover]

I see. Just a kind of. Good morning, Alice. How are you? Is that it?

[Alice Corey]

Something like that. Just let me tell you. Will that Be all right, Mr. Clover?

[Danny Clover]

Be just fine, yes.

[Alice Corey]

And I was at the Coreys last night for bridge. There was something in that house that had never been there before.

[Danny Clover]

What?

[Alice Corey]

Please.

[Danny Clover]

Sorry.

[Alice Corey]

Something was wrong. No laughter between the two. Silence, mostly. And now and then a bitter word. I've known them for years. The Coreys have been the cliche of matrimonial bliss. It embarrassed me. I left early.

[Danny Clover]

May I?

[Alice Corey]

Of course.

[Danny Clover]

You said you were playing bridge. You, Mr. Corey, Mrs. Corey? Who else?

[Alice Corey]

And Tom's partner.

[Danny Clover]

Tom Corey's partner?

[Alice Corey]

His business partner, Henry.

[Danny Clover]

Henry who, Miss Stanley?

[Alice Corey]

Henry Fairchild. Fairchild? Of Cory and Fairchild? You know.

[Danny Clover]

No, I don't, Miss Stanley.

[Alice Corey]

A factory. They make small things. Electrical parts or something. I don't know.

[Danny Clover]

Tell me a bit more about last night.

[Alice Corey]

Well, just that Tom was depressed. Alice looked, well, frightened. I never seen Alice look frightened, but I think that's what it was. Henry did everything he could to brighten things up. It didn't work. You go ask him. Ask Henry. Henry Fairchild of Cory and Fairchild? Ask him.

[Tom Corey]

My secretary tells me you're from the police. I can't tell you how delighted I am to see you. Delighted.

[Danny Clover]

Thank you, Mr. Ferrari.

[Tom Corey]

Come over here, Mr. Clover. Quick. Come over. I want you to see something. I'll draw these drapes back so you can see something. Look down there. What do you think?

[Danny Clover]

Yeah. It's quite a little factory you have there.

[Tom Corey]

It's more than that, Mr. Clover. It's ten years of our lives. Ten years of blood, sweat, tears. No other way to say it. Ten years of that and he walks on it. Squashes it like it was a cockroach we'd built. Oh, a ruin. Destroyed. Milk, dry. All that works because he was greedy, hungry for more money. $50,000 like that. Like he was taking it out of a piggy bank. Arrest him, Mr. Clover. Go arrest him. Who? My partner, Tom Corey. Arrest him for grand larceny. Arrest him for dipping his fingers into our till. Arrest him for being an ungrateful, greedy.

[Danny Clover]

Tom Corey did that.

[Tom Corey]

Here are the books. Look for yourself. But you wouldn't know about a thing like that. Your experts will, though. They'll see How? Month after month he's told. 5,000 here, 3 here, 10 here, 2 here. Huh.

[Danny Clover]

When did you see Corey last?

[Tom Corey]

Last night. We were playing bridge. He was moody, new to his wife. Dallas. I tried to cheer him up because I thought it was dyspepsia or something. This morning I find it was. Was this. When you arrest him, Mr. Clover, tell him I'll make it a point to visit him in jail. He'll give me kicks to see him there every chance I get.

[Danny Clover]

Corey killed his wife this morning, then himself, huh?

[Tom Corey]

He didn't have to do that. He could have come to me. I would have. I'd have helped him. Honestly.

[Danny Clover]

We can't find them. They're not at the apartment.

[Tom Corey]

How about their place on Fire island? Where they have a house. On Fire Island? You think we should try there, Mr. Kohler? We did.

[Danny Clover]

Mr. Fairchild drove me out to the landing dock, hired the power launch that took us to Fire island. Then the short walk across the bone white sands and a small cottage. The front of it was draped with a yellowed fishing net and life preservers, whitewashed for the season. Starfish had been nailed over the door. The top of the door was glass. Porthole. The door was open.

[Tom Corey]

First time this has ever happened.

[Danny Clover]

What?

[Tom Corey]

Leaving that door open like this. Come on.

[Danny Clover]

Where's the phone?

[Tom Corey]

In the other room. Ms. Clover.

[Danny Clover]

Huh? Yeah. What?

[Tom Corey]

Oh.

[Danny Clover]

Dead. Shot through the heart.

[Tom Corey]

Poor Alice.

[Danny Clover]

She had nothing to do with it. What about her husband?

[Tom Corey]

What?

[Danny Clover]

Where is he? If he shot himself, where is he? That's what I said, Mr. Fairchild. Where is he? Wait a minute. Blood. Here, on the floor. See it trailing toward the back door. Here. Now the blood stops.

[Tom Corey]

No, Tom. Where is he? You said he committed suicide.

[Danny Clover]

I was wrong. He committed murder.

[Arthur Godfrey]

You were listening to Broadway's My Beat, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and starring Larry Thomas as Detective Danny Clover. Next week, along about this time, Arthur Godfrey and his talent scouts will be on hand again to delight and entertain you. You'll find that Godfrey's amateur, but knowing scouting, have dug up some wonderful new discoveries for you. And they'll be here Monday after Monday all season long. By the way, next Monday also marks the return of my friend Irma. The Lux Radio Theater and the Bob Hawk show on most of these same CBS stations. Don't miss next Monday evening with cbs, the network of the stars.

[Danny Clover]

There's this about Broadway. It wants everything neat and in place. A word misspelled on a spectacular can stop traffic. A girl lamenting a run in her nylons likewise, and for longer. The scream of the loudspeakers has to be adjusted just so. And the deep, anguished weeping in a darkened doorway. Not too much. Even death and violence have to meet Broadway Standards. The death of Alice Corey by a bullet through the heart, that would measure up. This violence committed upon her by her husband. It would measure up, too. Very poignant. Very Class A. We've stood in line for worse. A man makes a pact with his wife to commit double suicide. Kills his wife, only wounds himself. That's hard to do when you're hungry for dying. And harder still to be wounded and disappear from an island.

[Tom Corey]

I'd wanted to kill myself while I succeeded. How could Tom only have wounded himself, Mr. Clover?

[Danny Clover]

Maybe that's all he intended to do.

[Tom Corey]

Meant to murder Ellis.

[Danny Clover]

A policeman has to consider the possibility, Mr. Petchild.

[Tom Corey]

Then how? What I ask you before, how could he have only wounded himself?

[Danny Clover]

He shot Mrs. Corey in the heart. He must have thought that was the best way. In the heart. When he shot himself, he must have flinched. A reflex against his own death. He flinched. He saw he wasn't dead. He liked it that way. It's been that way before.

[Tom Corey]

You said he committed murder.

[Danny Clover]

That's right. When someone kills someone else like that, we call it murder. Is there anywhere else on the island he might be, Mr. Fairchild?

[Tom Corey]

No. We've come up places I never knew existed. I don't mind telling you I'm tired, Mr. Clover.

[Danny Clover]

And he must have crossed over to the mainland. You know these people at the landing dock, Mr. Fairchild?

[Tom Corey]

Most of them.

[Danny Clover]

Call out and ask if anyone took Tom Corey across.

[Tom Corey]

All right. Did anyone here take Tom Cory across today? Did anyone take.

[Gino Tartaglia]

Oh, Graham did. Mr. Fairchild.

[Tom Corey]

Where is he?

[Gino Tartaglia]

Just the other side of the landing. See his boat?

[Danny Clover]

Let's go, Fred.

[Tom Corey]

Joe.

[Danny Clover]

You Joe Graham?

[Tom Corey]

Hi there, Mr. Fairchild. Hello, Joe. This is Mr. Clover, Joe. He's a detective. He wants.

[Danny Clover]

I want to know if you took Tom Cory across today.

[Tom Corey]

You want to know too, Mr. Fairchild? We do, Joe. Yeah, I took Tom Cross when you say something, Mr. Fairchild. When did you take him across, Joe? Early today. Around noon, Mr. Fairchild.

[Danny Clover]

Did he say anything to you?

[Tom Corey]

Tell your friend. I'm a very sociable man, Mr. Fairchild. People talk to me. I talk to people. People I care about. Mr. Clover asked that. Because Tom Corey is a murderer. He killed Mrs. Corey this morning. Guess that's why. Tom wasn't very talkative. Had things on his mind. Just kept biting his lip. Just sat huddled there. Didn't think it proper to ask him why. Glad I didn't.

[Danny Clover]

Where'd you take him?

[Tom Corey]

Well, I always took him, Mr. Fairchild. Like I've taken you and him and Alice many times. So you should go back to your factory over there.

[Danny Clover]

Ask him if he'll take us back.

[Tom Corey]

Will you take us back, Joe? You and the detective? Yes. It'll cost you more for him. Hop aboard. I'll take you.

[Gino Tartaglia]

Danny.

[Danny Clover]

Come on in, Gino. What's on your mind?

[Gino Tartaglia]

It came true, Danny. I'm going to miss you.

[Danny Clover]

Why are you going to miss me, Gino? What came through?

[Gino Tartaglia]

But Captain Julius okayed your vacation request. And so did the inspector, and so did the commissioner. Then back again through the inspector and Captain Julius. So here it is. Where you going, Danny?

[Danny Clover]

I haven't made up my mind.

[Gino Tartaglia]

I've been mulling over the travel folders. Me and Mrs. Tartaglia. And we feel the place for you is Mexico.

[Danny Clover]

Mexico, huh?

[Gino Tartaglia]

Si. In Ensenada. In Mexico. In the Riviera Pacifico. Imagine you with a serape over your shoulder, huachas on your feet and a la cucaracha on your lips. C Mexico man. Amigo.

[Danny Clover]

Me amigo. We are friends, aren't we, Gino?

[Tom Corey]

Lieutenant Clover?

[Danny Clover]

Yes, what is it?

[Henry Fairchild]

I'm Dr. Haskell. They told me to come right in.

[Danny Clover]

Of course. What is it, Doctor?

[Henry Fairchild]

They said you'd want to see me. That you were working on something that might have something to do with what I want to see you about.

[Danny Clover]

All right. What is it?

[Henry Fairchild]

About 20 minutes ago, a man forced his way into my office. I say forced himself because he had a gun.

[Danny Clover]

What did the man look like?

[Henry Fairchild]

Oh, about 40, strongly built. I wrote it all down here because I knew you'd want to know. Here. I knew you'd ask me.

[Danny Clover]

About 20 minutes ago he came to see you about a bullet wound, didn't he?

[Tom Corey]

Yes.

[Henry Fairchild]

How did you know?

[Danny Clover]

We're looking for this man. How badly is he hurt?

[Henry Fairchild]

He'll die. Unless a miracle.

[Danny Clover]

Then.

[Henry Fairchild]

I'm only a doctor. I gave him plasma, extracted the bullet, shot him to the heart. He wouldn't let me give him anesthetic. He's hurt. Unless he's found immediately, he'll die.

[Danny Clover]

You let him go?

[Henry Fairchild]

I told you he had a gun.

[Danny Clover]

Oh, I see. Where do you live, Doctor?

[Tom Corey]

Here.

[Henry Fairchild]

Here's my car.

[Danny Clover]

Thank you. Is there anything else you want to tell me?

[Henry Fairchild]

No, I believe that's all.

[Tom Corey]

I just came in. Danny, over the teletype. What did item about a woman you talked to earlier. Zella Stanley.

[Danny Clover]

Half the dime. Muggerman. What about her?

[Tom Corey]

She was found in her apartment, shot to. Pretty expensive dress she's wearing, Danny. Uh huh. She must have been very pretty. Once Zella knew a girl in high school. Her name is Zella. She's lying. He must have shot her the minute she opened the door, huh?

[Danny Clover]

Yeah. Take the other room, Mugaban. I'll go through this one.

[Tom Corey]

Okay. Danny. Danny.

[Danny Clover]

Yeah.

[Tom Corey]

Radio. Radio. Phonograph combo. Also very expensive. The bed also the furnishings. Wonder how she managed. Maybe she was rich, huh?

[Danny Clover]

Maybe.

[Tom Corey]

I think I find out how, Danny.

[Danny Clover]

How what?

[Tom Corey]

How she managed. These men's shirts in the bedroom closet. This robe.

[Danny Clover]

Let's see them.

[Tom Corey]

Embroidered initials in silk. Sure, I could afford things like that. TC Tom Corey, Daddy. Uh huh.

[Danny Clover]

TC Tom Corey. So it began to take shape. Tom Curry had come, killed his wife, turned the gun on himself, had missed his heart. Then he had decided to rid himself of the source of his trouble. Zealous Stanley committed grand larceny, committed murder. Two murders. Now he was a dying man someplace in the city. Find him. We tried all points bulletins, newspaper releases. Call on the hospitals, then back to headquarters and wait. Then nod at a man who nudged his head through a door and listened to his story.

[Gino Tartaglia]

I run the Diamond Hotel on 37th Street. A little while ago, a man came in my place to register.

[Danny Clover]

Why do you think that's of interest to me?

[Gino Tartaglia]

The man had no bags. I saw that right away when I handed him the pen to write. And on top of that, he said, you write my name for me. It's Smith. That's what he said. Write John Smith. I said, why? He said, because I got my hands in my pockets, that's why. I said, oh, do you?

[Danny Clover]

Come to the point, will you?

[Gino Tartaglia]

The point is this. I looked over the desk at these hands in his pockets just to see what went. What went was the side of his coat was blood. Then I got cagey.

[Danny Clover]

Cagey, cagey.

[Gino Tartaglia]

I said, how long you want the room? Month, day, week. Then he looked funny and said all he wanted to do was rest a while. I said, uh, because I saw trouble. He left. I came here. I did right, didn't I?

[Danny Clover]

Danny Clover speaking.

[Alice Corey]

There's a man in my house.

[Danny Clover]

Who is this?

[Alice Corey]

Mrs. Barry? I live on West 57th Street. 1209. I'm frightened. There's a man.

[Danny Clover]

What man?

[Alice Corey]

He rang my bell and pointed a gun at me and walked into my house.

[Danny Clover]

Is he still there?

[Alice Corey]

Yes. He looked tired. He sat in the big chair in the parlor. He fell asleep. He's there now, sleeping.

[Danny Clover]

I'll be right there.

[Alice Corey]

Can't you understand? He's gone.

[Danny Clover]

Just 10 minutes ago you called.

[Alice Corey]

10 minutes ago he was sitting in that chair sleeping. He woke up and left. He had a gun.

[Danny Clover]

All right, all right.

[Alice Corey]

All right. He says he had a gun pointed at my nose. What did you want me to do? Hit him over the head with a candlestick? Not me. He left. Look. Left blood too. All over my rug.

[Danny Clover]

Back to headquarters again. Then a phone call from a pedestrian who had just seen a man who fitted Tom Corey's description on West 62nd. The man was staggering, Mr. Clover. So Mr. Clover dispatched a squad car to the area. The man was nowhere in sight. Then Mr. Clover sat down and thought about it. Tom Corey left Fire island by boat. Found a Doctor on Twitter. 12th street in the village. Put a thumbtack on the map. Tom Corey has tried to get a room at the diamond hotel on West 37th. Tom Corey had murdered Zella Stanley. West 46th. Tom Corey had been asleep in a parlor on West 57th. Thumbtack. Then a phone man, probably Tom Corey, was seen staggering on West 62nd. Thumbtack. Tom Cory was headed uptown. Tom Cory was crazed with pain. Then a recheck of my notebook. Tom Cory had a partner named Henry Fairchild. Henry Fairchild lived uptown. He lived on West 70th. Maybe I could get there before Tom Cory.

[Tom Corey]

Who is it?

[Danny Clover]

The police. Danny Clover.

[Tom Corey]

Come in quickly. I'm glad it's you.

[Danny Clover]

Afraid of something, Mr. Fairchild? The door. Bolted. Locked. What are you afraid of?

[Tom Corey]

I read it in the newspapers. Tom. Still loose?

[Danny Clover]

Still haven't answered my question. What are you afraid of?

[Tom Corey]

Isn't it obvious? Tom has killed his wife. Killed Zella. Now he's. That's why you're here, Mr. Clover. You know Tom is on his way.

[Danny Clover]

Uh huh. I figure he is. I'm just wondering why you figured it.

[Tom Corey]

You just said it's obvious. Tom is out of his mind. He killed Zella, didn't he? You know why too, don't you? No.

[Danny Clover]

No. Tell me why.

[Tom Corey]

You found his shirts there, didn't you? Zealous.

[Danny Clover]

How did you know that Mr. Fairchild wasn't in the newspapers?

[Tom Corey]

I know it. Wasn't it simply that? Tom told me all about it. About Tom and Zella. How expensive she was. That's why he stole all that money.

[Danny Clover]

I see.

[Tom Corey]

Mr. Clover.

[Danny Clover]

Put down that gun. Give it to me. Said give it to me. Stand right where you are. I'll take care of it. Come in, Tom.

[Tom Corey]

Shoot him.

[Alice Corey]

Shoot him.

[Tom Corey]

He'll kill you.

[Danny Clover]

I'll take that gun, Cory. Come on, I'll help you. Sit down over here. There.

[Tom Corey]

Don't believe him, Mr. Clover. Don't believe anything Corey says. He's going to tell you I killed his wife. That I shot him that I stole the money. Ridiculous things, crazy things. Because he's crazy now.

[Danny Clover]

Tom.

[Tom Corey]

Of course, Tom. He's crazy. He's going to say that Zella and I arranged the whole thing to make it look like a suicide pact. That I killed Zella. Tom. Tom.

[Danny Clover]

That's right. Tom's dead. He just confessed to a dead man. Broadway stretches out in front of you. Livid scar slashed into the night. It's a cruel and fantasy fantastic carousel palace of fun, a hall of mirrors. You pay your way and you take your choice. Me, I get in on a pass on Broadway. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway. My Beat.

[Arthur Godfrey]

Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, with Charles Calvert as Tartaglia. The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. Included in tonight's cast were Herb Butterfield, Janet Logan, Ann Stone, Junius Matthews, Byron Cain, and Jack Crucian. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight's program concludes the present series of Broadway's My Beat. We thank you for listening and hope to return to in the near future when Danny Clover will bring you more adventures along the Great White Way. Meanwhile, listen to Arthur Godfrey, who returns at the same time next Monday with his talent scouts. There's always plenty of fun on hand when you hear Columbia's Monday night program, Too Many Cooks, the hilarious misadventures of a father, mother and 10 children. Stay tuned now for Too Many Cooks, which follows immediately over most of these Columbia stage stations. Bob Stevenson speaking. This is cbs, where you live life with Luigi on Tuesday night, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

[Adam Graham]

Welcome back. At the beginning of the episode, I would think calling a lot of these numbers before visiting would have saved a lot of time. Not to say that each would be eliminated with a phone call, but a lot could have. I guess the police, or maybe just the riders live by the saying of the dad in the Dragnet Christmas episode that people who use the phone are lazy. We are getting into an interesting situation with Herb Butterfield. He is being cast as the murderer a lot on this series, and it's leading to a pattern of him being practically the designated murderer. So you hear him and you're kind of like, okay, well, now we know who did it. Although that kind of gets thrown off by the fact that he doubles this episode. It seems like in many of these shows they're going through week after week, they're writing the shows, they're doing the casting, and somehow they don't notice that they're casting the same person as the murderer a lot. It doesn't happen all the time. Only three really big instances stand out. There was the Falcon not too long ago, I think when we were in some of the 1950 episodes, it seemed like Mandel Kramer was the murderer nearly every week. And of course, way back in season two, we had Rogues Gallery, which had Gerald Moore as the first person I heard who was the designated murderer. And that was certainly a more extreme example than what we hear on Broadway's My Beat. Now we turn to listener comments and feedback. And over on our listener survey, listener Al in Louisiana writes great form of radio as art. Adam as a host adds to it. Thank you so much. Appreciate your kind comments. And that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software and please rate and review the program wherever you're downloading it from. We'll be back next Wednesday with another episode of Broadway's My Beat. But join us back here tomorrow for Dragnet where Homicide.

[Tom Corey]

That's right.

[H]

This is Friday. My name's Romero Klein, unit 69.

[Tom Corey]

How are you?

[H]

Partner's Thomas. He's in with the victim's mother and son back. Guess what he's sleeping for. Okay, what's the story? Really a nasty mess. Looks like a shotgun. Victim's face is half gone. What's the Name? Josephine Stevens, 28 years old. What do you got so far? Not much. Your mother's in a state of shock. Talk to young boy for a minute. Pretty terrible. Here's a sleeping porch.

[Tom Corey]

Dear God.

[H]

Yeah, you got a little kid by her side who knocks the props out from under you. What do you got on it? Seems as Josephine Stevens and her 7 year old boy were sleeping in the bed when it happened. Haven't been able to fill it all out yet, but from what the youngster told us, it happened about 30 minutes ago.

[Adam Graham]

I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, send your comments to box13, writedetectives.net follow us on Twitter at radiodetectives and check us out on Instagram. Instagram.

[Tom Corey]

Com.

[Adam Graham]

Great. Detectives from Boise, Idaho, this is your host, Adam Graham, signing off.