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Counterspy: The Cold Blooded Professor, Part Two (A0104)
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Today's Adventure: After the notorious Professor Emery Horn escapes from death row through an astonishing feat of planning and deception, David Harding and Harry Peters launch a nationwide hunt for the brilliant killer. Realizing conventional police...
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Welcome to the great adventurers of Old Time Radio from Kalispell, Montana. This is your host, Adam Graham bringing you this week's episode of Counterspy. But first, I do want to encourage you. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software and today's program is brought to you in part by the financial support of our listeners. You can support the show on a one time basis at support.greatdetives.net and become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little as $2 per month. Just go to patreon.greatdetives.net but now, from September 1, 1949, here is the Cold Blooded Professor. Part 2.
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So why take less when Pepsi is best? Whenever you reach for refreshment, remember why take less when Pepsi's best? And now to counterspy. It is doubtful if as many warning flash about any criminal as were flashed by the United States counter spies concerning one Professor Emory Horn. Professor Emory Horn is a mastermind of crime. He is a constant danger to all peaceful citizens. Professor Horn murdered a counter spy agent. With a special flat handled gun strapped to his chest. He poisoned his housekeeper with poison candy. Finally captured by the counterspies, Horn arrogantly described these methods of murder in detail. Tried and sentenced to death, Professor Horn was held in the safest penitentiary in the country pending his execution. A few months ago, Professor Horn consulted a prison doctor about his badly infected upper lips. You're quite a character, Horn. While addressing me, Doc, kindly use my title. Oh, of course, Professor Horn. Only who made you a professor? The only person in the world who's qualified myself. All armed guards and still were in the prison wall within the prison walls, Doctor. Within. All right, hold still now. I don't understand why your upper lip isn't healing. This is a bad infection. I believe the lack of healing is due to hyperprotinemia. Prison food is lacking. Thiamine hydrochloride, niacinamide. Really think you know medicine, don't you? Pardon me if I speak medically over your head, doctor. But then ignorance always irritates me. There's hair around that infection. All right. I'll have to cover your whole upper lip with adhesive again. How long were you a horse doctor? I'm sorry. I'm sorry if I hurt you, really. I hear you made six attempts to escape in two months, Horn. Professor Horn, how news does travel. That's only 10 days more until you're transferred to the death house. You have a morbid mind, haven't you? No, no, I was only going to tell you that. Ironic as it May be those ulcers you had for so long are cured through no doing of yours, Doctor. I'm sure. Okay, get going, Professor. Out that way. Bugs. Bugs, are you awake? Well, these prison mattresses ain't tied it down, you know. Well put, bugs. Ms. Fell is getting on my nerves too. You hungry, Bugs? You said, here's a sugar cookie I took from the mess. You could steal the nose off the warden, right while he was looking. Here it is. Thanks. And put the crumbs in your pocket. Why should I go putting cookie crumbs in my pocket? You figure that one out. And I wouldn't have had to plan your escape for you. Who's escaping? Both of us. You one way, I another. You've noticed I've been bringing back little pieces of lemons in the main dining hall. That's when I knew you was nuts. In my mattress, I have an extra pair of prison pants. Lemons contain acetic acid and acetic acid bleaches. I've been bleaching those pants with lemon juice and now they're as white as any duck pants. Sometimes I think you're a witch. Hey, where'd you pinch them glasses? They're horn rimmed spectacles. Bob, have you ever seen a little piece of wire lying around in the recreation yard? Sure. Well, there are lots of little pieces like those. And I've been collecting them, winding them together and bending them into these eye frames and earpieces. The next step was to unravel threads in the bottom of these trousers and wrap them around the strands of wire to thicken them. There, just right. And then I had to give the strands a smooth surface. A paste of flour and water did that. But where did you get the glass? In a plastic crystal stolen from the wristwatches of other prisoners. And with my new mustache. Hey, now wait a minute. You ain't got no mustache. What do you think is under this adhesive tape on my upper lip? You said you scratched your lip. I did. On purpose with a dirty pin to make sure the infection continued. My excuse to keep the adhesive on. And all the time you were growing a mustache Hunter. Okay, so now you got white pants, a pair of specs, a mustache. But why go to all that trouble just to bust out over the wall? Bugs, ever notice in the corner of our recreation room there's a pile of old building plans, blueprints of model houses, things like that? Yeah, at the right moment, I'll suddenly become a building contractor. Inspecting the building. I'll walk right out to freedom. And the Execution of a plan I have in mind. Holy smoke. Professor. You sure? You sure having trouble, Bugs? Pain in my insides. I. I feel like I'm. Like I'm dying. Bugs, you are dying. That cookie was poison. Help. Help me. I. I don't want to die. I can't anymore. That poison. I made scraps of garbage, but the toothpaste, brush handle and soap are too strong and quick by well find out you done it. Oh, no, no. The crumbs I made you put in your pocket. They'll prove you stole the cookie yourself. God. Go. What's eating you, Professor? Hey, what's with Bugs? I'm afraid it's my fault. God. You killed him, professor, he confessed to me about a murder he'd committed the police never knew about. He was eating a cookie. He must have poisoned it. He must have committed suicide right under my eyes. Recreation. Y' all get 20 minutes for recreation. Listen, when we come to the corner, I'm ducking out into that little anteroom off the recreation hall. Cover my place in line so they won't miss me. I need at least three and a half minutes. Now, a bleak carpet, Glasses, piece of tape off. Ah, there's the mustache. Now the blueprint. And into the hall. 50 odds of freedom. Three minutes left before I miss. God. Hey, who are you? I'm the architect's assistant working on alterations to be made in this prison. Yeah, I didn't hear nothing about no alterations. How did you get into the prison? By the entrance. On the other side, with the rest of our staff has this desk you're seated at. Always been located this spot? Yeah, 12 years now. Says I can watch this inside gate. An automatic slide gate controlled from here. Now, when a gate should be opened, I phone the main gate room and they push a button and this gate slides open. Will you demonstrate, please? My dear man, I'm in a hurry. I've got to know how these things work. All right, all right. Erickson, gate number two. Open her up. Some architecture. Yes. Okay, now she'll open. Well, there's your gate. Fine. Thank you. Hey, you want to see her clothes again? Yes, please. Lower this pool. One more gate there. You can't just walk out of here. I'm connected with a building contractor. You gotta sign out with me. Then I got a ticket to the main gate room. They check it with your signature when you sign in. Yeah, it's all right. But first you've got to show me how this gate works. We're planning alterations. We may have to move this platform. That you sit on. Ah, well, the gate there is controlled by this button here. But the inner gate's control from the main gate room. Why is this one easier? They figure anybody gets past that gate has a right to leave. Oh, we may have to change that. I want a closer look at the gate itself. Push the button now, please. Hey, you coming back? I know my work is all done. You can close the gate. Okay. Mr. Harding. Helen. Harry Peters. Mr. Harding's not in his office here. I'll try all the departments. Attention all counters for department. Is Mr. Harding on the main floor? Floor rush report for you, Mr. Harding. Rush report. Attention all counter spy departments. This is David Harding. I've just learned that Professor Emory Horn has made an amazing escape from Alanda Penitentiary. All trace of him has been lost. All information having even a faint bearing on the professor rush to me. Top priority, Dave. I was sure we had the professor stalled it away for good. He's fantastically clever, Peter. Now he's loose again. A vicious killer. Oh, I smell trouble during his trial, Peter. The amazing knowledge of legal tricks he passed on to his defense lawyer almost saved him from the tear. But we're going to get him again if it's the last case I ever handle. I don't think I've ever seen you so angry. This he's killed two state supers, a woman accomplice, a counter spy agent, probably a fellow convict. I'm never going to give up on that man. We haven't got one lead on him. Then we'll have to start back at the beginning. Now we know that for some years Horn posed as a scientist and lived quietly in a small town in Illinois where he killed the counter spy. But Dave, we find tooth combed that place at the time. This time we won't be looking for a clue in the ordinary sense, Peter, but some new clue to his character. We'll have to learn about the man from that old house. Back to counter spy in just a moment. But first Pet Cola hit the spots. Two full glasses that's a lot lot more value, lot more debt. 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And now back to counterspy. An eerie, stormy night at the former hideout of Professor Horn in Illinois. Dave, this old house is the best locale for a murder I've seen in years. It was the locale of a murder, Peter. The stain of Agent Cameron's blood. Still early cut. I know. That's thunder. This musty, creepy old place. I'd hate to spend the night here alone. I'll control your imagination, Peters. Let's pick the fact. Gladly. Have we got any? Now, I've been here in the study looking through some of these scientific books Horn left behind. Check with me and see if I make sense. All right. A book on physics, stresses and streams. And take this page. Little drawings, sort of doodles in the margins. Scribbled, probably while he was thinking over digesting what he was reading. Sketchy little drawings, aren't they? Unfinished, almost absentminded. Now, some on almost every page. See? Now, take another book at random. This one on biochemistry. Nothing 8th grade about these books, is there? And see this thing? More drawings of the same kind, it's true, of a dozen more of these volumes I've leased through. And Horn's a doodler. A scientific doodler, babe. How can we use the fact that it's a characteristic of Horns to doodle in scientific books? Well, Horn has this scholarly side to him. Now, wouldn't you think that everywhere he goes he'd want to confuse scientific works. But where could he, except in libraries? Exactly. To be more exact, scientific libraries. Right. Now, first we'll check through all these books. We may find various definite types of doodles that occur over and over. We'll make photostatic copies and send a set to every library in the country. But, Dave, this will mean asking librarians to watch all their readers. They're not trained for that. Well, all library books are inspected every so often. Peter, the only tiny clue we need may be hidden this very moment in some library. If we only knew where. And if we only knew where Horn is Now. Hi there. Hi. Heading west, mister? Give me a lift. Okay, fella. Come on. Thank you, stranger. These desert flats are mighty lonely. Not many cars coming through. I'm glad you came along. Especially since I see you're just about my size. What? Get out of the car. Oh, calm stick up, huh? Okay, okay. I guess very well. About your size, mister. Your suit will suit me very well. Nice suit. Or rather, you took my money. I can always get money when I want it, mister. What's your name? Blake. Jack. Special delivery. Blake, the professional football player. What a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Blake. Take off your suit, please. Hey. What? The next bullet won't go into the ground, Mr. Blake. It'll go into you. Okay, tough guy. There you are. Jag it. Throw it in the car, please. Now the trousers. I need the shoes too. Please, Mr. Blake. And of course, your car. Hey, look. I'll die out in this desert in the sun. True, we must be 20 miles from water. Oh, be a sport, will you? Give me some kind of a chance? A chance? Very well, Mr. Blake. We'll play a little game of my invention. Just remain there beside the road, Mr. Blake. Now, Mr. Blake, you start running. I'm going to try to run you down with your own car. If I don't get you in one minute or less, you'll be perfectly free. I can't outrun an automobile or you forget your special delivery. Blake. The best broken field runner in football. Start running, Mr. Blake. Any direction. I'll even give you a little head start. Good, good. Now here I come. A nice turn, Mr. Blake. Just missed you. Keep on running. Too bad, Mr. Blake. Only 10 seconds more, you'd still be alive. But then I wouldn't have had your clothes and your car, would I? David Harding, Field office, San Francisco. No trace yet of Professor Horn himself. At scientific library here. Reports five technical volumes marked with characteristic marginal drawings. Within past weeks, Professor Horn must be in this vicinity. Notice it, Peters. What? We've got the five books Horn used on some eight visits to the San Francisco Scientific Library. But the drawings don't seem the same. It may not be on them. I think it is. The characteristics are here. The little drawings are more definite. Distinct? As if he had a definite plan. The volume on explosives here, page 287. Dealing with liquid explosives. Drawings of company and bottles. And a notation. 32 ounces. You need 32 ounce bottles. Maybe. But why bottles? Well, bottles are an innocent way of carrying liquid explosives, aren't they? Into a bank, law firm. But there are no books here. About vaults or electronic protection devices. And here's a book on the scientific preservation of works of art. No, I hadn't got to that one yet. Here's something, Dave. Drawings on two different pages. Pages where the locations of famous paintings are listed. Unusual interest for home by George little. Drawings that might represent explosions. Look where they are. Right next to the listing of four different paintings kept in san Francisco. Those horn were planning to steal them, Preserve them in good condition scientifically and sell them later in secret as here. These paintings are insured for $250,000 each. Any one of them would be a good haul. Unless some of these panes are kept in vaults. They might be. And that's where these liquid explosives would come in. No doubt there are watchmen to be taken care of. The explosives might serve two purposes. They kill the watchman and blow open the vaults. Yes, but why pick quart bottles to carry the stuff in Anyway, we'll check these museums about their storage vaults if we can't narrow the field. Hello, Dave. Peter. Those two museums. Only one. The bayview art center Keeps certain artworks and paintings in vaults. In the basement they have a special watchman. The museum's across the street from a large church. Okay. And as to the watchman. Peters, that's your special assignment. Oh. Oh, what's that? You're the night watchman here at the art center. That I am, sir. I didn't see you sitting there in the shadows. We feed her after getting a bit of a risk from walking the post. A lonely job it is, the museum being off quite selfish way and creepy too, with the cemetery under beside the church. I happen to have a couple of bottles of wine here. This package. Could. Could I offer you a drink? You could only. Might not be wise for you to be tipping a bottle here. Outdoors there's never nobody to see. Well, I'm sure it'd be better inside. Maybe. Maybe down in the cellar where it'd be warm. We'll drink a friendly toast to art. But if you're bound to give me a drink, I don't mind the first one right here. Very well. Try this. Supporto from Spain. The dark, heavy wine. There you are. Thank you. Mighty fine it is too. Shall we go inside? Now, what kind of wine would that other bottle be? Now I'll you show. Show you inside. I can see oh very well. It's a light white wine. Well, now, that's more like it. Might I read the label? I must say, you can take my word. I like to know what it is. I've been drinking. I only want to look at the label. If you insist. Yeah. Thank you. Tip Top Valley SA Bottled by Tip Top Valley Winery, Incorporated. Now, I wonder if this bottle of wood found you thrown it. You wanted me to drink some wine? That blows up my eyes. Take it easy, Horn. We've got. No, no. Okay now, Dave. All right, Horn. You're not blowing open any balls tonight with explosive wine A. I'd like to know how you caught on. I'll be glad to tell you. And I'll also tell you that we know where you got that suit you have on. You murdered Jack Blake in the desert two weeks ago. I'll be glad to tell you a lot of things, Horn, including this. You're not going to teach the executioner again. When your friends drop in. Be generous, but be thrifty too. Serve plenty of delicious Pepsi Cola. 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Welcome back. Well, another fine performance by Ralph Bale in creating this character who is both incredibly Cunning, but also massively sadistic. Easily. He is the toughest villain that David Harding has faced off against. And Harding gets to show the strength of his deductive and investigative abilities here, and showing an approach and a philosophy. It is very adaptive. What he realizes is that Horn is going to make disguises. Horn is going to do a lot of clever things that will foil the traditional investigative approach. But what Harding searches for is not trying to anticipate Horn's next big scheme as much as first figuring out, okay, who is he? What is the pattern of his behavior beneath all the subterfuge that he's about to lay. And in many ways, Harding is very much like a modern profiler and goes somewhere that a lot of the detectives or crime programs just did not go. And he's very effective. And there are so many episodes of this series that do make me appreciate how clever and brilliant David Harding is in his own right. And unlike Horn, he doesn't need to make a big show about it. Alright, well, listener comments and feedback. And we have a comment on Spotify regarding the murdering messenger. Clark gets shot and sits in his living room for 10 minutes. He could have had the housekeeper take him to the hospital, but she said she didn't want to be bothered because she was baking. Those had better be brownies to die for. Well, to be fair, she didn't strike me as particularly helpful. And it's also fair to wonder if getting to the hospital would have made that big of a difference in that time. Modern day may be calling 911. EMS might do something, but who can say? All right, and now we have a comment from YouTube where a listener asked a question regarding the bouncing bank robber. Where is the espionage? That's a fair question amidst all of the high flying antics in that episode. Now, as discussed before and a lot of listeners have called out, it's a situation where effectively counterspy is the FBI. Just not really written in cooperation with them and not based on real cases. But essentially post war they're patterned after the FBI. Which makes sense because the FBI did a lot of counterintelligence work. But whether you're going to have actual counter intelligence involved in the work of counterspy does really vary from week to week. Alright, well now it is time to thank our Patreon supporter of the day and I want to go ahead and thank Michelle Patreon supporter Since May of 2021, currently supporting the podcast at the secret agent level of $4 or more per month. Thanks so much for your support and that will do it. For today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software and be sure to rate and review the podcast wherever you Download it from. CounterSpy will return in two weeks as we are going to take a bit of a recording break. However, we will return on Tuesday on the Great Adventurers Podcast for the conclusion of Tarzan and the Fires of the Tour. The Great Detectives goes to encore presentations starting on Sunday and will return to its regular block of programming on Monday, July 20 with the Saint. In the meantime, do send your comments to Box13Great Detectives.net follow us on Twitter at radiodetectives and check us out on Instagram. Instagram From Kalispell, Montana, this is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
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