michael Shayne 48_07_29 ep06 case of the blood-stained pearls
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01:09I'd have sworn someone was standing right behind me. I
01:13Started to turn and I heard something come down over me
01:15I tried to duck at a ripping sound and blood running wildly down my arm a knife
01:21I tried to grab the arm. I couldn't reach it. The knife was coming down again
01:31You
01:37The new adventures of Michael Shane private detective
01:40This is your director Bill Russo inviting you to listen to another transcribed episode with Michael Shane that reckless redheaded Irishman
01:47Back in his old haunts in New Orleans
01:49We call it the case of the blood-stained pearl
02:00Oh
02:08Okay, okay, I'm coming
02:13Next time when I bring along an axe
02:18He I want you to lock the door now look I want you to lock the door mr.
02:22Shane, let's just snap a double lock for now and hope for the best
02:25Hey, where you going?
02:30Who are you talking about pop
02:35They boil me in oil skin me alive copy the ribs to find out I look you better slow down
02:40You're gonna burn out of berries galleons. Halliwags cutthroats licks people and chicken inspectors
02:44What are these friends of yours trying to find any old business? You just keep that nosy. I'm out here. Hey. Hey, remember you came to me
02:50Oh, oh
02:53Jesus also infuriating makes my blood boil sweat does
02:57Three dear friends for six years. We've shared the same little houseboat same skimpy fare
03:03We've watched 2,000 sunsets. We've talked
03:0710,000 hours of the night away now
03:11Mr. Shane what your rates for God in a man's life possessions
03:14I kind of think I might be a little too rich for your blood all the time
03:17Oh a little too rich for my blood what I do indeed. Well, well, well, mr.
03:21I suppose you come to that remarkable decision just by looking at that just a coat these pants and cardboard my shoes too rich for my
03:28Blood let's shed a tear for me poor man. P. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings feelings
03:33Why the feelings I come here on business my life's in peril my possessions and jeopardy
03:38Despite your outrageous rates. I'll pay out of my meager safe and just what are these possessions? You want me to protect wait?
03:45Hey, hey leave those window shades alone. It's dark lovers. It isn't here
03:51Now mr. Shane now, this is what I want you to protect the contents of this little leather bag
03:59Yes, here's what this pitiful old man wants you to protect
04:05Yes, mr. Shane, yes, this is what they killed me for the palm of my hand I hold three pearls
04:13worth a million dollars
04:22In a moment, we'll return to Mike Shane and the case of the blood-stained pearls
04:41It had started like any other day a
04:44Widow named mrs. Coppola said hired me to track down one of her borders who'd run away with her copper samovar
04:50and I fear the good widows heart a
04:53Guy had called to ask my rates for getting divorce evidence against his blonde wife
04:59Then an old man named Peters came in the kind of old guy you might see in Jackson Square
05:05Sleeping on the grass with a newspaper over his face
05:08Only this old man had a million dollars worth of the biggest pearls. I'd ever seen in my whole life
05:13Well, how do you like him? Mr. Shane? Yeah, you could use him for snowballs. Where'd you get him?
05:19I found it three weeks ago a little cove along the Mississippi not so many years ago
05:23This part the river was one of the favorite haunts of pirates like a feet
05:27This might have been part of his treasure lost in the sea washed up by the tides. Yeah
05:32Give him back to me. Give me a give me a he held him long enough. Yeah, they're all yours
05:36But hey, do you ever have him appraised by a jeweler? I wouldn't trust him out of my sight
05:39Even my own friends would kill me for how do you know they're worth a million bucks?
05:43I've got the library looked up pearls and all encyclopedias. I've compared them with the descriptions at a very finest
05:49There is no comparison
05:52Mine are the most beautiful pearls of them all and they take him from me
05:56Imagine that my own friends. Oh, you were smart. You'd sell no good jeweler and forget him. I'll never sell him
06:01What could anyone give me have so beautiful as these pearls themselves?
06:05Yeah, I bet you a million dollars all stacked up real need is kind of beautiful sides looking at an encyclopedia
06:10What's that? Well, you know, these pearls came out of a popcorn box and you're all upset about nothing
06:15Oh, you think so? You think so? Hey nothing. Well, alright, let's go to a jeweler. I saw one down the street. Oh, yeah
06:21Mr. Forrest mind you I won't sell him no matter what the price but let him look at him. Mr. Shane
06:25Let him tell you what they were
06:33Well, mr. Forrester, then go on tell his mr. Shane what they were he thinks he might have come out of a
06:39Was it a popcorn box didn't go on go on tell him I've never seen anything like them. Mm-hmm
06:46They're priceless. You're here. Mr. Shane. You're here. You're here now. Give him back to me. Give me here. Give me here
06:50Yes, of course my beautiful little ladies now, mr. Shane knows your worth. Yes. No, he won't walk you
06:55What would you say they were worth? Mr. Forrester? I wouldn't even try to give you an estimate. Mr. Shane. Thanks. Mr
07:01Forrester, come on pop back to my office
07:09Oh
07:13Okay, pop have a seat
07:16Now you take me seriously, mr. Shane these people who you think are trying to take the pearls I don't think I know they give
07:22Me for yeah. Yeah. All right. You say you live with him on a houseboat, huh?
07:26Yeah, I'll be at 22 on River Highway. And did you tell him about the pearl?
07:30Oh, of course not, but I know they're spying on me continually away. Excuse me
07:35Yeah
07:39Yeah
07:43Why
07:47Yeah
07:50What's that I didn't want to break his heart I could see what the pearls meant to him and as long as he ever tries
07:58to sell them
08:00Why should we hurt?
08:02You mean?
08:04Nothing
08:09How do you like that I wish I hurry I don't have all day. Yeah. Yeah. Well, thanks. Thanks for calling. Goodbye
08:18Now, mr. Shane now we can talk business. I've already gotten a business but go on. Mr. Peters
08:27So old man Peters hired me to protect his five dollars worth of imitation pearls I
08:33Overcame the real Shane long enough to tell him he could pay me at the end of the month by which time I was sure
08:37He'd be out of my hair. He left the office and I forgot about it Ben one night
08:42He caught me in one of my less happy moods. The office rent was two weeks overdue three of my checks had bounced
08:47I was stretched out on my couch feeling jollier than words can say and the phone started ringing. Yeah
08:53Look Peters, I wish you'd stop calling me
08:55Are you anyhow
09:00What is it now
09:04Look this is not good. It's bad for you and it's bad for me you you come up to my office
09:08I'm gonna break it to you gently
09:11You just come on up
09:15You'll tell me when you get there we'll trade little secrets
09:25Oh
09:28Okay, pop, okay, do you always have to knock like that?
09:31Look, if you break the glass, you're gonna have to hock all your pearls to pay for it. Come on in
09:36Hey, hey pop. What's wrong?
09:42Old man Peters was dead before he hit the floor. I don't know how he ever lived to reach my office
09:46There were four bullet holes in his back as he fell his left arm flung out wildly his left fingers doubled into a fist
09:52I bent down to see what was in that fist
09:55It was his most priceless possession bag of phony pearls
09:59Before calling the cops. I put the pearls in my pocket because now I was gonna make it my business to find out who'd kill
10:04the old man
10:06After the cops finished questioning me. I really felt beat
10:09I went home to my hotel room and arranged my weary bones around the lumps in the mattress drifted off to sleep
10:17And I had to drift right back again
10:22Yeah
10:25Shane this is mr. Tompkins. Yeah Tompkins. Yeah, what's without the office building? Oh, oh, yeah
10:31I thought I'd better call you know what happened
10:34Somebody broke in your office a while ago
10:37When was this?
10:49No, no, that's what makes it so wonderful to be poor good night
10:55I
10:56Hung up and started going back to sleep
10:59Just before I made it
11:00I suddenly started thinking about the little bag of phony pearls was right now in the rear pocket of the pants hanging over my dresser
11:07All of a sudden I wasn't nearly as sleepy as I thought. I
11:12reached my cigarettes under my pillow and
11:16Someone was trying to fit a key into my door
11:19The tiny grating sound continued a couple seconds more in the door would open I started with my gun on the dresser
11:25I heard the lock snap back
11:30Heard a quick move in the hall, I grabbed a gun a race to the door
11:33All was empty
11:34Nothing, but closed doors with numbers on him. The only sound was a guy in one of the rooms whimpering in his sleep a nice
11:40peaceful scene
11:42Five seconds ago. I'd been close enough to death to smell it
11:46What it been?
11:48What old man Pete has been afraid of
11:51That was an easy one. It's three pounds on the houseboat. I remember how I'd laughed to myself when he told me
11:56They'd kill him for the pearls
11:58Funny thing. I wasn't laughing anymore. I
12:02Had the pearls now
12:10In a moment, we'll return to Mike Shane in the case of the blood-stained pearls
12:19You
12:30It all started when a little old guy named Peters came to my office with a wild story of three pearls worth a million dollars
12:38Forrester a jeweler said they were worth five bucks the outside and they were paste
12:44Anyhow, somebody thought enough of the pearls to kill the old man now I had them and somebody was trying to kill me
12:51The next morning when I went down to my battered old office, I found a telegram among the ruins
12:57Would like to see you this evening regarding the death of our friend George Peters. It was an address
13:04It was dark by the time we got there the cab had worn out three maps and his smiling disposition
13:09Five miles out of town right in the middle of nothing
13:13Rotting wooden pier sticking into the water. Maybe 20 feet at the end of it a battered old tug
13:20That'll be 275. Okay. Yeah
13:24Sure, sorry. I dragged you out this far ain't half so sorry as I am friend. Oh, wait for me
13:28We'll I'll be right back
13:30Hey, hey wait, hey
13:34In the darkness the lights of New Orleans seemed a thousand miles away
13:39I started down the wooden pier. There were lights somewhere on the tug. It didn't seem to be anything living around yet
13:46Mosquitoes I helped
13:49Started looking for somebody and I heard someone singing
13:54Followed the sound on the stairway leading down into the hold of the ship
13:59The old guys were sitting on orange crates near a big pot-bellied coal stove
14:04One who was singing looked like Moses must have looked
14:07Complete with a flaming red beard
14:15Just hearing it makes me feel a little better
14:19Who are you? What do you want? I'm Michael Shane
14:24Brown
14:27Mr. Brown just singing for mr. Peters favorite song. Oh George never get tired of hearing it
14:34What we do for you, mr. Shane I got a wire asking me to come down here I sent the wire mr. Shane
14:39Hmm. What would you come? Oh
14:42My niece, mr. Shane, why'd you send for him Eve to his side of each side?
14:48Peters died in your office according to the papers. Mr. Shane. That's right. He papers also said he can't seem to find a motive for the
14:54crime
14:55You want Rob?
14:57Say they found his wallet his mom. That's all they found. Oh, is there something else to find? Mr. Brian Eve, you see? Yeah
15:04I think you better go. Mr. Shane, but I've got some questions to ask to last night
15:09So long long trail. Oh, hey, well, tell this guy to shut up
15:13Get out. Mr. Shane get out of my sight
15:21I can take a hint as well as the next guy
15:24Besides there was something in old Brown's eyes when he turned on me
15:27Well, maybe it was a crazy red beard. Anyhow, all of a sudden I wanted to be in the open air again
15:33With the cab gone. There was nothing between me and New Orleans, but a long long trail of winding like the man said I
15:41Started hiking down the road must have walked two miles before I came to the gas station
15:46Was all locked up for the night, but there was a phone booth outside. I
15:50Called for a cab then as I hung up I'd have sworn somebody was standing right behind me. I
15:57Started to turn I tried to duck had a ripping sound a knife
16:01I tried to grab the arm and instead my fingers closed around the blade
16:05I felt the blade cutting into the flesh. There wasn't any pain. Just a warm wetness. I couldn't reach the knife
16:11I found his wrist with my teeth. I put down hard
16:14I
16:15Hit the ground then I grabbed for the guy my fingers closed around a handful of hair
16:19He tore himself running off down the road. I
16:23Just flopped down on the ground
16:27After a while, I flipped my cigarette lighter to take inventory of the wreckage
16:32That was some mess
16:34One hand looked like second quality hamburger. The other hand was okay. It still held a fistful of hair
16:41red hair
16:43Yeah, I'd just given mr. Brown's beard a trim the hard way
16:53The cab showed up about an hour later
16:55Instead of going to the city. I headed back to a pier 22
16:59It was just groggy enough and mad enough to want the rest of that red beard. I
17:03Marched down the gangway again this time. There was only Eve putting a coffee pot on the stove
17:08She heard me and she turned
17:11Where is he? I'm gonna kill him. Where is he? You're hurt. Look at you. Never mind
17:15I just tell me where I can get my hands on that beard at all
17:20Only for a minute
17:23Good heavens, mr. Shane. Just look at you. Yeah, nice old man. You're mr. Brown. Hey easy with the Cody
17:28Yeah, take the arm right with you. Mr. Brown didn't yeah, he sure did. I've got half his red beard to prove it
17:33I was afraid something like this was gonna happen. I don't know what to say. You better say with my curicrom advantages
17:39Yeah, I didn't think it was this bad myself
17:54Hey, I think I'll hold you till you can get to a doctor. Yeah
17:59Regular Florence Nightingale, aren't you?
18:02Yeah, I bet you Florence never wore blue jeans and a green sweater
18:06You still look pretty weak, mr. Sheena, I'll get you a cup of coffee. Yeah a good idea
18:10Of course, I like my mama's way better. Huh? When I got hurt she used to kiss it better
18:17I'll get the coffee. I was talking about mama
18:20How much sugar you really got a one-track mind Eve to lumps?
18:25Well, as long as you don't want to discuss mama, let's get back to old man problem. Where is he now?
18:35That's good
18:37You know, I'm glad you're not in on this, you know, what this whole business Peters pearls brown. I don't understand
18:44Oh, of course, you don't understand
18:46It takes a particular kind of woman understand now. I've been in this racket so long I can spot a wrong game like that
18:53That's a mock. Oh, nothing remarkable about it. Even they'll they'll say something
18:58Oh look at you in a certain way you get to know you you get to feel
19:02Drinking coffee is getting cold. Mr. Sheena. Yeah
19:06Yeah, everything they do the perfume they wear the way they dress everything's a promise you'll fall for the promise and end up in the
19:12Gutter, I understand people like that, honey
19:15But you don't understand people like mr. Brown. Do you mr. Sheena? What's it? I understand
19:21bag of pearls explains everything
19:24Ferocious red beer know what he was
19:28Milk man in Chicago. Yeah, it should have stayed there trapped in a dull monotonous job
19:33Yeah after you
19:35Find a pension also, it could crawl into a column back. Yeah, my uncle and poor. Mr. Peters
19:42They're like that, too
19:44wasting the last precious years
19:47But always dreaming of escape. I
19:50Didn't hear they're skating this old house boot on the Mississippi
19:54Who'd ever been in a hand to buy?
19:56It was worth it. Okay. I don't
20:01See old men were
20:03Can't imagine how fun they came
20:07Something wrong, mr. Shane
20:11Sick stomach what your faith in me was a little premature. Mr. Shane. I poisoned your coffee. I
20:26Started for the gangway and then the gangway subdivided like something under a microscope and there were two gangways
20:32Then there were four and then there were gangways everywhere I hung on all the railings
20:37Tried climbing all the stairs and then barring my way was Eve's uncle. Mr. Johnson. Only it was a whole row of mr
20:43Johnson's and they were all holding ancient guns. I remember rushing past
20:49Rushing through the cold air. I remember falling to my knees just as I heard all the ancient guns go on
20:54I
20:56Think I saw in all the world
20:59Headlights of the taxicab. I told her wait. My last thought was how funny
21:05Most taxicabs had only two headlights, but this one had half a million
21:11I
21:21Looks like he's coming out of a duck. Yes. He's a lucky boy
21:24Jane, you must have cornered the market on four-leaf clovers. You had enough poison and you take it easy. Mr
21:30Shane you're gonna be all right. It was this Eve. He's talking
21:34He's
21:36Can't driver brought you here gave us the address
21:39Now look you go to sleep kiddo. I'll pick him up. Oh, oh wait for me. I have me my pants doc. Mr
21:45Shane, I absolutely won't be responsible for wearing my pants
21:49After what I've taken from those three, I wouldn't miss a payoff if it took my last corpse, but mr. Shane
21:54Well, you have me my pants
21:56inspector now
21:57Since I'm the guy they ran through the meat grinder. Would you let me finish it off my way? What do you mean Shane?
22:03On the way out to the houseport. I want to pick up a jeweler named Forrester
22:11So we picked up Forrester the poor guy was so scared to hear his pounding on his door at 2 in the morning
22:17I thought he'd never lived to make the houseboat
22:19It was almost free when we got there
22:21But even Brown and Johnson was still up sitting around the red-hot coal stove like they've been expecting us right along
22:28Eve jumped up as we clattered down the gangway. Mr. Shane. Thank you. All right
22:32Yeah, yeah that coffee. It was better than tonic. You oughta bottle it Eve. You really have something there
22:37Mr. Brown your beard doesn't look quite so flowing tonight. Okay inspector take over
22:42I'm arresting all three of you on the charge of murder before you take him away. I want to show him this
22:48Yeah, kiddies. Here's a bag of pearls. I had him on me all the time. Yeah, here's what you killed old man Peters
22:54No, shut up
22:55You and all that corny talk about friendship the three old buddies sitting in the Sun
22:59Yeah blood brothers until one of them found a bag of pearls. Then it was his blood. Don't you say that?
23:03I'm not through baby. I'm just full of surprises like they say in the minstrel show, honey. You ain't heard nothing yet
23:08Here's what you killed old man Peters for a million dollars worth of pearls
23:12Mr. Forrester. Yes, mr. Shane. Tell him what these pearls are really worth
23:17By the apiece. They're not worth five dollars. You hear that?
23:20That's what you shot the old man in the back for a bag of phonies
23:23And here's where the phonies are going right where poor old Peter should have thrown him in the first place right into the stove
23:28Right into the fire
23:53In a moment, we'll be back with a thrilling climax to tonight's Michael Shane adventure
23:59You
24:12Someone finally pulled Forrester's arm out of the fire while we waited for an ambulance Forrester blubbered out the whole story
24:20How he killed Peters for the pearls how he'd come into the hallway of my hotel that night would have killed me for him
24:26How he'd have killed a thousand times for such wonders as those priceless jewels now, I'd destroyed them I
24:33Didn't hear much of it. I just flopped down let my head fall on my chest
24:38All that had happened was finally catching up with me
24:42Then as the inspector started up the gangway, I waved for him to come over. What is it Shane?
24:47Here inspector give these to the museum or something the pearls
24:52Yeah, I don't understand well the way Forrester acted when we picked him up tonight got me to wondering I thought why take a chance
25:00So all I threw into the fire was a cloth bag
25:04Shane, you know, there are times when I almost wish you'd joined the force. Yeah
25:08With all my other troubles, that's all I'd need. Okay, kid. See you around Mike. Yeah
25:14Feeling better. Yeah, I feel beautiful
25:18You thought we killed mr. Peters for the pearls. Hmm
25:22We thought you killed him for him
25:25We love the old man so much. That's why we tried to kill you
25:27You know, he if you can be arrested for that if I want to press charges that is
25:33Do you want to?
25:37Mr. Wadden all wasted
25:39I
25:42Need to widen our wasted
25:44Please stop. That's right. Yeah. Yeah big deal
25:48Well, I better be going. I'm pretty busy. Must you go my
25:55Cold air
25:57This time morning cut right through you and if I stay what would you do to keep me warm?
26:04I'll make him
26:05nice pad coffee
26:07Yeah
26:09Good night
26:22This is your director Bill Russo Michael Shane is written by Larry Marcus and based on characters created by Brett Halliday
26:30Music is composed and conducted by John Duffy and Michael Shane is portrayed by Jeff Chandler
26:35The adventures of Michael Shane is a Don Sharp production transcribed in Hollywood and distributed exclusively by the broadcasters guilt
26:43Next week Mike Shane against his will gets involved in an exciting story of romance and intrigue. I hope you'll be listening
27:05You