michael shayne 48_07_22 ep05 the case of the haunted bride
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01:13Half a dozen bullets smashed through the wind.
01:15I just held my breath and said a few appropriate words to any archangels that might be listening.
01:20I felt something bite into my neck.
01:22I thought, so long, Mike. It's been fun.
01:27The New Adventures of Michael Shane, Private Detective.
01:36This is your director, Bill Russo, inviting you to listen to another transcribed episode with Michael Shane,
01:41that reckless, red-headed Irishman back at his old haunts in New Orleans.
01:45We call it, The Case of the Haunted Bride.
01:57Come in. Come in.
02:12Mr. Michael Shane, the private detective.
02:21Here, have a chair. I'll be finished shaving in a second.
02:23Thank you.
02:27Do you always shave in your office?
02:29Yeah, usually.
02:35Yeah, that's good enough.
02:37You know, it's a funny thing about this razor.
02:40For years it hummed Jeannie with the light brown hair.
02:42The last couple of days just can't seem to carry it, too.
02:44I had no intention of seeing you when I came to New Orleans.
02:48I just wanted to see the city again.
02:50Perhaps to capture some of the pleasant memories.
02:53You see, I grew up here.
02:55So?
02:56Yes.
02:57And I want to see it just once more, before I die.
03:01Which should be sometime around 1990.
03:03Which will be tonight.
03:05What's wrong with waiting until 1990?
03:08It's my husband, George.
03:09Yeah, it usually is.
03:11No, you don't understand, Mr. Shane.
03:13I love George. He's my whole life.
03:16Then why end it?
03:18Knowing what I'd do, I can't go on.
03:22I want to live.
03:25Yet, what if I'm wrong?
03:28What if none of it is true?
03:30I want you to find out the truth.
03:33Just what do you think is the truth, dear lady?
03:36That my husband, George, is a murderer.
03:40In a moment, we'll return to Mike Shane and the case of the hunted bride.
03:55♪
04:07Her name was Grace Morris.
04:09Mrs. George Morrison, to be exact.
04:12She lived in the capital city of a neighboring state.
04:14And she was so madly in love with her husband, she was about to drop dead.
04:18If that's that love they write those beautiful songs about, I'll stick to my electric razor.
04:23Anyway, I told her to go back home.
04:25And I'd take a run up and see her as soon as I'd cleaned up a few things around the office.
04:28And that we'd soon find out whether her husband was a murderer or not.
04:32In either case, I was to get my usual 20 bucks a day.
04:35Lovable little me.
04:37As it turned out, I didn't arrive in her city until early the next evening.
04:41I registered in a little hotel and then I telephoned her.
04:44♪
04:51The phone seemed to ring forever.
04:53Just when I was about to hang up.
04:56Hello? Mrs. Morrison?
04:59Hello?
05:01Mr. Shane.
05:03Hey. Hey, what's wrong?
05:07Mrs. Morrison?
05:08Hello?
05:10Hello?
05:11♪
05:1320 minutes later, a taxi let me out in front of a small bungalow.
05:17A guy was standing on the front porch, fumbling in his coat pocket.
05:19He heard me coming and spun around.
05:21What do you want?
05:22Morrison's live here?
05:23What did they do?
05:24I just talked to Mrs. Morrison on the phone.
05:25She sounded like she was in trouble.
05:27What is this? Another one of their tricks?
05:28Whose tricks? Come on, get this door open.
05:30I'm warning you, if you try anything...
05:31You may be dying in there. Will you open this door?
05:33Dying?
05:34Step on it.
05:35Hey, what are you shaking for?
05:36Well, I...
05:37Hey, give me that key.
05:38They've done anything to Grace.
05:40Grace!
05:41Grace, where are you?
05:43Wait!
05:44Yes!
05:45Grace!
05:46♪
05:50We found her on the floor in the hall with the telephone receiver still in her hand.
05:53The guy who turned out to be her husband carried her to a couch.
05:56I headed for the gas heater, shut off the gas and started opening windows.
05:59When I got back to the living room, Grace was coming out of the fart.
06:02You're going to be all right, sweetheart.
06:04You're going to be okay.
06:05You better call a doctor, Mr. Morrison.
06:07She looks okay.
06:08Call a doctor.
06:09But...
06:10But what?
06:11If we can work it without a doctor...
06:12What's the matter? Don't you trust anybody?
06:13Look, mister, I don't know who you are...
06:14Let's not start that again.
06:15See if you've got any spiritual ammonia in the house.
06:17I think we have.
06:18All right, put a spoonful in a glass of water and make it snappy.
06:20All right.
06:21I'll get it right away.
06:22Hey, Morrison, don't close the front door.
06:24We need air in here.
06:25There's plenty of air coming through the windows.
06:27I'll get the medicine now.
06:28Friendliest man in town.
06:30George.
06:31George.
06:32All right, easy.
06:33It wasn't you.
06:34George.
06:35It couldn't have been you.
06:37George.
06:38You just take it easy, Mr. Morrison.
06:40Mr. Shane.
06:42Yeah.
06:43I was kind of foolish, sweetheart.
06:45What do you mean?
06:46I'm the old-fashioned type.
06:47In my book, turning on the gas is foolish.
06:50Well, I didn't turn on the gas.
06:52What?
06:53No.
06:55I guess I dozed off.
06:57The phone woke me up and the house was full of gas.
07:01I didn't realize how bad until I answered the phone and...
07:04everything started blacking out.
07:07Well, then who did turn on the gas?
07:10I don't know.
07:12You think it was your husband, don't you?
07:14I don't know.
07:15Well, I don't think so.
07:16Not the way he acted when he came in here.
07:18Mr. Shane, I don't know what to think anymore.
07:20What makes you believe he's killed anybody?
07:21I'll talk to you later.
07:22No, while he's still upstairs.
07:23No, Mr. Shane.
07:24Come on, come on.
07:28The telegrams.
07:30That's what started it.
07:31Telegrams?
07:33The first one came six months ago.
07:36George had been out of work for so long and he was desperate.
07:39As soon as he got the telegram, he went away without saying a word.
07:43He came back two days later with $250.
07:46That doesn't mean anything.
07:47He wasn't the same, George.
07:49He began having terrible nightmares.
07:52He'd wake up screaming he didn't want to kill.
07:55And that's not all that happened.
07:56Someone's trying to...
07:57Shh.
07:58He's coming back.
08:01How are you feeling now, Grace?
08:03Better, George.
08:05I don't know what happened, George.
08:06It's okay.
08:07It's okay.
08:08Okay, we'll talk about it later.
08:09Here, take a drink of this.
08:12If they've done this...
08:13Who's they, Morrison?
08:15Huh?
08:16Nothing.
08:18Come on, Grace.
08:19I'll take care of you.
08:26He carried her upstairs and the way they looked at each other, I wanted to whip out a violin
08:29and play gypsy music.
08:31What was going on here?
08:34Well, I lit a cigarette and wandered through the house trying to make sense out of what
08:37Grace had told me.
08:39Trying to understand how that fitted in with the hem-stitched God bless our happy home
08:43that hung over the sofa.
08:46Then the phone started ringing.
08:50Hello?
08:51So you got home in time to save your wife.
08:54All righty, we'll try again.
08:55What?
08:56How does it feel wondering when it's going to happen?
08:58Wondering if it's going to be you or your wife?
09:01Joe Blake didn't have to wonder, did he?
09:03Joe Blake?
09:04Wait a minute.
09:05Who is this?
09:06This is Mike Shane.
09:07Now...
09:08Hello?
09:09Hello?
09:10Put the phone down, Shane.
09:12I said put the phone down.
09:15Sure.
09:17Some woman.
09:18She sounded like...
09:19I know how she sounded.
09:21Hey, who's Joe Blake?
09:22It's getting late, Shane.
09:24You're so subtle, Mr. Morrison.
09:25Who's Joe Blake?
09:28Good night, Mr. Shane.
09:30Before I go, can I ask you one final question, Mr. Morrison?
09:33Well?
09:34Who's Joe Blake?
09:37You ask a silly question, you get a silly answer.
09:42I heard the lock click behind me.
09:44Then the lights went out inside the house.
09:47It was a cold, black night.
09:49A couple of blocks away I saw a light at street
09:51and I heard a streetcar.
09:53I started walking toward it and then...
09:56then I stopped.
09:59Not a sound.
10:01Not a...
10:03Sound was light.
10:05Might even have been a twig falling,
10:07only twigs don't wear shoes.
10:10The sound of the streetcar was louder now,
10:12but so were the footsteps.
10:13I'm a nervous guy.
10:15I put a cigarette in my mouth and struck a match,
10:17giving him a chance to pass me.
10:19I flicked the match away
10:20and watched it make an arc of flame.
10:22Before it could complete the arc,
10:23a bigger flame exploded in my head.
10:25No!
10:32I don't know how long it lasted.
10:35It was like spending the summer in a cement mixer.
10:39The pain didn't mean anything after a while
10:42and I stopped trying to crawl away.
10:45All right, Ralph, that's enough.
10:47I said that's enough!
10:49Suddenly everything stopped.
10:51Then I heard a nice friendly sound.
10:54A gun getting ready for action.
10:56Turn the flash on him, Ralph.
10:58You can see him all right, Ruthie?
10:59I want to see him better than all right.
11:02I want to watch his face when he gets it.
11:04Ruthie, somebody might see us.
11:05Go on, get it over with.
11:06I said turn the flash on him.
11:08All right, all right.
11:10I had the lights on Joey when he died.
11:13All right, now you got your light.
11:14Hey, wait.
11:15Huh?
11:16This guy ain't Morrison.
11:17No.
11:18No, he isn't.
11:19How do you like that?
11:21Tomcat!
11:22Tomcat!
11:28I guess eventually Ralph's foot started hurting him.
11:32Anyhow, he stopped kicking and they left.
11:35For a long time I lay there
11:37snuggling up to a couple of rusty garbage cans.
11:41A moth-eaten Tomcat came up and stared at me for a long time
11:44but he figured I was too big to eat so he moved on too.
11:49Outside of that I was left all to myself
11:52at peace among the melon rinds.
11:55It wasn't all wasted, though.
11:57I was beginning to fit things together.
12:00It sure looked now like husband George had killed Joe Blake.
12:04Finally I was able to get to my feet
12:07and find a taxi and get back to my hotel.
12:10As I walked through the lobby of my hotel
12:11somebody climbed out of an overstuffed chair
12:13and started toward me.
12:15It was George Morrison.
12:17I've been waiting for you, Shane.
12:18It's too bad.
12:19What happened to your face?
12:20I ran into some friends of yours, Morrison.
12:23I want to see you upstairs.
12:24I hope that's your first aid kit you're holding in your pocket.
12:27Upstairs, Shane.
12:38All right, what do you want?
12:40Grace finally admitted what you really were, Shane.
12:43People have been calling me that for years.
12:45We don't need any private detectives around here.
12:47Start packing. You're going back to New Orleans.
12:49But I just got here.
12:50Start packing.
12:51Suppose I don't.
12:53You'll find out you were wrong about what I got in my pocket.
12:56Okay.
13:00This suitcase sure gets a beating.
13:02There's a train leaving here at midnight.
13:04I've already made your reservation.
13:05That's mighty friendly of you.
13:07What's the matter?
13:08Someone in the fire escape.
13:10Take a dive.
13:11Now.
13:13I took a dive and flipped the floor myself,
13:15knocking over the lamp and plunging the room into darkness.
13:18Half a dozen bullets smashed through the window.
13:20I just held my breath and said a few appropriate words
13:23to any archangels who might be listening.
13:25I felt the splinter of glass bite into my neck.
13:28I thought, so long, Mike.
13:31It's been fun.
13:43In a moment, we'll return to Mike Shane
13:46and the case of the hunted bride.
14:02Life was getting complicated again.
14:04Here I leave the peace and quiet of New Orleans
14:07to come to this town
14:09because Grace Morrison had decided our husband George was a murderer.
14:13And everything that had happened since my arrival
14:15had convinced me that the lady was so right.
14:18Now I was nibbling the rug on my hotel room floor
14:21while someone on the fire escape
14:23kept pumping bullets through the glass at George and me.
14:26Finally, I realized that the shooting had stopped.
14:29Then I heard footsteps down the fire escape.
14:32I raced to the window just as some guy reached the yard below.
14:35At the edge of the yard, a girl huddled against a fence
14:37trying to keep out of range of the street lamp.
14:39It was wasting her time, though.
14:41Even from where I stood, I recognized her as Ruthie,
14:44the little sweetheart I'd met in the alley earlier in the evening.
14:47As I watched, the guy on the fire escape joined her.
14:50He turned out to be Ralph, the happy-go-lucky chap
14:53who'd tried to dropkick my head into the Gulf of Mexico.
14:56They hurried away.
14:58Then I remembered George Morrison.
15:00Oh.
15:01What's the matter with you?
15:02Here, let me get the light on.
15:05Where are you hit, Morrison?
15:06In the shoulder.
15:07Yeah, and it got a gun. What a good atteacher.
15:10I didn't get a chance.
15:11A time killer like you doesn't look too good.
15:14What are you gonna do?
15:15Call a doctor?
15:16No.
15:17What have you got against doctors?
15:18You know, some of those guys are pretty talented.
15:19Shane, put the phone down, please.
15:21Operator. Operator.
15:23Shane, I beg you.
15:24I don't care about myself, but for my wife's sake.
15:28What do you mean?
15:29If we get a doctor, he'll have to report it to the police.
15:31Everything will come out in the open.
15:32You know, I think I'd like that.
15:33Well, Grace wouldn't understand.
15:34Never be the same with us again.
15:35Now, please, Shane, give me a break.
15:37It's been tough enough.
15:38Why are those two gunners trying to kill you?
15:40Because they don't understand.
15:41Because they're blaming me for something I couldn't help.
15:43For killing Joe Blake, huh?
15:45Did you kill him?
15:46Shane, you don't understand.
15:47Just answer me.
15:48Now, listen.
15:49Answer me.
15:50Did you kill Joe Blake?
15:51Yes, but you...
15:52Shane.
15:55Who's there?
15:58Shane, if you'll let me explain, you'll understand everything.
16:00All right.
16:01Stay here in the bedroom.
16:04What is it?
16:05Some of the guests report hearing shots.
16:07They say they think they came from your suite, Mr. Shane.
16:10My suite?
16:11Man, I was just taking a nap.
16:15Nice mattresses you got in this hotel.
16:17You didn't hear any shots?
16:19When I sleep, I don't hear nothing.
16:21Huh?
16:22Now, how come you heard my knock?
16:24Yeah, that's right.
16:26You know, science has a lot of things to explain.
16:29That's right.
16:30You know, science has a lot of things to explain.
16:33Shots didn't come from your bedroom.
16:35No.
16:36No.
16:37Well, all right.
16:39Sorry to disturb you, Mr. Shane.
16:41Oh, it's okay, Officer.
16:43Yeah, come around any time at all.
16:49Okay, now, George, start to...
16:51Hey, George!
16:54It wasn't any George.
16:56It was only a little trail of blood leading to the window.
16:59The second time that night, somebody clattering down the fire escape.
17:02Leave it to a house dick to knock on the right door at the wrong time.
17:11After that, I did the only intelligent thing I'd done all day.
17:15I went to sleep.
17:17Early the next morning, I called Grace Morrison.
17:20She told me that George had come home late with his arm all banged up.
17:24He'd bumped into something.
17:26Then I went over to the police department.
17:28Being as coy as possible,
17:30I tried to find out if the cops were looking for George Morrison or a reasonable facsimile.
17:35They weren't.
17:37I went to the public library and got out all the old newspaper files.
17:41I didn't find Morrison's name,
17:43but Joe Blake's name was scattered through the crime news like confetti.
17:47A cheap little hoodlum who'd done everything in the books.
17:50One picture showed him and Ruthie smiling at each other across a nightclub table.
17:55Ruthie looked better in those days.
17:57The last item said Joe was being sought in connection with a gangland murder.
18:01That was six months ago.
18:03There were no more papers.
18:05The librarian told me the other issues hadn't been bound yet, but she'd get them for me.
18:09I couldn't wait. Something was clicking in my brain.
18:12I left the library and headed for the corner drugstore.
18:16I found a phone book.
18:18Dialed the Times Express.
18:20I know a guy on the crime beat.
18:25Pete?
18:27Yeah, hiya, kid. Long time no see.
18:29I heard it's Mike Shane.
18:31Yeah.
18:33Hey, Pete, can you give me a little information?
18:36Yeah.
18:38Ever hear of a guy named Joe Blake?
18:40Yeah.
18:42Yeah.
18:44Yeah, I thought so.
18:46Oh, tell me, what finally happened to Joe?
18:53There comes the dawn.
18:55And the guy who pulled it?
18:57Yeah, I know it's supposed to be confidential, but...
19:00Well, was his name George Morrison?
19:05Yeah.
19:07Hey, Pete, tell me something, will you?
19:09Where do I go to donate my head to the fat drive?
19:14I'll explain later.
19:16Now, right now I gotta make another call, quick.
19:19Oh, Shane, whatever passing out brings.
19:21You must have been out too much.
19:24Just a minute, Mike. I'll be right out.
19:27Hey, will you stop pounding on...
19:29Oh.
19:33I looked out to see who was making like a woodpecker on the glass,
19:37and I found myself looking into the little pink eyes of Ruthie's friend, Ralph.
19:42He motioned me to come out of the booth.
19:45Well, at the moment, there wasn't any place else to go.
19:50Come on, Mr. Shane.
19:52Sure, but where?
19:54Back to your hotel room.
19:56Why?
19:57You got company.
19:58Uh, I'm not interested.
20:00Get interested real fast. I got a gun right on your spine.
20:05So we went back to my hotel room.
20:08He waited in the hallway till I unlocked the door and closed it behind me.
20:12Then I heard him going back down the hall.
20:15I stood for a moment in the darkness,
20:18then I saw the glowing cigarette.
20:20I snapped on the light.
20:22It was Ruthie making herself very comfortable on the sofa.
20:25She sat up, smoothing her dress down with one hand and holding a gun in the other.
20:30Nice couch.
20:31Nice room. Mine.
20:33I know. That's why I came.
20:36I'm only paying for a single. They'll have to raise the rent.
20:39Would you mind?
20:40Yeah.
20:41You see, I can never be myself with a girl when she's holding a gun.
20:44I want you to do something for me, Michael.
20:46Sure. Coach me, Ruthie.
20:48Get on the phone.
20:50I'm gonna give you a number to call.
20:52Swell. If a man answers, I'll hang up, huh?
20:54I want you to call Brighton 4501.
20:57That's George Morrison's number.
20:59Uh-huh.
21:01I don't think I want to, Ruthie, honey.
21:04It's a shame, Michael.
21:06And I'm gonna have to kill you.
21:09Go on. Get on that phone.
21:12Brighton 4506.
21:15Yeah.
21:17Operator.
21:18Uh, Brighton 4506.
21:214-5-0-6.
21:23Operator.
21:24Uh, Brighton 4506.
21:274-5-0-6. Thank you.
21:29What do you want me to say?
21:31I want you to tell George Morrison to come over and see you right away.
21:36Tell him it's very urgent.
21:38As the phone rang, I glanced out the window.
21:41Down on the sidewalk, I saw Ralph leaning against a lamppost and reading a paper.
21:45I guess it was then that the idea came to me.
21:47It wasn't great, but so what?
21:49I had about as much chance as a guy buying a ticket on the Irish sweepstakes.
21:52Honey, if I lost, I couldn't just tear up the ticket and try again next year.
21:55Hello?
21:56Oh, hello, Grace. This is Mike Shane.
21:58Oh, Mr. Shane. I'm so glad you called.
22:00I'd like to speak to your husband, George.
22:02He's on his way over to see you at the hotel.
22:04I don't know what for.
22:05What?
22:06Yes, he...
22:07Oh, fine.
22:08Well?
22:10You're in luck, Ruthie.
22:11Morrison's on his way over here now.
22:13Isn't that nice, Mike?
22:15You must have gone for Joe Blake in a big way.
22:18We were so right for each other, Joe and I.
22:21When that happens, you don't want to lose it.
22:25Where are you going?
22:26Open this window. It's stuffy in here.
22:28Sit down. You're getting nervous, Mike.
22:30Me? Fresh out of bromance.
22:32I said sit down!
22:35But I didn't sit down right away.
22:38Now the plan had to work. There was nothing else.
22:40I looked down at Ralph again.
22:42While I watched, he looked up.
22:44I sat down on the window sill, lit a cigarette.
22:46Ruth was thinking about Joe Blake.
22:49She didn't even notice me.
22:51I signaled to Ralph with my head for him to come up.
22:53He dropped the newspaper and looked confused, but he didn't move.
22:56Now, the plan was no good.
22:58I started walking again.
23:00I told you, sit down, Mike.
23:02Okay, Ruthie, but I've seen it work in a lot of bad pictures.
23:04What are you talking about?
23:05Nothing.
23:06You get it.
23:08Okay.
23:10Yeah?
23:11Let me talk to Ruth.
23:12Oh, you better tell her that yourself.
23:14Huh? I told you...
23:15Hello?
23:16Hello?
23:17Hey, what's going on out there?
23:19I'm coming up.
23:20Hmm, hung up.
23:22Who was that?
23:23It was your friend, Ralph.
23:24What did he say?
23:25George Morrison just came into the lobby.
23:28He's on his way upstairs.
23:30All right.
23:32Sit down on that chair.
23:34What's funny about love is, now, Ruthie,
23:36when it's right, you're singing in the rain.
23:38When it's wrong...
23:39There was nothing wrong with Joe and me.
23:42It was the only good thing that ever happened to me.
23:45And Morrison had to destroy it.
23:47It wasn't Morrison. He just did what he was told.
23:49He did what he was told.
23:50Ruth, there's only a few seconds left.
23:52This is the last chance you're ever going to have in all this world.
23:54Give me that gun.
23:55No.
23:57Open the door for Morrison and then duck.
24:00No.
24:01Hurry up.
24:02Suppose it's your boy, Ralph.
24:03Are you kidding?
24:04Open that door, Shane, or you'll never open another one.
24:06No, Ruthie.
24:07All right, Mike.
24:08Mike.
24:14In a moment, we'll be back with a thrilling climax
24:16to tonight's Michael Shane adventure.
24:28The first shot, I ducked fast.
24:31Then I realized that she wasn't shooting at me.
24:33She was shooting through the door.
24:35And even before the smoke cleared away,
24:36a trickle of red began slipping in from under the door like a calling card.
24:41She started through the door chuckling to herself
24:43like she'd suddenly gotten the tagline of a joke
24:45that had been bothering her for weeks.
24:47Then she opened the door
24:48and saw her pal, Ralphie, crumpled in the hall.
24:51She stopped laughing.
24:52She stood in the doorway, her head thrown back
24:54like she was going to sing grand opera.
24:56Only all that came out was one piercing, crazy scream.
25:01Yeah.
25:02It was all over.
25:04All the way around.
25:10I called Grace Morrison from the railroad station.
25:13I only had a couple of minutes, so I told her to her fast.
25:16I guess a little too fast.
25:17But I...
25:18I don't understand, Mr. Shane.
25:19You say I was wrong about George?
25:21Yeah, completely wrong.
25:23Those telegrams.
25:24His nightmares.
25:25Those people who tried to kill him.
25:26Well, I haven't time to tell you everything, Mrs. Morrison.
25:28Just take my word for it.
25:30Those jobs he's been going on, they're so legal, it hurts.
25:34You know, sometimes I think a lot of marriages would be better off
25:36if they changed that love, honor, and obey routine
25:39to just love, honor, and trust.
25:41You know what I mean, Grace?
25:46Yeah.
25:48That's just about the whole story.
25:50Except for one little footnote printed in small type
25:53and strictly between us boys.
25:56What I told Grace was partly the truth.
25:59Those jobs George Morrison goes on are perfectly legal.
26:03However, one big fear is absolutely correct.
26:06Every time George gets one of those telegrams, he does kill a man.
26:10Just as he killed Joe Blake.
26:12Still, if George doesn't want her to know,
26:15well, then I guess that's his business.
26:18Because, you see, George Morrison is the official state prison executioner.
26:23Yeah.
26:24The guy who pulls the switch.
26:33Michael Shane is written for radio by Larry Marcus
26:36from characters created by Brett Halliday.
26:38The music is composed and conducted by John Duffy,
26:41and Michael Shane is portrayed by Jeff Chandler.
26:44The Adventures of Michael Shane is a Don Scharf production
26:47transcribed in Hollywood
26:49and distributed exclusively by the Broadcasters Guild.
26:52Next week, you'll hear Michael Shane in another suspense thriller.
26:56It's a story you'll long remember
26:58and one I will never forget.
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