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Mystery - Old Time Audio — Barry Craig Investigator - Johnny Phenox. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
Now he craves biggies. Another client you can get is especially up right to certain. But that in the only society of angels is up in heaven. The immortal is a honorable woman to a degree. The almighty dollar being what it is. The gentle front beside me on the fifth album of Barton, who looks just closer to me. And it was only because of the god in the future. I know god's face doesn't it? Just just call it my friend. I tried to spread my wallet to the inside pocket further from him. I'm not a different. That is stories, long again. I kind of would tell. Awesome. It's side-on. Don't tell me you're in some honor. Cool. I am? No, it is. You better yourself every day for it. You can bat in good. That's right, no? No comment.
So tell me. You think I sat next to you on purpose? I can tell when a guy does. The other guy is up right now? Not quite. Well, I don't know. First consider what I say. I murdered a man and an hour ago. Oh, it's fine, that's all. I started now, I've got him in a tank. This is a little bit. I had the best of mood. That ought to be a fear of the court. Fear of the confidential investigator. Just like you. You're like he makes you a technical arm of the law. Who went to uphold it? You've been reading my wall literature. If your duty to detain and arrest me. I am nothing obliged in time. Sorry. I'm getting off the bus. Getting off? I do it to be called. Weird not so. I got my anonymous friend, Svela, right off. Was I really confidentially wanted to find out? Find out before he dared to hire me.
His story was a fake. He's done to see if I'd got him in the old police. I'd be saving more of him. I got to see him again in the house. I've been making him what I was watching out. I was getting some excited about my friend. My friend showed up to watch me. He was coming across me crying. That was me again. Park on the bench here will talk. Yeah. Well, I'm hot. So I'm moving. Just moving. Just. Just means I'm moving. Yes, sir. Just means I've got just the blood. Oh, sir. You get rid of that corpse, okay? It's only kidding. He said, you're for me. You don't run blabbing what you hear. So glad I cast your test. Now watch my jump. 200 grams stolen from me. Five years ago. I want to get it back. Explain. Johnny Phoenix stole it from me.
Phoenix? Yeah, right. I definitely recall. A company's treasure or something. An ex-con I gave a chance to work. Worked work in my company. Export import. I finished rubbed my face and blew it down. And I caught. He was grabbed in Canada. Ex-co-dited. And convicted. I'm a little heavy. Convicted, yeah. But he didn't do time. He didn't. Not in jail. I mean, he's an active crazy. All through the trial kept screaming about co-fers and dragonflies and some dead animals. And I don't know. He did wear silver plates and skulls. And the twist to him that closed one eye every 10 seconds. Any while the judge took note of it. He's got a mental test to mention something or other with Dr. Colledin. A split personality, yeah, that. Phoenix was not responsible for his action. He went to an asylum. Riverhead asylum of state comes out tomorrow. How? Phoenix and to the favorite. Yes. Johnny Phoenix, the judge saying freed on a show called Britain.
So did he still stand trial for the original? No. He wasn't the same guy who did the original robbery. So a doctor said, the behavior grieved so does the trial judge. Phoenix is a new man. Ford and the rehabilitated. He said, for your money was never recovered. Not a dime. I'm not all that. I'm not a big doe 200 grand. No, it's not. I only had a fraction of it, I'm sure. See there at Riverhead when Phoenix gets out. Stay with him. He's got the doe solid away. When he goes for it, you go for him. I'll give you five percent. It's paying better. It's money. If you get my 200 facts. No. From April 6th, 1954, you're the thing to very quick, confidential investigators. The case of Johnny King. I was in the Riverhead Railroad station of St. Right with Johnny King. He's been freed about an hour and a half. I kept out of sight while we waited for the train.
I was looking guy Phoenix, which he had with nature's own Marcel. Fair, broad shoulders, a good quote on when he could get properly carved out. No talent to escape is ever known, he's taken fire. Now the train rolled in and I watched him with a hammer boy. When I tried to do likewise, I found opposition. One moment said, hey, look on my arm. My authority was there. I'm sinned to the state police. In cities, time off, duties. However, you're under arrest. For what? More than taking? A woman can plan. More than taking meaning matching? That's right. Her description of the man sits you. Well, I had last, but right now I haven't got a sense of humor. Getting tough won't help. I'm a police with myself. I'll show you potential. John, you do all that at the station hall. Are we going through with this class? I have authority to shoot a resurgence. But you're going away. I've missed my train anyhow. I'll have the train every two hours. This train was special.
Let's go see you some plans. The complainant looks like she has trouble with mages and spare days. Flying cringes, born to wear a silk. Now, I'm just a man who annoyed you. No, they have a superstitious lightness, but my annoyance with oilier, droster, and on his turn here, a crack. Thanks for the ventilation, John. I was going around the station talking at me in some strange time. Esperanto. Can I go now? Sorry if I go to Jennington convenience. Oh, nothing at all. I'm only out of trouble. They allowed you to turn around. Back at the river, I had to take you again waiting for a train hour. I've come to a maximum of taken identity with you. And I've been caught up in it. I watched the golden girl to come back to this place. And she did. I really mollet today.
Come on, John. John, are you out of your mind? I'm mad over you. Matt. Oh, you really mean mad. I've left your apologize. Don't bother, just explain it. My finally pleased you're bruising. All right, talk. Well, the sicker's entered a plane. You're in the station before, man. An oily fellow. My side. Shake, wearing my clothes, as you told, a state group of families. Only oilier, your guy. Therefore, not me. An honest picture. It's not a pity. But what do you mean? The only person molested in this depot today was me. And you, engineer, this is a liberty. Deliberately. We have to fix it. Keep me off the plane, Johnny Phoenix. Let me put it ahead on you. I can't understand the word you said. You've got me grabbing your arm, I can, baby. Who are you? I can be cleverly. I can be very rough. Well, do we rest? All right. And we get to make picture of white. White. Oh, a twin. We travel together, baby. Oh, good and slightly squint.
You made me lose Phoenix, but you're going to help me find him again. You're going to leave me back. Come on. Friends don't wait. On the train, we set it close to the law alone. I think of a question of certain leader, Hambe. The ivory-handed gun surprised me just a little bit. I want it no raffle, does that explain it? I'll care if I borrow it, baby. Can I stop you? I want a drink. Oh, why? Can I even go to the club car without you? We're in September, remember? Oh, isn't I good at hang on news? In September, only thing I was wishing along. We were going to be separate. By no choice but mine. It happened in the club car while Golden Girl was watering her tonsil with a smiley affection.
Followed up on the line to start. But a beauty like me to reveal a bully, so it stood on my side. I know why and left in the middle. I know by the gun in my ribs. Do I have to spell it out, Craig? You know where it's done. I'm glad you click on the thing, but feel. I wish it were you leave, Rita Phoenix. You've been a hog and a company a long while now. You really expect me to obey? I know what you think. In a crowded club car, people all around us. And that gives us too it. It won't help you, Craig. You have to be pretty desperate, too. You be crazy to expect me. So, Craig, I do when I think of the amount of trouble it's doing. All right? What's your fight? I'm not sure. It's taking up ahead. It's turning for all. We roll in for exactly three, four, seven, and seven. And four minutes. You get north of Craig. All right? Yeah.
It's a thirty-seven week period. Seven minutes. You plan for a head? No, I'm not going to ask for details. How do I come out in the hall? You just lose a client and an opportunity. You know what I'm done? I lose Rita. Yeah. I lose her and she's off it. Look, let's not stress this conversation. Three minutes now, I'm stuck. I'm stuck moving away. She's in the hall. She's in the hall. And still the falls I watched the train continue on to the young. Who's come on and waiting to greet me? Who is right on her and that's fine. I am proud. What is basically true, loads of bread. You could call it a giant mispronouncement. Yeah. The way you stand at my kitchen for a servant. Now, is that nice? My car's there. This one I'm not saying.
Yeah. Candy's set it up. Candy, huh? Oh, did I just leak his name to you? No, no, no. Candy's an old quick. Oh. What makes this station so awesome? No people. Don't apologize to the Hicktown. Nobody in it. Oh, I wouldn't. For my asthma. I got asthma bad. This break is common free. So, let's ride now, huh? Where will we ride you? Around? Just around? Yeah. You worry, don't. Just ride. I mean, you don't mean nothing. There's no holes in you. So, don't worry, huh? My orders are just to go around with you. See the sights. Run you into six o'clock and I'm giving you the he. Run me into six o'clock. And believe I can't be landed in the yard. Get off that train. You got lost together. Candy doesn't want me to be floating ahead. Up in the clouds. You let it go.
I'd love to see you. Hey, cool. I told you. When your lovely face plays from deep red, there's no place for me. Where's all? Look, I always find. What about me? When it finally drops, I fell on his gun. Fell on his gun and just lay there. I left my new face, friend, in the semi-conscious super-hide-end block face face. And fell on it. Upward is? Get me long distance. New York State. Police had caught it. First and the first in the river is shot. I want a shot to return and try a block. Finally, at long last, I arrived in New York.
I still missed a lot of trains. So I just had come through for a near visit. The man and woman you just started on the telephone got all the trains here in New York. They went all these separate directions. You were having saddles? I did. Where'd they go to? The ladies' registers, the park front hotel, as Rita Manning. Her phone he named. She's Rita Phoenix. How about Candy? He checked in at the Killgall hotel. Killgall? No name to me. Open book on high school. Oh, Rita's the park front hotel. Candy to Killgall. Anything else you can delight me on? I think so. That story of Johnny Phoenix, he told me over the long distance from. The original set in your client's hip movie. The subsequent trial of Phoenix is insane behavior in court and the resultant confinement and the trial on his set or so forth. What can you add to it? I've found a discipline in your tail. What? The alleged $200,000 Phoenix stole a leg. Am I a reviewer of the record of the case?
No such found. Phoenix was booking clients for the theft of exactly $50,000. Perfect. I have to do because of the extra-companied file if you'd get it. I'll take your words. Quite a gap between $200,000 and $50,000. A gap that can buy both cool cherries for the wine. Are your clients magnified to figure out the fire your zeal is recrever? No. I think it's clear but not like that. His $200,000 figure has some other significance. What? I can't know until I put the question in the morning. As Phoenix never described any of the loose, not a copic. What did the police do about it? They're about trying to recover the money from Phoenix and me. All the usual devices and fractures. All we accomplished was a show put on by Phoenix. He acted nuts. Behind the wall, Phoenix was a chimpanzee in a jungle. After Phoenix's asylum confinement, what police activity about the money was there? The obvious. Police plant right on the asylum.
Hoping to catch Phoenix in the right moment. When Phoenix is confident, yeah. Quite an assignment for a cop. Staying in sanity. We had to change our plant every 10 days. But she aware and tear. The plants began to wonder about himself. Was he or wasn't he in a fallen bonapot? Environment they say moves the personality. Travel is usually a big help. Like a letter of commendation to my tutorials. My clan moody wouldn't exactly like it complaining of the pregnancy between 50,000 and 200,000. 200,000 was stolen from May. You're still avoiding my question. Moody, I want to know. Why did you only charge Phoenix with stealing a measly 50,000 in your original police complaint? I had private reasons. Now, if I had to come proof of you, I can't be in the dock.
Well, the bulk of the money was or some I couldn't afford to broadcast publicly. Whatever that means. You're in export import. Oh, yeah. Export import. Export import is a 50-board heading. It could cover a lot of operations. Above one and underhanded. To get him a goods and counter-banner some kind. Let it go at that. Cast deal for the dock. No record of it on the book. Stop making out a case before it against the government. Constipation. Keep it up. We'll have a parting of the way. I'm not on fire with you, Craig. I like to know the character of my clan. I'm honest. And just honest. What's going on? You usual about that. Every second guy you meet, yeah, yeah. The buck worth all sake. No one in the old world in a state. Phoenix took advantage of my sensitive situation. You know, in advance you can have a prosecutor for the whole sum of money, so that you couldn't come into the cost with clean hands. Yeah, that was easy. It's unique.
You're going to use any of this against me. That's me. Not when we're counting or 200 thousand. Now, what answer? Oh, I get it. When you're counting your 5% fee, you mean? Sure. You like money like everybody else. Now tell me something. Who is candy? I don't know. Never heard the name. And they're pretty. All right. Recognize the description? Well, though, little on the short time. 5,000,000,000,000. Brown hair, brown eyes, and now he dresses. The description is absolutely nothing to me. That's funny. There's a guy who knows you well enough to do spam movies for your money. Yeah, it's a mystery to me. Leave a side of these exposed and the jackals come around. Jackals and jackasses? Okay, I'll speculate around. What? The way you've crossed the examine me before, like a cop, not a confidential operator on my payroll. So, don't double-cross me. Or, I'm not stupid.
And I'm not helpless. Put it on the line, Mordy. Be a cop with me after all? I'll kill you. I'm sure you could. Well, all right. You will show me that you're still confidential. I did that. I'd only do the line. Meaning, I'm not watching for you anymore. You advocate? I didn't say that. Then it is a double-cross. Clean hands. I only like clothes with clean hands. So, my money breaks the out of my business. Your current business, my money is public business. How are they happening like that? Chase where you dump a client, miss a drink. Where from Congress will copy change the boycott. You're working without seeing him in the public wheel of welfare. Chase only doesn't buy any groceries. At the kill-go hotel, I went book and hype. I got candy, room number, from the desk right. I also got an advanced print on how fast they could get up and carry these rules. I spied the desk right on the telephone with a second after I started to take it.
The desk right chipping can be asked to my business. It could be a gun. There's waiting to greet me. What kind of a hotel was it? It was that kind of a hotel. In the hall outside candy throw, I had a student who I couldn't know that candy was gunny. I had a student who I couldn't know that candy was gunny. Candy, Frank Candy, you know what it is? Wittest service, I got your first one. It's not. I was glad I had to slide you all over the hall. I was kind of lying up front. I knew the weather could candy open the door. Something to hide in. Frank, my troubleshoot now. Candy's room can be revived before the police ambulance. I had a phone call for it showed up. You think fast, then? I have to keep alive. How bad. Fire wounds. I only shot through a normalizer. Very confused.
We live for newer and bigger swindles. When you're free again, that is. You've got no shot against me. So, you fill it alone. That's kind of carried. And on the phone. I'm going to go to the police station. Oh, that's kind of carried. And on the phone on me. Or in a poor, or an illness. It depends, maybe, on how you cooperate. To operate our Frank talk. Ask me. Where do you come in on Moody's mission two or a thousand? I force myself in. But when my left field, I don't know Moody, I don't know finish. I don't know about the Doory, understand? How they serve? Your field has destroyed. There are five. How many anywhere? Draw it. You may have to have the other. Can I press a record? So far, no. And what do you think? Until you. Who tried to disay me for you in the sooner fall? That's who he is. The next plug. Black gold out of boxing is a strong Frank.
He has got to me. He got away from me. I outrefooted him. He was a failure at that. So, he'd get the phone ahead to New York. That's who the King brings. You heard him. You should have knocked me off on that train. Yeah, I think it gets a good way too. Only, uh, fully murdered. I sigh away from it. You shot at me out in the hole. I shot the Moody. So, yeah. What are we waiting for? Are we tagging it? Are we tagging it? Are we tagging it? Are we tagging it? Are we tagging it? Are we tagging it? Are we tagging it? Let's turn the other game. I set out to eliminate another player. Lisa, I found her in the dining room with a popcorn hotel. He didn't bat an eye last, but I joined her at the table. She was a meal and just a prawn. You? Moves. Oh, what's good? Second, second, do you? What's new? Fenders in the clink.
Fenders? For you. I'm not a fan of the game. I'm not a fan of the game. I'm not a fan of the game. Talk. For what? Removing candy. You've been getting me a bad time. Ask me where I can find Johnny Phoenix. Ask me? Ask me? Where can I find Johnny Phoenix? I'm Jeff. Okay. Hey, do? You're crazy if you keep dreaming of that money. I stopped dreaming. Me? My husband gave me the brush. Johnny wants to devour it. What does Johnny say about the head and the little? Not a word, ma'am. But the next thing is about to lose. Me, ma'am? Huh? No deal. I get some money, I guess it won't. Mm-hmm. Hand it over to your sorry to be held next call for Jeff Bowie. Now, what do I find Johnny Kelly? Expect me to tell you? You might, saying Johnny's red you out of his life. 742 puns, three to women, huh?
Johnny's hold up there. When you surprise and tell him you're there by courtesy of Rita. Rita, without love. 742 puns, three to women, got back with Johnny's dead. What do you think, now? I think it's just been a care of good. The money crag, I don't want it. Because he did it a few times. No, the fella who stole it, I'm no longer him. I got therapy, I got a different focus now. Overplant for living. You sound like a walking testimony, old for prison photography. I feel lighter, I don't walk, I bounce. You know what I've done with you two days of in Sweden? Got. Red book, conduct church, let's do the one-eyed. A lady for the new man. So where's the dough hit? Striding empty lots in Long Island. Tell me important when I grow up as a kid. I'll drive it out, let's go.
In the bulletin we ran into a surprise. No empty lots. I've been working my journey. You've been away for five years. Just what's different. And what you see, the house standing there, that's your place. It's kind. You say the house there was filled on the empty lots. You buried the money in? Yeah, the exact fun. So the market around I recognize that that pump of trees, that kind of 20 pages north and two pages east, and I buried the money. That would put the money back in the middle of the foundation of the house. What do we do now? How deep did you dig five years ago? Sixties. And building the house, the next generation of at least twelve things were made. Meaning the money was exposed to their buildings. You wait here. I'm going to make some inquiry inside the house. What's possible good? In the creeds inside the house. In the creeds around the bulletin generally.
Then some research in the police files. I'm curious as to why a house was built on that exact spot. Badly chosen location. In a low and well-rained, we had a swamp land. And with the nearest town near the east, west, north and south, at least 200 yards away. Way here, Phoenix. I made my inquiry, nose-to-round, did my research. The following day I brought in a seat for my wife to tell them who to go arrest. I'm to arrest a homeowner in a town on Long Island called Stolton. That's right. A homeowner named Sy Kennedy. Sy Kennedy, Elliot Jolkely. The name falls on that ear, should I know it? A cop should. I could send you foreign food police files on Johnny Phoenix. Badly the part. Police headquarters assigned two officials and plants to the asylum to Phoenix, which he found.
Then I had the names of the Missilators and Sunday plants and facilities here. Aben, Tyler, Lesnie, McKenzie, Kalyth. Is it that beginning to dawn? Yes. Kalyth. Joe Kalyth, a professional stool surgeon that the prep and foreign boy years ago. The stool surgeon has spent time in a prison asylum with Johnny Phoenix. Time enough to pump Phoenix and get himself a roadmap to a bananza. Double-close the police department. You only take that chance when you engage stool surgeons to calculate his risk. The list dug up the money in the bulletin, then had a contractor build him a house right over the exact spot for him. A weird device kind of? The house? He looks calculated as this. It makes the quest for the money local, but it was lost to the island, in a housing excavation. If you never thought anybody would be stood enough to look behind his area for a candidate,
respectable homeowner and family man, that tastes like cake, but you did. I might not have. All the time I was making inquiries, I was sure I was wasting time. The place is closed from Puyon, that's when it went. So make your rest.
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