Full Transcript for The Cable Car Case

again, Natalie Masters as Candy Mattson. 41 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:16.740 I wanted to get downtown that morning, but I couldn't 42 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:19.780 take the F car on Stockton. They were ripping up 43 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:23.479 about 87 streets, which is par for the course. So 44 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:26.360 I walked down Telegraph Hill and up to Mason. That's 45 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:30.430 where the Bay and Powell cable car stopped. All aboard! 46 00:02:30.750 --> 00:02:34.530 Come on, Lana, show that shapely ankle. We gotta make 47 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:36.379 the Fairmont by Whitsuntide. 48 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:41.460 The car was loaded, and so was the character next 49 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:44.340 to me. I tried to budge into the seat between 50 00:02:44.379 --> 00:02:47.590 him and the fisherman's wharf dowager, but I couldn't quite 51 00:02:47.650 --> 00:02:50.710 make it. I'd forgotten my shoehorn. Say, pardon me, but 52 00:02:50.990 --> 00:02:54.069 would you mind reading your Wall Street Journal over that-a-way 53 00:02:54.090 --> 00:02:56.099 a bit? I'd like to sit in here. 54 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:58.180 Oh, if you insist. 55 00:02:58.620 --> 00:03:02.500 A night of old. He budged his hips a quarter 56 00:03:02.539 --> 00:03:05.000 of an inch and I slipped in, ready for my 57 00:03:05.060 --> 00:03:10.949 rocket ride over the hill and down into town. The trip, 58 00:03:11.110 --> 00:03:14.789 as usual, was uneventful. Three smashed fenders and several choice 59 00:03:14.830 --> 00:03:17.430 words I'd never heard before, but I wrote them down. 60 00:03:17.969 --> 00:03:20.460 By the time our prairie schooner reached the turntable at 61 00:03:20.500 --> 00:03:22.879 Market Street, the crowd in the car had thinned out. 62 00:03:23.449 --> 00:03:27.530 But Buster was still beside me, his head buried in 63 00:03:27.610 --> 00:03:28.629 common and preferred. 64 00:03:28.650 --> 00:03:29.810 Market Street. 65 00:03:30.110 --> 00:03:31.189 I started to get down. 66 00:03:31.210 --> 00:03:33.509 Hey, lady, take your boyfriend with you. 67 00:03:33.729 --> 00:03:34.990 We're heading back up the hill. 68 00:03:35.090 --> 00:03:35.810 Boyfriend? 69 00:03:35.930 --> 00:03:36.530 Oh, Sue. 70 00:03:36.870 --> 00:03:39.169 He looks like the advance man for Lewis and Clark. 71 00:03:39.389 --> 00:03:40.430 How do you like that? 72 00:03:40.750 --> 00:03:42.810 He fell asleep over his stocks and bonds. 73 00:03:43.219 --> 00:03:49.930 I looked again. Hipsy wasn't asleep. Hipsy was stone-cold dead 74 00:03:50.030 --> 00:03:59.449 on market. What a twist. I, who always went on 75 00:03:59.469 --> 00:04:02.289 the prowl for a whodunit, got one literally tossed into 76 00:04:02.330 --> 00:04:06.770 my lap. He just hadn't gone out of this world serene-like. Oh, no. 77 00:04:06.789 --> 00:04:10.610 There was a steady slurp-slurp of blood trickling down his 78 00:04:10.669 --> 00:04:15.129 vest just north by northeast of the equator. After a 79 00:04:15.219 --> 00:04:18.459 half-hour wait full of questioning by homicide-legged men, I knew 80 00:04:18.500 --> 00:04:21.699 my morning shopping tour was rained out. And after all, 81 00:04:21.740 --> 00:04:23.560 I was only going to buy an emerald clip to 82 00:04:23.579 --> 00:04:26.339 match the glint in my eye. Well, that would have 83 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:29.230 to wait. I knew the next step. I grabbed a 84 00:04:29.269 --> 00:04:34.310 cab home. I wasn't long in waiting. Right on cue. 85 00:04:34.829 --> 00:04:36.389 And if it was the right cue, it would be 86 00:04:36.449 --> 00:04:40.439 Lieutenant Ray Mallard from headquarters, daintily pressing his cuticles against 87 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:45.110 my apartment buzzer. I was right. What? I've been expecting you. 88 00:04:45.600 --> 00:04:46.459 Come on in, Mellard. 89 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:48.600 You've been expecting me? 90 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:50.319 Why, Candy? 91 00:04:50.500 --> 00:04:53.300 Naive little rover boy, you. Have a drink? 92 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:55.939 No, no, I'm not in the mood. Just make it 93 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:56.379 a double. 94 00:04:56.699 --> 00:04:59.779 Sit down, Mellard, and let's be civilized. Take off your hat. 95 00:05:00.019 --> 00:05:00.639 It is off. 96 00:05:01.459 --> 00:05:01.579 Oh? 97 00:05:04.639 --> 00:05:06.500 Candy, for once I'm puzzled. 98 00:05:06.750 --> 00:05:07.699 You're just saying that. 99 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:11.439 Yeah, because it's true. I've checked and rechecked. No matter 100 00:05:11.500 --> 00:05:14.100 how many loose ends I tie together, I still get 101 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:16.740 no connection between you and Dwight Ellsworth. 102 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:17.839 Dwight whose word? 103 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:21.899 Ellsworth. Your extremely limp traveling companion on the cable this morning? 104 00:05:22.300 --> 00:05:24.779 Mallard, I can give you an angle on that. 105 00:05:25.139 --> 00:05:25.439 Yeah? 106 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:28.610 Yeah. The angle being that I didn't know him from Adam. 107 00:05:28.689 --> 00:05:29.050 Level? 108 00:05:29.350 --> 00:05:33.879 Straight. Oh, look, honeypot, this mediocre dialogue is getting us nowhere. 109 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:36.500 What did you haul your size 11s in here for? 110 00:05:36.779 --> 00:05:39.649 Oh, frankly, I don't know. Here, fill it up, will you? 111 00:05:40.139 --> 00:05:42.639 Well, you're not just going around in circles, Mallard. You're 112 00:05:42.689 --> 00:05:43.629 going around in doubles. 113 00:05:43.670 --> 00:05:48.490 Yeah, yeah. Like I've said before, Candy, you've got a 114 00:05:48.569 --> 00:05:49.589 pretty view from here. 115 00:05:49.610 --> 00:05:49.670 Oh? 116 00:05:49.850 --> 00:05:52.009 Wait till I turn around. 117 00:05:52.430 --> 00:05:55.269 I mean from your window. Look at that ship down there, 118 00:05:55.310 --> 00:05:55.889 just docking. 119 00:05:56.089 --> 00:05:56.310 Hmm? 120 00:05:57.269 -->

00:05:57.569 Where? 121 00:05:57.709 --> 00:06:01.910 Down there. There's romance for you. Probably just in from 122 00:06:01.930 --> 00:06:04.459 the Far East. Here's your drink. Oh, thanks. 123 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:07.980 You know, it is sort of romantic. Don't you think 124 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:09.620 it'd be fun to jump on a tramp like that 125 00:06:09.660 --> 00:06:13.259 and whisk off to the South Seas? Hmm? On a honeymoon? No. 126 00:06:13.639 --> 00:06:16.589 That's what I thought. South Seas. 127 00:06:18.050 --> 00:06:18.470 Mallard. 128 00:06:18.509 --> 00:06:19.850 Don't call me Mallard. 129 00:06:19.930 --> 00:06:21.810 Why not? We're just playing for ducks, aren't we? 130 00:06:21.970 --> 00:06:22.949 Oh, very crisp. 131 00:06:23.129 --> 00:06:26.269 Playing for ducks. No, Candy, we aren't. Not in this case. 132 00:06:26.790 --> 00:06:29.019 We've got a dead man in our hands. Rudy Toot 133 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:31.699 Toot shot right through the heart. And you were sitting 134 00:06:31.740 --> 00:06:32.180 next to him. 135 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:34.519 Sure, sure. Go on now, get out of here. 136 00:06:34.579 --> 00:06:34.660 What? 137 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:37.639 You heard me. Lift your hindquarters and get back to headquarters. 138 00:06:37.779 --> 00:06:39.910 Candy, I don't like that look. You've got something on 139 00:06:39.930 --> 00:06:40.329 your mind. 140 00:06:40.350 --> 00:06:42.209 Yeah, yeah, but you wouldn't recognize it if I told 141 00:06:42.250 --> 00:06:42.709 you about it. 142 00:06:42.870 --> 00:06:44.170 Ah, one word of warning. 143 00:06:44.569 --> 00:06:45.310 Don't dabble. 144 00:06:45.709 --> 00:06:46.569 You're in deep enough. 145 00:06:47.290 --> 00:06:47.610 Got it? 146 00:06:47.889 --> 00:06:50.740 Got it. Here's your hat. Grab it. So long, Mallard. 147 00:06:50.779 --> 00:06:59.800 See you around a jailhouse sometime. By fo' fum, t'was 148 00:06:59.829 --> 00:07:03.120 then I smelled a big fat sea, that great, big, 149 00:07:03.500 --> 00:07:06.899 kind of attractive mallard. He missed the boat. Oh, he 150 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:09.819 saw it, but he missed it. It was that ship 151 00:07:09.860 --> 00:07:12.319 he saw docking. That was the first time I came 152 00:07:12.370 --> 00:07:14.389 out of the dark since my Tunerville ride down the 153 00:07:14.430 --> 00:07:18.209 hill in the morning. I needed help, so I called 154 00:07:18.250 --> 00:07:20.610 an old friend of mine, if you can call that help. 155 00:07:21.230 --> 00:07:24.509 Rembrandt Watson was his name. He was a photographer and 156 00:07:24.750 --> 00:07:27.009 other things. He spent most of his life in the 157 00:07:27.050 --> 00:07:30.699 dark room, dabbling with bottles. His negatives and prints were sharp. 158 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:35.040 His thought processes, not quite. But he'd given me assistance 159 00:07:35.060 --> 00:07:36.379 in the past, so I called him. 160 00:07:37.939 --> 00:07:41.509 Rembrandt Watson speaking. Photography, portraits, and camera work. 161 00:07:41.550 --> 00:07:42.709 Yes, Rembrandt, I know. 162 00:07:42.730 --> 00:07:46.170 Also available for gardening, janitorial service, and babysitting. 163 00:07:46.209 --> 00:07:47.410 Rembrandt, it's candy. 164 00:07:47.430 --> 00:07:50.540 Especially at the over 21... Oh, Candy? 165 00:07:50.740 --> 00:07:51.660 Now you're tuned in. 166 00:07:51.779 --> 00:07:54.420 How dare you, baggage. I was experimenting with a new 167 00:07:54.500 --> 00:07:55.459 type of formula. 168 00:07:55.459 --> 00:07:57.139 90 proof or 100? 100. 169 00:07:57.139 --> 00:08:01.600 And, Candy, it works beautifully. There's a delightful little pixie 170 00:08:01.639 --> 00:08:03.819 in a pink ballet skirt in my living room. 171 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:05.620 Well, leave her there and get over here immediately to 172 00:08:05.660 --> 00:08:07.420 my place. Take a cab. I'll pay for it. 173 00:08:07.420 --> 00:08:10.620 I'd much rather have a handsome carriage with a brace 174 00:08:10.699 --> 00:08:11.300 of chestnuts. 175 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:13.199 You've got them in your head. Now just do as 176 00:08:13.300 --> 00:08:14.339 I say and get over here. 177 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:14.430 Yes. 178 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:16.360 Float in, Rembrandt. Gadfricks. 179 00:08:31.769 --> 00:08:33.909 Where's the man who take me cloak, gloves, and topper? 180 00:08:33.990 --> 00:08:36.169 You're wearing a sport coat and slacks, and you know 181 00:08:36.250 --> 00:08:37.149 I have no man. 182 00:08:37.169 --> 00:08:41.200 And therein lies your basic trouble, my dear. You have 183 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:41.919 no man. 184 00:08:41.980 --> 00:08:42.940 Now, Rembrandt. 185 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.639 Every man should have a woman. Every woman should have 186 00:08:45.700 --> 00:08:49.899 a man. It's the incontrovertible law of the universe. Candy, 187 00:08:49.940 --> 00:08:51.659 you should have a man. You? 188 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:52.539 Sure. 189 00:08:52.899 --> 00:08:56.639 I'm no longer a man. I'm Sprite, transcending the world. 190 00:08:56.659 --> 00:08:58.879 Well, stop transcending a moment and come down to Earth. 191 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:00.200 We've got a job to do. 192 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:01.000 How poetically. 193 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:02.340 How idyllic. 194 00:09:02.779 --> 00:09:05.679 We've got a job to do. For money. 195 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:06.580 Eventually. 196 00:09:07.299 --> 00:09:10.779 Oh, one of those. Very well, my dear. Bring me 197 00:09:10.870 --> 00:09:11.409 up to date. 198 00:09:11.429 --> 00:09:14.350 Well, I don't really know if I can or not. 199 00:09:14.429 --> 00:09:14.769 Good. 200 00:09:14.789 --> 00:09:18.029 Then I shall leave and return to reformula. Oh, no. 201 00:09:18.090 --> 00:09:20.730 What I mean is the whole story is so fantastic 202 00:09:20.769 --> 00:09:21.750 you'd never believe it. 203 00:09:21.769 --> 00:09:22.100 I might. 204 00:09:22.509 --> 00:09:23.379 Try me,

Candy. 205 00:09:23.740 --> 00:09:25.899 Well, I get on a cable car and sit next 206 00:09:25.919 --> 00:09:27.980 to a character reading the Wall Street Journal. 207 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.830 A strange coupling. A cable car and the Wall Street Journal. 208 00:09:31.889 --> 00:09:34.090 Yeah. And when we get to the end of the line, 209 00:09:34.169 --> 00:09:36.149 my friend next to me is dead. 210 00:09:36.429 --> 00:09:38.950 Probably the ride down the hill frightened him to death. 211 00:09:38.970 --> 00:09:42.509 Uh-uh. He looked like a used punch board. He had 212 00:09:42.549 --> 00:09:44.389 a neat little bullet hole through his heart. 213 00:09:44.570 --> 00:09:47.600 Candy, my little ballerina friend in the pink skirt is 214 00:09:47.649 --> 00:09:50.120 more believable than what you just told me. 215 00:09:50.259 --> 00:09:52.000 I told you it was fantastic, but none know how 216 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:54.899 it happened. Now, sooner or later, Mallard is going to 217 00:09:54.940 --> 00:09:57.500 come out of his fog... And when he does, I'm 218 00:09:57.559 --> 00:09:59.490 going to be out of a fee. A fee? 219 00:09:59.549 --> 00:10:02.110 That so far doesn't exist, my pretty. 220 00:10:02.250 --> 00:10:04.659 It will if my hunch is right. Now, here's what 221 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:06.539 I want you to do. Go down to the Chronicle 222 00:10:06.580 --> 00:10:08.580 and get all the back files you can on Southern 223 00:10:08.720 --> 00:10:09.879 Island Steamship Company. 224 00:10:09.899 --> 00:10:10.539 The Chronicle? 225 00:10:10.899 --> 00:10:11.559 A pleasure. 226 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:16.090 I have a few questionable companions there who indulge in formulas. 227 00:10:16.309 --> 00:10:19.110 Stay away from those companions and just do as I ask. 228 00:10:19.230 --> 00:10:23.889 Very well, my dove. I go, but... entirely against my will. 229 00:10:24.389 --> 00:10:25.730 And where will you be? 230 00:10:25.889 --> 00:10:28.509 Around town, Rembrandt. I've got to do some legwork. 231 00:10:28.570 --> 00:10:31.730 Let me assure you, Candy, you have just the right 232 00:10:31.789 --> 00:10:46.299 equipment for it, too. 233 00:10:49.299 --> 00:10:52.730 What a joint. I'll bet they mount slip gullets on 234 00:10:52.769 --> 00:10:54.350 the walls instead of deer heads. 235 00:10:55.669 --> 00:10:58.309 Well, come on, Candy, get your tools out and screw 236 00:10:58.370 --> 00:10:59.250 up your courage. 237 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:04.980 Yeah, miss, what'll it be? 238 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:08.559 Nothing right at the moment except information. 239 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:10.039 Information, water, both free. 240 00:11:10.059 --> 00:11:10.860 What do you want to know? 241 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:13.659 Well, I'm looking for the purser off of Dwight Sonia. 242 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:16.350 I hear he does his shore duty in here. That's right, 243 00:11:16.379 --> 00:11:17.250 named Campbell. 244 00:11:17.259 --> 00:11:19.370 That head on the table over there belongs to him. 245 00:11:20.269 --> 00:11:31.049 Thanks. Hello, sailor. Hey, Campbell. Wake up. 246 00:11:31.169 --> 00:11:32.629 Oh, leave me alone. 247 00:11:32.769 --> 00:11:34.210 Come on, snap out of it. 248 00:11:34.250 --> 00:11:35.710 Who are you? 249 00:11:35.730 --> 00:11:36.970 What do you want? 250 00:11:37.090 --> 00:11:39.629 My name is Candy Mattson. I want to ask a question. 251 00:11:39.830 --> 00:11:40.750 I'm only drinking. 252 00:11:41.309 --> 00:11:41.850 Go away. 253 00:11:41.909 --> 00:11:43.730 Not until I find out what I want to know. 254 00:11:44.470 --> 00:11:48.929 Dwight Ellsworth was murdered this morning. What? I thought that 255 00:11:48.970 --> 00:11:49.649 would bring you two. 256 00:11:49.669 --> 00:11:53.690 Well, that's the nicest news I've heard since VJ Day. 257 00:11:54.740 --> 00:11:55.480 What do you want to know? 258 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:57.200 Where does his brother live? 259 00:11:57.299 --> 00:11:58.100 That's dude. 260 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:00.620 He's got about as much spine. 261 00:12:00.179 --> 00:12:01.110 As a water eel. 262 00:12:01.250 --> 00:12:03.350 Never mind. I want to find him. He seems to 263 00:12:03.370 --> 00:12:06.210 keep his whereabouts as secret as an atomic stockpile. 264 00:12:06.309 --> 00:12:09.730 The whole family ought to be knocked off. He lives 265 00:12:09.850 --> 00:12:12.950 out in Seacliff, 25 Dashiell Road. Good. 266 00:12:13.570 --> 00:12:17.929 Bartender, buy my friend a little reward. And one for. 267 00:12:17.690 --> 00:12:18.470 Yourself, too. 268 00:12:25.820 --> 00:12:27.299 Well, so far, so good. 269 00:12:27.700 --> 00:12:30.340 Oh, how did I know about Campbell the Purser? 270 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:32.720 Well, you see, I have quite a few friends, most 271 00:12:32.779 --> 00:12:36.320 of whom my pal Mallard doesn't approve. So I grabbed 272 00:12:36.379 --> 00:12:39.559 a cab and navigated the driver out towards Siegfried. It 273 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:41.299 was so foggy I couldn't see the meters. 274 00:12:41.779 --> 00:12:44.379 But I paid him anyway, gave him a neutral tip 275 00:12:44.419 --> 00:12:45.110 and dismissed him. 276 00:12:46.210 --> 00:12:51.190 There it was, 25 Daschle Road. An austere-looking cabana. One 277 00:12:51.230 --> 00:12:54.149 that dared you to ring the front doorbell. I dared. 278 00:12:56.509 --> 00:12:58.269 I had the awful feeling I should have been. 279 00:12:58.190 --> 00:13:03.740 Around at the side door delivering hand laundry. Good evening. Well, 280 00:13:03.860 --> 00:13:07.059 except for the fog, yes. Is Mr. Ellsworth in? 281 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:10.759 Yes, he is. But I'm afraid I must ask you 282 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:11.200 to leave. 283 00:13:11.220 --> 00:13:12.759 There. 284 00:13:13.700 --> 00:13:15.200 There's been a death in the family. 285 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:17.179 I know. That's why I'm here. 286 00:13:18.820 --> 00:13:19.419 Come in, please. 287 00:13:20.070 -->

00:13:20.299 Thank you. 288 00:13:21.649 --> 00:13:22.549 Walk this way, please. 289 00:13:23.169 --> 00:13:26.440 Oh, I'm afraid I couldn't, even if I lived to 290 00:13:26.460 --> 00:13:27.000 be a hundred. 291 00:13:27.460 --> 00:13:30.340 Mind your tongue, young lady. You're in the house of 292 00:13:30.379 --> 00:13:30.799 an elsewhere. 293 00:13:31.539 --> 00:13:36.330 Oh, hoity-toity, the old babe had delusions of grandeur. Well, 294 00:13:36.409 --> 00:13:39.169 no need to get uppity with me. I've mingled with royalty. 295 00:13:39.909 --> 00:13:42.210 I once played a bit part in a Rita Hayworth picture. 296 00:13:42.830 --> 00:13:45.570 But this old gal was really something. She couldn't have 297 00:13:45.590 --> 00:13:48.000 been more than 45, yet looked like something out of 298 00:13:48.019 --> 00:13:51.230 the barest of Wimpole Street. She ushered me into a 299 00:13:51.269 --> 00:13:53.990 large ceiling living room, and there on the divan was 300 00:13:54.090 --> 00:13:57.149 my boy, his head lowered into his hands and quite 301 00:13:57.330 --> 00:14:00.679 obviously touched. Quite obviously. 302 00:14:00.700 --> 00:14:03.419 Roger, this young lady is here to see you. I 303 00:14:03.460 --> 00:14:05.139 don't believe you mentioned your name. 304 00:14:05.700 --> 00:14:10.940 Candy Madsen. Madsen? Are you in shipping, too? Of a sort. 305 00:14:11.679 --> 00:14:15.080 Oh, this is my wife, Miss Madsen. You'll pardon me 306 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:19.639 if I don't seem hospitable, but my brother was murdered. 307 00:14:21.539 --> 00:14:24.379 I know. I was sitting next to him when it happened. 308 00:14:25.019 --> 00:14:25.460 You were? 309 00:14:25.539 --> 00:14:27.820 Don't talk to her, Roger. I don't trust her. This 310 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:29.360 whole thing is a threat of some kind. 311 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:30.779 No, it's not a threat. 312 00:14:31.019 --> 00:14:32.230 It's a business proposition. 313 00:14:32.490 --> 00:14:34.710 I'll come right to the point. You see, I'm a 314 00:14:34.789 --> 00:14:36.549 private detective. Oh. 315 00:14:37.509 --> 00:14:39.129 One of those persons. 316 00:14:39.529 --> 00:14:43.049 Put your nose back down, Mrs. Ellsworth. I want to 317 00:14:43.070 --> 00:14:45.539 get this show on the road. Yes, I'm a private detective. 318 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:48.419 And I'm in a spot, too. The police think I'm 319 00:14:48.460 --> 00:14:50.789 connected with the case in some way, so... I'm here 320 00:14:50.850 --> 00:14:51.929 for a double purpose. 321 00:14:52.009 --> 00:14:53.129 I'm listening, Miss Madison. 322 00:14:53.190 --> 00:14:56.110 Roger, I forbid you to speak with this woman. 323 00:14:56.149 --> 00:14:57.350 Too late, Mrs. Ellsworth. 324 00:14:57.870 --> 00:14:58.450 Now, this is it. 325 00:14:58.889 --> 00:15:00.990 I'm in this business to make money. Give me a 326 00:15:01.009 --> 00:15:03.450 check now for $ 300, and I'll find out who killed 327 00:15:03.470 --> 00:15:05.929 your brother. And I'll also clear myself. 328 00:15:06.289 --> 00:15:08.279 Roger, I'm warning you. 329 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:10.519 Naturally, you want to see the killer of your brother 330 00:15:10.539 --> 00:15:14.440 brought to justice, don't you, Mr. Ellsworth? Don't you? I. 331 00:15:15.860 --> 00:15:19.379 Yes, yes. Here, I'll make a check out right now. 332 00:15:19.799 --> 00:15:24.279 Thanks. Just make it out to Candy Mattson. Payable today. 333 00:15:26.450 --> 00:15:29.669 A lovely collection of guns you have, Mr. Elser. You 334 00:15:29.730 --> 00:15:30.769 hunt much? 335 00:15:31.429 --> 00:15:34.190 Oh, yes, yes. My wife and I are quite fond 336 00:15:34.230 --> 00:15:38.820 of shooting. She's an excellent shot. There you are. 337 00:15:39.379 --> 00:15:45.220 Thank you. I'll be in touch with you sometime tomorrow. Mr. 338 00:15:45.240 --> 00:15:48.299 Reed didn't say a word. She just stood there against 339 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:51.279 the fireplace and shot sparks through me. After I waved 340 00:15:51.299 --> 00:15:52.830 the check in the air a few times to dry 341 00:15:52.850 --> 00:15:54.309 the ink, she showed me to the door. 342 00:15:54.970 --> 00:15:59.029 Very clever, aren't you? Taking advantage of a weak-willed man. 343 00:15:59.629 --> 00:16:03.450 I wonder who made him that way. Don't cash that check. 344 00:16:04.549 --> 00:16:04.919 I mean it. 345 00:16:06.210 --> 00:16:12.990 Don't cash that check. Mrs. Ellsworth, $ 300. I need the money. Badly. 346 00:16:13.289 --> 00:16:15.340 I need some new rolls for my player piano. 347 00:16:18.009 --> 00:16:20.789 You're listening to Candy Mattson on the Golden Age of 348 00:16:20.830 --> 00:16:25.440 Radio Theater. Once again, Natalie Masters as Candy Mattson. 349 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:33.460 I buzzed back downtown. I wanted to cash that check 350 00:16:33.500 --> 00:16:35.740 in a hurry. I knew of only one person who 351 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:37.519 would give me the crisp green at that hour of 352 00:16:37.539 --> 00:16:40.539 the night. Uncle Charlie, the honest miller who ran the 353 00:16:40.580 --> 00:16:43.860 chase room. Uncle Charlie, in the strict sense of the word, 354 00:16:43.899 --> 00:16:46.759 was the gentleman. So with a tender little pat on 355 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:49.139 my cheek, he cashed the check and I went up 356 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:52.240 Telegraph Hill and home. All of a sudden, my eyes 357 00:16:52.259 --> 00:16:56.500 did a couple of inverted loops. Oh, my lights were on. 358 00:16:56.519 --> 00:17:01.360 Who's in here? All right, speak up. 359 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:04.390 Oh, Candy, the light of my life. Come join our party. 360 00:17:04.910 --> 00:17:06.769 Oh, Rembrandt, you gave me a scare. 361 00:17:06.789 --> 00:17:09.650 You don't scare easy either, Candy. Got something on your mind? 362 00:17:09.730 --> 00:17:12.950 A mallard. Well, how ducky, a midnight soiree. What goes 363 00:17:13.109 --> 00:17:13.529 on here? 364 00:17:13.630

--> 00:17:16.569 Well, that chicken you had in the icebox is delicious. 365 00:17:16.730 --> 00:17:19.420 Was delicious? Looks like you've done everything but eat the bones. 366 00:17:19.460 --> 00:17:22.519 Your vintage is superb, too, Candy. Have a little formula? 367 00:17:22.579 --> 00:17:24.140 No. Now, come on, what gives? 368 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:25.240 That's my line, Candy. 369 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:26.019 What gives? 370 00:17:26.420 --> 00:17:28.019 You're in on something, and I want to know about it. 371 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:30.940 Oh, Mellor, believe me, it's nothing. I'm just trying to 372 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:32.200 parley a couple of hunches. 373 00:17:32.309 --> 00:17:34.750 Tall hunches. Look at all those clippings on the South 374 00:17:34.769 --> 00:17:36.789 Sea Island Steamship Company. What are they for? 375 00:17:37.170 --> 00:17:39.890 I meant to tell you, Candy. I had remarkable success 376 00:17:39.910 --> 00:17:42.210 down at the Chronicle. There's everything you want on that 377 00:17:42.269 --> 00:17:43.019 steamship line. 378 00:17:43.230 --> 00:17:45.559 Oh, Rembrandt, did you have to tell. 379 00:17:45.380 --> 00:17:46.160 The whole world? 380 00:17:46.180 --> 00:17:49.779 Candy, you chide me unnecessarily. I merely had the clippings 381 00:17:49.859 --> 00:17:52.380 on the table when Hawkshaw here walks in on me. 382 00:17:52.900 --> 00:17:54.339 Okay, Candy, take it from there. 383 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:57.319 I can't tell you yet, Mallard. Nothing makes sense yet. 384 00:17:57.339 --> 00:18:00.509 I've got about four loose ends that need tying off. 385 00:18:00.869 --> 00:18:02.940 If I'd only put two men to following you, I'd 386 00:18:03.109 --> 00:18:04.509 save myself a lot of grief. 387 00:18:04.589 --> 00:18:06.710 Two days, that's all, Mallard. Just give me two days. 388 00:18:06.730 --> 00:18:08.049 I think I'll have it for you. 389 00:18:08.970 --> 00:18:09.430 All right. 390 00:18:09.910 --> 00:18:12.490 But don't forget, the boys down at Kearney Street headquarters 391 00:18:12.529 --> 00:18:15.450 don't love you the way I do. Two days. No 392 00:18:15.490 --> 00:18:19.769 more or less. I gotta go. Thanks for the fowl, chicken. 393 00:18:20.150 --> 00:18:24.079 Ah, very gay. Here, Rembrandt, here's $ 50 for you. 394 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:25.279 Fifty? 395 00:18:25.420 --> 00:18:29.430 My word! What's all this talk about a recession? 396 00:18:29.990 --> 00:18:34.400 Go on and take it. Go someplace and stabilize the economy. 397 00:18:44.329 --> 00:18:47.569 I whipped through the old newspaper clipping. It was all there. 398 00:18:47.930 --> 00:18:51.250 Fire at sea on Ellsworth ship. Two seamen lost off 399 00:18:51.309 --> 00:18:54.950 Ellsworth ship near Honolulu. South Sea Island line ship loses 400 00:18:55.029 --> 00:18:57.750 rudder in storm. On and on it went over a 401 00:18:57.809 --> 00:19:02.230 period of three years. I threw the papers back on 402 00:19:02.250 --> 00:19:06.769 the table. Helped myself to some of Rembrandt's formula. Turned 403 00:19:06.809 --> 00:19:09.430 down the lights and went out on the porch. The 404 00:19:09.470 --> 00:19:11.549 day was dark except for an occasional. 405 00:19:11.170 --> 00:19:14.259 Path of light from a passing freighter. I sat down 406 00:19:14.299 --> 00:19:16.000 to think and think. 407 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:20.430 Then, click, click, just like that, two little tumblers in 408 00:19:20.470 --> 00:19:25.130 my mind fell into place. Only one thing to do, 409 00:19:25.210 --> 00:19:26.869 and that was to do it the hard way. The 410 00:19:26.910 --> 00:19:29.359 next morning, just as the ferry building siren was announcing 411 00:19:29.359 --> 00:19:32.440 8 o'clock to downtown San Francisco... I got Rembrandt on 412 00:19:32.460 --> 00:19:32.880 the phone. 413 00:19:32.980 --> 00:19:35.569 Candy, what on earth are you calling me for at 414 00:19:35.609 --> 00:19:36.109 this hour? 415 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:37.829 Can't help it. There's work to be done. 416 00:19:37.890 --> 00:19:40.650 I did my work last night so extremely well that 417 00:19:40.670 --> 00:19:42.029 I'm just going to bed now. 418 00:19:42.210 --> 00:19:44.990 Sorry, you'll just have to delay your sack time. Meet 419 00:19:45.009 --> 00:19:47.250 me at the corner of Mason and Union in ten minutes, 420 00:19:47.430 --> 00:19:48.690 right where the cable car stops. 421 00:19:48.849 --> 00:19:49.980 Now what are we going to do? 422 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:52.180 We're going to take a cable car ride. 423 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:52.500 What? 424 00:19:52.859 --> 00:19:56.579 On one of those bouncing, jerky little contraptions? Not the 425 00:19:56.640 --> 00:19:58.369 way I feel this morning. 426 00:19:58.589 --> 00:20:01.890 Oh, yes, you are. Union and Mason in ten minutes. 427 00:20:11.089 --> 00:20:12.390 All right, Rembrandt, get on. 428 00:20:12.430 --> 00:20:15.329 This is the silliest thing you've ever done, Candy. 429 00:20:15.470 --> 00:20:21.170 Maybe. We'll see. Dwight Ellsworth was already on the car 430 00:20:21.190 --> 00:20:23.269 when I got on here. And alive. 431 00:20:23.309 --> 00:20:24.250 How could you tell? 432 00:20:24.369 --> 00:20:26.569 He mumbled something when I asked him to move over. 433 00:20:26.589 --> 00:20:30.490 Sounds logical. Although I once remember stumbling into a corpse 434 00:20:30.529 --> 00:20:33.130 who mumbled for hours after it'd been liquidated. 435 00:20:33.849 --> 00:20:36.269 Rembrandt was in one of his rambling moods, so I 436 00:20:36.309 --> 00:20:39.930 let him alone. The car pulled over Mason Street, down Washington, 437 00:20:39.970 --> 00:20:41.779 and then swung on to Powell and up the hill. 438 00:20:42.460 --> 00:20:45.400 Now I watched the buildings and apartments carefully. There was 439 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:47.940 a little red brick building, now a big apartment house, 440 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:51.480 a woman's residence club, and so on. Then over the

hill, 441 00:20:51.539 --> 00:20:54.930 more apartments, and the possibilities petered out of Bush. Well, 442 00:20:55.250 --> 00:20:58.269 only one thing to do. Canvas all those blocks between 443 00:20:58.329 --> 00:21:01.089 Washington and Bush... Okay, Rembrandt. 444 00:21:01.589 --> 00:21:02.349 Off the car. 445 00:21:02.430 --> 00:21:05.430 Strangest corpse I ever did see. What'd you say, Candy? 446 00:21:05.579 --> 00:21:06.319 Off the car. 447 00:21:06.380 --> 00:21:06.880 Come on. 448 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:09.759 Now what? I just want to get to bed. 449 00:21:09.799 --> 00:21:12.480 Well, not for a long time, boy blue. Now here's 450 00:21:12.500 --> 00:21:12.859 the pitch. 451 00:21:13.259 --> 00:21:15.660 You take this building and I'll take the next. We'll 452 00:21:15.740 --> 00:21:18.569 alternate as we go along. Ask if a tall woman 453 00:21:18.609 --> 00:21:21.250 with a horsey face and dress something like Queen Victoria 454 00:21:21.349 --> 00:21:22.390 ever lived around here. 455 00:21:23.170 --> 00:21:24.549 Oh, Candy. 456 00:21:24.710 --> 00:21:27.190 I know it sounds wild, but it's got to be done. 457 00:21:27.210 --> 00:21:29.650 A horse with a tall face and dressed something like. 458 00:21:29.690 --> 00:21:32.059 Oh, Rembrandt, look at me. Get that smoke out of 459 00:21:32.099 --> 00:21:32.630 your brain. 460 00:21:32.950 --> 00:21:34.200 A tall woman with a. 461 00:21:34.220 --> 00:21:36.980 Horsey face and dressed something like Queen Victoria. You got it? 462 00:21:37.460 --> 00:21:37.859 Got it. 463 00:21:38.059 --> 00:21:38.980 Okay, get going. 464 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:41.400 It was slow and tiresome. 465 00:21:46.950 --> 00:21:48.250 And the answers I got. 466 00:21:48.430 --> 00:21:51.349 A tall gal dressed like Queen Victoria? 467 00:21:52.089 --> 00:21:55.589 Oh, sister! That was about par. 468 00:21:56.049 --> 00:21:58.059 Nope, nobody like that ever lived here. 469 00:21:58.319 --> 00:21:59.319 Are you positive? 470 00:21:59.500 --> 00:22:03.980 A dame who fits that description? Yeah, I'm positive. 471 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:07.619 The morning wore on, and so did we. We were 472 00:22:07.660 --> 00:22:09.859 over on the other side of California Street now, so 473 00:22:09.900 --> 00:22:12.210 we stopped and had a bite to eat. I had 474 00:22:12.269 --> 00:22:15.710 pickles with mine, and Rembrandt had olives on toothpicks in 475 00:22:15.730 --> 00:22:21.200 a glass. And again we picked up the hunt. My 476 00:22:21.269 --> 00:22:23.970 heart was suddenly making with a rumba. There, just on 477 00:22:23.990 --> 00:22:25.869 the other side of clay, in front of a three-story 478 00:22:25.910 --> 00:22:28.450 red brick house was a police squad car. There was 479 00:22:28.470 --> 00:22:31.970 a little knot of people gathered around. Daintily lifting my crinoline, 480 00:22:32.069 --> 00:22:33.970 I did a Mel Patton down the block and up 481 00:22:33.990 --> 00:22:36.470 the front steps. I didn't have any trouble

finding the room. 482 00:22:36.869 --> 00:22:38.710 The door was wide open and there was a body 483 00:22:38.769 --> 00:22:42.029 on the floor. Four representatives of the law were buzzing 484 00:22:42.069 --> 00:22:44.829 back and forth. One of the buzzies was Mallard. 485 00:22:45.049 --> 00:22:49.009 Well, my little ambassador of violence. Why is it you're 486 00:22:49.049 --> 00:22:51.470 always around the extremely dead, Candy? 487 00:22:51.710 --> 00:22:54.210 I've got no time to brandy the ad libs, Mallard. 488 00:22:54.250 --> 00:22:54.789 Who is it? 489 00:22:54.970 --> 00:22:56.440 I don't know yet. No identification. 490 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:57.380 Let me see. 491 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:01.220 Ah, a pen pal, maybe. 492 00:23:02.180 --> 00:23:04.000 I was right. I knew it. 493 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:05.039 Knew it? Knew what? 494 00:23:05.500 --> 00:23:05.839 You're right. 495 00:23:05.880 --> 00:23:08.170 He was a pen pal. He wrote me a check 496 00:23:08.210 --> 00:23:11.930 last night for $ 300. His name is Roger Ellsworth. 497 00:23:17.329 --> 00:23:21.299 Very interesting. Must be open season on Ellsworths. Okay, Candy. 498 00:23:21.539 --> 00:23:22.650 Time you filled in in the blanks. 499 00:23:22.990 --> 00:23:23.259 Start. 500 00:23:23.720 --> 00:23:26.059 Wait a minute. I want to look at the window 501 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:26.579 over here. 502 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:29.279 Mm-hmm. 503 00:23:30.339 --> 00:23:33.779 Mallard, there are a couple of younger Ellsworths living around 504 00:23:33.819 --> 00:23:36.720 town here. I'm sure you'd like to see them stay healthy. Yeah. 505 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:39.019 Get out to 25 Daschle Road and pick up an 506 00:23:39.059 --> 00:23:42.319 old crone also named Ellsworth. Five will get you 20. 507 00:23:42.299 --> 00:23:43.299 She's the one you're after. 508 00:23:43.839 --> 00:23:45.019 Ah, all right. 509 00:23:45.500 --> 00:23:47.920 But you get back to your place and stay put, understand? 510 00:23:47.940 --> 00:23:50.869 I want to have a more illuminating chat with you. 511 00:23:50.890 --> 00:23:54.329 Oh, Mallard, I'm just like putty in your hands. 512 00:24:02.029 --> 00:24:04.599 The moon was coming up over Diablo and spraying a 513 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:08.339 path of silver on the bay. Still no mallard. I 514 00:24:08.359 --> 00:24:13.400 wondered what could be wrong. Well, this was it. This 515 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:14.059 was the showdown. 516 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:17.759 Have you seen a tall face with a horsey woman? 517 00:24:17.980 --> 00:24:19.200 Oh, Rembrandt. 518 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:23.640 Candy, I'm so mad at you, I could... Oh, what's 519 00:24:23.740 --> 00:24:24.500 the use? 520 00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:25.880 Now what's the matter? 521 00:24:25.940 --> 00:24:28.920 What's the matter, she says? I've been roving all over 522 00:24:29.019 --> 00:24:33.950 Powell Street, ringing doorbells. Where did you go, you traitor? 523 00:24:33.970 --> 00:24:37.829 Oh, Rembrandt, I'm sorry, and... In the excitement, I forgot 524 00:24:37.869 --> 00:24:38.609 all about you. 525 00:24:38.630 --> 00:24:39.630 What excitement? 526 00:24:39.890 --> 00:24:40.990 There's been another murder. 527 00:24:41.019 --> 00:24:44.279 In a moment, there's going to be another. I'm looking 528 00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:45.559 right at you, Candy. 529 00:24:45.619 --> 00:24:49.299 Oh, cool off. Have some formula and stop snorting steam. 530 00:24:50.779 --> 00:24:51.319 What was that? 531 00:24:51.740 --> 00:24:52.599 Your window, Candy. 532 00:24:52.839 --> 00:24:53.440 Just shattered. 533 00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:56.440 What? Oh, wait a minute. That window didn't shatter by itself. 534 00:24:56.680 --> 00:24:57.779 Quick, get the lights, Rembrandt. 535 00:24:58.339 --> 00:24:59.140 Now duck down here. 536 00:24:59.259 --> 00:25:00.920 What sort of a silly game are we playing now? 537 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:02.390 This isn't a game, believe me. 538 00:25:03.890 --> 00:25:04.150 Candy! 539 00:25:04.190 --> 00:25:04.390 Candy! 540 00:25:05.829 --> 00:25:08.650 Candy, are you all right? Yikes, it's the gumshoe. 541 00:25:09.190 --> 00:25:11.509 Yes, I'm all right. Where are you, Mallard? 542 00:25:11.789 --> 00:25:12.289 Over here. 543 00:25:12.410 --> 00:25:13.390 Two houses over. 544 00:25:13.769 --> 00:25:15.849 We've got your girlfriend crapped on the roof. 545 00:25:15.670 --> 00:25:16.210 Next to you. 546 00:25:16.569 --> 00:25:18.319 Don't move and stay covered. 547 00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:20.220 Okay. All right, Mrs. 548 00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:20.700 Ellsworth. 549 00:25:21.140 --> 00:25:22.940 Are you coming down peacefully or do we have to 550 00:25:22.980 --> 00:25:23.940 play cops and robbers? 551 00:25:24.059 --> 00:25:26.500 I'm not coming down until I get that Candy Madison. 552 00:25:27.079 --> 00:25:27.619 She did it. 553 00:25:28.099 --> 00:25:30.769 She forced me to kill my own brother-in-law. 554 00:25:31.170 --> 00:25:32.069 Have it your own way. 555 00:25:32.349 --> 00:25:33.710 Okay, loosen her up a bit, boys. 556 00:25:36.369 --> 00:25:37.490 Better than the Fourth of July. 557 00:25:37.529 --> 00:25:38.950 Keep your head down, Rembrandt. 558 00:25:39.049 --> 00:25:39.930 Oh, is that what was up? 559 00:25:40.329 --> 00:25:41.349 Ready to come down, Mrs. 560 00:25:41.450 --> 00:25:42.690 Ellsworth? No, I'm not! 561 00:25:43.289 --> 00:25:48.450 That hateful woman! She's ruined my whole life! All my plans! 562 00:25:49.289 --> 00:25:54.009 Just because of her snooping and prying! She's going to die, 563 00:25:54.109 --> 00:25:54.799 I tell you! 564 00:25:55.299 --> 00:26:13.470 Ah! It was a miracle, Candy. You must have moved 565 00:26:13.529 --> 00:26:15.059 slightly just as she shot at you. 566 00:26:16.059 --> 00:26:17.359 It was too close, I can tell you. 567 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:22.059 She's dead. Oh, decidedly. I think she was dead before 568 00:26:22.099 --> 00:26:24.880 she hit the ground. That one shot

got her. We 569 00:26:24.980 --> 00:26:26.740 went out to her house and she was just driving 570 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:28.500 off when we got there. We trailed her up to 571 00:26:28.519 --> 00:26:30.680 North Beach, lost her for a block, and then spotted 572 00:26:30.700 --> 00:26:32.609 her car at the top of the hill here. We 573 00:26:32.650 --> 00:26:36.609 arrived just as she was getting on the roof next door. Okay, 574 00:26:36.650 --> 00:26:38.470 now you tell me your little dream. 575 00:26:38.970 --> 00:26:41.289 Well, it was that ship docking that set my wheels 576 00:26:41.329 --> 00:26:44.990 going around. The name Ellsworth started burning in back somewhere. 577 00:26:45.509 --> 00:26:47.769 You saw the clippings we dug up. The South Sea 578 00:26:47.829 --> 00:26:51.890 Island steamship lines were slowly being sabotaged. I did some checking, 579 00:26:51.930 --> 00:26:54.970 and I found that the insurance companies weren't going to renew. 580 00:26:54.990 --> 00:26:55.849 Yeah. 581 00:26:56.609 --> 00:26:58.349 I don't know why I didn't tie that in sooner. 582 00:26:58.650 --> 00:27:00.609 Oh, it's just that you have too many things on 583 00:27:00.650 --> 00:27:03.849 your mind, Mallard, dear. I went out to the place 584 00:27:03.910 --> 00:27:06.049 on Daschle Road, and when I left, I was pretty 585 00:27:06.109 --> 00:27:08.089 sure the old girl had knocked off her brother-in-law. 586 00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:08.730 Why? 587 00:27:08.890 --> 00:27:13.420 Well, for several reasons. One, she was a venomous old witch. Two, 588 00:27:13.480 --> 00:27:15.880 you've never seen such a collection of guns in all 589 00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:18.480 your life. And her husband admitted she was a darn 590 00:27:18.529 --> 00:27:21.910 good shot. I also saw one little pot gun that 591 00:27:21.970 --> 00:27:24.750 was very interesting. It had a silencer on it. 592 00:27:25.069 --> 00:27:27.730 Uh-huh. That was the one she used on you tonight. 593 00:27:27.829 --> 00:27:30.349 And also the one she used on Dwight Hillsworth from 594 00:27:30.390 --> 00:27:32.420 the window of that apartment where you found her husband. 595 00:27:32.579 --> 00:27:33.099 How do you know? 596 00:27:33.339 --> 00:27:36.119 Go back there. You'll see a nice little bullet hole 597 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:38.740 in the curtain with burned powder all around it. 598 00:27:38.819 --> 00:27:40.339 Now, don't tell me that. 599 00:27:40.380 --> 00:27:43.059 Yes, I'm telling you that she rented that place knowing 600 00:27:43.099 --> 00:27:46.009 that her brother-in-law always went downtown on a certain cable car. 601 00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:48.990 She waited that morning until we were riding by and 602 00:27:49.049 --> 00:27:49.869 she punched him. 603 00:27:50.190 --> 00:27:51.789 I have now heard everything. 604 00:27:52.029 --> 00:27:56.269 And the reason? Dwight Ellsworth, rather than fighting the insurance companies, 605 00:27:56.309 --> 00:27:58.329 had decided to sell his steamship lines. 606 00:27:58.950 --> 00:28:00.569 But the old gal thought she'd beat. 607 00:28:00.430 --> 00:28:03.230 Him to the punch by knocking him off. The steamship 608 00:28:03.269 --> 00:28:05.470 company would then fall into her husband's hands. 609 00:28:06.099 --> 00:28:06.230 Ah. 610 00:28:06.910 --> 00:28:07.619 What about her husband? 611 00:28:08.019 --> 00:28:10.059 Well, after he gave me the check and I left, 612 00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:12.640 they evidently had a fearful row and she spilled the beans. 613 00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:15.740 Somehow she lured him down to that place on Powell 614 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:19.680 and Gave him some lead poisoning, too. And that's all there. 615 00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:22.380 Is to it. Candy, I wish you'd have told me 616 00:28:22.460 --> 00:28:24.839 all these things earlier. We might have been able to 617 00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:26.380 save the life of Roger Ellsworth. 618 00:28:26.740 --> 00:28:29.759 No, it wouldn't do any good. Because if she hadn't 619 00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:31.259 killed him, I was going to. 620 00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:32.220 What? 621 00:28:32.900 --> 00:28:34.500 While I was waiting for you to get here, the 622 00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:35.059 phone rang. 623 00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:37.200 It was Uncle Charlie, the honest miller. 624 00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:41.779 That no-good Roger Ellsworth, his check bounced like a brand-new 625 00:28:41.819 --> 00:28:46.119 golf ball. What's so funny, Mallard? 626 00:28:46.819 --> 00:28:50.319 Listen in again to the further adventures of Candy Mattson, 627 00:28:50.920 --> 00:28:54.700 Girl Sucker. 628 00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:57.660 And that's Candy Mattson and the Cable Car Case on 629 00:28:57.700 --> 00:29:00.480 the Golden Age of Radio Theater. For you Candy Mattson fans. 630 00:29:02.200 --> 00:29:03.069 Letters, and comments. 631 00:29:03.109 --> 00:29:04.210 There are quite a number of you. 632 00:29:04.569 --> 00:29:08.650 You might be interested in knowing that Candy Mattson, played 633 00:29:08.710 --> 00:29:13.299 by Natalie Masters, was written by Monty Masters, Natalie's. 634 00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:13.980 Husband in real life. 635 00:29:14.579 --> 00:29:18.009 The program was produced in San Francisco and lasted until 636 00:29:18.049 --> 00:29:22.309 May 21st, 1951. This might be unfair to give away 637 00:29:22.349 --> 00:29:25.299 the ending of the series, but maybe if you don't 638 00:29:25.339 --> 00:29:26.980 want to know, plug your ears up and I won't 639 00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:30.039 tell you. You know, in each program, Candy is obviously 640 00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:36.230 somewhat taken by the San Francisco policeman Ray Mallard, played 641 00:29:36.269 --> 00:29:41.069 by Henry Leff. And at the final... program of the series, 642 00:29:41.750 --> 00:29:45.910 the policeman asks Candy to marry him. And then he 643 00:29:45.970 --> 00:29:48.380 announces that it would be Candy's last case. 644 00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:49.740 And it was. 645 00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:51.640 And the show went off the air and left a 646 00:29:51.700 --> 00:29:54.890 string of broken hearts, including mine. I was really taken 647 00:29:55.289 --> 00:29:58.170 with Candy Madsen, and I was hoping that she would 648 00:29:58.289 --> 00:30:00.549 wait for me to grow up and catch up with her. 649 00:30:00.990 --> 00:30:01.990 And that's it for. 650 00:30:01.910 --> 00:30:03.849 This golden age of radio theater program. 651 00:30:04.349 --> 00:30:05.009 Victor arrives here. 652 00:30:05.069 --> 00:30:07.150 I hope I didn't leave a whole trail of broken 653 00:30:07.170 --> 00:30:09.900 hearts with that information. Inviting you to join us next time. 654 00:30:09.940 --> 00:30:12.420 We turn back the clock to relive the golden moments 655 00:30:12.460 --> 00:30:13.660 of radio's yesteryear. 656 00:30:13.700 --> 00:30:13.940 Bye-bye. 657 00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:14.099 Bye-bye. 658 00:30:23.630 --> 00:30:26.019 Thank you.