Michael Shayne 450514 Date With A Wedding, Old Time Radio
Michael Shayne, Private Detective (1944-1948) was the inaugural iteration of the series, with Wally Maher lending his voice to the character of Michael Shayne. Broadcast on the West Coast Mutual network, this version stood out for its lighter tone in comparison to subsequent adaptations. Notably, Shayne’s investigative hub was located in Oakland, California, a departure from the more conventional Miami setting
The series delved into intriguing mysteries, and its protagonist, Michael Shayne, navigated the twists and turns of each case with wit and determination. While the later versions took on different tones and settings, this early incarnation set the stage for the enduring legacy of the Michael Shayne detective franchise.
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00:00The Adventures of Michael Shane, Private Detective.
00:12The people who make 76 gasoline and Triton Motor Oil, Union Oil Company present...
00:21The Adventures of Michael Shane, Private Detective, starring Wally Mayer and Kathy Lewis.
00:30The Adventures of Michael Shane, Private Detective, starring Wally Mayer and Kathy Lewis.
00:40Even the busiest detectives can't always be detecting.
00:44And on this late Saturday afternoon, we find Mike Shane and his pretty assistant, Phyllis Knight,
00:49driving through the timber country high up near the Nevada border.
00:52They're on their way to keep an important date, a date with a wedding.
00:56But no, not theirs.
00:58It's the wedding of Betty Harrison, daughter of the timber tycoon,
01:01and Mike has been unwillingly dragged along to help Phyll carry out her social obligations.
01:07You know, I ought to have my head examined coming way out here to see two people I don't know get married.
01:11Oh, Mike. Betty was my closest friend at finishing school.
01:14Yeah, but I only finished high school. Now, where do I fit into this high society stuff?
01:18Michael, it's a quiet wedding. We're the only guests.
01:21And I'm supposed to hold the bridegroom's fevered head?
01:23Mike, where is your romance?
01:25Romance I've got, Angel, but when it comes to rice and orange blossoms, I'm strictly allergic.
01:30You're hopeless.
01:31Hey, look. Look, there's the Harrison place.
01:34Place, you say? That, my love, is quite a shack.
01:36And there's Betty. There's Betty waiting for us.
01:38Yeah, see, honey, that guy with her looks familiar.
01:40Huh? Mike, that's Inspector Faraday.
01:44In the flesh. And that spells trouble.
01:47Betty? Betty?
01:49Phyllis. Phyllis, I'm so glad you've come.
01:51Oh, you look wonderful. Me, too. Betty, this is Mike Shane.
01:54Hello. I'm pleased to meet you.
01:55Well, I'll be. Mike and Phyllis.
01:57Say, Inspector, aren't you early with your vacation?
01:59No, I'm here on business, Mike.
02:01Mr. Harrison phoned me, said he was leaving on the second section of 98,
02:04that he transferred to his own private trainer for me to meet him here.
02:07Father wasn't planning to come up for the wedding, then all of a sudden I get a wire that he is.
02:11So that must be Harrison's train now.
02:13Yes, it runs up to a little station behind the house.
02:15Oh, then why don't we walk over and meet it, huh?
02:17Let's. Father will be surprised.
02:19Betty, hey, where's the bridegroom?
02:21Don should have been here by now.
02:22Oh, bridegrooms are always late. Those last three hours.
02:25You be quiet.
02:26Betty!
02:27Oh, there's Don coming now.
02:28Hey, he's a bit of all right.
02:30I'm sorry I'm late. I had a flat tire.
02:32Don, dearest, this is Phyllis Knight.
02:34Hello.
02:35Mr. Shane, Mr. Faraday, Don Manchester, my fiancé.
02:38How do you do?
02:39Hello, there.
02:40Well, there she is, coming around the mountain.
02:42You know, this is something to see, an engine pulling one coach.
02:45They dropped the lumber cars off at Camp Junction.
02:49Oh, Shane.
02:51Hey, look. There's somebody getting off.
02:53Oh, that's Mr. Oliver, Father's business associate.
02:55That's Mr. Miller getting off the back platform.
02:57I still don't see Mr. Harrison.
02:59No.
03:00Oh, Mr. Oliver.
03:01Oh, hello, Betty.
03:02Where's Father?
03:03Oh, as usual, in his private compartment.
03:06Hasn't even stepped out since we left Northwood City.
03:08He's probably napping again.
03:10He certainly was fine company.
03:12Well, I'm going up to the house.
03:14That's one happy character.
03:16Let's climb aboard and get Father.
03:17Sort of like a welcoming committee, huh?
03:19Okay.
03:20Uh, Inspector, watch your lumbago on these steps.
03:22Never mind my lumbago, Mike.
03:24Watch out for those fallen arches of yours.
03:26Oh, give him.
03:27Oh, man.
03:30Here's Father's compartment.
03:31I'll sneak in and shout boo.
03:35Father!
03:36Something's wrong.
03:37What is it? What is it?
03:38Father!
03:39It's Harrison stretched out on the floor.
03:41I bet he's fainting.
03:42Here, put her on that couch down.
03:43Wait a minute.
03:44Rub her wrists.
03:45Give her some water.
03:46Well, Inspector, how's Mr. Harrison?
03:48He's dead, Mike.
03:49Looks like a heart attack.
03:50Uh-huh.
03:51Maybe so, Inspector, but this heart attack has had a little help.
03:54What are you talking about?
03:55About murder, Inspector.
03:56Froth on the lips and dilated eyes don't spell a heart attack.
03:59Somebody slipped Mr. Harrison a nice big slug of poison.
04:16Oh, there you are, Mike.
04:17You're better up at the house, all right?
04:19Yes, Inspector.
04:20Phil and Donna are taking care of her.
04:21You still think Mr. Harrison was poisoned?
04:23I know so, Inspector.
04:24Look at his neck, stiff, and his jaws locked, eyes wide open and staring.
04:28Uh-huh.
04:29I've got a little plan, Inspector.
04:30Would you like to try it?
04:31You know me, Mike.
04:32Well, look, no one knows we suspect murder,
04:34and whoever pulled this job figured on a local doc calling it a heart attack.
04:38So?
04:39Now, you take Harrison's body into Northwood City
04:41Now, you take Harrison's body into Northwood City
04:43along with that thermos of coffee we found by him.
04:46While you're checking for poison,
04:47Uncle Shane here will keep his big ears open here.
05:07All right, honey, how's Betty?
05:08Oh, she's a little better, Mike.
05:09She's sleeping now.
05:10Oh, the poor kid.
05:11Say, what was that Betty said about her father not coming up for her wedding?
05:14Well, originally, he didn't like the idea of her marrying.
05:17But she was going to go through with it anyway?
05:19Yes.
05:20Then Mr. Harrison changed his mind, that's all.
05:22Maybe it is, maybe it isn't.
05:24Mike, when you start double-talking, I get worried.
05:26Angel, look, there were three men on that private train making a 50-mile trip.
05:29Now, come to the end of the line, what happens?
05:31Well, I'm listening, Mike.
05:32Miller gets off the back platform and scoots.
05:34Oliver hops off the front and goes away mad.
05:36And we go aboard and find Mr. Harrison dead.
05:39Uh-huh, that's it.
05:40This Mr. Harrison is the big boss, honey.
05:42You'd think those other two would wait for him, sociable-like.
05:45Oh, it's probably just a coincidence, Mike.
05:47And is it a coincidence that Faraday is here on business?
05:51All right, all right, mastermind.
05:53So what do you make of it?
05:54Uh-uh, Angel.
05:55A good detective works from facts, so let's go get some.
05:58Facts?
05:59Where?
06:00Where, Mike?
06:01Mr. Miller's room is at the end of this hallway.
06:02Let's stop in and say hello.
06:03Oh, I hope you know what you're doing.
06:05Yeah, me too.
06:06Here's his room, I'll knock.
06:08Well, there's no answer, Mike.
06:10So, being friendly people, we'll go in and wait.
06:13Well, you can't just barge in to somebody's...
06:15Why not?
06:16The door's not locked.
06:17Come on, come on.
06:18Mike, I don't like this.
06:19Well, now, don't you worry your pretty head.
06:21Wow, the remains of a fire in the fireplace.
06:24I always loved to poke around ashes.
06:27Now, let's see.
06:28Those look like letters.
06:30Letters, they were.
06:32Letters to Betty.
06:33Well, she's asleep in her room.
06:35While someone conveniently burns her mail.
06:37Mike, let's get out of here.
06:39What's the matter, Angel?
06:40There's just us two.
06:41That's where you're wrong.
06:42Mike.
06:43Huh?
06:44Well, well, Mr. Miller, and with a nice shiny gun.
06:47We don't like snoopers around here.
06:49Get going.
06:50Just a mistake, Miller, just a mistake.
06:52That kind of mistake isn't healthy.
06:54Get out, while you're still lucky.
06:56Sure.
06:57By coincidence, we were just leaving.
06:59Come on, Angel.
07:00Right away.
07:01The gentleman doesn't like our type,
07:03and I'm afraid the feeling is very mutual.
07:19These couple of scraps I took from Miller's fireplace don't help much, honey.
07:22Well, I can't understand why anyone would burn Betty's letters from her father.
07:26Hmm.
07:27Oh, well.
07:28There are plenty of books around.
07:30Michael, after all, this room is the library.
07:33Encyclopedia, Modern Timber Methods.
07:36Look, honey.
07:37Here's a book, Famous Scotland Yard Murder Cases.
07:40Well, that ought to help you, Mike.
07:42And here's a bookmark in the section on poisons.
07:45Mike, here comes Don.
07:46Mr. Oliver's with him.
07:47Huh?
07:48Mr. Shane.
07:49Well, what's up, Don?
07:50I told Mr. Oliver you're a detective.
07:51He wants to talk to you.
07:52Yes, uh, something quite confidential.
07:54Miss Knott is my assistant.
07:55Never mind.
07:56Never mind.
07:57I'll go look up a sandwich.
07:58Okay, dear.
08:00All right, Oliver.
08:01Now, what's the trouble?
08:02Mr. Shane, I want protection.
08:03Protection from what?
08:04Miller.
08:05He threatened my life on the train.
08:06Oh, what happened?
08:07Well, shortly after Miller came aboard Mr. Harrison's private train at Northwood City,
08:10I discovered him going through some of Mr. Harrison's private papers.
08:13Then what?
08:14We had an argument, and he drew a gun on me.
08:16What is Miller's position in the company?
08:18Frankly, I don't know.
08:20He's on Harrison's personal payroll.
08:22Betty's been rather worried.
08:23She felt that Mr. Miller had some sort of a hold on her father.
08:26Yes, that's it, exactly.
08:27It was a very suspicious relationship.
08:29And, uh, you want me to do what?
08:31Watch Miller every minute.
08:32He's dangerous.
08:33Mike?
08:34Yes, honey?
08:35Mike?
08:36Yes?
08:37A telephone call for you here in the den.
08:38Oh, okay.
08:39Thank you, Faraday.
08:40All right.
08:42Okay, Phil, close the door.
08:43All right.
08:46Hello, Faraday.
08:47Well, what's the note?
08:50Yeah?
08:52Well, that might help.
08:54Oh, sure, sure.
08:55They're all here.
08:56Don't worry.
08:57I'll be careful.
08:58Okay, Inspector, hurry back.
09:00So long.
09:01What'd he say, Mike?
09:02I was right, honey, a hundred percent right.
09:04Harrison was loaded with strychnine.
09:06Well, then it was murder.
09:08And that's not all.
09:09I heard the click of an extension phone.
09:11There are extensions all over the house, Mike.
09:14Someone listened.
09:15We're keeping company with the murderer, honey.
09:17And the trouble is, we don't know who he is.
09:20But he knows we're looking for him.
09:26The End
09:33In just a moment, we'll rejoin Mike and Phyllis in their adventures.
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10:53It is a few minutes later.
10:56Mike and Phil have learned that what started out as a happy wedding
10:59has turned into a grim case of murder by poison.
11:02We find them walking rapidly towards the station behind the Harrisons' house.
11:06The murdered man's private coach is still there on its siding,
11:09made almost invisible by the tall trees which turn the weak moonlight into gloomy shadows.
11:14Come on, honey.
11:16I'm hurrying as fast as I can.
11:18I want to see if that briefcase is still in the car.
11:20Dr. Faraday, remember that Harrison mentioned some important papers he was bringing up with him?
11:24Well, and whoever was listening on the extension, they know about it too.
11:27Right, and I won first crack at that briefcase.
11:29Hey, maybe you do, Mike, but so does someone else.
11:33Yeah, a flashlight. In Harrison's private car.
11:36Maybe it's the murderer.
11:38Hang on, honey. We'll find out.
11:42Mike! Mike, there he is at the end of the car!
11:44Hey, honey, look out!
11:46Mike! Mike, did he hit you?
11:48No, no, a clean miss.
11:49Where's the front?
11:50Could you see who it was?
11:51No, a flashlight in my eyes.
11:52Well, we'll catch up with him sooner or later.
11:54Let's go look over the compartment.
11:59Here it is, the briefcase.
12:01Oh, what a break for us. We frightened him away without the case.
12:04Sorry, honey, bad guess. The lock on the briefcase has been forced open.
12:08Oh, and whoever was here opened it and got what he wanted.
12:11Correct.
12:12Now, here's some papers.
12:14Business letters, checkbook.
12:17Some kind of a report.
12:19Honey!
12:20What's the matter?
12:21This report, it's from the Atlas outfit.
12:23Atlas?
12:24Uh-huh.
12:25The detective agency in Los Angeles?
12:27Sure, sure, listen to this.
12:28On the basis of our completed investigation,
12:30you have sufficient grounds to instigate criminal action against Z.
12:34Z?
12:35Evidently, Harrison didn't want the name mentioned.
12:37Well, Mr. Harrison was certainly checking up on somebody.
12:39And getting ready for the kill.
12:41I'll bet that's why Inspector Faraday's here.
12:43Mike, this is the motive for the murder.
12:45All we have to do is find out if Miller or Oliver is the Z in that report,
12:48and we've got the murderer.
12:50Partly right, Angel, partly. But I'd say it was better this way.
12:52Find out which one of them is Z, and the other guy is the killer.
12:55Huh? I don't get it, Mike.
12:57Look, Angel, look.
12:58The murderer listened in on my telephone conversation with Faraday.
13:01He heard the inspector tell me about this briefcase,
13:03and he knew it held evidence that could hang him.
13:05Well, of course, that's why he dashed down here.
13:07Right, Angel.
13:08He beat us to the briefcase, and yet this report is here for us to find.
13:12Oh, oh.
13:13He wanted us to find this report, and that means the killer isn't Mr. Z.
13:31As soon as we get back to the house, I'll send a telegram to the Atlas people.
13:34Okay, but these high heels don't go very well with forests.
13:37Yeah.
13:39Mike.
13:40Yeah. Yeah, I heard.
13:42There's someone on that other path.
13:43He's behind this tree.
13:44Right.
13:45Whoever it is, he's walking fast.
13:47Shh.
13:48He's going past.
13:50No, he isn't.
13:51Hey, you, hold it.
13:52Hey, what the...
13:54Mike.
13:55Mike, it's Miller.
13:57Hey, say, what's the big idea of roughing me?
13:59I just want to ask you a few friendly questions.
14:01Oh, now, look here.
14:02First, about a gun that took a couple of shots at us.
14:04Oh, you're off the beam.
14:06I'm not carrying a gun.
14:07No? Well, don't mind me. I'll just search.
14:10Go ahead.
14:12Well? Well, Mike?
14:13No, no gun.
14:14But you could have ditched it easy enough.
14:16Oh, Miss Knight, Mr. Shane.
14:18Miss Don.
14:19Oh, what's the hurry, huh?
14:20I was out for a walk.
14:21Is something wrong?
14:22Plenty.
14:23I'm glad you're here.
14:24I don't understand.
14:25Yeah, Shane, how about you doing some explaining?
14:28Okay.
14:29Mr. Harrison was murdered.
14:31What? Murdered?
14:32But why?
14:33Who?
14:34That's what we're finding out.
14:35Miller, you're on the spot, and it's plenty hot.
14:37Are you saying I killed Harrison?
14:39He was poisoned on that coach, and you and Oliver were the only ones aboard.
14:42Oh, that doesn't prove a thing.
14:44It proves there's a 50-50 chance that you're it.
14:46Listen, smart guy.
14:47Your mathematics aren't so good.
14:49There were three of us on that train.
14:51Sure, sure.
14:52But only you and Oliver walked off.
14:54I don't mean Harrison.
14:56Somebody else got on that coach.
14:58Now we have the ever-present mysterious third party.
15:01Not so mysterious.
15:03He's standing right next to you.
15:05All right, Don.
15:06That means you.
15:07Well, as a matter of fact, Mr. Shane, I did get on Mr. Harrison's train at Mill Junction.
15:12Well, Shane, guess I can be running along while you turn the heat on him.
15:15Not so fast.
15:16I still think you know some of the answers.
15:18You know, maybe I do.
15:21And maybe I might just do a little talking to the right party.
15:25And when it will do me the most good.
15:28You're sticking your chin out a mile.
15:29This is murder.
15:30Well, I'll be around, resting in my room.
15:34Oh, I don't trust him at all.
15:36Yeah?
15:37But you're still right in the middle of this, Don.
15:39You were on that death train.
15:40Oh, but I only stayed a minute.
15:42You see, Mr. Harrison was asleep, and I didn't want to disturb him.
15:45Which still doesn't explain why you drove out of your way from Northwood City to meet the train at the junction.
15:50Oh, it's a very personal matter.
15:52Look, Don, look, a man has been murdered.
15:54Wait, why should I want to kill my future father-in-law?
15:57Harrison wasn't too happy about you marrying his daughter.
15:59But he changed his mind.
16:01That's why he sent me a telegram this afternoon, asking me to meet his train.
16:04Oh, and what kind of a telegram might that be?
16:06Well, I have it right here.
16:08Read it for yourself.
16:09Here, honey.
16:10Huh?
16:11I'll hold the flashlight.
16:12All right, Mike.
16:13Wait a minute.
16:14Um, Don, have changed my mind.
16:17Happy to have you as son-in-law.
16:19Meet my train at Camp Junction.
16:22We'll ride in together.
16:23Much to talk over.
16:24Harrison.
16:25Sounds all right.
16:26Let me see your angel.
16:28Here.
16:29Yeah, from Northwood City at 3.20 today.
16:32Yeah, I wish I could help in some way.
16:34Yeah, sure, but...
16:35Hey, what was that?
16:36It's a window.
16:37Someone lowered it.
16:38That's Mr. Oliver's room.
16:40Mike, he must have heard everything.
16:42Yeah, something tells me we'll be hearing his little story very soon.
16:56That's right.
16:57The telegram is to the Atlas Detective Agency, Los Angeles.
16:59Uh, this is it.
17:02Please advise immediately.
17:04Name of Z.
17:06Yes, Z, the last letter in the alphabet.
17:09Name of Z in report to Harrison.
17:15Right.
17:16Sign that Michael Shane.
17:17That's right.
17:19Send it right out, please.
17:20And phone the reply here to me at Harrison's place.
17:24Goodbye.
17:25Well, the answer to that telegram should mean a lot, Mike.
17:28It'll help, darling, but there's some angles I don't get.
17:31Miller is a mysterious employee of Harrison's, all very hush-hush.
17:35Oliver's scared stiff of Miller,
17:38and Don goes walking around in the moonlight right after somebody takes a shot at us.
17:42Oh, you can't blame him for that, Mike.
17:44Here the night before his wedding and his future father-in-law's poisoning.
17:47Yeah, sure, sure, but there's one thing we do know.
17:50There's a killer here.
17:51Well, there's a car outside.
17:53That must be Inspector Faraday and in a big hurry.
17:55It's too bad you haven't a murderer all signed, sealed, and ready to deliver.
17:59Now, Angel, now, sarcasm doesn't become news.
18:01Well, Mike, Bill, how goes the home front?
18:04Oh, quite a few interesting details for you, Inspector.
18:06Whatever you're figuring, Mike, forget it.
18:08Uh-uh, that means the Inspector knows something.
18:10Plenty.
18:11While you two were taking it easy, I cracked this case wide open.
18:13Yeah?
18:14Well, Gib, who's the murderer?
18:15Miller.
18:16Miller?
18:17Sure.
18:18I thought his face had a familiar profile,
18:20so I checked on him with headquarters.
18:21And found what?
18:22He's got a record a mile long.
18:24Mm-hmm.
18:25Well, I'd be willing to wager it's for blackmail.
18:27That's right.
18:28But how did you know?
18:29Inspector, are you forgetting?
18:31Mike is smart.
18:32All right.
18:33I hope Miller's still around.
18:34He said he'd be in his room.
18:35Good.
18:36Let's go pick him up.
18:37Okay.
18:38Let's go.
18:39Well, Mr. Shane, it looks like Faraday beat us to it this time.
18:41Oh, he's just a good man, honey.
18:43Yeah.
18:44Tell me, what's the line on Miller?
18:45Oh, the usual stuff.
18:46Hires out as a private investigator
18:48and then turns the information he picks up into blackmail.
18:51Ah, cute boy.
18:52That racket should put him in clover.
18:53Yeah, but this time, Mike,
18:54it'll put him right in the middle of the lethal chamber at San Quentin.
18:57Oh.
18:58Here's Miller's room.
18:59Yeah.
19:00No need to knock, Mike.
19:01Just open it up.
19:02Okay.
19:03Here goes.
19:04Miller, we want you...
19:05Say, what?
19:06Well, there's your man, Inspector.
19:09You can take him in.
19:10But unfortunately, he's very dead.
19:23We'll return to Mike Shane and his adventures in just a moment.
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20:31Phyllis, Mike, and Inspector Faraday have just burst into Miller's room
20:35only to find him dead, shot through the heart.
20:38This new development has put quite a crimp in the inspector's plans,
20:41and Mike is pointing this fact out to him.
20:43Looks like you were wrong about Miller, Inspector,
20:45at least wrong about his being the murderer.
20:47Miller could still have been the one who bumped off Harrison,
20:49then somebody took care of him.
20:51Well, that would leave us with two killers.
20:53Well, it could be, but it doesn't stack up that way.
20:55Well, as far as I'm concerned, I'm going to take Oliver in and charge him with murder.
20:58Okay, so you'll charge him with murder, but how are you going to make it at stick, Inspector?
21:01How about motive? What evidence do you have?
21:03Oh, two and two make four, Mike.
21:05Harrison must have been poisoned on that private train,
21:07so it had to be Oliver.
21:09There's Miller lying there, absolutely eliminated.
21:11All fine and good, but it leads us to one other little item.
21:14Don was on that train, too.
21:16Don? Betty's fiancé?
21:18Mike, you saw the telegram Mr. Harrison sent him.
21:20Don couldn't have been the murderer.
21:22In this business, honey, we've got to figure every suspect guilty until we know their innocence.
21:26Yeah, Mike's right.
21:27Oh, Phil, would you step into the other room and phone the coroner down at Northwood City?
21:30Yeah, yeah, sure, Inspector. I'll give him your compliment.
21:33You know, this business is beginning to make sense.
21:35The one who poisoned Harrison had to get rid of Miller because he knew too much.
21:39Miller said he might do some talking when the right time came.
21:42Well, Mike, for my money, Oliver fits into the picture.
21:45He's our man, and I'll get some evidence out of him.
21:47Oh, I'm sure he knows plenty, but...
21:48Inspector?
21:49Yes?
21:50Inspector, I tried to call the coroner, but the telephones are dead.
21:52Uh-oh, the wires have been cut.
21:53Well, that don't make much difference.
21:54Oh, yes, it will, Inspector.
21:55You see, I'm expecting a reply to a telegram I just sent, a very important telegram.
21:59About this case?
22:00Yes, sir, in connection with the detective agency's report to Mr. Harrison.
22:04The answer to that wire might be just what we need.
22:07Oh, now that the phones are dead, what are we going to do?
22:10Do? Simple, darling.
22:11The inspector will sit tight here while you and I go for a nice moonlight ride back to Northwood City.
22:29There it is.
22:30There's the telegraph office just on the other side of the tracks.
22:32Okay, I'll park the bus here.
22:35Now, watch it. Easy crossing these tracks, honey.
22:37Oh, thanks for the tip, old boy, but you could have carried me.
22:40Huh?
22:42More trains.
22:43Yeah, this is the main line from San Francisco.
22:45Isn't this the place where Harrison transferred to his private train?
22:48Correct.
22:49Well, here's the telegraph office.
22:56Hey, good folks, can I help you?
22:58Yes, I'm Mike Shane. I'm expecting a wire from Los Angeles.
23:01I'm Mike Shane. I'm expecting a wire from Los Angeles.
23:03Shane.
23:05Let me see.
23:06Yeah, your telegram's coming in now. I'll have it for you in just a minute.
23:08Okay.
23:12Look, Mike.
23:13Hmm?
23:14There's another. The train just pulled in.
23:15Now, that's 820, miss. Only stops for a few minutes.
23:17820?
23:18Well, it's late. It's 835 now.
23:20Nope, train's on time.
23:21That there's the second section of the 820.
23:23Oh, so many people traveling, huh?
23:25Yep, too many.
23:26That's why they run two sections.
23:28That's right. This afternoon, the second section of 98 came in at 340 with a whole parcel of folks.
23:32Is that right?
23:34You know, honey, that's interesting. Very interesting.
23:36Yeah, yeah, of course it is.
23:38What are you staring at me that way for?
23:40Well, here's the telegram, mister.
23:41Oh, swell, swell.
23:42Oh, come on, come on. Who was Mr. Z in that report?
23:45Well, this does it, honey. This does it. That Z is nobody else but Oliver.
23:48Oliver?
23:49Then Faraday's right.
23:50No, Angel. Faraday isn't right.
23:52Oliver wasn't Harrison's murderer.
23:54But come on back to Harrison's place for a little meeting of the minds with Inspector Faraday.
24:09It's all right, Phil.
24:10All right. Is everybody coming?
24:12Yeah, they're coming, Mike.
24:13I told Betty and Don, Oliver.
24:14Good girl, good girl.
24:15Now to open these French windows.
24:18There.
24:19Okay, Faraday. Now out on the porch with you.
24:21All right, Mike.
24:22Phil, drape that beautiful body in that chair.
24:25Oh, thank you. Yes, well, Lord Master.
24:27Well, here comes Betty and Don.
24:28Oh, hello. I'm sorry it was necessary to bother you.
24:31Don and I understand.
24:32I'm glad to help in any way, Mr. Shane.
24:34Thanks, Don. Come over here. Stand by me out of range.
24:36Certainly, but out of range. I don't understand.
24:40Now, what is all this rigmarole about in the middle of the night?
24:42There's nothing to get excited about, Oliver.
24:44I asked Miss Knight to call you downstairs for a conference.
24:47A conference? About what?
24:49About mysterious happenings around here,
24:51but particularly about why Harrison had you investigated by a detective agency.
24:55Mr. Shane, what do you mean?
24:57I mean you've been cheating the Harrison Timber Company out of thousands of dollars.
25:01Oh, that's ridiculous.
25:02Why did you do this?
25:03Why did Mr. Harrison trust me implicitly?
25:04He did, until he finally caught up with you.
25:06That's why he was going to turn you over to Inspector Faraday today.
25:09I won't listen to this. There's no proof.
25:11There's plenty of proof, all written down in black and white.
25:13What's more, you knew Harrison had you dead the rights.
25:16That's why you poisoned him.
25:17You're mad. I never killed anyone.
25:19It's no use, Oliver. You're hooked like a fish.
25:21I didn't murder him. You can't frame me.
25:23He's running. He's running towards that window.
25:24I'll stop him.
25:25No, Don. No. Drop that gun.
25:26That's better.
25:27You knocked the gun out of my hand. You let Oliver get away.
25:31Oh, no, no. Here comes the inspector,
25:33and he's got our friend Oliver by the well-known collar.
25:36Here he is, Mike Squirmin, but safe and sound.
25:39I didn't do it. I'm innocent.
25:40Take him in, Faraday.
25:41You've got enough on him to make it stick and stick hard.
25:43Yes, he's a dead duck.
25:45Oh, Mr. Shane, I can't believe Mr. Oliver would kill my father.
25:48But, uh, he didn't, Betty.
25:49What?
25:50Well, you just told the inspector to take him in.
25:52Sure, Don. I'm taking Oliver in for theft,
25:54but for Mr. Harrison's murder, we'll take you.
25:56Me?
25:57What are you saying?
25:58Sorry, Betty. Don wanted to marry you in the worst way.
26:00He married a couple of other girls with wealthy parents.
26:02Betty, don't listen to him.
26:03When your father suddenly wired he was coming up,
26:05Don knew it was the showdown.
26:06That's ridiculous.
26:07Oh, no, no, no.
26:08You had a hunch Harrison engaged Miller to investigate him.
26:10It's a lie.
26:11You saw the telegram Mr. Harrison sent me just this afternoon.
26:14Sure, Don, sure, you got a telegram.
26:16A telegram you sent to yourself.
26:18All you did was step over to the Northwood City,
26:20wait until the train pulled in,
26:21and then send that telegram to your own address and sign Harrison's name.
26:24Oh, nothing but lies.
26:25No, no, no, son.
26:27It's a fact, a fact that we can prove.
26:29Because you made a mistake, a bad mistake, Don.
26:32You saw the train pull into Northwood City
26:34and thought that Harrison was on it.
26:36But you didn't know that there were two sections of that train today
26:39and that Harrison was on the second section.
26:41You sent that telegram 20 minutes before Harrison got there.
26:58Mike.
26:59Hmm?
27:00You know it's wonderful to be getting back home,
27:02here by the Golden Gate.
27:03Oh, I like it.
27:04You know, honey, one of these days they're going to put up a statue for me
27:07right on Market Street.
27:09I don't doubt it.
27:10I don't doubt it at all.
27:11You're such a genius.
27:13Well, maybe not a genius, but quick with the answers.
27:16Speaking of answers, is there a couple you still owe me?
27:19Oh, please, honey, no more questions.
27:21Now, remember, remember, Mike, that statue to a genius?
27:24Okay, okay, shoot me the question.
27:26When did you know for sure that Don was the murderer?
27:29When we found Miller's shot, of course.
27:31Why then?
27:32Don't you remember, honey, when we caught up with Miller
27:34sneaking back to the house from Harrison's private train?
27:36He said he would talk to the right person when it would do him the most good.
27:39Yeah, yeah, I thought he meant Faraday.
27:41Oh, no, no, no.
27:43Our blackmailing friend was talking right through us
27:45to the only other party there, which meant Don.
27:48He was throwing out a hint for a payoff.
27:50Well, of course I know, but how about...
27:52That's all, honey, please, that's all, positively all.
27:54And hold on to your hat because I'm turning.
27:56Just a minute, this isn't the way to the office.
27:58You're turning into Golden Gate Park.
28:00Ha, ha, is that bad?
28:07THE END
28:27Tune in again next week at 8.30 for another adventure
28:30with Michael Shane, Private Detective,
28:33starring Wally Mayer and Kathy Lewis
28:35with Joe Forte as Inspector Faraday.
28:38Tonight's story was written by Richard DeGraff
28:41and based on the character created by Brett Halliday.
28:44Music was composed and directed by Bernard Kents.
28:47This is John Lang saying goodnight
28:49for the people who make 76 gasoline
28:52and Triton Motor Oil, Union Oil Company.
28:58This is the Mutual Don Lee Broadcasting System.