Broadway Is My Beat: The Harry Moore Murder Case 06/02/1952
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
25 min
9 speakers
6 chapters
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What is the introduction to the Harry Moore murder case?
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Broadway's My Beat. From Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Broadway's My Beat. The exciting drama of people who walk the Great White Way. With Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
Broadway's My Beat.
The miracle of June slips down over Broadway like a golden gauze, and the street slows down for the burst of sun. It's the time of vacation schedules posted near the water cooler, and the words, the magic names, Catskill, Far Rockaway, Atlantic City. And you wonder how she'll come to you this year. On a sand dune of portable radio, or with a tennis racket and golden legs, or on a horse. It's the time to turn on the dream. Cotton candy time and carnival. Bleachers and hot dog with everything time. It's happened. It's here again. It's June. And in the afternoon in the East 60s, June gets an assist from the management. White stock and bowls on the lobby desk. Gladiola and vases on corridor tables. and ended abruptly at the doorway number 312, where death had intruded, where I was, where Detective Muggerman was.
This man was found here in his living room by a newsboy, Danny.
The kid I talked to. Door to this apartment open? Uh-huh. Left the money for the week's paper delivery on that table right inside the door. Kid would pick up the money, lock the door on his way out. No money left today, so the kid walked in a little way, and so... Shot up close with...
Looks like a .38 caliber.
Yeah, about that. Been dead about two hours, huh? Place this time of shooting around three o'clock.
You know who this man is?
Sure, positive identification. Name is Harry Moore, age 41, construction contractor. Firm of Moore and Nelson. No financial worries, no known enemies, no... That's real good, Markovan. How'd you find out so soon? His wife. She's in there. She see it happen? No, she came in here a few minutes after I got here. Let's talk to her. Sure. Mrs. Moore? Mrs. Moore? This is Lieutenant Clover, Mrs. Moore. He'd like to speak to you.
Oh, you can't come in here. This is my bedroom.
I'd just like to ask you a few questions, that's all.
I feel very much better, thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Huh? Mrs. Moore was at a tea luncheon, Danny. She told me where. Mrs. Moore had six cocktails.
I think it was only five. I was going to tell you because I don't want to lie to any policeman in the world.
About your husband, Mrs. Moore.
Harry's dead. This man told me. Harry's going away and never coming back. And I must be very brave about it. Do you have any idea why... Someday, if I'm very good, I'll see Harry again.
That's the kind of answers I've been getting, Danny. She doesn't look real, John. You feel fine, huh, Mrs. Moore? Heads not spinning, nothing like that?
Fine. Clear-headed. All right. I'm not drunk, if that's what you mean. Not at all. I know what being drunk's like.
It... Yeah?
I do feel a little busy. And I know why. Harry's not with me anymore. Harry's dead. And I know it. And I know it. And I've got to think about it.
Watch her as she turns away from you. The motion, tenuous, suspended, dance-like. Then the sudden twist and contortion as the sobbing wells like something from childhood. Watch her as she moves swiftly to a couch, throws herself onto it, mutes her sobbing in a silken pillow. I'm tired. And ebbs from her. I'm tired. Then she's still. Then sleeps. This is the escape of a wife of the dead. Leave there. Leave now to check an alibi. Learn that Vivi Moore had attended a wives and girls tea luncheon from one until four. The cocktails had been served and poor Vivi had got tipsy and giggly and had to be put in a cab and told the way home. And thank the woman who was bored and exhausted with having arranged it all for the wives and girls.
Then to the construction firm of Moore and Nelson and the information from a weary draftsman that he was overworked. That Mr. Nelson was supervising the current job at 30th and East River out in the sun.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the introduction to the Harry Moore murder case?
0:00–5:19
2
Who is Harry Moore and what happened to him?
5:19–6:05
3
What clues did Detective Clover find at the crime scene?
6:05–7:56
4
What information does Mrs. Moore provide about her husband?
7:56–12:58
5
How does Detective Clover investigate the relationship between Harry and Joe Cano?
12:58–20:03
6
What evidence links Joe Cano to Harry Moore's murder?
20:03–24:56
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