Broadway Is My Beat: The Helen Selby Murder Case 01/31/1953
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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, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
In the cold of winter, Broadway is seen through a misty chill. And it's that time again. Make the big wish, Palm Beach and the 15-day tour to sunny Cuba. Make the annual excursion to the travel bureau to ask prices. Then step next door again and purchase the steaming knish against the blasts of January. And the next door down and stand under the music shop loudspeaker and listen to the record of La Cucaracha. Button up your overcoat, walk Broadway. It's touched you and it can never rub off. Just off Broadway, 11 o'clock in the morning time on West 39th, apartment house, and this, languid attitude of hand against the floor, trail of blood upward to girl on bed, shot and dying, and this, the doctor bending over her.
And in the living room, this, the protesting man.
Who are you calling a killer, mister? I'm no killer. I'm a mover.
Mr.
Barnes... You want an item of furniture moved, a stick or a house load, you call me and I come with my truck and I move you. You want to kill a girl, you should call somebody else. Not me, mister. Listen, why should I...
Nobody called you a killer, Mr. Barnes. I'd just like to know how you happened to find this girl,
that's all. Yesterday comes a call. I got a big ad in the yellow section of the phone book, a picture of my truck and all. Well, yesterday comes a call... Take your time. I've stumbled on some strange things in my line of work, Mr. Lowe. Like the time I was moving some... Well, just tell me about this morning. You got a call. Yesterday. All here on the order sheet. Pick up apartment full of furniture, this address, take it to this address. Here, right here on the paper. It's written down, so how could it not be so? It's written down, so how can it not be so? I'll
just take that paper.
Thanks. Go on. So look under where it says special instructions and it will prove to you that the dame who called, Helen Selby, she said her name was, she said in case nobody's home, walk in and start moving. That's the way it happened. You knock, nobody answered, you walked in. Sure. Walked around, cased the joint, the trunks were already packed, they're right over there. Walked into the bedroom, looked, looked again, called the police. Look on the paper, will you? It's written down. I can't be lying to you.
The time then for waiting, measured like this, brief span of morning sun to lie against the face of a wounded girl, gold drift of January light on throat of dying girl, till ambulance came and the young men of the stretcher to lift her, carry her to another place, another room, suitably darkened. And time now for you to leave.
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Ride then through late January city, uptown and east to where river reflects late morning and shadows of men staring into it, and late morning wishes cast into its waters, and uptown into the 70s to a delivery address on a moving man's order sheet. 1212 East 78th, Brownstone House, January trees in concrete wells against its facade, lace curtains, stoop freshly scrubbed.
Yes? What is it? I'm from the police, Danny Clover. So? I'd like to talk to you. May I come in? Well, I don't know. You see, this is... Can't you tell me about it inside?
Yes, yes, I think I can. I think it'll be all right. Now, please come in. The living room there. But please be careful of things and... And what? What I've been trying to tell you. This isn't really my house. And it's a very nice house. I just live here with a friend. It's his house. Who's? Leo's. Leo Pearson.
Oh, I'm sure your friend won't mind, Mr...
Alex. Alex Ewing. And I'm not sure that Leo won't mind. He's very careful about his nice things, and so am I, and we get along real fine together. You see, Leo is a very lonely man. Oh? Oh, yes. You see, his wife and child were killed in an automobile accident.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:47
2
What happens when the moving man discovers Helen Selby’s dead body?
4:47–6:14
3
How does Detective Danny Clover begin his investigation of the murder?
6:14–12:19
4
What clues does the detective find at the Pearson household?
12:19–29:39
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