Broadway Is My Beat: The Lois Conrad Murder Case 04/12/1952
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Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
29 min
9 speakers
6 chapters
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What is the introduction to the Lois Conrad murder case?
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Broadway's My Beach, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.
Broadway's My Beach, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
In the time of April, Broadway walks a street dappled with sunlight. The time of the breeze sighing in from the river, touching your cheek and making a smile. It's a time to wake up to and keep on dreaming. Of far places and silver bells and the slow curve of ocean. The month of being young again and search again. The thing to do is to give up to it. Except about the job. The rent to pay, buy the beer, leave the tip, meet the installment. It's April, but you've got to make a living... Maybe next year, kid. And through the Venetian blinds, the morning sunlight patterned itself on the floor across the rattan furniture. In the place where I was, four stories up, recreation room, Globe Secretarial School, where the girl's sprawled body was.
And the two bewildered people.
You can ask me all the questions you want. All I can tell you is this girl's name, Lois Conrad.
And she's a student here at your school, Mrs. Hewitt?
Yes. I registered her myself about three months ago.
Perhaps I can tell you a little something, Mr. Clover. All right, Mr. Hewitt, what?
Miss Conrad is a student in my typing class. Her first class this morning at 9.30, she didn't show up.
Who reported this girl's stab, Mr. Hewitt? Miss Lindsay did. She's my best pupil.
Yes, one of the finest we've ever had here at Globe.
Tell me how Miss Lindsay found her. Well, I suppose she finished the typing test early, came up here to the rec room to relax, then she came running down to the office.
She came running to me, Mr. Clover. It was I who called the police.
That was a little before 10.30 this morning, wasn't it? About a half hour ago.
Yes, that's right. I told you that three times now. I can show you where I've got the time I call jotted down on my desk calendar.
You act as registrar here?
Dean. I also teach shorthand and bookkeeping.
Just your husband and yourself run this school?
Would you like to see our license?
Please, Sylvia.
Isn't it bad enough what the news of this poor girl's death is going to do to us?
But he has to go. Sylvia, he has his job.
Yes, Carla. All right, Carla. It just seems to me that this poor girl lying there... One more thing.
Anyone could come up to this recreation room, couldn't he? I mean, an outsider, he could just walk in here, isn't that so?
Oh, yes.
Yes, we always have open house for the public. Anyone can walk in here any time and observe our methods.
That poor girl lying there. She should be covered.
And the woman moves quickly through the sunless hall, darts into a room, comes back, covers with a shawl the intrusion of death, but for an instant lets her hand tremble on the texture of the girl's face, youth, Stilled, beauty already drained away. Then the trembling moves from her hand, seizes her body, and her husband calls her name.
Sylvia, stop it!
The command stills the flurry of shock in her. Then follow them to their office. Consider the card taken from a wooden file cabinet. Note the name of the nearest relative, the dead girl's father, their address, and leave. Leave the place where the newest registration is death. And on a side street in the West 30s, be told by the dwellers of the stoop that Mr. Conrad was upstairs, third floor, cleaning, mopping, dusting, making a show of earning his keep. If you got a complaint, mister, it'll fall on cold ears. Walk the stairs of a brownstone whose fire escape doors are open to the gusts of spring. Walk them and find the man whose child lies dead. Want to move over a little, mister? I want to vacuum the rug there while you're in the way.
Sure.
Sure.
All right, it's done. Brought up the nap a little, too, huh? What the result? I'm from the police. Danny Clover. Wait till I shut off the Hoover, huh?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the introduction to the Lois Conrad murder case?
0:00–4:57
2
Who is Lois Conrad and what happened to her?
4:57–6:28
3
Who discovered Lois Conrad's body and how?
6:28–6:55
4
What details are revealed about Lois's last moments?
6:55–13:32
5
What was the response of Lois's parents to her death?
13:32–25:45
6
What evidence emerges during the investigation?
25:45–29:38
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