Broadway's My Beat: The John Elgin Murder Case (EP5028)
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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
35 min
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5 chapters
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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of Broadway's My Beat. But first, I want to encourage you, if you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. Today's program is brought to you in part by the financial support of our listeners. You can support the show using the Zelle app by sending money to box13 at greatdetectives.net, and you can become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little as $2 per month at patreon.greatdetectives.net. Now, from April 5th, 1952, here is the John Elgin murder case.
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.
The time comes to Broadway when the April day summons its warmth, its winds, its plumed sprays of sunlight... Departs the avenue littered with its promises. And the defeated and the unfulfilled swarm back into the subway entrances and wait on the stifling platforms in the dim, sallow light reflected from walls of stained tile. Wait for the going home. Wait for the death of a day to happen in some other place. The hall bedroom, the front stoop. Some other place where shock will be gentler. And suddenly through the steel corridor a hot, dry wind races in the depths of earth. And on at the fury of hurtling steel. And they surge forward to meet it. Soon they will be home.
And in your office at headquarters, the April twilight drifts in. Somehow its touch startles the man you've been talking to.
Hey, it's evening. It's evening already. What do you know? How long have I been spilling my heart out to you, Mr. Clover? An hour, maybe more. Time flies. A guy tries to clean up his conscience, ease the soul, and it takes longer than he thinks. I ain't keeping you from anything, Mr. Clover. No? You got all the time you need, Mr. Greenhouse. Go on. Oh, not much more to tell, except what I told. I see a murder take place, I report it. Common decency, I figure.
What you call a murder took place over a week ago. How come it took you so long to give in to the call of decency? You got a point there, Mr. Clover.
Tell me. See if I can explain it to you. Try hard. With all my might. I was a bookie once, like I told you. You told me. Look, let me recap it, huh? So maybe it'll make sense to you it takes me a week plus to confess I saw a man push another man off a roof? You were a bookie, take it from there. Yeah, a bookie. Until you boys came up with a thing to throttle initiative. Dull the pioneer impulse of it. So I pit my brain against society. Try to come up with a respectable dodge. To earn my nut waffles and juice. But my mind has been in such a tight rut with 12 years of making books. All I can come up with is burglary.
And that's when you saw it happen, while you were robbing an apartment in the East 30s.
You got a whim that says I robbed? Uh-uh, I didn't. I tell you, this murder made such an impact on my conscience, I didn't rob, and I never will.
According to our books, what you saw was a suicide. Suicide of a man named John Elgin.
Our books can be mistaken. Ask me, I know.
You could identify the man if we found him, the man you say pushed Elgin off the roof, the man you say is a murderer? Identify him?
I would draw my eyes into slick. Pretend I was in the emotional turmoil of over a week ago, witnessing the event from a fire escape across the airway. And I would try to identify him. You find him, and I sure would try. But I make no promises.
Yeah. I ask your pardon, Mr. Greenhill. It's okay. But for what? I didn't let you finish telling me why it took you this long to come to us with what you saw.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:56
2
What is the case background and opening hook of the John Elgin murder story?
5:56–9:55
3
Who is the eyewitness Larry Greenhow and why did he wait a week to tell police about the rooftop incident?
9:55–20:28
4
How does Detective Danny Clover first investigate Margaret Elgin and her account of John Elgin's death?
20:28–34:19
5
What does Gladys Haywood reveal about her relationship with John Elgin and possible motives?
34:19–35:42
Speakers
7 identifiedMore from The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
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