Broadway's My Beat: The John Mooney Murder Case (EP5023)
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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
40 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 on a one-time basis by mailing your donation to Adam Graham, PO Box 15913. That's PO Box 15913, Boise, Idaho 83715. And I want to go ahead and thank Maggie and Carl and Carolyn for supporting the show that way. You can also become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little as $2 per month by just going to patreon.greatdetectives.net.
And I want to thank Rachel for supporting the program that way. Well, now from March 22nd, 1952, here is the John Mooney 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.
Springtime begins to search through Broadway, and its gentle winds feel out the places to set up shop. The pushcarts of the flower vendors where the promises are wrapped in tight buds of faint color. A child's ribboned silken hair side across the winter pinched face. A woman's shoulders too soon eager to shed the raiment of winter's night. In the spring songs choked out of loudspeakers, in the inviting sidelong glance, in the barefoot padding through sun-warmed corridors, Here is spring for Broadway. Innocent, nostalgic is the music of the organ grinder to which monkeys dance, to which Broadway sighs, remembers, cries again. And at the edge of the March evening, against the shimmering of dusk, the anger of a man, the near hysteria, the economy-sized fury at innocence maligned.
It's an outrage, a shame, a filthy shame. The way you police have nothing better to do than drag off a man off the street and push him and beat him and people standing around and snickering. No one beat you, Mr. Grace. Oh, it's the same thing you might as well have. What am I doing here? What am I doing in a messy room with a detective and a girl with a sketch pad? Me, a man with two kids, an overworked wife, nags at me when I'm late for supper or late for anything. Everything I ever got, I sweat for.
You hear me?
Take it easy, Mr. Gracie. Yeah, miss. I'm in a seed store. See, I'm buying things for my lawn, my rose bushes, and seeds, you know, big or low, and a rake. And I walk out, and a man grabs me. He makes me drop things in the street, and he brings me here. Why? Tell me what crime I've committed. Tell me. You passed a bill in a bank early this afternoon, Mr. Grace, a $1,000 bill. Where'd you get it? I got it. The bank said it was good, didn't they? Then why'd you have to stick your nose in? I got it. For a man who sweats for everything he gets, how much sweat for that $1,000, Mr. Grace? A bill the bank recognized in serial numbers as one from a five-year-old payroll robbery where a pay messenger was murdered. How much sweat for it, Mr. Grace?
I don't know what you're talking about. I bought it.
I bought it from a man on 45th and Broadway. He said I could have it for $250. I laughed in his face.
But you bought it, and so... Well, I laughed in his face at first, but when he said he'd go to the bank with me and prove to me it was good... This man, was he Les Cheney?
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:47
2
What is the episode premise and who are the main characters introduced?
5:47–13:19
3
How is Myron Grace implicated after passing a $1,000 bill from a payroll robbery?
13:19–23:05
4
What leads detectives to Les Cheney and why is his parole status important?
23:05–28:40
5
How do Danny Clover and colleagues interview suspects and witnesses at the boardinghouse?
28:40–40:13