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Box 13 - "Hunt and Peck" (Old Time Radio, 2012)

Box 13 presents “Hunt and Peck,” episode 29 of the Alan Ladd mystery-adventure series, originally broadcast on March 6, 1949. Ladd stars as writer-investigator Dan Holiday in this Mutual network production, written by Russell Hughes and directed by Vern Carstensen.

With a condemned man facing execution in 48 hours, Dan reviews a murder case built around a crucial typed note. The investigation hinges on an overlooked detail: the difference between touch typing and hunt-and-peck typing.

Box 13 presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently cleaned/mastered audio for a more consistent listening experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Victor Sterling Introduction
00:48 Original Broadcast
27:21 Closing

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Speaker 1: Russell Hughes wrote this Box thirteen case, directed by Verne Carstensen,

with Alan Ladd as Dan Holliday and Sylvia Picker as Susie.

In Hunt and Peck, Holiday receives a last chance appeal

from Martin Kirby, condemned for the murder of his best

friend and facing execution within forty eight hours. The investigation

brings Holiday to a state penitentiary and back to the

evidence in the case where a typewritten note may hold

an answer, the original proceedings overlooked. This is episode twenty

nine of Alan Ladd's mystery adventure series, originally broadcast over

mutual on March sixth, nineteen forty nine. And now our

story begins.

Speaker 2: Box thirteen with the Star of Paramount Pictures Alan Ladd

as Dan Holliday.

Speaker 3: Box thirteen, care of Star Times.

Speaker 4: We're allowed newspapers here, and by chance I saw your advertisement.

I have exactly forty eight hours to live, no more

than that unless you can do something which no one

else has been able to do. Get me out of

the death cell of the state penitentiary. I was tried

and convicted for the murder of one of my best friends.

Speaker 3: I was tried and convicted for the murder of one

of my best friends. I didn't do it well, you

try to help Martin Kirby. When I received the letter

from Martin Kirby, I wondered how a man felt who

had only a short time to live and do it

before the thing was over and I had stopped wondering,

I knew.

Speaker 2: And now back to Box thirteen and Dan Holliday's newest ad.

Speaker 3: Butch your hunt impact.

Speaker 5: Gee, mister Holiday, what can you do about it?

Speaker 3: Susie? I wish I had an answer for you.

Speaker 5: You're going to see him, aren't you.

Speaker 3: Well? If I don't, I'd kick myself all over the

city for not doing what I could. On the other hand,

he was tried, convicted, and sentenced.

Speaker 5: But it could be wrong.

Speaker 3: I mean, I know what you mean, Susie's. Sentencing a

man to death is a terrible thing. The evidence against

Kirby must have been pretty strong.

Speaker 5: Uh huh, I guess it was. You're on the horns

of an at amma.

Speaker 3: The lemma this time, Susie. I don't laugh.

Speaker 5: What are you going to do?

Speaker 3: The only thing I can do see Martin Kirby and well,

at least listen to him. I didn't think you'd come,

mister Holiday.

Speaker 4: Why well, there must have been a million guys in

this place, all innocent.

Speaker 3: Sure, maybe some of them were. And are I am?

I yeah? What time? I mean? I know what you mean.

It's one thirty.

Speaker 4: Now I've got the rest of today and till tomorrow

night at eleven.

Speaker 3: Thirty thirty four hours. I know I've counted them too,

all right, Kirby, What can I do? I don't know.

Is there anything you can tell me? Something that didn't

come out of the trial.

Speaker 4: The only thing that didn't come out at my trial

was the fact that I didn't kill Leslie Roberts. Oh,

I kept saying it, but there was too much against me.

At first, when I got here, I didn't care anymore.

If they wanted to see an innocent man die for

something he didn't do, then it was murder on their heads.

But now, mister Holliday, I.

Speaker 3: Want to live, sure, sure, but there's nothing you can

tell me, anything that I can go to the police

with and get a reprieve, a stay of execution.

Speaker 4: My lawyer's tried that a hundred times. My case has

been reviewed. Nothing doing, And.

Speaker 3: What you're asking of me is to do what everyone

else has failed at. I guess that's it, you know, Kirby.

It's at times like this that I wish I'd never

put that box thirteen add in the.

Speaker 4: Paper, meaning there's nothing you'll do.

Speaker 3: No, no, I didn't say that. I'll try, But thirty

four hours is a short time. Look, maybe you will

go at this with a fresh slant. Maybe something will

hit you that everyone else has missed. Yeah. Maybe all right, Kirby.

It'll take me two hours to get back to the city,

and if I'm going to do anything, I'll have to

do it fast. Driving back to the city, I felt

like someone who has to tell a kid there's no

Santa Claus. Because I was almost sure that Kirby had

no chance. What could I do? The police were no fools.

The district attorney must have had an airtight case against

Kirby when he went to trial. Well, I'd promised to help.

So my first stop in the city was the Star

Times and down to the Morgue to read up on

the case. It was all there. Whoever covered the case

for the Star Times with done a great job of reporting.

I looked at my watch. It was three forty five.

Martin Kirby had two hours and fifteen minutes less than

the original thirty four. And all I had done so

far was it was the stack of a pile of newspapers.

I started from the beginning, but the story of the

murder of Leslie Roberts itself told me nothing. And I

got into the transcript of the trial. It took me

three hours to read everything carefully, and when I finished,

I could have I could have summed up the whole thing,

just as the prosecutor did the jury.

Speaker 6: You've heard the testimony in this case. The state has

proved the following facts. One, Martin Kirby was desperately a

need of money. Two, the deceased Leslie Roberts was insured

for one hundred thousand dollars, his beneficiaries being the accused,

Martin Kirby and another partner, William Morgan. The double indemnity

clause in the insurance policy meant that both Kirby and

Morgan would receive one one hundred thousand dollars each. Third point,

the accused quarreled with a deceased over Missus Roberts, wife

of the murdered man. Fourth, we have established the murder weapon.

This gun belonged to Martin Kirby through the serial numbers

were filed off. But scientific work revealed the numbers, and

this gun belonged to Martin Kirby. He's admitted it and

thinking to get rid of it, he threw it into

a sewer near Leslie Roberts home. Now, perhaps mister Kirby

believed the police of this city to be fools.

Speaker 5: Far from it.

Speaker 6: Their work is established beyond doubt that Marvin Kirby is

a murder.

Speaker 3: Oh sure it was a good case. I stacked the

papers in a pile and left the Star Times and

went down to police headquarters to see Lieutenant Kling.

Speaker 7: Sit down, Dan, it's on your mind.

Speaker 3: Mark and Kirby. Oh, why I've seen him? He wrote

the box thirteen.

Speaker 7: He's in it.

Speaker 3: Did you work on the case?

Speaker 7: No? Inspect the Rowlings handle it?

Speaker 3: Why? But you know about it?

Speaker 7: Sure? I sometimes managed to know what's going on.

Speaker 3: Look, Kling, you're a good detective. You've got brains.

Speaker 7: I'll buy them all at milk sometime. But you didn't

come here to handmade posies.

Speaker 3: Do you believe Kirby is guilty? Yes?

Speaker 7: Got the evidence, that's what we base our cases on.

It's inherent in the judicial and legal system. Now what

do you want from me? A new system?

Speaker 3: I told you I saw Kirby cling. He doesn't act

like a guilty man.

Speaker 7: And then I wait a second, who's this? That's a

photograph of Marion Oberling.

Speaker 3: So what am I supposed to do?

Speaker 7: Look at it? Nice and sweet, isn't she I've never

met her, but I did, But it wouldn't melt in

my mouth. A smile that would soften up the rock

of Gibralar talks like an angel, but she killed a kid.

They get thirty five cents from him. Look, you've got

a soft heart, Dan, which you've got a tendency to

run right into your head.

Speaker 3: Maybe a right cling. But but I promised Kirby I'd

plug away until time was I.

Speaker 7: I like to keep promises, and that's your business, Dan.

But why did you come to me for any help

you could give me? Which adds up to a big

zero playing I read the transcript of the trial, Kirby

was the only suspect. He had motive opportunity, so.

Speaker 3: Did missus Roberts and William Morgan.

Speaker 7: It was Kirby's gun that put Leslie Roberts in the obituaries.

Speaker 3: Someone else could have used it, so.

Speaker 7: His defense lawyer said, But Kirby couldn't explain how it

got into that sewer.

Speaker 3: But Kirby called the police when he went to Roberts's

house that night and saw Roberts dead. Shoo shore.

Speaker 7: We get dozens of cases where the killer tries to

play smart. He calls the police, figuring it'll make him

look good.

Speaker 3: But he had to kill Roberts, run outside, throw the

gun into the sewer, then go back inside and call

the police. So it's a big chance to take in

case someone heard the shot and came to investigate.

Speaker 7: Killers.

Speaker 3: Take chances, dan, Okay, Okay. Now, the paper said there

was a note from Roberts asking Kirby to come to

his house that night.

Speaker 7: Yeah, that's why Kirby said he happened to go to

roberts house that night, the only night in the week

that missus Roberts is always out.

Speaker 3: The police said Kirby could have typed that note, right,

But Kirby's defense lawyer said Roberts could have typed it.

Speaker 7: Look, you type a note to me asking me to

meet you, then what do you do?

Speaker 3: What do you mean? What do I do?

Speaker 7: You write your signature nine times out of ten, you

don't type.

Speaker 3: It, so that means anyone could have typed it.

Speaker 7: I know, I know to get Kirby to roberts house.

Speaker 3: That's it.

Speaker 7: So that was all brought out of the trial. The

jewelry saw it the way the prosecution summed it up,

that Kirby typed that note to make a seem as

though he was asked to Roberts place.

Speaker 3: Both Missus Roberts and Morgan also stood again by Robert's death.

Each gets one hundred thousand.

Speaker 7: Look, the case is closed. Too many things added up

against Kirby. Sometimes things can be added up wrong figures

and facts. You're knocking your head against a stone wall,

so I'll get a headache.

Speaker 3: That's about all. Okay, I'll Kerry Aspuren's with me. But say,

could I look at that I four? This is a favor.

Speaker 7: Okay, I'll take care of it for you, but I'll

give you six to two and even that Martin Kirby

will be executed tomorrow night at eleven thirty.

Speaker 3: Well, Kling got me in the note, so I had

it and saw what all it said was Marty be

at my house. Tonight at eight thirty less. It was

typed and had been left in Kirby's typewritter at the office.

Susie and I have studied it.

Speaker 7: What do you.

Speaker 5: Expect to get out of it, mister Holliday.

Speaker 3: I don't know, Susie.

Speaker 5: Gee, like you said, anybody could have typed it.

Speaker 3: That's right, Kirby denies he did. Nobody can prove Roberts

did or didn't not know.

Speaker 5: Maybe that mister Morgan or Missus Roberts did. Gee, what

if either one of them did it and they're letting

an innocent man be executed? Oh, it wouldn't be a

comfortable feeling, Susie. What's the matter? Did I say something?

Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Maybe you did, Susie, Maybe you did?

What conscience? Who's missus Roberts and Morgan's?

Speaker 5: You mean both of them killed? Mister Roberts.

Speaker 3: Give me that phone book? Here it is, Thanks Roberts Roberts,

Leslie Roberts.

Speaker 5: What are you going to do, mister Holiday?

Speaker 3: By a little poker?

Speaker 5: You're gonna play cards at a time like this?

Speaker 3: Not quite just a bluff. I'm holding a pair of deuces.

Speaker 5: I don't get it.

Speaker 3: Hello, is this missus Leslie Roberts Yes, who is this?

Never mind? Just listen. Tomorrow night at eleven thirty, just

twenty four hours from now, Martin Kirby will be executed

for the murder of your husband.

Speaker 5: Who are you?

Speaker 8: What do you want?

Speaker 3: Does your conscience bother you? Missus Roberts What do you

mean by that? Don't you know, Missus Robertson, Is this

some kind of a stupid joke? Hardly they're not joking

at the State Penitentiary. Missus Roberts. Yes, I know something

that can make you uncomfortable, but I'm willing to talk

about it.

Speaker 4: I don't know what you mean.

Speaker 5: You're either insane or completely without feeling.

Speaker 3: If you're interested, meet me at the corner of Carpenter

and past Till Place at midnight.

Speaker 5: And why should I do that?

Speaker 3: That's for you to think about. But I think you

know already. I listen carefully. I'll be wearing a light

tanned top coat, brown felt hat. I'll carry a leather briefcase.

Speaker 5: Goodbye, mister Holiday. What was that for?

Speaker 3: I told you all I've got is a pair of deuces.

Now I'll make the same call to Morgan, But first, wonder.

Speaker 5: Kling and certainly bewildered.

Speaker 3: Don't you ever change? You're wonderful as is? What did

I do nothing at all? Susie? After I make this

call to Kling and wonder Morgan, I'll either have something

to help Mark and Kirby, or a what or a

wonderful notice in the obituary column of the Star Times.

Speaker 2: Now back to Hunt and Pet, another Box thirteen adventure

with Alan Ladd as Dan Holliday.

Speaker 3: I made the same phone called to William Morgan, and

I made the missus Roberts, but I tipped cling to

something before I did. At midnight, I was the corner

of Carpenter and Pastel Place, waiting sure it was a bluff,

and I figured all was fair in this game. Ten

minutes went by, no one showed up. Then got a

light bub Yeah, sure.

Speaker 9: Thanks, it's all right. So wonder they wouldn't put street

lights here. Guy could get lost easy, Yeah he could. Yeah, okay,

thanks for the light.

Speaker 3: Good welcome, okay, Jack, you a borrow day.

Speaker 5: Good night.

Speaker 3: Maybe I played the wrong cards, maybe no one would

show up. It was twenty minutes past midnight. I stepped

out of the shadows where I'd been standing I felt

pretty silly, and I knew what Kling would say. I

was twenty feet away from the corner, walking slowly, looking

up and down the street. There's no one in sight.

Lights in the windows of the house went out slowly,

one by one. I was thirty feet away from the

corner when.

Speaker 5: Dick Dick is at you. Somebody shoot.

Speaker 3: Right here? You get it?

Speaker 9: Yeah?

Speaker 3: Yeah, in the arm sergeant.

Speaker 5: Listen, he does.

Speaker 7: People back people now houses. Tell Thomps to take a

couple of poison scar in this neighborhood. Find the person

who fired that.

Speaker 3: Shot, whoever it was, the one who should die on

Martin Kirby's place.

Speaker 7: You're an idiot.

Speaker 3: You set yourself up like a clay pigeon. How's bad

out that's the yarmough, it's not so deep as well

or white as a church door. But we'll do.

Speaker 7: How do you like this guy? He gets winged and

quote Shakespeare.

Speaker 3: Okay, let's get you out here.

Speaker 7: Feel better?

Speaker 3: Yeah? Thanks?

Speaker 7: What for?

Speaker 3: Who fired the shot?

Speaker 7: I don't know, no luck, whoever it was was in

one of the buildings. And running somebody to ground in

that neighborhood takes a squad of men.

Speaker 3: Yeah, I was afraid of that.

Speaker 7: Okay, so what have you got now? A bullet three round?

Speaker 3: Morgan is the real murder of Leslie Roberts. Boy, this

is Roberts reported my phone call to you, didn't she

That's right? Morgan didn't I know that? So he was

afraid it was a blackmailer who knew he killed Roberts.

He would have reported my call to you if you

had nothing to be afraid of.

Speaker 7: Sure, sure looks good in your head, but what proof

have you got that Morgan fired that shot tonight?

Speaker 3: None? But on the strength of it, can't you get

a stay at execution for Martin Kirby? How I call

up and say you a good shot? You think it

was Morgan? Morgan denies it. I no, soap dad, You

got to stay for Kirby. You need positive evidence and

this hole in my arm doesn't come. Only is a

strike against you, and you're lucky at that. What do

I have to do?

Speaker 7: If you could prove Morgan fired that shot, you'ld have something.

But what you'd have is that he fired at you,

not that he killed Roberts. Say so, swear I weren't.

We'll bring him in.

Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, don't do that. Let me ask

one more question. But what do you think of the

whole thing?

Speaker 7: Now? Well, come on, come, what do you think? I

think you've got something? But the police haven't.

Speaker 3: I was afraid of that, all right, Cling, any objections

if I keep going, none for me.

Speaker 7: I shall have to do it alone. As far as

the Department's concerned. That Roberts case is closed, I'd never get.

Speaker 3: Permission to work on a dad, not even on your

own time.

Speaker 7: That's different.

Speaker 3: Okay, keep in touch.

Speaker 7: I will Meanwhile, you keep alive.

Speaker 3: Well, there wasn't anything more I could do that night.

Took my punch your diamond myself home and got some sleep,

not much, though, because I knew I was right and

Cling was right. Only two people knew I'd be at

Carpenter and Pastel at midnight, Morgan and Missus Roberts. Missus

Roberts had called the police report my call. Morgan hadn't.

All Morgan had to do now was to lay low

until Krebby was executed. But he had been work enough

to take a shot at me. Then I thought of

something else. The next morning, in my office, it's holiday. Oh,

good morning, Susane.

Speaker 5: Your arm it's in a sling.

Speaker 3: It's becoming, isn't it. What happened was shot?

Speaker 5: Oh? Who shot you?

Speaker 3: William Morgan? I'm sure, but never mind that. Now I

want you to help me.

Speaker 5: Well, sure, mister Holiday, but I won't get shot, will I?

Speaker 3: Here is it? I'm the typewriter, all right. Now. Look,

I've typed out a bunch of slips with Now is

the time for all good men to come to the

aid of their party with one arm. Good enough, Now

you do the same. Go ahead.

Speaker 5: I don't understand.

Speaker 3: I'll explain why you're type. Go ahead, Okay, the note

left for Martin Kirby was typed. What I'm trying to

do is to find out if the style of typing

can be definite enough to pin on one person.

Speaker 5: You mean I typed differently from you.

Speaker 3: I use hunt and peck and you use the touch system.

Oh you say, Missus Roberts used to be a secretary.

She'd use the touch system of typing. Martin Kirby could type,

so you so could William Morgan.

Speaker 5: Then what good will all this do you?

Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know. Okay, Susie, that's enough.

Now mix up the slips and pick one at random.

Then you tell me who type it?

Speaker 5: All right? I type that one. How do you know

it's smoother than yours?

Speaker 3: Is not the only way you can tell? Uh huh?

And if I type touch system would be pretty tough

to tell. The slips upont Oh.

Speaker 5: Sure all touch system is smooth looking, the letters are, well,

they're all about the same blackness.

Speaker 3: Okay, that's another lead shot.

Speaker 5: Gee, I'm sorry, mister Holiday.

Speaker 3: Look at that clock. Ten minutes past twelve, less than

twelve hours left for Kirby. Susie, I'm as sure as

I can be that Morgan's guilty. But he shot me

last night, then.

Speaker 5: Why don't the police arrest him? It's dangerous for a

man like that to be loose.

Speaker 3: Yes, I think you're right, But Susie, remember what you

said about conscience. Well, look, if Morgan was sure of himself,

he wouldn't have tried that stunt last night. All Right,

Because he did, it means that a little more work

on him might make him break. Huh.

Speaker 5: You're not going to let him shoot at you again?

Speaker 6: Oh?

Speaker 3: Not if I can help it. But I am going

to see him.

Speaker 5: You will be careful, won't you, mister Holiday.

Speaker 3: Susie, I have only one life to give my work.

But it so happens, I like it. He took the

rest of the day, But I learned all I could

about mister William Morgan, and there wasn't one thing that

pointed at him as a killer. But I was sure

he'd killed Roberts and framed Kirby. He knew Kirby and

Roberts had quarreled. He could have taken Kirby's gun from

Kirby's desk at the office. He could have typed the

note leading Kirby to Roberts house. And among other things,

he had been a demonstrator for a typewriter concern. How

did that help? Answer? Not at all, because missus Roberts

and Kirby both type touch system that I found out

when I read the record of the trial. Okay, I

had one angle left. Work on Morgan, work on him

hard enough to crack him wide open, if it could

be done. So. That night, two hours before Martin Kirby

was to die, I buzzed at Morgan's house. Yes, what

is it, mister William Morgan? Yes, who are you? I'm

a writer. I have nothing to say. Excuse me, get

your foot away just a minute. Did you receive a

phone call last night? Come in? Thank you? What about

a phone call? Did you have one last night? I

don't know what you're talking about, but you let me

in when I mentioned it. Sit down, okay? You are

you hurt your arm?

Speaker 7: Yes?

Speaker 3: It got in the way. You mentioned a phone call?

Yes I did. Cigarette? No thanks? That ashtray is awfully

for You must have been smoking a lot. So what

nervous mister Morgan? Now look here, I've had enough of this.

What do you want? And who are you? My name's Holiday.

I called you last night. It was a gruesome joke,

Holiday one I didn't appreciate at all. I wasn't trying

to amuse you, Morgan. Why did you make that call?

Before I answer that, take a look at your clock?

Well what about it? In one hour and fifteen minutes,

Martin Kirby will be executed for a murder he didn't commit.

Why don't you say what you've come to say? Because

I'm waiting for you to say something. You mean you'd

like me to say something that would Oh no, Why

didn't you tell a police about that call last night?

Big fully laughing?

Speaker 8: Yeah, so the police know that you made that call? Yes,

I oh, that was very bright of you, mister Holliday.

No blackmailer would have told the police he made that call.

If you knew anything and were planning to trap me,

you'd have kept it to yourself.

Speaker 3: Right, Morgan grinned at me, knew I'd walked right into it.

His nervousness seemed to just ooze away. He lighted another

cigarette and kept grinning at me through the smoke. And

don't you think you'd better leave now? Holiday? Morgan? There

was a note typewritten. You typed it? Did I?

Speaker 7: Yes?

Speaker 3: Maybe you don't know this, but that note can put

you in Kirby's place. Yes, how well, there's a way

of telling who typed a note. Every typist is a

different touch, and when in large, the touch of one

typist will show up differently from another's. Kirby's defense lawyer

missed that bet. But I didn't you talk a great

deal too much? Holiday? But it's interesting conversation. I don't

believe what you said. No, here's the note. The police

led it to me, and man, that's all holiday stay sitting.

You really wanted that note, didn't you? And I've got it?

And that gun in your hand it's the same one

you shot me with last night. This time it won't

be in the arm. No, I suppose not. Look Holiday,

it's almost ten. In about one hour and a half,

Kirby will be executed. Now you settle down and wait

until eleven thirty. What do you mean? Two birds with

one stone, Kirby and you at eleven thirty eleven twenty five, Holiday,

You and Kirby have five minutes. You won't get away

with the Morgan?

Speaker 7: Why not?

Speaker 3: If I kill you and my apartment it'll be legal.

Look what's that for? Can't you guess? Papers scattered around,

drawers ramsacked. It's simple. I came in, surprised you rifling

my apartment and shot you. See? Well that good? Why not?

Speaker 7: You know?

Speaker 3: I almost wish you would, Morgan, because ballistics has the

bullet taken from my arm, and if it matches the

one that kills me tonight you figured? Why are you meddling?

Speaker 7: Fool?

Speaker 3: Sorry?

Speaker 7: Good work time with one arm, so you better stay

where you are, Morgan cling Hey, Hey, clean the phone

the penitentiary. Oh I took care of that an hour ago.

Speaker 3: You did?

Speaker 7: What? Sure? I heard the whole thing from outside the window.

Speaker 3: But you said the case was closed. You couldn't work

on it.

Speaker 7: I've got news for you, Danny boy, I'm off duty.

Speaker 5: You said, nobody could tell a difference between.

Speaker 7: Typus that he did, Susie and a bluff about the bullet. Well,

any bluff and a poker game cling. Oh, by the way,

let me ask you one question. Yeah, what Why did

you hold off until the last minute? Why had time? Well,

the wooden dead kill you well, laughter. Kirby was executed

at eleven thirty. So I looked at my watch, and

I figured I had time to get the headquarters, pull

strings to stop the execution and get back to you

a clean Susie.

Speaker 5: Look at your watch, it's stopped.

Speaker 7: Oh that's not think it does that. Everyone listened a while.

Just shake it and oh holy cats, oh no, good night, Susanie.

Speaker 2: Next week, same time. Through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures.

Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holliday and Box thirteen. Box

thirteen is directed by Richard Sandville, with an original story

by Robert M. Light adapted for radio by Russell Hughes.

Original music is composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager. Part

of Susie is played by Sylvia Picker and that of

Lieutenant Ling by Edmund McDonald. Production is supervised by Verne Carstensen.

Box thirteen is a Mayfair production from Hollywood. Watch for

Alan Ladd in his latest paramount picture, We Leave.

Speaker 1: Dan Holiday and Box thirteen with episode twenty nine, Hunt

and Peck. Follow Box thirteen for more classic mystery broadcasts.

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