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The Earl Lawson Murder Case

Broadway is My Beat · June 9, 1951 · 29 min · 4,365 words

The transcript of “The Earl Lawson Murder Case”, an episode of Broadway is My Beat first broadcast June 9, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Broadway Is My Beat plays Broadway is My Beat free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Broadway's My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the godiest, the most violent, the lonesome-est mile in the world. Broadway's My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. When the rumor gets around that summer has begun, Broadway is beside itself with glee.

Somebody notices the sunlight and tells somebody else and the word gets around. It drifts cross town and a man reaches into his closet for a hand organ. the funny hat on his monkey and takes a walk up to Broadway, just to grind out background music for the big grin. It's the time for the dox-land and the silken ankle and the

flowered print dress. The orange juice is sweeter, the coniches lighter, and the guy runs down the street screaming, I'm in love. It's June. And it was June under the translux to a rare day. And the Times Square crowd had gathered there to consider it and take the story of a little woman, dad and mom.

There was a man lying in the circle of their feet. He was expensively dressed. He's dead, Danny. What happened, Muggaben? Ah, come on, come on, you people, break it up. Come on, get going. What is it with them, Danny?

What happened? I can tell what happened. People milling around, crossing streets, going to lunch, looking at the wand-eds over there in the tires building. Suddenly a guy's face down on the pavement. Somebody laughs, drunk, and somebody sees blood.

So we got him on the pavement and them watching. Yeah, stabbed. Yeah. Now who he is? Uh-huh. Here, while it loads of identification. Yeah. Earl Lawson, Park Avenue. Earl Lawson. Earl Lawson, Stocks and Barns.

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