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The Ruth Nelson Murder Case

Broadway is My Beat · October 11, 1952 · 30 min · 4,522 words

The transcript of “The Ruth Nelson Murder Case”, an episode of Broadway is My Beat first broadcast October 11, 1952. 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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The Waze My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the Gaudius, the most violent, the lonesome smile in the world. Broadway's My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Glover. On the flow of October dusk, the sounds of Broadway are softer, fall gently on the ear.

Through loudspeakers, the awesome songs filtered by electronics and darkening twilight. The voices that keened against the day quieter now and the walk is slower. The direction not yet decided upon. The in-between time, the time for the conjuring of images, remembered and sought for.

And night hits, night mushrooms in the street rocks. So start running, kid. Refuge waits in a neon doorway. And night has a good hold now in the street of the rooming house where autumn wind quick strokes the light of street lamp across scarred brownstone across the faces of kids clustered in their night game upstairs from that a

room where I was detective Margaret and a woman dead of the deep knife in her place to die how Danny this room the way it's furnished no extras just the necessities the bed wash stand Chester drawers hot plate behind the screen by no who she is yeah super told me said she answered their room to let sign his window around noon

paid a week's rent in advance gave her name is Mrs. Ruth Nelson. Round 55 to 60 I'd say Danny. Her hands worked hard. This dress she's got on mission salvage type. What could a woman like this do that it makes someone stick a knife in a white suitcase on a bureau mug of and you've looked at it.

I know you open it looking at. Yeah. A couple more dresses like the one she has on. It's a nice underclothes. Tortoise show comb hairpins. There's some papers here in one of the pockets. Mm.

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