In this thrilling episode of Crime Photographer, Casey and Annie stumble upon a mysterious old woman named Gertie, who claims the cemetery is her home. As they delve deeper into her story, they discover her peculiar companion, a stuffed snake named Roger. The plot thickens when Gertie disappears, and Casey suspects foul play. With the help of Captain Logan, they unravel a sinister plot involving a grave digger named Joe, who is ultimately tricked into confessing his crime through a clever ruse involving a harmless snake.
Join Casey and Annie as they navigate through a web of intrigue and deception, uncovering secrets buried deep within the cemetery. This episode is a testament to Casey's relentless pursuit of justice and his ability to think on his feet. With a mix of suspense, humor, and clever detective work, "Graveyard Gertie" keeps listeners on the edge of their seats until the very end.
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The Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation brings you crime photographer.
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KC, mister Marvin, all week I've been seeing the kids going back to school. Gosh. School days, dear old school days. Education's a wonderful thing. Alright. Sure is, mister Marvin. I didn't get past the fourth reader, but I learned something awful important since then. What was that, Edelbert?
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You tell him, mister Marvin. Why, Anchor Hocking is the most famous name in class. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is Tony Marvin. Every week at this time, the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation of Lancaster, Ohio and its more than 10,000 employees bring you another adventure of Casey crime photographer, ace cameraman who covers the crime news of the great city, written by Alonzo Dean Cole. Our adventure for tonight, graveyard gertie. Night, cold and dark. A road on the outskirts of the city, a dismal road. On one side, it's flanked by dilapidated grimy houses, billboards, and vacant plots strewn with rubbish.
On the other side is a cemetery. A familiar battered looking car approaches, and as it draws near
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I can't figure out that new rattle, Annie. Listen to it. Mhmm. I've been listening. But, Katie, this world, your lobby make so many strange noises. It's hard to tell. Now this is something new, Anne. Sounds like the battery support.
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Well, I'm gonna pull up here and see if I can locate it. Oh, you'll pick a fine place to pull up in front of those cemetery gates. Oh, graveyards don't bother me. Well, I don't like them, especially at this hour. It's almost midnight, Casey.
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You see any spooks climbing out of the ground at the stroke of twelve, Annie? Give a whistle. Mhmm. Here it is. What? Rattle? What? The license plate. The bolt all ready to fall out of it. Hooked. Is that all? Yeah. See, Annie, open the glove compartment. We didn't give you the flyer the flashlight. Excuse me. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Here we go. Won't take a minute.
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Live nice. Uh-huh.
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It's a good thing I stopped when I did. Another mildest bolt would have fallen out.
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Hey, Casey.
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Something's moving among those tombstones. From where? Back there.
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I see. If I have that mausoleum Yeah. Coming this way,
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it looks like a woman.
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Hey. It is a woman. Yeah. I suppose so, but she seems to be just floating among those graves, Casey. Getting any nuts. She's simply walking very slowly and twinkling away. Why should any woman be walking in a graveyard at this time of night? Well, how should I know, Annie? Hey, Casey. Why? The woman's figure sank out of sight behind that tombstone.
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Yeah. So it did. It looked as though she
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went into the ground. You know darn well she didn't, but I'm gonna find out what she did. Casey, don't leave me alone here. With me, ma'am. Into that cemetery? Especially.
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Oh, okay. But I don't like this. Just open the gate.
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Careful I don't stumble over one of these footstones.
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Okay. See, I don't like it here. Act your age, Annie. How about
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There. There's the tombstone where we saw her. Yeah. There's something behind it on the ground. A horrible black shadow. That's much more than a shadow. That's an old woman. A real woman? Yes. A live one too. Hey. Come here. Yeah. And you think she's fainted.
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Oh, Casey. I she's terribly old.
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She's coming too.
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Alright.
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Who are you? Take it easy, mother. We saw you fall down, and here we came to help you. Hey. Guess they had warmless spells.
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Ain't so young as it used to be, and sometimes it might hurt. Rest is what you need right now. We'll we'll take you home. Home? I don't see that you get into a warm bed. This is my home here. The cemetery? Yes. Got myself a nice place here. Fine place. Eight by four. Okay. It's all paid for too. I said I need for it. It's mine. It's a beautiful place. Well, I how do you think it's your home right now, mother. It's my real home, but I own it. I mean, every day and every night to look at it. Oh, I see. My home. I'll be moving into it soon.
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Yeah. Well, not tonight. Alright. Now carry over the car. Annie, open the door, will you? Oh, yeah. Sure. There. Now I'll put you right here in the back seat, mother. Live. I can relax. Not surprised, young fella.
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Yeah. Very nice boy. Thanks.
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You're welcome, sir. Now if you'll tell us where you live, we'll take you home. Live?
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Oh, yes. The place I rent. Pinkbird just down the road a piece. Alright. You point out the house and we get to it. I will. Will there be somebody there to take care of you? Somebody to oh, yes. Roger will take care of me. He's your son or grandson? No. Roger ain't no relation. He's just a friend. Best friend ever had when he asked you two to come in and meet Roger. Oh, that's fine. When we meet your friend, Roger, I'm gonna tell him not to let you wander around cemetery this time of night. You can tell Roger anything you got a mind too, young fella, but he won't hear you.
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Oh, you mean he's deaf and dumb? No.
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I mean, he's dead. Dead? That's right. Folks never suspected when you meet him first. You wouldn't if I hadn't told you. Never dreamed poor Roger had been dead for four years. Been dead well, this thing, what do you mean? That's what I'd like to know. Won't tell you no more now. You'll find out when you meet Roger. You'll find out when you meet him.
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Here's where I live, young fella. If you stop your automobile.
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Okay.
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This is terrible looking chappy, Casey. Yeah.
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Alright. I'll help you out, mother.
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Hello, Bryce, young fella. That ride was nice. Don't get to automobiles very often. I'm gonna ride in one again pretty soon when I leave this place to live in and go home. I'm big for that automobile is gonna take me, and I'll be wearing a swell black wrist and be resting in a box all lined with Saturn.
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Well, let's take you to your door. Then you're coming in to meet Roger.
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Well, it's very late. I think we better be going. No. No. You gotta come in. I'll go ahead and lock my door and light a lantern. Oh, Roger.
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Casey, what are we getting into? That that Roger something the poor old woman imagines, Annie. Mind doesn't run-in very cheerful channels. To say the least.
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Katie, she's unlocked three different locks to open that door. Yeah. One of her eccentricities, I guess. Roger. Pull in now. Okay, mother. Come on, kids. I don't like the look of that tumble down shack, Casey, but oh, okay. Get in. Get right in. Now I'll get the door. Hey. Your place is nice inside, mother. I sweep and muffin dust every morning. Oh, you're a wonderful housekeeper. Oh, so got a kitchen. Come and see through your steps. The dish cupboards are clean too. A little lock on my shoulder. You, keep your dishes locked up. Keep everything again locked up. That's only to stop burglars who don't meet Roger first. Roger, send them out of this house lickety split.
You were going to let us meet, Roger? Maybe I shouldn't have told you that Roger's here and that he's dead. He's no fool. You two won't hurt me. Come back to my other room. Now Roger's there. Where? In that big trunk.
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In that trunk?
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Tracy, you will be scared when you're singing. I'm warning you. Foot was always scared of Roger. He ain't changed none since he's dead. Look here, mother. What what what in that trunk and see for yourself. Just lift the lid. Trunks the one thing in this house that's never locked. Lift the lid. I'll just scare you, but it won't hurt you. I hate since you got a dead body in that trunk. I'll see. No. No. Casey, don't. The young woman don't trust me like I trust her. I'll just admit and show you what's inside. Here. Good boy. A snake. A big snake. It's lifting its head. Oh, come on. Let's get out of this time. I'm right with you, honey. You're not going to work. We're going off. Alright. I'll Wait.
Wait. Wait. I warned you you'd be scared of Roger. I told you Roger's good. What big snake is Roger? Look at him again. Annie, the thing is just that oh, it's a stuffed snake. That's right, young fella. At home, we saw it move. Its head rose out of that trunk. Its head's on a steel spring, young woman. I had the taxidermist fella fix it that way. You see, when Roger was alive, he traveled in his trunk. When I opened the lid at the end of a trip, he always dipped his head like that and rub his throat again my arm. Roger had been my friend and partner twenty years, and he died on wisdom so I had in stock renal lifelife. Roger was your your pardon? I used to be a speak to my young man. I make a chance best in the business.
I did all the good big chops. When Will Roger passed away, lost interest in the profession and dropped out. There never was another python like him. He was a python, 50 for every inch of his high lobsters. You look a little pale, young lady. You're gonna pitch your spot or tea. No. Thanks. I we must be going now. Can't do that. Please stay. Roger and me ain't had visitors for an awful long time. Sure. Sit down, Annie. We're no hurry now. Alright. Alright. Now some snakes ain't food. Take cobras for instance, your copperheads, your rattlers. I could handle them. Still can, but I never got to really like them. Mother, you and I are liking that. Yeah. Me too. Say, I knew we was gonna find a lot of things in common. I'll put the ticket on, then we'll have a nice long talk. Young folks can all go to his house again.
It almost makes me feel as though the place I live in is my home.
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You and miss Williams stayed up half the night with that old lady.
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Sure did. We got a big kick out of it too, Evelyn. She had so many interesting things to talk about. Old circus days and the gay nineties. It was a wonderful evening. Outside of Roger.
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Oh, don't mention him. I'll never get over that shock. That snake. Poor old woman living alone with a stuffed snake. Yeah. Wandering around that cemetery. You know, I found out that people in the neighborhood call her graveyard Gertie. She's had nothing to live for except the prospect of a decent funeral. You say she's managed to put enough dough away for that? Yeah. Skimped and saved a few dollars here and there. Casey Sol Burke, our city editor, on the idea of playing
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old girlie up in a Sunday feature for which she'll be paid. Paid? Sure. For letting me take pictures and for giving miss Williams an exclusive. And how much will your city editor pay her? Well, the tight boss said a hundred dollars was his limit, but Casey got him up to $300.
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Hey. That'll look like a million to the old gal. Mhmm. And we're going to call on her with the check tomorrow morning.
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Well, here we are, honey. Uh-huh. Well, I'll go ahead and knock at the door while you get your camera and supply case. Okay, honey. My stuff's all here in the back seat. I'll be with you in a second. Okay.
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Gerdie? Gertie, it's Ann Williams. Doesn't ask for Casey. She must be out. Oh, well, I'll tie the door.
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Not locked. Well, then she's inside. She wouldn't go away without locking up. Uh-uh. Push it open. Yell again. Yeah. Okay.
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Casey, look. Hey. Somebody's been tearing this place apart. Look. If your drawers are all pulled out and those cabinets are open. They're strewn all over the floor. No. This trunk is open. Oh, that awful head sticking out. Never mind the stuffed snake. Where's the old lady? She's not in this room. Wait. I'll look in the kitchen. Yeah. Okay.
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Oh, she's not in here. Annie, these kitchen cupboards have been open too. Look. Everything she kept locked has been unlocked, Annie. Nothing broken open. Oh, she wouldn't give up her keys unless
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unless Yeah.
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That's what I'm afraid of. Okay. I don't see any blood stains. No sign of us. Wait a minute.
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Look here on the floor. Yeah. Piece of mud. That's clay. Don't touch it. Maybe it'll lead for the police. Yes.
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And the cops don't like to find things monkeyed with. Annie, go find a phone. Call the cops. Get Logan. Oh, Captain Logan's homicide bureau. We have no murder to respond. Much, Annie. Get Logan. Casey, your hunch has wasted a lot of valuable time for me. My guys have searched every inch of this neighborhood, and there isn't a sign of that old woman or her body. Where do they go over that cemetery, Logan? She walked in there every night. They've looked behind every tree and tombstone. You had no business to call me in on this. Before the homicide squad can go to work, they have to have a dead body. Sometimes I think they got one for a captain. Oh, yeah? Look, Logan. That old woman wouldn't have given up her keys without a scrap, and she was too frail to stand this crap. There's no evidence there was a scrap. This is a case for the precinct cops and missing persons bureau. I'm going back to headquarters. Okay, smart guy. Go ahead. But my hunch still says it's a murder case, and I'm gonna prove it. Yeah. So long, miss Williams. Goodbye, captain.
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Looks to me as though you put yourself out on a limb with him, Katie.
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How are you going to prove this is a murder?
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Well, maybe I did talk a little too big. He got me sorry. Piece of mud must have come off the shoe of whoever ransacked this place. How'd it get on his shoe? How does anyone get muddy shoes? The cemetery. Annie, let me think. Would you be old Gertie had so many locks and bars around this place that the neighbors probably figured that she had dough getting here. For someone in the neighborhood late for her, Somebody who was familiar with the neighborhood and her habits. He killed her. According to your hunch. Yeah. Be quiet, Anne. Okay. Okay. Took her keys, hit the body. Place unknown.
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I didn't say anything. Oh,
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and he came to this shack and searched for the doe that he thought was here using Gertie's keys. And he didn't find what he was looking for in a locked place, so he lifted the lid of that trunk that wasn't locked. And the head of that stuffed snake popped out. Yeah. The burglar reacted any just like we did when we first saw Roger. Only he got out the door, slammed it behind him, and kept going. Wait a minute. There's one place that the cinch that burglar didn't look, and that's inside of Roger's trunk. The burglar thought the snake was a real McCoy and ran out. Can't even see.
I'm right. Look.
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Hey. There's a metal box in the bottom of the trunk. Roger's coiled around it. A big cash box with a locked lid. Oh, Gertie did have money hidden here. She did. It's in this box.
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Annie. Yeah? I think I see a way to prove that Gertie was murdered and to get whoever did it. How? Whoever used that old woman's keys still has them and still wants the dough that he didn't find. Well, I don't see any Annie, go back to the office. Tell him I won't be in for quite a while. So what are you gonna do? First, I'm gonna pay a visit to the sexton of that cemetery down the road.
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Yes, mister Casey. I know old Gertie. She's been a familiar figure around this cemetery.
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Of course, you know she disappeared, Sexton.
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Kramer is the name. Mister Kramer. Yes. The policeman who searched the grounds told me what had happened. They found her yet? No. Oh, yeah.
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But they figure she's okay. She just wandered away. I sincerely hope they arrived. Yes. My paper was about to publish a story on the old girl. Is there
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anything that you could tell me, mister Kramer, that I've already told the police all to know, which is really nothing.
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Well, maybe some of your workmen, the gravediggers, for instance, maybe they could give me some dope on it. Oh, you might talk to them. You'll find most of them working at the Northeast End today. Oh, well, I'll look them up and get acquainted. Oh, was there a burial this morning? Three of them. Three? Yes. Why do you ask? Oh, I just wondered how business was. Matter of speaking. You know, I'll tell you a funny one. If a burglar killed that old lady, he didn't find her money. Didn't? I think the money she's in a locked metal cash box beneath a big stuffed snake she had. Big stuffed snake? Uh-huh. Well, thanks for your courtesy, mister Kramer. I'll go out and talk to your gravedigger.
You fellas have really been swell letting me interrupt your work and telling all you know about old Gertie. Thanks a minute.
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Great diggers. They're not such bad fellows
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when you get to know us. Is that mister Casey? That's right, Tony. Sorry. I couldn't give you no hints about where to look for the old car, mister Casey. I sure hope she turns up in good health. Yes. So do I, Pat. Yes. So do I. I didn't know the old name, but, I'd like her to be okay. Me too, Joe. Me too. Yeah. Well, thanks again. I'll be running along, I guess. Oh, since you knew old Gertie, that is all except Joe here, I'll tell you a funny one. If a bird bird did kill Gertie, which the cops don't believe, he missed the place where I think she kept her dough. He did? Yeah.
A locked metal box beneath a big stuffed snake she had. Stuffed snake? Stuffed snake, you say? Stuffed snake? Yeah. Stuffed, Joe. Casey, what makes you think the murderer will come to old Gertie's house tonight? I'd find it in the comments. See, I talked to him today. I see. You talked to him. I think I did. I think he's a guy named Joe. That's identifying him for me. I also think I know where he hit the body, Logan. Where? I'll tell you. But first, look. First, you've got to agree to follow a plan that I've laid out. Now is it a deal? Alright, Casey. It's a deal. Your big scheme has worked out swell so far, Casey. We've now been enjoying the discomforts of old Gertie's two before kitchen just four hours.
And in the dark. I don't think he'll show up at all. Alright. We'll lay for him again tomorrow night. Oh, that's a pleasant prospect. Yeah. Standing in the dark. Yeah. Doing nothing. Yeah. Yeah. We can listen to Logan's sparkling conversation. Yeah. Nuts.
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Casey,
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what do you suppose is in that box of Gerties? We'll find out, Annie, when it's open. Well, I'm surprised you didn't have a locksmith open it, captain Logan. Why should I? Quiet. Listen.
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Your key's turning in the lock. Who do you think is using that key, Logan? Shut up. Hey. The door is opening.
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It's a man. Yeah. He's turned on a flashlight.
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He's heading for that trunk. He's opened it. Do yourself, Logan. Put them up, you. Put them up, I said. Don't shoot. Don't shoot. Where did you get that bunch of keys, Joel? Alright. Alright. You can run me in for entering this house just now, but that's all you can put on me. That's all. Do you think it'll be all when we find old Gertie's body where you buried it? I didn't bury no body. You killed that old woman. Oh. You killed her and buried her in one of the new graves that were dug yesterday. You dug one of those graves a little deeper last night, put Gertie's body in, and covered it to the grave's normal depth. I don't know what you're talking about. You tracked fresh clay into this house last night from the graveyard. Try to prove it was me, mister. Mhmm. I guess there's nothing to do but take them in, Logan. Come on, you. Wait a minute.
He's got the keys, Logan, to that box we haven't opened. We might as well see what's in it. Yeah. That's right. Open it up, Joe. Me? That's what you came here to do. Alright. Alright. So you got an attempt to fugly rap against me. So what? So open that box. Okay. Anything to oblige you, copper. And I open it up and take out what's inside. Okay.
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What's the
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matter? A snake's in a box of live snakes. Snake. Now look at my hand, the marks of its fangs. Oh, Gertie kept a live snake in there too. Logan, that snake's a copperhead. Copperhead. Oh, they're deadly. Yeah. Yeah. I know that. Get me to a doctor. Get me to a doctor quick. We knew the old girl liked snakes, Casey. Hey, for the love of I didn't know she liked copperheads though. Hey, if a doctor will take care of me in a few hours, I'll be dead. That's right. Brother, do something for me. Not until you tell the truth about old Gertie. I told you the truth. Take it over, Joe. In a few minutes, your hand will begin to swell. The poison will be going through your system. Hey. Hey. You can't do the stubby. You can't. The snake bite has to be treated quickly or there's not much hope. Tell us about Gertie, Joe. And my hand's beginning to swell, Joe. Tell us about Gertie. The whole doc doesn't get to your question. Tell us about dirty Alright. Alright. I'll tell I'll tell you if you get it done. Talk fast and tell the truth. I kill the old woman tower. I sneak up behind her and hit her on her head. What grave did you bury her in? One of the new graves. I'll show you. You'll find her there just like I said. Now give me to her doc. Give me to her doc, please. As soon as we check your story, Joe. That grave is open and we know you've told the truth. It is poison. We'll wait till you open that grave. I'll be dead by now. Confidentially, Joe, we don't really care. You're gonna let me
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die. I'm going to the cemetery and point out that grave. Let me cut it. And I'll take the picture. Do it. Hey. Wait a minute, Casey.
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Not sure, Annie. What is it? Did you and Logan know there was a snake in that box?
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Confidentially, Annie, we put it there. A copperhead? No. Just a harmless, hognose snake that we bought from the zoo. Doesn't even bite. Well, you had bit that man's hand. I saw the mark. We had the box rigged so that anybody sticking his hand at it would strike a pair of sharp pointed nails and scratch himself. Oh, no. Joe won't die a snake bite. He's gonna die in a chair.
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The cops found that poor old woman's body just as that guy Joe said.
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That's right, Elbert, which means that Joe is all washed up.
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What was in that box before you put the harmless snake in it, Casey?
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All of old Gertie's wealth. Yep. Old photograph of Roger when he was alive, the deed to Gertie's burial plot, and an undertaker's receipt for the funeral that she paid for in advance,
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and a $10 bill. Geez. And she's getting that proper funeral with priming.
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A $300 check that we weren't able to give her is buying her a nice monument. Miss, she'd like that. Yeah. She would.
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Say, Casey, what's gonna be done with Roger, that 15 foot python in the trunk?
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Oh, say, I'm glad you mentioned that, Ethelbert. No. We almost forgot. Gertie made a will the day after we met her, which leaves Roger, trunk and all, to Annie and me. What are you gonna do with him? Hey, bartender. Is there a guy around here by the name of Ethelbert Gibson? Oh, yeah. That's me. What's on your mind? I'm from the express company. I got a big trunk outside for you. Where do you want me to put it? Come on, Casey. I, think we better go. It's all on, pal.
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Wait. You mean a trans what am I gonna do? You can't do this to me.
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KC, mister Marvin, all week I've been seeing the kids going back to school. Gosh. School days, dear old school days. Education's a wonderful thing. Alright. Sure is, mister Marvin. I didn't get past the fourth reader, but I learned something awful important since then. What was that, Edelbert?
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You tell him, mister Marvin. Why, Anchor Hocking is the most famous name in class. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is Tony Marvin. Every week at this time, the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation of Lancaster, Ohio and its more than 10,000 employees bring you another adventure of Casey crime photographer, ace cameraman who covers the crime news of the great city, written by Alonzo Dean Cole. Our adventure for tonight, graveyard gertie. Night, cold and dark. A road on the outskirts of the city, a dismal road. On one side, it's flanked by dilapidated grimy houses, billboards, and vacant plots strewn with rubbish.
On the other side is a cemetery. A familiar battered looking car approaches, and as it draws near
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I can't figure out that new rattle, Annie. Listen to it. Mhmm. I've been listening. But, Katie, this world, your lobby make so many strange noises. It's hard to tell. Now this is something new, Anne. Sounds like the battery support.
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Well, I'm gonna pull up here and see if I can locate it. Oh, you'll pick a fine place to pull up in front of those cemetery gates. Oh, graveyards don't bother me. Well, I don't like them, especially at this hour. It's almost midnight, Casey.
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You see any spooks climbing out of the ground at the stroke of twelve, Annie? Give a whistle. Mhmm. Here it is. What? Rattle? What? The license plate. The bolt all ready to fall out of it. Hooked. Is that all? Yeah. See, Annie, open the glove compartment. We didn't give you the flyer the flashlight. Excuse me. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Here we go. Won't take a minute.
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Live nice. Uh-huh.
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It's a good thing I stopped when I did. Another mildest bolt would have fallen out.
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Hey, Casey.
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Something's moving among those tombstones. From where? Back there.
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I see. If I have that mausoleum Yeah. Coming this way,
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it looks like a woman.
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Hey. It is a woman. Yeah. I suppose so, but she seems to be just floating among those graves, Casey. Getting any nuts. She's simply walking very slowly and twinkling away. Why should any woman be walking in a graveyard at this time of night? Well, how should I know, Annie? Hey, Casey. Why? The woman's figure sank out of sight behind that tombstone.
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Yeah. So it did. It looked as though she
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went into the ground. You know darn well she didn't, but I'm gonna find out what she did. Casey, don't leave me alone here. With me, ma'am. Into that cemetery? Especially.
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Oh, okay. But I don't like this. Just open the gate.
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Careful I don't stumble over one of these footstones.
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Okay. See, I don't like it here. Act your age, Annie. How about
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There. There's the tombstone where we saw her. Yeah. There's something behind it on the ground. A horrible black shadow. That's much more than a shadow. That's an old woman. A real woman? Yes. A live one too. Hey. Come here. Yeah. And you think she's fainted.
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Oh, Casey. I she's terribly old.
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She's coming too.
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Alright.
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Who are you? Take it easy, mother. We saw you fall down, and here we came to help you. Hey. Guess they had warmless spells.
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Ain't so young as it used to be, and sometimes it might hurt. Rest is what you need right now. We'll we'll take you home. Home? I don't see that you get into a warm bed. This is my home here. The cemetery? Yes. Got myself a nice place here. Fine place. Eight by four. Okay. It's all paid for too. I said I need for it. It's mine. It's a beautiful place. Well, I how do you think it's your home right now, mother. It's my real home, but I own it. I mean, every day and every night to look at it. Oh, I see. My home. I'll be moving into it soon.
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Yeah. Well, not tonight. Alright. Now carry over the car. Annie, open the door, will you? Oh, yeah. Sure. There. Now I'll put you right here in the back seat, mother. Live. I can relax. Not surprised, young fella.
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Yeah. Very nice boy. Thanks.
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You're welcome, sir. Now if you'll tell us where you live, we'll take you home. Live?
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Oh, yes. The place I rent. Pinkbird just down the road a piece. Alright. You point out the house and we get to it. I will. Will there be somebody there to take care of you? Somebody to oh, yes. Roger will take care of me. He's your son or grandson? No. Roger ain't no relation. He's just a friend. Best friend ever had when he asked you two to come in and meet Roger. Oh, that's fine. When we meet your friend, Roger, I'm gonna tell him not to let you wander around cemetery this time of night. You can tell Roger anything you got a mind too, young fella, but he won't hear you.
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Oh, you mean he's deaf and dumb? No.
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I mean, he's dead. Dead? That's right. Folks never suspected when you meet him first. You wouldn't if I hadn't told you. Never dreamed poor Roger had been dead for four years. Been dead well, this thing, what do you mean? That's what I'd like to know. Won't tell you no more now. You'll find out when you meet Roger. You'll find out when you meet him.
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Here's where I live, young fella. If you stop your automobile.
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Okay.
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This is terrible looking chappy, Casey. Yeah.
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Alright. I'll help you out, mother.
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Hello, Bryce, young fella. That ride was nice. Don't get to automobiles very often. I'm gonna ride in one again pretty soon when I leave this place to live in and go home. I'm big for that automobile is gonna take me, and I'll be wearing a swell black wrist and be resting in a box all lined with Saturn.
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Well, let's take you to your door. Then you're coming in to meet Roger.
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Well, it's very late. I think we better be going. No. No. You gotta come in. I'll go ahead and lock my door and light a lantern. Oh, Roger.
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Casey, what are we getting into? That that Roger something the poor old woman imagines, Annie. Mind doesn't run-in very cheerful channels. To say the least.
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Katie, she's unlocked three different locks to open that door. Yeah. One of her eccentricities, I guess. Roger. Pull in now. Okay, mother. Come on, kids. I don't like the look of that tumble down shack, Casey, but oh, okay. Get in. Get right in. Now I'll get the door. Hey. Your place is nice inside, mother. I sweep and muffin dust every morning. Oh, you're a wonderful housekeeper. Oh, so got a kitchen. Come and see through your steps. The dish cupboards are clean too. A little lock on my shoulder. You, keep your dishes locked up. Keep everything again locked up. That's only to stop burglars who don't meet Roger first. Roger, send them out of this house lickety split.
You were going to let us meet, Roger? Maybe I shouldn't have told you that Roger's here and that he's dead. He's no fool. You two won't hurt me. Come back to my other room. Now Roger's there. Where? In that big trunk.
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In that trunk?
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Tracy, you will be scared when you're singing. I'm warning you. Foot was always scared of Roger. He ain't changed none since he's dead. Look here, mother. What what what in that trunk and see for yourself. Just lift the lid. Trunks the one thing in this house that's never locked. Lift the lid. I'll just scare you, but it won't hurt you. I hate since you got a dead body in that trunk. I'll see. No. No. Casey, don't. The young woman don't trust me like I trust her. I'll just admit and show you what's inside. Here. Good boy. A snake. A big snake. It's lifting its head. Oh, come on. Let's get out of this time. I'm right with you, honey. You're not going to work. We're going off. Alright. I'll Wait.
Wait. Wait. I warned you you'd be scared of Roger. I told you Roger's good. What big snake is Roger? Look at him again. Annie, the thing is just that oh, it's a stuffed snake. That's right, young fella. At home, we saw it move. Its head rose out of that trunk. Its head's on a steel spring, young woman. I had the taxidermist fella fix it that way. You see, when Roger was alive, he traveled in his trunk. When I opened the lid at the end of a trip, he always dipped his head like that and rub his throat again my arm. Roger had been my friend and partner twenty years, and he died on wisdom so I had in stock renal lifelife. Roger was your your pardon? I used to be a speak to my young man. I make a chance best in the business.
I did all the good big chops. When Will Roger passed away, lost interest in the profession and dropped out. There never was another python like him. He was a python, 50 for every inch of his high lobsters. You look a little pale, young lady. You're gonna pitch your spot or tea. No. Thanks. I we must be going now. Can't do that. Please stay. Roger and me ain't had visitors for an awful long time. Sure. Sit down, Annie. We're no hurry now. Alright. Alright. Now some snakes ain't food. Take cobras for instance, your copperheads, your rattlers. I could handle them. Still can, but I never got to really like them. Mother, you and I are liking that. Yeah. Me too. Say, I knew we was gonna find a lot of things in common. I'll put the ticket on, then we'll have a nice long talk. Young folks can all go to his house again.
It almost makes me feel as though the place I live in is my home.
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You and miss Williams stayed up half the night with that old lady.
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Sure did. We got a big kick out of it too, Evelyn. She had so many interesting things to talk about. Old circus days and the gay nineties. It was a wonderful evening. Outside of Roger.
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Oh, don't mention him. I'll never get over that shock. That snake. Poor old woman living alone with a stuffed snake. Yeah. Wandering around that cemetery. You know, I found out that people in the neighborhood call her graveyard Gertie. She's had nothing to live for except the prospect of a decent funeral. You say she's managed to put enough dough away for that? Yeah. Skimped and saved a few dollars here and there. Casey Sol Burke, our city editor, on the idea of playing
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old girlie up in a Sunday feature for which she'll be paid. Paid? Sure. For letting me take pictures and for giving miss Williams an exclusive. And how much will your city editor pay her? Well, the tight boss said a hundred dollars was his limit, but Casey got him up to $300.
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Hey. That'll look like a million to the old gal. Mhmm. And we're going to call on her with the check tomorrow morning.
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Well, here we are, honey. Uh-huh. Well, I'll go ahead and knock at the door while you get your camera and supply case. Okay, honey. My stuff's all here in the back seat. I'll be with you in a second. Okay.
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Gerdie? Gertie, it's Ann Williams. Doesn't ask for Casey. She must be out. Oh, well, I'll tie the door.
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Not locked. Well, then she's inside. She wouldn't go away without locking up. Uh-uh. Push it open. Yell again. Yeah. Okay.
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Casey, look. Hey. Somebody's been tearing this place apart. Look. If your drawers are all pulled out and those cabinets are open. They're strewn all over the floor. No. This trunk is open. Oh, that awful head sticking out. Never mind the stuffed snake. Where's the old lady? She's not in this room. Wait. I'll look in the kitchen. Yeah. Okay.
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Oh, she's not in here. Annie, these kitchen cupboards have been open too. Look. Everything she kept locked has been unlocked, Annie. Nothing broken open. Oh, she wouldn't give up her keys unless
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unless Yeah.
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That's what I'm afraid of. Okay. I don't see any blood stains. No sign of us. Wait a minute.
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Look here on the floor. Yeah. Piece of mud. That's clay. Don't touch it. Maybe it'll lead for the police. Yes.
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And the cops don't like to find things monkeyed with. Annie, go find a phone. Call the cops. Get Logan. Oh, Captain Logan's homicide bureau. We have no murder to respond. Much, Annie. Get Logan. Casey, your hunch has wasted a lot of valuable time for me. My guys have searched every inch of this neighborhood, and there isn't a sign of that old woman or her body. Where do they go over that cemetery, Logan? She walked in there every night. They've looked behind every tree and tombstone. You had no business to call me in on this. Before the homicide squad can go to work, they have to have a dead body. Sometimes I think they got one for a captain. Oh, yeah? Look, Logan. That old woman wouldn't have given up her keys without a scrap, and she was too frail to stand this crap. There's no evidence there was a scrap. This is a case for the precinct cops and missing persons bureau. I'm going back to headquarters. Okay, smart guy. Go ahead. But my hunch still says it's a murder case, and I'm gonna prove it. Yeah. So long, miss Williams. Goodbye, captain.
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Looks to me as though you put yourself out on a limb with him, Katie.
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How are you going to prove this is a murder?
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Well, maybe I did talk a little too big. He got me sorry. Piece of mud must have come off the shoe of whoever ransacked this place. How'd it get on his shoe? How does anyone get muddy shoes? The cemetery. Annie, let me think. Would you be old Gertie had so many locks and bars around this place that the neighbors probably figured that she had dough getting here. For someone in the neighborhood late for her, Somebody who was familiar with the neighborhood and her habits. He killed her. According to your hunch. Yeah. Be quiet, Anne. Okay. Okay. Took her keys, hit the body. Place unknown.
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I didn't say anything. Oh,
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and he came to this shack and searched for the doe that he thought was here using Gertie's keys. And he didn't find what he was looking for in a locked place, so he lifted the lid of that trunk that wasn't locked. And the head of that stuffed snake popped out. Yeah. The burglar reacted any just like we did when we first saw Roger. Only he got out the door, slammed it behind him, and kept going. Wait a minute. There's one place that the cinch that burglar didn't look, and that's inside of Roger's trunk. The burglar thought the snake was a real McCoy and ran out. Can't even see.
I'm right. Look.
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Hey. There's a metal box in the bottom of the trunk. Roger's coiled around it. A big cash box with a locked lid. Oh, Gertie did have money hidden here. She did. It's in this box.
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Annie. Yeah? I think I see a way to prove that Gertie was murdered and to get whoever did it. How? Whoever used that old woman's keys still has them and still wants the dough that he didn't find. Well, I don't see any Annie, go back to the office. Tell him I won't be in for quite a while. So what are you gonna do? First, I'm gonna pay a visit to the sexton of that cemetery down the road.
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Yes, mister Casey. I know old Gertie. She's been a familiar figure around this cemetery.
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Of course, you know she disappeared, Sexton.
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Kramer is the name. Mister Kramer. Yes. The policeman who searched the grounds told me what had happened. They found her yet? No. Oh, yeah.
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But they figure she's okay. She just wandered away. I sincerely hope they arrived. Yes. My paper was about to publish a story on the old girl. Is there
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anything that you could tell me, mister Kramer, that I've already told the police all to know, which is really nothing.
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Well, maybe some of your workmen, the gravediggers, for instance, maybe they could give me some dope on it. Oh, you might talk to them. You'll find most of them working at the Northeast End today. Oh, well, I'll look them up and get acquainted. Oh, was there a burial this morning? Three of them. Three? Yes. Why do you ask? Oh, I just wondered how business was. Matter of speaking. You know, I'll tell you a funny one. If a burglar killed that old lady, he didn't find her money. Didn't? I think the money she's in a locked metal cash box beneath a big stuffed snake she had. Big stuffed snake? Uh-huh. Well, thanks for your courtesy, mister Kramer. I'll go out and talk to your gravedigger.
You fellas have really been swell letting me interrupt your work and telling all you know about old Gertie. Thanks a minute.
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Great diggers. They're not such bad fellows
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when you get to know us. Is that mister Casey? That's right, Tony. Sorry. I couldn't give you no hints about where to look for the old car, mister Casey. I sure hope she turns up in good health. Yes. So do I, Pat. Yes. So do I. I didn't know the old name, but, I'd like her to be okay. Me too, Joe. Me too. Yeah. Well, thanks again. I'll be running along, I guess. Oh, since you knew old Gertie, that is all except Joe here, I'll tell you a funny one. If a bird bird did kill Gertie, which the cops don't believe, he missed the place where I think she kept her dough. He did? Yeah.
A locked metal box beneath a big stuffed snake she had. Stuffed snake? Stuffed snake, you say? Stuffed snake? Yeah. Stuffed, Joe. Casey, what makes you think the murderer will come to old Gertie's house tonight? I'd find it in the comments. See, I talked to him today. I see. You talked to him. I think I did. I think he's a guy named Joe. That's identifying him for me. I also think I know where he hit the body, Logan. Where? I'll tell you. But first, look. First, you've got to agree to follow a plan that I've laid out. Now is it a deal? Alright, Casey. It's a deal. Your big scheme has worked out swell so far, Casey. We've now been enjoying the discomforts of old Gertie's two before kitchen just four hours.
And in the dark. I don't think he'll show up at all. Alright. We'll lay for him again tomorrow night. Oh, that's a pleasant prospect. Yeah. Standing in the dark. Yeah. Doing nothing. Yeah. Yeah. We can listen to Logan's sparkling conversation. Yeah. Nuts.
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Casey,
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what do you suppose is in that box of Gerties? We'll find out, Annie, when it's open. Well, I'm surprised you didn't have a locksmith open it, captain Logan. Why should I? Quiet. Listen.
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Your key's turning in the lock. Who do you think is using that key, Logan? Shut up. Hey. The door is opening.
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It's a man. Yeah. He's turned on a flashlight.
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He's heading for that trunk. He's opened it. Do yourself, Logan. Put them up, you. Put them up, I said. Don't shoot. Don't shoot. Where did you get that bunch of keys, Joel? Alright. Alright. You can run me in for entering this house just now, but that's all you can put on me. That's all. Do you think it'll be all when we find old Gertie's body where you buried it? I didn't bury no body. You killed that old woman. Oh. You killed her and buried her in one of the new graves that were dug yesterday. You dug one of those graves a little deeper last night, put Gertie's body in, and covered it to the grave's normal depth. I don't know what you're talking about. You tracked fresh clay into this house last night from the graveyard. Try to prove it was me, mister. Mhmm. I guess there's nothing to do but take them in, Logan. Come on, you. Wait a minute.
He's got the keys, Logan, to that box we haven't opened. We might as well see what's in it. Yeah. That's right. Open it up, Joe. Me? That's what you came here to do. Alright. Alright. So you got an attempt to fugly rap against me. So what? So open that box. Okay. Anything to oblige you, copper. And I open it up and take out what's inside. Okay.
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matter? A snake's in a box of live snakes. Snake. Now look at my hand, the marks of its fangs. Oh, Gertie kept a live snake in there too. Logan, that snake's a copperhead. Copperhead. Oh, they're deadly. Yeah. Yeah. I know that. Get me to a doctor. Get me to a doctor quick. We knew the old girl liked snakes, Casey. Hey, for the love of I didn't know she liked copperheads though. Hey, if a doctor will take care of me in a few hours, I'll be dead. That's right. Brother, do something for me. Not until you tell the truth about old Gertie. I told you the truth. Take it over, Joe. In a few minutes, your hand will begin to swell. The poison will be going through your system. Hey. Hey. You can't do the stubby. You can't. The snake bite has to be treated quickly or there's not much hope. Tell us about Gertie, Joe. And my hand's beginning to swell, Joe. Tell us about Gertie. The whole doc doesn't get to your question. Tell us about dirty Alright. Alright. I'll tell I'll tell you if you get it done. Talk fast and tell the truth. I kill the old woman tower. I sneak up behind her and hit her on her head. What grave did you bury her in? One of the new graves. I'll show you. You'll find her there just like I said. Now give me to her doc. Give me to her doc, please. As soon as we check your story, Joe. That grave is open and we know you've told the truth. It is poison. We'll wait till you open that grave. I'll be dead by now. Confidentially, Joe, we don't really care. You're gonna let me
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die. I'm going to the cemetery and point out that grave. Let me cut it. And I'll take the picture. Do it. Hey. Wait a minute, Casey.
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Not sure, Annie. What is it? Did you and Logan know there was a snake in that box?
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Confidentially, Annie, we put it there. A copperhead? No. Just a harmless, hognose snake that we bought from the zoo. Doesn't even bite. Well, you had bit that man's hand. I saw the mark. We had the box rigged so that anybody sticking his hand at it would strike a pair of sharp pointed nails and scratch himself. Oh, no. Joe won't die a snake bite. He's gonna die in a chair.
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The cops found that poor old woman's body just as that guy Joe said.
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That's right, Elbert, which means that Joe is all washed up.
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What was in that box before you put the harmless snake in it, Casey?
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All of old Gertie's wealth. Yep. Old photograph of Roger when he was alive, the deed to Gertie's burial plot, and an undertaker's receipt for the funeral that she paid for in advance,
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and a $10 bill. Geez. And she's getting that proper funeral with priming.
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A $300 check that we weren't able to give her is buying her a nice monument. Miss, she'd like that. Yeah. She would.
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Say, Casey, what's gonna be done with Roger, that 15 foot python in the trunk?
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Oh, say, I'm glad you mentioned that, Ethelbert. No. We almost forgot. Gertie made a will the day after we met her, which leaves Roger, trunk and all, to Annie and me. What are you gonna do with him? Hey, bartender. Is there a guy around here by the name of Ethelbert Gibson? Oh, yeah. That's me. What's on your mind? I'm from the express company. I got a big trunk outside for you. Where do you want me to put it? Come on, Casey. I, think we better go. It's all on, pal.
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Wait. You mean a trans what am I gonna do? You can't do this to me.
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Introduction to Crime Photographer
Graveyard Gertie: The Mysterious Encounter
Gertie's Peculiar Home and Roger the Snake
The Disappearance of Gertie
Casey's Investigation and the Gravediggers
The Trap and the Truth Revealed
Conclusion and Gertie's Legacy
