42.4 MORE from The Secret Files of Nellie Bly: "The Band of Mercy"
Fireside Mystery Theatre
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4.5 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
"The Band of Mercy" was recorded live on February 24th, 2019\. It's our final tale from this series of **MORE from The Secret Files of Nellie Bly**.
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Featured in this episode:
David Linton as Arthur Brisbane
Mary Murphy as Mrs. Devide
Michael Pate as Officer Joseph Connelly
James Rieser as Adamson
Ali Silva as Nellie Bly
Kacie Laforest as Mrs. Ewen
Eirik Davey-Gislason as Ben Van Orden
Alain Laforest as Joseph Pulitzer
James Kleinmann as Governor Roswell P. Flower
Song:
“Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nelly” by Andrew B. Sterling
Performed by Martina DaSilva
accompanied by Nico Sleator
Poem:
"Just the Facts, Ma'am"
Written and performed by David Linton
Radio play by Silbin Sandovar
Directed by Holly Payne-Strange
Musical score improvised by Nico Sleator
Sound Effects Designer and Engineer: Joe Jung
Technical Director at The Slipper Room: Johnny Goddard
Production Assistant: Brontis Shane Orengo
Theme music by Jason Graves
Post-production audio by Ali Silva
Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez & Ali Silva for Fireside Mystery Productions
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| 0:00.0 | It should come as no surprise that I love a strong leading lady, and no lady led the way in the |
| 0:12.5 | literary investigative field of journalism quite like the amazing Nellie Bly. She endeavored to tell the |
| 0:19.6 | tales of the marginalized, the unseen, the overlooked, |
| 0:23.4 | as well as those who dared to take a stand. We explore her encounter with just such a group |
| 0:29.8 | in our next tale from our live show. More from the secret files of Nellie Bly. It's a story we call |
| 0:36.6 | The Band of Mercy. You can decide for yourself. It's a story we call The Band of Mercy. |
| 0:38.7 | You can decide for yourself if it's a story too spectacular to believe. |
| 0:43.7 | The following was taped live in New York City on Sunday, February 24th, 2019. |
| 1:04.4 | Now, Mr. Brisbane, is there not one more lost item left for us this evening? |
| 1:12.3 | Yes, there is. And it is perhaps the strangest story I know of. I am very cautious in making such a claim, |
| 1:15.3 | but in all of my many years as a newspaper man, |
| 1:18.4 | I never came across anything odder than what you're about to hear now. |
| 1:22.3 | Nellie Bly's story of the Band of Mercy, |
| 1:25.3 | as it appeared in the New York world, |
| 1:28.3 | on New Year's Eve in 1893, |
| 1:32.3 | was bizarre enough on its own merits, |
| 1:35.3 | but what no one knows is that the published story |
| 1:38.3 | only just scratched the surface. |
| 1:41.3 | It all began when Nellie picked up a lead based on the following account. |
| 1:51.0 | It took place on West 125th Street of Manhattan in the fall of 1893. |
| 2:01.9 | A policeman named Joseph Connolly began to shadow an odd-looking woman named Mrs. Grace Georgia D'Veed. |
| 2:11.1 | Officer? |
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