by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Frank Smith (here played by Herb Ellis) arrive at a hospital to investigate the discovery of a dead body in an elevator. The decedent is an unidentified woman in a wheelchair--and at the moment, there is no known cause for her death, nor any suspects. The detectives get their first tangible clue when someone calls the hospital asking about the health of a patient named "Mrs. Cheswick"--for whom there is no record of admission. In the original radio version of this episode (first heard on April 24, 1952), Friday's partner was played by Martin Milner, some two decades before Milner was cast in the Jack Webb-produced cop series Adam-12.
