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air date for this program is April
the twenty fifth of nineteen fifty and we're

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going to find out if Follow Vans
can clean up the shower bath murder case.

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I'll call Jim if you want George, but he's shaving. Yeah,

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I'd much rather talk to you,
thanks. That's one of those things i'd

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much rather not. Remember. Look, George, Jim's going to take a

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shower after he shaves. The minute
is throughout. Tell him to call you

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back. Goodbye. Wait a minute, well, how about inviting me to

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the house. But as I understand
it, married people do have friends over

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once in a while. Friends.
Yes, Oh now really, As a

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matter of fact, Jim asked me
over, I'm supposed to be there now,

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Sylvia, the only thing you can
possibly have against me is the fact

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that I liked you. Open this
door? What was there? Wait a

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minute, who is it? Open
this door quickly? Goodbye, George.

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But Sylvia, shorry with this door. I'm coming now, what is all

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this? There's the room with a
narrow window, lady, fast, where

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is it? The bathroom right this
way? What's the matter? That's what

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I'm going to find out. The
scrubbing rush came flying through that window.

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Who the straightest second? Ago?
Who's in this room? My husband?

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He threw the brush through the window. That's what I said. Now I'm

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gonna find out why you're inside over
now, stop being so dramatic. The

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door's not locked. Oh well,
Jim, tell this after time, your

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husband isn't gonna be telling anybody anything
ever, Lady, he's dead, and

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from here it looks like he's dead
from very unnatural causes. I tell you

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why I ask you to come to
my office. Fans, I think you

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like the reason I don't like murder, Markham. My enjoyment comes from helping

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catch killers. I understand that a
cause, Fans. A man named Jim

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Rains was found dead this afternoon in
his bathroom. He'd been poisoned. It

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was a slow acting poison took effect
several hours after it was given him.

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Not too unusual a situation. Up
and now, Malcolm, no, that's

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true. For listen to this.
The bathroom door was unlocked, his Rains

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felt himself dying or anyhow. This
is what we imagine happened. He seized

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a scrubbing brush and tossed it through
the window. A police officer was passing

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went into the house and found the
body on the bathroom floor. Anybody in

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the house the victim's wife, Sylvia. Why didn't he call out or open

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the door to call his wife?
That is why I phoned you. I

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see, I don't know the answer
of that, unless he suspected his wife

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had poisoned him and knew she wouldn't
help him. It's possible, certainly is

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I think I'll find out a few
things about the late Jim Rains before I

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see her, though. I'm sure
the victim broke that window so that we

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could see through his reason and find
his murderer. Just a moment, please

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be right with you. Well,
this is a surprise. Come in,

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Come in, Please sit down,
missus Rains. May I say that black

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is a very becoming color? Why
did you kill my husband? Sylvia?

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Please? I didn't kill Jim.
Why should I have killed him? You

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had lunch with him, You poisoned
him. You wanted me, didn't you.

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You knew I wouldn't have anything to
do with you while he was alive,

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so you kill him. You killed
him, and now I'm going to

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kill you now, Sylvia, don't
be ridiculous. Put that gun down.

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You took Jim away from me.
You're a murderer, but you'll never be

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caught. You're too clever, my
dear, How smart you really are.

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See if you can outthink a bullet, that's better. You ought to either

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not carry a gun, my dear, or learn to aim at properly.

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So you imagine I poisoned Jim,
that's true. I did have lunch with

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him, but have you forgotten I
was due at your house when he died.

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I'd hardly be stupid enough to give
the police a ready made suspect.

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You killed him, I know you
did you know, Sylvia, this could

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have been a very good act you
put on. Let's say you poisoned Joe.

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Let's just say that you came here
carrying a gun, accused me purposely

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fire a wild shot. The perfect
picture of an innocent, outbringing wife.

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Sylvia, you're out of your mind. Maybe I'm not the only one that's

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clever. Maybe it's just what I've
always suspected that you and I would make

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such a wonderful teams. Your attorney, Mark speaking Markham. This is Vans,

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Yes, Vans anything out on a
gym, Rains murderer. I've made

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some progress. Rains was in the
numbers racket. Did you know that Boma's

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side Department and daughted a new advance. But I haven't received a report yet.

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This case is only a few hours
old. You know, I realized

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that. I also realized that Rains
operated an opposition to a man named Eddie

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Keiley and Kyley wasn't too happy about
the whole thing. Well as we have

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a wife as a suspect, of
course, but you haven't been to see

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her. No, not yet.
Now that you've uncovered Kyley, I imagine

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you merely to be consistent, won't
go to see him either. I'll see

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him, but not right now.
Now. I think it's time you and

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I want to see missus Rains.
If I'm going to see suspects, I

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must remember my etiquette, you know, Markham ladies. First, what was

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the take for the day whiding?
I don't know yet, Eddie, why

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not? It takes me a little
time to add up figures. But I

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like figures ever or anything like that. I like figures, and I don't

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understand him, so what I like
women? And nobody understands Dan. All

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the run is bringing this slips all
except squaremy he's do wanning a minute?

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Six? Take off your shoes for
that number? Whitey's huh it's over ten.

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You'll run out of fingers to count
on. Gee, I like ranthematics.

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Hey, that must be squirmy now, witty, Yeah, okay,

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come on in. After I pressed
the buzzer, open the door, Hi,

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mister Keyley squirming Hi, Whitey,
Hi, I'm here right on schedule.

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No, you're here right on schedule. Yes, empty your pockets.

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Plenty of numbers today, mister Kelly. A plenty. Everybody plays numbers.

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Second, Yeah, tell them a
dime, get some sixty bucks, and

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all I gotta do is guess three
numbers, right, and they all chuck

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me dimes? No, yeah,
pretty good collection squirming. Gee, mister

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Kelly, don't call me squirmy.
My name is Claude. Pretty good reasons

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for being called squirmy. Okay,
sclammy, I've got all your collection slips.

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Let's have the money you picked up? Surest thing? You know?

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I got it right here. Plenty
of money, plenty of guys, are

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plenty of boy Yeah, how about
that? Pretty good? No, that's

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all. Huh, that'sh it.
Hey, let me have them slips of

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paper. Ready, gives me more
figures like? Okay, squammy, come

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in, what take off your hat? There ain't no lady in the room.

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Okay, I'll grab it off.
Hey, give me back my hat,

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give me back my hard Actually,
what's the inside ban? Well?

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What do you know? Policy slips? You're taking numbers on your own?

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Anxious squamm Look, mister Kelly.
Look, I don't know how they got

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up there. I've been framed somebody. He just let me come. That's

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one. No, don't do it. I got rid of one competitor,

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Jim Reins, and now I got
another. To wait a minute, mister

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Keailly. Them numbers I had up
there, I kept them there in case

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I got up by the cars.
Yeah, that's it, in case I

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got picked up by the car.
Keeping up, Betty, I'm having fun.

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I'm a little tired of plan.
Now get up and get out of

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here, squammy. And next time, remember, don't try to get cute

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with me. Sure, sure,
I'll remember again. I won't get cute.

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I remember. So I'm mister Kearley, a long white get out of

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here. Yeah, sure, mister, I mean Whitey. I guess I

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can't blame him too much. Whitey, What do you mean? Jim rains

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out of the way. He just
got ambitious, that's all. Yeah,

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that's what it is, all right. You know, Eddie, this is

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no business for secret Remember that by
things you guy works for, you ain't

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gotten a right to keep anything under
his hat. I think we're heading in

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the right direction, Martel in the
car or in the case, fans,

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both, we're on the way to
see missus Rains armed with several pertinent bits

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of information that her husband was in
the numbers racket, that he had a

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tough competitor named Eddie Keiley, and
what else, that he was quite a

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bit older than his wife. We
have a foundation, of course, fans,

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but the puzzling features of this case
are still unexplained. Why did Rains

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throw a brush through the window when
he could have opened the door? And

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who fed him choice? Yes,
well, I imagine we'll have the answers

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to those questions very soon after you
Margaret, right, Markholm, what is

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the homicide department reported since our talk
a little while ago, anything at all?

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Nothing of interest. They traced rains
movements during the day and found he

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had lunch with a George Morrow,
very respectable individual as I understand it,

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and a good friend of the dead
man's. But they did have lunch together,

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which makes Morrow a potential suspect in
case we run out of those we

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already have. If you say so, the bell vans, If you says

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there, we are. Let me
see now Rains has been dead? How

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long up till now? Exactly poor
and a half hours right. That means

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then, yes, I'm just yout
attorney mark on. Missus Rains, this

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is final Vacs. We'd like to
come in if you don't mind, by

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all means, how can I help
you? We're not sure, missus Rains.

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Your husband has been dead only a
little over four hours. I noticed

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a black coat and hat here in
the hall, and you're wearing a black

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dress. Isn't that customary when one
is in morning? Yes, it is.

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You had all these clothes before your
husband's death. Every well dressed woman

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has at least one black dress.
Mister Vans on the coat, I just

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happened to have a black coat.
I understand, this is Rains. What

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we'd like to find out is this, Why would your husband throw a brush

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through the bathroom window to attract attention
when he could have attracted attention so much

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more easily by opening the bathroom dawn
calling. I don't know you were home

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at the time. I was on
the telephone talking to a friend of Jim's,

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a man named George Morrow. He
was telling me that Jim expected him

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at the house, and just then
the policeman pounded on the door. Do

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you mind if I see the bathroom? No? I should I this way.

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I'm along, Markham right him shavy. He was going to take a

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shower after he'd finished. I could
hear the shower running while I was on

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the telephone. Who shut off the
water? I don't know. I don't

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think it was running when the policeman
and I found Jim's body. I'm sure

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it wasn't. You're a steric oden
shock at a tail such as that might

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have slipped your mind. The water
ahead been turned off? For what's so

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important about that? I'll let you
know in a moment. I want to

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turn on that shower. We'll go
ahead. I don't know what this is

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supposed to prove, Vance, except
that there's hot water in the shower.

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Who are the only one who doesn't
know what else mister Vance is trying to

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prove. Mister Vance isn't trying to
prove anything. Mister Vance is already proven

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it. But all right, please
both of you get out, Get out

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least that's the hurry. I'm sorry. I hope you have a good reason

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for rushing is out of him.
I have the best reason in the world,

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Mark Im. I want a twenty
four hour police guard placed in front

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of this bathroom. I wanted close
to everybody until I ask for it to

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be opened. I could be arranged, I imagine, I want to tell

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me why Vans. Certainly there's something
in that bathroom that tells me definitely who

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poisoned Jim Rains. This is District
Attorney Markham. The shower bath murder case

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opened when Jim Rains, numbers racketeer, was found poison in his bathroom.

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We know the poison had been administered
several hours before. We know that Rains's

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wife was younger than he and attractive. But the dead man's racket rival was

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Eddie Cayley, and that he had
a friend named George Morrow. That's all

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we know. But final Vance insists
he knows who killed Rains after he Vance

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turned on the shower in the bathroom. It is some time later in the

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morning, still not talking Vance.
What's the point of telling you, Markham,

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you need evidence that will stand up
in court. I don't have it.

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Will you get it? That's the
question I'm going to try. Well,

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you've been I know what you're going
to say that I've been reasonably successful

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in getting proof for you before.
But each case is different, Markham.

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President hasn't any importance, because there
never has been a case like this.

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Would you tell me why Jim rains
through that brush instead of opening the door,

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Yes, I can, but I
won't. I know why he did

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it. I know everything about this
case. Now, all I have to

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do is take the mystery of that
shower and use it to make a murderer

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come clean. Nine and five is
fourteen and six, twenty and eight,

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got it down? Whining figures,
Eddie figures? You know how nuts I

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am about figures. I got to
keep adding them all the time. Why

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are you adding? There are any
policy slips in front of you? I

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know, I just rehearse it sometimes. I just sit for hours adding up

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imaginary figures eight and three, seven
and two, Like midie, Wait,

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do you hear about subtraction? You'll
really be in for a great tree.

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Who's that? I don't know.
It's somebody who doesn't know the code.

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Knock gonna wait here, Whitey,
I'm gonna mind down. Oh is it?

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I'm George Morrow. I'm looking very
clearly. What are you looking for

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him for? I'll tell him hit
the buzzer, Whitey, wellout this guy

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in. I'm Kaylee, Oh,
come on in, that's on your mind,

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Morrow, clelely, I've got a
little information for you. Yeah,

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you're not taking over Jim Raines's numbers
business. No, that's right. No,

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Hey, I dig this guy,
Yeddy. He's the fellow talking to

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Jim Raine's wife on a telephone when
Rains kicks off in the bed. Yeah,

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that's right. I knew Range is
racking as all said to take it

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over. When I heard that,
you've moved over to Range the side of

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time. So what move back,
clely quick? That's all? Oh is

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it? Will you listen to me? Take your hands off me. I'll

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take them off tomorrow. I don't
think I like being shoved around when you're

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know for sure, Tell man,
go ahead, boys, take care of

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them. That way, I get
to do some comm Okay, here we

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go helping this guy. Oh that's
that nice work with that black Chack White

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who wasn't really nothing was what two
three of boom. I don't think he'll

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bother us again in a hurry.
He said. One good thing he did

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though. Let's say he told me
he knew about Rains was all set to

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take over Rains racket. The cops
will be glad to hear about that,

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and they're going to hear about it
if they get too close to us.

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He had an awful good motive for
murder, whitey, awful good. All

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I can tell you about Kayley is
what you already know, Vans. He's

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in the numbers racket. There's a
couple of runners who collect policy slips for

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him, and one of them is
this fellow they call Squirmy. He's supposed

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to hang around his territory somewhere.
You'll know him when you see him.

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Yes, I looked at his gallery
pictures a little while ago, and Vance,

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Yeah, I think that's the man
right there in front of that store.

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Do I look this reputable enough?
Put your hat down, kiss anymore?

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That's it? Go ahead, Vance, and I wish you luck.

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Let me know if there's anything I
will Hi, Hi, I got a

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hunch you in a number. How
much of a hunch you quote? Is

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what? Yeah? Give me the
two bits, Write the number you like

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on a hunk of paper, and
meet me tomorrow right here. If you're

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hit okay, no? Yeah,
yeah, thanks, you hang out right

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here in his corner. That's right, See you tomorrow. If you get

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lucky, my friend, I'll see
you long before that. If I really

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get lucky. Look, George,
I don't want to talk to you now

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or ever, and nothing you can
do or say can make me change my

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mind. I wouldn't say nothing silver
if I were you. What do you

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mean? I was just have to
see a fellow named Eddie Kyley. He

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was a business rival of your husband. Well what does that make me?

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You'll have to listen to find out. Well, Eddie and a stooge of

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his work. Me over good.
I had a reason for going up there,

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so you were the reason. So
don't you think you should be a

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little reason of them? Honest,
mister Cayley. Yeah, here, here's

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my head, nothing in it.
See you're sure? Yeah, all the

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policy slips, just like I collected
him. That's a good voice, thanks

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and all. I got it.
He got a lot of Mendie. I'm

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having a swell time adding up these
numbers. I'll enjoy yourself, Whitey,

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ye say, I wonder why the
other runners haven't come in. It's time

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for me to be here, isn't
it if you say it's time, mister

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Kelly, it's yours time. No, thank you, Claude, gee,

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thank you. Hey, that's our
knock. Let's be one of the boys.

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Now let him in suddenly. Hey, hey, that ain't one of

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our boys. I'm not one of
anybody's boys. I'm final Vans. How

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did you know the knock with you? A sensible question that seems to indicate

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that you are the headman you are, Kelly, that's right. Do you

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want to know about the knock?
Yeah? Well, I was watching down

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the hall when squirmy here knocked at
the door. Oh jee, mister Kelly,

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I didn't know, honest, I
didn't shut up. Shut up?

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Okay, no, he'll call me
squirming. Will you cut that down?

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You were watching Vans and listening.
I stand corrected. Well, Kelly,

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you want to know why I'm here, keep talking. That's simple. You're

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in the numbers racket. So was
Jim Rains. That's a very definite connection

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between you two. Now wait a
minute, advance. I know who you

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are. You're no cop, and
that means I'm not ratting on anybody.

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But George Morrow wanted in on Rains
his racket. He told me that himself.

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If you're looking for Rains his killer, you don't have to look any

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further than him. Thank you.
But I think this number's business of yours

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Kailey is sufficient to lock you up
until I get rid. Why did the

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blackjack my friend come to handle this? One guy craw the district attorney and

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a gun. Yes, I'm getting
up in the world, Markham. You

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interrupted the proceedings just when I was
starting to enjoy myself. But I'm glad

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you did. I'm very anxious to
get this case over with. I followed

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your as you asked me to advance. Do I take Kayley in as Jim

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Rains murderer? No? Just on
the numbers, ragget charge, Markham.

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Nobody here killed Jim Rains. But
let's go to Rain's house and I'll point

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out somebody there who did. Sylvia. I don't know why Filo Vans told

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me to come over here, but
I'm glad he didn't. It gives me

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a chance to tell you something in
person, something you wouldn't listen to on

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the telephone. Go away from me, George, you make me sick.

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I've got a lot of money,
Sylvia, I know where to get more.

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I want to marry you. We'll
work things out so they'll be just

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the way you want them. Get
out of here. I don't care if

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nine Filo Vans has asked you to
come over. I tell you to get

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out. You disgust me. You
can't talk to me that way, Sylvia

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can't. I won't let you try
and stop home. Now. You either

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get out of here, George,
or I will take your choice. Only

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don't take too long to make up
your mind. Silvia. You've got to

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listen to me. I've wanted you
ever since I saw you. Jim was

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my friend, but friends don't mean
anything when a man falls in love.

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He was in the way. I
could never have you with him around.

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You killed him. I disgust you
do. I didn't do me any good

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to kill him, did it?
Well, I'm going to kill you like

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it, So what you know any
good to you? Either? Was too

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harf You asked me holding Morrow,
and I'll stand right where you are.

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You've got here just in time,
mister Makham. You advanced. We've been

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here quite some time, long enough
to hear you admit you killed Rains.

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You had never found out any other
way, either of you or the police.

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I think you're wrong. Morrow.
I knew you'd poisoned Jim Rains.

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You knew? How did you know? Rains told me Morrow after he was

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dead, before we go into the
rains bathroom, Markham, you realize why

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we went up to Eddie Cayley's headquarters
break up his policy operation exactly then too,

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I needed a little time to contact
Morrow have him go over to see

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Missus Rains. And I had to
be sure Missus Rains knew the part I

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rehearsed her. I understand all that, but there's something I don't understand.

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Jim Rains was in that bathroom.
He had finished shaving, was about to

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take a shower. He felt himself
dying, and instead of opening the door

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and calling for help, he tossed
a brush through the bathroom window. How

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are you going to explain that?
I will, I promise you, And

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I'll begin by telling you that he
thought George Morrow was in the living room.

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Remember Rain's wife told us that when
she was on the phone with Morrow,

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Morrow mentioned he was due at the
Rain's house and that was the reason

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for his phone call. Yes,
that's right, very well. Rains died

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thinking that Morrow might be in his
apartment. That's why he threw the brush

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through the window instead of opening the
door. He didn't want Morrow to come

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in and find his body. Why
not? And what do you mean by

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saying Rains told you who killed him, I'll show you. Come into the

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bathroom, all right, I'm here
and waiting to be shot. I closed

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the door and turn on the hot
water in the shower turner. This was

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the situation Rains was in. Identically, Take a look at that bathroom door,

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Markham, what do you see?
I see a mirror. That's not

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unusual. Watch the mirror. Yes, what's happening. It's clouding up.

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The steam from the hot water is
covering vans. That's writing on that mirror.

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Read it, Markham. It's just
becoming legible. George Morrow poisoned me.

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Then, as the beginning of Jim
Rain's signature, vants, this is

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fantastic, is it? I think
mad Rains wrote that when he realized what

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had happened to him, and he
knew Morrow had poisoned him, but he

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was afraid Morrow was in the house, so he didn't open the door.

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That's reasonable. Morrow would have come
rushing in and wiped off the mirrah.

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Rains was very clever. He wanted
the bathroom window broken, knowing that the

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steam would be dissipated by the draft
and the writing on the mirror would disappear

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with it, but it could be
brought back by anybody who would wonder,

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just as we wondered why a window
was broken when a door was available.

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Now the writing stayed on the mirror. I don't understand that. Try it

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some time with your own mirror,
Markham, steam it, write on it.

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When the steam disappears, the writing
disappears, re steam it, the

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writing comes back. Now you know
the whole story, Yes, thanks you.

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I know the story and the motive, and I see why you had

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to have proof of his guilt,
a proof we overheard when he talked to

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missus Rains, even though you Newmorrow
is our murderer right from the beginning.

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Yes, Markham, I saw this
handwriting on the mirror at the beginning of

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our adventure. But Morrow sees the
handwriting on the wall at the end of

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the shower Bath murder case. It
somewhere that one part at the beginning where

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Vans is talking about how he doesn't
like murder, he just likes, you

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know, solving the cases. Makes
me wonder whether folks listening in nineteen forty

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nine or nineteen fifty had kind of
notice the things that modern day listeners notice

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now. In the interest of full
disclosure, and I don't mention this a

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whole lot. I'm actually recording this
episode ahead in November of twenty twenty two,

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so there could have been a whole
host of follow vans. It doesn't

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really a lot of murder episodes in
between what I'm currently recording in this,

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but still worth calling out. I
wanted to task Vance's statement about the writing

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on the mirror, as well as
to how long that would last, but

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it couldn't run that practical science because
the bathroom mirror in my bathroom just doesn't

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seem to fall up that month,
even without a fan running, though it

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does get a little warm in there, warm enough that my cat has to

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hang around the sink and soak up
the warmth. I did find myself wondering

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about the victims. I guess good
luck that a policeman happened to be coming

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by at the time he threw the
bathbrush out the window. It made me

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wonder how he knew someone was going
to see it going out. But then

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again, I guess there are plenty
of areas in New York City where someone

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is always coming by and in the
area, So if you live in one

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of those areas someone's going to see
it. Now, whether you're in a

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part of town where someone's going to
take notice like that guys throw a bathbrush

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out his window, I guess that
varies. Certainly, there are places in

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America where you could throw a bathbrush
out the window and people are just gonna

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go on and mind their business and
do whatever. And immediately it makes me

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wonder, is random junk really random
junk? Or is it potentially a clue

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to sinister goings on a lot of
story I is there. Well, now

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it's time to go ahead and thank
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episode of Follow Vans, but joining
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up the Lancing fraud man or with
Finally about eleven o'clock that night, my

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phone, right, Johnny Doller,
Hello, this is Hilary Franks. Where

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are you? Never mind dollar?
They know all about me back at the

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home office. I suppose yes.
I'd like to explain some things to you

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so you will pass them on.
I'd like the people back this knew why

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I did it well before I leave
town. You won't get far. The

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police are looking for you. I
can get away, all right. Mister

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Franks worldwide doesn't want to prosecute the
notoriety be bad for them. If you

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make a statement, sign it.
I think I could talk him into dropping

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the hole matter. Maybe we'd let
it get together. Come on, Oh

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no, no, I'm not that
crazy. Do you know how to get

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to the send? Have your mission? I can find it in fifteen minutes,

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right and yeah, it's right out
in the open. I hope you'll

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be with us then. In the
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