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here are two episodes of Police Headquarters. Missus Smallwood killed and then doctor Thornton's

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wife missing. Pollie had Quarters Felling
emergency hospital in the one hundred block on

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Kenwood Way. In the middle of
the block. They run following car forty

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five, car four or five,
and I'm going to follow up to one

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forty seven Benwood Way. I thought
even a fam I'll rectly Barron, Yeah,

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yeah, what's going on here?
Won't it stuck by a car?

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Oh? I stand back in a
little room. It's an old woman,

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Sam, here, give me a
hand. Current time, I should cross

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your waist. There's not much we
can do for until I'm going to stop

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to gets here. Just try to
make it comfortable. And what's an max

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fee? Her hand cold answering,
her body is beginning to seven. This

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isn't a hitting run case. Sam, go to the box on the corner

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and call Captain Reynolds. Least I'm
badly in a second. We have a

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very poorly disguised murder on her hands
down. Mack can take it easy,

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thanks, Step Sorry, I couldn't
get after the scene of that accident when

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you called me, I think Perkins, but he says, you're not satisfied

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with the investigation. That's right,
sir, what's on your mind? Max?

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No, no, I'm not on
the detective detailed, Captain, but

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I've got some ideas on this case. And by all that's holy, their

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right. What doesn't ring true everything
in the first place, When we reached

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the scene, the woman had just
been found and her hands were cold.

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In fact, the body was beginning
to show rigor Mortar who perhaps she'd been

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struck down early in the evening.
Mad doesn't said either, Captain. Kenwood

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Way is a well lighted street.
It's plenty of travel both ways at that

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time of night. There isn't a
chance of a body remaining undiscovered for more

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than ten minutes at the most.
That woman had been dead three hours or

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more. I see what you mean
when there something else, Sam, and

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I've answered a lot of hip and
run calls. In every case where a

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person has been run over by a
heavy car, the body never moved after

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its hit. We found this woman
lying face down in the gutter. Yet

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the tire marks were across the front
of her body. You think she'd been

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killed elsewhere and a body carted to
Kenwood Way. You hited, Captain,

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pretty slim evidence. Make all right? Here's some more. This little old

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lady, whoever she was, was
found in a house dress with our pocket

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book, gloves or hat. During
these cool leadings, women don't go out

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without half her coat and gloves.
That isn't enough. There wasn't any direct

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or grease on the back of her
dress, and Kenwood Way is a particularly

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dirty street. All right, for
grady, I'll put an investigation into this

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thing, and if you're interested,
I'll give you a chance to follow it

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through. I'll try to make arrangements
with your captain. Give me, Captain

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Morris, please come in. Make
anything you on the case? Nothing worth

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mentioning, Captain. I questioned everyone
in the neighborhood, and no one has

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ever seen a woman before. No
one seems to know who she is or

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where she came from. I got
something, though, Captain. Of course

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it may not be worth while,
but anything that looks like a lead would

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be welcome to me. Was that
well? The follower runs a smoke shop

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near the scene, says that a
big blue touring car passed up and down

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the street several times just before the
body was found. He says, the

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last time it passed his shop,
that was traveling at a high rate of

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speed. All right for a pickup
out in the car. You got a

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good description, not very good,
but it'll be not to go on.

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It's all we got, Captain,
No Mack. It isn't all we've got.

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No No. Doctor Smith found a
concussion on the side of the head,

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but he said it might have caused
her death. He could it bore

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all the yearmarks of a both from
a sanbag. No, we're getting somewhere.

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If we only knew who this woman
was, and I have an idea

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that we don't know that very shortly. It wasn't a shred of identification on

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the body. But the Morgue attend
didn't file the ring off the woman's finger,

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and it bore the inscription to Jesse
from James eighteen seventy nine. I

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gave the news to the afternoon papers. Everything much to go on, but

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it brought returns as soon as as
it was published in the paper. Do

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you know Frank Eagan, oh follow, who was once hired by the Three

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Is Public Prosecutors. Yeah, called
me up about ten minutes ago. But

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he saw the story in the paper
and went down to the morgue to identify

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the body. He thinks it was
hit and run. Coming up here in

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a few minutes to give us a
lowdown. What's thinking going on? Only

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private factice As far as I know, he's a good lawyer, but a

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bum sport. I was in judgment
Kennedy Sport one time. Yes, Frank

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Egan is here? Oh good,
and show him in yes, right,

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Oh cap'n do you remember me?
Yeah? Yeah, sit down, this

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is awficer m A grady. I
don't know you offer him right? I

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identified you're hit and run victim captain. Yes, she's a client of mine,

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missus Jesi Smallwood. Are you positive
of the identification? Yes? And

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you work quite well. Where does
she live over on Trenton? I think

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the number sixteen twenty one. He's
been a client of mine since her husband

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died. He hasn't a living,
a relation, not a soul in the

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world. Too bad sportunate. Last
you left money to cover funeral expenses.

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I don't make the necessary arrangement.
Not so, clients, Eagan, we'll

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be compelled to hold abody for a
few days at least until the inquest in

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Yeah, you see, we have
an idea that her death wasn't accidental.

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Do you know of anyone who profited
by her death? I know who would

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rant to kill a poor defense with
old woman. He didn't have over one

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hundred dollars to your name. That's
just what we're trying to find out.

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It's your business. But it looks
to me like I should antolette, but

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not to us. It's your golden
hat. Mac. We're going out to

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the lake, missus smallwood house on
Tenton. If you'll just make sure the

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address, mister Egan, you can
run along home. You won't be needed.

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There's a house, captain. Yeah, door seems to be voted on

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the inside. That's kind of back
door. All right, Hey, I'll

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bet there's a door connecting the garage
with the back part of the house.

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It looks like a mac, I
have the garage door. Yeah right,

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it's luck two, captain, and
let me try this sea there we are.

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You can make a good trashman,
sir, who might try it some

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day? Mister Rogers scwings the pin
since Missus Smallwood didn't have a car.

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Look out, don't step character.
What do you see the tire princes captain

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look look at it. This is
the same trend. If we found on

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Missus Smallwood's dress, and here's a
spot where the tire tracks stops for the

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foot of Toller happens. That space
represents where Missus Smallwood's body lay when the

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killer around the car over To make
it a pure accidental yes, armed and

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levels gotta lead on that call.
We found a pass over on album or

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blog on the ball on good send
them in as soon as they arrived,

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or Mac, you can lay off
that phone a minute. There's something new.

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Well, the captain Owens and Rivers
just ran that big blue car down.

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They're bringing the driver in for questioning. How at getting somewhere? Who's

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the guy? I didn't say?
What'd you find out? On the phone?

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All right? Called every insurance company
in the book. One of them

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reported that Missus Smallwood recently took out
three five thousand dollars policies on their life,

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each carrying double indemnity in case of
accidental dead. There's how motive whose

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name is beneficiary they're looking at up
that said. They called back around second,

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come in, here's a driver of
that car. Oh good, good,

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come in. I'm Captain Reynolds.
What's your name? Pat? Fuck?

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You own the car that offices owens
and rivers? Sounds in yet,

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sir? But where do you work? Buck for the city? And I'm

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a fireman? Where were you the
night before last between six and twelve o'clock?

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Well that they've been trying to tell
you, I was on duty.

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I went on duty at six that
night and six the next morning. Or

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I have a dozen witnesses. Have
you won the Expo Nation for your car

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being on Kenwood Way the night before
last? I certainly have a lot to

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do. A friend of mine,
Red Fisher Fisher Fish here, look that

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name up, Mac. You needn't
do that, Captain. I'll give you

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all the information you want. Red
Fisher to have two times to state prison

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for fresh degree robbery. He used
to hang around the station house after he

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got out. You need to be
trying to go straight. So Cap McNeill

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got him a job by I don't
know the job was driving for someone,

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but I never heard who it was. Is they Red Fisher borrowed your car,

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Yeah, what did you want with
it? Instead, he pulled her

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around out of his bosses car and
wanted card to the garage. How long

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to use it? I don't know. I gave him a note so he

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could get the camp and I don't
know what time he brought it back.

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Is there the next morning when I
went home? Did you have any witness

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the red Fisher asking for your car? Yeah? Two of the firemen.

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All right, I guess Fisher is
the guy we want. You got to

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pick up out on him. Mac
right, Captain, we don't have that

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burdens at a twenty four hours.
Yeah, boys, picker as the headquarters,

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good words, his mouth pieces with
him, Boisy the mouth pieces Frank

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Egan Egan, huh, bring them
both in. Yes, send a stenographer

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in here. There's a prisoner and
his lawyers. Yeah, that's chair please,

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thanks Devin, afternoon, officer.
Close that do imax right, you

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can sit over there, Max.
I don't for sure. I don't mind

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telling you that you're in a pretty
tough boss as you. Your boys ain't

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got a thing on me. Nevertheless, I say you brought a lawyer down

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with your car. I brought him. He's my boss. I drive for

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him. I'm wife you bulls.
You frame me the first ance, you

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god frame him. It's like I
said, we did twice before, huh,

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only this time we'd do it with
a noose. How you listening to

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me? We have witnesses that you
borrowed Ted Bucks car at eight o'clock you

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drove out to mister Smallwood's house and
on some pretext or other got in.

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Fish says. You know there's two
witnesses is how the car drive into the

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garage. When you got inside the
garage, you hit her with a fan

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bag and then ran the car over
her to make it appear as an accident,

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and loading her into your car.
You drove across town to Kenwood Way.

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And I suggest, Captain, and
you'll be a bit more careful in

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arresting my client. These things you'll
have to be proved, you know,

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after all, you failed to show
motives. Hello, yeah, oh all

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right, thanks, As I was
saying, hardened me just a moment.

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Hello, Tim, the the desk
glass into my office with a couple of

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murder warrents, right, a couple
of couple of what murder warrents, Higan

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murder warrens. That was the insurance
company calling. It seems that, in

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addition to managing missus Smallwood's affairs,
you also took three insurance policies out on

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her life. Naming yourself has been
a fishery and egan, there's your motive.

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Late's headquarters. That's a matter,
Lay's headquarters all the way plays something

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for you. I'd like to see
the captain. I'm Judith. Oh God,

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tell him it's the doctor Thornton,
Doctor Saunton. That's a matter,

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Captain Rouse business. Hello, Captain
doctor Thornton. To see your sir,

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okay, sir down the car.
A second lady left out, Thank you,

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Captain well Yes, I'm that's the
thought. Well coming outis take that

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chair over there. Thank you,
Captain Wells. I want you to find

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my wife. Your wife is living
well? Yes, of course it made

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me well. I don't know when
did you see her last? The night

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before last left me waiting in the
lobby of the Churchill Hotel, and I

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haven't seen us in Why haven't you
reported the latter suoner? I kept thinking

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she'd return. You see, well, we weren't on exactly friendly terms when

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she left. I thought she was
probably trying to punish me, what do

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you mean by that? I meant
that we've been arguing, you know,

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one of those husbands and wife affairs. I didn't consider the matter serious,

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but when I called all our friends
and they hadn't seen her, and she

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didn't come home today, I thought
it best to noticefy the police there.

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So you did exactly right. Do
you know of any reason for her disappearance?

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Yes? I do. You can't
one hundred and sixty thousand dollars in

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her handbag? What carring one hundred
and sixty thousand dollars in her purse?

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Once she disappeared and he waited almost
two days to notify the For me,

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I tried to explain how it was. I thought that she was just staying

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away from home to make me work. Just a minute, doctors come in

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Bradford too, down mistus, doctor
sun, how do you do? Not

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too bad for this? One of
our best men on this kind of work?

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Bad Doctor Thornton's wife has disappeared.
Yes, last time he saw her,

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she was carrying one hundred and sixty
thousand dollars around in her handbag.

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That's exactly what I said. Well, now that bad for this here,

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doctor Taunton. I want you to
tell us everything you can about her disappearance.

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Also, I want you to tell
us how she came to be carrying

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a sum of money like that around
on in her purse. It's wasn't bills,

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yes, bills a negotiable security.
Well, start at the beginning,

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doctor, The day before yesterday,
my wife was a valuable corner to one

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of the big stories. She had
the money from that deal with her.

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When I net her for dinner,
she self like celebrating, so we went

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to the church. Was there that
she got mad at me for dancing with

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a friend of ours and walked out
on me. We joined the party later

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and everything seemed all right. She
still had the money, Yes, I

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thought several times during the rest of
the evening, and she made quite a

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flourish when she handed the waiter a
big bill for the dinner, or where

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anyone could have seen it. Yeah, Well we're having the story, doctor,

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where we left the dining room and
went out into the lobby. What

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time was this? About eleventh?
Hurting? She excused herself saying that she'd

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be back in a minute or so, and I haven't seen her since that

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time. We asked the brother at
the hotel. Yes, I asked the

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head waiter and the woman in charge
of the ladies room. They hadn't seen

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her. What did you do then, doctor? I think that she was

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still mad at me, and it
slipped out you've done it before. So

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I just drove home and went to
bed, And the next morning she was

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still missing. Yes, what did
you do in her? Next day?

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Doctor, and clad around roll our
friends and finally drove down to our ramps

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at tell him to see if she'd
spend the night there. She hadn't.

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I see, what do you think
about her? Branford? Well, I

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don't know, Captain. She might
just be out staying with friends, as

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the doctor says, seeing as how
she's done her before, but at hundred

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and sixty thousand dollars changes the look
of things. That's my idea watching the

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morn. But there haven't been any
unidentified body for a week, Captain,

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Will you take doctor Taunton back to
the identification to your own and have powers

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issue a general description of the woman, get it on the radio right away,

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send a picture, the stories of
the newspapers, and get the commercial

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radio stations to broadcatching for her.
We need some quick action on this scene.

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Then what do you Bradon got much
of anything? Captain. We're doing

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everything we can to find this woman, but it looks like a hopeless state.

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If you ask me, the dame
has been bumped up. Why do

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you say that, well, because
no dame with one hundred and sixty grands

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can stay out the type of very
long unless she is bumped Or how did

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you find out on the east side? Elevens and I talked to every school

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pigeon. We know there's no sign
of heavy dough down there, and of

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a regular pullment job, we'd know
it. And if she's been killed,

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you figured the job was done by
someone that we don't have a line on,

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right sure, why one ptectively?
Captain Wells put it on the woman

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the charge of ladies whom at the
Churchill wants to talk to me. This

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might be hello, Yes, yes, this is Captain Wells speaking. I

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see, Yes, yes we do. Oh well, no, thanks for

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calling. Don't being on the Thornton
case, Captain. Yes. The woman

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in charge of Hiliadies Loom says that
she's been leading the newspaper accounts, but

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the disappearance and but she is positive
missus Thornton didn't come in at all the

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night before last. And what's more, she says that doctor Thornton didn't come

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around asking for his wife like he
came. I'm thinking the same thing,

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Bradford. Now listen, you hustle
out of the Churchill and see the head

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waiter. Find out if doctor and
missus Thornton were there on the night Missus

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Thornton disappeared, and be sure to
ask him if Missus Thornton paid for the

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dinners with a large bill. Right, I'll be back within an hour.

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That's the stuff. Hello, Hello
Evans, listen, I've got an important

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job for you. I want you
to pig up all the information ken on

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doctor Wallace Thornton, Yeah, the
dentist. Find out how much you're in

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his squarrey bang, how his credit
is, and above all, try to

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find out if he has a safe
deposit box in any of the banks.

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Take a picture with you. He
may rint the box under a funny name.

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I see it got my messy guess. R told me home, I

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was just con into one dress.
Watch up or I talked to the head

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waiter and the guy tells me that
doctor and Missus Thornton did not throw a

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party in the hotel that night,
just as I thought. After that,

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I went to the garage where doctor
Thornton keeps his carn made a few injuries.

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I found that they had filled the
gas tank to night and Missus Thorntons

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just depends. And the next morning, after Thornton I used a car,

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they had to sell it again.
I won't be satisfying until I know or

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all that gas went to. Why
Brett, you don't think it. I

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don't know, cap'n. These carg
murders are getting pretty popular these days,

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and gasoline, you know, makes
a good fire. Yes, I know.

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End there's another possibility. Doctor Thornton
mentioned something about a ranch of his

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near Palamar. He did take just
about a tank a gas to go.

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Then. Back then I thought that
maybe you'd be interested in driving down there

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with me to night, Captain,
to see what we can find. Here's

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my reports, Chief Good, that's
completely. The only thing we lacked is

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a body of Missus Thornton. I
didn't get in a Elevan's report. Tap

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won't be fine, and I hear
the whole case, boys the way,

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I have a summarized evans found out
that doctor Thornton has a safety posit box

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at the security under the name of
Farstep. That box recently contained a huge

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stack of bills and the ghostable securities. When we unlocked the box, however,

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they were gone. Yes, but
Evans dug up the information that doctor

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Thornton had recently paid a bonding company
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars on a

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twelve story office building that he's been
planning to build for some time. Now,

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we placed every source of a man's
income. The only place that money

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could have come from was from Missus
Thornton. Yes, doctor Thornton made two

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trips to his rants. He made
one the night Missus Thornton disappeared, and

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another the one he told us about. The next morning. Bradford and I

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talked to the caretaker. He says
that he isn't sure, but he thinks

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that he heard a car shortly after
midnight. He told us that doctor Thornton

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came in the next morning and didn't
ask about his wife, but saddled a

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horse and rode out into the hills. They did. The two of them

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did some work about the house,
laying some flagstones and sumenting the bottom of

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no system. That's yes, all
right, tell him in. We'll have

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to work fast, boys, doctor
Thornton. Jeff came in. We'll talk

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to him in the next room.
Come on, you shaid over there,

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Evans. All right, take this
chair here, Bradford, yes, now,

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leave everything to me. Come in. Oh oh, come in,

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doctor Thornton. Have a chair,
you know, Detective Bradford. I believe

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this is the detective Sergeant Evans the
captain, Yes, yes, I did.

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We've discovered several new things regarding your
wife's disappearance. She's not who you

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think, doctor there. I know
what I think that you'd have a better

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idea than any of us. Doctor. However, let us pass. We

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just found out that me to you
and your wife were at the Churchill Hotel

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the night she disappeared. Well,
we found out that you, under the

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name of Farstead, had a safety
deposit box at the security that's not don't

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interrupt, doctor. We found out
that your own bank account was rather small,

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but the two days after missus Thornton
disappeared, you managed to pay one

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hundred and fifty thousand dollars on an
office building which you've been planning for over

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a years. I saved that money, every cent of it. You doctor

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Thrunton. I'm going out of here
for a little while. I'm going to

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leave you all alone with your conscience. Now, what are you going to

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think? What are you going to
tell them now? Doctor? At least

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know of your little doctor? What
are you going to tell them now?

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They know that you weren't telling them
the truth. They know you're lying.

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Doctor? What are you going to
tell them now that I've been hearing her

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adopted, I don't get telling the
truth. They know you're lie. What

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are you going to tell them now? Doctor? Two hours? Doctor,

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he was getting tired? Was they
know your line? You're going to tell

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them now about? What are you
going to tell them now? Doctor?

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You know you're getting tired? Doctor, I can't tell him you admitute?

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Admnute? That happens pen the names
before you? Right, doctor, impassion

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right doctor? Right? Doctor?
I hit right? Right? Uh doctor

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Wallace thing killed my wife for her
and buried her body? Ida, how

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do I forgot about that gun?
Right? Look, there's the same confession,

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captain. Is that? Yes?
His conscience was too much for Himvin,

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welcome back. Well we got an
example of the brilliant dialogue that has

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been lost from criminal of Ages past. And I intend to learn from that.

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So next time I get a critical
review, I'll just say, right

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to the reviewer, says you just
getting a out that I have to say

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that the Missus Thornton case. Really, that ending was weird. You know.

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When I was listening to it,
I thought maybe the police were setting

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him up, pretending to be the
voice of his conscience, which sounded kind

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of silly. But way it ended
with his conscience actually speaking into him in

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an audible voice to sign the confession
and then kill himself that was even more

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silly. Even sillier still was the
fact that that even though the police captain

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didn't know that he kept a loaded
gun in his drawer, and why would

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he do that, his conscience had
X ray vision apparently and was able to

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locate it. I'm trying to think
if we've had a cheaper way to get

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rid of a suspect, but I
don't think that we have heard it yet.

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All right, Well, that will
do it for today. Coming up

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