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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old
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number six. Well, now it's
time for today's episodode of the lineup the

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Cigar Box case. Ladies and gentlemen, we take you now behind the scenes

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of the police headquarters in a great
American city, where, under the cold,

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glaring lights will pass before us the
innocent, the vagrant, the thief,

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the murderer. This is the lineup. Sit right here, missus Denny

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next to me. Thank you,
litten. No, don't be nervous.

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The people on the other side of
the screen, of the ones who are

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supposed to be nervous, they can't
see us on this side. Not a

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thing that's for sure now. No
one in the lineup can see you.

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Maybe the man you've got is the
one I saw running away from the hold

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up. Hope. Yeah, you'll
people out there on the other side of

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the wire in the audience room,
May I have your attention to one?

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Thank you. Find name as Grab, Sergeant Matt Grab. I'll explain the

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lineup for you. Each of the
suspects you will see will be number.

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I'll call up a number, the
name a charge. If you have any

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questions or identifications, please remember the
number of a side of the prisoner as

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I called his name at the end
of the line when I asked for questions

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or identification of the number. If
you're sure or not too sure of the

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suspect. Captain Hell, the officers
and took your name will assist you.

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They're seated among you. Please be
prop with your questions or identifications. When

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the prisoners leave here, and they
are sent to the wash room and dressed

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back into their jail phone. It
makes it quite difficult to bring them back

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after they leave here. The questions
I asked these suspects, and maybe they're

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got a natural tone of voice.
It will not be too much attention to

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their answers, as they often lie. Bring on the line. All right,

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all right, the sway boarders moving
up to the end of the stage,

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I answer him, Keep us moving, moving all right, not turning

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face front, hands the assign look
straight ahead ahead inchnin at your bees.

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Yes you number three? H yeah, okay, Number one, thank deal.

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I'm robbery suspect. Where do you
live? Frank live? Who lives?

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I see no beach? Just tell
us where you live? Got a

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one room at what do you call
it? A lama? Get too hot

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for you? And Detroit? Frank
who spending the Detroit? Who sold you

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the gun? You were carrying without
a license. I wouldn't know. Some

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guy in Dettoy fences off so I
don't have a shout out that gun to

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stay good. Get your hands with
in your face. That's correct. Number

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two bow has dragon Eddias bows dragon
Eddias bows. Aggon perspected the bomb,

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hold up? Where are the bow
ends? Shack the river, shanny Town?

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Where were you last night? Boass? We didn't find your home.

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I was setting up with a friend, sick friends. Yeah, we got

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him too. How did he happen
to have that slug in him? These

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guys are always in bad. We
got it out of the slot. The

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story of a slug. You're in
the clear on that and the something my

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place half in lives right? Where
did you get all those names of yours?

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Boas? Bows ball as? People
are still when they can't pronounced with

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the dragger? The agger and I
did bad? Agger is dragons? Bag

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uh huh? I wasn't any places
on me last night? What happened?

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All right? Boys? All right? Number three? George dnch Harrington sealed

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weapon five years take pen attentory for
on the hold up and armed assault?

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What hap is it? One?
Stretching up? George? My lawyers coming

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down? Your lawyer? You've gotten
classes? Were last stopped here? A

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lawyer? What's your lawyer's name?
George? I got none to say?

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You're my lawyer? I want?
Says, let's see the mob and isn't

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he a lawyer? He went to
a good college a good college. Yeah

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for years number four? Will it? Will it? Or will will it?

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Hold up? Suspect as a contact
as soulting an officer resisting a rent?

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Where who do you worked? Well? Hill and night car park?

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Quite a celebration in your hotel last
night, wasn't it? Yeah, somebody's

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birthday. The laylady said. Some
shooting was going on. Oh, just

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annoys you party. Nobody got hurt. Why did you see up the performan?

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Who are and Graham? Now I'm
a far hold for interrogation? Oh

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so now I'm Missus Denny. That
chair for missus Dennis Hern. Yeah,

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we won't keep you much on here. You are, thank you, And

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before we question the prisoner, we
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possible. Missus Denny. Alright,
you sure, pretty sure? Nick?

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Was rather late at night, wasn't
it eleven pm? How did you happen

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to be parked outside the drug store? I was parked across the street.

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I had mailed a letter at the
corner mailbox, and when I got home,

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I remembered I'd forgotten to put a
stamp on it. You had to

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go out last night? Oh,
you were waiting for the mailman to make

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his pickup. Then I was waiting
to see if I could get some letter

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back to put a stamp on it. You saw this wiry little man go

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into Harn's drug store, yes,
Sergeant. Then I saw him come running

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out, run down the street.
Well, did he have anything in his

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hand to carry anything? Anything into
him? You mean a gun? Anything?

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Well, I don't remember. I
just remember him. It's light near

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the store windows. And it was
that little celling you had on the stage

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today, the lineup as well,
we call him. I'm almost sure it

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with him. I made a point
remembering him. Why Missus Denny, Missus

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Denny. There have been descriptions of
the cigar box banded in the papers.

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Polly operates what he looks like.
He must be careful not to let those

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descriptions. No, no, no, no, no no. That was

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the man I saw run out of
the drug store. I'm not saying I

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saw a gun at this the gu
box, But I saw that man.

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Did he have a cigar box under
his arm? I didn't know this.

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Yeah, I got the prisson are
out here when you want him? Good,

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Uncle, you can I go.
I better go take that other door

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on. Missus Denny, I'll show
you missus Billy Jo. You would tell

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him not to be any trouble and
you've been a find goodbye. Well,

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I I think she knows what she
saw, all right. But the suspect

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hasn't got a record. It's pretty
cool, man. I'm going through their

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motor supper entity files. Nothing paper
bag robbers, Mutton, Jeff robbers,

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put it in the hat robbers.
But nobody who showed a cigar box at

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the victim and told him to pull
it up. Well, it's the same

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general family. No cigar boxes,
Regulan quiney, I hope this is our

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guy, man, I wish he
had a record. He's pretty cool.

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Then here's that. Thanks quine stick
around, have a cherry will? Thanks?

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Sure? Cigarette? What can you
guy? No? No, I

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ain't my and sorry, well amst
the occasion boys. We just want to

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ask you a few questions. What
were you doing about nine fifteen last night?

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Well, I don't you want to
know a couple of other things.

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Nine o'clock last night? Where were
you? Then? You said nine fifteen

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the first time between nine and nine
thirty. Well the stick up was later

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than that. How did you know
that? Will? The other man and

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myself says, I look just like
the cigar box bandit he said. The

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guy stuck up another drug store around
eleven o'clock last night. That makes about

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thirty don it thirty seven? Very
good? All right? And where were

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you around eleven last night? Well? I wasn't parking cars. That is

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just my own That is I had
a date with my girl. Are you

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off every Saturday night? Will?
Or I'm off every Saturday night sometimes?

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And what do you mean by that? Well, some months here every Saturday

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night and some months not. It's
abolic stop schedule, changing health all the

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time, all the time you're on, you're off, you're on, you

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off, You never know day of
the makes if your hom duty, I'm

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not. Why don't you get back
to your flat last night? She all

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right around two am, picked up
some friends and they're dates. Were a

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little party. What about the gun
play in your hotel room last night?

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Will you know that? Landlady of
us? She's a case. She's a

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mental case because she objects to shootings, so got shot. There wasn't even

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a gun around. So you don't
smoke cigarettes? An, I don't smoke

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your brand, but I don't smoke
his cigars any kid can get an empty

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cigar box. He doesn't have to
smoke an empty anyway. I'll do.

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I give you my girl's number.
You call her, you ask her where

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I was last night during the hold
up at a deal. Check that man,

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right, just go Hannah fo two
five part, Hey Sargeant, you're

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married. Well, this girl a
mine. She's dynamite. Dynamite and we'll

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put a man from the bomb squad
on it. Oh that's very good.

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How long you lived here? Will
I'm born and raised here. I went

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to pack at grade school to put
junior High, Maxwell Fish a senior High,

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and I did a year in Spooned
Business College. You can check it.

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Bunk with your girl around eleven last
night? Yeah, jess Avon where

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Dermdory Hill? You can ask her? Ruth Hurlier's the name Susquehanna four two

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five part say I think our names
will be in the papers. This is

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only an interrogation. Well, we
don't mind. The name is Willard Willard.

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That's sort of an interesting name in
it. There spike a story with

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Willard willis This is just a routine
questioning Nora news value at all. Well,

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wait a minute, sure some paper
can get something good out of that,

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you know, you know, false
alarm, you know, get the

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public. You've been identified as the
man who held up Horns drug store late

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last night. Oh go, that's
silly, that's silly by Horn himself.

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No, then it's just silly.
The robber was seeing to run out of

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the store and around the corner.
Did you see the car on the witness

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who said there was a car?
Now, wait a minute, would you

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stick up a place with att a
car in that neighborhood of man on foot

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could disappear into the night better than
a man who's driving. There has been

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a car and the other cigar box
stick ups? Yeah, what kind you

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tell us, Sergeant Skin the kid, Lieutenant Guthrie, Yeah, uh huh,

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thanks, Captain Waldo. Yeah,
the Galen Ethical Pharmacy on Quincy Avenue

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was held up five minutes ago by
the cigar box Bandit. High prices are

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more than justin Newson. They can
wreck our economy and seriously injure every one

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of it. Yet, with goods
going into defense and with more money in

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our pockets to spend, the cost
of living won't stay down unless we do

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something about it, all of it. We've got to work better by only

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what we need, watch the prices
we pay, keep from asking too much

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for the goods or the work we
sell. Inflation can be led if we

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are all good neighbors. Tell you
that guy's a fake. He's a dirty,

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low down fake. Who's a fake? The bandit? What do you

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mean a bandit? I'm an a
bandit. I originated a scarboxide there,

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I stuck up all those other drug
stores. I've been clean enough and nobody

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could lay a finger on me.
So where's this? Where does this phony

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come in? If this is a
confession, we'd better get the stenographer.

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I'm not confession anything. I'm telling
you that this other guy is thickly a

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phony. And I'll go before any
guy I ever stuck up, and I

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haven't identify me as the one and
only genuine answer. Gonna stop Bennett?

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And that's an offc Wow, what
do we do? Ben Clin? You

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show mister Willen back to us.
Cell Come on, thanks, lit Tenant.

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I'm low down, crust of that
crumb that What do you think of

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that? Some guy? He's a
cia s Hey, what do you say?

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Your name is? Well? Crank
leo cycle? What's the full of

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them? And to happen cases like
this poem. Yeah, but missus Denny

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identify them. Of course she could
make a mistake, Yes, she couldn't

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man durn them loose, Yes,
Lieutenant, he took a shot at me,

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all right. He hit me right
here in chest, smashed my hearing

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aid device. Lucky, I got
a spare with always smashed it all a

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bit. You were lucky, Doc. Where were you standing when the bandits

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came in? When I was right
here, I was counting up after a

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hard day in the store, trying
to concentrate on putting prescriptions and doing business

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and listening, listening, listening all
the time. It's relief to close up.

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I turn off my hearing aid and
count up. Oh my, one

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of a relief silence, you know, I wouldn't like to have all my

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hearing back. And then the bandit
came in. I didn't hear him.

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I saw him and opened the door. First thing I know, he's pushing

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this little pistol into my chest and
saying something. When that actually I held

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up my hands. Well, gentlemen, he gets positively red in the face,

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and I know he's screaming something at
me, so I put down one

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hand and I return to my coat
to turn up my hearing aid. Oh,

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he whirled around. He stops at
the door with a nest. He's

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look on his face and he fires
once and then he runs out. What

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kind of a gun was? It's
very small gun? Twenty two? My

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boy shoots the bid. He has
a twenty two and twenty five we think

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from the slug ballistics has it.
It doesn't tell you again, and it's

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a different gun from the last time. Maybe he's got a lot of gun.

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Well, it's just a little girl. Luckily it was my heart of

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the man look or even small wiry
dark eyes. All he kept looking around

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brown tweed coat brown, and I
was pretty excited. That's our boy,

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dirty cigar box. Never got to
shove it at me, but he had

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it under his arm. All right. That's him, Ben, that's our

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boy. What does Captain Waldo want? Ben? Here's something now on the

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cigar box man number thirty nine,
Uh, incidental intelligence. Something stirring.

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And I figure it's trouble because we
haven't caught anybody. The Alumni Association wants

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victories or the coach has got to
go. Hello, Ben Man, hell

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Bill, sit down, boys,
Thanks, thanks Kevin. You know Gilbert

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Frompson Druggist Corner seventy nine grand been
there forty years. He's a very big

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man in this business. He's demanding
protection for druggist getting embarrassed. I know

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the man eye for headlines, and
I know he's got the eye on a

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seat on the council, a nice
little local issue of a cigar box bandit

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chairman of the County Merchants Association,
and he's jumping with indignation, Captain.

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Isn't he the man who fleded Grant
Avenue when I was left unpaved after some

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cable installation and stock them a hole
with fish, had small kids fishing in

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the middle of the city. That's
Thrompson. They find him a good one

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for that, as I recall,
and I also paved the street. I

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think Thompson wants us to catch the
cigar box bander. We can't put a

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policeman in every back room in every
drug store in town every night. Brompson

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just wants us to catch the man, see if he can sue the favorite

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brow. He's expecting your boys,
So calm him down, will you,

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mister Thrompson? All right, I
don't see salesman on Wednesday. I'm Lieutenant

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Guthrie. This is Sergeant Grim Police
Sports Scattherne Walladles that I could expect you.

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We'd like you to know and to
pass on to your association that we're

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putting forth every effort to catch the
cigar box man. It's a shaming and

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Aubrey gentleman shaming, a autraven assigning
details share of the Country Merchants Association of

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the eleven hundred active members, and
we're up an armed about this shame and

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we understand how you feel. Member. It's premation romany man. There are

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lot of the citizens mind your citizen
furious? What join? What if?

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What's being done about it? I
ask you what is being done about policeman

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of being stationed alicement. We're putting
every officer we can spare into the back

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rooms of drug stores. Mister Fromson, I am a drug store. What

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about my back room? Yes?
For example, that's our assignment, mister

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Thrompson, Joging Greb and I intend
to spend every night this week in your

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prescription room starting right now. Is
that's all the brass? Well? I

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am f there, Lieutenant. Now
if you show us your back room and

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the pepoles will go to work the
day. Seven prescriptions tonight, hard night.

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Now I know, I drug us
go to college. I hope we

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haven't been in your way back here, Oh, not a bit. I'm

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grateful to you, gentlemen. But
as the Feller said during the war,

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defense won't win the war. You
might wait until doomsday to get the cigar

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box man and never catch him.
He's got the initiative, and that's back

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when he's new to us. We're
learning his methods. We know a little

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more. We hope to go on
the offensive. I hope. So excuse

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me, pharmson scripts and pharmacy.
One minute we return and thanks. Then

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I guess we're speaking. Yeah,
yeah, well that was fast. Captain

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Waldo, wanting to know what we're
doing here when drug store in the next

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corner has just been stuck up by
the cigar box bandit. We are making

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progress, Bill, in spite of
our failure to lay our hands on cigar

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box I and since that, we're
making progress. MPI aren't you, Captain

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and knee Chief of Police Villa.
We've told you we had to wait and

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watch and study. There's a very
definite pattern emerging from this cigar box picture,

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right Man, Well, yes,
yes, there are some puzzling features

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all right, like no agreement on
the gun he uses. It's been a

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revolver of twenty two woods Woodsman a
twenty five in general Captain. The description

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of the bandit Tally's. So there
must be something funny about the gun.

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Anhing funny man owns a small arsenal. How do we get him? That's

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all the concerns us get him?
Will We can't spare enough police to give

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every drug store protection. He's he's
smart enough to case any job he's gonna

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pull, so he probably knows the
stores that are being protected any given night.

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Then stop wasting time and patrolman and
plainclothes men back. I don't think

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we're wasting them, Bill. We've
learned several things about our men, and

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he doesn't strike at random. And
it's never open prescription rooms. It's always

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drug stores with back room prescription departments. So it can hurt the helping back

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out of side of the street.
By covering certain areas, we've confined the

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bandit to certain other areas. Now, if on some particular night we went

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all out and really detail all areas, we might have a chance. I

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need a lot of men for two
or three nights. Say one hundred men

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one night, twenty five men.
Less than two nights is useless. I'll

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settle for seventy five men. Were
sixty men or one night two nights impossible,

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fifty men two nights, thirty five
top figure two nights one night useless?

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All right, two nights, twenty
five men, thirty men. That's

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all thirty men plus Matten me including
you in Matt, but up detailing the

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story hasn't worked so far, it
isn't going to work. It might now

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we've got something worked out. Captain, the bandit knows which stores are garden.

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We're going to help him know which
stores these are. Be very open

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about it in some cases, and
as cagy as possible in others, within

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the same small neighborhood, just so
you get him before as iories do.

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Thanks Bill, Let's go back right, Oh, Ben, thirty a man?

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Thanks captain. What's that you're mixing
up now? Picture of hyastin But

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I shouldn't side trade and alixs reflactated
pips. Now you know as much as

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I do. How long does it
take someone to learn to be a lady

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pharmacist as long as it takes play
to be a gentleman pharmacist for years,

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By how long does it take for
an entire police force to catch one fresh

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little hold up man? Oh,
we'll get him and see how its to

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be an idiot to try to hold
me up tonight? After the way you've

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been showing yourself in stunt all evening, anybody can tell you're a cop.

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Ah, I can tell. Don't
answer that. You're not going to catch

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anything back here? How maybe you're
fright? And we had a protest boat

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at our last meeting Billy's Pharmacy.
One moment use huge and grave nice Hello,

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how ben? Oh? Uh huh? Be right there? No,

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No, I'm not nervous, lieutenants, not too nervous to cooperate, that

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is. I don't think we're good
now. Look, if that suspicious person

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your customer set is watching the place
is a man, we may see some

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action. Well, just tell me
what to do, all right? If

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he comes in, you go out
and wait on him. Be as natural

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as possible. I see, I'll
be in here. Sergeant grab will be

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across the street watching, and he'll
close in when it's time. The moment

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I come out of the prescription room, you'll drop you understands at chenney drop

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Just collapse on the floor and you'll
be all right, Yeah, fine,

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going on, Okay, good evening
that. Hey what are you that for

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a toothache? Got? It is
this small cabaleer. Lord, it's just

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a toothache. I don't know.
I give you some lot of clothes,

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all right, and you can put
it right in this box. I don't

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understand. This is a steak up. Now keep your hands down, all

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right, all right, open the
register, come on, open it up.

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Come on, come on, I'll
go ahead and punch. It's all

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right, listen in the stuff in
the in the box. Put it in

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the box. Come on, come
on, I'm hurry and the bill's told.

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All right, that's all. It's
been a very slow day getting back.

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Now get in the back room and
lying the floor in it. Rock

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Jenny to Crow's he clop stop her, I'll drop you stop or I'll stop

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your stay lo chinny, Yeah,
stay LOLd, stay lod. I'm out

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there. Who's gonna shilt po sail
again? Huh? Who's shilting? Who?

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This is a pretty good little soda
pop don't you make self cover.

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Look on there he's behind the sad
parting. You get him man, Yeah,

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yeah, in the side. He
did knock him out. He's all

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right, Get on. That came
from my side. Yeah yeah, there

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behind the mail box, he's down. Then I'll go take a look bouquet.

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Oh oh oh, they get easy, they get easy. Oh he's

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dead. Then it was Will Willard. Here's his gun. A cold woodsman.

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That's the answer. That they were
two of them. Oh yeah,

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that's it, two of us,
copper. But we had you cops guessing

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and we brothers. Yeah, sure
twins, no wonder they look alike.

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Then sure, he'd do a job. I do a job. He'd do

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a job. I do a job, he'd work. I'd watch. I'd

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work, he'd watch. You know, we know now you know brothers.

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The one we hadn't let go.
Yeah, we we figured it out.

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Whether you caught. He'd stall around
till the other one pulled a job.

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Then the courtland he confessed bullet Craig, I get me confess, you know

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what I mean? Yeah, you
think maybe that was a smart guy?

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Huh, that was nothing nothing will
He had better ones, you know.

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Yeah, we'll tell us in the
prow will he was a smart boy,

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you know. Yeah, that's why
he's so dead now, because he smide

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You know the lineup where before you
pass the innocent, the vagrant, the

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thief, the murderer. Listen again
next week when we again bring you the

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lineup. May I any attention?
Please? Can we flout there on the

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other side of the wire in the
audience room, May I have ATTENTI plea,

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thank you. My name is Greb, Saat Greb. I'll explain the

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line up to you. Each of
the spect you will see will be numbered.

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I'll a number the name enjoy.
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slice of life stuff. That Dragnet
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him negotiating with his commanding officer,
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who would not actually listen, So
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whole plot of the story reminded me
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in that case the perpetrators turned out
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But overall a pretty good as solidly
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on our x one podcast that we
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writes in, I listened to the
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thoroughly enjoyed it. I was actually
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going to questify more. I've been
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and I'm a big fan. My
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itemized expenses in Sherlock Holmes, enjoy
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Keep up the great work app from
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Val writes in, I just wanted
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this episode. I love the mashup
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Well, thanks so much, Marjorie. We don't have a ton of those.

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I think we have one other one, so I will save it for

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another episode, for another time,
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extras. I listen every day.
You're excellent introductions and in depth commentary.

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Ad I see to the cake.
I'm a real fan from Bob Well.

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Thank you so much, and I
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