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today's episode of Police Headquarters. First up, we will have paid in full,
followed by hot bonds. Police that quarters. Hold the wife, please
ejective you are Captain McNeil. It was the pong On busher, Captain on
at the subway terminal, Poblem, some guys just killed them. Run and
follow the boam. I disappeared under the crowd. Always an, I gave
chase, but problem go gourdon then alright, followed description into radio as in
burger down to take jobs him. What's shooting in front of subway terminals.
Get a couple of boys and have one down that round the ball of witness
as you can find and report back here right? Oh what do they want?
I don't know what he wanted to see you? Oh all right,
any minute, Cap'm not see you now right in here. Thank you.
Captain mcgeel. Is I believe you just had a murder, replied, what
about it? I feel that I might be of assistance. Our men can
handle it. And I see you don't understand me what I mean? Capton?
Is I might be able to let is tell you something about the king?
Are you all with this? Very much? So? Captain, come
in and sit down mister, don't we say Brown? If you wish,
Thank you, Captains, have a chair. Thank you. As you were
saying, I was saying that I could tell you something of interest about the
murder of Andrew Adams. Adams, Yeah, I believe he's known as Andrew
Spider now by head. Mister Brown, you're not the man who killed him.
Yeah, although I have my doubts if you'll be able to do anything
to him. I did you say that? The answer to that is a
long story, Captain, a story you will find hard to believe. But
as I say, the police will find it very difficult to punish the murderer.
John Fleming not thinks out very carefully before he killed Andrew Adams. Would
you like to hear the whole story? I would very well. John Fleming,
a man who killed Adams is a rather small man, much the same
build as myself. He is no longer young years to put their mark on
him. Only two months ago he was released from stone Hill Prison. Oh,
exctly right, we'll have a complete right on him. I think he
realizes that. But to continue with my story, John Fleming was a hard
working farmer before his misfortune. It was well caught up in the community,
well liked by everyone except one man, a neighbor of Flemings. This man
hated Fleming, and Fleming returned at Hattord. One morning a neighbor's body was
found in the burned ruins of his home. Two bullets were found imbedded in
the body, and those bullets were placed to the gun of John Fleming.
Needless to say, after a trial by a jury, John Fleming was called
to face the bar of all in a cart to learn the Jore. Have
you reached a verdict? We have, your honor? Will you read that
verdict? We find the defender, John Flemming, your second degree murder of
Ton with a recommendation for murder. Honor, John Fleming, will your eyes
and face the card. You have been duly tried and convicted on a charge
of murder in the second degree. The Jore has handed the card a recommendation
for mercy. Is there anything you wish to say before sentence is passed upon
your nothing, your honor, other than to once again maintain that I am
innocent of this crime. On the witness stand, I readily admitted the enmity
between the deceased and myself. However, I did not kill him. That
is all I have to say, Jun Freming. It is the order of
this card that you'll be taken to the state prison. That's dawn here and
they're being risen for a time not to exceed twenty year. And so John
Fleming was convicted of a crime which he strongly maintained he did not commit.
I see where does oil does connect with you? Okay, I'm coming to
that. Captain John Fleming served eighteen years, two months, and three days
of that sentence. At noon on the last day of his confinement, he
was called into the office of the warden. The warden was busy. Oh,
I mean flanning. You wanted to see the warden? Yes, sit
down, Thank you, sir. Today is the big day for your planning.
I know, sir. Today you become a freeman. Today, your
depth of society it is paid, paid and full. You've been a model
prisoner, Flemming. Your work and our agricultural department will long be remembered.
I'm sorry to see you go, but I frust you will not be back.
No ship. Before you leave, There's one question I'd like to ask
you cause me great concerns as I assume my duties. Here is warden.
How do you feel about your conviction? Now? I am not guilty of
the crime with which I was charged and convicted. I see, well,
you're free, Flemming, free to go, and may you enjoy the best
of luck. Here's my hand, and so Captain John Fleming walked out between
the great iron gates of the prison alone. He had a cheap suit of
clothes on his back in twelve dollars in his pocket. Yet he resolved to
start life when you start where he left off. I don't know just what
you're leading up to, mister Brown, but you'll have to hurry your story.
We've worked to doing at the mottom. I won't take up much more
of your time, Captain Well. Fleming tried to find work, You have
my word for that, but luck just didn't break for him. Finally he
came back here to his hometown. No one recognized him. He found a
job in a trucking company with hard work for an old man. Each evening
he dragons at home, utterly exhausted from the day's work. One evening he
opened the door to his room and found good evening. Fleming Adams, No,
you're alive, Oh yes, I'm very much alive. Don't stand there
staring come in. I all. You were told I was dead, You
were convicted for my murder. Your slaved eighteen years for it, not knowing
that it was alive and prospern you mean the I mean you're framed Fleming,
framed by me. I cause you to suffer that living hell for eighteen years
because you're married the woman I love but married. Yes, I know your
white died during the second year of your imprisonment, but no matter. I
have had my revenge. I wanted to see you suffer. I wanted to
see you in agony, even though it meant burning my home and leaving town
for fifteen years. You feel I'm careful of Flemming. I have a gun.
I wouldn't he take to kill you like I would have dog. I
thought perhaps the hardship of prison life would do it for me, But you
are too hardy. Never mind, you're dying. Your face showed it,
every moment of your body shows it, and you came up here to boat
over it. So enjoy my misery, Andrew Adams. I hope you can't
do anything. Andrew Adams is dead. My name is Spicer. I am
a well to do merchant. Nobody would believe you. But a body,
a body which the authority mistook for mine. Oh, I planned things sampanly,
my friend. I stole your gun in your absence. The body was
out of a tramp who came to my house begging food. I shot him
with your gun, poured oil on my house, and disappears. You can
imagine what joy I had reading of your reference conviction you you haven't long to
live, Fleming, I had intended killing you, but I've changed my mind.
I shall let your supper suffer the knowledge that I Andrew Adams wrecked your
life as you try to wreck mind, but I didn't. I shall leave
you. Now, leave you on your midery, Fleming. Lead you to
ponder on the wreckage you have made of things you haven't longed to live.
Fleming, I can see that you're becoming interested. Captain. We come now
to a last scene of this story. John Fleming was left alone to think
things out. Prison had dulled his senses and took him several days to map
out his course. Then Fleming took what little money had saved and purchased a
revolver. Next he made arrangements to meet Adams at a downtown building. He
was waiting when Adams arrived. You have a nerve to call on me for
help. Did you do you think I'd help you? You think I'll give
him one tenth for doctors for medicine. I didn't come to you for aid,
Adams. I came to talk things over with your talk things over.
What do I have to talk to you about? Several things I believed.
First, I want to compliment you upon the planning and executing of such a
diabolical scheme to in vengeance upon a fellow man. It was a bit of
planning as only the devil himself could have accomplished. You have anything to pay
to me? Oh, you're a heart man, Adams. You knew exactly
what you were doing. You knew that I'd be arrested and convicted for a
crime which I did not come in. I believe the irony of living amusal.
You knew just how everything would happen. You've thought it all out in
great detail. But there's one thing that you didn't. Oh, yes,
you said, Adams. He overlooked the fact that the man can only pay
once for the same time once and once only I've paid for your murder,
Adams. Now I'm oh, no, where can I find this Fleming?
Why do you want to bother him? Captain? You can't convict him,
rat to Charlotte. He's already paid for the crime, Paige in fool.
He can't be made to pay again. But it's not up to me.
I'll have to arrest him, arrest him for the murder of a dead man.
Very well, Captain, I'm John Fleming, Police Headquarters. Just a
minute, please, Protective you're Dafne Young. This is jail Senton President as
the investors really think, Yes, I'm it's the third night. Say thanks.
I yes, I want you to send an officer over here immediately to
arrest the president of this bank, one of them. I want you to
send someone over here to arrest the president of this bank. What's he done?
I'll explain that with the officer. Well, i'll be rid over myself,
all right, I'll wait for you here. Yes, thank the that's
for a few minutes. Notes, and I'm going over to the third Nincial
Bank. What's up? Oh? Someone not wants me to arrest roll or
seem more than the president. Stay in the carpet calls right because when the
number nine players start right away, Oh not reckon at him, please,
Yes, I'm Japane Youngson, Headwater and them all there you are here.
I want you to arrest this council. I want you to take him down
and sew him in jail. That's what I might, dear Mi descense And
if you will just calm your hovels, shout me by you, you arrest
him, arrest him, I saying, on my constitutional right side, demand
that you arrest this. They see fuck, my dear said, I became.
He's a dustman adjustment, the love cup of the bottom of the struble.
You're a samson of the real assembly, jesh, and this band of
gentleman adjust amine here. You're a story first of your a mind of smugging.
I'd rather you had its descens I'll have to admit it all very mister
tis to me very well. You'll hear my side of it all right.
I am representing one of the largest real estate firms in this city. I
came in this thank that one week ago to day and borrowed two hundred thousand
dollars. You borrowed a much two hundred thousand dollars? What did you borrow
the money for my company? We're didding on a new tract of land.
We wanted the cash to close the deal. I see as collateral on the
loan. I put up two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of New York
and Boston Railroad bonds. The real estate deals were true, and I brought
my check for two hundred thousand dollars plus the interested days and asked for my
bonds. Man well, I was met with a cock and bull story that
they couldn't make a child believe. What about this, mister Margan, What
mister Sampson tells you is absolutely true. This bank loaned him two hundred thousand
on the bus that I was just a week ago to day. And what
happened to the bond, I don't know. You don't know. I've been
in the stolen or misplace. I've tried to tell mister Smpson that if you'll
give us a two days to day, your bank firing up interest on the
loan. Not a chance, Okay, Morgan, you produced my bonds immediately
or I'll swear out of water. But you're a rat, mister. A
minute, wait a minute. I look into this thing and it o man
who handled the pan's action, mister Evans, a cashier. Where in this
office did you see the bonds, mister Margan? Yeah? And were they
in New York and Boston Railroad? Yes? What happened after you inspected and
fast on the bonds? I instructed mister Evans for God, check for the
amount and make the necessary arrangement with mister Sempson here, and those arranduments were
made. Yeah, then your cashier Evans was the last man to handle a
boonder. That it's correct. And if the bonds were stovern Captain Young,
We're not sure that they were stolen. You see, when we opened mister
Simpson's envelope this morning, expecting to find the bonds, we found these instead.
And if you asked me, they tried to pass this worthless stop up
onto me, thinking that I'd not notice it. What are these bonds?
I'm ass they are an old issue of German municipal bonds. They're absolutely wistles.
And you found these in the envelope instead of the railroad bounder. Yes,
well, were released bonds kept during the past week. In the vault,
we have a special section for a collaboral and they went moved until you
went to get them today. As far as I know, they were not
who went from today Evans the cash here I see, mister Margan. How
many people in this bank would have access to the collaboral. Three mister Evans,
mister Turner, the vice president, and myself and one of your faith
Brook Stop my bottom, mister Sampson. I'm going to ask that you let
me finish what I started without interruption, all right, but I was something
done and we will do all we can. Mister Morgan, if you'll arrange
for me to talk to the cash here Evans, I will see what we
can do to No evens you're positive that you placed the bonds in his envelope,
mister Morgan, so me doing that Rightmans Marghan, Yeah, I was
watching him. There's absolutely no counts that an error with me. And you
took this envelope directly to the vault, Evans Gay, and it's been an
evault ever since. Yeah, that is until I went for it today.
Have you ever seen these German minicipal bound reform? No, that's beyond me.
Margan. You've long Sampson two hundred thousand on some New York and Boston
Railroad bounds. Those bounds were entrusted to you for safekeeping, and he's ready
to pay back the loan and you can't produce the bonds. That's to me
as though you'll have to pay him a full price of the bombs, that
is, if we're not found, and of course the bank will do it.
We're fully protected by insurance. Captain Young, You've made quite a reputation
locally as a sleuth, and I'd depreciate it very much if you took a
hand in this matter. Of course, the bank will call it all investigators,
but I'd feel better about it personally if you took chimes, even if
the trail led to one of your officers or yourself. Even then, smarting
on first, I want the serial numbers on all the missing bonds, and
then I want to talk to each and every one of the oh here comes
to Captain Oh boys, I'm glad to see you're all here. I have
to call you on such short notice that I was afraid I miss some of
you. And here's what we're here for. Somebody is pulled a fast one
on a third Nationals kidding amount of two hundred and fifty thousand and railroad bombs
New York and Boston. Of course the bank is called let's private addiction on
the job. In ordinarily I had let him handle it. I shot that
I want to show these bank of pictures that we can turn the tick farm.
Now. I have here and any rap copies of the serial numbers on
the missing bonds, and here's the description of the case and some other dope
that you'll need a downing. You get on the phone. Cover every banking
institution in the state they bonded, probably on the move. Now find out
if any of these bonds are fast for the bookers. Turner, you're an
the hand of this game getting the telepipe. Why are every section in the
country If these bonds has been taken out of state, it's your job to
handle it, right nolm Yes, UKL Morgan, Knight and Day And but
I love him, Mike, don't let him know it? Right? Hill
are you and Tuppy? You got after Evans the cash here and any commies
that he might run into, make a complete report by today. We got
the capitol. I let your boys circulator bot and keep your eyes and ears
open and your routine duty but remember this department is on the trail of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of hop bonds. Detective, your Captain Young's
office in just a minute, dead down things on the phone, cap Hello,
Oh it did though fine yesterday. Now we're getting hot. Keep after
him, news cat, I'm down and find out that the firm of Overlockham
Bailey sold a big bunch of the bonds yesterday for a client named Smith.
Names probably a phonny. He described the downy as a dapper little guy with
a gray mustache, had a letter of reference from the Third National. I'll
get it. Huh yeah, I'll o tay Milton, Yeah, down they
just called into the similar report. Keep out after him. Milkon bond out
at the Harrison Company sold some of them the same bonds money for the same
Smith got the commissioner funny all right, he said he'd be over to Hello.
Yeah, I'm Milton. Now you're getting somewhere. I'll stick around and
pinch him when he shows up. No, no, wait a minute,
don't think him. You got one of the boys after over there right away,
and when the housepect gets there, let him make the transaction. And
then tay him. Keep your eye on him every minute. I got a
hunch, and if it works out, a certain gentleman in this town is
going to be very surprised. Glad you got here, Kat, And I'm
waiting for him to come out in that office there. Who is he?
I don't know, but it all checks. He's a little old man about
five feet four, gray mustache and walked with a sort of a swen.
How do get the lead? And I was coming to town, like you
told me. I asked about New York and Boston Railroad buns at Adams and
Sons, and they told me that they had a feller in to sell some
to a client if there's at two o'clock. So I hiked at the phone
and called you. Then, Well, I thought them like I said,
as soon as I saw him, knew that you fit the description of a
guy who's been passing him at the other places. So I kept right on
its tactically stopped ten and I called you again, and it came right over.
How long has you been in that office? About twenty minutes? It
So who's office is it? I don't know? Names around the corner.
I think, wait a minute, I's on the door over here. Hey,
hey, why can't we're going into that office? All right, come
on right behind me and get your eyes open, all right, all right?
Asked that that's it up high, I see what we'll see what in
that little guy's hand melting some of the funs Captain Man, Just as I
thought. And on the desk is the marked money for the system that Adams
and Sons where they just sold some of the bonds. Listen, it's time
for you to listen to Sanson. Oh yeah, well you've got nothing on
me. Tell you you find a shut up? Or do I shut you
up? What the car Captain Hilton, We just caught a couple of slickers.
Sanson here has stopped the fly and plan all out. He was a
smart guy, but he got two bold He should have held the bond for
a couple of years. I don't get your captain listen this, yeah,
yeah, yeah. Samson is a man who owned the bonds. Originally he
saw a way to make two hundred thousand on them by pulling a faston in
the bank. He borrowed the money on the bonds and then saw to it
that they disappeared out of the vault. So he could force the third national
to pay him face value for the bond. How did he get him out
of the bank? Easy? Yeah, you see that little short guy standing
there in front of him. Well he did it. Samson hired him to
steal the bonds out of the bank and pass him for him. You mean
this little guy is a bank driver. Oh no, not at aone.
Jerked that point in the stash off of his upper lip. That's said.
See he's not a bank robbery a bank cashier. You're under a rap don
welcome back. One thing I find interesting is the gold Mage of Entertainment had
all these very fanciful interpretations of the h constitutional provision against double jeopardy. The
fact that you were convicted of murdering someone in a fire doesn't mean that you
can shoot them and get away with it because you were convicted of previously murdering
them. I'd doubt there are a whole lot of presidents on that, just
because when people are murdered, they tend to stay murdered. Those are two
separate crimes separated by more than twenty years. I remember it was a children's
book written I think in the nineteen forties, where the hero had committed a
crime and then been put on trial and acquitted it. I think it was
a burglary. And then he went ahead and committed another burglary of the same
place, and someone said he couldn't be tried again because he couldn't be tried
for the same crime twice. Now there are two different crimes, two different
occurrences, though I do think in the case of the police headquarters, the
prosecutor might make a decision to dispense with it, or to at least arrange
some other arrangement, particularly with the state of health of the defendant. The
second one, I had a kind of a hunch as to how it was
going to turn out. I was surprised that the bank clark was an accomplice.
I was thinking something had happened at the moment where the guy who deposited
the bond switched him, but didn't quite get that part right. All right,
Well, that we'll do it for today. Join us tomorrow for a
one thousand, three hundredth episode special. I think you will enjoy it.
It's an episode of suspense. And then on Monday we will begin it all
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