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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old
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is your host, Adam Graham.
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Detectives. Well, I want to
begin with thanking some listener support, and

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then I also have a public service
announcement for those of you who have Netflix

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and enjoy Perry Mason. So I
want to say thank you to Leslie and

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Lorna, to Eric who says he's
very happy to support this project, please

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keep up the very good work.
To Gene, to Keith and Keith actually

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a mails in says thank you for
the podcast I've enjoyed many hours. And

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then Brian and also Doug, well, thank you so much for your support.

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Greatly appreciated and in terms of a
final outcome, I will be adding

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that up for the next couple of
days and we'll be able to discuss it

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more on. Let George do it
Now to a public service announcement. If

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you have a Netflix which we've recommended
on the program in the past. I

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came across the news that Netflix is
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Among the programming offered by Stars is
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nineties Perry Mason movies with Raymond Burr, and then even some of the Perry

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Mason mysteries that followed with other actors
after Raymond Burr's death. So, if

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you're a fan of these programs,
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them on the instant watch, encourage
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be taken away this coming February due
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All right, well, now we're
going to take a listen to today's episode

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of Rogues Gallery. This one is
called The Corpse I Didn't Kill. F

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W. Fitch Company present Stick Powell, private investigator Richard Rogue in Rogues Gallery.

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Ut your Head, Save your Hair, Use Pitch Chad He f W

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Pitch Company, makers of Pitches Havebotified
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presents Dick Powell as private investigator rigid
rule in roll gallery rock speaking, you

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know, I'm a man who loves
sunshine in her out of orange juice.

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The only place that has more sunshine
for square rims than the Saharadesi is the

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San Fernando fo San Fernando seems to
be the place where everybody, including some

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of the healthiest golfers in the world, makes his home. Busting, I've

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withstood the blandish ones of hundreds of
brick red real estate men who have offered

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the membership in that clan of flaid
shirted hide blue jean, high heel booted

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paternity known as the San Fernando Valley
ranchers. Ranchers, Yes, sir,

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the San Fernando Valley as ranches are
there thicker than any place in the world,

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at least two on every acre.
Well, anyway, I was driving

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round out there this Sunday evening.
It was swimming weather, and I happened

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to remember that my friend Joe Dale
had a half acre spread in the neighborhood

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with a quarter acre swimming pool.
So I stopped at the antlers on the

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gate, rang the ship's bell hanging
there, but nobody answered. I thought

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maybe Joe was in the pool.
In the rear, so I opened the

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door and walked in. Then I
felt like walking out again because I saw

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Joe Dale lying there, making a
red stain on the white living room rug.

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Very defunct. I walked over to
him and gazed on at him.

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Then I heard the footsteps behind me
and did the half turn in time to

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see oblivion whistling down on my head. Oh, everything went red, white

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and blue, and I was whirling
like a top. Oh, it made

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me dizzy, whirling like that.
I couldn't stand the shrieking of the wind

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as it whistled past my ears.
I concentrated on stopping so hard that I

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could hear my teeth gritting, but
no goal. Then I thought of you,

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lorn, and suddenly I heard his
pleasant words, welcome home county.

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Oh, oh, my head,
he sees you, ugar. Who is

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this ancient feather merchant with you?
This is her father? You mean,

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a little damn father? Is he
talking about my God? Yes, sir?

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What's he doing with that gun?
He couldn't pull the trigger with a

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tractor, Will you see? God? The young snap out? And you

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got here, cam married my dag
me can't you can't get Oh? Shut

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up? I don't feel good.
Can you making things tough for me?

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Her father has a gun. I'm
capting this gang w I'm like mob,

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Oh, make him stop talking.
His voice sounds like a grindstone on a

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grindstone. Now he'm mad. I
might get ja enough to the old school,

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and if my daddy happened enough.
When I'm marrying this, you go,

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oh no, no, I'm not
gonna let my alter ego get married.

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You go can't get married. Oh
that's a mighty suffish when you're looking

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at things, rob Oh, look, look my head. I don't feel

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good. I came up here for
a rest. Now I'm are going to

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have it. Talk me out,
my god happy? Oh, shut up,

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shut up, shut up. I
can't stand that silly voice of yours.

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He's fine, Robie. You can't
stand in the way of our happiness.

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It's not fair. It's only normal. I want to get manny,

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how you get it? Beenelified?
You out? I can't stand it.

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I'm getting out of here. I
don't come back here, come back.

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When I came to, I was
looking right in Joe Dale's face, which

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was nious from mine. The inside
of my head was still whirling and clanking.

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Like a washing machine. But it
didn't take me long to get back

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up to date. I remembered I
had dropped in at Joe Dale's house for

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a quick swim and found Joe stetched
out in the living room floor shot.

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Then I remembered that swishing sound which
always means another bump on my head,

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And now my feet felt like they
were in diver's shoes. As I got

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up and looked the situation over,
the murder gun was lying there with a

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side of Joe's body, and there
was a billpole on the floor by the

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door. Being the kind of a
guy I am, I picked up the

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billpole. First it was Joe Dale's
and I put it in my pocket.

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Then I took my handkerchief and carefully
picked up the gun. I was bending

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over Joe gun in hand when I
heard a voice behind me. Yeah,

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a beautiful dame had walked in on
me and he bending over the corpse gun

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in hand. She fainted. I
ran over to her, Hey, hey,

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come out of it, lady,
lady, come on, come on,

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Oh come on, oh lord,
everything happens to me. Come on,

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come out of it. Open your
eyes. But she didn't. While

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I was working on her. A
man showed up in the open door.

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He took one look at the tableau
and died for the murder gun, which

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I had dropped. He parted the
gun at my third vest button and said,

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just stay right where you are.
I know how to shoot this thing,

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and I'm holding you for the police. Your partner got away, but

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I'll look mister, Hello, kai, I am the police. I know

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who you are. You're Richard Robe, the private investigator. You've been mixed

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up in plenty of shady deals before. What did you do to my wife?

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Is this your wife? Yes?
What's the matter with her? How

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she came in, saw Joe Dale's
body and fainted? Mary that you yes,

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now, don't work. I'm here
and I'll take care of you.

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This many He was standing over Joe's
body with a gun in his hand when

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I came in. He's a killer, Perry, be gilful. Don't worry,

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dear, I have him covered.
Stay right there, road. I'm

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a nervous man. I advise you
not to move while I'm phoning the police.

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We'll return to our story in just
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course we know that the clean,
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Sefonified coconut oil shampoo is much more
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clear, golden liquid shampoo makes an
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job of cleansing the hair. It
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and all unpleasant scalp order leaves the
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and fitches Sefonified shampoo is made from
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beauty shop, ask for a professional
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or buy an economical bottle at your
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the bottle with the bright yellow label. Now back to Dick Powell as private

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investigator Richard Rogue in Rogues Gallery.
I couldn't very well, blame Perry Stevens

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or his wife for thinking I just
put the kiss of death on Joe Dale.

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Missus Stevens came in and saw me
bending over the body with a murder

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gun in my hand. Promptly fainted, and so when Perry arrived, the

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floor was cluttered, the cottered was
and I was the only stranger. He

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picked up the killer's gun and held
me at the point of it until the

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cops arrived. Lieutenant Urban of Homicide
Buzz in charge. As usual, it

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seemed a little bit discouraged with me. Well, rogie, what's your story?

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Urban? It's a simple one.
I just dropped in here to take

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a swim and I found Joe Dale
dead. Why didn't you report the murder

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to homicide? I didn't have a
chance. The killer was hiding here in

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the room. He slapped me Sully
in escape while I was out. How

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do you think I got this cut
on my head shaving? I never know

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about you. There were two of
them, Lieutenant. I saw one of

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them run out from behind this house, A big man, red hair rough.

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This man here, this Richard Rogue, had an accomplice. When I

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came in, A roue was bending
over the body with a gun. That

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gun in his hand, I almost
caught him in the ass. I brought

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it rogie. Oh, I was
bending over the body. All right,

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I'd just come too. I was
checking up. Why didn't you call homicide

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when you came to I was going
to urban, But this dame here walked

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in on me, scream fainted.
I demanded to arrest this name. Wait

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a minute, what were you doing
here? I came over Joe as an

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old friend. We just came over
to take him to dinner. Don't try

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to implicate a couple of law abiding
people in your crime. You and your

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wife came together, of course,
Then how comes she came out ahead of

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you? I hesitated when I saw
that man run out from behind the house.

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Lieutenant, Do I have to stand
here and let this murderer cross question

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me? Missus Stevens, you and
your husband came here together. Yes,

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we had a dinner date with Joe. Did you see this man run away

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from the house? No? I
came right straight inside. Okay, look,

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Rogy, you'd better come down to
headquarters with me right now. We've

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got some talking to do. Irvan, Irvan, I'll be down in an

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hour. I want to go to
the emergency hospital and have my head put

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back on. I gotta go home
and get a suit without these red polka

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dot then I'll be down. I
demand that you put Rogue under arrest.

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Lieutenant, Now take it easy,
mister Stevens. I've had a little more

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experience but this sort of thing than
you have. See you in and hour,

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Roggy be there. That gash on
my head had cost me a lot

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of blood, and I was a
little woozy, and I left the ex

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residence of the late Joe Dale.
I drove turtle speed to the emergency hospital,

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where the dock made a few insulting
remarks about me getting scars on the

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scars on my poorhead, and then
I went home. I walked in the

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door and an arm went around my
throat. A crooked elbow squeezed my Adam's

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apple until I chopped. I felt
a hand steak into my inside breast pocket

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and lifted that wallet I'd picked up
on the floor beside Joe Dale's body.

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The elbow squeezed a little tighter,
tighter, tighter, and I had a

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horrifying sensation of bursting lug. Then
the elbow released him. I fell to

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the floor to the accompaniment of imparting
footsteps. I was still lying there when

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urban walked in through the open door. I got worried about you when you

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didn't show off, Rogie. I
don't know. Oh, I guess I

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just got faint plopped over here.
I lost a lot of blood. You

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know. Better take care of yourself, Rogie. I don't want to lose

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you. They like talking, Oh
sure, sure, but I don't know

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anything to talk about. Maybe you'd
like to talk about a murder and tell

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me did you get a line on
that red headed guy that was seen leaving

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Joe's house. I've got a description
out on him. Nothing has happened,

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jan How about mister missus Stevens check
up on them. Yeah. Stevens is

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the personnel director for an airplane company, has his bills promptly, has money

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in the bank, lives within his
income and he's been a friend of Joe

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Dale since college days. They're clean. That leaves you and the big red

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headed guy in the finals. One
of you killed Joe Dao. I don't

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think you did it, but I
could get an indictment against you in twenty

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minutes for the evidence I have,
But I didn't kill him. I didn't

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like him well enough. Oh,
I guess it's up to me if I'm

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the big redheaded guy. Huh.
You check the gun, no soap.

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The number was filed off and the
only fingerprints on it were Stevens, and

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they got on it when he was
holding you. Yeah, I was there.

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What had happened? I remember?
Oh, brother? Rather than I

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feel weary, alsa one thing elsewhere
to missus. Stevens was not expecting to

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find Dale murdered. You really want
to out like a butler on Thursday night?

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You know, Rogie, I'm a
cup And the fact that you and

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I understand each other doesn't make any
difference to the commissioner. Yeah, I

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know Joe Dare, who was a
pretty prominent character. Lots of connections.

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Now the commissioner expects a quick pinch. And with our friends the Stevens down

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there at City Hall swearing that they
saw you standing over the body with a

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practically smoking gun in your hand,
well it looks like it's going to be

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you. I put the arm on. But you know I didn't kill him.

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Urban I want to kill a guy
like that. Yes, I know

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you didn't kill him. But the
newspapers were on the old man. He's

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on the chief and the chiefs on
me. I'm going to have to pinch

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you, Rogie. You're a great
pal urvan. But look, if you

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pinch me, they'll never get a
con And you know that you can't get

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a confiction with automotive. I know
that. But you've made a lot of

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enemies around headquarters, Rogue. They
see a chance to give you a bad

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time and they don't want to miss
it. You can see the spot I'm

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in. Oh yeah, now,
look, look, Urban, give me

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twenty four hours to get the guy
to pull the boom on Joe Dale.

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Just twenty four hours, I'll happen
for you. That's whistling in the dark,

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ROGI yeah, with a ten whistle. But just give me a chance

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at it. Anyway, maybe I'll
be lucky. Okay, it'll probably put

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me back on a beat, but
I'll play along with you. You've got

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twenty four hours, Rogue. Then
don't make me come after you come in

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and give yourself up. The deal. Yeah, the deal. You're a

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good copper and I know you're sticking
your neck out like a turtle of feeding

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time, and believe me, I
won't let you down. Okay, ro

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Gonta get out, better get some
sleep. You look awful. I can't

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afford the luxury of sleeping. I
gotta work to do. Okay, Rogue,

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call me if you need me.
I'll be around a lot the luck

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you'll hate it. Hello, Hello, hello, Lieutenant Urban. There just

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aboute hy Urban. Yeah for me, Yeah, he'll be right here.

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Hang on, mighty excited little man
on the other end of this. Yeah,

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hello Urban speaking Stevens. Yeah,
and what do you want that man,

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that redheaded man that I saw running
away from Joe's house this afternoon.

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Yes, yes, he came here
tonight to my house. Well, what

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did you do? He gave you
to kill me? But hi, I

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shot him. He's dead. Please
come out with once. I'll be right

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there now. Don't move with things
till I get there. Come on,

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ROGI, well, let's put that
eighth ball I was behind over in the

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corner pocket, says Urban. Yeah, it looks Mike Stephens wrapped his case

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up for us, and that makes
me very happy. I wasn't looking forward

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to sweating it out in a jail
of yours. I didn't have anything against

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that redd the guy, but I'm
never gonna miss it. It takes me

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off a spot too, you know. Yeah, well you don't have to

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be a hero in my corner.
Oh well, all well that ends well.

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Corner phrase. It's there right down
this next block here, Steven's gonna

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have a lot of cabbage big houses
in the neighborhood. Yeah, I checked

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that. The wife's got money.
Oh there it is that two story white

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job. There's a precinct, proud
car in front. The boys are on

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the job. Hell, let's let's
get with it, grimeal t hello,

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barer, medical examiner here yet no, not yet, preaching boys, just

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got here. Thanks, come on, Rogi. Oh, let's quite the

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layout. Wife's got door. Huh
yeah, and uncle, if there's plenty

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about a year ago? M makes
it nice to perry oh bottom mine.

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Ah, you know, someday Betty
Callahan and I'm gonna have a chicken ranch

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out here in this valley. Look, we're investigating a murder. That's SERI

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his business. Oh boys, where
is he right in there? Lieutenant?

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Thanks well, lieutenant, it's about
the time you were getting here. When

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I came as fast as we could. Stevens Now, I suppose you tell

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me what happened. I'll be glad
to my wife and I got home tonight.

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Which is your wife? Is he
any right to question me in that

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tone of voice? Lieutenant? Where
is your wife? Why? They the

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shock was too much for her?
She's upstairs. I don't blame her.

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He's got enough for to day.
Come on, what happened? You got

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him with that shotgun? Eh?
Yes, I was fighting, terribly frightening,

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And as soon as I came home, I had got my shotgun night.

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I have a little you know,
and I put it here beside my

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chair. It was just a hunch. The doorbell rang, my wife answered

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the door. We thought it was
a neighbor. This redheaded man walked in.

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I recognized him at once. He
was the man i'd seen run away

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from Joe's house. He had a
gun. It's going to kill me,

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I suppose, because I was the
only eye witness with the cry. I

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don't that make sense? It certainly
does. It's the truth. He turns

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it, thought to my wife,
I saw my chat. I shot him.

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There. He is your murderer.
I've never seen anybody killed before.

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Well, he's sure, Dad iver
see him before? Now not? And

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I know of Hey, what are
you doing? Roggie? Oh? I'm

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just trying to get them stap on
the guy. That's all I thought.

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Oh, what's the matter. Oh, I'll get a billfold. I didn't

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expect to see one on this guy. And hey, Urban, this is

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Joe Davis billfold and it's full of
doll Yeah. See, yeah, several

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hundred bucks in it. Yeah,
that's the final piece of evidence. I'll

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take care of it. Oh,
there's a medical examiner and the newspapers are

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about due to arrive. You've done
a good night's work, mister Stevens.

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I want to thank you. I'm
not a man of violence. I'll never

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be able to forget this night.
There was something about that wallet that it

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was as strange as a bright and
black other. Identification on the body pegged

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the redhead as one Tom Church,
recently of the Navy, now a resident

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of the Crane Hotel. I watched
for my chance to give Urban and his

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minions the slip and patted away.
I went to police headquarters and charged into

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the identification bureau on a dead run. I handed the sigeant and charged the

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wallet and asked him to dust it
the fingerprints. Then I waited. When

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the sigeant came back, his jaw
was stuck out like the business end of

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a snow plow, and there were
icicles in her voice. Watched the deal,

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Rogie, what's the matter with you? All I ask you to do

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is to give me the identification on
the finger prints you found on the bell

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phone? Yeah? Yeah, yeah? Do you know who's prince I found?

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Your wise private creep? Do you
yours? Only yours? We'll return

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to our story in a moment.
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lovely. Now back to Dick Powell as

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private investigator Richard Rogue in Rogues Gallery, the news that the only fingerprints on

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that billfole were mine turned on the
floodlights, and one of my hunches picked

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up a hammer and started pounding against
my skull. I left the billfole there

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for urban and took off for the
Crane Hotel to check up on the red

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headed guy named Tom Church. The
hotel was a fourth class fleabag on Main

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Street. The clerk took a look
at my buzzer and answered my questions.

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That's right, that's right, chartie. I'm the law and I want some

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answers. Not tell me how long
has Tom Church been registered here? To

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church? Three days? She came
in three day. Now, let me

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see his phone calls. Oh,
we don't give out front, don't lip

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me get them, tell me before
I jump over that carter and stand on

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you while I pick them up.
Poet. Okay, okay, you you

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look like just the kind of guy
that called Joe. I've got them for

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you. I checked the phone calls
and found one of them had a message

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that was going to ring somebody's number
for the surprise party. I thanked the

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clerk and drove to the valley.
The free dawn Gray made way for the

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sunshine. Just as I walked up
the front walk at Dale's house, an

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elderly man walked around the next branch, pushing a lawn More you policeman.

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That's right. Yes, horrible thing, that murder yesterday. They get the

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killer yet, while I I think
so. Were you home yesterday afternoon at

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the time of the killing. Yeah, I wasn't paying much attention. You

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know. I heard the shot,
but I thought it was in a backfire.

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He look the whole time. I
want you to tell me everything you

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saw and heard after that shot.
Well, you see, I was sitting

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in the room reading the evening paper, you know, and I saw you

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drive up. Are you sure you're
a policeman. Mister why, yes,

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of course. Well i'd like to
see your credentials. You know you were

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the first man I saw enter there. All right, here's the dope on

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me hereh Scheriff Office loves me,
it is, that's fine. Oh oh,

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yes, I've heard of you,
mister rogue. Well after you drove

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up, the lady arrived. And
what do you want, mister rogue?

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Mister Stevens, I'm coming in.
I want to talk with you. No,

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come back, lady, I'm sorry, go on in and saddam,

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what do you want? Some answers? Saddam? Now where's your husband?

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Asleep? Nothing ever wakens in?
All right, let's get my twitter.

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Huh what were you to Joe Dale? I don't know what you mean,

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Missus Stevens. You've been seeing Joe
a lot, haven't you. I don't

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bother lying. I've got witnesses.
You and Joe Dale were better friends than

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your husband knew went to. Oh
no, I used to meet Joe once

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in a while to talk over investments. He was making for me at his

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house in the afternoons usually. Huh, Yes, missus Stevens, your husband

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killed Joe Dale. You lied when
you said that the tour of you had

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a dinner date with Joel last night. I just talked to your husband's secretary.

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He was supposed to be in San
Francisco yesterday. No, yes,

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but instead he went out in the
valley and killed Dale. I practically surprised

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him in the act. He got
panick, he knocked me up and rand

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No, No, he didn't,
he didn't. I can prove what I'm

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saying, missus. Stevens. You
came up in your car alone. Your

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husband came up in a cab a
few minutes later. He had to get

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back in to get that wallet and
a gun to make the murder look like

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a robbery. Picked the gun up
so there'd be a reason for his sting

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offense on it. Then an he
went to Maya Piron collected the wallet after

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choking me after death. Are you
with him? Then? You're just making

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this up. You can't prove it, Mark mart don't say anymore. It's

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a little late for that. Stevens. You've bungled the job all the way

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through, and you won't be needing
that gun. Harry, don't don't shoot

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give it that gun, Stevens.
You'd be crazy to getting a shooting contest

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with me. You'll stay right where
you are over. I'm not afraid to

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shoot Marche. They can't make you
appear against me. That's the law.

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If you stay with me, I'm
coming after the gun. Stevens, you

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stay where you are over, March. Mart stopped looking at me like that.

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Nopody knows anything about what I did. But Rogan, No, no,

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Perry. You killed them, and
I'm glad to get rid of you.

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You, March. Don't sell me
out. I've been frightened to death

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everything I've married. You Take that
gun away from him, Rogue, Take

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away running gun. Stevens, get
away from you, Rogue. You're going

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back on me. You can't do
that, Marge. We're in this thing

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together. Let me have that gun. Stephens shot you with sgether given a

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gun, I'll pick your arm off. Give it to me. Okay,

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Stevens, this is the end of
the easy story for you. Well that

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finished that case. Stevens went to
the gas chamber on Madge's testimony, and

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Marge is still in prison on an
accessory Rapp the redheaded kid Tom Church wasn't

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oh. He was an Emacon victim. He'd been interviewed by Stevens for a

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job the day before. Stevens knew
he had no relatives, no connections,

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so he decided to frame him for
the murder of Joe Dale. He described

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Church to the police, then called
him at his hotel and asked him to

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come to Stephen's home for an interview
about a job. If Church had been

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in when the call came, I
flier, I might have muffed the case.

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But he was out and Stevens left
his number for a callback that went

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by. All that was luck,
I guess, but I don't know.

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I I think I would have solved
the case anyway. Of course, I

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I didn't make a dime out of
it. Oh well, money can't buy

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happiness, but it can buy a
lot of things that make unhappiness pleasant.

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Candy, Oh you'll know what I
mean. This is Dick Powell again.

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Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you
enjoyed our story tonight. Ray Buffam wrote

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it, Lee Stevens composed and conducted
the music. In d Engelbach produced and

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directed. Next week, we have
a story for you about a missing witness,

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a worried rogue, and an ambush
that failed. Be with us,

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then will you? Thanks? For
listening, and I was jemmed. Be

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sure to tune in again next week, same time, same station, when

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you will again hear Dick Powell as
private investigator Richard Rogue in Rogue's Gallery.

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A while that us solved me Tostide
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sam After in between Fitch shampoos,
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by using a few drops of Fitch's
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Hair Tonic is not sticky or griefy, yet it gives your hair that well

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groomed look. Welcome back, well. Richard Rogue's one guy I don't feel

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particularly sorry for if he misses a
fee on a particular adventure. I do

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have to say his subconscious life is
getting more and more messed up as time

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goes along. But perhaps some of
that money should be going to psychiatrists.

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I should mention that this is actually
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Gallery. The episode The Missing Witness
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that, like much of the Rogues
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good news is that Rogues Gallery moved
to NBC for a summer run, and

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we have the first four episodes of
that series, which are actually the last

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four episodes we have with Dick Powell. So we're running out of and changing

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our detective stars in a very close
time, ring first Tom Conway and then

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a couple. In a couple of
weeks, it'll be Edmond O'Brien and then

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after that Dick Powell. But once
that's done, we should be said on

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most days other than Tuesday, which
will see quite a few changes until summer

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of twenty eleven or twenty twelve,
you need to get a calendar, not

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just a clock when I'm recording.
All right, well, listener comment from

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Melissa says, the August fifth Rogues
Galleries a repeat. It's the same as

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Murdering Drawing Room, a broadcast on
ME thirty first. The titles are different,

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but broadcast identical. Just thought you'd
want to know. Thanks a lot,

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Melissa. I think this is a
case of script reuse, which was

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something we saw with Jeff Regan.
I think this will probably be the only

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case we see with Rogues Gallery.
If anyone's aware of a different episode than

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the one we played for a murder
in Drawing room a or for the Latin

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time Lemono, and we'll be happy
to get that played. All right.

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Well, that will do it for
today. We will be back next week

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with the NBC run of Rogues Gallery, and then join us tomorrow let George

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do it. In the meanwhile,
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