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Speaker 1: The Avenger.

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Speaker 2: The wrote to crime men at trapped that justice sets

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crime does not pay. The Avenger, sworn enemy of evil,

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is actually Jim Brannan, a famous biochemist. Through his numerous

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scientific experiments, Brandon has perfected several inventions to aid him

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and his persade against crime as the Avenger. Most remarkable

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of these inventions is the highly secret diffusion capsule, which.

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Speaker 1: Cloaks him in the black light of invisibility.

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Speaker 2: Brand's assistance, the beautiful Fern Collier is the only one

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who shares his secrets and knows that he is the

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man the underworld fears as the Avenger.

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Speaker 1: And now.

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Speaker 2: The Avenger and murder hits the jackpot.

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Speaker 3: The next operator, Operator, please don't cut me off, but

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I'm still waiting for my party.

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Speaker 1: He was busy on another wire. Operator.

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Speaker 3: I can't leave this booth to get any change. Two

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men are trailing me. This is a matter of life

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and death. Operator Operator. I think I'm a crank, so

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I just have to take a chance and get some change.

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All right, gents outside match and that you have it.

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It's back right now.

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Speaker 1: Thank guy.

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Speaker 3: The big guys waiting outside of his card go ahead.

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Speaker 1: Thank What is this.

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Speaker 3: Getting the cart j Justson in the back Tello, Judson,

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Griff tell us Gorilla.

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Speaker 2: If you don't sit here in the back with us, Hank,

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Samuel drive, I'll say step on it, Sammy. Cut across

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that back road the Keystone Meadows.

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Speaker 4: Ow.

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Speaker 5: Uh, what for you saying?

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Speaker 4: Justsin So you're taking me to Keystone Meadows?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a nice desserted spot. I got to keep

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you away from.

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Speaker 1: Telephones, Justin.

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Speaker 3: I didn't talk to anybody, Grif, honestly I didn't. That

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secret service man was busy on another line.

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Speaker 5: I know you didn't get to him, Judson.

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Speaker 3: Hank would have blasted your right through the door of

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your head. But you can't blame us if we don't

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take any more chances with you. Well, I'm not going

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to beg for mercy, Griff. I won't give you the

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satisfaction you admit. You're all set the double crosses. It's

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the only way out that I could see the latest

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racket if yours forced my hand, I hadn't bargained for that.

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Speaker 1: Now, who tipped you off? Judson?

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Speaker 3: Nobody I tumbled on to you set up in the

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factory today. It's too bad.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't give me any choice, it's you or me.

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Here's the place, Sammy, turn in here stop over there

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near that clump of trees. Well, Judson, this is the

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end of the line for you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, get out.

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Speaker 3: Jason.

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Speaker 2: Might as well go through his clothes, Hank. If we

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can make this look like robbery, so much the better.

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Turn out the headlights, Sammy.

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Speaker 3: I'll keep my flesh on him.

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Speaker 1: He's well here all right, hurry it up, Hank. We

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you haven't got all night. Okay, what are you waiting for?

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Speaker 5: Then give it to him?

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Speaker 3: Yes, Inspector, that's Max Judson, the real estate man. All right.

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Speaker 1: Did you know him, Jim?

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Speaker 3: Oh, you might say. We had a nodding acquaintance.

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Speaker 2: He used to play tennis at my club. Well, what

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makes you think this was a gang killing, Inspector? As

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far as I know, Judson was always on the left.

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Speaker 3: Well, people who live right don't often come to such

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a bad end, Jim.

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Speaker 1: Four bullets in the chest out in Keystone Metter.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but he was robbed too, don't forget that.

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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it, Jim, this was a gang murder. Here.

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Speaker 3: Take a look at this. We found it in his

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left hand nickel.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, according to the best tradition of the underworld

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that nicol symbolizes the fate of a double crosser.

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Speaker 3: I's here, Jim, you mind if I keep this nickel, Inspector.

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I suppose you want it for your coin collection.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's right, it's a buffalo nineteen twenty two. I

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haven't got any of those.

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Speaker 1: Okay, take it, And I don't suppose Judson's air sue.

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Speaker 3: Thanks, Inspector. Well, where do you think we should start

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on this? Gim oh?

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Speaker 2: A lot of routine checking will have to be done first. Uh,

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why don't you go to work on that?

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Speaker 1: Now? What about you?

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Speaker 3: I've got a punch that may lead us to the

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motive for Judson's murder.

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Speaker 2: I suppose you'll let me in on it. I'll need

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a little time to work on it. Come around to

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my lab at four o'clock this afternoon, inspector.

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Speaker 3: Maybe i'll have something more definite by then.

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Speaker 6: Here you having more nickels, Jim, Oh, good, put.

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Speaker 3: Them down on the table here for you didn't get

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the mixed up, did you? No?

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Speaker 7: This pocket follows from the grocer, and bass from the

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news dealer, and oh these are from the drugs dug

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and all these world ones from the back.

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Speaker 2: That brings our total up to five hundred. Now we

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can go to work, Jim, I wish.

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Speaker 6: You'd tell me what we're going to do with all

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these nickels.

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Speaker 3: We're going to give each one of them a chemical.

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Speaker 6: Test, burn a chemical test.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I think we'll find that a percentage of these

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nickels are counterfeit.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Inspector, you're right on time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Hell, I hope you had better luck than I have.

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Speaker 3: Jim, I haven't been able to get anywhere on Judson's death.

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Speaker 6: Jim thinks you so, Inspector, Yes, what.

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Speaker 1: Is your Jim?

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Speaker 3: Counterfeit money?

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Speaker 2: I think Judson's murder can be tied up with a

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racket that specializes in counterfeit Nichols.

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Speaker 1: Counterfeit Nichols.

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Speaker 3: Why that couldn't be much of a racket, Jym, wouldn't

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be worth it to.

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Speaker 2: The contrary, Inspector, it would be a very smart racket,

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and a very profitable one.

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Speaker 1: H I figure that well.

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Speaker 2: According to a little preliminary test we made this afternoon,

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about one tenth of the nichols in circulation in this

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neighborhood at least our counterfeit.

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Speaker 1: Parl of that so I haven't the banks discovered it?

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Speaker 2: Because these fake nichols are so well turned out it's

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impossible to tell them from the real one. Well, here, inspector,

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take a look at these two nichols. One is counterfeit

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and one is good. Can you detect any difference?

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Speaker 1: Ah, they look exactly the same.

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Speaker 6: To me.

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Speaker 2: They not only look the same, but they weigh the

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same seventy seven point one sis.

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Speaker 1: And how can you be sure they're fakes?

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Speaker 2: I've given them a chemical test. H A nickel struck

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at a government contains seventy five percent copper and twenty

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five percent nickel. These countts contain lead for weight, zinc

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for color, and powdered glass to give them a ring.

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Well that's the reason they've been able to fool everybody.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but where's the profit in a gym?

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Speaker 3: Oh? About four and a half cents on each nickel.

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Speaker 2: These fakes could be stamped out at a cost of

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about half a cent piece.

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Speaker 3: Say they were put out in large enough quantities, that

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would add up to a sizeable rage, if I should

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say so.

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Speaker 2: When you realize there are two hundred and ninety five

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million dollars worth of nickels in circulation, For instance, if

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a counterfitter could supply just one percent of them, just

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one percent for each a short period, he would stand

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to clean up several million dollars.

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Speaker 3: Of course, I think this racket is still.

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Speaker 2: Localized, but unless we nip it in the butt, it

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won't take too long for to expand.

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Speaker 1: Well, any idea who might be behind it?

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Speaker 2: Yes, that is I think I know who made these coins.

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I want you to check on it for me with

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who is it? An old fellow by the name of

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Pop Wallers. He's a chronic counterfeiter, the kind that just

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can't leave the business alone. And he's my father best

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artist in the line. But the last I heard of

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Poppy was stably toughed away in a federal contentiary. Well,

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if Walters made these nickels, Jim, we'll find him. Give

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me a couple of hours on this, Hello, Jerem, Inspector White. Oh, yes,

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I got a line on Pop Waller's Jim.

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Speaker 3: Good, It isn't so good.

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Speaker 1: He was released from the federal pen eight months ago.

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They figured he was too old.

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Speaker 8: And feeble to do any more harm, so they sent

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him to a rest home, Oh where abstain? But he

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disappeared from the home three weeks after he arrived. I

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guess that means he's back in operation, all right.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and this time I don't think he's working alone.

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He's probably hitched up with some local gang that has

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the proper setup to unload the nickels. Anyway, Pop Waters

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wasn't a killer.

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Speaker 1: I'll put some of my best men on the job

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right away, Jim. We'll be able to locate him.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'll go to work on the other angle.

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Speaker 1: What other angle?

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Speaker 3: The gang that's unloading the nickels? All right, Well, keep

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in touch with me, Jim, so long.

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Speaker 4: Inspector, you winning anything, Grip, Nope?

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Speaker 1: And the suckers won't take much away from.

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Speaker 3: This newbot machine, Hank.

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Speaker 1: How much does it pay off?

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Speaker 5: Only about twenty percent?

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Speaker 3: Just enough to keep them coming. I am. I think

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you're gonna run into some trouble installing them new machines, Grip,

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what are you giving me? Customers will take him like them.

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Speaker 1: Now we're in for some headaches, Griff.

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Speaker 3: Now that Judson's gone, some of the customers that occupy

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stores space he owned a stepping out of line.

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Speaker 1: Oh how three of them.

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Speaker 3: Head out of order signs on their slut machines today.

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Speaker 1: Oh what did you do about it?

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Speaker 3: I tore down the stignes and told them to lay off,

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but it didn't scare them. Then Judson's dead and they

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figured they can't be dispossessed. Now two of them had

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a nerve to tell me to get the machines out

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of the place.

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Speaker 2: Well, we better go to work on this right away.

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Those guys are dealing with Griff Katlin now, and I

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guess it's about time I let them know who's boss.

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They'll tell me to get the car out, Hank. Right,

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I got a little job for you, two boys.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Sammy, it's that store on the corner, close to

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the sidewark and slow down.

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Speaker 1: Right here. He's a present for you, mister Ballot. Okay it.

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Speaker 3: And let's teach him. Next step is the tenth in

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Maple SEMMI, we got another package to deliver.

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Speaker 2: Well, there isn't much left of this store, Inspector. Were

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there any customers inside when the bomb was thrown?

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Speaker 1: A ballad the proprietor was the only casualty. Jim.

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Speaker 3: Looks like we're right in the middle of an old

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time gang war. We haven't been up against anything like

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this in years idea.

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Speaker 2: Jim, Yes, I think there's a definite connection between this

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bombing and Max Judson's murder. Or hard you figure that

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Judson owned several dozen corner stores in the city and

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this was one of them.

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Speaker 1: Protection ragged Maybe.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised, But I still can't figure out

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where the counterfeit nickel fits into all this.

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Speaker 3: We're up a blind alley on pop Warriors. The old

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fellow seems to vanish in.

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Speaker 1: The thin air.

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Speaker 2: Keep your men working on an inspector meantime, friend, and

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I will get busy on a little field work. Now

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back to the Avenger and murder hits the jackpot.

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Speaker 6: Oh god, Jim, we're losted.

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Speaker 3: Jim, put another nickelin Ferns. I'll get some more.

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Speaker 6: Change, all right. Oh, I don't think it's possible to

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win on these slot machines, Jim.

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Speaker 7: You're just wasting money on these things. So far, we've

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put in over ten dollars worth of nickels and various

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machines and only got two dollars back.

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Speaker 2: That's about the average payoffer, and only the suckers expect

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to win. Put one more nickel in it and then

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we'll move on to the next door. Okay, Jim, I

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won not the jackpot though.

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Speaker 6: Oh help me gather up the nickels.

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Speaker 2: Jim, Oh, that was a twenty nickel win. Fern here

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put them in this pocket. I'm keeping that those we

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won separated from the ones we got in change from

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the straw keepers.

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Speaker 6: I'm tired of these games, Jim. Can't we go home now?

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Speaker 3: Not yet. We have three more stores to cover.

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Speaker 2: Then we'll go back to the lab and find out

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how many counterfeit nickels we've collected.

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Speaker 6: Come on, have you finished with the test? Jim?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Vernon eight out of ten of those nickels we

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collected and the slot machine stores were counterfit.

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Speaker 7: They're seeping into circulation through those stores, then, right, Jim.

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Speaker 6: It doesn't seem possible that all those storekeepers could be crooked.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't necessarily follow.

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Speaker 7: That they are, But if they're hanging out fake nickels

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for change, they must be.

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Speaker 2: No, there's another angle to it. Those slot machines are

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serviced by a follow by the name of Griff Kaplan.

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Speaker 6: How did you find that out?

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Speaker 3: One of those straw keepers admitted it. Griff's men deliver

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the nickels each morning and the storekeeper pays for them

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men bills.

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Speaker 6: Well, now we're getting someplace.

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Speaker 7: Old Pathdwarters' is probably working for Griff Catlan, who has

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a perfect setup from boding.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that's how it works.

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Speaker 6: Well, how did Max Judson fit into it?

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Speaker 2: Johnson evidently forced his tenants to install the machines. He

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probably made a deal with Griff Katlin to share on

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the profits.

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Speaker 6: Why should they kill him? Then?

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Speaker 2: Maybe Judson didn't know anything about the counterfitting ankle. At

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first thought it was a straight business proposition. Then somebody

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made his slip and Judson got wise. He threatened to

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have the law on Griff or maybe have the machines

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taken out of his stores. So Griff had a murdered.

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Speaker 6: Well, the case is solved him. Should I call the inspectors?

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Speaker 2: Not yet, There's one piece missing in this puzzle. I

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still have to find out how Griff Katherine manages to

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get the lead and zinc for those phony nickels.

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Speaker 6: Oh, how can we do that?

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Speaker 2: Well, he must have a business in front of some

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kind so that he can buy those metals without incurring suspicion.

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We'll have to make a survey of the big factories

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and check the metal situation in each one of them.

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Speaker 3: The Wells Manufacturing Company is on the level fern.

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Speaker 2: Production and purchases. Check here at the Highland Mills Progress

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Coppery has a clean bill of health. You've been checked.

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Western Plate where awful fern. Everything's in order at the

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Garfield plant. That Novelty toy factory is the place we're

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looking for fern.

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Speaker 6: Oh good, I was beginning to give up. How can

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you be sure, Jim?

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Speaker 2: All their toys are made of plastic, But according to

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the trucking report I have on them, they receive a

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weekly chipment of lead and zinc.

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Speaker 6: Well, did you see anything in there that looks suspicious?

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Speaker 2: Yes, they manufacture toys all right, but their output is

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very small in comparison to the size of the factory.

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It's just possible that the counterfit does operated in the

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basement because there's only one door leading down there from

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the factory and it was bolted from the inside.

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Speaker 6: Well, there's a big devil door there in the back.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's big enough to allow a good sized truck through.

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Speaker 6: Well, what do you think we ought to do, Jim?

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Speaker 3: It's my guess that the actual counterfiting goes on at

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night when the factory's closed. We'll have to come back later.

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This seaves to verify that.

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Speaker 6: In the meantime, how about some dinner, Jim.

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Speaker 7: I didn't say anything about skipping any lunch, but I'm famish, okay.

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Speaker 3: How about a nice big steak with all the trimmings.

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Speaker 6: Well, it looks as if your hunt was right, Jim.

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Speaker 3: Yes, there are some lights in the basement. All right.

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The shutter of that one window isn't tightly closed.

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Speaker 6: Can you see anything? Jim?

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Speaker 3: No, it is an open far enough.

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Speaker 6: How do you plan on getting in?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 3: I can, and they open that window easily enough.

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Speaker 6: What do you want me to do, Jim?

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Speaker 2: Go up to the drug store on the corner and

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wait for me. If I don't join you there in

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an hour, call the inspector.

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Speaker 6: All right, Jim, do you think this is a job

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for the Avenger?

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Speaker 3: I don't know yet.

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Speaker 4: Burn.

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Speaker 2: I'll go in there and get the lay of the

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land first. Now run along, it's time I went to work.

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Speaker 3: Mm. Hello, hey, oh hello, say, I didn't hear you

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come in, young feller. Who are you a friend of Grits? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Hey, do I know your son? No?

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Speaker 2: But I've heard a lot about you, pomp. You have

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who from oh Griffin the boys? Johnson like you too?

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Johnson don't think I know him. He was in business

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with griff.

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Speaker 3: Hey, come closest, Son, so I can get againder at you.

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My eyes ain't what they used to be. Your guys

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are okay? Pop? Those Nichols you're making are better than ever?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah they are, aren't they? I sure fooled them treasure guys,

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didn't I all? So you did?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Pop Wall, this is through, they said, too old and

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too feeble to do any harm here. I am turning

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out better Nichols than the mint. No oh, popping through

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yet not by a long shot. Why you'll be engraving

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bills one of these days, Bob, not me. Nichols is

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safer people in banks examined bills close with nobody's species

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in Nichols. Why that's right. You make them pop and

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griffelum load of them. That's the tickets. Son were branching

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out already, you know that? Why No? I didn't?

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Speaker 1: Sure he's Look.

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Speaker 3: Look there's five thousand dollars worth of nickels over there,

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right over there, ready to be tracked out to Avon

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City tomorrow At that rate, you'll be a millionaire one

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of these days, not me, when you get to be

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my age. Many don't mean anything to you. All I

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want is to stay out of jail and be left

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alone to do my work with you.

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Speaker 2: It's art for art's sake. Hey, that's said, send nothing,

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Papa say. Wouldn't be easier to stamp out all the

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nickels from one plate?

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, that did give them all the

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same date, and the banks would get wise to that

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no time. For what dates do you cover? My specialty

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is the buffalo nickels, Sam, so I ran most of

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them from nineteen thirteen to nineteen thirty six.

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Speaker 2: How did you manage to get all those plates made

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so soon? You've only been out of the penitentiary eight months.

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Speaker 3: Look, look, I'll tell you something. Yeah, listen to me

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close Now. I had nearly all these plates buried, Sam.

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All I had to do was dig them up and

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go to work pretty smart. Say, pop, got a twenty

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two nickel on you?

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Speaker 1: No, on the head?

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Speaker 3: A few of those? Well, what was that noise? I

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guess that's Griff.

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Speaker 1: He generally comes in around this time.

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Speaker 3: This is a job for the avenger. Oh, Bob, everything's

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going Oh fine, Griff, Fine.

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Speaker 1: Now we're gonna move you over to Avon City.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow, Pop, Avon City went for things are getting hot

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because that's all.

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Speaker 3: Eh, that's too bad. Now say name treasury man. Ain't

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on us already had ain't no not yet. Eh, that's good, Oh,

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I say, Griff, Uh huh. This young fella has been here.

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He's waiting to see you. What young fella, Mzee. It's

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mighty funny. He's here a minute. The girls sitting right

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on that stool talking to me. Hey, you're a looney Pop.

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There's nobody here. It's lucky for you. There isn't.

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Speaker 1: You can't make it out.

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Speaker 2: You know, I wouldn't have anybody meet me here. Nobody

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but you and me and some of the boys know

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what's going on.

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Speaker 1: In this place.

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Speaker 3: The Avenger, Grip, he's in on this little secret too,

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The Avenger. I told you seventy was in here.

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Speaker 1: Griff.

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Speaker 4: You'll double cross me, Pop.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, Gray Fire, I didn't let him in. No,

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I didn't let him in.

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Speaker 3: Honest, you double crossed yourself, Grip. When you murdered Judson.

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Speaker 4: Griff, you didn't murder anybody, did you wear is he.

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Speaker 2: I'll find the Avenger and plug him. Pull a lead

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if it's the last thing I do. You're good at that,

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but this isn't the night for it. My gun, the

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Avenger knocked it out of your hand, Grip, pick it up,

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Pop and cover him.

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Speaker 3: Grip. Katlin has wanted for at least three murders, all right,

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I don't hold with them that kills.

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Speaker 4: Stick up your hands, Grip.

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Speaker 3: And if you make one move toward Pop, the Avenger

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will knock you out cold. Don't you worry. I'll wig

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him he tries to get away. Avenger good.

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Speaker 2: We won't have long to wait. Inspector White will be

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here soon. He'll be glad to take Grip off your hands. Pop,

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Whit boys will get you for this. Pop bad and

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you two Avengers, save your breath, Grip. When the judge

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gets through with you and you're a gang, a whole

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lot of you won't be worth one.

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Speaker 4: Of Top's date.

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Speaker 6: Now, Will Jim tell me? Has Griff cat Linton says.

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Speaker 2: No, fairly hasn't, But as a matter of fact, he

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doesn't have to. We got the whole story out of

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Hank and Pop.

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Speaker 6: Murdered Judson just as you suspected.

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Speaker 2: Well, he ordered Hank to do it, which is practically

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the same thing.

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Speaker 6: And he was behind those burnings too.

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Speaker 2: I suppose, yes, that was his method of keeping his

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customers in line.

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Speaker 7: Well, Jim, I know you tumbled to the slot machine

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angle because it was a possible way of unloading the

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fake nickels. But what led you to suspect that the

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nickel in Judson's hand was the counterfeit fern?

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Speaker 2: That nickel in Judson's hand was a nineteen twenty two nickel. Well,

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it just happens that the men didn't make any nickels

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that year.

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Speaker 6: They didn't Why not?

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Speaker 2: There were plenty of nickels in circulation at that time,

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so the men took a holiday and didn't coin a

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single nickel.

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Speaker 6: I guess top Water was older and feel than he thought.

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Speaker 2: No, as a matter of fact, he'd only printed a

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few of them when he discovered his mistake. But somehow

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Judson got hold of one of them, and that's what

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put him wise to the counterfeitting racket.

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Speaker 3: Griff was operated through the slot machines.

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Speaker 6: Oh my, it's almost three o'clock. I'll have to rep long.

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Speaker 3: We'll say, what's in that petty case. You can hardly

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lift it off the floor of Nickels.

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Speaker 7: Jim, all the good ones you accumulated in our field work,

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I'm going to unload them at the nearest bank.

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Speaker 2: All characters names placed. Some plots used in the Avenger

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program are fictitious. Any similarity to a person's living or

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dead is purely coincidental.

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Speaker 3: This is a thought, a thought, a thought.

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Speaker 2: Remember listen for another adventurer, The Avenger