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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.

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going to bring you this week's episode of Broadways My Bait.

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Now From September twenty ninth, nineteen fifty one, here is

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the Laur's Nielsen Murder Case.

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Speaker 2: Broadways My Beat sometimes Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest,

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the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world.

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Speaker 3: Broadways My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

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Speaker 2: It happens faster on Broadway Now, The Coming of the

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Night and the time Clock people go home to dinner.

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In shadows and far away from a time still yet

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to come. A wind drifts softly. It touches a cheek

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and quickens a step, finds the doorway and waits there,

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and its voice is a sigh of regret. The sounds

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of the river seem closer. The neon blinks coldly. It's

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getting dark, and the police headquarters. Those who are drifted

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in at six o'clock. Those downstairs were making complaints. Those

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upstairs complained against the two in my office, just because

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they've been sent there.

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Speaker 4: Personally, I think it's a lot of unch.

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Speaker 5: Nobody asks you pick, Nobody turned to you and asks

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for an opinion.

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Speaker 6: I didn't too.

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Speaker 5: The fact remains, Miss Morgan, that remains. Minutes ago, I

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got a permit to carry a gun, and your permit

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giver told.

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Speaker 7: Me I ought to stop and talk to you. That's

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the fact.

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Speaker 4: I suppose. Now you've gotten the permit, you are going.

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Speaker 7: Out and buy a gun as soon as I leave here.

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Speaker 4: Polly, you need a gun like I need a hold.

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Speaker 5: Of so many things. You need vic manners. I let

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you escort me, darling. Don't loust it up with dialogue.

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Speaker 4: That's why it goes Clovid. Not tell me why you

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need that gun.

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Speaker 7: This morning again I told the permit giver, tell.

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Speaker 4: Me, men, she's got to defend herself. Shut up, Sick,

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be an agent for poly Morgan and you get shut up, Vick.

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You better tell me, Vick. Polly Morgan, her big singer

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of sad ballads, a man's been calling her up, threatening

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the way all.

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Speaker 7: Of you men threaten, whether you say it out loud

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or not.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, pobly, the way we all do. Also, she says,

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the man's following her.

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Speaker 5: You saw him, You saw him as well as I did.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw him, Polly, did you?

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Speaker 7: Vic?

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Speaker 2: I saw a guy running on the street this morning,

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Polly said, that's a man he was.

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Speaker 5: And when I went back to my apartment later he called.

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He told me that was him who touched me in

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the crowd. He said he'd be there tonight.

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Speaker 4: He's going to be where well I'm singing.

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Speaker 7: At the thirteen Club. He said he'd be at the

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ringside tonight.

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Speaker 8: Okay, I'll be there if you want to come on,

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come on, come on.

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Speaker 2: And the room suddenly empty of her and the man,

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whose gesture of farewell was a shrug half begun, not finished,

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and the autumn darkness has brought to a variety of things,

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the rustle of silk perfumed only with the night, when

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the scornful voice of a woman who walks close on

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the scalpel edge of a private terror, the pyermit for

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death held close to her, the grudging invitation to come

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prevented if you can, and fillian against the time of

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going with routine, the gathering, the sorting, the parceling out

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of the day's violence. And then they glanced at the

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wall clock and the realization that you could be late,

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and at the canopied entrance of the thirteen Club find

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Vic gnawing on the remains of a fingernail, pause long

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enough to.

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Speaker 4: Tell Ally's Danny. I got a table ring side off.

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Speaker 2: Field to me, and Basha threw the decord of bare

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shoulders and neckties bright with the signature of countasses through tears.

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Wept into very dry martinis because Polly's song was nostalgia

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with a coupveroard charge, and listened as Polly sang, her

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body leaning against the wall of remembered pain.

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Speaker 9: Look at it, you know, ah watches any Why does

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he makes her regard like it was an egg and

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a pain, a draw down X amount of dollars for

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a week, an act of runs into the floor.

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Speaker 4: Figures she's good. He is hard to believe, hard to

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believe how she can sing with so much feelings.

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Speaker 9: Some girls think from here and hear from nowhere. Alle

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sings from the ear in the highway.

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Speaker 2: It's difficult to figure. That can't happen though, that beef,

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and mind you, it pays me well. This artificial heart.

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She sets the beating in public places, she said. The

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man who's been annoying her with the hear at ringside,

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if you see him anywhere big?

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Speaker 4: How would I know? If I saw him?

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Speaker 2: A man running away from something in the street, that's

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an annoyer. I get to urge myself sometimes, you know.

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Any of these men are onas Yeah.

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Speaker 4: That one with the two blonds and a male antennant,

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that's Jili Crane. His last wife made a settlement on him,

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a native village in my lawker someplace he needs probably

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lay good. Hey, that one.

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Speaker 2: It looks like scientists, Uh huh, a scientist with things

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a dollar around here.

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Speaker 4: I go over to him and.

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Speaker 2: Discuss what's new and nuclear fission and there's always something new.

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Polly interests him in terms of how soon she's going

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to explode.

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Speaker 4: Do you think him a cult of science? The one

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along hence the wall. Yeah, Daddy, I'm surprised with you.

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Do not be taken in by the rough and tumbled.

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Speaker 9: Gree bub Hey, that's probably I heard a scream before?

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Or where is it?

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Speaker 4: It sounds like I'm addressing room, Danny.

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Speaker 9: I think maybe take me to revict Yeah, sure, sure, come.

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Speaker 4: On in here, Danny to me, look at my Polly,

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take it heasy, it's going to be all right.

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Speaker 7: Head of me?

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Speaker 4: Where you go? Miss Markham?

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Speaker 5: The gun?

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Speaker 4: Where'd he go? Miss Margham? Had this window? Danny looks

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like through here we have seen him in the hall

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of the kid. He must have got in while Polly

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was on. What's the matter, Danny? Why do you look

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like that?

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Speaker 2: I'm a got your budget for publicity.

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Speaker 4: But Danny, Danny, what kind of talk is that? At

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the time?

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Speaker 5: That's what it is to you, mister Clover. A man

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hides in here, waits for me, tears at me, and

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you can identify Miss Morgan.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, we have a pilot headquarters. I want

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miss Morgan.

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Speaker 5: To get my coat.

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Speaker 2: No, oh and no, all right, here's more pictures.

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Speaker 4: Maybe his picture will be in this stack.

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Speaker 7: I'm getting really bored, mister Clover.

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Speaker 4: That's tough.

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Speaker 2: He finally saw the man up close, didn't Just this

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is the way we operate. Bring you down the headquarters.

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Let you look through pictures, hope that you will identify

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someone in the gallery the man.

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Speaker 5: All right, all right, all right, only, why don't you

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go sit on the other side of the table.

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Speaker 2: Oh, go ahead over there, luck, Miss Margan. I've got

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a thing to tell you.

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Speaker 5: You're going to do it very badly. I've heard it

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from poets.

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Speaker 2: If you're a name on a police file, it means

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a job I've got to do. Outside of that, you

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don't mean a thing in the world.

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Speaker 7: It really eats you.

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Speaker 4: Done, look at the pictures, really done?

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Speaker 7: All right, I'll look at the pictures.

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Speaker 2: Oh, hi, margavn Danny, Hello, Miss Martin, do you better

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stand over there?

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Speaker 4: Margavian on the other side of the table. What uh

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forget it for begun?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 4: This from the description Miss Morgan gave the artist and

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technical there's a sketchy short term. Would you mind taking

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a look at this, Miss margin?

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Speaker 7: This is him? All right, you're sure, almost exactly nose

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little straight, her eyes a little further apart.

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Speaker 4: Thanks, miss Morgan. I'll take you back to your apartment.

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Speaker 7: Police precede you to mister Clover.

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Speaker 2: Stop at a desk on the way out, issue orders

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for the printing and distribution of the likeness of a

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man who, in Polly Morgan, had found a sum.

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Speaker 4: And reason of his loneliness.

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Speaker 2: A man who had touched her in the crowd, waited

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for her in a darkened room, clawed at her because

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she screamed at his despair. And take the woman home

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in silence, and from there go to the silent furnished room,

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draw down the bed covers, try for this night to.

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Speaker 4: Sleep it away.

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Speaker 2: And in the morning at headquarters be told there was

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someone waiting for you in your office. Find him there

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peeking at things furtively, trying to rearrange them on your desk,

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because you walked in on him in a bad time.

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Speaker 7: Oh I.

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Speaker 9: They said you would be a while coming. Seems no

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one expected you so.

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Speaker 4: Soon to find what you were looking for.

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Speaker 9: I wasn't looking for anything. It's a sort of a habit, fingering,

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not mine to try it habit.

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Speaker 7: I am ashamed.

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Speaker 9: Honestly as I do.

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Speaker 4: Wanted to see me. Why that man, that man you

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police are looking for?

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Speaker 10: Well I had no sooner finished tacking up his picture

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in my office. Well it came to me like that,

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it did. Oh, yes, Why that fellow is a guest

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in my hotel. I own a hotel, Jean Prouty, and

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he's a guest at my hotel. This man you want,

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Lars Nielsen, a salesman out of Black River Pols, Wisconsin,

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always comes to my hotel. When he said it's our city,

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that's it because it's.

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Speaker 7: Clean and quiet, just old people. Really, oh gladly. But

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he's not there.

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Speaker 10: I rushed up to his room to tell him you

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people wanted him for something.

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Speaker 7: And he wasn't there.

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Speaker 9: I just don't know where he might be.

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Speaker 10: Yes, the fellow who's always bragging about what he calls

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dingy contact speaking.

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Speaker 5: I saw him from the window, mister clover, he's on

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his way up here.

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Speaker 11: What I do.

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Speaker 6: Ask? Please hurry.

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Speaker 9: Shake it out of my hands.

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Speaker 6: I can't put it down. Dag a gun out it.

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Speaker 5: I can't can't on clinch my face, take a gun away, please, Okay.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I go.

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Speaker 7: What happened in there?

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Speaker 12: There see him.

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Speaker 7: I shot him. I'm shot him.

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Speaker 4: Your didiness morgansday.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Broadways My Beat, written by Martin By

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and David Bridgin and starring Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.

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September Dies and Broadway moren that's passing without tears.

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Speaker 4: It's days. We're ripped from the.

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Speaker 2: Calendars, tossed into choked waste baskets, carted away to public dumps.

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So what's the we for? The gone days? The used

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up days, the scribbled on days? About face? Kid, October

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waits for you with a promise. In each and every

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nightfall blank, empty, panting to be filled in. Don't turn

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your back, walk into it. Lead with your heart. There's

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neon to keep you warm. They're spectacular to light your way.

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You'll hardly hear the sobbing because the winds are high

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on winter's eve.

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Speaker 4: Walk into it.

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Speaker 2: Kid, It's time for another dream. But where I was

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September Linger to give something to remember it by the

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man lying in death, his blood etching out a new

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pattern on the monotone of the rug, watching the delicacy

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of its flowing design. The woman who had waited on

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his dying the woman who had killed him.

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Speaker 5: You're sure, you're sure he's dead. Yes, I didn't want

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it that way. I only wanted what this morning to

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frighten him in spite.

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Speaker 7: Of what I told you before.

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Speaker 5: All I wanted was to scare him away so I

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wouldn't touch me like that, look at me like that.

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Speaker 2: That's why you got the permit for the gun, only

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to frighten him away.

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Speaker 7: I want him out of my sight.

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Speaker 5: I want him taken out of here, to understand, we'll take.

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Speaker 4: Care of it.

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Speaker 2: There are other cases like yours, miss Morgan, cases where

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the woman didn't find it necessary to kill.

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Speaker 7: I'm not like those women. I'm different. You've looked at

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me long, you've heard me sing.

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Speaker 10: You know I'm different.

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Speaker 4: Yes, you were killed.

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Speaker 5: Do you think I could have stopped him with sweet talk,

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the torch song? With my lips against his cheek? Is

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that what they did those other women you told me about.

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That's how they stopped it.

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Speaker 7: It was locked, but it got in after his in.

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Speaker 5: I opened it, neshed and please go, I remember I

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said please. He stood beating on my door and beating

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and beating and beating. I screamed, and then finally he

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went away. Through the kitchen window. I heard the crash

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of glass.

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Speaker 7: He must have come up by the fire skate open

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the window through here you see, you see, I'm from here.

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Speaker 4: He crowded you into the other room where you killed him.

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Speaker 7: I asked him into that room. I said it would

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be nicer there, we could talk. Gave me time to

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get the gun. When he saw he laughed. He was laughing.

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Speaker 5: When you want me to go somewhere with you whatever

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has to be done.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, you're well, miss Mark. I didn't live the afternoon.

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Speaker 9: Danny.

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Speaker 4: Oh, thank you, Geno, and same to you likewise. I'm sure, Danny,

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what's the matter with you?

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Speaker 9: Busy busy visual?

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Speaker 2: I won't keep the Geno all right, it's all right,

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what's on your mind?

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Speaker 9: I will relate to you the pale of Sogeant Gino

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ptaically on his trials of the last six hours, the

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interim between the time you found with the laws knew

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from shot to death. I'm gonnawn if anybody was a

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right arm to anybody, I am to the police department.

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Speaker 4: All that goes without saying.

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Speaker 9: You know, agenda to it. Upon the arrival of mister

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Neilson in our.

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Speaker 4: Morg sure his name is Neilsen. You're fighting me, Danny,

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I'm sorry, accepted.

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Speaker 9: Upon his arrival at our morgue, I had him mister Prouty,

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the hotel man, who did indeed identify him as his

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late departed guest named Lars Neilson. Go on, and since

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mister Neilson had been a denizen of Black River Falls, Wisconsin,

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form the chief of police there. Indeed I did, and

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a fine fellow here is move come on. I related

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him the events concerning mister Neilson and Miss Polly Morgan.

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Then I asked him a little something about mister Neilsen.

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Just what he said, fust I know this fancy suits. However,

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he asked me which Lars Neilsen I was talking about,

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since his records revealed two such having resided in Black

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River Pole. And I told him to give me info

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one vote. An hour ago he called back and he

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said this one Lars Neilsen was a traveling salesman who's

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almost doing Black Liver Falls the other words, of all things,

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a resident of New York, according to his folks whom

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he interrogated. Hearing this, I have located in our city.

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Such a mister Neilsen, whose address I now hand for you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Gino still mention it.

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Speaker 9: But now Danny, I will twit you the way I

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was twitted. The Chief of police did inform me that

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Miss Polly Morgan has an ant in black Liver Falls

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and proud of the fact since miss Morgan is nationally famous,

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and that Danny is my agenda for the.

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Speaker 13: Day, cannot pay some other time after I got a.

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Speaker 4: Touch schedule seremy in the faith. Please, mister Neilton, may

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I come in.

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Speaker 9: One of my kids beat up on one of them bullies.

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Speaker 13: But mister, whatever my kids do, I stand behind him.

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Speaker 4: A hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: Man was killed today, a man named Lars Neilson Nielsen.

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Speaker 4: That's my name.

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Speaker 9: Look how I'm living.

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Speaker 10: Come on in.

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Speaker 4: Just give me a minute to vacuum the cat let

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off this carpet. My wife works all day so I

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won't get lonely. She leaves me with the hoover and

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the cat and the kids to my feet and throw

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out of the house. I wanted to ask you for

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my pardon. I want to apologize something to you. The

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reason I support this robe and night shur it is

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I work night sleep days. Huh sleep uh.

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Speaker 9: Lars Nielsen is dead.

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Speaker 4: Huh it was in the papers. Who gets a chance

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at him in this house?

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Speaker 9: Why isn't it hey?

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Speaker 4: I couldn't.

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Speaker 7: I couldn't put.

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Speaker 4: I was a kid once back in Black River Falls

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and Wisconsin. There was another kid who was a kid

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with me, also went by the name of Lars Nielsen.

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This got confusing sometimes, especially on calling up for a date.

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The girl would say which Liars Nielson? Both our family

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descended from the same Swedish family tree made us look

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like sort of coloring, you know. I would describe myself

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pointedly that Lars is dead. We checked Black River Pole police.

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The man who was killed came from there thirteen years old.

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When I saw him last, I was fourteen. Tell me

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what you can remember about him so long ago years.

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Don't ask me to cut how many it will help us,

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it'll you're trying to tell me he's dead because somebody's

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shocked broken into a woman's apartment to steal No Liars,

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I've been sitting here remembering him from a picnic high

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school stuff, you know, some of a picnic at the

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falls and a kid, a girl, oh twelve years old.

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Maybe Lars went crazy for you know, like a thirteen

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year old does at that age, he figures it impresses

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girls to break his neck hanging from trees, to beat

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up on a friend. She chose me lovely picnic. I

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shouldn't laugh. Huh the little girl? He remember who she was? Yeah? Sure,

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certainly for lots of reasons. First, she was only twelve.

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Second to ant, she was visiting chaperone on the picnic. Third,

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she got a big crush on me. Well, I was

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sophisticated at the age of fourteen. That made me attracted

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to twelve year olds. I kept shoving her away. On

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the other liar, she didn't want him. You remember her name?

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How could I miss it? This jockey's whispered in my

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ear every time I turn over. Polly Morgan, big deal

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with a ballot. Personally, I can't see if you haven't

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seen her since Black River Fall? Look at that. I

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got a wife with hay fever. She's spreading here and there.

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Speaker 2: She screams at my kids, and I'm very fond of it.

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Speaker 4: Why should I go looking for exotics like Polly Morgan?

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Marl Neilsen? You see, I answered my question. Oh good evening, Danny,

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come on in, Thanks, Dick. I called the thirteen twelve.

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A little while ago, the manager said, Miss Morgan was

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in her dressing room, but you were no place around

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at probably five minutes afternoon. As soon as you department

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let it go on our own cognizance. What are they

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gonna do? Call it justifiable homicide? We'll see, bick, guy,

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I wanted to talk to you before I talked to her. Sure,

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won't you say down something you drink? No? Thanks, Bick?

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What kind of woman is Polly Morgan?

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Speaker 2: The greatest ballancing in the company? For besides that, thick

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as a person you saw perform you know what about men?

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Speaker 4: That's what I mean? You saw she was right, Danny,

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I did try to get to it. Can't blame me, Kenny.

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I got teeth marks on this, and I go from

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thinking about it. They don't come like her. Only book checked. Yeah,

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but what makes her like she is? Well, why do

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you think she hates men? I kid myself in the

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thinking she's afraid to let herself go. She always been

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like that. It's a funny thing. What is she's changed? Oh?

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How the week ten days ago? It happened. But then

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she started smiling to herself, Well, what do you mean? Well,

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I was in a dressing room when it happened. She

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got a phone called first she she seems stunned. She

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almost fainted. All she did was say yes into the phone.

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When she hung it up, it seemed like something inside

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of it was glowing. I go on, well, well, nothing

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much more, Danny, except she's been sneaking away after recording

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days after performances. Yeah, something else that. Has she ever

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talked to you about her past life? No? Not, but

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I've wondered about it because has it? Recruitio the song

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she sings best, I'm in a mood forul love once

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in a while, these foolish things so raven songs like

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a aw from one season.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I've noticed. I'm glad to talk to her a

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bit if you want to go.

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Speaker 4: Along, Sure, Sure I do. I guess the manager didn't

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hear about my getting fired. Man, he passed me right

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into her dressing room. Listen, listen to that dolls saying

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no you than me? Why they like her too? Yeah?

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And I would just killed her, man. She can ask

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the Benji's a week can get it. Maybe I've been

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asking you, Danny, but you haven't been answering. What are

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we here for?

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Speaker 7: What?

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Speaker 4: Is your making the dormous part?

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Speaker 7: You too?

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Speaker 4: Do you want everybody to hear what I have to

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tell you about? What Lars Nielsen?

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Speaker 5: That's the reason you're using today in my dressing room?

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Speaker 7: What do you want me to do? Did you talk

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him into this? Pick?

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Speaker 4: Holly? Baby asked me to come with him. I don't

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have any idea.

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Speaker 5: I asked you, what do you want me to do?

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Speaker 4: I answer question?

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Speaker 5: I answered questions all afternoon.

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Speaker 7: You know what happened? You know how I killed that man?

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Speaker 4: You know, Naras Nielsen? Why didn't you tell me that?

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Speaker 7: No him, no man like him? Vic?

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Speaker 4: Tell me once more about that phone call?

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Speaker 7: What's he talking about?

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Speaker 4: I don't know. Dad afraid to tell me in front

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of her. Vic, No, it's not that one me. It

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was nothing. Polly got a phone call last week. She

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felt happy about it, like and I was sure, sure, Babby,

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I just want to clear it up. So I told

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him he got what phone call from Lars Nielsen? Wasn't it?

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That's right?

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Speaker 9: She did feel like she was breathing the name. Hey

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shot up Lars.

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Speaker 4: Nielsen from Black River Falls, Wisconson.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 4: Where you spent a vacation fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 7: Maybe I did. I've been lots of places.

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Speaker 4: Black River Falls is a vacation you never forgot.

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Speaker 7: Remember the picnic, Sick, get him out of here.

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Speaker 4: Look, Danny, just sit right where you are, Vicick, I

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was kidding about Si. Look baby, what do you want

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me to do? Remember the picnic? This Morgan. There were

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two boys there, both of them named Lars Neilson. Nothing

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strange about that in that lake country, especially where most

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families come from the same stock.

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Speaker 5: Thank you very much for the Information's not quite you

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fell in love with one of those boys.

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Speaker 4: Oh what is this, Danny? What are you talking about?

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Fifteen years ago?

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Speaker 2: Polly was only twelve years old. That was for Polly

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because Polly built it, made a memory and exaggerator.

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Speaker 4: What do you know?

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Speaker 5: What do you know?

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Speaker 4: Saggerated? And no other man was allowed in her life?

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Speaker 7: Holly YouTube, Vic what do you know?

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Speaker 4: And Lars Nielsen called it come to New York. That

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was the phone call you saw, Vic, You saw what

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I did to her. Look, Danny, you can't make anything

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out of a kid pulling him love with another kid.

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Speaker 7: You're can kill him, kill him? How wrong he is?

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Speaker 4: Probaly started to sneak away to meet Lars Neilson and

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tried desperately to make up for fifteen lost years. And

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then she found out it was the wrong Lars Nielsen,

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the wrong the same name, the same color, all your songs,

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probably all the songs that have made you famous, all

484
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from the same time, fifteen years ago, a summer memory.

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That's why he killed him, Oh bully, because he was.

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Speaker 2: Pulling him when you got the permit for the gun,

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and you were just what you're going to do, the

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whole thing, a man following your threatening phony.

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Speaker 5: She made love to me. He told me he was

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someone else, and I believe him. All those years will

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fifteen years remember waiting, and then I found out it

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wasn't Hitten at all.

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Speaker 2: Polly, Polly Baby Phil Phil In the chill of autumn night,

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Broadway echoes that sounds heard only in darkness, leading whispers,

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a woman's laughter, floating down to your end of the bar,

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footsteps that fade when you turn a corner, you run

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toward them, reach out your hand. There's nothing only a

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closing door at the end of the long cord. It's Broadway,

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the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomer mile in the world.

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Speaker 4: Broadway My Beat, So.

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Speaker 9: Night on ETN presents You've been listening to some of

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the best in radio drama with Bibber McGhee and Malay

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and Broadway is My Beats. Join us again Monday evening

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at the same time Mine Old Bot when presents drag

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Nets and.

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Speaker 11: Escape Welcome Back.

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Speaker 1: Well, this is one of those episodes where I think

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Danny's treatment of the murderer rob is my modern sensibility

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is the wrong way. Although I think it's not too

510
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unrealistic for the times, and I suppose it's hard to

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feel bad for her sins it did turn out she

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was guilty, But I think what is more problematic is

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just how incredibly bonkers the solution to this case is.

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And they try to do a little bit of slot

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a hand to cover that, to establish some very similitude,

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to make the whole thing seem more realistic. As Danny

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assured us that it was perfectly plausible for Polly to

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run into two different boys named wars Nielsen. Nice things

519
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strange about it in that late country, especially where most

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families come from the same stock, and I have to

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appreciate that. As Danny shares his heretofore unknown expertise in

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Wisconsin demography. But to me, it answers the wrong question,

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because as odd as that is, it's the least implausible

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part of the fact that Paully built her entire adult

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life and a fifteen year singing career as a national

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sensation on a crush she had as a twelve year

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old girl at a summer vacation and ended up committing

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murder as a result of the same thing. Not only that,

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but salesman Lairs when he came to town and decided

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that he wanted to connect with this girl that had

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become famous, who he remembered having met one summer. Instead

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of just going to a show and introducing himself and saying, yeah,

533
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we came from the same hometown and I met you

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that summer, he schemed to impersonate his distant relative who

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had the same name as him and who he knew

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she was madly in love with. Somehow, Now, I was

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thinking this would be a little less plausible if we

538
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assumed that both Hally and Danny were wrong, and that

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salesman Lars didn't actually set out to deceive her, that

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he just went up to her and said a I'm

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Lars Nielsen. We met one summer back when we were

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kids in Black River Falls. Assuming you know you're going

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up to someone in the big city and you're both

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from this from the same small town, and that's an

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instant connection. Now, under this scenario, salesman Lars might have

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realized at some point there was a case of mistaken identity,

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but he may have thought it's an innocent, minor mistake.

548
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I mean that when we were kids at the time,

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and she thinks I'm this distant relative. But she's getting

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to know me, and if things work out, we'll just

551
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laugh about it later because I can really sell myself

552
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to her and she'll really like me. It's not like

553
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she's going to get upset about this and concoct in

554
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:52,480
elaborate murder scheme. Now, if that had been the case,

555
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it would have been a little bit more grounded. Laws

556
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would be a real, latable human being with failings who

557
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made a tragic error coupled with perhaps some on ethical

558
00:35:10,519 --> 00:35:16,239
failings and a misunderstanding lads to death in the way

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that human beings will often kill each other. That would

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be grounded. It would feel human. And the problem with

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this episode and its solution is that it doesn't. When

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I first started playing Broadways my Beat, a long time

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listener on Patreon supporter commented that Broadways My Beat was

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a bit of a soap opera, and I did not

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see that sort of connection. I'd mainly listened to the

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nineteen forty nine and fifty episodes, but if you'd heard

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an episode like this, I can see how you could

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get that idea, because this is an episode where I

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don't think it hits the best edition of Broadways My Beat,

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because I think Broadways my Beat is at its best

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when it deals with humanity, perhaps in a stylized way,

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but it is relatable to human beings as they live

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and exist and breathe in New York City of the era.

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This storyline really once freak can and fine, We're done.

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They could have sent a letter to the Hummers and

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sold it as a plot for mister Comeleon or mister King.

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You'd probably just need some competing suspects. I add some

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competing suspects, a little bit more shoutiness and a superfluous disguise,

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and this could totally be a mister Comelean plot, which

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is just not what you expect from Broadways My Beat.

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Listener comments and feedback now and we turn to our

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listener survey where we have a couple of comments over

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at survey do great detectives dot Net obsessed with this podcast. Adam,

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you have a great commentary and I love the variety

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of programs from Johnny Dollar to mister Chameleon. Thank you

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for your hard work and the joy you bring to

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us listeners.

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Speaker 4: Well, thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: And then Christopher in the Ozark Mountains rights absolutely perfect

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return to Armed Forces rate radio days where I learned

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to love radio. Thank you for the comment Christopher. And

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while it's a lot for me to hear these old

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programs from the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service and

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the American Forces Network and things like that, it has

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to be even more so if you actually heard them

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when they were first aired. And there are so many people.

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I remember one listener who actually heard it. She wasn't

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in the military, but her while there was, so this

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was a critical part of connecting so many people to

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the golden age of radio. Thanks so much, appreciate the comments.

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But it's time to thank oll our Patreon supporter of

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the day, and I want to go ahead and nink

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that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast,

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please follow us using your favorite podcast software and be

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sure to rate and review the podcast wherever you download

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it from. We'll be back next Wednesday with another episode

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of Broadways My Ba, but join us back here tomorrow

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for dragnetwere he.

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Speaker 14: Came straight back this way, just where I'm welcome. I

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was at the end of the calenter there, just where

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you are. He had a brown paper bag in one

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hand and it was just a couple of feet from me.

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He put his other hand in his coat pocket and

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he came up with a gun, pointed it right at me.

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Speaker 4: His door was empty at the times, or no customers around.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, that's right, just myself and my son in law,

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Herb in the back room. I guess he heard this

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thief talking to me and he came out to see

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what it was all about.

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Speaker 4: That's when the fireworks started.

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Speaker 14: And what happened, well, he made Herb line up along

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the counter right next to me. By this time, he

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had all the loot he wanted in that paper bag

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he was carrying. Just when I thought he was going

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to leave, he turned around all of a sudden. He

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said to Herb, you think you're a smart guy, don't you.

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Then he slugged her with the gun brought it right

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down on the side of his head all his might.

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That's where the fight started. Just about yeah, Herb fell

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down on one knee. There was a great, big gash

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on the side of his face. Even when he was down,

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the thief kept slugging Herb, kept pounding him in the

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face with that gun.

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Speaker 4: Herb wasn't doing anything.

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Speaker 14: I got good and sword.

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Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime,

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