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

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Speaker 1: This is the second and last serial that had a

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commercial sponsor, but they were only involved in two of

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the five episodes, so we will preserve one of those.

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But beyond that just stick to the story. But now,

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from November twenty eighth to December second, nineteen fifty five,

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here is the Henderson Matter.

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Speaker 3: From Hollywood. It's time now.

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Speaker 2: For Johnny Dillar, Tim Conners, John Boy, congratulate me.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations Tim Well. Four.

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Speaker 4: I just had another boy seven bonds twelve oss Hey

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like cigars?

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Speaker 3: Sure well, come on down, pick one up.

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Speaker 2: Oh maybe you better pack a suitcase. Two. I got

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one for you in Culver, Montana.

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Speaker 3: Where is that?

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Speaker 4: I just told you in Montana somewhere. We have a

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debt policy holder there named Henderson.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Now, we don't know if he was murdered, committed suicide,

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or had an accident.

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Speaker 3: What does it look like?

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Speaker 2: All three?

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Speaker 3: Ok? Tim, be there in an.

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Speaker 5: Hour tonight and every weekday night. Bob Bailey in the

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transcribed Adventures of the Man with the Action Packed Expense Account,

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America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.

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Speaker 6: Does truly Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by special Investigator

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Johnny Dollar, the paramount insurance Adjuster's Hartford, Connecticut. The following

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is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the

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Henderson matter. Whatever it's going to be. Expense account item

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one dollar in a quarter for a detailed map. I

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had an idea that Culver, Montana was a place in

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all only Ran mcdealley might know about.

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Speaker 3: They did.

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Speaker 6: I found it tucked up in the high northern corner

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of the state near Great Falls.

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Speaker 3: Hey, where's your bag home? I told you to pack

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it now looks cigar. Tim. Tell me about the new

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boy in the new case. Okay, have a chair here,

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You are. I wouldn't smoke it if I were you terrible.

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It cost me two bucks of bucks. Hey, you know

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something I'm thinking of naming the new boy John. Oh

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tough case. Huh yeah.

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Speaker 7: Look look we're in the same sweet old sponge onny,

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same old problem. One of our policy holders is dead,

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and for looking into the circumstances of his death, the

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insurance company is no longer a friend of the widow

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an orphan, but a big bad monster trying to.

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Speaker 3: Wheeze a lot of a just claim. All claims are

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just claims? Or are they? Well, of course they are.

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No one ever tried to pull a fast one on

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an insurance company. Well, the world's full of nice on

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a straight playing people. Now tell me about getting sandbagged

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and I'm poking.

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Speaker 7: Look, I want to get this out of the way

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and get back over to the hospital and see my wife. Now, John,

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This claim came into the insurance office yesterday afternoon air

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mail special. The insurance company turned it over to me today.

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Speaker 3: What company Western?

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Speaker 7: The policy's worth twenty five thousand dollars face value, double

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indemnity if death was by accident, no payment for suicide.

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Speaker 3: You say the man's name was Henderson.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it says here George Walter Henderson, Montana rancher last

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Thursday fell four stories out of a hotel window and

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Culver and died instantly. At least that's what we have

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in this report here. Somebody could have shoved him, or

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he could have taken the leap.

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Speaker 3: Now we have to know for certain. Oh what's on

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the claim report accidental?

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Speaker 7: There was no inquest, no police investigation, and that's not

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good enough for us.

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Speaker 3: This Henderson prominent and he was big enough, Johnny, cattleman, rancher.

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Speaker 7: It was also a major stockholder and the only newspaper

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in Culver. So I doubt if his paper suggests suicide

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or anything else.

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Speaker 2: Do you.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, sim I never met the editor.

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Speaker 7: Well meet him if you like, talk to him, talk

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to anybody in Culver, find out what was what.

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Speaker 3: This is a lousy cigaret, Johnny, you know how to

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handle these things. We have to have more information than

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this if you try to do anything on it at all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I've phoned the Sheriff's office long distance to talk to

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a man named Holton, Eth Holton. He said he'd be

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happy to cooperate.

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Speaker 7: Noone else I've phoned the beneficiary to get some information.

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Speaker 3: Names Pauline Henderson, his widow. Is she going to cooperate too?

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I don't think so, pal huh. She hung up on me.

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Speaker 8: We will continue with the Henderson matter in a moment.

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Speaker 5: Friends, how'd you like to thrill your favorite youngster with

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some of the most exciting toys of the year. Picture

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the breathless excitement of any child surrounded by six gaily colored,

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balloon like giant animals up to three feet long, and

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all for the lolo price of just one dollar. First

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you get bounce O, the clown with round pot belly

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and funny nose. Mex comes Hoppy the Australian kangaroo. Third,

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there's Rusco the ruller skating bear. He's two feet tall

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and looks almost like real. Fourth, there's Whitey the fat

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indoor snowman. And fifth Mortar with the giant mouse eighteen

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inches long and sure to scare the whiskers off any cat.

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That's five giant animals. But now hold your breath for

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the most sensational toy of all, the star of the

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whole Christmas season, the jolly giant talking Santa Claus, guaranteed

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to make everybody's Christmas a merrier one.

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Speaker 3: He's a big, roly poly, happy Sata.

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Speaker 5: He stands erect on two legs, is actually over three

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feet tall and thirty two inches around. Best of all,

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he actually talks. Just pull the tape and he says

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Merry Christmas for all to hear. He's the biggest, merryest

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talking as Sata ever. Sure to please your youngsters and

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spread good cheer. Yes, Giant Sata proves there really is

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a Santa Claus. That's a total of six giant animals

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made of brightly colored, preformed, sturdy latex which the kids

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can easily inflate. And the cost just one dollar, not

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for each, just one dollar for all six of these

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lovable giants who'll turn your home into a circus parade.

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And here's a surprise. Mail your order today and you'll

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also receive absolutely free Peter the Rabbit, actually over two

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feet tall with big red ears almost nine inches long.

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But you must send now rush one dollar plus ten

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cents for packing and mailing for each set you want

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to Giant Animals, Box ninety Grand Central Station, New York City.

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If not delighted with every one of your seven giant animals,

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return them to the Super Animals Company for a full refund,

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but keep the Giant Talking sat as our gift order.

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Speaker 3: Now supplies are limited.

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Speaker 5: Rush one dollar and ten cents for packing and mailing

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for each set and cash check or money order to

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Giant Animals Box ninety, Grand Central Station, New York City.

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That's one dollar plus ten cents with your name of

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the dress. Mail to Giant Animals Box nine to Oho

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Box ninety, Grand Central Station, New York City. Giant Animals

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Box ninety, Grand Central Station, New York City.

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Speaker 6: Expense account Item two one hundred and eighty five dollars

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and sixty five cents. Air Fair Hertford, Connecticut. The Great Falls, Montana,

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the nearest point I could make to Culver by air.

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Speaker 3: Item three three bucks. I took the train to Culver.

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Speaker 6: Sometimes when I'm having nightmares, I dream about the Smeller

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stacks standing up against the cadaverous hills that lined the

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south of town. Everything, including the three or four feet

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of snow covered with a uniform dinginess, made Culver an

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ugly little town set in an ugly notch between two

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ugly mountains. The only hotel in town was the Butte.

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It happened to be four stories high. It also happened

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to be the place where George Henderson had met his death. Okay,

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just a minute.

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Speaker 3: Mister dollar. Yeah, I'm Eve Holton, sheriff here. Huh. You're

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from the insurance people, aren't you. Yeah, that's right. I've

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been expecting that you'd be in sooner.

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Speaker 2: E La.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad to meet you, mister Holton. Call me

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Eve's son.

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Speaker 6: Everybody did, and hey, got drink on you, and no

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I haven't. Well, I got one on me, nice and

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chilly too. Well, i'll see if there's some glasses around

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his here. He didn't waste any time looking me up. No,

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I guess I didn't. Son started to save a little

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time this way. Knew you'd be looking me up sooner

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or later. I really thought we ought to have this

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drink together. Private may not have any more together while

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you're here. Well, health and happiness, boy, h same deal.

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Speaker 2: Yah.

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Speaker 6: Now this drink we're having this is in your room,

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and I'm just a fellow welcoming you to Culver in

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my office or on that street out there. I'm a

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sheriff and I'm going to be real official. All right,

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come on, I want you to notice I'm not asking

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any questions of you, son, I'm just answering anything that

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you might want to ask me. Right now, you're going

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to have to plow ahead yourself on this one pretty

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much alone. And let me tell you what kind of

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plowing you got in.

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Speaker 3: The store for you. Excuse me how?

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Speaker 6: First off, this is a little burg like we ain't

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used to. We got thirty five hundred four thousand people

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living here, some of them working that mine you've seen

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on your way into town. Others hire out to work

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on the ranches around here. Some in business. H very

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tight little place. We hardly ever fool around with anybody else. Sure,

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now you're here because your insurance company don't like to

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pay off on a policy without knowing why and wherefore it.

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They don't like the word accident without knowing some of

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the details.

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Speaker 3: No, they don't.

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of people here, most people who don't

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care about those details. As a matter of fact, Son,

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they'd all just as soon put old George Henderson down

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on the ground and said it was an accident and

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let it go with that. Well maybe it was sheriff.

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I don't know, but I'm gonna find out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, now let me go on.

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Speaker 6: Those people who don't like the details, don't like detailed getters,

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you understand, h Yeah, scare you any not yet?

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Speaker 3: You too, alright, So maybe you'd kind of like to

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get your coat on and come to your funeral with me.

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Start to three and listens.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, give you a chance to look around, get the

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layer of the land.

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Speaker 3: Okay, good idea.

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Speaker 6: I wondered what kind of bullworkers insurance companies turned out.

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Speaker 3: I like you Dollar, You're all right.

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Speaker 6: You ain't bothering with any questions till you've got some

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worthwhile asking.

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Speaker 3: You're tired a little? Well, this won't take too long.

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Speaker 6: A half hour later, I was standing beside Sheriff if

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holding on a flat top hillside that served as a cemetery.

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The snow was white and gleaming under the winter sun

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of the mid afternoon skies, the air cold and crisp.

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Speaker 7: Did he are heavenly Father, who knoweth all things? We

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commit the body of our beloved today eternal care. I

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will be done, trusting everand th mercy, we up the

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consolation of.

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Speaker 3: Thy children wing er start to ashes, dust to dust.

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Speaker 7: It's sure and certain hope of resurrection into eternal life

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in the name of her father and.

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Speaker 3: The Holy Ghost. Amen. Yeah, oh that's that. Yeah, poor George.

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Speaker 6: If which one is missus Henderson, that's Pauline Henderson.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's her. Well, she can't be more than twenty.

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Speaker 6: Five, twenty six to be exact daughter. I went to

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her birthday party two months ago. How old was George

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Henderson fifty nine? Went to his party too? Yeah, pretty thing.

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Very Any other family Nope, No, other wife nope. Quart

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to meet her, No, not right now. Shoot yourself kind

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of thought. You might start thinking when you got to

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look at her, and I just keep on the way

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you're doing. You're doing fine. When there's something you gotta know,

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you find out. Well, if I already know one thing,

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yeah that I'm going to ask for a corner's inquests

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just from seeing her, just from seeing her. Mm hm,

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you're a sly one, Johnny.

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Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar.

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Speaker 2: How are you this morning?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Pretty good, sheriff. How about yourself?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm fine, dandy. You were over at the city

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hall this morning.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 6: I requested the coroner to conduct an inquest unto the

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death of George Henderson.

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Speaker 2: I know a corner lifted up to me. Huh, Yeah,

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came into my office and asked me if I had

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any reason to conduct an inquest into the day to

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George Henderson. I totally might. I didn't have any reason,

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but I do it if I was ordered to. What

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happens now, Well, somebody will have to decide whether there's

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going to be an in question or not. Oh, mayor

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I guess I don't know. Anyhow, you stirred up some

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action and you'll be getting it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, where Just stay.

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Speaker 2: Where you are, son. My guess is it'll come right

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to you.

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Speaker 6: Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Paramount

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Insurance Adjusters, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of

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expenditures during my investigation of the Henderson matter. The death

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of George Henderson of Culver, Montana, where I am today.

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A casual certification announced that death is accidental, having been

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received by a fall from a hotel window. No one

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in Culver seemed to be too worried about any of

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the details, but details are my job. That's why I

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request at the coroner's office to conduct an inquest. I

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took Sheriff Holton's suggestion and waited to see what my

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request flushed up in the dingy colored mountains of Culver.

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An hour later, my first bird winged up to my

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hotel room. He was a tall, gray haired man and

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a stetson ear muffs in the western version of a Chesterfield.

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Speaker 3: His Honor Mayor Newton.

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Speaker 9: Mister Dollar, I want to talk to you about this

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request you made for an inquest into George Henderson's death. Yes, sir,

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mister Mayor, you are aware, of course that George's death,

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and he was one of my beloved and personal friends

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for many many years, was a great blow to the

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entire community.

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Speaker 3: No, I didn't know that Mayor Newton.

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Speaker 6: Only the smallest part of the community were at his

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funeral yesterday afternoon, his widow, and I'd say not more

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than half a dozen other people.

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Speaker 9: And I understand that your insurance company is not quite

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satisfied with the certifications at more or less. What would

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they need to be satisfied, sir.

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Speaker 6: An exact knowledge of how mister Henderson fell out that

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hotel window.

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Speaker 9: I would rather no inquest were held into mister Henderson's death.

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Why why, Sir, George Henderson is dead and buried. It

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should remain that way. If an inquest were to be held,

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it would only prove that George fell out of a window.

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I beg you to consider that, mister Dollar.

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Speaker 6: You seem very certain that an investigation would prove that

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death was accidental.

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Speaker 3: There it was accidental, George fell out the window.

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Speaker 6: Well, I can't just tell that to my insurance company,

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can I.

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Speaker 9: We are a small community with a rudimentary police force,

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not equipped in any way for an exhaustive investigation, nor

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for the financial burden of such an investigation. I strongly

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urge you to reconsider this request for a corner's inquest.

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Speaker 3: You do, I do.

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Speaker 9: Indeed, his untimely death was an unfortunate occur outside the

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pail of any of our poor abilities to foresee a terrible,

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terrible accident. I'd like proof of that proof, an inquest,

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mister mayor.

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Speaker 3: In quest. All right, we.

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Speaker 8: Will continue with the Henderson matter in a moment.

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Speaker 5: Friends, how'd you like to thrill your favorite youngster with

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some of the most exciting toys of the year. Picture

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the breathless excitement of any child surrounded by six gaily

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colored balloon like giant animals up to three feet long,

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and all for the lolo price of just one dollar.

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First you get bounce of the clown with round pot

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belly and funny nose. Next comes Hoppy the Australian kangaroo. Third,

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there's Rusco the ruller skating bear. He's two feet tall

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and looks almost like real. Fourth there's Whitey, the fat

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indoor snowman. And fifth Mortarmer the giant mouse, eighteen inches

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long and sure to scare the whiskers off any cat.

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That's five different giant animals. But now hold your breath

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for the most sensational toy of all, the star of

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the whole Christmas season, the jolly giant talking Santa Claus,

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guaranteed to make everybody's Christmas a merrier one. He's a big,

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roly poly happy Santa. He stands erect on two legs,

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is actually over three feet tall and thirty two inches around.

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Best of all, he actually talks. Just pull the tape

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and he says Merry Christmas for all to hear. He's

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the biggest merriest talking is Sata ever, sure to please

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your youngsters and spread good cheer. Yes, Giant Santa proves

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there really is a Santa Claus. That's a total of

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six giant animals made of brightly colored, preformed, sturdy latex

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which the kids can easily inflate. And the cost just

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one dollar, not for each, just one dollar for all

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six of these lovable giants who'll turn your home into

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a circus parade.

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Speaker 3: And here's a surprise.

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Speaker 5: Mail your order today and you'll also receive absolutely free

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Peter the Rabbit, actually over two feet tall with big

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red ears almost nine inches long. But you must send

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now Rush one dollar plus ten cents for packing and

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mailing for each set you want to Giant Animals, Box

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forty six, Grand Central Station, New York City. If not

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delighted with every one of your seven Giant Animals, return

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them to the Super Animals Company for a full refund,

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but keep the Giant Talking set as our gift. Order

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Now supplies are limited. Rush one dollar and ten cents

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for packing and mailing for each set in cash, check

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or money Order to Giant Animals Box forty six, Grand

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Central Station, New York City. That's one dollar plus ten

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cents with your name of the address. Mail to Giant

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Animals Box four to six, Grand Central Station, New York City.

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Giant Animals Box forty six, Grand Central Station, New York City.

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Speaker 6: My interview with Mayor Newton had convinced me that I'd

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get no real help from him in the Henderson matter.

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Quite the contrary expense account item three twenty cents coffee

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myself and Sheriff E.

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Speaker 3: Holton. Well you got it, huh.

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Speaker 6: At the direction of mister Jackson, that's our corner. He

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deputized temporarily to conduct an inquest. It's going to take

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place tomorrow morning, nine o'clock to the Hall tomorrow, Sheriff

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Room two o seven. Well, if you won't have time

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to do anything, I guess I won't not much anyhow,

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Brother the mayor pitched me pretty hard for not having

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the inquest.

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Speaker 3: Knew he would any idea? Why Nope? You think somebody

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asked him to stop it? Yeah, who don't know, Johnny honest.

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Speaker 6: The next morning I struggled my way against a belligerent

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north wind the city Hall and the inquest, if you

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could call it that. I sat in the back of

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the room and listened while a doctor Horace Nam assured.

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Speaker 3: The six man jury that George Henderson was.

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Speaker 6: Quite dead when he was called out of his office

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and examined him on the street. Doctor Nam reckoned George

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had died from a broken neck. An ancient bell hop,

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a desk clerk, and a chamber maid gave their versions

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of what had happened the day Henderson fell out the window.

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I you sed, swear to tell the truth, to hold truth,

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So help you God, I do share it. I'm the

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acting coroner today, Miss Cupley, sit down. Now, when did

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you see mister Henderson.

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Speaker 10: Last last Thursday morning? Where was this miss Cubley at

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the Butte Hotel?

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Speaker 3: You know what time of the morning.

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Speaker 10: It was about ten o'clock. I went in to make

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his bed and straighten up his room.

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Speaker 3: I see.

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Speaker 10: I made his bed while he worked on some papers there.

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Then I left.

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Speaker 3: Did you see him after that?

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Speaker 6: No, sir, you didn't see him come downstairs for breakfast

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or anything.

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Speaker 3: No, sir, do you know if anybody went up to

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see him?

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Speaker 10: I believe I saw missus Henderson in the lobby after that.

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Speaker 3: Do you see missus Henderson in this room?

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Speaker 10: Yes, sir, I believe that's Missus Henderson over there.

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Speaker 3: No, that's missus Henderson. Now do you know if Missus

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Henderson visited mister Henderson in his room?

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Speaker 10: No, sir, I don't know that.

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Speaker 6: Missus Cubley did you happen to notice if anyone else

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went up to mister Henderson's room that morning? No, Sir,

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on all morning, long Sheriff Houlton, acting in the coroner's position,

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questioned person after person all had more or less the

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same vague knowledge concerning George Henderson's death. I was most

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interested in Pauline Henderson's testimony. Now, then, Missus Henderson, when

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did you last see your husband?

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Speaker 10: Thursday? I went to see him about noon, maybe a

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little before.

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Speaker 3: Where did you see him, miss Henderson?

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Speaker 10: At the Butte Hotel? In his room there?

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Speaker 6: The same room he occupied prior to his death, of course,

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the same room from which he fell.

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Speaker 11: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Were you alone when you went to see him, Missus.

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Speaker 10: Henderson, Yes, I must have left before twelve thirty I

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had an appointment of the dentist.

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Speaker 3: That was the last time you saw your husband alive.

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Speaker 10: Yes, I was still in the dentist's chair when they

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told me he'd fallen out the window.

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Speaker 3: What did you and your husband talk about, Missus Henderson?

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Speaker 10: Must I answer that.

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Speaker 3: Well, we're trying to determine something here. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 10: George and I discussed our divorce.

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Speaker 3: Would you tell us about that.

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Speaker 10: George and I decided to part about a month ago.

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He moved out of the house and moved into the.

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Speaker 3: Hotel outside of the divorce. Were you on good terms?

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Speaker 11: Oh?

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Speaker 10: Yes, we've always been on good terms.

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Speaker 3: Missus Henderson.

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Speaker 6: Do you think there's a chance that he might have

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thrown himself out that window? Missus Henderson, do you think

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he might have thrown himself out that window?

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Speaker 10: No, at least not over us, if that's what you mean.

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Speaker 3: As far as you knew, was your husband in good health?

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Speaker 10: Yes he was.

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Speaker 3: You happen to know when he was examined last, oh.

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Speaker 10: A month or so ago, he was in perfect health.

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Speaker 3: One more thing, did mister Henderson drink?

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Speaker 10: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Did he drink that morning with you?

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Speaker 10: I think he had a couple of drinks? Yes, Yes,

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he had a drink or too while we were talking.

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He could have stumbled at that window.

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Speaker 3: The closes were New York, the perfumed Paris.

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Speaker 6: The jewelry Tiffany is the look you might expect it

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on the riviera, where everybody tries to wag board with

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too many good things in life. Her dress, blank for

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the occasion of death, was cut too well and too

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carefully for her to pass as a grieving widow. She

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answered the questions without hesitation or emotion. Fifteen minutes later,

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the jury brought in the expected verdict. Therefore, it is

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the opinion of this jury that the sad deceased George

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Walter Henderson came to his death as a result of

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injuries incurred in the fall from the fourth floor of

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the Butte Hotel at her about twelve forty five pm

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on the nineteenth day of this month.

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Speaker 3: No evidence to the contrary.

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Speaker 6: It is deemed and declared that the manner of death

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was accidental, adjourned, and that was that as far as

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Culver's people, it's police, and it's mayor were concerned. Yeah,

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the mayor.

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Speaker 3: Well, mister Dollar, I hope you're satisfied.

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Speaker 6: It was a pretty good inquest, Maya Newton, I trust

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the official verdict of the jury will answer any questions

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your insurance company might have had on their minds and

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clear this whole matter up. All forward to them and

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00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,640
tell them the circumstances under which the inquest was conducted.

474
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 3: Mister Mayor, satisfactory. I trust no, But it served a purpose.

475
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 6: Now that everybody thinks it was an accident, everybody will

476
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:13,079
breathe easier, certainly.

477
00:25:13,279 --> 00:25:14,200
Speaker 3: Yeah.

478
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:19,160
Speaker 6: If everybody's relaxing like that, somebody is going to get careless.

479
00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:41,039
See you, mister mayor, Johnny Dollar defe Holton John Hi Sheriff.

480
00:25:41,319 --> 00:25:42,759
Speaker 2: You put in the call for me, did you.

481
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:43,160
Speaker 3: Yes?

482
00:25:43,279 --> 00:25:45,839
Speaker 6: I'm ready to go to work. Now that the inquest

483
00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,680
has been held in George Henderson's death is officially an accident,

484
00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:50,599
I might be able to move around your little town

485
00:25:50,599 --> 00:25:51,319
a little easier.

486
00:25:51,519 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 2: What can they do for you?

487
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 6: Help me to move around? Far as I'm concerned, Eve,

488
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,359
what's the matter with you? That inquest was a farce.

489
00:26:00,039 --> 00:26:01,920
For all I know, Henderson could have been pushed out

490
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,960
of that hotel window. The attitude of different people in

491
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,119
this town makes that whole thing.

492
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:08,759
Speaker 2: Hold on now, Son, hold on. I meant to say

493
00:26:08,799 --> 00:26:12,000
it's closed as far as my office is concerned, personally,

494
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,160
I think it needs investigating. We can help each other.

495
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,640
Speaker 3: Maybe you and me can I come over?

496
00:26:17,039 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 2: Oh? I better come there. You know how folks are

497
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:20,000
around here.

498
00:26:29,799 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 6: Expense account submitted my special investigator, Johnny Dollar, location, Culver, Montana,

499
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,599
to Paramount Insurance Adjusters, Hertford, Connecticut. The following is an

500
00:26:38,599 --> 00:26:41,799
accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Henderson matter.

501
00:26:42,319 --> 00:26:50,559
The question accident, suicide or murder expense account item four

502
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:52,759
three dollars and forty eight cents. One day later to

503
00:26:52,839 --> 00:26:55,920
Tim Connor's office in Hartford, explaining the situation in Culvert.

504
00:26:58,039 --> 00:27:02,640
Speaker 12: I'll read it back to EMUs Dollar, mister Tim Conner's

505
00:27:02,839 --> 00:27:08,200
Paramount Insurance Aggesters Hartford, Connecticut Coroner's inquest in the death

506
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:14,200
of George Henderson policy number EMP Dash one nine six

507
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:19,440
six sixty seven found death to be accidental. In my opinion,

508
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,240
the inquest was not thorough. Have decided to stay on

509
00:27:23,519 --> 00:27:27,799
in Culver and conduct my own investigation. If any change,

510
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:33,079
please advise via Western Union Beautif Hotel, Colver, and forwarding

511
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:40,640
copy of coroner's verdict this date best regards Dollar correct okay, Oh,

512
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,440
mister Dollar, good luck?

513
00:27:45,319 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 3: Yeah sure.

514
00:27:49,039 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 6: Expense account item five sixty eight cents postage. I mailed

515
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,319
a copy of the corners ready to Hartford airmail special.

516
00:27:56,079 --> 00:27:57,960
After that, I went back to my hotel to wait

517
00:27:58,039 --> 00:27:59,119
for the sheriff, Eve Houlton.

518
00:28:03,759 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 2: Come on in.

519
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:10,559
Speaker 13: Oh hello, hello, mister Dollar. My name's Porter. I'm the

520
00:28:10,599 --> 00:28:11,599
manager of this hotel.

521
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:12,759
Speaker 3: Oh well, come, mister Porter.

522
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 8: I can't right now. I've got some other things to

523
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:15,400
attend to.

524
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 13: Well, anything I can do for you, mister Porter, I'm

525
00:28:21,279 --> 00:28:23,079
going to have to ask you for your room.

526
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 3: Mister Dollar. Oh when today any particular reason?

527
00:28:28,799 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 8: We're all filled up. The room's been reserved for six

528
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:32,799
weeks by home.

529
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 3: What who reserved it? Why?

530
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,960
Speaker 8: A man from Bozeman. It's a sort of convention.

531
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 6: Sort of convention. What kind of convention is that, mister Porter.

532
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 13: Look, mister Dollar, you'll have to leave this room today.

533
00:28:45,799 --> 00:28:46,920
The man's coming in tonight.

534
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:47,319
Speaker 3: Aha.

535
00:28:47,759 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 6: And there's no other hotel in town. That's the way

536
00:28:50,279 --> 00:28:52,839
it is, mister Dollar, no other place to stay. No,

537
00:28:53,319 --> 00:28:55,839
So I have to pack my bags and get out

538
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:56,279
of town.

539
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 3: Is that it?

540
00:28:57,839 --> 00:28:59,319
Speaker 8: I must have the room, mister Dollar?

541
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,279
Speaker 3: Who I asked you to say you wanted the room?

542
00:29:01,279 --> 00:29:03,240
Mister Porter? Who asked you to come here and kick

543
00:29:03,279 --> 00:29:05,960
me out? Why no one? Will you go back to

544
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:06,960
no one, mister Porter?

545
00:29:07,039 --> 00:29:08,880
Speaker 6: And you tell no one that I'm staying right here

546
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,839
in this room here in Culver until I finished what

547
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:11,720
I have to do here.

548
00:29:12,119 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 3: You tell that to no one, will you.

549
00:29:14,039 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 8: Mister Dollar. I'd hate to call the police.

550
00:29:16,039 --> 00:29:18,119
Speaker 6: Go ahead, mister Porter, be sure and tell them about

551
00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,720
the sort of convention you're having and how all the

552
00:29:20,799 --> 00:29:21,920
rooms are sold out.

553
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,279
Speaker 3: Tell him about mister No. One and tell him I

554
00:29:24,319 --> 00:29:25,119
called your bluff.

555
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 6: Anything else, mister Porter, I was at the stage where

556
00:29:32,039 --> 00:29:34,440
I was beginning to take notes for myself. Note One,

557
00:29:35,279 --> 00:29:37,200
the mayor didn't want to have an inquest into the

558
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:38,279
death of George Henderson.

559
00:29:38,319 --> 00:29:38,359
Speaker 3: No.

560
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:38,720
Speaker 2: Two.

561
00:29:39,279 --> 00:29:41,079
Speaker 6: When they did have an inquest, they didn't want to

562
00:29:41,119 --> 00:29:42,279
really find out anything.

563
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 14: No.

564
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,279
Speaker 6: Three, mister hotel manager wanted me to keep on not

565
00:29:46,359 --> 00:29:49,319
finding out anything by getting me out of town. I

566
00:29:49,359 --> 00:29:51,240
explained all of this to Eve Holton when he showed

567
00:29:51,279 --> 00:29:54,640
up a half an hour later. I have kind of tied,

568
00:29:54,759 --> 00:29:56,759
isn't it. I don't know what that means, Sheriff, it's

569
00:29:56,759 --> 00:30:02,200
pretty stupid. Yeah, it's stupid, son, but it could be effective.

570
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,920
I'll tell you what. If Porter calls the police, I'm

571
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,000
the police, so don't worry about that. I'll hem him

572
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,359
and Hawey all right, thanks, now, then tell me how

573
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,880
much your insurance company's stuck for fifty thousand dollars if

574
00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,160
Henderson's death goes by as an accident.

575
00:30:18,559 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 3: The Good Book says that's what it was.

576
00:30:20,279 --> 00:30:23,079
Speaker 6: I know, I know there's a chance too, we had

577
00:30:23,079 --> 00:30:24,799
a heart failure and fell out of that window.

578
00:30:25,039 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 3: No sure, always a chance. We might have to dig

579
00:30:28,279 --> 00:30:29,799
him up and find out, Sheriff.

580
00:30:29,519 --> 00:30:33,519
Speaker 6: Wo hold on Autopsyason. Digging people up is one thing

581
00:30:33,559 --> 00:30:35,240
you'd have a hard time doing around here.

582
00:30:35,279 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 3: I might insist on it. I don't know.

583
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 6: We'll let that go for now. Say tell me about

584
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,640
missus Henderson. Where's she from?

585
00:30:42,079 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 9: Here?

586
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:43,839
Speaker 3: Right here in Colder?

587
00:30:44,039 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 6: Now, she didn't get that mink coat and those diamonds

588
00:30:46,559 --> 00:30:49,799
she was wearing at the end quest in Culver. More important,

589
00:30:49,799 --> 00:30:53,119
she didn't get that continental look here either. So what's

590
00:30:53,119 --> 00:30:57,119
the story. Her name was Pauline Underwood before she married George,

591
00:30:57,359 --> 00:30:59,640
Born and raised right here in Culver. Of course, she

592
00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,960
went school in the East, and she's been in Europe

593
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,240
a couple of times, but most of her life's been

594
00:31:04,319 --> 00:31:04,759
right here.

595
00:31:05,319 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 3: She is a mighty pretty widow and mighty rich one too.

596
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,720
Henderson had it. That's divorce she talked about at the

597
00:31:13,759 --> 00:31:14,720
inquest yesterday.

598
00:31:15,559 --> 00:31:18,119
Speaker 6: Everybody in town knew they weren't getting along, never did

599
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:18,720
get along.

600
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:19,519
Speaker 3: How could he?

601
00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:23,519
Speaker 6: Pauline's twenty six and George's fifty nine. He could have

602
00:31:23,559 --> 00:31:26,440
been her father as a matter of fact, he almost.

603
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 3: Was tell me about that. You got a drink? Oh yeah.

604
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,759
Speaker 6: But George raised Pauline from the time she was fourteen.

605
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,759
He paid for all her schooling growing up. She didn't

606
00:31:36,759 --> 00:31:39,720
have any folks after an old man died. George was

607
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:40,440
pretty good to her.

608
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 3: He sure was. Was he a friend of her parents.

609
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:47,519
Speaker 6: Tom Underwood worked out at the ranch for George. When

610
00:31:47,519 --> 00:31:52,720
he died, there was Pauline standing there. Oh thanks, And

611
00:31:52,759 --> 00:31:59,039
she eventually married him and his money. Eh, well, I

612
00:31:59,079 --> 00:32:01,880
wouldn't put it that way exactly. I think she liked him.

613
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,640
I've gone over what you're thinking, son. Those two were

614
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,519
talking about divorce for some time. The papers had been

615
00:32:08,599 --> 00:32:10,920
drawn up for a settlement. She's got a lot of

616
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,880
baalomoning so on. Oh, Pauline had no call to push

617
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:18,079
him out that when hav him pushed out, at least.

618
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,359
Speaker 3: Not for money, all right. Suppose he didn't want a divorce.

619
00:32:21,799 --> 00:32:23,599
Speaker 6: Suppose he loved her, and she came to the hotel

620
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:25,920
room that morning and he pleaded with her to try

621
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:26,599
all over again.

622
00:32:27,039 --> 00:32:28,039
Speaker 3: Suppose she said no.

623
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,799
Speaker 6: Suppose she said no in a great, big, cold way,

624
00:32:31,519 --> 00:32:33,880
and George Henderson sat there and thought about it. After

625
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,400
she left, and he got sick all over, and he

626
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:40,000
walked over to that window and suicide. What do you

627
00:32:40,119 --> 00:32:43,640
think you know him? He wasn't the suicide type. Oh,

628
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,279
nobody's the suicide type until they come to the end

629
00:32:46,279 --> 00:32:46,720
of the line.

630
00:32:46,799 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 3: Eve.

631
00:32:47,559 --> 00:32:49,559
Speaker 6: Then it's too late to interview them and ask them

632
00:32:49,559 --> 00:32:52,599
how they got there. Everybody seems to think it was

633
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,599
an accident, So I'm just throwing words around. You have

634
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,960
a right to do that if you aren't satisfied. Son, Hey,

635
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:00,720
getting back to this hotel again. Who might want me

636
00:33:00,759 --> 00:33:03,920
to get out of town and not ask any questions anybody? Well,

637
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:09,519
no idea, but it's somebody who has some feelings in this. Hey,

638
00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:11,920
who owns this hotel? Hef Noah Baxter.

639
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:12,799
Speaker 3: Who's Noah Baxter?

640
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 6: Rancher got a place about fifteen miles from here, pretty

641
00:33:16,759 --> 00:33:17,440
big man, Huh?

642
00:33:17,799 --> 00:33:18,759
Speaker 3: Friend of Henderson's.

643
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:23,039
Speaker 6: Yeah, and let me put that question a little different

644
00:33:23,799 --> 00:33:25,680
banks to a friend of missus Henderson's.

645
00:33:26,039 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 3: I don't know. Can you find out? I can try.

646
00:33:28,559 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 6: We'll find out about him and any other friends, if

647
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,359
friends that might be younger, that might have gone to

648
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:34,720
Europe or a school in the east.

649
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:39,079
Speaker 3: Yeah. Sure, what are you thinking now? Son.

650
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 6: Well, Now, if I were a missus Henderson and my

651
00:33:41,319 --> 00:33:43,240
husband fell out of a window and this hotel and

652
00:33:43,319 --> 00:33:45,400
killed himself, I'd hire a lawyer, and I'd sue the

653
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,559
hotel for damages. If the insurance company didn't pay off

654
00:33:48,559 --> 00:33:50,720
my claim, I'd hire a lawyer and insists that they

655
00:33:50,799 --> 00:33:54,440
pay that claim. I'd do those things right away, Sheriff,

656
00:33:54,559 --> 00:33:56,720
especially if I thought it was all legitimate.

657
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.

658
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 6: Two hours later, I received a wire from Tim Conners.

659
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:08,480
He requested me to look up a man named Thurber,

660
00:34:08,559 --> 00:34:09,880
an insurance proper living.

661
00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 3: In great Falls.

662
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,039
Speaker 6: Expense of count Adam six four dollars and ninety two

663
00:34:15,119 --> 00:34:18,000
cents tank of gas. I borrowed Sheriff Holton's car and

664
00:34:18,079 --> 00:34:19,719
drove the idyodd miles to great Falls.

665
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:23,599
Speaker 3: That afternoon. Mister Thurber bought lunch. My lord, I hope

666
00:34:23,599 --> 00:34:25,400
there isn't anything to all this, mister Dollar. I just

667
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:26,119
hope there isn't.

668
00:34:26,639 --> 00:34:30,559
Speaker 6: George Henderson, Ah, well, there isn't anything to anything yet,

669
00:34:30,599 --> 00:34:31,199
mister Thurber.

670
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 3: I'm still trying to find out the fact. Oh I

671
00:34:33,519 --> 00:34:35,000
knew you were over in Culver. I tried to call

672
00:34:35,039 --> 00:34:36,280
you there a couple of times. You were out.

673
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,519
Speaker 7: Both times Finally I put in a call to the

674
00:34:38,559 --> 00:34:40,639
home office in Hartford. I talked to this man Connor's

675
00:34:40,639 --> 00:34:44,119
with the Adjustment agency. Yeah, you see, mister Dollar's like this.

676
00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:46,559
I've been over in Jackson Hope for five days now,

677
00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:48,920
hunting duck. We were way in and I didn't hear

678
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,159
about Henderson's death until I got back yesterday.

679
00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:52,119
Speaker 3: Ah.

680
00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:55,000
Speaker 7: Now, oh, look, mister Dollar, I don't know what reflection

681
00:34:55,079 --> 00:34:57,320
this will have on your attitude toward this case. But

682
00:34:57,400 --> 00:35:00,000
two days before I left, mister Henderson telephoned me here

683
00:35:00,079 --> 00:35:03,119
Great Falls. He said he wanted to change the beneficiary

684
00:35:03,159 --> 00:35:03,760
on his policy.

685
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,679
Speaker 3: In other words, he was going to cut his wife off. Yes,

686
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,400
I suppose, so. I know they weren't getting along. They'd

687
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,920
been talk of divorce, Yes, I guess.

688
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:13,079
Speaker 14: So.

689
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:14,159
Speaker 2: Uh huh?

690
00:35:14,199 --> 00:35:15,519
Speaker 3: Did he name a new beneficiary?

691
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,039
Speaker 7: Yes, a school teacher in Culver named Mantila Nickerbocker. Everybody

692
00:35:19,079 --> 00:35:22,960
calls her Maddie. What was his connection with her, None

693
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,360
that I know of. I think it was just a

694
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,239
name from the throw in until he could decide on

695
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:30,599
another beneficiary. Why he didn't have Maddy Nickerbacker just a

696
00:35:30,639 --> 00:35:33,800
school teacher. Everybody knows her. He was awful mad. When

697
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,039
he talked to me that day, I could tell it

698
00:35:35,079 --> 00:35:38,119
in his voice. Now here's what might interest you just

699
00:35:38,159 --> 00:35:40,760
a little more. The day I left in my hunting trip,

700
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,599
mister Henderson phoned me again. He said, to never mind missus.

701
00:35:43,639 --> 00:35:45,280
Henderson was still his beneficiary.

702
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,679
Speaker 3: Did you change the policies yet? No? Are you sure

703
00:35:48,679 --> 00:35:49,960
it was Henderson or telephoned?

704
00:35:50,079 --> 00:35:50,159
Speaker 14: Well?

705
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:50,519
Speaker 2: Yes, I.

706
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 3: Think it was him. Do you remember when you got

707
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:59,400
the call? Somewhere around noon? A little later? I guess

708
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,719
he died between twelve thirty and one. It must have

709
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,639
been just before he fell out the window. He phoned

710
00:36:04,679 --> 00:36:05,599
your long distance from cover.

711
00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:07,840
Speaker 6: Huh, yes, sir, Well, he was supposed to have been

712
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,760
in the hotel all morning, so he had the phone

713
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:10,639
from his room.

714
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 3: You can check that, can't you. Huh huh.

715
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,880
Speaker 6: She'd be surprised how hard it is to check simple

716
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,760
things like that around the Butte Hotel. Did you know

717
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,119
Henderson very well, mister Thurber.

718
00:36:20,639 --> 00:36:22,639
Speaker 3: He was a customer. I wrote a lot of insurance

719
00:36:22,679 --> 00:36:24,639
for it. Now his wife, Oh yes, Well tell me

720
00:36:24,679 --> 00:36:27,559
about them. But go ahead, mister Thurber.

721
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:34,280
Speaker 6: Now, look, accidents rarely have reason behind them. Suicides and

722
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:36,039
murders always.

723
00:36:35,679 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 3: Do you don't think it was an accident. Well, let's

724
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,880
say I've heard enough and seen enough to make it

725
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,559
a draw. So far, go ahead. Tell me about them.

726
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,599
Speaker 7: And I wish I was married to missus Henderson. I

727
00:36:47,599 --> 00:36:50,280
mean I wish she could see me. I think most

728
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,239
any man who's ever met her hope the same thing,

729
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,800
young men, old men, any kind. But she picked George.

730
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:00,000
George was as tough and leathery as these mountains are.

731
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,880
Is exactly her opposite. Pauline married him, He.

732
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,639
Speaker 3: Raised her, He was close to her all her adult life.

733
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 7: Yes, mister Dalla, you know and I know she didn't

734
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,360
have to marry him. She could have married anybody here

735
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,519
in Culver, or anybody in London or Paris.

736
00:37:14,559 --> 00:37:15,159
Speaker 3: You see what I mean?

737
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:19,639
Speaker 7: And not quiet well, I always had the idea that

738
00:37:19,679 --> 00:37:22,320
after she married him, she kept letting him know she

739
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,000
could have had anybody else she wanted.

740
00:37:25,079 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 3: Go ahead, Therver.

741
00:37:27,119 --> 00:37:30,119
Speaker 7: I think she married him for his money. I think

742
00:37:30,159 --> 00:37:37,239
she would have killed him for his money.

743
00:37:49,159 --> 00:37:51,320
Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar, this is missus Henderson.

744
00:37:51,639 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 2: You asked me to call mister Donnad.

745
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,199
Speaker 6: Yes, Missus Henderson, I'm with Paramount Insurance Adjusters. Oh, yes,

746
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,320
you probably know we asked for the inquest into your

747
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,760
husband's death. Yes, I know, trying to clear up the

748
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,000
entire matter as quickly as we can. Missus Henderson, I'd

749
00:38:03,039 --> 00:38:05,079
like to talk to you. I hate to trouble you

750
00:38:05,079 --> 00:38:05,800
at a time like this.

751
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,119
Speaker 2: It's all right, mister Donna. When do you want to talk?

752
00:38:08,159 --> 00:38:09,840
Speaker 3: May I come out to the house this afternoon.

753
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 10: There's a nice restaurant called Big Horn Lodge on the highway.

754
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:15,920
How about meeting you there at say four o'clock.

755
00:38:16,159 --> 00:38:17,079
Speaker 3: Good, I'll be there.

756
00:38:26,599 --> 00:38:30,679
Speaker 6: Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to Paramount

757
00:38:30,679 --> 00:38:33,920
Insurance Adjusters, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of

758
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:41,280
expenditures during my investigation of the Henderson matter. Expense account continued.

759
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:44,199
Item seven five bucks one pair of goloshes. Believe it

760
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,000
or not, it's snowed in Culver, Montana during the night

761
00:38:47,079 --> 00:38:50,239
all night. By morning, fourteen inches of fine new snow

762
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,480
covered everything in sight. After my phone called a Missus Henderson,

763
00:38:53,519 --> 00:38:55,880
I spent the morning trying to rent an automobile. There

764
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,119
was none to be had, so that afternoon I'd dropped

765
00:38:58,119 --> 00:39:00,119
over to see Eife Holton, my sheriff friend.

766
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:02,199
Speaker 7: Son.

767
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 6: You're going to catch your death unless you start wearing

768
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:07,039
this car. I'll remember that, EF, but maybe I won't

769
00:39:07,039 --> 00:39:09,639
need one. Oh yeah, I think I'll be leaving Culver

770
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,039
pretty soon. I hope you don't mean that, son, I'm

771
00:39:12,079 --> 00:39:14,400
afraid I do. I'll have to tie this case up

772
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,239
one way or another pretty quick. Why my company wants

773
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,400
me to get back home. I got a letter this morning.

774
00:39:19,679 --> 00:39:21,639
Speaker 3: Oh well, how can I help you?

775
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:23,639
Speaker 6: Well, for one thing, he can lend me your car again.

776
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,800
I have a date with a lady out at the

777
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,920
Big Horn lot. Sure, pretty fancy. You can have the

778
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,880
old thing anytime you wanted, you know that, son. Who's

779
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:33,880
the lady.

780
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 3: George Henderson's widow?

781
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 2: Yeah?

782
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:36,800
Speaker 3: Oh nah?

783
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 6: And I what you're gonna say? Why go after her?

784
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,239
Why bother her until I have something to go on? Well,

785
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,679
I got to do something, Ef. I'm no nearer now

786
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,360
to knowing whether Henderson was pushed out that hotel window,

787
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:50,280
fell or jumped. I think I have enough of an

788
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:52,199
idea of Henderson and his wife to pick up some

789
00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:53,639
valuable information from her.

790
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,760
Speaker 3: Any objections, Nope, Johnny.

791
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 6: A couple of days ago you asked me to look

792
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,719
up people who might have been a s Actually friendly

793
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:01,639
to missus Henderson.

794
00:40:02,159 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 3: You still want to know about them? Yeah, sure, well

795
00:40:04,519 --> 00:40:05,280
I'm working.

796
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:08,199
Speaker 6: On anyone so far, nobody i'd put in that category.

797
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:10,440
What time you have to be at the Big Horn

798
00:40:10,519 --> 00:40:12,800
for it? Don't take you a while? When't hurt you

799
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:17,280
start right now? He's u She parked out back. Okay, thanks,

800
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,320
good luck, and don't let her rang angle you son.

801
00:40:20,599 --> 00:40:27,159
She could do it if she wanted to. Goodbye. Ten

802
00:40:27,199 --> 00:40:29,480
minutes later, I was on the road to Big Horn Lodge,

803
00:40:29,559 --> 00:40:31,679
which also happened to be the same road i'd traveled

804
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:35,840
two days before to attend George Henderson's funeral. As I

805
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,840
drove past the graveyard, white and stark against the blue

806
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,800
winter sky, I noticed a car parked along the side

807
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,679
of the road, a little Chevy Coop about nineteen fifty two.

808
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,320
There was the figure of a woman, all alone, standing

809
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:58,599
by George Henderson's fresh grave. Her head was bowed. She

810
00:40:58,639 --> 00:41:01,599
didn't notice me as I walked up. A gray haired

811
00:41:01,599 --> 00:41:08,599
woman about forty five, slight, delicate, gentle. Oh, I'm sorry,

812
00:41:08,639 --> 00:41:09,960
I didn't mean to start it.

813
00:41:10,199 --> 00:41:15,159
Speaker 11: Oh that's all right, must be getting late, dear, it is?

814
00:41:16,199 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 2: Uh?

815
00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,280
Speaker 3: Do I know you?

816
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 11: Why? I don't know I'm Maddie Knickerbocker.

817
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 3: The name had startled me. The day before, an insurance

818
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:26,960
broker in Great Falls.

819
00:41:26,679 --> 00:41:29,559
Speaker 6: Had mentioned her, told me that George Henderson had named

820
00:41:29,559 --> 00:41:32,880
her his beneficiary, then changed his mind a few minutes

821
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:33,599
before he died.

822
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 11: Your name's not Campbell, is it?

823
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 3: No? Johnny Dollar?

824
00:41:39,639 --> 00:41:43,239
Speaker 11: Johnny Dollar. You remind me of a boy I had

825
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,079
in one of my classes once, Tory Campbell.

826
00:41:46,679 --> 00:41:48,599
Speaker 3: Oh you're a teacher, Miss Nickerbocker.

827
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:53,559
Speaker 11: Yes, yes, everybody knows me, I think, or at least

828
00:41:53,639 --> 00:41:58,039
I flatter myself that way. Well, I should be going.

829
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:01,079
Speaker 3: Uh, mister Henderson too.

830
00:42:01,639 --> 00:42:07,199
Speaker 11: Oh he was a wonderful man, George. He was very

831
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:11,639
dear to me. I'll find it difficult getting used to

832
00:42:11,639 --> 00:42:16,599
the fact that he'll never be around anymore. George had

833
00:42:16,599 --> 00:42:18,239
a wonderful laugh, didn't he.

834
00:42:19,159 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 3: Yes, yes he did, missus Nickerboker.

835
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 11: I never really thought that he ever grew up. Of course,

836
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,480
you knew him in a business way, and I'm sure

837
00:42:29,519 --> 00:42:33,199
he was very very grown up in business. But it

838
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,760
doesn't hurt to think of him this way, now, does it.

839
00:42:36,559 --> 00:42:38,679
Speaker 3: I don't think so, Miss Nickerboker.

840
00:42:39,639 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 11: I didn't come to his funeral. I didn't think I

841
00:42:43,039 --> 00:42:47,119
could bear it. I thought I'd just drive out this

842
00:42:47,199 --> 00:42:50,639
afternoon and say goodbye by myself.

843
00:42:51,039 --> 00:42:53,079
Speaker 3: Well, I apologize for interrupting.

844
00:42:52,599 --> 00:42:53,800
Speaker 11: You, not at all.

845
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:54,239
Speaker 3: Please.

846
00:42:56,679 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 11: Funny little things, the birds in the snow, such tiny,

847
00:43:02,119 --> 00:43:05,880
wonderful little things, a little bit of God in each

848
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:07,800
of them, Mister Dollar. Wouldn't you say.

849
00:43:09,079 --> 00:43:10,199
Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am?

850
00:43:11,559 --> 00:43:14,760
Speaker 11: I don't know why. I think George would like to

851
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:16,920
know they're here near him.

852
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 3: Miss Nickerbocker, I have to.

853
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:25,599
Speaker 11: Tell you no, you don't, mister Dollar. I know who

854
00:43:25,679 --> 00:43:30,519
you really are. Everyone in town knows you. Seem like

855
00:43:30,559 --> 00:43:34,519
a nice young man. Was it curiosity that made you

856
00:43:34,559 --> 00:43:35,320
stop your car?

857
00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:38,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I suppose, so I apologize you need.

858
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 11: I'm just an old friend of George's saying goodbye to him.

859
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:47,119
Good afternoon, mister.

860
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:51,599
Speaker 3: Dollar, goodbye.

861
00:43:52,679 --> 00:43:55,559
Speaker 6: Talking to Maddie Nickerbocker, I felt that, for the first

862
00:43:55,599 --> 00:44:00,280
time somebody, namely Maddie, had talked frankly and truth flee

863
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:04,119
about George Henderson. I was still thinking of the frail,

864
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,840
drab little woman with a nice blue eyes when I

865
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:12,400
met Pauline Henderson at the Big Horn Lodge. One of

866
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,360
these matters you want to clear up Yesterday oh, just

867
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,480
some doubts in my mind about your husband's death.

868
00:44:18,039 --> 00:44:18,599
Speaker 2: What do you drink?

869
00:44:20,599 --> 00:44:22,119
Speaker 10: I learned to like it in France.

870
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 3: All right, one Parnal bourbon, little water on the side.

871
00:44:25,639 --> 00:44:28,159
Speaker 10: Yes, sir, you sound like George when you order.

872
00:44:28,679 --> 00:44:29,320
Speaker 2: Hey, I like your.

873
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,880
Speaker 6: Big horn lodge and I have to say when it's

874
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:33,639
elegant in the West, it's elegant.

875
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 10: I'd like a light please, Oh sir, sure, thank you.

876
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 6: Missus Henderson, do you mind if I don't stall any

877
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,119
longer with the drinks, the smokes and the compliments.

878
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 10: I'm surprised you've stole this long. I've heard you are

879
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:49,559
a very blunt and impulsive man.

880
00:44:49,639 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 6: I spoke to an insurance agent named Theerber yesterday in

881
00:44:52,039 --> 00:44:52,719
great Falls.

882
00:44:53,039 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 3: Your husband's agent.

883
00:44:54,559 --> 00:44:56,559
Speaker 6: Mister Thurber told me that your husband wanted to name

884
00:44:56,559 --> 00:45:00,159
a new beneficiary last week. Really yeah, he named kill

885
00:45:00,199 --> 00:45:02,599
a Nickerbocker, Matty Knickerbocker.

886
00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:08,280
Speaker 10: I'm not surprised. I suppose Matty's a lovely woman. I

887
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:09,559
know George was very fond of me.

888
00:45:09,639 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 6: Mister Thurber also told me that mister Henderson changed his

889
00:45:12,079 --> 00:45:14,519
mind about that the day he died. In fact, he

890
00:45:14,559 --> 00:45:16,400
phoned mister Thurber in Great Falls and told him to

891
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:19,000
leave the policy as it was. He did that a

892
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,679
few minutes after you left his hotel room, a few

893
00:45:21,679 --> 00:45:22,639
minutes before he died.

894
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 3: Can you explain any of that, Missus Henderson?

895
00:45:26,639 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 10: Why don't you ask Mary Nickerbocker.

896
00:45:28,599 --> 00:45:31,039
Speaker 6: Because I don't think she'd know. I ran into her

897
00:45:31,039 --> 00:45:33,320
this afternoon and I talked to her or not about this,

898
00:45:33,599 --> 00:45:36,239
just about other things. I'll look her up again if

899
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,639
I have to, But it's you I want information from now.

900
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 10: Then why don't you ask what you mean? Mister Donner?

901
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:42,320
Speaker 3: All right?

902
00:45:43,639 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 6: Did something happen in that hotel room that made him

903
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:47,000
change his mind about you?

904
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 10: That's better. I do wish that ridiculous little man would

905
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:51,880
bring our drinks.

906
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 3: He will.

907
00:45:53,679 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 10: Don't misunderstand what happened in the hotel room. George and

908
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,000
I were going to be divorced. He moved out of

909
00:45:59,039 --> 00:46:01,480
the house a month ago. We went to his attorneys

910
00:46:01,519 --> 00:46:04,679
and drew a pretentative property settlement. You dunlap Eder reared

911
00:46:04,679 --> 00:46:07,159
in and blake Great Falls. They have a copy of

912
00:46:07,159 --> 00:46:12,320
that settlement. George was quite generous to me, so I

913
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,519
didn't kill him for his money. If that's what you're.

914
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,079
Speaker 3: Thinking here, we are sure. I know Bourbons, Thank you.

915
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:22,280
Speaker 10: I didn't see George for three weeks or so after

916
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,639
we made the settlement. Then we happened to meet one

917
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:29,280
day in Culver, and well, we had a rather bitter argument.

918
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:32,079
Was one of those ridiculous things. We quarreled and parted

919
00:46:32,199 --> 00:46:35,639
very angrily. The whole thing was childish. My first impulse

920
00:46:35,719 --> 00:46:37,320
was to go right back to the lawyers and demand

921
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,519
every unreasonable thing I could on the divorce settlement. I

922
00:46:40,559 --> 00:46:42,840
guess George's first impulse was to cancel me out as

923
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:43,599
it beneficiary.

924
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 3: Did you go to a lawyer, missus Henderson.

925
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 10: No, No, I cooled off. I cooled off considerably, mister Dollar.

926
00:46:52,159 --> 00:46:54,360
After all, George had been everything to me most of

927
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,760
my life. I was truly sorry. We never got along

928
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,599
as man and wife. I'm glad that we made it

929
00:47:00,679 --> 00:47:05,159
up before he died that morning. He apologized when I

930
00:47:05,159 --> 00:47:11,000
came by the hotel. I apologized. After I left, he

931
00:47:11,159 --> 00:47:12,000
fell out the window.

932
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 3: Then I can assume that this business with the policies

933
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:16,239
had to do with the argus.

934
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:17,679
Speaker 10: I assume what you like, mister Dollar.

935
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,639
Speaker 6: I can understand why you're annoyed by me and my questions.

936
00:47:20,679 --> 00:47:22,679
It's just that it's kind of hard for us to

937
00:47:22,679 --> 00:47:24,960
believe that a man involved in divorcing his wife would

938
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:28,039
still name her as his beneficiary. I say that because

939
00:47:28,079 --> 00:47:29,119
of past experience.

940
00:47:29,559 --> 00:47:31,639
Speaker 3: Oh what's happened? But as un usual.

941
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:34,840
Speaker 10: I could have told you that we were reconciled that

942
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:36,599
day in the hotel, that we were going to drop

943
00:47:36,639 --> 00:47:38,639
the whole divorce matter, that George was coming back to

944
00:47:38,639 --> 00:47:39,280
the house to live.

945
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:43,559
Speaker 6: Yes, you could have told me that, Missus Henderson. Mister

946
00:47:43,599 --> 00:47:45,639
Connors in our home office in Hartford called you a

947
00:47:45,639 --> 00:47:46,320
few days ago.

948
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:47,280
Speaker 3: You hung up on him.

949
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:51,079
Speaker 10: Why, well, I was very upset. I have never been

950
00:47:51,079 --> 00:47:51,800
a widow before.

951
00:47:54,199 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 3: I believe you, Missus Henderson, sitting here like this, You're

952
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:01,280
a lovely person. I know it, and you know it.

953
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 6: And this is a pretty nice place to conduct business.

954
00:48:05,639 --> 00:48:07,199
Why didn't you ask me to your home?

955
00:48:07,639 --> 00:48:10,599
Speaker 10: I preferred to talk to you here, That's.

956
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 3: What I thought.

957
00:48:14,199 --> 00:48:17,079
Speaker 6: I saved all the did your husband have any enemies?

958
00:48:17,079 --> 00:48:20,920
And did he seem depressed? Questions for another time. But

959
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:22,639
before I went to bed that night, I read and

960
00:48:22,679 --> 00:48:25,599
re read missus Henderson's testimony given her the carn His inquest.

961
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:28,440
The next morning, I interviewed all of the people at

962
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,679
the Butte Hotel who'd been on duty the day Henderson

963
00:48:30,679 --> 00:48:31,400
fell out the window.

964
00:48:32,039 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 3: After that, I dropped in to see Eve Holton. Here

965
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:39,239
here it is Johnny right here.

966
00:48:40,519 --> 00:48:44,119
Speaker 6: Personal effects of the deceased included four suits of man's clothing,

967
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,320
fourteen shirts, five pairs of holes.

968
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 3: Was there a bottle in that room, sheriff liquer, Yeah, no,

969
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:51,239
no bottle, nothing like it.

970
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 6: Then all right, he didn't call down and have a

971
00:48:54,519 --> 00:48:56,760
bell boy bring him a bottle or send him any drinks.

972
00:48:57,559 --> 00:48:59,719
The chambermaids swears there was no liquor in his room

973
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:01,840
all the time time he lived at the hotel. You

974
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:05,199
say he was a light drinker, Now what light drinker

975
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:07,440
takes a nip before he has his breakfast?

976
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:10,559
Speaker 3: Who said he had a drink that morning? Missus Henderson?

977
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,159
What on the witness stand under oath?

978
00:49:13,159 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 6: At the inquest, she testified that her husband had a

979
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:17,679
drink before she came up to the room and while

980
00:49:17,679 --> 00:49:19,639
she was there. Now, mind you, she didn't say he

981
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:22,519
was drunk, but she did say he had been drinking.

982
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 3: You read over that.

983
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 6: Transcript, so so I think she threw that in, made

984
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,239
sure it got in because it's sometimes hard to believe

985
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:31,719
that a cold soilber man will walk out of a

986
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:34,639
hotel window and kill himself accidentally. A drunk or a

987
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:37,320
drinker might do it. You and I and everybody at

988
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,920
that inquest somehow got the impression that Henderson was slightly

989
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,840
tipsy that morning, and Missus Henderson saw to that. Now,

990
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,800
then if Henderson had a drink, I want to know

991
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:50,199
where he got it. Tell me if no bottle in

992
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:53,280
the room, no bottle brought up to the room, where

993
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:53,599
did he.

994
00:49:53,599 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 3: Get that drink?

995
00:49:56,079 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 6: That's a pretty good question, son, Johnny Dellar, I have

996
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:17,320
a call.

997
00:50:17,199 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 15: For you from Hartford. Go ahead, please, Johnny. Right here,

998
00:50:22,119 --> 00:50:25,360
Connor is at paramount of gestures, say what was his wire? Johnny,

999
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,719
you're serious about denying liability to missus Henderson.

1000
00:50:27,760 --> 00:50:29,679
Speaker 3: I sure am. I think he'll bring the whole thing

1001
00:50:29,679 --> 00:50:30,280
out in the open.

1002
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 2: This is pretty serious. If you got any concrete ven

1003
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:34,039
his death wasn't accidental.

1004
00:50:33,599 --> 00:50:36,079
Speaker 6: YEA might have a copy of the corner's inquest, concrete

1005
00:50:36,119 --> 00:50:39,079
evidence that Missus Henderson lied under oath she said her

1006
00:50:39,159 --> 00:50:42,079
husband was drinking in the morning he died. Everybody here

1007
00:50:42,119 --> 00:50:43,880
believed he was a little crocked when he fell out

1008
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,840
that hotel window. I've got proof that he didn't have

1009
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:47,719
a drink that morning.

1010
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 2: What proof?

1011
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,119
Speaker 3: No bottle in his room, no bottle brought there, nothing.

1012
00:50:51,639 --> 00:50:52,280
What do you say.

1013
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:54,559
Speaker 2: Don't make a move, kiddo. I'll get the first.

1014
00:50:54,320 --> 00:51:07,519
Speaker 6: Plane expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to

1015
00:51:07,599 --> 00:51:11,360
Paramount Insurance Adjustice, Hertford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting

1016
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,280
of expendit yours. During my investigation of the Henderson matter,

1017
00:51:17,679 --> 00:51:19,880
Sheriff Holton agreed that there was enough of a doubt

1018
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:23,559
about the circumstances prior to George Henderson's accidental death to

1019
00:51:23,599 --> 00:51:26,639
warrant an official re examination of all the facts. He

1020
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,480
promised me the police would start an immediate investigation. That

1021
00:51:29,639 --> 00:51:32,159
was all I needed. I knew Missus Henderson would be

1022
00:51:32,199 --> 00:51:34,559
requestioned and that the pressure would start to build up.

1023
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:37,639
Fourteen hours later, when Tim Connors arrived in Culver, I

1024
00:51:37,679 --> 00:51:38,719
had some pressure on my own.

1025
00:51:40,519 --> 00:51:41,840
Speaker 3: Well, Johnny, what Well?

1026
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 6: The best thing we can do now is move in

1027
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:46,920
deny liability on the grounds that the accident is not proved.

1028
00:51:47,079 --> 00:51:49,519
Speaker 3: I suppose Missus Henderson Jeus's all right letter.

1029
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:51,800
Speaker 6: Then the burden of proving that her husband's death was

1030
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:55,119
accidental would be on her. Look, Tim, contrary to her

1031
00:51:55,119 --> 00:51:58,480
testimony under oath, Henderson didn't have a drink that morning.

1032
00:51:58,559 --> 00:52:00,840
Speaker 7: He died, all right, if you made a mistake. He

1033
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:02,960
had a heart attack, got dizzy and tumbled out of

1034
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:03,360
the window.

1035
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,079
Speaker 3: He wasn't drunk. Oh, don't talk nonsense. Tim listened to me.

1036
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,119
Speaker 6: Missus Henderson was ready for the Cornish jury a couple

1037
00:52:09,159 --> 00:52:11,199
of days ago, and she was ready for my questions

1038
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:13,880
when I saw her yesterday. The only one she wasn't

1039
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:15,639
ready for was you. A few days ago when you

1040
00:52:15,679 --> 00:52:19,000
phoned a long distance you said she hung up on you. Well,

1041
00:52:19,079 --> 00:52:21,480
she half apologized to me for that, but it was

1042
00:52:21,519 --> 00:52:23,079
because she couldn't think of anything to say.

1043
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 3: Well, maybe you're right.

1044
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 7: I suppose he did die accidentally, and suppose it is

1045
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,519
a just insurance. I tell you, it isn't the fact

1046
00:52:29,559 --> 00:52:31,920
that she made a mistake testifying about him having a drink.

1047
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 3: And Johnny, do you have anything else?

1048
00:52:35,159 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 6: Three things instinct, experience, and statistics. Pauline Henderson's a young woman.

1049
00:52:41,119 --> 00:52:44,000
She married a wealthy older man. With him out of

1050
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:46,519
the way, she has all his money and all her youth.

1051
00:52:46,599 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 3: All right, I'm going to phone the company as soon

1052
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:48,719
as I can find a phone.

1053
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:50,559
Speaker 6: Tell him I'm working for evidence, and the best way

1054
00:52:50,599 --> 00:52:52,199
to get it is to bring missus Henderson out in

1055
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:56,079
the open. File a complaint against her. What charge suspected murder?

1056
00:52:56,679 --> 00:52:58,840
Oh no, Johnny, that get us in all kinds of truble.

1057
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:03,039
Remember the drink, Tim Henderson didn't have the drink, and

1058
00:53:03,159 --> 00:53:03,679
I will.

1059
00:53:03,519 --> 00:53:04,239
Speaker 3: Have to have more than that.

1060
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Johnny, all right, I'll get you more. An

1061
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:16,239
hour later, I was with Sheriff Holten comparing notes. He

1062
00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,559
reported that after questioning Missus Henderson, she admitted she might

1063
00:53:19,559 --> 00:53:22,000
have been mistaken about Henderson drinking the morning of his death.

1064
00:53:22,119 --> 00:53:25,239
She wasn't sure, But if Holton said what we both

1065
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,800
were thinking. He went in front of the corners during

1066
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,880
gave a misleading impressions, hum made us think that George

1067
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:32,400
was drunk and stumbled out the window.

1068
00:53:34,480 --> 00:53:36,760
Speaker 3: We better find out who helped her pull this off.

1069
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:43,440
Sheriff Holton had every man in his office working on

1070
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:43,800
the case.

1071
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 2: By then.

1072
00:53:44,639 --> 00:53:47,079
Speaker 6: It was a long, tedious job of combing over everything

1073
00:53:47,079 --> 00:53:50,880
at Pauline Henderson's background to find a possible accomplice. About

1074
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:52,920
five in the afternoon, I drove to the Henderson ranch

1075
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,800
with Holton. Missus Henderson was out, but we interviewed one

1076
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:56,880
of the servants.

1077
00:53:57,559 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 10: That's right, sir, once twice a week.

1078
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 3: You know where she drove to on these trips. I

1079
00:54:02,519 --> 00:54:03,280
have no idea.

1080
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,039
Speaker 14: Missus Henderson get up early in the morning, be gone

1081
00:54:06,079 --> 00:54:06,519
all day.

1082
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:08,119
Speaker 3: How do you know she went out of town?

1083
00:54:08,559 --> 00:54:12,199
Speaker 14: Well, generally take a small suitcase with her, change your clothes.

1084
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 3: You don't take those when you're visiting a friend in town.

1085
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:17,800
Do you tell us what car she'd use on these trips.

1086
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 14: Cadillac always come back covered with mud and ice. Lays

1087
00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:22,440
have to be washed up.

1088
00:54:23,079 --> 00:54:25,039
Speaker 10: Mister Henderson used to complain about.

1089
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,280
Speaker 3: That, about the car being dirty, about.

1090
00:54:27,079 --> 00:54:30,119
Speaker 14: The trips mostly, and Missus Henderson had some pretty good

1091
00:54:30,199 --> 00:54:33,679
arguments about him. He'd say, Missus Henderson shouldn't visit that man?

1092
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:38,199
Speaker 3: What man? Just that man? I never knew who it was.

1093
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:42,119
They argued about. You've known missus Henderson quite a long time.

1094
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,800
Speaker 14: Yes, sir, know when she was a little girl when

1095
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,159
she first came here. So I grow up, go away

1096
00:54:47,159 --> 00:54:50,199
to school, go away to Europe, come back a little

1097
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:52,079
more grown up, a little different every.

1098
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,639
Speaker 3: Time were you surprise when mister Henderson married her?

1099
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:58,559
Speaker 14: Well, no, well, yes guess I.

1100
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 3: Was because she was so much young, Not that so much.

1101
00:55:02,639 --> 00:55:06,199
Speaker 14: I mean, well, mister Henderson he had something about the

1102
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:10,719
plains and cattle mountains about him. When he moved it

1103
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:15,360
was as big zal them things. And missus Henderson is different.

1104
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 3: She didn't fit in here. Is that what you're trying

1105
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,920
to say? I think she fit not like him.

1106
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 16: Though before they were married they were sort of like

1107
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:26,199
good friends. I mean they'd ride horses and go hunting

1108
00:55:26,239 --> 00:55:29,880
and laugh and talk about different things. Missus Henderson, she

1109
00:55:30,039 --> 00:55:33,039
traveled Europe, saw so many things and places in the world.

1110
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:38,280
She fit here, but then she didn't belong here. I

1111
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:42,559
feel awful about mister Henderson's being dead. There was anything

1112
00:55:42,599 --> 00:55:43,639
wrong with the way he died.

1113
00:55:43,679 --> 00:55:48,199
Speaker 14: I'd like to be fixed. Missus Henderson probably fire me

1114
00:55:48,239 --> 00:55:51,239
for talking like this, but I don't care. This house

1115
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:53,039
isn't the same no more.

1116
00:55:59,039 --> 00:56:01,400
Speaker 3: By the time we got back into town, Sheriff Holton's

1117
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,400
boys that discovered the names of three men who had

1118
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,519
been seen at various places around Culver and the company

1119
00:56:05,559 --> 00:56:06,280
of Missus Henderson.

1120
00:56:07,639 --> 00:56:11,320
Speaker 6: Rod Tyler, Oh, who's see mining engineer. He's been away

1121
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:14,400
from here for over a year now. Yeah, here's another one,

1122
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:21,119
Sam Pollard. Sam died six months ago. Hey what Noah

1123
00:56:21,159 --> 00:56:25,079
Baxter Baxter, her name's vaguely familiar. Yeah, he owns a

1124
00:56:25,119 --> 00:56:28,239
hotel you're staying in a couple of ranches too. He

1125
00:56:28,360 --> 00:56:29,639
might have been the one who tried to have you

1126
00:56:29,679 --> 00:56:33,280
thrown out. He also owns the Mayor young Man about

1127
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:42,039
thirty thirty five. Let's go see him. Another drive, this

1128
00:56:42,119 --> 00:56:45,159
time north of Covan, of the Baxter ranch. We found

1129
00:56:45,199 --> 00:56:47,800
Noah Baxter busy with his help shoring horns on kettle,

1130
00:56:48,039 --> 00:56:52,159
A lean, tall man with thin features. If you're trying

1131
00:56:52,159 --> 00:56:54,320
to find out if I haven't seen Pauline on the sly,

1132
00:56:54,559 --> 00:56:56,039
why she'd been married to George?

1133
00:56:56,079 --> 00:56:57,039
Speaker 3: Why didn't you come ride out?

1134
00:56:57,039 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 14: And now?

1135
00:56:57,360 --> 00:56:58,360
Speaker 3: All right? Have you?

1136
00:56:58,400 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 14: No?

1137
00:56:59,400 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 3: Not on the sligh.

1138
00:57:01,199 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 6: There's nothing between us. George knew anytime she came over

1139
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:07,159
here to see me. He was a good friend of mine.

1140
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:11,320
I'm sorry he's dead. Pauline's good friend of mine too.

1141
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,000
I'm sorry who people are thinking what you.

1142
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:15,559
Speaker 3: Are about us.

1143
00:57:16,239 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 6: Let's go up to the house getting cold, all right, Stan,

1144
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,480
that's enough for today.

1145
00:57:25,079 --> 00:57:28,519
Speaker 3: No I got to ask you this. Where were you

1146
00:57:28,639 --> 00:57:33,000
last Thursday, the day George died? Sure? Yeah, I was

1147
00:57:33,079 --> 00:57:35,960
right here and you prove that. Sure.

1148
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:40,679
Speaker 6: Ask anybody you boys.

1149
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:40,920
Speaker 3: Want to drink?

1150
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 14: No?

1151
00:57:41,519 --> 00:57:48,679
Speaker 3: Thanks, well I do, mac mac. I didn't get it myself.

1152
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:52,440
When was the last time you were in cover, mister Baxter?

1153
00:57:53,119 --> 00:57:55,960
Three four weeks ago? My cook and the others handled

1154
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:57,079
what supplies we need?

1155
00:57:57,559 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 6: Do you mind if we talk to some of your

1156
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:02,039
help around here? What do you want to talk to

1157
00:58:02,159 --> 00:58:04,880
him about about last Thursday? About what happened when missus

1158
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:07,840
Henderson came here to visit. It wouldn't look good if

1159
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:10,599
she came here to visit me, wouldn't. Well, that depends

1160
00:58:10,599 --> 00:58:15,519
on the circumstances. No, hum, she'd come and sit there

1161
00:58:15,519 --> 00:58:17,840
and read and look at some of those paintings.

1162
00:58:18,079 --> 00:58:22,679
Speaker 3: We'd talk when I had time. Anything wrong with that, No.

1163
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:26,639
Speaker 6: Mister Baxter, I think I ought to tell you. I've

1164
00:58:26,679 --> 00:58:29,039
asked my company to file a complain against Missus Henderson

1165
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:36,679
suspicion of murder. Oh, I'd like to tell you something.

1166
00:58:37,719 --> 00:58:39,679
She didn't kill him, and she didn't have him killed.

1167
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:41,679
She loved him a lot more than George loved her.

1168
00:58:41,719 --> 00:58:44,400
I think both of you know her, her dad was

1169
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,239
a drunken cow hand. When he died, George took her over,

1170
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:50,320
for gave her everything, So you see, you're wrong. She

1171
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,760
loved George forgiving her what he gave her, and mostly

1172
00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:57,840
for being the kind of a man he was. I

1173
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:01,159
lied to you a couple of minutes ago. There was

1174
00:59:01,199 --> 00:59:04,960
something between us. It was bound to happen. Sooner or later.

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She'd come here to cry on my shoulder and.

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Speaker 3: I my letter cry about George.

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Speaker 6: He wanted to divorce her, didn't you know that I

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had The idea was the other way around.

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Speaker 3: You're all wrong.

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Speaker 6: George raised her, educated her, made her into a woman,

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and then he married her, and she wasn't what he

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wanted at all. Do you know who George wanted to marry?

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Mattie Knickerbocker, the school mark.

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Speaker 2: Go on?

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Speaker 6: Oh, there was nothing between George and Mattie, but there

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would have been if he lived.

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Speaker 3: What about you and missus Henderson?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the thing that was between us was that I

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wanted her. She didn't want me, but I wanted her.

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I was glad when she told me about the divorce

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coming up. I really think she would have listened to me,

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But she wanted to be married to George. She really

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loved him.

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Speaker 3: Sure you don't want one of these? No, Nope, And

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I really loved her.

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Speaker 6: I went to see George last Thursday at this hotel.

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You know why they tell him to go back to Pauline. Yeah,

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because I knew what he meant to her. You can

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talk to my people around here. They'd lie for me

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and say I was here last Thursday all day. They'd

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tell you that Pauline never came to see me. They'd

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lie right down the line for me. But mister dollar,

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I can't let you get out that complaint and take

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her in. One of my trucks was taking some beef

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to the hotel last Thursday. I rode in with the

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driver and went in the back way. I went right

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up to George's room to talk to him. Pauline had

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just left. I wanted to talk to him about the

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same things I've been telling you. I didn't want to

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hurt him. I loved him the same as everybody left him.

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When I got to his room, he wouldn't let me

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talk at all. He was mad that I interfered. He

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tried to swing on me. I shoved him. Once he

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went out the window.

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Speaker 17: That's all I killed him.

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Speaker 6: Expense account item eight fifty eight dollars and fifteen cents

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hotel and food. While in Culver, Montana, Item nine same

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as item two transportation by training. Playing back to Hartford

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item ten eighty eight dollars miscellaneous expense account total eight

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hundred and two dollars and fifty cents. Remarks we still

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had to pay double indemnity Maddy, Nickabacker, Pauline Henderson, Noah Baxter.

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They'll pay another way with the hurt that comes to

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nice people. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.

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Speaker 5: Remember there'll be another exciting story beginning next Monday Night.

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Speaker 6: Next week, A real mystery complete with plenty of action,

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a beautiful blonde and a killer lurking in the shadows.

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Join us, won't you? Yours truly? Johnny Dollar?

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Speaker 3: Yours truly?

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Speaker 5: Johnny Dollar is starring Bob Bailey, is transcribed in Hollywood,

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written by John Dawson. It is produced in direct by

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Jack Johnstone. Heard in this week's cast were Lillian baieff Irene, Tedrow,

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01:03:05,719 --> 01:03:09,840
d J. Thompson, Herbellus, Marvin Miller, Forres Lewis, Bob Bruce,

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and Russ Thorson musical supervision by Amigo Marino. Be sure

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to join us on Monday Night, same time and station,

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or another exciting story of yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. This

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is Roy Rowan.

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Speaker 1: Speaking Welcome Back Well. I found this to be a

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01:04:28,519 --> 01:04:32,599
really well done and engaging case that tells a different

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type of story that still manages to provide some great moments.

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I loved If as a character. He had a good

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01:04:40,920 --> 01:04:44,719
interplay with Johnny. He didn't know quite exactly what was

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01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:49,719
going on. It's one of those situations with a person

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who's in charge of law enforcement but is not really

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01:04:53,639 --> 01:04:58,880
a professional, but he had enough understanding and some common

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01:04:58,920 --> 01:05:02,639
sense to know that there was more that needed investigated.

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01:05:02,800 --> 01:05:06,559
And I also loved the interaction with Maddie. It was

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01:05:06,719 --> 01:05:10,840
just such a beautiful, understated, little character moment. With the

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John Dawson byline, we're dealing with a e. Jack Newman

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01:05:16,519 --> 01:05:20,159
script that was reworked. This was actually based on a

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01:05:20,239 --> 01:05:24,480
nineteen fifty three Johnny Dollar episode, The Underwood Matter, but

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01:05:24,639 --> 01:05:28,960
fleshed out nicely to make it a very compelling story

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01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:33,199
with a great mix of rich characters, a solid mystery,

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01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:37,840
and a solution that makes it all fit together. Overall,

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a really solid example of what Johnny Dollar was capable

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01:05:42,559 --> 01:05:47,559
of as a serial when it was firing on all cylinders. Well,

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now it's time to think. Our Patreon supporter of the day,

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I want to thank Roger, Patreon supporter since July twenty

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01:05:54,079 --> 01:05:58,840
twenty four, currently supporting the podcast at the Shawmus level

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01:05:58,840 --> 01:06:01,239
of four dollars more for a month. Thanks so much

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01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:04,360
for your support, Roger. And that will do it for today.

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If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your

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01:06:09,199 --> 01:06:13,400
favorite podcast software and be sure to rate and review

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01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:17,199
the podcast wherever you download it from. We'll be back

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01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:20,639
tomorrow with the Saint Where.

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Speaker 18: Oh it's you again? Yes, me again?

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01:06:24,440 --> 01:06:24,599
Speaker 2: Say?

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01:06:24,639 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 18: And I talking me back for an nswer And I

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01:06:26,559 --> 01:06:28,679
told you what the answer would be. The guy I

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01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:30,840
like this town. I'm going to stick around a few

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01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:34,039
more days and finish up my business here, like I said,

1271
01:06:34,079 --> 01:06:36,840
saying it ain't your business. And the boss is up

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01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:40,280
the price to five grand for you to skip five grand, Saint,

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01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:42,239
just to leave down and forgets you've ever been here.

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01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:44,840
That's not my price. The guy don't know what do

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01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:46,960
you want to make an offer? I want the man

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01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:51,719
who killed John Daniels Daniels Stracury Department. God, Yes, well,

1277
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:52,719
you got to do with him.

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01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 6: It is a friend of mine.

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01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:56,239
Speaker 18: I want the boy, or cut him down. The guy

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01:06:56,719 --> 01:07:00,320
that is one boy you ain't gonna get saint. Oh, oh,

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01:07:00,480 --> 01:07:03,599
the big shot did it himself. Big shot did it himself.

1282
01:07:03,639 --> 01:07:07,039
And then I'll settle for him. He's settling your grave. First,

1283
01:07:07,559 --> 01:07:09,159
you're gonna have to make an awful lot of first

1284
01:07:09,199 --> 01:07:12,320
down step across that goal line, miss fit template. Oh,

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01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:15,679
I've got some tick plays. I expect to use deception

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01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:19,920
against power. It sometimes works, My guy, I always said

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01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:22,599
you were a smart fans. I guess I heard wrong.

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01:07:23,079 --> 01:07:25,840
You think I'm solf tough enough. Well, just wait. You

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01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:27,719
see what you got to go through before you even

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01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:30,239
get within Hodcolling distance of the big shots.

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Speaker 1: Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime. Send

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01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:38,360
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