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today's episode of Richard Diamond. The rebroadcast date on this

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was August the sixteenth of nineteen fifty three, and it

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originally aired September twenty seventh of nineteen fifty and this

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one is the Hatpin murder case.

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Speaker 2: Bring Good Diamond, Private Detective starring Dick hall Mark. Me,

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you know where I might find mister Richard Diamond? Do

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you want to hire him? Yeah, we'll stop being sebastial friends,

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Come in, Come in, you're mister Diamond. Well, any resemblance

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to the Irish warsawoman is pretty intentional. You always do

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your own laundry.

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Speaker 3: Always keeps my petty cash from looking through petty sit down.

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Mister Baxter Clay.

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Speaker 2: Baxter promote Mouldy, Oklahoma, Clay backster from Oak Mulgy, Oklahoma

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with a man I guess to be in his early

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fifties straight up. He crowded six foot three, counting the

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two inch heels on his handmade boots. Looking at him,

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I thought of an old Remington Trent, and suddenly he

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felt like singing a course of home on the reins.

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I'd like you to come to Oak Moggy with me,

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mister Diamond, Hi, mister Baxter. My brother was killed yesterday.

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The sheriff of the corner said it was nax. Then

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I don't believe it.

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Speaker 3: How did you happen to look me up?

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Speaker 2: I raise cattle, mister Diamond. I do a great deal

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of beneics in Chicago and New York. I wanted a

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detective with experience, someone with a good reputation, bless you.

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I called a friend on Wall Street and he recommended

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several men. One of them was you. I checked your background.

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I'm satisfied.

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Speaker 3: Oh good. I charge one hundred a day in expensive

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chicken feed.

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Speaker 2: I'll pay it, and if you catch the man who

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done it, I'll give you one thousand dollars bonus.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I can't leave right away. It'll take me at least

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five minutes to get my affairs in order. Ah, I

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can certainly see you appreciate a book, mister Baxtill, I

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appreciate a book like a textan appreciates Texas, Texas, never

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heard of it. How was your brother supposed to have

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been killed? Thrown from his horse skull fracture?

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Speaker 3: And you don't believe it?

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Speaker 2: I do not fly to good to horsemen. It could

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have happened of a dad. He'd had taken the fall right,

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might have busted something, but wouldn't have killed him anything else.

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His wife, My brother was a wealthy man, mister Diamond.

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His wife will inherit everything, ranch, cattle, all worth about

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eight or ten minutes.

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Speaker 3: You think she had something to do with his death?

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Speaker 2: You tell me, mister Diamond. I called Helen Rippers off

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to Oak Mulgi, promised I'd send her a couple of

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navajoes or whatever they had out there. Then I took

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Clay Baxter over to my flat and threw a few

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things into a suitcase. Oklahoma's dry, so is Richard Diamond

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might get arrested. I don't want to leave it here.

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Wouldn't make any difference if it was empty. Word No,

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got a couple of glasses. The fifth usually adds up

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to a full evening, but that's only when Clay Baxter

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isn't around. When he poured one for the road, the

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water line receded six inches. I had a quick one

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and he finished it. Yeah, how that soldier?

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Speaker 3: How do you feel, oh Lively, why don't we forget

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the plane? You just started running for the window and

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I'll climb on.

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Speaker 2: Oak Mulgi, Oklahoma, population seventeen thousand, ninety one according to

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the last census. In very hot in August. Back to station.

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Speaker 3: Wagon was waiting at the airport, and the driver took

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us into.

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Speaker 2: Town, where I was introduced to the local law. Here,

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Sheriff Billings, are your cheff him? This mister Diamond? He's

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a private detective from New York? How did Diamond? How

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do they? Private detective who I've been called other things?

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Still ain't satisfied, eh, Clay, not yet. You ain't either,

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And you know it, Jim, how about it, Sheriff, you

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think mister Baxter's brother was killed deliberty?

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Speaker 3: Carna says it was an accident, hit his head on

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a rock.

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Speaker 2: That ain't what mister Diamond asked, Oh, Will Baxter was

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a pretty good ride up, but he could have been thrown.

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All the evidence says he was could see plane where

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his horse boulted. What could have made his horse shy?

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Speaker 3: Snake?

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Speaker 2: Maybe not that horse. And you know what, jim Oh,

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maybe stepped in a truck hole. He was limping right

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bad when he got back to the barn.

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Speaker 3: No signs of anyone else near the body.

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Speaker 2: When I got there, I'm of Will's boys had already

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ridden out. Who found him a couple old miners, Luke

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and Phineas Merriweather. Well, let's go out to the ranch,

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mister Baxter. Take another look at the spot where your

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brother died.

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Speaker 3: Will Baxter's ranch is forty miles from him.

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Speaker 2: Mister Diamond, maybe you'd like to go out to my

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place and freshen up a bit. First, you go ahead

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and shave and shower. I'm gonna go build me a drink.

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This is quite a place, mister Baxter. Glad you like it.

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Take us away from the pool if you'd want, but

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watch out for the catfish. Catfish. Like I'm a bachelor,

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don't use the pool much, and I don't usually have

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guests love catfish for dinner, so I keep from in

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the pool.

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Speaker 3: I caught a guy who once floating bodies in his bathtub.

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Speaker 2: Don't say funny, are we? I showered and shaved and

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met Baxter out by the pool where he was feeding

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his catfish.

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Speaker 3: I watched a pond of liver disappear, like leaching nuts

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in the.

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Speaker 2: Tongue war, and we all headed back to town, where

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we picked up Shriff Billings. Forty miles later, we pulled

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up in front of the late Will Baxter's ranch. A

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little different architecture, but just as impressive as my clients. Okay,

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afternoon's Oh well, well, well no, this here's mister Richard Diamond. Well,

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my Baxter, my brother's wife. How do you do?

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Speaker 4: How do you do, mister Diamond.

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Speaker 3: Private detective come up from New York?

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Speaker 4: Oh well, why don't we all go in the house.

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It's too hot out here.

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Speaker 2: Mister Diamond wants to go out and look at the

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spot where Will got himself killed.

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Speaker 4: Certainly, have one of the boys fixed you up with

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some horses. When you're done, why not stop back for dinner.

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Speaker 2: Mister Diamond's eating with me, and he's going to be

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pretty busy for a while. Now.

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Speaker 4: I give you a rain check.

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Speaker 3: Mister Diamonds, Oh thank you.

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Speaker 4: I'd like you to tell me about New York. It's

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been a long time, and I've almost forgotten what it's like.

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Speaker 2: Let's go gym. It's getting late by mister Diamonds.

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Speaker 4: Nice meeting.

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Speaker 3: Good Brimus is back there.

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Speaker 2: Seems all broken up, don't you? Yeah? Where was she

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and her husband got killed?

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Speaker 3: Privy Gallibi in town all day? A lot of people

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saw her.

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Speaker 2: Mighty, fine looking woman, mighty. We all rode down to

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the stables, and one of the hands saddled of three horses.

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Speaker 3: We started out across the open desert.

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Speaker 2: For a man who had spent all his life riding

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around in taxi cabs.

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Speaker 3: The experience was just short of agonizing. Just up ahead, Diamonds.

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Speaker 2: Well, never rode much, did you, No?

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Speaker 3: I always bounced like this. I'd like to make my

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money felt jingle. Hell here it is?

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Speaker 2: Whoa yeah, whoa?

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Speaker 3: Oh well he is where it found the body?

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Speaker 2: Oh h Where did he hit his head on that

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rock right there? Did you take an impression of the wound?

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Receive it matched?

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Speaker 3: Yep o? Why not? Never thought about it? Oh, that's

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a pretty good reason.

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Speaker 2: Anyway. Let's dig the rock out and take it back

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with us. I spent the next minutes lembing around looking

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for something and came up with nothing except the longing

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for the hot epsom sauce bath. We dug up the

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large rock and took it back with us to weld

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the Baxter's French. Oh oh oh, he sure had he Frank.

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This here is mister Diamond, Frank Diamond. This is Frank Kelly,

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the ranch foreman. Howdy detective fella huh and his backer

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told me about you said you're doing some investigating, Yes, sir,

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scientific investigation the way the city boys do it.

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Speaker 3: What you're going to do with that raw in the hopscotch?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: On second thought, I think we'll take turns on telling

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the knots in my back.

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Speaker 2: Good warm shower. He'll fit as a fiddle. I got

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a good start. I'm shaped like one. You'll find it

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a little bit rough out here, don oh, I'll get

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used to it, mister Kelly.

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Speaker 3: I hope you're right. Ain't much like the big city. Uh?

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Just what is the big city like, mister Kelly. I

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ain't never been there.

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Speaker 2: Just what I've noticed, looks like a man can get

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pretty living in the city. I'd like to show you

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where I was brought up sometime, mister Kelly, We never

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got around to playing cowboy though. We were too busy

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kicking each other's teeth out. See you later, mister Baxter,

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I don't care. I don't think Frank likes you. Diamond.

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Speaker 3: What about well Baxter's horse.

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Speaker 2: I take a look at him right over there in

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that stall, really pulled up lane. A good horse, never

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figured to shy at anything. Man, Look at that his

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hip swollen? He really twisted something steady.

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Speaker 3: Hey, that looks like an infection. Yeah, it's a funny thing,

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it kind of does.

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Speaker 2: Where are you getting at, mister Diamond. Oh I'm not

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getting into thing, mister Baxter. I just said it looked

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like an infection. Yeah, we're better. Tell missus Baxter of Frank,

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and someone take care of it. Tell me, boys, if

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you jabbed a horse for something, would that make him bolt?

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Come on, I want to get back to town and

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talk of the coroner. I'm look here, Jimmy, my word

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good enough?

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Speaker 5: Why?

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Speaker 3: Sure it is corner.

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Speaker 2: But Clay hired mister Diamond to do some investigating, and

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he's doing it. Clay, tell you your brother died from

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natural calls. I don't think, but if you insist, I'll

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show this detective fellow the body. I want the head

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wound mats of this rocket, okay, but the march here,

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he ain't gonna like it.

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Speaker 3: They got him all ready to bury.

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Speaker 2: The corner led me across the street and then to

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a funeral parlor, where I took a look at the

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late well backstair. Six years of the fifth percent homicide

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and a couple of dozen killings should have conditioned me.

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But like always, the first look shakes something loose in

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the middle of my stomach. I have to keep swallowing.

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Hide looks right, natural, don'ty clay? Yeah, they do a

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good job here, and bully for them. And he hit

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his head right. Here's a concussion, plain and simple. No

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other marks or Bruce's no will. The coroner rolled the

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late Will Baxter and of the back rooms and made

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a comparison with the head wound and the rock we'd

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brought him the ranch. We went out on the front

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porch for some air. I lit a cigarette and thought

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about an old case I'd worked on five or six

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years before.

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Speaker 3: You got a cigarette.

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Speaker 2: Sure do figure, all right, m Anything head wound doesn't

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match the rock, Sure doesn't. Wound is too deep, rocks

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round flant nothing sticking up to go that deep, and

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I want an autopsy. Why fractice still killed him?

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Speaker 3: I doubt it.

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Speaker 2: When someone plans a murder, they don't count on one

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blow to do the trick. Bet there's nothing else that

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could have done it.

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Speaker 3: Nothing you can see.

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Speaker 2: I've met someone here in Oakamulogy that I'm pretty sure

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is wanted for another killing very similar to this.

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Speaker 3: Now, Doc, go make that autopsy and fast.

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Speaker 2: I think maybe you've found something. Diamond. You think Will

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was killed liberately, But we'll have to wait for the autopsy.

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In the meantime, I like to go out and visit

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those two old timers, un Phineus.

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Speaker 3: That's right, Seruff, Well my dangerous come on, I'll take

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you out.

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Speaker 2: You better wait here for the report. Mister Baxter, are

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going out all right? You can use my horses so

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you won't have to go all the way back to

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ranch horses with the Merriweathers on the other side of town.

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Not about ten miles, no roads, oh horses ten miles?

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I mean, never played kick the can again? Oh you

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really don't take the horses? Do your diamond? Maybe if

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you could find me a nice long, thin one holy ike,

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whoa ho, stay, that's one of the Merryweathers.

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Speaker 3: Let's get out of here. Come on, horse, now, come on,

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I'm yellow and I admitted.

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Speaker 2: It's okay, Diamond. That's just the boy's way of letting,

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you know, not come any farther unless they say so.

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Speaker 3: Swelled gratings. What happens?

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Speaker 2: Now? Hey up there, loo.

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Speaker 3: Are you are?

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Speaker 2: It's clay Boxer. I got a friend here once talk

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to here? Tie yeah up?

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Speaker 3: Hey, back at him? Fred, who wants to plabor?

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Speaker 2: I don't feel like clabor. Better shoot giddy after just

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take it easy, take it.

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Speaker 3: They always act like this.

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Speaker 2: And you don't want it.

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Speaker 3: Bab, I gotta shoot you jump fromoose. It's important by

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my brother.

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Speaker 2: Tie yeahop spout his brother.

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Speaker 3: Get taken me pound to other day? Oh all right,

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I guess.

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Speaker 2: That's one of them. Timber packed yello. Can't your pen on?

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And up I went, leaving my better judgment, running off

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across the desert. I climbed a small hill and found

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myself standing at the entrance of an old mine shaft.

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Little continuous and Merriweather stood on either side, shotguns ready

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pointed right in my chest. Start talking, well, gentlemen, my

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name is diamond, don't paint.

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Speaker 3: Nor import to names.

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Speaker 5: Sure do you want?

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Speaker 2: I just wanted to ask some questions about the man

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you found the other day. You're polishman, well kind of

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shoot him? Oh now now now, wait a minute. I'm

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not a real policeman, then what are you? I'm a

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I'm a private detective. Yeah, what's the matter. It's an

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honest profession. Fella's got to make a living.

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Speaker 4: You are real live, private detecative.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm a private detective. For the real live part,

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I'm depending on where my goodness, gracious, try me have

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some viddles. Huh why mister? Me and Finney read all

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them stories about you fellas. We filled up one whole

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tunnel with old detecative magazines. You fellas really are suky.

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Great a minute, what's wrong? Let's your badge?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, sure?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 6: Hey, oh yes, well loud but dum come on in, friend,

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come on, and I'd like to ask you some questions

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about this here, Dick, Tracy Philip.

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Speaker 2: Well, one minute I'd faced two shotguns, the next I

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was turned into an added guest. I had coffee and

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biscuits with Luke and Phineas, and I answered enough questions

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about the private detective business to fill a.

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Speaker 3: Diamon novel of my own.

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Speaker 2: I squeezed in enough questions to find out that the

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boys hadn't seen or found anything unusual when they discovered

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Well Baxter's body. Four cups of coffee and a dozen

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biscuits later, I bid the Merriweathers a fan farewell and

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returned to Clay baxxter. They love you, oh, worship me

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starting a rich a diamond fans club. Or did you

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find out anything? No, give me your hand, I'll be

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up on your horse.

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Speaker 3: Couldn't I just walk back? Come on a horse whole

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still steady boy?

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Speaker 2: Clay Baxter sitting in the saddle and leaned down, grabbed

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my hand to help me up on my horse.

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Speaker 3: And that was when he got it. His horse took out,

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with the wounded man still up and hanging on. Ivoted

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my horse in the ribs.

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Speaker 2: Oh.

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Speaker 3: I took off after Baxter like citation on a good day.

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Speaker 2: I closed my eyes, prayed a little, and tried to

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remember every jockey I'd ever seen before. Suddenly I looked

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up and spotted Baxter's horse dead ahead, standing still and

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right my path. Whoa woo oh, I guess it's just

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my time. If I don't die from this bullet I

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got in there, I'm gonna do it from laughing. How

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is he? Doctor?

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Speaker 3: Bullian?

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Speaker 2: Me? All right?

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Speaker 3: Connor boom in breaking and you for MITCHR. Diamond crippled?

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Any idea who shot Clay? No?

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Speaker 2: Clay said he thought it might have been the merry

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with her boy. Ah, I know it couldn't have been.

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Why not the mayor were the boys who shotguns, not rifles?

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What about that autopsy?

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Speaker 3: Doc?

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Speaker 2: Well, come on, what about it?

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Speaker 4: You is right?

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Speaker 3: Will Baster didn't die from a skull factory?

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Speaker 2: Oh what was it?

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Speaker 3: You don't know what was used? For sure, long thin instrument?

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Whoever did it?

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Speaker 2: Pulled the lower eyelid down, killed Will Baxer, but dab

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him something through the eye into his brain, probably hit

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him over the head to knock him off the horse,

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and then got down and made sure and.

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Speaker 3: Then jabbed his horse in the flank. Did I get them?

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Speaker 2: Bald?

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Speaker 3: Shy way of killing me? That's been done before.

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Speaker 2: Not a man's way of killing Wilma Baxter was in

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town all day when Clay comes around, telling him I

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borrowed the station wagon going out to see Wilma going

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out to a ranch. I want to take another look

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at will Baxter's lame horse, and Doc, I want to

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borrow a pair of surgical probes. I climbed into the

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station wagon close to an hour later, full up on

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the side of the road. The gate to the ranch

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house was another one hundred yards up ahead, so I

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piled out, climbed the tall white fence, and slipped into

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the barn. Steady, fella, Steady, steady. The horse's left flank

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were still swollen, very close to serious infection. I ran

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my hand over the spot, Steady boy, there was something

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still stuck in the flesh. So I used the surgical

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probes and prayed the horse wouldn't kicked my brains out.

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Speaker 7: Oh, oh, steady boy, steady, Sorry fella, I didn't know

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you were a bet, mister Damon.

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Speaker 3: Huh, oh, good evening, missus.

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Speaker 4: Baxtain part of the country. You can get shot for

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horse stealing.

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Speaker 2: Or not stealing.

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Speaker 3: Just taking this out of your horse's flank.

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 3: That's a piece of a long needle. It might be

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a hatpin or something.

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Speaker 4: I think you'd better tell me what this is all about.

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Speaker 3: Oh, certainly your uh your husband was murdered. That's impossible

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shoot yourself.

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Speaker 2: But he was. Somebody hit him over the head and

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knocked him from his horse, jabbed this needle into his eye,

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then jabbed it into the horse's flank so the horse

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would pull up. Lame looked like it shied. The killer

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tried to shoot me this evening, but he missed it

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and got Clay Baxter instead.

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Speaker 4: Who do you think did this?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: The method doesn't fit a man a woman. Then, well

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the blow on the back of the head rules out

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a woman too much force. What have you got left?

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What I started with? A man and a woman.

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Speaker 4: Very interesting theory.

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Speaker 3: You're from New York, aren't you. I've been there, I thought,

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so all your face is familiar.

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Speaker 4: I haven't been in New York and at least ten years,

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mister Diamond.

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Speaker 3: Oh funny. Well, I've got to go out to the Merriweathers.

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Speaker 4: Those two miners who found my husband.

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Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, they saw the murderer. What yeah, that's why

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I know how it was done. I was out there earlier,

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and I've got to go back. After a soren statement.

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Speaker 4: Why didn't they speak up before this?

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Speaker 3: Afraid said there was none of the business. See lay

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the missus Baxter. He another biscuit inspected.

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Speaker 2: No thanks, fellas tens plenty, you are so we're we're

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back to re murdered her. That's right, And missus Baxter

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thinks you two saw who did the killing. Gonna lay

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a trap, yes, Luke, gonna lay it trap. Now. Look.

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I remembered missus Baxter from someplace the first time I

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saw her. Then, when I found out how the murder

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was committed, I recalled a case very similar back in

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New York. Man was hit over the head, pushed down

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the flight of stairs, and his brain pierced by a

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hat pin.

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Speaker 3: A man actually did it, but a woman planned it.

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The man was caught, but a woman disappeared. Why they

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do it?

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Speaker 2: The victim was in short, They wanted to make it

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look like an accident. Come on, we better spread out.

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We should have comp me pretty soon. The two old

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timers took off the coats and gave me some beat

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up pants, which I stuffed with pillows and blankets.

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Speaker 3: In five minutes flat, I had two dummies sitting with

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me at the little table. I think they're fault pretty

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you can't tell, but you two go.

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Speaker 2: On outside and wait until somebody comes in. I just

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want him to try for one of the dummies.

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Speaker 3: Well, Roger, if he tries.

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Speaker 2: For you, kill joy. Luke and Phineas took their place

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outside the mine and I smoked a dozen cigarettes, and

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then I heard someone coming.

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Speaker 3: In, moving quietly up the tunnel toward the light.

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Speaker 2: I played it big. Well that's fine, Phineas said, now

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if you'll just signed this statement. I rolled in the

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dummy that represented Phineas Merriwell double over from the force

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of the slug. He shot again, and Luke's dummy toppled.

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I kicked the lamp out before he got around to

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yours truly go down.

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Speaker 3: And won the gold diamond. I'm probably got a big

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surprise for you, friend. I worried you should be. There

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wasn't even close A lousy shot. Yeah, you missed earlier

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this evening and got Clay Baxter instead. I'll make up

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for it.

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Speaker 2: You you haven't Frank Duffy him.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, don't you wait a minute.

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Speaker 2: Well, I get the lights. Eh, Hey, it's that Kelly Prowler. Yeah,

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you're getting a way out of line for a ranch

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for him, and Kelly.

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Speaker 3: Give it to him.

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Speaker 2: Mister Diamond, who had you killed Will Baxter? You know, Kelly,

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you said something today about getting soft in the city.

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Wonder just how soft I've got. Maybe you'd like to

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find that turny Lewis boys.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'll go to it, mister Diamond.

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Speaker 2: I don't like getting shot at it. It makes me

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real unhappy when anyone runs around killing people.

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Speaker 5: Now, Kelly, why'd you kill Will Baxter?

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Speaker 2: Wilma Baxter?

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Speaker 3: Talk me and do it? Promised me to share a

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run and for that who killed the man? Uh? It's

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a big ray.

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Speaker 2: I'll get up. Sure. Hate to see you leave, mister Damon.

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Speaker 3: I hate to go with our bars, love them biscuits.

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Maybe we'll get up and see you in New York

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some times. Hey, Kelly is coming to does like being

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tied to his horse like that?

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Speaker 2: I guess.

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Speaker 3: Here, Luke, they le us come and to hit him

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with something.

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Speaker 8: Sure, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, has come to you through

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the worldwide facilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio

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and Television Service.

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Speaker 2: This is Andrew J.

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Speaker 7: Graham, author of the web surface series Oh and a

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Man of His Wife.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to the great detectives of Old time radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, I enjoyed this just as much as

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I did the first time we played it on the podcast. Uh,

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it's a really good story. It's unusual and is a

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nice change of pace for Diamond and has some funny

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bits and a decent enough mystery. I do remember being

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puzzled by this the first time I heard it because

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it had an air date in nineteen fifty three, but

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it featured Martin Yarborough who died in nineteen fifty one.

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But of course, understanding that it was a rebroadcast, that

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issue is resolved. Arthur Q Brian appears as the local

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police before he took over as Lieutenant Levinson just before.

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In fact, all right, well, listener comments and feedback. Now,

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Joel rites in, I noticed Diamond's girlfriend is absent from

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these I either rebroadcast I miss her. Well, she is

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in and out of them. The episode last week featured her.

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But it is kind of I think one of those

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things that happened after that first season of Richard Dimond,

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the sustained season, those first fifty two episodes where I

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think the series was pretty close to perfect. You had Dimond,

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Bean Diamond, you had Sergeant Otis, you had the great

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interplay between Diamond and Lieutenant Levinson played by Ed Bagley,

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and you had the singing, the great music, and essentially

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after the first season they dropped a lot of those

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from subsequent episodes, and it was hard, I think, to

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find any episode after that first season that really had

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it all together. And I think that first season there

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was just so much and really great that's going to

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stand out. I don't think Richard Diamond ever got bad,

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but generally you'd only have two or maybe three elements

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of what made the series, you know, great in its

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first year to start with. So thanks so much for

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the comment, Joel. Finally, we have a comment regarding episode

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twenty four to seventy one. The Kidnapp policeman Norman says

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this was also a Peter Gun episode. Thanks Blake, of course,

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referencing Blake Edwards, who was creative force behind both programs.

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And yeah, this is just one of many cases where

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someone creates something on the radio and then just repackages

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it for television, which helped meet the big demands for

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writing when you had up to thirty nine episodes a

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year you had to produce. Now those were mostly half

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hour programs those cases, but it was still a challenge.

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So if you had a radio script you could whip

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out and modify, that was a big advantage that you

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would take take advantage of as a creator, because you'd

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be able to take an existing script, fix it up,

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and save time and not have to pay anybody to

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write a new script. So thanks so much, nice catch

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all Right, that will do it for today. Join us

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back here tomorrow for Boston Blackie, and then next Wednesday

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our final episode of Richard Diamond. In the meantime, send

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your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net,

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