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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 your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment,

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Speaker 1: email it to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net.

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Speaker 1: podcast software. And this is our four thousand, four hundred

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Speaker 1: and fiftieth episode special. And I hadn't had anything specifically planned,

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Speaker 1: and we had done quite a few episodes of suspense recently,

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Speaker 1: as well as screen Yield Theater and related programs as

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Speaker 1: well of course the Locks Radio Theater. And then I

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Speaker 1: realized it's been a pretty long time since we brought

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Speaker 1: to an episode of The Mullay Mystery Theater. And I checked,

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Speaker 1: and it has been nearly five years and more than

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Speaker 1: fifteen hundred episodes since we last visited this series. Now,

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Speaker 1: of course, the entirety of the Mullay Mystery Theater run

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Speaker 1: is not in circulation, which obviously presents a challenge, and

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Speaker 1: further not every episode of that series is really a

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Speaker 1: detective program that we can use for this podcast. But regardless,

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Speaker 1: we are massively overdue for another trip to the Molay

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Speaker 1: Mystery Theater.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: For those of you who are not listening in August

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Speaker 1: of twenty nineteen who have never heard of the series,

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Speaker 1: The Moulay Mystery Theater was an anthology series broadcast over

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Speaker 1: NBC and originating from New York. It ran from nineteen

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Speaker 1: forty three to nineteen forty eight and featured various mystery stories,

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Speaker 1: some based on short stories and others original to radio.

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Speaker 1: Today's episode is from January seventeenth, nineteen forty seven, and

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Speaker 1: the title is Corpus Delacti.

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Speaker 3: Hello, greeps.

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Speaker 4: Mystery Playoffs invite you to visit the Mystery Theater. Plase

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Speaker 4: Corpus delecti.

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Speaker 5: H you can do it now.

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Speaker 6: You're can have half an hour. I have powers, alright,

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Speaker 6: The warden says, that's the best he can do, even

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Speaker 6: for you, Lieutenant Hunners.

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Speaker 3: All right, I'll be back.

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Speaker 6: You can call me if you want to leave before the.

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Speaker 2: Jim, Jim, Jim, for.

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Speaker 7: The love of God, all right, Jim, Jim boy, you've

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Speaker 6: You can tell me. There's nothing to tell. You can

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Speaker 6: tell your own brother, don't you see? This is my business. Jim.

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Speaker 6: I'm not a police detective for nothing.

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Speaker 8: I could help, but.

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Speaker 2: It's too late, Mike.

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Speaker 9: In two days it'll be all over.

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Speaker 6: They say, they give you a shot of something before

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Speaker 6: even though it's going on.

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Speaker 5: But you didn't do it.

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Speaker 6: I know you didn't. You're taking a wrap for that

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Speaker 6: cheap line. I'm all right, sorry. You can't talk about

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Speaker 9: If you if you knew her.

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Speaker 2: How sweet she is?

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Speaker 6: Jim, I know you didn't kill her husband. I don't

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Speaker 8: Why don't you tell me?

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Speaker 2: Jim?

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Speaker 6: What can I say to mother? I've got to tell

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Speaker 6: her something. She's waiting at home now. If I tell you,

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Speaker 6: we have promised me something, anything. Jim, promise me you

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Speaker 6: I'm until after the day after tomorrow. I promise Jim,

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Speaker 6: what happened that night? I love nearly more than anything

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Speaker 8: She loves me.

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Speaker 6: You you knew her husband, Martin Stephen's a wealthy Wall

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Speaker 10: Will she told me she asked.

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Speaker 6: Him for a divorce, but he wouldn't give it to her.

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Speaker 6: She was terribly unhappy. Then this night she called and well,

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Speaker 8: The matter.

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Speaker 6: I rushed out and cat could imagine what had happened.

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Speaker 10: When I got there, Mary met me at the door.

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Speaker 10: M Martin, he said, Jim, look Martin.

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Speaker 6: Her husband was lying on the floor. His head was

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Speaker 10: I didn't need to kill je. We quarreled again, and

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Speaker 6: Marry Mary, your faith, said's all bruised.

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Speaker 10: He keeps hitting me. Then I grabbed the candlelabre. I

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Speaker 9: Jim, I didn't want to do it.

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Speaker 6: Mary, Honey, you've only done what everyone has a right

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Speaker 10: But everyone will say I did it because of us.

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Speaker 10: They'll put me in prison.

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Speaker 3: I won't let him.

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Speaker 11: Well, we'll run away.

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Speaker 10: This would only make it worse.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yes, so, but we'll have to do something Jim.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Jim, if there weren't anybody, what do you mean,

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Speaker 9: if there's no corpus DELICTI, they can't find anybody guilty himy.

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Speaker 6: That's it. They won't even be sure there's been a murder.

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Speaker 6: Oh that said, we've got to get rid of Martin's body.

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Speaker 6: To get Martin's body out of the house, so we

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Speaker 2: Into it and mocked the chest.

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Speaker 6: I was in an awful days, but luckily Mary seemed

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Speaker 2: Keep her head.

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Speaker 12: I'll help you get the trunk in the car gym,

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Speaker 12: and you drive right out of our summer place of

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Speaker 12: Long Island. It isn't so there, I know, all right,

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Speaker 2: And what do we do?

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Speaker 10: I don't know. I can't demandine who.

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Speaker 2: Maybe they'll go away, Jim.

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Speaker 10: It must be my dressmaker. She was supposed to stop

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Speaker 10: I'll get rid of her. Shut the doors to the

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Speaker 10: living room before you open the front door, gym, right, yes,

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Speaker 10: is missus Stephens home please. She expects me for a city.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry she isn't home.

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Speaker 10: Missus Stephens told me particularly to come just now if

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Speaker 6: Well, she went out earlier unexpectedly. She'll call you when

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Speaker 9: Well, thank you, good night, good night.

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Speaker 6: I got rid of her all right, man, I said

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Speaker 10: Better get movie now.

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Speaker 6: No, Mary, I'll go along. You'd better establish an alibi.

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Speaker 6: What do you mean, darling, Well, why don't you go

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Speaker 6: you to all right, darling, if you say so. Everything

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Speaker 6: worked like clockwork. Mary went to the movies, and I

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Speaker 6: drove out to the Long Island place. The place was deserted.

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Speaker 6: I drove to the boat house, got the cedar chest

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Speaker 6: a motorcycle policeman. It's your car. I, oh no, it

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Speaker 3: How come we got to call or pick up this car.

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Speaker 3: It's been reported stolen. It's my duty to warn you

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Speaker 6: But I tell you I am a friend of the

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Speaker 6: I've done so many times.

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Speaker 3: All I know is that the chauffeur returned here, found

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Speaker 6: The shelfer, but I'm sure when missus Stevens were times

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Speaker 3: Perhaps you can explain those bloodstains on the rug in

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Speaker 3: candelabra columns resting you want suspicion, Yeah, every reason to

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Speaker 6: You know the rest, Mike. They were my fingerprints on

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Speaker 6: the candelabra. I picked it up when I first got there.

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Speaker 6: So you confess to shield that double dealing. No good woman.

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Speaker 6: Didn't even defend yourself in court. Now she's letting you

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Speaker 6: good to drag her into it. Mike. I'd go to

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Speaker 6: the chair in any case. And remember, Mike, I'll deny

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Speaker 6: everything I told you, remember that.

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Speaker 8: I know, Jim, how could you fall for that?

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Speaker 6: Corpus delect my stuff? Jim, don't you know what corpus

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Speaker 6: DELECTI means. Don't you know? It has nothing to do

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Speaker 6: the evidence is against you. And it was all right,

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Speaker 6: even to the dressmaker saying I was the only person.

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Speaker 2: There that night.

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Speaker 6: Oh, nobody would believe the truth. Now perhaps they wouldn't

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Speaker 6: if we had the truth. What but I told you

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Speaker 6: the truth, all of it.

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Speaker 8: I'm going to get to the root of all of this, Jim.

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Speaker 6: But why didn't you tell me sooner? Don't you see?

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Speaker 6: You've only left me forty eight hours? Forty eight hours?

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Speaker 7: So that's the story, Missus Stevens.

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Speaker 8: Jim has told me everything. Now what are you going

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Speaker 10: I don't know what Jim told you. All I know

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Speaker 10: is that I spent the evening at the movie. When

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Speaker 10: I came home, the police.

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Speaker 8: Who there with Jim.

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Speaker 6: Look, there's only one person who stands to proper from

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Speaker 6: a little bit about your husband's financial affairs. I know

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Speaker 6: he was positively bankrupt, and I know his one asset

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Speaker 6: with one hundred thousand dollars insurance policy.

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Speaker 10: My husband left me well provided for you. And just

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Speaker 10: what does that prove?

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Speaker 6: Prove nothing, I guess. By the way, where's that chauffeur

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Speaker 6: of yours, one who reported the car stolen?

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Speaker 10: He's no longer with me? Give notice and left?

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Speaker 8: Where did he go?

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Speaker 4: Didn't he leave a forwarding address? No he didn't, just disappeared?

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Speaker 6: Huh? I see, well, I'll be going.

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Speaker 10: Oh just a minute, I've got some letters of Gym's upstairs.

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Speaker 10: I found them when I was going through my things

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Speaker 10: in packing.

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Speaker 6: I'll return them packing.

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Speaker 8: You're a leaving town, Yes.

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Speaker 10: I'm going to my father's in Chicago. Shall I get

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Speaker 10: the letters?

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Speaker 8: Go ahead?

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Speaker 6: Thirty eight hours, Jim, Jim, thirty eight hours.

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Speaker 8: Hello, this is International Airway. Just missus Stevens there just

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Speaker 8: the moment. Could I take the message?

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Speaker 2: Please?

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Speaker 8: Certainly on her reservation to mont in Mexico.

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Speaker 6: We have a seat for her on the six thirty

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Speaker 6: flight tomorrow morning, Monteray, Monterrey.

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Speaker 8: You must be mistaken.

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Speaker 6: You mean Chicago. Oh no, sir, there's no mistake. Monterey, Mexico.

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Speaker 13: Where did she lie the phone?

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Speaker 6: I thought I heard something, uh something about a reservation.

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Speaker 8: I said you'd call back.

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Speaker 10: Oh, I guess it was my reservation to Chicago. Well, Mike,

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Speaker 6: That shows a great sense of delicacy. Mary, goodbye, Mike.

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Speaker 9: I dare say we won't be meeting again.

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Speaker 6: I dare say, there, you can't tell.

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Speaker 8: That's a small world. Hello, mother, this is Mike. Mother.

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Speaker 6: Listen, I'm playing to Mondy this evening. I haven't time

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Speaker 8: I don't know why I'm going or what I'll find.

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Speaker 6: I'm just playing a hunch because there's nothing else to do.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Mother and mother, say a little prayer?

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Speaker 8: Will you.

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Speaker 13: Like?

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Speaker 11: Thirty one hours more?

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Speaker 9: Chi?

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Speaker 6: Thirty one hours more?

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Speaker 8: Maybe this is the wild Goosey Chase.

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Speaker 14: Anyway, it's only a full sleep, maybe.

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Speaker 6: Hours more. Now look here, are you sure that this?

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Speaker 14: Senor?

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Speaker 10: Yes, it is so.

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Speaker 6: I have explained to this in your before The second

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Speaker 8: Thanks?

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Speaker 14: Ah, now I have guessed.

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Speaker 6: Listen, you're just waiting for the lady. No, a lady

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Speaker 12: You know.

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Speaker 10: Look there comes a lady.

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Speaker 14: Now she appears to be going to the taxi cabs.

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Speaker 3: Is that the lady?

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Speaker 6: Yes, yes, that's the lady. Thank you, my friend, cab,

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Speaker 6: Hey that cabby. Follow that cab. Ahead, follow that cab

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Speaker 6: and don't lose it. I'm not gonna watch your wives

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Speaker 8: Four hours more.

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Speaker 6: Even if she leads me where I want to go,

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Speaker 8: There's a chance, still, just a slim chance.

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Speaker 2: So Jim, Jim, you didn't know it?

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Speaker 14: If only she leads me to the guy who dipped him. Right,

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Speaker 14: But what's the matter?

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Speaker 2: Five?

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Speaker 6: What can we get through this crowd? Oh?

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Speaker 14: This then you're report so ninety oh to night?

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Speaker 3: Then good?

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Speaker 6: Please looking for us. But I told you what your driver,

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Speaker 6: I'll get out. You got to find that on a.

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Speaker 14: Calful message, and you are.

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Speaker 12: I know where the under cap go.

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Speaker 14: You know where the driver for days?

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Speaker 2: He got the hotel.

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Speaker 6: That's the aches. Good. How's long can you get me there?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Baby or baby to wait? Yes, that's over, yes, an

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Speaker 14: What's then yours?

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Speaker 13: Yes?

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Speaker 14: It comes once a year.

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Speaker 11: Guy is all alone said yes, oh no, thanks, you

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Speaker 11: sorry you look which way is the Hotel Ciance?

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Speaker 6: I mean, don't the Star Elf Hotel Delphia?

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Speaker 2: It's just me?

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Speaker 6: Is this the hotel Ciance signor? What time is it?

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Speaker 13: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Some ds in Majia I moves ten thory Signor the.

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Speaker 6: American lady who came in less than an hour ago?

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Speaker 8: What room did you go to her?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: No, American ladies were just talking you sire.

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Speaker 6: You came in here.

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Speaker 8: She must have.

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Speaker 2: Here.

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Speaker 3: This is for you, oh grassy senor.

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Speaker 2: Look she is my wife.

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Speaker 3: I think she deceives me.

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Speaker 6: Do you understand?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 14: What of course?

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Speaker 3: In your.

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Speaker 8: Four hundred and two he's a man.

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Speaker 6: There, a man.

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Speaker 7: Now we're getting somewhere.

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Speaker 6: I'm coming in Mary.

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Speaker 8: No, don't try that. This gun is loaded, and I

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Speaker 6: There's someone I expect to meet here, the man who

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Speaker 6: corpus DELICTI, mister Martin, Stephens.

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Speaker 14: Up and sit down, both of you.

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Speaker 6: Almost eleven o'clock and exactly one hour. My brother Jim

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Speaker 6: I'm looking at this minute. You have no right going

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Speaker 8: You can thank you lucky stars.

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Speaker 10: I found you in time because.

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Speaker 14: I helped me.

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Speaker 8: I the phone.

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Speaker 3: What's bone?

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Speaker 6: Operator? Operator, get me Albany, New York, the Governor's mansion. Quick.

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Speaker 6: It's a matter of life and death. Please operator.

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Speaker 8: But it isn't in an hour New York.

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Speaker 6: It's exactly one hour later. It's eight minutes to eleven

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Speaker 6: Monterey time, but in York time it's eight minutes to twelve.

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Speaker 2: It's going to die in eight minutes.

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Speaker 6: Operator, Please hurry. He's going to die. Don't you understand

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Speaker 6: he's going to die?

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Speaker 1: Davis, Please put this call through to Albany, New York.

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Speaker 6: Albany, New York.

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Speaker 8: They will.

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Speaker 2: Hello.

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Speaker 6: Operator, please hurry, Please sit quiet, you too, if you

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Speaker 6: know how to pray? You'd better begin.

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Speaker 14: You better pray this call gets through.

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Speaker 6: If it doesn't, you're not going to leave this room alive,

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Speaker 6: either of you.

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Speaker 12: Chicuggle, this is down to Texas, New York.

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Speaker 6: Pease hurry, operator, please hurry.

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Speaker 10: Sorry, all the circuits to New York are busy.

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Speaker 6: That will be a delay of about twenty minutes. Twenty minutes,

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Speaker 6: but there isn't twenty minutes.

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Speaker 2: Operator.

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Speaker 6: It's going to die.

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Speaker 10: Check Chicago. See if you can get me Buffalo. Give

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Speaker 14: You thought you could get away with this, but you'll

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Speaker 14: walk in.

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Speaker 8: That's pony murder.

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Speaker 1: Buffo, New York.

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Speaker 12: Buff Give me Albany please, sorry, I have no free

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Speaker 12: circle to Albany or Rochester.

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Speaker 6: Please here, he operated, hurry, please hurry, Rochester, New York.

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Speaker 4: Give me Albany Creek, Albany, New.

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Speaker 6: York, Albany, the Governor's mansion, and please hurry.

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Speaker 5: I'll ring it, Sarah, just a moment as your answer.

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Speaker 6: Don't you realize I'm going to die?

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Speaker 3: Answer, Executive mansion.

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Speaker 6: Let me speak to the governor.

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Speaker 1: The governor is retired. This is the Governor's secretary speaking.

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Speaker 6: Well, listen very carefully. A man's life depends on it.

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Speaker 6: This is Lieutenant Mike Connors at the New York Police Force,

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Speaker 6: calling from Monterey, Mexico. In less than five minutes, my

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Speaker 6: It sing sing for the murder of a man who

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Speaker 6: But Heaven's sake, man, investigate later. You can check on

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Speaker 6: me at headquarters in New York. Only stop the execution,

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Speaker 6: if only for an hour while you're do investigating. Don't

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Speaker 6: you understand there isn't time for anything. Now, wait, the governor,

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Speaker 6: don't you understand an innocent man it's going to die.

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Speaker 6: Believe me, believe me.

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Speaker 5: I'll do what I.

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Speaker 6: I'll call you back.

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Speaker 10: I'll stand by to the colt and ring you at once.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 13: I don't think he believed me.

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Speaker 6: He didn't believe me. You'll find out, only it'll be

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Speaker 6: too late. So another execution is going to take place

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Speaker 6: tonight right here, for murder.

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Speaker 3: You don did what anything like that?

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Speaker 8: I know now just what you did?

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Speaker 6: You Stevens, lie down, you smear yourself in the candle

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Speaker 6: opera with some of your own blood, so it looks

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Speaker 6: all right even in the chemical analysis. You marry send

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Speaker 6: for Jim and dump Stephen's living body in the cedar chest.

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Speaker 6: Then when Jim answers the door, Stephen steps out and

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Speaker 6: tosses in some weight.

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Speaker 2: So oh, it's simple.

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Speaker 6: I tell you, almost midnight, almost time, almost time, Mike, please,

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Speaker 6: and Stephens beats it for Mexico. You'll collect the insurance

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Speaker 6: and come here to meet him. You'll remember never you

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Speaker 6: had the dressmaker come to find Jim there and told

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Speaker 6: You'll mm hmmm pull the switch suit. Wait a few

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Speaker 8: R eight seven six five four three two. Well it's midnight.

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Speaker 6: Jim's dead. You'll kill them, you two.

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Speaker 8: I promised you you'd never look.

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Speaker 14: You'll kill Now that your turn to die.

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Speaker 6: God brother the style, And now it's for you, missus Martin.

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Speaker 6: Don't please don't kill me. Mike. I'm executing you for murder.

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Speaker 14: No no, no, Hello Hello, hello, Hello, Mike, it's me.

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Speaker 14: I'm in the warden's office. Hello Mike, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jem.

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Speaker 4: I alight, Jim, it's past closing time on the mystery play.

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Speaker 14: Also good Night.

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Speaker 2: Sleep Time, Welcome Back.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure our hero in this episode was played

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Speaker 1: by Ken Lynch aka Sergeant Corbett from the Adventures of

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Speaker 1: the Falcon I went and re listened to another Mullay

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Speaker 1: program where he was featured and they did credit him,

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Speaker 1: and it's the same voice as we heard in this episode.

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Speaker 1: It's not quite as thick or pronounced as the Sergeant

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Speaker 1: whole idea of the meaning of corpus delecti is something

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Speaker 1: that gets used in Golden Age entertainment quite a bit,

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Speaker 1: and actually our hero gets it a bit wrong. Corpus

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Speaker 1: delecti doesn't mean body of the evidence, but as I

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Speaker 1: for you someday, it means body of the crime, and

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Speaker 1: that means that you shouldn't be prosecuted for a crime

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Speaker 2: So in this case, you could have.

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Speaker 1: The body of the crime without the body of the victim,

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Speaker 1: because there was enough evidence to indicate that the crime occurred. Now,

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Speaker 1: it definitely persisted. This is far from the only old

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Speaker 8: Rather not if you don't mind, I suit yourself. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 8: let's get down to cases. I wanted to boy, what

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Speaker 2: Me to do about it?

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Speaker 11: Well, I'll need evidence, so you.

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Speaker 8: Want me to do a little keyhole peeking?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, his name is Read Stephens.

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Speaker 8: Me, his name was Reid Stephens. What that's a funny thing, sogeant,

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Speaker 8: But I don't remember you knocking time to think of it,

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Speaker 8: I don't remember that either. What do you mean My

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Speaker 8: past tense in connection with it to Seas? What are

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Speaker 8: you trying to say? He's been murdered, missus Seppis, Yes,

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Speaker 8: nobody knows that better than you. Whith he, I've got

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Speaker 8: to see him well? Care to join us, Mike?

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Speaker 2: Is it a pinch? It is?

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Speaker 8: Indeed, I'm so glad your apartment is only eight minutes

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Speaker 8: from headquarters. Whenever we have a homicide, I can always

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Speaker 8: stop here first.

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

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