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you get your podcasts from. But now, from September the

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twenty second, nineteen forty eight, here is Blind Date with Murder.

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Speaker 2: It's long ago. It's also now radio's mystery theater. Like

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O Betty's Rule that gets tastier by the years. The

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radio mysteries of the thirties, forties, and fifties, although resting

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in the dusty archives, are still fresh and vibrant. Let's

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sit back now as the listener did so many yesterdays ago,

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and try to figure out who'd done it. A big story.

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Here is America. It's sound in its fury, it's joy,

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and it's sorrow, as basically recorded by the men and

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women of the great American newspapers. Now the story as

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it actually happened, Harry Goodinsky's story as he lived it. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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You are Harry Kolinski of the Pittsburgh Post Caazette, and

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here it is your night off, and what a night,

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What a night. As you leave the city room, you

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look out the window and there's a pull a Lie

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moon pending the smokestacks with Airerie gold and a warm

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and sensuous breeze heading in through the window. And somehow,

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the next thing you know, you're on the phone. You

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make a date with a certain blonde nurse at Braddock

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General Hospital, and a couple of hours later you're waiting

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for your date near the hospital switchboard when.

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Speaker 3: Brad at General Hospital.

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Speaker 4: Who, yes, sir, he's here.

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Speaker 3: My moment for I think it's your evidence to walk.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Mary, Hello Harry, Bill Alice, I've got an assignment

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for you. Oh this is my night off, Bill, I've

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got a date.

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Speaker 4: Look, I'm shorthanded and you're in Brennick. Just got an

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anonymous phone tip. There's been some shooting across the river

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in Duquine.

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Speaker 2: I get over there at a wind check, but very.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 2: You stand up your beautiful blonde and start to move

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as you drive across the ranking bridge, turn left and

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climb the winding hillside that the cane. You curse your craft,

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the Post Gazette, and three times over you're editor Bill Walsh.

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You roll into a dark and dingy section of Ducane

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and suddenly you see a man walking along a deserted street.

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You can't his face in the darkness. Did you figure

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you'll ask him if he's heard anything about the shooting?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 3: Hey, mister, what is it?

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Speaker 2: What do you want? I only wanted to ask it

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out of him.

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Speaker 5: Kurt.

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Speaker 2: We get out of that car.

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Speaker 4: Pet your hands, okay, I step closerbody so I can

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see you.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what is this all about?

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Speaker 4: Moriarity, Patroman, Fred Moriarity that you yeah, fine, sweat you

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gave me too. Here I am a reporter being held

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up by Kaine's only night cor Yeah, and the guy

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that called a friendly copsky, I didn't know it was you.

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The matter with you, Moriarity? What are you still trigger

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happy about? Well, there's a hoodlum.

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Speaker 5: Here in town.

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Speaker 4: He's threatened to get me the cook cutting for me.

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Speaker 6: Hold.

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Speaker 4: Name's Leicester, Steve Lester.

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Speaker 2: Hey, wait a minute, we got a tip of there

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was some shooting here and Docainne you known thing about it?

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Speaker 4: Friend, No, haven't heard anything.

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Speaker 2: I want to jump in the car and I have

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a look around.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no, you go ahead. I've got some business

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Speaker 2: My name is Kadinsky, I report up post. Is what's happening?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 2: We heard some shots and not house shots? Yeah, two

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Speaker 1: You see.

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Speaker 2: I live next door. Name is Baker. But anyway, my

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little girl Marilyn and I heard two shots?

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Speaker 4: Or what happened?

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Speaker 3: Who got shot?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Nobody's going into the house to look.

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But don't look at me like that, mister. I ain't

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taking no chances. What this town needs is more policemen.

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Speaker 4: The killer may still be in there, and they say

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people may be dead in there, dying, needing help, and

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you're waiting. Who lived here with.

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Speaker 2: Her named Agatha Norton. You walk up to the front door,

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Angey Baker follows. You know, the goose flesh jumps out

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all over you. Your blood chilledren like jelly. Get scared.

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You're plenty scared. Maybe Baker's right, maybe the killer is

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still in there. To go ahead, you rub your sweaty

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palm and your new suit and open the door. Yeah,

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there's no sound, nothing. You both go ahead.

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Speaker 4: Mh what is the Baker?

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Speaker 2: I just stepped on something.

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Speaker 4: Switch on a light?

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Speaker 2: M good lord the widow Missus Norton?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, better bull through the head?

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Speaker 2: There are two shots.

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Speaker 4: What's that from there?

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Speaker 2: That's the kitchen.

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Speaker 4: Let's go.

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Speaker 7: Oh lo the Boddy slug.

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Speaker 4: Through the head? I Baker? Yeah, I pull yourself together, Baker?

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Speaker 2: Who is it? Missus Norton's son John?

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Speaker 4: See m sweet mess I beg a listener.

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Speaker 7: I want you to do something for me.

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Speaker 4: Was the nearest fall down at the grocery store.

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Speaker 2: It's about a block from here.

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Speaker 4: All right down there. When the post is that the

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cinema photographer. I'mna call it just attorney's office and sent

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a man out here and I got that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess that's my daughter, Marilyn.

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Speaker 3: She he told me you're you're the man from the newspaper.

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I got something to tell you? Did I another shot?

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I think it came from mister Lester's house, Dave Lester?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Marlon, have a car outside.

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Speaker 2: Will you show me where mister Lester lives?

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Speaker 4: If you look, I don't worry, Bacon, I won't take

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it right up to the house. You'll go ahead and

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make that phone call.

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Speaker 2: Come on, ma oh is excited? You drive down Urban

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Street and you figure Mariarty and this Steve Lester went

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gunning for each other and one of them got up.

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But who Meanwhile, this kid besides you, with a curly

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golden hair and the white blue eyes, chatters about of

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all things, the movies.

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Speaker 7: Oh, I love them.

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Speaker 3: I could go all the time and see and your

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mother would give me the money.

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Speaker 4: Where's the house the.

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Speaker 2: Shop came from Marland?

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's down that dirt road, the red house. See.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you stay right here, don't leave this car in

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s Oh, yes, sir.

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Speaker 4: And if I don't come back a little while. You

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run and get someone to come over here.

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Speaker 7: All right, I will.

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Speaker 3: Why isn't this thrilling? Just like the movies, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: You're creeping into the house expecting to find another corpse.

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You do, he isn't patrol on, Moriarty, So it must

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be Steve Lester. Get out of there in a hurry.

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Drop your movie, mad little friend, and look for a

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nearby phone. You find it in the empty police station

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in u Kyne City Hall. And just as you're about

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to call the office, who's that?

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Speaker 4: Who's there? Oh it's you, Moriarty.

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Speaker 2: Been looking all over for you.

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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna call my office, but not well but

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down a phone, I.

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Speaker 3: Said, all right, Moriarity, what are you?

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Speaker 4: What are you putting a gun on me for? At

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that desklam?

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Speaker 3: Put the light you?

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Speaker 2: Hey? You want me to plant you head off to you?

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Speaker 4: I did it before, you know. I did it three times.

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I gonna kill it three times over so much? One more?

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What tific is anake? Now wait a minute, Moriarity, you

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mean you kill missus Norton and her son too?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: But why maybe Steve Lester was a hoodlum, But the

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Nortons weren't criminal. I had my personal raise, and sy

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I had it coming to him. The whole riting place,

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I had it coming. I'm gonna tell you why.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, are you and me?

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Speaker 4: You're gonna sit here in the dark, and I'm gonna

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tell you why. I gotta tell it to somebody. You

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gotta get it off my chest. You're a report. Are

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like a good story? Then a good one? I mean,

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there happens to be a hitch in this story, Katinsky,

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what's that?

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Speaker 2: You'll never live to print it?

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Speaker 3: You?

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Speaker 2: Harry Kodinski of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette started the evening

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on a date with the blonde. But now you're sitting

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in the darkness of the deserted Duquine Police station opposite

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a killer, and you're scared and the dark. His eyes

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watched you with a fixed, glassy stare of a cat

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and glow with a glaze of madness. You listened to

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Patrolman Moriarty, and the words gushot crazily tumbled one after

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the other. But the shadowy gun in his hand never waivers.

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Speaker 4: You know what they call me, Katinsky. You know what

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they call me here? And the tailor call me Moriarity,

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the friendly cop. Everybody likes me all right. When I

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was a rookie, a young cop, just started out and

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married my wife, Lula, there was this other man who

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wanted a beautiful girl in the prettiest the picture he wanted.

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His name is Whalen, Paul William. He owns a barn

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on mine treet you hear me, Kazinski, Paul will and

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wonder that I am married. And one day last week,

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when I was off duty, I stopped in at Whaling's

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bar and grill.

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Speaker 5: Lola red, Well, hello, Maria, what are you doing here?

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Speaker 2: Lolad?

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Speaker 4: How are you doing back here with him in this boat?

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Speaker 2: Held?

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Speaker 7: Well, what's wrong with that? What's wrong with that?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 7: You stop tearing at me as if I were a

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common criminal. Can I come in for a glass of

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beer if I want to? And if I meet Paul

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whale in here and we have a friendly glass of beer,

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is anything wrong with that?

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 4: It's there. Let's go home, Lorla, No, no, I won't

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you will you hear me, Loly?

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Speaker 2: You will you go home with me?

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Speaker 5: And you'll go No, Wait a minute, Fred, take it

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easy now, I'll have a drink with us.

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Speaker 4: You know what you can do with your drink whaleing.

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Speaker 6: Come on, lorda, let's go.

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Speaker 4: What would you have done, Kodersky? Or would you have

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done your own wife? Sitting in a dark bullets and

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a beer joint with another guy? Wouldn't you have been suspicious?

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Wouldn't you well answer me? Don't sit there and say nothing.

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Wouldn't you have done what I did?

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Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 4: Sure, Marie any man, you're right there, because if you

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didn't say that, I'd have shot you dead with this gun.

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Anyway long? And then I got home and we had

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a fight.

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Speaker 7: Said will you stop it? Will you stop asking me

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questions about Paul?

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Speaker 4: How long have you been saying I'm behind my back?

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Speaker 7: Told you I have not been seeing him. I just

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went in for a beer and I saw Paul and

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we talked a while over nothing in particular. And that's

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what happened, is it? That's what happened, And that's all

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that happened. Don't you understand? Can't you get it through

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your stupid suspicious heads?

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Speaker 4: What more can I say?

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Speaker 7: What more of you want?

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Speaker 4: Truth?

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Speaker 7: Bred heaven?

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Speaker 4: You would like to get rid of me, You would

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like to take up with Paul Wallen just because I

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don't know.

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Speaker 7: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I give up.

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Speaker 7: I married you for a better off, for worse than

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I got worse. Fred Moriarty, the friendly cop, Fred Moriarty,

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the stupid cop.

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Speaker 4: Oh, it's just an i'secrit.

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Speaker 7: You don't talk to me anymore if you feel that way.

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If you think I do, time, you go ahead and

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think it. I don't care anymore.

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Speaker 3: I just can't take it anymore.

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Speaker 7: I can't talk about it anymore.

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Speaker 4: I'm tired.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to bed, Flora.

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Speaker 4: I love the it's crazy about it. I thought terrible, terrible,

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all broken up. You know what I mean. I'll do

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You're sure, Fred, Sure, I know how you must have felt. Yeah, funny,

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everything's so funny inside my head. You know, it goes around.

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And anyway. When I left Lola had to go out

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on duty. I put on my uniform and walked out

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of the house. I met a neighbor of.

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Speaker 5: Mine, Agathon.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, gossiping Norton, he called it in my neighborhood.

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Speaker 3: Oh, mister Moriarity, I don't know what how to tell you.

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I don't know what got to tell you, seeing as

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you're always a nice and friend like. All I can say,

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is it a shame and a disgrace. I down'trite shame

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and disgrace that such a thing has to happened to

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a nice man like you.

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Speaker 4: Just a minute, missus, you're going a little too fast

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for me. Know what are you talking about.

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Speaker 3: That's the way it always is. That's the way it

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always happens. My husband is the last one to know.

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And if my duty is a decent woman to tell you, well,

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tell me what your wife, Lola, and this other man,

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Paul Whalen, that's what he's been coming your.

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Speaker 4: Home while you're on you, You lie, your snake tongue

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chattering fish wife.

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Speaker 3: You love?

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Speaker 6: I do do I?

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Speaker 3: Well, we'll see about that. I happen to know.

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Speaker 4: It's the truth.

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Speaker 3: Paul Whaler's green car has been out in front of

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your house while you're going to wait, and it'll be

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there tomorrow night. He's been seeing your wife right under

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your nose. And you call me names because I said

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to right, that's what I get for trying to do

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you a favor. Moorty, My goodness, you look awful scary.

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What's the matter?

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Speaker 4: I was only saying, you look awful, scaryol Marylyn, Oh,

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mister moriorty.

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Speaker 3: Gosh, what are you picking on me for? I didn't

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do anything?

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Speaker 2: You, Harry Kodinski, are sitting here in danger of your life.

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The killer is sitting in the dark just opposite you.

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His hands are jittery on the gun, and he's promised

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to kill your after his story is over. But for

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the moment, you almost forget your danger. The story he unfolds,

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grips you, hypnotizes you. Now you lean on every word.

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Speaker 4: I got it right between the eyes, just like that,

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you see, can.

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Speaker 5: I guess?

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Speaker 4: I was walking around in a kind of haig and

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all of a sudden I ran into this hood on

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this Steve Lester on the corner. He laughed right in

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my face.

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Speaker 5: And said, tell me your wife spent two times and

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you're fletfully while you're pretty. Go ahead, go ahead call

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me names. But it's the truth, sucker, even if you

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don't know it yet.

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Speaker 4: It's a lie. Hey, let's tart to rotten line?

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Speaker 3: Is it not the way I heard it?

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Speaker 5: It's the McCoy. While you're out pinning the beat here

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this guy, Paul Whalen, is it home, your home making

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beautiful music with your of a love and wife?

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Speaker 4: If you pick him out, shut your hair, let me

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keep your mouth shot.

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Speaker 5: I got it wide open right now, Mory already, and

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I'm going to keep it white open. You stuck a

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knife and meet me to the pin, and now I'm

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going to stick a knife for you only. I'm going

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to turn this knife around and around. I'm gonna spilish

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everyone I meet. And when I get through the whole tone,

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he's gonna know a bunnet. So long, sucker.

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Speaker 4: I guess I went a little crazy after that. Kotisk

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I walked right off my beat and went into Paul

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Whaler's place. I wanted to see if he was there

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and wear had been last night. I wanted to make sure.

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I sat down in the corner booths waiting and watching.

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I didn't see Paul Whaling around. Then I saw a

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man come in, sit down at the bar and start

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to talk to bert.

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Speaker 2: A bart Oh frank Off in the night. Paul, he's

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in the back room waiting for suckers like me again. Yeah,

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you gotta throw.

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Speaker 4: A poker, card shopping ready to go.

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Speaker 2: I didn't think you'd come back up and look at

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youtob last night. Remind me I got a headache every

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time I think of it. I come in last night

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just for a beer. The next thing I know, I'm

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playing poker with Paul. I play all night, and what happened?

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I loves fifty bucks. Hey you played poker all night

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with Paul will Fire. Yeah, yeah, Moriarty. But it was

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just a friendly little game, right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, ready, shore, Paul's in the back room.

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Speaker 2: Sure, I'm sure.

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Speaker 4: What's the matter with you?

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Speaker 2: Fred?

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Speaker 4: What's eating you?

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Speaker 2: If you don't believe me, look in the back room,

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chief yourself.

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Speaker 4: Well, hello, Moriarty, just getting up a friendly little poker game.

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Speaker 2: Drop a chair with tenant.

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Speaker 5: I'll give you a hand.

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Speaker 4: I know it was all lies. I knew what a

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fool i'd been. Paul Willan hadn't been at my house

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last night. He wasn't there and night. Yeah, I'd made

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a fool of myself. I'd said some things to Lola,

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and I couldn't wait till I get home. When I

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got home, she was gone, My wife was gone, gone

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and left me, left the note that she was sick

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and tired, she was fed up through with me. And

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then and I thought.

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Speaker 2: They did it.

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Speaker 4: They ruined my life, stole Lola from me, And then

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and things in my head started.

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Speaker 2: To spin around and around.

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Speaker 4: All I wanted to do was kill, kill, So I

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went to the window Norton's house. First. She was in

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the living room nitting, and I walked right in and hello,

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Missus Norton. You know what you've done, Missus Norton, with

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your lying tone, You've ruined my life.

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Speaker 2: Lola has left me.

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Speaker 4: She's left me because of you and your gossiping and

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your folky lives. Right, I'm gonna stop that tongue of

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the oars from waggon anymore, Missus Norton, and I'm gonna.

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Speaker 2: Stop it for a long time.

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Speaker 4: You'll never lie in flander and gossip again. After that,

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I ran through the kitchen, you see, Kotinski, I ran

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through the kitchen. I wanted to get to Steve's house,

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but just then Missus Norton's son John came through the

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kitchen door and Moriarti, what are you doing with that gun?

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Speaker 3: Moriarni? No.

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Speaker 4: I didn't really want to kill a boy, but he

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was a witness. What can I do? After that, Kodinsky,

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I started out to get Steve Lester. That's when I

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met you. You didn't know that, Titcher, No, no, of

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course you didn't know. I would have told you my

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story then, Yeah, yeah, I would, But my work wasn'tana

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had long? I jed I was till Steve Lester I

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walked into his house. He looked at me, scared like

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a rabb in his mouth hanging open bread. You're gone

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where I just sent missus Norton Steve right now? That's

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all Kodinsky. I came back here to the police station.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why.

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Speaker 2: I guess I didn't know.

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Speaker 4: What else to do, where to go. I wouldn't you,

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wouldn't you, Kodinsky? You'd have killed them all, wouldn't you?

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The way they gossiped about me, The things they said,

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they stole all of I mean, the reason my wife

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left me me, the friendly cop Fred Moriarty Me, what's.

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Speaker 2: That police cause? Moriarty? Police, Yes, but.

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Speaker 4: The chair. But they'll take you there. I seen the chair.

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I've seen it with my own eyes.

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Speaker 2: Kotinsky is terrible.

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Speaker 4: Terrible, Kinsky. Here's my going. I give up to you. Katinsky.

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You know my story right in the paper. Tell him

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how I've been robbed. And she had to tell him

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how I was always a friendly cup. You know, I

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never haunt any one in my life with blue children

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across the street and smile at everybody. Be done. Tell

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them me.

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Speaker 2: They come in, the police, from the keys poet and

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the das men. You tell your story quickly, and they

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handcuff Fred Moriarty walk him out, And there waiting on

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the sidewalk in front the little Marilyn Baker.

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Speaker 3: Hello, mister Moriorty gosh, I heard them talking all about

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what you did. He they've got your handcuffs and everything.

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Speaker 2: You'd better run along home, Marylyn.

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Speaker 3: All right, mister Kinsky, I will. But honest, mister Moriarty,

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I didn't mean to get you into trouble or anything.

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I just made up that story.

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Speaker 4: I told him, Missus Norton, what story?

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Speaker 3: What about mister Wyman coming to your house when you

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were away and all?

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Speaker 2: You made it all?

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Speaker 6: Huh?

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Speaker 4: I told it to missus Norton.

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, yes, but it was just a little fib.

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I didn't mean any harm by it, honest.

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Speaker 4: I didn't.

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Speaker 5: Why did you do it?

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Speaker 4: Why didn't you tell Missus Norton that lie? Why?

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Speaker 3: My goodness, I didn't mean anything, mister Moriarty. I just

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wanted fifty cents to see that new scary picture of

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the strand so I told missus Norton, I tell her

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secret of she gave me fifty cents to go to

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the movies, and she did. I guess maybe I shouldn't

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have told that fib, but I did want to go

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to the movies. So you see, I just love scary pictures.

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Speaker 2: Now me read you that telegram from Harry Godenskia the

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Pittsburgh Post Casette completely broken. Killer and Tonight's Big Story

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was unable to repeat his confession to police, so I

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filled in the details for him. At the many tests

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to determine his sanity, he was found guilty and sentenced

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the electric chair the State Penitentiary at Bellefont. Following my

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Big Story to the end, I was appointed Deputy Sheriff

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and Lord handcuffed the killer on his trip at the deathhouse.

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And that's Mystery Theater. Every week we'll reach into the

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dusty file, brush it off, and present her still up

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to date Repliger Babba, who done it of yesterday? This

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is the American Forces Radio and Television circuits.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I should know that this is one of

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the more recent additions to the Big Story circulating episodes

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This was from the collection of Jerry Hindiga's He shared

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it about four years ago online. The sort of intro

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to the episode the Mystery Theater I was expecting when

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I saw Mystery Theater on the label that we were

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gonna get, you know, the sort of Howard Duff Peter

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Lori thing. Had not heard this before, likely from the

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seventies or eighties and a part of the American Forces Network,

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as they were playing programs that they had in their

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archives and reflecting that old time radio remained popular during

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that era. Now I should go ahead and share our

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cast list, and this is one where everybody doubled quite literally.

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The announcer as well. Bob Sloan appeared in this, and

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then you have James McAllion who played or in Trapid,

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Mister Kodinski, Larry Haynes, Ruth Shafer, Rita Ascot, Joan, Alexander,

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Bill Smith, and Mandel Kramer. Of course, the episode does

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have a powerful message about why one shouldn't gossip, although

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even within the context of the episode, putting the onus

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on the gossipers as the cause of the detectives or

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the friendly officers problem is a bit problematic because he

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clearly had some issues going on, and the same thing

484
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can kind of be read in between the lines about

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his wife leaving. This wasn't just sort of out of

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the blue, one off moment. Now the actual story is

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a bit more grim than what we got on the

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radio version. This took place in December nineteen thirty six.

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And again I here a quote from doctor Joe Webb,

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a seventy three year old policeman in Ducane was accused

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of molesting a ten year old girl. He got so

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angry about this that he went and killed all of

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the witnesses who were testifying against him, with a total

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of two men and three women, while also apparently attempting

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to kill the father of the girl as well as

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the girl's brother. And he was the oldest person electrocuted

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in Pennsylvania. And the name of the officer was Martin Sullivan.

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And this is probably the case that so far is

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the further from the actual facts. And we have a

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couple comments on Spotify regarding the deadline murder mechanic sixty

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six rights not a sympathetic victim and doctor who done it,

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says Adam Graham, newspaperman. The cop is going to enter

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a room. He tells you to hold his gun to

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cover him.

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Speaker 4: What do you do?

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Speaker 1: I suggest that he may want to consider getting his

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head examined. I am too clumsy and I just don't

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have the nerves to imprompt to jump into a situation

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and back up a cough. I will say that probably

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to the degree that there is a certain element of

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truth to the stories about newspaper reporters got to be

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so closely involved in crimes. It's that a lot of

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these people could, in theory, take care of themselves. It

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would be the nature sure of the era. So it's

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tough to imagine having a skill which you don't have

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because you really don't need to have it. But if

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I were to make it as a big city crime

518
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reporter back then, I would have to be a somewhat

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different person than I am today. Thanks so much for

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the question. All right, well, now it's time to thank

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our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to

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go ahead and think Daniel, Patreon supporter since October twenty

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twenty three, currently supporting the podcast at the Master Detective

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level of fifteen dollars or more per month. Thanks so

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much for your support, Daniel, and that will do it

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for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us

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be back next Tuesday with another episode of The Big

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Store Wry, but join us back here tomorrow for Broadways

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My Beat Where.

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Speaker 6: First early bird out to catch a Wormhummester, Not me,

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not for something I've done. I never do anything bad, you,

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Edward Bishop, Oh, not me. Mister Bishop's my roomy, he

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gone and done something naughty. Come in, mister and tell

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me all about it. Where is he wh out frying

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his nightly kettle of fish? I presume his bedding conslecting. No, huh? Oh,

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why that hollow you see in the bedclotheses where I

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tried it? I'm an experimenter. As long as he wasn't

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in it. I thought my roomy's bed might be better

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than my own.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't.

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Speaker 6: Mister Bishop's gone and done something naughty.

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Speaker 1: Huh do you know where he is?

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Speaker 6: I want to tell you something about mister Bishop, my roomy.

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He's a tight lip man, rock face. I call him

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when he ain't looking. That's because he never whispers a

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secret to me. Or shares a coke. When I offer

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am part of mine, he just lets me dab his

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hanky with cologne sometimes when he's going out for a

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heavy evening.

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Speaker 2: He had a lot of them evenings like that.

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Speaker 6: Well, for a man who has to shave twice a day,

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he has more than his share.

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Speaker 5: You wouldn't know what I might.

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Speaker 6: But first you tell me what my roomy did to you.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you'd find it cozier down at headquarters.

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Speaker 6: Maybe that Japanese Kimona you were makes it work getting rough.

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Hello there, mister, I'll tell you what I know. Then

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you tell me what you know.

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Speaker 1: Huh.

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Speaker 6: My roomy's been squiring a lady by the name of

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Anna Compton, you know her, or just to talk to

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on the phone. A lovely voice haunts you.

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Speaker 2: Once you talked to her last, oh two or.

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Speaker 6: Three days ago. I'll tell you just how it was.

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She kept calling here evenings, asking my roomy to call

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her back. Just leave her name, Anna Compton. My roomy

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squiring a married lady.

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Speaker 2: Bishop never shared anything with you, and still.

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Speaker 6: I'll tell you about that too. Her haunting voice made

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me nervous. I told you I'm an experimenter. So one

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day I sat down with the phone book and called

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every compton there is. Then a man answered and said

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his wife Anna wasn't home. Who was calling? Of course

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I hung up, and you know her address in the

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new Rochelle phone book for everyone eyes to see. Now

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it's your turn. What did mister bishop do?

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Speaker 2: A woman was found murdered in his car?

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Speaker 6: My own mind, that's as naughty as you can get it.

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

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do send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives

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This is your host, Adam Graham, sogn and off