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today's episodes of Police Headquarters. We have episodes thirty two and thirty three.
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The Deadly Poker game and Judge Carlton missing father. That's Second Brace Homicide Bureau.
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God In O'Brien. This is James Morrell speaking from Edward cunningham residence in
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Oak No. Yes, mister Cunningham justin found dead in his bedroom and I
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called his doctor and he suggested that I notify the police is the right thing.
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But the address are there eighteen thirty seven Oak No. And eight three
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seven Oak Though. We'll have a man right now. Yah. Where's Captain
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Reynolds or Nicole Ryan back yet? Okay, all right, send a man
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in to hold the test down. I'm going out on a through it.
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Oh, I'm right here, and I'm James Mollis, the man who called
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you. I'm Chargan O'Brien. I suppose you want to go right upstairs?
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Yeah? Oh, I haven't left this gentleman, Olizen. Mister Collins a
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banker? How do you do, sir? How did you do? Stargans?
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A shame that had to happen. We've all been Who's the lady in
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the next room, Jane Wilson. Mister Cunningham's Nie. She's she's rather hard
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hit by what's happened you see. She was very fond of her uncles,
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who's been practically a father to her. And did your doctor rya here?
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He's upstairs now be pronounced mister Cunningham dead, Yes, sir? Which one
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of you discovered the body? I did, Sargeant? Where were you at
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the time, sitting down here smoking a cigar? I was dark with the
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shot and one upstairs to invest again? Where were you Maria at the dug
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Start on the corner, mister Cunningham, But don't sent me on an error,
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and you see, I'm mister Cunningham's secresy. Where was miss Wilson upstairs
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in her room? We both met in the hallway outside that was, I
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mean mister cunningham room. And she heard the shot, yes, and she
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was investigating. And it's the same as I was. I went to the
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door to Cunningham's room and now there was no answer, so I opened the
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door and went in. Or I suppose Miss Wilson and I both saw him
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at the same time. I see, well, we'll run upstairs and see
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the body. If you're a coomping your or and it's Colin, you'd be
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the kindness to step into the next room and ask miss Wilson. Let's leave
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until I have a chance to talk to her very well. Either way,
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Morris was right up these stairs. Oh. I asked why he did it?
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He had everything he wanted. He's never spent at the first moment as
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far as I know, and do funny things at times right off here.
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But mister Cunningham is the last person on earth you'd expect to submit suicide.
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Why do you say that? Because he got so much fun out of living.
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Edward Cunningham was a born gambler, not a seximum mind do, but
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he loved his card. That's why mister Collins is here tonight. They had
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a game schedule judge the two of them. And no, there was another
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gentleman, a man named Brady. He often played with mister Cunningham and mister
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Collins. I see, and Brady hasn't all up yet. No, he
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called it took the clock, telling mister Cunningham that he would be unable to
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come this evening. Mister Cunningham seemed greatly disappointed. And here we are.
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This is doctor Wood. It's hard to know. Brian's then headquarters. Doctor
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you do? What do you do? But the news dot there and looks
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like an ou non case of suiside targan, a body was found just as
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it is. You will not if the wound and pop marks on the foregn
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a gun is just beyond his hand where it must fallen. I alwasy been
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dead only a very few minutes. He left low notes. I didn't see
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one. You do more? Why? No? Well, it's customary,
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isn't it for a suicide to leave a note or something. I'm sure that
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you're in a better position to answer that than I am. You say that
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mister Cunningham had sent you to the drug store for something that you weren't in
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the house at the time the shot was fired. So that's right. What
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had mister Cunningham sent you after a box of cigars? Oh? I see,
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well, I've done all I can. You've sent for the coroner that
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yet, I'll do it as soon as I've had time to look around.
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Very well, well, I don't believing if I'm a longer anything. Just
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one question, doctor, Is the body lying in a natural position for a
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suisid? Yes? I said it. And there's the usual amount of powder
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grains about the wound. Well, there's one thing that doesn't quite come up.
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A standard there aren't as many powder brains as I've seen in other cases.
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But of course it's a rather small gun. But even then there should
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be a few more powder marks. That's what I was thinking. Oh,
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thank you, doctor, I'm telly welcome. Oh how's Jane Morris better?
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She's a brave girl. Feel pulled to all that? However, you might
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see her as we leave. She didn't study any myself. Roll okay,
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you know of any reason for cunning him to kill himself? No? I
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don't. His business affairs are in good shape. Yes, he was a
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very wealthy man. He had no worries. Missus Wilson drop it by this.
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She'll inherit his money iddly. However, she really doesn't need it.
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She has a millionaire sous. Oh I see for Cunningham and Collins and friendly
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terms. Oh yes, sir, they've been fend for years. And this
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mister Dradie who was scheduled to appear tonight and didn't. I can't say about
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him. Was mister Cunningham in this room when he sent you for the cigars?
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O? Yes, all right, Will you step down and tell mister
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Collins that I'd like to see him for trest mister Collins, you've known him
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for twenty years and have never known of him to be in any trouble of
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any sorts crimes. I's known who'd want to kill Cunningham. He's always kind
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and thought you were here tonight for a poker game, I believe, miss
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Collins. Yes, they get to cut into play twice a week. He
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stays run for the eye, so we make it interesting. How much of
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the normal losses during an evening? Oh, I should say ten or fifteen
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thousand? Oh, he did make it interesting. Well, that's all a
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matter of view points. But do you know about this fellow Brady who found
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it inconvenient to show up tonight? Very little? He was introduced to me
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at the Clover Club, And there's a gambler from the word go, I
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think cunning I'm enjoyed playing with him. Was Brady a winner? On the
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contrary, he was a heavy loser the night before last at my club?
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Cunning him with sports to take his eye or used for twenty five thousand dollars?
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Oh nice profit or one line? Well, I better forget about poker
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and get busy with my reports. Oh, send miss Wilson, that will
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you show it? Oh, sim English Wilsons and started O'Brien. Yeah,
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I know. I am sorry to have to ask you questions at a time
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like this, but it'll be bad to get everything cleared up. I understand.
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Do you know any reason for your uncle committing suicide? Not a single
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reason. Uncle Edward was a happy go lucky person, not the type to
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predict to his son. Where were you when you heard the shot in my
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room? Where is that at the end of the hole? Well? What
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did you do after you heard the shot? I ran out of the hole
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just in time to see mister Collins coming up the steps. He both went
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to uncle's room and saw him. Did And where was mister Moore of this
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secretary out in an erland? I believe he came in about five minutes later.
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I see it's Wilton. Do you know, mister Brady, I've met
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the man. H You don't seem to approve of your uncle's joy for the
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part assist the man. There's nothing more of a professional gambler. I have
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no use for him. Uncle told me where he signed them in debt amountains
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for twenty five thousand dollars. Did you see the IOUs? Yes? Where
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did your uncle keep them in this floor here, that dog the groom gone.
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Yes, I saw a group of them there this afternoon. Perhaps Brady
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came by and paid them. Now, I can soon tell you so as
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as soon as I opened the safe while you're doing that, I looked through
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his wallet there. But there's only one hundred dollars in the safe, less
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than that in the wallet. I think we can safely assume that the IOUs
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were not paid. You recognize this done, Yeah, it's a camp's tedry
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Marvel twenty two. Uncle Edward used it for target practice. I see you
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know your firearms. Did he ever attach a silence or to it? Not
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that I know of? No, I'm sure he didn't. I went to
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the rent for him the two times I see. Can you tell me,
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miss Wilson, what is the issues in the fireplace here? No? I
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can't good here, mister sergeant, if you feel that my uncle's death is
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a suicide, or do you keep poking around and asking from any questions?
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One so that my dear young lady would be to give away a very ingenious
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plot. Oh how do you do, mis Wilson? Why did you change
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your driver for me? I thought you might like to be in on the
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final episode of our drama. What do you mean? I thought you might
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be interested in the outcome of my investigations. You mean that Uncle Edward's death
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Lack was not a suicide, Your uncle, Miss Wilson, was the victim
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of a very cold blooded, deliberate murder. I was fairly sure of.
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It's the first day they're in your house. Since then, I've learned things
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that have led me to the murderer. I've had my men trailing in for
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days, and I find there were two in on the schemes. They're in
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that room talking things over. If you like, we'll go in and give
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them a little surprise visit. Step over here with me. I believe that.
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Are you ready for a surprise? Yes? All that? Oh,
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what do you mean? It's to Morris. Don't bother getting up, it's
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your seat. I believe your friend is mister Brady. What do you mean
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breaking into my apartment this way? I am here on an errand Morris,
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like the one you ran for Cunningham and night he was killed. Only myron
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will be completed. Morris, I arrescue and Brady for the murder of Edward
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Cunningham. Not one of your moves even AIRTI case, you're both headed for
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a hangman's news. Do you mean that more? My uncle Text three was
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indicated in this dead Solitaire, I certinally do. However, he was just
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a poem for Freday Trady Long twenty five thousand dollars. Your uncle in a
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bok again. He had to get those io used back, so he constructed
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a scheme with Morris to get the io used and to rob your uncle's safe
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at the same time most truck store. I don't see how the murder was
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accomplished. Who you remember that? I asked if your uncle had ever used
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the silence er on the guns. I found the marks of a silencer on
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the barrel. Morris killed him with a silencer, then removed it, wiped
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the gun clean, put your uncle prints on it, left the shot.
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Get it. I just explained that in leaving Moore's toss the blank cackege into
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the glowing pole in time and exploded, giving him time to get downstairs and
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established an alibi. Oh here's a start for his prisoners. I think he's
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there. Just a minute, detective, you're Captain Trend That's a minute it
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sure take. Reporter, are you here? Sure, I'm here. Tell
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that big stiff on the city's test and I'm on a big case. Tell
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me that you would better talk to him. Give me up on Hello.
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Sure, I'm on the job. Hey, don't you ever get tired of
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check it up? Sure I'm at but a lot of good it'll do me
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tent don't know any more about it in yodel. Okay, okay, okay,
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Yeah, you see how it is. The old man's riding me to
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death on the thing I told you all we know, Porter, if Judge
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Carlson hasn't been kidnapped, he's invited. Yeah, but where don't you realize
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that it's the biggest case of the year And here you guys are sitting around
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waiting for him to come in and say, Hello, boys, I've been
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out on a picnic. No, we're doing everything we can. You and
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that photographer you got with you aren't helping anybody hounding us on me? Well,
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what about it? I'm getting how today? I listen, Captain,
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you gotta find Judge Carlsons that two million readers of the Gazette demanded. Yeah,
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since when the two million people start wasting their time, you better wake
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up that dummy of the camera man over there in the chair and get out
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and fill your face. He've got work to do in here. Yeah,
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well, what's that three alarm fire somewhere? They're following the reserve officers on
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the traffic spot. Just my speed. Hey, whippe, wake up?
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Wake up? Give me that telephone book? Im in this? Captain?
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Hey, wake up? Well you's oh it's you. Can't you ever let
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a cry? Rest and come on, come on, step out of it
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both. There's work to be done. Hey, where is that fire?
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Captain? Why ask me? There's a telephone? Hello? Hello? Hello?
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Hey, where's the fire? Where? Night? Come on, sim
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it's kind of a down on spring. Come on, come on and don't
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get your numball. Take it up at that camera there. I'll pay enough.
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Come on, don't wait at him off plate on this bonfire? Hey,
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who's shoes in the fire? I gotta take one more? I tell
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you some of these may be no gun. It's gets too hot here,
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get busy, bums. You want me to hold a plate case of after?
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You're the next one my telephoto. Let's you if we can get up
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on that building over there, up away from this crowd and get sort of
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a third dive view of the whole day. He heads a man cart in
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there. If there is, this picture will make the front page in the
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city. Ed Or howls head off if we don't get a good all right,
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good dumb fuck. I was gonna get up there by this alley over
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here and stop calling me Millie all right, way out he'll be there.
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Ought to be a pirate escape in the back of this alley. That'll take
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us up to the road. All right, come on, I'm comfortable.
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Be careful of that camera. I don't tell them where you going, dummy.
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Not as dark as all that I stumbled on some Hey, hey,
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Ed, look holy smoked as guy laying here in the alley, and I
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clipped, okay, quick spring a light on him. Eh booze some drunk.
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Maybe there's a flashlight, right, chubby Meadows. Yeah, must have
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been hitting the funnel pretty heavy to get this drunk. He's not drunk.
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Look blood, yeah, quick, you run down the corner and get a
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copy, then get to the nurse phone and call Captain Trent. I'll stay
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here. Well, guy, there'll be plenty of cane raised over this.
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We'll see who is Hebby medas at the Star. Is he dead? Yeah?
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Two slugs in his heart. Looks like he's been shot from behind.
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I got a friend of mine calling Captain Trent, you better stay here and
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lay a ride. Huh. You know? Is he the guy who placed
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all those action pictures for the Star? Yeah, one of the best lads
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in the business. He's trying to drink a bit, but he's eight high
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among the newspaper photographers. Oh air comes, went pey, you get dead?
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Hey? Yeah, and he'd be right over. I had to run
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two blocks for a phone. The captain should be here pretty quick. Could
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you find he's been shot in the back. Looks like he was on the
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assignment. Maybe he was down here photograph the fire? Is the chubby's Cameron
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Porto kas too? Yeah? Gee, that's too bad. He was a
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swell guy. It'll be tough on his wife's too. Wife. I didn't
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know he was married. Yeah, get married more than a year, got
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a wife and a kid. Be hard on them. I'd like to have
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a whold of the dirty rats up. Pull this. Yeah. Bet his
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paper will blow the lid off on this, then, I bet we all
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will. That must be Captain Trent. Yes, his car. All right,
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hey, you better get Chubby's camera and playcase out of the way.
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What's going on for her? Chubby murtters, somebody plugged him in the back?
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No, what did I say? Yeah, take a look for yourself.
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What was he doing here? Looks like he was taking pictures of the
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fire. That's his business. I mean, what was he doing here in
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this alley? Well, wimpy here had that go for the idea going up
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on the top of this building across from the fire and making a few shots.
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Chubby probably had to say, my dear Mike, got a couple of
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cars and throw lights on this alley from both ends. Go over the place
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with a fine tooth comb and see what you find. That's like a cold
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blooded, deliberate murder. If you ask Gray, did Chubby have any enemies?
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Well, you know as much about it as I do. Chubby Meadows
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wasn't the kind of a newspaper man who made enemies. All. He sure
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run into something. What assignment was he working on? How should I know?
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I worked for the gazette, George, job to find the guy who
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shot him? Take apply to this won't be and then faded. The old
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man will probably put an next crowd and says I pulled in my story.
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Then where you're going in the headquarters with trend. I want to follow this
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thing through. Develop those fire pick too. As soon as you get a
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chance, Murphy'll probably want to use them as a pillar in the next position.
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Okay, Hey, ye, big dummy, don't forget your plate case.
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Huh oh no, all right, thanks, Yeah, we'll find out,
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Captain. When I talked to the city editor of the Star, he
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says that Chubby Meadows wasn't on any particular assignment tonight. Did you ask you
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about any pre his assignment? Yes. The other had told me that Chubby
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had been following up some leads on Judge Carlson's disappearance, but nothing came on,
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eh, Judge Carleson, Eh, yeah, I sent a couple of
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men down to the paper to quiz all of meadows friends and associates. We
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may get something out of them, yeah, Judge Carlson, Eh, Hey,
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did they identify the body they've found in the fire tonight? There wasn't
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anything left to identify. With some teeth in a seat of keys. They're
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checking up on the keys, now, I mean, is that good for
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nothing? Porter in here, Oh there you are. What do you mean
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sending Wimpy in with a picture like this and not giving me a line on
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it? What do you mean? I called the whole story in before I
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left the scene. I sent Whimpy in with the pictures. We got the
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pictures, but not a line on Judge Carlson. Duds Carlson, who said
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anything about Judge Carlson, who said, say, are you playing that egl?
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But I think you are. I phoned in the whole story of finding
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Chubby Meadows in the alley before I came down here with Captain Trent, who
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said anything about Chubby Meadows. We got that story. We're on the speech
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for an hour. But I wanted to follow up on that picture you took
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at Judge Carlson. Hey, are you hot? Picture? Hot picture?
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Do you mean to say that you didn't take this? Here? Take a
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look at this picture? Well, for the love, hey, Captain,
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take a look at this Judge Klaus. Yeah, and that big lug walking
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with him is Steve Jaeger. Where did you get that picture? Part?
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I didn't take it? Waby must have taken it. Whimpy says he didn't
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take it. He says, you must have taken it while he was running
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for the telephone. Well he's crazy as usual, say, well, Chubby
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Meadows took that picture. What do you mean? Chubby Metters took that picture
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and that's why he was killed. Whimpy picked up the wrong plate case when
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he left he developed Chubby's pictures. Well, I'll be then. You didn't
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take it? No, you Captain trim What quiet? Oh? Okay,
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okay? Now what they've just identified the body in the rooms as Judge Cross.
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They was they identified the keys in the ring as belonging to Judge Cross.
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That's something wrong there. We got a picture of Judge Karlston and Steve
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Yeager walking together. I wonder where Meadows took this picture? Looked like the
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alley where we found him. Now I know what happened. Judge Carlton is
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in on this. So Steve Yeager Jaeger is the one who probably turned the
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heat on Chubby. Why, well, you remember the indictment against Yegger,
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don't you. Carlton turned it down. I've noticed lately that he's been letting
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Yeager's hoodleums go free. When that grand jury threaten an investigation, Judge Carlson
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disappeared. Then there's a fire and he tries to make it appear as if
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he's been caught in the fire. And Chubby Meadows saw them walking and took
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a flash light of them and try to get away and with kid exactly Hello,
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not a minute for you porter. It's that dumb camera maner Eh oh
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say this? Have your big was that? When? Oh you did?
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Eh? Good boy? What's the Adred? Get this? Captain six one
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Quinton good Hello, you stick outside and we'll be right down six twenty one
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Clinton, what's up? Wimpy just called to say that three lugs drabbed him
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coming out of a restant and took his camera and plate case away from him.
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If that's the reason Shebby Meadows was killed, they thought Whimpy had this
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pick cabag. You haven't heard the best of it. We've be grabbed a
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taxi and followed the three months. He called from across the street from where
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they're staying. He's not shut down. Good, get a car and three
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men in front right away. Come on, we've cornered those rats. Wen'by
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said he'd made us at the corner. I don't see Look, it's that
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dumb photographer. He's been hurt. Quick, he's been hit on my head?
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Hi kied oh okay, I guess they we're heading to the airport.
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I tried to bluff him out of it, but they shock me on the
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head the airport. Here, we'll give you a hand. Get the car,
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porder. Those rats are trying to get across the border. There's their
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car, that black Sea Dan. Come on boys, hey, look out,
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they're behind the car. Get out here, you dummy. What that's
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a chance to should have battle like this way? What a picture happened?
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Tent closing on them? Keeve Dieger sure got his share of the lid here.
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Hey look boy, well let make a picture of what a scoop?
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A picture of Judge Carlson committing suicide. Welcome back. I have to admit
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the crooks not too bright in this one, you know, killing the photographer
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but leaving his camera intact and then going back to get it later. Things
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turned into a big mess. You do have to wonder what type of pictures
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you know they would publish a newspaper on those days. Though, we also
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did see another appearance of future Casey crime photographer co star John Gibson. Well,
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we have a few programming notes. First of all, we only have
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six episodes of Police Headquarters left, so coming in four weeks. Listeners have
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been waiting for it for a while, we will begin Dragnet, so be
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sure and listen. August the ninth, Dragnet joins the Great Detectives of Old
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Time Radio. Also this weekend, be sure and watch another episode of Decoy
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for our video theater. Well, we turn now to listener comments and feedback,
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and we have a comment from Ben, who rights one of the best
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podcast out there. Well, thanks so much. I do appreciate that,
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Ben. That will actually do it for today. We will be back,
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as I said, tomorrow with an episode of Decoy, and then join us
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back here on Monday for Pursuit, and then next Saturday two more episodes of
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