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Man From Homicide: The Winthrop Case (EP1534) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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I have All I Needed to Know I Learned from Dragnet listed along with
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all my other books, ebooks and audio books. Well, now we launched
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a new series, Man from Homicide. Man from Homicide was not on the
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air a long time, only a few months in nineteen fifty one, and
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we're going to start with a episode that actually wasn't aired. It was an
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audition recording and it featured a different actor in the lead than would star in
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the series. The audition date is from September of nineteen fifty and it stars
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Charles McGraw. If you've been listening to the program Into Dragnet, McGraw was
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the first actor to portray at Backstrand, chief of Detectives, before being replaced
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by Raymond Burr after about a month. He got his start in acting with
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a lot of character roles, and probably his first key role was playing one
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of the hitmen in The Killers along with William Conrad, and from there he
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built a really successful career as a character actor. He played a lot of
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tough guys and heavies, particularly in the early part of his career, but
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later on he also began to play some lead roles, including starring as in
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the Adventures of the Falcon over television in the mid nineteen fifties. He also
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starred in The Narrow Margin, which many f B movie enthusiasts consider to be
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one of the best Bay movies of all time. This information, by the
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way, courtesy of Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Dot blogspot dot com, a site
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maintained by Ivan Shreeve. Well, now it's time for us to go ahead
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and take a listen to this audition. The original air date September sixteenth,
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nineteen fifty in the title The Winthrop Case. The Man from Homicide, a
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new dramatic series starring Charles McGraw as Lieutenant Dana. According to Webster's Underbridge Dictionary,
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homicide is the killing of one human being by another. According to a
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Man from Homicide, it's just the beginning of a dirty, dangerous job that
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doesn't end until a killer is found. But I like it, maybe because
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I don't like killers. We don't bother much with names. At headquarters.
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We give them a number and a file card. When they're in and the
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case is closed, we file a card and forget it. At least sometimes
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we don't forget that easy. The perfect cop would have a computing machine for
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a brain and a hydraulic pump for a heart. The perfect cop would never
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get hurt. I'm not a perfect cop. Terminal Street pitches up sharp from
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San Miguel Harbor. It's not the kind of street you'd be taking a walk
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on unless you were a cop like me. On a case that started with
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a dead man and a ditch, A dead man who collected too many ice
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picks. I walked up Turtle Street at night with only the shadows for company
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until get a hurry. Who do you want? Let's go inside where you
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just came from. I can. I gotta find a police new fond one
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you but no uniform that the city gives me a badge to carry around,
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Lieutenant Dana Homicide. Come on, I'm so glad you're here. I'm frightening
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garment. Sorry, I'm sorry, but we'll still have to go into that
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house. No door's locked. Let me have your key, all right?
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Never mind, turns out it wasn't lucked. It's nice to know you have
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a key. It's nice carpet. Yes, houses around here don't run the
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carpets often. You left the lights on the living room door on your left.
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Thanks. Why don't you sit down for a minute. Well? The
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corpse was male, white in its early thirties. What might have been a
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look of surprise and his pretty face probably meant nothing because of the two bullet
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holes placed less than an inch apart in his chest. The expression on the
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faces of the dead being incapable of verification. Corpse wore silk socks. Silk
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socks? Whose house I live here? That's what you mean? That isn't
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what I mean. It's a rendered house, the rent receipts being among his
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souvenirs. What's his name? Went Harold Winthrop? Claire thought, and all
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that suit he's wearing will never be the same. It's too bad. It's
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nice tail. I didn't kill him. I was in the kitchen mixing drink
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sports. I heard the shots man in Europe. I was frightened. I
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ran out to find a policeman. No surprised you to hear the actual figures
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on telephones and use in the city of this size. I was afraid to
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stay in the house. I should have phoned the police. I know in
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the kitchen, would you please? All right? I wonder how many men
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wearing silk socks ever walk up Terminal Street. The kitchen back doors wide open.
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I'll close it. I don't touch it, don't touch that knob,
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kick it. Shot the drinks. The ice cubes are beginning to melt.
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Was he married? Yes? The pretty ones usually are. You know,
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it's a funny neighborhood for a man wearing silk socks to be found dead in
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I'll bet he's embarrassed. The mills began to grind. I phoned in,
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and after a little while, during which none of us said anything me Claire
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Thorpe, the corpse company came a handful of educated cops who did things with
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fingerprints and bloodstains and photographs from nineteen different angles. The gun that killed Winthrop
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was among the missing. A special escort arride for Claire Thorpe. Alright,
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no, wait, she started to cry again. I decided to leave anyway.
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Somebody had to notify the new widow. She was a widow. I
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went down Terminal Street, the way Claire Thorpe had run, stopped at the
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garbage can she'd stumbled over. There was nothing in it but garbage. The
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wick lace covered what seemed like a couple of acres. The house undoubtedly had
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come over on the Mayflower. Even the trees look refined. I rang the
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bell and decided the next time I visited, i'd be sure and get my
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shoes shined. Yes, are you missus Winthrop, missus Harold Winter? I
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am it's late. Are you going to give me the weather report? Next?
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No? You mind if I come in I don't suppose I do.
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Come in. Thanks, we don't need that music. It's Mozart. Yeah,
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it's thirty nine in d I think. But you wouldn't know about that,
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would you. No? I wouldn't know anything about that. Would he
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turn it off? Please? Oh? Not important? Sometimes very important things
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aren't important. Why don't you sit down? Or is something you got?
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A big place here? My husband and I like it. Any children you're
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from the Census Bureau? No children? None? Okay, I'm glad you
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approved or were you approving? I'm Lieutenant Dana Homicide. Oh, I've read
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about your men in the papers. I'm very much impressed. I don't know
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exactly what I would have expected one of you to look like. I'm sorry
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I keep forgetting. You must have had a reason for coming here, beside
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the fact that it's late. I had a reason. Your husband isn't home.
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No, he's down on a sleezy shack on Terminal Street that's near the
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harbor. Am I supposed to ask you what he's doing there? You can
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if you're lying, all right? What is my husband doing in a sleezy
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shack on Terminal Street? He's lying on an imitation Oriental rug with a couple
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of bullets in his heart. You shouldn't wear your hat indoors, Lieutenant.
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I'm sorry, you won't mind if I don't try to squeeze out a tear.
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No, Hell hasn't meant anything to me for a long time. Alive
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or death hasn't changed that. It wasn't very much of a man. I
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suppose that's why he had to go slinking down back alleys trying to prove something
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to himself. Who killed him? Do you ever hear of a woman named
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Claire Thorpe? No, but he'd hardly tell me about her. Would he
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wear the servians asleep and home all evening? Missus Winn? What time the
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servants turned in? Around ten? What time was was Harold killed? Ten
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thirty? Good night, Missus Winter. Lieutenant Dana, Yeah, that question.
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It means I'm going to see you again, doesn't it. You might
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have answered that more quickly. All I meant was in the line of duty.
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You're beautiful, Missus Winter. If you're going to say things like that,
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better make it nearest. I ever came a silk socks turned out to
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be rare. Oh one thing more, Yes, Mozart's thirty ninth is an
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e flat good night. That first interview with missus Winthrop ascertained that she had
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no alibi for the time of her husband's murder, no grief for his death,
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failed to discover possible motive of any ignore. Female, white, middle
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twenties, dark eyes, olive skin, soft black hair. Cop would give
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his penchion to whiter around his hands. Heading south on Claremont, I picked
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up a trailing car in my rearview mirror. His left beam was weaker,
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which led to recognition. After half a mile. Proceeding south on Claremont,
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I swung my car across the road. I got out and was waiting for
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him. It was fumbling for the reverse when I got his door open.
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You're looking for me. Your car is blocking traffic? What traffic? I
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mean? I already missed that. Get out, I said, I said,
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get out. Who do you think you are? Who do you think
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I am? Okay, okay, turn around, all right, Dana.
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I give you that gun. You got a license for him? Who put
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you on me? Wouldn't you like to know? Guy who put you on
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me? You can't get away with beating You're a hood carrying a gun.
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Maybe I never heard I don't like hoods to pull a gun on me.
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I lose my temper with him. Stop it? Who put you on me?
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Ready? I know he owns the Avon Club, Roulette and dice the
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wheel square, but the dice are loaded. Let's go visit, Okay,
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I want to go in my car. No, no, my car.
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The city pays for the gas. The spoiler dried his tears beside me.
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I had thoughts about mister Reddick. The department had been interested in him for
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quite a while. Crooked gambler man had a string of hoods in the payroll,
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A man who may be seen to it that arrival wound up dead in
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the ditch puncture with ice picks. Also a man who liked women, not
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to mention vice versa. Oh me, Spoiler, you I can recognize with
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poton the expression the naked eye. Who's muscles? Lou Dana Benny social call
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Kappa. We'll leave it at then we'll do even better than that Kappa.
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You'll leave now, got a search wanting no goodbye, Coppa. Keep your
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finger off that buzzer. What isn't a raid? I don't care for right
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now? What's going on in the club. I'm visiting Reddick. He ain't
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in. I'm gonna try that again, but stop crowding me, Kapa.
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You don't like crowds, Benny. No, howould you like to join a
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crowd down at the lineup. You've got nothing on me. I can dream,
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Benny about a guy found dead, mad ditch, a guy on the
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receiving end of ice picks. Stanny was trying to muscle in on your boss.
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What's the matter, boy? Don't you boys believe in free enterprise?
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Down the hall? Dinner? Thanks? Come on? Spoiler? Yes,
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speak up, spoiler. Spoiler. Mister Reddi a man sweller. I thought
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you were supposed to. He is trailing me, trailed me right into your
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office. Ready, hellow lieutenant, other side of the door, Spoiler.
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Do we want to be alone? Lieutenant? We do, mister Reddick,
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he's got my ride. Oh, spoiler doesn't feel right without his protection,
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Lieutenant. Here's the license for that gun. Oh, pretty engraving. It's
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a shame I can't read. You could get in trouble taking the spoiler's gun.
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He could get in worse trouble. He's a little careless now that you
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men, mister Dan might fall. He beat up on me. Look at
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my face. It's swallow. I guess as you ever saw this? So
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right? Yeah, did something about it? You sent me after him,
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you know you? Spoiler Yeah, mister Ray Yeah, sure, okay,
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but mister right at you ain't sorry at me? No, I mean I
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couldn't say that. If you were sorry at me, I had out.
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I couldn't help it. If the guy it wouldn't have tried it. If
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I'd had a chance to get a gun on amy. Spoiler, how might
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talk to you? Is your gun? Catch? Now you've got a gun
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on me? I I out spoiler. Yeah, not a strong character,
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the spoiler. It wasn't a character analysis, a spoiler that brought you here.
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No, I don't want any trouble with you, Dan, I realized
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perfectly well that you can make trouble. But perhaps I should remind you that
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my clientele happens to be composed of some of the finest people in the city.
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You mean, the best healed? How was Harold Winthrop these days?
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Harold Winthrop? Oh? Yes, yes, he's patronized the club occasion.
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Mister Winter, Lieutenant is a gentleman of the highest social standing. The last
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time I saw him, he was lying down. Oh, I want a
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gun, Reddick, lose your own. The gun I want has two bullets
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missing bullets that wound up in Wintrop's chest. Oh, yes, yes,
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I can see why you would want that gun. Tell me where were you
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tonight at ten thirty reading a good book? How many witnesses? Three?
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I think the Spoiler Benny. Who's a third Claire Thorpe. Oh, she's
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the little blonde girl, isn't she. I heard tell you used to play
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together. She's the girl you picked up and booked Lieutenant at ten thirty.
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Ten forty Criminal Street is only a few blocks from here. Yeah, I
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hadn't realized that. Think about it. Three witnesses for her too, and
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I'm only one dumb copper. Goodnight, Reddick, good night. It was
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dark in the alley back of the gambling club. I was close to my
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car and maybe careless. Oh, they were peeling the layers of black melted
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off man. After a while I got him all off. The place was
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maybe twenty miles outside the city limits. I had a gun in my hand
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to mine. Maybe four feet from me, Spoiler was resting. I got
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up out of the sand and went over to him and decided he wasn't resting.
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A number of bullets had worn him down. Bullets out of my gun.
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I wasn't a good frame. It wasn't intended to be. Spoiler's death
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was insurance nuisance value on a consumed time. Wake up there? Oh hi,
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lieutenant, and right away Claire Thorpe, what about it? I want
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to talk to her. She's been sprung lou the angle maybeas corpus. No
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murder weapon on the premises, No way she could got rid of it.
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D didn't care for Why that's stupid, say Dave? Would you get malone
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on the first aid kit? Blug's tickling in the back of my neck?
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Hotly Macrol? Who slugged you, little boy? Blue? One thing more?
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Locate Winthrop's lawyer, find out who inherits hunh wellever you say? First
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thing in the morning. No, no, no tonight? He who was
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assigned to Clare Thorpe. Nobody's Taylor. We didn't think it was nobody.
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But find her, pappy, and find her quick. I sat around headquarters
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and waited. Bunty of reports came in. The weather was going to be
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fine tomorrow, Captain O'Malley a baby over in the sixteenth precinct. Missus Winthrop
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was the sole heir of the Winthrop estate. Nothing on claire Thorpe. The
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Department would turn her up in time, but I got tired of waiting.
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Maybe she'd gone back to the house on the Terminal Street. Oh, claire
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Thorpe had gone back to the house on Terminal Street, or keeps. I
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phoned the sergeant and I sat on a flimsy bench in front of the vanity,
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staring at my bandage in the mirror, stirring the Rochelle powder in the
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open box on the table. Claire Thorpe starting when the finger print boys and
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the meat wagon got there, I got out fast. By the time I
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got the reddis Club, the finest people he'd mentioned had gone home. I'm
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afraid you're a little late. Well, you're not kidding. I mean the
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club's closing. All these mink coats and no roulette. Yes, sir,
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my badge is going to look good compared to the gold braide you've got in
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your Eppelets a hop, Lieutenant Dan, if you want to be for him.
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I didn't not theree any other cops around there aren't any. But if
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this is a ray, it isn't all I wants, Reddick. He's busy,
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He's going to be busier. Look, Lieutenant, I don't want to
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get into this. I got a job. It pays off. You don't
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have to get into it. Where are they Well office down the hallway from
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the main room. But I didn't tell you. See, you didn't tell
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me. I like him, mister Redick. I love Brandy. Good evening,
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Dear dear Lieutenant lou Dana. Glad you remembered me from the last time.
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Betty. Take your hand out of your pocket shore copper, see gone,
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you got a license for it? Never mind, mister Reddick, will
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have one on file enough, Lieutenant, makes it nice and legal, checking
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in all the guns in the city of Lieutenant. Oh, I got a
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report for you from the Bureau of Vital Statistics. Indeed, yeah, yeah,
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indeed, the population of the city's dropped within the last couple of hours
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by two two. The spoiler. But that wouldn't be news to you,
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he said, two. Oh. Imagine my forgetting Claire Thorpe. Claire dead
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as dead as they ever get, and they get very dead. Redick.
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You had her sprung, yes, but that was brought her out in the
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open, the open, it's a good place to get shot. You have
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to do any further talk in my attorney. Oh, why don't you stop.
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I haven't got to wear ass on me, Harold Winthrop, the spoiler,
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Claire Thorpe. Let's think about the spoiler, Redick. He was my
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boy. Jappened to know he was dead. I don't bother Benny told you
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how, Benny, No, Benny shot him with my gun. Any wise,
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cop, I wasn't nice, especially when you had a gun of your
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own licensed and all spoiler fell down on the job. He let me spot
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him trailing me. He wasn't a strong character, so he died. You're
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doing fine. The rest is tougher, Reddick. You never were a big
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man, Now you are. I'll come. Meret is always recognized and reward.
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Oh yeah, in the copy books you moved up. When the heavy
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money boys started dropping in at your club. Why they were treated properly.
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They were rob blind. But what made them suddenly decide you were a nice
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boy to play with? Huh? Oh? No, wait, and I
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don't bother thinking up the answer. We got it from a Stooley weeks ago.
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The name is Winthrop, one of the oldest and classiest names in the
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city. I was proud to be numbered among his friends that case. Then
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you're the one to ask, what was a guy like that doing in a
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house in Terminal Street? Tenants you've seen Claire? Oh yeah, sure.
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Right after Winthrop was killed, she made a break from the house and ran
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into me. I took her back inside. Ready, before I did,
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she stumbled over a garbage can. Must have been nervous. Poor girl was
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smart. You know what she did. Ready, she got rid of a
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hot gun in that garbage can. Then all you had to do was search
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it. At the time, I couldn't know out the gun. Afterwards,
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all I came up with was garbage, just like a cop. She stuck
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her neck out. Why she was in love with you, That's why she
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must have thought she was covering for you. You had the house staked out.
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Somebody spotted her act fished the gun out of the can. That was
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Bennie. No, it was this correction spoiler. Who do I get for
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him? Reddick? Actually, as I told you before, I know nothing
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about the spoiler's death. It's a blow to me, Dana, a Faery's
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blow. I don't think you realize how much of a blow. They let
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a cessory smell of cyanaid gas just as quick as killers. I wasn't more
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enduring it after the fact, Reddick, No, I don't. What do
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I get for the spoiler Dana? I will admit that, well, one
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of my employees may have lost his head. Shut up, red I wouldn't
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know, of course, true, Benny did happen to go out for a
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while? What time was the spoilers shot? Roughly? That roughly is when
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Benny went out, mister Reddick, don't do that, well, Benny,
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I'm sorry. I'll get you the finest lawyer. You needn't worry about his
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fee. I'll take care of that. We must be sensible about this,
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Benny. I can help you dying. Let's have your gun, Benny.
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Why don't you come and get it? Copper? All right? I will
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better stop right with you are a copper. Maybe it ain't supposed to be
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smart blasting a cup. I want your gun, Benny, all right?
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Another step, just one step more, you get it. I don't mean
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the rod eater. I mean bullets and your belly. Your gun, Benny,
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No matter no matter what's wrong with you, you think bullets won't hit
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you you think you're different from other guys just because you're a cup. Well,
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you stop moving in on me. What's wrong with you? You?
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I'm lou Dana. Benny, all right, all right? Take it.
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I don't know, Benny, pick it up, hand it to me.
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Oh, thank you, Benny. You're coming with us? What all right,
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Lieutenant, I'll be glad to of course, it's only for a little
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while. I'll leave between you and the District Attorney's office. One thing more,
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Yeah, the other gun, Reddick, the one that was used on
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Winthrop. You're sure I have got it? What kind of a question is
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that? All right, Dana, it's in the drawer. Bet it.
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I'll take it. Be careful, don't take the handkerchief off that gun.
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They don't worry. I'll keep it warm. I took him down when the
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desk sergeant made marks on his brand new blotter. Benny Corolla alias Benjamin Carter
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alias Benjamin Wild, along with Vincent Reddick, was charged with murder the murder
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of a man referred to as the spoiler. We left the other desks off
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the blodder. A man can die only once, and then I got my
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shoes shined. Come in, Lieutenant, Dana, you'll have to overlook my
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dressing gown. I was just about to go to bed. I'm sorry,
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missus Winter. Lieutenant what's your first name? Oh? Why? I don't
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know. I just wanted to I don't know. That's not important. Let's
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not discuss things being important or are you being unkind and trying to remind me
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that I thought Mozart's thirty ninth was Indeed, Mozart's dead, yes, and
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so is my husband. But won't you call me Kate anyway? All right,
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never mind, I know you're here on business. All right, Lieutenant.
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You found out that I inherit Harrold's estate, haven't you. Yes,
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that's why you're here, isn't it? If that's for me? Yes,
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Babby uh? If I am all right, go back to sleep. What
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was that? Lieutenant? Further checked to find out just what it was you
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inherit, and you found out Harold Winter paid nothing to his name but the
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silk socks he died in. That's true. He wasn't killed because of anything.
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Anybody would inherit from him. Thank you. And now I suppose I
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don't interest you anymore in the line of duty, so he'll be going away.
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I like to tell you something first. All right, and your husband
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got shot. A girl named Claire Thorpe gave the gun that did the killing
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to Reddick. She was in love with him. She thought she thought that
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he'd killed her husband. I got that gun from Reddick was carefully wrapped in
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a handkerchief. Does that mean something? It means Reddick didn't shoot your husband.
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He would have been careful about preserving the prince on that gun if he
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had. You've got more to tell me. Yeah, way had set up.
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Your husband and Claire Thorpe were keeping house on Terminal Street. Your husband
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was steering all his rich friends to the Avon Club for a split of the
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take. Yeah, I can't believe that of Harold. Oh it's true,
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I suppose, but it isn't true. It isn't. But then somebody was
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keeping house on Terminal Street. Sure, but it wasn't Claire Thorpe because she
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had the whitest skin on a woman I've ever seen. I'm not especially interested
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in miss Thillip's attractions. On the vanity table in that house, there was
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a box of face powder. Rochelle bonds with very white skin. Don't use
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Rochelle brunettes. Do a brunette was keeping house with someone on Terminal Street.
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You're a brunette, Missus Winthrop. You were keeping house on Terminal Streak with
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Reddick. No, your husband found you there, didn't he? And all
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he found was death. I I don't think I'm going to say anything.
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Wouldn't do any good. We've got a date with the desk sergeant Missus Winter,
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all right. But he wouldn't want to take a girl to headquarters in
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her night clothes, would you? No? I wouldn't any won't mind if
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I get dressed in my bedroom? No, you shouldn't have ripped my dressing
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gown off. I had to make sure you were wearing street clothes underneath.
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You are. Claire Thorpe was killed only a little while ago. That finishes
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it, all right, But I wish you'd take your head off indoors,
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Lieutenant Dana. I'm sorry, Let's go, Katie. Katherine Winthrop was booked
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at the fourteenth Precinct for the murder of her husband Harolin for the murder of
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Claire Thorpe. Her prints on the murder gun clinched it. We gave her
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a file card and a number, and the eyes the warm lips the hair
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man and give his soul to get his hands on. Didn't mean a thing.
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I don't like killers. You have just heard the man from Homicide starring
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Charles McGraw. Mister McGraw appears by arrangement with RKO Radio Pictures Incorporated and will
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soon be seen starring in the Target. The script was written by Lewis Vitties
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and was produced and directed by Helen Mack. Music was composed and conducted by
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Robert Armbrewster. In tonight's cast, Reddick was played by James Bacchus, Kate
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Winthrop, John Banks, Benny Larry Dobkin, Claire Thorpe, Maggie Morley,
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Spoiler, Lamar Johnson, the Sergeant, I'm Tully, the Doorman, Harvey
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Q. Bryant, and Lieutenant Lou Dana Charles McGrath. Welcome back. Well
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a truly hard boiled portrayal here, and as portrayed, Dana definitely has ice
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water in his vein the kind of a tender sign. It kind of feels
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like a somewhat harder version of Broadway as my Beat. An interesting portrayal and
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also a very solid cast. One notable name was Jim Bacchus was known to
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most people who remember him as mister Howell on Gilligan's Island, but he also
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had had a rich history in radio, creating all of these amazing characters.
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I've mostly heard him in a comedy, but he's definitely did well in a
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dramatical and also found in that he starred in a few episodes of Casey Crime
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Photographer, but those episodes are actually lost. Well, that will do it
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for today. Join us back here tomorrow for the adventures of Philip Marlow,
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and next week we'll get into the episodes of Man from Homicide that were actually
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