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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Ugly Pattern Matter (EP1693) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: dot Com. First. Well, now it's time for today's episode
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  Speaker 1: of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar. Original air date June the
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine, nineteen fifty eight, and the title is The
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  Speaker 1: Ugly Pattern Matter from Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: It's time now, Paul.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny Dollar.
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  Speaker 4: This is very winters at Master's Insurance and Trust.
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  Speaker 3: Oh hi, baris sure, Johnny, because.
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  Speaker 4: We don't usually have trouble with our accounts.
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  Speaker 3: You mean you didn't until now?
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I'm fraid that's about the size of it,
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  Speaker 4: and this time it's bad. Trumble.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me on.
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  Speaker 4: Simplex Tackle Company, Johnny over.
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  Speaker 5: In Dan Murray Fishing Tackle. That's right, I'll come. I
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  Speaker 5: never heard them a.
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  Speaker 4: Little small outfit to kind of glorified partnership.
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  Speaker 3: What's that mean?
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  Speaker 4: What's owned by nine men? One of them Hanley Thomas's president.
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  Speaker 4: The others are secretary treasurer and a flock of vice president.
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  Speaker 3: So what's happened?
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  Speaker 4: The nine of them, plus the twenty or thirty workers
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  Speaker 4: of the plant were all covered by a group life
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  Speaker 4: insurance deal.
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  Speaker 3: And listen, yeah, we've just had.
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  Speaker 4: To pay off on three holicies in a row.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's too bad. But why call on me?
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  Speaker 4: Because Johnny, why those three deaths were all murders.
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  Speaker 6: Wob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
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  Speaker 6: the Action Packed Expenserve caud America's fabulous Freeliance Insurance.
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  Speaker 5: Investigators, Truly Johnny Dollar, and now act one of yours,
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  Speaker 5: Truly Johnny Dollar, expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny
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  Speaker 5: Dollar the Master's Insurance and Trust Company Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut,
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  Speaker 5: following us an account of expenses incurred during my investigation
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  Speaker 5: of the ugly pattern matter expense account at a one
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  Speaker 5: a dollar even taxi the Burry Winner's office at Master's
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  Speaker 5: where I hoped he could give me something more to
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  Speaker 5: work on than he had over the phone. And you
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  Speaker 5: know something, as it turned out, he gave me a
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  Speaker 5: lot more than he thought he did.
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  Speaker 3: Police.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, they've been working on these murders, Johnny, but they
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  Speaker 5: haven't come up with anything except the theory that one
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  Speaker 5: man is behind them all. Why very Because the victims
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  Speaker 5: have all been members of the Simplex Tackle Company. Well,
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  Speaker 5: but because they've all occurred within a month, because each
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  Speaker 5: of them occurred on a Wednesday pattern. Huh, that's right.
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  Speaker 5: And also, Johnny, because there's been no apparent reason for
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  Speaker 5: any of them. Have the police found anything, nothing, same
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  Speaker 5: kind of weapon used in each case?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 5: The first was a VP named Adams run over by
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  Speaker 5: a car. Sure it was an accidental, the police say no.
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  Speaker 5: The second, John Bowers, was strangled and Frank Dalwars was
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  Speaker 5: shot in his own home of there, I mean in
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  Speaker 5: the way they occurred. Apparently not, but Hanley Thomas and
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  Speaker 5: the police don't agree.
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  Speaker 3: Thomas is president of Simplex, she.
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  Speaker 5: Said, and a real financial wizard, used to be a promoter.
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  Speaker 5: Not much ethics, but a sharp businessman. As a friend
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  Speaker 5: or a partner, I imagine he's well, he's a fine man. Here,
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  Speaker 5: I'll give you a complete list of the officers of
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  Speaker 5: the company, their rank and their salary. Well, I don't
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  Speaker 5: know exactly what good that will. Here you are and
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  Speaker 5: this is a list of the employees. Have those employees?
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  Speaker 5: Alvin checked down Sergeant Dennis over there at homicide made
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  Speaker 5: quite a point of it, so did mister Thomas. Oh
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  Speaker 5: why don't I run over there and talk with them?
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  Speaker 5: And of the Danbury police. Yeah, I think you'd better,
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  Speaker 5: and John me, the sooner the better. Why do you
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  Speaker 5: say that the pattern? There are still six officers left
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  Speaker 5: in that company, That is, six were still alive. Item
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  Speaker 5: two another buck for a cab back to my apartment.
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  Speaker 5: There I picked up my own car, and from here
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  Speaker 5: on end the charge will be for mileage except for
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  Speaker 5: Adam three four and a quarter for tank of mobile gas.
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  Speaker 3: It was almost noom.
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  Speaker 5: By the time, I'd covered the sixty ydd miles of
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  Speaker 5: the simplex factory on the far edge of Danbury, so
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  Speaker 5: my surprise was quite a plant, new and modern in
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  Speaker 5: every way. A receptionist took my card. A few minutes
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  Speaker 5: later I was ushered into the office of Hanley Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: President.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, this is a terrible thing. Adams, Bowers, Frank Dowbers
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  Speaker 5: all within a few weeks. Verry Winters, back in Hartford,
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  Speaker 5: seems to think these murders have all been the work
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  Speaker 5: of one man Polish and I concur in that theory's
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  Speaker 5: been the sort of pattern followed with the crazy killer,
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  Speaker 5: but not an actual method. Miss Thomas, Oh no, I'll
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  Speaker 5: grant you that's true for our accident strangling pistol shot.
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  Speaker 5: But they were done by someone who must have been
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  Speaker 5: very permitted with his victim. How do you mean, someone
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  Speaker 5: who knew, for instance, that Ben Adams took a long
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  Speaker 5: walk alone each night, he knew the route that he took.
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  Speaker 5: Same thing applied to the second victim. John Bowers always
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  Speaker 5: drove to work through the little woods. There he was
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  Speaker 5: stopped and strangled. Frank Delvers always stayed at home alone
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  Speaker 5: on Wednesday nights while his wife was out laying bridge.
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  Speaker 3: Someone broke in on him. Huh had the police checked that?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it was someone he must have let in, In
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  Speaker 5: other words, someone he knew.
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  Speaker 3: That's a possibility. I suppose. I understand you've checked.
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  Speaker 5: On all your employees, yesh, right off the bat, as
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  Speaker 5: much as we, or rather as much as the police could.
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  Speaker 3: Any particular reason to suspect one of them.
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  Speaker 5: Well, only because they were all in position to know
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  Speaker 5: these men pretty well, know their habits.
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  Speaker 3: We're a small company, mister Dollar.
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  Speaker 5: Our employees, including the girls in the office only number
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  Speaker 5: twenty one.
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  Speaker 3: That was your only reason to think one of them
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  Speaker 3: may have done it. Oh, of course we.
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  Speaker 5: Had our share of labor troubles, a few dissidents in
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  Speaker 5: the ranks, so to speak. I suppose some of them
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  Speaker 5: resent the rather top hand the management here. You mean
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  Speaker 5: the fact there are nine executives to only twenty one employees. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: and I must confess the profits have been pretty good lately.
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  Speaker 5: Barry Winners gave me a list of here it is
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  Speaker 5: now according to this, all of these.
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  Speaker 3: What is it, mister Dowet. I got thinking on the
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  Speaker 3: way over here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, part of the pattern you mentioned the three men
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  Speaker 5: were killed in well in alphabetical order, Yes, Adams, Bowers, Dalvers.
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  Speaker 5: But now that I look at this list again, of
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  Speaker 5: course the pattern again, No, no, I think that was
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  Speaker 5: just coincidence. The pattern, if there is one, is based
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  Speaker 5: on their order of rank. That is, if these salary
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  Speaker 5: figures mean anything. I'm not sure I understand how Look
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  Speaker 5: first was Adams at the lowest salary among you officers?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Adams received twelve year Yeah. Look, Bowers came in
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  Speaker 5: next to thirteen to five.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, and Frank Dowvers aren't fifteen thousands.
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  Speaker 5: So if this pattern should continue, you mean to say
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  Speaker 5: you think there might be more of these murders. If
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  Speaker 5: this pattern continues, the next to go would be good
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  Speaker 5: Him would be James Williams or Charles Hart, both earning
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  Speaker 5: sixteen to five. Then a couple of more than you,
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  Speaker 5: mister Thomas, mister dollars. Well, I find James Williams. Well,
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  Speaker 5: Williams is on vacation the little place not far from here,
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  Speaker 5: Parvin's pond.
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  Speaker 3: Why did he leave last week on Monday? Have you
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  Speaker 3: heard from him? Oh? No, I haven't been.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, if the alphabetical pattern is the right theory,
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  Speaker 5: excuse me, Yes, sergeant, Then as Thomas's a sergeant, that
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  Speaker 5: homicide mister Dowgs, I hear hold the phone, Thomas, Yes, sergeant.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid I have some bad news.
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  Speaker 5: William Oh, another one of your partners, Williams's, John Williams, Yes,
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  Speaker 5: discovered his body over at Parvin's Pond this morning.
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  Speaker 2: It's been murdered, good lord, Act two of yours, truly
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar in a moment.
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  Speaker 5: Now Act two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar. And the
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  Speaker 5: ugly pattern matter, another of the executives of the Simplex
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  Speaker 5: Tackle Company, murdered legend to death and his little vacation
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  Speaker 5: cabin on Parvin's Pond some forty miles north of Danbury.
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  Speaker 3: And again it was according to pattern. How those carefree.
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  Speaker 5: Kids can fish and water ski out there when there's
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  Speaker 5: been a murder right under their noses.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sergeant, I know what you mean, mister mister Williams
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  Speaker 3: was using.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, he came up here on his vacation Monday
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  Speaker 5: morning last week.
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  Speaker 3: Alone.
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  Speaker 5: Eh, here we are who knew he was coming to
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  Speaker 5: this particular spots? Why everybody down at the planet. I
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  Speaker 5: guess now the way the doc and I figured it out.
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  Speaker 5: Mister Williams had just come in from fishing, and you
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  Speaker 5: see there he'd just tossed his riding stringer.
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  Speaker 3: On the bed.
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  Speaker 5: Everything's just the way it was, except for his body.
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  Speaker 5: That's in Danbury at the corner. You said he was
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  Speaker 5: bludgeoned the desk with that ore.
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  Speaker 3: From his rowboat. And see it laying there on the floor. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I see who found his body?
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  Speaker 5: Little old lady from the cabin next door. She'd stop
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  Speaker 5: by this morning to bring him some cookies. Knocked on
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  Speaker 5: the door. The door swung open, and there he was.
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  Speaker 5: And the doc says the body was lying there ever since.
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  Speaker 3: Have you checked that ore for Prince? A killer must
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  Speaker 3: have used gloves, What about footprints if there were any?
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  Speaker 5: Of the vacation crowd tramped him out long before we
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  Speaker 5: got here. Now, the way we figure is that he
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  Speaker 5: came in here Wednesday night off the lake Wednesday, Yes,
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  Speaker 5: mister Dollar, just like the other ones that happened on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 5: We can go tomorrow. Pattern, yes, sir, he asked me.
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  Speaker 5: It's the pattern of a madman, this being a Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: And what possible motive could there be for it?
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  Speaker 4: He asked me.
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  Speaker 5: It's one of the employees there at the plant. After all,
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  Speaker 5: for such a small a company, nine big money making officers.
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  Speaker 5: At least it was nine.
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  Speaker 3: I know what you mean. Are those twenty one employees
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  Speaker 3: paid pretty well? Nope, in spite of the company making
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  Speaker 3: a lot of money.
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  Speaker 5: What with this recession we're on radio signs man, most
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  Speaker 5: of the so called recessions a lot of bump.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody get out and dig instead of sitting around hoarding
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  Speaker 5: their money. Well, what I was going to say is
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  Speaker 5: that those executives took advantage and I held down wages
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  Speaker 5: in spite of all the money they're making.
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  Speaker 3: So just split one crazy hothead.
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  Speaker 5: Find out how good they're doing.
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  Speaker 4: How well?
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  Speaker 5: Have you checked those employees? The best we could. I
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  Speaker 5: talked with every one of them myself. How about the
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  Speaker 5: officers of the company. There's not one of them would
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  Speaker 5: do a thing like that. They're all fine, man asked
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  Speaker 5: mister Thomas. You're they're hard headed businessmen, everyone looking out
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  Speaker 5: for himself. But they're all fine men, and they're all making.
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  Speaker 3: Plenty of money. Oh, which reminds me, what's that mean?
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  Speaker 5: A list of the officers and their salaries, and according
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  Speaker 5: to this if there's to.
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  Speaker 3: Be another victim. Not.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I've worked out on another step in the pattern
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  Speaker 5: of these murders based on the earnings of these men.
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  Speaker 3: Then, mister Dollar, it won't be anybody if I can
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  Speaker 3: have it.
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  Speaker 5: But Sergeant I may have to ask you to put
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  Speaker 5: a twenty four hour watch over an officer of that
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  Speaker 5: company name mister Charles Hart. I didn't bother explaining my
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  Speaker 5: own idea the pattern to Sergeant Dennis. After all, my
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  Speaker 5: theory could be wrong. But I drove back to the
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  Speaker 5: Simplex factory to the office of Charles Hart. I found
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  Speaker 5: only a secretary there.
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  Speaker 7: No, he isn't here, mister Dalla. He perfectly honest about it.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Hasn't he been in at all today? No, sir, hasn't
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  Speaker 3: an in. It's about last Wednesday.
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  Speaker 5: Look, whatever your name is. Have you called his home?
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  Speaker 5: His wife a bachelor.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Dollar, and lives in a little apartment in Danbray.
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  Speaker 3: Have you tried to call him?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: No, sir, You see, mister Thomas know about his not
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  Speaker 3: being here. There's nothing unusual about Charlie's leaving without telling us.
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  Speaker 3: Mimas Thomas. He often goes off on sales trips like this.
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  Speaker 3: It was the last scene the day mister Williams was killed. Well,
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  Speaker 3: surely you.
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  Speaker 5: Don't think Charlie Hart had anything to do with Jim
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  Speaker 5: Williams being Oh did you find out anything.
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  Speaker 3: Over Parvin's pond? No, not much of them, right?
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  Speaker 5: Could this Charlie Hard have had any reason for wanting
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  Speaker 5: Williams out of the organization and Adams and Bowers and Dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Of course not. Yes, yes he could. What miss Gregg,
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  Speaker 3: what do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 7: Mister Hart was the one who built up this company,
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  Speaker 7: the one who developed the products, but all his money
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  Speaker 7: just to He's the one who sold all the products
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  Speaker 7: that made all the money. He and mister Adams were
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  Speaker 7: the ones who started the business.
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  Speaker 3: Is that true, mister Thomas? Yes, of course.
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  Speaker 7: And when mister Thomas and his relatives came along, Mis.
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  Speaker 3: Greg she says, it's true, mister Dollar. Charlie Hart and
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  Speaker 3: Ben Adams did start this business. They took on a
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  Speaker 3: couple of partners, Al Bauers and Frank Delvers. They were
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  Speaker 3: the ones who decided on the expansion program. He came
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  Speaker 3: to us for the financing and the others gone.
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  Speaker 7: It should have been mister.
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  Speaker 3: Wit our financing made this present operation possible.
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  Speaker 5: But to imply that Charlie could have been driven by
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  Speaker 5: jealousy or where any other movie to commit these crimes,
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  Speaker 5: that's absurd.
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  Speaker 3: How could you suggest such a thing this break. I
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  Speaker 3: didn't say he did it. I only know what you said,
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  Speaker 3: and you've set it up.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me one thing is Thomas, Yes, what happens to
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  Speaker 5: his share of the business when one of the partners
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  Speaker 5: dies or in this case, when he's murdered.
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  Speaker 3: What the partners absorb his share?
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  Speaker 5: Then if Charlie Hart eliminated one of you, it would
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  Speaker 5: add to his holdings.
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  Speaker 3: That's true. Okay, I'll see you later.
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  Speaker 5: But mister Dollary, if you believe for one moment that
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  Speaker 5: Charlie Hart I've.
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  Speaker 3: Known him for a year. Yeah, I think I want
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  Speaker 3: to know him a little better.
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  Speaker 6: Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment?
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  Speaker 8: Do you know who said democracy is based upon the
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  Speaker 8: conviction that there are extraordinary possibility in ordinary people. Those
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  Speaker 8: words came from the American religious leader Harry Emerson Fosda.
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  Speaker 8: From the earliest days of the United States of America,
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  Speaker 8: there has been the sentiment that the average person can
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  Speaker 8: achieve an important goal if he has given an environment
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  Speaker 8: in which he can develop his capabilities to the fullest extent,
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  Speaker 8: an environment in which the individual is given the rights
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  Speaker 8: and privileges that he needs for development. It is the
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  Speaker 8: duty of every American to protect and stimulate this environment.
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  Speaker 8: Remember the words of Harry Emerson Fosdik. They are part
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  Speaker 8: of your American heritage. The extraordinary possibilities of ordinary people
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  Speaker 8: are inherent in American democracy.
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  Speaker 5: And now act free of yours, Truly, Johnny Dollar and
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  Speaker 5: the ugly pattern matters. It was pretty plain that Charlie Hart,
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  Speaker 5: supposedly next on the list victims, had plenty of motive
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  Speaker 5: for eliminating some of his partners in the Simplex Tackle Company.
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  Speaker 3: I guess the same apply to any other member of
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  Speaker 3: the company.
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  Speaker 5: But he, having started the business, knew all about the others,
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  Speaker 5: their plans, their habits, and he'd been last seen just prior.
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  Speaker 3: To the murder of James Williams.
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  Speaker 5: I got his address, hopped into my car and go
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  Speaker 5: back to Danvery. But ringing his bell and punning on
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  Speaker 5: his door got me nothing. Here here, a young man,
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  Speaker 5: you want mister Hart to publify them, as are you?
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  Speaker 5: The building superintendent? And I want you to let me
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  Speaker 5: in the mister Heart's apartment.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Here, here are my contencials. I'm an insurance investigator.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, see jurnay dollars for sure. And if that
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  Speaker 3: isn't enough, here's a five spot via Trouble ten. Will okay, dad? Thanks?
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmmm mm hmmm mm hmmm h m hm hm
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  Speaker 3: hm the same list. And I got the office. Huh
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  Speaker 3: the company, mister Charlie. Did a look behind the door,
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  Speaker 3: and you barged in here. Yeah, well look, would you
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  Speaker 3: like to point that thing the other way please? I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 3: mister dollar, of course. Well you know who I am. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 3: I heard you through the door. All right.
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  Speaker 5: Is that the gun that killed one of your partners,
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  Speaker 5: that killed one of my No, listen, tomorrow's another Wednesday. Wednesdays.
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I did that list your holding.
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  Speaker 9: I finally realized the progression in which these murders are
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  Speaker 9: happening on the basis of our salaries at the company. Adams, Flowers,
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  Speaker 9: Dolvers and Williams are me. Yes, you've circled William's name. Yes,
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  Speaker 9: because he got it last week. That's why I'm staying
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  Speaker 9: in here, locked in because tomorrow with the killers likes again,
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  Speaker 9: that crazy maniac killing.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe, or maybe that's what he like everyone to think. Charlie.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of questions, anything if I can help you
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  Speaker 3: stop this.
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  Speaker 5: That company was once yours. That's right, you're the boss,
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  Speaker 5: the head man until Hanley Thomas came along. Yes, Hanley
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  Speaker 5: and his brothers and his brother in law, and they
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  Speaker 5: took over as first in rank.
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  Speaker 3: They were entitled to Della. Why was there money? Made
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  Speaker 3: the company what it is?
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  Speaker 9: I'm not an administrator, a man who knows and plays
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  Speaker 9: all the angle time.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just a worker in a sales room. You mean
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  Speaker 3: you you're content with the present set up?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, yes, of course, in spite of the prodding of
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  Speaker 9: a sweet old secretary who thinks that eit a minute.
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  Speaker 5: You stay put, keep that gun, and don't move out
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  Speaker 5: of this apartment until I tell you to, no matter
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  Speaker 5: who comes to the door to.
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  Speaker 3: Save your life.
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  Speaker 5: You think you know, Charlie, it's been right on my nose,
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  Speaker 5: the obvious, almost too obvious.
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  Speaker 3: But I had no proof of anything, only hunch, but
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  Speaker 3: a potent one. So how to prove it out? Bluff?
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  Speaker 3: It might work if I was right.
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  Speaker 5: I drove into police headquarters and picked up Sergeant Dennis
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  Speaker 5: than out for the Simplex Tackle Company. But when I
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  Speaker 5: walked in it was after hours, no secretaries about When
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  Speaker 5: I walked into the office, I borrowed the sergeant's handcuffs
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  Speaker 5: and made him wait outside as he grew to the door.
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  Speaker 3: Well, mister daughter, I didn't expect you back seas. What
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  Speaker 3: are the handcuffs me? I mean arrest for the murder
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  Speaker 3: of your partners.
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  Speaker 5: That's a very bad joke, you and your brothers and
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  Speaker 5: brother in law, the whole company yours, once you got
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  Speaker 5: rid of the men who started it, who made it
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  Speaker 5: possible for your capital and make it pay off.
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  Speaker 3: But tell me you're going to kill off your relatives
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: to one by one.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: This was the most absurd thing cow about your tracks
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: pretty well perfect crimes except for that or you used
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: to kill Williams. Fingerprints as big as life all over
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  Speaker 5: it impossible. I figured the gloves you wore must have
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: had holes in them or have been worn very thin.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: What that you just didn't notice in the excitement of
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: the moment. And when I finally found those gloves, you've
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: been out to my home brand. Second, my own wife
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: confessed that you weren't at home at the time of
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: any of the murders that July.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: She helped me plan the whole thing. And you admit
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: the murders after my bluff about the fingerprints. I see.
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  Speaker 5: Now that you know, you haven't had time to tell anyone. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: there's no one around to hear the shot, mister Dollar.
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  Speaker 3: Oh but I heard a real cleanton quession mister Thomas. Sergeant. No, no,
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  Speaker 3: do that was just to protect myself from this time.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid that kind of talks a little late.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, it is, I got, sergeant. I haven't seen
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: that fast draw except on TV where I landed. There'll
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: be a lot for the courts to work on about
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: who else was involved with Thomas. The sergeant's bullet killed him,
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: by the way, and I'd call it good riddance or
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: at least quick justice.
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  Speaker 3: So expense account.
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  Speaker 5: Total, including a lot of mileage on my car one
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: hundred and one dollars, even remarks why about it? Yours truly,
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  Speaker 5: Johnny Dollar? Yours truly?
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, an interesting episode with a couple of
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  Speaker 1: to a serial killer in Johnny dler Our a villain
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  Speaker 1: But thanks so much for the email. I definitely do
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