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now we will bring you two episodes of police Headquarters, Old Cop and
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the Stolen Braine Attention all sizes, Fianna look after RASA and license number unknown,
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Make unknown leave to be a second person with that wanted in connection with
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the robbery or the third National Banks. So alright, what's going on in
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here? About time? You're waking up? Pop? A mob and the
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great today just cleaned out the plate? Yeah, I heard all the first
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the way he's down on the street, that come hot, putting it up
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here as fast as the good anything I can do on a lieutenant, handle
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the thing that retiring you next month. Pop, you're getting so slow you
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can't even give out a pocket cricket. Get shutting. There's plenty alive left
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these dogs, even if they do bark at times when this happens or just
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a few minutes ago, and then they get away in a big car.
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It all happened so quick. Nobody seemed to have a good idea of what
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happened. Gag, Yeah, how many of them? In order to reports
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Dipper, some sake ten comes, take twel It's more like an army.
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These gangsters are getting a lot of crush down there. Crush. They're getting
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a lot of dough. Yes, me, they won't do them no good.
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These ways they're wooden. Back in the old days, we didn't put
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up those things like this when I was your age, who captain bread and
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fall so many times? I know if my heart, we're looking in a
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changing age. Pop high powered cards, the machine guns. Changed on your
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methods. The reason they're shoving you. They need young blood and young brain.
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Right. Always said you had more brains than your feet. You did
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your head. I used to tell you a pup, but you were Yeah,
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I know. But I'm on the fourth and the retire and you only
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because I wanted to go. Who's on the job. The Pennant Myers another
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young punk, according to you, is in the opposite of president over there
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the mosy and he gives things once over, okay, but if he throws
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you out, don't blame me. I't worries another come hop burned up and
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I hit him about his retirement. Yeah, and depending all his life on
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the forest. Propa Drada died and attire. Look at them go barging into
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that door, locking you on the place. The thanks the for yees see.
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But they're very up shifted from the Federal Reserve to meet these factors.
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I see and oh, hello, Pop, that's aforble. This is not
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the letters pop out of you. Do you sit down on the top.
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I'm right in the middle of this thing. We're at a head. How
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much are you offer perform? Well, just finished up to check uppy.
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It's more than one hundred and ninety outs. Who knew the money was coming
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here? Let's stop it. No one except myself to me that it was
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coming. I was the only one who knew that that money would arrive here
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at exactly five minutes afters Well, what transaction did you make with the Federal
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Reserve? Well, I made the requisitions and the money over my private phone
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about ten o'clock this morning. Ten o'clock Tom looked at the twelve five.
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That mob may fast time. He's unbelievable. I can't understand how the information
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leaks out. Why even if the precaution were sending my own sons with the
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money in my car, Oh sent your son? But yeah, but William,
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that's my tut didn't have any idea that he was going after I did
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him to believe that I was sending him at this little non negotiable security strains
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that no assent was made to take the money while I was in his possession.
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Yes, you tell me as nearly as you can just what happened.
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Well, yeah, I was just coming out of my office when I know
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just what to deer. Rather unusually large number of customers get it about the
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lovelies. Certainly one of the men tried out. It is a stickup.
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Don't anybody reach the alarm? Oh Taylor, that that watchman amailing around the
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corner with the gun in his hand, and it's one of them shopping.
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He's a good friend of mine. How is it? We don't know your
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top You say the whole transaction was made over your private home. Was there
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anyone else in your office at the time. I can't remember the Miss Hues
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was in that time, And no, no, I'm sure she wasn'tout do
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anything shopping. It was almost the lunch hower. You know. It's hugely
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your my secretary, I see. Oh, it's an inside job, someone
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inside this. Thank you about the money transfer. You all about it.
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What's more, they had a gang standing by and readiness for a break like
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this. Thinkable you've been robbed. That's evidence enough for you. But I
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was the only one to know about the money that someone else knew about it.
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That is, unless you had the money stolen yourself. It is highly
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fand agested. George send in the bank and the race took place. I
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don't know, was miss Hughes, I think so, yeah it is.
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I'm sure that. Yes, miss here, I remember distinctly one of the
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sudden wasn't the great in my private office with again and the us just return
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for lunch? She said, this is a shopping tour it was. I
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presume she had lens at the same time. Did Miss Hughes see the bandits?
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Yeah? It was quite a sea the ender the office, missus hid
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it is? Yeah, the brave young lady wasn't it? Would I see
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her? There's no reason for that, Pop, I'm inscitable right now?
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Where is your son? Where? The girl may know? She won't know
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anymore than the rest of these people, didn't like Everyone was standing around here
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like a white image, and the place was thick with alarm. The side.
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I'm busy and you won't mind the no? Okay, oh you miss
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yes, thank you're going out. Yeah, there is more than I can
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send. Michter Forbes has given me the rest of the day off. I
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see. My name is Adams. Adams to the boys station. Mister Forbes
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tells me that one of the bandits sports his way into his office. That's
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right, Well why did he come in? Yeah? There there wasn't any
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money in yell, was there? No? Forbes tards me that you were
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very raised girl. They just threw an ink? Well at the man,
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yes, but what comes in that action? Well, not that tail not
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if you don't care to well, I don't mind telling you, but I
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don't want it in the newspapers. Why did you hit it? Because because
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he kissed me, I can't say that I blame him. And where did
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you hit him? I don't know. On his chest. I think he
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must have got an ink. I mean sure I didn't know it. If
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we can get him, Mister Bob said that you had been out shopping.
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Where were you in motail? Oh? Would you always do your shopping in
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a man's store? No? What, I was buying something, something for
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my brother? You better w'd you buy it? Really? Mister Adams,
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I can't say the sense and all of this. I'm tired. I've had
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more than I can find. I'm going home. I'm sure we had no
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objection to, lad, but I would like to know what you've bought for
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your brother. Well, if you must know, I've bought him a shirt.
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Shut that's funny. You know. If I wasn't a sensible top,
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I'd figured that maybe I had this thing all arranged, that your brother led
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this gang, and you bought a shirt to take place with the one you
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were going to smear up with that intware. You can think what you please,
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TONI would it make any difference if I told you that my brother is
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working in a lumber camp about two thousand miles from here. I can see
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even a dumb top I play that, mister. It would just put more
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questions. Did you get a good look at the man? Yes? And
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I've already given the other officer a full description. Now I'm going home.
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Any objections, all very well, that's a new good, oh opera.
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This is important, all Lieutenant in my eyes, and tell him the top
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Adams is following this. Hue called to see that she is in time.
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That is good, Thank you having me tennant. Nothing new, Mike.
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If you heard from Pop Adam that kind is crazy in the fruit because you're
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sticking around outside the shoes he's a partner of sixty is three o'clock said,
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he's a pree the gang. I'll try to silence him. Well, let
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him have his little fun. He's being retired. That last song calls probably
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run Tommy pool and Tommy free falls? Or who runs who? Who?
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And who freed the corner of substance sponsor or bron bomber? Did you hear
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that? Colom? The prone man step on the night that bred pop adamses
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and he's in trouble. We'll tid him around here. Look tennant, Look
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that's one of these people, right, hey, you yell? You have
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a copper around here? Anybody else sing? Noon? We all heard the
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shots and the woman's screamed. But we want too late to see what happens.
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Everybody says the cart on that great man, He shouldn't look the player
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over there, blood. Here's a cat too. It's tost chap. Looks
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like they plucked them and took them for a ride. There's something else on
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the road, brother. Down there, it's a cold sleeve and there's the
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rest of his cotana head. Come on, Lieutenant hop trying to leave.
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What's the trail? We've got to find it? And follow it. Yeah,
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what'd you find this? Then his head? I got sure that we
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lost the trail back without lampfolds down and down in lieutenant head, it looks
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like a shoe. You need the shoes. Come on, I take it
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easy. We find up where we are. Look, he has a shoe
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right outside of this door. Get your gun. I'm going through it.
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But the love up, tea. Let's never get here. Those guys like
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I got them now. I want to move you mob child in Autolia.
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The whole packet that my grandfriend and he's run for got an hour, two
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weeks to walk from to a phone. Let me buy that room for you,
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all right, I started bleeding now, they's two slugs of my right
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shouldren. When they came up with the girl, the girl's huge. I
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said them here the best they could leaven things for you to follow, And
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I got in here. I slipped in on them. You'd never get here
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today, right, let's huge. Ear. I mean I almost had the
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knocker for a roller lamp posted. I guess you mean got locked in the
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room below. They're sweet. He rung this mob. Yah, at least
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that's better. Just the second LEA Sector inspector Kenney. This is Professor Temple
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at bloom Thiel's University. Okay, here immediately, might want a matter is
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the greatest important? Certainly not things to be wrong that I would rather fair.
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Well, then I will be there in fifteen minutes. Thanks, I'm
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leaving for bloom Thield University on an investigation. Have Adams take over the bed,
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that is, and Inspector Kenny had brought called Professor Richards Jones. Let
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me take your head, inspector, thinker, Pessor Richards is expecting you.
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She'll be right in. Oh, Professor Richards is a woman. Yes,
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you followed her work only now then in the magazine. And perhaps you don't
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know that he's considered one of the greatest brain space. Let's alive. She
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was recently awarded. Oh there you are, Professor Richards. How do you
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do? Shold him? Nothing? Mother, I thought it would be better
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to wait until you arrived. Then we could talk of the story together.
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Very well. Let us be seeing okay, uh, you meaning Professor Mark
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Mathematicians. Yes, he died the day before yesterday, so the paper it
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wasn't new to Scientific World inspective. Professor Mars has been expecting death for the
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past six months he had a very serious forma pocasy. The greatest hot specialist
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in the world have given him up for day. Progress of Professor Mark will
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be a sad blow to sign. However, he may be of greater value
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dead than alive. And how did you mean that? Aren't you getting ahead
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of the story, Martha? So perhaps I asked what I had Professor Temple
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called for to day, Inspectors, if you help us with a very delicate
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situation, tell me true, I shall do that. The situation is precisely
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this. Professor Mark died at four o'clock the day before Yesterday afternoon, at
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five his body was transported to the Williams and Randall Mortuary and in bombed that
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night. The attendant reported leaving the mortuary at midnight. At seven o'clock the
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next morning, the body was gone gone. Yes if the first boss that
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perhaps had had been removed at the corners off, but later investigations showed that
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it had mocked. Why on earth should anyone want to see a body here?
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This note which I received this morning will answer that quest. Leave the
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prepared to aur Agent's the son of twenty five thousand dollars and the body of
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Professor Mark will be returned to you within twenty four hours. I know it
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sounds rather incredible. Space We're prepared to pay the man. But what would
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you want with the Professor Marcu's body? This paper dated six months ago will
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answer that it's rather than I'll read only the part of your intercut, and
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so, in consideration for the above mentioned terms and sipuations, upon my death,
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I agree that my attorney shall deliver to Professor Marca Richards and her associate,
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Professor Alden Temple, the brain for my dead body. Said brain to
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be used in scientific research for the advancement of mankind, signs Professor Adolph Mark.
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There's a document duly signed and sea and the price. The price for
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Professor Mark's brain was fifty thousand dollars to be paid by us to his knee,
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Auntie, you unlawtedly held Professor Marc's brain to be of high that yes,
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I ask what you intended doing with it. Professor Marx was one of
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the most bringed men of the age. His mind was regarded as the most
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highly developed of any man in the human race. It is only natural that
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we, that is, Professor Temple and myself should be interested in securing the
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brain for examination. I see, so the matter of the rain before the
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properer forces and all we had to do was wait for Professor Mark's death,
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which is an editence as an editor caution. Professor Temple suggested that we ensure
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the brain against them insurance. Yes, you see, Professor Marx traveled a
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great deal in spite of his coffee. We were afraid that he might die
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and as collisioner in some accidental manner which would themage a delicate brain cell.
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I see. We accordingly insured the brain of the Athletic company for one hundred
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thousand dollars. Oh, why is that a large amount, Professor Richardson,
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so that we might cover the original fifty thousand we had agreed to pay in
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fifty thousand for the damage to our plans. Oh do you have any idea
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who this person who signs his name tree Vyne is not the flight, do
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you, Professor Temple? No, how many persons preside yourself knew what you
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were intending to do is shoes. We were successful in keeping the details of
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the transaction of the newspapers as it was. One reporter discovered the story,
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and we had some difficulty in persuading him not to prety. No, that's
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an interesting point. Who is the reporter, he's Bird Adams the columns and
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said he unfortunately he knew everything. He was given a duplicate the agreement if
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you see in front of you, but it's not from Professor Markston. And
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how did you succeed in suppressing the news? Well, the Professor Temple gave
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the reporter a gift. I bribe. How much it cost us five hundred
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dollars. I got off cheaply at that. If I know Bird Adams,
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when did it not arrive? Did you think this morning? And you've told
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Noran, I've a decrepted not out. No Ah, Professor Richards, I'll
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do what I can. Don't make the news of this republic until I've had
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a few hours to work on the case. What procedure new contemplating inspector,
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No, honestly the attendant of the mortuary. Then I'll have to talk with
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this keyhold artist Bird Adams, spot pilight of this evening here. Oh you
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know, I take this, Yeah, take a Yeah, here's Bird Adams
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or it is death. It is not the laddest scam. Yeah, sure,
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over Oh, Adam. Well, well, well, i's just my
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old famous spectaginna here I have a chance a lighter as the guy tell me
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what's new? Not so fast, Adam, Oh you mean he didn't come
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here with news and only thirty minutes the headline, Oh, come on,
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expected to be a right guy? Give me some news, you know.
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He whole shirt off the phrase, I'm ruined for your trying of news,
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Adam. We're gonna talk a few minutes right here, I mean in private.
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Oh step pride in here him and the old man said, uh uh,
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that's on your mind, Kenny. I've got the news for you,
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but it's going to cost you sure good. Tell nobody ever called Bert Adams
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the chiefs skate. I pay for my dirt, buy it for the ton
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I know that's the dope. Professor Marx is dead old stuff. I scooped
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the tone and that the day before yesterday, last night, his body was
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stolen from a mortuary downtown. What but the love of Mike, this is
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hot news. Wait, so I rush off a lead on it. Man,
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Not so fast. The news will keep. There's not another paper in
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the country. It was ann mile of it. So much the better you
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don't print the news until you hear my price. What is your price,
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Kenny? I want to know what you had to do with the roomoval of
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the body. Oh so you've been toll ow Professor Richards day and you get
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it while you're answering nothing. I didn't know nothing about it until you told
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me right now. But you were the only one and knew of the deal
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Professor Richards and Professor Temper made for the brain. I know it, but
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I didn't have anything to do with the disappearance. Why did I keep a
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dead body? Why did I do with it? Knowing how badly the professors
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wanted it? You'd got a blackmail and for twenty five thousand dollars. Oh,
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they wouldn't say it as they would and if I don't recover, they'll
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do just that, no kidding. That's given to you a straight kid.
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Even as far as insuring it for one hundred thousand bucks, well, then
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here's a straight dope inspector. I don't know anything about it, not a
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thing. So if I have any other leads, don't waste any time on
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me. The only thing I'm asking you is to let me run the store,
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and you forget the five hundred bucks, Professor Temple, give you a
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kill story of the deal. Well, I didn't run it, did I?
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I won't say anything about it now. You'll only just let me say,
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Inspector, don't you have to keep a body on ice or something for
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forgetting that? Adam? Just you let me run that story. And here's
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what I do for you. I'll take the whole thing and me And do
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you mean inspected? Give me? Yes? He said the light you ask
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him? Not? Pree? You so connected downstairs? Ron, He certainly
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have a nice home here. And sorry I was too late to catch at
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the university. That's quite all right. Do you do much experimenting here?
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You see, we're not well enough to quick. I was wondering. So
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you wanted to see him? Was all? He takes Achilles with you,
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he nest I went to the mortuary. I don't know if I was supposed
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to be an all night attendant. He told me a rather odd story.
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Indeed, yeah, he said that after the morgue attendant laughter, around midnight,
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that he was patrolling one of the corridors when the light went out for
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a minute. He said, the volley was wandering around looking for the fuse.
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He started a pin break in his arms, and then a few minutes
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later the light went on. How long were they off? Only a few
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minutes later he got very sleepy and doze off at the pin break. He
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thought was undottedly a shot in the arms on drug and the body was stolen
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during the time he was asleep. But who could do a thing like that,
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someone with a knowledge of drugst noise? That was like someone in the
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basement, quick bother. Either one of you move into that door open?
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So what are you? Don't move into that door open? Yeah? Respect,
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we have joke. Good right, the old guy's down there. Hey,
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look great there, try to run past me with you by Adams.
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I'm sorry, Professor Richard, you're under arrest for fraud. Just what do
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you mean? Don't you act so innocent? But Inspector Kenny got you to
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call kept out of the base. Knight clip down and I find a nice
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beat restricerator down there with a body of Professor Marx in it. You can't
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do a thing. Oh that's where you're a mistaken. You thought you could
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fool everybody with that note. You thought you could make us believe that somebody
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was holding Professor Marx's body bar ransom and it was a little bit too far
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fetched, right, you are inspector is. As I got to looking around,
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I found out that you couldn't possibly. I have paid fifty thousand dollars
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for the brain it's called for in your agreement. You don't have the money.
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What's more, the university is up to it. The neck and dead
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in the bank is threatening the poor close You thought you could beat the d
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company out of one hundred thousand dollars and the brain designs You stole that,
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buddy, and you know it. Welcome back. You've definitely see some of
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the uh less pleasant parts of previous times. In the first episode uh with
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the police with the police officers comment to the woman witnesses account of being kissed
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by the robber. Also, the other thing with this episode is the voice
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of the policeman. It's something I used to get a lot of comments on
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the Dragnet show where actors would sound really old playing older people, and there
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was case cases for on Dragonet where they were playing you know, retirees and
25:07
things like that. In this case, though, it seems a bit odd
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since this person is a policeman, and similarly even though they're nearing retirement and
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a bit older. Sounded a little feeble to be believable on that. I
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like the second one, the stolen Brain. That was an interesting case with
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a good premise and a not a solution. Again, you have one of
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those stories where the vital solving clue comes from somebody other than the police.
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But it definitely made sense and it was a bold certainly a bold plan because
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they they called the police in on themselves in effect, but that was necessary
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to make it look genuine and above suspicion, and so overall that was a
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pretty good episode. Next week will be our final episodes of Police Headquarters and
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then coming in two weeks we'll be getting in to Dragnet, so lots of
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