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Frank Race: The Adventure of the Talking Bullet (EP0791) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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support of our listeners. Thanks so much for your support. Now it's time
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for today's Adventure of Frank Race, The Adventure of the Talking Bullet. The
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Adventures of Frank Race starring Tom Collin. The War changed many things, the
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face of the earth and the people on it. Before the war, Frank
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Race worked as an attorney. When he traded his law books for the Cloak
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and Tagger of the Oss And when it was over, his former life was
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over too. Adventure had become his business, the Adventures of Frank Race.
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And now we joined Frank Race. While the Adventure of the Talking Bullet,
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Jones Beach and the Portable Radio That's the only logical escape from a sultray summer
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night and the breathless heat of a Manhattan apartments. Lying there on the sand
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with Mark Dunovan. I took my comfort and saw us from the radio by
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out one of the classic Biden stations, which featured a fine pianist addicted to
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Beethoven. Look, I know it's hard enough for everybody to be dead,
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but we also got to listen to this funeral news market at times, and
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I think you have no soul. And there are times when I think you've
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got no ease. There's long hair stuff whenever I'm up. Anything. Well,
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you've got to do is twin a little dial and get some real music.
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Cab callowe. You just touch that dial and I'll break your arm.
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Okay, Okay. If you don't want people to think you're a square,
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you better get weird or a those program or a special news back que Mark
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stay prisoner Poles, who had been keeping the story under wraps, just admitted
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that Blackie Mark, convicted murderer, made his escape from state prison early this
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evening, just a few hours before his scheduled execution. Cow officials finally released
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the story when local police disposed that Judge Robin Dexter, who presided at Martin's
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trial and who sentenced the bank hold up killer to the electric chair, was
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found dead in his chambers at the courthouse just a few moments ago. At
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the time of his sentence, Martin swore in the courtroom that he would escape
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and kill the judge and juryman and the witnesses who appeared against him. Stay
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tuned to the station for further development. All right, Mark TENI Brunn that
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Blackie Martin is sure not to playoff. He ain't Westing old time. No,
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he isn't. Means a lot of people wouldn't be sleeping tonight. Even
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it was cool with that guy after him. He said he'd get his wife
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a turned against him and Graham e columnist and holy cow race yo yo.
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He said he was going to kill you tool for bringing him in mind,
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I'm sure I'm right up near the top of Blackie Martin's list. You better
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drive me home. A man already convicted of murder doesn't have much to lose.
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I kept thinking of that as Mark drove me back to town. Martin
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strangled a bank night watchman and another life or two. Either way, it
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wasn't going to make much difference to him. But by the time I got
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home, most of my thoughts concerned the thank you, I'll sleep welcome home.
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Race. I am invited guests to see it comfortably in an armchair in
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an open window, if you had to be completely relaxed except for his right
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hand just clasping the forty five very tightly. And I could see the bluebo
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games posting in this surprise race. Well not exactly black a man, but
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who has been getting your exploits complete coverage? I didn't like it up the
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river. You shouldn't have been so impatient you going out tonight anyhow, I'm
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so lazy tonight I'd want to walk that last miles too. Wow to be
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electric citing. If I hadn't be warmer. Here there's a dragon that out
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for you all over town. I'm not in it yet, and stop engineering
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that desk. If you want to sit down, sit over there, or
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I can watch it thanks to the hospitality, even if it is my own
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home. I want some information racing. Where's my wife all the way?
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I don't know. I haven't seen since try. She isn't singing any of
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the clubs around town, not any of the ones she used to play.
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I've been checking them on the phone while I'm waiting for you. I got
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something to settle with that day. Never was Nancy plans to get married again
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Black him after you're eliminated someone else? What are you? What are you
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jumping? You didn't see her, Obert Walker Graham columnist, to cover your
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trail, that's it. That's why she spilled the story of that bank job
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to the Yellow paper. Works for that don't get job with that gun.
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That's all of the phone, all right, they're used to the sound.
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There's no phone service at that hotel up the river. All right, all
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right, answer he would be careful. Hello, all right, No,
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Mark, what is it? I just want to let you know so you
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could sleep good s. You don't have to worry about Black anymore. That's
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very interesting, Mark. Yeah, the cops you got the courthouse. There's
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a guineal of tie. They're sure he's still in at some place. So
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aren't you worry? Pal Hereday, Yeah, thanks, feeling a bit of
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faint until you reassured me. Tell me Mark, Jeffy finished that may alot.
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Of course you were taking on hypnotism. Hello, Yeah, I was
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just wondering if you could give me some instructions on how to hypnotize a man
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with a forty five automatic in his head. You're looking right, hello,
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hello, right, hello, right, come on, come on race snap,
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all right, yeah, it was gonna have two heads. What happened?
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What happened? Blackie Martin? He's here when I got home. I
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try to tip me on the phone and he's stand backing. Oh, brother
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one, they didn't try to polish you off. I would have made his
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score three for the night. Three. Yeah, you mean there's been a
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second woman. That's right, there's Farmers stick. Where's on the air?
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Driving over here? It again? Nobody on the list. He's an old
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lady and missus she housekey or something like that. Scrub woman on the fourth
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floor of the courthouse. Fun her in a broom closet, shot just like
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Judge dext M. And she must have heard the shot in the judge's chamber
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and went into an investigator. She saw the killer in the hall and he
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knocked the row for she could raise the house. Mark called one of the
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news commentators and find out Wheressus Jakoski living. If she had any family,
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then he could drive me out to him. What race? She wasn't connected
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with the trial. She was just an innocent bystander who got it in the
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neck. I know, Mark That's why I'm curious, very curious. There
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are some people who die without reasoning, mister CASKI the old scrub woman had
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been one of them. Talking to a daughter wasn't easy. But why why
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would anybody want to hurt my mother? You never heard nobody? She was
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a good woman. I'm sorry, mister Cask, but other people in danger
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too. I need to help to protect. What can I do? What
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do you want to know all about your mother? Who she knew? Any
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friends? Random? Is anything? Could you have enemies? She works all
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night scrubbing in the court has ever since she came to this country, and
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in the daytime she would sleep or stay around the house always. She had
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no friends at work. I don't know nobody who ever came here, I
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don't think so why not? She couldn't speak no English? Think you ought
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to stok poliship you speak English? One am. My father brought me here
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when I was twelve years old. She only came from the old country four
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months ago, only four months ago. Yes, when my father died,
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I sent a little insurance managed to come here and she went to work in
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the courthouse. I know naturally your mother couldn't read her like no, not
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even in Polish. She had no education at all. Why why did kill
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her mother? It's one of the answers I'm looking for, mister Casey,
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because I don't think black he mut and killed your mother. I don't think
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he's killed anybody. Yea, look, Race, it's all right. He
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is to have a hunch seat when you tell me that you don't think Blackie
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Martin has anything to do with their murders at the courthouse. We don't make
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sense a lot of things about this case that doesn't make sense. Morder what
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Race? You always told me a murder has got to have a motive.
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Now you tell me, Tommy, who else had a motive for knocking off
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the judge? Anson? You can't answer moments right now. I want to
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make sure that all the possible victims are limited. How you I made up
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a list of the names and addresses Wine he was in there. I'll take
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you to the places one by one, and this house up the block for
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being on point step who lives here? Him? Let me see Timothy Ill.
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I wish so Brian, it was deformative. Joy, come on in
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with me. I'll start Rice. It's midnight, you know it was just
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the same O'Brien should go to the police and ask to be taken into protective
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custody until this is over. Yeah right, m no sign of life.
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Maybe you already want that dot. Let's make sure him right? Hey,
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they did it? Look a light went on the back of the wall.
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Brian sleeps to the deep sleep of the pure of heart, considering his place
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on a list of people who might never wake up. Man, here he
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comes. Now, know what you want. My name is Race Blackie Martin's
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escape from prison and you may be in danger him. I want you to
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go to the police station and stay there until he's caught. Can you walk
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me up from that look at the fifth want to protect me? Get him
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from the man over and he can shape on the doorstep. Alright, Brian,
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I can't force you into it, but don't open the door so easily.
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Live. Anybody else should come calling to man, i'd be thought honders
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live. I won't even hear him then, good night, good night.
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He's sorry, better drive me too. The precinct station house man I asked
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him to send a man over right away. I wish I knew where the
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fan blank his wife. I'm sure she's number one and it's hit for Oh,
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maybe she's singing one of the smaller joys. Happy. We can make
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the rounds of a few spots later on him. Hi, what's there?
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Shot inside of the house? Come on, I can won't help this time
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smashing him, but it must be back here with the life Mann before.
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Yeah, I must be lighter matter any money badly right through the test mine
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dead. Hey, there's something more. That's the match. Keep a rand
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that drape at the window while look out Mark. We'll return to the adventures
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of Frank Race in just about one minute. And now back to the Adventures
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of Frank Race. One of the bullets that hit Mark and they fell in
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front of me, blocking my die for the blows behind the drapes. By
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the time I recovered, the person responsible for the murder of Brian was gone.
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I picked Mark up Parliament into his cab my speed picked up a cruising
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motorcycle cop and in a matter of seconds he was transformed into a flying escort
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for a city emergency hospital. I'm sorry you stopped that Bulletmark meant for me
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right better? My shoulder, your head he look black when he flay Man.
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You got clean away. I should wash up your idea that somebody else
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might be going to kill him. There's Dexton and O'Brien is up with only
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one guy. That guy's black, and Mark doesn't never the field done.
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It isn't black, he's somebody else connected with the games. There's one big
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question that still needs an answer. That's that black. He had me cold
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turkey at the apartment when I'm on his list? Why didn't he pay me
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off? Wow? Maybe passed you up once, but he just trying to
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make up for it. And you're gonna make sure he doesn't kill you when
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you're trying to prove he didn't kill the others. Here's the hospitals. Well,
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he had a motorcycle cop and the young doctor. I got Mark into
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the operating well. I showed the cop not convential. Wasn't explained the SA
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up. He left to make a report while the doctor went to work in
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Mark. If you can't do that makes me sick, I can that helps
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cut the pros away? Mark trying to think I'm driving around Tom happens you've
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seen some sign of Lolan Martin singing something. Ah No, maybe she changed
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your name, Loland Martin. I yuess doctor. No, there's a girl
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named Lola singing at the Tiger Roll. I hang off at the in turn
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is frequent over on tenth Avenue. You read him on the cervacious son on
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the curvaceous side, all right, but a blonde that put the rock side
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right and ready for the meeting? Yeah, read if you are. I'll
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take a hold on a second. We can prove for that slug. Oh
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that's Lola the Tiger Room, right, But get going. You still got
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some time. No waiting the little doctor finishes, I can show the him
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now, I'm just gonna hurt you. So anyhow, I'd almost got it
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all time. Yeah, Mark, Mark, he's passed out for that child.
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Here's a slug pretty eight caliber. Wow, So it is my hunt
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is pain? Or was it the last I saw Blackie Martin? You're carrying
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a forty five? Tell my friend that when it comes to Some of the
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patrons of the Tiger Room looked like in terms, but the rest looked like
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they might be in the business turning beastan citizens into Antiman's cases. The singer
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on the floor was Lola Martineau, and he was just finishing a song.
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So I took a seat at a corner table al marker Graham the man having
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tad? What brings an ace columnist to this den of a nego day,
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I'm worried about with Blackie on the loose, not a do some personal worrying
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tip your printer. It was one of the things that helped send Blackie on
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that one way trim. At least was supposed to be one win. I
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know what about you. You brought him in, yes, but I didn't
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start wooing his wife as soon as they threw him in the cooler. Why
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I can't leave them without protection. I'll say the secret down safe, put
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your waste. I hope you don't think it's yellow with me. To take
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a part of what I don't think of you isn't important. She'll be back
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here in a moment. I tell her I got an important call. Well
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you sure, I'll tell you went to play pinball with Blackie? Yeah?
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Yeah, thanks, Race, don't mention it. Wow, mister Race,
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A nice w was walking heading in such a high I think you heard the
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grim Reaper swishing his sickle to them. Thanks automate, than lady, were
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you waiting? I think lady for them? Let him and now a cigarette.
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Yeah, yeah, like you like my rest much. Walker Gray and
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usually takes care of these little things. Not that you are in a pleasant
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substitute, weather Man. Walker became quite attentive after black Is trial. But
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you're the one I was hoping i'd see you again. If you want to
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see anybody again, you'd better take yourself out of circulation into the black Is
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taken back into custody. I can't. I'm gonna tell you if I'm all
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right, Race, Why because the money of the Blackie store was never recovered.
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You and Walker Graham haven't stashed away someplace. You've got to be out
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and moving around to make sure that neither black Ee the police get to the
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money. You're smart, but this town is too hot for Blackie to be
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on the loose much longer. There are a lot of people who wants to
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get to I'll take a chance if he doesn't get to me before he's caught.
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I've got news. Be alone. You're Blackie's number one target. You
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aren't gonna bother with anybody else against you. That isn't what the news reports
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tell me. He's killed crazy, Do you mean, Judge Dexter, No,
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Bryant can't black. He didn't kill him. Who told you that a
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murdered scrub woman? Does a black head killed a judge? Missus Dacosky was
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still ali Why but she caught him there? She could be a witness against
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him. A man already convicted of a murder wouldn't be afraid of a witness
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to a second. But missus Dacosky wasn't even in this country when black he
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was convicted. What are you trying to prove that? She wouldn't have been
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able to even recognize him. She couldn't read, She couldn't have read about
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him. So whoever she saw leaving the judges chambers or somebody should see before
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somebody knew like me. For instance, you saw Judge Dexter a couple of
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times. They have dinner with him. There's no law. Don't know you
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were known around the corners. I don't have to listen to your race.
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Don't he a moment ago? He was so happy to see me. I
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hope Blackie sees you next, I really hope. So good night, mister
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Ray talked out of me before I could stop I so I called that leaders
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please lieutendant friend of mine who happened to be in charge of the man hunt
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for black and London. I told him where he could locate Lolo, and
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I went home and turned into come on, come on, come on,
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Rich, wake up, wake up? Would you you look happy, my
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preferend dramm. I'm sure fine, friend, and I am getting the chuck
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a lot of having the laugh. Fine, you'll proch look at his snooth.
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Hey back, I just picked up. I don't know. I can
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never focus my eyes before breakfast. I'm saying says that you are wrong about
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Blackymot. He shot and killed his wife Lola in the Times Square subway station
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at two am this morning, in front of twenty eyewitness Let me see that
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finally, Peter, that's what it says, Masco and fight the more.
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There was just a flash on the radio. The police have Blackie steaked out
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in an empty warehouse over by the water. Let me jump into some clothes
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and you can drive me over there. Here we are, race. This
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is the finish for Blackie. Market Graham, Come on, hello, Graham.
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Oh hello, Well he got at after all. I know. I'm
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sorry. They're going to be married. I guess this winds it up though,
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won't hurt anybody else where. He sell of that belly. It's full
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of stars and Benson. He's got the doorway cover they sent for equipment of
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smoke knock proving to her lieutenant to leave us, and it comes down.
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Hello Graham, Race, Hello lieutenant, Hello him. He's like having a
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little trouble. Oh I could get up my head. Oh but why don't
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that risk losing a man? He can't get out. One of the orders
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shoots kill him. I don't like it, but that's it. He's dangerous.
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Ed. I want you to do me a favorite pull back. You
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please line to the other side of the street and let me go in after
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it. Are you tired of living? Race? You know I'm not an
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idiot, Ed, and I'm playing a hand. Well, all right,
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Race, I'll chip in with him. Say sergeant, sergeant one, move
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those men back, all right? Go back? Then? Hell they are
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Race, it's all your No, No, I don't do it. Race,
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He'll kill you for sure. What a column this will make. Are
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you see Mark? You wouldn't want to spoil Graham's column? Would you see
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you later? Him? Now, this is Frank Race Black Game. I'm
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coming down to talk to you. Who I a wonderful bargain. When you
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go away, missed me black hem I mean, and you can't see me
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any better than I can see you. There's no light on that dog closed.
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I'll find you're not killing. Maybe you're a sense to die in here
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unless you listen to him. All right, Grace, I'm listening. What
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talk. Here's my proposition like him. I want you to Hey, he's
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been down there a long time. I'm afraid black he got him as once
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without doing smoker quick miss hey shut hello, Soli dots moving with that dog
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covered man. All your fire up the red race all right, nice work,
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race, come out, hold that crowd, backer man, I love.
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Look, look he got Blackie's carrying him off to give this body into
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the warehouse opposite right, Come on you can come in too, Graham and
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call your paper, you boys heavy dump him here into the wagon comes.
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Thanks for a great story, Race, I better call it before the deadline.
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Hold it a minute. The story is bigger than you think. What
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do you mean? Who would a man try to kill first Graham and judge
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who was only doing his job, or a wife who doubled crust him.
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Well, I guess Slola was the main one body the others. First,
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No, I didn't because Blackie didn't kill the others. The person who killed
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the others had to kill missus Jacobski too, because you recognized him with somebody
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who went to the courthouse every day, somebody like you right covering the beat.
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Your pick? What motive would I have a killing judge? Because you
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thought he was wise to you and Lula that's why she was shining up to
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him. You picked the other murders and make the police redouble the refort to
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get black and Suli Man said, thank you haven't got a shred of proke.
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Race, I did, and I am. I think you have to
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prove on him. I belie you'd call up a gun, the gun to
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kill three people. See Blacky Martin's gun is of forty five a gun.
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I'll move back all of you, not that gun, Grahame, I said,
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moved back on Ton and I know how to use us. Let's be
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smart. Look kind of thought like a man says, I'm going out that
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door. I had to stop. Well, don't leave without saying good by
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the Blackie. He's right behind you and he still has it. Forty dead
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men. Don't worry me, Race I ain't so dead, how should call
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her from? Man's going black? Hem? Now you might as well give
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the gun back to me. Since well, Race, we won't have much
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trouble taken him. And thanks Blackie, you still have a date? Would
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elected chair yourself? I'm ready. I don't mind now, as long as
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I know that Graham is going to be practically sitting in my lap when they
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turn on the juice coming on down in the cellar Race. I knew Graham
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was guilt in. I knew black he didn't want to die and let Graham
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get away, So I sold him on this little leg father for my money,
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you get your cat and the award. Thanks Mark, and let's get
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this unconscious asking of the police. Date. Love, very hot day.
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No, I'll never kids less sleep. The Adventures are Frank Race starring Tom
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Collins, with Tony Barrett as Mark Donovan comes to you from Hollywood. Others
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heard in tonight's cast were Lilian Baye, Michael Anne Barrett, Mark Laurence Louke
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Krookman, and Dick Ryan. This series is written and directed by Buckley Angel
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and Joel Murcott. The music is composed and played by Ivan ditmars Be sure
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to be with us again this time next week for another dramatic chapter in the
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adventures of Frank Races. Art Gilmore speaking, this is a Bruce El's production.
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Welcome back. Some pretty good twist and turns in this empisode and a
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surprising outcome in that the escape killer, well we'll get the death penalty,
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as were some of the people who he was hunting. One round. We
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