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Police Headquarters: Chained and Who’s Who? (EP1292) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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delivered there. Well, now it's time for today's episodes of police Headquarters,
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uh chained and Who's who at least headquarters Captain Nelson? All right, thank
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you, doctor. Let's file your report with starting a brand. Well there
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you are coming nothing to it, Doctor Armstrong just reported, But Beth was
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due to exposure, and I was try to get in an old hand of
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the game. Cap that third you found a national pocketing die of exposure.
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Nothing this ballmy spring Weather. That tell me if I didn't know you so
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well, if I hadn't wolf beats on the East Side with your father,
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I'd toss you out on your ears. And there's not a day you could
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do that, Captain. That's newspaper men come from hotty stock. Yeah,
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that kind of stock that makes good coppers. Why don't you go back to
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the game, Tommy, what No matter how many headlines you have, your
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name und you'll always be just a cup at heart, just a dumb,
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good natured cap. Oh yeah, thisten cap. Anytime I over that line,
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I'll join the Marines and go to China, if you had a new
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for news of your new newspaper, man yourself, if anything kept it hits
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you in this business, didn't think m m yeah, why needn't see your
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captain? Oh you're in now? I got a visitor coming in. Tell
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me you're a good boy. You can sit in here? Will I see
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what you want? But understand anymore? Yeah? But out of you?
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And aren't you go? Okay? Come in? Yes, I wonder if
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you would't mind talking to me for a minute. Captain, certainly not come
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in. I'll take this care please, thank you? Now? What is
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it? Missus? Missus Martha down? Perhaps I shouldn't have bothered you,
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Captain. I know how busy you police officers always are right, all right,
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Missus Dallan. If you just tell me, you see I told the
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officer to disk and he just got a smile and didn't say anything. And
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I well, if you just tell me, Missus Jaron, Now, what's
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wrong if someone in your family? And this will not exactly Captain. You
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see it's my niece Patricia. He's missing. No, Captain, it's her
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cat that's missing. Missus Gowan, what were the circumstances surrounding the cat disappearance.
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No, Patricia was playing with the cat in the backyard, and all
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of a sudden it bounded over the fence and into the yard next door.
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Running to the gates, my niece saw another little girl about her aide,
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nat the cat into her arms and run into the house next door. Did
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you inquire about the cat? Yes, and they said that I must be
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mistaken, but there was no little girl living there, and that there was
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certainly no cat in their house. Perhaps your niece was mistaken. No,
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I'm sure of that, Captain. Patricia is exceedingly truthful. How long are
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these people live next door to you? For more than twelve years? And
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Captain, what were you about to say, Missus Gowran, Oh, something
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dreadful about that place? Captain? The Croxtons have lived in that house for
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twelve years, and never once have I seen them except going in and out.
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Why that house hasn't seen the light of day since the day they moved
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into me because the shave haven't been up in twelve years. Just what does
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this mister Cruxton do, Missus Gallan. I can't tell you that he leaves
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home with his sister every morning at eight thirty, and I hardly ever see
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the return. Do they keep any servants? Yes, an old man,
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a horrible looking old man. I've threatened to move several times, but then,
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after all, why should I. They never make any noise that it's
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just the deathly side of well, missus Gowran, I'm afraid you've allowed yourself
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to become overwrought about the kitten. It'll probably come home and if a doesen't,
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Yeah, well I'll just stroll around and ask the crusts about it myself.
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I tells the old cat on it tonight. Sit down and shut up
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to me. I'm talking on the farm. Yes, what time is this?
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Oh? I see, we'll stay on the job Ovan, I'll be
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around about four. Hey, you look worried, cap I've been doing.
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I'm thinking, Tommy, don't some of unusual? Is it as it feel?
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I mean, no mood for sarcasm today, I've got news for you.
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You don't mean to tell me the cat has mitt the foul play.
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Yeah, but the day I called upon the croxton, you know. Tell
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me I'm in trying to agree with missus Gowan. I don't know just why,
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but I do. Yeah, if your team sent a perception working cat,
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keep on and you'll find that cat. Yet, it isn't the cat
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that's worry on me, Tommy, it's the story about that little girl.
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But the croxton said there wasn't a little girl in their house. Yeah,
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I know, that's what I told Missus Gollan today. They told me that
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the little girl hadn't picked up the cat, practically admitting that there was a
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little girl in there. They said he'd tried to, but the cat got
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away. Very wise. They cast the matter of his side, And it's
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fiddle, what are you worrying about now? Well? I had a talk
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with Missus Gowan's niece and he impressed me very much as a youngster who always
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tells the truth. He said that a very ragged, dirty little girl had
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snatched up the cat and run inside. And I bow, screw if you
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asked me, if you had a nose for news, tell me you'd asked
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me what I intend doing? All right, I'll ask you what do you
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intend to do about this matter? Captain Nelson. I intend to get into
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that house this afternoon and find out what's going on behind those shades, and
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tell me, if you're a good actor, you can go with me.
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Yeah, that's a big step that you talked me into this step. There's
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like a crown in this housefit. No, you don't come in. You
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look like an employee of a municipal water company, and you better act the
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part. If doctor Cruxton is a smart man, it's all a lot of
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hooey. If you ask me what you're stopping here for. One of the
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boys from the office was to meet me here. Oh here he is.
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Want to find out nothing much, Captain. This guy Croxton runs their brookerage
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business downtown, has a select clientele company named this overman. So the very
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retiring sort of guy keeps out of sight most of the time. Nasty disposition.
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How about the wrapping people. You found a mere trash book and I
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took it over the powers. He traced it to the Brooks Chemical Company.
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They said that regular deliveries and made the Crockson's house here, but they couldn't
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reveal the nature of the orders. Mister Brooks understood that Croxton was an amateur
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chemist. See all right, pizza's done very well. Get back to your
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post. We're going inside that house. Come on, Tommy, I couldn't
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look it to the step. Always talk about the Luisa Tommy cousin supplying you
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don't think that that has I'm not saying what I think right now. I
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mean, but if you're half the cup that you're dead was, you'll know
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that there's something wrong here. But what I don't appear too interested when you
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get in the house. Crust in his house, the sisters the only one
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home, and from the glances that I got at her this morning, sees
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it's mean, if not meter than Cirkson. Don't you recognize you in that
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get up? Yeah? Well that's up to you start a line of pattern
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and keep it going. Yeah, we're supposed to be water company inspectors,
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and it's up to you to keep the woman engaged in conversation while I get
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around and look at the house. We leave the meet caps. I'd be
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looking great, isn't it. I wouldn't live here in a bit. Well,
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a story to bother you, madam, But we're inspected for the water
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company. We're running New Maine through here, and we'll have to inspect and
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check the condition of your faces. But there's no reason. You just take
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a minute, madam, come on as him. You can take the upstair
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taps and I will take the ones down here, now, if you'll show
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me where the meter is, ma'am, I'm sure that this isn't whole lot
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of I'm sorry, ma'am. Company orders. Man's got to make a living
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nowadays, you know. Just the other day, three of the new inspectors
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will let out for're missing a single house in the roots. Can imagine not
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a single house, And they let him out. Where's the kitchen? Where's
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that other man? God? Well, he's going upstairs to check for the
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bath fixtures. How need your help in the kitchen, ma'am? If you're
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just good from the door, all right, nice kitchen you've got here,
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nice lot, you know, ma'am. That's the trouble with most kitchens.
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They are too small, make you feel clamp and uncomfortable. A man likes
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to be wait. Please hurry, yes, ma'am, hurry up. That's
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me, you know. I'm well. I got the company liddle last year
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for reading the meters the fastest of any of the boys. What else are
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you going to do in here? Will not too much more, ma'am.
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Now, if you're just turning that tap on for me, please, that'll
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be enough. Now the other one, please, ma'am, that's good.
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Now, are there any other taps down here in the other laundry rooms?
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No, there are. If you finished, I should please go all right,
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ma'am. But you know, man's got to make a living the things
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the way they are. Now things, Are you finished? Yes, ma'am,
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I'll show you to the door. Oh oh, my partner finished before
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me. Everything okay, tim everything okay? Upstairs? Did you make a
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motor cask? No? No, we can do that later on the outside.
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Let's take a look at the long hydrants and go. Okay. Oh,
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I'm sorry we had to bother you, ma'am. Are you finished,
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yes, ma'am. All right, Well, I guess that's all. Thank
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you, ma'am. Find anything care? That's what I wanted. Quick back
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around the corner here, Yeah, this will be all right. You can
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keep an eye on the house from here and they can't see us. Look.
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Look what I've got under my coat. Holy snoop? Did cat?
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Yes? And I'm taking this cat to the police urgent right away. I
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want to find out what killed it. I also found something else in that
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house. What a dirty, ragged girl change in an upstairs clothes and Tommy,
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that little girl is in a very dangerous condition. You keep an eye
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on the house. I'll be backward in an hour. What do you find
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out, cap All? I need to know? Come on, where are
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we going? I had a search ward issued. We're going into that house
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and release that little girl. But but what well this guy crossed it went
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in there about ten minutes ago. I'm short with him. He was a
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dead ringer for that sister. He is. Hurry, tell me they're on
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to us. The sister probably calls for trucks him to come right home.
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If we want to say that chu's light, we'll have to hurry. What
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did you find out about the cat? Cat all I needed to know?
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Don't ask questions now, I'll tell you one thing though. That cat was
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killed with more fame. All right, knock on the door. What do
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you want? I'm Captain Nelson from the local precincts. I have a warrant
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to search your house. Well, I'm sure there must be some mistake,
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no no reason, come on in, tell me put up, don't tell
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you. I'll show you quick, the police guess I want to quick.
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Tell me get a good boy. All right, now up those stairs,
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both of you right, you can't do this. You haven't got to sing
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on it. Your cat here unlocked this door. I don't have the key
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unlocked this door. All right, there's a little girl. Honey. We're
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not going to hit your honey. We're your friends here. Let me take
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that chain off your legy. No, honey, no, no, no,
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they are they We're not going to hurt you. See, may don't
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specistically again, Please don't if you what do you mean, honey, Yeah,
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don't cry. I'll tell you what you mean. This dirty skunk is
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in manufacturing drugs in this house for years. This little girl was the daughter
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of one of his victims, and for more than a year he's been keeping
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her change in his closet, giving her morphine shots to keep her quiet.
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You, Kellen, was so good for you. Pats calling Preaty one or
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eight one at the corners six and Temple An injured call R eighty one or
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eight one the corner of sixth and Temple Street, an injured call top off.
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Well, I want to find out Drake. It's a queer one captain
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a girl who claims that a guy in as forty roadster tried to kidnapp her.
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He says she fought him off and he shoved her off the running board
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in front of another car. Where did this happen? Sixth and Temple.
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The doctors at the hospital say that she will lose the sight of her right
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eye. I feel hurry for the kid man. Two men, you got
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a line on the car? Yes, the motorman got the license number here.
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It is there, Jay two three four one six. Let me call
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that in awful? Uh bet I pick up that in a roadster. What
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is the car? Blue? Blue roadster licensed J two three four one six
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way two A four one foot? I said, right, go ahead,
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Drake. What is the girl's name? Florence Williams. He works in one
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of the south Side dance holes. I think it's the Bluebird taxi dancer.
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No, she looks like a pretty clean kid. Captain sells tickets and they've
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been working there a month. She said. Did she know this guy who
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drives the kidnapper? Not by name? He said that he'd been in the
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dance hole several times and she will be able to identify him if we pick
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him up. Yeah, she said that she would. Did you are notifier
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family? Yeah? A mother and father at the hospital with her. Now
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do you realize, Drake, that This makes the fifth case of this type
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this month. Yes, sir, we've got to get this roble and make
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an example of him. Yes, sir, you know you've got four charge
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of the case. Jake, run him down and when you got him,
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bring him to me. Yes, yes, a long fall of horrible pool
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of lawful What do you want one fool full of horble for all of Williams?
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Huh? All right, sendel ends girl's brother. He probably just found
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out about it. Yes, over there, then, what do you pretty
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do about my sister? Captain? What again? We do about it?
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What can you do about it? You can get the dirty stunter threw out
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of his car, that's what you can do. What are you paid for?
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What are you doing on your money? Just a minute? John?
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Huh? That's your name? We William my sitter with the one we know
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U? Do you know who the fellow was? If I ever get my
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hands on the dirty stake, I kill him. That's what I do.
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Kill un Control yourself well, doing everything we can to find this man,
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and when we do, he will be dalt with according to the law.
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And this state has a pretty stiff penalty for kidnapping. According to law.
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He's got any put of the person, won't have him in care of ten
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minutes? Yes on love call from called the problems. Yes, who's the
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register to a love polum? I lovet goal for fold? Who'd you say
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the car is registered to? All left B for folde s A the all
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all the I okay, all right, I pick him up and just start
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for a kid, you know that the vote? No, No, I
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don't know him. I'm sure, sure, I'm sure, but I did
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perfectly well, I guess I got him mixed up with someone else. Well
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we've got him, son, and if your sister identifies him and it'll go
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hard with him. Thanks, that's a promise, kid. Thanks. And
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there was certainly allowed and wasn't he? Yeah, and you can't blame that
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much, you know that, Davoi. Yeah, I think so now that
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a month's pay is the same Savoli that was in here a month ago for
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beating rather than that Blaine man, Oh do you think so? Yes?
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Sure, I'm pretty sure. Yes, it's one. Wait fine, oh
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I can wait. Well, I'm Frank Williams brother the girl who's injured.
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Deceive me and I demand that you do any Hey, listen, what are
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you trying to pull What do you mean you were just in here and I
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told you that we do all we could. You're crazy Aliston here, young
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fella. I'm not going to stand nny foolishness from here. We'll do what
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we can, and I don't want you running in here every two minutes.
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But this is the first time I played here in it. What'd you say?
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Your name was? Frank Williams? Oh, I see my brother's been
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here before me, her brother. Yes, we're twins. This isn't a
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gag, is it not at all? Oh, don't worry, captain.
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If our folks can't tell us the part, I can hardly expect you to.
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Oh what's been done? Wait a minute, let me get this straight.
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You're you are Frank William right, and you've got a twin brother named
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Bob. That's right. And nobody can tell you apart mother says she can,
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but we're not assured of it even she sets up. Now, then
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well that's run for the book. Well what's been done? To find a
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man try to kill my sister? And he placed the CARDO tell her name
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Favoli holding yeah, Ernst do any No? No, I don't know him.
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Are you sure, kid, pertainely, I'm sure. Well, don't
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worry. I've put a detail out on him. Now we will have him
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inside of twenty four hours. You can bank on that. Then what if
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he hires a clever lawyer he beat the child that your brother said? But
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don't worry. We'll do our best to make it stick. And I know
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the district attorney will too. He's making a drive on these cases that have
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happened. Likely, All right, go on, kid, I hope I
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never meet you both in a dark alley. I probably think I'm seeing things,
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drag everything. I got the fold and the girl that indepied him or
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took him down to the hospital and she almost went crazy when she saw him.
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And then this guy produces seven witnesses. He say that he wasn't an
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in car that night. Uh what about it to check up on him?
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Yeah, liars, that's all a whole rotten pack of liars. And they're
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all willing they go to the stand and where that Tavoli wasn't even outside the
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Red Domino parlor. Well, that's all we can do. We've got Savolian
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jail and it's up to the DA to make the rap stick. You mean
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we did have Tavoli in the joke. What do you mean he's out?
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That's what there's a lawyer down before they sold doors closed the rider habeas carpet.
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Davoli didn't even get as far as the jailers. How long has he
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been out all afternoons in the afternoon papers. I didn't take a bureau Captain
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Wade run, Oh, I'll be right out. What now, Captain one
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of the Williams twins, Just Lord Savoli out in the open and fill them
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full of lead. SAVOLDI is deader and highest years Congress. All right now
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as to think tells everything to use art. Realize the sitting on the fire
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escape today must awful. Have to know. When I see this young man
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go into the Domino pallor, that looks like an awful nice young man,
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I say to myself, to be going into such a place. Then all
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of a sudden it comes out, followed by a dark Italian looking man.
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When you reached the center of the street, boy give vote. The boy
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turns around, pulls out a gun and should see other men? How many
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diamonds as I think? Oh, I don't know, Captain five six,
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maybe seven? I didn't wait to count. Would you know this boy again?
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Oh? Yeah, Captain always, I will know his ah right in
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just a minute. Right what did he say? And get the bomb on
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him? Right now, mister, think we're going to bring a young man
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in here. I want to impress upon you the importance of this identification.
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I want to look at him carefully, notice the way he's dressed and everything
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about him, and then tell me if he's a man you saw firing the
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gun? All right? Stand right over here? Please there? How mis
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a think that's him? Sure? That's him? You couldn't be mistaken,
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No, captain, not even a million years. All right, take him,
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Od Drakes, well send the other boy in all now you're sure that
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that was a boy? Are you? Missus? Think yes? Is this
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the man? What do you think? Is it theanan? I think yes?
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Why didn't the officer just take out the other man? You're positive in
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your identification, are you? Yes? Kitten? But I don't see.
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Thank you for coming down. We will find out the body anymore until the
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trial, sure, O Drake, Thank you captain. Let me see you're
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Bob Williams, aren't you? Yeah? Alison lad Well, you want you
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to help us you're not going to get much for this killing, if you
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get anything at all, But we've got to arrest you and bring you to
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trial. That is, whichever one of you kills SAVOLDI now tell me,
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Bob, which one of you killed him? Frank killed him? Or were
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you at home in the basement? Anybody see you there? No? Ione
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tell me? So Frank him in his four o'clock What did you do?
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Then helped him clean the fingerprints up a revolver. I see, and bring
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Frank in drag right, captain, Oh, Frank, Bob here has just
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told us that you killed Savoli. I killed him? Yeah, didn't you?
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Bob's crazy? He killed him? Or were you at the time at
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home in the basement? Anybody see you there? No? How long were
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you there until Bob came in at four o'clock? And what did you do?
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Then? I helped him clean the fingerprints up a revolver? I see?
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Huh? Well, you you boys go home until I figure this thing
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out. Let me ask you again, did you kill Savoli? Prank?
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No, Bob killed him. Did you kill SAVORI? Bobom thanks crazy?
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He killed him? Oh? Boys, give me some time to think about
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this. Thank you. Captain. Thank you, captain, you know something
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great? What's that? It just occurred to me that the district attorney is
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going to have a tough time making a charge stick against either of those boys.
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Only one of them is what the scene of the crime. Therefore,
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we can only accuse one of them. The only witness we have can't tell
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which one of them did it. They both turned state evidence against the other,
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so we can't charge him with conspiracy to defeat the law. And the
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law says we can't charge but one of them with a martyr. So there
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you are. It's up to the DA. Huh, what are you looking
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at, Drank? Let's looking at those two kids through the window here,
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Captain, they're walking along. I mean, I am like they didn't have
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a care in the world. And what's more, they haven't, Yes,
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sir as one prediction, welcome back. And the moral of that last story
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is that if a criminal is able to get out of a charge simply concoct
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a cover of her plan to commit murder, You got to have to wonder
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what these producers were thinking as they wrote these programs. Well, this is
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a type of thing that would generally be considered okay within I guess a thirties
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style of crime story, and there was a lot of things that would be
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considered okay in fiction, we would tend to frown upon in general, just
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because the police tended to get viewed as corrupt or as in this case,
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ineffective. So the only way that a person could actually get justice was to
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take the law into their own hands, at least according to the prevailing ideology
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and a lot of Meatia productions of the era. I also had to admit
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the first one was somewhat interesting, as he left the poor girl chained in
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the house while and left a reporter guarding it so that he could get a
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legal search warrant to uncover what he had found, and he's the illegal search.
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But that was actually a decent pace of detective work, and I thought
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it made sense, and I appreciated that he followed up on a step could
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often be easily dismissed as unimportant. Well, that will do it for today.
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We will be back on Monday with Pursuit, and then join us back
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here next Saturday for two more episodes of Police Headquarters. In the meanwhile,
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