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Boston Blackie - "A Vase Leads to Murder" (1946) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: At a public auction, Boston Blackie outbids a mysterious man
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  Speaker 1: in a green hat for a vase admired by Mary Wesley.
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  Speaker 1: The rival demands the object, and after the messenger taking
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  Speaker 1: it to Mary is fatally wounded, Blackie and Inspector Faraday
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  Speaker 1: seek the reason an ordinary piece of pottery has attracted
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  Speaker 1: such attention. Their inquiry moves from the auction room to
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  Speaker 1: Blackie's apartment and Mary Wesley's residence. From the Richard Colmar
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  Speaker 1: syndicated run, this is Boston Blackie, originally broadcast February 26, 1946,
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  Speaker 1: episode 59, A Vase Leads to Murder. Here is the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast. ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 2: THE END What am I bid for this gorgeous piece
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  Speaker 2: of hand-painted pottery from the effects of the late Nancy Kittredge?
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  Speaker 3: $ 20.
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  Speaker 4: The man in the green hat says $ 20.
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  Speaker 3: Do I hear 25?
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  Speaker 2: Let him hear 25, Blackie. You sure you want to marry?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 2: I got 20. Do I hear 25? 25.
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  Speaker 4: Do I hear 30?
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  Speaker 3: 30.
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  Speaker 4: The man in the green hat says 30.
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  Speaker 2: Do I hear 35?
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  Speaker 4: 35.
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  Speaker 2: I heard it, and thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Do I hear 40?
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh, that man in the green.
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  Speaker 1: Hat is coming over this way.
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  Speaker 4: Do I hear 40?
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  Speaker 2: For what? This is a public auction. Do I hear 40? 40.
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  Speaker 2: The man in the green hat says 40. Do I
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  Speaker 2: hear more?
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  Speaker 4: You better not hear more, bud.
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  Speaker 5: Do I hear any more?
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  Speaker 2: I've got 40. 40.
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  Speaker 4: Do I hear any more?
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  Speaker 2: The man in the green hat has bid 40.
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  Speaker 4: Do I hear 45?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you can only bid $ 50, huh? $ 60.
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  Speaker 4: $ 60 is bid.
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  Speaker 2: What does the man in the green hat say? The
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  Speaker 2: man in the green hat doesn't say anything. And it's
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  Speaker 2: $ 60 going once, going twice. Sold for $ 60. Congratulations, sir.
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  Speaker 4: So you got the bays and congratulations, huh? Maybe condolences would.
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  Speaker 2: Be a better word.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: And now, back to Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy
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  Speaker 5: to those who make him an enemy. Friend to those
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  Speaker 5: who have no friend.
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  Speaker 3: Hello? Blackie, this is Mary. I'm home now.
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  Speaker 5: You can bring that vase over any time you want.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to be busy for a couple of hours, Mary.
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  Speaker 2: I'll send it over by messenger, huh? Oh, thank you, darling.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. I'll see you for dinner? Oh, yeah, I'd like.
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  Speaker 4: I like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's probably the messenger for the phase now.
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  Speaker 4: Tell him not to drop it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell him what it costs, then he'll drop it
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  Speaker 2: in fright. I'll call for you around 6.30, how's that? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be ready. Bye.
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  Speaker 5: Bye.
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  Speaker 2: Come in. Well, your messenger, sir. Oh, the man in
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  Speaker 2: the green hat. Yeah. Sorry, there's no auction here today.
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  Speaker 2: But there's something here that was bought at an auction today,
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  Speaker 2: and I'd like to have it. Then why didn't you
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  Speaker 2: outfit me for it? I didn't have the dough with me.
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  Speaker 2: Too bad. Look, I'll give you the 60 bucks you
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  Speaker 2: paid for it if you let me have it. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: but it isn't mine. I bought it for someone else.
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  Speaker 4: Well, tomorrow I'll give you $ 500 for it.
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  Speaker 2: No deal, pal.
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  Speaker 4: Look, but I want that vase, and you're going to
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  Speaker 4: give it to me.
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  Speaker 2: You won't want what I'm going to give you. Now
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  Speaker 2: get out of here.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I can get.
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  Speaker 2: Keep your hand out of your pocket, pal. The only
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  Speaker 2: hand I like to see with a gun in it
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  Speaker 2: is mine. Like this. Okay. You win. This time. And
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  Speaker 2: there had better not be a next time or I'll
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  Speaker 2: knock that green hat right off your head the hard way. Coming. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming. Just a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Oh! Yes, yes, but... Oh, you're hurt.
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  Speaker 5: Now come in and sit down.
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  Speaker 4: Here, here, take it easy.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take the package.
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  Speaker 3: I have it all right.
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  Speaker 2: Now just sit down.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see what's the matter with you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you're bleeding, and then badly, too.
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  Speaker 4: Please, please, take it easy.
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  Speaker 2: Here, let me unbutton your collar. I'm all right.
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  Speaker 4: I was driving here in my car, and.
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  Speaker 4: Don't talk anymore.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go get a doctor right away for you.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think....
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  Speaker 3: I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think you do need a doctor now.
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  Speaker 4: But I need Blackie.
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  Speaker 2: And the police. So, what did he do, Miss Wesley?
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  Speaker 4: Deliver this vase to you and then die right here
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  Speaker 4: in your apartment?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he did, Inspector Faraday. I was going to call
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  Speaker 2: a doctor, but it was too late. I'm not blaming
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  Speaker 2: you for this, Mary, but I wish you hadn't liked
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  Speaker 2: that vase at the auction.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what's the vase got to do with this, Blanky?
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  Speaker 2: Everything, Faraday.
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  Speaker 4: That funny-looking piece of clay on the table there?
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  Speaker 2: Now, you don't know what you're talking about. Inspector, it
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  Speaker 2: is not funny-looking. You're so right, Mary. It's beginning to
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  Speaker 2: look rather gruesome to me. And what it means to
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  Speaker 2: the man in the green hat, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: What man in what green hat?
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  Speaker 2: I bought this vase at an auction this morning, Faraday.
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  Speaker 2: A man in a green hat bit against me until
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  Speaker 2: I went too high. About an hour ago, he came
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  Speaker 2: to my apartment and practically pulled a gun on me
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  Speaker 2: because I wouldn't sell it to him.
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  Speaker 4: Are you trying to kid me?
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  Speaker 2: Faraday, that guy had murder in his eyes when I
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  Speaker 2: told him he couldn't have this vase for any price.
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  Speaker 2: He must have had murder in him. He killed the
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  Speaker 2: messenger boy. Yes, I'm pretty sure he did, Mary. Just
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  Speaker 2: after he left, the messenger came to my door... Green
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  Speaker 2: Hat must have seen him, followed him, taken a shot
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  Speaker 2: at him. But the messenger managed to make it here
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  Speaker 2: so Green Hat didn't get the vase.
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  Speaker 4: Mike, do you mean to tell me a guy would
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  Speaker 4: kill for that funny-looking piece of junk?
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  Speaker 2: The looks of a piece of pottery may be only
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  Speaker 2: clay deep, Faraday. Maybe it's a valuable vase. An antique.
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  Speaker 2: One of those Ming Dynasty things worth thousands of dollars.
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  Speaker 4: What's a Ming Dynasty thing?
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  Speaker 2: Something that's old and valuable. And if I expect to
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  Speaker 2: live to be old and valuable, I think I'd better
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  Speaker 2: find out what the vase is worth. Oh! You're an
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  Speaker 2: expert on pottery, Mr. Dandy. Could you tell by looking
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  Speaker 2: at a vase how much it's worth? Well, not to
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  Speaker 2: the dollar, Blackie, but I could say whether or not
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  Speaker 2: it was valuable. Unwrap the vase, Faraday. Let Mr. Dandy
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  Speaker 2: have a look at it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Be careful, Inspector. That's mine, remember? Yeah, and you
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  Speaker 4: can have it.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Wesley.
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  Speaker 4: Here, Blackie.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. How much did you pay for these, Blackie? Sixty
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  Speaker 2: dollars at an auction. Sixty dollars? Don't tell me I
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  Speaker 2: fell into a bargain, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Dandy. It must be worth plenty. But can I commit
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  Speaker 4: murder for it?
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  Speaker 2: Murder, Inspector?
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  Speaker 1: I can't understand why this is a cheap factory-made vase.
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  Speaker 4: There's even imperfection in the design.
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  Speaker 1: I would say it was not worth more than two dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Where are we going, Bracken?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Mary, if this vase is worth only two dollars...
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  Speaker 2: Then the man in the green hat isn't after the
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  Speaker 2: vase itself. But what's inside it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, what could be inside it?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of things, Faraday. Baked right into the clay.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we could break it and see. Oh, no, you don't.
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  Speaker 4: That's my vase, and I like it the way it is.
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  Speaker 4: In one piece.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry, Mary. We don't have to break it to
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  Speaker 2: look inside it. That's why we're taking it to an
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  Speaker 2: X-ray lab. We're going to find out what's inside this
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  Speaker 2: vase that would make a man in a green hat
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  Speaker 2: see red. Blackie, here's the X-ray picture of your vase. Oh, thanks, Doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Faraday. You can have a look at it, too.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you bet I can. Let me look, Blackie.
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  Speaker 2: Here, here, get in here. Thanks. Well, what do you see?
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  Speaker 4: The... the outline of a vase.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, but nothing else.
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  Speaker 2: This means there's nothing in it, Doctor? Not a thing, Blackie.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a plain vase made of plain clay.
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  Speaker 4: Well, maybe this picture doesn't show what's really in it.
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  Speaker 4: It shows there's nothing in it, Inspector, and pictures don't lie.
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  Speaker 4: I say this one does. Let's break the vase. That's
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  Speaker 4: the best way of seeing what's in it. Oh, no,
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  Speaker 4: you don't, Inspector.
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  Speaker 2: That's my vase, and I like it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't like it. It's the cause of a
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  Speaker 4: man being killed, and I'm going to break it.
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  Speaker 2: Faraday, don't be a nut, will you? Inspector, just give
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  Speaker 2: me that vase. Give it to her, Faraday. Oh, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Take it, Miss Wesley.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, don't let go of it so fast.
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  Speaker 4: It's heavy and I.
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  Speaker 2: Oh!
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  Speaker 4: I thought you didn't want it broken, Miss Wesley. Oh, golly,
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  Speaker 4: I would drop it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, fine, General Mary. Let's look at the pieces and
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  Speaker 2: see what's in them. Yes, look at the pieces, Blackie.
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  Speaker 4: And prove to Inspector Faraday my picture didn't lie.
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  Speaker 2: I think this will convince him, Doctor. Look at those pieces, Faraday.
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  Speaker 2: There's none bigger than a dime. My beautiful vase. Your
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  Speaker 2: beautiful vase was. Your beautiful vase, Miss Wesley, is a
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  Speaker 2: beautiful mess. And this beautiful mess, Inspector, poses a beautiful question.
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  Speaker 2: If there's nothing in this vase, why did the man
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  Speaker 2: in the green hat kill that messenger? Here's 51 Sunset Parkway, Faraday.
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  Speaker 2: This is where I stand.
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  Speaker 4: I can read, Blackie. This is where you get out,
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  Speaker 4: get off, and get going.
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  Speaker 2: Now, just what was the meaning of that?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think you're holding out on me. You
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  Speaker 4: took something out of that vase. Something the guy in
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  Speaker 4: the green hat wanted.
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  Speaker 2: Faraday, there was nothing in it to take out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what you say. Now, come on.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me the truth.
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  Speaker 4: Won't mean you've done anything wrong. After all, you bought
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  Speaker 4: the vase. That gave you a right to whatever was
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  Speaker 4: in it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks for that much, Faraday. But I'm telling you
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  Speaker 2: the truth. There was nothing in that vase when I
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  Speaker 2: bought it. There was nothing in it when I... Well,
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  Speaker 2: when it broke. You saw that yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm taking the broken pieces to headquarters to have
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  Speaker 4: them looked at.
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  Speaker 2: Just the same. You're wasting your time, Faraday. With the
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  Speaker 2: pieces of that vase and with me. Want to come
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  Speaker 2: up to my apartment with me?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going back to headquarters and see how we're doing
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  Speaker 4: on finding the guy in the green hat.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Close that car door, will you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sure. There, Faraday, I've closed something for you. Now
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  Speaker 2: see if you can close something for yourself. The case
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  Speaker 2: of the man in the green hat. Find out about
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  Speaker 2: the man in the green hat, it'll be a feather
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  Speaker 2: in your cap. Ah, home sweet home.
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  Speaker 4: Don't move, Blackie, unless you look good in life.
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  Speaker 2: Well, so it's that green hat again with that man
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  Speaker 2: under it again. Where's that vase? That vase? Oh, it's
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: all over. It's broken. You lie. I don't lie very well, mister.
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  Speaker 2: Not at all, with a gun pointing at me. I
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  Speaker 2: told you it's broken.
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  Speaker 3: I could kill you for that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I suppose you could. You've already killed one person
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  Speaker 2: to get that vase.
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  Speaker 4: What if I did?
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  Speaker 2: The vase is important to me. You killed that messenger boy?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and I'm going to kill you right now unless
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  Speaker 5: you give me that vase.
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  Speaker 2: Then tell me where it is. If you weren't so
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  Speaker 2: intent on keeping your eyes on me, you'd see the
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  Speaker 2: vase you're looking for over in the corner there.
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  Speaker 3: Which corner?
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  Speaker 2: Where? There, or rather here. How's your chin, pal? Oh, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'll put that gun of yours in my pocket. You
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  Speaker 2: can't be trusted with it. There. There's no vase in
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  Speaker 2: the corner there. No? Well, there isn't a brain in
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  Speaker 2: your head, either. Oh, you'd know the trick I just
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  Speaker 2: pulled on you is the oldest in the book. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: What happens now? I happen... I have me call police headquarters,
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  Speaker 2: and then you'll happen to be taken to a nice,
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  Speaker 2: clean cell.
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  Speaker 5: And now, back to Boston Blackie. Blackie and Mary Wesley
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  Speaker 5: buy a vase at an auction. Later, a man in
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  Speaker 5: a green hat who'd bid against them comes to Blackie
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  Speaker 5: and tries to get the vase from him.
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  Speaker 4: But Blackie refuses to give it to him and sends.
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  Speaker 5: The vase to Mary's by messenger. The messenger is shot
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  Speaker 5: and killed. Investigation proves the vase has no value.
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  Speaker 4: And nothing is found inside it.
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  Speaker 2: But obviously, the man in the green hat has thought
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  Speaker 2: it worth his while to kill for it.
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  Speaker 5: Unable, however, to find out anything about the vase or
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  Speaker 5: the man in the green hat, Blackie returns to his
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  Speaker 5: apartment where he confronts the strange man a second time.
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  Speaker 5: In a fight, Blackie overpowers him and calls for Faraday.
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  Speaker 5: As we return to our story, Faraday has just arrived. Okay, Faraday,
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  Speaker 5: here he is, the man in the green hat.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 4: Now, how do I know this is the man in
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  Speaker 4: the green hat?
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  Speaker 2: Because I say so. He pulled a gun on me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, Blackie, not that. Since when have you started
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  Speaker 4: to get excited about somebody pulling a gun on you?
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  Speaker 2: I don't actually care about that, Faraday, but this guy
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  Speaker 2: confessed to me that he killed that messenger.
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  Speaker 4: Is that right, mister?
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  Speaker 2: That guy's wacky, Inspector. He probably killed that messenger himself.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Blackie, what kind of a slap are you trying
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  Speaker 4: to make out of me?
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  Speaker 2: Any kind you prefer. If you can't figure out a
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  Speaker 2: way to get this guy down to headquarters.
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  Speaker 4: Well, to get him down there, I have to hold
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  Speaker 4: him for something. And what's he done wrong that you
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  Speaker 4: can prove?
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  Speaker 2: All right, Faraday. If you can't arrest him for what
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  Speaker 2: he confessed to me or for pulling a gun on me...
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  Speaker 2: Then arrest him for carrying a concealed weapon. I never
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  Speaker 2: carried a gun. Oh, no? You might search him and see.
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  Speaker 4: Why, of all the... I'm getting out of here.
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  Speaker 2: Search him, Faraday. Just once over lightly. Yeah, go ahead,
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  Speaker 2: search him. Then maybe this guy will keep his mouth shut. Oh,
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: it's a good idea.
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  Speaker 5: Find anything?
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  Speaker 4: You know I'm not going to find... Hey, what's this?
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  Speaker 2: Looks like his gun, Inspector.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I didn't have that on me a minute ago.
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  Speaker 2: That's what you do now, don't you? I put it
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  Speaker 2: on you where it belonged. And now you're going to
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  Speaker 2: jail where you belong.
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: I got it, Blackie. We took fingerprints of the men
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  Speaker 4: on the green hat and found a match for them
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  Speaker 4: here in our files.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, swell. Who is he?
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  Speaker 4: Uh, Frank Kittredge.
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  Speaker 2: Kittredge, Kittredge. Yeah. Are they? You know, I have part
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  Speaker 2: of the answer to this already. Huh?
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  Speaker 4: The vase I bought.
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  Speaker 2: Once belonged to a Nancy Kittredge. Yeah? She died last week,
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  Speaker 2: killed in an auto accident. Could be this Frank Kittredge
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  Speaker 2: is her husband, her brother. So what?
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  Speaker 4: The vase was still worthless, Blackie. Now, Kittredge still killed
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  Speaker 4: that messenger in trying to get it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, who was Frank Kittredge? What had he done
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  Speaker 2: to get his prints in your file? Robbed a bank
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  Speaker 2: six years ago.
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  Speaker 4: He was let out of jail just the day before yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now we're getting somewhere, Faraday. He robbed a bank, huh?
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  Speaker 2: Ever recover the money?
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  Speaker 4: Not a dime of it.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: This is getting almost simple. Kittredge wanted that vase because
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: it had something to do with the whereabouts of that
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: stolen money. Well, what could that vase have had to
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: do with it?
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  Speaker 4: It was empty, and there was nothing buried in that clay.
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  Speaker 2: I know. The thing is, Kittredge thought it had something
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  Speaker 2: to do with the money. We know that vase didn't.
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  Speaker 2: But there may be another vase.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then why wasn't Kittredge after the other one?
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  Speaker 2: For the same reason. He thought that he wanted the
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: one we had. Look, how long are you going to
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: hold Kittredge?
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: We're going to arraign him in a couple of hours.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: You'll have to testify against him.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: Okay. I'll be back in an hour. Where are you going?
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Back to where this all began, Faraday, to that auctioneer's.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: There must have been another phase in the effects of
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Mantry Kittredge. That's the one Frank Kittredge wanted, and the
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: one I'm going to get. Hello? Yes, I auctioned off
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: all Nancy Kittredge's property. Just sold the last piece this afternoon, Blackie. Well, look, Mr. Smith,
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: do you remember the vase I bought this morning? Yes,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: I think I do. There must have been another vase
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: in the stuff of hers you auctioned off. There has
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: to be another one. No, I'm mistaken, Blackie. There was
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: no other vase. I'm sorry. You're sorry? You don't know
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: how sorry I am.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Next case.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Frank Kittredge, charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: How do you plead, Kittredge?
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Not guilty.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Who preferred charges, Inspector Faraday?
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: Boston Blackie.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Boston Blackie, come forward, please. I'm right here, Your Honor.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: You charged this man with carrying a concealed weapon? No,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Your Honor, I did not.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: What's the matter with you, Blackie? You told me this
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: guy pulled a gun on you.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Sorry, Faraday. Then there is no charge. You can go, Kittredge. Thanks.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: Wait, wait a minute, Your Honor.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Case dismissed. Next case.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Blackie, you double-crosser. What's the idea?
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: A good one, Faraday. I'll tell you all about it later.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Hello?
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Mary, this is Blackie. Oh, Blackie.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Did the auctioneer have another vase?
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: No, but I'm convinced there is another one. And I'm
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: letting Kittredge lead me to it. How? Well, I got
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: him out of that charge of carrying a concealed weapon.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: And that guy's not dumb. He did just what I
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: thought he'd do. He's come right to the auctioneer's.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: How do you know that?
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I trailed him as far as the auctioneer's building. He's
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: upstairs with the auctioneer now. And I'm down here in
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: the lobby of the building in a phone booth. What
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: can the auctioneer tell Mr. Kittredge that he didn't tell you?
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: All he can do is tell him the same thing. So,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: then Kittredge is going to go look for it.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, I see.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: And you're going to tell him. Uh-oh. Here he comes now.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: I'll call you later, Mary.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: No, wait, Mary. He's getting into the phone booth next
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: to mine.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Are you able to hear what he says?
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I'm not interested in that. If I can just count
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the clicks as he dials, I'll know what the number
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: is he's calling.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I'll be quiet. One, two. One, two. One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three. One, two.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: One. One.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: One.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: You got a problem?
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, Mary. It's Barrett, Abbott, or Acree, 53211.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: I'll call you back.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I want to get in touch with Faraday right away.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Right. Faraday speaking.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Faraday, this is Blackie.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Blackie, but speak louder, will you?
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: I can't. Listen. Go to your telephone. number crossfire, will you?
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: And give me the address of the number for Barrett, Abbott,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: or Acri 53211. Well, there is no.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Barrett or Acri 5, Blackie. It's got to be Abbott.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, look it up, will you?
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Sure.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Hold everything. I'll do that later, but right now, I'll
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: just hold the phone. Hello?
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Is Frank Kittredge here? Why, I know. Who are you?
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Boston Blackie. He just called you. Sure he did. What
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: do you want with Frank? Nothing right now, Miss Thomas.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: But I want something from you.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: A vase. A vase?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: You must be in the wrong... In the wrong house? Well,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: right or wrong, I'm in.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Look, I don't understand what this is all about.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: You're on a minute as soon as I find that vase.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: I'm sure you must be in the wrong house, and
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: I'm in no mood to.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: There it is, on the table over there. Exactly like
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: the one that I bought at the auction. Oh. Oh, yes.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: My sister made that for me. She gave it to
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: me years ago. You're Nancy Kittredge's sister, huh? Well, that
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: explains a lot.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Wait. You can't take that vase.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I'm not taking it anywhere. I'm leaving it right here. Well,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: you can sweep it up. What did you do that for?
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: To find this. This little cylinder.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Where'd that come from? The vase was empty.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: This was baked into the clay. Why? Only your sister
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: could tell you that. She made this vase, you said?
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: She used to work in a pottery, but what's that... Okay, Blackie,
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: where is he?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Did you find that other vase?
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: Was there anything in it?
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: One thing at a time, Faraday. Yes, I found the vase.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: There it is on the floor in pieces.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Good heavens, the police too? Well, Blackie, did you find
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: anything in that second vase?
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, Faraday, this little cylinder. And inside it, guess what?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: A receipt for a trunk in storage at the Jefferson Warehouse.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: And in that trunk, I think you'll find the money
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Kittredge stole from that bank. Thanks, Blackie. Uh.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: I'll take that. And now we're going to stay here
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: and wait for Kittredge.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I don't know what makes you think he's coming here.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Didn't he phone you about a half an hour ago? Wait. Yes.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: He doesn't say he wasn't coming out to dinner.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Didn't he ask you about a vase?
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: Wait. No, no.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Well, that means he didn't know it was here.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: I know. That tells me where he thinks it is
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: and where he is, too.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Where?
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: At Mary's. He still doesn't believe my story. Come on.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: He killed a messenger. He tried to kill me, and
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: he may try to kill Mary. Oh. Look, Miss Wesley, stop.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Lying to me.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: You've got that.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Face, and I know it.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Please, how many more times do I have to tell you?
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Not many, because if you don't stop lying to me,
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: I'm going to put a bullet right through your head.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: I want that face.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I don't have it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Honest, I don't. The police do, and it's broken to
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: bits anyway.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Stop lying.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: I'm telling you the truth.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Okay, I said I'd kill you, and I'm going to...
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Put down.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: The hand, Mary. Pick up his gun.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Oh, I got it, Blackie. Thanks, Mr.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Blackie.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Come on, Kentridge. We're going to jail. Oh, Blackie, I've
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: never been so happy to see anybody in all my life.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, shucks, Mary. It weren't nothing. It weren't nothing. Hello.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Remember me?
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Well, hello, Blackie. We going to break any more vases today?
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: No, Mary. In fact, I've brought you another one to
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: replace the one you broke. What? Now may I come in? Well,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: of course you may, but you didn't have to buy
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: me another one. No, I wanted to. Oh.
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: You know, I still don't know what this is all about.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: How did that storage receipt get into that vase in
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: the first place?
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Well, Mary, Frank... Frank Kittredge robbed a bank and knew
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: he was going to jail for it. So he put
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: the money in storage and gave his wife the storage receipt.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: And then she put it in the crate as she
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: was making the vase, huh?
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: And according to Frank's confession this afternoon, he watched her
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: do it, too. Yes, but darling, she made so many
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: vases in the pottery.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: After it was baked, how would she know which one
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: held the receipt?
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: She made a slight error in the design. Then bought
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: it from the pottery herself.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Well, yes, but weren't there two vases just alike?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, there was. And that's what caused all Frank's trouble.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: After he went to jail, his sister decided to double-cross him.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: She made another vase just like the first one, gave
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: the real one to his sister, and kept the phony
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: one for Frank to have when he gets it back.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: But didn't she think that Frank would know she tricked
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: him when he didn't find the storage receipt in that vase?
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: She was going to pretend someone else had made a
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: mistake in the design, just like hers. And you have
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: to believe her, because he saw her put the receipt
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: in the clay before she made the vase. Oh, I see.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: And she was going to use the stolen money herself. Yeah, someday.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: When she felt she needed it, she might have taken
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: it out of store as soon as Frank went to jail,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: but she was afraid it was too hot. Well, here's
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: the vase I brought you to replace the one you broke.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Don't you want to see it?
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: I certainly do.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Finish unwrapping it, will you?
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: There.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: How do you like it?
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, Blackie, it's beautiful, isn't it?
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Here, here, let me have it. I'm glad you like it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Here you are. I'm going to put it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Right over here.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Oh!
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Oh!
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, Blackie, wouldn't you know it?
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: It smashed it.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: That's all right, Mary. Only when I come back, I'm
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: going to bring you an iron bucket. Oh! THE END.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: That concludes Boston Blackie and A Vase Leads to Murder.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us for this February 1946 broadcast.
• 27:43
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• 27:47
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