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Well, now it's time for today's episode of Pursuit, and we had four
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lost episodes between last week's show and this week's show, So here now is
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today's episode from February seventh, nineteen fifty the Pursuit on Lundy Island Pursuit Pursuit
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A criminal strikes and pages quickly back into the shadows of his dark world.
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And then the men from Scotland Yard, the relentless danger pursuit When man hunts
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man. Now it's haad to cossier. Start as the famous inspector Peter Black
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of Scotland Yard. We bring you tonight's story of violence and murder. The
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pursuit on Lundy Island. Bit slipperies er, mind your stip ang your inspector.
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All right, cap'n. We're ready to go. I store for lines.
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Oh, we may as well go into cabins there our nah run Lundy
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Ranchuan candy start by the pool. Keep me clear of the filings. I
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shall bit of luck tonight dark but CODs lifted for a more Yes, crims,
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sir, oh, I say cloud you'll I'm afraid I'll have to catch
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some fags from you. I seem to have left mine at the inn.
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I'd gone to a favorite inn of mine near Clover on the northern coast of
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Devonshire for a weekend holiday. Even a Scotland Yard man must rest, but
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unfortunately the criminal doesn't take that into consideration. The body of a woman had
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been watched ashore on the island of London Inspector Reginald Flower Duel. The Barnstable
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Constabulary, knowing that I was in the vicinity, had found for assistance and
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picked me up. We drove to Biddeford and there bordered a motor launch which
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was soon turning through the dark waters a Bristol Channel bound for the island of
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London. At ten pm, approximately four hours after the body had been discovered,
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we sighted the warning light on the high crags overlooking the quiet. Of
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course, it's every man do his choice, but I prefer heavy. Fact,
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I still say it depends on the fish. My dear fellow, you
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might as well use a converted billiard due for a summer. Well, sir,
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you do have a point there and you see something off shower day.
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I've got short something up, I see it the small vessel our lives spect
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him now went away, sir, respect a card. Yeah, but you're
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a cheap inspector. Come on day right now? Not the odd drifting with
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no lights? Oh hoy the boat, Oh hey there, Perhaps we then
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have a look. Captain gets it would probably asleep below, get a line
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on a turndey all past time. Hello on board. They would have a
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captain let's have a look. Dundee, jack me a torch. Alright,
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I have right take the wheel, keep her starring in? Yeah, well,
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nothing of bandex Shall we try? The captain seems to be stuck.
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Well I'll be blowed empty. No sign of anything, everything ship shaped.
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Send me a charge, captain, Thank you? Hmmm albatross registered in the
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name of Darryl Sintil home Portkinsance. Come along, I won't ever better look
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on deck. Wonder if the murdered woman on landy could have come from this
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board? Possibly, sir? And wait a minute, yes, quite possibly?
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Look here? Blood don't getting yes? Quiet? And by the wheel.
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The injured present stood at the controls for some time. How far off
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shore are we, captain? Ooh hey, judge your bout mile and a
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half o queer. I suggest we take her in. Tell who will send
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one of the crew to take the wheel. I think I should like to
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stay aboard. Aboard the derelict, I noted the following price. The anchor
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was in place at the bow, the engine cold but in working on.
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The fuel tank was half filled. In the mahogany paneling near the wheel was
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a deep gout which might have been caused by a bullet, and on closer
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scrutney of the cabin I discovered more traces of blood. There, bloody footprints.
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We were meant at the landing by a nowed and rather foul old fisherman
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whom I had elected himself. Island constable about time? Or you had a
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copper from Barns. The poor police inspector flowered you. This is Chief Detective
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Inspector Peter Black, Scotland Yard. I'll be bladdered. You mean you've brought
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Scotland Yard all the way from London for one poor scutted female. My name
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is William Blee. That's great. The dead woman? Where was she found?
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Founder myself down the group of cove I was fishing. In your telephone
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message you mentioned foul play, I fowlish. You know who she is?
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I well, she's lying in the shed on some nets, covered her with
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a tar cob h there she is, oh eh, I a surfish day.
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The rocks didn't do a face any good. You were saying, mis
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to beleeve that you knew who she was. I first I thought it was
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the Sinfield woman. A Sinfield Herbert died.'tis a companion Maggie Pratt Sinfield.
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That would be mister Darylsonfield. Hi, he owns the Albatross. II
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do you know how he is? I, mister Blee, I'm delighted to
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have you as sisters, but I'd be most grateful if you would be a
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little more literal and a little less monosyllabic. Here, that's a blavorish mukul.
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All right, he's fishing. He went off and he's other boat the
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turn. Hello, spector what is it? Looks like bullet wound in the
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head point of entrance there exit air. Yes, mister Blee, is missus
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Sinfield on the island. Hi? She is? She's out at the cottage
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with a keel flagged irishman of hers kyle. Has she been notified of the
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death? Hey? She got vaporish and the irishman's taken care of. I'll
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want you to take me out there. Hey tis a short walk, though
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they have not for a city Ish man. I'm sure I can manage with
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your help, flowerd you we will want to get the body back to Menland.
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I'd like cant see as soon as possible, and laboratory tests of the
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bloodstains. Right, I'll take it myself if you want to carry on here,
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good show. Oh, by the way, would you send a message
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through to the on for me? Yes, of course, sir, i'd
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like Detective Sergeant Maffy tossigned to the case the request. Did he catch the
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first plane? Will you write you orser? And now, mister Blee,
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I I am at your service. Whilst he started his majesty's language, William
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Blea managed to convey some rather interesting facts, namely that mister and missus Sinfield
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had separated some two months before, and that she had not been on the
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island since that time, but had arrived by a plane during the afternoon with
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the keel flagoned irishman in Kyle. The Sinfield cottage turned out to be something
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more than a cottage. It rested on a knoll and commanded a view of
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the sea in a promontory that stretched out before him. Ah h, she
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be mister Black and I'll go no further. Oh, I'll have naught to
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go with that Skirtish woman and that blister blurdering Kyle. Yes, Ka,
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I'll wait for you while you're in there. I'll do some clamping for tomorrow's
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fishing. There. Good evening, mister Cahill, Inspector Blank, Scotland.
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Yeah, oh yes, yes about miss Pratt. Yes, of course.
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Won't you come in and thank you? A man come into the library,
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dude, there's a fire there, Hameler. That is Missus Cinfield is terribly
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upset. Maggie had been with her four or five years. Yes, I
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understand who's at the door here? Well, Missus Inspector Black, My dear
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Missus Sinfield inspector. How do you do, madam? They're any news of
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Jack Jack and Missus Sinfield. Oh yes, didn't you know Jack Kettle is
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on the albatross of Maggie. I think you'd better tell me from the beginnings.
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I'm all right, mister Cahill, and I came over to the island
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this auternoon to talk to my husband. We had planned to cross in the
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albatross, but Jack found motor trouble, so we do if we hadn't.
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Oh now, please, Pamela, don't think about what might have been.
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Jack Kettler is a sailor Assauts inspector. He's been taking care of the albatross.
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Missus Sinfield told him to bring the boat over after repairs, and Maggie
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was to come with him. Megg has always been with me. What have
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we found the boat in, Missus Sinfield, the Albatross, Yes, and
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jack. The boat was adrift approximately a mile and a half off shore.
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It was empty empty. I'm truly sorry that I have to question you at
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this time, but it's terribly important to establish these details. Now. At
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what hour might you have expected them to arrive here? Well, no,
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it's difficult to say, Inspectors. It depends upon the extent of the repairs.
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But I still should have got here before nightfall. We watched for them
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until it was too foggy to see anymore. I gather, Missus Sinfield,
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that your husband has not yet returned. No an, have you any means
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of community from the village, No, I'm afraid not, mister Cahle,
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I'd appreciate it a notification as soon as mister Sinfield does return. Oh,
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yes, yes, of course, i'd be happy to you're staying in the
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village, yes, said the enameled Well, I think that's all. Good
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night, Missus Sinfield. I see you at the door, sir. Oh,
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thank you, inspector. Did you did you find absolutely nothing aboard the
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Albatross? I'm afraid not incredible. What could have happened? That is what
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I intend to find out. Good night, sir, good night. Yeah,
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well, mister b finished yourg climing. Nay, I never claim I
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thought to sure that they the purpose they peeping through the window at that ranchid
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pair you little i'lbibal not quite. I noted there must have been a marked
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resemblance between the dead woman and missus Sinfield. I hate your cuould. The
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next morning Maffitt arrived by a special plane and over a leg breakfast of porridge
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and smoke drawl. I brought him up in the mark on the case.
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Was there all the missed up your holiday? I'd say, Well, I've
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known Inspector flowered you for quite some time. I couldn't very well let him
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down. Moro Maffitt, Oh thank you, sir. I'm quite finished.
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Ryander, I haven't heard from the Sinfield place. I think better hop out
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there. Worried about the husband, sir, I'm not sure it's a pretty
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place, sir, Yes it is. I imagine fishing is quite good.
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I'd like to try my hand. Yes, oh, mister Bloud, Yeah,
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William Glee the local something around? What is it, mister blee Ah
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scuttering Winde no good fishing Yorkish. Well we've got another wood, another one,
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mister blee I I wish coming to fetch you. You just swished ashore
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the buggy of a man pursuit. We'll tend to cause you a start,
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as Inspector Peter Black to pursuit on Lundy Island continues in just a moment.
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Gracie Allen has one of the sweetest dispositions in the world, but her sweetness
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and light get the acid test when a hidden run driver smashes up a fender
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on her beautiful Jealafe Tomorrow night acid test. There's plenty of acid when Gracie
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finds that husband George is probably the responsible party. So be listening when the
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Burns and Allan show comes your way on most of these same CBS stations this
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Wednesday night. Mind yourself slippery on the slimy frock. Do you recognize him?
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Please? Nay? Then it isn't business. Well, let's get him
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back to the village. Cattle hormy feet listen to register chip from the albatross
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Jack Kettle. I'm afraid so, but come along, I'll make so.
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The poor sudden frame that had once been a man was identified Jack Kettle by
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papers in his pocket. He'd been shot twice, once through the left shoulder
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and then in the back, but here the bullet had not passed through his
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body. Now he had something concrete with which to proceed. By the time
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I had arranged for removal of the body to the mainland so that the bullet
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could be recovered, another development had occurred. Darryl Sinfield had returned from his
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fishing trip and was waiting for me in the study of his house on the
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knoe. Sit down, inspector, who's down? I hope you don't mind
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by receiving you in here, But since my dear wife is in the house,
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this is the one room where I may find privacy, my hunting and
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fishing room. I envy your sir. You have a magnificent collection of ruts
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and gun Thank you. I take a great deal of pride in them.
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Yes you must in, mister Senfield, I presume your land of the tragic
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events of the past few hours. Yes, my wife told me any word
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of the young Ceylon. I'm afraid, sir, he too had been shot.
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His valley was recovered a short time ago. Lundy has been such a
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peaceful place. Mister Sinfield. We discovered the boat Albert Trass, unmanned and
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adrift about a mile and a half off shore last night. Did you,
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at any time during your fishing trip sight here? And I'm sorry, I
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was fishing over five mile back, that's off the southern tip of the island.
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Tell me, sir, any luck. I'm afraid not. It was
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rotten managed to mack up my boat with it a few bloody mackerel. It's
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all a shame. Well, I shall probably be coming and you again,
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sir. I hope you wont mine. No, no, no, of
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course not, inspector. I hope you'll understand if I don't show you to
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the door. As long as my wife is in this house with that man,
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cal, I allow myself the indulgence of self pity and prefer not to
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face either one of them. Yes, great, Oh, one more points,
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sir? Do you keep the cabinet to your gun collection locked? No,
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I've never had any reason. I find lundy folk are quite honest.
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That's a refreshing fact, sir. Good morning, bye sir. Oh there
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you are, missus Cinfield, and I was about to look for you.
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You and I just heard about poor Jack. Don't you come into the library
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of course. Oh, good morning, inspector. This is shocking news.
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Have you progressed at all? Oh, this is a very odd of thing.
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As a matter of fact, you can help me. I'm trying to
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establish a time element. Since you didn't know when the Albatross left the mainland
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after her repairs, could you give me the name of the duck master.
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Know he was no use, Inspector. The Albatross wasn't in need of repair.
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We lied to you. Oh, it didn't seem important at the time.
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I still have my pride and I I didn't want anyone to know that
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I'd come to beg my husband to give me my freedom. When I told
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him yesterday that she and I were coming over on the Albatross to settle things
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once and for all, he said he'd be gone by the time we got
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here. He didn't want to see us. That's why we took the plane.
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We thought we could catch him unaware. Maggie and Jack Kettle were to
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pick us up in the Albatross later. Missus Sinfield, is your husband in
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the habit of carrying a rifle about isbell wid He was when I talked to
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him, I noticed that one was missing from his gun cabin. I couldn't
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be sure. I know it. Practice is a great deal, it's a
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wonderful marksman. Good heavens, you don't suspect my dear missus Sinfield at this
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moment. I have no alternative but to suspect everyone. Marfyd and I wanted
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to look at Sinfield's fishing. Both the turn we found her word at his
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private landing at the ind We went aboard and made our discovery in the cabin.
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Oh, Mavid, here it is a three oh three, sir,
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Yes, one shell in the chamber and an empty cliff capacity five. That
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means he fired four, sir, and recently. From the smell of it.
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It doesn't make sense, maf it. An innocent man might leave a
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rifle like this, but would have mudge. He might, Sir, he
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did have a motive, a jealous husband planning to do away with his wife
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and a lover. We know he expected them on the albatross. He could
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have waited on his both good show maupet an expert marksman, say one hundred
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and fifty yards of course enough her accuracy, but distant enough to bring about
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a mistaken identity. You did mention a resemblance between the maid and Missus Cynthia,
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Right you are. He shoots her first, she topples overboard, he
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never sees her again, then kettle first through the shoulder, then in the
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back. He reaches the wheel and tries to swing out of range. Splendid
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reconstruction by dussays to myself, There's only one thing wrong with it. What's
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that mister Carhill and Missus Sinfield. We have only their word that they didn't
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see the albatrosk come into this inlet. Perhaps they did see it. They
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could have waited high on that cliff, farmed with one of the husband's rifles.
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But why should my dear chap so that we would do exactly what we
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have done, build a most excellent case against mister Sinfield. The arrest of
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an unwanted husb would be a novel way of getting rid of him, even
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to the extent of spending the lives of two innocent people, if such was
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their plan. Yes, I left map to further search mister Cynthia's fishing boat.
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A heavy afternoon miss had started to drift across the island, and I
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walked out on the high promontory that stretched back an accusing finger from the house
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on the knob there at the edge of the cliff. I searched for traces
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of a hidden rifle. Oh tis a clammish day, mister Black, mister
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Blea, Eh, but no clams to be found. The tide is too
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high. I wasn't looking for clams, mister Blee. Oh, and you're
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looking for ways and mean, yes, mister Blee, I owe you an
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apology. I underestimated you. Are you looking for plans or are you looking
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for shells? That is a Riddish question, friend Black. It calls for
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a Ritish answer the words of boat and the boat is the one there?
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But the weather is dribbling again? Tell me is it usual in like this
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at this hour? I you can set your watch by it this time of
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year. In other words, the fog comes over the island and moves out
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across the channel todd the mainland. I could it be foggy here in the
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inlet, but a mile or so offshore remained clear as it was last night
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when I arrived. II. That's what it does every day, and tis
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a sad truth, for it will bring deadness to a man. Yes,
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mister b I think it will. The strange old fisherman accompanied me back to
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the cottage on the knoll and left me at the front door. Inspector Flowered
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Joe had returned from the mainland with complete dto SA ballistics and laboratory reports.
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Moffatt had gathered the suspects together in the library. You have forced me into
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a very unpleasant situation, Inspectne to be in the presence of this man,
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this woman, whom I no longer consider my wife. You think it any
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more pleasant? Prast please please, darling. I'm sorry for you are,
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but murder is an unpleasant business and needs to be disposed of as quickly as
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possible. If you're prepare to do that, why are Pamel and I forced
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to witness this? For very good reason, mister Carhile, we have proof
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of innocence, which in this case establishes proof of guilt. You are being
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devious. Come to the point very well, mister Sinfield. I shall Your
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wife and mister Carhill came here and awaited the arrival of the albatrass. Mister
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Carhill, do you consider yourself accurate the rifle? Of course he is.
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He's a fine shot, mister car Hill, could you hit a man at
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three hundred yards? Now? Look here, I don't know what you're trying
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to do, but I see, mister Sinfield. They did have opportunity,
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but they also had fog, fog that made it impossible to see even thirty
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feet. Are you suggesting that their supposed innocence makes me guilty? Exactly,
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sir. We found a rifle on your boat. It had been fired,
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of course it hadn't. I shot a basking shark while I was fishing.
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I often do a great ugly brute shy the fish away. That would be
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most difficult to prove. I suppose you will also deny that you were aboard
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the Albatruss after you shot both of its passengers. I shall, right.
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So how do you account for the blood stains we found on your fishing boat?
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Quite easily? Have you never caught macro, sir? They breed like
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pig press, exactly, and we found traces of that macro blood aboard the
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Albatruss. It proves nothing very well. According to the autops to report,
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your shots were not alone responsible for Kettle's death. He jumped from the albatross
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and drowned. Why would he do that? How should I know he jumped
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from the boat because you were pursuing him. When you failed to find him
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on deck, you went into the cabin, leaving further traces on the floor.
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I repeat, you have no proof. It's all guesswork. You're trying
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to bluff. This bullet, Sir, is scarcely bluff. It was recovered
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from the man's body and has been traced to your rifle. Well, mister
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Sinfield, I think that's all. Yes, yes, that's all. This
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time, I'll do the job. Dariel Sinfield's clutching fingers never reached his wife's
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throat, But there's spoke his guilt much more eloquently than all of the evidence
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amassed against him. Pursuit and the Pursuit is ended. Pursuit is produced by
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Elliot Lewis. The script is written by Anthony Ellis and Gil Dowd, who
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directed tonight's show. Music was composed and conducted by Leith Stephens. Featured in
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the cast were Raymond Lawrence, Joseph Kerns, Dan O'hurleahey, Bill Johnstone,
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John Dayner, Peggy Webber and Ramsey Hill. Pursuit Next Week. Pursuit we'll
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bring you another dramatic story of the men from Scotland Yard, relentlessly hunting down
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those whose dishorded passions breed violence and murder, which tend to Cautius starring as
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Inspector Peter Black. Next week we will present another story of man hunting man
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when we bring you Pursuit. This week, the Boy Scouts of America are
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is CBS where Burns and Alan are every Wednesday night the Columbia Podcasting System.
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Welcome back. Well. I really enjoyed this episode. They did a great
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job creating atmosphere on the island. The sound effects were superb, and I
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love that, you know, kind of sleazy local constable to kind of be
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a foil and a bit of a contrast for Inspector Black. Very proper with
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Scotland Yard. And I think there's also that closing cadence, which really became
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one of the great trademarks of Pursuit. Pursuit, and the pursuit is ended
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just a classic Waight Into show. By the way, the shows that we
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do not have an existence or suit of the Weymouth Killer, pursuit of the
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Wormwood Scrubs murderer, the pursuit of the Elusive Ransom, and the pursuit of
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the Lady in Waiting. Well, we now turn to some listener comments and
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