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Richard Diamond, Private Detective - "Bill Kirby Murder Case" (1949) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Lenor Kirby is worried about her son Bill. He has
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: become nervous, secretive, and unexpectedly well supplied with cash. Bill
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  Speaker 1: is a private detective himself, but before Richard Diamond can
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  Speaker 1: learn what lies behind the change, the inquiry becomes a
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  Speaker 1: murder case, and a package left with missus Kirby draws
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  Speaker 1: the attention of men determined to recover it. Dick Powell
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  Speaker 1: stars as Diamond in NBC's sustaining first season series Richard
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  Speaker 1: Diamond Private Detective from October twenty ninth, nineteen forty nine.
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  Speaker 1: This is episode twenty seven Bill Kirby Murder Case. Here
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  Speaker 1: is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Dick Paul as Richard Diamond, Private Detective.
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  Speaker 3: Diamond Detective Agency, Surplus, Homicides, sir Plus, hand grid Ades,
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  Speaker 3: black market embalming.
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  Speaker 4: Oh Rick, Oh, Helen, what's with you?
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  Speaker 5: It's what's with you?
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  Speaker 6: I'm worried about.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 5: What's with me? You know what's with you? Now? You
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  Speaker 5: stop that. That's my routine.
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  Speaker 6: I want that with you, Pilford from the living room
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  Speaker 6: the other night, and I want it back and I
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  Speaker 6: want it right away.
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  Speaker 5: But Helen, baby, don't you baby me? Now you get
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  Speaker 5: it down here.
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  Speaker 4: But I can't leave the office. I just got in.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't even washed out one sock rick.
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  Speaker 6: It wasn't fair when you stole that picture, and I've
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  Speaker 6: been embarrassed about it ever since then. I want it back.
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  Speaker 5: Oh but honey, it don't be that way. It looks lovely,
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  Speaker 5: can you see it?
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  Speaker 4: Sure got it right on my desk. I won't have it.
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  Speaker 4: I'll look.
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  Speaker 5: If anybody asks about it, i'll say it's me. You
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  Speaker 5: never were a baby.
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  Speaker 6: You started with a beard in a low whistle.
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  Speaker 3: Honey, Honey, I had a baby picture just like it once,
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  Speaker 3: and believe me, from the way you're facing in the picture,
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  Speaker 3: you couldn't tell the difference between us.
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  Speaker 6: I'm lying on a rug. You probably had yours taken
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  Speaker 6: on spike. Now you bring that right over. I'll tell
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  Speaker 6: everybody your middle name, Helen. I'll see you in twenty minutes,
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  Speaker 6: or i'll take a full page Chad in the time.
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  Speaker 5: You wouldn't twenty minutes with the picture, Helen.
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  Speaker 3: Oh dandy, mister h Yes, but I'm afraid you'll have
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  Speaker 3: to come back. I've got to take care of something
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  Speaker 3: that might mean my whole future is a private detective.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, I won't keep you well. Could you tell
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  Speaker 7: me the name of another good detective?
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  Speaker 5: Uh, there aren't any goodbye?
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  Speaker 7: Oh please, I don't know where to go.
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  Speaker 3: Oh now we'll wait a minute time. I'm sorry. Something's
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  Speaker 3: really wrong, isn't it.
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  Speaker 7: That's all right, mister Diamond. You go on, I'll find someone.
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  Speaker 3: Oh look, I really didn't know you were in a
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  Speaker 3: tough spot. I've got enough time to listen. Oh, thank
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  Speaker 3: you who recommended me?
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  Speaker 7: My son? Oh, I've heard about you for several years.
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  Speaker 7: My name is Kirby, missus Lenora Kirby.
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  Speaker 5: How do you do, missus Kirby, Just how did your
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  Speaker 5: son know me?
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  Speaker 7: Well? He didn't know you well, only about reputation. He
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  Speaker 7: was a private detective also Kirby.
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  Speaker 3: Bill Kirby, Yes, wow, tell me what's worrying you, Missus Kirby.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I don't know quite where to start. William Bill,
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  Speaker 7: he's been acting strangely for the last month or so.
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  Speaker 5: What exactly do you mean by strangely?
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  Speaker 7: He's changed. He's begun to act nervous and irritable. When
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  Speaker 7: his sister I would try to find out what was wrong,
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  Speaker 7: you'd get angry. He got steadily worse. And then one
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  Speaker 7: morning Gloria, Gloria, my daughter, Bill's sister, go ahead, well,
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  Speaker 7: she went into a room. He was asleep, so she
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  Speaker 7: started to hang up his trousers. When she turned them
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  Speaker 7: upside down, a lot of money dropped on the floor.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, what do you mean a lot of money?
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  Speaker 7: Gloria said. There must have been several thousand dollars, mostly
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  Speaker 7: one hundred dollar bills.
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  Speaker 5: Did he have another source of income? I mean, besides
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  Speaker 5: the private detective bills?
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  Speaker 7: No, no, lose nothing I know of. We're not wealthy,
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  Speaker 7: mister diamond. Bill supports us with what he makes, and
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  Speaker 7: Gloria works as a secretary in a law firm. And
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  Speaker 7: I tried to keep my house in order. Of course,
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  Speaker 7: I haven't been terribly well since the children's father died
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  Speaker 7: ten years ago.
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  Speaker 5: I see. Then what happened?
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  Speaker 7: Well, Gloria started to put the money back in Bill's trousers,
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  Speaker 7: and he woke up. They had a terrible argument. Bill
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  Speaker 7: accused her of snooping, and she accused him of doing
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  Speaker 7: something illegal. The next day, Bill packed his clothes and
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  Speaker 7: left the house. He took his small apartment on one
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  Speaker 7: hundred and tenth Street.
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  Speaker 5: Uh huh now, uh, oh, what is it you want
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  Speaker 5: me to do?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Well, there's more to the story. Bill continued to send
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  Speaker 7: me money to keep the house going, much more than
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  Speaker 7: he had ever contributed before. I went over to his
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  Speaker 7: apartment several times and asked him about the money, and
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  Speaker 7: every time there'd be an argument.
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  Speaker 5: Did he give you any kind of an excuse?
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  Speaker 7: No, he just said he'd run into a good thing
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  Speaker 7: and that as long as it was helping out with
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  Speaker 7: the house, I shouldn't ask any questions.
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  Speaker 5: All right? Then what happened?
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  Speaker 7: Three days ago? Bill came over to the house. I
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  Speaker 7: could tell he was terribly worried about something. He gave
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  Speaker 7: me a package, told me to hide it until he
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  Speaker 7: came for it, not to open it. Then he disappeared.
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  Speaker 7: He didn't go to his office or his apartment, and
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  Speaker 7: I haven't heard from him since.
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  Speaker 5: Did you call the police?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I didn't want to. He's mixed up in something.
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  Speaker 8: Duck.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure something's happened to my boy. I just know
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  Speaker 7: it is.
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  Speaker 5: Look, missus Kirby.
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  Speaker 3: I admit it sounds a little fishy, but you never
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  Speaker 3: can tell.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe it's a day A girl could be a lot
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  Speaker 5: of things where do you live.
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  Speaker 7: Four Amsterdam Avenue? Oh? Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Now you go on home, take it easy. I'll let
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  Speaker 5: you know if anything turns.
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  Speaker 7: Out all right, I'm sorry. I don't usually cry like this. Oh,
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  Speaker 7: mister Diamond, about your feet.
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  Speaker 5: Missus Kirby, Yes, do you cook?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I'm considered quite a good cook.
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  Speaker 3: Well if I do anything for your son, I'm a
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  Speaker 3: sucker for corn, beef and cabbage.
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  Speaker 5: I go on home and I'll keep.
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  Speaker 4: In touch with you.
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  Speaker 7: Goodbye, mister Diamond.
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  Speaker 4: God bless you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid he knows me too well. Goodbye, missus Kirby.
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  Speaker 3: Funny how you're gonna run into a situation like that
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  Speaker 3: any other time? It's got to be one hundred to
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  Speaker 3: day and expenses.
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  Speaker 5: But that's because cause trouble doesn't usually bother me.
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  Speaker 3: There's too much of it around and everybody's a stockholer.
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  Speaker 3: Then a little old lady walks in with a bucket
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  Speaker 3: full of heartache, and you realize one.
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  Speaker 5: Hundred a day and expenses is only the difference you.
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  Speaker 3: Carry around to make up for that big cold world outside.
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  Speaker 3: I put my merit badge away, grabbed Helen's picture off
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  Speaker 3: the desk, and headed for nine to seventy five Pike Avenue.
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  Speaker 5: Well you're late.
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  Speaker 6: I was just going to call the papers, but I
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  Speaker 6: wasn't quite sure how you spell your middle name.
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  Speaker 7: It's c h oh.
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  Speaker 5: Here's the picture.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know you had a mole on you.
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  Speaker 4: Rick.
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  Speaker 7: Ain't you coming in?
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  Speaker 3: No? No, I'm not a mad what even? Let me
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  Speaker 3: keep you a little baby picture? Now about that moment?
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  Speaker 5: Now you stop that?
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  Speaker 7: Why can't you come in?
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  Speaker 5: Well? I got a client.
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  Speaker 3: Right after I talk to you, I got to go
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  Speaker 3: down to the fifth pre Sect.
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  Speaker 5: And do some checking. I see you tonight if you
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  Speaker 5: will tell me about the mode.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Rick, see you at eight.
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  Speaker 3: Buy mole a sam a baby.
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  Speaker 5: I left Helen and started down Park Avenue.
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  Speaker 3: Every private detective must get a license before he can operate,
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  Speaker 3: and the police department has to issue it.
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  Speaker 4: So I headed for the fifth Precinct police station.
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  Speaker 3: When I walked in the squadroom, I spotted Sergeant Ortis
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  Speaker 3: looking like he was headed for the elephant's graveyard.
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter with the otis? You're greener than a
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  Speaker 4: new lawn.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, hello, shams, and it'll feel so good. No, as
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  Speaker 5: a matter of fact, you don't little pudgy around the shoulders.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, come on, layoff, tell you I feel sickle's see
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  Speaker 3: your tongue?
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  Speaker 5: Oh uh h, well how does it look?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but be careful who you show it to.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody's love to think it's poisons and killed him with
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  Speaker 3: a stick.
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  Speaker 5: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Well, oh no, okay, I'm too tired to be scared off.
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  Speaker 5: Who's dead and where?
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  Speaker 1: Not?
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  Speaker 4: Today? Wald?
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  Speaker 5: And what are you so tired about?
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  Speaker 3: We had a killing this morning. I've questioned every suspect
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  Speaker 3: in the whole state.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing. Who got dead? Maybe you knew him? Shamus? Uh? Kirby,
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  Speaker 5: what how the devil? Did you know that? Just a guess?
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  Speaker 5: Guess my thirty eight?
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  Speaker 3: Do you know something? I don't know anything, Walt. Kirby's
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  Speaker 3: mother was just at my office. Oh yeah, oh, you
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  Speaker 3: don't have to get sore. I'm not sore, just wondering.
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  Speaker 3: Who's going to tell missus Kirby. ODIs went over there
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  Speaker 3: a little while ago. He saw the sister. The mother
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  Speaker 3: wasn't home yet. Oh that's why he looks so bad. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I guess so, wouldn't you. Okay, where's the body downstairs?
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  Speaker 3: I want to take a look, not especially I told
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  Speaker 3: his mother. I'd do something for him, and right now
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  Speaker 3: I don't seem to be able.
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  Speaker 5: To think of a thing.
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  Speaker 9: Get the killer help me. Okay, let's go down and
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  Speaker 9: take a look. Right over here, Ben in the river.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, put four slugs in him first though, what kind
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  Speaker 3: of a gun?
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  Speaker 5: Twelve gage shotgun? Used a deer though?
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  Speaker 3: Anything on him? Just the usual identification. Okay, let's put
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  Speaker 3: him back.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know why he got knocked off. No motive,
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  Speaker 5: no nothing.
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  Speaker 3: The mother has quite a story. Yeah, she told me
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  Speaker 3: your side. Oh no, yeah, and here comes malicious.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, we just got a call.
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  Speaker 5: Kirby's mother and sister just got beat up. Something awful.
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  Speaker 5: What come on, walk, This is crazy.
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  Speaker 3: First the sun gets it for no apparent reasons, and
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the family get beat up.
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  Speaker 4: I think I can tell you why the mother and
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  Speaker 4: sister got beat up. Why call me?
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  Speaker 5: The package Kirby left with his mother? What package? I'll
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  Speaker 5: tell you about it all the way over in the car.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Oh that's okay, Come on, step on little Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this time you can use the sign.
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  Speaker 5: Oh boy, hello, hello missus. Kirby. The doctor tells us
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  Speaker 5: you won't allow them to take you to the hospital.
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  Speaker 7: No, I'm not leaving my house to take more than
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  Speaker 7: two cheap hoodlums to drive me out of my house.
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  Speaker 3: Well, doctor says, you'll be all right, but I think
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  Speaker 3: the hospital might be safer for a few days.
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  Speaker 5: This is Lieutenant Levinson. Missus Kirby, how did you do that?
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  Speaker 5: I do? I know you don't feel much like talking.
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  Speaker 7: No, that's quite all right. I'll be glad to help
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  Speaker 7: in any way that I can.
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  Speaker 5: Were they after the package your son left with you?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, but I didn't give it to them. I almost
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  Speaker 7: did when they started to hit Glorias, but I knew
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  Speaker 7: they had something to do with Bill's.
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  Speaker 5: Death, And you do the package was important too?
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  Speaker 7: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Where is the package, missus Kirky?
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  Speaker 7: In the bread box in a bread wrapper?
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  Speaker 5: Pretty cute?
• 12:01
  Speaker 4: O this? Yeh?
• 12:03
  Speaker 5: Go in the kitchen and bring me the loaf of
• 12:05
  Speaker 5: bread in the bread box.
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: And you went some side things too?
• 12:09
  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: This just the bread please? Oh okay, missus Kirby. The
• 12:16
  Speaker 4: two men who came here, do you think you could
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  Speaker 4: identify them?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, it would be hard to forget them.
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  Speaker 3: You're sure you don't have any idea what kind of
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  Speaker 3: trouble your son was in? No, here's the bread lit Ah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't be Hey, it's a shoe.
• 12:34
  Speaker 5: Is this one of your son's shoes, missus.
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  Speaker 7: Kirby, No, no, he wears much smaller size. No, that
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  Speaker 7: isn't his shoe.
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  Speaker 5: I don't get this. Nothing in it.
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  Speaker 4: Just a shoe, a big one.
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  Speaker 5: What size is it? Hey, what's the matter?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the shoe size on the inside it says six B,
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: and then I have numbers after it. If that's a
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  Speaker 3: six B. Orys wears matchboxes? Oh yeah, oh thises Okay.
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  Speaker 7: I don't understand. Why would Bill leave his shoe and
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  Speaker 7: act like it.
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  Speaker 5: Were so important, because it probably was very important.
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  Speaker 3: You think these numbers could be Let's see on if
• 13:11
  Speaker 3: these numbers do mean anything? And sure isn't going to
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  Speaker 3: be easy finding out? Here's something walk Yeah, mm, shoes
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  Speaker 3: got new heels on it. It's been half sold? Otis yeah?
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: To take the shoe down at the station, give it
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  Speaker 3: to the lab, see what they can find out, and
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  Speaker 3: then get the boys out and check every shoe repair
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  Speaker 3: shop in the city. I want to know whether the
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  Speaker 3: shoe was half sold. Okay, missus Kirby, you're sure you
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: can't think of a thing that might give.
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  Speaker 5: Us a tip about your son.
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  Speaker 7: No nothing, mister d Rick.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going down to the station, find out about that shoe,
• 13:38
  Speaker 3: and I'll send a rogues gallery over so missus Kirby
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: can try and pick out the two guys who worked
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: the rover.
• 13:42
  Speaker 5: Oh uh, check the mate, fine or anything?
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: Will the right walk?
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  Speaker 7: Mister Dunmond, There's no reason for you to go on
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  Speaker 7: with this case. My son's dead. You can't help him now.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure your business is very important.
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  Speaker 3: Missus Kirby. I said I do something for your son.
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  Speaker 3: Well I was a little late. Now I'm going to
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: do something for me. There's a killer loose and two
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: slobs will beat up women. I'm a little unhappy, Missus Kirby.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: So I've got to square this beef the only way
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  Speaker 3: I know how. First, i'd like to talk.
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  Speaker 5: To your daughter.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, look, lawyer, it's tough, and I don't like
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  Speaker 3: to stick my big nose in when it is.
• 14:36
  Speaker 5: But you want something.
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  Speaker 3: Done about it, don't you them think real?
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  Speaker 4: Hide? Can you tell me anything about your brother that
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: might be connected with his death?
• 14:44
  Speaker 8: No, no, mister Dunmand, I've got gotten.
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: I just can't understand.
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: You may have been looking for the wrong thing, a
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  Speaker 3: reason or a motor. That's not what I want.
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: What do you want? Something you might not even realize,
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: something that might seem important.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: What is very important?
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  Speaker 4: I try to think when you first began to suspect
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: that your brother was in trouble? Did he mention any names,
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: talk about any places?
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  Speaker 7: No, not that I can remember.
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: What did he do when he wasn't at his office? Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Please, please, I don't know.
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: I just don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, and I appreciate what you're doing,
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  Speaker 8: mister Diamond. No, it's hard for me. I'll try.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, No places, no names. Did he have a girl?
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  Speaker 8: No, he didn't have a girl. He led a fairly
• 15:36
  Speaker 8: simple life, had a regular routine, routine. I used to
• 15:41
  Speaker 8: worry about it sometimes that he didn't have enough fun
• 15:45
  Speaker 8: to know anybody.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: What kind of a routine was this?
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  Speaker 8: Usual thing around the house in the morning, go to work.
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  Speaker 8: On his way home, he always stopped at the bar
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  Speaker 8: on Columbus Avenue for a beer and home dinner, eating
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  Speaker 8: too ten thirty or eleven, good bed, nothing else.
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  Speaker 5: No that every.
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  Speaker 8: Day up until a time when he started acting funny.
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  Speaker 7: I found out that money.
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  Speaker 5: I see you. Well, thanks, I'll let you know if
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: anything turns up Gloria.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, mister Diamond.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: I hope you. Yeah.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: I left the Kirby house and walked out on the street.
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  Speaker 3: It was getting there six o'clock and a light breeze
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: was blowing the night in it was turning coal. So
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: I flipped my collar up and started for Columbus Avenue
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: and the bar that Bill Kirby used to stop in
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: for a bear.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: I turned down eighty eighth.
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  Speaker 3: Street, picked up speed to shake the chill out of
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: my ankles.
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  Speaker 5: Hey you, yeah, you Diamond? So what so where's that shoe? Oh?
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: You're going to find it harder working me over than
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: a couple of women.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Working you over. Maybe yeah, killing you? But he dies, easy,
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: give me the shoe. Where's your friend moving this alley?
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: I'll give you an introduction.
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: I'm busy.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: You're going to be busy getting dead if you don't
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: get in the alley.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: I got my gun in my pocket.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: I bet you shrink four feet when you'ren't carrying it
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: quite okay, and.
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: You get Yeah, but it don't look like he's got
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: the shoe on him. Yeah, but he knows where it is?
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Tell me, boys, is it fun beating up women?
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: My fun picking up douse the gum shoes, ain't it? Danny?
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Sure? You want to tell us where the shoe is?
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Showmus right now? It should be in the police lab.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Hey, Danny, you think those caps really took it out
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: of the house. I don't know. I couldn't see Diamond.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: I still think the old name gave it to you
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: when she went up to see it at her office
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: this morning?
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: What did you kill her son for? Who said? I
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: killed him? Friend?
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: Kirby got smart about the shoe like you did. He
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: got dead for his trouble. How do you feel about
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: your future friend? Pretty good? The cops will figure that
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: shoe out, not unless they know what they're looking for.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: He ain't got the shoe on him, but I think
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: he's telling the truth. Let's go tell the boss.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, what do we do with the gumpshoe? Oh?
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: I'm surprised at you boy? Give me your sap and
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: now wait a minute for what?
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Okay, you're gonna knock him up?
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: I get a salary for killing the boys. S ain't
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: pay me to knock this guy off. I want to
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: save him in case he thinks I should later on,
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: let's go.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: It isn't easy coming out of a fast beating. When
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: the guy works you're over slow. You don't go to
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: sleep right away until he wants you to anyway. Then
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: he taps you with a good one, and that's it.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: When he does it in a hurry. The first one's
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: enough to stun a dragon. But for some reason he
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: decides you need a few more, and friend, that's when
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: koma sets in.
• 18:47
  Speaker 10: When I finally pulled myself out of it, my watch
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: said seven o'clock and my head felt like a balloon
• 18:54
  Speaker 10: with a rice in it. I finally came around to
• 18:57
  Speaker 10: a reasonable way of thinking and headed for the bar
• 19:00
  Speaker 10: on Columbus Avenue.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, what holy ike? Give me anything with nerves
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: in it, and tell me where your phone is. Sure
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: you're a mess?
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, been.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Advertising a popular cigarette, been stepping out of thousands of
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: store windows all over the country.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Now where's your phone?
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Right over there at the end of the bar here words,
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: you put some plasma in this drink?
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: That was a gim dandy Dunnet Levinson homicide.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Well Rick Rick with a w ben playing paddy cake
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: with the two Ganeps who worked over missus Kirby and
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: her daughter. Well, we've been trying to get you what
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: has been calling bloms all over town. This is Kirby
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: and her daughter. Identify the two hoods. First name is
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Bart and Danny. Yeah, Bart Franchetti and Danny Miller. They
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: have a pickup out of him. Now they hurt you bad.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Oh I'll make it, but I'm good egg for a while.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: You find out about the shoe We really got some
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: fast action on those half soles picking up Kirby picked
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: him up on the shoe repair shop.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: It must have been somewhere in his neighborhood. They were lucky.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: They were right the little shoe shop on Columbus Avenue.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: Columbus Avenue. What a dress? Six ninety five? Why because
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: I'm in a bar right across the way. Uh.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: You can't see the shoe store now because it's too dark.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: But Kirby's sister told me he used to come in
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: here for dinner. He could have watched it. Then stay there,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I'll be right over heys Akshaiah.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: Did you know Bill Kirby the shamers?
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: Oh? Sure, eh, what do you mean?
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Did I know him? He's pretty dead Oh no. He
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: came in here every day, didn't he.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, for a beer. But come to think of it,
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I ain't seen him since he left it? Left you what?
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Nothing?
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: It all?
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I'll wait a minute. If Kirby left you anything, let's
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: have it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Uh ah. If Kirby's dead, out turned it over to
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: the cops. You want the badge?
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Oh well, okay, why didn't you say so?
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: I got in the cash register.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: He told me if anything happened to him to turn
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: it over to the law. Okay, here just an envelope?
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Thanks, what is it? The name and address? Look, Lieutenant
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Levins will be here in a few minutes. Tell him
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: I have gone to this address eighteen North River and
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: it's down to the dogs.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Tell him, I've gone to find a guy named James Willis.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: One moment's.
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: Hand a little shipping, mister Willis, who's calling?
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: One momently, honey, mister Willison.
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: Yes, the emergency hospitals on the second floor.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I always go around this way. It makes people notice me,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: which is mister Willis's office.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: There right over there.
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: But I'm afraid you can.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: Here's the badge, baby, and don't ringing?
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: Yes, well, well, well, well, James Willis, When did you
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: change your name from Coslick?
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: I look, Diamond, I've got a good job here.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: I never could have gotten into the company had known
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: I was James Coslick and I'd done time in the
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: shipping business.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: Huh. What's an old time safe cracker like you doing
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: in the shipping business?
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: You're not a company more Diamond. You help put me
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: away once, But I've quit the rackets and I'm doing
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: fine in.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: A legit way.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Now you can leave.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: What is your company? Ship?
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: We're in export and import from We ship and receive everything.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Now get out?
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: What is your company? Import?
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: That my ad entrants to professional thugs like Biden Danny What?
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: I don't know what you mean?
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Where do you have your shoes fixed? A little place
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: on Columbus Avenue. I don't know what you're talking about,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: and I don't intend to sit here and listen to
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: you and your riddles. Miss Williams, will you please have
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: one of the watchmen sent in to show mister Diamond out?
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, but two gentlemen wish to see you. They
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: say it's very important. Well, I can't see anyone.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: Well, I think maybe you better.
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: They seem very deaf, Miss Williams, what's the matter, mister Willard?
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: I want to go my hair. Tell her to show
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: the gentleman or I'll next sitting bull look like a piker.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Go on, send the two gentlemen in. Miss Williams, okay,
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: I'm going to be here behind the door. You'd be
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: a good boy.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: You nearly pull all my hair. That's a difference the
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: way things look. The state might have to shave your
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: head anyway, and we want to talk to you.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: What's the matter?
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: It's sure because we came up to Hey, what's with
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: the guy? He's a sister hole in his head? Good evening, boys.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Hey, look who's here. It's a shamus and he looked pretty.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: You fools too, blundering fool.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: I'll wait a minute. If you're worried about Diamond, will
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: take care of me. I told you I could never
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: be seen with you. You know how we've all watched
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: when the coal shipments come in.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, oh, that's it. That's what the shoe was all about. Yeah, yes, smart,
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: shut up.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I've got to think you got the confidenceial shipping report
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: and put it in that shoe and some kind of
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: cord so it could be picked up. Then your dear
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: little boys were going to try to hijack the goal. Well, well,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: well I mean I shut him up. No, No, you're crazy,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: that's secretary. So I come in take him out the
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: same way. I'm going to be stubborn.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh okay, isn't it silly what a little thirty
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: eight can do?
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Let's go all right, but look, as long as I'm
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: probably going to end up in the river, would you
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: mind telling me one thing?
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Yes, I do.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: No, that's swell, that's really swell. Kirby recognized you going
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: into that shoe store. He remembered you had a record,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: so he probably tailed you where you worked and went
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: back to take a look at that shoe. He found
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: the same thing wrong that I did. The numbers weren't
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: his shoe size, and he probably thought it was crazy
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: when you left only one shoe, so he took the shoe.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: And you always were a pretty smart cop. Diamond Danny
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: yell bos before you kill the smart coup put his
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: hair out, police here by the roots, Now take.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: Him out of here.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Is Kirby blackmailing New Willis?
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Yes, being stupid. He didn't know what the shoe was for,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: but you know it was worth something. Now please Danny
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: get mister IIQ through that door.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Moved okay, Willis, Yeah it's funny. Sham you boys. And
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: then for a big surprise, just keep walking shot us nothing,
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: nothing's wrong? Oh are you gentlemen? Proved mister Willis? Yeah,
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: that's the gun and he'll see.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Let's go shaunas Oh uh, one more thing. Yeah, I
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: know what that rick, Thanks for and you take it easy.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Bite.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Ain't going from the gnade doing nothing.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Please don't shoot.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Well, James Willis is really James Cossack. I'm going in
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: after it here, cat, you'll need a gun. Is he
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: in there out the window? I went over to the
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: window fast and spotted my man just dropping down off
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: the fire escape.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: The building.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: It on a long dock, and Willis had fifty yards
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: to go before he could find cover. Then I said
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: that stupid thing, Willis, and then at the law stop.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Well he didn't stop in the name of the law.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: So I rested my arm in the windowsill and led
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: him about two feet At fifty yards, a running man
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: can be hard to hit for the thirty eight. Sometimes
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: you get him right. Yeah, see you down at the station.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: How do you like it. Rick, no cream twelve lumps?
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Say, I had a phone call from the president of
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Continental Shipping. Where that willis? Guy worked?
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Why do you make this coffee out of grunpotter?
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: He says, There's always been a standing reward of one
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: thousand dollars for the apprehension of any person attempting to
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: rob their shipment.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: Uh, hey, diamond, miss Asha Poe, she wants you should call. Thanks, ODIs, Thanks?
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: What's wrong with you?
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: You heard him out this? He said, Thanks? Okay, he
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: must be sick or coffee?
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: RG.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll have another cup. Hello, Hi, honey, Rick, where
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: are you? What I thought you were coming over?
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: Well, baby, I've I've got to stop by and see
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: a nice old lady named Kirby.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: Her son got killed. Oh, I'm sorry, Well, I see
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: you later. Oh no, I don't think so, honey. I'm
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: I'm a little tired, all right, Rick, Well, don't sound
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: too unhappy. I'll see you tomorrow night. Well all right,
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: but you always sing to me, and I wanted you
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: to sing tonight.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Well, I haven't gotten in the letters from the apartment
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: building next door yet, so I'm going to lay off
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: one week and see if the tenants.
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: Missed the singing.
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: All right, Rick, I see you to night.
• 27:52
  Speaker 11: Goodbye, baby bye. Well, I think i'd better get over
• 27:56
  Speaker 11: to missus Kirby's wall. Why don't you want your coffee?
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: Give it a What are you going to tell missus Kirby?
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: I mean about her son.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: And the blackmail? What are you going to tell Continental Shipping?
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: You caught him?
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: You get the thousand? Oh, missus Kirby's pretty broke. H
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Kirby was the one who really spotted the play. Yeah,
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: but if I say anything about the blackmail? What blackmail?
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: Huh?
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I come to think of it. That was
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: another case, wasn't I see a later on?
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: All right? Yeah?
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Oh nothing, be a good boy, you.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I've just heard Richard Diamond and Private Detective, starring Dick Powell.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Helen was played by Virginia Gregg Riich, Helen Levinson by
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Ed Begley. Also in our cast were Wilms, Herbert Stephen Dunn,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Peggy Webber and William Johnstone. Music was under the direction
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: of Frank Worth. Richard Diamond is written by Blake Edwards
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: and directed by Richard Sandbil. Dick Powell soon will be
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: seen in the screen version of the best selling novel.
• 29:23
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• 29:26
  Speaker 2: be with us again at the same time next week,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: when we will again bring you Dick Powell as Richard
• 29:31
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• 30:00
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• 30:11
  Speaker 1: That was Richard Diamond Private Detective with Bill Kirby Murder Case.
• 30:16
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• 30:19
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