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Mr. Malone: Haste Maketh Waste (EP1108) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Welcome to the Great Detectors of Old Time Radio from BOISEI. This is your
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  or as an audio book. All right, well, we're going to get
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  into today's episode of the Amazing Mister Malone, which is actually the last American
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  episode. We have a few more episodes to come with, and I'll tell
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  you a little bit more about that after the show. But here now is
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  taste Maketh Waste the Amazing Mister Malone. Operator Operator, get me the Office
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  of John J. Malone. The National Broadcasting Company presents the Amazing Mister Malone,
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  an exciting half hour of mystery, starring George Petrie as the lawyer who's
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  practiced before every type of bar has become a legend. Our locale is the
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  city of Chicago, the time, the present, and the hero of these
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  weekly adventures, the amazing mister Malone. Malone's the name John J. Malone,
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  attorney and cost at law Tonight. In our study of the cliche,
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  let's explore the possibilities of haste maketh waste. There's a case in point.
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  I give you a Dutch Schneider. Dutch is the solid looking citizen behind the
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  mahogany desk at the Belvidere Club. He's a gambler by professional, but that
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  doesn't mean he takes chances. No. Dutch likes to play at nice and
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  safe. That probably explains why he stares with obvious disbelief at a light on
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  his desk, which fix on and off with appropriate sound effects. O'Neil,
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  Yeah, what's going on out there? Just what you think, Dutch?
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  It's a raid they're doing any damage, can't you hear it? No,
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  I'll take my word for it. They're playing awful rough. I'm glad they're
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  having fun. Who's in charge? I am? Never mind? O'Neil,
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  do you want to see me? Yes? Who's your name? Officer Brooks?
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  Lieutenant Sidney Brooks. Why wasn't I notified of this raid? Would you
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  mind repeating that? Please? I asked why I wasn't warned? Your boys
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  must have done at least one hundred thousand dollars worth of damage. Oh easy,
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  you know who's going to pay for it? Who? You and my
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  salary? Don't be silly, O'Neil. What is it, Dutch? Get
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  me off a haul on the phone. Oh, now I get it?
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  Is off of all your lawyer. That's right. You know this is the
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  funniest thing I've heard yet you think so? I know so? So he
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  clipped you two. I'm surprised at you, Dutch. What are you talking
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  about? I'll bet off the soldio bill of goods. He could keep us
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  out of your head if you paid off to him. Well, well he
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  was kidneyed. Arthur Hall has as much influence in Chicago as my brother in
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  law, and even with me on the force, he can't get himself arristed.
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  Well, if Hall was bluffing, why wasn't my club knocked off before?
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  Oh? You're just lucky, Dutch. We're understaffed. We didn't get
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  a wrong to you. I see. I can't get over it. Arthur
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  Hall clipping a hip character like you. You're right, Lieutenant. It is
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  funny, but you'll pardon me if I don't laugh right now. The joke
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  seems to be on me. Yes, the office, Peggy fighting Jans to
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  your phone, Dutch Schneider's and trying to reach you all evening. Oh did
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  he call here? You know the idea was a little annoyed with you.
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  Well what did he say? It wasn't what he said, Darling, was
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  the way he said it. Listen, Peg, I had leave town for
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  a few days. Yeah, something, something has just come up. Remember
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  the Marris estate. So you don't have to explain. You know, I
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  trust you implicitly. When you're leaving, I'm tagging the souper Chief to Los
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  Angeles. Oh that explains it. That explains what are they called? And
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  confirmed your reservation to Saint Louis. Well, I mistake. We'll have fun,
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  Darling. If there's anything I can do for you here, yeah there
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  is. I want you to sign this paper. I had nothing to be
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  concerned about here on this first line. Didn't you want to tell me never
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  to sign anything about reading. Well, this is to acknowledge that I Peggy
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  Hall here, now, Peggy here. I'm shocked, utterly and completely shot.
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  I couldn't sign anything like this if I did. All the bonds and
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  money you put in my name of provert back to you. It's my money
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  and bonds, isn't it, sweet heart. Don't get me wrong, I
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  wouldn't want to see paneless in Saint Louis. Pardon Los Angeles. I suppose
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  I write, I'll check the twenty five tw Listen, Peggy. He's arguing,
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  or I think I'm being very generous. After all, I'm not obliged
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  to give you anything. You did a little double cross. It's just what
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  do you think you're doing? It's not nice. I said, that's not
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  nice. Hello Peggy, Hello Dutch. What are you doing here? Oh?
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  A couple of things I want to take up with you? Would you
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  mind leaving us alone for a little while? Missus Hall? No, Peggy,
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  come back. That's a swell girl. You've got there and a list,
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  Dutch. I know what you're going to say. That's good. Then
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  I won't have to say it. I have a slip off, you see,
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  I've been on the phone all day. Those boys had no right to
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  raid your play, but they did. Well. I've got an appoint to
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  talk to the commissioner tomorrow. I don't see how you're going to manage it.
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  Wow, what do you mean? Well to talk properly, you should
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  have teeth. And it comes tomorrow. Author. I don't think you're going
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  to have many leftons come in? Are you George kelk mm hmm. I'm
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  off the hall. I spoke to you on the phone. Oh yeah,
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  it's I'll be with you in a minute. I've got to hear this record.
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  I Look, I'm a busy man. If you're in a hurry,
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  mister Hall, you better take your business elsewhere. Well oh wait, that's
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  the ticket. Hmm. It's pretty, isn't it. It's w said yeah.
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  If you know what's responsible for most of the troubles in this world,
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  mister Hall, People assigned the wrong value to things. I take music for
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  example. That's important because there is a common denominator. Look, I didn't
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  come here for a lecture. There's no extra charge. All right, Hall?
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  What can I do for you? Want to do a job for me?
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  Not particularly I'm a craftsman. Mister Hall, I only accept commissions I
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  like. I'll pay you five hundred dollars. You're not even in my register.
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  You'll have to go higher thousand. It's a little better have the money
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  right on you now, Yes, but it's all I have at the moment.
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  It's enough for me, all right, four six eight? Now?
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  What's the name of your party? Dutch Schneider? You know only by reputation,
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  e the one who bounced you around. That's my business, as you
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  say, mister Hall, that's your business. So if you'll allow me,
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  I'll be getting down to mine test a minute. Yes, are you Dutch
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  Schneider? That's right? Kelk's my name, Georgie Kelk kel Haven't I heard
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  that name before? And I don't know? Have you for sure? You're
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  going? We'll go on Dutch. You won't hurt my feelings. I'd rather
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  not take any chances. Frankly, it won't make much difference. Sit down,
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  you mind? If I smoke h here, try my brand the king
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  signs well, if nothing else, it'll give me a little more time the
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  match. Sure, ktch thanks? Well, where do I get it?
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  Kelk? What's wrong with right here? Aren't you afraid of the noise if
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  you didn't notice the silencer on this baby? Excuse me for trying to tell
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  you your business is quite all right? You don't mind talking, not at
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  all. How'd you find me here anyway? Oh? It took me a
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  couple of hours, but I managed. What is this a hide away?
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  Yes? Nice place? Oh your phonograph? H whose records? Mine?
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  See? You go in for the classical? Uh? Whose album is that
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  you've got on the Tchekowsky piano concerto? Rubenstein? Have you hear Horowitz play?
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  I like Rubenstein's better. It's got a lot more fire. Oh,
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  you're out of your mind. No one can touch Horrowitz when it comes to
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  execution. You ought to know it's all right? Say tell me something does?
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  Why is it? The nice guys always get it. There's no reason
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  why they should look kelk. I don't want to insult you, but can't
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  we talk this all? I'm afraid not? Well? I know who puts
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  you up to it? It was alf a whole. What difference does that
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  make? You have nothing in common with Hall? Wouldn't you rather work for
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  me? Definitely? But it's too late now. Why you can't tell me
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  that you're afraid of Hall, and I don't know what he gave you,
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  but I'll pay you ten thousand dollars for that gun fully loaded. I don't
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  know that never done anything like this before, and if I did now,
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  I wouldn't want you to think that the money you're offering had any effect on
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  my decision. Oh, of course not. There was something about that fellow
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  Hall that just rubbed me the wrong way. All right, that's get the
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  doll It was just one of those things, just one of those crazy things,
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  one of those bells, but now just one of those don't stop on
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  my accountants in Malone. I think he's seeing real pretty well. I always
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  say a pretty girl, as there was a pretty tune. Imagine coming into
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  my office and finding you. How'd you get in here? Anyway? I
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  told the superintendent I was offended you with good for you. I'm glad you
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  made yourself at home. You know, mind my taking up my shoes,
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  not a bit. I'd like to see people comfortable. You ought to get
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  some better reading the two. Oh you don't care for Professor wigmore on evidence.
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  I thought it was pretty dull. There's a racing for me overlook,
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  No, I didn't this last week. Oh, I'm terribly sorry, miss
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  Paul Peggy Hole. Only it's missus. I'm the one to be sorry.
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  Should I put my shoes in? Why be formal? You know, Malone,
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  you're a welcome change for most of the lawyers. I know, you
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  know many. I've got one in the family, Arthur Hall. Do you
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  hear of them? Unfortunately he's my husband. Oh. I once heard him
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  say he'd never do business with you. Well, that's a wonderful recommendation.
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  That's what I thought. Can you get me a divorce on what grounds?
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  Well? This may come as a shock to you, Missus Hall, but
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  judges are peculiar people. Before they grant a divorce, they like to know
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  if there's a reason I've got a millionaire for your husband contested. I don't
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  think. I don't think on our luck, Lieutenant. I'm business. Oh
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  you're always busy, Malone. Why did you take a little time out once?
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  I'm not clowning Brooks neither am I. Oh, this lady's Peggy Hall,
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  isn't she. I'm a detective. Like to see how I operate.
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  Well, first I went to your home and then they told me I left
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  a message that if anybody looked for you, you'd be closeted with the legal
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  legal here home alone, you are a dip. Look Brooks, what are
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  you getting that? Didn't she tell you? All she told me is she
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  wanted to get rid of her husband, and she did. We just found
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  his body. Put your shoes on, Lucy. Those stone floors at headquarters
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  There's an old cliche, it's always darkest before the dawn. Judging by the
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  signs here, daybreak was way off. While Lieutenant Brooks gazed about my office,
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  I watched my client, Peggy Hall, put on her shoes. Little
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  thing like that can tell you a lot. To me. Had proved two
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  things. One my client was innocent, and two she had lovely ankles.
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  You like what you see? I love it? Are you're gonna hate me
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  for asking this? Peggy? But did you kid your husband? Do I
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  look like the kind of girl who would? Oh? You're abound them alone?
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  I know I ought to wash my mouth out with salt. All right,
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  lover, who do you think? Did it? Have no idea?
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  But if you asked me, who would have. I'll amend the question,
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  Dutch schnyder for one? Who for two? I think be enough to hold
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  you for a while, or like Dutch could hold me for life? What
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  do you have against Arthur? Arthur convinced him he was a man of influence.
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  Oh, I get it. How much did you nick Dutch for?
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  I really don't know. It must have been a substantial tom up. That's
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  quite achievement to take money away from mister Schneider. I wonder if I could
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  get in Dutche. I'll let you kids know if I score. All right,
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  you guys, will you step on it? Those ditch tables will never
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  be ready in time? And where's the roulette set up? Well, we
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  gotta here, Dutch. Well, it's doing me no good in that case.
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  Get it open, hello, Dutch? Why if it isn't the amazing
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  mister Malone? You mean the amazed mister Malone? I thought they closed you
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  up? They did. What's all the activity for? Well, it gives
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  the boys something to do. I like to see them occupy us amount of
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  trouble. What's on your mind, counselor? Can we talk someplace so there's
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  less danger of me being hit on? The head by a hammer. Sure,
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  come into the office. Oh watch your step. I always try to
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  so now I think Malone never says no, soa just a squirt? You
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  are? Thanks well, Salo Salode. Hmm, all right, Malone?
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  To what do I owe the pleasure? Well, for one thing, I
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  was wondering whether you found a successor to Arthur Hall. Uh successor? Well,
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  ar they used to represent you in me. I'm glad you mentioned that,
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  Malone. I could use a good lawyer and wish I could think of
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  one. And what's wrong with you? Me? Oh, I got a
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  client? So what so I'm afraid your interests are diametrically posed. But how
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  do you figure that I'm representing Peggy Hall? Don't tell me the police believe
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  she killed her husband. How did you know he was dead from several sauces.
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  As a matter of fact, I think there was a flash on the
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  radio about an hour ago. But it's say nothing much, only that someone
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  sent a thirty two slug through Arthur's brain in his office and the cops were
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  holding a hot suspect. But they didn't drop any names. It's Peggy Hall.
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  Well, now that proves that they're out of their minds. Why would
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  Peggy kill him? It seems Arthur signed everything he owned over to her and
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  she didn't want to give it back. That's no motive. I forgot to
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  mention that everything Arthur owned amounted to close to one hundred thousand dollars. Hey,
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  you lawyers do all right? Well, there are lawyers and lawyers Dutch.
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  Now, Arthur had a few soft touches. He convinced a couple of
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  clients he had political connections, and he was rooking them for a fat little
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  fee each week. You don't have to tell me I was one of the
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  principal contributors, so I've heard. What gets me is why the police haven't
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  talked to you? Well, maybe they had. What'd you tell him?
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  Obviously enough to convince them that I I didn't murder offer? I want to
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  try convincing me. Where's my percentage? How should drink? Well? The
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  drink? Fine? Fine? One one for the road. Oh I'm in
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  a hurry. I can spare another few minutes. Well I can't. That's
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  okay, duds. You don't have to beat me over the head. I
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  can take a hint. See you're on the full road. Hello, DUTs,
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  Why kelk you're the last man I expected to see. I hope you
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  don't mind my dropping around. I brought over the Horowitz recording of the Piano
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  concetto. I thought maybe I might be compared with the Rubinstein job. It
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  didn't really come for that, did your Kelk? I guess there's no use
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  of my trying to kid you, no use at all. It's funny,
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  Dutch. I've known you how long? Maybe twenty four hours, and yet
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  I feel that there's a bomb between us? Do you? Oh? You
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  know me better than I do myself. For example, I used to think
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  that I was interruptible. Oh come no, I mean it. I always
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  pride of myself At once I undertook an assignment. Nothing could swerve me for
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  my purpose. But you did, didn't you, Dutch? And you did
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  it with money? Did I do that? Yes? You put ideas in
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  my head. Get to the freud Kelk. Well, all I'm trying to
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  say is that suddenly money has become tremendously important to me. So so I
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  want lots of it? And do I look like Fort Knox? Well a
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  reasonable fact, simile. I sold you your life at nine o'clock last night
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  for ten thousand dollars. Now that was pretty cheap Dutch. I'll bet I
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  could have gotten five times then easily. If I had that much here,
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  well, you better start raising it otherwise, otherwise I go to a fellow
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  named John J. Malone. Oh you wouldn't do that? Why not?
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  I just don't think you would. When you're wrong, Dutch? How can
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  I be? You admit that I know you're better than you do yourself,
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  And I don't see you going to John J. Malone. I just don't
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  see it. Ah, Hello, mister Malone, are you busy? Who
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  is? My name is George Kelk? George Kelk? Yes, you don't
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  know me, but it might be worthwhile if you did. In what respect?
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  I know who killed Arthur Hall? Is this a rib? I'll let
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  you judge that for yourself. What time does your office staff leave? All
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  right, I'll be there at six. It'll be much easier with just the
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  tool. Let me see if we understand each other, Kelk. I think
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  we do now, Malone, you'll be willing to repeat the same story in
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  court? Why not? Why you admit that you've been hired by Arthur Hall
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  to take care of Dutch Schneider when nothing happened to Dutch, didn't it?
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  Then? What can happen to me? You've got a nice logical mind,
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  thank you. What do you think would be Dutch's reaction when he learns you've
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  been up here? Oh I'm not worried, malone. I can look after
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  myself. You want me to prove it? Yeah, all right? Open
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  up your desk drawer. Why go on? Start with the bottom one on
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  the right. What are you talking about? You've got a recording machine somewhere
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  in there, malone. You've been taking down every bit of this dialogue.
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  How do you know that? Oh you're talking to a man who keeps up
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  at the latest in that field. I do a little home recording myself.
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  Oh who thought of placing the microphone in the waste paper basket? Me pick
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  it up from a story. It's red cute idea. Yeah all right,
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  malam, get away from that desk. Put away that gun keilk, I
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  said, get away from that. How do you feel, counselor? Oh,
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  it's too bad? Next time. Remember you're not dealing with an amateur.
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  I never auditioned for free listen, give them a little more water.
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  Come on my loan, Come on, let me I'll take it easy,
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  chum. Something new has been added. Huh three stitches in your scalp?
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  Oh what did you get here, lieutenant? About an hour ago? Let
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  me see that. Oh, there's nothing to say there. You'll have to
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  buy yourself a new record it. Listen, Brooks. A boy named George
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  Kelk was up here. Yeah, I know you kept badly well. He
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  can clear Peggy Hall. I tell you I had the evidence on that machine.
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  He stopped trying to humor me. Alcohol originally hired this kelc abomp Dutch
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  Schneider. Only Dutch was lucky and bought his way out. Now is that
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  a strong enough motive for you? I mean, for Dutch getting back at
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  Alph Halla. I'd be out of my mind to say it was. Well.
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  Kelk can prove the whole business. No, we can't, Lieutenant.
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  I talked with the man. He told me that at nine o'clock last night
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  he went up and braced Duck. Well, that's the way you run into
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  trouble. I don't see why. It's because you haven't seen the autopsy report.
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  Alca Hall was dead at eight what yeah, that's right, a full
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  hour before Kelke Evel got to Dutch. They better get the aspird alone.
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  amazing mister Malone. But Georgie Kelk made me sick. Lieutenant Brooks wasn't exactly
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  what the doctor ordered either. When I refuse to believe that Arthur Hall was
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  killed an hour before Kelk even met Dutch Schneider, Lieutenant showed it to me
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  in black and white. Hey a Malone, now would you behave Why did
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  this autopsy report come through around six fifteen? Why didn't you call me?
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  I tried to, but you were around, Why you could have left?
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  Oh you got any other leads? No? Your client, missus Hall still
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  refuses to tell us what she did with the gun? What gun? The
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  one she bought three months ago in a pawn shop? Why? Well,
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  I hear her tell it. She was afraid with arthrow away from home so
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  often, that's possible, sure, But why did she buy it under her
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  phony name? She's a woman? Oh, of course that explains everything.
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  Well, how'd you finally run it down through the car? The pawn broker
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  remembered she was driving a Nash She got the first four numbers of the license.
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  To the observing boy, what kind of a gun? Was it?
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  Police special? Is that what was used on Hall? The slugy pride out
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  of the wall was too bad at to tell? Look, Lieutenant Peggy didn't
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  kill her husband. It's all a lot of character. Oh that's good,
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  that is. It's been all of sixty minutes with the girl, and already
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  you've got around a lot. I tell you, Wait a minute, I
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  mean original idead boy, I've been saying that for years. Where what she
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  think? I got to see her immediately? Why? I just thought of
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  something in the way my mind is functioning lately. I can't take a chance
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  of for getting it. Shall we go? If there's anything I can do,
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  Peggy, anything at all. I want you to let me know.
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  Thank you, Judge, but I can't think of the thing. Alone's taking
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  care of everything. Well. Much as I disliked the guy, I've got
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  to admit he's capable. But if you want anybody else, what happened to
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  you? I used my head when I shouldn't have. Oh, I'm sorry.
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  I didn't realize you had company. That's all right, counselor I'm leaving.
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  Don't on my account, Dutch they are, Lieutenant here as a call
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  out for Georgie Kelk Kelk. Hadn't you heard he was up to see me
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  tonight? I didn't think he would? Why not? I didn't think he
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  knew anything about office murder. You're right he didn't. Hey, alone,
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  he has said there was something he wanted to ask missus Hall. Oh,
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  yeah, I'm glad you reminded me, Lieutenant. I almost forgot again.
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  You've got any plans for to night? Peggy? That's not funny, Malone.
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  No, I'm serious. I'd like to take you out, hey,
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  haven't I got anything to say about that. I don't get me wrong,
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  Lieutenant. With the housing shortage what it is, I wouldn't leave you with
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  an empty room. Mister Schneider can move in and take her place. How
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  about that, Dutch? What are you trying to say? Malone? You
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  killed Arthur Hall there? I said it, and I'm glad. I can't
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  believe it, Malone, I don't believe what that Schneider killed Arthur suit yourself,
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  Peggy, but it obviously had to be one of you in that case.
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  I'm glad you picked on Dutch. How convinced you he was killing that
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  gun? You? Miss? Late? Lieutenant Brooks said it was a police
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  special and that's a thirty eight caliber job. What did that prove? When
• 28:49
  I asked Brooks if he was positive the bullet was fired from a police special,
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  he admitted they couldn't tell for sure. So how come when I first
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  went to see Dutch Schneider, he knew definitely it was a thirty two.
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  Oh, Dutch must have had inside information. It's the very best. After
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  the raid on his club, Dutch went to your home and beat the devil
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  out of Arthur. Why didn't he kill him? There? Authur must have
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  promised to return the money you got from him. How could Arthur do that?
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  He signed over practice everything he owned to meet sure and then when Dutch
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  realized he had no chance of recouping, he went to your husband's office and
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  killed him there. But in between, Arthur hired Georgie Kelk. By the
• 29:22
  time Kelk located Dutch, Arthur was dead. Should I say I'm sorry?
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  Not if you don't feel like any But you don't want to let this prejudice
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  you against all? Man? Oh it won't. I know now the type
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  I can handle, and when I see one of the other kind, I'm
• 29:38
  going to start running. How are you recognize the other kind? That's easy,
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  they're lawyers. Good night, mister Malone. Well, like the man
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  says, that's all there is, There ain't no more, which merely means
• 30:06
  that this is the last Malone show in the current series. If you want
• 30:10
  us back, all you gotta do is say the word. When it comes
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  to that department. You're the judge and jury, so here's hoping you'll be
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  dropping us a line at the office and that the verdict will be a favorable
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  one. Good Night, good luck. George Petrie was starred as John J.
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  Malone, with Larry Haynes as Lieutenant Brooks. Our program is written by
• 30:33
  Eugene Wang and directed by Richard Lewis. The Amazing Mister Malone is based on
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  a famous character created by Craig Rice and produced by Bernard L. Schubert.
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  The events in the story were fictional, and any resemblance to persons living or
• 30:45
  dead is entirely coincidental. Fred Commins, speaking, the Amazing Mister Malone has
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  come to you from New York. Stay tuned for the man called x Overmost
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  NBC stay welcome back Well listeners did not ask for another season of Mister Malone,
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  so this episode ended it with its refined hit man. This was the
• 31:22
  second refined hit man we'd seen on Mister Malone, and I think the last
• 31:26
  one was into art or something. Though there is an Australian series in addition,
• 31:32
  there is actually a There was an adaptation done for the Old Gold Comedy
• 31:41
  Theater that was a little bit more consistent with the books, even though the
• 31:45
  character was named Michael Malone rather than John Malone. So we'll bring you that
• 31:51
  episode next week and then we'll get into the Australian episodes. We have all
• 31:57
  right, well, now we turn to listener call as a and feedback.
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  Andrew writes, the great Detective has got me through double knee surgeries and now
• 32:06
  at night, relief from schoolwork and time to travel back in time, travel
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  to a slower, more qualitative time in our history. Well, thanks so
• 32:15
  much, Andrew, and definitely would second that. All right, well,
• 32:21
  that will do it for today. Join us back here tomorrow as we continue
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  on with the Tears of nightmatter on yours truly, Johnny Dollar. And next
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  Tuesday, the Old Gold Comedy Theater presentation of Having a Wonderful Crime. But
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  from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.