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Police Headquarters: KO’D and Infiltrating the Mob (EP1274) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Police had callers call them ptectics par eighty one. Protectives are eight one.
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Captain Snyder, call your station ten minutes more Togo and I got a call.
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I'll probably it be out on something stick up half the night, pulling
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into that box. I'll do, what's up? Hey? Which one of
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these keys? Oh? Never mind, I got it. Captain Slidder and
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what's up? Yeah? All right? Put him on. Captain Roberts wants
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to talk to me. Probably a homicide. Yeah, hello, Yeah,
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I'm off in ten minutes. Why sure? Sure I would at the garden.
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Huh, you bet you You're there in ten minutes, Sam, But
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he is it Capitlin movie O. Captain Roberts has two passes to Pendla McCoy
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fight tonight and he wants there to go with him. Step on it boy,
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Yes sir, Thanks Mike. I'll tell you about it tomorrow. Don't
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bother. I'll hear my tale tonight on the radio. Hi, Daptin,
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good night. There you are a Hello, Sam, let's be to give
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me a call. Don't forget it. I just go two tickets out of
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Manny mor it's McCoy's manager. And anytime you can get anything out of that
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type. Bow No, I say do it. Maybe Many wants you to
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see his fighter inaction. Maybe, so come on it, get going.
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Hey, how are the odds on this crab plenty top heavy? Five to
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one on McCoy. How's the smart money going? I mean the ring?
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Yeah, I saw Flash curring to night and he was back in kit Miller.
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That don't sound right. Karen usually stays on the top side. How
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do you know he ain't well. I mean, I'm not saying anything,
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but if Kurran can take the suckers they are clamoring McCoy to the tune of
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five to one, he'll do it and not be choosy about his methods.
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But McCoy's at the top of his career. He'll take the kid like Grab
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took Richmond. Yeah, unless here we are right through here. Hi,
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n what were you saying about McCoy? I was saying that, h al
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the main events come on a good one. Wow. Look at McCoy's flock.
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He certainly pours a little bit to the kids, is wow. Take
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a look at that one. Hey, has that mccar got the sweet that?
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Hey there, Miller won't last four around And I'll say that guy is
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like, God, that's round. Hey, what's the matter with McCoy.
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It's seeing Polk Moore thought of his corners, the bent there. Yeah,
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something screwy there. McCoy's been winning all the way. And look at the
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scowl on March faith. Yeah, the pipe to look on flesh curls button.
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He doesn't look exactly happy, not with all the dough he has.
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I'm kid Miller boy, look at moncroy. Go something funny here, Joe,
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what do you mean now? Let's fight it? Hey? The kids
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down three four? He's on like a light telling Hey, hell over,
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Joel's win? Was that out? Alright? Come on, let's get out
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here. Whatever. Wait, don't I tell the missus about this. It's
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all of stuff for aside doing man. And that's why I say there was
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something funny going on the odd rolling McCoy. Everybody was picking McCoy, but
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flash Current and his mop were back of Millard. That doesn't sound right to
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knee, Oh it doesn't sound there neither many more so the others behind McCoy's
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corner, we're looking as happy as they should have been. Hey, do
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you think that Auli's up? The robber forty two up the robber from four
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two. I'm the little follow up to the gold and type of the turn.
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No, I don't think anything. I know around the corner of the
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ressing room, im my, guess there's a little show going on back then.
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We don't want to miss it. Yeah, these are the dressing room.
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Now, let's kept going. H there's the door. The door's locked.
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I'm banging it. Somebody's pulling the boat on the inside. Man,
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Now we're officers. What's wrong here? Ye? Man? Back there?
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How is it chugging? McCoy? Come on, Joe, there's the crowd
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up ahead there, all right, that it's true? Let us true are
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Yeah? I guess there's the door, Joe. Oh man, anyone's wrong.
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But the Sutter's dead, Captain, Yeah, I killed him. Oh,
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I don't know. But the doctor's in there. Now, come on,
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Joe and chuting doors? So that hurt a yokoming in? Where is
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he? Back of the shower in the way? Here? This is the
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dock here. I'm Captain Roberts. I was just leaving the fight when they
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called for doctor. I came right back. You want to know he's dead,
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won't kill him, don't know? Looks like a case of heart attack,
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hard attack. My eye, McCoy's heart was a storm of the bulls.
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He moved the body. I turned it over to listen to the hot
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How was he lying? He was slumped down in the shower. Body was
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lying mostly inside the shower. He's heading one arm or outside, and he
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marks on the body. No, no other than the ones who received in
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the fight. I think you'll find it the case of heart trouble, Captain.
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It's not out of reason in cases like this where a great amount of
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physical energy is used. And I know that, Doc, I know all.
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There's a possibility that McCoy was bumped off. Whana, man, the
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colored rubber? Bring him in. Oh, he don't want nothing about it,
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Captain. Besides, he's too scared to bring him in. Okay,
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help me get this body up on his running table, Joe, he might
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get us the hand. Dude. I gave sure that no mark, any
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evidence of poison. Ducker. No video was high. Of course, the
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authors say, like, man, it's funny. I don't know sam Hew
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was that colored boy? Oh? Here he is. I'll tell you,
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mister, what's your name? Boy? Joe? What do you know about
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this? George? I don't know nothing, mister Gavin's what happened after the
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fighter? I don't know, sir. The slugger, he was mad and
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he pushed his way through the crowds and come in here. I'm hold of
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a man. He started on dressing. Then he turned around and told me
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to get mister Man and his managers. What did you do? I wanted
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to look for miss the man in I found him up front, told me
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that the gentleman from the gardens boy I told him to slug him. Wanted
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to see him, and then I'll come back and found McCoy. Dad.
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Uh, okay, wait outside, What does McCoy want to see about man
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names? I don't know what were you doing upfront talking to some guys when
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you're a man that does won of his biggest fight. I think that comes
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under the head no my business guy, Well maybe it does. Maybe it
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don't. Maybe it comes under the heading of our business. Who are you
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talking to flash n We were Flash Curran was back in kid Minnard. How
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come you were talking to him? I was collecting up that better McCoy.
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Would that be the craziest to bet against me own final? Oh no,
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no, I just thought, well, think a guess, flash current page.
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Yeah, don't do the pokers, Joe say you can't do one time?
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We're doing it just the same. And me as wallet Joe, Hey,
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twenty bucks, you said, the current pages? What was just a
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Parker only twenty bucks? Ah, here's your walletts right in the next room.
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The loosening there, cat right in the next room. Why, just
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like your sick got the door on him? Right, Doctor, there's a
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red headed guy up front named Kerran. Flash current and see if you can
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find in boards? Will you? If you do, tell him to step
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back here? Right? Captain Roberts, Hey, what's the idea, Sam?
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This guy died of heart failure? Doctor said, So. I'm no
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doctor, but I say he didn't how his right hand here? What does
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that look like? It looks like a burn? It is a burn?
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And the palm of his right hand. Where'd you get up in the shower
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hot water pipe? Huh? Either the hot or the cold, I don't
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know which. Hey, you're up to something. M hm. And look
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around the place here. They're going to be a set of steps leading down
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under this room. I have a hunderstate we will find something very interesting under
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here. Yeah, the yard was done over the door to the stairway.
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I don't want our man to know we've been down there. You sure I
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had it figured out. I don't see how you're gonna pin it on him.
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Oh, that'll be easy, talktor back in. I don't see him
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around anywhere. What I can't figure out is how you tumbled to this in
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the first place. Well, I knew something was wrong when I saw her
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a fight tonight. From all appearances, I knew that McCoy was always set
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for a dive. That was the only way current and his mouth would clean
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up in a fight. But something happened. Well, I don't know yet,
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but I'll bet it was over McCoy's gal. The dope pended yesterday that
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you'd given McCoy the air, and it moved over to the Miller camp.
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Anyhow, McCoy went in there tonight not to take his dive, but to
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win, and Morris was betting against him and kept as him to go down.
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That's why threw Marth out of his corner. Hey, yeah, that's
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why. Flash. Oh good now, doctor, We're pulling a little experiment
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and i'd like to have you stick around in case anything goes wrong. All
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right, Captain. You may think we've gone nutty or something, but we're
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asking three men to take a shower bath while were you watching? I suppose
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you know what you're doing. Darn right, we do. Call that colored
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boy and Joe. I want you to watch these boys closely and see what
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happens to Doctor. Get your clothes off, George, you're gonna take a
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shower as you all go crazy. No, Stalin, get your clothes off.
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Get Manny. Marri's ready in the next room. Joey's next. All
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right, George, walk under that shower and turn it on. Oh I
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don't know what. All right, George, all right, forget it.
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Get your clothes on and go into the next room. You show him a
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crazy man, Captain, clothes get in the next room, gel Captain snyders
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that I'm ready for Marris. Yeah. Uh, first chat with a dud
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doctor. But we have two more bathers. Manny Morris's car. I think
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I see what say? You got a lot of nime? What's going idea
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up to now? If you think for a shut up, get onto that
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shower. I got some wait put him under there. Joe, Come on,
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come on, get out of that shower. Now put his hand up
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on that shower valve. So you're the one you shovel up, Shrimp,
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you carry your own fighter over immediately frame up. It didn't work. Awn't
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tell me that you killed McCoy and that because they refused to take a dive
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in the Miller fight, you were betting with flash current and the gambl rings.
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Get it all figured out that if McCoy didn't dive tonight, you'd kill
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him and collect his insurance. We've got your dead rights, Manny. Take
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him out of Joe me. I asked a question, sure, doctor,
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shoot, what does the shower have to do with it? Everything? That
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music drain on the floor of the shower was McCoy's death. Now, Morris
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Newett, that's why he didn't dare going to the shower you mean, I
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mean that Morris that connected the power wires that feed this building to the metal
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base of the shower and the shower valve. After the fight, he went
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below and threw the switch. McCoy was electrocuted. Police tad Quarters calling cars
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two, three, two eight and thirty, cars twenty three, twenty eight
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and thirty a stick up at the Knuds and Jewelry Company to Babo main Street.
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Step on the boys, that's all all right? Open up here,
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stand back your ravenecks, stand back all right, get more there on and
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back your business. What's going on in here? Did you know what?
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He's back there? He's been hot? Come on, ed, better get
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the water. He's had a nanty crack on the head. Yeah, come
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around, tell us what happened? Hey, hey, wake up? What
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happened here? Try the water on him? Okay, I get him out
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of it. Yeah, better put in a call for an ambulance. So,
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hey, hey, come out of it. We're officers. What happened?
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Then? Let them get away? Come on, come on, who
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hit you? The diamonds? I took the diamonds, so touched him?
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Come on, sit up here and try to talk to it. He re
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put up them. They clean me out everything I have? What these men
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look like? Oh? I don't know? Oh my head? What's going
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on here? I stick up, sir. I'm just trying to get this
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fellaw to tell us what happens. He's been banged up pretty badly. To
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call an ambulance, Perry did. I've been trying to get a description from
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this fella. I'll let me talk to him. I'm Lieutenant Macklin, I'm
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mister North. I say, I'll take it easy, mister Norton, and
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tell me, in your own words, just what happened? All right,
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I was just getting ready to close up. I've already put most of my
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best stone. I heard the real What can I do for you, sir?
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I want to buy a ring? Goll it? What kind of a
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ring, sir? Diamond ring? Yeah? Did you have something special?
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And I want to ring it'll knock a rye out, something with life to
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it. You know, some classy about the carrots? And I have none
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of that cheap stuff for me. And listen, brother, I spent four
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years in South America, and tonight I'm proposing to the greatest gallon the world.
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Money's no object. Come on, give me something about five or six
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carrots. But I I've already put them in the safe. Maybe I all
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right? You want to make us say, or don't you? Well?
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Maybe you think I'm bluffing. Yeah, take a look at this. There's
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five grand in that role and it's yours. If you can give me what
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I want? Well, I that is surely just a minute. Yeah,
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those are my best wing. Maybe something like this, uh pop bottles look
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better than that. You know here, something like this one, only bigger.
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Wait a minute, I have us the ring for you. It's gonna
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say he was six carrot, perfect blue white, the finest stone that money
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can buy. Beautiful setting too last night. Yah, that's more like it.
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Classy, Yeah, one of the fists. You can't go wrong buying
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a diamond like that one, and this one suits me. You'll take it
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here and all the rest of them a pillow a sick Come on in,
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boys, the guys, Hello on here, it's part I know fully.
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Please, I smoke. I'm gotta pack the scone. Come on, make
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a fast poise. We're gonna get out of here. That's all you can
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remember about them. Yes, had you ever seen that young man before?
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No? Never before? I say about how many stones are in the bunch,
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more than two hundred. The safe was open and they cleaned it out
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completely. I'm ruined, lieutenant. I'm a ruined man about insurance only partly
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covered. I won't be able to stand the law. I don't take it
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so hard. They'll probably melt the metal stuff. But if we can get
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to them before they have a stone's three cut, we stand a chance of
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getting your stuff back the ambulances outside that they're just pulling up. Okay,
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now you go along with them. Mister Norton. The dark down at the
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headquarters will fix you up. And before you leave there, I want you
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to give a complete description of the stone to the voice of the detective Bureau.
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Come with me, Peters will have to work fast on this one.
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Right. Oh, you understand everything, don't you, Peter. Yeah,
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I'm supposed to be Son and Morgan, just out of the big house.
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I then up on a time to receiving stolen poverty. I just got out
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and I'm looking for an up and come and gain to tie up with.
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Right, you make the rounds of all the joints and be a heavy spindler.
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You'll buy drinks right and left. You'll be on a big spree because
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you're just acted as middleman and a big hall middleman. Yeah, contact man
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between a gang of crooks and a fence who bought the stuff. You made
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twenty percent on the deal, just putting the crooked up to the fin I
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got you, and you think if I can come in contact with a marble
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looked at Norton's Diamonds if they might ask me to give him an introduction to
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the fence. Uh yeah, I'll hurry before the store close and get yourself
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an outfit loud suit, flashy tie, and an imitation sparkler. Make this
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one hundred bucks came from the insurance company. I'll spend heavy and talk loud.
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Lieutenant, this is going to be a sinch. What the guy at
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the hall, Hey, I come of a chose player. Go, but
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he was just out of the big hut on a sending spree. Must just
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showed him stuff away before they turned him up. Yeah. Go told me
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that the guy told him on the two tea that he had just got rid
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of a lot of hot stuff. Who's your sprints? I don't know.
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He wouldn't let that out. Do you think he got around here? Yeah,
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but we might find out. Come on, No, I was coming
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him here. You're a big stap read that musca in riding in the warden
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walks in on it. There was a good one, but that brought in
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there. He set him up again. Hello pal having a big time.
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Huh oh, I don't get puppy pale. I'm a pin of joest.
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On the other streets, he was telling me about that. Yeah, what
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did he tell you? Oh, didn't say much. It's stuff that you
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was a square shooter. Pretty good, fella, have a drink Anson,
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John, you're gonna have one on me. Hey, bartender tomorrow. This
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is Jerry, are you Jerry? Well here's what Yeah, thing to celebrate
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nature and sure, why not spending two years in in northern Canada. Fellow's
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got to celebrate all Boy's song. I gotta be going Wait a minute,
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you ain't been in Canada, fella. You'll told us all about it?
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Right, that's all it? With that pal, I gotta turn myself and
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where go ahead us? And you must be on the level, you know,
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stumping there? You know him? He would tell l Hey you got
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a minute, pell I know what do you want? Oh? Nothing much?
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Gary, And I'd like to talk to you. What about you want
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to make them easy? Gough? And next I'm out that stuff. I'm
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in the easy money now and I ain't taking no chance. That's what we
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want to see about it. Come on over here, awaiting miss Marble a
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minute with all right? Well, yeah, kill the salt. I'm always
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strewing salt. Wait a minute, I gotta throw some of them out shore.
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Here's stick it in your pocket and come on, come on Jerry,
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well use nick fivate to him, innute back. Well here we are in
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sucking try it here, eh. But I ain't got nothing to do with
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you mugs. I'm out of this record, I tell you, and I
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listen to pud Joe tells me the children touch with a fence. Who gives
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you a square deal? Say? Who are you? A couple of dicks?
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Nah? Listening ato and something big? Anything? You young punctured cut
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me and I wouldn't keep me in si guy? Oh yeah, Well listen,
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pal, what did you say if I told you we was a guy
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who got off with that jewelry job store on Main Street? Ah? You
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drunk? That's a truth. Peal Me and Jury and a couple other guys
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got away with the whole totals. And what's more, there's not that stick
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and turn wise to us, that's what you think nothing doing. I ain't
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trying to pedal no ice, but it's no wrists. Listen, you don't
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need to even get around this stuff. Just puts in touch with a fence.
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You'll buy your stuff and we'll give you half a grand, half a
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grad you think I'm crazy if you pich that swag you got away with one
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hundred thousand bucks weather of ice, and you offer me a lousy half grand
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nothing doing great, nothing doing. If you really got this stuff, my
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price is ten percent of whatever the fence give me. You don't have to
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take it up with the rest of the boys. Well you do it.
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If they say, okay, I ain't saying where are they the garden,
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the rocks, We got a room upstairs. What you're saying, I don't
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know. I'd have to call my Yeah. Yeah, you would like to
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know who he is, wouldn't you. Then you'd cut me out. Here's
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your phone, Call him and see what he says. Say you mun's on
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that square, all right? All right? Him in that phone? I
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understand it's up to him, and he says the deal is too hot.
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Calm me out. Go ahead, call him. Okay, but if you
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guys are making a step out of me, I'll break your head. He
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probably ain't in. Oh, Sammy, but don't kidding me. Your big
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photok your name Sammy, and you know it. Listen, hey, listen,
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do hang up on me. That's better. I listen to your wallet
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golut how you said on ice? No, nothing cheaper, so we are
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good. So they tell me you don't mind it? Okaynous to get the
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stuff off the hand, Sammy, okay, just a minute. Sammy wants
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me to look it over. Why is it upstairs? Yeah, and it's
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upstairs. I'll take a look at it and call your bank. Yeah.
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Where am i? Your ball netted full in? None of your business.
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But I'm at Kelly's cavern. Yeah, I'll call you back. I ain't
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any too interested in this stuff. Says it's too hot right now, but
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I'll look at it. Come on, this is it? Cut it out?
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Put up the HeartWare, boys, I want to big guy there throwing
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a rod on me? Who's easy? Easy? Kidn't I found this guy
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downstairs? But Morgan got a fence on his string. You might put your
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gun namn ver slap your face. I ain't used having rods flat. I
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mean he's ready, easy, boys, he's been prinking. Hey, don't
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mean nothing for it? Home on boys, hoot the eye. Oh,
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I sped him up here on the table where I can see him. Here
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you go. Wow, you punks did make a haul in gain. What's
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the stuff for? Well? I don't know some pretty good rock see and
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something that's the hunt. You think you'll buy it? Maybe? Yes,
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maybe no? This stuff's pretty hot right now? Oh yeah, crazy spot
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swing the top within a mile of this stuff, that's what you pie boys,
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you're under the rest. That man got a nut jump to the playment
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that takes the boy. I'm on, come on here, trusher guns out
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on the floor. Nice work, Peter, So you never get there with
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tennants. Hell had a little trouble getting in downstairs without any excitement, and
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we've never been able to find the room if it hadn't been for the trail
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of Saultiers still down the hall. I'm cut on what I was trying to
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tell you over the phone. It has been too bad for me. These
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mugs are all bad ones. I thought it was the wrong number at first,
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until I recognize your voice. Well, it was a good job,
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and I'm sorry that I'm going to have to suspend you for a week,
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Peter, suspend me for what for the names you called me over the phone
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to attract my attention. You can't talk to your superior officer that way. Peters