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today's episode of Police Headquarters. First up, we will have paid in full,
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followed by hot bonds Police that Quarters. Hold wie please, executive,
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you're a captain McNeil oh the promm bishops Captain on up the public throm on
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a problem. Some guys just kill the man and followed the botum. I've
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disappeared under the crowd others and I gave Chase the problem. Get Gourden,
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I poonted description in the radio at then Berger down to take jas Why m
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h captain shooting in front of subway terminal. Get a couple of boys and
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have one down there. Round of ball a witnesses you can find and report
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back here right or try the weakness? What do they want? I don't
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know if that they want to see you? Oh all right anyway, cap'n.
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I see you now right in here. Thank you, Captain mcgeel.
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Yes, I believe you've just had a murder. Reproaches what about it?
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I feel that I might be of assistant or men can handle it. And
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I see you don't understand me what I meant? And is I might be
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able to what that is? Tell you something about the king were you're with
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this very much. So, captain, come in and sit down. Mister
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do we say Brown? If you wish, Thank you, captain, have
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this chair. Thank you. As you were saying, I was saying that
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I could tell you something of interest about the murder of Andrew Adams. Adams
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I believe he's known as Andrew Spider. Now at mister Brown, you're not
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the man who killed him, although I have my doubts if you'll be able
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to do anything to him. Why do you say that? The answer to
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that is a long story, Captain, a story you will find hard to
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believe. But as I say, the police will find it very difficult to
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punish the murderer. John Plemming not think out very carefully before he killed Andrew
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Adams. Would you like to hear the whole story? I would very well.
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John Fleming, the man who killed Adams, is a rather small man,
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much the same build as myself. He is no longer young. Years
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have put the mark on him. Only two months ago he was released from
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stone Hill Prison. Oh, hex godic man. Good, we'll have a
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complete ride on him. I think he realizes that. But to continue with
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my story, John Fleming was a hard working farmer before his misfortune. It
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was well caught up in the community well like by everyone except one man,
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a neighbor of Flemings. This man hated Fleming, and Fleming returned that hatred.
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One morning, a neighbor's body was found in the burned ruins of his
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home. Two bullets were found embedded in the body, and those bullets were
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taced to the gun of John Fleming. Needless to say, after a trial
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by a jury, John Fleming was called to face the bar of ju course
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chance the jury. Have you reached a verdict? We have, your honor.
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Will you read that verdict? We find that the planet John Fleming your
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second degree murderers Jahn with the recommendation for order. John Fleming, will your
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rise and face the cord. You have been jury tried and convicted on a
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charge of murder in the second degree. The jury has handed the court of
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recommendation for mercy. Is there anything you wished to say before sentences passed upon
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your nothing, your honor, other than to once again maintain that I am
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innocent of this crime. On the witness span, I readily admitted the enmity
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between the deceased and myself. However, I did not kill him. That
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is all I have to say, John Fleming. It is the order of
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this cord that you'll be taken to the State's prison at Stornhill, and there
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being result for a term not to exceed twenty years. And so John Fleming
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was convicted of a crime which he strongly maintained he did not commit. I
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say, when all does it connect with you? Okay, I'm coming to
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that. Captain John Fleming served eighteen years, two months and three days of
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that sentence. At noon on the last day of his confinement, he was
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called into the office of the warden. The warden was busy. Oh,
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come in planning you wanted to see the warden? Yes, soda, thank
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you sir. Today is the big day for you planning. Yeah, I
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know, sir. Today you become a free man. Today. Your death
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is societ. He is faith paid in full. You've been a model prisoner,
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Fleming. Your work in our regricostural department will long be remembered. I'm
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sorry to see you go, but I frush you'll not be back no shift.
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Before you leave. There's one question I'd like to ask you cause me
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great concerns as I assume my duties. Here is warden, how do you
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feel about your conviction? Now? I am not guilty of the crime with
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which I was charged and convicted. I see, well, you're free,
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Fleming, free to go, and may you enjoy the best of luck.
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Here's my hand. And so Captain John Fleming walked out between the great iron
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gates of the prison alone. He had a cheap suit of clothes on.
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He's back in twelve dollars in his pocket. Yet he resolved to start life,
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and you start where he left off. I don't know just what you're
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leading up to, mister Brown, but you'll have to hurry your story.
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We've worked to do in this department. I won't take up much more of
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your time. Captain Well. Fleming tried to find work, you have my
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word for that, but love just didn't break for him. Finally he came
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back here to his hometown. No one recognized him. He found a job
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in the trucking company. It was hard work for an old man. Each
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evening in dragons out home, utterly exhausted from the day's work. One evening
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he opened the door to his room and found me, good evening, Fleming,
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Adams, No you're alive. Oh yes, I'm very much alive.
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Don't stand there staring Come in. Okay. I know you were told I
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was dead. You were convicted for my murder. You're slaved eighteen years for
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it, not knowing that it was alive and prospering. You mean that,
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I mean you were framed, Fleming, frame by me. I caused you
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to suffer a living hell for eighteen years because you married the woman I love
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but Mary. Yes, I know your wife died during the second year of
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your imprisonment, but no matter. I've had my revenge. I wanted to
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see you suffer. I wanted to see you in agony, even though it
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meant burning my home and leaving town for fifteen years. I'm careful, Fleming,
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I have a gun. I wouldn't hesitate to kill you like I would
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have done. I thought perhaps the hardship of prison life would do it for
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me, But you are too hardy. Never mind, you're dying. Your
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face shows it, every movement of your body showed it. And you came
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up here to goat over it, to enjoy my misery. Andrew Adams,
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I hope you can't do anything. Andrew Adams is dead. My name is
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Spicer. I am a well to do, Merchant, nobody would believe you.
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Look the body, a body which the authority mistook for mine. Oh,
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I planned things camply, my friend. I stole your gun and your
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absence. The body was out of a tramp who came to my house begging
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food. I shot him with your gun, poured oil on my house,
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and disappeared. You can imagine what joy I had reading of your arrest and
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conviction. You you you haven't longed to live, Fleming. I had intended
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killing you, but I've changed my mind. I shall let you suffer.
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Suffer the knowledge that I Andrew Adams wrecked your life as you try to wreck
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mind, but I didn't. I shall leave it. Now, leave you
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in your misery, Fleming, Leave you to ponder on the wreckage you have
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made of things you haven't long to live. Fleming, I can see that
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you're becoming interested. Captain. We come now to the last scene of this
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story. John Fleming was left alone to think things out. Prison had dulled
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his senses and took him several days to map out his course. Then Fleming
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took what little money had saved and purchased a revolver. Next, he made
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arrangements to meet Adams at a downtown building. He was waiting when Adams arrived.
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You have a nerve to call on me for help. Did you do
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you think I'd help you? Do you think I'll give him one cent for
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doctors for medicine. I didn't come to you for aid, Adams. I
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came to talk things over with your talk things over. What do I have
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to talk to you about? Several things? I believe. First, I
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want to compliment you upon the planning and executing of such a diabolical scheme to
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revengeance upon a fellow man. It was a bit of planning as only the
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devil himself could have accomplished. You have anything to pay to me, Adams.
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You knew exactly what you were doing. You knew that I'd be arrested
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and convicted for a crime which I did not commit. I believe the irony
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is this thing amused. You knew just how everything would happen. I thought
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it all out in great detail. But there's one thing that you didn't oh
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that you did, Adams. He overlooked the fact that a man can only
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pay once for the same time, once, and once only. I've paid
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for your murder, Adams. No I'm glad to know you. Where can
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I find this flamming? Why do you want to bother him? Captain?
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You can't convict him. I'm not assure that he's already paid for the crime,
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paid in full. He can't be made to pay again. But it's
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not up to me. I'll have to arrest him, arrest him for the
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murder of a dead man. Very well, Captain, I'm John Fleming Police
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Headquarters. Just a minute, please, the tective you're at Kevin Young.
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This is Jero Saxon, the president of the Investors Real decent. Yes,
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mister Samson, I met the Third naighty Bank forty Daveney. Yes, I
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want you to send an officer over here immediately to arrest the president of this
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bank, one of them. I want you to send someone over here.
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Well, that's the president of this bank. What he done? I'll explain
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that to the officer. Well, I'll be ready for myself. All right,
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I'll wait for you here. Thank the that's for three minutes, nots
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and I'm going over to the Third National Bank. What's up? Oh?
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Something that wants me to arrest roller? See Morgan the president stay in the
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carpader goes any you. I'll call you right well win the number nine players?
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Oh, I said, where can I check? Please? Yes,
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I'm Japane Young from Headwater. There you are here. I want you to
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arrest this cowgod. I want you to take him down and throw him in
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jail. That's what I'm dam it the Sampson. If you will just come
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your ill shout me by you you arrest him, arrest him, I say,
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on my constitutional rights, I demand that you arrest this this seef up,
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my dear sir, I because just a minute, just a minute,
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let's cut to the bottom of this trouble. You're a Samson of the real
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Sam. Yes, and this man just a minute, just a minute,
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and I don't hear your story first. If you're a mind mister Morgan,
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I'd rather you had it the Simpsons. I'll have to admit it all very
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mister, time to me very well. You'll hear my side of it all
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right. I'm representing one of the largest real estate firms in this city.
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I came in this tank that one week to go today and borrowed two hundred
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thousand dollars. You borrowed how much? Two hundred thousand dollars? What did
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you borrow the money for my company was ditting on a new tract of land.
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We wanted the cash to close the deal. I see as collateral on
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alone. I put up two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of New York
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and Boston Railroad bonds. The real estate deals fell through, and I brought
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my check for two hundred thousand dollars plus the interest to day and asked for
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my bonds. Well, well, I was met with a cock and bull
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story that they couldn't make a child believe. What about this, mister Morgan,
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What mister Sampson tells you is absolutely true. This bank loaned him two
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hundred thousand on the bars, that that was just a week ago today,
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And what happened to the bond, I don't know. You don't know either
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than stolen or misplaced. I've tried to tell mister Sampson that if you'll give
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us a few days day, you're bank piling up interest on the loan.
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Not a chance. Don't care, Morgan. You produce my bonds immediately or
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I'll swear out of warrant. But you're a ratlist. I'll look into this
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thing. And man who handled the pants action, mister Evans, the cashier.
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Where in this office did you see the bonds, mister Morgan? And
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were they in New York and Boston rail Road? Yes, what happened after
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you inspected and fast on the bonds. I instructed mister Evans to god check
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for the amount and make the necessary arrangements with mister Simpson here, and those
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arrangements were made. Then your cashier Evans was the last man to handle a
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bond. That is correct. And if the bonds were stolen, Captain Young,
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we're not sure that they were stolen. You see, when we opened
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mister Sampson's envelope this morning, expecting to find the bonds, we found these
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instead. And if you asked me, they tried to pass this worthless stuff
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up onto me, thinking that I'd not noticed it. Now, what are
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these bonds? By master? They are an old issue of German municipal bonds.
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They're absolutely worstless. And you found these in the envelope instead of the
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railroad boonder? Yes, well, where were these bonds kept during the past
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week? In the vault? We have a special section for a collateral,
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and they weren't moved until you went to get them today. As far as
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I know, they were not who went from today Evans the cashier I see,
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mister Markhan. How many people in this bank would have access to the
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collaboral three mister Evans, mister Turner, the vice president, and myself and
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one of your fake books took my bottle. Mister Sampson, I'm going to
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ask that you let me finish when I have started without interruption. All right,
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but I want something done and we'll do all we can now, mister
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Morgan, if you'll arrange for me to talk to the cashier Evans, I'll
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see what we can do now. Mister Evans, you're positive that you placed
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the bonds in a envelope? All can set me? Do it right?
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Mister Morgan, Yes, I was watching. There's absolutely no chance that an
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error with me and you took the Samblope directly to the volve Evans k and
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it's been an a volt ever since. Yeah, that is until I went
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for it today. Have you ever seen these German minutes of a bond before?
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No, it's beyond me, Morgan. You've loan Sanson two hundred thousand
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on some New York and Boston Railroad bonds. Those bonds were interrupted to you
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for safe keeping, and he's ready to pay back the loan, and you
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can't produce the bonds, not to me, as though you have to pay
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him the full price of the bonds, that is, if we're not found,
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and of course the bank will do it. We're fully protected by insurance.
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Captain Young, you've made quite a reputation locally as a slut, and
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I'd appreciate it very much if you took a hand in this matter. Of
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course, the bank will call it all investigators, but I'd feel better about
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it personally if you took tis, even if the trail led to one of
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your officers or yourself. Even then on to Margan. Now, first I
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want the serial numbers and all the missing boonds, and then I want to
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talk to each and every one of them. Oh, here comes to Captain.
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Oh boys, I'm glad to see you're all here. I have to
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call you on such short notice that I was afraid I miss some of you.
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And here's what we're here for. Somebody pulled a fast one on a
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third Nationals, kidding the amount of two hundred and fifty thousand in railroad bombs
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New York and Boston. Of course, the bank has called its private diction
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on the job, and ordinarily I have let them handle it, except that
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I want to show these bank officials that we can turn the trick form.
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Now. I have here anny raph copies of the serial numbers on the missing
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bonds. Here's a description of the case, and some other dope that you
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will need a downing. You get on the phone. Cover every banking institution
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in the state. The bond are probably on the move. Now find out
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if any of these bonds will pass through the buffers. Yes, Turner,
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you're an the hand of this game. Given a teletype wire every section in
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the country. If these bonds have been taken out of state, it's your
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job to handle it right. Uh, yes, you tail Morgan night and
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day, and for the love of night, don't let them know it.
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Right Hiller? Are you and Tubby? You got after Evans the cashier and
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any comments that he might run into. Make a complete report. Buye today.
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We got the capitol. That's you boys. Circulate a button, keep
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your eyes and ears open. Send to your routine duty. But remember this
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apartment is on the trail of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of hot
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bond detective, you're a Captain Young's office in just a minute. Dead Downing's
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on the phone, Capitol, Hello, Oh they did fine yesterday. Now
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we're getting hot. Keep after him. What news? Down and found out
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that the firm of over Lockham Dailey sold a big bunch of the bond yesterday
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for a client named Smith. Smith name is probably a phony. He was
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described that Downing as a dapper little guy with a gray mustache, had a
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letter of reference from the Third National. I'll get it. Hello, yeah,
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okay, nothing, yeah, down he just called into the similar report.
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Keep right after it. Milton found out at the Harrison Company he sold
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some of them the same bond this morning for the same smith. Get the
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commissioner farm me right, he said, he'd be over Hello, yeah nothing.
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Oh, now you're getting somewhere. I'll stick around and pinch him money
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shows out. No, no, wait a minute, don't think him.
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You got one of the boys after over there right away, and when he
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gets there, let him make the transaction and then tail him. Keep your
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eye on him every minute. I thought a hunch, and if it works
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out, there a certain gentleman and this town is going to be very surprised.
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Glad you got here, Kat, And I'm waiting for him to come
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out. Man in that office? Who is he? I don't know,
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but it all checks. He's a little old man about five feet four,
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ray mustache and walks with a sort of a swing. I do that,
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believe. When I was coming to town, like you told me, I
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asked about New York and Boston Railroad buns at Adams and Sons, and they
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told me that they had a fellow in to sell some to a client if
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there's at two o'clock. So I hiked at the phone and called you.
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Then, Well, I thought of them, like you said. As soon
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as I saw I knew that he fipped description of a guy who's been passing
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him at the other places. So I kept right on his tackle. He
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stopped ten and I called you again, and he came right over. How
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long has you been in that office? How about twenty minutes or so?
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Whose office is it? All? I don't know? Names around the corner,
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I think, wait a minute, Oh, I was on the door
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over here. Hey, Hey, what cat, We're going into that office?
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All right, come on right behind me and keep your eyes open,
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all right? All right, up that's it up high all right? See
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what the well? See what in that little guy's hand, Milton. Some
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of the bonds, captain. And just as I thought, and on the
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desk is the marked money for the system at Adams and Sons where they just
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sold some of the bonds. He listen, it's time for you to listen,
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Sampson. Oh yeah, well you've got nothing on me. I'll tell
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you. You find a shut up or do I shut you up? What
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the car, captain, Milton? We just caught a couple of slickers.
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Sampson here thought the plan and plan all out. He was a smart guy,
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but he got too bold. He should have held the bond for a
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couple of years. I don't get you, captain. Isn't this yeah yeah
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yeah. Sampson is a man who owned the bonds. Originally, he saw
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a way to make two hundred thousand on them by pulling a fatman in the
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bank. He borrowed the money on the bonds and then saw to it that
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they disappeared out of the vault so he could force the Third National to pay
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him face value for the bond. How did he get him out of the
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bank? Easy? Yeah, you see that little short guy standing there in
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front of him. Well he did it. Sampson hired him to steal the
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bonds out of the bank and pass him for him. You mean this little
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guy is a back driver. Oh no, not at all, jerk.
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That pony mustache off of his upper lip. That see, he is not
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a bank robbery a bank cashier. You're under a rat even welcome back.
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Uh. One thing I find interesting is the golden Age of entertainment had all
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these very fanciful interpretations of the U constitutional provision against double jeopardy. The fact
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that you were convicted of murdering someone in a fire doesn't mean that you can
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shoot them and get away with it because you were convicted of previously murdering them.
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I doubt there are a whole lot of presidents on that, just because
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when people are murdered, they tend to stay murdered. Those are two separate
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crimes, separated by more than twenty years. I remember it was a children's
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book written I think in the nineteen forties, where the hero had committed a
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crime and then been put on trial and acquitted it. I think it was
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a burglary, and then he went ahead and committed another burglary of the same
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place, and someone said he couldn't be tried again because he couldn't be tried
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for the same crime twice. Oh, there are two different crimes, two
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different occurrences, though I do think in the case of the Police Headquarters,
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the prosecutor might make a decision to dispense with it, or to at least
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arrange some other arrangement, particularly with the state of health of the defendant.
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The second one, I had a kind of a conchest of how it was
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going to turn out. I was surprised that the bank clerk was an accomplice.
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I was thinking something had happened at the moment where the guy who deposited
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the bond switched him, but didn't quite get that part right. All right,
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Well, that will do it for today. Join us tomorrow for a
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Oney three hundredth episode special. I think you will enjoy it. It's an
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episode of suspense. And then on Monday we will begin it all again with
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Uppersuit, and then join us back here next Saturday for another episode of Police
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