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Ellery Queen: The Three Frogs (EP1666) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: today's episode of Ellery Queen. And several weeks have passed
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  Speaker 1: since the last episode, and as I mentioned, there was
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  Speaker 1: a change in casting. Howard Culver took over as Ellery
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  Speaker 1: Queen and all we know for sure is it was
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  Speaker 1: just sometime after the Armchair Detective story aired. The original
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  Speaker 1: air date on this story is April twenty ninth of
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty eight, and the title is the Three Frogs Ellery.
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  Speaker 2: Queen in.
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  Speaker 3: The influence of a daper American home, a happier American community, a.
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  Speaker 2: More United States.
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  Speaker 3: The American Broadcasting Company and it's the Bully Agent stations
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  Speaker 3: bring you Ellery Queen.
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  Speaker 4: I dedicate this program to the fight against crime, not
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  Speaker 4: only crimes of violence and crimes of visency, but also
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  Speaker 4: crimes of intolerance the nation and bad citizenship crimes against America.
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  Speaker 3: The American Broadcasting Company presents another case than the career
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  Speaker 3: of Ellery Queen, celebrated fighter of crimes as usual Ellery
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  Speaker 3: invites you to match wits with him as he relates
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  Speaker 3: the mystery, and before revealing the solution, he gives you
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  Speaker 3: a chance to solve it. Tonight Ellery's guest arm chair Detective,
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  Speaker 3: who will represent you home arm Chair Detectives, is the
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  Speaker 3: famous columnist of Daily Variety, Miss Bourbell Mure. And now
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  Speaker 3: here's ellery Queen, your host for the next half hour.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Paul Masterson, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: Tonight's case is much more nikkis than mine. I urge
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  Speaker 4: everyone interested in the problem of juvenile delinquency to listen
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  Speaker 4: to the three frogs. All right, NICKI, so you decided
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  Speaker 4: to find a new apartment, But did you have to
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  Speaker 4: pick the east side?
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  Speaker 5: The slum around this corner?
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  Speaker 4: Ellie, Garbage tossed out the truck window, gangs of young voodlums. NICKI,
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  Speaker 4: do you know what the incidents of crime is in
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  Speaker 4: this neighborhood?
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  Speaker 6: Well, for the love that three story and basement brownstone
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  Speaker 6: over there, Ellery.
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  Speaker 5: Take it back, mister q oh in stage.
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  Speaker 4: Around the corner and it's a very nice street.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing wrong with the house.
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  Speaker 4: Sure the place isn't hearted, There must be something wrong
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  Speaker 4: with it.
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  Speaker 5: I'd like to see the ghost who could make me move? Thanks? Sorry,
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  Speaker 5: all right, Nicky, I'll go up with you. I'd like
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  Speaker 5: to see that apartment. Nothing doing it, wait till I
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  Speaker 5: fix it up.
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  Speaker 7: Well, all right, see tomorrow, Niki night, Ellri nice.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, good evening.
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  Speaker 5: I believe we're neighbors.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Stankman, Clyde stank Oh, yes, you're on
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  Speaker 4: the floor.
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  Speaker 6: Above me, mister Tankan. My name is Nicky Porter.
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  Speaker 5: How do you do? No, no, allow me, miss Porter?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: You know, young women really shouldn't live in this neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: Too much crime there was just oh, mister Gazolm's.
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  Speaker 5: Part of mister top four. Mister did you hear mister.
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  Speaker 4: Gaul was reporting the un for a Paris paper.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Porter? Yes, no, Norman said verry Dale, I'd met
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  Speaker 5: your other report your crime music, monsieur.
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  Speaker 6: Did you hear on the ideal.
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  Speaker 4: That street fight two blocks away? Oh no, yes, Gazou,
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  Speaker 4: I've just been over there.
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  Speaker 3: Any teas where I am going?
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  Speaker 5: Hello? Was anybody hurt? Mister yes? Danga Pudlam's mere boys started.
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  Speaker 5: Oh dear, well, I'll be saying good night, good night,
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  Speaker 5: mister Dankan good night.
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  Speaker 6: Now where was that light switch again?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: This is a real rid sister, So don't get no ideas.
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  Speaker 6: What are you doing in my apartment? I was in
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  Speaker 6: a fight. I'm on the lamb from the lossy cops on.
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  Speaker 5: You're a little young to be afraid of policemen. Old
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  Speaker 5: are you stay where you are?
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  Speaker 6: Fourteen?
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  Speaker 5: And no cracks?
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  Speaker 6: Fourteen?
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  Speaker 5: And what's your name?
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  Speaker 6: Rankey?
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  Speaker 5: Kluck?
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  Speaker 6: And you're gonna hide me?
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  Speaker 5: Odd sister? Up? Uh, you're bleeding?
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  Speaker 8: Uh's not a.
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  Speaker 6: Life still, thankye huh oh oh no, it hurts, but
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  Speaker 6: I've got to work of his blood away. Frankie. Let's
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  Speaker 6: know you're something around for your art story. I've hidden
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  Speaker 6: this you.
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  Speaker 9: Oh it's a trap, sister, you call it?
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  Speaker 5: Cops? And up? Who's that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Who's there? Cops?
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  Speaker 6: You called him?
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  Speaker 5: This is Nicky's new apostle, Nikki, Come on open, I'm
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  Speaker 5: getting out of here.
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  Speaker 6: Oh I was staying right here, Frankie, and keep your
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  Speaker 6: mouth shut?
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  Speaker 5: Coming all.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if it is Nieck, you and Frog and Veeley, fine,
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  Speaker 6: time for a visit?
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  Speaker 5: What's up? All? Halleluias? Bro flows over on Stucker Street, Miss.
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  Speaker 4: Porter, I was on my way home and I ran
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  Speaker 4: into the thick of it and really here, yeah, somebody
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  Speaker 4: in the back for a thorny sore kid duck into
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  Speaker 4: the alley behind this house. Mister, he wouldn't be in
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  Speaker 4: your apartment, would he?
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  Speaker 3: Nikki?
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  Speaker 5: Boy? Who is he? What do you do?
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  Speaker 8: Well?
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  Speaker 5: Apparently he's done a great deal, Nikki. He's one of
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  Speaker 5: the ring leaders of a juvenile gang who called himselves
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  Speaker 5: the Frogs.
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  Speaker 4: This kid is known as the Bubble Come the Frugs.
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  Speaker 4: Pulled a big job tonight, then apparently got into a
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  Speaker 4: fight over the division of the spoils.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what's gonna happen to this boy?
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  Speaker 4: If what's gonna happen to him, he's gonna get what's
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  Speaker 4: coming to him, And that's.
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  Speaker 5: Probably he's little court and probably the reformatory. What's going
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  Speaker 5: to cure in won't I know?
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  Speaker 4: Nikki? It's a tough problem. But what are we standing
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  Speaker 4: here in the hall? For as long as I'm here.
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  Speaker 5: Nikki, not till the place is fixed up? Why, Nikki,
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  Speaker 5: you'll have.
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  Speaker 4: Me thinking you've got that young ludlam in there?
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  Speaker 6: All go on away, come on right, good night, miss night? Elly. Well,
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  Speaker 6: Frankie still think this is a trap I don't get it. Hey, lady,
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  Speaker 6: what are you doing? You're going to bed and stay
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  Speaker 6: bed hotel. You're gonna undress me, and you can't go
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  Speaker 6: to bed with your clothes on. I don't undress myself,
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  Speaker 6: all right, thank you, but be very careful. You're gonna
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  Speaker 6: stay in the room in my pajamas on a dame's pajamas.
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  Speaker 6: No soul. Put this on, frank here, I put it
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  Speaker 6: on for you. Okay, okay, I'll be right back. Hey,
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  Speaker 6: where you're going for the doctor who lives on the
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  Speaker 6: ground floor. No, I don't get.
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  Speaker 5: And then thank you.
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  Speaker 6: You and I are going to have a little talk.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, young man, you're killing me.
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  Speaker 3: God, this is going to hurt.
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  Speaker 5: He has lost a lot of blood. But I wouldn't worry,
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  Speaker 5: Miss Border. These slum boys are tough. Thank you, doctor.
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  Speaker 6: He's my nephew.
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  Speaker 5: Really, how did you get this knife wound? Frankie, that's
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  Speaker 5: not from a knife.
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  Speaker 6: I climbing a fence with glass on top. You hold up.
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  Speaker 4: I see he mustn't be moved, Miss Porter, and that
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  Speaker 4: wound has to be watched.
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  Speaker 6: Now, I'll be okay, let me alone, I'll watch it,
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  Speaker 6: Doctor Curdle. I've had the nursing experience.
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  Speaker 5: Good good, Hey young man, how does that dressing for you?
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  Speaker 6: How's great?
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  Speaker 5: Should be changed every twelve hours? Miss Porter? And the
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  Speaker 5: watch his temperature? Yes, what do you well?
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  Speaker 4: Since were neighbor's, Miss Porter, I'll i'll send you a bill.
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  Speaker 5: I'll take a look in on him tomorrow. Good night,
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  Speaker 5: Good night doctor, and thank you.
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  Speaker 6: That's a leftover. Feel better.
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  Speaker 5: I may be nervous.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, what are you doing? Just talking?
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  Speaker 5: You in that little guy?
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  Speaker 6: Don't look like no real doctor anyway.
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  Speaker 5: Looks more like I'm a toad, all hunched.
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  Speaker 6: Over, Franky. We don't talk about other people's physical defects.
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  Speaker 6: Not doctor Curdle's false. He has a hunchback and as to.
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  Speaker 5: His credit that he was able to overcome.
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  Speaker 6: Him handicap, handicap. Everyone has some handicapped overcome. Some of
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  Speaker 6: us have to overcome the way we started out in life,
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  Speaker 6: like me and me. I'm doing okay.
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  Speaker 5: There you are, Frankie, I think we had less. Father
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  Speaker 5: and mother know where you are, don't you?
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  Speaker 6: Why? Hey, what do you think I am a boy scout? No, frank,
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  Speaker 6: I don't think you're a boy Scott.
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  Speaker 5: You're not mad enough to be one. Say, listen, baby,
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  Speaker 5: the name is miss Porter.
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  Speaker 6: Frankie. Don't you have any parents?
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  Speaker 5: A sure? Sure?
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  Speaker 6: My old man's doing a stretch and stir. And my
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  Speaker 6: old lady I don't know where she is. I ain't
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  Speaker 6: seen her for two years. I see.
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  Speaker 5: Then where do you live?
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  Speaker 6: Thankie?
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  Speaker 3: Ah?
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  Speaker 6: Around? We Frog's got a clubhouse kind of. I sleep
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  Speaker 6: there on the floor most of the time. Hey, this
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  Speaker 6: bed is the nuts frog and my gang a big
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  Speaker 6: shot of organize. It called himself the frog. And yes, Frankie,
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  Speaker 6: go ahead, I'm interested. I made it all up.
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  Speaker 5: He Hey, where are you going to sleep in my bedroom?
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  Speaker 6: There?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 6: You better get some rest. Wait a second, why are
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  Speaker 6: you doing all this for me? What's your ankle angle?
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  Speaker 5: Frankly? Not everyone has an angle?
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, I suppose you're doing this because you like me.
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  Speaker 8: Huh.
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  Speaker 5: That's one reason. Huh.
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  Speaker 6: Another is that everybody talks about helping boys like you,
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  Speaker 6: but very.
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  Speaker 5: Few actually do. Nobody's got to do.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing for me, thankye. I'd like you to talk to
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  Speaker 6: that man it.
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  Speaker 5: Was here a while ago what I called ellery. Yeah, Well,
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  Speaker 5: for who is he? Ellary Queen? Ellerry queen? That cop
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  Speaker 5: loving I knew this was a trap. Thank you. Now
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  Speaker 5: you want to go? No, Frankie, so bushed.
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  Speaker 6: I can't even get away from a lousy day.
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  Speaker 5: You're staying right here. Do you get well? This queen
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  Speaker 5: will sick the cops on me.
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  Speaker 6: No, Frankie, he'll help you. This old man's a he's
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  Speaker 6: got cop blood.
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  Speaker 5: I hate every lousy cop that ever.
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  Speaker 6: Wanky suppose suppose I promised not to tell mister queen
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  Speaker 6: about you till you say the word.
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  Speaker 5: How's that? Okay, it's a deal.
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  Speaker 6: Now I'm going to turn the light off, say big
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  Speaker 6: this port. Yes, Frankie, I I'm sorry I called you
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  Speaker 6: a lousy day. Night, Good night, Frankie.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to find that bubble gum kid we've.
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  Speaker 4: Got yeah, Oh, Dad, take it easy in factor.
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  Speaker 3: Why is this boy so important? Because Nikki, I think
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  Speaker 3: he knows who the frog is? You does or night
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  Speaker 3: the kid gang and directs their operations.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you make him talk, and we've got to break
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  Speaker 6: the back of this gang.
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  Speaker 5: Relieve.
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  Speaker 3: The boy is hiding all around.
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  Speaker 5: Stockar Street somewhere.
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  Speaker 6: You get down there and don't come back here.
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  Speaker 5: You find it, yes, sir, but she think we've been
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  Speaker 5: trying to.
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  Speaker 6: Go on YouTube inspector, nik Why do these boys hate policemen?
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  Speaker 3: So because they're on the street and they figure the
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  Speaker 3: office is there, they'll spoil that.
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  Speaker 5: Pop Nikki fear Nikki, hate is made by fear.
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  Speaker 3: Any cop Worthy saw knows he's got to sell the
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  Speaker 3: kids on the idea that he's their friend, which he is.
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  Speaker 3: They learned to obey the rules the way they've got
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  Speaker 3: to when they grow up.
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  Speaker 5: Look at the way they have to grow up in Nikki.
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  Speaker 3: But after all, they are only cops. We can't change
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  Speaker 3: social conditions. That's the job for everybody. And I got
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  Speaker 3: to report to the boss.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Nikki, why this sudden interest in swim kins generally?
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  Speaker 6: Ellie, I've got to get on board.
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  Speaker 5: I'll take you at all. I'd like to come on.
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  Speaker 5: Isn't your apartment fixed up yet? Well not entirely?
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  Speaker 4: Or don't you want me to see the boy you're
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  Speaker 4: hiding out?
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  Speaker 6: How do you know?
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  Speaker 4: I didn't?
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  Speaker 6: You just told me, Ellery he's only fourteen years old.
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  Speaker 6: His father's in prison and his mother.
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  Speaker 5: The boy's broken the law.
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  Speaker 6: I know, But Ellerie, he's just a child and he's hurt.
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  Speaker 4: But Nikki, if he can put the finger on this
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  Speaker 4: man they call the frog rank.
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  Speaker 6: He doesn't know who he is, Hllary. He doesn't, I
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  Speaker 6: tell you, he doesn't.
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  Speaker 5: He sends the messages.
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  Speaker 6: They've never seen him. That's what Frankie says. And I
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  Speaker 6: believe him, even if he's lying. To turn him over
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  Speaker 6: to the police now, Ellery. I want to show him
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  Speaker 6: that not everyone's an enemy, that there are decent people
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  Speaker 6: in this world.
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  Speaker 5: People who give him what he's never had. Love.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm doing it, Hllary, I'm getting somewhere. He's fighting me,
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  Speaker 6: but he's losing.
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  Speaker 5: Letting me have him for just a little haul and go,
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  Speaker 5: won't you please? Please? Nikki?
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  Speaker 4: If Dad ever finds out about this, you'll have to
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  Speaker 4: hide me out too.
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  Speaker 5: There.
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  Speaker 6: I'll take a look at yourself in the mirror of Frankie.
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  Speaker 6: Am I sure, Nikki? The soup must have set your back,
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  Speaker 6: plenty of move I'll never mind that.
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  Speaker 5: You're sure you feel well enough?
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  Speaker 6: Franklin in the pink, In the pink, then come on?
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  Speaker 6: But where are we going? What's the mystery?
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  Speaker 5: Well, Frankie, Hello and the nephew, Miss Porter.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, mister Gazo, this is Frankie.
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  Speaker 5: Very nice joking boy. Hello Ai, Hello, and mister stankan mister.
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  Speaker 4: Who this boy looks familiar to me.
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  Speaker 6: That's gonna move on.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yes, frank nice to think about. Very familiar.
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  Speaker 6: Here you are, frank you remembered the door.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you?
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  Speaker 6: Ah, say aunt Nikki. Who's that little frenchman?
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  Speaker 5: What's his racket? Why?
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  Speaker 6: Little mister Gazzo is a reporter for a French newspaper.
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  Speaker 6: And who was a great big, tall old guy, Mister Tanklin.
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  Speaker 6: Another neighbor apartment over mine. They say he has a
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  Speaker 6: strong box full of bonds and his Yeah something nothing, Frankie,
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  Speaker 6: you scared eyed, crack his box, wipe the barons?
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  Speaker 5: Would you?
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  Speaker 6: You wouldn't like it, would you know, Frankie, I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I thought. Stealing is for suckers.
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  Speaker 5: Say where are we going?
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  Speaker 6: Anicky?
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  Speaker 5: So a subway to Brooklyn?
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  Speaker 6: Boun I thank you.
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  Speaker 5: She's in junior high.
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  Speaker 6: I want you to to meet a girl ie nothing doing.
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  Speaker 6: I think, Frankie, you'll find Ivy. It looks different from
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  Speaker 6: the girls you've known. Ah, not a tough fabe. Huh No, Frankie,
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  Speaker 6: I thought maybe you'd like take Ivy in me out
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  Speaker 6: the movie tonight.
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  Speaker 5: She's terribly anxious to meet you.
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  Speaker 3: She is huh Son's okay, Yeah, not so bad.
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  Speaker 6: Hey would you let me have a dime?
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  Speaker 5: Sure, Frankie, what for? Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I feel like i'd like to have some bubble come.
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  Speaker 6: You were so fast, Franchi, sit down here on the
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  Speaker 6: stupilet to my breath.
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  Speaker 5: Why won't you tell me what i'd be?
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  Speaker 6: Said Aunt Nikki.
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  Speaker 5: He might get a swelled head.
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  Speaker 6: You mean she liked me. She couldn't get over you're
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  Speaker 6: being only fourteen. Of course, Ivy goes for the tall,
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  Speaker 6: lanky type. Anyway, what she say?
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  Speaker 5: What she's say?
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: She said, you look and act like a great big
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: man at least seventeen.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Your kid knows.
• 18:38
  Speaker 6: How do you like her, Frankie? Oh she's solid. I
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: never met a girl like that before, say Aunt Nikki, Yes, dear,
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: how how soon can you fix it for me to
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: meet mister queen?
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Frankie?
• 18:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, Frankie fine, I just wanted Hey, hey, you just here,
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: frank you take my key go into the house away
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: for me. Where you're going at Nikki?
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: The phone, Mallory, so I ran over the drug port call.
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: The ellery is so wonderful I want I won.
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: Oh yes, Hillary, you just never had a chance before.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: That's all. He couldn't we send him away to school.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: I'd pay my share. I can't swing it all along.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: I want to talk to him. Well, of course, as a.
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Matter of the fact, I was just coming over.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: To your place anyway with that. Sorry, what's the matter?
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: Something's wrong?
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Does he know about about Frank? You know it's something
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: else that's.
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: Nicky?
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: What is it? Inspector really just came up.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: With the sergeant.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Sergeant you know this calls himself kid gang. Yes, well,
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: I just got one of the kids to open up.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: I don't know where the frog is.
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: But he does.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Don't where he lives?
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Where Sergeant in your house with Porter and one of
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: those Jimmy, Okay, you'll better not go.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Back there and maybe fireworks.
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: Understand, don't hang on?
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 20:20
  Speaker 6: Son?
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Really come on?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, wait for me downstairs that.
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: It might be wise to get the boy out of.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: There for the tiny Yes, sorry, take him to the
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: why walking there and come back quick before we get there.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: Right, that's the Cordle.
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: Ranky he's heard he's bleeding it his head doctor, Doctor.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Cordle mister just called me, miss Porter.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: I just got to get you can tell I was
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: going out for a newspaper, Momsell, I stumbled over your nephew.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: He was lying here in the hole, bleeding, unconscious. Bad
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: blow on the head doesn't seem to be concussive. But
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: mister Gazo, he lifts him.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: He's so big, so hey, so soon, mister Stanklin.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: I believe missus.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: My barms, my life, savings.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: My bonds.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: I've been robed, Nikky.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Now look, miss Porter, don't talk to me any of you.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: Nikki.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: In the first place, that boy is the bubble gum
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: kid we've been looking for.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: I've been looking for when all the time she had
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Tajan, he was hurt. I had to get
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: him his chan and.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Look what he did with her st Really In the
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: second place, we found a word of bubble gum stuck
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: the tankers phung box and it's got the print of
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: the kids right, four figure smack on it, clear as
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: a picture.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Nicky, I'm sorry.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: I suppose Frankie hit himself over the head.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Yes, he found scale leg we found near him with
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: run on.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: It was made to order for a faith. All he
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: had to do. Nikki was holding high over.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: His head and let a drog and his prints around
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: that fantastic dead. What this could be a frame of
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: you know, Yes, that's what it is, a frame. We
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: now know the man whom they call the frog, the
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: brains of the gang, lives in this house. Then he's
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: seen Frankie here and he's realized Nikki was rehabilitating him.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: He'd want to make Frankie an example so that the
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: kids still in the gang would be held in line.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: So he knocks out Frankie, presses Frankie's right four finger
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: into the bubble gum, rob Stanklin's strong box and leaves
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: the gum on the box. And I'm Uncle Tom, and
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: that's just what happened. Yeah, didn't we find traces of
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: bubblegum on the kid's right four fingers?
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: Of course you did, Sage, And he was fine.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: Where traces of gum found anywhere else on Frankie dead,
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: No sound, just on his.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Right four finger. FI, I want to talk to Frankie.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: Oh do I don't get him excited?
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: Please please till two week, doctor frank he's not well
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: enough to the question yet, is he, Doctor Cardles?
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Oh? I think so, Miss Porter.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Even though the blow was directly on top of his head,
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: he's made of fine recovery.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: Frankie, I, Frankie, I'm sorry you two had to make
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: this way, but this is arly Queen. Hi, mister queen.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Hello Frankie. Well fella, it looks as if you're in
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: a gym. Yeah.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: Here they told me, But I didn't do it, mister Queen.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Frankie, how'd you get that crack on the skull?
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: While Miss Porter was phonny? Somebody knocked on the door
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: and I open it and there's nobody there. I go
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: out in the hall and wham, that's all I remember.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Get from behind.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: Uh yeah, and somebody was laying for me, mister Queen.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Thank aide, frank Aide?
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Who's the fog?
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: I don't know?
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: He's somebody lives in this house? Kid?
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: Who is he?
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: I don't know?
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: I tell you let me alone, your lousy Franky.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry. Cops are my friends? Can't you see he's
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: telling the truth.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: The frog is mister doctor Caudle here. I beg you, boss,
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Well you could be doctor, or.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: Maybe it's all Savan himself still his own bonds or something,
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: but fig he had nothing to do with it.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Nikki, but I'm going to have.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Now I can clear the whole thing up for you.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: There he goes again.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: I can't help that, sergeant, But now I know who
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: the frog is and all the rest of it. Gentlemen,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: you have the mystery.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Now suppose you.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Home, Armshare Detectives and our guest in the studio compare solutions.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: Nikki.
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: Here's in the Ladies and gentlemen, meet Miss Flora Bell Muir,
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: famous columnist of Daily Variety, the Entertainment World Trade publication,
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: and also West Coast correspondent for the New York Daily News.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: Welcome to the armchair, Miss Muir.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Well, you shouldn't have too much trouble solving this case tonight.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: If memory serves you've had a great deal of experience
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: covering criminal cases as a newspaper woman.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Well, Ellerie, you're correct on one day.
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: I have had plenty of occasions to write about actual
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: murder cases. But when it comes to something like your
• 25:29
  Speaker 10: thriller tonight, well that's another story. I'm not too much
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: on the actual solving end of.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: The mystery being, Miss Muir.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Now, suppose we get down to the business at hand.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: Tell us who is the frog and who stole the bonds?
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: I think the Frenchman is the frog because that's the
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: name we apply to Frenchmen.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: Probably might have taken.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: It for that reason.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: I see, yes, many people do that use that term.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: What is your for selecting him as the Gilly party?
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: Well, he doesn't seem to have any real connections anywhere.
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: He shuns to be running around interesting himself in crime
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: of one sorting another. He seems to have some sort
• 26:14
  Speaker 10: of a connection with Stangler or attempted to get acquainted
• 26:17
  Speaker 10: with Stangler.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: How will they find out whether they Stangler.
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: Having any bonds or either of any money.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: Thank you very much for belmure.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: We'll find out just a moment if your solution is correct.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Now here's Paul Masterson.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: The economic and political upheavals this country is experiencing now
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: as a result of the war provides fertile ground for
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: those who saw the seeds of racial and religious prejudice,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: either through ignorance or indifferent.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Many Americans these days are using.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: The old scapegoat technique blaming all modern day difficulties on racial, religious,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: and other minority group.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: Straight.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Not your friends who slander a whole group because of
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: one petty personal dislike, encourage respective minority religions. Races keep
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: America great by promoting the racial and religious.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: Freedom that made it great. Of course, Frankie didn't steal
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: those bonds, Frankie, see what I tell you.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: It's purely a matter of bubblegum technique. The print of
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Frankie's forefinger was found on the gum stuck to the
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: old man's strong box. Traces of gum were found on
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Frankie's forefinger and nowhere else. Watch your cand remove a
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: lot of gum from his mouth. You'll find that he
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: uses two fingers, his forefinger and his thumb. No trace
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: of gum on Frankie's thumb, No thumbprint on the gum.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Frankie never took that gum out of his mouth. Someone
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: else did and pressed Frankie's forefinger into it. A frame
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: up as Nicky said, yeah.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: What do you think of that? Looks as if we
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: figured you are wrong? Thank him, Abeam sure does Hi,
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: it's okay.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Second, who's the frog? Somebody living in this house now,
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: aside from Nicky who lives here?
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: Doctor Caudle the frog?
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: The frog?
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: Do you remember?
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: And Nikki I said, the dot looked like a frank
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: all right, it doesn't bother me and he's a child.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: But believe me, gentlemen, I'm not this man they call
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: the frog.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Hey, wait a minute, frog the Frenchman acts a slang
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: word for Frenchman. Yes, and this nasty word sergeant as kaike, nigger,
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: wap polk, or any of the other insulting terms some
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: people used to assert their purely imaginary superiority over their
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: fellow citizen. Or I didn't mean it that way, my store,
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: I judged my dog Stanklin his voice.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: That frog is old.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: I think we can arrive at the frog by a
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: more satisfactory route.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Dad, Oh, what do we know? The frog did?
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: He struck vally directly on the top of a head.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: But Frankie is tall, Doctor Cardle is small. Monsieur Gazel
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: has been described as the little Frenchman. But what about Stanklan,
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: a big tall man. Only Stankland was tall enough of
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: the three possibilities to strike the top of Frankie's head.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: Stanklan framed Frankie. Stanklin is the.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: I think really will go upstairs and interview mister me Adam.
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: Thanks, mister queen, thank you. This time I didn't have
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: to remind you boy that was something that was okay, Ellery, Will.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: They have to go to court, I mean another charge.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: I don't think we'll have much trouble in persuading the
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: judge that Frankie deserves a chance. Nikki, he'll be put
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: on probation in his aunt Nikki's custody and mine, gee, don't.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: Don't start falling. Make sure doesn't want to fallen.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: So now listen, you not me doing it in a minute.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: Then when you come that out, frank you.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the solution to
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: our mystery. Thank you, Miss Floriadell Murope for serving as
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: our guest armshair detective this evening. As the metals of
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: the occasion, I have for you a copy of my
• 30:13
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• 30:14
  Speaker 5: The Queen's Awards nineteen forty seven.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: And a subscription to Ellerie Queen's Mystery magazine. Oh Paul,
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: and what's for next week? ELLERI Welcaul next week? Oh
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: by the way, are you interested in cards?
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Card? You mean bridge poker in touch? Well, well, it
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: isn't about cards, Paul, even though I call it one diamond.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: This is Ellerie Queen saying good night until next week
• 30:57
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• 31:00
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• 31:05
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• 31:23
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• 31:26
  Speaker 4: living or dead.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Among the members of the night's cast.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Were Howard culper Or Butterfield, K Brinker, Alan Reid, Irvin Lee,
• 31:33
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• 31:37
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• 31:42
  Speaker 3: of Ellery Queen.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: Now listening Reminder.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Like any other profession, babysitting has its occupational hazard. But
• 31:53
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• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, I have to say Kbrinker really did
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: turn in a great performance and certainly was a different
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: top of story with a very nice change of pace.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Put a lot of emotion and passion into the part,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: and a lot more than we've heard from Nicky though.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Of course our listening to the episodes has been far
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: from comprehensive, but it does emphasize the type of show
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: it was in this light part of its run with
• 33:19
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• 33:23
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• 33:31
  Speaker 1: awkward moment to use the phrase frogs to refer to
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Frenchmen and then to basically have the whole thing addressed
• 33:40
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• 33:42
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• 33:43
  Speaker 8: Now.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Howard Culver, the news star, the last of the American
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: radio ellery queen, was was best known for his work
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• 33:58
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• 34:01
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• 34:11
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• 34:14
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• 34:18
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