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Boston Blackie - "Murder on Cedar Street" (1946) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A woman directs Boston Blackie to 111 Cedar Street, where
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: a killing has already occurred, and the police find him
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: at the scene. It is Boston Blackie in Murder on
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  Speaker 1: Cedar Street, episode 65, first heard April 9th, 1946. Richard
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: Colmar stars as Blackie, with Jan Miner as Mary Wesley
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  Speaker 1: and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday. The dead woman has
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: ties to a hold-up gang. Meanwhile, the woman who arranged
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: Blackie's visit says she was hired to do it. With
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: a locket photograph among the clues, Blackie and Mary set
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  Speaker 1: out to learn why he was drawn into the case. Now,
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  Speaker 2: ¶ ¶.
• 1:07
  Speaker 3: You sure you're calling the right girl, Jameson?
• 1:21
  Speaker 4: We'll soon find out, Harlow. She ought to answer in
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  Speaker 4: a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Hello?
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  Speaker 4: Are you Marlene Adrian, the actress?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'd like people to think I'm an actress.
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  Speaker 7: Fine.
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to send you $ 500. What?
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  Speaker 9: That's what I'm going to send you right now. And
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  Speaker 9: I'll send you another $ 500 when you finish a little
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  Speaker 9: job for me.
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  Speaker 4: A job?
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  Speaker 9: It's nothing very difficult. Just find Boston Blackie and tell
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  Speaker 9: him you want him to meet you tonight at 111
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  Speaker 9: Cedar Street. You don't meet him there, of course, but
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  Speaker 9: you tell him that that's where you're going to be killed.
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  Speaker 10: And now meet Dick Calmer as Boston Blackie. Enemy to
• 2:01
  Speaker 10: those who make him an enemy. Friend to those who
• 2:05
  Speaker 10: have no friend.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Inspector Faraday, this little weasel says he wants to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, Rollins? What about?
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  Speaker 6: I'll tell you myself, Inspector, only I gotta get paid.
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  Speaker 4: I got information.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, and I got a headache. Come on, stool pigeon, talk.
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  Speaker 4: The door, Inspector, it's drafty in here.
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  Speaker 11: Okay, Rollins, close the door. From the outside.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, you.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want to tell me?
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  Speaker 4: Well, what's it worth if I put the finger in
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  Speaker 4: the hold-up gang you're looking for, huh?
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  Speaker 11: You know where they're hiding out?
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  Speaker 4: No, but I know where you can find a blonde
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  Speaker 4: girl who's been driving the getaway car.
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  Speaker 8: Where?
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  Speaker 4: My memory gets all.
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  Speaker 7: Of a sudden bad.
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  Speaker 4: Do I get paid for it?
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  Speaker 11: Come on, come on. Where is she?
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  Speaker 12: You won't tell me you got the dope, will you, Inspector? Look,
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  Speaker 12: I like to forget guys like you as fast as
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  Speaker 12: I can. Now tell me where that blonde is.
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  Speaker 11: Come on, come on. Get out of here.
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  Speaker 6: Sure, sure, sure, Inspector.
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  Speaker 4: She's at 111... Cedar Street.
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  Speaker 8: We got the house surrounded, Inspector Faraday.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Rollins.
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  Speaker 12: Let's have that microphone. Maybe we can talk that blonde
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  Speaker 12: out of there instead of blast her out.
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  Speaker 8: I hope so. Give it to them good, Inspector, and
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  Speaker 8: the boys will keep their eyes open plenty. Here's the mic.
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  Speaker 10: All right in there.
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  Speaker 11: You and 111 Cedar Street.
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  Speaker 7: Come on up.
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  Speaker 8: I will blow you out. We know you're in there.
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  Speaker 7: You get ten seconds to come out with your hands
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  Speaker 7: up or be carried out.
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  Speaker 11: Feet first. You got ten seconds. That's all.
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  Speaker 2: One.
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  Speaker 8: Two.
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  Speaker 2: Three.
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  Speaker 1: Four.
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  Speaker 8: Five.
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  Speaker 9: Six. Seven.
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  Speaker 2: Eight.
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  Speaker 8: Nine. Inspector, somebody just stepped out the front door.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, but it's a man. Keep your guns ready, boys.
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  Speaker 2: This may be a trick.
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  Speaker 8: What do we do now, Inspector?
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
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  Speaker 8: Let's go get him. He doesn't have his hands up,
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  Speaker 8: and I don't think he's got a gut. Inspector, look
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  Speaker 8: who it is.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Faraday. Blackie, you.
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  Speaker 11: Faraday, me.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, what are you doing in there? Don't you get
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  Speaker 2: any wrong ideas, Rollins. Leave all that to Faraday. He's
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  Speaker 2: better at it.
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  Speaker 12: Blackie, what are you doing here?
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  Speaker 2: What am I doing here? Not much, Faraday. Just looking
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  Speaker 2: around in this house to see if I can find
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  Speaker 2: out who killed the girl in there.
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  Speaker 11: Killed a girl?
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  Speaker 2: Blonde, Faraday. Lovely, too. Come on, Rollins.
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  Speaker 11: You go in the house and have a look around.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 11: Blackie, you're coming with me.
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  Speaker 2: Where, the headquarters? Look, I'll give you all my answers
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  Speaker 2: right here. A lovely blonde met me in a drugstore
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  Speaker 2: early this evening and told me to meet her here
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  Speaker 2: because she was going to be killed.
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  Speaker 11: So you met her here, and you.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't kill that girl in there, Faraday. She was
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  Speaker 2: dead when I got here. Excuse me a minute.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, hey, where do you think you're going?
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  Speaker 2: Just to this mailbox, Inspector.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: What do you usually do when you go to a mailbox?
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  Speaker 2: Mail a letter. Any law against it?
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  Speaker 11: There ought to be a law against everything you do.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Rollins.
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  Speaker 11: Inspector Faraday, Blackie wasn't joking.
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  Speaker 2: There is a body in there. It's a girl.
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  Speaker 8: She's been shot.
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  Speaker 11: All right, Blackie. You're coming with me.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I know, Faraday. To headquarters.
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  Speaker 11: To headquarters, nothing. To jail.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what Faraday wants to see about Blackie.
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  Speaker 2: All he said was to take you out of your
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  Speaker 2: cell and bring you to his offices. So early in
• 5:31
  Speaker 2: the morning? Oh, they don't even let me sleep late
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  Speaker 2: in jail. Does Faraday get in here this early every day, Rollins? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know when he finds time to sleep. When
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  Speaker 2: he's working on a case, that's all he does do.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go in myself, Rollins. Thanks for the escort.
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  Speaker 8: So long, Blackie.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Inspector Faraday.
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  Speaker 11: Come in, sit down, and shut up, Blackie.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I will. And how's this, Inspector?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, great.
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  Speaker 12: Blackie, I kept you in jail last night because I
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  Speaker 12: didn't believe your story about the girl who was supposed
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  Speaker 12: to have called you up to meet her at the
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  Speaker 12: Cedar Street house.
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  Speaker 11: You know who that dead girl was?
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  Speaker 2: No, only that she wasn't the girl who met me
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  Speaker 2: and invited me there.
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  Speaker 4: I know that, too. I'll tell you how in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Now, look, Blackie.
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  Speaker 12: That dead girl was a dame named Marion Williams. She
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  Speaker 12: was one of a hold-up mob that's been pestering us
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  Speaker 12: for weeks. She's been described a dozen times by victims.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably the reason she was bumped. Reasonable? Well, sure.
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  Speaker 2: Now that I believe your story, it is. Why the
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  Speaker 2: sudden change of mind, Inspector? Next thing you know, you'll
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  Speaker 2: be believing in elves and fairies. Yeah, I know. Now,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute.
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  Speaker 11: Miss Adrian!
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  Speaker 6: I'm here, Inspector.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the little lady who invited me to a murder
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  Speaker 2: and then forgot to be present. Nice to see you again.
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  Speaker 6: I explained everything to Inspector Faraday, Blackie. I didn't know
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  Speaker 6: what this was all about until I heard about the
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  Speaker 6: murder on the radio.
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  Speaker 2: Well, now that you know what it's all about, tell me.
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  Speaker 6: I don't really know anything. I was paid to meet
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  Speaker 6: you and arrange for you to go to Cedar Street.
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  Speaker 6: They told me it was a joke they were playing
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  Speaker 6: on you.
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  Speaker 2: Some joke. It almost laughed me into a murder rap. Look, lady,
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  Speaker 2: who paid you to develop this great sense of humor?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I never saw the man. He sent me the money
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  Speaker 6: and talked with me on the telephone.
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  Speaker 7: That's all I know.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't much, believe me. But Faraday, you still have
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  Speaker 2: an ace in the hole in this case, you know. Me. You?
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  Speaker 11: You've been in jail since the murder.
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  Speaker 2: Don't remind me. Only a mere jail can't stop me
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  Speaker 2: from working for you, pal. We don't need this young
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  Speaker 2: lady here, do we? You can go, miss.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you very much. Blackie, please believe I meant no harm.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, if it'll make you feel better, I believe. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 6: Bye.
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  Speaker 12: Now, what's this all about, Blackie? What kind of a
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  Speaker 12: lead could you get on the William girls' murder while
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  Speaker 12: you were still in jail? Well, remember that letter I
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  Speaker 12: mailed just before you brought me in here last night?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, it wasn't only a letter. It was an
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  Speaker 2: envelope with a note and a locket at it. I
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  Speaker 2: sent it to Mary Wesley.
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  Speaker 12: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because inside that locket was a man's picture, and he
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  Speaker 2: might be the killer. Inspector Faraday?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, Rollins?
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  Speaker 2: Miss Wesley's here to see Blackie.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, let her in?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, let her come in.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Faraday, here's where I solve your case, sitting right here.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Blackie. How are you?
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  Speaker 12: I'm going to be fine, Mary, as soon as you
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  Speaker 12: tell me what you know. Yeah, Miss Wesley, tell us
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  Speaker 12: all Blackie knows, too. I've got a minute to spare.
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  Speaker 6: Blackie, I couldn't find out a thing.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 2: Didn't you get that locket with the picture on it
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  Speaker 2: in the mail?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, darling, I did, and the note telling me to
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  Speaker 6: try to find out who the man was.
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 6: I couldn't. I didn't know where to start.
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  Speaker 11: So you were going to solve this case for me, huh, Blackie?
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, darling. That's all right, Mary.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have the locket with you?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Here it is.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. I wonder whose picture this is. If I could
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  Speaker 2: find out, I could probably deliver a murderer, or at
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  Speaker 2: least a suspect to you, Faraday.
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  Speaker 11: Give me that thing.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks.
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  Speaker 11: Now get out of here, both of you.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Come on, Mary.
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  Speaker 6: I'm coming.
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  Speaker 2: So long, Inspector, and thanks for the hospitality.
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  Speaker 11: Don't mention it.
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  Speaker 6: You're ashamed of me, aren't you, Blackie?
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  Speaker 2: Not at all, Mary.
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  Speaker 6: But that locket was your only clue. Now the Inspector
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  Speaker 6: has it.
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  Speaker 2: So what? I'm sorry you couldn't locate our man, but
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  Speaker 2: even you can't do the impossible. Come on. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: solve this case.
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  Speaker 6: How can we? We can't possibly find that man in
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  Speaker 6: this city if we don't know anything about him. And
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  Speaker 6: now we don't even have the picture that was in
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  Speaker 6: the locket.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, but we do, Mary. I gave Faraday the locket,
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  Speaker 2: but I kept the picture. Here's the bank, Jameson.
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  Speaker 4: We'll wait here in the car before we go in, Harlow.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Say, where'd you lift this car?
• 9:42
  Speaker 4: What do you think? From the boyfriend? Of course.
• 9:45
  Speaker 12: After what we had to do to our young lady
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  Speaker 12: last night, it was a natural car to steal.
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  Speaker 2: Everything's great, huh? Perfect.
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  Speaker 8: Well, this is it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go.
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  Speaker 4: Right. Leave the motor running.
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  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: Got the tear gas?
• 10:01
  Speaker 4: I never forget anything. Close the car door and come on.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: Now, stay a little to one side of me as
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  Speaker 4: we go into the bank.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry. I know what to do.
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  Speaker 7: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Well, here goes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the cashier we'll talk to. Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 13: By the way, cashier, what's your name? It's on the
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  Speaker 13: window plate in front of you. Thompson, Joe Thompson. All right, Joe,
• 10:32
  Speaker 13: don't do anything we'll be sorry for.
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  Speaker 4: It's a stick-up. I don't touch the floor button.
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  Speaker 11: Don't move. All right, everybody, stand where you are. This
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  Speaker 11: is a hold-up.
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  Speaker 4: Don't move and you won't get hurt.
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  Speaker 11: Quiet, everybody, quiet.
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  Speaker 13: Now, Joe, press the button that opens the gate and
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  Speaker 13: let my friend through the vault. You said not to move.
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  Speaker 13: Press the button that opens the gate or I'll press
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  Speaker 13: this trigger.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, the gate's open now. Go get the money.
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  Speaker 11: Sure thing. And hurry up.
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  Speaker 4: Joe looks nervous. Don't worry.
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  Speaker 2: This will take only a couple of seconds.
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  Speaker 4: Keep your eyes forward, Joe. It won't do you any
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  Speaker 4: good to watch him take the money. He'll take it anyway.
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  Speaker 11: I know. Hurry it up in there.
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  Speaker 2: Just about finished. Joe!
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  Speaker 4: I said not to move.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't move. Not a finger. All right.
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  Speaker 10: I have the money.
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  Speaker 2: Release the tear gas. Let's get out of here.
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  Speaker 11: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Get out from behind that gate first.
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  Speaker 2: All set.
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  Speaker 11: Head for the door as soon as I release the gas. Goodbye, Joe.
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  Speaker 11: Thanks for being such a nice boy.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: Hey, that's the alarm.
• 11:20
  Speaker 11: I know, and this is the guy that turned it on.
• 11:22
  Speaker 11: Now you made me do something I'm sorry for.
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  Speaker 10: Come on.
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  Speaker 12: Come on.
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  Speaker 11: Hurry up.
• 11:25
  Speaker 8: Let's get up.
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  Speaker 4: Faster.
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  Speaker 2: Faster. Come on.
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  Speaker 7: Let's go.
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  Speaker 6: Hurry.
• 11:29
  Speaker 7: Let's get going.
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  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 11:32
  Speaker 7: Let's get going.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: Did you get a lot of money, Harlow?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, Jameson. About $ 50, 000.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're sitting pretty.
• 11:42
  Speaker 9: Last night we eliminated the one identifiable member of our organization,
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  Speaker 9: our lady friend. We've just stolen $ 50, 000, we're in the clear,
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  Speaker 9: and the only one with any trouble is Boston Blackie.
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: Now back to Boston Blackie.
• 11:53
  Speaker 2: Boston Blackie.
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  Speaker 10: Blackie is told by a girl to meet her at
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  Speaker 10: 111 Cedar Street, for she fears she is going to
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  Speaker 10: be killed. So Blackie goes to that address and finds
• 12:19
  Speaker 10: a girl there, dead. But it is not the same girl.
• 12:25
  Speaker 10: At the same time, Faraday gets a tip to go
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  Speaker 10: to 111 Cedar Street and finds Blackie with the body.
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  Speaker 10: Blackie is jailed. but not until after he has mailed
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  Speaker 10: Mary Wesley a locket and picture found on the dead girl.
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  Speaker 10: But Mary can do nothing with the clue. Next morning,
• 12:43
  Speaker 10: Faraday releases Blackie, and later that afternoon, two unknown hold-up
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  Speaker 10: men rob a bank of $ 50, 000 and kill the bank cashier.
• 12:54
  Speaker 10: It is now several hours later, and Blackie and Mary
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  Speaker 10: return to 111 Cedar Street in a search for the
• 13:00
  Speaker 10: girl's killer.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Blackie, it'll be just our luck that the landlady
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  Speaker 6: isn't here.
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  Speaker 2: Then we'll just have to wait for her, Mary. They
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  Speaker 2: said at her house she was down here to clean
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  Speaker 2: up the place.
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  Speaker 6: You know, if somebody's been killed in my house, I'd
• 13:16
  Speaker 6: want to close it up, not clean it up.
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  Speaker 2: She is here. Let's hope she can identify the picture.
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  Speaker 8: I know.
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  Speaker 7: Well, what do you want?
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: You own this house? Yep. We're investigating the death of
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  Speaker 2: the girl who was killed here last night.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know anything about it.
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: May we come in?
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  Speaker 7: I guess so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You know anything at all about the dead girl?
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  Speaker 11: No, nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the picture I have here. Ever see this
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: fellow coming in to see her?
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  Speaker 7: I never saw anybody coming to see her.
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: I don't live here.
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  Speaker 7: She did.
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  Speaker 2: She also died here. That's what we're investigating.
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  Speaker 7: Go ahead.
• 13:52
  Speaker 6: What are you stopping at? Well, just a minute. When
• 13:55
  Speaker 6: this girl took the room, she gave you references, didn't she?
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: That's a good question, Mary.
• 13:59
  Speaker 7: I'm a good girl.
• 14:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, mm-hmm. She gave references.
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: Do you remember what they were?
• 14:05
  Speaker 12: No, no.
• 14:06
  Speaker 7: But I can look them up.
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: When?
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 14:11
  Speaker 7: Got my rent book with me. This is collection day.
• 14:15
  Speaker 6: Well, let's see.
• 14:17
  Speaker 7: Let's see.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: Let's hear. Oh.
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: She gave, uh, three references. The bank, her father, Jim Williams, and, um,
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: A fellow named Art Harper, a writer.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Never mind the bank. Do you have the addresses of
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: the other two references?
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: Her old man lives on a farm out on Route 6.
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: Guy Harper lives at 29 Oak Lane.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: Thanks. Thanks very much. We'll go to see the father, Mary,
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: and see what we can find out if we find
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: him in.
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: The End.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: Nice farm you have here, Mr. Williams.
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: Yes, it's lovely.
• 15:10
  Speaker 7: Yes, it is, Miss Wesley. I wish my daughter had
• 15:13
  Speaker 7: thought so.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, I know what you mean. Say, those are nice-looking
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: cows grazing over there. What kind are they, Jersey?
• 15:21
  Speaker 7: Yes, but you don't have to spare my feelings, Blackie.
• 15:24
  Speaker 7: I know you don't want to ask me if there
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: was any reason my daughter was killed.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Yes, I do. Do you know anyone who might have
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: killed her?
• 15:33
  Speaker 7: One of her friends, I suppose. Oh, they were a
• 15:35
  Speaker 7: bad lot. She was a good girl until she got
• 15:38
  Speaker 7: mixed up with them, and then she was just as
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: bad as they were.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Did you know any of them, Mr. Williams?
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: No, I didn't.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: I see. Well, I found this picture in a locket
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: belonging to your daughter. Do you know whose picture it is?
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: Let me see. No, I never saw him. I'm sorry
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: I can't help you out.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: I am, too. Well, goodbye. Come on, Mary.
• 16:02
  Speaker 7: Goodbye, sir, and goodbye, Miss Wesley.
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: Goodbye, Mr. Williams. Our platter's due.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Let's go out to the car, Mary. That poor man's
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: pretty broken up about his daughter's death. I don't think
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: we ought to talk here.
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: Oh, of course not. Anyway, what's there to talk about?
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Not much. We're running down a dead-end street. Wait, I'll
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: open the door for you. I'll tell you what let's do.
• 16:29
  Speaker 9: What?
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: I'll go see Art Harper, that writer who gave the
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: dead girl a reference. You can call my pal Shorty
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: and ask him to contact some of the boys he
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: used to play with before he went straight.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: Okay, what did he find out?
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Well, we know this much. The dead girl was a
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: member of the Hold Up Gang, maybe the same gang
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: that held up the bank this afternoon.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: What makes you think so?
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: The technique was the same, according to the papers. The
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: job they just pulled was a big one, and the
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: girl had already been identified from being seen on other jobs.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: They may have wanted to get rid of her before
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: they pulled the big one.
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: Oh, and Shorty can tell us who they.
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: Are, maybe.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Maybe, or something about their hideout, say. And that's all
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: we need to break this case. You call Shorty, will you?
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: Oh, sure.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Good. Meanwhile, I'll visit Art Harper and see if I
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: can make a writer talk. THE END.
• 17:30
  Speaker 11: Yeah?
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Inspector Faraday, this is Roland.
• 17:32
  Speaker 11: Yeah?
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: The Motor Vehicle Bureau just called.
• 17:34
  Speaker 11: They checked the license number on that getaway car on
• 17:36
  Speaker 11: the back holdup?
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It belongs to Art Harper, a rider. Address 29
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Oak Lane. Good.
• 17:42
  Speaker 12: I'm going to see him right now. You send out
• 17:44
  Speaker 12: an alarm to pick up Boston Blackie.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: What for this time, Inspector?
• 17:47
  Speaker 12: He gave me a locket and a picture as evidence.
• 17:50
  Speaker 12: Only he, uh, accidentally didn't give me the picture. I
• 17:53
  Speaker 12: want that big galoot for a little larceny.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Yes? Art Hopper? Yes? I'm Boston Blackie. May I come in? Sure. Thanks.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: You're a writer, Mr.
• 18:16
  Speaker 8: Hopper? Yes.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Something I can do for you? Yes, if you will.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I'm looking for the fellow in this picture. I think
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: he might be... Hey! You're the fellow in this picture. Yes,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I am. Where did you get that? Off a dead body.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Dead body? You mean Marion's?
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, Marion Williams. You knew she was dead?
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Yes, I read about it. She ran around in bad company.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: That's why we broke up.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Before you broke up, did you see anyone with her
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: at 111 Cedar Street? No. When I was going with her,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: she was living with a father out in the country.
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: Wonderful old fellow.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: He was all broken up when she left the farm. Oh,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I see. Then you... Excuse me. You expecting company?
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: No.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Are you? No, but I'll tell you the one person
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: that isn't. Inspector Faraday. I kept your picture so I'd
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: get to you, and he couldn't.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, I see.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Come in.
• 19:09
  Speaker 11: I'd like to see... Blackie!
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Faraday!
• 19:12
  Speaker 12: Well, I never thought I'd see you here. Blackie, I
• 19:14
  Speaker 12: don't know how you got here ahead of me, and
• 19:15
  Speaker 12: I don't care. All I want you to do is
• 19:18
  Speaker 12: keep quiet. Faraday, you're either smarter than I think or luckier.
• 19:21
  Speaker 12: I had this fellow Harper's picture, and I practically broke
• 19:24
  Speaker 12: my neck to find him, and you walk in. This
• 19:26
  Speaker 12: is the guy whose picture was in Marion Williams' locket? Well, then, Harper,
• 19:30
  Speaker 12: I'm arresting you for the murder of a bank cashier
• 19:32
  Speaker 12: in that.
• 19:32
  Speaker 11: Holdup this afternoon.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: That's preposterous.
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: Sure, sure, I know. I also know it was your
• 19:37
  Speaker 11: car that was used in the getaway. All right.
• 19:41
  Speaker 13: Certainly my picture was in Marion's locket. Why shouldn't it be?
• 19:44
  Speaker 13: Nice to go with her. And my car might have
• 19:47
  Speaker 13: been used in a bank holdup.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I report... it stolen yesterday.
• 19:51
  Speaker 11: Oh, you did. How nice and convenient. That's an old gag, Hopper.
• 19:55
  Speaker 11: I've got this whole thing figured.
• 19:58
  Speaker 12: You knocked off the blonde who used to drive you
• 19:59
  Speaker 12: on stick-ups. You forgot your picture was in her locket
• 20:02
  Speaker 12: and reported your car stolen.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: As an alibi.
• 20:04
  Speaker 11: But I tell you, I.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Faraday, even you ought to see that Hop is being framed.
• 20:08
  Speaker 11: Framed?
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: How? That gang stole Hopper's car, knowing he would also
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: be blamed for killing the girl when we found out
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the two of them used to go together. First, they
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: framed me by having some blonde give me a wacky story,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: and just in case that didn't work, they fixed one
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: against Hopper, too.
• 20:23
  Speaker 12: Well, maybe so. But I'm holding him just the same.
• 20:26
  Speaker 11: Come on, Hopper.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Sure.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: I have nothing to lose.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: No, you don't, Hopper, but I do. I've got to
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: lose you, Faraday.
• 20:33
  Speaker 11: Wacky, put away that gun.
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: Oh, no.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I heard your police alarm for me on my car radio.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: I've got to get away to make sure a couple
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: of killers don't. Don't bother about making coffee, Mary. Just
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: sit down here and tell me about your talk with Shorty.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: It was no good. Blackie, he tried, but he couldn't
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: find out anything.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, fine, fine. That means it's impossible to locate him.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: What did you find out?
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: That Art Harper is the man in the picture, but
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: he wasn't any help either.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: Golly, we are doing so well, aren't we?
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: No, not very. What's making it so tough is that
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: nobody has ever seen any of the dead girl's friends.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Even Mr. Williams never saw his daughter's best friend.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: You mean Art Harper?
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And Harper hadn't seen any of Marion's other friends either.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: The only person he ever saw was Mr. Hey, wait
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: a minute. Mr. Williams said he never saw Harper, but
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Harper claims he's seen Mr. Williams.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: Oh, Blackie, how can that be?
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: It can't, unless either Williams or Harper is lying. Mary,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: I think if we find out some simple thing, we'll
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: know where to look for Marion's murderers.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: You mean just one simple thing?
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: First of all, that farmhouse would make a swell hideout, right?
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: Of course. But what is the simple thing?
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Second, it's possible that whoever killed Marion also killed her
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: dad and that we talked to one of the gang
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: and not to her father.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: Certainly that's possible, but I still.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: You still don't know what the simple thing is, huh?
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: No.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: Except that I'm beginning to feel like... Well, look, Mary.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: When I asked the man we thought was Marion's dad
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: if his cows were jerseys, he said yes, remember?
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: I was just making conversation, and I don't know one
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: cow from another.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Is there a difference?
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: There always has been. Now, listen. Supposing those cows weren't
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: jerseys at all, but Guernseys or Holsteins or something. Then
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: we'd know the man we talked to wasn't a farmer, right?
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: And Marion's dad was a farmer.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Come on over to this bookcase with me. I've got
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: an encyclopedia over here somewhere.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Oh, of course. I remember the one you won in
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: the radio contest. It's here on the bottom shelf.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Good use for it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: I'll get it. Here you are.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Now, we'll look at cows. Let's see.
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: Let's see.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Here we are, C's. Colleges, schools, commissaries. Here we are. Cows.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: What does it say about them?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: It lists about ten types. Jersey's the one I'm interested in.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Here we are. Jersey cows. Always brown. Never any other color.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Although it is possible that white markings ought to be found.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: Blackie Farmer Williams cows were black with white spots.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Well, look up here, Mary. Under Holsteins. Holsteins are always white.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: with black patches. Well, the man we spoke to said
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: his cows were jerseys when they were Holsteins.
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: Blackie, you know what? We never saw Farmer Williams. We
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: were talking to an imposter.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: We were talking to a murderer, Mary. I never knew it.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Only I'm going to be talking to him again very
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: soon and show him how a cow convinced me he
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: was a dumb ox.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: The End.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Now, Mr. Williams, do you mind if I don't call
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: you Mr. Williams?
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: Well, Blackie, I don't understand.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: You understand about guns, don't you? Enough to know that
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: this is one? Oh.
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Well, that's how it is.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know your name, but I know who you are.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: You killed Marion Williams and probably your father, too. You
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: robbed that bank and killed a cashier. But I don't
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: think you did it alone.
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: No?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: No. I know you didn't rob the bank alone. Witnesses
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: say you had a partner. Now, where is he?
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Right behind you, Blackie.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and with a gun in your back. Drop yours, Blackie.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Harlow.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: It's okay.
• 24:33
  Speaker 9: Sorry, Blackie, but we'll have to kill you like we
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: did old man Williams. You don't leave us any alternative.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Give me time and I could think of a dozen.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Only I don't think you're going to kill me. Not
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: with a house surrounded by police.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: I won't fall for that old one, Blackie.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: You don't think I was crazy enough to come out
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: here alone, do you?
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: You're Boston Blackie. It wouldn't surprise me.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Now, look, you.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Stay where you are, Blackie.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Don't worry.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: And, Harlow, stay behind Blackie with that gun.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Sure. I'm right behind him, Jameson.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Good, Harlow.
• 25:02
  Speaker 11: Because I'm right behind you.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Cut your gun.
• 25:04
  Speaker 12: Faraday, did you have to wait so long? I wanted
• 25:06
  Speaker 12: to make sure you had the right guys before I
• 25:08
  Speaker 12: came in. But I heard enough. Take him away, boys.
• 25:11
  Speaker 11: Wait a minute now.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: Take your hands off of me.
• 25:15
  Speaker 12: Well, Blackie, you sure needed me this time. I really
• 25:18
  Speaker 12: played Santa Claus for you.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Santa Claus, huh? Well, Faraday, I will say you got
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: here in the nick of time.
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Boston Blackie has brought us Murder on Cedar Street. Good night,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: and thank you for spending this radio hour with us.
• 27:08
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• 27:12
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