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Hearthstone of the Deathsquad: The Unheeded Warning Murder Case (EP1690) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Detectives dot net. Well, we introduce our second straight new story,
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  Speaker 1: and unlike our previous episode, this is actually the first
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  Speaker 1: episode of the series with the titular character in it. However,
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  Speaker 1: this was far from his mystery debut. This series was
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  Speaker 1: descended from the Molay Mystery Theater, one of the great
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  Speaker 1: mystery anthology series of the World War two and the
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  Speaker 1: immediate era. Afterwards, the series moved to CBS and with
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  Speaker 1: the influence of Anne and Frank Commert, best known for
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  Speaker 1: producing soap operas as well as the longtime success I
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  Speaker 1: should say long running success melodrama detective series Mister Keene,
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  Speaker 1: Tracer of Lost Persons. The series began to focus on
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  Speaker 1: the character of Hearthstone the Desk Squad, eventually becoming the
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  Speaker 1: sole feature of the series. So this nineteen fifty one
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  Speaker 1: launch came after essentially three years of being the lead
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  Speaker 1: character on the series. Anyway, The series starred Alfred Shirley,
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  Speaker 1: who is probably best known for playing Doctor Watson opposite
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  Speaker 1: John Stanley's homes in the first season of New Adventures
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  Speaker 1: of Sherlock Holmes for Mutual After Najo Bruce left and
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  Speaker 1: the series moved back to New York. Anyway, Here's the
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  Speaker 1: first episode of the series from August thirtieth of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty one. Here's The Unheeded Murder Case.
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  Speaker 2: CBS Radio Again presents but I'm a Hearthstone of the
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  Speaker 2: Death Squad, implacable manhunter of the Metropolitan Police in one
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  Speaker 2: of his greatest investigations entitled The Unheeded Warning Murder Case,
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  Speaker 2: with Ronald Long as Elliot Lindsay and Florence Williams as
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  Speaker 2: Dela Parker. Now for Inspector Heartstone.
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  Speaker 3: Of the Death Squad.
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  Speaker 2: In The Unheeded Warning Murder Case. The scene opens in
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  Speaker 2: the front office of the Lindsay Messenger Service, whose business
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  Speaker 2: is the delivery of messages and small parcel A pretty
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  Speaker 2: girl is seated at the desk. She looks up surprised
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  Speaker 2: as the door opens and a young man, obviously excited enters.
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  Speaker 2: The girl is Dela Parker. The young man is Bill Richards,
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  Speaker 2: a newspaper reporter Della's fiance, and we hear Della say
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  Speaker 2: the words that lead to violence and murder.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Phil, this is a surprise.
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing here, Della?
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  Speaker 3: Quick?
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  Speaker 5: Put on your hat.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to get out of this place.
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  Speaker 4: You sound as dramatic as one of your stories in
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  Speaker 4: the paper field.
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  Speaker 5: I've come to warn you, Della.
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  Speaker 4: All right, I'm warn.
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  Speaker 3: But what about hurry? Della?
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you on the way out.
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  Speaker 4: Oh he's sound awfully silly, Phil, But I love you anyway.
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  Speaker 5: Dalla. Please be serious. You're in real danger here.
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  Speaker 4: What on earth are you talking about?
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  Speaker 5: This place? The Lindsay Messenger Service isn't what you think
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  Speaker 5: it is.
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  Speaker 4: Are you trying to kid me?
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  Speaker 3: Phil?
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  Speaker 5: Certainly I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: This place isn't a messenger service at all. It's the
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  Speaker 3: front for one of the worst criminal operations in New York.
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  Speaker 4: Don't be silly.
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  Speaker 5: My city editor, Martin Bayer just gave me the lowdown
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  Speaker 5: on what goes.
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  Speaker 3: On in this place.
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  Speaker 4: What goes on.
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  Speaker 3: He's ready to blow the whole dirty business wide open,
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  Speaker 3: and when he does, one of the biggest stories.
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  Speaker 5: Of crime and murder the paper.
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  Speaker 3: Has ever printed, splash across the front page and rock
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  Speaker 3: the town.
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  Speaker 4: Oh will you talk like a scene from a ten
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  Speaker 4: twenty thirty mel.
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  Speaker 3: A draw right.
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  Speaker 5: Don't listen to me, Della. Treat me like an idiot.
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  Speaker 3: But whatever you do, come with me now, quit this job,
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  Speaker 3: get away from this place before something happens to you.
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  Speaker 4: If you think I'm going to give up a job
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  Speaker 4: paying one hundred dollars a week because of some wild
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  Speaker 4: idea born in a newspaper office, well I won't do it.
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  Speaker 3: Is stupid.
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  Speaker 5: You want to know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to keep this job until long after we're married.
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  Speaker 3: It's no wild idea, and Martin Bayard is not the
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  Speaker 3: kind of city editor who chases rainbows.
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  Speaker 5: I order you, Della, to leave here.
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  Speaker 4: Now you order me, dude, You can't order me to
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  Speaker 4: do anything.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know I was marrying a fool. But don't
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  Speaker 5: say I didn't warn you.
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  Speaker 3: What a stubborn imus so you are?
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  Speaker 5: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 6: Probably you've been reading too many detective stories, Jess.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't hear that. Anyway, nothing's happened that the kids
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  Speaker 4: won't cure.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight, Beautiful, where's your boys?
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  Speaker 4: If you mean mister Lindsey, he's in his office, and
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  Speaker 4: don't call me beautiful. Would you like how mister Lindsey
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  Speaker 4: wants to see him?
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  Speaker 3: You tell him nothing? Baby, I'm going in there. Let's
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  Speaker 3: just do it.
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  Speaker 5: Anything, but you can't see.
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  Speaker 4: Mister Lindsay without being announced.
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  Speaker 3: Get out of my way. I'm going in you stay
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  Speaker 3: right here, kidd. Well, Lindsey, who are you?
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  Speaker 7: And what's your business?
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  Speaker 3: You don't know bash Cagle.
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  Speaker 7: Eh, try something new, Lindsey, I repeat, I don't know you.
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  Speaker 7: We're going to get equated fast.
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  Speaker 5: Lindsey and the bash Kegel.
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  Speaker 3: You're trying to.
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  Speaker 7: Throw to the caps and I just dropped by.
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  Speaker 3: They tell you when we're chap and I'll kill you.
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  Speaker 7: I've got my foot on an alarm bell. I we'll
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  Speaker 7: bring everybody in this office here. I'll get this bash
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  Speaker 7: Cagle if that's your name, I don't know you, never
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  Speaker 7: seen you.
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  Speaker 3: You've got the wrong idea somewhere anymore that, lindsay, and
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  Speaker 3: I'll kill you right now.
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  Speaker 7: When I mentioned the alarm bell to you, I didn't
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  Speaker 7: mention this gun in my hand.
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  Speaker 3: Now leave, get up there. That's it, okay, I'll leave and.
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  Speaker 5: On my way out.
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  Speaker 7: I can't that day, man.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to.
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  Speaker 7: Try to keep me out of here. No, you won't
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  Speaker 7: leave by that door. You'll leave through this back door
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  Speaker 7: right here. Now move. I don't know that they came
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  Speaker 7: from the back hallway. I look out open the doors.
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  Speaker 6: Murdered the man who's forced his Randier office.
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  Speaker 4: Oh God, terrible.
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  Speaker 7: I'll call the police, Stella.
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  Speaker 2: So once again, the steely called heart Stone of the
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  Speaker 2: death Squad and his assistant Detective Sam Cook find themselves
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  Speaker 2: on the scene of a strange and puzzling murder. And
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  Speaker 2: we hear Inspector Hertstone with a Della Parker and her employer,
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  Speaker 2: mister Lindsey, as he says, so yes, Storry.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Lindsey's that the man you had never seen.
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  Speaker 8: Before forced his way into your office. Ltned to kill
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  Speaker 8: your left by the back door which you had closed
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  Speaker 8: upon him, and was shot down in this hallway about
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  Speaker 8: ten feet from the door of this office.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure he was.
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  Speaker 7: Insane, Inspector Heartstone. He forced his way into my office.
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  Speaker 6: Just what happened, inspect I'm Della Park and mister Linday's
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  Speaker 6: confidential secretary.
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  Speaker 4: The man rushed in with a mad look in his eyes,
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't let me announce him, pushed me aside, and forced
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  Speaker 4: his way in mister Lindsay's office and slammed the door.
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  Speaker 3: So you were not in mister Lindsay's office while this
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  Speaker 3: man was talking to him.
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  Speaker 7: No, Della was outside in the reception room. But you'd see,
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  Speaker 7: Inspector Hearthstone. She confirms my story exactly.
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  Speaker 8: So I should expect to me your secretary. Mister confirming
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  Speaker 8: employer's story is part of his secretary's job. But I
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  Speaker 8: wonder will she confirm whatever explanation you make of that
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  Speaker 8: forty five carabg gun on your desk.
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  Speaker 4: A gun?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, mister Lindsay usually keeps that and he's safe.
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  Speaker 4: I have no idea how it.
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  Speaker 7: Got there, Inspected I used it to frighten the man away, Inspector. Remember,
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  Speaker 7: he was threatening to kill me.
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  Speaker 3: Why I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: They could cook and hand me that gun. P is
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  Speaker 8: sair Inspector h I see it hasn't been fired.
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  Speaker 7: Not much evidence is there, Inspector hearstle a gun that
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  Speaker 7: hasn't been filed the body of a man out there
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  Speaker 7: I've never set.
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  Speaker 3: Eyes on before. I wonder who he was. I can
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  Speaker 3: tell you, mister Lindsay.
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  Speaker 8: His name is bash Cagel, and his business is that
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  Speaker 8: of a dope peddler lot and your business is that
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  Speaker 8: of a messenger and parcel.
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  Speaker 3: Delivery sir, How dreadful? What dreadful? Well? She may be
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  Speaker 3: formulating the idea, mister Lindsay, that the passive delivery service
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  Speaker 3: would be an excellent way to distribute dope.
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  Speaker 5: That will dropped that for the moment, this excited.
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  Speaker 7: Girl is putting ideas into your mind. She hasn't the
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  Speaker 7: haziest idea of.
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  Speaker 3: What this business is.
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  Speaker 8: Perhaps you should find the less excitedly secretary, mister Lindsay.
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  Speaker 3: Probably say, Ella, oh Deela, I was afraid.
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  Speaker 4: Of you, darling, I'm so frightened.
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  Speaker 3: What's this girl? Richards in the Evening Star, Inspector Heartstone, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: now I recall him. Detective Cook, Hello, Phil, what brings
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  Speaker 3: you here? I came to cover the story and I
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  Speaker 3: got Della out of here, Inspector Heartstone.
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  Speaker 4: Tilla and I are to be married in Well. I
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  Speaker 4: should have listened to you this morning.
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  Speaker 3: This morning, were you here before this murder occurred?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, about an hour before, Inspector hot Stone.
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  Speaker 3: Looks like this guy gets an early inspector covers a
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  Speaker 3: murder story before the murder comes off.
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  Speaker 5: FA's work.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that so I won't see Why were you here
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  Speaker 3: this morning, Phil?
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  Speaker 4: He came to warn me, Inspector Hospital.
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  Speaker 3: That's certain, Inspector I had a tip from my city editor,
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  Speaker 3: Martin Bayard, that he was ready to blow this Lindsay
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  Speaker 3: Messenger service outfit to the sky. Said he just about
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  Speaker 3: had the goods that it was the cover for a
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  Speaker 3: big crime ring. What kind of ring?
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  Speaker 5: Beer, Phil Well Bayard didn't tell me.
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  Speaker 3: He's a pretty secretive sort of a guy until he
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  Speaker 3: gets a story all lined up and tied together. But
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  Speaker 3: believe me, he's got one, or he wouldn't be saying anything.
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  Speaker 6: Bill came here terribly upset Inspector Horstnet to have me
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  Speaker 6: leave my job, and I was silly enough to laugh
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  Speaker 6: at him.
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  Speaker 4: I called it melodrama.
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  Speaker 3: Bill, get your city edit a moutain. Bayard to the phone,
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  Speaker 3: for me. Okay, Inspector park Row eight nine nine seven,
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  Speaker 3: oh and be quick, Hello st Our office, this is
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  Speaker 3: Phil Richards. Put me on a Bayard at the city desk.
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  Speaker 5: What.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's impossible. When wait, let me tell this to
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  Speaker 3: Inspector Heartstone. Listen, Martin Bayard was shot down by a
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  Speaker 3: machine gun fire. What they got him just as he
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  Speaker 3: was stepping into a lunch room behind the newspaper office
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  Speaker 3: less than five minutes agoll.
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  Speaker 8: So, Bayard's story on the Lindsay Messenger service was stopped
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  Speaker 8: by the hand of death.
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  Speaker 3: And I think I've got the answer, Inspector Hartston. This
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  Speaker 3: man Lindsay here undoubtedly overheard me warning Della this morning
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  Speaker 3: and tipped his mob to bump off Bayard. It could
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  Speaker 3: be filled now, Lindsey.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't overhear anything, Inspector Hearthstone. I didn't even know
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  Speaker 7: this reporter was in here talking to Della.
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  Speaker 3: It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 7: And why in the name of heavens should I want
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  Speaker 7: the city editor of the Evening Star murdered.
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  Speaker 3: As the evidence in this case unfold itself, the answer
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  Speaker 3: to that, Christian may be revealed Lindsay In the meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: let's go back to the murdered dope headler in the
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  Speaker 3: hall besh kegel his body at least is on these premises.
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  Speaker 7: May I point out you, Inspector Hearthstone, that there is
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  Speaker 7: only a single say, footprints on the floor leading from
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  Speaker 7: this office to his body, his footsteps and no others.
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  Speaker 8: No, you needn't, Lindsey. I noted that interest in fact myself.
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  Speaker 8: That's why I didn't approach the body.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 7: That makes it pretty clear, doesn't it that I didn't
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  Speaker 7: follow him down the hallway and.
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  Speaker 3: Kill him unless there's some very clever trick that I
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  Speaker 3: haven't caught on to as yet.
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  Speaker 7: Well, nobody ever goes down that hall, that is, except
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  Speaker 7: very seldom. The floor was waxed this morning. The only
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  Speaker 7: person walking over it was the murdered man, so it seems.
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  Speaker 3: Now, tell me, mister Lindsey, did you use the phone
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  Speaker 3: after the murder.
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  Speaker 7: Only to call the police, Inspector Helstone.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that true, Della?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, mister Lindsey, that is that is what della.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm sure, Inspector Harstone, mister Lindsay did not use
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  Speaker 6: the phone.
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  Speaker 3: Victor Cook, Sam, what did you find out from the
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  Speaker 3: elevator man? He says he brought two tough looking characters
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  Speaker 3: up here, Inspector, but they never came down with them.
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  Speaker 3: This is only the third floor. I'd be essentially get
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  Speaker 3: away down the stairs they were, and same the men
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  Speaker 3: looking out of the back office near best Keegele's body.
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  Speaker 3: I think he wants to talk to me, you know, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I'll get him. Come on, mister inspector wants you.
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  Speaker 5: He certainly, Officer, I've got a note with the inspector.
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  Speaker 7: You won't get anything out of him, Inspector Hoston, He's
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  Speaker 7: only the man who handles the partles.
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  Speaker 3: Henry Jones, Thank you, Lindsay, but I find out for myself. Hey, I,
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  Speaker 3: Inspector Hastston, your name is Henry Jones. Wats your story?
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  Speaker 3: Your story to all, Inspector Howstone. I just wanted to
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  Speaker 3: give you this note that I've found. Thanks mister Jones.
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  Speaker 3: Look at it.
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  Speaker 5: What's in that note?
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  Speaker 3: Jones? Nothing of immediate interest to you in there? I
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  Speaker 3: think I take the point. Mister Jones will arrange it
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  Speaker 3: just as this note suggests. Read this note think it's
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  Speaker 3: a trek, Inspector Ratstan. I'm not so sure, Sam.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, let's go back.
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  Speaker 3: To headquarters like the headquarters, Inspector, with everything hanging in
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  Speaker 3: the air, I don't catch you on. Come on, Sam oh,
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  Speaker 3: thank you mister Lindsay for your help. I shall see
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  Speaker 3: you later after your establishment has been gone over with
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  Speaker 3: a fine tooth. Come searched. What and if you're interested
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  Speaker 3: in what I'm looking for, it's dope, narcotics, drugs. Goodbye?
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  Speaker 3: What about me and Della, Inspector Hartstone, who write your
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  Speaker 3: story for the newspaper Phil about this murder and about
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  Speaker 3: the killing of your city at at A martin Bayard.
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  Speaker 3: Then look after your fiance. I think she may be
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  Speaker 3: ready now to stop laughing at your warnings. It's note
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  Speaker 3: from that guy Henry Johns. Looks tricky to me, Inspector
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  Speaker 3: Ratstan says, can I see you at police headquarters? Have
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  Speaker 3: the evidence you want? Afraid to talk here? I'm the
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  Speaker 3: party who has given Bayard City editor of the Evening,
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  Speaker 3: start aloud that Henry Jones. The note can be a trick, Sam,
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  Speaker 3: or it can be legitimate. When we talk to Henry Jones,
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  Speaker 3: we'll soon find out. My haunches will get Matham.
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  Speaker 2: And Detective Sam Cook was right. For while he and
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  Speaker 2: Inspector Hartstone are on their way back to headquarters. This
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  Speaker 2: scene takes place with Henry Jones in his employer's office.
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  Speaker 2: We hear mister Lindsay, the employer saying.
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  Speaker 7: You'll tell me what that note you wrote to Hearthstone was,
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  Speaker 7: Jones or you're out.
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  Speaker 3: Of a job. It's got nothing to do with you,
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  Speaker 3: mister Lindsey.
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  Speaker 5: Believe me, were you.
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  Speaker 7: By any chance making a date to talk to Hearthstone
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  Speaker 7: outside of this office where you could talk and talk
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  Speaker 7: and talk, feed him a lot of eyewash about what
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  Speaker 7: you think goes on here.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm not meeting that cop anywhere.
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  Speaker 5: Never had such an idea.
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  Speaker 7: That's the phone ringing in your office. Johe no answers,
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  Speaker 7: and then come back here.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 5: Have you right back?
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  Speaker 3: Missilogy?
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  Speaker 5: Hello?
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Hey, what is this?
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  Speaker 5: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: No? Who know?
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  Speaker 5: Don't hear me?
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  Speaker 2: now back to Harthstone of the Death Squad and the
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  Speaker 2: unheeded warning murder Kate. When sudden murder strikes in the
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  Speaker 2: offices of the Elliott Lindsay Messenger Service, Inspector Harthstone recognizes
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  Speaker 2: the victim as Bash Cagele, a notorious dope peddler, and
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  Speaker 2: he looks with suspicion upon Elliot Lindsay, especially when Phil Richards,
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  Speaker 2: a newspaper reporter in love with Lindsay's beautiful secretary Della Parker,
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  Speaker 2: tells Inspector Harthstone that his city editor, Martin Bayard, has
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  Speaker 2: information that the Lindsay Messenger Service is being used to
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  Speaker 2: distribute dope. Then Martin Bayard is murdered and a note
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  Speaker 2: is delivered to Harthstone from Henry Jones, a clerk in
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  Speaker 2: Elliott Lindsay's office, saying he has the evidence that will
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: point out the murderer. Now it is a short time
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: later the scene is police headquarters and we hear Inspector
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Hartstone saying to Detective Sam Cook, oh.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Henry Jones should be here any minute now, Sam, I
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: still say the guys are Fannie, Inspector Hartstone speaking Inspector Hearthstone.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: This is Elliott Lindsay. Another murder has been committed here
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: in my office. The man Henry Jones who gave you
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: that note has been shot Stone dead. A couple of
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: policemen are here already, but I thought i'd better phone
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: you myself.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Put one of those policemen on the line.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: Lindsay, Officer, Inspector Heartstone, on's to speak to you.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: That is after Kennythspecker.
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: Take Elliot Lindsay, a head of Lindsay messenger, servicing custody officer.
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: Bring him in handcuffed, have the officers surrounded so nobody
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: can get in or out.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: And act at once. Goodbye. That's the third guy to go.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Inspector Listen. If we are not here for Sam, it
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: won't be the last. Well Sam. See if you can
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: reach Richards it is a newspaper. Tell him I want
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: to see him. Tell him to hurry over here.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: That's a coincidence. I had a flash. You don't want me,
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: Inspector Hastone, so here I.
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: Am, Oh splendid Phil. I see you brought Dilla with you.
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: With dreadful Inspector Phil, and I hadn't even left the
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: Lindsay offices when that poor harmless old man Henry Jones
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: was q.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: He was in Lindsay's office, Inspector murdered in Lindsay's office.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: No, not que there, But I heard them calling to
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: Respector Howstone in mister Lindsey's office, and then Henry Jones
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: went to answer his phone and he was shot in
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: his own little cubbyho.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: It's a since Lindsay, did it, Inspector.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Now, Della, tell Inspector Horstone what you told me about
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Lindsay's phone call before my city editor was killed.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Well, don't hold back. There's nothing to be afraid of, Della.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Well, I heard mister Lindsey on the phone calling somebody
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: this morning after the first murder, and he said still
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: city Editor Martin Bayer usually ran out for a sandwich
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: at a lunch counter behind the newspaper office at about
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: two o'clock every day.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: So there you are, Inspector. There's your case.
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: It seems that way, Phil, But every indication is that
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: Lindsay was not working alone. The dope bracket embraces many men,
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: many killers.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I want them all. That's what my murdered city editor
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: told me, Inspector and by the way, I went through
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: his private file and found one very peculiar thing.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: Bill.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: Isn't enough that three people have been killed already for
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: talking without your taking a chance.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: So please get out of this case. I'm frightened, terribly
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: frightened for you.
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm a newspaper reporter, Della.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: I write what I.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: See, and I tell the police what I know.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Please, Phill, I'm so frightened.
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: You must take care of me. But with all those
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: people being killed from that horrible Lindsay messenger service all,
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: if I'm afraid to go home, I know somebody who
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: killed me. I've sit up all night.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I won't go to bed easy, sweetheart.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: I've thought of that myself. So I've told my mother
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: you'll stay with her until this is over.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: Oh, Phil, that's just what I hope you'd say your mother,
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: did dine.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you, Phil, did you bring those notes
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: you took from your murdered city and it is a
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: private fire with you? No, But I can get them,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Inspector Heartstone. After I've taken Della to my mother's, I'll
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: go back to the newspaper and pick them up.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: I'll bring them to you then? Is that all right?
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: So wouldn't it be quicker if we passed by the
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: newspaper office on our way to your mother?
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: If we get those papers then and so't you've left me?
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: It's mother and take a taxi and be back here
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: in a few minutes.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: That's an idea, Della.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I'll be back inspect her heartstone that way before ten.
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: Excellent, Phil, You and Della had better run along. Now
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: go through the door of the lift.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Come on, Della, see about ten, inspector Heartstone.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Bye bye, Yes, come in.
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: I've got that man Lindsey outside inspect the heartstone.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: You want him up there now? Yes?
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Can you bring him in? I got with you, Kenny,
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: and get him myself? No? No, Sam?
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: Can he get him?
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: And you hurry down and put a good man, a
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: top man on the job of tailing Phil and Dela.
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: Don't stand staring at me, Sam, get on with it.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Inspector. I put one of the boys and
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: a trail right away. The Wretchard and Della Cracker. Hi, Sam, Yes, Lindsay, inspact.
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: That it's better, Heartstone. If you're arresting me for murder,
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: you're on the wrong street.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Whyle, Lindsay, Because I didn't kill anybody, it's more likely
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: I myself will be killed again. Whyle, Lindsay, because it's
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: as plain as the nose on your face, that young
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: newspaper reporter Phil Richards and his girlfriend Della Parker committing
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: these murders. Oh really, thanks for the information, But tell
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: me what evidence of you to support that story, Lindsey.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: The evidence of what I suppose is millions of dollars
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: in dope that I found concealed in our uptown warehouse.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: The only people who could have concealed it there and
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: my secretary, Della Parker and her fiance newspaper reporter.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: They're the only one.
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: It's a beautiful story of true, Lindsay, especially from a
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: man who's been on the scene in suspicious circumstances of
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: two murders.
• 24:12
  Speaker 7: I don't care where I was. I'm telling you the truth,
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: Inspector Heartstow.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Eh, all right, Lindsay, I'm going to do a funny thing.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Take a cook, then take the handcuffs off, Lindsay. Release him, No, child,
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: what release him? That's what I said, Sam. Release him.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: You may go, Lindsay, but remember you may be watched.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: You're letting me go.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: I have my reasons. Show mister Lindsey out Sam.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: And in the Meanwhile, Della Parker and Phil Richards are
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: walking along the dark street where Phil's mother lives, and
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Phil is saying.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: I think you were imagining things, sweetheart. Nobody was following us.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: But just to settle you down, I got the idea
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: of slipping through one door of that restaurant and out
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: the other.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: Still, I'm worried about you. What was that strange thing
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: you said was in those notes of your editor Martin Bayard.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: I'm about to be your wife, Darling. We shouldn't have secrets, please, dear.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: I think they had went nuts before he was killed.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: His notes say a woman was in the dope bracket
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: with Lindsay.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: And who was the woman? Phildarice? Oh, come kiss me
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: first and then tell me.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: I tell you theyard big City editor and not was nuts?
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: It was you, Della.
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: You give me those papers that they had give him to.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Me, Tellah, God forgive me. It was you. I'll give
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: you nothing, God help me. You are murderess, a murderess and.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: A queen of dope to now give me those papers, not.
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: Kill me and good for those papers.
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: Now into this tour with them and the gun.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: Manest what's happened?
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: I feel safety kill for the phrase take me to
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: a phone, Officer, I'm a call Inspector Hudson. Yes, he's
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: working on the case.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: That's led to this murder.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Well, you can use this police phone right here, I'll
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: get him. Hello, Officer Blake reporting a murder.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: Give me, inspect A Hoststone.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: Inspector Huston, this is Della Parker. That's terriful. Man Lindsay
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: is just murdered Phil Richards.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: And a few minutes later we find an hysterical girl,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Della Parker, confronting Inspector Heartstone.
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: And I keep on saying, Inspector Horstone, you're responsible for
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: Phil's murder. You knew it, yes, Pkang of dope peddlers
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: with acron and you'll fail to protective.
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: I'll never live long enough to forgive myself something. Recriminations
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: won't get us anywhere.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: All we can do is help each other.
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: And when I bring Phil's killer to justice, I hope
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: you'll find it in your heart.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Steady, my dear.
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: The first thing is did you actually see your employer
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: Lindsay shoot down Phil Dark But.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: I'm sure it was, mister Lindley.
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: I'll swear it on the witness stand, and I'll swear
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: too that you were the cause.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Please, my dear child, forget your feelings toward me for
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: a minute. I only ask you to help me do
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: that first. Then hate me all you like. I'll understand
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: and forgive.
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: How can I help you inspect.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Your hostile Detective Cook? Bring Lindsay in. Come on, Lindsey,
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: not bry any tracks.
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: I wasn't near that report to Phil Richards when he
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: was killed. Detective Cook is mad.
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: Here are some reports from monarcotics squad. Lindsay, read these letters.
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: There are tips written into narcotics putting pree known dope
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: czars on the spot, and you are one of them.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know anything about them.
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: There they're typewriton.
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: They were written on the typewriter in your office. And
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: here is a compidential report in arcotics from the murdered
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: city editor Mardin Bayard. The man Fiel Richard's workform.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: What does it say? It tells a woman is the
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: head of your dope ring. And don't deny you were
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: operating one. Lindsay is that one.
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: With mister Lindsay's wife in Spectaharstle.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: That's possible.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: There's a lie, Inspectahastle.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: My wife had nothing to do with dope.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Watch what you're saying, Lindsay, your wife may be the woman.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: It's not my wife.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: She's not the killer.
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: This girl, Della Parker, was the brains. She worked the
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: whole thing. She used my messenger service to pass dope.
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: What do you I'm saying, mister Lindsey's inspect her hearts don't.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: Isn't it enough that Phil Richard's a fine clean boy?
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: You love me?
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Why should you be murdered because Phil found out who
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: the leader of the dope ring was, who the wholesale
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: murderer was.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: I take Phil to stay out of it.
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: And he undoubtedly knew who the woman was who operated
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: the dope ring.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: She directed the murder to gain complete control for herself.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: Why that your wh shot?
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Get her Sam easy now, Della them Now tell us
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: just where you found the papers and the murder gun
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: that killed Phil. Sure, I got him out of the
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: sewer trays, no where he was shot a natural place
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: for a woman to throw them. And you, Della Parker,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: were the only woman on the scene of Phil's murders.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: Accuse me for your own mistakes in sect of hostel.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: I hope you'll forgive me for this, Della.
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: I'll not forgive you for anything.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Not even for the resting you for murder Simon hankerf
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: Your mistake, Della, was him being a little.
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: Too clever, too cooperative.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Too sweet with the unfortunate boy you murdered, probably the
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: only person who ever loved you.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: You can't prove that I murdered him herself.
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: You'll find I can prove everything, Della, when I present
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: the evidence I have at your trial.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: And you remember this when the dark and eternal door
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: of the execution chamber closes on you. No, no, that's all.
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: Sam charge her with murder and turned Lindsey over to
• 30:39
  Speaker 8: a narcotics division as a dope handler.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Okay, Inspector Heart's down.
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: My only regret is that the man we put the
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: trail this woman, then Phil Richards, on his murder journey,
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: lost them. I was trying to protect Phil from this
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: very thing, and.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Thus Heartstone of the death Squad writes solved in the
• 31:21
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• 31:26
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• 31:30
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• 33:08
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• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. I did mention Melo trauma, didn't I yeah.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: This has all the hallmarks of the hummerd program, with
• 33:32
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• 33:38
  Speaker 1: in case the audience forgot. Still an interesting case with
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  Speaker 1: a good twist, even if we knew the solution before
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Hearthstone revealed it. Anyhow, the death of the reporter was
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: essentially all his fault. At any rate, though, that will
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: do it for today. Remember we have two more weeks
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  Speaker 1: of Hearthstone of the Desk Squad, and then we'll bring
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• 34:01
  Speaker 1: I did recognize the voice of Gerald Moore, I should add,
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• 34:21
  Speaker 1: In the meantime from Boise, Idaho, this is your host,
• 34:24
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