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  Speaker 1: The Equitable Life Asurance Society presents this is your FBI.
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  Speaker 1: This is your FBI, the official broadcast from the files
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  Speaker 1: of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, presented transcribed as a
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  Speaker 1: public service by the Equitable Life Asurance Society of the
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  Speaker 1: United States and the Equitable Societies representative in your community.
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  Speaker 1: From time to time, in their thirties and early forties,
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  Speaker 1: most men and women ask themselves, what will I.
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  Speaker 2: Be doing when I am sixty five years old? What
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  Speaker 2: are my chances of being one hundred percent self supporting
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  Speaker 2: when it's time to stop work?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's largely up to you and the decision you make.
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  Speaker 1: Right now. One such opportunity for an important decision will
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  Speaker 1: be offered to you in our middle commercial. It tells
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  Speaker 1: about the Equitable Society's Independent Sixties Plan. This plan means
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  Speaker 1: exactly what it says, financial independence for you in your sixties.
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  Speaker 1: Do you like that idea, then please listen carefully to
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  Speaker 1: this important message from the Equitable Society coming in about
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  Speaker 1: fourteen minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight.
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  Speaker 1: The subject of our FBI file marriage swindle, its title
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  Speaker 1: the Runaway Corpse. In very ancient days, the fate of
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  Speaker 1: every woman was the same. She did the hard labor
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  Speaker 1: for the family, and her status was little more than
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  Speaker 1: that of a slave. In certain of the older civilizations,
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  Speaker 1: it was unknown for a woman to sit and eat
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  Speaker 1: at the same table as the male members of the group.
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  Speaker 1: Those taboos and other similar customs have, of course been discarded. Today,
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  Speaker 1: women have attained the highest ranks in science, art.
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  Speaker 4: Literature, and business. Every year, more and more members of
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  Speaker 4: the female sex find themselves in responsible positions once held
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  Speaker 4: exclusively by men. No field of endeavor has remained closed
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  Speaker 4: to the women of America, and that statement unfortunately includes
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  Speaker 4: the field called crime. To Night's FBI file opens in
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  Speaker 4: the downtown district of a large eastern city. It is
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  Speaker 4: early afternoon as two middle aged women enter an undertaker's parlor.
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  Speaker 4: They speak to the owner for a moment and are
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  Speaker 4: shown toward the rear.
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  Speaker 3: Our complete line of caskets is in this back room.
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  Speaker 5: They are now, sister, be.
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  Speaker 3: Brave sway please, perhaps you'd be interested in our perfect
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  Speaker 3: tribute service. What's that you select the casket?
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  Speaker 5: We do the rest ethel I believe that would be better.
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  Speaker 3: You needn't decide immediately, missus Carson, thank you, not at all.
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  Speaker 3: We try to live up to our motto kind and
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  Speaker 3: personal consideration, where the tribute never becomes a burden. Isn't
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  Speaker 3: that sweet? The price tag on each casket covers the
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  Speaker 3: entire service.
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  Speaker 6: This is a very good value.
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  Speaker 3: The wood is the finest walnut, and as you see,
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  Speaker 3: the lining is crushed crape beautiful.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, engs, let's pick one and.
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  Speaker 5: Leave, all right, she's under such a strain.
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  Speaker 8: Of course, we'll take this.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure you won't be sorry.
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  Speaker 5: When can you send the hearse?
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  Speaker 3: Did the deceased pass away at a hospital?
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  Speaker 8: At home?
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  Speaker 3: We can call and prepare him for the reposing room
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  Speaker 3: at any time this evening. Certainly I have your address.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be there with the casket coach at let us
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  Speaker 3: say eight. Fine, you may use the side exit if
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  Speaker 3: you like. Thank you for thinking of us.
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  Speaker 5: We'll see you later.
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  Speaker 9: Very well, go ahead, dear, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's that. I hope it works. Oh, it's bound
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  Speaker 7: to Agnes.
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  Speaker 8: After all, what difference does it make to them of
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  Speaker 8: the body? They come first, dad or alive.
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  Speaker 4: Meanwhile, at the local FBI field of US Police, Detective
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  Speaker 4: Tommy Stewart approaches the disk of Special Agent Taylor.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Jim, Jommy, you've been a stranger. Likely I won't
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  Speaker 6: be from now on. Why what's up wedding bells? Is
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  Speaker 6: that what?
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  Speaker 10: Wedding bells? Herb Carson? He escaped yesterday from the state prison.
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  Speaker 6: Tommy, I'm afraid I don't know him.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I guess you hadn't been transferred here this time
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  Speaker 10: last year. No, we rested him for working the marriage swindle.
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  Speaker 10: He was quite a boy. When we circulated marriage bureau
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  Speaker 10: clerks around the country with his picture. We uncovered twenty
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  Speaker 10: four brides and quite a few places haven't been heard
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  Speaker 10: from yet.
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  Speaker 11: Is this his recording? According to this, the bureau had
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  Speaker 11: a de chain on anymo.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, he crossed more state lines than the super chief.
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  Speaker 6: How'd you catch him?
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  Speaker 10: The last woman he married died shortly after the wedding,
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  Speaker 10: natural causes.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we double checked.
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  Speaker 10: In her will, she left all our money to charity,
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  Speaker 10: around twenty thousand dollars in cash. When it couldn't be
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  Speaker 10: found and her new husband couldn't be either, we put
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  Speaker 10: out an alarm.
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  Speaker 6: Did you know then it was Carson?
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  Speaker 10: No, your lab gave us a night and office prints.
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  Speaker 10: I'm having four of his local wives brought to my
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  Speaker 10: office now.
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  Speaker 6: Want to question him?
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  Speaker 3: With me.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I have some work to clean up here.
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  Speaker 11: Tell me I'll be in touch with you when I finish.
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  Speaker 5: Why did I do it?
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  Speaker 7: Evil?
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  Speaker 5: Why spend half the day getting an undertaker to come
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  Speaker 5: to the house or your dear husband can steal a hearse?
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  Speaker 8: But herb me the hurse to go to the cemetery
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  Speaker 8: and get that money from missus Watkins vault.
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  Speaker 9: And when he gets the money, he skips out on you.
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  Speaker 8: Again, Agnes, Herbs. My husband's fine husband.
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  Speaker 5: Who've been married fifteen years and seen him fifteen minutes.
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  Speaker 8: It's not his fault he has to be away so much.
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  Speaker 8: Can't blame a man for being interested in his business.
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  Speaker 5: Getting married is his business, of course, what are his hobbies?
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  Speaker 7: You just don't understand her.
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand you either, Agnes.
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  Speaker 8: Before we see her, please promise me one thing. What
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  Speaker 8: even if you don't understand him, trying to get along
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  Speaker 8: with him.
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  Speaker 7: That's a large demand.
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  Speaker 3: But I'll try.
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  Speaker 6: Her.
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  Speaker 12: Be right there, dear.
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  Speaker 13: How did you make.
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  Speaker 8: Out the man said he'd be here with the hearse
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  Speaker 8: at eight o'cloud.
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  Speaker 13: Oh that's fine.
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  Speaker 7: What have you done to your hair?
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  Speaker 13: Just graded up a little?
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  Speaker 7: Looks more like it's been breaded.
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  Speaker 13: Thank you, Ethel. I've been thinking it's been a long
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  Speaker 13: time since we had a vacation together.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 13: Well, to show my appreciation for this, I'm taking you on.
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  Speaker 6: A boat trip.
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  Speaker 7: Oh her, that'll be wondered.
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  Speaker 5: Wouldn't it be better to give her the cash? She
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  Speaker 5: won't need an iss She'll be with me for five minutes.
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  Speaker 8: Agnes were a thing to say.
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  Speaker 5: What about three years ago when he took every dime
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  Speaker 5: you had said he was going to a movie and
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  Speaker 5: didn't show up again till the following summer.
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  Speaker 13: I explained that to Ethel. I did go to the movie,
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  Speaker 13: and I ran into a prospect. We were married, and well,
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  Speaker 13: one marriage just led to another.
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  Speaker 8: You see, Agnes.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, if that undertaker is coming at eight, we'd better
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  Speaker 13: get inside and start packing.
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  Speaker 6: Detective Steward, Tommy, Jim Taylor, Where are you, Jim? I'm
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  Speaker 6: still tied up at the office. I need help you
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  Speaker 6: hear that babbel?
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  Speaker 10: Those are Carson's ex wives.
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  Speaker 6: Did you talk to them yet? No? Let me know
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  Speaker 6: if you get anything from them.
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  Speaker 10: You're not gonna let me face them alone?
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  Speaker 6: Are I'm still working, Tommy, But I'll get down there
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  Speaker 6: as soon as.
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  Speaker 10: I can well, all right, but if anything happens to me,
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  Speaker 10: remember it was on the line of duty.
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  Speaker 14: So long, fine, I'd like to coak for a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Hold who are you.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Detective Steward.
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  Speaker 15: Where's my husband?
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  Speaker 10: We're looking for him too, that's why you were called
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  Speaker 10: in here.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to find.
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  Speaker 7: Him for me, find him for you. Look, honey, I'm
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  Speaker 7: married to him too.
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  Speaker 6: Girls.
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  Speaker 15: For your information, I'm the only one he ever loves.
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  Speaker 16: He's a bomb. Oh he is not.
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  Speaker 17: Dare you say that.
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  Speaker 10: Your relationship straightened?
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  Speaker 3: Die?
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  Speaker 6: Here? Now when did you marry him, ma'am?
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  Speaker 17: Five years ago? And I can prove I was his
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  Speaker 17: only wife. Why I've got his prize possession, his uniform
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  Speaker 17: as an army colonel.
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  Speaker 7: For your information, dear, he was an admiral in the navy.
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  Speaker 16: Oh, you're both lying.
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  Speaker 6: He hated war.
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  Speaker 16: He only went into the Marines to get it over
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  Speaker 16: with in a hurry. The bomb.
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  Speaker 15: Oh yes, dear.
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  Speaker 7: Ladies.
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  Speaker 10: Please, let's all be quiet, let's all be calm. Now
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  Speaker 10: we'll start from the beginning.
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  Speaker 6: How long ago did you say?
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  Speaker 13: What time did that undertaker say he'd be here about eight?
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  Speaker 3: He's due.
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  Speaker 13: Now, where is your dear sister.
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  Speaker 8: She went out. She said she'd stay out until we.
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  Speaker 7: Left here as well.
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  Speaker 6: Perhaps it's just as well.
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  Speaker 8: The undertaker now see Oh hello, mister Martin.
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  Speaker 6: Good evening, madam.
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  Speaker 13: You the undertaker.
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  Speaker 3: The funeral director. My assistant will be up with the
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  Speaker 3: cot in a moment.
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  Speaker 6: Where's the hearse?
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  Speaker 3: The casket coach is right outside. May I see the departed?
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  Speaker 13: Please this way through that door.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 15: Let me up just a moment.
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  Speaker 8: He doesn't seem very happy.
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  Speaker 16: The closes.
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  Speaker 13: Well, it's hard to please some people, he said.
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  Speaker 7: His assistant was coming out.
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  Speaker 13: I know you do about him that jeezy, my dear.
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  Speaker 13: We'll just give him the other closet.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, Tommy, jim Am, I glad to see you. I
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  Speaker 6: gather the women are still here and still talking. You
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  Speaker 6: look a little worry. I feel like Clyde baiting. Tell me,
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  Speaker 6: do you get anything from him?
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  Speaker 10: One possible lead?
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  Speaker 6: What's that?
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  Speaker 2: Well?
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  Speaker 10: The other women agreed that Carson had one wife that
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  Speaker 10: he always went back to U. She apparently was the
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  Speaker 10: first woman he ever married. I sent out a tracer
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  Speaker 10: on her and found that she lived here in town.
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  Speaker 10: We got her address, but she's.
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  Speaker 6: Moved any forwarding out of us.
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  Speaker 10: No, but one of her neighbors said that she went
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  Speaker 10: to live with her sister.
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  Speaker 6: Her sister's name is Jones. That's all we know. How
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  Speaker 6: long ago to Chi move? About nine months ago while
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  Speaker 6: Caution's still in jail.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, well then you're assuming that he'll follow us pattern
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  Speaker 11: and go.
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  Speaker 6: Back to her. That could be.
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  Speaker 7: Mister Stewart.
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  Speaker 17: I've refused to stay in there with those women, and.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna call a place that might have a first
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  Speaker 6: missus Carson's.
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  Speaker 13: Ethel watch on your side. Look for a vault with
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  Speaker 13: the name Watkins on it. It's right along this street.
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  Speaker 8: Who is that your last wife's name? Yes, I don't
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  Speaker 8: see how you remember one from the other.
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  Speaker 13: When you've hidden twenty thousand dollars in someone's vault, it's
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  Speaker 13: rather easy.
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  Speaker 8: I hope Agnes isn't too angry about what those men
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  Speaker 8: in her closet. She didn't know we were going to
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  Speaker 8: leave them there.
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  Speaker 13: Well what else could we do?
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  Speaker 8: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Look, I think happen there, says Watkins. See.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, yes, yes, that's it.
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  Speaker 7: I'll wait here.
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  Speaker 13: No, dear, I'd rather you came in with me, but
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  Speaker 13: I'll need you to hold the flashlight. All right, here's
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  Speaker 13: the light, but don't use it till we get inside.
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  Speaker 13: There is the money in a vase, in a niche
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  Speaker 13: in the wall. I have a key someplace here it is.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 13: Turn on the flashlight. You will come right in, dear.
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  Speaker 8: Just follow me.
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  Speaker 13: Now, just shine the light on that wall on the left.
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  Speaker 6: That's it. There's our vase here.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not sure that I like this very nue.
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  Speaker 12: It won't take long, dear. Now if the little bag
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  Speaker 12: is still in this vase and it is, well, there's
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  Speaker 12: the money.
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  Speaker 13: Mission accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: Her.
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  Speaker 8: Let's get out of you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I almost forgot you.
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  Speaker 13: Wait here just one minute. I brought some flowers along.
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  Speaker 13: I left them in the hearse.
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  Speaker 6: I'll go get them.
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  Speaker 13: Stay right here, my dear, I'll be right.
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  Speaker 15: Back where you're going her, Agnes, what in the world
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  Speaker 15: are you doing here?
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  Speaker 9: I rode with you in the back.
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  Speaker 5: How did you I would figured you'd pull something like this,
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  Speaker 5: like like what running out on?
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  Speaker 7: Ethel?
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  Speaker 5: Now turn around, go back in there just a minute.
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  Speaker 5: Or if I've got a gun, get moving, Agnes.
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  Speaker 3: This is entirely uncalled for.
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  Speaker 5: Unlock that vault.
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  Speaker 7: Go on, Ethel, What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 5: Saving you from an all night Stay in the vault.
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  Speaker 5: I'll take that money, Herb, Ethel.
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  Speaker 13: Will you please reason with your sister.
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  Speaker 7: What's going on?
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  Speaker 5: Your dear husband here was planning to skip out and
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  Speaker 5: leave you.
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  Speaker 13: I planned nothing of the sort.
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  Speaker 7: Where's the money?
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  Speaker 8: I didn't find me, but Herb, you got it out
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  Speaker 8: of this vase.
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  Speaker 13: No, that's not true, Ethel, it's still in there.
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  Speaker 8: Let's see the vase here.
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  Speaker 5: It's empty.
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  Speaker 13: Hi, don't understand it.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe you will understand this.
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  Speaker 5: Now let's search him for the money and we'll take
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  Speaker 5: that little vacation.
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  Speaker 1: We will return in just a minute due tonight's exciting
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  Speaker 1: case from the official file of your FBI.
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  Speaker 6: But now listen, okay, Corl answered the door.
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  Speaker 14: That's the mail man with our chech from the Equitable Society.
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  Speaker 1: Every month right on the dots, those Equitable checks come
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  Speaker 1: to members who have paid up their Equitable Independent Sixties Plan,
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  Speaker 1: the checks that mean financial independence for life after you're
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  Speaker 1: sixty five years old. And here's mister Arnold Muller, who
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  Speaker 1: started one of these plans back in nineteen twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: You made your last payment in nineteen fifty, didn't you,
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  Speaker 1: mister Muller.
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  Speaker 6: May first, nineteen fifty.
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  Speaker 14: I quick work, mister Keating, I've been having the time
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  Speaker 14: of my life ever since.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, mister Muller, you're now enjoying the three
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  Speaker 1: freedoms that go with an independent Sixties Plan. First, freedom
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  Speaker 1: from money worries and job worries. Financial independent, mister.
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  Speaker 14: Keating, I haven't given money a thought since I retired. No,
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  Speaker 14: we do, with those equitable checks coming in the way
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  Speaker 14: they do.
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  Speaker 1: Second, with an equitable independent Sixties Plan, you're free to
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  Speaker 1: live anywhere you please.
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  Speaker 14: We've bought a little five acre farm on the edge
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  Speaker 14: of one of the prettiest towns in America.
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  Speaker 1: Third, freedom to do the things you've always wanted to do.
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  Speaker 14: I've got one of the swellest gardens you ever saw,
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  Speaker 14: mister Keating, with deep freeze all kinds of fruits and vegetables,
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  Speaker 14: and it cuts our food bills way down. I tell you,
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  Speaker 14: that was the luckiest day in my life when I
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  Speaker 14: found out that you don't have to be rich to
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  Speaker 14: afford the equitable independent Sixties Plan.
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  Speaker 6: That's a fact.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to earn big money to begin an
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  Speaker 1: equitable independent Sixties Plan. Ask your equitable representative to explain
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  Speaker 1: why you probably have a big head start toward independent
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: sixties because of your social security and the life insurance
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  Speaker 1: you already own. Often only a small amount of additional
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  Speaker 1: insurance is all that's required.
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  Speaker 6: Few dollars a week? Did it for me? Friends?
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  Speaker 1: Why not profit by mister Muller's experience, Phone your equitable
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  Speaker 1: society representative with or send a postcard care of this
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  Speaker 1: station to the equitable society that's equitabl e the Equitable
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  Speaker 1: Life Assurance Society of the United States. And now back
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  Speaker 1: to the FBI file the runaway corpse.
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  Speaker 4: As you listen to tonight's case from the files of
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  Speaker 4: your FBI, you may well have said to yourself, only
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  Speaker 4: people of below average intelligence could fall for such an
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  Speaker 4: obvious confidence game. Unfortunately, such is not the case. Throughout
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  Speaker 4: the country. There are millions of men and women who
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  Speaker 4: are lonesome. Concerning these people, one writer says, quote, every
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  Speaker 4: day the postmen of the United States deliver a million
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  Speaker 4: letters to men and women who have advertised for husbands
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: and wives, men and women who belong to the vast
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  Speaker 4: and tragic army of the unwanted. At the offices of
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  Speaker 4: the four hundred Matrimonial Correspondence and Lonely Heart Clubs They
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  Speaker 4: are numbered in the hundreds of thousands in millions. Every
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  Speaker 4: year they contribute to the pocket books of club owners
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  Speaker 4: several millions of dollars. These people are not necessarily unintelligent.
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  Speaker 4: They are just lonely, and their natural human desire for
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  Speaker 4: companionship often makes them easy victims for unscrupulous swindlers. Tonight's
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  Speaker 4: file continues at police headquarters. FBI Special Agent Taylor has
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  Speaker 4: just entered the office of Detective Tommy Stewart.
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  Speaker 11: Tommy, we just missed Carson where at his sistern law's home.
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  Speaker 11: When I left here, I called state President, had them
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  Speaker 11: checked our mail file. They fin Carson had written to
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  Speaker 11: his first wife, Carol, miss Agnes John's thirty eight Adams Avenue,
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  Speaker 11: and you.
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  Speaker 6: Just missed him there.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, he left with his wife a couple of hours
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  Speaker 11: ago on a hearse A hearse. Yes, they tricked an
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  Speaker 11: undertaker and theyre coming to the sister's house, locked him
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  Speaker 11: and his helper in the closets and stole the hearse.
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  Speaker 10: We better get out in the line, Timmy. Why would
• 20:01
  Speaker 10: he want a hers? He could have had a rental
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  Speaker 10: agency deliver a car.
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  Speaker 11: I know I shouldn't get very far in it. You
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  Speaker 11: must know that too. Tell me what was the name
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  Speaker 11: of that wife of his that died, missus Watkins. How
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  Speaker 11: didn't you tell me that Carson was suspected of stealing
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  Speaker 11: the cash from her estate? That's right, Well, isn't it
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  Speaker 11: just possible that he buried that money with her, left
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  Speaker 11: it that or he was ready to pick it up. Yeah, Tommy,
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  Speaker 11: let's find out what cemetery she was buried in and
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  Speaker 11: get out there.
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  Speaker 7: Ethel Will you stop crying? There was very cruel of you.
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  Speaker 14: What was.
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  Speaker 7: Leaving her about there that way?
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  Speaker 16: Cruel?
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  Speaker 5: Don't you know what he was trying to do to you?
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  Speaker 7: If it's anything bad, I'd rather not hear it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you're going to One of the neighbors told me,
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Darling herb was out.
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  Speaker 7: All morning, but he said he was staying in and.
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  Speaker 5: That's what made me suspicious. I knew he'd go out
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  Speaker 5: for only one reason, to get married.
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  Speaker 7: Let me finish.
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  Speaker 5: I called that florist. He always uses to send roses
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  Speaker 5: to his brides. They had an order from him. I
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  Speaker 5: knew how he worked, so I called the marriage bureau.
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  Speaker 5: Sure enough, somebody named Watkins had gotten a license. I
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  Speaker 5: came back to the house to tell you, but you
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: were leaving. That's why I climbed into the hearse.
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  Speaker 7: I still can't believe it.
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  Speaker 5: How much proof do you need? Didn't he try to
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: lock you in the vault? Didn't he lie about not
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  Speaker 5: having the money? Well, ethel if that isn't enough, you
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  Speaker 5: saw what he had in his pocket, one boat ticket.
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  Speaker 16: You think that was for you.
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  Speaker 5: Or for him? Now let's find a place to leave
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: this hearse.
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  Speaker 11: Tommy, I just spoke to the gateman. He saw the
• 21:57
  Speaker 11: hearse pull in here to either gray haired man was driving?
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  Speaker 11: It was with him?
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  Speaker 6: How long ago? Almost three hours? Did he see it leave? Yes?
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  Speaker 11: And there were two women in the front seat going out.
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  Speaker 11: The man was missing. Later the gatement said he saw
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  Speaker 11: the man stagger out the front entrance on foot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 11: come on, let's go on the ball, all right, An,
• 22:14
  Speaker 11: what do you know? They left the gate wide open?
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  Speaker 11: Hey tell me. Look they're on the floor pieces of
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: a broken vase. Did it appeared to be a fresh bloodstain?
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  Speaker 6: Huh? Yeah, you know that.
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  Speaker 11: Accounts of what happened to Carson has been knocked out
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  Speaker 11: with his vase and roll because look here on the floor,
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: change keyring.
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  Speaker 6: And what's this?
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  Speaker 10: What he got to envelope from a travel agency, but it's.
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  Speaker 11: Empty, and those two women could have gotten the ticket
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  Speaker 11: ticket to where you know.
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  Speaker 6: That's what we've got to find out. Agency won't be
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  Speaker 6: open this time a night. Yeah, well, let's finish up here.
• 22:56
  Speaker 11: And if nothing has come in on Carson or the hearst,
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: who will check the travel agency thing in the morning.
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  Speaker 10: Well I checked the travel agency, Jim.
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  Speaker 6: I showed him the envelope.
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  Speaker 10: They didn't remember anyone answering to Carson's description.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: No, I was afraid they wouldn't.
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  Speaker 10: This agency specializes in ocean travel, having the passenger list
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  Speaker 10: checked on all boats sailing today.
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  Speaker 6: He'll probably be using an assumed name.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, and the hearse has been located. Don't where I'm
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  Speaker 11: at Kenley Street, Kiddy. That's done to the docks, isn't it.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, our men went over it, No leads, Jim. How
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: about giving each steamship company a description the Carson. I'm
• 23:37
  Speaker 10: afraid that wouldn't pay off either.
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: Tell me our file show Carson is having dark brown hair,
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: but evidence at the cemetery showed that it's now gray.
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  Speaker 11: And I've just been going over these photostats of his
• 23:47
  Speaker 11: marriage licenses.
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  Speaker 6: There's a different description on every one of them. That's bad, Temmy.
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  Speaker 11: I've been trying to get some form, some pattern out
• 23:54
  Speaker 11: of these, just about to arrange the insequence when you
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: came in.
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  Speaker 6: Here's number one, number two? Er, here's number three?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, thanks, number four. Hey, wait a minute, Tommy, there
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  Speaker 11: is a pattern here. Let's look through the stack and
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  Speaker 11: find his last.
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  Speaker 9: License one one, one twenty three.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Here's our cabin.
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  Speaker 7: Good, I couldn't walk another step.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, we'll leave our coats here and then go
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  Speaker 5: up on.
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  Speaker 16: Yes, a minute, you must be in the wrong cabin.
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  Speaker 8: Why isn't this one twenty three?
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Yes, here's our ticket.
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  Speaker 16: But my ticket has the same number on it too,
• 24:50
  Speaker 16: and I'm sharing the cabin with my husband.
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  Speaker 5: Lady, is your husband a tall, gray haired man with glasses. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry to tell you, but he's her husband too.
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  Speaker 16: What.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: Yes, and he's also married to missus Adams, missus Bentley,
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: missus Randy.
• 25:09
  Speaker 16: Don't believe you all.
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  Speaker 5: His real name is HERB Carson, and he's a cheap
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: four flushing double cross.
• 25:15
  Speaker 7: Don't talk about her that.
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  Speaker 16: Way for your information. My husband's a bachelor and he's
• 25:20
  Speaker 16: always been one. Now please get out of here, Herb,
• 25:24
  Speaker 16: darling her dear.
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  Speaker 13: Well, lady, sorry, wrong cabin, Herb.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: It's me Marie, yes, and it's her Ethel and me
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Agnes Herb.
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  Speaker 16: Who are they answer me, Herb?
• 25:36
  Speaker 13: Two extremely jealous women.
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  Speaker 16: But are you married to that one?
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Well, I used to be, but you said you were
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: a bachelor when he was nine.
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  Speaker 13: I've heard enough from you. Your attitude compels me to
• 25:50
  Speaker 13: tell the whole truth. These women have hounded me, Marie,
• 25:53
  Speaker 13: and when they heard I'd married you, they vowed they'd
• 25:55
  Speaker 13: do everything in the world to break it up, Herb.
• 25:57
  Speaker 13: And last night, when I refused to give in to them,
• 26:00
  Speaker 13: they waylaid me and stole my money. I came here
• 26:02
  Speaker 13: to get that money back.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: That's a good story. But we're keeping the money. Oh no,
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: you're not forgetting the gun her head.
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  Speaker 8: News.
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  Speaker 16: Well, if you're from the steamship company, put those women
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  Speaker 16: out of here.
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  Speaker 6: I'm from the FBI, and they're all under arrest.
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  Speaker 4: Herbert Carson was sentenced in federal court to ten years
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: for interstate transportation of stolen property violations, and Agnes Jones
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: and Ethel Carson were sentenced in federal court to six
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: months for harboring a Federal fugitive. Special Agent Taylor and
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: Detective Stewart were able to arrive at the boat because
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: of the pattern in the marriage licenses. Agent Taylor noticed
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: that Carson always used the maiden name of each wife
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: for the marriage which followed. It was assumed he would
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: continue the pattern in making his reservations, a fact which
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: was born out when Agent Taylor called the steamship line.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: And so your FBI was able to close another file
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: because of the aid and cooperation of the local police.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: Without such cooperation, many cases would be almost impossible to solve.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: That is why your FBI continues to ask you, the people,
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: to exert your every effort to obtain an adequate local
• 27:14
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• 27:19
  Speaker 4: at home.
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• 27:31
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• 27:34
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• 27:39
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• 27:42
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• 27:44
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• 27:48
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• 27:51
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• 27:56
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  Speaker 4: Next week we will dramatize another case from the files
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Its subject murder, its
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: title the Tribal Shakedown.
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  Speaker 1: The incidents used in Tonight's Equitable Life Assurance Societies broadcast
• 28:28
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• 28:32
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• 28:35
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  Speaker 1: Tonight the music was composed and conducted by Frederic Steiner.
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  Speaker 1: The author was Jerry D. Lewis, Your narrator was William Woodson,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: and Special Agent Taylor was played by Stacy Harris.
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  Speaker 6: Others in the.
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  Speaker 1: Cast were Parley Bear, Betty Blyth, Mildred Byron, Florence Lake,
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