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  Speaker 1: Episode 846 of CBS's Suspense was broadcast March 27th, 1960.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Robert Arthur, Coffin for Mr. Cash places ex-convict
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  Speaker 1: Pete Wilson, night superintendent of a municipal crematorium, in the
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  Speaker 1: path of former cellmate Al Thomas. A local payroll robbery
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  Speaker 1: has put stolen cash in circulation, and the two men
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  Speaker 1: see a way to move it under the cover of
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  Speaker 1: a coffin headed for the crematorium. Leon Janney plays Pete Wilson,
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  Speaker 1: with Mandel Kramer as Al Thomas. Joseph Boland is Officer
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  Speaker 1: Hunt and Bob Donnelly, Officer Connell. Arthur had earlier used
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  Speaker 1: the premise in his 1951 mysterious traveler story, A Coffin
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  Speaker 1: for Charlie. And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: And now.
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  Speaker 3: Another tale well calculated to keep you in.
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  Speaker 4: Suspense.
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  Speaker 2: The target?
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  Speaker 5: A solidly built two-story brick building on the edge of
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  Speaker 5: the industrial section of the city. The obstacle? Three locked
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  Speaker 5: iron doors and twelve armed guards.
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  Speaker 2: The prize?
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  Speaker 5: Three million dollars in cash.
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  Speaker 2: The problem?
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  Speaker 5: To penetrate past the three locked doors of the armed
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  Speaker 5: guards and emerge safely with the money? The answer?
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  Speaker 2: Just for the record, the name is Pete Wilson.
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  Speaker 6: Job, night superintendent of the Lakeside Municipal Crematorium. Time, midnight
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  Speaker 6: about a year ago with the thunderstorm bowling ducktins in
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  Speaker 6: the sky. I was reading a western in my little
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  Speaker 6: office by the front door. My job was a nice,
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  Speaker 6: quiet one. We hardly ever had any customers at night.
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  Speaker 6: My entire staff, Danny Maxwell, was mopping the reception room.
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  Speaker 6: When I heard the door open and someone come in,
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  Speaker 6: then the daddy of all thunderbolts lifted me out of
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  Speaker 6: my chair.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever had come in spoke to Danny.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, did you see that flash?
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  Speaker 8: Right enough to be Judgment Day. I guess it was
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  Speaker 8: Judgment Day, all right. For some people, that is. Did
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  Speaker 8: you know two people died just since you come in
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  Speaker 8: the door?
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  Speaker 5: They did, huh? Died where?
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  Speaker 8: Someplace in this country. Now one more has died.
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  Speaker 5: That makes three.
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  Speaker 8: Now it's four. That's the mortality rate for this country.
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  Speaker 8: Four a minute. For this city, it's one every 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 5: Two an hour.
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  Speaker 8: 48 every day.
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  Speaker 5: And you'll be one of them if you keep up
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  Speaker 5: this line of chatter. I want to see your boss.
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  Speaker 5: Get him out here.
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  Speaker 8: It was Al Thomas' voice.
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  Speaker 2: And of all the people in the world, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to see Al was all of them. But I
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  Speaker 2: got outside fast.
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  Speaker 8: Al, Al Thomas.
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  Speaker 6: Well, long time no see.
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  Speaker 5: Al, Petey boy, you're looking good, real good.
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  Speaker 8: Excuse me, Mr. Pete, but this gentleman... He's.
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  Speaker 6: An old friend of mine, Danny. Go on out back
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  Speaker 6: and clean up. I want to talk to him. Danny
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  Speaker 6: went off with his mop and I took Al into
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  Speaker 6: my office. I got out the bottle of bourbon I
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  Speaker 6: used to help the prowl cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Warm up with on cold nights.
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  Speaker 6: Al took off his wet $ 90 gabardine top coat and
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  Speaker 6: smiled at me.
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  Speaker 2: With big sharp teeth.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, nice setup you got here, thief. Your own boss.
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  Speaker 5: Lots of time to yourself. Everything nice and quiet.
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  Speaker 2: I like it quiet, Al.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you always did, didn't you? Remember how noisy our
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  Speaker 5: cell used to be? Always somebody in a cell block
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  Speaker 5: coughing or snoring or choking or screaming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I remember.
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  Speaker 5: Look, what are we talking about cells? Let's talk about
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  Speaker 5: something interesting. Like money.
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  Speaker 2: Money, Al?
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  Speaker 5: Money. I got a little job in mind, Pete, and
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  Speaker 5: I need some help. You.
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  Speaker 2: Al, I'd certainly like to help out, but the doc
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  Speaker 2: told me to avoid any excitement. You're the old ticker,
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 5: Excitement? This would be like wheeling the baby to church.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me, Petey, can you drive a horse?
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  Speaker 2: Well, sure, I can drive a horse.
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  Speaker 5: Then you're in. I'm giving you a 20% piece. The
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  Speaker 5: total take should be $ 3 million. So you'll be the
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  Speaker 5: first guy in history to earn 600 grand for driving
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  Speaker 5: a horse. Any questions, Petey?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what kind of a horse, Al?
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  Speaker 5: Horse. Who said anything about a horse? I asked if
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  Speaker 5: you could drive a hearse. A hearse, boy, a hearse.
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  Speaker 6: A hearse. The last thing I wanted was to get
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  Speaker 6: back into the business. And the last person I wanted
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  Speaker 6: to get back into it with was my old cellmate Al.
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  Speaker 2: But if he wanted me, I was stuck. Being a
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  Speaker 2: three-time loser.
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  Speaker 6: All he had to do was plant some hot goods
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  Speaker 6: on me and call the cops, and I was up
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  Speaker 6: for life.
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  Speaker 2: I had to play along.
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  Speaker 6: So the next afternoon, I went to see him in
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  Speaker 6: his room in that crummy lodging house, and he took
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  Speaker 6: me to the window and pointed.
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  Speaker 5: See that steam shovel across the street?
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  Speaker 2: Well, sure, I see it. Excavating for a new building.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and you see the solid old brick building right
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  Speaker 5: next to it?
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  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 6: It's the main headquarters of Dollar Delivery, the big armored
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  Speaker 6: car out there.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: That's where they load the armored cars with the money.
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  Speaker 5: Now, every Thursday night, there's better than $ 3 million in
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  Speaker 5: that building, Pete, being packaged for payrolls in this area.
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  Speaker 5: Next Thursday night, we're cutting ourselves in on that $ 3 million.
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  Speaker 2: Just you and me?
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  Speaker 6: Just the two of us knocking over 12 armed guards
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  Speaker 6: and three locked doors.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Diddy, relax. Of course we're not trying anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: I was afraid for a minute.
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  Speaker 5: I use brains, Pete. Brains, not muscles. You know who's
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  Speaker 5: operating that steam shovel? Marty Brennigan.
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  Speaker 2: Marty Brennigan?
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  Speaker 5: That's right. The whole construction gang is part of his mob.
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  Speaker 5: They have the foundation of a dollar delivery building weakened
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  Speaker 5: in one spot so it's all ready to cave. And
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  Speaker 5: next Thursday it will cave. They'll just walk in and
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  Speaker 5: pick up the dough.
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  Speaker 2: But then, uh, where do we come in, huh?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's simple, Pete. We take it away from them.
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  Speaker 6: So that's how the dollar delivery holdup started. Anyway, how
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  Speaker 6: my party started. Al didn't explain anymore, and I didn't
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  Speaker 6: ask no questions. Al didn't like questions. But next night,
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  Speaker 6: he dropped into the crematorium, and I showed him how
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  Speaker 6: we take.
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  Speaker 2: Care of our, uh, customers. Now, back here, Al, is
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  Speaker 2: the receiving door. Mm-hmm. From the outside, a box is
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  Speaker 2: rolled through on these steel rollers. One man can handle it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'll show you how the whole deal works. It's practically automatic. Hey, Danny.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Mr. Street?
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  Speaker 2: Come out here in a minute.
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  Speaker 5: What do we need him for?
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  Speaker 2: Danny always does the honors.
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  Speaker 5: Can you trust him if he starts talking? No, Danny
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  Speaker 5: never talks.
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  Speaker 2: He's punchy. He used to be in the ring. As
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  Speaker 2: fast as a thing happens, he forgets it.
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  Speaker 8: Here I am, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Pete.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, show my friend Al how we handle this, eh?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, sure, Mr. Pete. Well, first I push this button.
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  Speaker 2: That turns on the furnace, Al.
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  Speaker 8: And then I push the box down the steel rollers
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  Speaker 8: like this.
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  Speaker 6: Now watch, the furnace door opens automatically.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, the box is rolling right into the flames.
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  Speaker 2: All automatic. Now the door will shut down. That's all
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  Speaker 2: there is to it.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Danny.
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  Speaker 2: Go on back out front.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Pete.
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  Speaker 5: Very neat. What's on these stairs?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, that's the storage room. We keep cleaning supplies down there.
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  Speaker 5: And stuff like that.
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  Speaker 6: Good.
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  Speaker 5: Well, hide the money down there.
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  Speaker 2: Hide the money here?
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  Speaker 5: You heard me. We got to hide it someplace, Pete.
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  Speaker 5: This is one spot it won't be looked for. That's
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  Speaker 5: all until Thursday night. Oh, uh, except I'll need an
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  Speaker 5: official form. Well, what kind of official form, Al? The
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  Speaker 5: regular kind. Authorizing a cremation.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I knew what Al was figuring on. But
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  Speaker 2: like I say, Al didn't like questions.
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  Speaker 6: When I thought about the job, taking three million bucks
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  Speaker 6: away from Marty Brannigan's mob, it went hot and cold.
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  Speaker 6: I wanted to bow up, but I didn't know how.
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  Speaker 6: Al wanted me to help for some reason, and what
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  Speaker 6: Al wanted, he got. So I sweated it out, and
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  Speaker 6: finally Thursday night came, and along about midnight, I found
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  Speaker 6: myself in Al's room, watching the dollar delivery building across
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  Speaker 6: the street.
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  Speaker 2: Truck drove up to it and inside.
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  Speaker 5: There goes one of the armored cars inside, and I
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  Speaker 5: pick up a payroll delivery. Any minute, Marty Brannigan will
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  Speaker 5: make his move.
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  Speaker 2: Everything seems so quiet.
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  Speaker 5: What do you want, a brass band? Keep quiet and listen.
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  Speaker 5: That was Marty Brannigan getting inside. His boys are in
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  Speaker 5: there now. Now, if we don't hear any shooting or
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  Speaker 5: an alarm by the time I count to ten, they
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  Speaker 5: pull it off. One.
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  Speaker 2: Two. Three. Four.
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  Speaker 5: Five. Six.
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  Speaker 2: Seven. Eight. Nine.
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  Speaker 8: Ten.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, they've done it. Now it's time for us, Pete.
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  Speaker 5: Come on.
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  Speaker 2: Well, where to, Al?
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  Speaker 5: To buy a quart of milk, chum.
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  Speaker 6: Al led me out the back way and we started
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  Speaker 6: walking through the dark, quiet streets. We walked five blocks, ten,
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  Speaker 6: and then the quiet night blew wide open.
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  Speaker 5: All right, the alarm's been sounded. The Brannigan and his
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  Speaker 5: boys are a long way from the dollar delivery building
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  Speaker 5: by now.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, but anything moving in this town is going to
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  Speaker 2: be stopped and searched.
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  Speaker 5: They know that. All right, here we are.
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  Speaker 2: Where?
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  Speaker 5: See that milk wagon at the curb?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I see it.
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  Speaker 5: Here comes the driver delivering the milk. Now act drunk
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  Speaker 5: and try to buy a quart from him.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, go ahead. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Buddy. Hey, hey, buddy.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, what is it?
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  Speaker 6: I said, buddy, I want to buy a quarter of milk.
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  Speaker 2: I just deliver, Mac.
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  Speaker 5: I don't sell.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my old lady sent me out to get a
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  Speaker 2: quarter of milk.
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  Speaker 5: Just one quart.
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  Speaker 2: Now, let me have one little old quarter, buddy.
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  Speaker 5: Let go of my arm, you luscious.
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  Speaker 8: Let go, I said.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, take this.
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  Speaker 6: Just as the milkman slugged me, Al stepped in from
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  Speaker 6: behind and laid a sap over his ear. We caught
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  Speaker 6: him and dragged him into the milk wagon and tossed
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  Speaker 6: him in back on top of the cases of milk.
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  Speaker 6: Then I found myself standing there with the reins in
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  Speaker 6: my hand. All right, Pete, you said you could drive
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  Speaker 6: a horse and drive.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, boy.
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  Speaker 8: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: In the next block, there's an alley. Turn into it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 6: I hope none of them prowl cars stop us.
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  Speaker 5: Who's going to stop a milk wagon?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they might notice we aren't delivering any milk.
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  Speaker 5: Don't worry, they won't. They're all heading for the Dollar
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  Speaker 5: Delivery Building. And that's one place they won't find anything.
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  Speaker 5: Brannigan and his mob have had 17 minutes to make
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  Speaker 5: a getaway.
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  Speaker 6: Then they got away with the dollars, too.
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  Speaker 5: Where does that leave us? With all the cream, chum.
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  Speaker 5: That milkman in back there is one of the mob.
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  Speaker 2: One of Brannigan's mob?
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  Speaker 5: Sure, he's been on the job for six months. That's
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  Speaker 5: how long Brannigan's been planning this. Marty wasn't taking any
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  Speaker 5: chance of being stopped and searched. First thing he did
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  Speaker 5: was stop and transfer all the loot to this milk wagon.
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  Speaker 5: The money is back there, Petey. Under the milk. Like
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  Speaker 5: I said, who's going to stop a milk wagon? Okay,
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  Speaker 5: here's the alley. Turn in here.
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  Speaker 6: I turned the horse into the alley. It was lined
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  Speaker 6: with garages. I maneuvered the horse and wagoned into one
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  Speaker 6: of them. And Harold slammed the door shut. While I
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  Speaker 6: took time to mop my brow, Al was already opening
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  Speaker 6: the door into the next garage.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Pete, come here and look.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, sure.
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  Speaker 5: At what?
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  Speaker 7: In there.
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  Speaker 5: All parked and ready.
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  Speaker 2: Holy cow. It's a hearse.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, a nice, respectable-looking hearse. And in that hearse
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  Speaker 5: is a plain pine coffin. Petey, we're going to fill
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  Speaker 5: that coffin with three million bucks. Then we'll drive it
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  Speaker 5: to the crematorium. We'll unload the box and hide the
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  Speaker 5: money in the storage room, then put the coffin through
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  Speaker 5: the furnace just as if it was a legitimate customer.
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  Speaker 5: I got all the documents. Made out for Albert G.
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  Speaker 2: Cash.
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  Speaker 5: Albert G. Cash of Dortchmont. In about a week, we'll
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  Speaker 5: load the dough into the hearse again and I'll drive
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  Speaker 5: it right out of the state. Nobody's going to suspect
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  Speaker 5: the hearse, Petey. Okay, let's get busy. We got to
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  Speaker 5: put Mr. Cash in his coffin.
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  Speaker 6: Alan, I left the money sacks in the milk wagon
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  Speaker 6: and stored them in the empty coffin. When we finished,
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  Speaker 6: Al went back to check on the unconscious driver, and
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  Speaker 6: I heard him yell.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Pete, come here.
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  Speaker 8: This guy is.
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  Speaker 6: By the time I got there, Al Thomas was stretched
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  Speaker 6: down on the garage floor, and the milkman was gone running.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have time to wonder about him. I had
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  Speaker 2: to look after Al.
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  Speaker 6: He had an ugly gash in his head and the
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  Speaker 6: blood was pouring down his face. I mopped off the
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  Speaker 6: blood and lugged into the hearse where I stretched him
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  Speaker 6: out of the front seat. He shook his head groggy
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  Speaker 6: and tried to sit up.
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  Speaker 5: He slugged me, Pete. He waited for me.
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  Speaker 7: He slugged me.
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  Speaker 2: Take it easy, Aldo. Don't try to talk.
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  Speaker 5: We've got to get the dough hit. You've got to
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  Speaker 5: get me back to my room.
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  Speaker 2: You need a doc. You're hurt bad.
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  Speaker 6: No, no.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, doc. Get the dough to
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  Speaker 4: the crematorium and hide it. Come on, get going.
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  Speaker 6: I got the motor started and drove the hearse out
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  Speaker 6: of there. I just hope no cops would wonder what
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  Speaker 6: a hearse was doing on the street so late. If
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  Speaker 6: anybody asked, we were from out of town.
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  Speaker 8: One plow car went.
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  Speaker 2: By without stopping. Then we were turned into the parking
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  Speaker 2: space back at the municipal crematorium. Everything was quiet. I
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  Speaker 2: slid the pine box holding Mr. Cash onto the loading
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  Speaker 2: platform and through the door on the conveyor. Then I
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  Speaker 2: helped Al inside.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Al.
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  Speaker 2: Another couple of steps.
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  Speaker 5: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Okay, we're inside.
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  Speaker 6: Now we'll hide the door and then we'll get you
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  Speaker 6: back to your room and get the hearse back in
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: his garage.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get rid of the milk wagon and we're set.
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  Speaker 5: Pete, I feel pretty bad, Peter. I gotta lie down.
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  Speaker 8: Mr. Pete! Is that you, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Pete?
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  Speaker 2: Al, you gotta hide. Stand behind this pillow.
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  Speaker 8: Mr. Pete. Oh, there you are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Well, what is it, Danny?
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  Speaker 8: I got the front all cleaned up. You want me
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  Speaker 8: to clean up back here now?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, not yet. Later, later.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, is that a customer come in, in that box?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's Mr. A.G. Cash at Dortchmark. Now, look, Danny.
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  Speaker 8: Ain't it pretty late to be receiving customers?
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's a rush job. The family's leaving town in
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: the morning. Now, go sweep out the chapel and stay
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  Speaker 6: there until I call you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, sure, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Pete. Do I do the honors?
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  Speaker 5: Later, later.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'll beat it. All right, Al, you can come
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  Speaker 2: out now. Danny's gone. Hey, Al, what's the matter? You
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: look so funny.
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  Speaker 6: Al! Al hit the floor like a sandbag and just
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  Speaker 6: laid there. I bent over him, feeling for his pulse.
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  Speaker 2: And then I knew. Al Thomas was dead.
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  Speaker 5: In just a moment, we will return for the concluding
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  Speaker 5: act of.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense.
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  Speaker 9: Confidentially, before I got the happy habit, I never could
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  Speaker 9: have talked to strangers this way.
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  Speaker 5: Mumbled, maybe, but talked?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, never!
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: And my happy habit is catching. One listen does it.
• 16:28
  Speaker 9: Arthur Godfrey, Art Linkletter's house party, Gary Moore, and the
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: new Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney show. CBS Radio has them all.
• 16:36
  Speaker 9: It's live showbiz sound. Every Fundy, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: Catch?
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Al was dead, all right.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: Sometimes a skull fracture has a delayed effect like that.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: I turned hot and then cold. There was a buzzing
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: in my ears.
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: Now I had a cold corpse, three million in hot cash,
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: and an unexplained hearse on my hands.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: If I could juggle them all fast enough, I was
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: a millionaire. But if I fumbled.
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: Well, who'd ever believed I hadn't killed Al for the loot?
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I'm up my face. Should I? Shouldn't I?
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Could I?
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Couldn't I?
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: I began to think I could do it. I could
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: hide Al and the money in the storeroom, burn the coffin,
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: get rid of the hearse, and then.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 17:34
  Speaker 8: Pete!
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: Pete!
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, what is.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: It, Danny?
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: There's two cops out front asking for you.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: Two.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: The cops?
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: Officer Hunt and Officer Connell. They want to ask you
• 17:45
  Speaker 8: some questions.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, okay, okay. Tell them I'll be right in. No,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: I didn't have no choice.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: I got Al's body out of sight as fast as
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: I could. No time to lug him down to the
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: storage room. And inside 60 seconds, I was out front
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: talking to Hunt.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: And Connell, the prowl car team who patrolled our neighborhood.
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: Pete, we wanted to ask you, did you hear anything
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: unusual tonight?
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, just sirens, lots of them. Something big happened?
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: Not unless you count two and a half million bucks big.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Two and a half million?
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: Somebody knocked over a dollar delivery and got away with
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: two and a half million. Missed half a million in
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: a hurry. Yeah, we've been searching every car and truck
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: in the streets. No sign of the dough. Headquarters thinks
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: the gang hit it and broke up.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: You hear that, huh?
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: Now we're searching block by block. You hear any unusual noises,
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: trucks or cars stopping, anything like that?
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: No, no, not me. Nothing.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: You don't mind if we search the place?
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Search the crematorium?
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Of course not.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: Oh, but first, I got some embalming fluid I'd like
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: you to test.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Embalming fluid, huh?
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: Sounds interesting.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: What do you say, Hunt?
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: I say let's try it.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Okay. Right over here in my office. Step in. Be comfortable.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: I keep it in here, filed under E. The best
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: Kentucky bourbon embalming fluid.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: See what you think, eh?
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Man, that'll put life in a mummy. Here, Colonel. Thanks, huh? Ah,
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: you're right.
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: That'll make the dead ones happy and the live ones happier.
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: Well, have another.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: It'll be a long night.
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: You can say that twice. The captain is really going
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: to write us to find that dope.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Well, happy days.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: They each had another drink and then went out to
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: look around. I sat there and held my breath, praying
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: they wouldn't find Al and notice the hearse on back.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: They looked around for a minute and then I heard
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: them go out. I kept on sitting there until my
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: heart stopped pounding. Finally, I went out to finish the
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: job of hiding my dough. I was a millionaire now.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: Two and a half times a millionaire. And all of
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: it tax-free. I even had a couple of nasty thoughts
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: for Marty Brannigan's stupidity and missing the other 500 grand.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: And as I stood in the reception listening, I heard something.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: And all of a sudden, I had a horrible thought.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: And I began to run toward the back.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Danny!
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: Danny! Yeah, Mr.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Pete?
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: Danny, did you... Did you... Did I what, Mr.
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: Pete?
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Danny, where's the box for Mr.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: Cash?
• 20:43
  Speaker 8: You said it was a rush job, so I processed it.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no. Let me look. Let me see. Oh,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: you did it.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: It's in there.
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: It's burning. I figured you'd be glad to have it done, Mr. Pete. Say,
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: tell me, what did his initials stand for? I mean, A.G.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Cash. Stand for his initials?
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: All gone, Danny. All gone, Cash. Yes, it was all gone,
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: all right. The whole two and a half million.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: We made it.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: Well, I was passing out drinks to Hunt and Connell. Well,
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: the dollar delivery boys in the feds finally caught Marty Brannigan.
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: And his mob.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: But they never would.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: Buy the story that Marty didn't have any idea where.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: The money went to.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: Tell them to look in the urn on the top
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: shelf of the storage room of the Lakeside Municipal Crematorium.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Has the name A.G. Cash on it. I don't suppose
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: they'll be able to.
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: Do much with the nice white ashes in the urn.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: But ask them to be gentle with them. They're not
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: only the most expensive ashes in the world, but they're.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Also all that's left of Al Thomas.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: Because the only place I could hide Al in a
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: hurry was to undo the tricklet of the coffin and
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: put Al on top of the money and then latch
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: it shut again. So Al and the doll went in
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: the furnace together.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Anyway, he died rich.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: And I like to think he made a liar out
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: of those jerks who go around saying you can't take.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: It with you.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: If anybody ever took it with him, It was that.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Suspense. You've been listening to Coffin for Mr. Cash, written
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: for suspense by Robert Arthur. In a moment, the names
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: of our players and a word about next week's story
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: of Suspense.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Are you all out of tune because you're irregular? Then
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: help yourself get back in tune with Kellogg's All Brand.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: You'll feel right on pitch when Kellogg's All Brand goes
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: gently to work. Relieves constipation due to lack of bulk
• 23:18
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• 23:22
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• 23:25
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• 23:28
  Speaker 5: The natural way. The good-tasting way, too.
• 23:31
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• 23:34
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• 23:39
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• 23:45
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• 23:48
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• 23:52
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• 24:09
  Speaker 5: story were Leon Janney as Pete Wilson and Vandel Kramer
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: as Al Thomas. Others in the cast included Sam Raskin,
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Sam Gray, Joseph Boland, and Bob Donnelly. Listen again next
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: week when we return with A Shipment of Mute Fate
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: by Martin Storm. Another tale well calculated to keep you in.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: Suspense.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Suspense closes with Coffin for Mr.
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: Cash.
• 24:41
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