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Ellery Queen: Adventure of the Scarecrow and the Snowman (EP1612) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: episode of the Adventure of Ellery Queen. The original air
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  Speaker 1: date January the twentieth of nineteen forty four and the
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  Speaker 1: title is the Adventure of the Scarecrow and the Snowman.
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  Speaker 2: Here she comes, Ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: The Bramaerial special Broma without them without the brom bringing
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  Speaker 3: you radios bost drilling mystery drama The Adventures of Ellery
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  Speaker 3: Queen Toodnight, the makers of Bromo Seltzer bring you another
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  Speaker 3: thrilling adventure with Ellery Queen, the celebrator, gentleman detective in person.
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  Speaker 3: Ellery Queen invites you to match wits with him as
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  Speaker 3: he relates another story of a trime heal on unrabbles
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  Speaker 3: before revealing the solution. He stops the play gives you
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  Speaker 3: a chance to solve the mystery. Our guest armchair Detectives
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  Speaker 3: for this evening, our film star mist Gene Cagney and
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  Speaker 3: mister Peter Cusack, Executive Secretary of the National Foundation for
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  Speaker 3: Infantile Paralysis, And now Ellery Queen, master detective and your
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  Speaker 3: host for the next half hour.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you and his chapel, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you about the exotic adventure of
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  Speaker 4: the Scarecrow and the Snowman. One July morning, some years
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  Speaker 4: before the war, Dad Nikki, Sergeant Villie and I were
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  Speaker 4: driving to the rich farm country of the Midwest. Suddenly
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  Speaker 4: we rounded a curve and saw a red barn and
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  Speaker 4: a big clavered farmhouse shaded by elm trees.
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  Speaker 5: Sergeant stopped, what form my stroke? We're in the middle
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  Speaker 5: of opl I want to take color movies at this farm.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, you and your movie cameras having that scarecrow over
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  Speaker 4: there in the country center.
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  Speaker 2: Swallow that saw lights a scarecrow? What are you know?
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  Speaker 2: Get that farm in the picture center?
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  Speaker 6: There re see walking to the scarecrow?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, very nice? Wait a minute's wrong? Yelling yelling for help? Nikki.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get over there, Hey, farmer, what's the matter? What's wrong?
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  Speaker 6: He's the color of dead fleet?
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  Speaker 2: What's bleeding? Scarecrow?
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  Speaker 6: What scarecrow? It is bleeding?
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  Speaker 5: Strokaty, that's our regular scarecrow.
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  Speaker 2: And how could a scarecrow? Please?
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  Speaker 4: Because it's not a scarecrow yet it's a man dressed
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  Speaker 4: in the scarecrow?
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  Speaker 2: Was done? Get him off this poor right?
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  Speaker 6: I gotten tied to the state by bell.
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  Speaker 2: How the old fire turnation did you get here? Don't
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  Speaker 2: you know? Easy? Now?
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  Speaker 4: I said that badly wounded dether unconscious? Are you farmer?
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  Speaker 4: What's his farm?
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  Speaker 2: Who you?
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  Speaker 4: This is the Mayfield place. I'm Josh Bullen. I run
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  Speaker 4: the place for old man Mayfield. Where's the nearest dock in,
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  Speaker 4: mister Bullen, Dayville Hospital six seven miles from me. We'll
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  Speaker 4: aft to rush him there. Come on, dad, it's going
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  Speaker 4: to be a race with death.
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  Speaker 6: The country doctor's certainly taking his time in there. Just
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  Speaker 6: how was the man.
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  Speaker 2: Hurting twice in the chest? Nicky? I wonder who he is?
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  Speaker 2: Not an identifying monk on him?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, quite a mystery, mister Bullen, who lives on the
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  Speaker 4: Mayfield farm beside yourself? Well, now there's me and my wife,
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  Speaker 4: Josie Mayfield. We've been married four years now, and Josie's
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  Speaker 4: Paul old man Mayfield.
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  Speaker 2: It's really his place, but I run it.
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  Speaker 6: Don't tell me there's no Mo Mayfield.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Bullen, Sure he is, Miss.
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  Speaker 4: Porter Josie's mom my mother in law, wonderful woman coax
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  Speaker 4: keeps house, helps out in the fields, strong as a plow,
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  Speaker 4: Mayer Mare Mayfield. Is I sort of wish Josie took
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  Speaker 4: after her all? Your wife, mister Bullen, what's wrong with her?
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  Speaker 4: Josie's been sick, to mister queen ever since our baby died.
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  Speaker 4: Stays a bed most times, ain't got the strength to
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  Speaker 4: crawl downstairs near me.
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  Speaker 2: Say, here's doc Jenkins. How's your patient?
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  Speaker 6: Will I pull through, doctor Jenkins?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, well, must be made of our I'd like to
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  Speaker 4: talk to him, doctor can now mister queen is unconscious,
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  Speaker 4: say Josh, who will say?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know? Darned if I do, Doc, I never
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  Speaker 2: seen him before either, huh, thought, I know everyone in
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  Speaker 2: the county too. Doctor. I'd like to photograph your patient.
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  Speaker 4: I know it.
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  Speaker 2: Take his picture.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I imagine you'll have to get the shrish permission,
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  Speaker 5: but it's attempted murder anyway, take your.
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  Speaker 4: Photo and doctor no one's to see her. Talk to
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  Speaker 4: the victim till we can question him. Paul right, please
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  Speaker 4: notify us at the local hotel the moment he regains conscious.
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  Speaker 4: And there, ladies and gentlemen, you have the beginning of
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  Speaker 4: our mystery. We'll be back in just a moment to
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  Speaker 4: tell you more. But first, Ernest Chapel, maybe you think
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  Speaker 4: you've got a tough job, but mister Willis c. Latschoff,
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  Speaker 4: Springs City, Pennsylvania, has a job that really puts the
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  Speaker 4: pressure on.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what he writes.
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  Speaker 7: I'm one of the guards in an important aircraft engine company.
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  Speaker 7: We've got to see that nothing and nobody gets into
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  Speaker 7: our plant who's not supposed to pictures on a twelve
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  Speaker 7: hour watch, every nerve tense, ready for anything that might happen.
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  Speaker 7: When up pops one of those pesky headaches, the boys
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  Speaker 7: on my ship know how to handle that, though. We
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  Speaker 7: make a bee line for the plant dispensary or first
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  Speaker 7: aide station for our old friend Bromo Seltzer. We found
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  Speaker 7: there's nothing better for quick relief from headache and jittery nerves.
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  Speaker 2: And you're right, mister Willis.
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  Speaker 3: Romo Seltzer fights headache three ways, helps you feel a
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  Speaker 3: lot better fast. So the next time you've got a
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  Speaker 3: common say headache, friends, try Bromo Seltzer.
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  Speaker 2: Won't you?
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  Speaker 3: Then write and tell us your own experience. Just address
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  Speaker 3: your letter to Ellerie Queen in canversation to what you
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  Speaker 3: were listening. And now back to our story. Kellery has
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  Speaker 3: photographed the mysterious scarecrow man and had the photo developed.
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  Speaker 3: Now several hours later, the Queens are driving Josh Bullen
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  Speaker 3: back to the Mayfield farm.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, thank someone in the Mayfield place that follow up.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, Dad, keep your eyes open.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here we are in it.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 2: What I'd give for a sidle a bear be.
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  Speaker 4: I'll give mom Mefield to picture to find his drink
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  Speaker 4: at ginger beer.
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  Speaker 2: You ever taste it? What me?
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  Speaker 6: Who's that crazy looking old man on the porch?
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  Speaker 5: Wan't your waving that shotgun at us? Far's all right, Paul,
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  Speaker 5: I know these folks. Don't get scared. That's just my father,
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  Speaker 5: mister Mayfield. If you'll put that shotgun down, he know
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  Speaker 5: you Giason.
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  Speaker 6: Many shy god die, Johnny stand by.
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  Speaker 2: Me, Paul.
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  Speaker 4: This Jonathan, it's mister Queen's Joe Jonathan, Josh you by mate,
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  Speaker 4: touched up.
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  Speaker 2: By Day, the old squirreling Kevin.
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  Speaker 6: Youkay, hey, he's going to shoot Harry.
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  Speaker 2: Da Come on, get behind the car, all of you,
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  Speaker 2: all right, I want it.
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  Speaker 6: He's shooting.
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  Speaker 2: Heaven's sick, mister bull. And who does he think I am?
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  Speaker 2: Who's Jonathan? My wife's brother? Ooman Mayfield? Son?
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  Speaker 5: More?
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  Speaker 2: Who's the land of mercy? Paul? You give me that
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  Speaker 2: girl along, Jason Day, Who are gonna march up to
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  Speaker 2: the attic to your room? For me?
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  Speaker 8: No?
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, no, lady's okay. See the way she took that
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  Speaker 5: gun away from the old brazook.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry as all get out, folks.
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  Speaker 4: You see Jonathan Mayfield got into a heap of trouble
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  Speaker 4: and his paw said he'd kill him. He ever showed
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  Speaker 4: his face around the farm again. Old man's out of
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  Speaker 4: his head. Why didn't you put him away with him?
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  Speaker 4: I won't hear of it, inspector. Besides, pause quiet most times,
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  Speaker 4: come on into the house, mart that you yeah, Josh
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  Speaker 4: a pot all right?
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  Speaker 2: Now, come in, come on, heulate smart. These folks are
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  Speaker 2: fighting for some of your extra special ginger. Beas Jash.
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  Speaker 7: You take him into the parlor and I'll be right
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  Speaker 7: in with a big picture.
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  Speaker 2: Just make yourselves right to home. Folks, Now this way, folks.
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  Speaker 4: Why Josie, Josh Oh, hello, downstairs, Josie sitting in the
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  Speaker 4: parlor all by yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Folks, this is my wife, Josie Mayfield bullet. I am oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm so glad.
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  Speaker 8: It's so very nice having.
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  Speaker 2: You sit down.
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  Speaker 4: Sit down, folks. Josie talks ninety five. Eh had two
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  Speaker 4: years of state college. Josie, did this girl is so pretty?
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  Speaker 8: Are you you marry?
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  Speaker 6: Why? No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 8: I am. I had a baby once. It was the
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  Speaker 8: cutest baby. She had blue eyes and the softest blond hair.
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  Speaker 2: Na Now Josie. You know, we don't talk about the
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  Speaker 2: baby tomorrow. Where's that ginger beer coming? Josh coming?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 2: What the what's required for Josie? Because you've been talking
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  Speaker 2: about the baby again.
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  Speaker 8: It was a girl, remember, all the sweetest little girl.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all lockless girl.
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  Speaker 4: Here Henry showing Matt photo and that speeding Come on, folks, now,
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  Speaker 4: come on try some of this. Oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: do you recognize a man in this photograph?
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  Speaker 6: This Fellah?
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  Speaker 2: Nope, can't say as a dude, Josie, drink No thanks.
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  Speaker 8: Mom, I was going to name my baby Mary Ellen.
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  Speaker 2: You know ellery.
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  Speaker 6: Please let's go.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking to folders now, here's one of telling them.
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  Speaker 4: Josie's brother, Josh put that album away?
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  Speaker 2: Please? May I say it? Mister Bullen? Sure? Dad, come
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  Speaker 2: over here, hear me, give you some juice. It's not
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  Speaker 2: the wounded man, Dad.
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  Speaker 4: Nope, there is eminence to the stranger to what do
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  Speaker 4: you say we go now? Dad, We're staying in Darryville
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  Speaker 4: till I find out who that scarecrow man is and
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  Speaker 4: who tried to murder him.
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  Speaker 9: Finally, three days later, doctor Jenkins said we could question
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  Speaker 9: the stranger. But when we went to the man's room
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  Speaker 9: at the hospital. We found that he escaped through a window,
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  Speaker 9: was ellery hopping. The scarecrow Man gone, and we still
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  Speaker 9: didn't know who he was or who had tried the
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  Speaker 9: murder it.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 4: We hung around trying to find someone who recognized the
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  Speaker 4: scarecrow Man from Henry's picture of him, but no one
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  Speaker 4: knew him, so we gave up. Six months later, January,
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  Speaker 4: it was they got to let him the dairy the
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  Speaker 4: justice of the peace. An old fellow named Clem Hunted
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  Speaker 4: Hunter confessed to Denight about not recognizing the stranger, and
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  Speaker 4: he wanted to clear his conscience. He wrote this, You
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  Speaker 4: certainly won't find it out anybody else, because me and
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  Speaker 4: the town click who's dead. We're the only ones who
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  Speaker 4: knew who this fellow was. If you'll come see me,
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you the whole story.
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  Speaker 5: But two days before we got back to Darryville, all
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  Speaker 5: Clem Hunter up and kicked the bucket. Pneumonia, boy, you
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  Speaker 5: should have seen the maestrong. Our last hope is solving
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  Speaker 5: the mystery six feet under. But the maestron says, now
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  Speaker 5: that way here, I'm not going back to New York
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  Speaker 5: without taking another whack at the Mayfield. Well, we drive
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  Speaker 5: over to the Mayfield farm and practically a blizzard. The
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  Speaker 5: roads were so bad, Mom Mayfield makes us stay overnight.
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  Speaker 9: That same afternoon, the storm subsided a bit, and Elie
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  Speaker 9: and I went outside to find Josh Bullen hammering away
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  Speaker 9: at a thick pole driven into the frozen earth right
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  Speaker 9: off the porch.
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  Speaker 4: I at the bone. What are you doing making a snowman,
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  Speaker 4: mister Queen. That's steady enough. I reckon I to pack
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  Speaker 4: more snow around there?
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  Speaker 6: May I help mister Boone?
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  Speaker 4: Sure thing, Miss Porter Pitture, right here my shore, that's
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  Speaker 4: looked like fun.
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  Speaker 6: Move over, Nikka honked the first Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Seeing this poor Josh stuck in the ground this way
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  Speaker 4: order reminds you of the fellow we found hanging in
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  Speaker 4: the corn field last summer.
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  Speaker 2: Don't yes ever heard anything.
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  Speaker 7: More about him after escape from the Darryville hospital.
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  Speaker 2: Josh nary word say this has come a long fine
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  Speaker 2: you make his head? Miss Porter?
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  Speaker 6: Oh fine?
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  Speaker 4: Hope Josie likes him. She's watching from her bedroom. Wind
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  Speaker 4: up there, Hi, Josie like it? Missus Bean? Yes, wad
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  Speaker 4: he ain't finished? He still needs eyes, nose in the mouth, speak.
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  Speaker 6: Of Oh how much, Baby would have loved.
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  Speaker 2: You, baby step no mind, folks, sure Josie pipe it is.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, you never heard of a snowman without a pile
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  Speaker 9: a corn cob.
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  Speaker 2: Josh, yeah, gotta have a corn cob. Blame it.
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  Speaker 4: I left my cob up my bedroom this morning. Of course,
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  Speaker 4: Paul Mayfield's gonna raft him keeps all his cobs up
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  Speaker 4: in that atic room, he is. I guess we better
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  Speaker 4: not bother Paul might start shooting at you for Jonathan again. Ah,
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  Speaker 4: mister queen, gee, here's that other corn cob of mine
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  Speaker 4: right here in my jeems. Forgot all about the second one.
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  Speaker 4: There's Josie. How's he love?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: Hi?
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  Speaker 6: And second sergeant, look at this some production a snowman?
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  Speaker 2: Where's the minestat?
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  Speaker 6: Was right here a second ago?
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  Speaker 2: Here? I am Nicky. I'm in this movie. Can I remember?
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  Speaker 4: It was in the cor Let me take movies of
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  Speaker 4: the snowman? Cent Dad, you're a mind reader?
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm? Who's there? I was doing that?
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  Speaker 5: Something is at the door of this ice sperg they
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  Speaker 5: call her bedroom, dramming a.
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  Speaker 2: Bits and see it is. There must be timblers here
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  Speaker 2: in here?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, who is it?
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  Speaker 2: It's Nicky Craig boy, Nikki.
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  Speaker 6: Coming, I just saw it.
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  Speaker 2: Saw what Nikki.
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  Speaker 9: Again, I couldn't see that happened to look at my
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  Speaker 9: bedroom windows.
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  Speaker 6: Snowman in the front yard.
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  Speaker 2: What did you see.
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  Speaker 6: The snowman he's bleeding.
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  Speaker 2: That's nice. Really, you want to wake the others.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, this spark there you see I had brown stained
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  Speaker 5: over the snowman's chest.
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  Speaker 2: Hevery What in thunderation do you think you're.
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  Speaker 4: Doing photographing a snowman? Dad and Lucky at his moonlight's
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  Speaker 4: so bright. Now let's have a look.
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  Speaker 2: Oh finine, blood, well blood, I'll turn in my badge.
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  Speaker 6: Somebody's the idea that choke Nikki go back to bed.
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, Nikki, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Joke then some joke, my strong it's a dead man
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  Speaker 2: under the snow man, I thought so.
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  Speaker 4: Step of the pool by his belt, just like that
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  Speaker 4: scarecrow guy last summer, ugly stab wounds in his chest
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  Speaker 4: and brushed the.
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  Speaker 2: Snow off around his head.
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  Speaker 4: Sergeant hurry, it's the same guy. A man who was
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  Speaker 4: escaped in the dairy of the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: The scarecrow man.
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  Speaker 4: I isn't really back. He freeze as hard as this
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  Speaker 4: corpse in the front yard did. Again nold identification marks
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  Speaker 4: gone rated.
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  Speaker 2: How long do you figure he's been dead? All right?
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  Speaker 2: Say late last night?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, about the time the snow stopped. We slept through
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  Speaker 4: the whole thing, Pete, rushing from No, Well, what'd you
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  Speaker 4: find out? Where's the single set of tracks leading up
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  Speaker 4: to the snowman.
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  Speaker 5: Come from the Mayfield barn, Inspector, blood in there and
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  Speaker 5: signs of a fight.
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  Speaker 2: Murdered in the barn. Huh?
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  Speaker 4: And the killer carried the dead man to this spot,
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  Speaker 4: knocked down Josh Bull and snowman slung the corpse of
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  Speaker 4: the pool with his own belt and rebuilt a snowman
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  Speaker 4: around it.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you suppose he did that? Now, my straw did.
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  Speaker 4: The lay discovery of the crime, Sergeant, the killer was
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  Speaker 4: afraid of us. By the time the snow melled, we'd
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  Speaker 4: long scent of left the neighborhood work too. The dead
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  Speaker 4: man's bed had and so through the snow, Pete, was
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  Speaker 4: there any cool in the barn to the killer?
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  Speaker 2: I locked my eyes out, Inspector, No dice.
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  Speaker 4: And these tracks don't tell us anything. Killer wore huge
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  Speaker 4: gloshes could have been anyone's. Aren't there any other tracks
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  Speaker 4: really to show where the killer came from which way
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  Speaker 4: he went?
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  Speaker 2: Narrow a track? Anywhere's on the Mayfield property.
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  Speaker 4: Dad, That means the victim came to the barn during
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  Speaker 4: the snowstorm, as did his murderer. Then more snow fell
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  Speaker 4: and wiped out all the tracks they'd made, so for
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  Speaker 4: the time the killer loved his victim's body from the
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: bond to the French yad here? Or he left was
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: this one set at trank?
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  Speaker 5: My wife? And where are the killer's tracks escaping from
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: the yard here after he put the body in the snowman?
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: All right, no escaping track, I didn't you've hit it.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: The only place the killer could have escaped to without
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: leaving further tracks in the snow is up onto the
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  Speaker 5: porch of the Mayfield farmhouse here, So yeah, he.
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  Speaker 2: Could have made it from the snowman of the porch
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  Speaker 2: and one big stack.
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  Speaker 4: Any That means the killer is one of the people
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  Speaker 4: in this farmhouse. Yes, Dad, At last we know the
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: stranger was murdered by one of the Mayfield tribe, so
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: let's wake him up.
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  Speaker 2: And find out which one.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Then we went to work on the Mayfields might just
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: as well have saved our breath, or claimed they didn't
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  Speaker 4: know a thing about the corpse and the snowman, so
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: we turned home, us over to the local chaff and.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Headed for home. No night to Rememberillery.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: The next few weeks heard him snapped your head off
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: for look, call out his reels of movie film that
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: he shot on her two trips.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: To Darryville, and run him over and over.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Anyway, one night, we're showing you shots of the bloodstained Snowman.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: When Nikki stopped the machine, Sergeant put the lights on.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Quite the excitement. Corps. Now, I know who killed that man.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: You know who killed him, But Maestro, we don't even
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: know who he was.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: You mean the victim. I've known that for some time.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: He had not his name, of.
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Course, But it wasn't the victim's identity which held me up.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: It was his killer's identity.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: And now you know that too.
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: But how can you, Wellery, all you've done is run
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: the Snowman movie there?
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: What told me?
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Nikki? Didn't you notice a difference between the Josh bull
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: and snowman and the snowman the killer built around the corpse.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: The snow at the base of the killer Snowman had
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: been shoveled up. Don't you see After concealing the body
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: inside the Snowman, The killer then began poking in the
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: snow at its feet with a shovel.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: He lost something in the snow and was looking for it.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: But my films even answer that there's an object in
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: the shots of the original snowman that's missing from the
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: shots of the made over Snowman. Something messing what my
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: shot Josh Bullen's corn cob pipe?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Hey, that's right.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: When we found the made over snowman with a corpse inside,
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: the pipe, wasn't there exactly? The killer dropped the pipe
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: accidentally and shoveled frantically around trying to find it. He
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: never did find it, otherwise he had stuck it back
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: in the snowman's mouth.
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so we'd think it was still the same snowman
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: and not get suspicious and find the party.
• 21:46
  Speaker 9: That's all very well, missy queen, But what's the missing
• 21:48
  Speaker 9: corn cob got to do with the killer of the stranger?
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: The missing corn cob Nikki tells me who the killer was. Well,
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen, there you have the mystery of the
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Scarecrow and the Snowman.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Have you puzzled it out yet?
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Well, let's compare solutions with our guest, armchair detective Nikki.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Will you introduce our guests please?
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: Well, ellery, Our first guest tonight is Miss Gene Cagney,
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: the famous screen star and sister of Jimmy Cagney. Our
• 22:28
  Speaker 9: second guest is mister Peter Cusack, Executive Secretary of the
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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  Speaker 4: All right, llry, thank you, Nikki. Ladies and gentlemen, I'd
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: like to take a moment here to remind you that
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: the March of Dimes to Fight Infantile Paralysis is on
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• 22:48
  Speaker 4: dread disease by sending your dimes and dollars as much
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: as you can afford to President Roosevelt Washington, DC. Thank you,
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: And now, Miss Cagney, who is the m I'd say.
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  Speaker 6: It was marm Mayfield. Have you any reason?
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: Well, I would suspect that Marm Mayfield wouldn't have a
• 23:07
  Speaker 9: second pipe on him, and also I think she'd be
• 23:10
  Speaker 9: strong enough to be able to commit the crime and
• 23:12
  Speaker 9: to reconstruct the snowman.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Miss Keakeney, and mister Cusack. Who do you
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: think the murder is? I think the murder was Josh
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Josh Mayfield ellery. Why do you think that.
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: I don't know what his motive was, but the clue
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: of the missing corn cob pipe makes me feel that
• 23:33
  Speaker 10: it was he because he referred to the fact that
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: that Pra Mayfield had this collection, and Prav Mayfield being
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: very fussy and irritable, I would think that Josh would
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: not want to lose the pipe.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: You mean Josh Bullen, the husband of Jose Mayfield.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: Excuse me, thank you, mister Cusack and miss Keckney.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: We'll let you know in just a moment whether you've
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: hit the solution to our mystery. But first, here's Ernest Chapel,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: who can't seem to get his mind off sabotage.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Find it is sabotaged when a common sake headache makes
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: you lose out on work or pleasure. You can't do
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: a first class job or enjoy your fun when you've
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: got pounding head pains, plus the upset stomach and jittery
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: nerves that may accompany a common sick headache. And that's
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: why I say, the next time you're feeling miserable with
• 24:20
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• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Chest Harry, you said you know who that dead stranger was?
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Well, Dad, remember your mentioning that we got a letter
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: from the Derryville Justice the piece them under the road
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: chain that he knew who this stranger was. Yes, Now
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: what could a justice of the peace and a town
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: clerk know that other members of a rural community might
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: not know. Well, what do we usually associate with justices
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: of the peace?
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: Marriages he perform?
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Yes, and marriages also involve a town clerk who probably
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: issues a license and certainly records the marriage in the
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: town role.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: So you think of the stranger had been married in
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: darry years before, right?
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: But who else would know of the stranger's marriage? Only
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: the Mayfield because the killer is one of them. So
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: we must ask what woman at the Mayfield farm was
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: of marriageable age?
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Only one Josie.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: The daughter Jodie is married to Josh Bullen.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: Conclusion, Josie and the stranger had been married before Josie's
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: marriage to Josh Bullen, a secret marriage, because no one
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: on Durieville was able to recognize the stranger from that
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: photo I took of him at the hospital last summer,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: so it was reasonable to conclude that one of the
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: Mayfield tribe had killed a stranger to keep his secret
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: marriage to Josie from becoming public knowledge. Jose and this
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: stranger low presenting oh Man Mayfield finds out and either
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: drives a man away or buys him off. There's been
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: something pretty raw about the man that the Mayfield could stomach.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: So when they thought Josie's husband that never turn up again,
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Josie never bothered to gather divorce.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: And when Josie married Josh Bullen, she committed nickomy.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Yes, well, the husband did turn up again last July,
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: probably with the bands for more money which the Mayfields
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: couldn't or wouldn't meet. So one of the families stabbed
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: him early that Sunday morning and hid the body in
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: the Cornfield scarecrow till it could be disposed of permanently
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: at nightfall. But we came along during the day, found
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: the stranger still alive, took him to the hospital and
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: he escaped the one who knew Josie's Bigaman secret was
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: loose again?
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: When why did he come back in January? But we'll
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: never know exactly, Sergeant.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Anyway, the same Mayfield murdered him for keeps this time
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: and hid the body in the snowman so that we'd
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: fail to discover the crime and lead. But who is
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: the kila Shanon?
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: How do you know the missing corn cob? Pipe tells me, Dad.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: We know the killer wanted a corn cob, hadn't located
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: the one he'd lost in the deep snow, because if
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: he had found it, he'd have stuck it back in
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: the snowman's mouth, and he'd That fact clears Josh Bullen
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: and old Pa Mayfield.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Theresbourne has father and DAWs.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Howshosn because either man could easily have got another corn
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: cob to stick into the snowman's mouth.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: There, How do you figure that out?
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Him?
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Well, we know that Josh Bullen had a second corn
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: cob up in his bedroom, and we also know that
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: Pam Mayfield kept his corn cobs in his attic room.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Either man could have procured a corn.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Cob to replace the lost one merely by stealing up
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: to his own room in the middle of the night
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: while the.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Rest of us were asleep.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Since the killer didn't replace the lost pipe, it means
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: he didn't have one to replace it with and couldn't
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: get another from his own room.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: But marstrawvac leaves only the two precisely.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Could the murder have been Josie, Josh's wife, No, it
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: was a man sized job to carry the dead body
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: from the barn to the front yard, demolish the original snowman,
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: tie the corpse to the pool, and build a new
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: snowman around it. Josie is an invalid, bed ridden most
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: of the time, so Josie couldn't possibly have done it
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: all righty, yes, Sergeant Ma Mayfield. Did Ma Mayfield have
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: the strength to commit both these strenuous crimes?
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, Josh told us she even helped with the farming.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: In fact, Josh said she was as strong as a
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: plow mayre. Yes, Mama Mayfield killed her daughter's husband to
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: protect Josie's reputation in that rural community and save what
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: was left of the poor girl's life. And there, ladies
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: and gentlemen, you have the solution to the mystery. I
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: want to thank Miss Cagney and mister Cusack for appearing
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: as guest armchair at Tectives this evening. We want especially
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: to compliment Miss Cagney on her skill in solving the crime.
• 28:49
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• 28:52
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• 28:58
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• 29:01
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• 29:03
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• 30:13
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• 30:16
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• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. Well, an interesting story, not only for the case,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: which is one of the creeper your ones I think
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: we've done on the show, but also for the way
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: that it's told. With this over this length of time,
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• 32:35
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• 32:44
  Speaker 1: really important clues when there's so much going on in
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: the case. A lot of it was just red herrings
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: and window dressing, with the solution of who done it
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: coming down to the corn cob pop and the snowman,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the reason for the killing or the identity of the victim.
• 33:04
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