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Nick Carter, Master Detective - "The Case of the Missing Alarm Clock" (1946) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On June 25th, 1946, Mutual aired episode 241 of Nick Carter,
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  Speaker 1: Master Detective, then billed as The Return of Nick Carter.
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  Speaker 1: A furniture warehouse has burned under suspicious circumstances, and inside
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  Speaker 1: the smoke-darkened building, Nick finds an alarm clock with unusual
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  Speaker 1: wiring amid the debris. With Patsy Bowen and Sergeant Matherson,
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  Speaker 1: he follows clues from the warehouse to the Sunset Trailer Camp,
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  Speaker 1: where the evidence may point toward a recently discharged veteran
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  Speaker 1: or an effort to frame an innocent man. Lon Clark
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  Speaker 1: stars as Nick Carter with Helen Choate and Ed Latimer. Now,
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  Speaker 1: back to the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Most famous of all Manhunters, the detective whose ability of
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  Speaker 2: solving crime is unequal.
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  Speaker 3: In the history of detective victims, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it was awful. It was awful. Where is he?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Mr. Taylor. There's got to be something. What
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  Speaker 3: is it? Let me speak to Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Taylor, quick.
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  Speaker 3: Where is he? Oh, when's he coming in?
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't know.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, yes. Tell him the warehouse is on fire. Tell
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  Speaker 3: him to get hold of Mr. Emerson and get down
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  Speaker 3: here at once.
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  Speaker 5: Did you say Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Emerson?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes. Get the boat down here at once. The
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  Speaker 3: warehouse is burning up. A fire in a big furniture warehouse.
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  Speaker 2: A fire which has delayed Nick Carter, master detective, into
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  Speaker 2: strange fails. In which a missing alarm clock and a
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  Speaker 2: drunken sailor were to play prominent parts. Follow Nick Carter
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  Speaker 2: as he solves the case of a missing alarm clock.
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  Speaker 2: Since when did you take up going to fires? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it just so happens that I am the official representative
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  Speaker 2: of the fire underwriters who insured this building.
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  Speaker 3: So it's my job to determine the cause You're going
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  Speaker 3: inside that burning building?
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  Speaker 2: Well, how do they call it a burning building now?
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  Speaker 2: Just smoking a little. Come on.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like going in a place like that. Suppose
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  Speaker 3: something falls in on us. It won't if you're careful.
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  Speaker 3: Keep your eyes open and watch your steps. What, man?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's my job to keep people out of here.
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  Speaker 2: And it's my job to find out what caused the fire.
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  Speaker 2: Got it over in this end, didn't it? Yeah, seems like.
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  Speaker 2: But you ain't going in there.
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  Speaker 3: Too dangerous. Dangerous or not, it's my job. See this?
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  Speaker 6: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. I see. Okay, go ahead. But I will
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  Speaker 3: be responsible. Now, that's interesting. Come on, Waldo.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, hey, hey, mister.
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  Speaker 3: Suppose I wait out here. I could be here with that.
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  Speaker 3: Them walls is awful shaky. Well, the darn fools who
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  Speaker 3: couldn't get me in there. Well, what's this? Looks like
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  Speaker 3: more trouble. Hey, you.
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  Speaker 2: Huh? Seen the crowd around here? If you mean them
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  Speaker 2: two guys who just went in the ruins? Yes, I
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  Speaker 2: seen them.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so they've already gone in, huh? Yeah, looks pretty
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  Speaker 3: dangerous to me the way them walls is in there.
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  Speaker 3: It is dangerous. I call them so. Why, every minute,
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  Speaker 3: them walls... Yes, sir. Dick! Dick!
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  Speaker 6: Watch out, Dick!
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  Speaker 3: Come on! Come on, come on, will you? Don't just
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  Speaker 3: sit there, homie. We've got to get them out of there.
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  Speaker 3: I can't. No use. They're going ashore. I can't. Don't
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  Speaker 3: go in there. You won't help me. I'll do it myself.
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  Speaker 3: They may be still alive. Right, Matty. We're very much alive.
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  Speaker 5: But it wasn't as easy as that.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't very difficult. We had plenty of water. Captain,
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  Speaker 3: did you find anything while you were moving? I found
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  Speaker 3: just a lamp block.
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  Speaker 2: It seems to have been specially wired so as to
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  Speaker 2: set off the fire at a given time.
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  Speaker 3: An alarm clock? Hey, that's what the Jersey Firebug always
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  Speaker 3: uses in his fires. He's done it eight times. That
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  Speaker 3: we know of. Yes, I thought of it. Now, did
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  Speaker 3: you have any of the clocks that were found after
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  Speaker 3: those other fires? No. too. Well, we can set the
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  Speaker 3: ones on this clock against the ones you got, Matthew.
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  Speaker 2: And I also found this. It's possibly burnt back. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: looks like some kind of only issue.
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  Speaker 3: Don't it? Well, it really is.
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  Speaker 2: It had a name and a serial number on it,
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  Speaker 2: but I can't make out the name. However, the number
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  Speaker 2: is still clear, though.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? We can check it and see where it leads us. Well,
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  Speaker 3: watch when Were you on duty here last night? Sure.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a night watchman here. Stayed on this morning until Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Evans and the owner got here.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see the fire start? Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I was just coming back from the lunch wagon. They
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  Speaker 2: got me a cup of jam. Oh, I ain't just a....
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  Speaker 3: Well, Mr. Emerson, like I was telling these fellas.
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  Speaker 2: I was coming back from getting a cup of coffee,
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  Speaker 2: and suddenly I seen a big flare of greenish blue
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  Speaker 2: light in the room.
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  Speaker 3: Just outside the office. And before I could turn around,
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  Speaker 3: the whole place was ablaze. The office was in this corner,
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  Speaker 3: wasn't it? That's right. Now, who are these men, Alex?
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  Speaker 3: I'm Sergeant Matheson, city police.
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  Speaker 2: This is Nick Carter, investigators with insurance.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm Walter Emerson, owner of the warehouse. You say
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  Speaker 3: you found explosion on it?
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  Speaker 2: Kind of like that, but there wasn't so much noise
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  Speaker 2: like an explosion.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: There was nothing in there to explode. Whatever exploded was
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  Speaker 2: planted there for that purpose, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Emerson. This fire was no accident. It was set. But why?
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  Speaker 3: There was nothing here but furniture. Who would want to
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  Speaker 3: destroy that?
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  Speaker 2: A pyromaniac doesn't care what burns as long as something does.
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  Speaker 2: Very full indeed, Sergeant. The housing shortage has prevented many
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  Speaker 2: families from taking their furniture out even.
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  Speaker 3: Though they want to. Oh, by the way, Alex, have
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  Speaker 3: you seen Mr. Taylor?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, sir, I haven't. Well, he called me about
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  Speaker 2: an hour ago and said he'd meet me here. I
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  Speaker 2: wonder what's keeping him.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Emerson, I suppose you kept your safe here in
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  Speaker 3: the office? Well, we had no safe, Mr. Carter.
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  Speaker 2: All business is transacted to downtown office. No safe here?
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  Speaker 2: That's very peculiar. Yeah, what's peculiar about having no safe here?
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  Speaker 2: How did that get out of the headquarters?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know that it has anything
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  Speaker 3: to do with it, Patsy.
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  Speaker 2: I just want you to find out who has the
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  Speaker 2: serial number I just gave you with name and present
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  Speaker 2: address and where it works, if you can get it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Nick, I'll get at it right away.
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  Speaker 5: When will you be back.
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  Speaker 3: To the office? As soon as I get through here
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  Speaker 3: at headquarters. Bye. Hey, Nick, why were you so surprised?
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  Speaker 3: a moon. We think it might not have been the
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  Speaker 3: Jersey firebug that set the fire. They're not the same. Well,
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  Speaker 3: that don't prove that Jersey Firebird didn't do it to me. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Of course not. Matty, we got one of the clocks
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  Speaker 2: you found at the other bar. Well, there's one at
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  Speaker 2: the 48th Street Station. They took it up there to
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  Speaker 2: make some tests on it. Want me to have it
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  Speaker 2: sent down there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to have this clock checked. that carried anything
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  Speaker 2: about how that fellow said he swore.
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  Speaker 3: That part of.
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  Speaker 2: It was always kept secret, so he wouldn't know that
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  Speaker 2: we had the information about it. Now, you'd better take
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  Speaker 2: the clock just the same. All of you stay here
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  Speaker 2: and wait for the other one to be set down.
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  Speaker 2: When you and Maddie check carefully to see if the
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  Speaker 2: way the clock is wired up is the same or different,
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  Speaker 2: come to the office.
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  Speaker 3: They'll be waiting for you. If information may be, they're
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  Speaker 3: there to vote.
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  Speaker 5: Into my coffin. And I've seen a little bit dull
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  Speaker 5: around here this morning. I was just looking through it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, as long as you don't believe in it, then
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  Speaker 3: you're here to make it more hurtful, I think.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, uh, did you find anything interesting with the fireman?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, no. It might be the work of a
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  Speaker 3: Jersey Yes. Why the surprise?
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  Speaker 5: Well, there's an article in this magazine I'm reading on
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  Speaker 5: him and all the fires he's set. One of the
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  Speaker 5: theories on pyromaniacs, apparently.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so. Does it explain that system he used? Of course.
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  Speaker 3: You see?
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  Speaker 5: Diagrams and descriptions. Tells all about the clock.
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  Speaker 3: Does it show how the clock was hooked up? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: not in detail, no. Just says it was used to
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  Speaker 3: set off the fires. Did I mention the fact that
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  Speaker 3: he always robbed the safe first? No.
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  Speaker 5: Did he? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, someone could have read that article and tried to
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  Speaker 2: get in the case of George and that young lady
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  Speaker 2: without knowing about this case.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's true.
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  Speaker 5: After considerable telephoning around and getting something from one person
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  Speaker 5: to another, I finally got what she wanted. She saw
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  Speaker 5: Jay Heston, let out a couple of months ago on
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  Speaker 5: a medical discharge, and died in neurosis, they told me.
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  Speaker 5: I checked the USDS, but they have no record of
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  Speaker 5: his having any job.
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  Speaker 3: Found any address for him?
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  Speaker 5: The only address they have was the Sunset Trailer Camp
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  Speaker 5: out on Long Island. Really? If you'd been discharged because
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  Speaker 5: of an anxiety neurosis, you'd must be the kind of
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  Speaker 5: man who loves dead fires and things.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Patsy, you ought to know better than that. But neither.
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  Speaker 2: Patsy, when they discharge a man from the army because
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  Speaker 2: of a neurosis, it doesn't mean he's cracked up or crazy.
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  Speaker 2: An anxiety neurosis is like over the woods, run down.
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  Speaker 2: Or it's undoubtedly perfectly sane. Too many people, just as
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  Speaker 2: you did now, think a man with a medical discharge
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  Speaker 2: is nothing if he's a heavenly.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I guess I just didn't think. Well, hi, Waldo.
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  Speaker 5: From the look on your face, you must have some news.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what did you find, Waldo? You were right, Dick.
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  Speaker 2: The truck we found at the warehouse was picked up
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  Speaker 2: altogether different from the one Matthew had.
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  Speaker 3: Not the same at all. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: There's a flyer, an old space to press, and an
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  Speaker 2: article in a magazine telling us to keep going.
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  Speaker 3: I'd say it all adds up to make the Jersey
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  Speaker 3: Fire work out completely.
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  Speaker 5: This is quite a cab, isn't it, Matthew?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Must be more or less permanent, too. The only thing, look.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, poor Waldo.
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  Speaker 3: What caused that, you might say?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I was just thinking how sore Waldo was if
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  Speaker 5: you wouldn't bring him along.
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  Speaker 3: Waldo is one of those things called a procrastinator.
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  Speaker 2: He can give him a job to do, but because
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  Speaker 2: of just these teens running around, he tries to put
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  Speaker 2: it off as long as he possibly can.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, well, this is the Hatton trailer. This Freeman with
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  Speaker 5: the white fin. If Matthew's the description of the man
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  Speaker 5: that they say, this is the right one. We can
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  Speaker 5: look in, can't we? That won't hurt anything.
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  Speaker 3: It has to be all right. But I hope it
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  Speaker 3: shows us in. Oh, there you are, Nick. Oh, no. Well,
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  Speaker 3: right arm of the law. What happened to you? You're
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  Speaker 3: right behind us. The next time I look around, you disappear.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I got stopped at that last red light, then
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  Speaker 2: I got boxed up behind a truck and couldn't get out.
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  Speaker 3: Everything happens to me. Is this the hospital's place? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: We're just going to have a look inside while we will.
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  Speaker 2: Curry's pistol, and two cartridge barrels.
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  Speaker 5: And two sets like the one Nick found after the fire,
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  Speaker 5: with the same identification on them.
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  Speaker 3: And there should be a third one. That's a station.
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  Speaker 3: I guess not. What's human? Magnesium flare. Oh, what a
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  Speaker 3: beautiful blaze that makes. We're out. We just looked in.
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  Speaker 5: How'd you get in? The door was open, so we
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  Speaker 5: walked in. Yeah, that's a likely story. I left the
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  Speaker 5: door locked.
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  Speaker 3: You must have broken it. That's what you did. What
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  Speaker 3: do you want? Are you sure you locked the door
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  Speaker 3: when you left? Sure, I'm sure. You calling me a liar?
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  Speaker 3: Not at all.
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  Speaker 2: Why should I believe you? I can see what I see.
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  Speaker 2: The lock's busted and you're inside. Now, look here, Haskins.
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  Speaker 2: Cops don't go around breaking in doors that way.
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  Speaker 3: Cops? They're the worst of the whole bunch. A lot
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  Speaker 3: of people. All right, all right, Haskins. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: When did you leave here? Yesterday morning.
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  Speaker 2: What's it to you? What have you been doing since then?
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  Speaker 2: Why should I answer a lot of silly questions? I
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  Speaker 2: don't have to. Haskins, you better take it easy. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we want some information. If you won't tell us here.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't it bad enough to have no home at this
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  Speaker 4: lousy trailer? No place to bring my wife and we
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  Speaker 4: can live together?
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  Speaker 3: No job, no nothing? But you have to come here
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  Speaker 3: and accuse me of heaven knows why. We're not accusing
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  Speaker 3: you of anything yet.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, tell me, Huston, what happened to that stack of
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  Speaker 2: magnesium flares that's missing from your collection?
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean, missing? It was here when I left. Well,
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  Speaker 3: it's not there now. Any idea what happened to it? No,
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  Speaker 3: I haven't. You probably took it. Hey, my alarm clock
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  Speaker 3: is gone, too. Well, that's good.
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  Speaker 4: You bust in my door, steal my stuff, then ask
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  Speaker 4: me a lot of silly questions. I'm not accountable to
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  Speaker 4: anybody anymore. I got my discharge. I'm a free man.
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  Speaker 3: Free as anybody can be with the world the way
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  Speaker 3: it is.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Hatham, you're not making things any easier for yourself
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  Speaker 2: by doing this.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, hi, Charlie. What? What's up? What job?
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  Speaker 5: The trucking job you had.
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  Speaker 3: What do you mean, trucking job? You're crazy. Oh, my God, huh?
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  Speaker 2: You must know it was just a temporary job I
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  Speaker 2: took yesterday. Sucking some furniture, sir. Furniture, did you say?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. Get out in a hurry and needed drivers. Paid
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  Speaker 3: over scale, so I took it. I needed the money.
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  Speaker 3: And I still have no job. Next, you hear that?
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  Speaker 3: Hear what?
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  Speaker 2: Look, Haslam, you go to work for Emerson. You're gone
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  Speaker 2: all night. The warehouse burns down by a fire. Set
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  Speaker 2: with magnesium flares like you've got there.
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  Speaker 3: I had nothing to do with any fire. No? Your
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  Speaker 3: army number was on the bag we found in the
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  Speaker 3: building when the fire was out. A bag just like
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  Speaker 3: them two you got in there now.
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  Speaker 2: Son, you and I are going down to headquarters. I
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  Speaker 2: want to know a lot more about this.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, you can't take me. No? Oh, yes, I can.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to.
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  Speaker 2: Come with me. No, not just yet, Matty. I want
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  Speaker 2: to look around a bit. Okay, I'll be seeing you.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Haslam.
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  Speaker 2: We're going for a ride, you and me. Come on,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not satisfied as is.
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  Speaker 5: So the prince didn't know. Well, couldn't that mean that
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  Speaker 5: somebody was working with Haslam on this?
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  Speaker 3: It could. What did mean Haslam was innocent? Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: You're the owner of this camp? Yeah, sure I am.
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  Speaker 3: But we'll pull up right now. See? Right here. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen him talk to the young trouble. It'll decide him,
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  Speaker 3: but that's all. Oh, yeah. Calling with the Jones family.
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  Speaker 5: Isn't that the stuff we're all talking.
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  Speaker 3: About as dads? Why, uh, well, this fellow offered me
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  Speaker 3: a job running a truck yesterday. Rough work, you know. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I was busy, and I knew Charlie needed money, so
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  Speaker 3: I told him about it. Who offered you the job? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: a fellow named Joan. Uh, lives in that trailer right
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  Speaker 3: ahead of you there. I see. Okay, thanks very much. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: no mention.
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  Speaker 5: Say, I hope Charlie makes out all right. I mean,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: that certainly ties up, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Stay outside the door. If anybody looks at this overcoming,
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  Speaker 2: it's not singing. And I can get out fast.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 5: For me, you can look round the house and still
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  Speaker 5: and see it's worse than any payment.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Jones... Maybe. Now don't forget, if anyone comes... I know.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Five minutes more and I'll have more than enough. Hiya, Greg.
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  Speaker 3: How can I help you?
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: I have a date.
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  Speaker 6: With my husband.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Greg? Pretty well.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to fly.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes. Lots of time. Find what you wanted? I did.
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  Speaker 3: Not enough to put you behind bars for a long time, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Sam Taylor, alias William Jones.
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  Speaker 2: You're never going to use what you've found. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to tie you up, you and your girlfriend. And we'll
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: all take a ride out into the country. And I'll
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: dump you out into the forest. If they find you,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: you won't be able to pull the thing. Sounds good.
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  Speaker 2: Except that I'm not going to let them tie me up,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: if I can have it. You think I can't do it?
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  Speaker 2: With this gun on you, you won't dare to move it.
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  Speaker 3: But I can walk up to you this way.
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  Speaker 5: You're kind of cool, but I'll.
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  Speaker 3: Be all right. I'm so slugging, woman.
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  Speaker 2: Well, mister, when I get through trying you up, you
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  Speaker 2: won't be able to wiggle your little finger. When I
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: finish going through your books, we'll have cleaned out one
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  Speaker 2: black market that won't open up again in a hurry.
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  Speaker 5: You look awfully funny, mister, that black eye.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm afraid you're.
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  Speaker 5: Losing your grip.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Patsy, as I told you before, I didn't get
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: that eye in the fight. I fell to the floor
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  Speaker 2: to let him think he'd knock me out so I
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  Speaker 2: could come to bits with him better. I hit my
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  Speaker 2: eye on the corner.
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  Speaker 3: Of a chair.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, boy, have I heard that before.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, a black eye is a small sacrifice to make
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  Speaker 2: when I was able to catch one of the men
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  Speaker 2: who was operating a black market in me.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I was wrong.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: You tell it to him, Bitson.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, the manager of the Emerson warehouse, Sam Taylor,
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  Speaker 2: deserves two of the largest rooms for himself. He bought
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: meat wholesale and had it brought to the warehouse and
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: distributed it from there. It stayed at the warehouse only
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: for a short time, so he didn't need refrigeration. But recently,
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: with so many patriotic butchers refusing And finding right there
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: in that trailer the jimmies he used to pry open
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Heston's door with a juice-paint seal on it.
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  Speaker 3: And finding the winding handle that belonged on.
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  Speaker 2: The alarm clock he remodeled to use in starting the fire,
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  Speaker 2: put the blame squarely on his shoulders.
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  Speaker 5: And let Charlie Heston out entirely.
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  Speaker 3: Fortunately, yes.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I wonder if this break in Heston's trailer will make
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: him any more pleasantly exposed to the rest of the world.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: It's tough when a young fellow like that showers on everything.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: You don't think I'm a crook? Why should I be?
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Nobody ever cooperates with me.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: That's a lie.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: They're all against me. I can't get a break anyway.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: An unpleasant situation. How do you figure that? I can't
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: get a job. I can't get a place where my
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: wife and I can live together.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: I can't get... No, no, hold on, hold on. I'll
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: show you why. Suppose I find you a job. Would
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: you take it? Sure, I'll take it.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: And if you and your wife will be satisfied with
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: a furnished room and feel something better of it.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I can take care of that, too. Interested? Sure. Wait.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: If I can have Mary here with me, Lansing. I
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: don't need your money. We'll make out somehow. Now, look,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: if you can share it with the loan, I expect
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: you to pay me back on the day.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: Thanks, Mr.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Carter. You're welcome. Thanks, Mr.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Carter. I always try to help somebody.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: When I can. Why are you doing all this for me?
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: A friend. Help him?
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, Nick, that's what you usually say with the crooks,
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: you say. You're going to get what's coming to you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, that's what I do. But this time, I'm
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: talking to a friend. Right, Ethel? Right, Mr. Carter. Oh, Jack,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: a friend is a wonderful thing to have, and.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: My story includes the list of the diamonds stolen from Mrs.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Larkin's safe, the scent of a pointed shoe in the garden,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: the telephone number that refused to answer, and the place
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: where diamonds are worth more than anywhere else in the world.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: And there was excitement, too. When our plane dropped down
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: through the fog trying to locate that ship of tears, oh,
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: I was sure my last hour had passed.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Clues and excitement, eh? Sounds like a good combination. What's
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: the name of the story next? I call it The
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Case of the Unwilling Criminals. Nick Carter, Master Detective, which
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: is produced and directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Stephen.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Smith Publications, Incorporated. Fictitious stories of.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Nick Carter appear in every issue of the Shadow Comics.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: In the broadcast of Nick Carter, Master Detective, Ron Clark
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: is starred as Nick. Charlotte Manson is featured as Patrick.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Matty is played by Ed Latimer. Waldo by Humphrey Davis.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Original music is played by George Wright. Script is by
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Peggy Mayer and Josh McGregor. Any resemblance in these programs
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: to actual persons living or dead or to actual places
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: is purely coincidental. Nick Carter, Master Detective, is presented over
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: most of these mutual stations every week at this same time.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: This is Bill Tarkin saying so long until next week.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: This program was heard in Canada through the facilities of
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: This is the Minstrel Broadcasting System.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: And so we leave Nick Carter, Master Detective, with the
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: case of the missing alarm clock. Good night and farewell
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: until the next broadcast. Follow Old Time Mystery Radio for
• 30:53
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