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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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brought to you by the financial support of our listeners. Thanks so much for
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all your support. Well, we're going we have a bit of a shift
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here and Call the Police. The last three weeks we played you the first
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three shows of the first summer replacement series of Call the Police. However,
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Call the Police was a summer replacement series, which means it could be hard
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to hold on to cast from year to year because you run the show from
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June or in some cases July through September, and then they have other projects
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they've got to get onto and those are the ones that become their focus.
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So for the second season of Call the Police, again as a summer replacement
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sponsored by Rensel and over the NBC Radio network, they couldn't get the same
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cast back with Joseph Julien in the League. Instead they got George Petrie.
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Patre was probably better known for in some ways his later radio work, where
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he as in radio's waning days. He got to starring role in BBC revival
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of Casebook of Gregory Hood and he also played the Falcon. This was the
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sixth episode of that nineteen forty eight season. It comes from Jelos six nineteen
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forty eight and it's called the Case of the Sunhower Mystery Mansion Rentso New Rento
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with Slim present, Call the Police Attention homicide section of playing Squad deten Right.
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A suspect in yoursne was in according to instruction, between you and the
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evil outside the law stands the policeman of your community. He gives up his
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work of Police Department. While Opall America Business Commissioner Bill Grant, case number
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of forty two O eight in the Ashland Police Files was a nightmare, a
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black panic. We try not to think of on moonless nights as the case
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of a SunTower mystery mansion. The case really began when Missus Potter, a
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devotee of ocultism and wealthy mistress of SunTower Mansion, hired a mystic gentleman named
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Michel Droubier to serve as a cross between a servant and a ghostly ringmaster.
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This I knew was unhealthy stuff. It didn't become my business until a few
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months later, one ugly, rainy night. At the night Missus Potter returned
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from a European junket on hand to meet the train was, of course our
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boy, the mystico Michel and mister pat he get over New York, he'll
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begin in the morning. He will not be keep when he gets here.
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Michel, you look gift. He'll win. The night after you went away,
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I made a mistakes. I was lonely, and that enormous house civil.
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It was natural that I should want to talk to our friends, but
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I was guilty of some fiddle overside. Suddenly and there was an infernal music
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and laughter. And then as I stood trembling, a throne of skulls manifested
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in the center of the room, and there there he sat. Oh,
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I think the master of darkness himself. I remembered the exhaustation of ousambi bad
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bad magisters in his boots. I shot at those words, and the room
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was suddenly empty. Thank you, but all, Oh, it is not
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well. I do not think the house is a safe place for you.
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Civil Oh what have we done? What have we done? We will talk
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about it inside. Come. There must be some way, somehow of undoing
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the harm. Yeah, I'm sorry. The key to the front door,
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I've left it inside. You go on ahead. I will let myself into
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the cellar and open the door for you. You won't belong will you here?
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Will it end? Where will it end? He'll want me, he
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said. Dealing with beyond is dangerous. Some day you'll discover too late.
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What was that? Michelle? Michele, michell? Oh? Thank haven't you
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hello? It isn't you? Go? No? Let me well. I
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had a holiday yesterday, same as you. We've spent most of the day
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at the beach. But first my wife said she wanted to do her regular
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Monday rensel washed and what's more, she wanted my help. Well, you
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know, I got a big kick out of it, and I found out
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part of the wealthy addict of occultism. Was driven home from the station by
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our mystic suit sayer and servant, Michael Bruge. Half an hour later,
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she was found strangled at death in the hallway of her enormous home by a
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passer by or had hurt her Earth friending scream that was the beginning, but
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there was more to come, lots more all bad, as I discovered as
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soon as Libby and I walked into SunTower Mansion as the body commissioner. And
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so I see, Dad, you're the gentleman who heard missus Potter's cries came
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in to investigate. Yes, I happened to be passing by. I'm a
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doctor in the name Robert Martin. Any details, Doctor Martin? The woman
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was obviously strangled, marks in her throat fast and taught it making no Libby,
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if you'd like to have me make an official report of headquarters? What's
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this commissioner? Now? Looks Ola Bruger. The matter? Mister Bruger run
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into a strong arm spook man has hurt whoever attacked him meant to kill?
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It went on everywhere year What missus putta whom? I We've got? The
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key? Who went into the cellar? Where's mister Potter in New York?
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Staid over? Not expected back until the morning. We're going through the cellar
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to let her in. I started to up the steps. She was calling
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my name, and and then from somewhere something hit me and I I lost
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consciousness. Is she all right? Not exactly, But it's a matter BETI
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she on the far in front of you dead, no stained, I think
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it was genuine shock. But it was doctor, I'm up reviving. Yes,
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let me, yes, let's take a walk. I want to get
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this monkey house. The once over. Levy and I had worked our way
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through a dozen massive hallways and up and down as many massive staircases getting nowhere,
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but lost the sound from very nearby stopped us in our tracks. What's
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that? I thought this joint was empty? What is that? Bill will
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soon find out? What's the idea? What does this mean? Why?
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I? Oh, Commissioner Grant? Well if it isn't mister GF. Potter
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unpacking his expensive luggage, Come money, let be What are you doing here?
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I'll tell you if you tell me? This is my home? Rumor
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had it that you were in New York? Rumors? Correct? I was.
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I just got in went a few minutes ago. What time? What
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is? What time? Did you train get in at? At eleven fifteen?
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I just arrived from the station, Senior wife. Since you got in,
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no, I came in quietly through the eight entrance. I didn't want
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to disturb her. Where do you think she is? When she got in
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a couple of hours before I did. She's probably in her bedrooms sleeping peacefully.
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He's on the drawing room floor, GF. And she's dead. What's
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murdered, Corroberatidy, Your wife has been murdered. They I commend commisners for
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sure. Potter. This is doctor Martin. He discovered your wife's body.
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I just wanted to report that Michel Brouyet is coming around good. And one
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other item I put out official aspiration, And when I removed his coat for
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the purpose, this fell out a letter. Under the circumstances, it seems
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a little bizarre post mark three weeks ago far in stamp interesting. Mister Potter
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has just returned from Europe. Let's see it, grant eyes chalm, My
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dear bruget, I'm aware of a romantic relationship between you and my wife.
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You may think I will overlook this affront, but I assure you that I
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will avenge it if it means death for both of you. Signed g F.
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Potter, give me that sorry and annoy your gerald. But you wrote
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it with your own little hands, and you kept your word. Who Yeah,
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is alive by the skin of his teeth and a little over an hour
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ago. You murdered your wife. You're insane? Why my train didn't get
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in until eleven fifteen? Hello? Yes, yes, oh, I see
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what time was that? Sure, you're I'll tell him in thing, Tell
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who mister Potter that the airline is holding the briefcase that he left aboard the
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plane. What plane was that? The one that arrived from New York at
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six thirty? To see me? Well, GF, what's the answer to
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that one? Before I turned around, Potter was making tracks from the open
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door of the terrace. I gave chase. He turned and let me have
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both feet and a solar send me crashing back to the water house. A
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require was too much fun, howling like a horrified bandshe Potter lay still where
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he fell. We went down to the drive below and heard doctor Martin's diagnosis,
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just a broken rid, Commissioner, you're sure that's alone. I'm absolutely
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certain Doctor Martin accompanied has newly made patient of the city hospital, where his
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rib would heal under the watchful eye of a guardian of the law. The
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sergeant and I proceeded to the International Airline terminal to claim Potter's briefcase is material
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evidence. While we were driving back, Bruide was beginning to feel a little
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better at Suntwer House, and Libby was doing some unrequested over time n officially,
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mister Buller, I think you know a lot more than you said.
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On the other hand, I don't think that you're guilty. You are right
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both times. Then who are you shielding? Of course, if you don't
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want to talk. Do you believe in the powers of evil in this world
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or the next? Either one? I believe in them in this world?
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And how do you see about them? I hate? Are you sure?
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Look, mister Bruyer, I only took up police work because I thought it
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was the best way I knew of to protect the rights of decent people.
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Very well, I shall tell you tell me this murder was actually the work
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of the men named the fair, yes and murderer and villain from my native
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island of Ali in the can Where is he now? Where Where is you
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in that bring special? N he is Emprywhere? Listen? What monthday?
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No? No, you're not getting longer enough, long enough, Let me
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go, Let me go. Fee. Five minutes later, when Mat,
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Joe and I walk into headquarters. Hello, Hello, oh, hello,
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delil Letty, Hello, Letty Letty, how oh, hello, Lebby,
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yank match you along on the double back at Santa House much have taken The
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model escalated three leaps, and then I stood on the doorway of the second
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floor bedroom Bill Bill No, I saw Libby on her hands and knees,
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dragging herself toward me, literally over the dead buddy, Michel Doulie. I'm
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it on wash day, say soapy rich new rensel. And the second murder
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occurred, and Michel Bruyer was found strangled to death, and Suntar mentioned we
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got to Libby out of the joint fast back at headquarters. She began to
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talk to Maggio and me incoherently at first, and then Ryer was just telling
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me that the murder was committed by someone named lay. Wait a minute,
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there's a thing in the paper by a guy named Lafevre. What about him.
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He's a guy who's running for president in an island in the Caribbean.
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Got the article just a second. Oh, here there's page three where yeah,
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and July three, Evan la Fever has announced his candidacy for president to
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replace the late manual the girl recently assassinated by the Araus population. It couldn't
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be the same with favor. He's two thousand miles from here. Go ahead
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to be Bruje you mentioned with one. Suddenly there was this music, this
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wild, unreal music, and the heavy panting of a drum and people laughing
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down below? What people laughing down below? No? People? The place
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was empty. What are you telling this, miss Tyler? What happened?
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Just what happened? I can't explain it any more than you can. What
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was that? Come in? I just dropped by a Commiss nerve to say
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that our patient is conscious and under police Garden City Hospital. Potter, Yes,
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I just left him. He couldn't have slipped out about forty five minutes
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ago. No, definitely not. Then that let's Potter out? Sure?
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Sure does Tavious. What we're dealing with here? Ghosts? Goblins? Joe?
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Yeah, go out and brought up a witch doctor ian him the case.
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Get a real lallapalozo with a two headed mask. If I might suggest,
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h I I was going to say that, since we all know that
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ghosts don't exist, we might make a simple assumption in this case. I
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mean, somebody could be rigging up a ghost scare, possibly, though I
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can't imagine the reason. The reason. Could there be anything valuable at Suntar
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House, Doctor Martin, Yes, there's Potter well enough to have a little
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conversation. Yes he is, Okay, let's get to the hospital. He's
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the boy to give us the answers. You better talk, Potter. If
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you didn't tell your wife you intended to. Somebody had gotten the sibyl before
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you, and you gave us that funny timetable Alibia because you were scared.
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But I I've told you all I know, Commissioner. But there's nothing of
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peculiar value at Suntar House, I absolutely certain, Potter. Yes, yes,
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there's nothing in any of the rooms that we know about rooms you know
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about What does that mean? Well, there's some lost space and Suna House.
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That's all grant, that's all, is it? That's all? Come
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on, Come on, Well, we rebuilt the right wing and the architect
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did a sloppy job and left a foot or so the floor space out of
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the new blueprint. It was really a better house the way it was,
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and we bought it from him from him from who a foreign chap named something
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like l Fane. Yes, well, yes, that's it, Edmund la
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Febre. He was somewhere from the Caribbean, the island of Hanai. I
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believe I made a bee line for the original architect at Suntar House and came
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away with the blueprints, burning the ten o'clock oil with compass and slide rule.
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I finally scared Maggie out of a year's ago. There it is,
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there, it lays, I, holy, don't compare my ever loving Watton.
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A fast glance portrays that there's a discrepancy yielding US four and a half
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feet of unaccounted floor space in the attic reaches of Suntar House. Come to
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the mansion. Come on, wait, I get my car. I don't
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need it. My guns inside. I got a gun, went after that
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attic arm with axe and crowbar and started tapping for hollow sounds. Maggio took
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the front wall. I took the rear, and then Maggio, X,
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what are you from? We'll soon know. Look at it, crumble sergeant,
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he ask me, this is it? Have a look. It's the
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four and a half feet between the real outer wall and his phony partition.
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It's very nice, chief on it. It's as empty as the biggest hat
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in Edinburgh. You notice, I notice. I also notice it's papered,
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so value of those can come in very small parcels. Magio start ripping the
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wallpaper off wherever it looks a little loose. As you say, commission it
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Hey, yeah, that's what miss Tylers. You let him have a picnic
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down there. Start up. I can't stop us now, ain't got an
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angle. Lend me a gun and you keep looking. What are you gonna
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do? Fire a shot and see if they don't break up the celebration.
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I kept working over the wallpaper while Magio went out to the head of the
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stairs. You fire that shot down into the darkness. I waited. The
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music was still, and then two shots came up out of the darkness,
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and Maggio staggered into the room, empty handed and gripping his right arm.
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Chief, Chief, mat you it's coming coming, someone that's come out to
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stairs. What is it? Sun? My gun? Where's my gun?
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The stick case? When I got hurt me, Hey, this is really
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and there was a dark figure in the doorway. I reached reflectively for the
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gun that wasn't in my holster, found my flash light and turned it on
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the shadowy mouse. You will be wise enough to respect the gun. I
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trust you could miss with the lightning right oddly with six bullets, Commissioner,
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and the logic in what you say, Doctor Martin. By the way,
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I just located the valuable with a roll of sixteen millimeter film plastered behind the
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wallpaper where the former tenant, mister Lefevre left it. I will take it,
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please. What's this thing? Worth? Martin? Bruyer evidently considered it
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pretty important. He started a ghost scare here at Suntwer House to keep people
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away while he searched. But Bruyer did is none of my business? Arrivals.
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Weren't you both after this little roll of film for reasons of your own?
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You're only an agreement. At one point the ghost scare was a very
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useful smoke screen, a hocus pocus worked with records and a public address system
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film. But essentially you and Brulier were mortal political enemies. You must have
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been. You kill him when he was about to enlist Libby and the police
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on his side. I have no time to talk. You also kill missus
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Potter to keep her from intruding on this vital hunting ground. But one point
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I don't get. Why did you enlist the services of the police. I
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needed official help. I needed it badly enough. Take the risks involved.
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I had to get those architects, Prince and look at the missing room Walkington
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to discover that I am here without a visa. And you wanted me to
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wind up your unfinished business, just as you have done. And now,
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if you don't want to be the last business I finished, give me the
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film not a chance? Very well, play it your own way. Best
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wishes the grant. Well, well, who was it, Santa Claus?
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Oliver Tyler? Did I chill him? Bill? No, it just knocked
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his artillery. I'm out of commission. Good news. I got better news.
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Angel, you didn't kill me. As soon as Maggio came around.
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Levy and I ran the sixteen millimeter films throw in a private projection voot.
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There were documentary proof of Lafevre's intimate association with certain rootless elements in Hanai enough
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to kill his chances for elections. Broyer was after the film to squelch Lafevre's
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chances. Martin, on Lafevre's payroll, was in this country to destroy the
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film. So no, what happens? Phil Michel wins Levi a mystical man
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of goodwill? How do you mean we shipped the film to Hanai tomorrow and
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the mystery zoof except for one thing? How did you manage to appear just
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in time? Oh? Yeah, yeah, Well I got on to Martin.
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I contacted the New York Medical Association, found out there was no listing
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at all for a doctor Robert Martin, and I came looking for you,
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very sly little lady. And what do we get for it in the end,
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a movie, at least a free movie. All it lacked a lot.
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Who's the chance a finish? You know, a moment when the guy
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and the gal stands face to face and he murmurs something sentimental and then draws
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her to him. Bill, Please, and what's the matter, sweetheart.
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I'm only trying to show you what I mean by a lovely finish. Bill,
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Oh, Bill, Commissioner Grant will be back in just a moment.
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With the Call of Police. Award a Feller this week, presented to a
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police officer who drove his motorcycle headlong into a hail of bullets to capture three
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Grant. Tonight we present the Call of Police Plaque Valor and a cash award
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the motorcycle officer Robert C. Mayor of Los Angeles, California. While on
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traffic duty in downtown Los Angeles, Officer Mayor picked up a radio police call
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alerting all units to a bank hold up at Eighth in Vermont. Wheeling his
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motorcycle, he roared in the direction of the robbery. Several blocks from the
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bank. Mayors spotted the hold up car as it careened around a corner.
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It's getting crazily. For a half block, it crashed against the wall.
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The three bandits leaped out and, using the overturned car as a barricade,
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opened fire on the radio car number seventy one, which had led the chase.
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Mayor wrote his motorcycle directly into the hail of bullets. Then he too
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opened fire. A bitch gun battle lasted for several minutes. Before two of
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the robbers went down severely wounded himself. Officer Mayor apprehended all three gunmen.
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His high courage in face of direct fire, his resolute fortitude, and gallant
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devotion to tute are in keeping with the highest tradition of the police forces of
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America. Congratulations to Motorcycle Officer Robert C. Mayer, Chief C. B.
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Harrow and the entire police force of Los Angeles, California. Dark victory
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This is actually the first episode of Call the Police i'd heard. In
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fact, it used to be old time radio Researchers group. They have something
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called a Singles and Doubles collection. You can look it up sometime. It
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basically contains shows kind of as the name implies, there's really only one or
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two episodes out there. Well, of course Call the Police is up to
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five, but this was in that collection. The first time I heard it,
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I got an impression. I'm not certain, you know. Obviously it
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wasn't what they were going for because the program I thought of hadn't existed yet.
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But it reminded me of Scooby Doo. All right. I think on
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second listening there's a little bit more international intrigue than you would get in an
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average episode of Scooby Doo. So I'll maybe revise my remarks ever so slightly,
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but still still had a little bit of that feel to it. Well,
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we actually only have one more episode to call the police and it'll be
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next week's show. Well, I hope you will be with us. Then
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