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Nick Carter: The Case of the Littlest Gangster (EP1662) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 1: Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time for today's
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  Speaker 1: episode of Nick Carter. The original air date May thirtieth
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen forty eight, and it's the Case of the
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  Speaker 1: Littlest Gangster You.
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  Speaker 2: Post War Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for Chasing dirt, presents
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  Speaker 2: Nick Carter, famous for chasing crime every week at this time,
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  Speaker 2: two great names I joined as new Post War Old
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  Speaker 2: Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and
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  Speaker 2: daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
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  Speaker 3: But Nick, there's no way of telling which boy did it.
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  Speaker 3: They were all shooting at once.
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  Speaker 4: That's the point. Pat said. They were all in on it,
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  Speaker 4: and legally they're all good guilty.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, Nick, not Bubbs, maybe the others.
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  Speaker 4: That's see, I'm afraid the law won't make any distinction
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  Speaker 4: in his case.
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  Speaker 5: You mean that if one of the others fired that
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  Speaker 5: shot and Bubbs didn't even know it he's guilty.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, technically he's guilty of murder at the age of twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Now the Case of the Littlest Gangster Today's adventure starring
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  Speaker 2: Lon Clark as Nick Cutter. Drop Till You Buy new,
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  Speaker 2: post war old Dutch cleanser. A fleshy, cream colored convertible
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  Speaker 2: is parked along a dark street in the poorer section
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  Speaker 2: of the city, with two small figures crouched in the
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  Speaker 2: front seat talking in whispers.
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  Speaker 7: Bubbs, will you quit chewing that bubblegum in my ear
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  Speaker 7: and hand me that.
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  Speaker 3: Piece of wire? Okay, Tim, but do you think we order?
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  Speaker 3: I will be driving this hack away in a minute.
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  Speaker 3: You see me?
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  Speaker 7: Why I passed the ignition in a car before this,
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  Speaker 7: but only till we could go for a rind. We
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  Speaker 7: never stole one before. We gotta start sometime, which supposedly
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  Speaker 7: I wasn't doing nothing, mister my car, Oh you leave him?
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  Speaker 3: Go turn on long cue.
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  Speaker 4: Leave you're kick in your little sport a grand Bumbs.
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  Speaker 4: I'll learn you to pull with Moxie Reid.
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  Speaker 3: Gee you ain't Moxie Reid.
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  Speaker 4: Huh So you heard him?
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  Speaker 3: You let him go with kicking at him? Bumbs. This
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  Speaker 3: is Moxie Reid. He's big time stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Eh. I guess you do know about me?
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  Speaker 7: Honest, Moxie, we'd have never touched this crative. We hadn't
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  Speaker 7: known it was yours.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, so I don't let it happen again.
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  Speaker 3: He ain't calling the cops.
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  Speaker 8: Me and the cops ain't very friendly. But you two
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  Speaker 8: better grow up before you try lifting another cop.
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  Speaker 3: But Moxie, we gotta pull something big.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: How come we got a gang, see the East Side Scorpions,
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  Speaker 7: And we made a club room in an old empty
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  Speaker 7: house on Porter Street.
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  Speaker 3: And the place corn on fire from his cigarette or something.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just an old dump.
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  Speaker 7: But old lady Taultman, the lady across the street, she
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  Speaker 7: owns the joint, see, and she he says, if we
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  Speaker 7: don't pay two hundred dollars for the damage, she's gonna
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  Speaker 7: have us all put in reform school.
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  Speaker 4: How'd she know was your gang that'started the fire?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Oh, mister Riley's seen us coming out of the joint.
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  Speaker 7: He lives across the street too, right next door to
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  Speaker 7: and he squealed on us.
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  Speaker 4: Who just say squealed? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Man Riley, he used to be a cop tail he
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  Speaker 3: got too old.
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  Speaker 7: So yeah, now all he does is sit out on
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  Speaker 7: his front steps every night and spy on people.
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  Speaker 4: So you're gonna let a dame shake it out for
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  Speaker 4: two centuries? Eh?
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  Speaker 7: There ain't no way to stop her, Moxie. That's where
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  Speaker 7: we figured on swiping a car to get the dough.
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  Speaker 8: If it was my gang, I saw a scare and
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  Speaker 8: it was so she wouldn't dare go to the cups.
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  Speaker 8: What would you do, Moxie, I get me a ride.
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  Speaker 8: That's what I'd make sure the other guys my gang
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  Speaker 8: had him two.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, gun scares you hate?
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  Speaker 7: No, don't scare us. We've been wanting to heat her
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  Speaker 7: for a long time, ain't we, Bubbs?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure's him.
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  Speaker 8: Look if your kids really want to know how to
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  Speaker 8: handle this, all, dame be up in Mike Rapper's pool
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  Speaker 8: room someday after you get yourself some guns.
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  Speaker 5: The reason I came to see mister Carter's my Bubbs
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  Speaker 5: isn't really a bad boy.
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  Speaker 4: You know that, of course, missus Harris. No boy is
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  Speaker 4: naturally bad.
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  Speaker 3: I remember when Bubbs used to belong to the Downtown
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  Speaker 3: Boys Club. He was about ten years old then, and
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  Speaker 3: the Bubble gum champion of the blog.
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  Speaker 4: That's where they started calling in bobs, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Uh huh? He was an awfully cute youngster. He's still is,
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  Speaker 3: miss born.
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  Speaker 5: But there isn't any boys club where we live now,
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  Speaker 5: So well, he's got himself mixed up with this gang.
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  Speaker 4: A gang. He's only about twelve, isn't he?
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  Speaker 3: But the others are all older. If something doesn't have bubble,
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  Speaker 3: turn out to be just as bad as the rest
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  Speaker 3: of Maybe you're exaggerating, missus Harris. They surely didn't start
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  Speaker 3: that fire on purpose. No, but when we looked before,
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  Speaker 3: but wouldn't have leen the breaking in one empty building,
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  Speaker 3: and already they got another place for the gang to meet, deserted.
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  Speaker 3: We'rehouse over by the waterfunt somewhere.
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  Speaker 6: It's not having any place where they're allowed to meet
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  Speaker 6: and to play. The starts a lot of boys breaking
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  Speaker 6: the law.
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  Speaker 3: Oh it's that Tim Newton is the worst. Some thinks
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  Speaker 3: he's gotta be just as tough as Tim is. And
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  Speaker 3: that boy's bed all the way through.
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  Speaker 4: How old is Tim?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, fifteen? He can't be a confirmed criminal at that age.
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  Speaker 3: Jelly almost is now. But there's another hero. He keeps
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  Speaker 3: talking about a gangster name.
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  Speaker 4: Moxie read, Moxie read that is bed.
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  Speaker 3: What am I going to do, mister Connor? If somebody
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  Speaker 3: don't raise two.
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  Speaker 8: Hundred dollars to pay for the damage to that house,
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  Speaker 8: He's gonna have them all the rest.
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  Speaker 6: I'll talk to her, missus Harris, and don't you worry.
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  Speaker 6: We'll get Bob straightened out. I'm only glad you came
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  Speaker 6: to me before he got into any real trouble.
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  Speaker 4: How's that for break, Mike? You're so uptight? Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: well on should they put that one ball in the
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  Speaker 4: Connor pocket?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Moxie, Hi, Tim high aboves tell your min Hi.
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  Speaker 3: Mister reed, Hey we got them guns.
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  Speaker 8: You kids we use the back room. Mic, Yeah, sure,
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  Speaker 8: run ahead, it's white kids. You guys worked fast. They'll
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  Speaker 8: say that we had to.
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  Speaker 7: Old Lady Timman only gave us a week to raise
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  Speaker 7: a dolt one inside.
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  Speaker 3: Maxie, you said you tell us what to do next.
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  Speaker 4: I was just kidding, forget it, but you promised.
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  Speaker 7: So what.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe you'd lost up the deal and squawk to the
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  Speaker 4: cops that I told you what to do.
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  Speaker 7: We ain't no squealing. No, we didn't even tell the
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  Speaker 7: rest of again. They all think it's Tim's idea. We
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  Speaker 7: got the gun, six of them, Yeah, we got it
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  Speaker 7: into a shooting gallery after they closed up last night.
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  Speaker 4: What are they twenty two rifles?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? And we only done it because you said you
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  Speaker 3: tell us what to do next.
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  Speaker 4: Well it was me.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'd picked me up a car along about eight
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  Speaker 8: o'clock to night and drive by that old dame's house
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  Speaker 8: with a few my gang and shooter. Nah No, that's
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  Speaker 8: enough led to a front window, so she'd be scared
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  Speaker 8: of ever open a trap about me again.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, sure I get it, But Tim, what if she
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  Speaker 3: gets hurt?
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  Speaker 7: Quick beef and will and nobody's gonna get hurt. But
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  Speaker 7: maybe she will do it, Moxie, just like you said.
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  Speaker 7: And we'll do it tonight, missus Telman.
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  Speaker 6: If you'll give the boys enough time to earn the
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  Speaker 6: money to pay for the damage to your building, I'll
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  Speaker 6: personally guarantee that you get every.
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  Speaker 5: Cent, and if you have them sent away to reform school,
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  Speaker 5: you won't be able to collect anything. It is not
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  Speaker 5: the money only, mister Cupp. But someone has got to
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  Speaker 5: do something to break up these kid gangs.
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  Speaker 6: That's terribly I'm trying to do something. Think I can
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  Speaker 6: get a boys club started this neighborhood and.
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  Speaker 4: Then, believe me, it will do no good.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Cuffer, these kits is me. They smash windows.
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  Speaker 4: There still ought to move, Missus Telman, please hold off
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  Speaker 4: a few weeks before having them arrested. It's the only
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  Speaker 4: way you can be sure of getting your money.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, missus, please do that, all right, But if they
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  Speaker 5: step out of light just one more time, I said,
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  Speaker 5: every last one of those kids that I formed school.
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  Speaker 3: Now we like twist these wires together. We'll see if
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  Speaker 3: she starts.
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  Speaker 7: Tim Maybe if we went to old Lady Tillman and
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  Speaker 7: got up, I'm gonna try it. Now she works where
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  Speaker 7: we gonna pick up the other guys at the warehouse.
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  Speaker 7: Are the guns there too, Yeah, and enough bullets to
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  Speaker 7: give old Lady Tellman the scare of her life.
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  Speaker 3: Good night, Missus Telman, good night, mister good night. Good night.
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  Speaker 9: Oh well, I think we've put in a good day's work, Nate,
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  Speaker 9: I do too.
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  Speaker 4: I still want to talk to Bob.
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  Speaker 3: It's almost eight o'clock. He got to be home by now.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Let's go by there and see look at
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  Speaker 4: that car.
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  Speaker 3: Racing up the street. Isn't as Brugs leaning out the
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  Speaker 3: front window.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's Bob Choy. He he's got a rifle. Look
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  Speaker 4: out good, great, Come on, Patsy.
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  Speaker 3: They were shooting again Missus Telman's house.
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  Speaker 4: This is Taunem, this is team this Smike Carr. Are
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  Speaker 4: you all right? Missus tallman?
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  Speaker 3: I call.
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  Speaker 4: What they tried to kiss me?
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  Speaker 3: Look at my windows, look at the horse in my
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  Speaker 3: flog door.
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  Speaker 4: I'm thankful that none of the horlets hits you. I
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  Speaker 4: was afraid that. That's what's the matter.
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  Speaker 3: You come down here. The next story must have been
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  Speaker 3: hit by a stray bullet that I think he's dead.
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  Speaker 2: Only a few steps beyond the bullet riddle front door
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  Speaker 2: of Missus Telman's home lies the body of the man
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  Speaker 2: who had informed on the juvenile gang ex police Officer Riley.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what happens in just a minute. Now back
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  Speaker 2: to the case of the Littlest Gangster. Today's adventure with
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  Speaker 2: Nick Carter, brought to you by new post war old
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  Speaker 2: Dutch cleanser. Nick is examining the body of James Riley,
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  Speaker 2: lying dead on the steps of his home following a
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  Speaker 2: hail of bullets intended to frighten his neighbor, Missus Telmany.
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  Speaker 4: All right, keep back, everybody, please, The place shall be
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  Speaker 4: here in a minute. Wouldn't be right.
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  Speaker 3: It's such a nice man, not those fruitlous. Did you
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  Speaker 3: see the missing carter? Do you know who it was?
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  Speaker 4: Afraid?
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  Speaker 3: It was the boys who said prior to your building,
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  Speaker 3: Missus Telman, we recognize one of them.
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  Speaker 2: Just before the shooting, mostly too Gables.
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  Speaker 4: I said, they want no poot, They should get the
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  Speaker 4: legc chair.
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  Speaker 3: But missus, but they could not kill me.
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  Speaker 4: They should call mister.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe they did that on purpose.
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  Speaker 4: I know they did.
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  Speaker 3: It was not that him, and they was at me.
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  Speaker 4: He's the one told me this does the fire. That's
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  Speaker 4: so I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 3: It must have been an accident. They were shooting at
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  Speaker 3: the front of your house and one bullet went astray.
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  Speaker 6: Oh Patsy, I don't think it was accidental, but one
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  Speaker 6: that killed him struck the center of his foret and
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  Speaker 6: came out just behind the right ear Riley was sitting
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  Speaker 6: at the top of this flight of stairs. What difference
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  Speaker 6: does that make the difference between an accident and murder?
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  Speaker 5: But even if you're right, how can you ever find
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  Speaker 5: out which of the boys did it. They were all
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  Speaker 5: shooting at once.
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  Speaker 4: That's just the trouble, Patsy.
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  Speaker 6: When one of a group commits murder while they're all
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  Speaker 6: engaged in the crime, they're all equally guilty.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, you don't mean Bob's that baby goodies.
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  Speaker 4: The cops. Come on, Patsy, help me look for that bullet.
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  Speaker 4: It's the only chance we have to prove exactly who
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  Speaker 4: killed mister Riley right in the corner pocket. Like I said, Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 4: so I owe your four bucks.
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  Speaker 7: You gotta help Maxie the cop scene in may have
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  Speaker 7: your kids right in the back room.
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  Speaker 4: How what do you mean a cop scene.
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  Speaker 7: When we was ditching the car, we let the other
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  Speaker 7: guys out first, and then just as we were with
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  Speaker 7: the guns, they guess the cops got him.
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  Speaker 4: We left him in the car by you idiots.
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  Speaker 3: Sim shits. We gonna run away, unty'll get it. Sure, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but we doesn't make a break for a few days.
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  Speaker 10: Jah Hot, what are you coming to me for? I
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  Speaker 10: got no place to put you. We already got a place.
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  Speaker 10: Or we can hide out in our clubroom at the
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  Speaker 10: old warehouse. You'll take us there in your car. Won't you, Moxie.
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  Speaker 10: If we go out on the street, they'll get it.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, and you're gonna run away in a few days.
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  Speaker 8: Half.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, maybe that ain't a bad idea.
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  Speaker 3: Will you take it to the warehouse, Moxie?
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  Speaker 4: Will you okay? Kids, I'll do it.
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  Speaker 3: Geez, you're a real pound, Moxie. You're swell.
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  Speaker 4: Any news, Maddy. Eh, Ballistics is making the.
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  Speaker 3: Tests now, Nick, Oh what testes that, sergeant?
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  Speaker 6: They're checking the kid's rifles against the bullet that killed
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  Speaker 6: Riley to see which one fired that particular shot.
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  Speaker 4: Well you've seen, Pats, Everyone of the rifles is covered
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  Speaker 4: with fingerprints. Uh huh.
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  Speaker 6: And when we know which gun killed Riley, we'll know
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  Speaker 6: which kid did it. No sign of Tim and Bubbs yet,
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  Speaker 6: huh No, Nick, But we rounded up the other fourilers
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  Speaker 6: in the car and we'll have them too before long.
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  Speaker 3: I still say it was an accident, a stray bullet.
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  Speaker 6: Look, Patsy, don't make no difference. They were committing a
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  Speaker 6: crime when it happened, so that makes it murder.
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  Speaker 4: Maddy.
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  Speaker 6: I don't go along with that stray bullet theory. Oh
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  Speaker 6: they're probably right, Nick, And if Riley was killed deliberately.
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  Speaker 4: I'll bet Tim Newton was the one that did it.
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  Speaker 3: Why Tim, Sergeant, I've.
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  Speaker 6: Been told he was plenty sore at Riley for telling
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  Speaker 6: the old lady the boys started that firing the building
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  Speaker 6: of hers across the streets.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm not surprised at that.
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  Speaker 6: Another reason I think Tim did it is because the
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  Speaker 6: other boys all said that shooting up Missus Tellman's home
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  Speaker 6: was his idea.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder if it was Maddy. I you think the
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  Speaker 4: you think the kids are lying? No, my bubbs' mother
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  Speaker 4: said he and Tim had been hanging around Moxie Read lately.
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  Speaker 4: He maybe you got something, Nick. Moxie's just the kind
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  Speaker 4: of a guy to put ideas like that in the
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  Speaker 4: kid's mind.
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  Speaker 3: Say, who is this Moxie Read? Anyway?
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  Speaker 6: Pass a few years ago, he wasn't much different from
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  Speaker 6: Tim Newton, but he's developed into a first class rap
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  Speaker 6: a cheap gangster. Now, wait a minute, I wouldn't say cheap, Nick.
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  Speaker 6: He's getting plenty a dome from somewhere, or he wouldn't
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  Speaker 6: be able to run around.
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  Speaker 4: That big cream colored convertible he's got. And you can't
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  Speaker 4: get anything on him, man, Nah, No, not lately huh.
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  Speaker 6: You know about seven years ago we tagged him for
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  Speaker 6: a stick up over on the Hey, that's funny.
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  Speaker 4: We'll talk about coincidences.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, what's funny, Sergeant.
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  Speaker 4: The guy that hung that rap on Moxie was Riley,
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  Speaker 4: the man who was killed.
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  Speaker 3: What.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he used to be a cop before he retired.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: Is hey, Riley was the one who arrested Moxie. Reid.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Sure it was his testimony that sent Moxie up. That's
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: what I've been looking for, Madie. Somebody who had reason
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: to hate Riley, somebody beside the kids.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: He acts an idea, Nick, Moxie might have got the
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: kids to shoot up Missus Tellman's home and got one
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: of them to bump off Riley by telling him it
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: would look like an accident and nobody could ever prove which.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: One did it. Yeah, I could have been that way, Maddy.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: But homicide Sergeant Mathison speaking, Oh yeah, yeah, what did
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: you find out?
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Is it the report from ballistics?
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Uh? Huh, yeah, go ahead, malloy, It it wasn't. But
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: what it had to be? Oh you sure you didn't
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: make no mistake?
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: I know, but.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, thanks. It's a matter of many
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: you know what, Nick, some of them six guns we
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: found in the kid's car killed Riley. Good. But what
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: do you mean good?
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: It only proves that one of those kids knew he
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: was gonna kill Riley. That's why he took the gun
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: away and hit it so he couldn't identify it.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: It may change your mind.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: After we talked to Tim and Bubbs, well, well, we
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: ought to pick him up before long.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Do you want me to give you a ring when
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: we find him?
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: No?
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: No, I don't want to sit around and wait. I'm
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: going out look for myself. Okay. The meantime, I suggest
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: you have some of your boys bring in Moxie Reid.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Our club rooms right at the top of these stairs.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: Moxie, you sure nobody will come looking around in here?
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: Hi, this while warehouse ain't been used for years. They
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: condemned it or something.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Where's the room your kids are gonna hide out in?
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: It's this door.
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: We got a padlock on it, so's if anybody ever
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: did come in here, they wouldn't swipe any of our stuff.
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: You got the key, Tim, Sure I got it right here. Moxie,
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: you've been a great guy and we ain't ever gonna
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: forget it. Yeah, it was just like you belonged to
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: our game.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Sure, even coming down there to help us out. Told
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: lady Tillman, tell us what are you talking about? And
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: you wasn't even gonna tell us. We wouldn't have known
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: what a swell.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: Pad you are.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: If Bobs hadn't looked up.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: And seen you.
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: It was swell seeing your standing in that window across
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: the street, pumping let into the old lady's front door,
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: just like we was.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: So you saw me that.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't tell the other guys.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: That's good. I'll get in that room.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Come on, Bubbs, Tim, I I think I changed my mind.
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: Huh.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: If I was to run away, well, I did gift
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: of our kill my mom. I'd rather go to the
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: reform school.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Are you nuts? Getting side there?
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: I can't. I'm going back home.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: You're going in that room?
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Hey, what's the idea hit a little kid like that?
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: You're too stupid, Moxie.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Don't like the doorway.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: So long? Once? It's been nice knowing.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: I think we've been driving along the waterfront for almost
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: an hour. Isn't it time to give up and go home?
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: I guess so, Patsy, that's my mother sent the boys
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: at a clump room in some deserted warehouse in this district.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Seemed the logical place for them to hide out.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's so dark down here now you can't
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: even tell which ones are deserted.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: I was hoping we'd find him on the street. This
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: is where they came, though it much as how they
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: got here first.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: We can come back again in the morning.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Hit messy. Look at that car up ahead.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Why it's a big.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Cream colored convertible like the one Sergey Madison said, Nxy
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: Reid owned.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: If I'm not mistaken, that's Moxie getting ready to drive off.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Are you sure?
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: No, But I'm gonna cut in the head of him
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: and find out. Hey, what's the big idea? Hey?
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Right where you are?
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Mate? Thought, I recognize you. What do you want to
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: give me a medal? No, just want to have a
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: little talk with you, if you don't mind.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: What do you like us in here for? Tim? I
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: want to go home our quick blubbering? Will you gontchoo?
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: You a bubblegum? I lost it someplace, Okay, so quit
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: crying anyway. I ain't gonna let nothing happen to you.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: There'll be plenty of people working around this neighborhood in
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: the morning. If we yell out enough, somebody will come
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: and let us out. I want to get out, now,
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: Why you can't? We could yet our lungs out, nobody'd
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: hear us, So shut up, Tim, Tim, do you smell something?
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Huh hey, I think I do. It smells like smoke.
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: He did smoke, Yeah, and it's stronger over here by
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: the holy counter building must be on fire.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: What are we gonna do? We gotta get out, we can't.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: The doors lock cow let us out. Somebody forget it
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: out of here.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: We'll be found out, hoping against hope that someone will
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: hear them. The two boys pound helplessly against the heavy
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: locked door. We'll see what happens in just a minute now,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: for the conclusion of the case of the Littlest Gangster,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Today's adventure with Nick.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Carter, drop to you by new post war old Dutch cleanser.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Unaware that Timid Bubbs are locked in a burning warehouse
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: in the deserted waterfront district.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Patsy listens as Nick questions, Moxy Reid, I want to
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: know where those two kids are.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: Read. I don't know what kids you're talking about Oh yes,
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: you do him Newton and Bubbs Harris. I ain't seen
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: him in two or three days. Okay, just a minute, Maxy,
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: you chew gum? No, and I don't go for all
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: they suckers either doing gum stuck to your trousers leg
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: and from the color, I'd say it was bubble gum.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Does that mean something?
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: Nick, Bubb's Harris got his nickname because he's always chewing
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: bubble gum.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: I bet this was some of his. See it hasn't
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: even begin to dry out yet. Not lots of kids
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: chew bubble gum. I might have picked it up any place.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: And when we find you up here the neighborhood where
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: we expected to find Bubbs and Tim, I think that
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: gum means a whole lot.
• 23:19
  Speaker 9: Nick.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Look across the street.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Those windows warehouses on fire, passion, you better turn into alarm.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: There's a box run in front of.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: The warehouse, right Nick, I'll get it.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: What I got a date, I've got it. What's your hair?
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: And getting out of him? I mean, I gotta go
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: up and that you wouldn't know anything about that fire?
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Would you? Now watch yourself? I'm gonna start up. You're
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: not going anywhere, Marx, So you're staying here to I
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: f I know what making you so jittery all of
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: a sudden? Why you? I'll you want to play? Do
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: you for hot?
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: You like that?
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Oh cool? That's the small hearted than I thought? Yeah, hell, Nick, Yes,
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: what is a passage?
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: Just if I turned the alarm?
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Nick, I thought I heard someone in the building.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Listen, I'll bet that's the boys. You've got to save them, Nick, Yeah,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: take my handcuffs, fasten.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: Mocks into the steering wind of the car, and I'm
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: going after those boys before they point of death.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: Tim, Tim Bubbs, where are you this door? It's flocked?
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: Can you open it?
• 24:21
  Speaker 11: All right?
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Stand out of the wake. I'm gonna try to break
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: it down.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: I think it gave a little Try it again, all right?
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: I was afraid nobody's coming?
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: Never mind, never mind? Where's Bubbs over there on the floor?
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: He passed out from the smoke. Okay, I'll carry him.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Come on next.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Look, flames are coming up the stairs. We can't get
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: out that way.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Is there another way out of here?
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: Tim?
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Hit some windows at the back. Maybe we can jump.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Quick, show me the way. I'll follom with Bubbs. There's
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: no time to lose.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: How's your ankle?
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Neck? You stop wearing Patsy. It's all right.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: I guess you were lucky at that to get off
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: with only a sprained ankle after jumping out of a
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: second story window.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: For one, For that pile of trash I landed on,
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: it might have been worse.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, And if Bubbs hadn't come too before we jumped,
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: it would have been very much worse.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: I'm glad neither of the kids was hurt, you know, yet,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: what's going to happen to them?
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: I think I'll be able to get him a suspended sentence,
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: depending on their future good behavior.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Of course.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: Well, now that the boys club is a certainty, their
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: behavior shouldn't be any problem.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: I think they've learned their lesson that since they'll never
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: admire gangsters again after the way Moxye treated them.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: U you never did tell me how you figured out
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: that Moxie killed mister Riley.
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: I didn't know it was Moxy, but I was pretty
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: sure Riley hadn't been shot by one of the boys
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: in that car. Why because anyone shooting from a car
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: wouldn't have had the gun more than five feet above
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: street level, and Riley was sitting on the top step,
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: his head at least eight feet above street level. Well,
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: the bullet went into the center of his forehead and
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: came out behind his right ear, traveling a downward course.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: I see, if it had been fired from the car,
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: the bullet would have traveled upward right.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: That's why I thought the bullet might have come from
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: the second or third story of that empty building across
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: the street.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: It did too, That's where Bob saw Moxy, but the.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Boys thought he was helping them. Frighten missus. Tellman, they
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: didn't even know Riley had been shot until I told
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: him so.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: That's why Moxy tried to kill the boys by setting
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: that warehouse on fire, because he knew.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: They'd seen him.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: See, Moxye had hated Riley ever since Riley sent him
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: up to the penitentiary for that stick up seven years ago. Yeah,
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: and when the boys told him of their trouble with
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: a woman to live next door, and also that Riley
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: sat on on the front steps of his house every night, Well,
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: it looked like a perfect setup for murder.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Well, I still don't see how you could ever have
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: proved it, though. If Moxie hadn't confessed.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: We were lucky to get the proof first, and he
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: confessed later. Wasn't hard once we knew what to look for.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: He found the dealer from whom Moxy bought a twenty
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: two rifle exactly like the one he knew the boys
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: were gonna use, and later we found the gun itself.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: So it wasn't such a perfect setup after all.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: Well not for murder, but as far as Marchie was concerned,
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: it turned out to be a perfect setup for the
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: electric chair.
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