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Easy Money: Football Pool Racket (EP1378) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This
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Well, now we turn to this week's new series, Easy Money. Throughout
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much of the history of radio and motion pictures, the focus of crime movies
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was on murders. Maybe with a few robberies thrown in, you wouldn't really
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find serious crime stories told about lesser crimes. As a general rule, murder
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was thought to be more exciting and more interesting. However, Dragnett had success
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even in the earlier going with episodes that focused on particular rackets, such as
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the obituary racket. In nineteen fifty, CBS launched an entire television series dedicated
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to fighting confidence games. It was called Racket Squad and it aired over CBS
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in original programs from nineteen fifty one to fifty three and actually was nominated for
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two Primetime Emmys. The series focused on a wide variety of different con games
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that would afflict people, and in some ways it served a great educational purpose,
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as criminals had gotten very sophisticated, far more than the average person of
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the time. There was even a Racket Squad in action comic book that told
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four to five stories, each exposing a different sort of racket. Some of
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them were relatively pennyante like, explaining how some people might conic cashier into getting
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extra change, some cases cheating them out of less than a dollar, which
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almost makes me stay algic. If that was a big enough problem to address
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in a comic book, that'd be great today. However, one of the
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most interesting programs to come out of this racket busting era was a program called
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Easy Money that aired over NBC Radio. Starred Larry Haynes as Mike Trent,
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a magician turn detective focused on exposing rackets, particularly those in regards to gambling,
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although we do have one episode where he addresses a non gambling con The
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series ran from nineteen fifty four to fifty five and was one of a long
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line of programs NBCs tried out but ultimately turned out to be one season wonders.
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And this one, I think truly is a wonder. And we have
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the first episode of Easy Money. Original air date October third, nineteen fifty
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four, and this one is the Football Pool Racket Night. The National Broadcasting
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Company presents the first program in a new series exposing the inside secrets of gamblers,
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racketeers, and con men. It's called easy Money. Easy money.
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There's no such thing as easy money. That's the opinion of Mike Trent,
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the famous magician who turned detective to break the easy money rackets wide open.
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Mike Trent is the man who knows all the answers when it comes to confidence
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games and gambling frauds. Tonight, he has a story that's going to blow
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off the lid on the football pool swindle. Here he is Mike Trent,
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Thank you the Court. In a sports minded country of ours. Almost all
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of us have had experience with making up our own pool on football, baseball,
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of boxing. It's a small time, harmless amusement. But there's another
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kind of pool, and that's the big time football pool, a nationwide lottery
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based on the scores of the leading games each week. Well, getting inside
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of this kind of a pool has always been a tough problem. These pools
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are big business, with a network of straw bosses out front and the headman,
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whose identity is a mighty well kept secret. I had the luck who
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could have bad, to get a personal invitation to meet one of these football
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lottery kingpins. It came suddenly and surprisingly. One day, while I was
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in my office with Patsy Ryan, a little Irish whirlwind who runs my office
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and occasionally he tries to run me as well, she was typing a letter
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when all of a sudden she said, Mike, with your reputation as a
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detective, why do you have to take the kind of cases you do?
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What's wrong with the kind of cases I take? Patsy? I like to
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help people get their money back when they've been jipped, But the people you
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have to associate with, there is nothing wrong with my clients, Patsy,
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They've just been trapped by easy money bait. Can almost anybody. I'm not
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talking about your clients. Oh I feel sorry for most of them. If
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your work keeps you constantly around gangsters, hulus, cheap racketeers. Well,
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what kind of a detective would I have to be to hobknob exclusively with the
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upper crust. Well, I don't know any other detective who never brushes up
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against honest, respectable people. Oh really, Mike, you're clever enough to
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handle bigger things, Patsy. Do you know any detective who makes more money
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than I do or charges his clients list? Now that's not the point.
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Money. Money isn't everything. No, no, it isn't. But well,
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I get a lot of satisfaction from helping my clients, Patsy, getting
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their money back for him, money they can't afford to lose. But I
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like to teach racketeers a lesson, Patsy. There's only one way you can
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hear a racketeer without killing him, and that's hitting him in the pocketbook.
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Now, my clients aren't ever crooks. They Well, how do you do
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something I can do for you? Gentlemen? Yeah? Yeah, we got
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a case for you. Oh okayse what kind of a case? Well,
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this is what at Lenny. The boss said, he do the talking.
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Look, Trent, there's a lot of doing this. You'll make plenty.
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Come on, come on where to see the boss? He wants a conference
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with you. It's a real big business type stuff a conference. Oh but
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just who is the boss? Shart up, Lenny, he said, don't
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spill nothing, but no buts. You heard him say, bring Trent and
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anybody else happens to be in his office. No rough stuff. He can
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help it, but bring him and don't tell him nothing. Remember any sure
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orders? I come on, both of you the game two? But no
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orders, both of you come on? Well just wait. Do you think
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you're going to talk me into going to the bars? As to your going
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with us? And we ain't talking you into it. We're taking you no
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ugh stuff if we can help it. Yes, but I presume that bulge
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in your pocket isn't a sling shot. It's a thirty eight only I won't
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use it any Well, if you'll give me a guarantee on that, I
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don't think i'll go with you. I won't use it. Lenny takes care
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of the rough stuff with his fists. You want to try him? No
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thanks, But what's this all about anyway? But the boys, Lenny,
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let the bus do the turquin? You ready? Uh? I don't tell
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us. There's no reason why miss Ryan should be forced to go along orders.
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I don't mind at all. Michael. Really, if your clients weren't
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such lovely people, it would be different. But they're always such upright,
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respectable citizens. I'd love to go with. You can't tell me this is
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where we're stalking. You like it, Lenny? Why? It's one of
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the most beautiful country estates I ever saw in my life. And I thought
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we were involved with gangsters. Michael, I apologize. Apparently you have a
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very high class client here, a lady. We ain't gageous. Never mind
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what we got. The boss will tell him what he wants him to know.
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Come on, get out here. He comes now to meet this.
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This is fantastic. Just as I make up my mind we've been kidnapped by
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Hulum, we pull up at this gorgeous estate and that handsome elderly man comes
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down the lawn to greet us. Go there are boss, Well, well,
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good afternoon, mister Trent's delighted to meet you. I've heard so much
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about your work. I'm happy you accepted my invitation. Invitation, won't you
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introduce me to the charming young lady, mister Trent. She's quite welcome here.
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I'll assure you any friend of yours quite a charming way you'll pick your
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weekend guests. Mister Oh, how stupid of me. I haven't introduced myself
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at Carvell Barton H. Carvell and the young lady, mister Trent. Oh,
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miss Patsy Ryan, Well, so glad you could come, Miss Ryan.
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You're going to enjoy your stay here. I'm sure just how long am
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I invited for? Oh? That ready, irish, I've always so admired
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it. But won't you come up to the house. We can talk much
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more freely there, and you must be very tired after your rife. Sorry,
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mister Carvell. I don't know what your game is, but I don't
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think I'm having anything. Oh now, mister Trent, please try not to
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be difficult. I need a most respectable and conventional life here. I try
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to keep my employees from using any kind of violence. Won't you please cooperate?
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You want them up at the house right away? Don't you, boss?
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Oh no, now now, Grabs, try to remember that these people
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are our guests. We want them to feel welcome well, so don't use
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any not unless but then that's right, Grabs. And I'll wait a minute,
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mister Trent. I'm so glad you understand well this way? Please?
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Now what's this all about? Carvell? Don't get it? And why don't
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you Gorilla's forceless Ryan to come with me. She happened to be in your
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office. She might have caused trouble in my business. I don't take any
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chances, Trent. Or just what is your business? Are you acquainted with
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football pools? Mister Trent? You mean the gambling racket where the customer pays
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a dollar for a ticket with a combination of football or baseball teams and a
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score and the high score for the week winds surprize. H precisely rather roughly
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stated, but you do grasp the basic elements, mister Trent. I own
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the King Midas Football and Baseball Pool, a big business typhoon. Oh I
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knew you couldn't be a racket here, mister Carville the minute I saw you
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think of it, Michael, the King Midas Football Pool, Miss Ryan,
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I don't appreciate your sarcasm. As a matter of information, it is big
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business, much bigger than you realize. I have a network of distributors and
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nearly every state of the Union, each with numerous agents who deliver the pool
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tickets to cigar stores and handbooks. We offer a weekly first prize of a
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thousand dollars, with numerous local prizes that total several times that much. Well,
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you're pretty reckless with your money, aren't You sell a hundred thousand dollars
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are more worth of tickets a week and only give back a couple of thousand.
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I've never complained about the profits. The point is for the last two
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weeks, there haven't been any profits. Oh, you don't mean to say
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the public's finally gotten wise to what a jip? Your recket is a hundred
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thousand to one shot that pays off a thousand to one. I don't care
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for that type of comment, Trent. Please confine your activity to listening for
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the time being. Joy, She'll go ahead. I'm listening what the betting
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public calls the payoff is vitally important in my business. Prompts in giving out
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the thousand dollar prize awards is imperative. The average little man in the street
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gambler loves long shots. He doesn't complain when he loses, but let him
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win and have any trouble collecting his money, and he yells to I Heaven.
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So you're a student of psychology too, Oh yes, yes, yes,
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indeed. Now getting back to my story. Two weeks ago, we
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got a report of a winner. As usual, I wired the thousand dollars
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to my agent in the territory with instructions to deliver the award, and the
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agent skipped with a thousand. No, he paid it, but I'd no
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sooner gotten the reports of a winner than another report came in from another city
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and state a thousand dollars. Again, two people held winning combinations. Two
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people held the same combination, and that's impossible. No, two of the
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pool tickets are alike. But they were this time not two, but ten,
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mister Trent, ten tickets calling for payment of a thousand dollars. Would
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you do about it? I paid off, paid ten thousand dollars, knowing
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that nine of the winners were fraudulents. I imagine you could afford it er,
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yes as I could. It was apparent that there was some organized attempt
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at dishonesty. The tickets, the winning ones were all sent to me,
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and nine of them were forgeries. Nine of them had to before yours,
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mister tread. But I don't know yet which is really the winning ticket.
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They're identical, the same kind of paper, the same type, the same
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printing ink. My printer can't tell which ticket he printed and which are the
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figs. So somebody picked up nine thousand dollars without much work. Pretty clever.
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This last week there were twenty five winners, twenty five thousand dollars.
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Wow, you want to go to the police, miss Ryan. I am
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not amused. Now, then this has to stop, Trent. Somebody's framing
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me, trying to run me right out of business. Very interesting, mister
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Carvell. Now, just what do you want me to do? You're acquainted
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with this sort of thing, you have a reputation for it. I want
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you to find out who's behind this before I'm ruined. Sorry, mister Carvell.
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Right information, wrong man. Your business is catching crooks, gambling crooks,
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crooks who are trying to cheat honest people, Clervill, But crooks whill
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try to cheat crooked gamblers. Have my blessing. Be careful what you say,
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Tren. I am not crooked. I pay, on a sure sure
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one thousand dollars a week against to take at least one hundred times that,
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or you're a public benefactor. You are, aren't you taking dollars from errand
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boys, people who go without lunch to take a chance on winning one thousand
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dollars because it seems like all the money in the world to them. Giving
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them such a slim chance, they might just as well toss their money right
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in the river. You're not a crook. I disagree. Whether you agree
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or not is not important. I want you to find out who's trying to
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ruin and I said no thanks. I'm prepared to pay you fifty thousand dollars
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for your services if you find the guilty party for me on a level,
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I shall post the money with a reliable person. Michael, you wouldn't please
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Patsy. Fifty thousand dollars is a lot of money. But my Trent,
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you can, I rather think I can. Patsy. Yeah, well see
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you later, of mister Carvell. Not so fast, mister Trent. You
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are conducting your investigations from here, or I'll have to get out to talk
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to some of your agents around the countrystrict because the retail places some of the
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winners. That's one reason why you'll work from here. You'll have Grabs as
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your chauffeur on those trips. He's an excellent driver and he never gets lost.
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He knows his way home. But how about me. I'm not staying
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here, am I? I'm afraid you are? What? No, Patsy,
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let's not question mister Carville's hospitality, especially since it'll keep on costing him
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twenty five thousand dollars a week not to make us welcome. What Oh no,
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No, not another lostank? Boss? Is the phone? Well,
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you answer it? I'm sick. Forty nine winners this week, forty nine
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thousand dollars. Hello, yeah, winner? Huh okay, give me the
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name an Adred. Sure we'll pay off, just get No. No,
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we can't go on like this. I won't pay off. I won't be
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robbed by a bunch of dirty greens. Boss. There's nothing else you can
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do. You gotta pay I have to do no such thing. When swindlers
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deliberately set out to rob me blind, I don't remember what happened at Joe
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Framwell was he didn't pay off on a ticket, and he went out of
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business off al quick with a bullet threw his head from a bum loser.
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But I don't talk about him. And even if the winners don't get sore
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enough to plug it, you're still out of business. Nobody's buying pool tickets
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without a payoff. But great Scott, how many payoffs do there have to
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be? Fifty this week? Fifty thousand dollars? Trent, Yes, yes,
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Trench, you've accomplished nothing so far, Good lord man, I can't
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wait around here all summer. If I could talk to you alone, without
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Lenny and grabs around, I might be able to help you. I look,
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mister, if you think he's gonna frame grabs in me and shut us
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let him talk, I think he's bluff. Look, when I'm working for
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fifty thousand dollars, I don't bluff, and I wouldn't take a chance of
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letting someone jip me out of it by dipping off until he party. Oh
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so that's your angle, eh? All right? Boys, clear out,
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yes, and get far enough from Dorsey. Your ears can't pick up anything
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either. You want us to go boss on the level? Trent doesn't have
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a gun. He couldn't do anything. He could try to get away from
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you with Miss Ryan still here. No, no, I don't think so.
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Go on if you say so, come on that class. If they
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tries jennything, you just Horler will be awaiting. Well all right, Trent,
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what is this strictly confidential matter you want to discuss? I've found your
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man? You be what then? Why are the name of common sense I
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have? Not so fast call. I won't talk until you put your money
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on the line. Now look, I'm not giving you the money till you've
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given me something besides mysterious tall. I don't want your money until I've delivered
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the man to you with absolute proof of his guilt. Oh, if you
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want to get away, is that your angle? Well you still have this
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Ryan? Well how long will you need be gone? Not over three or
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four hours? Alone? Now grabs O Lenny to help me? All right,
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very well, I think that can be arranged. But now tricks.
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Remember, because Miss Ryan will still be here. You'd hate to have anything
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happen to her, wouldn't you. Oh? If anything happens to her Carvill,
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you'll regret it as much as I will. Ah, what you mean?
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To say, my friend drove off and let me hear alone. Now
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Now, now, my dear, you are not in any danger, that
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is, unless he tries to be dishonest with me. I can't understand him
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anyway, taking a case from a crook like you. All careful with your
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language, my dear. It isn't like Mike. He hates your kind of
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people. Oh, he has something in common with most sensible me, miss
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Ryan. He likes money, especially in large round figures. Yes, scrabs.
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Of course you shouldn't let that guy Trent get away from here alone.
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No, why not? He might have gone straight to the cops. I
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may come back here with a couple of squad cars. Well well, well
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you don't say he could do it boss easy and with what he's got on
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you. Oh boy, you're a genius grabs, a positive genius. Just
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why do you think I had Lennie Taylor? You mean you didn't let him
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leave alone, My dear, I never take chances if he tries to bring
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any law enforcement officers into this, I'll get a call from Lennie. There
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won't be anyone here when they get back. What not? Even you,
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I can't understand what's taking Michael, so long? How long did you say
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he'd be gone? But that's coming in the driveway along. It's somebody with
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them, a dame, but a woman. But that's impossible. Nothing's impossible
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with Mike. Not even a very good looking dame. Mike, not anywhere
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near as good looking as well, Thank you, Grabs. I'm flattered half
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to death. He's kind of a little shabby from when I've seen him.
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Michael Trent, What in the world you I hope you won't worried? Worried
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Mike Trent? Somebody if we might dispense with the little social amenities, please
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A Trent? Do you want me to believe that this woman with you is
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the crook who's been trying to run me out of business? I told you
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I'd bring back the Gilly party, didn't I? This is missus Joe Framwell.
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What remember Joe Framwell? He was a competitor of yours. He got
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shot for not paying off on a winning baseball. That's a lie. He
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was murdered by these crooks to scare their competition out of business. Madam,
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Please do you think I'd soil my hands with murder? Don't put on such
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a noble act. Mister Carvill, you killed Joe. Maybe not with your
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own gun, maybe not in person, but you set out the words.
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I'd like to get this straight. Missus Framwell, your husband was in competition
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with Carvel running another football pool. Yes, but he was just one of
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the little people out in front who take the chances for the big shots.
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Carvel's outfit began making threats, telling him to quit her or something would happen
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to him. It told the same thing to the other agents, but they
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had to pick Joe for their fault guy. As I remember this case,
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he was found with a winning number in his hand and a bullet to his
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head. It was proved he worked for some little little fly by night football
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pool outfit. Whether he was given the money to pay off the winner and
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kept it for himself, Oh like that. Joe was honest. He wouldn't
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steal from anybody. He wouldn't have been doing such dirty, rotten work if
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he hadn't been framed and sent to jail once so he couldn't get a job
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anywhere else. He wasn't hurting anybody. The people were doing dishonest things around
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him. Will Well, yeah, you had to make a living. My
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dear lady, did it ever occur to you that your husband might have been
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killed by members of his own organization? You killed him, your outfit made
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all a threat. You wanted it all yourself, all that dishonest money.
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Just a minute, you admit that you're responsible for what's been happening to me
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a minute. I'm proud of it, and I'll keep right on doing it
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until you're out of business. I'm afraid you're quite mistaken there, missus Framwell.
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Also, I'm hurt that you should be so vindictive. You bet,
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I'm vindictive. Maybe Joe didn't amount to so much, but but we were
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in love with each other. He was just trying to make a living,
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trying to make enough to get by, and then a dirty crook like you
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comes along and kills him, And now you're sorry. I'm vindicted. Don't
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get hysterical, missus Framwell. Know then, just how have you been?
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Oh? Don't you wish? You? Frankly? Yes, I'll never Do
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you have any idea how she managed to work this business? Trent, I
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simply can't understand it. It's ridiculously simple. Cervill Oh I suppose you explained,
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surely, missus Framwell made arrangements with a good printer. She bought a
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few baseball pool tickets and told the printer she wanted exact copies, even as
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to paper. She was willing to pay well enough to make it worthwhile.
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How about, missus Framwell, Am I correct so far? Yes? But
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than the people with the winning numbers from different cities all over the country.
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She couldn't. She couldn't, but she did the first week she had people
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in ten different cities go in and buy a football pool ticket. The minute
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the last game was over, her printer fixed up the fake tickets. The
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tickets were delivered to her stoogees real fast. Oh, you're out of your
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head man. The woman didn't have the money for an operation like that.
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Why, it would take a whole organization, a big organization, and it
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would cost a good deal. Oh if what mister Trent has told me is
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correct. However, missus Framwell, I proposed to find out from you who
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invested that money. Do you think you could do anything that would hurt me
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worse? And what you've already done murdering Joe? Oh no, and you're
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through Carvill washed up. On the contrary, Missus Framwell it's you who are
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washed up, ah grabs. Where have you been put in? Trent and
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the dames luggage in the car? Like you told me? Isn't Lennie back
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yet? I ain't seen hiding a trace of him. Odd, he was
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supposed to stay right behind Trent, and I'd like him to take Trent and
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Miss Ryan back to the city immediately. So I was being followed naturally.
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I told you before, old man, that I don't take chances, even
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if it means breaking a promise. Honesty and promises have their place, but
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not in my business. I wish Lennie would hurry up. Well, I
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could drive back myself if you're so anxious to have me leave, and Lennie
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could pick up the current town tomorrow. No, we'll have to wait.
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Yes, as a matter of fact, carve Ell, Miss Ryan and I
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aren't ever supposed to reach down. Why, my dear fellow, I simply
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don't know what you're talking about. Nobody knows you're connected with the King Midas
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Football Pool. You've spent a lot of money on your masquerade as an amiable
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retired business man. You've hired plenty of frontmen, but nobody's ever been able
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to get to the bar. You're being rather melodramatic on't you. Patsy and
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I know all about your connections, Carvell. We know who your key men
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are. If we ever talked, you could get the book. You'd hardly
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betray me after my paying you fifty thousand dollars. I'm not going to hold
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my breath till I get that money. Well, mister Trent, I congratulate
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you. You're even more astute than I thought. You mean to say you
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don't plan to pay Mike that money. I would have preferred to play the
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game to the finish, but if he wants to be blunt about it,
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well it can't hurt anything, now, Kenned. You got him here to
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help you, to do a dirty job, to bring in a woman who
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had plenty of reasons for trying to hurt you, and after he's done the
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job, you'd kill him. Miss Ryan. I'm genuinely sorry that there's no
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other way to handle things, but I could hardly trust either of you.
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You should be able to appreciate my position, Michael. Why don't you slugger?
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Go ahead, Michael, try it. I dare no, no,
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no grabs. Mister Trent has performed a service for us. We mustn't be
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any more unpleasant than it is necessary. Now then, who financed your plot
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against me, Missus Framwell? Either you'll tell no, Oh, go ahead
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and tell him, Missus Framwell, what you mean? You mean? Really?
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I mean really, I can't hurt now. I'm waiting, Missus Framwell.
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Who financed your little scheme? It was? It was mister Trent.
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I'm afraid you don't understand, Missus Framwell. I said I wouldn't stand for
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any nonsense. Who financed you? I told you, mister Trent, she's
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telling the truth, Curwell. I financed her. As a matter of fact,
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I planned the whole scheme from start to film. Isn't that a bit
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fantastic? The police believe Joe Framwell was killed by a holder of a winning
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football pool ticket, one who hadn't been paid off. Well. They weren't
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able to find anyone who'd bragged about holding a winning ticket. That struck me
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as odd go on, Getting a winner in a football pool happened so seldom
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the average person brags to hire heaven about it, he advertises, Or we
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couldn't find anybody who'd held that winning ticket. Perhaps the murderer was discreet enough
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to keep quiet. There was a glaring fallacy to what the police was supposed
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to believe. You see, if a man had held a winning ticket and
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had come to Framwell expecting to be paid off, he certainly wouldn't have known
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he was going to commit murder. That idea would never have occurred to him
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until after Framwell's failure to pay well brilliant deduction. Trent, you know you're
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quite amazing, and the fake ticket gave you an idea? Oh no,
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no, not till missus Framwell had come to me for help. She was
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sure her husband had been murdered by the King Mider's Pool, but she couldn't
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even find out who the King miterers Pool was. She wanted the head of
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the outfit. It didn't seem to be any hit Oh, agents, distributors,
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territory managers, yes, but no boss quite so. Or getting a
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out of his hall is quite a trick. One good way to do it
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is to starve them out Well. I figured the one way to bring the
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boss of a team might have spooled into the open was to start banging away
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at his money, which I did. Mike, you couldn't possibly have known
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he come to you for hell, He's a very clever man, Miss Ryan.
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You should be quite proud of him. He took care of that rather
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adroitly. How practically, every key man in my organization told me that Trent
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would be the one man who could help me. Yes, I staged a
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little propaganda campaign and then hoped for the best. It worked, Yes,
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it did, And now I wonder what satisfaction you're going to get from it.
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Oh, any one of your breed I can put out of business is
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a big enough satisfaction, Carville. But you see, I'm not out of
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business, and I don't intend to be. As soon as Lenny gets back,
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he'll take you toward town. Lenny's loyalty is simply wonderful. I'm quite
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sure you'll never make you. No, there is now. I never took
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you so long. I've been worried about you. Eh, you're worried.
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Ah. Look this guy here gives me the slip on the way back.
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He takes all kinds of crazy turns and stuff, and I get lost.
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I'm afraid you're wrong, Carvell. You see I got rid of Lenny long
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enough to call the police. Yes, a couple of squad cars around the
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way. He's gotta spois up. Well, they haven't got me yet.
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It's Ryan. You and I are leaving together. If they get within the
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shooting distance, I'm using you as my shield. This would be a good
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time for one of your magic tricks. Mike, get in front of me.
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Miss Ryan, come on move you heard him. Let's go. Please,
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you're too late. Carve out up, please, Cops spouse at the
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door, know we ain't got a chance. Better get rid of your guns.
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Boys. They have orders to shoot anyone with a gun. That's good
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enough for me here, no grabs. I ain't swapping bullets with any squad
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of cops here. I'll take you as too, carvel. Why that's better.
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We'll all go outside. There ain't nobody here. Who was that?
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Oh? I neglected to tell you Greg. You see I used to be
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a ventriloquist. What yes, And those knocks you heard were a spirit wrapping
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device. It's just a little gimmick that fits around your waist. You see,
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little wooden sounding box with a hammer inside it, the kind children use
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for noisemakers. Flexing the body muscles makes it work. Here. Listen,
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you mean you mean aren't any police out here. Well, sometimes you don't
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need the police if you have a good gimmick. So from here on Caraville,
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you're my guest. Let's go, and here's the ex magician turned rackets
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detective for a final word. Thank you. Well, I hope you all
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enjoyed tonight's story. The big time football and Baseball pool racket gives you such
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a slim chance. It doesn't have to be crooked. It's just a fancy
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form of larste I hope you don't fall for it. Next week I'm going
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to bring you a story about one of the most elegant devices for party people
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from their money, a crooked roulette wheel. If you've ever played roulette or
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wanted to play the game, I think you'll find it most enlightened. Until
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then, this is Mike Trent signing off with the thought that when you gamble
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with a professional, he isn't doing any gambling. Remember there's no such thing
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as easy money. You're sure to listened next Sunday night at this time for
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another expose of gambling frauds and continents games featuring Mike Trent, the famous ex
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magician turned rackets detective featured in tonight's cast were Larry Haynes, Jerry and Raphael,
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Irene, Wicker, Iber Francis and Maurice Tarklin. Easy Money is produced
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and directed by Blair Wallacer for air shows and co operated. Tonight's sript was
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written by George B. Anderson. This is Bill McCord speaking John. You
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welcome back. Well, I just want writing on this, and I have
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to admit I did not see that twist coming the first time I listened to
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it, but it is a pretty clever twist that really does take you by
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surprise. And once again we do see this idea, and it's one that
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is used even when so called nonviolent criminals are shown that really, when they
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face exposure, the veneer of respectability will disappear and the truth, sugginesshness beneath
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will come out, something that is often used to add excitement that people may
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feel they're missing out on with non murder stories. Well, we actually only
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have four episodes of this series, which is a real shame up. In
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four weeks it will be another NBC series Crime and Peter Chambers. They'll be
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sure and listen for that. But next Tuesday it'll be another episode of Easy
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