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The Hunters: You Take Ballistics (EP1269) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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Well, now we're going to get into The Hunters, which will lead us
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into Pursuit. Now, to be honest, I am really not certain of
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any validity of the link that so many old time radio sources have made between
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The Hunters and Pursuit. Both Fates or Scotland Yard Detectives and both aired over
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CBS, but other than that, not really a connection. Plus, as
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we listen to this, we get an indication that this is an anthology drama,
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kind of like that series we played back on the twelve hundred and fiftieth
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episode, The Chase, only this never made it to air, but it
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wouldn't have been anything like Pursuit. It really does sound like an anthology program.
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With today's episode being written by the great mister Rider, Cornell Warrish.
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The star of the program today is Victor Jory, who really was one of
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those longtime character actors we keep running into. His first role was in the
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on Radio was in the nineteen thirties early thirties, and his last role was
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in was in nineteen eighty. He's probably he had a minor role in Gone
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with the Win, but he's probably best remembered for his work on a syndicated
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TV series called man Hunt, which isn't the same as the man Hunts series
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that worrying here. He played a police lieutenant and was the lead role on
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that. But another one of these actors who just did a lot of character
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roles and that's what he does today. So here now is the pilot for
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a series as far as I know, never actually aired from November thirtieth of
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nineteen forty eight. Here now is the Hunters, and U take ballistics,
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and now the Hunters starting tonight. Mister Victor Jory. Yes, I'm a
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hunter and I'm hunting the most dangerous and tricky game in the world. Man.
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Since the dawn of time, human beings have loved the chase the hunt.
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Every Sunday night at this time, the Columbia Broadcasting System brings you the
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greatest chase stories of all time. Stories of the hunter and the hunted from
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the annals of history, from the world of adventure fiction from yesterday's headlines.
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Tonight's story is corn All Woolrich's exciting tale of suspicion and murder. You take
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ballistics, and Tonight's hunter is the star of stage and screen. Victor Jory,
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I am a hunter. In a manner of speaking, my name is
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Harvey, and Spector Harvey of Scotland Yard. The hunted man acts very much
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like the hunted beast. In the case of Clarence Coleman, for example,
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the hunt was in the stocking phase. This was no chase, yet I
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knew where the murderer was hiding, and I was waiting for him to run.
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Only he wasn't exactly hiding, nor did he seem to be inclined to
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run, and the waiting had begun to become peedish. By this time.
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It was night rather late. I walked down towards the buildings on the opposite
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side of the street. Like I had a dozen times before that day,
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this time I had to count the doorways. I knew that Sergeant Pass was
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on watching the tenth one down from the corner. I knew he was there,
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but I also knew i'd never see it. It was too dark,
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and Cass knew his job too well. Has he made me moves yet?
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Oh it's you, sir, No, sir, not to move Howbutharia,
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No, Sir, Peter's discovering that aid warners anyway, I'm sure he's still
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up there. Every now and then you can see a shadow against the blind.
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There see a a what shall we do, inspector? It's my guess
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he's not going to run for it. I think he said for the night.
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Shall we stay here? This? No, this isn't getting us anywhere.
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We'd better take him in. Now, come on up with me and
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we'll see what we've got. Yes, sir, oh, it's good to
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stretch. My knees were beginning to give way, Sir, as I know
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I had my share of stakeouts myself. Fortunately it's warm tonight. That's a
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help. That's always a help. You know what I think it's, pector.
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No, I think that chef's waiting for something or for someone like who
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us. He's a brainy chair, very clever, very clever. I don't
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like it, Yes, gentlemen, Coleman, Clarence Coleman, take us up,
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please, Yes, this has been a long day. I need to
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shave. It's not very noticeable, sir. How long has he been living
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here? Who Coleman? Oh him, about two years? I'd say,
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second door to your left, Thank you, we know the way. What
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a hole, inspector, shall I? Oh? No, no, no,
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I don't believe you'll give us any trouble. He's too sharp for that,
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are you, Clarence Coleman. It's right away from Scotland Yard. You
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don't say you want to come in or do you just want to talk to
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me out here? We want to talk to you at the yard first.
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We want to come in. Come right here and nobody's stopping. Look around,
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Cass. I suppose you've got a search warrant. I suppose you've got
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a witness to say that. We don't go ahead. Look, I just
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want you to know. I'm not so dumb, that's all. Oh,
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we're not underestimating you. You're clever enough. I was doing a crossword puzzle.
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You don't mind, go ahead. I wanted to get that one down
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before I forget. You find it, Cass, Now, sir, you're
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a gun me? Why? Yes? Where is it? Tell him to
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look in the bottom drawer of the chest in there under my winter underwear.
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You hear that, Cass. Yes, I've got a permit for it too.
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You fired it recently, right, I've fired it recently. Here it
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is respector careful. You don't rub off any fingerprints. I told you he
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was clever, maybe too clever? Thirty eight one shell gone only last night?
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Why should I lie to you. You're gonna give me the nit rate
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test anyway, as soon as you give me the yard only last night,
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right into Edmund Lombard's body, wrong, right into the floor here. Oh,
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you've got all the answers. I only know what I know. Can't
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do better than that from your own brother. If you fire the gun into
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the floor, where's the hole? You see that little scatter rug? Just
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kick it aside? See it. I can do better than a whole.
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You're digging with your pen knife. You can probably get the slug. What
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are you doing that for? Cast Our friend is pulling your leg maybe,
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but we better have this slug just the same. Inspector, all right,
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you call mean man. Take your hands out of your pockets and get your
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favorite hat and start moving towards the door. You're coming with us. I'm
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uping, inspector, I'm up. You get a cass Yes, sir thirty
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eight? All right already? Am I under arrest? If you must have
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a name for it, No, not yet. You're just a guest of
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Scotland God for the rest of the night. I hope the bed's comfortable.
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Take him downstairs case, I want to talk to our little friend for a
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bit. Right, come along, you step right into thank you Tell me
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did a gun go off anywhere in this building last night? Again? Now
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let me see, Yes, I believe his did Woo's colemans, mister Cawan's.
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The people downstairs complained, so I went up. He fired it into
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the floor by mistake. He said, he was quite alarmed. Is anything
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the matter, oh, I would say so, just a little thing called
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murder, Yes, murder. The motive for the man hunt. The hunted
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man whom you've just met, is not only inspired by the instinct for self
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preservation, but also by an evil desire to outwit the law. And these
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two forces bring out in him not only every while of the desperate primitive beast,
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but also every trick of the fertile human brain. The hunter then has
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his work cut out for him. We continue the chase now as Victor Jori
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in the role of Inspector Harvey of Scotland Yard, The Hunter matches wits with
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Clarence Coleman, the Hunted in this first of the new CBS series The Hunters.
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I have been a member of Scotland Yard for some years now. I
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brought in my share of criminals, began small. Yet I never made an
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arrest that looked better and that I liked less than this slippery chap Collman.
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I had everything I had to make the arrest, and yet I knew it
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was going to turn sour the moment I walked into his flat and a sour.
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Murder charge is something an old hand like me doesn't care for. We
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didn't take him down to the yard. Instead, we took him to a
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police station in the West End, and we didn't charge him. We simply
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left him in the back back room too to stew a bit. Chief Inspector
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Leffinger, my superior, arrived there about ten minutes later. You brought him
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in, Harvey, Yes, sir, he's in back. Here's his gun.
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Claims I were off on the floor last night by mistake, and the
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beauties to the para fantast Eh. He could have arranged it that way after
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he killed Lombard. He could have here, just like sir oh ain't suppose
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you turn those over to ballistics. Yes, any report on the one they
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dug out of Lombard's body, probably on its way down. Who are those
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two chairs? The night left operator took him up to Lombard's apartment and the
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night attended at a small sandwich shop half a block away. The recognizing positive
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let's go to work, sergeant, Yes, sir, we want to surprise
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him with these witnesses. So one buzz sending in the lift man, two
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buzzes the other chap yes, hmm, you think he'll break sir doom?
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No, all right, Coleman sit over there right, Oh, perhaps we
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better put some light on him. O'ferrell, Yes, all right, Corman.
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Suppose you tell us what you did last night, beginning when when you
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left your flat. Well, I went out about nine o'clock and I walked
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over to the Edgeway Road. There's a tobacconist there. I made a phone
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call to whom Edmund Lombard. So you did contact Lombardi? Certainly? Did
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I say different? Go ahead? Well, do you know what business Lombard
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was in? Suppose you tell us I don't mind. He collected bets on
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the horses, only the long shots. He wouldn't turn in. They never
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come in anyway, so who knows the difference? Only this one time I
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received a tip on a filly that did come in at twenty to one.
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Lombard couldn't pay off and he disappeared. I just caught up with him last
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night on the phone. I told him I want my money and I told
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him to meet me in an hour. Did he meet you? I didn't
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give him a chance. I went up to his place. You went up
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to his place that's right. There's no use for me to lie. I
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know you got witnesses to place me up. You did go up to his
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place? Yeah, he was already packing. He was getting ready to run
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away again. He kind of laughed and said, you can't blame a chap
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for trying. And I said, I want my money. Okay, he
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says, you win, And he asked me for a receipt, so I
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can't come at him again. Fair enough, so I write one out for
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him, an hotel stationer. Go on, and let's hear how good you
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can make it. That's all. He started to unpack, thinking he might
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just as well stay where he was now, and I left. So that's
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how it works. But are you sure you didn't leave out anything? Why
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did you leave out the fact that you killed him? Because it belongs out
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because I didn't. You didn't have a gun with you when you went up
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there. You can bet your last shilling I did. Why'd you take a
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gun if you didn't plan to shoot him, so you wouldn't pull one on
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me. You think a chap like Eddy Lombard is gonna cough up five hundred
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quid just like that unless he has to, don't chew lie to us.
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Now when we bring you in here, we want the truth. You shot
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him first and collected your money afterwards, and then you wrote out your receipt
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to a dead man. That's how it happened, isn't it, no answer
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man, isn't it, cass? Guess sir? Never mind those other witnesses,
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we won't need them. Come in here and give his a hand.
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Yes, oh right, now, bring him out. He seems they have
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a rather delicate constitution. Come on, come on, you get up bed.
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Yeah, that's better. Now. Why did you tell the nightman that
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Lombard was staying and not to bother about his luggage? Well, I was
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afraid he'd go up there, Lombard man, think it was me again and
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take a shot it in because he was dead in there, and you want
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to get clear of the building before he was found. For I did.
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I didn't go very far. I stayed in the sandwich shop down the street
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for fifteen or twenty minutes off to take the money. Why did you take
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it from him after he killed him? The money he gave me. I
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put it in a bank first thing this morning. Uh, takeover, Cass,
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Come out, hobby. If i'd stayed in there much longer. I
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had been tempted to hurt him, now, see what I mean? Yes?
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I do, But how is it that no one heard the shots?
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People next door were out down below, they were asleep. I don't like
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it. You notice how he beats his to the punch every time. We
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have witnesses for everything except the killing, which seems to indicate that we have
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nothing but circumstantial evidence. It wouldn't stand up and caught five minutes. Maybe
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the ballistics people will tire up for us. Eh, Maybe what's the matter?
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Horby? Don't you believe in ballistics? I do, But you heard
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the chap. He's got every other angle covered. He wouldn't be likely to
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slip up on anything as obvious as ballistics. Don't you think he's guilty?
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I don't think. I know he's guilty as sin. I went back to
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Coleman's flat. I dislike this part of any job, but it's celementary when
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you're following a trail and there's always a slight chance that it may turn up
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something, so it has to be done. It's one of the processes of
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the manhunt. Nothing came of it, just a lot of junk in the
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living room items the crossword puzzly been working on, and the pencil stub and
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the stub of the cigarette had been smoking, and the package it came out
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of. The bathroom items the usual assortment in the medicine cabinet and fifteen rusty
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razor blades under the bathtub. The kitchen items, two empty whiskey bottles.
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The bedroom items, a chest full of linen, and three suits in the
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wardrobe. One of them was the great plaid he'd been wearing the night he
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called on Lombard. There was nothing in the pockets but a Canadian penny,
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a faded snapshot of a faded blonde, and a book of cigarette papers.
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These latter items from his pockets. I put in the regulation brown envelope for
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no very good reason, and went back to the station. Chief Inspector Leffinger
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was still there and close to the end of his patience get anything. If
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I did, I don't know it. How's he doing much better than William?
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Only so far? Though? Is still sure of them? Harvey.
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I was never so sure of an arrest in my life. I see well.
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I decided to let it go through on circumstantial evidence. Ballistics will be
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certain to match his gun to the bullet that killed Lombard, and that should
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be enough to do it without anything else. I don't know. I say,
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what are you driving it? Yes? Yes, this is leving and
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it's about time I've been waiting for this report. Yes, uh, all
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right, ballistics, Coleman's gun was a thirty eight. I know that you
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know that. Well, then maybe you know that the bullet that they took
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out of Lombard was a thirty two. So now what you know? That
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does it? Indeed? And what does it do? It proves he's our
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man. I'm convinced of it. Oh, it's fine, except that the
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court isn't likely to convict them your word alone, especially when ballistics disagrees with
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you. I'm not telling you different, but ballistics is. It's a case
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of theory against fact, and ballistics don't lie. Are you setting yourself up
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above ballistics? You take ballistics, I'll take human nature. That doesn't lie
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either. You mean he did it with a thirty two, and then through
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the way you're wrong. I know he didn't. Otherwise he wouldn't have shot
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that slug into the floor. But the slug in the floor was a thirty
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eight. Chief. I've had occasion to call an important members of Parliament,
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even lords of the realm, and they even they got a little pale and
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discomforted when I said Scotland yard, but not this chap. He was waiting
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for us. He was calm, he was doing crossword puzzles. He was
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too calm. He's too clever. He's got everything covered. He's been ahead
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of us all the way. Now he's our man. I tell you he's
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our man. If he's our man, you haven't proved it, and I
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must warn you it'll take more than words to convict. I know that,
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then do something about it. How long will I have tomorrow morning? But
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I can't wait. We can't hold him forever without charging him tomorrow morning.
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What can I do at this time of night? Chief, give me a
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fair chance. Make it noon? All right, noon, I'm stretching it
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for you. Thanks are they? You're not concealing anything from me, now,
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are you. I wish I were. I don't know a thing more
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than you do. Chief. I'm just convinced were right, That's all.
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I think. I'll take another look at him before I go. Look here,
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coleman, we know you did it. Why don't you make it easy
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for yourself. Make it easy for you? You mean, I know you
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anything for a pinch? What do you care if you got the wrong chap?
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All right, skip it? Casts you can leave him alone. Now,
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have you got something new, Inspector? Possibly the bullet that killed Lombard
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was a thirty two? What that's Coleman's gun? Here is a thirty eight?
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Yah, Take him to his cell and let him try our beds.
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We'll probably have to turn him loose in the morning. Morning. What's the
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matter with tonight? What's the matter? Don't you like it here? All
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right, dear chappy, but you'll have a sweet case of false arrest on
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your end by morning. Now you remember that, Inspector, when you're a
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sergeant again. I won't forget you, Coleman. You're too smart. A
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cigarette I got my own, Oh, go ahead, have one. I
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wouldn't take a smoke from a copper It with the last one before I die.
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You may have a chance to prove that one day, will I?
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Now you will when you go the gallows. That sounded good, but I
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wasn't too certain. They say every criminal makes at least one mistake. But
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now I couldn't be too certain of that either. All I was certain of
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was that he'd done it, and that I had to keep hunting for a
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way to prove it. First, I went back up to his apartment again.
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I went over the place with a fine tooth calm. Nothing new.
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Then I thought of that suit in the wardrobe, and I got it out
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and went over it inch by inch. I turned the pockets inside out,
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and right there was where I found something that gave me an idea. Or
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maybe maybe it was what I didn't find that I should have. I went
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out to Coleman's kitchen and made a pot of tea and sat down to think.
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And the more I thought, the better I liked it. It might
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not mean a thing, it might not even be possible, but it was
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all I had. The next step was the yard headquarters and the pistol range
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in the basement. By the time I got there it was daylight. At
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a quarter to seven, I was waiting outside that tobacconist shop on Edgeware Road
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where Coleman and made his phone, called Alombard. It was run by a
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small chap named true Hall. We'd questioned him before. However, this was
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different. The shop wasn't opened yet. But finally, after what seemed at
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least an hour and a half, I saw true art come puffing down the
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street. Inspector, you have the real early birthday. You're late, late,
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and you want to shove to open the middle of the night. Let's
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go inside. I want to ask you a few questions, that more questions.
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Didn't you already ask me everything? But my grandmother's middle nail. That's
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the point I forgot that. Yeah, that's why I came back. Eh
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So, Now, well about this Coleman when he was here that night,
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Yeah, he telephones from the box back there, But how can I hear
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what he says from way up here? Well? I don't care about that
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now. He used to buy a cigarette from you, though, you said
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that every day, almost any particular brand. I certainly I was the same
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for two years. These are these here? Oh? Yes? Uh huh
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always machined made cigarettes. Huh? Oh is why not? What did he
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buy from you the night he was in here phoning all the same warner?
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You're sure he didn't buy these? Oh week? Yes? Oh, I
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hadn't seen him in Iran. I wouldn't ever remember cigarette papers for a change.
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He said to cut down expenses. Did he buy any loose tobacco to
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go with them? No? I do, he didn't ask me soon I
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thought he'd got some more. Ah ha ha, all right, you can
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give me some now, be happy to I see you. What is it
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all of a sudden with you, Inspector? He looked like you just swallowed
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the cat that rate the canary. You're all right, dad, and I'm
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going to arrange some things for you. Is so what quite? I'd be
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a witness of a nice, big murder trial free. I started back to
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the police station. Now that the hunt was nearly over except for the kill,
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I suddenly felt tired, tired as an old foxhound at the end of
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the chase. I tried breakfast, but that didn't help much, so I
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went on over to the station. Chief Inspector Leffinger was right on deck and
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cranky as ever, but I could see he was worried. We'd held this
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chap nearly twenty four hours, and his Majesty's courts don't favor false arrest.
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Yes, I hope you've got something. Well, have you been all right?
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She looked like you slept on a park bench. I didn't sleep anyway.
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I've just been doing some honting. I hope you begged something otherwise.
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Coleman's next move is out. His next move is arraignment. After what I'm
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going to show you? Oh excellent, I'm just in the mood for lantern
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slides. Shall we have him in? Oh? Yes, well, Pharo,
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bring him in? Yes? Now. First, first, I'd like
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you to watch how he rolls a cigarette. Oh what are we doing playing
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parlor games? Just watch him, chief, that's all. And remember I
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found these cigarette papers in the pocket of his suit, the suit he wore
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the night he went to see Lombard, suggesting he guessed him to death with
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cheap tobacco. Here he is inspected. He woke me up just to hoove
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meet to another ride out. Don't you get wise to yourselves? You know
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you're gonna have to charge me or turn me loose sooner or later. Oh
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I did enough of that. We're turning you loose. All we want you
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to do is sign away with that. Nothing has happened to you here,
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Why I mean I signed. I'll take it easy, Clarence, we got
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the chap who did it? You have nothing to worry about. We just
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don't want any suits for false arrests. That's all. You took the words
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right out of my mouth, Copper, because my first stop after it is
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a solicitor law. Now wait a minute, now, suppose we talk this
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over me smoke and not one of them fingers. Will you smoke trees,
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don't you? Yeah? Yeah, certainly, here's some tobacco. Go ahead,
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roll one. Thanks, that's not the way. I'm a little lot
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of frackice, a little lot of practice, he says. It does look
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to me as if he'd ever rolled one before in his life? Does it
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to you? Chief forever? You can't hang a man for that. Just
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the same, he bought these cigarette papers the night he went to see larmboard
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at the tobacconists where he phoned, where he bought all his cigarettes the first
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time he ever bought any, and no tobacco to go with them, and
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not a shred of loose tobacco in any of his pockets. Now, why
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do you suppose he bought those cigarette papers that night? You're telling it,
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Harvey, I'm listening. Are you listening? Cold? You are talking in
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your sleep. I'll tell you why he bought them. Better than that,
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I'll show you. Loan me a gun a minute, will your chief thirty
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eight right? The same calibers Coleman's gun. Right Now, here's a thirty
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two caliber bullet. The same caliber is the one that kill Lombard. Can
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I see it? I see it all right? We take the thirty eight
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bullets out of your gun. Now we take this thirty two bullet and about
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three of these cigarette papers, double them over, rap them around the bullet.
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See how snug that thirty two fits in your thirty eight gun. Now,
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now watch how a thirty eight gun will fire a thirty two bullet.
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I'll put it on the baseboard over there. That's ballistics, Chief, how'd
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you like it? Reallistics? Ballistics? Oh you take ballistics. I'll take
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human nature every time. Three months later, Coleman went to the gallows.
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As you must have read in your newspapers, wasn't a very spectacular case.
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They didn't waste any space telling you about it, nor did they mention whether
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Coleman took a cigarette from a copper before he died. I don't know whether
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he did or not, either, but I do know that this case demonstrated
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the imagination, the patience, the relentless attention to detail required when a man
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hunts the most dangerous game of all man. Thank you Victor Jori for playing
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the first hunter in our new series, The Hunters. Tonight's script for The
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Hunters was based on Cornell Woolrich's famous short story and with music by lud Gluskin,
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was produced and directed by Tony Leader d Shure. To listen again next
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week when CBS presents George Sanders as the Hunter in Green Summit, the celebrated
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tale of danger in pursuit, in which a man chases his best friend until
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But perhaps you'd better tune in yourself and find out next week on The Hunters.
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This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System, Welcome back. While a
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very interesting story, I should mention that this story was actually adapted on suspense
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and in that version, Jack Webb actually played the killer. It was kind
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of an interesting dynamic in that case, and he did a better web actually
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did a better job than the performer in today's program. As I said,
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this is not going to relate a whole lot to what we were going to
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hear when we actually get into pursue, which we will do next week when
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we take a look at the first available episode from the series Network run in
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nineteen forty nine. All right, well some listener comments from and this one
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comes from Clements, who writes hello from Canada, Manitoba and Alberta. Had
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a hip replacement last September home in Manitoba and had to walk walk walk.
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Discovered your podcast and as they are thirty minutes long, they were a perfect
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timer, five to six times per day. You got me hooked at sixty
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eight. I'm now working on Central Alberta oil fields driving bus and I now
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listen when driving empty usually two times a day. I got hooked into New
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York Wolf and join Johnny Dollar three parts and now into Sam Spade, whom
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I'm warning to Sherlock Holmes is also a favorite. Not fussy about the lineup
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or manhop and now a question or two. Clippercraft was eventually up to one
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thousand, two hundred and forty four stores or thereabouts, and where he is
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one six four eight Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica. I assume it is a New
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York suburb, but do not recall it. The information I have is it's
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a neighborhood in Queens and if there are any Native New Yorkers in the audience.
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I would welcome correction, but that's how I understand it. He also
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Klementschoo also goes to say, uh, and with four hundred and fifty stations,
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what did the Mutual broadcasting system morph into? If it remained the Mutual
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broadcasting system for some time into the nineteen eighties, and you know, it
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had more specialized programmings and kind of pulled back in some areas in its declining
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years. The one thing Mutual probably would be known for is that they many
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of the radio revival efforts pretty much that happened in the seventies and early eighties.
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Other than CBS Mystery Theater, all the other ones were on Mutual.
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They were the home of Zero Hour, and they did the Sears Radio Theater
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and the Mutual Radio Theater, which were you know, high quality productions.
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Currently, they were purchased by Westwood One and the label continued to be attached
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to some programs up until the late nineteen nineties when and Westwood One basically get
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away with the Mutual Broadcasting label. So though there are still some programs that
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can trace their way all the way back to the days of Mutual, but
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yeah, essentially they morphed into and we're acquired by Westwood One. Thanks so
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much for the question and for listening out there in Manitoba. Definitely appreciate it.
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That's I think probably the closest province to where I am in Idaho.
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I know some folks at the Panhandle. British Columbia's closer. But all right,
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Well, that will do it for today. We'll be back tomorrow with
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Pat Novak for hire, and then join us next Monday as we really get
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into pursuit. In the meantime, send your comments to Box thirteen at Great
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