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Suspense - "The Strange Death of Charles Umberstein" (Old Time Radio, 1943) · Suspense | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: In wartime Berlin, an Allied agent operating under Nazi officer
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Charles Umberstein's identity becomes convinced that his cover has been compromised.
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  Speaker 1: This is CBS Suspense Episode three, The Strange Death of
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  Speaker 1: Charles Umberstein, originally broadcast November two, nineteen forty three. Vincent
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  Speaker 1: Price stars as Umberstein in his first appearance on Suspense,
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  Speaker 1: with Hans Conried as Herr Muller, Ludwig Donath as Captain
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  Speaker 1: Vaughan Hines, and Joseph Kierns as the Man in Black.
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  Speaker 1: As Gestapo scrutiny closes in, Umberstein must decide whom he
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  Speaker 1: can trust and find a way out before suspicion becomes proof.
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  Speaker 1: E Jack Newman wrote the story set in Berlin under
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  Speaker 1: Nazi rule. Here is the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Suspense.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Man in Black who introduced Columbia's program Suspense.
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  Speaker 2: Heading our Hollywood cast. Tonight is the distinguished.
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  Speaker 3: American actor, the star of the Broadway suspense drama Angel Street,
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  Speaker 3: who has recently returned to this coast to resume his
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  Speaker 3: film career.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Vincent Price.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight's suspense play which presents mister Price and which is
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  Speaker 3: produced and directed by William Spear relates an episode of
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  Speaker 3: recent years in the unfriendly Nazi capital of Berlin. The
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  Speaker 3: Strange Death of Charles Humberstein by E. Jack Newman as
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  Speaker 3: Tonight's tale of Suspense. If you have been with us before,
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  Speaker 3: you will know that suspense is compounded of mystery and
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  Speaker 3: suspicion and dangerous adventure. In this series, our tails calculated
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  Speaker 3: to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you
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  Speaker 3: up a carrious situation, and then withhold the solution until
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  Speaker 3: the last possible moment. And so with the strange death
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  Speaker 3: of Charles Uberstein, and with the performance of Incent Price,
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  Speaker 3: we again hope to keep you in suspense.
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  Speaker 4: I was infuriated to think I had been trapped. The
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  Speaker 4: thought that someone had discovered my intentions maddened me to
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  Speaker 4: the breaking point. Nothing had slipped, everything had run smoothly
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  Speaker 4: as I had planned. No evidence, not the slightest trace, nothing,
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  Speaker 4: And yet I was trapped, trapped?
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  Speaker 2: But why? How?
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  Speaker 4: Let me see papers in my briefcase, train ticket information
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  Speaker 4: forwarded safely to my office, And he knew how.
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  Speaker 2: How, But he did know.
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  Speaker 4: I stood quietly in my room, watching him, watching him,
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  Speaker 4: watching me, waiting for me standing by the lamp post
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  Speaker 4: beneath my window, knowing he had trapped me waiting for me.
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  Speaker 2: I recognized him almost immediately.
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  Speaker 4: Captain von Hind Once before, I had seen him briefly
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  Speaker 4: in hair Miller's office. I'd been working on some corrections.
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  Speaker 4: Her Miller was escorting him through the plant on an
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  Speaker 4: inspection tour. They stopped for a moment outside my office.
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  Speaker 4: I glanced up as har Miller gestured my way through
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  Speaker 4: the partially opened door.
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  Speaker 2: So well least the annoy ar Well here it was.
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  Speaker 2: They were talking about me. My heart stopped.
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  Speaker 4: He was explaining how I had been recommended by the
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  Speaker 4: Fury himself my qualification. They continued on that tour here,
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  Speaker 4: Miller explained later when I went to.
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  Speaker 2: His office, A Lmberstein. There you are, Miller, you sent
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  Speaker 2: for me, Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Mberstein, this morning when Captain vrom Hein then myself passed
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  Speaker 5: by your office, I knew it was you.
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  Speaker 2: You knew it was me.
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  Speaker 5: Captain von Hein, this head of Gestapo intelligence in this area.
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  Speaker 5: He was conducting a routine inspection this morning, and it
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  Speaker 5: was he who suggested that, well, since your recommendations whereby
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  Speaker 5: the FIA himself.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, your work here has been excellent. I knew you
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  Speaker 2: were the man when I passed by today my work.
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  Speaker 5: Huh oh no, no, no, of course, not that why
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  Speaker 5: you have become one of our best men.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Hemmer. No, this is it.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, through various posts, we are really leasing more prints
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  Speaker 5: and munitions areas in this country and other countries. You
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  Speaker 5: are to be in complete charge of their release from
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  Speaker 5: the war.
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  Speaker 4: I understand him as a citizen of the rank. I
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  Speaker 4: am greatly honest that I have been given such an opportunity,
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  Speaker 4: an opportunity to show your loyalty.
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  Speaker 2: I will give you the combinations. You will see that
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  Speaker 2: no other person enters the war. Of course him enough
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  Speaker 2: one moment on Berstein.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I think I should tell you that a few
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  Speaker 5: months ago, in one of the neighboring plants, the Gestapo
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  Speaker 5: apprehended a spy. Yes, he was working for an enemy
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  Speaker 5: espionage service. Found the in possession of certain vital documents
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  Speaker 5: which he had access to in his work.
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  Speaker 4: And what did they learn from him? For many things?
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  Speaker 5: He was reluctant to speak at first, but it's difficult
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  Speaker 5: to hold out indefinitely. But he finally gave them in
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  Speaker 5: a information to locate other agents who had filter in.
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  Speaker 2: It was well, he was detected.
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  Speaker 5: The Gestapo is still on the alert for some of
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  Speaker 5: his co workers still expected to arrive. Of course, they
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  Speaker 5: are ignorant of his confession and his faith, so he Olmberstein.
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  Speaker 5: I must want you to take all the necessary steps
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  Speaker 5: against the possibility of espionage.
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  Speaker 2: We cannot be too careful. I shall be careful.
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  Speaker 5: In New Umberstein is exemplified the efficiency of the Sir Reich.
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  Speaker 4: I closed my suitcase and looked down on the street.
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  Speaker 4: I watched him standing there. I kept asking myself, how
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  Speaker 4: how could he know this, Captain van Hind?
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  Speaker 2: How could he know?
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  Speaker 4: The plan was perfect, the best yet and yet I
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  Speaker 4: was discovered, trapped. It was a late Saturday afternoon, and
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  Speaker 4: the silence of the day hung heavy in the room.
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  Speaker 4: Outside it was cold, very cold, But in my room
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  Speaker 4: it was warm, stuffy. The radiator hissed and spewed, as
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  Speaker 4: though it were the judge of the events to come.
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  Speaker 4: I was almost angry at its radiator was still light
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  Speaker 4: enough that he might see me if I crossed or
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  Speaker 4: raise the window. He wasn't aware that I was in
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  Speaker 4: the room. I hadn't turned on the lights. Now he
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  Speaker 4: stood there waiting for me to return. I lay down
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  Speaker 4: on the bed, smoking, my thoughts, troubled by the one question,
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  Speaker 4: how how how had he discovered me safely? I had
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  Speaker 4: avoided all connections with anyone who might have a chance
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  Speaker 4: to spy on my work. There was not the least
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  Speaker 4: cause for suspicion. An established citizen of the right, well
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  Speaker 4: recommended pure arian employed as an architect in one of
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  Speaker 4: the country's largest munitions plants. Certainly there was no reason
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  Speaker 4: for him to suspect me. The Gestapo, this Captain van
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  Speaker 4: Hind waiting to take me ry Line Keller froud Liin
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  Speaker 4: Keller absurd, of course, not not she? But could you
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  Speaker 4: ever trust a woman.
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  Speaker 2: Froy Lime Keller? Did I give her any reason? Any
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  Speaker 2: reason at all? Good morning, Frey Lion, Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Charles Umerstein, and I have to be
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  Speaker 4: at the munitions factory near here. I wish to take
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  Speaker 4: a room, Oh one facing the outer street, fry Lion,
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  Speaker 4: if you can accommodate me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I think so.
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  Speaker 6: We have one inches on the second floor overlooks the
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  Speaker 6: street cross.
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  Speaker 4: Oh fine, I'm glad. It looks comfortable here, small and comfortable.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, you really like it. I'm sure. I am
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  Speaker 6: the owner and manager. Here sign here please Troy, there
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  Speaker 6: you are, thank.
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  Speaker 7: You, Otto you show hair Umberstein to here's a room?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, who is it? It's boilin yell just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I have got you some extraplains. You may be cold.
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  Speaker 2: That's very thoughtful of you and the.
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  Speaker 6: Hair Umberstein down the stocky. It's the little cafe. You
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  Speaker 6: may find nice meals and a little music too.
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  Speaker 2: How wonderful. I haven't debted to your line, but you have.
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  Speaker 2: I joge, I look after my guess. It is my job.
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  Speaker 7: That is most kind hair Umberstein. I also dined at
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  Speaker 7: a little cafe often.
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  Speaker 2: Line are your one hospitality? Oh do you?
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  Speaker 4: Shine?
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  Speaker 2: Is growing late? I must be off.
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  Speaker 4: I have a great many things to do tomorrow, and
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  Speaker 4: so do I.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it has been a wonderful evening. Wonderful. Here's your
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  Speaker 2: coat growing colder now, isn't it? Yes? The winter will
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  Speaker 2: be here soon too soon. Yes, but I won't be
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  Speaker 2: you won't nothing, tryline nothing.
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  Speaker 6: You will be here alone.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly fry li And certainly I was just wishing, wishing
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  Speaker 2: for what I had done it.
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  Speaker 4: I'd started thinking perhaps she could fall what nothing try
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  Speaker 4: nothing important?
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  Speaker 2: Only the hopes of every man.
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  Speaker 4: They become so near sometimes they're almost reality. What else
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  Speaker 4: could I do? I had to lead her thoughts away.
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  Speaker 4: Somehow she took the leader.
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  Speaker 2: You mean a woman, Yes, yes, Frouleine you. Oh but we.
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  Speaker 6: Have known he justpe for such a short time, only
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  Speaker 6: two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: That's true. But I've been aware of you for a
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  Speaker 4: longer time, though I've just met you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh, hell obush din Charles Joe.
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  Speaker 4: At first I was uneasy about the whole affair, and
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  Speaker 4: after a while I did grow rather fond of her.
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  Speaker 4: She was so accommodating, and we dined together each evening,
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  Speaker 4: and I played my role to the letter. Never once
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  Speaker 4: did she mention my work, croy Line Keller. What are
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  Speaker 4: you doing in my room?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 4: I was, You've been looking through my Paper's why?
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  Speaker 6: I was looking for something?
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  Speaker 2: What right have you? What are you looking for? I was, well,
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  Speaker 2: I was a letter? A letter? What letter? One that
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  Speaker 2: you haven't got? I thought perhaps you might have it? Now?
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  Speaker 2: Out with it? A letter for a woman.
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  Speaker 7: Very well, Charles, if you must know, I suspect you
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  Speaker 7: are blessing you lunch.
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  Speaker 2: She was actually looking for a letter from some woman,
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  Speaker 2: any woman. She didn't trust me, She didn't trust her child.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, it couldn't have been Drylin Keller.
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  Speaker 2: Who then could it have been?
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  Speaker 4: I walked over at the window and looked down at
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  Speaker 4: the figure who so patiently kept his visual there Captain
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  Speaker 4: van Hind, waiting why there had been something wrong with
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  Speaker 4: the passport. But no, that was perfect. Not the passport.
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  Speaker 8: All passengers who report as a time maaster for passport examination.
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  Speaker 1: All in order you can take her Lukagtejuberlin.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this way ext here you are named Charles Umberstein.
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  Speaker 4: Spelling nationality German.
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  Speaker 2: M m hmm. All in order, pike your luggage, Alina,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. Trained.
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  Speaker 4: It must be careful, you know when may I catch
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  Speaker 4: my train for Bellin? It should be by any moment.
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  Speaker 4: Next I stood there in the shadows waiting for my train.
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  Speaker 4: I examined my passport again, as I had done a
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  Speaker 4: hundred times before. No one would have any reason to
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  Speaker 4: doubt anything so genuine as that God. Must we stand
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  Speaker 4: passport inspection again?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Army intelligence for the compensated.
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  Speaker 2: On for pray.
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  Speaker 4: Three stops. My passport was inspected a good test. If
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  Speaker 4: the passport had been suspected or investigated, it would only
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  Speaker 4: prove that I was Charles Umberstein. I had come by
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  Speaker 4: the passport through Hans. At the time, Hans was employed
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  Speaker 4: as an Austrian customs in This gave him access to
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  Speaker 4: many such passports. According to Hans, there had been a
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  Speaker 4: person named Charles Umberstein who had suddenly disappeared in nineteen
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  Speaker 4: thirty six, since there had been no friends or relatives
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  Speaker 4: to make an inquest.
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  Speaker 2: Well you can.
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  Speaker 4: See, no, no, I was Charles Umberstein. Why I even
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  Speaker 4: resembled the badly scarred photograph on the identification card from
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  Speaker 4: the front view. He was evidently a large man, big shoulders,
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  Speaker 4: large head, wore a short Prussian haircut. Yes, I certainly
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  Speaker 4: looked enough like the photograph. Passport was flawless and couldn't
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  Speaker 4: have discovered me through that fun hind.
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  Speaker 2: Something else? What else? The plans? No no, no, of
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  Speaker 2: course not.
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  Speaker 4: They couldn't have discovered that I merely made copies and
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  Speaker 4: left the originals.
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  Speaker 2: No no, no, not the plans. Why Hans and I haunts?
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, no, not Hans. What ever it worked so
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  Speaker 4: well together? No, no, not Hans. A strange, silent boy perhaps,
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  Speaker 4: But surely at night in nineteen thirty six, when he
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  Speaker 4: gave me the passport. He was our man in Austria.
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  Speaker 4: But strange things happen, even to the most viral or
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  Speaker 4: set chance. Then I when I see you again hands
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  Speaker 4: until until I arrive, I will be attached to an
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  Speaker 4: army or nutst division of the city. You will receive
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  Speaker 4: additional information on the first day of each month from you. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: there's a hotel not far from the factory. Here the
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  Speaker 4: address for a Calant's hotel now on the second floor
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  Speaker 4: in one corner, sits on a hagony table. On it
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  Speaker 4: are a set of silver candlesticks for them. Beneath the
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  Speaker 4: candlestick nearest the right you will find your information on
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  Speaker 4: the first day of each month. It will be written
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  Speaker 4: in code. Naturally, be very careful when you pick it up.
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  Speaker 4: I see, and make no effort to conduct me in
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  Speaker 4: any other way than can I leave anything I might
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  Speaker 4: learn in the same place. Is it safe?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Now?
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  Speaker 4: Remember, soon or later we are bound to be introduced
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  Speaker 4: to you and I my duties with the Ordnance Division
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  Speaker 4: will of course, dear and yet so far kind of thing, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: very far. Once inside the city, I'm oblat n Hans
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  Speaker 4: Niman a farm or mans understandium here Charles Umberstein, architect.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Well, time grows short. I must go.
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  Speaker 4: Everything checked, your passport perfect. I have even resembled the photographs
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  Speaker 4: of the councils. You think so yes, not fair? Well,
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  Speaker 4: I considered the Wlolmberstein to I have looked this way,
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  Speaker 4: tickets right here through the Berlin. I report to France
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  Speaker 4: Millier and the munition's factory produced my credentials. He's been
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  Speaker 4: expecting me. I haggled a little about the salary. Then
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  Speaker 4: I accept that first opportunity to become acquainted with MB plans,
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  Speaker 4: and I will see that you are highly recommended from
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  Speaker 4: a relival source. Just as a matter of curiosity. Hants
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  Speaker 4: who will recommend me. You needn't worry Helmberstein. It'll be good.
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  Speaker 4: I'll show you, and goodbye, overlight Neumann, if you please,
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  Speaker 4: over lightenment Hans Neumann, Well, then my hair, Charles M. Berstein,
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  Speaker 4: I'll beat us, say had Hitler. Yes, everything Hans it
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  Speaker 4: said came about. I picked up my information each month
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  Speaker 4: at a little hotel. I left an occasional report for Hans.
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  Speaker 4: It was the only way we ever communicated. And then
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  Speaker 4: Ober lightened and Hans Neumann began to appear in Franz
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  Speaker 4: Muller's office, and eventually Mirror introduced us that Hans was
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  Speaker 4: with Muller quite frequently and they dined together regularly. Hans
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  Speaker 4: played his part well, but one day something was worrying,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't.
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  Speaker 2: Wait here for you Miller a moment, ah, I Holmer signed.
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  Speaker 4: It's good to see you again, like Norman, and then
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  Speaker 4: I speaks very high of your work here, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Be very careful of just getting one high. And there's
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  Speaker 4: something wrong. I don't know what it is. He looks
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  Speaker 4: at me very strangely, and there is something I recognize
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  Speaker 4: about the man. The hinds are yes, yes, yes, who
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  Speaker 4: was just chatting a moment. I've seen one hind somewhere before.
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  Speaker 4: Be very careful and don't come with us in case
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  Speaker 4: they ask you, Oh well.
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  Speaker 5: You already why? Yes, of course, umbuch time. Would you
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  Speaker 5: care to join us? A flam shown.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, thank you, I have some work to do,
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  Speaker 2: always working. Let's go hunts. Yeah, yeah, certainly.
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  Speaker 4: Oh by the way, will cutain one hind be joining
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  Speaker 4: us today?
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  Speaker 2: One hind sience is very great? Something is the lan
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's too bad?
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  Speaker 5: Fun behind a remarkable man.
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  Speaker 2: No one like him in the service. No one likes
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  Speaker 2: goodbye ointness on Hind.
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  Speaker 4: Such a brief one, Kurt Sinister. Hans was frightened. He
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  Speaker 4: would never would have taken the chance to speak to
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  Speaker 4: me if he had not been frightened something that he
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  Speaker 4: recognized about Van Hind. Saturday was the first of the
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  Speaker 4: month and there was no information at the hotel. Hans
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: didn't appear again to lunch with him. Something was wrong,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: something had happened to Hans today. I found out we will.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy ourselves today, Humberstein.
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  Speaker 5: We should lunch to get them off from you and
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  Speaker 5: I I like.
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  Speaker 4: Good company when I eat good food, good company, good
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  Speaker 4: the gesture.
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  Speaker 2: This is a wonderful restaurant that we are going to.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they serve Norwegian smoked salmon that is excuisit?
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  Speaker 5: And the cheap too, nothing like these new foods we
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  Speaker 5: are getting from Norwalk.
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  Speaker 4: I've heard of Norwegian salmon and this is the best.
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  Speaker 4: You and over like it. Neiman dying here off.
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  Speaker 5: And don't hands yea, we came here off and he
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  Speaker 5: and Neiman will not come here for a long long
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  Speaker 5: time again.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid I I don't understand now you don't you
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  Speaker 4: remember Captain von Hein. Oh, yes, the Gestapo man was
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  Speaker 4: inspecting our factory a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 5: The most efficient man he has apparently been observing Hans
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  Speaker 5: Neimann for some time.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Overlight, not Niman, is being detained by Captain von Hein.
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  Speaker 2: Now was he was a spy? Spy? How do you know?
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  Speaker 5: Behind the rest only spies and for Hind never makes
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  Speaker 5: a mistake.
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  Speaker 2: A man is in credit? Or was there something suspicious
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  Speaker 2: about Hans? Something suspicious about everyone too?
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  Speaker 5: For high he himself asked me to cultivate Oberlight, not Neimann,
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: so that he could better observe his action.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I noticed that you two lunched together very often.
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: We lunched together at this very same restaurant you and
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  Speaker 5: I are going to.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that made it easy for for Hin to study.
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  Speaker 2: The man in leisure.
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  Speaker 5: From Hind always wants to be certain of his quire
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  Speaker 5: and where his hands.
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  Speaker 2: Now, who knows?
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  Speaker 5: Who knows what happens when Captain from Hind takes a man?
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: Don't you admire such efficiency, Immersida?
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Well, of course the captain did indicate that there were
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: others to be rounded up too. Here we are, Oh, look,
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: look you see them in the window, Norwegian someone.
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  Speaker 2: No, they are beautiful, so red, so delicious. Are you
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: hungry Overstein?
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, they do look delicious, Captain van Hit. I
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: looked at him out at the window again. I can
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: see his breath now. It was growing very cold. He
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: was well dressed and neatly tailed, overcoat and dark hat.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: It was too dark to tell the exact color. The
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: only thing I was sure of were hands. The gloves
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: on the hands heavy thick, powerfully mounted prongs encased in
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: a gray, tightly fitting material style lines running across the
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: back I noticed when he lifted them to light a cigarette,
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: My beautiful weapons. His back was to me. I couldn't
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: help but admire the fine breadth of his shoulders and
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: the thick, closely barbered neck. He stood quietly by the
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: lamp post, smoking, watching his breath and the smoke battle
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: for existence in the icy air. Once, when he turned
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: to look up at my window, the single eye glass
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: he wore caught the reflection of the light. I wondered
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: how much he weighed Carefully. I retraced each step over
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: again in my mind. I couldn't find the flaw that
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: made me a marked man. The absurdly easy way. I
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: had gone through Miller's office carrying an innocent looking bundle
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: of blueprints, then to the vault, the superb superstition of copies.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: No one could suspect what I had done, No one
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: had any reason too. Why Why then, was I trapped?
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Of course he was after me, waiting down there. I
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: wondered why he didn't come up and wait in my room.
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: Surely he didn't know I was in the room. Perhaps
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: he had searched my room one day while I was out.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: But what could he find?
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Nothing? Absolutely nothing.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: A passport proving I was Charles Uberstein, a monogram's suit
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: case bearing the initial see you, A few letters and
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: old papers, nothing, nothing at all. I had never talked,
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: I had never known any one else in service except
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Hans Franz. Miller was too stupid to suspect anything for
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: a line Keller. No, the passport perfect. Only one other way,
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: only one other way. Could he possibly know? An instant
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: the possible answer flashed through my brain for a full
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: five minutes.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I watched him, watched him very discerningly. Could it be?
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Could it possibly be? The stillness of the street below
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: was broken from time to time by the blare of
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: an occasional horn, and the rattle of armored cars carrying
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: soldiers to different parts of the city. Turning from the window,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: I groped about in the darkness of my room, searching
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: for the automatic I had concealed in the slit compartment
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: of my traveling bag. When I found it, I tested
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: the chamber. Yes, it was loaded. I jammed it in
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: my coat pocket, and putting on my hat, I stood
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: there by the window watching him. He seemed very ominous,
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: very assured, waiting for me. He must have been getting
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: anxious with his long vigil. I watched him signal to
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: an accomplice across the street. Walking back and forth under
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: the street light, I noticed something familiar, very familiar, A
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: boat from off the bed, tied to a piece of
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: cord attached to the light switch near the radiator pipe,
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: room enough to pass it through the weighted end, dragging
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: the string to the lobby below. I picked up my
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: suitcase and stepped out. At the door, the hall was
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: dark and quiet. I walked down the stairs. The lobby
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: was empty, deserted. At the bottom of the stairs, I
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: placed the suitcase by the door, and I crossed the
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: desk hastily. I jammed a few bills in an envelope
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: and addressed it to Praline Keller. Now, as I picked
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: up my suitcase, I could see him very plainly on
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: the corner. He was only a few feet from the entrance.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: The cord with its weighted end had fallen just short
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: of the door. I stood there quietly. He looked up
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: at my room. I pulled the cord was titled when
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: the light went on upstairs. Searching the window for a
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: view of the occupant, I walked to the door, but
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: I opened it.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: He looked at me. He looked my.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Way, gazed at me point blank, seemed surprised and assuring himself.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: He took a step toward me.
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: Umberstein h Umberstein, Oh you are You are Charles Umberstein.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: Yes, I Charles Umberstein, who entered Germany nineteen thirty six
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: from Austria.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Here's my passport, your passpord. Yes.
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: I have always wanted to meet you, Charles Umberstein. I
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: have always wanted to meet you face to face.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: You know who I am?
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, you are.
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: I wonder you know the others I have had my
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: men pick up, but you I wanted to attend to
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: personally it's because you are child um Dashtein.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Now we will le just I'm sorry, my friend. He
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: sat down hard on the curb.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: The pup at me, mumbled strangely, and then fell over
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: with his head in the gut. His hat fell off,
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: and I saw that his hair was closely cropped. There
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: were other people on the street. I ran till I
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: was out bread. The next day I picked up a
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Berlin paper on the railroad station. On the second page
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I read the headline Estapo official murdered Saturday, January twenty fifth.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Captain Charles von hind I, ranking official of the Gestapo
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: intelligence service, was instantly killed last night by the bullets
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: of an unknown assailant whom he was attempting to arrest
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: on charges of his espionage didn't. Van hind had been
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: connected with the Gestapo since nineteen thirty six. Prior to
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: his affiliation with a Gestapo intelligence he had been known
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: by his real name, Charles Umberstein. His entry into such
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: dangerous work made necessary a complete retirement from all public life.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: The right will long honor the memory of Charles Umberstein.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: I wired flowers from Geneva with a card marked Sympathy,
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: signed see you.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: And so closes The Strange Death of Charles Umberstein by
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: e Jack Newman, starring Vincent Price. Tonight's tale of Suspense.
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Vincent Price will soon be seen in the twentieth Century
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Box production of Benedette.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: The producer and director of Suspense is William Spear.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Music was composed by Lucian Monowick and conducted by Lud Blusket.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: This is the Man in Black who would like to
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: draw your attention to the new day in time for
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: suspense beginning next week, when Kerry Grant will be our star.
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: Beginning next week, listeners in the Eastern and Central time
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: zones will here Suspense on Thursdays at eight pm Eastern
• 29:36
  Speaker 9: Wartime and seven pm Central Wartime. Lesteners in the Mountain
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: and Pacific time zones will be brought their next story
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: of suspense on Monday, December sixth, and each Monday thereafter
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: at nine pm Pacific Wartime. Don't forget suspense on Thursdays
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: beginning December the second if you live in Eastern and
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: Central time zones and Monday is beginning December the sixth
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: for listeners in the Mountain and Pacific time zones, with
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: Kerry Grant our opening guest Star. This ISBBS, the Columbia
• 30:17
  Speaker 9: Broadcasting System.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: And so we leave wartime Berlin with suspense, the strange
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: death of Charles Umberstein. Good Night, wherever the radio finds you.