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Lux Radio Theatre - "A Blueprint for Murder" (Old Time Radio, 1954) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Dan Daley and Dorothy McGuire head the cast in a
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: one hour adaptation of Andrew L. Stone's nineteen fifty three
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: twentieth Century Fox film. On March twenty ninth, nineteen fifty four,
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: CBS brought Lux Radio Theater listeners episode eight hundred seventy four,
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: a blueprint for Murder produced by Irving Cummings. Daily plays
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: Cam Cameron, who returns to the hospital bedside of his
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: niece as her decline brings back memories of an earlier
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  Speaker 1: family loss. His concern turns toward Lynn Cameron, his brother's
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: young widow, played by McGuire, while the safety of her
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: surviving step son becomes a pressing question. Barney Phillips appears
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  Speaker 1: as Captain Detective Pringle, with Jack Crushen as Lieutenant Cole,
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  Speaker 1: and William Conrad as the District Attorney. And now we
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: return to the original broadcast.
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: Lussi Holly leave her brother's company.
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  Speaker 3: The makers of Lux Toilet So brings you the Lux
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  Speaker 3: Radio Theater starring Mandalley and Dorothy McGuire in a blueprint
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  Speaker 3: for Murder.
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  Speaker 2: Lad Is, gentlemen, your producer, mister Irvin Cummings.
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  Speaker 4: Reading some Hollywood ladies and gentlemen. Tonight's play of Blueprint
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  Speaker 4: for Murder is a spine tingling mystery, the thrilling drama
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  Speaker 4: of a romance which was overshadowed by the suspicion of murder.
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  Speaker 4: It's the quandary of a young man who suspects that
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  Speaker 4: the lovely young widow of his brother may be a
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  Speaker 4: diabolical poisoner. And as our stars we have popular Dan
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  Speaker 4: Day and Dorothy McGuire creating two unusual roles in this
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  Speaker 4: Now, Act one of a Blueprint for Murder, starring Dan
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  Speaker 4: Dale as Can and Dorothy McGuire as Lynn Cameron.
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  Speaker 6: The telegram was waiting for me in New Orleans. The
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  Speaker 6: telegram from Lynn. I took the next plane back and
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  Speaker 6: rushed to the hospital late that afternoon. The door. So
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  Speaker 6: I was able to give us some real incourage, And.
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  Speaker 7: So I think our worries are over, mister Cameron. But
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  Speaker 7: she was a mighty sick little girl. You still don't
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  Speaker 7: know what was wrong, not for sure. The tetany test
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  Speaker 7: was negative.
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  Speaker 6: Tetany.
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  Speaker 7: Those muscular spasms she was having there quite characteristic. Well,
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure she'll have quite a comfortable night. I understand
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  Speaker 7: you're the child's uncle, Is that right?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, her father's dead, my brother. I'm very attached to
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  Speaker 6: both children and their stepmother. Missus Cameron's had quite an ordeal.
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  Speaker 6: Why not take her home?
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  Speaker 7: We will have a special nurse on duty, and if anything,
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  Speaker 7: it all comes.
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  Speaker 6: Up, I'll try and get a leave now.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I wouldn't think of leaving here if it weren't
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  Speaker 8: for Doug, poor little boy. He doesn't know what to
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  Speaker 8: make of all this. I'll phone him and tell him
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  Speaker 8: I'm coming as a booth down the corridor. Cam. Now
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  Speaker 8: that you're here, how about spending a few.
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  Speaker 6: Days with us, I'd really liked it. Then I should
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  Speaker 6: get back tomorrow. We're opening a new field and a venezuela.
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  Speaker 9: You're always roaming all over the world.
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  Speaker 10: Did it ever occur.
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  Speaker 9: To you that we might like to see you once
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  Speaker 9: in a while.
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  Speaker 8: It's so important to the children, especially Doug. He's never
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  Speaker 8: quite got over Bill's death, and he's so fond of you.
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  Speaker 6: Let me see what I can do. Maybe I can't
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  Speaker 6: stay over a few days.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I wish you, boy.
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  Speaker 6: Here's your phone booth. I'll look up a public stenographer.
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  Speaker 6: I got some letters and a couple of telegrams. Get off,
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  Speaker 6: I'll meet you at the house.
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  Speaker 9: Wonderful. We'll expect you for dinner and cam. Thanks for everything.
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  Speaker 11: Gosh, Linde, do I have to go to bed? Can't
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  Speaker 11: we play just one more?
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  Speaker 12: Gie?
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  Speaker 8: It's way past your bedtime, Doug, and tomorrow's school.
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  Speaker 11: But Uncle Kim's only gonna be here for a few days.
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  Speaker 6: And we're gonna have fun for those few days too.
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  Speaker 6: How about the ice show tomorrow?
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  Speaker 13: Oh boy, gee, I wish Polly could go too. It
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  Speaker 13: was awful last night, Uncle Kim, the way she kept yelling,
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  Speaker 13: don't touch my feet.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I know, but I think we should try and
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  Speaker 6: get that out of our minds.
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  Speaker 11: Doug Dan was just like that when he died.
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  Speaker 6: Just like that.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I'm afraid Doug's letting his imagination run away again.
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  Speaker 11: But he was all stiff and funny too, just the
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  Speaker 11: same as Powie.
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  Speaker 6: Is that right?
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  Speaker 8: Well, there was some similarity, I suppose, but the doctors
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  Speaker 8: all agreed that Bill had virus encephalitis.
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  Speaker 9: Anyway, there must be a lot of things with the
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  Speaker 9: same symptoms, Yes, I suppose. So have you told Uncle
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  Speaker 9: Kadam about your baseball team, Doug?
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  Speaker 11: Boy, have we got a team? I knocked two home
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  Speaker 11: runs last week?
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  Speaker 6: We were up in Boston, slugger. We could see the
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  Speaker 6: Red Sox play.
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  Speaker 14: See.
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  Speaker 6: How about letting Doug spend the summer with me?
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  Speaker 15: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Please? Lynn?
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  Speaker 5: Please?
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  Speaker 10: Well?
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  Speaker 9: Why not? Sounds wonderful?
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  Speaker 6: Oh boy, let's see, I've still got the sailboat out
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  Speaker 6: in the Cape. I don't know they care of the
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  Speaker 6: weekends and during the week.
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  Speaker 13: Lynn took us up to Lake George last summer, and
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  Speaker 13: I learned a lot about Uncle Kim.
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  Speaker 6: Seems the main. Len's been mighty good to you.
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  Speaker 11: She sure has.
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  Speaker 9: Well.
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  Speaker 11: Good night, Uncle Cam.
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  Speaker 6: Good night, Doug, Good night Lenn.
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  Speaker 9: Sleep well there and just call if there's anything you want.
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  Speaker 11: I will see in them.
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  Speaker 6: My uncle Cam You've been wonderful the way you're bringing
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  Speaker 6: up those kids.
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  Speaker 9: They're nice kids. It hasn't been hard.
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  Speaker 6: When their mother died, I thought no one would ever
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  Speaker 6: be able to take her place. They really love you, Lynn.
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  Speaker 6: I don't see how they can help it. I always
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  Speaker 6: thought Bill was a lucky man, and now I'm beginning
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  Speaker 6: to realize just how excuse me?
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  Speaker 9: Hello, Yes, yes, we'll be right there. Cam.
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  Speaker 8: That was doctor Stevenson at the hospital, Holly. He told
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  Speaker 8: us to come right over. She's had a relapse.
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  Speaker 5: Can well, well, when did you hit down?
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  Speaker 6: Hello? Fred?
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  Speaker 5: Will come in? Hey, Maggie, who's here?
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  Speaker 16: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: This is wonderful. We haven't seen you in ages. Had
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  Speaker 5: you breakfast?
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  Speaker 6: Fred? Uh, I've got bad news. I wouldn't be here
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  Speaker 6: at this hour except it's Polly. Fred. Polly's dead dead.
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  Speaker 10: Cam. Well, of all the wonderful surprises.
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  Speaker 5: Take it easy, Honey, some terrible news Little Polly Camera,
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  Speaker 5: she's dead. She's what I just can't believe it.
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  Speaker 6: Accident? Oh oh, she took.
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  Speaker 10: Sick when Cam?
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  Speaker 6: When early this morning at the hospital.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, what a tragedy.
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  Speaker 10: And Lenn and poor little Doug, how's he taking it?
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  Speaker 6: Well? They're both under sedatives your breakfast. Please go ahead.
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  Speaker 10: You'll have some coffee anyway, I'll get another cup.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not right to barge in like this, and I
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  Speaker 6: should have phoned you first.
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  Speaker 5: That's a fine way to talk to an old friend.
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  Speaker 6: Fred. You're still handling the estate, aren't you. Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, of course, Caim. What was wrong with Polly?
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  Speaker 6: Well? The doctor scene rather uncertain.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't know.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes it's hard to tell, I suppose, But there's one
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  Speaker 6: thing about it that bothers me. Well, apparently Polly had
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  Speaker 6: the same sort of convulsions that Bill had before he died.
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  Speaker 9: M Are you sure of that?
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  Speaker 6: I'm not sure of anything. I only know that Polly
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  Speaker 6: kept screaming, don't touch my feet.
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  Speaker 10: It's very curious.
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  Speaker 5: I don't see anything curious about it at all.
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  Speaker 6: It's just that I'm afraid there might be something hereditary
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  Speaker 6: in all this, and that it could hit Doug too.
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  Speaker 10: Kem. You weren't here when Bill died, were you?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 10: Well, what did the doctors tell you? He died from?
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  Speaker 6: Virus? Encephalitis is sort of a sleeping sickness.
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  Speaker 10: Yet in Polly's case, they don't know. Somehow, back in
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  Speaker 10: my mind that don't touch my feet rings a bell.
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  Speaker 5: Maggie, Please, she still writes for those pulp magazines. Gen
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  Speaker 5: know what an imagination she is.
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  Speaker 10: This has nothing to do with imagination. This was research
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  Speaker 10: I did at a medical library a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 10: I had an idea for a story.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I thought a story.
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  Speaker 10: Well, maybe you're right. Forget it.
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  Speaker 6: If there's something on your mind, say it.
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  Speaker 10: I was looking up a murder case. The victim also
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  Speaker 10: had convulsions and kept screaming, don't touch my hand. So
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  Speaker 10: he died of strickenan poisoning.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Maggie, for heaven's sake, how can you even suggest
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  Speaker 5: such a thing.
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  Speaker 10: I only mean there's a well, a similarity.
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  Speaker 5: You know nothing about what's happened, nothing, Maggie.
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  Speaker 6: Don't you think the doctors would have recognized Strickland.
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know. They didn't in the case I looked up,
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  Speaker 10: and they apparently don't know what killed Polly. Let's see
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  Speaker 10: what the encyclopedia says about convulsions.
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  Speaker 5: Why do you always have to dramatize everything.
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  Speaker 6: You're really going off the deep end, Maggie, Well look
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  Speaker 6: it up if you want to.
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  Speaker 5: She sees a man take a pocket knife to sharpen
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  Speaker 5: a pencil, and right away she starts building up a
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  Speaker 5: murder case.
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  Speaker 10: Well, they'll both have you jump on me. I only
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  Speaker 10: mentioned it is something that should be looked into anyway.
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  Speaker 10: Here it is in the encyclopedia.
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  Speaker 6: Let me see it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I at least eight causes tetanus. Only tetanus would
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  Speaker 5: have required a cut.
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  Speaker 10: Obviously, it wasn't Raby's epilepsy.
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  Speaker 6: There's no history of it in the family.
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  Speaker 10: These others, like a brain tumor, there would have been
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  Speaker 10: earlier indications. I'll accept one.
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  Speaker 6: Well read it poisons, especially the alkaloids such as strict.
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  Speaker 5: That doesn't prove anything, of course not.
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  Speaker 6: I'd like to use your phone. I'd like to call
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  Speaker 6: doctor Stevenson.
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  Speaker 10: And so we well, we thought of the possibility of strick.
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  Speaker 7: Nand doctor you're serious about this, missus Sergeant.
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  Speaker 10: I don't mean to be rude, doctor, but you do
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  Speaker 10: admit you don't know what that child died from.
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  Speaker 15: Is this your idea, too, mister Cameron.
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  Speaker 6: I haven't any ideas, doctor, but you told me it
• 11:43
  Speaker 6: wasn't tetany and yet that's what you put on the
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  Speaker 6: death certificate.
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  Speaker 7: Because that's what we were treating. The patient for she
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  Speaker 7: responded to the calcium, so we continued it. As a
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  Speaker 7: matter of fact, I suggested an autopsy.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Lynn couldn't stand the idea. I agreed, nothing could
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  Speaker 6: be gained by it.
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  Speaker 7: Missus, Sergeant, just how do you think the child got
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  Speaker 7: the poison?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know, of course, but I don't see how
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  Speaker 10: it could have been accidental.
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  Speaker 7: I hope you realize what you're saying. Meanwhile, mister Cameron,
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  Speaker 7: I'm afraid I don't want any part of all this.
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  Speaker 10: I'm sorry I ever mentioned it. Come on, Cam, let's go.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for seeing us. You're quite welcome. Mister Cameron.
• 12:22
  Speaker 6: Who could have done it? Maggie?
• 12:23
  Speaker 5: Who?
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  Speaker 10: Oh? Several people for instance, for instance Linn good day,
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  Speaker 10: doctor Stephenson.
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  Speaker 6: Maggie, what's got into you? And making a crazy crack
• 12:35
  Speaker 6: like that about Lynn?
• 12:36
  Speaker 10: Now, dog Gunnet, I'm getting mad. I only said it
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  Speaker 10: was possible she could have done it, and it is.
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  Speaker 6: You've got her all wrong. She certainly made Bill a
• 12:44
  Speaker 6: good wife. He was very happy with her.
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  Speaker 10: Do you plan to stay on till the end of
• 12:48
  Speaker 10: the week? It's three or four days now? Can I
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  Speaker 10: drive you anyway?
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  Speaker 14: No?
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  Speaker 9: No?
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  Speaker 6: Thanks?
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  Speaker 10: Think it over, Cam. It sounds ridiculous, I know, but
• 12:57
  Speaker 10: is it?
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  Speaker 6: Say a lot of fred I see you both in
• 13:00
  Speaker 6: there or two. I was with Lynn most of the
• 13:09
  Speaker 6: next few days. More and more I realized what a
• 13:12
  Speaker 6: wonderful person she was. Our warrants and affection for Doug
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  Speaker 6: helped so much to soften the blow of his sister's death.
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  Speaker 6: Never did Maggie's suspicions seem more fantastic than now, Must you.
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  Speaker 9: Really leave tomorrow?
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  Speaker 6: Can? I've stretched it as long as I could, Lynn,
• 13:29
  Speaker 6: But I'll be back as soon as I can. You
• 13:30
  Speaker 6: can rely on that.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know what I would have done without. Yes, Anna, it's.
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  Speaker 17: The phone man from mister Cameron.
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  Speaker 9: It's mister Such.
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  Speaker 6: Tell him. I'll call him back later.
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  Speaker 8: Anna, No, no, no, go on, I'll run upstairs and
• 13:42
  Speaker 8: see if that's asleep.
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  Speaker 6: I'll take it in the study. Anna.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, And I just wanted to know if you're still leaving.
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: In the morning. Yes, of course.
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  Speaker 18: Why well, I I hesitate to talk about it on
• 13:54
  Speaker 18: the phone. It's a bunch of brother Bill's estate. Well,
• 13:59
  Speaker 18: under the term of his will lend shares in trust,
• 14:03
  Speaker 18: she receives only the interest unless one less. Why now,
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  Speaker 18: I don't want you to think we're jumping at conclusions.
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  Speaker 5: Cam, We're not.
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  Speaker 18: It's just that I'm unless what unless both children were
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  Speaker 18: to die, both Polly and Doug?
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  Speaker 6: Fred, What the devil are you trying to say?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it could provide a motive.
• 14:21
  Speaker 6: I'm not amazed at you.
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: I know how all this must sound.
• 14:24
  Speaker 18: Can but I think you ought to stay over another
• 14:26
  Speaker 18: day so we can.
• 14:27
  Speaker 6: Talk it over. All right, all right, I'll see you
• 14:31
  Speaker 6: in the morning.
• 14:40
  Speaker 9: Jam, anything wrong wrong?
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: Oh no, no, Red, just call to us say goodbye.
• 14:46
  Speaker 9: Oh I hate that word.
• 14:48
  Speaker 6: I told him he was being premature, and I've decided
• 14:51
  Speaker 6: to stay a day or two longer, that is, if
• 14:53
  Speaker 6: it's all right with you.
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  Speaker 9: You know it is?
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  Speaker 6: Was Doug all right?
• 14:57
  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, thank goodness. I'm worried about him. He doesn't look
• 15:00
  Speaker 8: at all well.
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  Speaker 6: It's been the same for him as for the rest
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  Speaker 6: of us. It's such a terrible shock.
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  Speaker 8: No, but Doug hasn't been looking well for weeks. I'm
• 15:08
  Speaker 8: thinking of taking him out of school, Cam, maybe a
• 15:10
  Speaker 8: trip to Europe. Why well, he needs a change. Everything
• 15:14
  Speaker 8: here only reminds him of his father and Polly, and
• 15:17
  Speaker 8: it'd be good for me too.
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  Speaker 6: How long would you be away.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, I don't know, maybe a year or so.
• 15:24
  Speaker 8: That long might be very good for him, visiting all
• 15:29
  Speaker 8: the little out of the way places and just taking
• 15:31
  Speaker 8: it easy. I'm not worried about his schoolwork. He's such
• 15:33
  Speaker 8: a bright boy. We could take some sort of study schedule.
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  Speaker 18: With us, and in that way, there's no point in
• 15:44
  Speaker 18: getting excited about it.
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  Speaker 6: Cam.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: We're just talking about it among ourselves. But I can't
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: close my eyes to the fact.
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: That Lynn did have a moode. I don't care how
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: it adds up. You'll never convince me that Lynn is
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: capable of murder.
• 15:56
  Speaker 10: Bill left a lot of money, Cam, almost a million dollars.
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  Speaker 5: How you tell us she's thinking of taking Doug abroad?
• 16:02
  Speaker 9: Yes, to those out of the way places in Europe?
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: What do you want me to do?
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: Be objective, that's.
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  Speaker 10: All, Cam. I've gone through every book on poison cases
• 16:10
  Speaker 10: I can find. There have been plenty of women who
• 16:13
  Speaker 10: are poison murderers.
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: Stop it, Maggie, please.
• 16:15
  Speaker 10: Madeline Smith, Florence maybrick Lydia Trueblood, dozens of others. Many
• 16:20
  Speaker 10: of them were young, beautiful, intelligent and cultured.
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: You still refuse to answer a very simple question, if
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: it were strickenan to kill Polly. Why didn't the doctors
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: recognize it?
• 16:30
  Speaker 10: Because they weren't looking for it. Here's the dope. On
• 16:33
  Speaker 10: lots of famous poison cases, not in one instance did
• 16:36
  Speaker 10: a doctor call the turn based on medical diagnosis.
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: You just can't dismiss it as impossible. That's all, at
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: least I can't.
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: Here's something else you might look over.
• 16:46
  Speaker 10: This happened in Philadelphia, more than one hundred people killed
• 16:49
  Speaker 10: by arsenate before even one of the cases was suspected.
• 16:52
  Speaker 10: Yet that's the only case reported in Philadelphia in the
• 16:54
  Speaker 10: last twenty years.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: All right, how do they account for it?
• 16:58
  Speaker 10: Because there are so many disease apparently that simulate poison symptoms,
• 17:03
  Speaker 10: and the idea of murder seems so utterly and credible
• 17:06
  Speaker 10: to the doctors that it doesn't even enter their minds.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Don't think I'm sold on this theory, can because I
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: am not. Too many things don't make sense. If Lynn
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: were guilty, For example, she'd have had Polly's body cremated.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: Lynn did want Polly cremated. I talked her out of it.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: Bill wouldn't have wanted it. I see, I didn't know.
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: Then Polly could have been poisoned?
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Can we we just can't dismiss this lightly?
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: Well, I can and I will.
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: And if Doug should also die, Cam, then what Doug?
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: Would you ever be able to forgive yourself?
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: You're a lawyer, What do you suggest?
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: I'm afraid there's only one thing to do. Talk to
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: the police, get a court order for an autopsy.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: All right, let's get it over with.
• 17:59
  Speaker 9: Can aren't you coming in? Dinner's ready?
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: Hmm?
• 18:03
  Speaker 19: Oh?
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: What's the matter with you?
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: You've been staring out of that window for half an hour,
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: ever since you got.
• 18:10
  Speaker 9: That phone call.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: Where's Doug?
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: I told you he's having dinner to his friends down
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: the street.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: Lynn, I've got to talk to you.
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: Well, can't it wait until after dinner?
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: No, it can't wait any longer. Lynn, I don't know
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: how to begin that phone call before it was about Polly.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: Polly was poisoned?
• 18:34
  Speaker 9: Poisoned?
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 18:37
  Speaker 10: Oh what?
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: It just couldn't be. Can there must be some mistake?
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: I'm afraid not?
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: But how how could it have happened?
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: The police think it was intentional?
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: Police?
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: Yes, it was their medical examiner who performed the autopsy.
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: They want you and the servants down for questioning tomorrow.
• 18:56
  Speaker 14: Morning.
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: But this is impossible. It doesn't make any sense. Please,
• 19:00
  Speaker 8: what gave them the idea of performing an autopsy?
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: Then you know doctor Stevenson wasn't certain what caused Polly's dinner. Well,
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: there was a reason for thinking it could have been strict.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: The symptoms are almost a dinner.
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: And you knew about this, and you didn't even mention
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: it to me.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: I didn't think they'd find anything wrong. There was no
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: purpose in upsetting you. I know what's miserable being dragged
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: down to the police for a lot of.
• 19:22
  Speaker 8: Well, that can't be helped. But there's one fact we
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: can't get away from it. If Polly was poisoned and
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: somebody did it, and it's up to us to find
• 19:32
  Speaker 8: that somebody.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: Yes, I'll need.
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: Your help more than ever now I'll be here, thank you.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Before we continue with that too of a blueprint for murder.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Let's hear from Francisculley.
• 19:55
  Speaker 12: Well, I've been having spring fever cans, so I went
• 19:58
  Speaker 12: to see Metro Golwin May Romantic Hits Rhapsody.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Well, I'd say that has the perfect cast for romance.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Francis Beautiful, Elizabeth Taylor and Technicolor and those two sensational
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: screen discoveries Vittorio Gosman and John Ericson.
• 20:11
  Speaker 12: Yes, and in the picture they are brilliant young musical eardists,
• 20:15
  Speaker 12: and you'll hear some of the world's greatest music.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: So I'm told, doesn't Elizabeth Taylor play the role of
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: the spoiled, wilful girl they both love?
• 20:23
  Speaker 12: That's right, Ken in the most romantic performance of her career.
• 20:27
  Speaker 12: The picture is in a delightfully carefree mood, and the
• 20:30
  Speaker 12: background swiftly changes from Switzerland to Paris and the Riviera
• 20:34
  Speaker 12: as the three young stars bring us the absorbing love story.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: That looks like MGM has another hit for their thirtieth aniversary.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: Good Night Francis Now. Our producer is to commings.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Act too of a blueprint for Murder, starring Dorothy McGuire
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: as Lynn and Dan Davey as Can.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: Was questioned the following morning at police headquarters. Lieutenant Cole
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: seemed almost apologetic. He dismissed her in a matter of moments,
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: but he brought Fred and me to Captain Pringle's office.
• 21:12
  Speaker 16: Well, Lieutenant, where's missus Cameron?
• 21:14
  Speaker 14: I just let it go, Captain. She was very cooperative,
• 21:16
  Speaker 14: but I'm afraid we didn't learn very much.
• 21:18
  Speaker 16: Nothing from the servants there, all very loyal to her.
• 21:22
  Speaker 16: What she had to say about them.
• 21:23
  Speaker 14: Nothing with the best. But it all seems to boil
• 21:26
  Speaker 14: down a missus Cameron, or the cook, or the maid
• 21:28
  Speaker 14: or the chauffeur. They were the only ones in the
• 21:31
  Speaker 14: house the night little girl took sick, except little boy.
• 21:33
  Speaker 16: Of course, at dinner at seven o'clock. Probably took sick
• 21:36
  Speaker 16: about eleven thirty. And no one admits giving her anything
• 21:39
  Speaker 16: to eat in the meantime.
• 21:40
  Speaker 14: Yet Strickland would have started to work in half an
• 21:42
  Speaker 14: hour or so.
• 21:44
  Speaker 16: Well, it's about it. I suppose you don't sound very hopeful, dude.
• 21:48
  Speaker 16: These poison cases are always dillies can be very tough
• 21:51
  Speaker 16: proving anything. They don't get the idea we're laying down,
• 21:53
  Speaker 16: mister Cameron. But there have been only two poison murder
• 21:57
  Speaker 16: convictions in the whole city of New York in the
• 21:59
  Speaker 16: last fifty years, both based on confessions.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: There's nothing else you want us for.
• 22:03
  Speaker 16: Just one thing more. We're having your brother's body exhumed,
• 22:07
  Speaker 16: mister Cameron.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: Why do you have to do that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 16: I think you'll agree that if we find out that
• 22:11
  Speaker 16: he was poisoned, too. It may go a long way
• 22:14
  Speaker 16: toward helping us find the one we're looking for him.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: He's right, Cam, you start on a case like this
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: and you never know where it's going to lead.
• 22:20
  Speaker 16: We'll be in touch with you, mister Cameron.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: Thank you. Fred. Where will you be late this afternoon?
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Maggie and I? Well, we're meeting for cocktails at the plaza.
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Any chance of joining us off for cocktails?
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: I may want to see you. Why, Well, I may
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: have something I may need some advice.
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: Cam Cam over here.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: Oh Maggie, but I've just come from the library.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Oh no, not you too.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: I went through all those books on toxicology. Lynn couldn't
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: have done it. Only now I can prove it. How
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: you die of strickland during a convulsion? You die of suffocation.
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: Well, what does that mean?
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: It means that somebody gave Polly a second dose in
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: the hospital.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: In the hospital, she was getting better.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: How did convulsions start all over again nearly twenty hours later?
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: I never thought of that, and neither did the police
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: or anyone else. Besides I call a medical examiner and
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: he had to agree.
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: Well, of course, in all the strickenan cases we looked up,
• 23:26
  Speaker 10: they either died in a few hours, they got well, and.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: It proves that Lynn is absolutely innocent.
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: But how could the hospital have given Polly strickman by mistake?
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: That's what I've got to find out. I'm seeing doctor
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: Stevenson again in the morning.
• 23:50
  Speaker 15: Well, here it is, mister Cameron.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: The patient's chart. The only medicines administered were all quite routine.
• 23:57
  Speaker 7: They were supplied by our hospital pharmacy on stairs.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: What medicines? What was Polly given the night she died?
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: At ten o'clock she was given calcium chloride pepsin and
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: capsule formed. We've been giving her other calcium preparation, but
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: she'd complained of the disagreeable chalky taste, so at six
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: thirty I switched to these. She was given a second
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: capsule at ten thirty. Well, no ill effects indicated. She
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: took the third capsule at half past eleven. Half an
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: hour later the convulsion started.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: Could the strickenan have been in that last capsule?
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: Well, possible, of course, but I like to remind you
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: it came directly from the hospital pharmacy. Well, I'm scheduled
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: for surgery. I'd like to check with you later if
• 24:39
  Speaker 7: I may.
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: Thanks. I appreciate your help.
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: Frankly, though, I don't know what more I can add.
• 24:53
  Speaker 17: Mister Cameron, you want to see me. I'm miss Brown now.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: The supervisor said, you're the nurse who was on duty
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: here the night my niece died.
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: Oh yes, and I can't tell you.
• 25:00
  Speaker 14: How soon do you.
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: Recall doctor Stevenson asking you to have a prescription filled
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: about six point thirty?
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: Well, yes, vaguely.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: May I ask where you took the prescription?
• 25:11
  Speaker 17: Well, the hospital pharmacy downstairs.
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: They never saw that prescription pharmacy downstairs was closed. They
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: closed at six o'clock every night. They just told me so.
• 25:19
  Speaker 9: Oh of course I remember now.
• 25:21
  Speaker 17: I was just about to send it out when Missus
• 25:23
  Speaker 17: Cameron offered.
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: To get it filled.
• 25:25
  Speaker 17: Missus Cameron, yes, the child's mother. I remember it very clearly. Now,
• 25:31
  Speaker 17: who is that awesome?
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: Yes? Thanks, But that wasn't all. In the morning, the
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: police sent for the nurse. She reported to Captain Pringle's.
• 25:47
  Speaker 14: Office, tell us Ms Brown out, how did you happen
• 25:50
  Speaker 14: to ask Missus Cameron to get the medicine?
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: I didn't ask her.
• 25:54
  Speaker 17: The hospital pharmacy was closed, and she offered to get
• 25:56
  Speaker 17: the prescription filled.
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: Herself.
• 25:58
  Speaker 16: Who delivered it to the hospital, Well, she brought it back.
• 26:01
  Speaker 14: What time was that?
• 26:03
  Speaker 18: Oh?
• 26:04
  Speaker 17: I imagine about seven thirty.
• 26:07
  Speaker 14: The capsules were in a bottle. Yes, the bottle was sealed.
• 26:11
  Speaker 17: No, no, it was just an ordinary.
• 26:13
  Speaker 16: Bottle cap and it would have been possible for someone
• 26:16
  Speaker 16: to have tampered with the capsules without you knowing about it.
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: Well, yes, I suppose so.
• 26:24
  Speaker 14: That would be all Miss Brownew, thank you very much.
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: For coming here, not at all? Goodbye?
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: Who's next?
• 26:30
  Speaker 14: Missus Cameron's show for a fellow named Wheeler?
• 26:32
  Speaker 16: Okay, bring him in.
• 26:36
  Speaker 14: Now then, Wheeler. You say, Missus Cameron left the hospital
• 26:39
  Speaker 14: just after six thirty and you drove it to that
• 26:41
  Speaker 14: drug store.
• 26:42
  Speaker 16: You guys, sir, what time did you return to the hospital.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: All about half past seven, but early maybe.
• 26:48
  Speaker 16: I longed to take to get it filled ten minutes.
• 26:51
  Speaker 16: Maybe then you.
• 26:52
  Speaker 14: Should have been back to the hospital long before seven thirty.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: Well, on our way back, Missus Cameron stopped off at
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: her apartment.
• 26:58
  Speaker 14: Oh why she didn't say.
• 27:01
  Speaker 16: How long was she there?
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Not very long?
• 27:03
  Speaker 16: A few minutes.
• 27:04
  Speaker 14: You remember if she had the bottle with her when
• 27:06
  Speaker 14: she went up to her apartment, Well she must have.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: She put it in a purse.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: You're positive?
• 27:11
  Speaker 14: Yes, that's all. Well you can leave now, thanks. Yes,
• 27:16
  Speaker 14: well are you're seeing the nurse, the chauffeur, the cook,
• 27:19
  Speaker 14: and the maid. Only where are we?
• 27:22
  Speaker 16: Who's waiting in your office?
• 27:24
  Speaker 14: Missus Cameron, brother in law, that lawyer, sergeant and sergeant's wife.
• 27:28
  Speaker 16: Okay, we'll talk to missus Cameron. We better have a
• 27:32
  Speaker 16: stenographer in here.
• 27:34
  Speaker 14: That sounds encouraging.
• 27:35
  Speaker 16: I can dream cat I.
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: Please, said Missus Cameron.
• 27:41
  Speaker 14: Oh you don't mind if the stenographer takes some notes.
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: No, not at all, Lieutenant, I want to cooperate fully.
• 27:47
  Speaker 16: Well, first of all, Missus Cameron. The nurse the hospital
• 27:49
  Speaker 16: tells us you offered to get that prescription filled.
• 27:52
  Speaker 9: That's right I did.
• 27:53
  Speaker 14: But instead of returning to the hospital, you went home.
• 27:56
  Speaker 16: Yes, why did you go there, missus Cameron.
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: To pick up some things for Polly?
• 28:01
  Speaker 14: What thing?
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: Calm brush, to paste, things like that.
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: The night before there wasn't time to think of anything
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: except getting the child of the hospital.
• 28:09
  Speaker 16: Yes, of course. How long would you say you remained.
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: In your apartment only a few minutes?
• 28:16
  Speaker 16: Did you open the bottle containing the capsules?
• 28:19
  Speaker 14: No?
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: Why should I?
• 28:21
  Speaker 14: Then you had the shaw for drive you back to
• 28:23
  Speaker 14: the hospital where you had the medicine to the nurse.
• 28:25
  Speaker 14: Is that right?
• 28:26
  Speaker 10: Exactly?
• 28:26
  Speaker 16: You admit handing the medicine to the nurse.
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: Admit that's a strange word.
• 28:31
  Speaker 16: You realize, Missus Cameron, that the fatal dose was definitely
• 28:33
  Speaker 16: administered at the hospital. That's been proved, so I understand. Well,
• 28:36
  Speaker 16: our next step is to find out who was responsible.
• 28:39
  Speaker 16: You and mister Cameron were the only visitors.
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: That's right.
• 28:42
  Speaker 14: You and the hospital attendants were always present while mister Cameron.
• 28:45
  Speaker 16: Was there, I know, so that rules him.
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: Out, and there was always someone present while I was there.
• 28:49
  Speaker 16: Nevertheless, the poison was somehow slipped into the calcium capsule,
• 28:52
  Speaker 16: and all the medicine came directly from the hospital pharmacy
• 28:55
  Speaker 16: except the bottle you gave the nurse. Now, this bottle
• 28:58
  Speaker 16: was in your possession when you stopped off at your apartment.
• 29:00
  Speaker 16: This gave you the opportunity to put the poison into
• 29:02
  Speaker 16: the capsules. What's more, Missus Cameron, you're the one person
• 29:06
  Speaker 16: with a motive.
• 29:08
  Speaker 9: I'm sure you must realize what you're saying.
• 29:10
  Speaker 16: Yes, yes, I do. The death of the two children
• 29:13
  Speaker 16: would make you a very wealthy woman. You wanted the
• 29:16
  Speaker 16: child cremated. You opposed not to see though there was
• 29:19
  Speaker 16: doubt as to the cause of the child's death, and
• 29:21
  Speaker 16: doctor Stephenson requested it.
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: You think I did this thing, that I killed Polly.
• 29:27
  Speaker 14: It's beginning to look that way, Missus Cameron.
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: I love that child as if she were my own.
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: I couldn't have done it. I couldn't. I couldn't.
• 29:37
  Speaker 14: Well, that'll be all for now, Missus Cameron. If you'll
• 29:39
  Speaker 14: just wait in the other room, please.
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: I'd like to speak with my brother in law.
• 29:43
  Speaker 14: That's where you'll find him.
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: I'd like to speak with him alone.
• 29:47
  Speaker 14: Very well, Missus Cameron, just come with me.
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: They think I did it, they think I killed Polly.
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I know.
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: I'm trying to keep calm. I mustn't get unnerved. I
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: don't know how much longer I can keep this up,
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: but I must. I must lynn if things should go
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: against me, Cam, what about Doug? From the way they talked,
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: I may be held over for a trial or something.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: Well, yes, I suppose you, Jim.
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: If it does happen, will you take Doug until it's
• 30:29
  Speaker 9: all over?
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: Of course, of course I will.
• 30:30
  Speaker 9: And try try not to let him ever hear about this.
• 30:36
  Speaker 9: He mustn't know.
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: But that day when I left police headquarters, I left
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: with Lynn. They released her again, and for three more
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: days nothing happened, nothing at least that we knew about.
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: But they were very full days for the police.
• 30:56
  Speaker 16: Checked and double checked everything, mister Henderson. That's why Cole
• 30:59
  Speaker 16: and I come to you. We're ready to turn the
• 31:01
  Speaker 16: case over to the District Attorney's office. You know how
• 31:04
  Speaker 16: I feel about all this. I need a lot more
• 31:06
  Speaker 16: answers than I've got now maybe we can give them
• 31:09
  Speaker 16: to you, all right?
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: What about the other pills in that bottle?
• 31:13
  Speaker 16: There were a dozen capsules all together. Child was given three.
• 31:17
  Speaker 16: She had no reaction from first two third? Was it strickman?
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: I'm talking about the other nine?
• 31:22
  Speaker 14: Negative?
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 31:23
  Speaker 19: You've drawn nothing but blanks. Where would she have got
• 31:25
  Speaker 19: the poison? And a drug store? Not if she's half
• 31:28
  Speaker 19: as smart as you think she is. What about the apartment,
• 31:32
  Speaker 19: Well sector science, We've gone.
• 31:34
  Speaker 14: Through it twice with experts, Same with everything in the
• 31:37
  Speaker 14: medicine cabinets. No trace of Strickenan or any other poison.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: And this is the case you want us to bring
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: before a judge?
• 31:43
  Speaker 16: And jewelry yes, sir, because we know she did it.
• 31:45
  Speaker 6: She must have done it, all right, leave.
• 31:46
  Speaker 19: Everything here, all the reports, and keep digging. I can't
• 31:50
  Speaker 19: take it to trial unless we get more evidence.
• 31:52
  Speaker 14: Okay, okay, We'll keep trying.
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: Nothing happened, nothing at all. At the end of the
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: following week, I went to the District Attorney's office.
• 32:07
  Speaker 19: I've told you a dozen times, mister Cameron, if we
• 32:09
  Speaker 19: bring this woman up for preliminary examination, I'm absolutely certain
• 32:13
  Speaker 19: no judge will hold her over for trial, not on
• 32:15
  Speaker 19: this evidence.
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: You believe she's guilty, don't you?
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: Or what if I do? Captain Pringle does too. SODA's coal.
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: She's planning to take my nephew to Europe six months, yea,
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: even five years from now.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: He suddenly die in some obscure place.
• 32:28
  Speaker 16: He could be right, mister Henderson, and by the time
• 32:31
  Speaker 16: we hear about it, the body will have been creamated.
• 32:33
  Speaker 19: That's all quite possible, Frangle. But it's supposition, not evidence.
• 32:36
  Speaker 19: If there's no chance of winning the case, there's no
• 32:38
  Speaker 19: sense bringing it under the court.
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: You mean, you base your reputation on winning cases, not
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: on losing them, so you play only the shore bat.
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: He meant nothing of the kind. But if we don't
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: come up with some new evidence, we're dead.
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: So was the boy. The boy's life is in your hands.
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: I don't appreciate you of putting it quite that way.
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: There's no other way to put it, I think there is.
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: I think that.
• 32:57
  Speaker 19: Well this Henderson there go ahead, Yeah, okay, thank you.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: And that was the medical examiner.
• 33:10
  Speaker 19: There is no evidence of poison in connection with your
• 33:12
  Speaker 19: brother's death, and at least would have been some help
• 33:15
  Speaker 19: to us.
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: That still doesn't alter the need of protecting my nephew.
• 33:18
  Speaker 19: All right, Cameron, I don't like this, but under the circumstances,
• 33:21
  Speaker 19: I suppose I have topringle Yes, sir, get out a
• 33:24
  Speaker 19: warrant for the arrest of missus Lenn.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Cameron, the final act of a blueprint for murder in
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: a moment now, a moment with a beautiful young actress,
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Charlotte Austen, an extraordinary one too, if she made her
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: debut at the advanced age of two.
• 33:49
  Speaker 20: Weeks, when it wasn't even a walk on part, mister Cummings.
• 33:52
  Speaker 20: As a matter of fact, I don't even think I.
• 33:54
  Speaker 9: Was walking it two weeks.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Being the trooper you are, though, I suppose you want
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: to tell me about a new picture of yours.
• 34:00
  Speaker 20: I'm sorry to say, twentieth Century Fox Cinemasco Technicolor the works,
• 34:05
  Speaker 20: but no, Shelott Austin.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: You must be in Prince Valiant, a tremendous production, I hear,
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: with a tremendous cost James Mason, Janet Lee, Robert Wagner,
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: and Deborah Padget. Isn't it Hollywood premiere on April second,
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: uh huh?
• 34:19
  Speaker 20: And the New York premiere will be April sixth. Well,
• 34:22
  Speaker 20: I guess just about everyone who's read the Wonderful Adventure
• 34:24
  Speaker 20: strip it's based on grown ups and children alike. Twentieth
• 34:28
  Speaker 20: Century Fox went all out making the picture too. Director
• 34:32
  Speaker 20: Henry Hathaway traveled ten thousand miles through Great Britain to
• 34:35
  Speaker 20: find authentic location.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Well, stories about King Arthur's times will always be popular
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: with every age group of Charlotte.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: So well, pretty girls with pretty.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Complexions, pretty lux complexions like yours, Well.
• 34:47
  Speaker 9: Thank you.
• 34:48
  Speaker 20: Janet Lee and Deborah Padget will make you and Lux
• 34:51
  Speaker 20: Charlette so proud of them.
• 34:52
  Speaker 9: And Prince Variant. They're like me, you know, they wouldn't
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: be without luck.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Nine out of ten stars depend on mild gentle Lux
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: toilet soap, to care for their valuable complexions. Leave her
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: brothers will return your money if you don't think Lux
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: is every bit as wonderful as we say it is.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: We pause now for Station Night edification. This is the
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: CBS Radio Network.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: The curtain rises on act three of a Blueprint for Murder,
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: starring Dorothy McGuire as Lynn and Dan Daley as Can.
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: Lynn agreed it would be better for Doug if he
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: stayed with me until it was over. The boy and
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: I moved in with Fred and Maggie. Sergeant. Then came
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: the hearing. We got exactly nowhere. All the judge did
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: was echo what the attorney had been saying right along.
• 36:02
  Speaker 21: The state has failed to offer any tangible proof that
• 36:06
  Speaker 21: Missus Cameron put strychnin in a calcium capsule. Undeniably, Missus
• 36:12
  Speaker 21: Cameron had a possible motive for such a crime, but
• 36:15
  Speaker 21: as a defense pointed out, she's not the only one.
• 36:19
  Speaker 21: Mister Whitney Cameron, her brother in law, also stood to
• 36:23
  Speaker 21: inherit the fortune should both the children and Missus Cameron die.
• 36:29
  Speaker 21: Missus Cameron is a woman of high repute. Witnesses have
• 36:33
  Speaker 21: testified that she was an affectionate and indulgent mother to
• 36:37
  Speaker 21: vote her foster children. I find that the state has
• 36:40
  Speaker 21: failed to establish probable cause, and I hereby order the
• 36:45
  Speaker 21: defendant discharged forty.
• 36:56
  Speaker 16: Well, I guess that's that, mister Cameron, were licked, unless
• 37:00
  Speaker 16: you can find new evidence.
• 37:01
  Speaker 14: You spoke to her a few minutes ago, just before
• 37:03
  Speaker 14: she left the courtroom. What'd you say?
• 37:05
  Speaker 16: She asked about Doug. He's been with you all week,
• 37:07
  Speaker 16: hasn't he. He has at Fred Sargeant's house.
• 37:09
  Speaker 14: The boy know about what's been going on.
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: No, I told him she was called out of town Chicago.
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: I asked her just now if I could keep the
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: boy until tomorrow. She agreed. I said I'd bring him
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: home in the morning. She's pretty sorry. Huh No, that's
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: just it. She doesn't realize I've had any part of
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: all this. She thinks it's been entirely a police matter.
• 37:29
  Speaker 14: It's a tough break for all of us.
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: I can't leave that boy in her hands. I've got
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: to get him away, and I've only got until tomorrow.
• 37:36
  Speaker 16: Well, just don't you do anything foolish, mister Cameron. Don't
• 37:39
  Speaker 16: you do anything. You'll be sorry for a while. The
• 37:42
  Speaker 16: way things stand, the boy belongs with her.
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: She has legal custody, legal custody so she can poison
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: him too. You all know she's guilty. What do you
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: do about it? You throw up your hands and off
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: your sympathy, and look.
• 37:52
  Speaker 16: You're all upset. That's perfectly ununderstandable. But why don't you
• 37:55
  Speaker 16: just losing my mind? That's all you stopped by Tomorrow?
• 37:58
  Speaker 16: You do that, mister Cameron. You bring your lawyer. Maybe
• 38:01
  Speaker 16: maybe we can figure something.
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: All that night I tried to think of something Fred
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: and Maggie too, some legal way of getting Dug away
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: from her. It was no use that. It just wasn't time.
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: Next morning, I brought Doug back to living.
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry I've kept you waiting, Cam. I took Doug
• 38:23
  Speaker 8: upstairs to show him some presents I brought for him.
• 38:26
  Speaker 8: He seems so glad to get home.
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: Yes, I'm sure he is.
• 38:30
  Speaker 8: He was telling me all about the plans you two
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: have been making about spending the summer together.
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: Yes, I'm looking forward to that as much as he is.
• 38:38
  Speaker 8: This isn't easy to tell you, Cam, but I'm afraid
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: we'll have to postpone it.
• 38:43
  Speaker 9: Remember I told you I was planning a trip to Europe.
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: Well, yes, but I've just got to get away from
• 38:47
  Speaker 8: all this unpleasantness. You can understand that, can't you. It's
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: all been such a nightmare.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: When when do you want to go?
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: Well, I've been lucky. I've got reservations on the Victoria.
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: It's sitting tomorrow night.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: That's soon.
• 39:02
  Speaker 9: We'll probably be gone for about a whole years.
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: I'm planning quite itinerary. We'll spend two or three weeks
• 39:08
  Speaker 8: in England and then France, Switzerland, and then I've tuck.
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: I left the house a few moments later. There was
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: only one thing left to do. I went first to
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: the steamship office and then the one of those little
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: stores that sells gardens supplied.
• 39:28
  Speaker 22: Well, if you're looking for something to kill ants, I
• 39:31
  Speaker 22: think this sort of take care of them.
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: What is this stuff for liquid or a paste? It's
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: a liquid.
• 39:36
  Speaker 22: They put honey in it to attract the ants, and
• 39:39
  Speaker 22: then of course the arsenic does the rest.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: But if you got any children, you'd better be careful
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: way you put it.
• 39:44
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, I will. Now. It's a funny thing.
• 39:48
  Speaker 22: We got lots of insecticides today that don't hurt humans,
• 39:51
  Speaker 22: but people keep on asking for these old standbys.
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: You certainly seem to carry a variety. What are these things?
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: These white pills? Innocent looking? They look like ashburn.
• 40:04
  Speaker 22: Ashburn, Not quite, mister. Every one of these pills is
• 40:08
  Speaker 22: stamped with a W. There you see that identifies them.
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: But what are they?
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: Strongest stuff we ever carry?
• 40:15
  Speaker 22: Rodent deicide kills rats and gophers put out by a
• 40:20
  Speaker 22: Midwestern concern, arsenic strychnin.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: Enough to kill a horse. Well, good luck with the ants, mister.
• 40:27
  Speaker 22: Come back to.
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: When the Victoria sailed the following night, I was aboard.
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: Doug was delighted to see me, then seemed rather pleased
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: herself after the first shock of surprise. Later, when Doug
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: went the beds, she met me in the cocktail.
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: I think this is wonderful, Cam.
• 40:49
  Speaker 8: But now, really, this isn't just a sudden impulse to take.
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: A boat ride. Doug believe me. He didn't doubt me
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: for a moment.
• 40:56
  Speaker 9: I'm older and wiser.
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: Well, it's really quite simple. Firm had me down for
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: a trip to France.
• 41:02
  Speaker 9: I thought, you said, Venezuela.
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: I felt that now was as good a time as
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: any to make.
• 41:06
  Speaker 9: It all right. And now the real reason.
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: Well, standing by while you went through all this horrible
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: ordeal was as miserable for me as it was for you.
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: I wanted you to.
• 41:17
  Speaker 9: Know that you're making this trip, just to tell me
• 41:20
  Speaker 9: that it.
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: Isn't one of those things you can say and one
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: night while someone's packing trunks, not if you want to
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: sound convincing.
• 41:28
  Speaker 9: Oh, I see.
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: Still don't believe me. Huh, you're a hard woman.
• 41:33
  Speaker 9: And when did you decide to come along?
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: When you first told me you were going to Europe?
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: By then, because that was the moment when I realized
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: how much I'd miss you.
• 41:42
  Speaker 9: I wish I could believe that.
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: No, no, I take it back.
• 41:50
  Speaker 9: I want to believe you can, and I do.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: My plan couldn't have been working more smoothly. It could
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: have been a wonderful trip if only the circumstances had
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: been different. There were moments when I was horrified by
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: the enormity of what I was going to do, and
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: those terrible moments of doubt when I wonder if Lynne
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: warn't innocent. But at the bottom of everything was the
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: overwhelming fact that Polly had been murdered. It was our
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: last night at sea. My time had finally run out.
• 42:29
  Speaker 11: Where's Lenn.
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: Uncle Kim, she's waiting for me out on deck. I
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: told her I wanted to come down and say good
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: night to you.
• 42:35
  Speaker 11: There's a big dance in the ballroom.
• 42:37
  Speaker 10: Huh.
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: It will be long now before you be getting all
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: dressed up and going the dances too.
• 42:41
  Speaker 11: You wanna bet? I hate dancing, Uncle Kim. Can't you
• 42:46
  Speaker 11: stay with us in England?
• 42:47
  Speaker 14: Oh?
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: I'd like to, Doug, But I've got her in a
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: living you know well?
• 42:51
  Speaker 11: And when will I see you again?
• 42:53
  Speaker 14: Oh?
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: I don't know. Maybe I'll get a chance to fly
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: over during the summer. You promise, okay, I promise. Oh,
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: I have a wonderful time in Europe.
• 43:01
  Speaker 11: I would if you were alone.
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: I don't you worry about that right now. I want
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: you to go to sleep, Okay, I'll see in the
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: morning before we die.
• 43:09
  Speaker 11: Can I nacle? Can't have a good time tonight?
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: Thanks? Good night boy. I went to my stateroom and
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: put it in my pocket, that small bottle that i'd
• 43:22
  Speaker 6: filled with poison I'd bought the day before the boat
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: had sailed. I met Lynn. I suggested a cocktail on
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: the lounge before we went to the dance. I had
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: rehearsed this scene a hundred times in my mind, but
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: now my mind was numb. The idea of taking the
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: life of a human being was like a hideous dream.
• 43:46
  Speaker 8: Bacatti cocktails, Remember care Remember, of course you wouldn't. It
• 43:51
  Speaker 8: was just that you and I first met at the
• 43:54
  Speaker 8: cocktail party and they said Baccartti's.
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: But I do remember that the party was for you
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: and Bill, just before you two got married. I wish
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: i'd met you first. I thought you were the most
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: beautiful woman I'd ever seen. Why I can get Hey,
• 44:08
  Speaker 6: be careful, Oh no, how clumsy?
• 44:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, don't be so upset. I've spilled a few cocktails
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: in my time. Wait for me, will you. It won't
• 44:16
  Speaker 8: take long to change. I'll be back in a moment.
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: The weight brought another drink and went back to the bar.
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: I put my hand on a little bottle in my pocket.
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: It would be so easy, so simple, But my hand
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: wouldn't move. It was if it belonged to someone else.
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: I'd have to find another opportunity later tonight. But suppose
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: I was wrong. But Fred agreed, and Maggie, the DA,
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: the police, all of them agreed. Only Lynn could have
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: done it. If I could just be certain Lynn was back. Now.
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: We drank our cocktails and went to the dance, on
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: and on as if it would never end.
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: And then suddenly, oh, no, no, what, Oh can't you
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: hear old lang signsi?
• 45:08
  Speaker 9: I means the end of the.
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: Dance, the end of the voyage.
• 45:11
  Speaker 9: And it's been wonderful.
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: I feel like walking. How about a turn or two
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: around the deck?
• 45:17
  Speaker 9: I'd love to. I've got to have a wrap, though, hadn't.
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: I, Yes, you'd better give me a key, I'll get
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: your coat. I knew then that I just couldn't go
• 45:28
  Speaker 6: through with it. Out on deck, I took the bottle
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: from my pocket and dropped it into the water. I
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: picked up a wrap in her state room, and then,
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: as I was leaving, my eye caught the brighter array
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: of fancy bottles on a dressing table, perfume lotions. It
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: seems crazy, but somehow I sensed an association between those
• 45:47
  Speaker 6: bottles and the one I had thrown away. I stood
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: there looking at them. They weren't all cosmetics. There were
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: others too. Neatly arranged a little traveling kit, medicines, things
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: for first aid, and a bottle of aspirin. Suddenly I
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: was back in the store and the clerk was talking to.
• 46:06
  Speaker 22: Me aspirin not quite, mister strongest duck with carry not
• 46:12
  Speaker 22: to kill a horse.
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: I opened the bottle and dumped out the pills. They
• 46:17
  Speaker 6: were all aspirin, all except three. Three pills, just a
• 46:23
  Speaker 6: little different from any of the others, and stamped with
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: a W.
• 46:36
  Speaker 9: Do you think it's time to call it a night?
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: This is the last night we'll be alone for a
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: long time. How about a good night? Drink?
• 46:43
  Speaker 9: Fine night like that.
• 46:44
  Speaker 6: Your stateroom's closer than mine. That's going on. I'll order
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: something from the barn.
• 46:52
  Speaker 9: You're not drinking. What's America?
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: Nothing? And nothing? Really, I just the unhappy thought that
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: it's all over.
• 47:00
  Speaker 10: On the trip.
• 47:01
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry it's over too.
• 47:02
  Speaker 8: But now tell me something, and I want the truth.
• 47:05
  Speaker 8: Why did you really take this vote? You know why,
• 47:08
  Speaker 8: I know the reason you gave me. It's all very flattering.
• 47:11
  Speaker 8: It's a little difficult to believe.
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: Why why?
• 47:13
  Speaker 9: I don't know. Of course, you are the sort of
• 47:16
  Speaker 9: man who might do crazy, impulsive.
• 47:18
  Speaker 6: Things like going to Europe so I could be with
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: you for five days.
• 47:22
  Speaker 9: Yes, we can. Your hand, your hand's shaking.
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: What is it? It's nothing, Nothing's wrong.
• 47:31
  Speaker 9: You know something, This drink tastes funny. It's a bitter really.
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: Let me see mine seems all right?
• 47:38
  Speaker 9: It's just my imagination, I suppose.
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: No, No, not your imagination. Limb. A few minutes ago,
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: when I was in here getting your wrap, I found
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: a bottle of aspirin over there. Oh, three of the
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: tablets in the bottle were different from the others. They
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: had a W one the limb. That's the trademark of
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: a tablet containing.
• 48:00
  Speaker 10: Strict them cam.
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: For heaven's sake, Why were those pills different from the others.
• 48:06
  Speaker 9: Because they were another brand? But I refuse to go
• 48:09
  Speaker 9: through all that again.
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: Yet they were in the same bottle.
• 48:11
  Speaker 9: Well why not.
• 48:13
  Speaker 8: I'd been taking another kind of aspirin. I had a
• 48:15
  Speaker 8: few left over, so I put them in a new
• 48:17
  Speaker 8: bottle to save space.
• 48:18
  Speaker 9: Is that so.
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: Unusual, Lynn?
• 48:20
  Speaker 6: The W is the trademark of a poison.
• 48:22
  Speaker 9: Ah. So that's the real reason you came on this trip.
• 48:26
  Speaker 9: You were behind all those ridiculous accusations from the start.
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: You still say they were just aspirin.
• 48:32
  Speaker 9: Of course they are.
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: That's good. I'm relieved. I'm very relieved. Why because that's
• 48:43
  Speaker 6: why your drink tastes a little peculiar. I put one
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: of those pills in your cocktail and you've just taken it.
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: I don't think we have anything more to discuss ever,
• 48:57
  Speaker 8: Get out, Cam just.
• 48:59
  Speaker 23: A moment, please.
• 49:00
  Speaker 10: Who are you?
• 49:01
  Speaker 23: My name's Connolly, missus Cameron. I'm ship's detective, mister Cameron,
• 49:06
  Speaker 23: sent for me as a witness.
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: You've been listening to us, Yeah, as a witness, so
• 49:11
  Speaker 8: that's what you've been expecting. And hysterical admission that the
• 49:14
  Speaker 8: pill contains Strickman. You never give up, do you, Cam. Well,
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry to disappoint you. The tablet was harmless.
• 49:22
  Speaker 23: Mister Cameron. Seems you've made a very unfortunate mistake. Phil
• 49:28
  Speaker 23: excuse me.
• 49:28
  Speaker 6: I'd like to leave.
• 49:29
  Speaker 9: This sort of thing's getting to be a habit with
• 49:30
  Speaker 9: am mister Conley.
• 49:31
  Speaker 6: Connley, wait a minute, but at your watch, Lynn, it's
• 49:35
  Speaker 6: been almost five minutes since you took that drink. Right now,
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: your life can be saved even another five minutes, but
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: beyond that you'll die.
• 49:41
  Speaker 9: You know all about Strickland, don't you.
• 49:42
  Speaker 6: Lynn? Please? Please? If it was Strickman, let me call
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: a doctor before us too late.
• 49:46
  Speaker 8: But on the other hand, if the tablet was nothing
• 49:47
  Speaker 8: more than aspin. There wouldn't be much point in calling
• 49:50
  Speaker 8: a doctor, now, would there? And if I were to
• 49:52
  Speaker 8: admit that it did contain strickman, there still wouldn't be
• 49:55
  Speaker 8: any sense in phoning for a doctor.
• 49:57
  Speaker 9: It's a sort of even, Stephen. Isn't it?
• 50:00
  Speaker 8: Death by strickman or death by the electric chair? Take
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  Speaker 8: your choice?
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  Speaker 6: Lynn, it's five minutes past one. Every second is bringing
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  Speaker 6: you closer to our horrible death.
• 50:08
  Speaker 8: Don't be a fool, change, isn't it. You seem to
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  Speaker 8: be the one who's going to pieces, not I? You know,
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  Speaker 8: it just occurred to me. If I should die, you're
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  Speaker 8: the one who will be facing the electric chair?
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  Speaker 9: Or hadn't you thought of that?
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  Speaker 8: It must take nerve to kill someone, cam to sit
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  Speaker 8: by and watch someone die?
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  Speaker 9: How would you like to have a death on your conscience?
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  Speaker 9: My death?
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  Speaker 23: This is too much for me?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 6: Did you what did you not give this woman strickman?
• 50:39
  Speaker 6: I gave her a pill marked with a W that
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: I took from that bottle on addressing.
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  Speaker 9: Team and it was absolutely harmless. Mister Conley, you have
• 50:45
  Speaker 9: nothing to worry about it.
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  Speaker 6: Please. You don't have much time.
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  Speaker 9: Tell me, mister Conley.
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  Speaker 8: What are your impressions of this man? Would you say
• 50:53
  Speaker 8: he had character, honor, integrity. I'm sure you would, But
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  Speaker 8: I'm afraid this looks quite deceiving. Let me tell you
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  Speaker 8: about him. He lived in my home as a guest,
• 51:05
  Speaker 8: as a relative, as a warm friend. But all the
• 51:09
  Speaker 8: while he was accepting my hospitality, was taking everything I said,
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  Speaker 8: every incident that occurred, and was conniving to build up
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  Speaker 8: a case against me.
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  Speaker 9: Oh but he's betrayal and them there.
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  Speaker 8: Even after the court threw out his ridiculous charges, he
• 51:23
  Speaker 8: kept on and on.
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  Speaker 9: But this last attempt, this is the most contemptible of all.
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: You must really be proud of yourself, calm, only, nothing's
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: happening to me even you are to be convinced by
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: now your being an idiot, a complete idiot.
• 51:42
  Speaker 9: You were there with me the night that Polly died.
• 51:45
  Speaker 9: You heard her screams, you saw the horrible agony she
• 51:48
  Speaker 9: went through.
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  Speaker 8: Do you think that I that anyone who'd seen that
• 51:52
  Speaker 8: would take the same chance of dying in that same
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  Speaker 8: horrible way?
• 51:56
  Speaker 14: Do you well?
• 52:00
  Speaker 8: I've been an even bigger fool than you.
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  Speaker 9: You took me in completely. I was even falling in
• 52:07
  Speaker 9: love with you.
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  Speaker 8: All right, now, get out, Get out, or I'll call
• 52:14
  Speaker 8: a person.
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  Speaker 23: I assure you that mister Cameron will leave it once.
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  Speaker 23: This is the most outrageous thing I've ever witnessed. You
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  Speaker 23: realize Cameron will have to make a full report.
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  Speaker 6: Of all this. Go ahead, make your report. I went
• 52:33
  Speaker 6: to my stateroom. I must have been saying blindly and saying,
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: how could I have been so wrong? Apparently probably his
• 52:44
  Speaker 6: death was due to one of those impossible accidents that
• 52:47
  Speaker 6: couldn't happen, but did a million to one shot mistake
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: by a careless clerk in a drug store. I was
• 52:55
  Speaker 6: horror stricken at the thought that it was only by
• 52:58
  Speaker 6: the merest chance that I hadn't murderer. What a mess,
• 53:03
  Speaker 6: What a complete, miserable mess I've made of everything?
• 53:08
  Speaker 23: I wondered if I Cameron, Cameron, come along, hurry, you
• 53:11
  Speaker 23: want it in a certain's office.
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  Speaker 21: Right away, Cammen, I'm doctor Wells. Missus Cameron is inside.
• 53:26
  Speaker 21: Another few moments and it would have been too late.
• 53:29
  Speaker 21: She found doctor Wells as soon as we left. Doctor
• 53:32
  Speaker 21: She she lived, Yes, mister Cameron, She'll live.
• 53:44
  Speaker 6: Lynn Cameron was convicted of murder in the first degree.
• 53:47
  Speaker 6: Her sentence life, imprisonment and sold the names of Madeline Smith,
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: Flawence Maybrick, and Lydia Trueblood and all those other young,
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: beautiful but evil poison murderers was added that of Lynn Cameron.
• 54:02
  Speaker 6: Something to remember, Perhaps Doug and I we're trying to forget.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: Our stars will return in a moment.
• 54:24
  Speaker 11: Pepsi dance, new flavor.
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  Speaker 16: Pepsi dance new flavor.
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  Speaker 6: Pepsod's new flavor. Steps that's new paper place where.
• 54:37
  Speaker 18: Yes, the big news is Pepsident has a brand new,
• 54:41
  Speaker 18: wonderful place.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: Now here's mister Cummings with our stars.
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: At least step forward.
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: Dan Dailey and Dorothy McGuire, well, I must say you
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: both really stepped out of character the night play.
• 55:00
  Speaker 15: Two unusual roles.
• 55:01
  Speaker 8: There's nothing an actress likes better than to play a
• 55:04
  Speaker 8: part entirely different from.
• 55:05
  Speaker 9: The last one.
• 55:06
  Speaker 6: And what was your last one? Dorothy?
• 55:07
  Speaker 8: The part of the secretary in Three Coins in the
• 55:09
  Speaker 8: Fountain for twentieth Century Fox. It's in color and CinemaScope
• 55:14
  Speaker 8: and Clifton Webbs, Jean Peters and I went to Italy
• 55:16
  Speaker 8: to make it.
• 55:17
  Speaker 6: I wonder I'm not getting anywhere in this business. All
• 55:19
  Speaker 6: the pictures of me and made in Europe. I saw
• 55:22
  Speaker 6: Night People, which stars Gregory Peck and Broderick Crawford, one
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: of the most exciting fillas I ever saw, and I
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: was filming the Berlin Why don't I get those parts?
• 55:32
  Speaker 6: I wasn't even considered for an Academy Award this year.
• 55:35
  Speaker 5: That terrible oversight.
• 55:37
  Speaker 6: Why was that?
• 55:38
  Speaker 14: Dad?
• 55:38
  Speaker 6: Can't imagine unless it's because it didn't make any pictures.
• 55:49
  Speaker 9: Well, I'll tell you what you do. You find a
• 55:51
  Speaker 9: fountain and you throw in a coin and make a wish.
• 55:54
  Speaker 15: So where is he going to find a fountain around here?
• 55:56
  Speaker 6: Don't mind that where we're going to find a coin?
• 56:00
  Speaker 6: I have been working.
• 56:02
  Speaker 15: You'd have me in tears if I didn't know you
• 56:03
  Speaker 15: were going into a picture tomorrow.
• 56:05
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, we're making no business like show business. Now. Well,
• 56:09
  Speaker 6: it isn't the money, Irving, I just missed the love
• 56:11
  Speaker 6: scenes with those Lux girls. It's not the real thing
• 56:13
  Speaker 6: on radios.
• 56:17
  Speaker 8: Well, I can tell you that Lux is the real
• 56:19
  Speaker 8: thing when it comes to complexion care.
• 56:21
  Speaker 9: Luxoap is the favorite of our loveliest.
• 56:23
  Speaker 15: Side, including Dorothy Maguire.
• 56:24
  Speaker 8: I wouldn't be without it, Irving. Now I'm hearing you
• 56:27
  Speaker 8: have a delightful show for next week.
• 56:29
  Speaker 15: We think so.
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: It's a charming romance and one of Paramount Picture's most
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: delightful scream comedies. Welcome Strangers, and we have a fascinating
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: trio of stars. First, a brand new personality Pat Crowley,
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: then one of the most lovable character actors in Hollywood,
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: Barry Fitzgerald, and one of the screams most handsome comedians
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  Speaker 4: Kerry Grath.
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  Speaker 6: It should be just great irving, good night, good night,
• 56:57
  Speaker 6: and all our times.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, here's art link letter with a word for the
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: visiting housewife.
• 57:07
  Speaker 24: When you're at the store pushing that metal cart around,
• 57:09
  Speaker 24: have you ever noticed how many detergents there are?
• 57:12
  Speaker 16: My gosh, you get dizzy just looking at them.
• 57:14
  Speaker 9: So what's the poor girl to do?
• 57:16
  Speaker 10: Try all of them?
• 57:17
  Speaker 24: Some people do, and generally speaking they find that a
• 57:19
  Speaker 24: good detergent gets things clean looking and.
• 57:22
  Speaker 9: Well, then it doesn't make any difference which one you
• 57:24
  Speaker 9: buy it.
• 57:24
  Speaker 24: Just close wait just a minute there, open your eyes
• 57:28
  Speaker 24: when you buy that detergent. But when you're trying to
• 57:31
  Speaker 24: find out if your wash is really clean, don't rely
• 57:34
  Speaker 24: on looks alone, because your nose can tell you what
• 57:36
  Speaker 24: your eyes can't see.
• 57:38
  Speaker 9: Oh, you mean that things aren't really clean unless they
• 57:41
  Speaker 9: smell clean.
• 57:42
  Speaker 16: That's right.
• 57:43
  Speaker 24: If things don't smell clean, they aren't as clean as
• 57:45
  Speaker 24: they should be.
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: And like I said, all good.
• 57:47
  Speaker 24: Detergents will give you a wash that's clean looking. But surf,
• 57:51
  Speaker 24: all purpose surf, will do more. Surf gets things so
• 57:55
  Speaker 24: clean they smell clean too. So clean they smell like sunshine,
• 58:00
  Speaker 24: and that means they're clean clear through. One wash day
• 58:03
  Speaker 24: with Serf will prove that to you. And you won't
• 58:06
  Speaker 24: go reaching blindly for just any detergent down at the store.
• 58:09
  Speaker 24: You'll always reach for Surf. I remember, no matter how
• 58:13
  Speaker 24: tough a laundry job, you've got greasy work clothes and overalls, towels, sheets.
• 58:19
  Speaker 24: Surf gets things really clean. So get the big money,
• 58:23
  Speaker 24: savory economy size box of Serf because I know you
• 58:27
  Speaker 24: like it.
• 58:31
  Speaker 15: Leave a brother's company. Make us a Lux toilet soap
• 58:34
  Speaker 15: and Lux liquid. It doesn't invite you to be with
• 58:37
  Speaker 15: us again.
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: Next Monday evening and the Lux Radio Theater presents Welcome Strings,
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: your starring Carry Grant, Barry Fitzgerald and Pat Crawley. There's
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: a serving coming saying good night to you from Hollywood.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: Heard in our cast Night Worried von Petty is Maggie,
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: Fred MacKaye as Fred, Harry Shecher as Doug, Jonathan Hale
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: as Doctor Stephenson, Barney Phillips as Captain Detective Pringle, Jack
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: Krushan as Lieutenant Detective Cole, William Conrad as the District Attorney.
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: Joyce McClusky is the nurse, Herb Butterfield as the judge,
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: and Jimmy Eagles, Charlie Seal, John Larch and Eddie Mark.
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: Our radio play was adapted by sh Barnett that our
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: music was composed and directed by Rudy Schreeger. Don't forget
• 59:27
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• 59:40
  Speaker 1: That was Lux Radio Theater with a blueprint for Murder.
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us for this broadcast from March
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: twenty ninth, nineteen fifty four.