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episode of Yours Truly Johnny at Aller, and I'll warn you to sound all
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these poor and I know Andrew who only can but just be advanced. Here
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is the temperamental topeboard manner, Regula Peerman's chewing Dom the reflecting didn't we just
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please to give you chewing on Gamon Pays? That's what you're listening on.
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Diamond John Lund as a strange one for you. Now, who's the decision?
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Where does it happen? Name voice over Rado. If he's not not
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a lightbeller, he's a bachelor brother Jose is a beneficiary rat race track?
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That one Puerto Rico. Well, outside of the fact that not too many
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people are on race tracks, what's the strange about it? An exercise boynament
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of the post boards, then field of six this morning at a thirty eight
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caliber bullet hole in his chest and a winning picking on along and shut his
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hands. Well nothing, Well, I guess there's nothing strange that there isn't
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a winning ticking on along. Chick out is that they may makers of Wriggley's
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delicious feet to a fist. You'll like it, but it really will expense
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Accounts admitted by a special investigator as Johnny's ador their home offices WASHINGTONY and license
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is gonna plain a Hodford attic. The following is an accounting of extend enders
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during my investigation and of the compoms for mesos with postboard doesn't matter expensive count
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out of one teven dollars and thirty five cents airfare between Hartford and San Juan,
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Puerto Rico. I checked it in at a cary of Hilton and then
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made my way to police headquarters, where I introduced my myself to the piano
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cardinals have apsolute for police. It is perhaps unfortunate you did not check that
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I don't like a telephone before coming bounds and your dollar are you might take
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to save yourself to t oh? Why is that it is a belief that
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an insurance in your Louisa Vrradado has no to bearing whatsoever upon his murder.
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Well, what does have a Perhaps you have have heard of an Anthony or
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Randolph rand that has the same Tony Randandoff who's connected with with the Miami gambling
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sent it here now in Santa Juan, And for for several little weeks it
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has been attempted thing to persuade the Lovarado brothers to sell him an interest in
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the tract. How how's he making my mouth to day? This is a
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go sienior Luisi sa Varado almost physically threw him out of his office. And
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now how lowis used to get here? Yeah? Or if he got anything?
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You designed that the possible momotive? Albarado was my last meeting by his
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employees. But what's he in his office? And the fat protis of the
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last night? The death was posed by a bullets. The time of the
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death was a ultimately four o'clock. Where was to Tony Randolph at at that
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time? I thought the thing to himself and three of his personal friends.
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He was at a speech in his room at the Fundado Bi hotels. Alibi,
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Yeah, I understand. And now Dada's body he was found under the
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postboy or in the interior is that where he was the skip. We have
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no for conclusive deliverdence either way. Now we're what about the winning ticking on
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a long shot. He hadn't at hand. It was a seton dollars tickets
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on day on Maria the winner of the fourth race yesterday. The fact was
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seventy two dollars us to win. I'm bad any idea what he was doing
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was in the tickets. No would have had these. Seems you had any
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daring and I'm a murder. Uh huh. Of course it's possible. A
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lot of precisions are wrong concerning English Anthony Randolph. However, I still do
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not believe you will find the influance. It seemed pretty sure of that Kevin
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Whine Louison Elbarado were always not only with other business certainly as well as also
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they were brothers. Yeah, the words came in and neighboring. That's the
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kind adam two to two dollars and then I'm fair after the discount sostract.
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I got there between the fifth of petitions, racist made my way to the
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west wing of the clubhouse. May mean the Alvarado brothers headed the private others,
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Oh, hello is the Senor Alvarado in I regret Senores. Now I
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am a Maria Rodan. He's confuting to sent me anything I could be.
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When don't you need to be back? It's not for several hours in the
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sounds like they were expecting to me. But of course, but they had
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worked. But we're arriving an Unfortunately, access makes ignasary for me to work
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to decenter the moon. A part of my beauties consist for acting constantial game
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I see is to think I make I the arrive the lessons interesting program.
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Yeah, I can see why. Too bad, we'll have to postpone it.
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But I've actually taken a lot longer than eight oclong to de season and
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think, what you know, I think he's the number to be remembered.
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Expense to come out of the three one dollar and at five cent each cab
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says if it's a Candado the boat each hotel I found on Tony runs off
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on a private partio overlooking with the became completely equipped with a Cinemon trunk dark
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class Susan as completely close my mouth body to guard helping ocrusively in the back
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of gund You're be glad this is j anyone. I can list his honor,
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but just don't don't figure your way. I came to see me.
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You were trying to buy an interest in the discuss so the race tracks on
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the A. Yeah, that's right. I came down here an whether I
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like cay issues, but at other plants it looked pretty good, so I
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figured out might invest if you're but are you making us well? Do you
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know all these things are at the time, we boys have been playing hard
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to get right surprise, but they're getting on. Okay, go a little
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fuss with Louie Savorado at the office the other day. Us we were just
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climbing around. I'm just climbing around. Uh huh. I don't suppose you'd
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have any ideas of killing me. How could I know anything like that.
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I just met the guy when I came down, and all I know is
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he's a nice guy at a nice plant here, and I wanted to go
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in with it. I want I have any idea who wanted to kill this?
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All right? That's kin. You got a fifty grand insurance investment,
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well for you to pay you off. You want to make sure everything's on
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the up and up then you wanted it, and I'll tell him me tell
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you what I'll do. Yeah, what's that? I got a few connections
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and friends, only a couple of things, you know, Yeah, I
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know. Oh, sometimes you get to talking about things shooting the breath to
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do? Am I hearing me? I'll let you know. However, that'll
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be dis great expense to count atom four one dollar and eighty five cents cab
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fare back to the discount a race track after that, rather a footless interview
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with Tony Randolph. I was hoping that Jose Alvarado would be back and I
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might have better luck with him. But as I approached Alvarado's office, Captain
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Cardinals came hurrying out, Oh, senior, dollars, you were just in
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time. Yeah for one. My office just called. There isn't shooting from
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home of Jose al Varado. The report was pomed into my office by his
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son for Mark. What did he ever say? He was rather agitated and
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did not talk long enough to give details. He never He reported that there
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had been a shooting and requested that an ambulance he sent to the house immediately
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to marsal Varado was waiting at the house, had read it, and so
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was a corp dredged out in the living room floor, a thirty eight caliber
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revolver laying beside an outspread pan Domasai the an his name is Undo, the
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former employee of ours a sect. Why did you have done for? I
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do not know or guess what did he do, mister Alvarada. I don't
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know what started. I was in the library going over the list of all
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beers from my uncle's you know, you know, I had the angry voice's
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arguing in your father's voice, and then daughter, he there wasn't sound like
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a blow, and I put my father's guy out. I took it gone
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death and came in here at forty five color aut America at the table over
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there as I can running in, Mendosa fired a shot at me. I
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fired one in return, and he said, then I run over to my
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son. He was alive, Senor Alvarado, more unco. He had a
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bad heart. Whether it was a blow or the excitement of the argument,
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I do not know. I was putting the full for an ambulance, and
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it took my father to the hospital, and he said Mendoza was a former
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employee. That the story it was a very mutual machine, opernter. He
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was discharged yesterday by my uncle the Wish for stealing. Obviously there is some
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connection between that seen with my father and possibly my uncle said spots gonna play.
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There is no need to speculate. When your father regained consciousness, he
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can tell us. Might not hurt to speculate about one thing. Captain,
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what is that? Send your daughter a little pasteboard and the mendoza's arm looks
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like a para mutual. Take it to me. It's ten dollars a wink,
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take it into fourth grade. Yesterday number two fourteen Baillia Maria Am homicide
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man arrived tell marse Alvarado dictated a statement to them and then left at the
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hospital. Captain Carton just went the headquarters. I went back to the hip.
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Expense to Count Adam five six dollars and seventy five cents drinks and sandwiches
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on the Hotel Veranda while waiting for eight o'clock and my rendezvous with Maria Roldan.
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My peaceful contemplation of a view who was interrupted by two phone calls.
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The first was from Captain Kartner receives the report from the Olympics is the name
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one which killed senior Louis Alvarado, obviously Cavot. The second call was from
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Tony Randolph. That took a little longer. I hear you've got a guy
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named from the Rando. Where did you hear that? Randah? Yeah,
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so you did well as you get the wrong cooking. Very interesting. What
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else does the word have to say? Nothing much? I mean that somebody
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is figured out a way of meeting nomises. Maybe if you find out who
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it is, how it's done, your man, do you have any suggests?
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Yeah, as God the Alvarado friend. No matter what kind of work
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you do, there are bound to be times when a job teams will not
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us. You feel tense and wrestles. You need something to give you a
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boot. Well, you'll be surprised how helpful of stick Wrigley e Spermid chewing
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gum can be at times like that. You see chewing on a smooth piece
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of Wrigley experimid gum is a natural way to eat tension and relieve that feeling
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of restlessness. The easy chewing to dissatisfaction. You got my little rift of
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and Wigley experiment gum takes good too. Its flavor is lively refreshing experiment of
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flavoring millions and drawing right and see for yourself. You got a few packages
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of Wrigley Experiment chewing gum and chew a stick and time to time how you
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work chewing this delicious gum will make your jobs seem easier and pleasentive. It
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really will. And all of our star Tom Lund, we bring you the
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second act of yours truly twenty dollar expensive count item six one dollar and seventy
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five cab fair to Avanita Piedras Number forty nine, a swank ultramont and apartment
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building in the newer Son Percy Alection. It's about the money, and so
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did the last evening gown Maria was wearing as she greeted me. I'm nicely
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to be so prompting. You're even a bit earlier. Well, I was
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hoping you wouldn't mind. How could I mind? As you see, I'm
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already bread. And when a woman is dressed and ready when her expert arrives,
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it usually indicates nothing anything to her. Yeah. Well I'm trying to
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figure out is why I hope you should not be already scanner. You're always
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looking for a reason for motivation is it's maybe not that a woman finds you
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express even wish you to spend some time in your company. Well, I
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suppose it could be, but in this case, no, a play this
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evening would not turn out as pleasantly as I said. I'm sorry, I
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don't need to be after all, you down here on business I can't understand.
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I will answer your questions. It's just a guy. Thanks. Well,
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suppose we start with Louis Salvado's murder and those big of Maria winning tickets.
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Johnny, are you familiar with the operation of a fine using stret as
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familiar as I want to be, But then you know it operates like a
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complicated adding machines as each stick. It is fine starting so the stories appear
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on the illuminated board in the infield, He underneath raised the amount of money
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that has been bet, he paid out on the winning horses. It is
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a food system. And finally at the nets, neither more nor less money
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that has been best than he paid out. Do you spell it out pretty
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clearly now? Why journey twenty one thousand dollars was better than a fourth race
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yesterday? As a sixty clublish afternoon, more than twenty six thousands had been
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paid up on winning sticks, over five thousand more than has been best.
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Are you sure about that? I thought they head bookkeeper Thicky want to get
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closing. Fine was the overage y all paid out and turned out a winning
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tickets and day and Maria, it was has this ever happened before? Do
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nothing known? Only concerned well said, and he is FIGIs it is only
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because I was there alone to day that that's happened to see. Uh huh?
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What does commaselve Verado do at the track? You think that charge as
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the garden protecting and juliom and dozen did. He operated a very neutual machine
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at a ten dollars window. Very interesting, so interesting that will interview with
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our plans with the team. There'll be other knights, Maria. That's the
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guy Adam seven two dollars and forty cents cab fare. The police head boarded.
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Captain Cadmus didn't seem to be too impressed with my latest information. No,
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Senior dollar, I do not believe it is possible. I can think
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of no way in which the plentimutuel system be fixed. The extra five thousand
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paid out and Baya Maria must mean something we have only the word of Senor
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Tao has done that. Such a sis paid out on the bookkeeper could verify
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it. I will check on it across in your dollars. But this much
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I can tell you now. It is mechanically impossible to fix the footboard or
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to punch out any tickets after the race begin. What about forgery, but
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that too would be virtually impossible. Each ticket has an especial picture code printed
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upon it, and the cootes are changed with every race. That sounds pretty
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food proved, and believe me it is, Senor Dallar. And even if
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it were not, what possible connection could all this have with the murder of
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Luis Alvarado? I wish you hadn't minced that Captain's been bothering me too.
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I borrowed a headquarters car from Cardiness to take the burden off the cab fair
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items on this expensive camp, and drove out to the Candado Beach Hotel.
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Tony Randolph was in the gambling, because you know, his mood wasn't quite
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as expensive as it had been earlier that day, Kid dollar, what's on
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your money now? I make it snappy with him, never a thanks for
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you. He's sound like a dice of in biting the hands of rosen saw
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the cold. Come on, I'm looking on the sure just tell me who
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you're gunning for and you can go back to the fables. You better clean
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up that crack doll. Aren't giving me straight? You know? Out to
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fifth grand? Now you didn't pass along ride this afternoon out of the kindness
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of your heart. What's a the uy i pass? If it's straight to
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get you up the hook down it. Even if it's not, he could
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get you off one too. That's supposed to mean somebody. Yeah, if
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Jose Alvarado it's sent up for the murder of his brother, you might have
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an easier job getting hold of that racetrack start. And you observed that fifty
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grand in insurance. So where's your beat dog would be? If it worked
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out that way? Why don't you make sure it does? Or maybe I
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need a little professional advice. Let's take the work outside. Yeah, sure,
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what kid dollar? Well it could be like this, nob you figures
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a way to beat the mutually Belie's Alvarado a tumble to it. So he's
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kept quiet with a thirty eight caliber slid. That's good night sense mean they
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tell me the mutuals can't be beat the good beer? Wrong? How wrong?
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There's no law against cash and running tickets a day or two after the
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roof, and you have to get the tickets first, or printing itself.
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What's the take to do that? You have to get into the track when
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it's clothed, get hold of the codes and I'll roll its ticket papers and
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know how to operate one of the machines. About flashing it tookboard takes a
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lot of doing it. Not with your head man trans Yeah, anything else
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on your mind? On? Well, no, I don't think so.
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I do not know some your druga who is still the theory without proof?
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Oh? The bookkeepers should be able to supply us with some you have to
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stay not. Oh why he was culled away from the pack of the seventh
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race from family business. He died an esthetic accident of the way, be
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sure it was an accident. Oh, there is no question, an unfortunate
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accordance for us. I even cover for him. Yes, of course you
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can always check the record. Just attract and in that way your pardon.
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Sure, go ahead the rs. I think perhaps you will find this of
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interest in your dollar? What is it a garden from beside Mendoza's body,
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which is registered to Senor for se Alvarado. Before leaving the office with Captain
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Cardenas, I found time for one short telephone call. I think I'll be
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able to drop around in about an hour and area. The hospital told us
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that Jose Alvarado's condition was still too critical to all our questioning, so the
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Captain and I went out to the Disconsol racetrack instead. The full moon was
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taking a cesda. Behind the bank of cloud in the gym was shadowy boat
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of the grand stand that deserted. The watchman of the gate assured us that
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no one had entered the track since closing back. I think perhaps we had
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been rather foolish. Your gore's nothing to be learned out years thought up the
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night, what about the bookkeepers before to wait until the morning, Maybe it
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wouldn't be learned about them, that was the possibility of However, it's a
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hospital. I should have been because we know Alvarado could not be released at
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some times. Well, I won't do any harms to look waiting in behind
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that the life. Yeah, you didn't even to be an operating one of
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the paramiter machines by hand. There was an entrance to the TEK. What
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the police, that's too right, all right, So it was for us
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Alvarado about an aminute. I don't die, I don't think your uncle Louis
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wanted to reader. On the way to the hospital, Thomas Salvarado gave us
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a confession to the murders of Luis Savarado and Julio Mendoza. Both were motivated
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by their separate discoveries of Tomasa's little plan for getting rich of his father's race
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track. When the surgeon finally convinced him he wasn't going to die, he
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decided to retract unless the few details unanswered. But he had told us enough
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to satisfy Captain Cardenas. So it was as I told you in the beginnings,
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and your daughter the insurance that nothing to do this matter. Yeah,
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but you've got to wind met. Jose Alvarado was involved, apparently only to
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the extent of the blackmail attempt by Julio Mendoza. However, that need be
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no concern of the orders the unfinished business. We will take care of ostin
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to time. Hey, that reminds me, I've got a little unfinished business
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with my own what are you? Guy? Was waiting for me? As
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agreed, she's even more lush and love living she had earlier. He recommended
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a nightclub on our way downtown. I gave her a short regiment of what
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has happened? So it was so master, what's this one? Did?
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Money? Fis man? You couldn't have had everything he wants and to do
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anything wants to wait for his father's money. I mean it would have come
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to him. He's done to do week to move with you rob him,
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not because he wanted the money. Now wo people mention it No, who
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knows. Maybe somebody talks to him into it. Maybe it's for some moment,
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maybe both together. What's of course the oh what if I should become
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from and talk about it? Now? It is only John them do nothing?
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Watch for you? Yeah? I think that was probably it coming issue
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someone we're talking into it. He had to be working with somebody. You
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couldn't have cashed all those extra tickets itself. He had the give away so
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that somebody else helped him to spread them around. John, you're talking about
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business a game. What did you do with the tickets? Maria Soliman A
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discount or something. I'm not being a hunchon. It was your idea of
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a pleasure, Maria. You tipped it when you said you saw the bookkeeper's
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figures at the end of the racing day, so bad you didn't know he
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left the track at the end of the seventh rade. It was a good
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try of keeping your own skirts clean, but didn't work out. Jolly,
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he could put you head quarters. Yeah, let's go in Shelley. Expensive
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count Atom eight thirty eight dollars and fifteen cents. Hotel Dell and Miscellaneums.
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Expensive Count Adam nine one hundred and fifty two dollars and ten cents. Air
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Fare back to Harvard expense account total three hundred and fifty four dollars and ninety
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five cents. Remarks I was a Alfarado was still too ill the next day
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to have any visitors, so I left Puerto Rico without seeing him. Perhaps
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it's just as well. How can you give a man fifty thousand dollars with
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one hand and take away his son or the other? Yes, Jody,
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Johnny Dallar, welcome back. I couldn't help but feeling that the name of
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the police inspector was somehow being I mispronounced. However, I'll give Johnny Doller
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the benefit of the doubt on this one. All right, Well, we
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