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Boston Blackie - "The Brandon Jewel Robbery" (1946) · Old Time Mystery Radio | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: At a Tuesday dinner Boston, Blackie and Mary Wesley encounter
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: strangers who insist that Blackie is a man named mister Peterkin.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: A visit to Brandon Jewelers for a ninety dollars watch
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  Speaker 1: brings the same mistaken identity, and before long, Sam Brandon
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: is found murdered. From February fifth, nineteen forty six, This
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: is Boston Blackie, episode fifty six, The Brandon Jewel Robbery,
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  Speaker 1: with Richard Colmar as Blackie and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday.
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  Speaker 1: Here is the original broadcast.
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: Blackie or a creature of habit. We have eaten in
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: this restaurant every Tuesday for weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know that I've got another habit? Mary? I
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  Speaker 3: paid the check when we went through eating, like, now
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  Speaker 3: let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Huh, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 3: I'd better take you straight home if you want to
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  Speaker 3: be there before your cousin arrives.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, she'll wait for me.
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  Speaker 4: I hope said.
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  Speaker 3: There's a cab outside. Run out and see if it's vacant. Right,
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  Speaker 3: I'll pay the check and be right with him.
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  Speaker 2: I think we have that cab.
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  Speaker 5: Black good your check, sir, here's your money. Oh no,
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  Speaker 5: the meal is on the house, mister Peterkin.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, but I'm not mister Peterkin.
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  Speaker 6: A haha, but I know better. We are proud to
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  Speaker 6: have your patronage, mister Peedkin.
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  Speaker 3: I am not mister Petick, and I'm Boston Blackie, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm giving you your money and.
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  Speaker 5: I'm returning it to you please with the cup Roberts
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  Speaker 5: to the house.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I tell you, I am places.
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  Speaker 6: Me to tear up the check. Eh No, you can't
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  Speaker 6: pay a check that does not exist.
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  Speaker 3: All right, but believe me there's been some mistake.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no mistake, I assure you. For you, there shall
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  Speaker 5: never be a check, mister fet Akin.
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  Speaker 7: Now back to Dick Commerce, Boston Blackie. Enemy to those
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  Speaker 7: who make him an enemy, friend to those who have
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  Speaker 7: no friends.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Blackie, you won't forget to get that watch for
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  Speaker 2: my cousin, will you?
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  Speaker 3: Don't worry? Mary? The jewelry store is up until nine tonight.
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  Speaker 2: You'll have it to see me when we still on
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  Speaker 2: the window.
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  Speaker 3: I think she'll like it, don't you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, if you see one you think she'll like,
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  Speaker 2: better get it. You know more about watches than I do.
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  Speaker 8: An eleventh day alven you miss, and we are all
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  Speaker 8: the flag driver, I'm going on right.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, don't bother to see me the door, Blackie.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be your you always are. I'll call you later.
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  Speaker 2: Now you won't forget to get that watch, would you?
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  Speaker 3: Right? Mary? I promise I'll have a messenger deliver it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Darling, Night.
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  Speaker 3: Fifty one Sunset Parkway driver, and step on it. You
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  Speaker 3: don't have to tell me where you'll live, mister Petkin.
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  Speaker 3: What did you call me, mister Petkin?
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  Speaker 8: Mister Pegan, Now wait a minute, this all is gonna
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  Speaker 8: cost you anything.
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  Speaker 3: You're wrong, now look here for that. I had a
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  Speaker 3: half yen my care.
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  Speaker 8: So there's no charge, not for the famous mister Petikin.
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  Speaker 3: Any mean, I'd like to see a watch, please, like
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  Speaker 3: the when you're having the window.
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  Speaker 4: Then I think you mean this one, don't you say?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that's it.
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  Speaker 4: It's a lovely thing. How much ninety dollars? But naturally,
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  Speaker 4: naturally what naturally there'd be no charge for you, mister Peterkin.
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  Speaker 3: Now wait a minute. My name is Boston Blackie.
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  Speaker 4: Very modest, mister Peterkin. But I happen to know who
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  Speaker 4: you are, and I'm proud to give you this watch.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you I am not mister Peterkin. I'm bossing
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  Speaker 3: mister Peterkin. I meant no offense. Look, this is the
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  Speaker 3: third time in the last hour that someone has called
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  Speaker 3: me mister Peterkin. I am not mister Peterkin, and I
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  Speaker 3: am not accepting the watch without paying for it. Here
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  Speaker 3: is ninety dollars.
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't take the money from mister Peterkin.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you can't take it from mister Peterkin, but you
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  Speaker 3: can take it from me. And take it from me.
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  Speaker 3: You're taking that ninety dollars here and do me a favor.
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  Speaker 3: Will you believe my name is Boston Blackie. Do you understand?
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  Speaker 4: Of course I understand your name is Boston Blackie. Mister Peterkin.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Mary, the watch is beautiful. You shouldn't have done it.
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  Speaker 2: You really like it to re like it. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: the most beautiful watch I've ever seen. You certainly spent
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money. I'm just an ordinary cousin. I
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  Speaker 2: haven't spend it yet. Blackie got it and I haven't
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  Speaker 2: paid him for it. And besides, you are not just
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  Speaker 2: an ordinary cuttin. Oh it's lovely, Mary, Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I told Blackie not to have it. Engraved for you
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  Speaker 2: until after you'd seen it, that is. And I'll be
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  Speaker 2: honest with me, Trudy, is it really the kind of
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  Speaker 2: what you like?
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  Speaker 9: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: You wouldn't like a watch like this? We all right,
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  Speaker 2: then you can have it engraved this evening. Blackie said
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  Speaker 2: he got it at Brandon's. That's not far from here.
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  Speaker 2: We can run right over. Oh I'd like to marry,
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  Speaker 2: but my train leaves at midnight, and there are some
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  Speaker 2: things I have to do downtown before train time. Oh
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  Speaker 2: I see, I'll have it engraved when I get back.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I guess that. Wait a minute, I can
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  Speaker 2: take it over to Brandon's for you. I can have
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  Speaker 2: it engraved and send it to you. Oh, Mary, would
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  Speaker 2: you take it over the jewelers for me? That'd be wonderful. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: let's see, it's eight o'clock now. I can take the
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  Speaker 2: watch to Brandon's right away, call for it tomorrow and
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  Speaker 2: send it to you. Then you're sure it won't be
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  Speaker 2: too much trouble. Trouble, this truthy promises to be the
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  Speaker 2: least troublesome night of my life. Ah, knock on wood,
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  Speaker 2: Oh Blackie please be home, please, Oh Blackie, please please.
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh Blackie. This is Mary.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Mary, ha'd your cousin like her?
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  Speaker 2: Never mind about the watch. Come down to Brandon's jurist,
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  Speaker 2: Lauren right away, plenty, mister Brandon's oh Blackie, mister Brandon's
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  Speaker 2: Dead's dead murdered?
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  Speaker 9: What do I do now?
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  Speaker 2: I never found a body before.
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  Speaker 3: Turn off the lights, pulled down the shades, Lock the
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  Speaker 3: front door, and I'll be there in twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 8: Open up, Mary, it's Blacky coming.
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  Speaker 3: Are you all right?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I think I've aged sure.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty whole minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Where's the money, It's over there hind the counter.
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  Speaker 3: You want me to turn on a light, No, raise
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  Speaker 3: the shade a little bit the window, the street lamp
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  Speaker 3: will be light enough. Yeah, I can see the body now.
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  Speaker 3: Mm Hm'm mister Brandon. He waited on me a little
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  Speaker 3: over an hour ago.
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  Speaker 2: And sold you the watch.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. Funny thing too. He insisted that my name was Peterkin.
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  Speaker 3: I had to force some stake money for the watch.
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  Speaker 3: I think he was. I wonder if it was some
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  Speaker 3: gag of his. And the next customer he pulled it
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  Speaker 3: on and didn't like it.
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  Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: I wish I knew? Oh, somebody's opening in the front door.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's a special policeman.
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  Speaker 3: I'll do the talking. Mary Good evening officer. We were
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  Speaker 3: just about to send for one of your gang. I
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  Speaker 3: have a locked this store a few minutes ago, sent
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  Speaker 3: for me. I forgot to throw the alarm switch, and
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: we got a signal at our headquarters. That's the matter
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  Speaker 3: down here. Do you know the owner of the store? Sure,
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  Speaker 3: Sam Brandon? Would you know him if you saw him? Dead?
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  Speaker 6: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: Dead? Where? Turn your flashlight over there at the ale
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  Speaker 3: between the two cannons like this? I don't see is
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  Speaker 3: that Sam Brandon? Sure is? Don't move either of you.
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  Speaker 8: You're both taking a little ride the police headquarters.
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  Speaker 9: Blaggie, you're here at police headquarters so much you remain
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  Speaker 9: a sergeant soon. I'm not surprised to find you here.
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  Speaker 9: But Miss Wesley, you're something new.
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  Speaker 2: Inspector Faraday. You don't think we kill mister Brandon.
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  Speaker 6: Do you?
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  Speaker 3: Of course he does, married doesn't he always?
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  Speaker 9: I most certainly don't think you killed him. Pad Funny
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  Speaker 9: saw at you, Blackie and disappointed in you, Miss Wesley.
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  Speaker 9: Don't either of you know better than to get mixed
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  Speaker 9: up in these things.
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  Speaker 2: Well, when I found a body, I didn't know what
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 9: You should have called the police right away.
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  Speaker 3: I told him not to, Paraday. I wanted to have
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  Speaker 3: a look at the body before anything was moved.
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  Speaker 9: Oh you did. We'll take your body out of here
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  Speaker 9: and out of this case and cheap it.
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  Speaker 3: Out for Paraday.
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  Speaker 2: Don't argue with Inspector.
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  Speaker 3: Don and come on just a minute, Mary, just a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Are you sure you're all right? Well?
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  Speaker 9: I' never felt better in my life, and you've never
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  Speaker 9: been clear of murder any faster in your life.
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  Speaker 3: What have I done to clear myself? But wait here
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  Speaker 3: in your office.
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  Speaker 9: While you waited, I found out when Brandon was killed,
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  Speaker 9: what kind of a gun killed him, and where you
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  Speaker 9: were at the time of the murder. You're clear, So
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  Speaker 9: clear out of here, both of you.
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  Speaker 3: Faraday. I want to congratulate you, But once you've proved
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  Speaker 3: you're the good cop, I always thought you would.
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  Speaker 9: Get out of here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Inspector Faraday, Yeah, what do you want. I'm Robert
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  Speaker 5: Winston at Belvedere Insurance Company, claim Agent.
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  Speaker 9: Oh ah, you're up. Has said you're on the way
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  Speaker 9: down in connection with the murder of Sam Brandon.
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  Speaker 6: Now I'm going to have to ask you for a
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  Speaker 6: little help, Inspector.
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  Speaker 9: We do everything I can.
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  Speaker 6: I understand the police found two people with Brandon's body.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, as a matter of fact, these are those two
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  Speaker 9: people now in Boston, Blackie, Miss Mary Wesley.
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  Speaker 6: How do you do these people are under arrest?
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  Speaker 9: Of course, no they're not. Or Miss Wesley did was
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  Speaker 9: walk in the store in front of body. All Blackie
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  Speaker 9: did was come down and wait with heran till the
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  Speaker 9: police arrived. Yeah, holy him or can I I don't
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  Speaker 9: have grounds.
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  Speaker 5: My company will give you grounds, Inspector until our part
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  Speaker 5: of this investigation is complete. I demand that you hold
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  Speaker 5: these two people on suspicion of murder.
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  Speaker 7: And now back to Boston, Blackie. This has been a
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  Speaker 7: strange evening for Boston Blackie. Three times, by three different people,
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  Speaker 7: he's been called mister Peterkin. But this is nothing compared
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  Speaker 7: to what happened shortly after. When Mary walks into Brandon's
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  Speaker 7: jewelry store with a watch Blackie had bought there an
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  Speaker 7: hour earlier, she finds the owner dead. When Blackie joins
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  Speaker 7: her in the store to start an investigation, they're both
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  Speaker 7: found there by the police, and though Inspector Farady sees
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  Speaker 7: no reason to hold Mary or Blackie for Brandon's murder,
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  Speaker 7: and inurance agent demands our immediate arrest. As we return
• 11:03
  Speaker 7: to our story, Robert Winston, the insurance agent, calls on
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  Speaker 7: a certain diamond dealer.
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  Speaker 6: You, mister Bill Jackson.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, I am Bill Jackson.
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  Speaker 3: You wish to see me?
• 11:14
  Speaker 9: Yes?
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  Speaker 6: So what'd you get the Yankee name? You're slightly foreign,
• 11:17
  Speaker 6: aren't you?
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  Speaker 3: Slightly?
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  Speaker 10: But my name it was so hard to pronounce, so
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  Speaker 10: difficult for your Americans to spare.
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  Speaker 3: I decided to take one of your names. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: Bill Jackson.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm Robert Winston, mister Jackson, claim agent for the
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  Speaker 5: Belvidere Insurance Company. I am in surt Thank you. Now
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  Speaker 5: you don't understand. I'm not selling insurance. I'm investigating an
• 11:36
  Speaker 5: insurance claim. You must be in the wrong, establishment, said,
• 11:39
  Speaker 5: I have made no claim. No, of course not. But
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  Speaker 5: maybe you read in the papers about the death of
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  Speaker 5: Sam Brandon.
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  Speaker 9: Ah.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, it was such a shame, a terrible thing. The
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  Speaker 10: paper say it was murder?
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  Speaker 3: Is that so?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm afraid it was. Did you deliver any of
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  Speaker 5: the pieces of jewelry here on my list of Brandon
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  Speaker 5: hmm let me see. Yeah, okay, how many of those
• 12:03
  Speaker 5: spieces did you deliver?
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  Speaker 3: Mister Jackson? Hi?
• 12:05
  Speaker 6: What all of them? I was afraid of that. Afraid
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  Speaker 6: How do you mean, sir?
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  Speaker 5: Brandon ensured them against stuff with us and they're all
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  Speaker 5: missing one hundred thousand dollars?
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  Speaker 6: Well, good heavens, mister Winston. I give those jewels to
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  Speaker 6: mister Brandon on consignment.
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  Speaker 3: Am I to lose all that money?
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  Speaker 9: No?
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  Speaker 5: No, of course not. My company will pay every cent Brandon. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: but if I'm not paid, they will be ruined.
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  Speaker 6: Don't worry, mister Jackson. You'll get paid.
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  Speaker 5: But first I'm going to see Inspector Faraday didn't get
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  Speaker 5: him the charge Boston Blackie and Mary Wesley with murder
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  Speaker 5: and robbery. Luck, Inspector Faraday. Here's the list that is
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  Speaker 5: stuff that's missing from Brandon's store. Look at the size
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  Speaker 5: of it.
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  Speaker 9: I say, the size of it? Winston.
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  Speaker 6: Then why did you let Blackie and a Wesley girl go?
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  Speaker 9: Because I know they didn't rob Brandon's store or kill Brandon.
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  Speaker 5: Look, did you do your job at least up to
• 12:52
  Speaker 5: the point of searching Blackie and a Wesley woman before
• 12:54
  Speaker 5: you let them go?
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  Speaker 9: Sure, but that was just routine. Do you have a
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  Speaker 9: list to what you found on him? Right here on
• 12:58
  Speaker 9: my desk? But all ahead on on with their own
• 13:00
  Speaker 9: personal possession. Lets me see the list, help yourself. Like
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  Speaker 9: he had a pocket knife, small coins, various bills, but
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  Speaker 9: the usual stuff you always find in a man's pocket.
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  Speaker 9: And now will you be happy?
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  Speaker 6: Let's see the list of miss Wesley's things.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, what a list it is? Why do women carry
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  Speaker 9: all that junk?
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  Speaker 5: She had a silver comb, silver wristwatch, lipstick, pot of
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  Speaker 5: various bills, small coins.
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  Speaker 6: Gold Ajax wristwatch.
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  Speaker 5: Well, so what so look on this list of items
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  Speaker 5: taken from brandon Store one gold Ajax wristwatch.
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  Speaker 6: Did you see that gold wrist watch yourself?
• 13:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: I did describe it well. It was an Ajax square case,
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  Speaker 9: a convex crystal, The face of the dial was yellow,
• 13:41
  Speaker 9: and the band was a black cord with a gold clip.
• 13:43
  Speaker 5: Look at the description on this list of the Ajax
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  Speaker 5: watch missing from Brandon's store. Square case, convex crystal, dial,
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  Speaker 5: yellow numerals Roman, black cord with gold clip.
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  Speaker 6: What does that sound like to you? Inspector?
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  Speaker 9: The watch I found in miss Wesley's press.
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  Speaker 5: And that watch was stolen from Brandon's store. That's all
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  Speaker 5: I need, Inspector. I want you to arrest Mary Wesley.
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  Speaker 9: All right, Winston, maybe I've got.
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  Speaker 5: To don't bother eaven your office. Just give me one
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  Speaker 5: of your minute, Inspector. I'll bring miss Wesley here myself.
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Blackie, Mary.
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: Anything the matter?
• 14:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, nothing particularly. I was just reading in the paper
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: about the Brandon murder. I see they still don't know
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: why he was killed.
• 14:32
  Speaker 3: They probably find out it was a robbery. Mary. And
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: all parity has to do is to find some of
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: the stolen articles, to trace them, and you'll find Brandon's killers.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: I'm more concerned with that. Peter canangle. I can't figure
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: out who changed my name and why.
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Oh Black it is somebody the door. I'll call you back.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: Await, Mary, are you expecting anyone?
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: No?
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: No, no, well look, Parody has been much too quiet.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: It doesn't like him to leave either one of us
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: completely alone after we've been found with it funny, So
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: leave the phone off the hook. Your calling Maybe the inspector.
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, just a minute. Oh, I get it. If
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: it's the inspector or someone else from the police department,
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: I'll steer them over into the telephone so you can hear.
• 15:10
  Speaker 6: Huh, good girl, right, come in, miss Wesley.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, mister Winston, how's the insurance business?
• 15:20
  Speaker 6: Fine?
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: Wesley? Fine?
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: Do you always bring a policeman when you make your calls?
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: No?
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: Only in cases like this, Miss Westley, that go risk
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: What you had in your bag?
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: All that it was born at Brandon's by Boston, Jackie.
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: I had it in my n Now you got it,
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: Miss Wesley? Do you are lying as somebody else's watch
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  Speaker 6: your stolen property? Get your head and coat.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: You're under arrest now just a minute, mister Winston, Blackie,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: are you still there?
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: Yes, Mary, I'm here and I heard everything.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: What do I do? Now?
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Go to headquarters with Winston. You won't be there long.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: Somehow I feel mister Peterkin is mixed up in this,
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: and I'm going to find out how before I get
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: mixed up entirely. Closing my favorite restaurant rather early tonight,
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: aren't you?
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: Oh you yes, mister Peterkin. Remember what's the idea of
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: the gun.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: What was the idea of calling me? Mister Petikin?
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: Who that's your name?
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Isn't it? You know very well it isn't Maybe I had.
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: You confused with somebody else. I have to go home now.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: I'll take you home in this camp here. Convenient, isn't it.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: I've had it waiting here, just as it was waiting
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: here last night when you called me, mister Peterkin.
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: I don't know what you're talking about.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: Okay, Camby, already you it? Then you first, my friend?
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: Of course?
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: Where to, buddy?
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Don't you mean where to, mister Peterkin? Huh?
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's sure, huh.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Where to drive to the edge of the town and
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: then keep on going and.
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: It'll be some fair I get extra for going outside
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: the city limits.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Don't you remember I'm mister peter I don't pay for anything.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Oh no, look both ian, We're gonna play a little game.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: What kind of a game? A game called Peterkin.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: Your name is not Peterkin, eh ain't it peeddicin?
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: No, it isn't. And I'll tell you a funny little story.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Only one other person in this world call me mister Peterkin.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: And do you know where he is now? No, in
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: a morgue dead. He doesn't work there. All right, we
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: made a mistake.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: We thought you were Peterkin.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Who told you to think that nobody, saying nobody to
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: me once more, my friend, and you'll be abody? Or
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: have you forgotten this gun in my hand?
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: Look if we tell you then what shut up?
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: You shut up? You go ahead, River.
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: I don't know anything except that was a joke.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: Well make me laugh and maybe I'll let you live.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: But that's for you.
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: The driver was telling the truth. It was just a joke.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: Who told you to call me Pedican?
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: Brandon the jeweler?
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: But we didn't know who Brandon was until we saw
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: his picture in the paper today.
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he gave a start a car your Peeddican. He
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: said it was a gag.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Sertainy was on him. Take me to police headquarters. Cammy,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: you want a tinan a cent? Are you No? I'm
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: not turning you in, and I think I'm on the
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: verge of turning a killer up.
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: Hello Faraday speaking Bobs, Now what do you want?
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: Boston Blak?
• 18:26
  Speaker 9: I tell you I'm looking for him, but I can't
• 18:29
  Speaker 9: find him.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: You better find him.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: I question miss Wesley and she assists Boston Blankie gave
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: it a watch?
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Are you get me, Blankie?
• 18:36
  Speaker 9: I'm trying to stop trying to get him. Look, Winston, well,
• 18:39
  Speaker 9: I can't find Blankie, you can't be found he Hello, Hello, Hello,
• 18:45
  Speaker 9: hung up, that's good. Come in, Hello, Farday, Blankie. I've
• 18:51
  Speaker 9: been looking everywhere for you.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Well I haven't been everywhere, Faraday. Maybe that's why you
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: didn't find me.
• 18:56
  Speaker 9: Look, Winston made me put Miss Wesley in jail, and
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: he wants you.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: I know that.
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: Well, I hope you know something else. I'm going to
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: arrest you, but I don't want it.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, go ahead and arrest me, Faraday. I won't mind
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: if you book me under the name of Peterkin.
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: Peterkin, what are you talking about a little.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Plot to make it looked as if I robbed Brandon's
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: jewelry store. It's a crazy story, Faraday. Yeah, Brandon paid
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: a restaurant cashier and a cab driver to call me
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: mister Peterkin and refused to take money from me. Why
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: so that when I walked into his store an hour
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: later and he called me mister Peterkin and refused to
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: take money for his watch, I'd walk out without a
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: sales slip. That's all he needed to make it appear
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: that the watch was stolen, which he was going to
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: claim later.
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: When you said that was a crazy story. You were
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: making an understatement. I can't believe a thing like that, Blankie.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Look Paraday. Of all the stuff stolen from Brandon, what's turned.
• 19:48
  Speaker 9: Up only the watch found on Miss Wesley.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: That backs up my story because all Brandon needed to
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: establish the fact that the store had been robbed was
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: to have the police find one missing article.
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: He wanted to establish the fact that his store had
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: been robbed. Likely, that sounds as if Brandon robbed his
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: own place.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: I think he was in on the deal fara day
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: and the merchandise, supposing the stolen is just hidden somewhere. Eh.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Do you have a complete list of the missing propeny?
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: Sure, right here, look at the length of it. Some
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: hare But Blackie, if Brandon robbed his own store, why
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: was he killed and who killed him?
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: There's accomplice, probably the motive to keep from splitting with Brandon. Say,
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: according to this list, everything stolen from Brandon was delivered
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: by the same wholesale jeweler Bill Jackson.
• 20:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah, on consignment too, But Brandon was insured and Jackson
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: is going to get his money just the same.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Doesn't it seem rather odd to you that, with the
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: exception of the watch, Brandon was robbed of only the
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: jewels he bought from Jackson.
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: Say that is funny, isn't it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: It's funny enough to make Jackson laugh himself sick. Suppose
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Jackson never delivered these diamonds and Brandon then reported them stolen.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Jackson still has his diamonds us a cut of Brandon's
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: insurance money.
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: Then Jackson was Brandon's accomplice.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Maybe unless Winston was Winston.
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: You mean he was in for a split of the
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: insurance payoff.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Winston's been trying awfully hard to prove that Mary and
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: I rob Brandon's do. All he needs is proof of
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: robbery to get his company to pay the claim. You
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: see what you can get out find out about him.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna call on Jackson. Can you tell me anything
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: about him? Sure?
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: Well, he talks with an accent to one thing. What
• 21:29
  Speaker 9: kind I just talked to him on the phone, man,
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: It's hard to tell. The Central European Maybe.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Like this, I inspector Faurday, I am Edward Blackburn. It
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: is good to see the police working for justice.
• 21:44
  Speaker 9: Well that's pretty close. But what's the idea.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: If you want to talk to a guy. It is
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: sometimes smart to talk his language.
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: Mister Blackburn, it is good to talk to someone from
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: the old country.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: You would do business with someone from the old country,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: mister Jackson. Of course, of course I am a bit embarrassed.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: The duty and jewelry is high, as you know. I
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: intend to forget, to declare it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: Yes, forget. I think we can do business. Mister Blackburn.
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: How much do you want to spend? I can put
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: my hands and fifty thousand dollars. I can let you
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: have twice that amount of jewelry. Mister Blackburn, I'm afraid
• 22:39
  Speaker 10: I do not have that much money. Just let me
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: show you what I have in my safe here. I
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: will open it.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Ah mcneif, mister Jackson, never have a scene since students.
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: Yes, and everything in my safe is for sale and
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: at a special price.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Why is special price?
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: I do not ask you questions. You do not ask
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: me questions.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Do you mind if I use your phone? I do
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: not have this much money on me. I shall have
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: to send for it. Yes, go ahead, you will select
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: for me fifty thousand dollars worth of the jewelry from
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: your safe. Gladly you are indeed the man to do
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: business with, mister Jackson. I can see that this is Blackburn.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Black I have found Yes, I have found the jewels
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: I want. You will bring the fifty thousand dollars. Jackson
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: has everything. Mister Jackson is everything, my friend. Hurry, We'll
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: be waiting for you.
• 23:46
  Speaker 11: You should have seen Jackson's face when Parody walked in
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: Marry It was wonderful.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: How long did it take Jackson to confess to Brandon's murder?
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: About five minutes? Why did he kill him to keep
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: from splitting the insurance money with him?
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: And he killed Brandon just after you left the watch
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: you bought for me. Well, Blackie, was that planned?
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: When I left Brandon's store without a sales slipt for
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: that watch, Jackson was in the back and Brandon told
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: him the plan had worked. And then all Brandon had
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: to do was to call the police and tell him
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: his store had been robbed. That was the moment Jackson
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: was waiting for.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised you got away posing as mister Blackburn when
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: you talked to Jackson.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, I am a wonderful.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: You certainly, But how did Brandon work that peedicin act?
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: So beautiful?
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Well, in the first place, he saw us looking at
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: watches in the store, windows several times. He was standing
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: in a doorway at the time.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Remember, Oh, I see now how he was sure his
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: plan would work. He then went to our restaurant and
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: arranged for the cashier and the taxi driver to call you,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: mister peedickin and all that.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: And then after I came in and bought the watch,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Brandon intended to call the police and describe me as
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: the person who robbed the store. Have the police picked
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: me up and find me with the watch?
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But things didn't quite work out that way, did
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: they know.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Jackson got greedy and didn't want to cut Brandon in
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: on the tape, so he killed him. And that's that,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: certainly is.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: You know, for a while I thought mister Winston had
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: something to do with all this.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Well he didn't. I've got to leave now, Mary, Will
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: you call me?
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Will I call you?
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: What? Anything? Anything at all except mister Peterkin as.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: A Boston Blackie has concluded with the Brandon Jewel robbery.
• 27:47
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