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into the final episode of A Life in Your Hands from August nineteen fifty two.
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Here now is Alberman murdered. The National Broadcasting Company presents Earl Stanley Gardner's
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A Life in Your Hand? Was head when you found it? Did he
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scream? Did you hear the shot? Listen while we place A Life in
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your Hand? You never know when you step from the safety of your home
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when you may witness a violent death and be called upon to testify as to
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what you saw and heard. Murder is a dark enigma that strikes fear into
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the heart of man. Strange, baffling, mysterious, but the darkest crime.
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One man can invent, another man can unravel. Such a man is
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Jonathan Kegg, created by Earl Stanley Gardner, the world's most popular writer of
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mysteries, creator of Perry Mason, Doug Selby, and other outstanding characters,
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ladies and gentlemen. Mister Jonathan King, good evening, One day you might
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be the person who happened to be near the scene of a crime. On
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what you remember may depend the life of a fellow man. You never know
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when a crime is going to be committed, or even now somewhere in the
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city there may be a crime in the making. You look like you've had
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something on your mind. Sin some of the boys been bothering you. Your
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books, the operations, trying smooth silk pat is a small personal matter of
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fifteen thousand. Remember, guarn't you operating all through the ward? What are
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you squalking about? Yeah? And I pan up every week to make sure
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I do Then at fifteen Jays was a personal matter. Of course, it
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was personal. But I can't pick you back now. I've been the spot,
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my OpEd. I'll take care of it half the elections, and I
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need it now. I tell you I haven't got it. You can't get
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blood from a turnip. You aren't a turn of peed. Listen, don't
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you threaten me. You want every hand book you're running in this town?
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Closed up. It's love talk peedy. Things can happen to people who talk
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too loud. I get out here. We at your house tonight at nine
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money, get out of this card, don't go Getting brave might not be
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healthy, Miss Wells, get me John Maxwell at his office? John,
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John, this is Pete Grant. Fine, fine in yourself, and John,
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do you know that little paving job you were interested in? That's right,
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John, I'm in a bit of a hole. I wonder if you
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could arrange for an advance. No, I can't fix it sooner? No
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die, sir? Okay John, goodbye? Yes child? So John wouldn't
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go for it that tough? What do you mean listening to my phone calls?
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Take it easy? How many times have I told you not to call
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me? Pet around the office? There's nobody here, but I was chickens.
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What is it? I need some money? Peter? I told you
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the last time that you could never You're never going to get another filly out
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of me? Now, No, Petkins, remember your blood pressure not a
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red sin. I could have a very interesting conversation with Hazel. She wouldn't
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believe you. I could be very convincing. Nothing but a dirty little blackmailer.
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I want five thousand dollars. I haven't got five thousand dollars. Karens
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then get it and said, so you would talk to Hazel with you?
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I'll go ahead. Suppose I tell the opposition just more campaign much. I
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mean about some of your phone conversations about hating contrasts. Who would believe you?
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They believe tape recordings of the conversation, Pet. Yes, Pet,
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I've spent one hundred dollars for a tape recorder, kept it in the out
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of office. I've got some views. You wouldn't do it. It would
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ruin me. I don't want to ruin you. All I want is five
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thousand dollars. But Karen, I haven't got five thousand dollars to get it
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up to the election. I want it now. Borrow it from your friend
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Bondon. He's pressing me for the money that I've borrowed to pay you up
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to nollars. That's your house. I don't care how you get it.
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Get it. Get out of your character. If you think I won't talk,
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get out. Other smart girls have had accidents before this. You can't
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care me, then you're not as smart as I thought you were. Get
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out. Now wait a second. Off, I've still got friends in this
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town. You'll take my advice and be out of town by midnight. I'm
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leaving, Pet. But no matter what happened to you, from now on,
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remember you asked for it? Does that? It's me, Hazel?
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Where are you? Imitation beers? Ever? Will be ready for half an
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hour? Yet? A right? You like to travel across the door the
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time? Are you feeling all right? I'm all right? Okay, I'll
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fix you. Makes me a drink? Will you good? What was it
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hard day? What is it ever? In this year? I really don't
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see why you don't good lave. Yeah, it's only because I'm an alderman
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know the right people. You're a fine lawyer. I'm a lousy lawyer.
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If I'm not re elected, I might as well blow my brains out.
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Don't talk like here? Okay? So how much do you think we get
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mortgage the house? For mortgage to the house. I figure we can get
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about eight thousand, about nine on my life insurance. What do you want
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with all that money? I've got to have it, that's all. Tell
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me the truth, Peter Gren, you asked for it. I'll tell you
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the truth. You don't have to use that tone of voice. What is
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the truth? Now you're going to get it. I've been blackmailed, blackmail
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like Karen Wales. How could miss Wells blackmailer? How does a man's secretary
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ever had a hold over the boss? Did you do something illegal? Yeah,
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yes, that it's something you But I had to pay Karen so she
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wouldn't talk. You got to talk to it, No, Hazel, not
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to the BA, to you. Why should she talk? Oh? Do
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you understand it? Yeah? Sorry, is a favorite man. How much
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did you give it? Twenty thousand, twenty thousand dollars. We didn't have
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that much. That's why I had to borrow fifteen thousand from Sid Bondon,
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who borrowed fifteen thousand dollars from mister bardon Katy. Why didn't you just tell
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me? Tell me about that woman? I was afraid you're not going to
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pay her anymore? Many? Are you? Not a penny? Hazel?
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Not up even? Why are you talking about mortgaging the house and borrowing on
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your insurance? It's ship Bondon. He's pressing me for the fifteen thousands,
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and if you do that, let's take everything we've got. It would kill
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me if I don't. It's only after I'm re elected then I can pay
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it off in six months. But if you are re elected, don't worry,
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honey, don't worry. I'll borrowing the House of the insurance. I'll
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get re elected. Pay it off right away. But it's something to go
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on with the destitute. Nothing's going to happen. Hazel fixed me at a
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drink, of course. Who the heck does that be? I'll get it,
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Hi, Pitty and I come in sure, Tony, Sure, glad
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to see you have your hat in code? Thanks? Want a drink?
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No? Thanks, not right now, it's Tony. See your honey.
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We'll be in the living room. Come in. Shot up, Tony.
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Have you been pity? I ad seen you for a while. Pretty good,
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Tony, pretty good? You the boy wouldn't be better? And nice
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little how you got missus? And I like it looks like you got something
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on your mind. What is it? You're smart, Pey, plenty smart.
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That's what the boys I mean like about. It's my job to be
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smart, Tony. What is it? Nothing much? I just wanted to
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have a chat. Yeah, I know how often you guys drop in for
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a chat. Let you have it, Tony. See what I mean?
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You're smart. They tell me you're gonna run again this year. That's right.
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I wouldn't what I said. I wouldn't try to get re elected if
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I was. That's crazy. I'm gonna have the job. Some of the
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boys ain't gonna like it. They said, I should tell you, Tony.
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If I don't, I'll be killed. Might happen if you find what
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do you mean one of the boys wants the job, You might get movables.
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I wait a minute, Tony, I've always played ball with the boys.
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I still will know speeding. You can't move it on the government credit.
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But Tony, no butts pal run? And shall I meell you on
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the regular ticket? You get out. Take care of you in the lawyer
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right, But Tony, I can't. Maybe I didn't understand me. Pity,
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I said, you get out. If you're done, I need the
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money. I'll play ball. I gotta run. That's it. Boys won't
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lack of team. You haven't eaten a bite at this time. Oh,
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don't bother me, Hazel. Shut it off your mind. You'll feel better.
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Tody asked you, says, I can't run again. The boys are
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going to run their own. Man. It's right, the boys, the
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gang. That's really you can get more votes than any Hudlan. There's one
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vote they can cast that I can't beat. It's made of lead. You
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got it. It killed me I told him I was going to run again,
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that of course it was dangerous. But if I'm not running, I
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can't mortgage the house or get credit on my insurance. That means I can't
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pay off sid Bondon. If I don't pay him, it's twice as dangerous.
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Gamblers don't like welchers. What about it that girl? Don't worry about
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her? A friend of mine in the police department run her out of towel.
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This happened. Goodness, here's the only way to figure it, Hazel.
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Sid Bondon gave me the nine to night to pay up, and I'm
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thirty now and nothing has happened, so probably nothing will happen until tomorrow.
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Then the first thing in the morning, I'll go downtown and mortgage the house
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and fire on my insurance. They'll pay them more if they won't give you
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the money if they know you're not running again. Absolutely I've got the money.
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Then I'll announced my withdrawal from the race. Yo, who still there,
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I'll get it you fixed the coffee, I see what it is,
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whoever it is, I'll get rid of them in a minute. Probably said
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for his money, I could stole them off tomorrow if I promised the no
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you, yes me, Peterkin thought you were smart running my cape recordings and
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getting your cane copper to run me out of town. I told you enough
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to mess with me. Carry wouldn't your wife like to hear what I have
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to say? Get out? I'm letting you get out of town with your
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health. You'll bother me with Lauren. I'm leaving, buddy. Don't worry
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about my health, worry about your own. What's that the woman's leading?
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Were you listening? Worries? Fallow girl tried to blackmail me to walk just
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once too often, But you did have something over your head. Yes,
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yes, I'm sorry. I do love him and I love him more castle.
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Are you a wonderful hazel? Yeah, thank you, sir. I
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will have another cup of thoughts one to be happy. It's almost ten.
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Don't have to read. You can't be sure the flat room because someone says
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to be able to tell anything, come back, talk up good and I
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will. But missus Billings from this door use me, missus rams. But
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I saw a lights on and I figured you would sill off. I wondered
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if I could borrow a glass of milks. I have much left and the
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chill, of course, Missus Billings. Yes, really, why would you
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say the whole course? Well, now that's also kind of you. If
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you're sure it won't run, you should not a bit, not a bit.
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Good evening, Missus Billings. Why good evening, mister Grad. Would
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you poor Missus Billings, the glasses please? I want to go upstairs for
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a minute. Sure, sure, glad too. I'll be back in a
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minute, because sure one glass is going to be enough, Missus Billings.
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Play mister Grahad, are you sure you want? Well, if you can
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spare it, of course we can here. Well now that's right, neighbor,
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leave you, mister Grad. I'll return it tomorrow. No, no,
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no, hurry at all, Missus Billings. Oh thank you very much.
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I'll be running along now. Let me get the door for you.
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Thank you, nice post to grant. I hope I don't forget to return
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this milk. I never did return the sugar about it last week? Oh
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well he's he's he can afford it. Good heaven darmish KG, thank you?
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Or what is this all about? I don't see any reason for an
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America's curia in this case. The presentations have been quite fair. First sir,
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I appreciate your seeing me in your chambers. Now. A lot of
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this case has been tried in the papers. The whole city has worked up
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about it. I can understand people getting worked up when a public official who
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is murdered. They should, but sometimes they want to scapegoat personally. But
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you'll have to give me a more tangible reason than that before I can permit
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you to serve as amicus curia. Well as matters stand now, Karen Wells
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is almost certain to be convicted. She was found latering nearby. True,
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the gun was found on the black porch. How many women know enough to
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file the numbers off a gun? How many would choose a weapon as large
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as a forty five or could hit the broadside of a barn with one from
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outside the kitchen. The thing I'm getting at, your honor, is that
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no connection between the Wells woman and the murder weapon has been established. Do
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you think she's innocent? I believe further cross examination is indicated. There's not
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much to go on. Still, it is a point. It hasn't been
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stressed. A human life is at stake, Your honor, all right,
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I'll go along with you. All we want to do is get the truth.
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The Court will permit the entry into this case of the well known attorney
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mister Jonathan Kegg as a meekis curii. Mister Kegg serves neither the prosecution nor
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the defense, but only the court in an attempt to arrive at the troop
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you may perceive, mister Keg, thank you your honor all. Mister didn't
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he bondon to the stand? How much did Peter Grant owe you fifteen thousand
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dollars? You had his note? I gave it to him on his word?
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Do you usually lend people that much money on an unbacked word? Often?
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I believe you are a gambler, mister Bondon, I have various interests
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as a businessman. You must know that you can't collect a death when there
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is no document to show. I usually collect what's owed me how I asked
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for it. I see, and you had asked Grant for his fifteen thousand
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for my fifteen thousand. Of course, when did you ask him the morning
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of the day he died? I believe it was that day according to previous
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testimony by missus Grant, who gave him till nine o'clock that evening to pay
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up that's right. Did he pay you before he died? He did not.
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He died around ten. Tell me, mister Bondon, what would you
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have done if he had refused to pay you? I suppose that? Asked
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him again? Then why the time limit of nine that night is put out?
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An extra effort to get the money? Scares them of it? What
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are they scared of? Yes? Scared? Isn't it true that occasionally unpleasant
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things happen to people who don't pay their debts to gamblers? Are you getting
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it? Is it true or not? Oh? I've heard of things like
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that. You have heard of people being hurt who didn't pay their debts to
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gambler? Sure, but that's all mister Bondon. You may step down.
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Oh now, you can't insinuate down. Call mister Tony Astio, mister Astial,
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what do you do for the living? I'm a businessman. Any interest
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in politics not personal? Then how are your closest friends or in their living
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the businessmen? This is Grant and her earlier testimony said her late husband referred
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to you and your friends as gangsters. He was nuts. He was just
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scared of a shadow. You visited him the night he was killed. Yeah,
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so what your witness will confine himself to. Answering question, did you
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advise him not to run for re election as Alderman? I my Dave,
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just how did you try to persuade him not to run? I didn't try
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to persuade him. I just explained that a friend of mine wanted to try
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for the job, and that if he ran, he couldn't expect the help
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of me and my associates. Did you agree not to run? No,
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I said he was going after the job. Again. Did you threaten him
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if he ran? Threatening? I wouldn't hurt a fly, That's all,
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mister Asteo, you may step down. I would like to call the victim's
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wife. This is Hazel Graham. This is Graham. Can you tell us
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exactly what happened the night your husband was killed? I've already what is it?
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You want to know everything? You remember? What occurred? Well Shed
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He came home for supper around six. He was very tired and depressed.
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I wanted to drink. I asked what was wrong, and he told me
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about about the Wells woman. What did he say about He said she's been
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blackmailing him. He's going to have her run out of town. What else
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did he tell you? He said he had to pay mister Bondon fifteen thousand
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dollars. He owed him mister Bondon would kill him. He was afraid of
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mister Bondon. Yes, what did he propose to do about this step?
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Well, he talked about mortgaging his insurance in our home and what else?
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Because then mister Astill came to the house told him he couldn't run again.
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I said that was stilly in but he could win easily. He said they
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had one vote that he couldn't beat because it was made of lead. Did
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that seem to frighten him? Yes, he felt that he couldn't get loans
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unless he was going to be elected. So he's planned to borrow the money
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on the house and the insurance first thing in the morning, when everyone thought
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he'd be reelected, and then withdraw from the race that afternoon. That way
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he could pay mister Brond and still not get hurt by mister ast Hill in
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its brings. I see, did anything else happen that evening? Yes,
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that wells woman came to the house curious because Pete wouldn't give her any more
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money. When Pete ordered her out, she threatened his life had you any
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other visitors before your husband died? Said that was all? Oh, oh,
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did you remember something, Missus Grant. I don't think it's important,
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but if you want everything, I do well. Neighbor, and missus Billings
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stopped by to borrow a glass of milk? Was this before or after your
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other callers? He dis after, oh, a few minutes before. Pet
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I understand, Missus Graft, you may step down. That'll be all,
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Thank your honor. I should like her been issued for an entirely innocent bystander,
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a person who just happened to be nearby when this crime was committed.
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I will recall anyone you wish, mister Kegg, and that person must testify
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what he or she has seen and heard. Jonathan Kegg is about to call
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as a witness, a person whose only connection with this crime is that person
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happened to be near the scene when the crime was committed. Suppose you were
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that person, could you remember exactly what you have heard and testified to it?
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Under oath? It would be important that you remember, for you would
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hold a life in your hands. The Labor Day weekend lies just ahead,
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the long weekend that will find millions of America's motorists, picnickers, and sportsmen
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taking to the woods. More and more people outdoors spells more chance for forest
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fires caused by carelessness. Learn and follow these four simple rules of forest fire
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prevention. Crush out cigarette, cigar and piefashes. Break matches in two after
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using drown all camp fires, then stir and grown again. Find out the
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law before using fire. Remember, only you can prevent forest fires. Missus
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Joshua Billings, the Grant's neighbor, has been called to the stand. She
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has been sworn as a witness and is ready to testify. As Jonathan Kegg
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says, Missus Billings, on the night mister Grant was killed, you called
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to borrows some milk? Yes, her ideas? How long were you there?
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Couple of minutes? Was anyone besides the Grants in the house when you
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arrived? Did you enter by the front door? No, sir, I
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came through the kitchen. That's the room in which mister Grant was killed.
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That's the way I heard it. I see who let you in, mister
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or missus Grant? It was missus Grant. Then you didn't actually see mister
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Grant, Well, I certainly did. He came into the room a minute
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or so later, and then missus Grant gave you the milk and you left.
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That's right. No, wait a minute, mister Grant gave me the
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milk and missus had to go upstairs for something, and you left as soon
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as you got the milk. All right, You saw no one else about,
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not a soul. What happened after you left? I went home.
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I was just going in when I heard the shot and the screen. What
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did you do then? Oh? I kept right on going and locked the
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door. I have four children in all that time. You saw no one,
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not a soul. Just exactly what did you hear, missus Billick.
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That's what I told you. I heard a shot. The shot was fired
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from the back porch through the window. The window was shattered. Did you
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hear the glass breaking? Oh? Sure? Then you heard two sounds.
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That's right. You heard the glass breaking, then a shot and nothing more.
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Oh yes, there was something else, Yes, somebody scream. Then
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there were three sounds, the breaking glass, the shot, and the scream.
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Very definitely, by your testimony, Missus Billings, we judged at the
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murderer broke the window, shot mister Grant through the hole, and then someone
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screamed as a reaction to the shot. No, sir, that isn't the
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way it was. The shot was heard, and you distinctly heard the glass
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break. Yes, it was really a separate sound, and it followed the
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shot. Yeah, first there was the shot, then the glass breaking,
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and then I heard somebody scream. Would you say that these sounds overlapped each
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other? Why? Definitely not. Thank you, Missus Bellings. That'll be
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all I should like to recall, Missus Hazel Graham. Really, mister keg
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I don't see where this is getting here. If the court pleased, we've
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almost finished this case. I'm sure, your honor I shall be done in
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five minutes. All right, I'm going to hold you to that. Thank
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you, Your honor be seated. Missus Grant, I have only a few
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more questions to ask. Your husband believed he would be killed if he ran
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against the wishes of mister Astio's friends. That's what he told him. He
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also believed mister Bonnet would kill him if he didn't repay the fifteen thousand dollars
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he'd borrow. Yes, you were with him in the kitchen when he was
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shot. Yes, Now, as I understand, if he planned to mortgage
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the house and borrow on his insurance to pay off Bondon's The only chance he
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had to get that money back was if he should be re elected. Yes,
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and ASTYO wouldn't let that happen. Seems that if Peter Grant had done
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what he planned, you and he would have been in bad financial strength.
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Are you a destitute now, Missus Grant, I've got the house insurani.
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Yes. Now, your husband had been playing around with another woman. She
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was blackmailing it and it was only through your husband's death that you saved your
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home and his insurance policy. Missus Grant, why didn't you testify that you
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had left the kitchen just before your husband was killed. That's ridiculous. I
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never, but Missus Billings testified that you did. And when you left the
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kitchen, leaving your husband and Missus Billings alone, you got his gun,
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didn't you a gun that he kept because it could never be traced to it.
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That's not true. I really can't permitted, mister k your honor.
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Look at the facts. If Bondon should kill Grant, his fifteen thousand dollars
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was gone. Forever asked, you always admitted his candidate has withdrawn from the
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race. They both lost by the killing. As for the defendant, Karen
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Wells, she knew she would be picked up at and at least booked for
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blackmail. The only person with a lot to gain a house and insurance was
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Hazel Grant. At your fine theory, can it be proved if the court
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please? The testimony of our innocent bystander, Missus Billings proved she heard the
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window glass crash a second or two after she heard the shot. If the
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killer had stood outside and broken the window before firing, she would have heard
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it first. If he had fired through the window, it would have been
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close to simultaneous. But with a second or two between the shot and the
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glass crash, the shot could only have come from inside the kitchen, and
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only the Grants were there. By Missus Grant's own testimony, and the gun
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must have been thrown out through the window. I believe so, your honor,
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mister kag That was the most thrilling case. And what satisfaction you must
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get from saving an innocent person who was wrongfully accused. There would be fewer
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of the mister Stone if all citizens respond to their responsibilities. More read.
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But I am not here to preach, only to invite our friends to watch
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for our return to the air. Thank you, and good night, good
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night. A Light in Your Hands is created by Earl Stanley Gardner with script
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by Bob McKee, directed by John Cohen. Jonathan Kegg is played by Calvin
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Welcome back, well Those a summer series certainly had a low key farewells
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and of course it did not return to the air. This case somewhat of
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an interesting closure one on money end. It was nice and a touch of
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realism. To have a judge actually gives some pushback about Jonathan Kaig entering the
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case. Of course, that may have happened in previous seasons. We just
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don't have a whole lot of recordings from that time. The other thing I
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have to say, first of all, this guy really was having an awful
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day, kind of capped off by the murdered. You know, just kept
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getting worse and worse until ten thirty when the murder occurred. The thing you
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do realize too listening to this is that the neutral witness that Jonathan Kaig was
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able to produce was actually somebody who the murderer suggested, who he would not
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have known about. Hatchie simply said, no, that was everybody who came
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over a long litany of perfect murder suspect. And to be honest, I
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kind of suspected her from the get go because she was being awfully nice and
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kind and patient under the circumstance stances, given that she was the wife of
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a really unsavory character in a mystery melodrama. You know, honestly, I
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suspect you know, I suspected her from that point. And then the fact
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that she produced the name of the witness, thought, no, no,
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no, you know, if you'd committed to murder, you wouldn't be stupid
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enough to give them an additional witness that they just did not know about.
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But it all worked out for Jonathan Kaig, who once again is able to
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find the truth and you know, bringing home the importance of people cooperating with
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police and sharing their knowledge when witness to a crime. So all right,
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well that will actually do it for today. We will be back tomorrow with
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let George do it. I do want to let you know what's coming up
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next week. As we wrapped up A Life in Your Hands, we will
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be we will be doing Cases of Mister Ace starring the great George Raft.
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