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Well, now it's time for us to go ahead and take a listen
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to an episode of Pursuit. There were seven missing episodes between last week's show
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and this week's, so here from April eleventh of nineteen fifty is Pursuit and
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the Man who confessed Pursue Pursuit, a criminal strikes and fades quickly back into
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the shadows of his own dark world, and then the men from Scotland yard
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the dangerous, relentless Pursuit. When men hunts man. Now it had to
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cost you a start as the famous inspector Peter Black of Scotland. John,
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we bring you tonight's story of violence and murder, pursuit and the man who
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confessed. Yes, sir, oh, good morning Marvin. Would you step
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in for a moment. Good morning, sir, Good morning Martin. Everything
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quiet last night? I said, good. I heard a rather good one
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last night, really, sir, Yes, those flying saucer thinking the moms,
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yes, sir, know what they really are? No, well,
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Martha, there the horseshoes from the Riders in the sky, really, sir,
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horseshoes, Marty. Do you know that American song riders in the sky
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harshoes? Very good, sir. Now did you see this memorandum from Berkeley?
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Yes, sir, I put it on your desk. Well take care
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of it. You tell Faster to put a couple of men on watch tonight.
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I don't think it will mount to anything. Yes, yes, inspector.
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It's mister Ross gave in about five minutes ago. I think you better
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speak to him, all right, sergeant, Yes, mister Ross, what
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can I do for you? There's nothing you can do from an our inspector.
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I killed a woman last night. I come to give myself up when
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you say that again, I killed a woman in my house last night.
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You'll find her there thirty one Cricklewood Lean. Why didn't you report it last
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night? I don't know. I've been walking most of the time trying to
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think. How did you kill at mister Ross? That choked? Why did
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you kill it? That'd been an argument? That's all. Her name is
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Selena, Selena Graham. All right, mister Rass, if you don't mind,
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will run out of your house. I don't want to go back there.
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I've done it. I've told the police. Now let's get it over
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with all in your time, after yourself. Martha and I took the haggard
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mister Russ to the house in crittle Woodland and Cha he sat throughout the entire
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trip, staring numbly through the window. I asked him no questions, and
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he puffered no further information. Criminal Records Office has an extensive file devoted to
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men and women who have killed, usually in passion, and subsequently given themselves
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out. But more than a simple confession is necessary. It was hard Jody
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to examine the scene of the crime and then proceed with a formal charge of
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men. Thirty one. Cricklewood Lane was a person's little house set apart some
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hundred and fifty feet from its nearest nail. I noted that the window sheds
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were drawn. Mister Russ reached into his pocket for his night key and locked
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the door, and we went inside. You're genetone, mister Russ. Yes,
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don't you think you'd better answer? Why should I? I? Well,
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well, mister Ross, she's through there. Stay here with him.
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Hm hmmm mm hmm. How did you say you killed her? Mister Ross?
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I told you that my head? And when what was this last night?
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I suppose it was about eight o'clock. I can't remember. Now.
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Can we go? I'm afraid not to? Would you step inside for you?
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No? I shall have to insist. I won't. I told her
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I killed her, and that's enough to come past me to look at her
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again. You won't have to, mister Ras. She's not there. She's
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not there, not there, sir, No, the girl has been here.
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I found a bruise on the handtown in the laboratory. She's dead.
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I know she's dead. You must believe me, assuming that you did kill
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her, mister Ross, how soon after. What did you leave the house?
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I don't know. I don't know what I did. What's the use
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of all this? And that's the question of a body, mister. I
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don't know what happened. All I know is that I killed her and I'll
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pay for it. I can't stand it here any longer. Take me away.
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It was rather an odd situation. I found it hard to disbelieve rand
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the Rossi's statement. Yet there were some as aspects to the case. It
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were, to say the least puzzling, aby being remanded into custody up in
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his own insistence and ours. Marfatt and I started from the hotel Empire,
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which mister rossid given as the residence of miss Selina Graham. You see,
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Marfatt, if the man is telling the truth, were incredible dicament that had
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occurred to me, sir the body maffe if there is one, Sir,
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you think it a delusion on his part for such before since I know transitioning
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too. But assuming that it's not an elusion, could someone have come in
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and taken the body after mister ross had run from the house, possibly to
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protect him rather a grizzly thought, he aren't you forgetting that the door was
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locked when we went in, and that mister Ross had the key. Quiet
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right, thank you, sir, which springs up another point. Would a
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man of Ross's obviously and central temperament kill then methodically obliterate all signs of possible
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struggle, extinguished the lights, locked the door, and then allegedly walk the
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streets all night in the funk before coming into contestaty A bit contradictory, sir.
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It he may have done all that, but where is the body?
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Yes? And he may not have done all that market, in which case
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we returned to you. Are there delusion? Yes, sir? Well here
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it is, sir, the empire a bit run. That is treason matting.
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Come along, Yes, sir, so I says I'll take five off
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on parsonal over Southampton. And you know what he says? He says,
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I want odds coo what cheap? I ring a right that person? Morning,
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gentlemen, With all with that now, I think you is miss Selena
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Graham staying here? That's shot? Would you see if she's in? Please?
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Poor art who try to say is Cory? She didn't speak them black
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scut and jam. Oh well you must know my brother in law. He's
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on the fourth police Constable Smithers. I don't believe I do know him.
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Do your mount it? No, sir, Well you will write lad you'll
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be commissioner one of these days, mark my words. I shall have to
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keep my eye on him. Then. Hmm, that's funny. No answer.
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When did you when I see her? Mister? The name is wel
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And it was the day before yesterday. I was off for himself yesterday.
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Oh wait a minute, wait a minute. The nightmare left a note of
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uh I remember, But where did that put it? Oh? Where it
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is? Well, you're too rate. She paid her bill and left last
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evening at six o'clock. Did she leave her new address? Mister Welker can't
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say that she did. They often forget and ring us later if she does.
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Do you want me to tell police? Comfortable Smith? Extremely good of
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you, mister Welk, but I'd rather you notified me. Oh, thank
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you very much. Well. Used to know one thing there is or was
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a miss Selina Graham. See what you can find out about it here.
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I'm going back to the yard. And he asked to see anyone consortable noseph
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guide as a morse. There was his brother in the missage. Doctor lewis
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here, but they wouldn't see them. All right'm Constable, thank you so
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gorette. Mister Ross, Yeah, you don't mind. Why did miss Graham
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leave her hotel last night? I don't know. When did you meet her?
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She came over at seven o'clock. Did you have any luggage with her?
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No? What did you argue about? What does it matter? Did
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it matters a great deal? Mister Ross. Let me alone. I've told
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you what you want to know. She's dead. I murdered her. Where
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was missus Graham employed? I'm not going to tell you. I'm not helping
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yourself, Sir, with this attitude, I don't want to. I want
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to be hanged and that's all. Now get out and let me alone.
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Constable. I think perhaps the ute better relieve mister Ross his tied delton shoemaces.
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Think you might try. I'm not sure, but we'll take no chances.
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I left the detention room and the brooding and ningbo of mister Ross and
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returned to my office. There were three people waiting for me. Mister Michael
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Ross scour or, five years older than his brother, but bearing a mark
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resemblance miss Mara Hayes, whom I learned was the suspects fiance and a man
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from Harley Street for whom I held a great respect, the noted psychiatrist doctor
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James Lewis. He won't see me and said he won't speak to any of
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us. She couldn't have done it. I can't believe that he even you
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the girl. He's admitted to both facts, sir, and at this point
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I have no choice but to either prove or disprove his confession. Disprove,
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Inspector, are you entertaining the thought of fantasy? We have weighed that possibility,
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doctor, Do you mean that grandall imagined he killed someone? It's a
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possibility, then that must be it because there was no girl. I know
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you see where to be married in two weeks, Inspector. He's very much
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in love with me as I am with him. She's right, I'm his
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brother. I know he would have told me we were very close. Did
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anyone have you see him last night? I know I spoke to him on
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the telephone at one time. It must have been a little cart date.
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I rang him at home. We speak to each other every night. I
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wanted to go to him. He stounded upset, but he told me not
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to. That's when I called you, doctor Lewis. Yes, yes,
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And I told her inspector that Grandall was in a state of depression and had
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been for a few days. There was no need to worry. Michael,
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Michael, be a good chap and take Maya out for a cup of tea,
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will you? There are a few things I'd like to discuss with the
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inspector. Why why can't I stay my dead? The thing that I wish
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to say to the inspector her Randal, And if you remain I can't be
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able to say them? All right, I'm sorry, very well. Letter,
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Well, there was a girl, and I think there still is.
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Her name is Selena Graham. You're not of Constructor. You needn't araulge anything
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which has passed between you and your patient. No, no, I'm aware
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of that. What does he told you about her? Nothing down the fact
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that he killed her? Yeah, perhaps he did, but not physically.
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What do you mean by that? Well, I shall put it as simply
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as possible, Randall Russ since childhood has got insecure and rejected, and the
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lead the two people closest to him have only added to this. Feeling he's
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brother Michael because Randall scope to emulate him and failed. And then the Mara
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Hayes because she embodies the strength upon which he is so dependent. Then did
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Selena Graham full till his sol for independence for a time? Yes, yes,
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he found her inside the end. So I'm not being a trick when
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I tell you that from his description she's his lower class, because that's exactly
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what he wanted. He could be accepted by someone who was his social and
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intellectual inferior. I see. And does she take the place of his fiance,
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oh to the country. Once he'd found that he'd been accepted by her,
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he no longer desired her. And I knew that last week when he
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told me that he was going to break it off, and last night he
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did. Yes, Yes, I think he did terminate the relationship, and
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in so doing it was to him the end of a life. This was
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a critical curier, remember, but Lambo was gaining insight into a many of
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the things that I'm telling you you'll feel. Then after that, in the
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cutting of these ties, this fantasy, the actual murder was created. Yes,
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fantasy is strong enough to drive him here to confess to a crime he
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had never committed, knowing the tremendous conflict taking place in his mind. I
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would say yes, But if I could see him, Inspector, I think
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I could prove it to you well, doctor, and I shall take you
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to him, Inspector, Inspector Black. Oh, just a moment, doctor,
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Yes, doctor, a report just coming, sir, Well doctor,
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it seems that tannersy has given way to fact. The body of a woman
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was taken from the Thames early this morning. He's just being identified as Selena
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Graham pursue. We'll tend to cost your start as Inspector Peter Black Pursue and
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the man who confessed continues. In just a moment, the Rock and Tell
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Lady, the gal that helped inc Rosby land his first professional job, Mildred
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Bailey will beat her Bingle's special guest on the CBS Show this Wednesday night.
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Bing and Mildred Bailey will talk over all times and do some duets and solos,
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and also on hand you'll find that hot combination the Firehouse five plus two.
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Be sure you're listening this Wednesday when on most of these same CBS stations,
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The Bing Crosby Show brings you Mildred Bailey and bing in a nostalgic mood.
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Now the second act of pursuit, and the man who confessed the discovery
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of Selena Graham's body had at last taken the case from the nebulas and given
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it substance. I left the startle psychiatrists to wait for me in my office
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and made my way to the province of the Odds pathologist, doctor Bischel.
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Yes, Stephney, yes, Stephney. No, Deafney, definitely Deafney.
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Bye bye, love, I saved Black. How nice you're looking sick?
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Thank you? Not then? How do you are doing quite well? Thank
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you? I'm then have you had a chance to examine the body that was
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brought in this morning? I dare set which one I've been simply diluted with
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them? Taken from the Thames, A woman Selina Graham at Graham, Ah,
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yes, here we are. And no, I haven't had a chance
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yet. One of your cases, yes, oh splendid, I must get
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to it at once. I like your cases Black, so interesting? Ye
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shall we go? Well? Well, well, those knocks on the throat
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not very pronounced, but the strangulation I should say, will will no?
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This name be something risk watch yes, stopped at approximately nine o'clock, so
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it did you think that would establish time of day? Not necessarily. I'll
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take that if I may. You'll have the physical lab door over it.
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Oh, all right, take here we are anything else? I don't think
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so. Oh yes, you might send a copy of your report in when
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you're finished in Oh love to please give me, give yourself and knock at
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night, kindness. Did you see who was inspector? Not yet? Doctor
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Lewis, he'll be here in a moment. I saw the girl. She
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had been charged. The marks were there. All right, that's incredible.
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I know ross so well, at least I thought I did. Possibly there's
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a bit of murder in every one of us that even as the charactrists can't
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detect. That's true, and we often learn it too late. But look,
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he said he killed the girl in the house. What was she doing
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in the term? I don't know. And his personality negates violence. I
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can't understand it unless he's gone, well, unless he would give in to
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it some step that we know nothing about. However, from his statements concerning
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the girl, that hardly seems likely. She didn't sound the sort it would
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put up a fight at the party. Who here he is? I come
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in? Well? Thank you can't scro wait here? Please, you're very
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good, sir. Sit down, mister Rus. Have you anything to add
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to your confession? Mister Rus, no, I think you had. We
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found miss Graham's body. I want you to tell us how it got into
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the Thames. I don't come now. I don't know. I killed her
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in the house, then I ran out, that's all I inspector. Certainly,
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Rambrome, why did you quarrel with the girl? You know? And
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because you told her you didn't want to see her again? Yes, but
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she didn't want the relationship to end, that's right. What did you say,
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Rana? It must have been very important to you. You know you
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told me that you don't like physical violence. I do. I hate it.
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If she wouldn't let me go, what do you mean she said that
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she'd go to Mary her and tell her. Ah, So you choked her
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because she made you feel no longer independent? Yes, but I didn't mean
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to kill her. I wanted to frighten her to show her that I was
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the stronger. I didn't know it was so easy to kill somebody that way.
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And then she fell and I ran out brand. Did you run?
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I told you, I don't know if, as you say, you walked
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the streets all night. You must have stopped somewhere. Randall. Remember you
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told me that when you were upset, you'd take a drink to try to
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calm yourself. And yes, just perhaps I do. I think there may
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have been a problem. I can't remember, mister Rass. Where did you
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go? What was the name of that abbe? Yeah? There was not
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a house horn? How is that of birth? Right? I needed a
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drink? Everybody was looking at me. Yeah, your house? All right?
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Constable, you take mister ras back, Tominal. He didn't kill her,
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inspector choked her? Yes, but what if she regained consciousness then left
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the house, went to the river and threw herself in. But why not
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the dream of rags to riches become the nightmare she awakes to despair and suicide.
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Theoretically it sound after but according to the yard statistics not likely statistics.
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And what had that gotten? Miss Graham was wearing her coat and shoes.
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I have yet to a woman's suicide who didn't remove either one or both articles
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befo they act well, so oh luck here and so I gathern. The
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barman says, there's another pubby the next player, the Fox and Hounds.
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Of course, Marfy, yes, it might be a waste of time.
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It's entirely possible that mister Ross is an extremely clever young man who is playing
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a short game, and what is it listen to a murder which he swears
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was committed in his house in order to make the appearance of the body and
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the Thames as uside. Seems to me it's going to be a bit difficult
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to make him change his story unless someone saw him throwing the girl into the
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river, which is extremely doubtful. You know, sir. What puzzles me,
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is it if he did te it that way, why did he contest
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to the crime at all? Well, let's see if they can tell us
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anything at the Fox and Antemist. At the Box and Hounds, we learned
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Rangeluas had been there at half past day, remained there for some fifteen minutes,
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was remembered because of his extreme agitation. The conversed killer had taken no
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pains to cover his tracks. When we returned to the yard, doctor Bishop
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was waiting in my office with his report. I say that this is delightful.
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How do you manage to do it? You do want? Doctor?
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Shut up with these extraordinary cases of yours. It's miraculous. This girl was
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drowned. Drown Oh yes, Marge and Mucket drowned. So that's it,
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doctor Bishop. Is it possible that a state of unconsciousness could be mistaken by
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a layman for death? Yes rare, but yes, oh yes, I
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see that had puzzled me then it could be. Yes. Yes, the
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condition of cataleptic is one another, although quite rare, would be telepod sinus
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syndrome, ash in gray color, respiration very light, the pulse almost indistinguishable,
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heart beat so slight. Certainly the layman's stumbling upon such a sight would
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assume that death had taken place. Oh, yes, definitely the choking,
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the poor drowning could have brought about the state. I am indebted once again
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to doctor Bishop. Ah pleasure Black any time, any time at all.
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Do let me know how you fare most interesting? Is that spirit, sir?
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I hope so muttered well, doctor Lewis, this is Inspector Black.
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Yes, I wonder if you'd be good enough to call it my eyes splendid.
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Yes, it does concern him. Oh and I wish you'd get in
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touch with mister Michael Ross and miss Hayes. Yes, I'd like to see
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them too, Thanks very much. I've called you here to explain my reason
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for withdrawing the charge of murder which was leveled at mister Randall Ross. I
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knew he couldn't have done it. He didn't kill her. I have a
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rather tragic story to tell you, A tragic story, Inspector. Yes,
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doctor, we know that mister Ross did choke miss Graham. We also know
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that he ran from the house in a stake of the stream shop. In
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that shop, he did not extinguish the knights or even close the door behind
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him, let alone eradicate the signs of violence. But someone did, I
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mean she did recovered Lea nor a doctor. She was removed by someone who
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found her body and wanted to protect mister Russ, someone who was very close
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to him and knew that he was troubled that night. But I knew that.
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My rang me it will tell me that she'd spoken to him. I
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told you instead, I wanted to go to him. He wouldn't let me.
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Exactly. You see, mister Russ reacted rather normally to a normal occurrence.
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The phone rang and he answered it that miss Hayes was in your own
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words at a little pastic I didn't lie to you, asked doctor Lewis after
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the conversation. As I say, he ran from the house. We know
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that at eight thirty he was in the tavern. He remained there until quarter
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to nine. Selma Graham's watch stopped at ninth. That was when she was
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drowned in the tenis wrong? Do you mean to say that that is the
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tragedy. She was dead, she was he must have been. I rang
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Michael. We were both worried about him, and we got this. She
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was lying in the bedroom. She was dead, she was You and Michael
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took her from the house in Cricklewood Lane and thinking to protect mister Randall,
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ross through her body in the Thames, and at the time she was still
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alive. Don't keep saying that it's not possible. There was no pulse,
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no hearty, nothing, There was water in her lunge. We didn't know.
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We didn't know, We didn't. Had you left her where she wasn't
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called a doctor, she might have recovered, but you didn't. That is
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when the murder was committed. It's my duty to formally charge you with murder,
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to warn you that anything you might say will be taken down and given
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in evidence. So two people are there, independence for the sake of a
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man who had so long said for his own and now would never find it.
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Pursue and the pursuit is in. Pursuit is produced and directed by Elliott
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Lewis and written by Gildowd and Anthony Ellis. Music was composed and conducted by
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Marlon Skiles. Featured in the cast where Raymond Lawrence, Jack Edwards, Joseph
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Kerns, William Johnstone, Alma Lawton, Ben Wright and Alec Harper. Next
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week were Ted de Corsier, starring as Inspector Peter Black. Pursuit will bring
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you another dramatic story of the men from Scotland Yard relentlessly hony down those whose
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disorderedationis read violence and murder, Another story of men hunting men. When we
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bring you Hershu. The fun is always fresh, fast and curious. When
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Groucho Marx takes over on CBS Wednesday nights with his quiz You Betcho Life.
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Groucho, the master of the ad lib, teams up pairs of opposites and
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then goes to work with his clips and questions, very very solid with laughter.
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This Groucho Mark show. Hear it this Wednesday and every Wednesday on most
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of the same CBS stations. Larry for speaking. This is CBS where Burns
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and Allen are every Wednesday night the Columbia Broadcasting System. Welcome back. Well,
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this one would be I think a somewhat shricky legal case. I doubt
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that they would end up being charged with murder. Slightly ironic ending here,
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This, by the way, does conclude all of the ted To Coursia episodes
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we have of Pursuit, and after this episode there were three more in the
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program's initial run, followed by four episode summer run, and Decorsia would leave.
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When CBS revive the series, they would have another actor in the lead
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role. So next week join us as we begin the Ben Wright era on
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Pursuit. Tomorrow join us for Pat Novak for hire. In the meantime,
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